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Campaign: Fawn the Midwife of Barleytown

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Character: Fawn, the Midwife of Barleytown Game: Fall of Magic Episodes: 1 Theme Song: Breath of Life by Florence and the Machine Quote: "Human beings are not born once and for all the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves." Yes. I'm playing more Fall of Magic. Stop asking. Two of my friends hadn't play FoM. So naturally I offered to facilitate a game for them. But I had played almost all the roles available. We had five players, a hefty group, and I let everyone else choose first. So that when Barleytown was the only option left, I had already played a Hero and a Swine-Herd (best one btw). So it was midwife. But I didn't want Fawn to be a traditional maternal guiding midwife. I'm a doula, so in real life I deal with midwives a fair bit. Instead I wanted someone who was somewhat masculine and intimidating, even though the rest of the party are all men. I didn't want the only

Campaign: Erusiniel

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Character: Erusiniel Larentansel Game : Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Episodes: 0 Theme song: Belly of the Beast by Gazette Twin Quote:  "Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back." So a long time ago I played in a one-episode D&D game, and I played an elf warlock pirate who hated mages and wanted to fuck the world if it meant she got her cure. When one of my besties was going to start running 5th ed, I jumped at the chance to play that elf again. I delighted in a rum-drunk, cursing-like-a-sailor, grumbling elf who hated most things, loved being flirtatious, and got angry for no reason. She wasn't going to be stoic at all. She was going to be all the emotions, anger, and riotous joy that elves never were. Eire was an elf from a shit village called Stonewall who got captured by some mages who imbued her with a great old thing and thus turned her into a warlock. She woke up,

Campaign: Cara Harrt

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Character : Cara Harrt Game: Urban Shadows Episodes: 1 Theme Song : Pack of Nobodies by Emily Wells Quote: "Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like." When I got the opportunity to play an online game of Urban Shadows with an all star cast, I jumped at it. When asked what I would play, I was somewhere between Wolf and Oracle. I finally settled on oracle, after playing around with the idea of being a religious oracle loosely inspired by the Warrens of the 70's. In the 70's, there were a lot more paranormal hunters and their exploits were talked about in news papers. It was treated almost like a real phenomenon. I watched a few docs on people who claimed to have grown up in haunted houses the Warrens helped cleanse. While I was watching this doc, one of the women in it mentioned how much PTSD her mother had from the haunting and how she never really recover

One Shot: Caspian the Hero of Barleytown

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Character: Caspian, the Hero of Barleytown Game: Fall of Magic Episodes: 2 Theme Song: Drink the Water by Justin Cross Keywords: Roguish, Compassionate, Rebellious I've never played a Caspian before. Nor a hero of Barely Town. And so I made Caspian, a brash young man who was charming, sincere, and a bit of as schemer for the greater good. Barley Town is generally a congenial place every time I play Fall of Magic. So I tried to set up a different atmosphere than any other time I had played. In Caspian's view, the Barley Lord was a tyrant who was oppressing the people. I didn't have much sketched out for this, but I knew Barleytown would have hanging people by the gates, an angry and oppressive Barely Lord, and people afraid to whisper of the rebellion that had been started, I also knew that Caspian had gone with the Magus to try to get help for Barelytown. Caspian was a determined man who was a nobody up until recently, when he chose to stand up to the Barely Lor