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Where are the posts the party yearns for the tumblr

I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THE TUMBLR I CAN

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dnd is great because you can say to your dm "i headcannon (insert thing here)" and the dm can be like "oh cool, yeah thats canon now"

imagine if you could do that to your blorbo, quite powerful

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this made me think of lymelle itc but then i realized "oh wait... i'm 'writers'"

Ever look at a character and “man, I wish the writers didn’t hate you”

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People don't talk about the best part about being a dm.

It's not the cool monsters or vibrant worlds.

It's not the poignant storytelling and heart wrenching character dynamics.

It's hiding stuff from your players and being able to send a vague and threatening text to a group chat and watching them all freak out

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obligatory lore post

okay. party says "give us lore" so here's all the stuff i can just tell you

this is the first of three or four of these

we're gonna start with the basics. lore is marked with || and other comments will not be totally punctuated or formatted (not for ease of reading mostly just because im lazy)

| Caelum is a world of floating islands over a planet of sea. The islands are suspended by their physical "soul" in the form of a crystaline orb known as a centerstone. These centerstones provide a force that counteracts gravity. Beneath the sea are mysterious resonating points that guide the islands above them, resulting in the slightest net positive force. Islands will slowly push upward until leaving the atmosphere to forever (?) drift in orbit. There are 7 layers of islands in Caelum: Centennia, Azura, Ramesh, Medetea, Scyrius, Praecipitum, and Corinthia. (listed bottom to top) |

caelum's islands are a bit more than they seem. we'll get to this when I talk about deities but for the time being i can give some examples, two maps attached of different layers of the world for context

the "Laraqi Archipelago" is a set of islands on the second layer, or, WAS, before events that took place in the 4th session, that were all associated to a set of centerstones located in the center of the archipelago. centerstones are complicated and there are many exceptions for the few rules

the one rule that there is no exception to, however, is the ascension of the islands.

| Islands, over long periods of time, drift upwards. All homes exist over unsteady ground, all towns have a deadline to their evacuation. This ascension is a slow, irrefutable process that cannot be halted or altered. If the island faces too forceful a pull away from its set path, it will eventually collapse and fall into the sea. The same thing happens if the centerstone is forcefully removed from the area around the island. If an island falls into the sea, there is no chance of recovery. The area directly around the sea is tumultuous and unsurvivable for the average person. Expeditions are sent to search for new islands often, but they usually arrive over the span of 10 years once every century. (Thus the name of "Centennia") |

one of the most very important parts of caelum's lore are the deities! this gets complicated. the centerstone of an island is the island's soul, and this soul is often one of a sentient creature.

| Islands in Caelum carry a centerstone, and the deity to an island is born of this centerstone. A centerstone will always carry some force, smaller ones of smaller islands will show unnatural gusts of wind or quakes in the earth. You might pray to the stone of a smaller island and recieve the blessing of fortunate foraging or recieve assistance when you are lost.

Larger islands, however, have much greater potential. They often take physical forms to represent themselves and may grant their power to others or make more direct alterations to the structure and qualities of their island. Continental sized islands (of which only 5 currently exist within Caelum's atmosphere) have the capacity to entice natural disasters or harness the power of the mass of their entire structure. They are nearly infinite sources of power which you can draw upon from massive distances.

The deities range from spirits that represent certain concepts and present an affitty to controlling them up to powerful indestructible beings that reign over natural forces on the scale of their entire island. |

...oookay! i think that covers the basics? good luck interpreting all this. the next one comes whenever i feel like it. this is mostly for people who dont have the lore context and see this blog but the later ones will include more new stuff for the players as well 😅

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are you excited for The Horrors coming up

THE HORRORS.

here come. the horrors.

they shall arrive

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yukina found a gun

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modern problems require modern solutions

we are our own fandom

The wild thing about being obsessed with your own DnD campaign is that there's absolutely NO fandom content for it except the stuff that you make

Like, what do you mean only six other people in the entire world have heard of Dave the Ice Elemental whose job is Freezer at the Fantasy Starbucks?

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approved

blorbo feelings emotes for your discord server. feel free to use/edit/whatever

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so true

having fun

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Yeah we'd be chill, it depends on where the cutoff is. Top 10? House is fine, maybe a couple sad about not being where they're from ig. Top 20? That might be a problem.

wait wrong blog.

Okay, assuming its the itc characters we're okay? Don't put Clark the goblin in there and its fine.

All your favourite characters from literally every franchise you enjoy are now real and in your house. How fucked are you?

0-2, not fucked at all or only a tiny bit fucked

3-5, a little fucked but we ball

6-8, fucked and it's very hard to deal with it

10+, the house is on fire, everyone's dying, you're hiding in the closet, your windows are broken, you're scared you're gonna die

sorry, the letter limit wouldn't let me finish the last option 😅 but you get the gist

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Caw caw! - from cardinal

Good to know, thanks!

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the goblins from session 2 are glorbuno, globdos, obgobtres, and clark

this is incredibly important lore and if the players forget before session 51 they're gonna really be in trouble

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have you tried giving the party.. party hats.. ALSO IS THIS WHY YOU WANTED ANOTHER EMOTE

Cardinal had a party hat for a session!

Sorta yes but I also just like the emotes!

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yaaaaaaaaaay

wahoo

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oo yep, thank you for the assist!

Huge thanks to @cpastor1055 for the little icon to this blog!

They're also a player for the campaign, along with @dynabeans, @everbusylittlebee (the drawings on the banner are by this person!), @xxweirdtripxx, @budgies-in-blue and others who aren't on tumblr. (as far as i know?)