I see a lot of you loved my post about my accidental NPC Pericles Minakos, so hereâs the little newsletter / information document I made about him. Heâs a very interesting dude, I must say. He knows the muse of history and itâs quite possible they have... history. So if you ever want to use Pericles for a campaign, feel free!
So I accidentally made an NPC in my current campaign. You may be asking: how do you accidentally make an NPC? Well.. I started writing ânewslettersâ based on the chaotic shenanigans that were taking place in the world. Now, my character wasnât the one writing them. Instead, I came up with a fake scribe / author for these newsletters. It kinda just went from there and now we have Pericles Minakos: all knowing scribe of Thebes.Â
So... I decided (as my character Nephelise) that I wanted to look for birds that I could domesticate and keep with me in order to use my Animal Messenger spell for shenanigans and things...
DM: *rolls d100* The dice have decided chaos today (it was an 100)
Me: Uh Oh
DM: So youâre in the woods looking for birds and you come upon this huge griffin. They seem to be very angry and hostile towards you since you came upon their land.
Me: Uh can I try to calm down the animal and use my animal handling to see if I can approach it?
DM: Sure.
Me: *rolls a 26* Oh sweet
DM: You manage to get the griffin to calm down a bit but it seems as if theyâre a momma griffin protecting their clutch of eggs.
Me: Are there any animals that would be predators nearby.
DM: Well thereâs Blu youâre hippokampi that follows you.
Me: Okay then Iâll send Blu back a bit.
DM: Well you do that and the griffin is still angy.
Me: *jokingly says Iâll seduce the griffin*
DM: If you seduce the griffin I WILL make you multiclass into bard.
Me: Iâm kidding. Can I convince this griffin to give me the egg?
DM: The only way youâre gettin those eggs now is by fighting.
I proceed to cause chaos with 2 other party members and we manage to beat up momma / daddy griffin and take eggs with us. I am badly wounded from the fight cause griffins be strong and I be very squishy. We return to the rest of the party bloodied and hands full of eggs and set off for Thebes.
My character Nephelise is a siren druid who seems kind of like a âpick me girlâ... okay maybe she is.Â
Context: I was in olympus with another PC character and I told the Gods they should fight over who gets to put me through their trial so I can get my blessing.
Me: What if, instead of me picking who I want first, you all fight it out? I feel as if you would all feel disrespected if you werenât picked first and I wouldnât want that.
Other PC: Get a load of this girl *to Hera*
Hera: I know right?
The Gods: Uhhhhhh (basically)
Dionysus: Yeah alright kid, you want to feel special? I gotchu.
Context: We were playing a Norse inspired oneshot where some of us were hardened warriors returning to their village expecting a feast but getting something entirely different AKA Ragnarok.
I played a skald-type character as a bard nicknamed Synn who was Saga, the Norse goddess of history, in disguise.
DM: The large figure swimming under your boat is the midgard serpent.
Me: Oh not this guy again.
DM: He luckily doesnât see you guys.
Me: I was supposed to write a song for him you know. But the dude is so boring! All he does is eat and sleep. What am I supposed to do, write a song about how the midgard serpent sleeps? Who wants to hear that? *starts singing*
Background: Weâre currently in hell and crossing a bridge full of skeletal fisherman that are catching lost souls (aka the fish).
Melitta: What if theyâre all secretly winking at you
DM: You wouldnât know, theyâre skeletons so it looks like theyâre just staring at you.
Me: Can I roll to find out if they are winking at me?
DM: Yeah sure roll for insight
Me: *rolls a nat 20*
DM: As youâre passing by these skeletal figures, one of them (Mr. Grey the Soul Capturer) notices you passing by and their jaw is detached from the rest of their face.
Me: Oh no I literally made their jaw drop.
DM: He whispers to his friend âSheâs a siren! I should go talk to her.â
Me: Wait a minute just because I flirt with most things doesnât mean Iâll flirt with a skeleton.
Hey everyone! I know I keep disappearing but life keeps throwing things at me and itâs hard to stay updated on tumblr. I no longer have the app on my phone, so that is why I am not on as much as I used to be. But I do have multiple ways you can contact me VIA steam, PlayStation, Instagram, Kik, and Snapchat. If you are a mutual friend or someone who wants into my daily life, shoot me a message. Again, I am sorry for not being consistent. I am trying to decide what I want to do with my tumblr. Maybe make it a ranting blog or something to showcase my writing when I get to work on my book again. Thanks to those who have stuck around and still follow me. There will be posts in the future. I already have a topic for one.Â
Here are some examples of art that I have done over this and last year. If you are interested, please DM me. If enough people want a commission, I would be more than happy to set up an Etsy.Â
Recently, I changed my picture on steam to a girl who seems close to perfect in some points of view. Now, most people have seen what I look like or at least know what I look like: blonde hair, blue eyes, brownish colored eyebrows. This girl has brown eyes, brown eyebrows, and dyed white hair. I got a message from a close friend saying: Is that you? Youâre so pretty!
When asked a question like this, dependent on whatever your profile is, it must decrease your self-esteem, right? Well, for me, it did. Being compared to somebody is like being asked to change who you are to be geared towards looking like that person somebody just called pretty/hot.
When I approached this subject to said friend, they didnât know how to respond. It was like I had spoken a different language and they were lost in translation. Instantly I knew I had to back out of that friendship.
The ideal of beauty is such a wide variety, we canât exactly give one specific example of what it is. The ideal of beauty is such a hurtful thing for those who have no choice but to live in the body they were born in. Sure we can get plastic surgery, cosmetics, makeup, foundation, etc. to look like that person, but we will still be ourselves.
The ideal of beauty is in our culture, whether it be in males or females. It is prominent in both. We have such high expectations of what the average human looks like, we forget that there is no way to achieve perfection.
The ideal of beauty is that you have to be a certain height, hair color, eye color, skin color, makeup artist, hair stylist in order to be labeled even close to âprettyâ.
Well, everyone, I have some advice:
Find somebody that has one ideal of beauty: you. Find somebody that when you ask them if someone is hot, they say yes but add âyouâre more hot that that person can ever be.â Find somebody that seeks the stars in your eyes, that ignores the mountains of acne that covers you, and seeks you personality beyond anything. Find somebody that doesnât have an ideal of beauty that you canât achieve.Â
So, I was toying around about goin on omegle and actully- live- singing for you guys. The songs i have already posted on youtube, or some new ones that im coming up with. Anywho, what do yaâll think?
PS: Please boost this! I want people to explore the world of music with me cx
He held her ashes, in the color of a jar she knew she loved. And his tears, his tears couldnât stop for a minute. He clutched the jar to his chest, utter pain and despair breaking away within him. And for the first time, he felt utterly alone. Gwyn. His son. He had them, of course, but without his soulmate he was nothing.
âStelos?â Gwyn called out to him, reaching out a hand to put on his shoulder but he moved away, the mere whisper of the touch burning him as if he was branded by a hot iron.
âI loved her.â He breathed, the tears streaming down his face like the niagra falls. âShe made me want to live. Breathe. Keep my heart beating. She made me want to survive all those years as a Reaper, and keep our son hidden from that evil man.â He shook his head, the wind carrying away his tears. âShe was my soul. She kept me intact even when the demons threatened to tear me apart.â
âDad-â His son started to say, but kept quiet. He hadnât known Stelos his whole life as he should have. He wouldnât have known that Stelos made so many sacrifices to keep his family alive and together. And Stelos failed.
Stelos held out the jar over the City of Light, a place his love wouldâve wanted to see someday. âI canât live without her. I canât even begin to fathom eternity without her at my side.â He clutched her wedding ring in his hand, along with the locket that had his picture in it. He looked at Demetrius, pouring the locket into his hand and pressing the wedding ring. âKeep them safe for me.â
âStelos. Donât do this-â
âYouâd understand. You canât live without Gwyn. I protected her because I felt the same about my other half. And now that sheâs gone, I must join her. My vows were promises. And you both know as well I keep my promises.â He smiled softly at his son, pain in his eyes. âTake care of my son for me.â
âDad!â His son yelled out. It was too late. Stelos, along with the urn full of the ashes of his loved one, fell off the side of the tall building that went down for ages. Reapers couldnât die, that was Hadesâ creed. But, somehow, if a Reaper chose to die, their life was in their hands like the lives they have taken before.Â
And with a gush of wind, two different colors of ashes swirled up, becoming one. Stelos and his lover were together, like they always were meant to be.Â
âShe wore her hair in the way she knew I loved it.â Stelosâ voice whispered from the great beyond, and we knew he was home at last.Â