#chance boone

[mixing-bowl-of-stories]

OMG I'm so excited to see the drawings of all the characters!!!! For a prompt for the group;

"Where the hell did you come from?"

The Crux (Pt. 2)

In which a group of odd individuals meets another group of odd individuals.

The group of seven had been traveling together for a few weeks now, and they had gotten to know each other, for better or worse.

Natasha and Nico had grown quite accustomed to the other four, however Nathaniel was not as open to becoming friends.

Nathaniel stops walking alongside the group, “Seriously?! Pandora, we can’t stop and help every single village we see!”

The others stop and look at Nathan. As much as he hated to admit agreeing with the prick, Noah agreed that he had a point. He puts a hand on Pandora’s shoulder.

“He’s right, Pan. We’re going to waste all of the energy we need if we keep doing this.”

She swats his hand off of her shoulder, looking over at the others with a stern and frustrated look.

“Fine, if you all don’t want to help me, then fine. But I am never going to turn my back on the people that need me.”

She continued walking without the others, Noah begins following her at first, and reaches out, but draws his hand back and stops.

“Dumbass.” Nathan mumbles.

Noah turns and gives him a look that could’ve killed.

“What? You know I’m right. She’s wasting her time.”

“She may not know how the world works, but she’s not stupid.”

“She is if she thinks that everyone is going to sing her praises.”

“You both are wrong.” Natasha intervenes.

Nathan scoffs “How?!”

“Because she doesn’t want people to sing her praises Nathan. If you had actually spent the time to get to know her, you would’ve known that she hates attention and shies away from it.”

He rolls his eyes.

“And Noah, she does know how the world works, you know that better than I do. Just because she has a good heart, good intentions, and the most compassion I’ve ever seen in a person, doesn’t mean she doesn’t know how things in the world work.”

“But she is naive.”

“I’m not arguing that she’s not! I’m arguing that you both are making her out to be someone she isn’t! Now then, are we all just going to sit here and let her kill herself or are we going to help?”

Ambrose and Constance look at each other before nodding, Nico also nods, Noah reluctantly agrees, and Nathaniel says no.

“Fine, suit yourself, but do us a favor and keep watch over the outer area of the town.”

“Fine. Just go.”

Several shots are heard by the civilians, as they see a young woman helping them to kill the monsters.

After some time, all of the monsters have long since died or fled the area.

Pandora hears some slow clapping from behind her. As she turns around, she sees an old woman, dressed in black cowboy attire, with bright yellow eyes peering back at her.

“You’re not too bad with your gun, toots.” The woman says.

“Oh… yeah I’m not nearly as good as my siblings though-“

“Honey.”

“Yes…?”

“Take the compliment.”

“Okay…”

“Anyways, with what you just said, I’m assuming guns are a family affair with y’all?”

“Well of course, my mother is the one who made them after all.” She smiles.

“Ohh, you’re Lady Diana’s daughter. I was wonderin’ why you looked so noblely. Well then, needless to say I’ve got a lot of respect for y’all up in Morgana.”

“Really? But you’re-“

“From the borderlands? Yes ma’am. But I’ve always had respect for y’all because Morganians are the originals. The borderlands wouldn’t have guns without y’all.”

“Oh, I guess that’s right.”

“That being said.” The woman approaches her and holds out her hand.

“Name’s Barbara Monroe, it’s a pleasure to meet you hon.”

Pandora shakes her hand.

“I’m Pandora, Pandora De La Dáinn.”

“Ah you’re the youngest. So tell me, what’s little miss noble gal doin’ all the way out here?” She jokes.

“Well, I’m not sure if you keep up with Morganian news, but I’m looking for my brother.”

“Oh damn, He’s still missing?”

Pandora nods solemnly.

“Well, maybe I… could see about helping you out. I know people all over the place. Besides, me and my partners are trying to find some purpose and that could maybe help.”

“Thank you very much Barbara, I think I’d appreciate that greatly. So… who are your partners?”

Barbara smiles, and then turns around and yells for someone. Two similarly dressed people to her step out from behind a house. One is also in typical cowboy attire while the other looks more like a southern belle.

“Lookit what I found Chance!”

“What? A noble?”

“No you dumbass, a purpose. This young lady is on an adventure of her own, and she’s okay with us traveling with her.”

“Honey are you sure? I mean these two argue till they’re blue in the face.” The southern belle mumbles to her.

“It’s okay. I already have a bit of that myself with two of my traveling companions…”

“Ah… I see, anyways, my name is Amelia Hayes (or Boone), you can just call me Amy.”

“A pleasure to meet you! I’m Pandora.”

Barbara elbows the man next to her, he sputters out an apology and introduces himself, “I’m Chance, Chance Boone.”

“Pandora!” A familiar voice yells. She looks behind her to see almost all of her group behind her.

“Ah… and that’s my group…”

“You don’t sound too thrilled about it.” Barbara mentions.

“We had an argument just before I got here, so…”

Constance runs up to Pandora, “Are you okay? I know you can handle yourself but that was a lot of monsters!”

“I’m okay Connie. Um… do you guys care if we add some more members to the group?” She smiles nervously.

After a brief explanation of who the three borderlands dwellers are and why they’re here, the group agrees with the acceptance of them into the group.

Natasha shifts uncomfortably, “Nathan probably won’t be happy…”

“Who cares what Nathan thinks, he’s a dick.”

“Noah.” Ambrose looks at him.

“What?!”

He sighs, “You haven’t exactly been non dickish either.”

He scoffs before looking away and crossing his arms.

Pandora leans over to Amy, “About that “I already have a bit of that in my own group” thing…”

“Definitely see what you mean…”

The group grabs a quick bite to eat at one of the local taverns, and then sets off to begin traveling once more.

And no.

Nathan was not happy.

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Well, ig I’ll just do The Crux members in order then, give you guys something to work with? Idk, anyways here’s some descriptions of each of The Crux members:

Pandora De La Dáinn:

Pandora De La Dáinn, the youngest in the next generation of the noble family of Morgana, has lived in the post of her relatives’ massacre her entire life. But the tragedy doesn’t stop there.

At eight years old, her eldest brother, Victor, suddenly disappears into the depths of the night after saying goodnight to Pandora, and is never seen again.

At fourteen, she is stolen in the dead of night and murdered by the woman known as Alice Ripper. Alice working under a man named Lazarus’s orders. She awakens in the Neverwhere, a place full of souls of the deceased, and finds herself in front of the god of death himself. She pleads with the god, asking him to give her one more chance as she hasn’t done what she feels she must do. The god agrees, under one condition, she become the champion of death for him, and she will gain one more chance. She awakens in front of her family’s ancestral mansion, her hair white and her limbs a transparent navy blue, only her bones showing.

At eighteen, she finds one of Victor’s many journals and discovers where he went next. She then hastily writes a letter, telling her family what she expects from them when she gets back and why she’s leaving. Ending the letter in:

“If I return without Victor, it will be bad news, or, it means something more important than Victor has happened”

She sets off to find out what happened to her brother, and through these journals scattered around Selcouth, will learn why he left to begin with. All the while finding who she is outside of her family, who she will become as Champion of Death, and what she stands for as an individual.

Noah Ripper:

The finished project of two people’s genius, Noah is an android who was created to be nothing more than a weapon to the cruel and self absorbed Alice Ripper.

Running away at fourteen after seeing his mother murder a girl his age, he finds himself in the heart of the Agrona Branches, in the kingdom of Morgana. He takes in this new world after being hidden from it for so long, and eventually meets two tiefling kids whom he befriends.

The three travel together throughout the kingdom, until eventually, Alice finds him and attempts to dismantle him. Saved only by a girl his age with white hair and a knack for engineering and tinkering, he and his two friends promise to repay her for her kindness.

After the incident regarding his near dismantling, he vows to seek revenge on his mother and anyone involved in the horrible abuse he endured growing up. And finds his opportunity to do so when Pandora asks him, Ambrose, and Constance to travel with him.

They agree, and he sets out with a thirst for blood, a gun, and a handful of ideas on how to murder those who hurt him.

Ambrose & Constance Lockwood:

As two of the three children of the terrifying and dangerous Lockwood couple, Ambrose and Constance are born into a life of destruction and conquest. They are set to inherit their parents’ fortune and the countless kingdoms they ruled over as dictators. However, once the two were forced to take up a contract with two demons, they begin to question the righteousness of their family’s actions.

Seeing their eldest brother, Lazarus, fall further and further into torment, anger, pride, and violence, calls this into question even further.

After overhearing a plan to attack another noble family’s daughter and kill her, the two decide to run away that night. They quickly escape at fourteen and twelve years old without incident and make their way to the one kingdom they know Lazarus and their parents’ cult won’t want to touch, Morgana.

They meet an android boy their age, and quickly become friends due to their similar situations. But when the boy, named Noah, is attacked and nearly dismantled, they find a noble girl and beg for her help.

She fixes Noah up, and they learn her name is Pandora. They vow to her that they will find a way to repay her some day, and that day would come soon enough.

When Pandora asks for them to travel with her, the two plus Noah agree.

Ambrose and Constance make a promise to each other that they would do as much good in the world as possible, and that they will learn the details of what atrocities their family has committed and right those wrongs.

Little do they know what Lazarus is planning…

Nathaniel, Nico, and Natasha Woodwhisper:

Growing up the children of the Last Hunt Tribe’s chieftess, Dawn Woodwhisper, they lacked any knowledge of their father until age fifteen. Their mother begins telling them stories of their father, how he was a strong warrior and the Champion of Death.

Nathaniel despises him, seeing as he left their mother alone with triplets, and never once came to visit the family.

Natasha idolizes him, and does everything in her power to be just like him.

Nico is stuck in the middle, he understands Nathaniel’s position, but also understands Natasha’s. He is trying to balance his opinions.

One day, a group of strange people attack the tribe, setting the forest it’s in on fire and burning the entire forest to the ground. They are left without knowledge of where their mother is at or their tribe, the last words they heard from Dawn were:

“No matter what happens or how you feel about it, please go find your father, tell him what happened, please.”

And thus, the three set off with a group of four to find their dad, and figure out their familial mysteries.

Josiah & Lilith Mantlebar:

Josiah and Lilith Mantlebar are the children of a renowned cleric and bard. Lilith herself is a bard, playing the guitar, while Josiah is a paladin.

When Josiah was sixteen, he was chosen by the Thunder God Asterope to be their paladin and made an oath with them.

Lilith has had her dream since she was younger, that she would try to become the best bard there was out there.

One day, while the duo is out and about in a neighboring village, they return home to find their village in ruins. Their parents and neighbors nowhere to be found.

They stay in the ruined village for a few weeks, before they decide that in order to find their parents, they have to travel. And maybe they could achieve their goals along the way.

So the two set off, to find their parents, one to be the best bard in Selcouth, the other to learn his role as a paladin.

Karissa Jester:

Karissa grew up in a small village with her parents, she was a small tiefling girl and was happy for a long time, until her parents decided that the best option for her, was to give her up for adoption. She never knew the reason, but she knew it wasn’t a decision they wanted to make.

Going through dozens of different adoptive families and ultimately being put up for adoption every single time in the end, she decides to run away from the orphanage she was staying at and find somewhere she fit in at.

She’s finds that place eventually in Magnus Wanderlust, a traveling circus. She felt unconfident and afraid, but decided to try and see if she could join. The ringmaster, a lovely changeling woman, known for her changing in appearances, took Karissa in and decided that she would train her in the ways of the circus.

Karissa soon mastered her fire magic and proceeded to be a fan favorite by many, eventually becoming one of the highest paying acts the circus had.

But she wanted more, she’d seen some of the world, but only the small populated areas, never the unpopulated areas or the big kingdoms. And she wanted to learn who she was and where she came from. Lastly, she was ultimately lonely, she knew nobody her age who she was friends with, she didn’t mind being friends with all of the older members of the circus, but she wanted to experience true life as a young adult in Selcouth.

She brings this concerns to the ringmaster who nods and agrees that she has most likely outgrown the circus, and gives her some necessities and trinkets before she leaves.

And then, she’s off into the world, eventually meeting a pair of halfling siblings, one named Josiah, one named Lilith.

Lilith introduce Karissa into the world of music, and she never went back since, playing the guitar alongside her. Josiah taught her how to use her fire in a variety of different ways as well.

And thus the three became inseparable, traveling the world to find themselves and to explore.

Chance Boone:

Chance Boone was a famous cowboy out in The Restless Borderlands. He was known for his work with sheriffs, helping people out, and riding off into the sunset at the end of the day.

However, he was also known to be a violent man, destroying an entire town from his childhood who abandoned and ostracized him.

He loved the life he lived, but over time he became bored with the constant struggle of finding food or getting gold. And something kept gnawing at him.

He’d been kidnapped as a child and managed to escape, and his family had been murdered by these people. It was one night when he decided he would find the people who did that, and make sure they would be served justice.

And thus he hopped on his horse, and rode into the dawn, on a mission.

Barbara Monroe:

Barbara Monroe was known for being the outlaw of The Restless Borderlands. And her track record with Chance is certainly one to behold in the amount of times the two had met. She led her life, stealing, killing, and on the occasion finding a partner who’d inevitably stab her in the back and end up dead.

She always wondered what the rest of the world had in store. But knew she’d never leave The Restless Borderlands. That is, until her band of outlaws attempted to get rid of her under orders from a new outlaw king. Limping out into the desert with a gunshot wound in her side, she found the place Chance was staying at, and stumbled inside.

Chance was surprised to find his rival and nemesis asking for his help, he could’ve let her die, he should’ve let her die, but for whatever reason he chose to help.

The two talk for a while, until the topic of Chance’s family comes up, Barbara had a similar story about her family, and mentions the fact that she was put in the outlaw group to begin with because of that incident.

And with that, the two make a deal. They’d work together to get back at the outlaw group, and then they’d help each other with anything else.

For Chance that means exploring the world, for Barbara that means escaping her past.

Amelia Hayes:

Amelia was a noblewoman from the kingdom of Eudaemonia, she wasn’t from the noble family of Eudaemonia, but she was a noble nonetheless.

She would travel out to The Restless Borderlands in order to provide medicine and other sorts of technology to the people there, as they were behind on the times.

That is until she comes across a town that labels her a witch, and proceeds to try to burn her to death. Until, a pair of cowboys shows up and fights the ones attempting to kill her. One was a woman, the other a man.

They scare the rest of the townsfolk into leaving her alone, and then begin talking to her.

She explains her want to give medicine and other forms of technology and science to the world, and the two explain their wanting to explore the world.

And thus, after that, she began traveling with the two.

Owen Cogwright:

Owen, or, the second mind in the making of Noah, is a troubled man. Cursed with the heirloom curse given to his family by the god of souls, he is forced to work on the project for the god lest he be in an immense amount of pain.

He locked himself away like so many do, attempting to do the project on his own. That’s until Alice weasels her way into his life, and promises more than she can offer.

Owen works with her, creating the first 5 blueprints for Noah, ages 5-10 years old. However, Alice one night threatens Owen with his life if he didn’t leave the project with her and that he would have to deal with her taking credit.

Scared for his life, he unwillingly left, heartbroken for having to leave the one creation he saw as his own son behind.

Years and years passed and Owen never made another project, suffering with the pain and agony he endured from not working on it.

Until one day, he meets a group of people in the tavern he worked at, who he tells his story to. The short half elf girl with white hair asks him if he’d like to travel with them. And Owen, seeing as his time was running out in life due to the curse, decided to go with them. To see the world before he died.

[mossattack]

circe has a boon that makes mel bigger AND changes her voice as a result 😳

[papakhan]

I think it would be weird if Boone didn't view the faction who enslaved his wife as a problem lol. Not an NCR defender by any means but I genuinely think you're just willfully ignoring a bunch of stuff just because you hate Boone

First off, why are you even here? I'm the Khan blog of course I hate Boone. If you don't like that, don't be here. It's not hard. This is your free invitation to block me.

Second. You're taking me in bad faith if you think what I said was "I want Boone to be okay with the Legion" like of course I fucking don't. Please bare in mind that the post you're responding to literally said "obviously doesn't justify the things they do but its worth thinking about" yknow. I'm saying these are things WORTH THINKING ABOUT in a narrative.

Here's what I was getting at: Boone's Biggest character flaw is how he's completely unable to view his enemy as people. This is something that has been drilled into him by the NCR and is the reason why his biggest ~trauma~ besides murdering his own wife is murdering dozens of children and unarmed civilians. He even says himself that all Khans are dangerous and that doesn't matter if they're kids. He has completely dehumanised them in his mind and made it so in his head it's okay to kill them because of that.

So yeah of course I'm pissed that there's no way to challenge this mindset in him. And then after sitting through his sob story I have to watch him do it to another group of people.

The soldiers in the Legion are all victims of the Legion, they're all slaves, and they were all once child soldiers. No, this doesn't absolve them of the heinous shit they've done. Of course it doesn't I'm not a fucking moron. But the Legion's victims go on to create more victims, it's a cycle.

The "we're just a couple of problem solvers" is just glossing over how siccing him on the Legion camp like a rabid dog is just enabling his worst trait, which is killing indiscriminately. We SEE small children in Legion soldier gear running around the Fort. They have CHILD SOLDIERS actually IN THE FORT. THAT YOU SEND BOONE TO MURDER. and I'm sorry but I cannot imagine a universe where he doesn't just blow their fucking brains out because LEGION UNIFORM BLAM BLAM

Again, this is just in a narrative bubble. I know that it's just a silly video game thing to go kill everyone at the Fort but maybe I like thinking about things as a narrative rather than a video game? I don't know?

[kentuckycaverats]

delphine low humanity arc spiral wheeeeeeeeee!

in the span of one session she:

took a stain against her Mortals Are Not Expendable conviction killing a ghoul to protect mitra and npc friend/ally theo bell

got hypnotized by her fleshcrafted bio parents (probably should've been a stain too)

took a stain against her Submit To No One conviction when delores Dominated her to override the hypnotism

learned that someone was hacking the plane her beloved adoptive parents (2 of her 3 touchstones) are on to make it crash it en route to glasgow

took a stain against her Mortals Are Not Expendable conviction brutalizing the hacker and leaving him to die

failed her remorse roll with a pool of one (1) die and dropped to humanity 5

was given an ultimatum by petaniqua, the big bad of her and aelsidhe's arc, who's orchestrated every horrible thing that ever happened to them: doom the world turn yourself over to me and i'll save your parents, or refuse me and watch them die

[zellk]

I have begun to ponder about Lana and Rena in Hades II... All the witches stuff suddenly makes it so fucking easy to add them in.... Hopefully some art to come about all this will come......

[lixbf]

ive been playing so much hades 2 atp i feel like the first Big early access patch is gonna legit change my life....

[geekgoesoutside]

Here is one of the pages in my bullet journal that I finished today. It's got the songs I have listened to most this month. Hope you like it!

[lunian]

DAMN 200+ RUNS AND FINALLY THIS DAMN GAME GAVE ME THIS TITLE 😩🔪

[krokatron]

MILESTONE POLL FINAL ROUND

• PART I HERE • PART II HERE • PART III HERE

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As I said in part one, I wasn't going to pick the winner of the last poll; the results always tend to be the same. So! Eliminating the top four scorers, we'll have one more round so there's a chance for the companions that aren’t the most popular.

[mixing-bowl-of-stories]

I wanna learn about Barbra! How did she become an adventurer? 👀

The Tale of Ms. Monroe

Barbara was always an adventurer, being an outlaw had its own adventure to it.

But how she started her adventure outside of being an outlaw, is a bit of an interesting story.

After she had been shot several times by her former outlaw band, she limps her way over to the only person she can imagine would even remotely want to help her.

Chance.

She weakly knocked on the door. Chance, knowing people don’t knock at this hour, cautiously opens the door.

“Barbara. What do you want?”

“Well as you can see toots I’m kinda in a sticky situation.”

Chance is taken aback by this, but thinks about it for a second. He shouldn’t have let her in, he really shouldn’t have. But he was never one to turn down the opportunity to save a life.

Even if that life belongs to a woman who has done nothing good in that life.

He takes her in and his wife comes out and looks shocked. Without a second thought, she helps Barbara sit down and hurries off to her room to grab some of her potions.

She comes back out, her arms filled with first aid supplies and bottles. Gently setting them down, she shoos Chance out of the room before addressing her wounds.

Barbara is confused, but thankful nonetheless. She’d heard that Chance had gotten married at one point but she had never met the other woman.

Chance had probably talked about her to his wife, and yet she was helping her without any second thought.

“So, hon, why are you helping me? I’m sure Chance ain’t spoken anything good about me.”

“Why shouldn’t I? You’re injured, and it’s my job to care for the injured, no matter who they are. Even if I’m not fond of them. Besides, Chance may have his own issues with you, but I prefer to see people with my own eyes.”

The two stayed silent until Amelia, as she had learned, had finished up. Once she was finished, she handed an odd shaped bottle to Barbara and instructed her to drink it.

Barbara gave her a questioning look.

Amelia gave her one back.

“You’re already shot, if I wanted you dead then you would’ve been left outside to die.”

She had a point.

“What is it?”

“A simple healing potion.”

Barbara pops the cork out, it falling to the floor somewhere near the end of the couch she was on, and chugs the bottle.

When she’s done, she looks at the bottle before looking back and Amelia.

“Yeah yeah I know, not the tastiest thing in the world.”

“Don’t worry about it hon, I’ve had worse.”

“That’s… not a good response.”

“Why?”

“…Aren’t you tired of that? Of being worried about getting food and water constantly? I know Chance is, and you’re about double his age… I can’t imagine how long you’ve been living like this.”

Barbara thought for a second.

“I’ll be real, I am. But… I ain’t got nothing left if not this. I don’t have a family, all my partners have either beat or left me, and I clearly ain’t got any friends anymore…”

She looks down at her bandages.

“So yer fellow outlaws did this shit?”

The two women look over at the door to one of the bedrooms, Chance stands there with his arms crossed.

“Yeah. They did.”

“That’s why you came to us?”

“Yessir.”

Seeing Barbara like this, the outlaw queen herself, this vulnerable and pathetic, put things into perspective for the young sheriff.

She wasn’t as big and bad as she liked to make herself out to be, she was just a lonely old woman, who had nothing now.

But at the same time, so was Chance. He didn’t have anything either, besides Amy.

“Well, lemme offer you this.”

Barbara raises an eyebrow, “Yer offering me something?”

“Yep, I ain’t got nothing left here either. And Amy isn’t from here, so she ain’t got nothing either. We were planning on leaving The Borderlands, heading on out to find some people who have ruined my life and to find some purpose. Do you… wanna come with?”

“Where y’all headed first?”

“Probably Agrona.”

“Hm. Alright…”

She thought for a moment, was this a good idea?

But what else did she have to lose? It’s not like she had made many good decisions before now.

And… this felt like a good decision.

Nothing was left for her here. It was time to move on.

“Fine, I’ll travel with y’all. M’ not gonna promise I’m easy to travel with though.”

“It’s okay, Chance isn’t easy to travel with either.” Amy teases.

“Hey!”

Barbara laughs, “Cheers to that, hon.”

In the morning, they all grabbed their horses, saddled them, and headed off in the direction of Morgana. Who knows what they would find.

Who could’ve guessed they would’ve become part of the group that would make history? Certainly not them.

But for now, they ride off into a new sunrise.

[casualcatastrophesincorporated]

GAWD DAMN

@thebigolbee @milramemo

[papakhan]

honestly though reading the tags on that post is soo eye-opening about how people really feel about the Powder Gangers because you get a post that's basically like "hey what if the powder gangers were portrayed more sympathetically and humanised in Nipton instead of played as a joke" and then you get half a dozen people saying "Swanick serves a good purpose because he proves that the Legion were right to destroy Nipton because it was probably filled with CRAZY PSYCHOS like him so killing him as he runs away is SOOO FUNNY!!!" And the rest of the people in the tags are like "Um Actually having a #Joker Moment is exactly how traumatised people work??? you're misunderstanding the text there's nothing wrong with his portrayal" as if thousands of fallout fans don't just shoot him for the way he acts and the fact that he's an escaped prisoner

[fallen0203]

I am a god. I beat Chronos on my third try (of fighting him), which was also the first time I made it to his second phase.

[akkivee]

ooooooh……… this tension between me and these next 16 hours before the kuukou and jiro duet………… it’s kinda……… it’s kinda giving………… 😳😳😳