#cos pc: demetria

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leave my heart to the damned as you build me a bed in the earth

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I tell you how you kill me in my dreams.

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Dima was visited by the local vampire. She will bite him back, next time. Alt version under the cut.

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"i love her enough to defy you" is the type of line that makes me scream into the wild nothing. it is not unfortunately the type of line that strahd wants to hear from the bloodhunter.

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Yes Dima slay!!!

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Sketches + quotes from campaign!

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I am loathe to say it’s the Devil’s taste.

Finally got around to redesigning my PC Tatyana. She’s my main character, but as mentioned, I haven’t gotten to play Demetria in campaign for a bit because she’s been sealed up in Ravenloft with another PC. I’ve said it before but my DM had every one of their players make two characters right off the bat in case of death. So far, I think everyone except one has had to play their backup because of temporary/permanent death or incapacitation. Smart move, then! I love playing Emilia but I miss Dima!

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there’s a man in the sunsword and he whispers morality

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BIT HIM BACK. BIT HIM BACK. THE PROPHECY IS COMPLETE.

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if y'all have a rogue DM deciding at random that one of their player characters is going to be the PC Tatyana, do not (under any circumstance) name your character Demetria Dimitriyevna Dimitrova if you cannot handle your DM's Strahd-voice calling them that.

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i am BEGGING for more context on dima biting strahd back and how he reacted.

Oh, badly!

So, what happened was that Strahd took the form of one of our allies and lured Dima into the woods. He was more or less just getting information off of her (and, as I understand, was proooobably going to cast Modify Memory on her?) until something felt off, and Dima accused him of not being the ally, but someone else. He revealed himself and approached her as she backed away until she was up against the side of a rock.

She stabbed him through the heart. He kept moving along the blade until he was at the hilt of the sword and was right up in her face. I went into a fear-induced fugue state at that point, but he bit her as recompense for the stab.

This was the second time she'd been bitten by Strahd, so Dima yanked his head back and sank her teeth into him instead. The sword is still in him.

He was. Well. Surprised. And I think slightly amused, because he pulled her sword out, drained her nearly to death, and then took it with him. So, until last session, I was TWO SWORDS DOWN because he had taken both of them.

Dima told him she hated him, he told her something to the effect of "Better to occupy your mind than not at all" and fucked right off.