#gelvaan sam

[somewhatsentientspellbook]

What if... (Imogen was never Ruidusborn)

Wouldn't have purple hair/eyes -> probably look more like Relvin

A lot more comfortable with people -> probably would have been closer with her father, the townspeople, and Stableboy Sam

Married and living a comfortable life in Gelvaan

Where would she have stood when the witch came to town?

Would it have mattered to her where Liliana went?

Which road would she have taken?

[gorgynei]

sam representing all of us as imogen finally agrees to go to gelvaan

[masterqwertster]

Bells Hells C1 Class Swap AU

Basically just giving the Hells the same class as their player's Campaign 1 characters and getting a bit different approaches to the plot beats.

Orym: Oath of the Watcher Paladin/Inquisitive Rogue

Started as pure paladin. Devotion to either elemental spirits or the Wildmother because Ashari

Fighting Style is Blind Fighting because ridiculous Perception or Protection because he's always got his shield and is a guard

Oath based on Ashari directive to hold the elemental rifts

Inquisitive rogue levels are form searching for clues about the attack on Zephrah in the hunt for Will and Derrig's murder(s)

Fearne: Light Domain Cleric

This subclass has got all the fire spells, and Fearne loves to burn

Her god is probably the Moonweaver, since she has a presence in the Fey Realm and the moon does reflect light from the sun. Also, the Moonweaver is one of the trickster-type deities, so that also fits Fearne's mischievous nature

Of course, devotion to the moon goddess does add some interesting layers/twists to the whole Ruidus/Ruisduborn deal

Laudna: Circle of Spores Druid

It's the undead druid, of course Laudna gets this subclass

She probably picked up the druid class from the whole Witch of the Woods thing, and was thought weird/creepy for liking mushrooms and other dead-ish things found among the detritus of the forests surrounding Whitestone as a child

Delilah is still around, but definitely more as a haunting spirit and unwanted advisor, since there's no warlock multi-class

Imogen: Fey Wanderer Ranger (reflavor)

This subclass is closest to Imogen's mindreader/Aberrant Mind skillset, so reflavor for her Exaltant Ruidusborn status in that her mystique is from that instead of the fey

Her Preternatural Blessing would be the lightning scars/marks

The ranger class is a result of escaping from everyone in Gelvaan by going out into nature

One of her favored enemies is undead because she wants Delilah to leave Laudna alone

Favored terrain is either grassland or mountain because that's where she lived

Fighting Style is Druidic Warrior, probably learned the spells from Laudna, and keeps with Witchy Bitches

Chetney: Path of the Beast Barbarian (reflavor)

Werewolf is really a blood hunter thing, but Path of the Beast includes a level of shapeshifting (and can have origin from a lycanthrope parent), so reflavor as Chet's lycanthropy is controlled through barbarian practices of this Path

Uses a giant wood ax as main weapon rather than wood carving tools

Fresh Cut Grass: College of Creation Bard and/or Alchemist Artificer

Sam had two characters for C1: Scanlan and Tary, so I'm making this open for either or both of their classes

None of the bard subclasses are very healing oriented. But Creation has some good support features

Instrument could be himself as like a percussion instrument drumming on himself. Possibly with mechanical beeps and whistles

When they finally learn Animating Performance, it's a weird day because of how Bells Hells came together, and because FCG always tries to get a response from the animated items, like he did with with other automatons in early campaign

Alchemist artificers are the most healing oriented, so that's the reason for that subclass

It's also a fun kind of irony that an aeormaton is also a creator of magical items/constructs

Ahston: Echo Knight Fighter (modified)

Uses dual swords. Milo made jagged glass blades, sort of like obsidian blades in shape, instead of the hammer

Has either Two-weapon Fighting or Unarmed Fighting for their Fighting Style. Depends on if you want to lean into the brawler bit or not

After galaxy brain set in, they ended up manifesting echoes. But his echoes are a little weird, because their weapon is random and they have more of a galaxy coloration than a shadow

Flavors are same dual swords, canon!Ashton’s hammer, dual pistols, and a long spear/halberd. Higher levels could lead to more random weapon options

Some Events/Points of Interest

Orym picks out that Ashton's echoes die the same way the assassins did in the attack 6 years ago. Finds that to be a bit of a dead end, though, since Ashton has no clue why or how they have such a skill. He does insist on practicing fighting their echoes, though, just to get a better feel for such enemies

Dorian and FCG would bond more if FCG is a bard. Like Dorian teaches FCG a bit about playing a lute, but not a flute because FCG doesn't breathe

Fearne could pick up clues about Ruidus by communing with the Moonweaver. Or got hints before meeting everyone, but never put them together until Bells Hells started uncovering shit

Laudna could puppet Paté with those zombie mushrooms (in a bit of hand-wavy-ness since there's no actual brain in Paté) or Find Familiar him to life for a few hours at a time as a fey entity with the optional Wild Companion feature of the druid class

Chetney might be into chainsaw woodcarving, except with a huge battle ax instead of a chainsaw. If he is, he definitely tries to get FCG into this kind of carving with their buzzsaw

Ashton only personally learned how to fight with swords. Knowledge of how to use all the other weapons his echoes use just came with them. Say "thank you, galaxy brain"

Imogen can use her Telekinetic Feat to make an arrow turn. I honestly wanna say go full Yondu from Guardians of the Galaxy, but that might be a bit much, if very cool

Orym's increased Charisma because that's the paladin spell casting stat means that he's better at arguing "fuck Ludinus and the Ruby Vanguard, they will build their 'better' world on a mountain of corpses"

[leet911]

Ok, so I'm not into soulmate AUs, never read 'em. But I am now obsessed with this thought of Imogen being linked to Sam (canon name of some boy in Gelvaan) because of her lightning marks and Sam also having some minor lightning bolt shaped thing on him. But Imogen's not into Sam even though everyone thinks she should be. She's not feeling it. So she runs out to be alone in the woods a lot. And then she meets Laudna, and Laudna is by herself. Laudna doesn't have any soulmate marks, and Laudna is not quite dead but not quite alive and she doesn't think about soulmates sorts of things, because she that's not for her anyway. But Imogen is nice to her. Imogen is friendly and funny and capable and kind. They like spending time together, away from the town. So when Laudna says it's time for her to leave, Imogen decides to go with her, soulmates be damned.

Does a fic like this exist? Do I need to write it myself?

[queerbting]

i've been having some complicated thoughts on fcg's recent decisions.

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disclaimer for small rant below: none of this is about sam the person or as a player. any feeling i'm expressing are solely about fcg's actions as a character, specifically within the context of the last couple of episodes (47-48ish. maybe part of 46 too). i also do i want this to be hate; i'm mostly just expressing temporary frustrations!

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i tend to be a pretty chill viewer, but (very respectfully) fcg has caused a surprising amount of annoyance / irritation to bubble up within me these past few episodes, starting around when he started consulting the changebringer for every minor decision on their journey to and from the malleus key, including when bh were actively being hunted by a fey dragon and an archfey. also !! him insisting in episode 48 that the party go to gelvaan after arriving back on exandria and essentially making a random pitstop because he thinks that imogen connecting with her father will help her heal.

it's not their actions themselves that are frustrating, because their motivations can be sweet, but what the actions mean in context of what the group is trying to accomplish. in the past couple episodes when fcg has actively engaged in these actions they were when the party's lives have been in direct danger and/or when they're in a time crunch because civilization as they know it may soon be destroyed.

i understand what sam is doing as a roleplayer (also as a bit of a troll on his friends! which i can respect) and it makes sense within the context of his character but man do i want to bonk that little automaton on the head sometimes ...

like.... fcg is an incredibly empathetic character but more and more does not listen to reason or logic from their friends over his own impulses and convictions and it can be frustrating to see that aspect of his character emphasized now that the stakes of everything are so much higher with the approaching apogee solstice.

again, no hate to sam whatsoever. i am just noting a short-term frustration i have been feeling with the in-game choices of his character. fcg's actions feel hypocritical in some sense because he takes care of people and is portrayed to be incredible sensitive and considerate but also makes decisions that put the party's lives in danger or do not consider the context of what individual people might want themselves, instead of him deciding / verbally pushing what he thinks would be Best For Them, and only backing off when they react really negatively towards him (and even not even then, fully).

would love to have a discussion about this if anyone is interested. especially since fcg's switch to always relying on the changebringer to make decisions seems visibly abrupt, even if there was buildup to him opening up his faith / trusting more in the changebringer in general.

:T

[utilitycaster]

Imogen for the ask meme.

First impression: expected her to be my favorite based mostly on her being immensely snippy to the Starpoint Academy registrar

Impression now: I think I put it once as Imogen has basically all my worst traits, and that is why I like her.

Favorite moment: getting annoyed at Liliana for just saying "run" all the time and not providing any useful information.

Idea for a story: I don't actually have one here; the campaign as is has focused on her pretty heavily so I don't have many fic ideas. I do want to see her backstory filled in more clearly; like, what exactly did she do to the people in town the day Laudna showed up.

Unpopular opinion: I've expressed a lot of unpopular Imogen opinions so for a new one: the line "Delilah Briarwood, we're going to sunder you" does not fit into her speech patterns and so it comes off kind of cheesy. Like, great sentiment, and I get that the word "sunder" was just used so I don't fault Laura on the improv, but sort of falls flat. This seems really nitpicky and it is; I don't want to repeat one of my much more standard unpopular opinions because I'm trying to chill out and have some weird cider.

Favorite relationship: unsurprisingly as Laura and Sam truly always have great chemistry but FCG. I love how it went from Imogen insisting FCG had a soul to being like "NOT LIKE THAT"

Favorite headcanon: I still think her time in Gelvaan was mostly normal - like, some bullying, but typical kids being shitty stuff and nothing egregious - and a lot of her impressions were somewhat self-inflicted or are tied to her hearing everyone's intrusive thoughts.

[utilitycaster]

Hey feel free to ignore this if this is gonna bring up some discourse I don’t know about bc I haven’t been able to catch up on C3 yet but I know from C2 you’re one of the people who doesn’t ignore canon, is Imogen actually a lesbian? I feel like that’s mostly what I see people saying from some posts I’ve seen lately, so did we get to have a lesbian PC in the main campaign again or is this like an assumption that the fandom has? I don’t mind spoilers or anything I’m just really curious if this is an actual thing or if it’s the fandom making stuff up again

It's an assumption the fandom has. She's very close with Laudna and their relationship is often interpreted as a romantic one. She's also told Bells Hells she had a crush on a boy named Sam back in Gelvaan, and seemed to find Eshteross attractive. Nothing about her sexuality has been confirmed though.