And here we go! Your special mystery blind box. Hope you enjoy!
-📝 nonnie
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"You- you can't use FIREBALL!! I'm in the middle of the fray!" The half-orc paladin cried out, swinging her battle axe. The blade connected with a ravenous furry shape that, had you asked her earlier, Bearbones would have called absolutely adorable. Now the massive swarm was growing taxing.
"Then get out of the way!" snapped Arous, the halfling holding her spell while kicking a creature away. "We're getting swamped by these wolpertingers, and they're a little too BITEY for my taste!"
"I...Rolled an 18, the AC seems to be twelve- Okay I hit, and I use my canon on the group over to the left. Eat zap cannon, you over grown rats!!" The artificer bellowed.
"Alright, listen. I'm just saying, maybe we shouldn't be doing this quest to free the Great Fairy of Rot, y'know?" The Aarakokra bard was back to back with his Kenku sibling that was using him as hidden cover to get extra damage in. "What say you, Nitpick?"
A series of affirming chirps and clicks meshed with broken words stolen from other conversations the kenku heard. "Aztiel is RIGHT...but Rot Fairy Siofra is...Very Pretty. Have to help her."
"Oh jeez, Mikey's crushing on the rot fairy." Leo whined, head in his hands. You grinned, giggling at the revelation that rolled through the group. Battle now on standby, Donatello glared over at his twin.
"You idiot! Without Siofra, the other Great Seasons Fairies are going to ruin the world. Rot is needed for new life and all that."
"Wow. Nitpick likes Siofra huh?" Raph leaned over, looking at what Michelangelo was doodling. The eldest huffed in amusement, staring at a rough sketch of the kenku fantasizing over a 12 foot nature goddess.
"Maybe! I think Nitpick just likes Big Tall Misunderstood Lady."
April shrugged. "Honestly you could pick worse."
You got up, chuckling to yourself as you went to the kitchen. You bagged another, your DMing prowess of making your players becaome smitten with NPC knew no end. Well, correction. It knew one.
You hadn't managed to get Leonardo yet. And, for the life of you, you couldn't figure out why.
You got Raphael with his character's rival, a Firbolg ranger who she shared one good, deep conversation with and it shook his character's faith somewhat while showing the other wasn't so bad a guy. April's sorcerer already had a girlfriend, and you made sure she got to interact and write to her frequently, and the sorcerer was planning on proposing. Michelangelo was fawning over Siofra, his character bonding with her despite being trapped in a crystal prison by being a great listener. Donatello's was the tricksiest one by far, his high elf character becoming smitten with a kobold thief who, as a shock to you, his character saw all the stealing of his machines as flirting, and now he made trinkets for them to purposely steal as a kind of...courtship game.
But Leo? Nothing, no NPC, be it the handsome rival bard or the lich king, made him enamored.
"I'm grabbing drinks! Anyone want one?" You listened as a collection of of yeses called out and you nodded, already knowing who wanted what. A chair scraped across the floor and you heard footsteps follow.
"I'll help out."
"Thanks, Leo."
Humming, the two of you gathered up sodas and teas and coffees galore, nabbing some more pizza while on your impromptu snack break. You glanced over at the red eared slider. "May I ask a question?"
"Mh? Sure thing. What's up?" Leo adjusted the tails of his cobalt bandana before reaching for a sleeve of cookies.
"What's your type?"
Leonardo froze, sweat beading on his brow as he stared HARD into the cabinet. He swore there should be some cheez-its in here somewhere.
"My uh. Type?"
"Yeah! Do you like big muscles and massive pecs, small wet cat energy, cocky, calm and collected, regal, maybe something more chaotic...?"
Biting his lip, he looked over to you, noting you refused to look at him. Like you were planning something. Being sneaky.
...Oh! He knew what was happening.
He relaxed a bit, nodding to himself, before he quickly became red in the face and jittery.
Oh. He knew what was happening!!
The leader looked to the side, scratching the back of his head nervously. "Well, um. I have to say uh...I like...creative types. With big imaginations and a love for storytelling." Leonardo cleared his throat. "And uh, hopefully a fondness for my jokes and willing to put up with my charming personality."
You blinked at that. "So...artsy nerd with a high stupidity tolerance?" Damn what a character you'd have to make.
The turtle gaped at you, looking mildly offended. "Hey!"
You shrugged. "You're a bit of a peacock."
"Hey!!"
You snickered to yourself, grinning at your joke and Leonardo felt his heart...swell, bubble and melt like chocolate. His mouth buzzed with the cloying bittersweetness you radiated, and it made him crave your attention, your AFFECTION, more.
Smiling to himself some, he bumped your hip with his own, looking up at you under half lidded eyes. "Yeah, I guess nerd is a good term for em."
"What else? What do they do?" you asked, a coy look on you face, and he felt the thrill of teasing and playing with you making him giddy.
"I mean they're hot, for sure. Love their nose, it does this cute thing when they smile. And theyre one hell of a master of dungeons."
"A master of dungeons? Ahh so you like power eh?"
"Mhm. You could say Godly."
Man, a mortal falling in love with a god would be great. You'd push one of the great fairies, but they didn't fit personality-wise. Perhaps you would make another godly being, or there was the massive eldritch sea creature, but they wouldnt find that til the High seas chapter...
Godly. Master of Dungeons. Creative story teller with a love for...oh.
Oh.
The pieces clicked, and your eyes grew wide, face now flushed and hot to the touch. You whipped around to look at Leonardo, whose cocky grin faltered some at your bewildered look.
"Me, um- I just. I mean- I was asking for the campaign. For Aztiel."
Leonardo's face did the opposite of yours, blood draining quickly and making him appear pallor.
"Ah. I'm. Oh my god."
You two grew quiet. Your thoughts were that of a notebook in a whirlwind, papers and words and pictures whipping around you while you sat in the middle, getting fleeting frenzied glimpses at the chaos surrounding you. Leonardo's own were like tv static, harsh and crowding and, though others tried to push through, the screeching noise drowned them out.
"...No wonder I never could make an NPC you loved."
Leonardo swallowed nervously. He looked away, hot shame stabbing him in the gut and through the ribs. He felt ill.
"Yeah. They, um...Well I do like all of your characters. I love something about em all. They all have a little piece of you in them... I'm sorry- that's weird and I'm just going to-"
Masked eyes widened, his brain coming to a sudden, stuttering halt. He couldn't move, and he stopped breathing briefly as you pulled away, tongue swiping your own chapped and chewed lips nervously. You gathered the drinks again.
"I'm... free on Friday, if you wanna sneak out to go see the horror movie marathon at the drive in theater with me. My treat."
It took a few pulls of his brain's rip chord before his ability to think came back, but when it did, it was like all thoughts came to him at once. So many questions wanted to pour out of his mouth that they were scrambled, before he finally managed to ask-
"So! Uh, it's date, yea? A date? Like, with me? Boyfriend?"
You grinned, starting to walk out of the kitchen with a bit of extra pop to your step. "Yeah. A date with you would be wonderful. I've wanted to go on one with you for a while now."
YESSSSSSS LET'S GO DISASTER DATE LEO!!!
Thank you so much for the blind box fic! The way Leo just kinda studies reader while describing them, reader's obliviousness... Love it!!!
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Lorwyn
Lorwyn: Your favorite color of mana
All of them. Any of them. Be it mechanically or philosophically, in my case, variety is the spice of life.
White is my favorite color of all, the fairest of all, capable of answering anything and of being answered cleanly. The primary color of blinking for value, of tokens. The core of the lifegain synergies that are the introduction to many players to the concept of a synergistic deck, with pieces that come together to be greater than the sum of their parts. White is the color of helping one another, the color of egality and equity, the color of fortunate helping unfortunate, the color of knights and angel. People might each be inconsequential in the bigger picture, but together, they can reshape worlds. If there's no mercy, no justice, no meaning, people will bring them into existence, together.
Blue is my favorite color of all, the tricksiest of all. Among the many folds of this strategy game, you'll find no more intriguing strategies than in blue. Immensely strong... If you can line things up properly, otherwise crumbling under its own weight. The primary color of control and tempo, of counterspells and clones. The card-drawing color above all. The color of mill, the introduction to many players to the concept of an alternate win-condition that doesn't rely on attacking your opponent. The most polarizing color, love it or hate it. The overpowered glue that holds together older formats. Blue is the color of thinking ahead, of learning from your mistakes. The color of progress and turning a bunch of math and a bunch of rocks into a computer that can do anything. The color of being able to do anything you want if you work hard enough, the color of infinite potential. The color of wizards and illusions. Of the fluidity of water and of thoughts alike.
Black is my favorite color of all, the most calculating and capable of all. Black is the color of exchanging resources, your own or others. The primary color of discard and graveyard shenanigans aplenty. The color that'll pay life for cards, discard those cards, reanimate them, then will sacrifice them, furthering its plan at every single step of the way. No waste, no regrets. Everything is a nail, and everything is a hammer, you just have to be ready to get nailed or hammered along the way. Black is the color of seeing the world as it is, and making it what you want it to be. The color of individuality, of persistence and of self-determination. Of life and undeath. Of excess and sacrifices. If I'm in troubles, Black is the color I want most at my side, and least to face.
Red is my favorite color of all, the most streamlined of all. But not easy by any stretch. The color of time management, of racing and steering the fastest. The color of capitalizing on temporary effects and turning them in permanent advantages and furthering of its goals. The color of direct damage, of aggro and combo, the color in which the inches gained from sequencing feel like miles. Red decks win. Temporary mana, temporary card advantage, one-time damage. When to get them, which to use, and how, and which to let go? The color that most embraces the chaos and variance that makes the game fun and replayable, and uses it to its advantage. The color of passion and empathy. Of love and anger. Of fire, of balancing its warmth that preserves life and its deadly excess. Of embers rekindled like old feeling forgotten. Of proud dragons and impulsive goblins. Red is the color that live the life to its fullest, appreciating as much as possible every single fleeting moment of it.
Green is my favorite color of all, the simplest of all. The color of ramp and big creatures, with its potential unlocked through ramp and big creatures. Go big AND go home. If the battlefield is the most important zone, and using mana to cast spells is the most fundamental action, Green will simply dominate the board and use more mana to cast more or bigger spells. Green is the color that knows itself, that knows the world it lives in, accepts it, and plays by its rules. The color of nature and family, of knowing your past and your fate. The color of elves and beasts. Of stability, and the peace that comes with it. The serenity of seeing a world bigger than you, of which you're only an infinitesimal part. You're the world experiencing itself in one of uncalculable ways. Time will heal all wounds, and life will endure.
They're all true, at all times.
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Hi! I said I wasn't going to write it, but now I'm working on a Witness/Abhorsen cross over. (Hopefully something will actually come out of it that I can post.) But! I was wondering if I could bounce ideas off of you for how an Abhorsen could fit into Witness' religious hierarchy? I like Witness' set up but I also like the hereditary nature of the Abhorsen, so I've been trying to decide how to fit the Witnesses vel ama alongside the office.
ouuu yeah, this is the big question, isn't it!!! i keep poking at it too (hopeful project once celebros and i knock the pirate au out) and it's so tricky to tweak the old kingdom lore to fit!!!! i'd be super happy to brainstorm with you!!!!!!!
i've been thinking about witnesses vel ama as sort of third party bastions of the charter as a whole, either for individual charter stones, or representatives of the four bloodlines (like you have a Witness for the Wallmakers to represent their interests in total—which gets especially interesting if you elect to play with a kingdom closer in its political climate to the first old kingdom book, wherein the old kingdom's government is entirely destabilized and they've lost track of all the bloodlines but the abhorsen and the clayr, bc a witness for the wallmakers gets especially heady in an instance where they're speaking for a bloodline thought to be extinct!!)
but then you could have a sort of religious hierarchy built on the Nine Bright Shiners, which would absolutely rip, like taking the goblin emperor's pantheon and translating them into free magic entities?? imagine like... salezheio....... as a mogget analog............ (i know mogget isn't one of the bell spirits but come on, if salezheio was anyone, she'd be the tricksiest little shit) and astarael -> ulis?? orshan -> kibeth, and thus the disreputable dog????? very very good—and then a faith system that still cleaves to the shiners as protecting spirits of a sort that have been immortalized as gods??
plus!! then you get a deeper allegory of spiritual corruption on the part of necromancers who warp the bells' power to defy the charter and raise the dead, rather than quelling them—literal rejection/bastardization of the gods of the land and the system of power they gave to the world
god and like... there could be a fun but probably useless bit of conflict about there being a witness vel ama for the abhorsen (think like the witness vel ama for the emperor) but thara is also the witness vel ama for the dead as a whole? witness v witness, FIGHT!!! no idea who that other witness would be, but it's just fun to think about!!!!!
sorry this got away from me uHH feel free to DM me and we can chat there or i'd be happy to transition to discord!!!!!!!!! this is such an exciting thing to poke at!!!
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