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Enter: Into an Isekai World

Sorry, if I had to disappear for a good while.

Back in November, my dad (who is quite old) shattered his knee and I was tasked to move back in and help him during recovery. The recovery is going… okay. I’m still bouncing between my place and his and that’s not even accounting for other stuff. I’ve wanted to post but I just haven’t been able to commit the energy to anything since. I’m going to try to now that things look okay now. I certainly need the escapism.

Snowed "Inn" - A Wintery SoL RP [Full]

I never did learn how to follow the rules
I never was good at sleeping while the moon was full

Brandi Carlile

Kris

Name:

Krystal C. Hall

Age:

27

Birthplace:

Pioneer Springs, MI

Employment:

Singer-Songwriter

Personality:

The best way to describe Krystal, or Kris to her friends, is armored. She’s never been lucky with people and since moving out-of-state she has gotten even more hesitant and guarded. She’s always been quick with words, but now she uses her words to keep certain people at arm’s length. It’s easy to do when everyone she’s ever met has considered her “approachable but difficult”. In high school she saw herself as a delinquent, acting out to act out, and she garnered a little of a reputation among her friends for being a firecracker. Kind of weird for the band kid with loving, undivorced parents, to have that kind of worldview but sometimes you get cabin fever in life.

Around a decade removed from High School, she is probably still a little blunt and impulsive, probably could be nicer to strangers. She’s petty, but doesn’t go out of her way to set a forest on fire either. She’s got a lot going on right now in her life and in her head, but she’s not really met anyone real since she left Michigan. In fact, that’s probably the one thing she never was particularly prepared for when she left to pursue her career. Kris likes honesty, good or bad, mean or not. Don’t beat around the bush and don’t waste people’s time.

Backstory:

For years, Kris thought she was going to be stuck in Pioneer Springs forever. It was pretty close to happening. After High School ended, Kris focused a lot on making it out, despite the chance of that being shit, to be frank. Her parents were decidedly poor and she wasn’t particularly impressive enough to get a scholarship out to the University of Michigan or really anywhere. High School choir and band just hadn’t been enough and so the Michigander stuck to waiting tables while working on herself in her spare time.

The dumb little lodge would happen to be her way out, as unsurprising as it was. A few years after earning her degree and doing some local shows she ended up being asked to represent some folksy entertainment for the lodge during one of the busiest times for the old establishment. In the years since High School Kris had started to write and perform folk music, slowly building her confidence with each move forward. She was still far from Nashville or LA, but she was pretty satisfied with how much work she was putting in. As luck would have it, though, an agent from the music industry was at the lodge during such a time and things went pretty swimmingly going forward. At twenty-four the blonde left for better pastures.

She didn’t expect to be back so soon. Things with the label and the business down south didn’t go well. Her songwriting got pushed back by proven studio writers and a whole cluster of things she wasn’t happy with. Two albums in and she needed a break and she ended up planning the first flight back to Michigan, a place where she could be herself and think for the first time since she left. With the politics of the music business and her own aspirations she has found that she really needs the time away.

Miscellaneous:

TBD, if used at all.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Cities Skyline has soaked up like 95% of my video gaming time, so that's me lately. With everyone playing Rise, that'll probably change soon.

Lost Mine Of Phandelver (D&D 5e) (CLOSED)

@Necroes Normal starting wealth, either roll or take standard. And how does everyone feel about Point Buy?

@Dark Cloud

PB is boring, but generally speaking it is the most fair. Gives more options than set stats. It's OK.

As for what I'm playing, I'm gonna wait to see what everyone else conceptualizes first but I have a few ideas floating I should finalize. Only thing for certain is probably going to be a femme character.

@TGM I mean, we're essentially doing a session zero, right now. Discussing everyone's expectations of the game, what everyone wants to play and who they want their character to be, what we all want out of the game.

We're doing a PbP format, so it's not like we're all going to sit down at a table for an actual session zero. Even when we had a live-chat going, not everyone could be there all at the same time. Which was fine, specifically because this is a PbP format.

@Necroes

I'm aware. I'm trans, not stupid.

Lost Mine Of Phandelver (D&D 5e) (CLOSED)

I agree, actually. I just don't think it would massively impact the scaling of the combats if we started at level 2. It's just a lot less likely for a random critical hit to one-shot a frontliner.

@Necroes

I like the lethality but I'm just one opinion. That's why we do session zeroes.

Lost Mine Of Phandelver (D&D 5e) (CLOSED)

If we are doing Phandelver I'd prefer it to start where its supposed to start.

Lost Mine Of Phandelver (D&D 5e) (CLOSED)

We should also consider Phandelver was designed, as a module, for level 1. I suggest re-reading the module/path itself again, and see if you want to make changes to it to make it more interesting or not.

Lost Mine Of Phandelver (D&D 5e) (CLOSED)

@Dark Cloud Might I recommend not starting us at level 1? Most classes really gain momentum around level 3, and working up to that from level 1 just feels like a slog.

@Necroes

I'd prefer starting at level 1. Feels like a proper journey, that said for the story of Phandelver 2-4 does make sense given character backstories of being relatively capable adventurers guarding a caravan and all.

Snowed "Inn" - A Wintery SoL RP [Full]

I'm thinking of using a Bridgit Mendler FC, assuming everything works out on my end.