United We Fall, Divided We Stand

I didn't write that wrong....so this blog entry is directed at my dnd game from last Sunday (the Pathfinder one).  Really this title pretty much sums up the group and our outlook on how we have been fighting thus far.

So here is the deal basically with our characters.  So far every character, with the exception of mine and one other character, have no "family" interests in the happenings on the continent.  With that in mind, it makes it very hard for the party to come up with plans for what we "need" to do next with our actions.  We try and take turns focusing on each member as they come up through the story, but ultimately it is causing us to lose sight of our real goals.  All of our characters are connected through "dragon tattoos" that are symbols of the forthcoming end of the world.  Pretty much the death of our characters will cause Eberron to fall into hell.  So in the grand scheme of things, fighting for kingdoms for our characters to rule is really useless if we die in the process and end the world....just saying.

What our characters really need is to take a step back and re-evaluate what has happened to get us off track and work to get back on track to try and save the country.  Last game our DM did a really great job with doing that in showing exactly what happens with we manifest power through out tattoos.  We end up opening a rift straight from hell and letting all sorts of terrible demons/daemons/devils, and the like out and running completely unchecked on the land.  Not the greatest scenario (but on the plus side, when we had to fight 8 of them and I paralyzed 4 of them-so yay me!), but it gave our characters perspective that we really needed to refocus and get back into what the story is all about.  Hopefully next game we will get some of that ironed out and I will definitely let you know how that goes as the story progresses!

Oh guys okay so some exciting stuff for my character!!  Basically in my backstory I wrote that my character was in military service since a young age (totally normal for Karrnath) and so didn't have a lot of friends or family or anything in the story thus far (besides the party members). So we are getting ready to start a fight with King Kaius (who could literally murder the fuck out of us without even trying) and in walk 5 smoking hot ladies who look like my character...PLOT TWIST: my character has 5 "sisters" that were created as a strike team for the King.  So yeah, pretty much my character was supposed to be a Soviet-esque Green Beret, it's fantastic story guys.  The downside is that three of the girls turned out to be total bitches, but really they were just following orders and when your controller is a crazy high level, you tend to listen to them. So anyway, I have two sisters now that are hanging out with me..it's fantastic guys, I love it.  My character finally has someone who can understand what it's like being around "breathers" all the time.  So amazing.

Hmmm....what else happened....OH YEAH. So my boyfriend (in game, which is a really good girl friend IRL) was turned maybe slightly evil by his crazy King dad, that's fun to RP out.  Family issues all around...it's much easier to just kill off your family in your backstory; maybe Disney had something right in killing all the parents in their movies.  My character has to deal with that and also the implications of the actions of another character whose wife "infected" the rulers of the countries (all but 2) with a parasite that allows her to take control over them...sounds bad right?  Well the motives she had behind doing it make it not so bad-think the ends justifying the means.  Pretty much everyone else in the party doesn't agree with the fact that he knew beforehand and didn't tell anyone and thinks that there is something different he could have done to achieve the same results.  But it was done by the time he came into the picture, so really there wasn't anything he could have done to stop her and really made the best of the situation into which he was thrown.  My character can see that and is super intelligent (26 INT score) and so she understands him and what he did; in taking the blame for it all, he is a better character than the rest of us.  So she thinks that what he did was the best he could, but I have no clue how to bring that idea up to the rest of the party when they basically crucified him for it.

Next game I have two objectives:  get the rest of the sisters on my side and start a network through which we can gain supplies.  Second is going to be work to get the party truly united...it needs to happen or else we will all fail.  So we will see how that goes...I will keep you dear readers updated and hopefully I won't fail!!

PS...Guys, I MADE a prestige class on my own (well for the most part, I did have a bunch of help, but still this is impressive for me!), it's fantastic and when it's all done, I MIGHT share if you all are nice enough. ;)

Personal Goals vs Loyalty Part 2

Hey guys, here it is (drumroll)....my first vlog!!  I DEFINITELY need to apologize for my potato of a computer for not cooperating-honestly you should probably just listen to it and not watch it.  Also, I did this later in the evening so my hair is not the best.  In any case, enjoy!!

PS I hope you guys appreciate this...my computer has been uploading this video for over an hour.  The things I do for you kids!

Personal Goals vs Loyalty

Okay guys so this is going to be a two part blog entry...the first being this (duh) written part and then the second I will do in a few days as a video.  I wanted to do the video tonight, but it didn't really work out, so I figured I would do it later when I actually have the time and don't have to rush it.  You guys understand right?!  This portion is going to be mainly about my normal DnD Sunday game and then the video I will give the nitty gritty on the Star Wars game this past Sunday.

To start things off a quick recap shall we?  So for this past game my Lich (Kai is her name-I don't think I ever really mention the names of my characters so I apologize if you all have been kept at night because you don't know...I release this information to you now, so sleep well my friends.) managed to do some absolutely devious and fantastic experiments.  Basically, she doesn't have a phylactery (in her possession at least, "good" news is that in trying to make one she found out there is one in existence) so as a contingency plan, I used a discovery and a feat to make it so she can grow her own body double.  The whole idea of it is quite fantastic really, minus the whole "you have to keep your real body hidden so no one just goes and murders the f out it" thing.  But the basic idea is that you grow a complete copy of yourself and you can move your consciousness to that body.  Whenever that body "dies" you simply move back to your real body.  So you can die without the whole "truly dying and never coming back" repercussions.  I would like to say that has been successful except for the fact that the person I first used it against found her real body and messed with it; while they didn't do any real harm, it was enough to scare the shit out of me.

Hopefully with that in play though, my character will have a fairly good chance of surviving.  The next part of the story involves the fight we had against a fellow PC's character's father figure.  Imagine a very flamboyant and very powerful male fairy...and I mean the fey race.  He had a nice time of just fucking with us all and revealing to us that he knows entirely too much.  After that fight we were invited to a summit meeting of the rulers of Eberron to come to agreement on what to do with warring countries and create allies for the impeding war.  Of course we went to protect the King of Breland and low and behold we find out that the only country not invited was Karrnath (my character's homeland and probably the most evil country in Eberron).  Surprise surprise, when the summit starts the King of Karrnath bursts in (who by the way is a "smoking hot" vampire) and that is where our story left off. 

To say that I am excited about this Sunday and getting all this resolved is a bit of an understatement. I am terrified considering this dude is higher than a level 18 (I am pretty sure somewhere around 20?) and he can murderface us while not even trying probably.  But this is potentially also a storyline that can involve my character, so for that I am excited.  On that note, this part is more directly affecting my character's love interest as the king is his father, and he is hoping to kill him to take the throne and rule Karrnath.  I mean, don't get me wrong, that would be great, a good ruler to change the way Karrnath opperates..but let me just be a whiny child for a minute:  it was totally my scheme to rule Karrnath and I don't want to share ruling a country.  UGH....boys ruin everything!!  So my character's personal goals are changing and as the player, I am really unsure as to what her motivation should be:  should she want to still rule by herself or should she happy to have someone who she could more than likely rule by their side?  I am not really sure where to take her from here, so I will have to see how this Sunday's game goes and then go from there on what she will be scheming next.

Okay kids, it's late, I'm tired, and I have a very exciting day tomorrow for which I need to be rested and ready!!   

New Changes and Exciting things...

So super simple post right now guys...I am going to try and record a vlog tonight and give you all the recaps of the past two Sunday games I have had.  I figured (if I can get it to work) that it would be easier for my hands to not type about 22 hrs worth of gaming.  Hopefully that will be up tonight and you all can enjoy it later!!