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This week my Call of the Netherdeep group played on Foundry for the first time. We were still figuring out how for much of the session (took me an eternity how to figure out how to move around maps), but it's slightly more efficient and way, way cooler looking than Roll 20, especially when we started casting the spells, and things like eldritch blasts actually moved around the map towards their targets. (At least once we figured out selecting those.)
The session ended up consisting of two halves. First there was the visit to the brothel where my fellow drow agreed to with the dwarves. But when Schist decided to come along, our kobold fire druid decided to as well-except it turned out he didn't know what you're supposed to do in a brothel. So he confused/disturbed the hells out of one woman when he showed her his perfectly PG-rated fire tricks and then suggested they burn the place down, and after she walked out he went and started a fire behind the building. He actually managed to elude the city guard, but we probably can't go back to that brothel again. Except one of the dwarves promptly declared himself in love with his lady, and all in all the breakfast conversation we had the next day is probably the most hilarious thing to happen to us so far. During it my fellow drow made up a wild story about having an orgy with 12 women. Schist failed her insight check on it, and her view of him is now completely changed.
During the second half, ( things got more serious... )

This week's Call of the Netherdeep stream actually started with us testing out what the DM had set up on Foundry, and we may well finish the campaign there. But we found some issues, so we ended up playing the session out on Roll20. It was a shortened one, especially when we fell into discussing possibly doing Curse of Strahd next, but we accomplished the day's task. ( We did one kind of stupid thing, but I'm not sure it mattered in the end... )

We finally had proper snow last week, though there wasn't much of it and it was all melted by the next day. Yesterday was one of the coldest days we've had this winter; mom and I even shortened our grocery run to minimize the amount of time we were out in it. Today's a bit better, though, and its supposed to hit the 60s next week. Not last until the weekend, though, which is kind of annoying when I may or may not have a date then.
Meanwhile, I'm been just fine these last three weekends staying in and tuning into figure skating and LOVM watch parties. I especially loved episodes 5, 7, and 8, but they've all been really good. I'm even feeling a little sad, now, that at this time next week I will have seen all of them, and there'll likely be no more until next year. (And I wouldn't expect any Mighty Nein series for even longer.)
One of the players of my Netherdeep group warned us this morning he might not be able to make it tomorrow. That's a little worrying, ( since we're currently in the middle of a dangerous dungeon crawl... )

To think, at the beginning of this week, we Critters knew it was going to be an eventful one, even before they dropped a surprise maproom stream on us. (And now I've still got an hour left to watch on it. Yes, I've actually been watching the VOD after being stuck at work unable to stream it when it was happening.) But did anyone think they'd announce more animated stuff *now*? Honestly, I'm still a little worried about the long-term, since the critics will insist that all the campaign adaptations will tell pretty similar stories about bands of misfits fighting monsters and such. (They tend to miss things like The Mighty Nein's story sometimes being a little more complicated than that.) But it'll be worth it for however much we get to see. Especially if they do adapt the Calamity as a movie.
It was quite a week for my group to resume our Call of the Netherdeep campaign, after an involuntary month off. I still can't remember exactly where Schist got the wand of paralysis that is currently sitting in her inventory. She got to use counterspell for the first time, which probably saved most of us, since we were fighting a pretty powerful caster, and even with the fireball avoided she went down to only ten hit points after her second attack.

Current Music: David Bowie - Heroes

They say that when you play D&D, failure can make for a more interesting story than success. Our Call of the Netherdeep group got a chance to judge that for ourselves this week, and it certainly lead to some good RP (we have gotten way more of that since arriving in Marquet!). In terms of the story, so far, ( it's only narrowed our choices... )

It was a bit of a Marquesian week for me. After nearly three weeks of being unable to make the schedule work, my Call of the Netherdeep group played two nights in a row at its beginning. And now, of course, it's ended with the return of Bells' Hells. ( There'll likely be spoilers for both in here... )
And to top it off, the guest cast list for Legend of Vox Machina makes it look like they'll be getting to Ank'Harel themselves before the second season ends. Though see Kelly Hu on it gives me a sinking feeling of exactly where the season's going to end...

My Call of the Netherdeep part, after recruiting the shapeshifting sorcerer/paladin cousin of our dwarven blood hunter/wizard, finally finished things up in Bazzaxon last night. We actually surprised the DM, ( since he'd expected... )

Eight sessions into our Call of the Netherdeep adventure, it finally happened. Someone got killed. And it ended up being a permadeath as well.( We'd gone into the dark temple... )

After two weeks of waiting, my Call of the Netherdeep group got into Bazzoxan last night, where we did not run into any of our backstories, with the DM saying he wanted to keep to the module, but might still throw things in. Still, even if Schist's family doesn't show up, having brothers in the Aurora Watch very much influenced her behavior there. ( And we did get to meet Verin... )

We might finally be approaching the end of the the two-hiatus on Critical Role, but my Call of the Netherdeep Group has begun one of our own, as the DM is going to visit his mother next week, and he left us at the gates of Bazzoxan, wondering if the General my fellow drow is acquainted with who was supposed to be there actually is, or if he'll bring any members of Schist's own family in. He said he'd spend the two weeks rereading our backstories, so who knows what he'll come up with. ( The module provided enough for last night's session... )

The guy who kept cancelling on us Wednesday night has now accepted he's no longer free then and officially bailed out of our D&D group. Which leaves on three players, and noone who can give me a ride home, and when it really would be too much to try to get home on my own at night. The DM is talking about looking for others, but I fear this might be it. In hindsight, it's looking like a minor miracle we at least managed to finish the previous campaign first.
At least I have Call of the Netherdeep online to tide me over. ( But I would seriously be interesting in knowing... )

In-person group got cancelled again. We've got a guy with a family issue that keeps giving him trouble on Wednesday. He even told us to meet without us this week, but we're too small a group for that. At this point we just have to hope next week will be fine, especially since, of course, the week after I'll be in New York.
Preparations for that are now underway. My sister and I have booked hotel rooms, and my badges arrived today; I just got them activated. But unfortunately, I won't be able to get my omicron booster before we go. Mom and I struggled to navigate the CVS appointment system this weekend, and Monday she instead booked appointments for us with Kaiser, but they can't get to us until the end of October. I am now debating the amount of time I'll spend on the convention floor and thinking I'm much less likely to go to any shows in NY this year.
At least I've got my Call of the Netherdeep group. ( Provided, of course, we can get to Bazzoxan alive... )

With our bugbear monk joining us for the second session, we more or less finished the first chapter of Call of the Netherdeep last night, although we haven't quite left Jigow yet, and at least one character isn't sold on our current plan. ( I ended up taking a surprise role in that... )
Tomorrow my in-person group also starts a new campaign, at least in theory, though I don't even know if anyone else has finished creating their new characters yet. But my Eglendae has her backstory written, her stats, spells, and items set up in D&D Beyond, and even her miniature and her jewelry sitting by me; I put a circlet on as Varvara's Necklace of Adaptation on a whim a year ago, and now I'm having too much fun wearing my character's jewelry to not do so when she's a high-born bard.

I genuinely thought when the Queen died, I would spend the next few days properly mourning her, regardless of whether I ought to or not. But then she went and died in a week where we got more reminders that both her and our country is in the grips of far worse people that may destroy the lot of us yet, and it just felt unimportant. Seeing my Twitter timeline filled with all the reminders of the terrible things done in her name (much to my poor mother's shock when I showed her!) just makes the whole thing feel even more screwy, though I've never seen the point of being angry at the dead. (Speak ill of them if you must, maybe, but there are other people who can still do things to focus the anger on.)
I did go back and reread one Captain America fic in which she made an appearance, though. I could see from the comments on it I wasn't the only one either.
This was also the week I said goodbye to Varvara, as our group's first campaign came to its conclusion, with two of our four-person party heading off to another world, another one going back to his kid and babymama (I think that guy won the session, dropping that reveal on us!), and her and Lon heading off into the woods to live more quietly, though the DM then declared we were talked us as legendary guardians among the locals. I've been working on my next character, a dwelven bard, as we begin the next campaign next week!
But that wasn't even the only campaign I started this week, as I finally got Schist to Jigow with a new party, including another drow, a kobold druid, a dwarven blood hunter, and a monk who didn't make our first session, for Call of the Netherdeep. ( We only got through three festival events... )
The week's episode of Critical Role hasn't exactly helped with my mental state either. There may be more coping smut.