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So. Uhm. Remember MtAs one-shot I've storytelled months ago?

There was an NWO agent who was really close to becoming one of Technephandi.

Well, my players managed to redeem him. And get him away from Technocracy for a while. So he has spent some time with Cult of Ecstacy of all people. And now he's one of them.

He's currently on a run from both Technocracy and Traditions, because the former is obviously not glad about the betrayal and potential information leak and the latter would like to "ask him a few questions" since not every day MiB turns Ecstatic, they need to make sure he's not a double agent and also get some information about Technocracy from him. And he doesn't want to give any information to anyone, he wants to be left alone. Oh, and also Technephandi are curious about where has he disappeared to as well, but they haven't caught up on the latest events or his traces. Yet.

For now he stays with one of Ecstatic loners and desperately searches for a way to blackmail each and every organisation looking for him in a way which will allow him to have some peace. Good luck for him, I guess. I mean, he has a chance since I, the Storyteller, am rooting for him. I blame my players for making me really invested in life on an NPC who was meant to die at the end of the one-shot. What a bunch of people 🙄 /affectionate

So yeah. Have a weird conceptual piece about personal growth and putting yourself in danger for it. From NWO agent to almost Technephandi to Ecstatic. What an insane character arc.

Storytelled my first CtD (20th anniversary edition) one-shot set in Rus during Ivan the Terrible (so not long after the Shattering). Had a wonderful time, my players are very fun and creative people, so it was a blast :D

Here are portraits of NPC's I've made as well as some lore notes about each of them under the cut :]

1) Zlata, satyr childling. She was actually abandoned in the wood by her mortal parents who caught up on some weird thing going on with their daughter and being really superstitious (not surprising during that time) decided their kid is dangerous :(

Thankfully my players adopted her just as expected and at the end of one-shot she found a new home in house of Januarius and his wife.

2) Igor Indrick, beastie Thallein. He's also a head of local Oprichnina (personal soldiers of Ivan the Terrible who went around the land pretending to be destroyers of potential state traitors but in fact just robbing and murdering people) – a fact he abuses to specifically hunt changelings. All in all, terrible dude, in this house we don't like him.

3) Yuli, piskie Dauntain. Was tricked by sidhe he was serving into opening a cursed book, which Dreaming took personally. And by that I mean that Yuli became Dauntain with brand of the Lich, meaning that he from that point on had a phylactery which basically made him a thrall to whoever was in possession of said phylactery. Yay.

Yuli is actually a pretty good-natured guy, for Dauntain at least. As I said, he was a piskie once, so during the game he was trying his best not to harm Zlata and by association the players. In the end they got rid of vampire who possessed Yuli's phylactery and granted him freedom, except not so much – unbeknownst to Yuli, one of players stole his phylactery. Hasn't used it, but the possibility is there.

I really want to give Yuli a redemption in eyes of the Dreaming in later games. Dude doesn't deserve a thing that happened to him... I don't care that C20 is kinda opposed to idea of redeeming Dauntain. Rules are my plaything 😎

4, 5) Agrippina, Kiasyd, vampire who was in possession of Yuli's phylactery. They lived in secluded place in the local forest, so Agrippina mainly used her power over Yuli to use him as a hunter for her: he lead unsuspecting people and other creatures to their house and Agrippina ate them. Yay. Her backstory is pretty sad, but it doesn't excuse a thing, so my players ended up killing her.

I'm a bit upset I can't make up stories about her and reborn and redeemed Yuli in modern nights, but narratively it was definitely for the better 😌

6) Leptonyx the Men-eater, an Unseelie selkie. She hasn't, in fact, eaten any men, but she's definitely killed at least one in order to make a new selkie's coat - I used fanmade lore which says that in order to create a selkie's coat mortal or seal with selkie's blood should die. Oops.

She's shunned from selkie's society for her crimes, which doesn't upset her one bit. During the game she cheerfully asked players to lead another human to her, which they reluctantly did, leading one of Oprichnina to her. Which means that there is now possibly selkie who comes from Oprichnina – Leptonyx was looking for someone to pass the coat to.

7) Kirsa the Bloody, redcap. Leader of whole band of redcaps, she made players give her their possessions with a bit of threats before leading them to Januarius, whom she actually loves and who specifically asked her to lead any changelings escaping from Oprichnina to him. Sadly he didn't specify that those changelings are not to be robbed, and Kirsa's band needs something to eat... Oops.

There was a moment when Kirsa told players to give her everything of value they have and Zlata gave her flower crown which another player made for her. One of redcaps actually put it on, but sad eyes of Zlata made him ashamed of himself and he returned the flower crown to rightful owner 😌

8) Januarius of House Liam, autumn sidhe, ruler of freehold where players escaped to from their own, destroyed by Oprichnina. I dunno what to say about him. He's a good boy. Many adore him (even local redcaps, though they also enjoy messing with him), many think he is way to nice to be a capable ruler. For now his managing alright, but what will happen in the future? Only time will tell.

❗cw: blood❗

What do agents of Technocratic Union have in their trunk? Wrong answers only.

Meanwhile, out of the trunk, from left to right we have:

- an N.W.O. agent who was a Grey Suit before being demoted to MiB for making too many decisions on his own - decisions which turned out not like both he and his superiors hoped they would;

- a low-ranking Syndicate agent who was in mob before Awakening (which was a side effect of Technocratic operation concerning his organisation...) and who technically stays in mob. I mean, Extralegal (what a word!) Division of Syndicate Enforcers is basically a mafia;

- a Void Engineer whose Horizon Construct was messed up during Dimensional Anomaly (Avatar Storm) and who now deals with paranormal on Earth out of inability to stay away from action.

❗kinda creepy (shadows with eyes, distorted people, fun stuff)❗

More Delta Green OCs doodles! Starting with agent Ardour. He's got a golden retriever energy and no clue about what's going on, which is probably good for him.

A sudden crossover. My MTAs OC, codename Tulip, and my DG OC, codename Daisy, swapped clothes. If you know about World of Darkness in general and Mage the Ascension specifically, first of all, I'm sorry /j, and second, I feel like guys from Technocratic Union and guys from Delta Green would have a lot in common to talk about. Like being agents of messed up organisations which are protecting common people from supernatural and don't get even a bit of acknowledgement for it. Do you see the vision? They would understand each other so well.

Daisy and Wilt, an FBI agent and a psychiatrist respectively. They have quite a sad dynamic, since both of them get what's going on the most out of their group, but they fundamentally disagree on whenever or not Delta Green is actually doing any good. Wilt desperately searches for a way to go rogue, while Daisy is pretty loyal to the Program, since she doesn't see any other choice.

I also feel like Wilt is pretty much doomed by narrative, he's slowly getting corrupted by cosmic horrors, and Daisy sees it, and she contemplates whether she should end Wilt or not quite a bit. She likes him (platonically), she'd hate to see him go, but like... She should probably stop him before he gets dangerous... And Wilt knows that Daisy is thinking about this, but still hangs out with the group, because he believes he can still figure out a way to abandon the Program and survive. And Daisy knows he thinks this. So yeah. They understand each other perfectly, and yet they disagree and are constantly waiting for other to try and end them. Tragic.

Btw, don't worry about cosmic horrors, I feel like if Wilt's life would end, it'll happen while he is still relatively sane. Though is it really better this way? I'll let you judge.

Shitty comic about Wilt getting replaced by a mimic or something. Daisy usually pretends to be "stupid blonde" since that way people (and not people) think she's harmless, which helps with missions most of the time, and she tries extra hard whenever the group encounters supernatural. Mirk usually doesn't see through Daisy's facade and is unable to grasp how this lady who was really competent just a minute ago now seemingly doesn't see what's going on in front of her. This ends up in some wacky situations. Yay.

Mimic assuming Wilt's form and Mimic assuming Mirk's form. The mimic is pretty goofy, because I adore goofy antagonists who are still really dangerous, and protagonists have to kinda humiliate themselves a bit by taking such dorks seriously.

If you're here, thanks for reading through. Have a random fact: Daisy says "oopsie-daisy" insted of swearing when it's appropriate 😌

Have a nice day!

I have a strange craving for obscure World of Darkness lines.

My character for "Orpheus", her name is Astra.

❗cw: blood❗

Delta green OCs (I don't have anyone familiar to play with so that's what I get for now :'D)

Meet from left to right: agent Daisy (FBI agent), agent Ardour (some former military dude that's all I know I'm sorry I haven't researched US military properly yet), agent Mirk (she's actually strongly associated with organized crime and she hates it) and agent Wilt (psychiatrist).

And here are doodles of Wilt and Daisy with some artfully applied duct-tape and stickers, eheheh.

I have a story about species who exist sorely to rebuild worlds after local apocalypses, giving life there a new start, before dying. Creatures keeping the circle together, y'know?

Here is a girl who has somehow survived apocalypse of her world, and one of such creatures who has kinda adopted her. Also this creature is a special case, since they have rebuilt many dead worlds instead of just one they were meant to. That's why in creature's society, if you can even call it that (creatures are very, very solitary beings) this one is a criminal.

By the way, girl goes by Survivor (very on the nose, she likes it that way). And she also likes naming things, so she named the creature Agglutination, honouring not the biological one, but psychological. As far as I'm concerned, this term doesn't exist in English with the meaning I'm about to cite, but in my native language agglutination means, among many other things, the process of glueing together different concepts while fantasizing.

I'm studying clinical psychology, yeah :D

Local redcap is about to eat local sidhe >:)

Okay, no, Kirsa wouldn't eat Jan, she likes him too much. But he does activate her cuteness aggression, that's for sure 😌

I made myself a lame Reverse 1999 OC, so that every gacha I'm currently playing could have an OC for me to obsess over

This is Alexei Kashtanov (his surname is based on Russian for chestnuts fyi), and this is not his real name. He is originally from 1960s, USSR (sorry I'm too dumb to do the whole "an arcanist's work exhibited" thing), where he was actually a spy for USA, since, y'know, Cold War and things. His spying business was actually discovered and if not for the Storm and St. Pavlov Foundation saving him, his story would have ended very very very badly.

He's currently working as a spy again, this time for the Foundation, trying to infiltrate Manus Vindictae. His arcane skill is changing his own physiology (like slowing heartbeat or stopping pain signals from coming through to his brain), but I'm not sure whether it's a good idea in canon terms or not, so I accept criticism and suggestions.

Also. Red socks on men >>>>>> . That's it that's the post.

Local redcap and sluagh being siblings towards each other day 6171819101192633. No, literally. These two have been self-proclaimed brother and sister since like their second life as changelings. They have been siblings for centuries now, in different bodies and circumstances. They have also been a pair of menaces to everyone else for centuries as well 😌

Played a DnD one-shot with PJO lore. One day I'll run such game on Scion 2e system, but for now, here is my PC. Son of Aphrodite (yeah, he dressed up like he isn't), or more specifically, son of Aphrodite Areia, Todd. He spent like half of the game magically charmed by sirens and that sucked for him, but he had also visited aquapark for the first time in his life, so it kinda evens out, eheh. Don't worry, Todd, one day you'll find your true love, just chill for now 😌

A girl chosen by a deity of cruelty

OCs

Art of PCs with surviving NPCs from an MtAs one-shot I've storytelled a few months ago. My brain exploded while I was trying to figure out MtAs rules, but we had a ton of fun. As a proof, here is a list of things my dear PCs achieved:

- Reached a good ending, saved the city from ghost invasion, helped with reunion of brother, sister and their ghostly grand-grand-grand-uncle (see in the upper right corner)

- Instead of running away from Technocracy went with them willingly. Technocrats were shocked. I was shocked. PCs proceeded to behave in a "I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!" manner.

- Helped an NWO agent get free from nephandic influence in his life and convinced him to switch sides for the Cult of Ecstasy (Upper left corner, the guy in question is the one with dark shades – old habits die hard. The grandpa in the middle is PC, the girl on the right is another Ecstatic).

- Were saved from Room 101 by Nephandus. They didn't know his affiliation at the moment, but the fact still stands.

- Helped another NWO agent with getting rid of his evil nephandic ex. Saved another few technocrats from being hurt by Nephandi. Had a reluctant alliance. Were let go in peace after Nephandi had been dealt with, because the amalgam my PCs mostly interacted with are losers, but they are grateful-for-PCs-help losers. See lower-right corner for losers /affectionately.

- Yeeted a wolf in space (he was evil).

- Saved a sparrow. It was an important plot point, actually.

- The girl on the right in the lower left corner (yeah) got a hold of an Euthanathoi cult. I mean, she's a Euthanathoi herself, so it makes sense. But it was a huge growing step for her.

- Made quite a bit of friends among wraiths in the local library.

Yeah, the one-shot was really goofy and I was storytelling technocrats as basically clowns (in my defence, they were low-ranking and unprepared for everything that went down) and I pretty sure I messed the rules up even if I have 0 idea where. BUT. We had a lot of fun. And that's all I needed from this silly story.

Kiasyd and Dauntain from my last post but with a bit more effort

They won't leave my head send help

Kiasyd and Dauntain, two NPCs for my now cancelled Changing oneshot, who are sticking together, because Kiasyd has Dauntain's phylactery (I'm using C20 lore). Their duo has pretty unhealthy dynamic, Dauntain heavily dislikes Kiasyd but he can't do anything about it, and Kiasyd simply uses him for her own protection. Also as a hunter, so Dauntain catches humans for her to eat and other changelings for her to study – a role Dauntain also heavily dislikes.

Despite all that, I like to think that over centuries, Dauntain will reincarnate and after some lives will be able to restore his Kithain self (that's where I don't use C20 lore, I hate the idea of irredeemable Dauntain) and will become an Unseelie Piskie once again. And Kiasyd, living through all those centuries, will learn to protect herself. And so, in modern nights these two will be able to hold a conversation without hostility.

P. S. A bit of lore once more: Dauntain has those patchy hair and a blue-ish brown eyes, because since he's a Piskie, his appearance tries to change in order to appeal to his social circle. And since these two live in a middle of the forest (read: nowhere), Dauntain has only Kiasyd and people they catch to serve as Kiasyd's meal around. So his appearance slowly starts to mimic that of fiance whom Kiasyd had when she was alive. She misses that man a lot. Of course, Dauntain's subconscious mimicry makes their relationship with Kiasyd even worse then they are already.

I have a lot of OCs loosely (or not) related to "1984" by George Orwell. They are incredibly bad in terms of conveying the horrors™, but they are interesting to think about. That's all I need. Afterall, I feel like Orwell has conveyed the horrors™ pretty well already.

Some more info under the cut.

From left to right, we have:

- Winston, a Limbus company OC. I'm powering through the game right now, it's right up my alley, I'm so glad my friend talked me into it. I still have to catch-up with all the lore and storyline, so I won't talk about Winston much, he's still a work in progress in a way. All I'll say is that he has a pet rat, formerly a lab rat, which he named "Big Brother". This is pretty fucked up reference, yeah, but I have an explanation in-universe. Besides, I like converting the horrors to something silly. This helps me cope, y'know?

- George, OC from an original setting. Okay, if I'm being honest, he was a BSD OC at first, but that was in the past, and he was a very different person then. Now he's a protagonist of a utopian (?) world, where the AI watching over it makes anything to make everyone happy... Which means that people being upset is treated kinda like people being sick and in dire need of a cure. In this world, three boys, George, Ray, and Evgeny, all named after authors of famous distopias (I'm so sneaky with my references /sarcasm) just want to be able to grieve over their personal tragedies in peace.

- Eric and Julia, my OCs for Beast the Primordial's rewrite. I've talked about Eric a bit in one of previous posts, as for Julia, well, she's a Hero to Eric's Beast, however, she doesn't enjoy being wrapped up in the narrative of the Dreaming (which is what happening with Heroes in BtP rewrite), so in-between fighting with Eric (since that is the whole reason she exists) she tries to sustain a semi-friendly relationship with him. They both try to.

May I interest you in my fast doodles with potential sinner OCs, which were made ridiculously early in the game while I haven't known anything? Yeah, these two need a redesign and a rewrite... My goal for the near future is to finally get into lcb properly and rework them.

Anyways, here are Winston from 1984 and Ted from IHNAIMS... I thought about how in 1984 love was a huge deal and how it got messed up and replaced in, ironically, Ministry of Love; and then I thought about how in IHNAIMS hate was a huge deal (AM's monologue, do I need to say anything else?), and this weird duo was born in my head.

But yeah, this is probably pretty bad in terms of canonical designs and designs in general pft. So expect a redesign later, hopefully. I just wanted to post them like this for now 😌

Two of my Scion OCs, and both are sons of Aphrodite. Only Todd, the one on the left, is son of Aphrodite Areia, and Ruben, the one on the right, is son of Aphrodite Pandemos. A boy who feels like he'll never be loved and a boy who feels like people will never leave him alone with their unrequired love :(

Oh, and there is an old-ish picture of Todd under the cut

So, a bit of disclaimer. This is a Beast the Primordial OC. He is based on a rewrite of original game. I love the idea of making characters out of something that scares me, I've done it since childhood and it has always felt therapeutic. It's a direction I'm going in with this guy, for example. And it really is a shame that a gameline that could have given me a game made for this was partially written by a messed up person. I do not support him, his actions, or his ideas, obviously. That's why, once again, I'll be using a rewrite.

Having said that, here is Eric vibing in his native reality, sort of custom-made dream (or, more precisely, nightmare) called Lair in game's term. I've also put a doodle with Eric's design under the cut.

Eric is based on fear of exposure, but in an indirect way: he is dedicated to the time, when I, thanks to the religious household I grew up in, was terrified that someone was hearing my thoughts, no matter how terrible and sinful or not. That's what Eric is all about.

His Lair, for example, has a trait where anything one thinks in there is automatically said out loud. Which does mean that Eric has heard some really weird, to put it lightly, things, and sometimes he gets psychic damage while trying to scare someone to feed from their fears. But actually this experience is slowly teaching Eric not to be scared of accidental thoughts, even weird or "sinful", and especially not to stigmatize people based on their intrusive thoughts, because words and actions speak louder and mean much more.

❗a bit of blood❗

Blah blah, something about the unhealthy feeling of finding coziness and comfort in a place where you only have bad memories, blah blah, something about the inability to break ties with an unwanted past and step into the future, blah blah, the door to your cell is wide open, so why are you still here?

Sketch under the cut

The afterlife smells of freshly cut grass.

My pathetic little mew mew aka my Changeling the Lost OC.

He's an Elemental Fireheart.

Also he's a Loyalist. Which means he is out of Arcadia but still serves True Fae. These sad eyes will be the last thing you'll see before he sells you out to Gentry 😌

My Changeling the Dreaming OCs in the post-Shattering era.

Januarius of House Liam, sidhe who didn't leave for Arcadia and so continues to rule over his freehold, comes to Kirsa the Bloody, leader of the local redcap band, to hire the band to help with dragon problem. Because apparently, redcaps were mercenaries who hunted chimerical beasts after Shattering happened. Their kithbook is now my favourite.

As you may see, Jan is pretty terrified of negotiations going wrong, but he shouldn't be — Kirsa the Bloody finds his poor attempt at drawing a dragon amusing enough to go and check out what it actually looks like :D

I'll let you decide, whether Kirsa thinks the drawing is cute... Or Jan himself is cute. Maybe it's both 😌

No text version is under the cut :D

Ginger, my Wraith: the Oblivion OC

Turned out "ginger" means "strength" in flower language. What a nice little coincidence. What a thoughtful foreshadowing for her.

Also, ginger plant is very beautiful when blooming.