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My Mage: the Ascension lady from the Technocratic Union has evolved in both her backstory and her looks 😌

Her codename is Marionettist (or Marie for short). She is from Iteration X and she doesn't like her pathetic meat body and wants to change it for a mechanical one as soon as she gets the chance. She already uses some mechanical prototypes, that's how she got her codename — she kinda pulls the strings of those extra bodies of hers, y'know?

About her t-shirt... I kinda headcannon that if the N.W.O. makes messed up jokes based on "1984", then Iteration X really should do so with "I have no mouth and I must scream", so there's that... I wonder what other man-made horrors can be used by other conventions. I'm open to suggestions xD

Yeah, this girl doesn't like Syndicate one bit. Actually everyone in her Amalgam doesn't like Syndicate, even the guy who is a Syndicate member. They are cautious about voicing their dislikes, though. I wonder why.

Meme on her t-shirt was made by ᛕᚤᛚⰓᛁᚹ ᛜ'ᛟᛋᛖ on Steam

I've been sooooooo artblocked lately, it's awful. So I drew my ttrpg OCs from all over the place in fancy (or not) outfits referenced from Pinterest

And then I proceeded to forget to post it. Yay.

Short overview of folk here, from left to right:

- Claude from Wraith: the Oblivion. He led quite a miserable life and ended up in the Legion of Paupers, but not before spending some time as a thrall. He had only recently caught some semblance of a break. Yeah.

- Ruben, son of Aphrodite from Scion: becoming as gods ttrpg. He is pretty grim, despite his looks and heritage, but not without a reason.

- Sharla, my Promethean: the Created girlie. Made by her creator to serve as a protector, she still fulfills her role – just in another group of people.

- Adlar, King of Summer in my Changeling: the Lost freehold. He hasn't actually been to Arcadia, but because he is a son of mortal woman and banished Gentry (so-called Charlatan) (a fact Adlar abhors and hides to the best of his ability) he is still technically a Changeling stuck in this whole changeling business

- Arcuvol, my good drow™ from DnD, because whenever I see some sort of evil faction I have to make a non-evil OC for it. (I'm never showing my Warhammer OCs to the world... Okay, they are still kinda evil when they should be). I was trying to make my own setting with DnD mechanics, but it's kinda dead now, so I don't know what to say.

My etherite OC, Xavier, thinks aloud. I like him so much. He has such a funny platonic lovehate with Marionettist (my ItXer OC, I showed her a couple posts earlier)... Two scientists (well, sort of), who respect stubbornness they share, but absolutely can't stand scientific (or not so much) theories their opponent has...

The breaking point for my Void Engineer OC, Supernova

My Wraith the Oblivion OCs yay!

❗CW: death❗

Let's start with Claude, even though he's not the main guy. But he has the prettiest picture drawn for him, so yeah. Legion of Paupers, former thrall of some rich Stygian bastard, he wasted his life in-between two World Wars and had only just begun putting it back together. He's a bit sharp-tongued and has a lot of trust issues, but he's trying his best. That's the most important part, isn't it? Also he's good at "Inhabit" Arcanoi.

Next we have Ginger! My comfort OC for all the wrong reasons. A modern girl whose perfectionism didn't let her live peacefully and continues to torment her even in Shadowlands in a form of, well, her Shadow. Ginger is a newcomer in Stygia and she's from Silent Legion, but all of it didn't prevent her from befriending Fyodor (see below), then Claude, then some more wraiths. Also one day Ginger will be a master of "Castigate", but for now she's a mere amateur.

First picture was loosely inspired by Brodsky's poem "Nature Morte", especially by this part:

An absurd pack of

Lies: skull, skeleton, scythe.

Rather, «Death, when it comes,

It will have

your own two eyes.»

Absolutely incredible poem. I highly recommend reading the full version. Sadly I was able to find only one English translation, but it captures the meaning pretty well. You should be able to find it if you search for the lines above :'D

❗cw: blood❗

And finally, Фёдор = Fyodor, or Fedya for friends. My favourite Slavic name :D

Grim Legion. A Red Army's soldier who had fallen during Russian Civil War. Despite his background and Legion, Fyodor is a very thoughtful and calm man. He's torn between the Hierarchy and Renegades for now... If (when ;)) this whole cast will go Renegade, it'll probably be triggered by Fyodor. Not such a fun fact about him: he couldn't read when he was alive and he still is pretty bad at it. That's because he comes from a family of peasants and he hasn't actually gotten the chance to live long enough to see Bolsheviks reforming everything and giving people education. I don't know if it's for the better or worse. He doesn't know either. History has always been a tricky topic.

Even more Technocratic propaganda in the form of my OC art! Can you tell I love Technocracy much more than the Council of Nine, or do I have to draw 62838392920202 more technocratic pieces? (just joking I'll probably do the latter anyways in due time 😌)

This time here is my Progenitor (to be precise, Pharmacopoeist) OC, Danaida. She's a good-hearted lady who genuinely wishes the best for everyone, even Reality Deviants. It's not her fault "the best" comes in the form of capturing RD and letting N.W.O. socially condition them 😔

I mean, she saw what Reality Deviants are capable of. The destruction they can cause to others. Themselves, too. She's aligning with Technocracy because it does offer the best option in the endless pool of awful options.

Or does it?

My new favourite thing in the world is Changeling the Dreaming, so behold:

The most stylish redcap you'll ever see 😎

(Her fae name is Kirsa the Bloody and she's an art student :D)

The most stylish sluagh you'll ever see 😎

(His fae name is Tycho and before being reborn into who he is today he spent quite a few past lives in all sorts of criminal gangs... Yeah...)

Edgy selki lady

(She is actually a grand-grand-grand-...-grandholder of the selkie coat Foca wears nowadays. Also she's dead.)

And some sidhe loser

(His fae name is Januarius, or Jan for short, and actually he's a good boi who will help Kirsa and Tycho tear down the local monarchy 😌)

(Also I thought about interacting with folk on Tumblr more, so if you have any questions regarding these or other OCs I have, my askbox is open... hopefully... I'm a newbie I'm so sorry :'))

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.

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

The afterlife smells of freshly cut grass.

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.

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

They won't leave my head send help

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.

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 😌

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 😌

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.

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.

I have MtAs brainrot. Specifically, Technocracy brainrot. Send help these bastards won't leave my mind... N.W.O., is this your social processing kicking in? 🥺

Context under the cut:

This picture is honouring the fact that I got my hands on Revised edition Iteration X book and the way their relationship with Syndicate was described is hilarious to me. Check this out:

I adore how in-universe when ppl talk about Syndicate they sound like a gun is held to their heads 🤡

Oh, a bit more of explaining the picture.

Two people on the upper part are ItXers. In the lower part we have some proper Syndicate buddie. Behind him are a Syndicate Enforcer and a MiB (without his suit, a pity).

You may say: "Okay, Enforcer is maybe playing a bodyguard or smth for the higher-ranking Syndicate member, but what is N.W.O. agent doing here?". Well, here's the thing. Both him and the Enforcer actually share and amalgam with girl in upper right corner. So even if they aren't related to Iteration X needing Syndicate's money, they are still quietly mourning the fact that they probably aren't getting any financing ever again just by association with this mess.

Meme redraw with my satyr gorl, Zlata

Original under the cut