You Know If You Turn Into A Monster I Have To Kill You, Right?!

HELP was talking to a friend in dms on twit about strahd and literally midway thru the conversation i got a message that a) my response couldn't be sent and b) TWITTER THINKS IM AUTOMATED? HELLO? IM JUST HAVING A CONVERSATION

Do you have a beginners guide to ez's lore for the uninitiated (me) 🥺

YOU GOT IT I LOVE NOTHING MORE THAN TO TALK ABT HER

Note: This only applies to Ez in our campaign, other Ez’s will vary. 

BASIC INFO

Ez (goes by Ez)

She/Her 

Human 

5’0” (5'8") / 25-35 yrs (her canon is 5'8" and the height I draw her is noncanon LOL)

Romani (Vistani) descent 

Action Girl (like the TV Trope)

Primary weapons are magic handaxe, saber, and the ability to call lightning from her fingertips.

An elusive NPC that’s both a world of help and a storm of trouble at the same time, Ez is protege to one of the greatest monster hunters in existence, and her nearly bottomless talent and expertise are countered only by her reckless, impulsive disposition and swiftly changing whims. Casual, confident, and deeply capable, she’s happy to share her knowledge with the party when asked, but her cat-like independent streak means she never stays for long. 

When the party first met her, she had big ‘I’ll sell you for one corn chip’ energy, and while it doesn’t seem like she’ll betray them anymore, she still feels like a gremlin and is somewhat difficult to read. The party enjoys her because she’s easy to talk to and exchange theories with. Roma likes chatting with her when she’s around, and “likes” her, which at this moment involves giving her a lot of gifts and making fun of her when she loses things. 

OTHER FACTS: 

Has a below the knee prosthetic.

Says her parents were the worst.

Seems to have a complicated relationship with her heritage. 

Running gag that she keeps throwing her ax into the figurative (sometimes literal) abyss despite not needing to at all and the party has to fetch it 

Running gag that she just loses important things, like full horses, her magic cart, and her spell components

Can do triple the amount of damage of the party in a single turn 

Lost her shadow once, and had to go on a long and difficult venture with The Twins to retrieve it back 

Talks to Roma in Goblin, a language that only the two of them and none of the party know 

Was first mentioned in Roma’s tarot reading (players are given a tarot reading in the beginning of the campaign called Tarokka that tells them important NPCs or artifacts abt the world that’ll help them in the campaign/relate to completing objectives in backstory) 

The Tempter - speaks of one who will direct you to a mutual ally; to someone who knows something of your past and who will know something of your future. you must seek out the woman of recklessness who is missing one of her legs.

Can read tarokka, but claims to not be very fluent with it. 

Agreed to go on a date with Roma. 

Gifts Roma has given her: 

Endure Elements - a spell casted on her, after first meeting, upon her departure, that protects from cold and heat and keeps casted comfortable for 8 hrs in extreme weather conditions 

20 feet of chain - forged by local blacksmith, originally 30 feet. “It’s so you can attach it to your ax and not lose it anymore.” 

A gold bracelet worth 100 gold pieces taken from the party’s first vampire kill 

The ribs from a stag, hunted by Roma and Van Richten (Roma and Ez’s shared mentor) that morning 

a doodle of my most forbidden au, which is just imagining roma learning medicine from van richten post-strahd

Party (+ Ez and Izek!) did and infiltration mission and Ez did a charm person curse on some guards, and while it was just a curse it really did make Roma feel Some Type Of Way about it!!!!

DRABBLE CHALLENGE 2024: DAY 5 / RING Roma gets new clothes.

Rahadin’s armor fit Roma perfectly--an honest surprise considering so few things did. The fine leather breast piece lay flat and uncomplicated over his clothes. The boots neither squeezed his toes nor chafed his ankles. Even when the collar was clasped fully shut, he felt like he could breathe comfortably. 

For someone who had a lot of complaints about clothes, Roma could admit that these were nice. They would serve as a good replacement for his tattered traveling leathers... though, cynically, Roma was fairly sure whatever benefit they provided would be negated by Strahd’s rage upon seeing that he, of all people, was wearing the chamberlain’s armor.   

Roma fished out the signet ring Rabbit had plucked from Rahadin’s body; like everything else, it was a satisfying weight at the center of his palm. Roma remembered the monster hunter they’d parted ways with just a few days earlier. 

“Knives would like this.” He thought as the raven insignia glinted in the early morning light. “I’ll give it to her the next time we meet up.” 

Roma pocketed the ring again. 

Well. Whatever. Strahd was dead set on killing everyone anyway. Not something a ring and some armor was going to change.

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Some artfights from this year!

Pax for @returnflame, Irika for @isabubi, Amalthea for @prismatoons, Icarus for @ooodlesofdooodles

girl help i unknowingly gave away a small but very human part of myself in exchange for immeasurable power

Thinking about character idles!!!

I asked some friends yesterday if their pc had a character idle animation + floating talk bubble, like when you sit for a while in a videogame and your party has to sit there, what would their character idle + talk bubbles be.

Roma's would be one of those like, resting squats. the asian squat!! And the motions Roma would go through would be scratching under his chin, scratching behind his ear, and yawning, like a dog. I also imagine when everyone starts moving again he would take half a step to catch up with everyone, because he has to get up from squat position.

Roma's text bubbles would be:

(sniff sniff)

"Woof."

And if he has to wait a REALLY long time:

"Hey stupid? You're not even doing anything?"

Also, in my wildest dreams when characters in your party have shared idle animations (disco elysium style), if Roma and Ez are both in your party, I'd like to think one of the shared idles you could get is Ez using Roma like a chair/footstool LMAO

let's go to the tower!

session rambling !!

LAST SESSION WAS FUN !!! there was a wolf fight in the beginning (attacked by many wolves) but we survived it and it was neat to see. how far we've come (not dying to many wolves)

we decided to go to the dusk camp bc one of the party members rescued some kids from Wolf Cave and we needed a place for them to stay while we dropped off one of the kids in Vallaki. Apparently in Vallaki, since its after?? Strahd tried to destroy the church?? the nine pointed sun group is having executions every day now for dissenters/anyone they dont like so its looking really rough in there

since we were in the dusk camp tho the party talked with kasamir but only one of the party members could really talk with him and they spoke entirely in elvish so no one else understood how legit wacky kasamir was talking (mickey mouse voice, this is a tool we'll use for later!!!)

Oh!!! I'm rotating roma's conversation with illyeria in my head tho... THEY STILL DONT SHARE A LANGUAGE SO THEIR COMMUNICATION IS STILL.. PRETTY CLUNKY BUT (HOLDS IT IN MY HANDS)