Yep... we're back in the Barbarian salt mines for today's DnD Character Colouring Book. Welcome to the roster, Pearl Yarwood. And, I know I've said this a couple of times, but I think we might have found the actual character for the next campaign. Maybe. At the moment.
My issue with previous characters have been the backstories. Because I was very much leaning in the direction of the original Havoc, but any backstory I came up with got too complicated too quickly as I tried to circle the square of his background mechanic and his look. It just wouldn't come together.
So I started again from scratch. And went a different route somewhat. Admittedly, she did start life as a tiefling called Anarchy ("call me Ana"), and I liked that version, but I kept circling back around to aasimar. And when I dropped in the silver skin I used for last week's Ayda, it all started to come together. I did go for more of a midway point between gold and silver for Pearl, which in the end became the inspiration for her name. I've continued to fuss and fiddle and finesse her for the last week more or less. I've changed the eyes several times, I added in the makeup basically yesterday. There might end up being a version with a more defined muscular body at some point. Just little tiny tweaks here and there.
I'm not going to lie though, there's a non-zero amount of crossover to the backstory of Masika, my Storm Sorcerer. And also a non-zero amount of the fact that I watched all four seasons of Black Sails. And her look is somewhat inspired by both Charles Vane and Billy Bones.
But at least I made it all the way through the first draft of her backstory and had it still make sense when I was done.
Also, the idea of a dual wielding barbarian is appealing. I did toss around the idea of giving her an axe and a cutlass, but none of the smaller axes on Hero Forge are right. If they happen to update that between now and when the campaign happens, well, all bets are off. Likewise with certain costume elements.
We'll see how long this lasts (very much fingers crossed). I do need to have a conversation with Fluffy about her though, or at least certain aspects of her backstory that I pulled from the wiki, but I don't know how much that actually features in the campaign we'll be doing.
Anyway...
This week's soup was not soup but instead was Tuna Noodle Do. And not a terrible version of same. Possibly because I added more of the wet ingredients, so the whole thing worked better than the last couple of the previous versions have.
The Mini Movie Reviews for this week were very lucky choices. Because I didn't have anything come in last week, so just picked a couple of options from random.
Firstly, there was Weathering With You, by the same writer/director as Suzume that I watched late last year. He has a very specific point of view in his work... a weird one, but specific. He does enjoy taking a simple story and adding a supernatural or strange element to it. I definitely need to watch more of his stuff I think. But without spoiling anything, the ending of this was the bit that got me. Let's call it a unique ending. Certainly not how I thought it was going to end. But excellent.
Then there was Babylon from 2022. Which is a three hour movie about the end of the silent era in Hollywood starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie that I had never heard of. And it's very good. Yes, some of the sequences go on just a touch too long for me. And the movie could do with being a little tighter, because three hours is a lot. But it's a hell of a movie. It would also make for a really, really fucked up double feature with Singing In The Rain. Also, maybe also throw The Artist in there. Because they're all the same time period.
Although Babylon is the most... adult of the three.
Two very good random pulls.
Still no Friday Night DnD.
Anyway...
Today started out like all the Saturdays. But because my car hasn't had a proper run for a few weeks, it was being a little temperamental this morning.
So we ended up taking a drive down to IKEA, just to work all the kinks out. And because it was at least a place that we had things we wanted to do. But we decided that there was no point doing the upper floor since we didn't really need to wander around the large furniture, we just wanted the Marketplace.
One set of drinking glasses for Ma and one new doormat and a 100 new tealight candles for me later.
And entirely too much time going "ooooooooooh" over kitchen utensils. What? They had nice wooden handles. I will also say that the Christmas stuff this year is probably better than the last couple of years. More Christmas colours and less weird Scandinavian aesthetics.
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