There are times when you make a whole character, invent a backstory, really get your head around who they are. And then WotC drop a new background from a new book, which isn't out officially for another week or so. And you reconfigure the whole character to suit the background. Including changing their height, name and subclass.
Wouldn't be the first time.
The original idea came from a single new skin colour in Hero Forge and was briefly a Shadow Touched Shadow Sorcerer before becoming a Guild Artisan Shadow Sorcerer. But I just liked the idea of the Giant Foundling, not least of all because "giant foundlings growing abnormally large for their species". And I do enjoy either a very tall or very short PC, in fact I often find it hard making mid or average sized characters. For the record, he's about 7'5".
Granted I want to pair it with the Rune Carver feat and not the melee focused one it comes with. At least for this character. And yes, I've already played a Storm Sorcerer (also realising that the image should say Storm Sorcerer and not Storm Magic Sorcerer, but, m'eh, amounts to about the same thing), but it fits in nicely with this version of the character.
And I just discovered there's a type of storm giant who gets so old that they essentially end up becoming a sentient living storm... so that's his backstory covered.
I'm going backwards and forwards on the bandaged arm honestly. It made more sense when he was a Shadow Sorcerer because it was going to be a skeletal arm. Because Shadowfell. Less so for this version.
I feel like he might need a whole general once over if he actually does become my Friday backup character. It's also weird that any time I try to make him someone with a normal skin and hair colour, it just looks wrong and I don't really know why. It does mesh nicely with the whole "giant foundlings absorb some of the primeval magic that resonates from giants" aspect of the Giant Foundling though.
But I want to see the full text of the Foundling (and the Rune Carver feat) before I finalise young Issy.
Anyway.
This week was potato and bacon soup... pretty good, but it's hard to go too far wrong on potatoes and bacon, no matter what you do with them really.
This week did also not involved me cleaning everything to within an inch of it's life or running around like a crazy person, so that was good.
Thursday Night DnD was called off on account of a missing player given that we were in the middle of something, see also last week's "stab stab stabbity stab" reference.
Friday I made my first item from the Baking Yesteryear book, Dream Bars. Not perfect, but tasty.
Friday Night DnD was good, but we didn't get very far honestly. We also didn't play until past midnight either, so, you win some you lose some.
Anyway.
Today felt something like old times, but also, somehow more frustrating at the same time.
We did the supermarket thing, but then Ma wanted to look around in town for a new mug to replace one that broke, which you wouldn't think would be a huge issue because... well... it's a mug, how hard can it be? Turns out, harder than you would expect.
Partly because we possibly missed all the stuff they were selling during the mid year sales which ended last weekend. But also because I don't know how much Ma was actually paying attention to things, or perhaps she was just making snap judgements on things without really looking at them.
Also, it's been a hot minute since we've gone into town on a Saturday. I don't really remember us having done it for quite a while. Maybe even for longer than I've been in this apartment, I don't know off the top of my head. But they're "testing out" payless parking payments in the spot we always used to park in The Old Days. Which is just annoying. Doubly so because they've put Saturday parking up to $5, which isn't all that much, but also, isn't the $2 it used to be for a piece of road with some lines painted on it.
But we did a wander around Myer and found basically nothing, poked our heads into a couple of other places, then went to David Jones where we just weren't finding anything. So I pulled a trick I haven't needed to pull in a while and went and found someone who worked there to basically ask "what the fuck is up with mugs?". Turns out that was a good plan, because she was one of those Salt of the Earth Women of a Certain Age women, who immediately pointed out that they no longer have a "mugs" section because brands are fussy little bitches and have to keep all their stuff separated, even if that makes life harder for the consumer when all you want is a mug and you have to look in 85 different places to see the mugs. My words, not hers.
She was lovely though, even if there wasn't all that much she could really do to help us find things beyond pointing in various directions.
It did mean that Ma actually started to pay attention (so god bless you SotEWoaCA lady) and we found a mug she really liked, and that if it turns out that it doesn't work for her, I don't hate, because it will probably end up in my cupboard. Or, I'll just be spiteful and make her use it when she comes here.
I also picked up what they are calling a "noodle bowl" in the same style (which is basically "hand finished" and vaguely dalmatian spots). And when we got to the register, turned out they were both 30% off, so got them both for about $4 less than sticker price each. Noice.
We then spent about eleventy-seven hours looking at artisanal earrings in one of those stores that have a lot of things by a lot of different individual artists/craftspeople. And even though Ma owns like 900 different earrings, she wanted something in particular/different. Which took a while to tease out, but we got there eventually.
We also stopped by Haighs for some Freckles, which I then totally forgot about when we got back and I left mine in the David Jones bag that went home with Ma. Bugger.
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