Welcome to Week 2 of DnD Character Colouring Book Barbarian March. So, in my explorations for potential new characters I've had to narrow down my race/species choices given that I've already played a drow, a gnome, a dwarf and a human in Friday Night DnD.
But also the only one that I've never played is the Aasimar. So there's been a lot of poking around that idea. Which brings us to Agnetha Aledaughter, or Aggie. Much like last week, she's an Aasimar Zealot Barbarian. I did originally have her as just a dwarf and a World Tree Barbarian, but then I stumbled across Hanseath, Dwarven god of carousing, brewery, and singing... who also happens to be a war god.
The single line in the info about him that sold me was... "Hanseath's herald was a celestial dwarf, this servant also being an unimaginably powerful barbarian."
So after about half a dozen versions, all of which required a lot of messing around in Photoshop, I circled back around to more or less where I started. Just the minor details changed. Weirdly, any time I took the muttonchop sideburns off her she looked wrong.
And the pewter tankard acts as her shield for the purposes of mechanics.
Anyway...
This week's Mini Media Reviews where accidentally good choices. Mostly I was looking for something to fill in the gaps until Season 2 of American Gods showed up.
First up was Three Star Bar (aka Three Star Bar in Nishi Ogikubo aka Nishiogikubo Mitsuboshi Youshudou). A short, six episode series where the episodes are only about half an hour long. But it's SO good. Turns out it's adapted from a manga, which makes perfect sense, and it made me cry. It's very much one of those "person stumbles into a store/bar exactly at the point they need to" stories.
But I really enjoyed it.
I followed that up with Paris Police 1900. Which was... much more intense. It's all based on real world people and events involved with the fallout from the Dreyfus Affair. Basically it's a lot of terrible people doing terrible things. There's a second season which takes place 5 years later, and I will probably watch that at some point. It's very well made, full of fantastic performances, but is occasionally hard to watch because of the aforementioned terrible people doing terrible things. Even the supposed hero isn't immune to that and becomes more of a schmuck as the show progresses.
I also tried watching the 1994 miniseries of The Stand. Which is nearly unwatchable. I got maybe 4 hours into the 6 hour miniseries and just noped out of the last part because I just couldn't do it anymore. I can't tell if the issue was King's writing, the direction or the actor, but it was bad.
We can also reset the Yani Fall Down counter. It's a long story, it's mostly dull... but it wasn't on my walk this time. It was because while I remembered that there is a section around the back of the apartment complex that it at a different level to the rest of it, I then forgot that fact 37 seconds later and fell up the step. Which is, admittedly, better than falling down the step. But also, fucking hell.
Thankfully this week was also Chiro Day... so at the very least everything that got shaken up got put back in the right place.
Friday Night DnD was a slight comedy of terrible rolls. But also managing to shank the miniboss of the area in one surprise round.
Do I regret giving our DM ammunition that allowed him to tie my backstory to a later story boss... slightly. But at the same time, I was much less tied into the villains in the previous campaign, so at least it's something different.
We're also essentially past the only bits of the story that I was previously aware of thanks to a couple of Adventurers League games back in the day.
However we do keep ending games with my character up to his nipples in trouble. Which I don't hate.
Anyway.
Today was not terribly exciting. The usual supermarket nonsense, then we made a brief run to Spotlight, but that was it really.
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