cr meme | july/august

[groundrules]

Hey guys! Can it be, a scheduled CR meme, on time two months in a row? A summer miracle.

Just a small heads up that some of our newbies will not be physically with the cast at sea, and will instead be working hard to secure entry for the incomers into the main Arc IV location, Serthica. But they'll be available on the network throughout!

JULY/AUGUST CR MEME

o1. Make your own shiny ad or use the form below to help finally find your character someone who'll swipe right. Or at least won't leave them screaming in a ditch. Again.

o2. Spam like your life depends on it.

o3. Profit at 0.00% interest rates, in honour of the ECB!

<b><small>PLAYER</small>:</b> <b><small>PREFERRED CONTACT</small>:</b> <b><small>CHARACTER & CANON</small>:</b> <b><small>THEIR ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH</small>:</b> <b><small>THE SAME PITCH, BUT IT'S AN ENTHUSIASTIC FRIEND HOOKING THEM WITH A JOB/BLIND DATE</small>:</b> <b><small>HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER RUIN FAMILY DINNER?</small></b> <b><small>THEIR TV TROPE</small>:</b> <b><small>WHAT CAN YOUR CHARACTER BRING TO THE TABLE?</small></b> asset-wise. Unless they make a killer pie. <b><small>WHAT ARE THEY UP TO</small>?</b> <b><small>CR/SCENARIOS YOU WANT</small>:</b> be specific! <b><small>THROW A GIF IN, YOU DESERVE IT</small>:</b>

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Astarion | Baldur's Gate III

[good_taste]

PLAYER: Spider
PREFERRED CONTACT: CellarSpider#9984
CHARACTER & CANON: Astarion | Baldur's Gate III

THEIR ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH: It's unclear who here makes worse decisions: the foppish vampire spawn, or the baby mindflayer in his skull.

THE SAME PITCH, BUT IT'S AN ENTHUSIASTIC FRIEND HOOKING THEM WITH A JOB/BLIND DATE: A devastatingly beautiful vampire elf who knows how to have fun, and has a ~secret tragic backstory~

HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER RUIN FAMILY DINNER? Seduces family, has dinner.

THEIR TV TROPE: Screw The Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!

WHAT CAN YOUR CHARACTER BRING TO THE TABLE? He's a charmer and a rogue--in D&D terms, no less!

He's got some magic--sneaky telekinesis, illusions, charming people, putting them to sleep, lighting them up for targeting purposes, and just plain blasting them off their feet!

While he's a vampire spawn, the baby mindflayer in his skull gives him immunity to sunlight, and he can enter homes without invitation! Just don't ask him to go wading through a stream, or he'll get a terrible case of hotfoot. It also makes him resistant to psychic intrusion--poke around in his head, and he might poke back.

He's really pretty, too. Just, y'know. Thought I'd mention that.

He also has a Spooky Necromantic Tome with him--it's guarded by angry spirits that start whispering into the brain of anybody who opens it!

Also thanks to the results of the last plot, he's got a lucky white raven and a shitton of jewelry. As is only right.

WHAT ARE THEY UP TO? He is so thoroughly Done with nautical affairs. When not dodging giant tentacles--again!!--he's trying to covertly figure out if anybody in this mess can help him learn how to control the parasite in his head. It's been uncommonly quiet, but if it matures, then he's in big trouble..

CR/SCENARIOS YOU WANT: Personal plot-wise, anybody with psychic/mind powers would be interesting for Astarion to interact with. As said above, he's got two minds in his skull, one of which is very alien. Anybody who's sensitive to spirits and ghosts might also pick up on the necromantic tome in his possession, which he's had a difficult time reading.

Also, only two people know he's a vampire so far, despite his terrible job hiding it. This is hilarious, and I'd be totally down for any shenanigans around vampirism.

On a more general note: Do you want someone to egg on your character's bad decisions? Astarion can do that!

THROW A GIF IN, YOU DESERVE IT:

[downswing]

Where is Astarion and why is that space not my inbox :'(

No, but seriously, vampire-exorcist time in Serthica, Y/Y?

[good_taste]

He's a heartbreaker, truly!

And hell yeah, they simply must catch up!

[reparo]

hp magic and 5e magic have an extremely vague link in common, so i enjoy the idea of hermione doing magic that makes astarion wonder How The Fuck.
also i just want him in my inbox more
also i just want another Mysterious Creature scenario where she has to guess what he is


(how long have you been 17, astarion)

[good_taste]

Oh absolutely, more magical fun! Also, if you want backtags, I'd be happy to dig into those. July was A Bit Of A Month for me, so I'm trying to make sure I don't leave anybody with an Astarion deficit now.

he's been seventeen for two hundred years and he's got a sparkling personality from it all

[snowcleave]

Hello Uncle Sips...

[good_taste]

Welcome back~

[snowcleave]

Her world has no vampires and she won't know what to do with such a smooth talker but I need cr with you ok

[good_taste]

always

He does have a magic book full of ghosts! That's something vaguely xianxia.

[snowcleave]

She is not the well read type but!! I mean, damn that's messed up.

[good_taste]

Astarion hasn't exactly gotten much reading done either, the ghosts are a security system that start talking loudly in your ear as soon as you open it. He can, and has, gotten in arguments with them.

he's very good at this

[inferus]

Wrath would be able to tell that he's carrying a necromantic tome if you would like since Wrath has a lot of powers in terms of all of the above. He also is familiar with vampires as they exist in his world, and could probably tell that Astarion is one if you want him to lmao.

[good_taste]

Awesome! We don't actually know the full contents of the book yet--at the present point in the storyline, players are only able to read far enough to learn the Speak With the Dead cantrip before the psychic burden becomes too much. But that would be a useful spell to have kicking around here.

And yeah, Astarion is... not super hidden, lbr. He's a pale, red-eyed, fanged elf and his collar doesn't completely hide the bite scar on his neck. Really in BG3 he only skates by for a while on the fact that vampires canonically can't walk in sunlight, and everyone knows that. So this guy must obviously be a TOTALLY NORMAL fanged elf.

Meanwhile, the player, who knows what Twilight is, is left sitting there like "when is this bastard going to start sparkling"

[northerndragon]

We should do something at some point upon my triumphant return!

[good_taste]

Oh absolutely! Anything in particular you'd be in for?

[northerndragon]

I am not, as yet, bursting with ideas! (Which is pretty lame on a CR meme, I know.) But we’re in a transitional period. Hopefully something turns up when we get to where we’re going!