sigelphoenix

I ended a 1.5+ year campaign on Sunday. It's the second time I've done that, but it doesn't feel any easier.

Well, it was a little easier because my character didn't die this time. The characters in Warmakers are all dumb teenagers - we don't save the world and die in a blaze of glory, we save the world and then celebrate with an ice cream party in Hell. 8D

Of which I am the ninja catgirl Queen, by the way. XD XD XD

Yanagisawa Sae started out as a very nebulous idea in my head, even for the first couple of adventures. I knew she was going to be shadawyn's character's twin sister, but not much beyond that. As I recall, she was originally going to be a Druid.

I ended creating a self-indulgent character in many ways. Sae became a Dervish, because that is my favoritest prestige class ever and I had always been thwarted when trying to play one. She also turned out to be an exaggerated teenaged version of me, wherein I got to make fun of my own personal neuroses but also got to make the character mature in a satisfying narrative trajectory.

Along the way, of course, Sae became something entirely different from me, and what I originally wanted. Based on stimuli provided by other players, the GM, and also the way I leveled her, she developed into all sorts of things - a cranky, protective older sister; an accidentally sexy catgirl; a leader of troops in a holy war; in love with a freakish Norwegian; bound to (and ultimately a wielder of) her physicality; a decidedly non-righteous hero-by-default - and that was all kinds of fun.

This was my first time playing a game run by irishninja. It was my second time playing in a game with coramegan and shadawyn (the first time being a campaign based on Fullmetal Alchemist, back in my sophomore year of college), and my who-knows-how-many-th game with my dear ratzeo. I got to meet amheriksha, mimerki, jfrog78 (with whom I involuntarily developed a telepathic connection :P), and jack_grimm. I had a fabulous time playing with you all.

I am, of course, nowhere near finished with Warmakers. I will be plotting Sae's future plans (as Queen of Hell, sister of a half-celestial, and girlfriend of the future Battle Pope) and writing fic for at least a little while yet. And if and when irishninja is ready to run another Warmakers campaign, I will be waiting, dice in hand.

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