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D&D 5E Campaign Diary C #1

As a watcher of YouTube and a player of Minecraft, one of the channel systems I have been following for quite a while now is the Yogscast. I grew bored one day and decided to check out their Yogscast Live channel that hosts the videos they live stream on Twitch. The main series I was interested in was their Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition series that had been recently started called High Rollers. It didn't take me long to get hooked, and by their recommendation I got into the more well known D&D live stream called Critical Role, hosted by Geek & Sundry.

Both my sister and I expressed interest in playing ourselves, and eventually the chance opened up when my sister's friend got in contact with another friend of hers who was willing to run a game for us three and my sister's friend's two brothers. We've been playing for months over Skype, and we've even started an in-person campaign for those of us who live nearby. A third campaign has also been started on Skype for myself, the friend's second brother who runs the in-game campaign, and the DM of the original Skype campaign, which is run by my sister's friend. I thought it would be a fun and different thing to do recaps for each session for each campaign here to share in the adventure and perhaps give anyone who's interested or curious about Dungeons and Dragons a glimpse into what can happen in the game. The three campaigns will be separated by the first initial of the name of the person being the DM. Campaign C is for the original Skype game. Campaign D is for the in-game one, and Campaign R is for the second Skype run.

This first one is a little short as most of our time that evening was spent creating our characters and not actually playing.

I hope you enjoy.

Tangerine, Lightning, Melrose, and Ember


Since these four characters have already been introduced, I figured it would be fine to give you an extra sneak peek at them, especially since these older four probably won't be seen as children for very long if at all once Generation Three gets going. They're basically the new Hunter, Wisp, Malachite, and Cyclone gang.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #26


Skylan and Kylar were pretty stressed after coming home from school one afternoon, so since it was about to be the weekend I let them fulfill some wishes before they started on their homework. The two had a highly energetic pillow fight in their room.

Color My World Short Story #2


Raze and I found ourselves wandering about the back sidewalks of the area we were in. It had been quite a few hours since I'd stormed out of the Charm household. There were a thousand and one text messages from family and friends by now, I was sure, but I still hadn't turned my phone back on yet. Partly because I didn't want to, but mostly because I'd forgotten about the device and everyone else. Raze and I were enjoying ourselves. We'd finished up several intense rounds of laser tag and were wasting time for half an hour in order to catch the next showing of the movie we wanted to see.

Vivid Family Picture Spam

Some of the pictures I took back when I was putting together the household for Gen 2.

100 Majesties- A 100 BC Update #25


Kylar and Lark had a lot to bond over. Being close in age and the two of them being fairies allowed them to grow quite close. When their siblings grew annoyed and tired of them trying out their powers on them, Kylar and Lark were always willing to be a test subject for the other.

Coal's Blindness

I can't remember how long in advance I intended for Coal to lose half his sight, but it was quite a while back. I can probably say for most of the generation I knew it would happen. That's why, starting with Chapter Twenty Five I included the word 'blind' or a variety of it in almost every chapter since as a foreshadow to the eventual tragedy.

Chapter Twenty Five
     "Oof! P, you accidentally turned the flash on. Like I'm not already blind enough."

Chapter Twenty Six
     With Coconut having said early on that he couldn't make it, I was heading into this situation blind once more as none of the other four were showing up either.

Chapter Twenty Eight
     "Are we watching the same game of horseshoes as he is? Maybe he's gone blind?"

Chapter Twenty Nine
     "If Jasper's parents come over and you need someone to stand up for you when he's turning a blind eye to their shit, then I'll come right over."

Chapter Thirty
     "The attack very nearly blinded me."

Chapter Thirty One
     "Try it, and I'll bite you so hard you'll go blind from the pain."

Chapter Thirty Two
     The helmet did make it so the very, very edge of my peripheral vision felt a little blinded, but it was a minimal inconvenience.

Chapter Thirty Four
     Not until the practically blinding blackness in my vision shifted into muted colors.

Chapter Thirty Six
     "The fact that you let me know this is a problem is great help enough, because the rest of us were blind to it."

The end of Thirty Six was when Buckeye attacked Coal and caused the damage.

Original Plot to CMW Generation 2

Unlike Generation One, I had a much more defined idea of what I would be doing for Generation Two as well as how to end it. I knew the world I was working in much better, and because of that planning for the future generations became even easier. That, in turn, helped me plant the seeds I needed for proper progression in Gen Two. However, many things still changed. Most major plot points remained the same, although a few did shift. The routes to get there were simply different. Here is the general idea I wrote for Coal's story back when I first started putting it all together back when I was still working with Ethereal: