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So I woke up at 4 am in a panic, and now it's 6 am, and I've given up on trying to sleep, and now I'm just trying to distract myself from the Horrors, and apparently that involves thinking about some of the TTRPGs I've run.

Anyway, shout out to systems with mixed success and mixed failure. I'm thinking of the time I was running Fantasy Flight Star Wars, and the party was extremely injured and on the lam, so they needed medical attention from somewhere that was safe from the authorities. So one of them had mob connections, so she rolled Streetwise and got a resounding success with a whole bunch of disadvantage. So that's how I ended up making my worst NPC ever, Doctor Friendly, a mansquito who would gladly do whatever life-saving surgery you needed! The only payment he required was a lot of blood, preferably from the person who was actively dying, since blood tastes best close to death.

Come to think of it, even if I'm not running Star Wars, I am running a game where that would work. But it's with the same people, and they were so mad the first time when I had the excuse of making him up in five seconds that I think they would revolt if I brought him back.

So here are the Works I am Progressing, in an attempt to get people seeing them and maybe trick me into finishing them.

You Never Fight Alone
Guild Wars 1/Guild Wars 2
The Awakened hero of Nightfall and Prophecies (and also Factions, but I don't think that's likely to come up) is freed from Joko's control by Aurene fucking eating him, only to see her die in battle against Kralkatorrik at Thunderhead Keep. From there, he has A Time with the fact that this is not the first time he's seen the world come so close to ending. Sometimes, when all hope seems lost, all you can do is lean on your comrades and your mad, desperate faith in gods you know have abandoned your world, because you know they've specifically abandoned you.
This is for the Commander of Your Heart zine, an OC-focused GW2 thing which is going I applied to write for on a whim and was frankly surprised that I got in. I'm a little intimidated, tbh, since there are a lot of my favorite GW2 fan artists making really fucking good stuff for this. So uh, yeah, look forward to that in February.

Guild Wars 2 Write 2023
Guild Wars 2
So basically I didn't have FFXIV brain when FFXIVWrite came up this year, only GW2 brain, so I decided to take all those prompts and write for GW2 instead. I also didn't write them all on the day they were announced, but I still want to write them. Idk where I'm going to post them, since it's kind of a FFXIV event that I'm reappropriating. Maybe here? I'm putting this in WIPs because I'm still writing a bunch of them, but I also got a bunch done. Who knows girl

They're All Having A Weird Time (working title)
Final Fantasy XIV/Star Wars: The Old Republic
So playing DRK with a character who, in a past life, was a light side Sith definitely hit a lot of ways, especially since I made FFXIV!Kleskizhae when Onslaught came out and offered characters a chance to defect, and I realized that he's going to spend the rest of his life fruitlessly trying to reform the Empire from the inside. So I decided that Fray was the Force ghost of SWTOR!Kleskizhae, who is thrilled that FFXIV!Klesk can escape the Empire and fix it the way he was never able to, and that DRK includes a lot of Sith elements.
Then Endwalker happened and made the Force a thing, so now I gotta do something concrete with that. What I'm doing is writing about Azem, Fandaniel, Amon and Kleskizhae and all of their experiences with Darth Taral's holocron, and also sometimes his ghost. As the title suggests, they all have a weird time of it.

Lae'zel and Gnathe Chase Each Other Around With Knives (working title)
Baldur's Gate 3
Lae'zel and my githzerai Tav chase each other with knives, and yes, this is a sexual thing for them. This would be early in their relationship, while Lae'zel is still on board with Vlaakith, so the whole thing involves them monologuing at each other about how Vlaakith rules/sucks and how Zerthimon sucks/rules, and how she's going to bring their head to her queen once this is all over and how they're untouchable because they are of steel and mind, not of flesh and brain. Deep in their toxic yuri phase.