Post by The Nothic and the Warlock on May 2, 2019 12:00:46 GMT
The party I'm a member of consists mostly of murderhobos who just slay, never ask any questions. We were playing Lost Mine of Phandelver (LMoP), when my character, a Warlock and not a murder hobo (she rather talks) saved a Nothic from them. Now nobody had guessed that this being has literally its own mind, expressed by the dices who act like possessed when it's about this Nothic. The Warlock had originally planned to ask the Nothic to be their guide in the cavern, because he had lived there for a while and knows his way around. Turns out by showing mercy to this aberration she had been the first one to ever treat him well ane he decided he wanted to go on following the party. This was a desicion of a dice throw and it was a crit success. (The GM stopped short for a while, this hadn't been planned, but he was it who played the Nothic at that time and the dice did its own thing!)
What to do with a Nothic? Nothics were wizards, mostly on the path for lichdom or delving too deep in arcane secrets, who were transformed by a curse Vecna left. They usually don't remember who they had been before their transformation, but their instinct drives them to places where magic is strong, because somehow they know there is a way to revert their situation.
At this point in time neither my Warlock nor me knew about him being a cursed Wizard, but as soon as I found out, it was clear that my Warlock would want to lift his curse.
I should then find out by throwing dices what kind of Wizard he had been. As a pure child of the dices, Notch turned out to be a handsome young wizard, comparable with Howl from the Ghibli movie "Howl's moving castle". What a sweetheart. This Nothic was rather true neutral than neutral evil. All that was decided by the dices.
The dices also decided that the Nothic who got the nick name Notch in lack of knowledge of his former human name.
The Nothic kept being sweet and protective towards "his" Warlock and showed possessive behavior over her, in the following sessions he acted as her guardian. Diced for it, he's in love with her (crit success!)! That explains a lot. At this point he hasn't realized this yet. I absolutely ship them. This has beauty and the beast vibes.
In meanwhile, the Nothic once looked at a mirror with his truesight and has seen the real him through his curse. He knows now that he had been human. For the Warlock that means she would even go and kill Vecna if that is what's needed to lift his curse. They are really sweet together and the whole party ships them now.
Notch is a member of our party now, and if anybody would have something against it or harm her friend, my Warlock would run amok.
What to do with a Nothic? Nothics were wizards, mostly on the path for lichdom or delving too deep in arcane secrets, who were transformed by a curse Vecna left. They usually don't remember who they had been before their transformation, but their instinct drives them to places where magic is strong, because somehow they know there is a way to revert their situation.
At this point in time neither my Warlock nor me knew about him being a cursed Wizard, but as soon as I found out, it was clear that my Warlock would want to lift his curse.
I should then find out by throwing dices what kind of Wizard he had been. As a pure child of the dices, Notch turned out to be a handsome young wizard, comparable with Howl from the Ghibli movie "Howl's moving castle". What a sweetheart. This Nothic was rather true neutral than neutral evil. All that was decided by the dices.
The dices also decided that the Nothic who got the nick name Notch in lack of knowledge of his former human name.
The Nothic kept being sweet and protective towards "his" Warlock and showed possessive behavior over her, in the following sessions he acted as her guardian. Diced for it, he's in love with her (crit success!)! That explains a lot. At this point he hasn't realized this yet. I absolutely ship them. This has beauty and the beast vibes.
In meanwhile, the Nothic once looked at a mirror with his truesight and has seen the real him through his curse. He knows now that he had been human. For the Warlock that means she would even go and kill Vecna if that is what's needed to lift his curse. They are really sweet together and the whole party ships them now.
Notch is a member of our party now, and if anybody would have something against it or harm her friend, my Warlock would run amok.