Blue Dog

Elf agent gets into an abandoned outpost alone, finds it crawling with demons that turn people into mushroom zombies and gets caught. Party finds out that he's been missing for several days and rushes to save him, but it's too late...

*He gives to our temporal (dmpc) party member a ring, a symbol that he is an agent of the queen. (They know what it is...) R.i.p. Nim... You were the best 😭

Gm introduced that npc to us as "Nim, red haired elf in leather armor", and I'm like "Heeey, what else can you tell me about him?" (my love-for-secondary-characters-brainrot progressing) And she replied like "There's nothing special about him, he's literally just a red haired elf in leather armor." And I'm like (feeling challenged to fall in love with another npc swan in the fifth row) "Wait, so, He must be a spymaster who doesn't let anyone know his true nature... He's a master of deception and manipulation, he can talk with you for five minutes and become your best friend, despite giving out zero information about his own life... And, in reality, he's not even a redhead! What if he wears a red wig cause that makes him perfectly disguised and looking different from himself!" That's how two extended jokes were born: "npc we never even met in game (and two of our characters talked to him before half an hour at best) is our (characters') best buddy" and "Nim is not really a redhead." *btw, dmpc, who was with us at that quest, has known Nim the longest and they could really say that they knew him... 😭 So, as you see... I succeeded in falling in love with a character I had never even met and then party talked to him for five minutes (before he died, on our arms... We couldn't heal or save him from what was done to him, and the only thing that was left - to... 😭😭😭) I'm in mourning... The party is in mourning... Thanks to Gm for this wonderful glass :) *I totally did not spend four days from morning to the late night learning sindarin after the last session to make some little phrases in elvish, no-no... (Yes, I did.) (I will do it again.)

Oh, btw, a portrait of Nim I drew in case if we were able to drag him out of the dangerous situation he got himself into... (I didn't know what to expect from the next session at that time)