blue roses

There's this woman who was doing everything imaginable to save her species, her planet. Your friend worked for her, trusted her, cared about her. You love your friend, and he's the first sentient being you have met in decades, half a century. He's the reason your world is saved and you can go back home. He's the reason you're alive and gave you hope. His mission was supposed to end in death, by design, but you saved him. He uses that gift to save you instead. Save your planet. There's a woman who did awful things for the sake of the world knowing she would pay the price. She (thought she) killed your friend. But he's not dead! But she couldn't know. The woman sent you a saviour, a gift from the sky beyond your perception. She betrayed your friend. She's the reason you can go home. She hurt him and made him scared scared scared. She saved her world, gave you your best friend. She took his memories (eridiana don't forget. Can't. Amnesia must be a horror story) and autonomy. She is the reason no other crew will die, because now you know the dangers of space.

Rocky is ecstatic.

"Grace watched Rocky sleep, question? Even though we were apart??"

Grace Rocky Save Stars!

the mixing of eridian and human languages (and not just english! even english speakers use phrases from other languages! youre telling me grace isnt c'est la vie-ing this entire goddamn trip?) and idioms and body language and various non-word sounds is going to be a sonic nightmare for humans and eridians alike.

in the short window of the story they've already morphed several, now multiply that across the entire trip!

i keep thinking about rocky picking up gesticulation from grace, but on erid it's the equivalent of a human talking with a hand in front of their mouth.

and i shudder to imagine all the scientific short hands they come up with to speed up research! hey rocky thanks for solving the astrophage problem too bad no one knows what the fuck you're trying to explain to us!

manners! social customs! they're fucked!

This isn't for any particular prompt for @lotro-week, but quite honestly I'm just glad I got it presentable in time for this week <3

I have for a bit now been working on a Runekeeper class for D&D 5e. I had one iteration that was largely a prismari wizard with some reflavored spells specifically for a lightning runekeeper, but this one is a full class with three specs and a bunch of spells. There will definitely be future versions of this as, among other things, I need to write more spells and also ah. playtest it. At all. That said, I wanted to share the current version for LOTRO week so! Here we are! The rest of the pages + commentary under the cut (pdf version here):