#deedee's randomness

Six (seven-ish) of my Hollow Knight OCs are actually based off the general idea of a D&D adventuring party; they call themselves the Wasteland Wanderers and they consist of two Vessels (One-Horn and Strange Vessel), a scorpion (Ruth), a nosk (Ryku), a tarantula hawk wasp (Chakara), and a woolly aphid (Sordes Regium). On top of them, there's my own Sona, who I've made another Vessel. So I, as my Hollow Knight Sona, invited them over to the Extradimensional Tavern (which isn't part of the HK world and I'll post about it eventually and may or may not remember to link-) to play Out of the Abyss, my favorite D&D adventure that to no surprise makes me think about Hollow Knight and SilkSong due to a number of its elements! So already there's a plethora of intertwined layers here. Character creation! I open a private little corner of Discord and use Tupperbox as a means of playing out the dialogue between myself and the Wasteland Wanderers as they read over my copy of the 2014 Player's Handbook and create their characters. Sordes is definitely the most invested in following along with the established lore and setting; he considers a dwarf at first, but ends up making a drow ranger that ended up seeming a biiit of the edgy-teen type (teen for an elf, anyway). One-Horn and I had to convince whatever's holding Strange Vessel hostage in their own mind to let them free enough to play, and they decided on a motherly halfling druid who runs a farm for her family and community. Ryku, Sordes's (genuine) best friend, isn't nearly as easily understanding the game as his fellows, but was determined enough thanks to his friendship to make whatever he considered (with help) "opposite" to Sordes's character, which ended up being a mountain dwarf paladin. Ruth (and Chakara both, to an extent) went the route of rolling up something that sounded familiar to her: a brawny rogue, and went half-orc to further accentuate that strength. After that, the activity was starting to tire me out, especially after having decided to actually dedicate a thread to digital D&D character sheet filling and actually putting down all the information of my characters' characters!!!.... So I took a few days' break, letting my mind naturally return to the project when it was ready to figure out what One-Horn and Chakara wanted. They ended up both making fighters---One-Horn going variant human and Chakara going red dragonborn. Now all that's left are whatever little finishing touches I missed, and seeing if any of the WW wish to elevate their characters to 2nd or 3rd level as the adventure offers. Ruth and One-Horn even collectively decided that their characters knew each other and were about to start travelling together when, of course, they and the others all get captured by the drow! The uh, the main drow. The actually bad drow. No one Sordes's character wants to affiliate at all with. hmm... where else have I heard of a member of a certain race getting dragged back to that race's old/real home against their will/in captivity? Oh riiiiight, silksong!!!!!