Corin is real (TTRPG Story)

I just finished a game of DND earlier with friends where our DM utilized the Anbennar setting as the homebrew setting for her campaign. Overall super fun campaign, with a lot of stories to tell about it, but I'm gonna focus on one story that just happened earlier because it was just so funny that I thought I had to share it.

Alright so we're a party of 4 guys, half-gob (me) is a warrior cavalier from escann, a spellblade half-elf warlock from Pashaine, a cleric dwarf from Dur-Vazhatun, and a goliath paladin from Dalr. Our backstories don't really matter much beyond mine, as my gob's religion is the "avatar cult" flavor of Goblin Shamanism, which I choose to interpret is generally Regent Court but with all the gods being goblins with goblinized names.

Anyway one day I go adventuring off-screen with my mount in the sewers where I find a bunch of loot, I manage to sell most of it except for one thing: a small, pocket-sized portrait of Corin as a goblin. I'm unable to sell it after a long day of off-screen pawning, and my character takes that to mean it must be a sign from Corin herself that it is a blessed, holy artifact that she wants me to keep. This doesn't stop me from immediately trying to sell it to the next person though, a barkeep in an upscale part of town who just winces and goes "you know what, I agree, Corin doesn't want you to part with it."

Anyway, skip to the main dungeon, we decide to just talk our way into this slaver's manor to meet the head honcho to settle things diplomatically, and it all goes decently well until we meet the head mercenary: a paladin of Corin who sees through our initial blustering. My friend, the spellblade, tries to smooth things over by lying, trying to persuade the paladin in conversation, when my character notices the mark of Corin on the Paladin's armor. Absolutely soying out, I pull out the little pocket sized portrait of goblin Corin to show off.

My DM asks me to roll to see how the paladin would react, and I rolled a NATURAL 1.

So the paladin immediately gets pissed, doesn't say a word, and my DM rolls to see what he manages to do.

HE ROLLS A 20. And throws a dart STRAIGHT into the portrait of goblin Corin I have in my hand completely ruining it. And putting the entire operation at risk.

Overall, things went well, we managed to get out without fighting, but moral of the story ends up being: Corin is real, and Corin either does not want to be depicted as a goblin or doesn't want her holy artifacts treated as merchandise to sell. That is all

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u/Mani_Essence — 1 day ago

A Question about Next Year's Prodution of Sunday

Hello! Just wanted to pop by and ask, since I initially saw the advertisements for Sunday In the Park last January had sold out (I remembered the announcement and wanted to know when the tickets would start being sold) I was confused because it's like... a year away and I really wanted to see it, is it possible for more tickets to be sold or am I just outta luck?

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u/Mani_Essence — 6 days ago

The Salamander of Hollow Hope, and The Wyrm of Absolute Despair

In the middle of coloring my prior post, I thought I'd go ahead and tackle something simpler: the mascots of me and u/aretmaw's fangan project that includes them (Danganronpa: MurderU)

Shiromanda and Kuroryuu are the whimsical fiends that control the killing game according to their master's grand design. Manda dictates the rules and assists the students in their daily lives, while Ryuu is the beast that haunts the investigations, runs the killing machines, and gives the motives. Together, Manda fattens the ducks, Ryuu chops them to bits to eat, savor, and review.

A real power couple, hope everyone has a nice day.

u/Mani_Essence — 16 days ago

*If* blood in Danganronpa is Magenta/Pink*... what does the color red signify in this world?

So to preface: the only time blood in Danganronpa is explicitly mentioned to be "pink" is in V3. Everywhere else it's red. So I know that Danganronpa blood isn't pink in-universe. This post is more of a discussion anchor/thought experiment on a what if.

Anyway, one reason we humans see the color red as being dangerous is its association with blood. The blood in Danganronpa is, famously, colored flourescent pink (though I personally call it magenta) due to censorship and to develop the iconic psychopop style. If humanity actually bled a vibrant pink, and let's just say mioglobin is also the same shade... would red not have as much significance in this world?

I can see red retaining its attribution with heat and passion; as flames still burn red-orange, which are of course dangerous, but would that association with harm be as strong now that it's no longer associated with blood and flesh? Would the sight of blood being red be weird? Are goths and vampires now associated with blacks and neon pink? Is Monokuma's red eye just like, not actually that threatening a color for those in-world?

I'd like to see peoples' ideas on what they think would be different in the DR world, assuming this is true

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u/Mani_Essence — 16 days ago

Family Headcanons

Currently been unable to draw and I wanted to finalize my little AU I had of the V3, MDA, and THL cast being the kids of the Dr1 and Dr2 cast. Overall, after some thinking, ended up with this. I think it makes sense to me. Some of these were chosen because I think I think a resemblance is genuinely there, others... well, thet just make a fun throughline or narrative in my eyes.

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Any questions? Can't make heads or tails of these choices? Ask ahead, would love to chat for a bit.

u/Mani_Essence — 23 days ago

[Work In Progress] Cast Portraits

Hey there, just wanted to share some of the character portraits of a fangan project for fun. All works in progress, and only sharing part of the cast as the rest arey partner's and will be shared once they're all colored.

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That's all, bye bye! Feel free to ask questions

u/Mani_Essence — 23 days ago

[RR Spoilers, WIP] Monsters of the West

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Currently away from home and a bit bored so I thought I'd share an early WIP of an upcoming thl project I have lying around featuring the cast in wild west inspired outfits.

Eito's life mission in this AU is to depopulate the west, one shitty town at a time by any and all means, while Darumi is something of a nomad reading penny dreadfuls and entertaining herself with simple pleasures like reading penny dreadfuls and horror novels she can loot before her big and lovely friend can eat them, recently she's started following Eito's trail of destruction across Texas.

Anyway WIPs for a reason, Eito will be redrawn, I got a better idea for him recently.

u/Mani_Essence — 1 month ago

Conquistador Kyoshika Sketch

Heya! I'm working on a wild-west themed project with the LDA chars and I drew this kyoshika but found her lacking in some way so I redrew her. Still thought it looked good tho so I'm sharin this lovely lady. She's obsessed with books about Chivalry and Knighthood instead of Manga, like a teenage Don Quixote

Wish you guys a great day

u/Mani_Essence — 2 months ago