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Kimberly Dairine

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she's doin the tarot now i guess art is the queen of pentacles from siolo thompson's linestrider tarot

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Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · Jun 11

liberalism is the ideology of magic words

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Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 1h

Me, specifically?

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 8h

invite me into your home :)

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 13h

Dead dead dead dead dead. Well, we lasted two full years. What a journey.

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 13h

Hey, Richard is awake now! Good job, buddy!

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 13h

Hvost is dead. Hope Richard breaks out of his catatonia before he starves to death!

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 13h

Hvost lost a fight with a squirrel and is now bleeding out in the snow

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 13h

Current situation

Richard: catatonic
Sahib: off rescuing her mom
Hvost: gone berserk, punching random rats to death
O'Connor: captured
Annah, Will, Monkey, Taiga: dead.

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 13h

Fuck me, a grizzly bear killed Annah. This is a brutal season.

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 13h

Welp, Sahib's mom needs help. Looks like Sahib's gonna take this one solo, as she's the closest we've got to combat ready, and she's not gonna sit it out.

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Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 14h

Oop. Richard has broken down from wounds sustained and has fallen catatonic in the snow.

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Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 14h

He clobbers her in the back of the head with the gun. She turns around and *destroys his hand with a punch*. She downs him pretty handily, and drags him back to the base for medical care.

The Arroero Confederacy decides that now is a great time to attack. Somehow, Richard is able to snipe them off.

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 14h

Hvost goes into a rage. He's had it with Sahib: she's gonna die. I set her aggression response to fight back. Sahib's the better combatant, but she's off hunting with a revolver, while Hvost carries an SMG and has the element of surprise.

Foolishly, he elects to close to melee before attacking her.

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 14h

We successfully convince Sahib to join us! The stress causes her to break, and she goes on insulting spree toward Hvost, provoking him all day until he retaliates. Meanwhile, Monkey gets mauled by a cougar while hunting. We heal her up, but she's infected. In the neck. She dies.

Hvost was her lover

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 14h

Will's dead. O'Connor's abducted. Both our fighting animals are dead. It's fine, we're fine. Richard, Hvost, Annah, and Monkey get to work hunkering down for the winter, and trying to recruit Sahib. With his wife missing, Richard goes on an eating binge, wolfing down supplies for a whole day.

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 14h

While the enemy is distracted by the rampaging wolf, Richard, O'Connor, and Hvost go and successfully defend the base, killing two raiders and the wolf. The third raider, unfortunately, captures O'Connor and escapes.

Annah drags her husband will back to the hospital, where he dies immediately. Fuck

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 14h

While Will is off hunting down the timber wolf, the red alert pops up--we're being raided. Fuck. The timber wolf mauls Will, off in the corner of the map. Okay, he's still alive. Annah, his noncombatant wife, goes off to rescue him.

After downing Will, the timber wolf attacks the invaders!

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 14h

We return to find the place literally on fire--there's a lightning storm going on. The gang divide up tasks--our prisoner's arm is badly infected, Monkey's injured, there's a timber wolf lurking about, and the place needs repair.

Hvost has to amputate Sahib's arm, so she doesn't die.

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 14h

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Jesus Christ. So. We picked up a transmission from Will's wife, Annah--she's being held prisoner. Okay, we send the gang to go break her out. Success! She joins, and we take a prisoner--Sahib, a beautiful courtesan--to boot. That's the last thing that goes well.

a clipped screencap showing three graves and four troubled colonists, Richard, Hvost, Annah, and Sahib.

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 20h

Next panel reveals she's talking to Willy Wonka

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 20h

Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch (1996)

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 21h

And if this argument boils down to "one is a narrative decision because ttrpgs are narrative" then, well, that's pretty circular

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 21h

Like, you could call that a narrative decision? But it feels pretty identical to resigning a lost chess game

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah mostly I'm interested in interrogating whether narrative concerns are the *only* type of edit in ttrpgs.

Thinking of a d&d game i was in where we had a combat where the enemy was paralyzed and slowly and inevitably going to die, and the DM elected to say "you win" rather than play it to zero

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 21h

It used to be 2 but inflation

Kimberly Dairine @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 21h

Five minutes hate

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