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« cr workship: january 2026 »
Our CR Meme CR Workship is where players can drop all the cool info for their characters and try to plot with others to continue existing or create new CR. Be sure to look over the MANTA Board as well as current events if you'd like to include them in your post.
To help coordinate specific plots for players, we have a few designated toplevels that can be used to highlight particular plots, scenarios, etc. These can be useful for players who may not want to write a full comment but have ideas. Players who do write full CR comments can still use these toplevels and link their comment if you have your ideas in there instead.
If you have multiple characters, make an individual toplevel for yourself with your player info and comment to it with each character separately.
PLAYER INFO
CHARACTER INFO
PLANS
To help coordinate specific plots for players, we have a few designated toplevels that can be used to highlight particular plots, scenarios, etc. These can be useful for players who may not want to write a full comment but have ideas. Players who do write full CR comments can still use these toplevels and link their comment if you have your ideas in there instead.
- Crew Recruitment. Players can make OOC ad posts for others to join, looking to join, or make a crew. This is all for OOC coordination, so you'll have to figure out how it works ICly.
- Side Plotting. This is for any personal plots or MANTA Board quests that require more coordination, perhaps to bring about a resolution or make an important discovery of some kind. Like with the Event toplevel, this is NOT for generic plotting that would fit a general meme comment.
- Help Me Plot! Have a plot idea you want to do but have no idea how to go about and do it? You can try and workshop it here!
If you have multiple characters, make an individual toplevel for yourself with your player info and comment to it with each character separately.
PLAYER INFO
Player:
Contact: Preferred means of contact
Contact: Preferred means of contact
CHARACTER INFO
Character: Character
Canon: Include canon point
Armada: Paladin or Corsair
About: Briefly talk about the character. Can include background info or just stick with personality traits—whatever will be most useful to help other players learn about them! You can include a link to any character profile sheets or entries you might have, too.
Abilities: Include both canon and abilities you'd like to develop through the tattoo.
Canon: Include canon point
Armada: Paladin or Corsair
About: Briefly talk about the character. Can include background info or just stick with personality traits—whatever will be most useful to help other players learn about them! You can include a link to any character profile sheets or entries you might have, too.
Abilities: Include both canon and abilities you'd like to develop through the tattoo.
PLANS
General: Any ideas or plans you'd like to do with your character? This could be short term or long term.
MANTA Board: Any plans for the MANTA Board?
Event: Any plans for the event? Topleveling? Tagging out? Specific prompts that caught your interest?
CR Dreams: What kind of CR do you wish to have? Include what you can offer with your character as well.
Etc.: Anything else or, you know, the usual memes. NOTE: we have an image code for players to use as it will fix the width of the image to 400px. This is so large images don't take up entire pages. If your image is smaller than that you can remove the code, otherwise please use the code.
MANTA Board: Any plans for the MANTA Board?
Event: Any plans for the event? Topleveling? Tagging out? Specific prompts that caught your interest?
CR Dreams: What kind of CR do you wish to have? Include what you can offer with your character as well.
Etc.: Anything else or, you know, the usual memes. NOTE: we have an image code for players to use as it will fix the width of the image to 400px. This is so large images don't take up entire pages. If your image is smaller than that you can remove the code, otherwise please use the code.
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Faris Scherwiz | Final Fantasy V | Corsair
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CHARACTER INFO
Canon: Postgame
Armada: Corsair
About: Faris is a pirate through-and-through, but after saving the world alongside (among others) a long-lost sister who cares SO much about others it gets rather worrying, he's developed an undeniable altruistic streak. He finds this very inconvenient sometimes but always bends to it. In practice, this means that while Faris is happy to do missions that involve treasure-hunting or foiling the plots of rich bastards (and skimming some cream off the top), he balks at ones that involve hurting the defenseless, and he especially doesn't take on ones that would victimize wildlife or otherwise cause ecological damage.
Abilities: Faris is from one of the FF games that has you play dressup to save the world. The ones he's mastered are Dragoon (jump high, dragon aesthetic), Cannoneer (can summon a tiny cannon from hammerspace and use special ammo for different effects) and Thief (thiefing). He's also an experienced sailor.
PLANS
Long-term, I would love Faris to captain her own ship--which means gathering some reliable mateys around her. AKA making and deepening the ol' CR.
As a person, Faris is still torn between the fact that she was born a princess to the most stupidly altruistic family in the world and then raised as a selfish pirate for fifteen years. He still hasn't squared that circle, and the fact that he's demonstrably garbage at dealing with his own feelings in useful ways doesn't help. Meeting the different sorts of people from other worlds has opened Faris up to the idea that there might be some entirely different ways of doing things than the somewhat restrictive roles he's known in his life.
Faris isn't super open about herself, but she's not averse to swapping stories, so I'd love to have her doing more of that with people so that she can make some closer friends--doing something adventurous with her is the best quick way to get her interest, and she'll seek people out in calmer moments. So if you've done a Manta or something with Faris, it's a good time to do that! I'd really like to have Faris get into some more everyday interactions.
MANTA Board: I don't plan on putting up an open log this month, but Faris is always down for Manta-based hijinx. He'd be a good partner for any of the general quests or for helping Nogard warm up his brainbox, but I'm open to others as well.
CR Dreams: Faris is an adventurer and a bona-fide pirate, so he's down to do dangerous (and potentially ill-advised) things. He's got flexible morals, being a pirate. On the other hand he's got certain lines he won't cross (especially ecological damage and hunting animals for the sake of it). If you're looking for a character to get into trouble and banter with, Faris is your guy(?)
In terms of CR I'd like for Faris, I am open to basically anything. Unfortunately Faris is very very bad at opening up emotionally to people, but since he doesn't know what to do with emotions and has also been influenced to Not Be Mean, it's
fucking hilariousinteresting when people with fewer reservations inflict that on him. I'd love him to have a solid core of mateys--thanks to his canon friends/family being a bunch of weirdoes, he can get on with most people after a fashion. Or at least tolerate them. Or at least carry on a mission productively while bickering with them.Etc.:
Roxas | Kingdom Hearts | Paladin
Contact:
CHARACTER INFO
Canon: Kingdom Hearts; Post KH3
Armada: Paladin
About: Roxas is the Nobody of Sora, protagonist of Kingdom Hearts. He is essentially the shell left behind when someone looses their Heart and becomes a Heartless. Though, thanks to the shenanigans of the series that require a powerpoint or a youtube essay to explain, he is able to exist as his own person, and is at a point where he's doing that. He probably has a Heart now, but his own relationship to it dubious at best. He doesn't think too much about it. He probably should.
Personality-wise, Roxas is basically Sora on Mute. He's a little quieter, a little more thoughtful but no less loyal to his friends and determined to help or stand up against people who would try to cast the Worlds into Darkness. He probably comes off as too serious to start but it's easy to break through that veneer
Abilities: Roxas has 2 keyblades, a bunch of magic and 20X attack modifier. And maybe he should learn to expand on his skills.
PLANS
Roxas is still working on some of his feelings around forgiveness and things like that. Though, that may have been stalled.
MANTA Board:
Interested in:
-Good Boy
-Can't let It Go
-The Giant Moth
Event: Can't say that I have any major plans for the event, but Roxas can definitely fight a tentacle or two.
CR Dreams: All kinds! Friends! Rivals! Mentors! Roxas is a curious kid who wants to learn stuff about the world. He's easy to draw into shenanigans!
Etc.: I didn't get to apping Flynn this time around because the holidays but hopefully by next app round I'll have actually finished the game.
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Contact: Discord: demidemonLove
Wriothesley | Genshin Impact | Corsair
Canon: Patch 6.2, Update Luna III
Armada: Corsair
About: Administrator (or Warden) of the Fortress of Meropide. Even though he's technically a prison warden, he's normally easy-going and gets along with people, inviting them to take a moment and share some tea with him. He has some history, some scars that go with that history mentally and physically, but he doesn't find it all that necessary to talk about. As long as everyone's getting along, there's no problem.
Abilities: Wriothesley is a Cryo User in-game; that is, he's been granted the ability to wield ice and weaves it into his boxing. Ah, yes, he's a boxer by the way, southpaw stance at that; and while he's not a professional, he has picked up and learned the art since he was a teenager in the Fortress. Kind of necessary for survival - oh, but speaking of survival, he's also a mechanic, making his own metallic boxing gloves that he can power with his ice to strengthen his punch. The toll is hurting himself just a bit, but he's ready to get that KO.
To learn more about his abilities, his app's right here: read all about it
PLANS
MANTA Board: I'm eyeing Good Boy really hard just to get the dog/wolf jokes out of the way. Anyone wanna join? Also, might top-level A Skull Full of Flames to get to know other Corsair members if open and willing!
Event: Nothing right now, but now that he's in, sign him up for researching and looking into rifts and such other occurrences around Escordvi since he doesn't mind helping out!
CR Dreams: Any and all CR. Wriothesley's sociable and gets along with most folks, but I don't expect all sunshine and rainbows so negative CR is welcome too!
Etc.:
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Oswald | Odin Sphere Leifthrasir | Corsair
Canon: Armageddon - Post-Chapter 2 Fight
Armada: Corsair
About: The 'Shadow Knight' once loyal to the Vanir turned basically mercenary, Oswald's known as being a ruthless killer that has brought many Aesir (and others) to their deaths. Though quiet, he's often thinking to himself or acting on his own, most often in defiance of Death attempting to claim his soul since he was blood contracted to the Netherworld. And when he is not killing things, he's keeps to himself unless prompted.. or unless it's someone he knows/needs to engage in conversation. He's getting better about socializing. Holding back in combat... we'll get back to folks on that one.
Abilities: Oswald, in canon, has had his soul sold to the Queen of the Netherworld in exchange for using basically dark magic. While he can summon black fire in various ways, teleport around, and siphon HP from enemies, his one best known ability from this is a Berserk mode which amplifies his strength, movement, and magic at the cost of a few more internal organs or bones and such.
His powers here are much of the same just without the self-inflicted harm. Oh, and his sword is cursed so only he can wield it. Anyone else holding it might find themselves feeling exhausted, weak, etc. as the thing is trying to take their soul.
PLANS
MANTA Board: Eyeing Good Boy for him as well. Also... anyone wanna claim some bounties? The - uh - honse... maybe should be dealt with in particular.
Event: No plans presently. He'll join in on the Bread Curse once that resumes.
CR Dreams: Any! He definitely attracts negative CR, but if people can put up with his 'blah' attitude, he's not too bad to get along with. And if anyone causes them trouble, Oswald can handle it.
Etc.: Basically Oswald when people like... talk to him.
Lucanis Dellamorte | Dragon Age | Paladin
Contact: PM or
CHARACTER INFO
Canon: Dragon Age: The Veilguard; mid-Act 2.
Armada: Paladin
About: Lucanis is a master assassin of the Antivan Crows, the most prestigious assassin's guild in his world, and the heir-apparent to the top spot in said guild. He takes his job seriously (sometimes too seriously), but he's actually a pretty decent guy, when push comes to shove. Also, he loves to cook. Let him cook for you. Don't worry if his eyes glow purple sometimes.
Abilities: He's not really got any magical abilities, except what that pesky purple demon gives him (wings??? he's got cool purple wings sometimes). Otherwise he's just really good at killing people.
PLANS
MANTA Board: He could potentially be talked into the bounties, or into the care package delivery.
CR Dreams: Lucanis needs to learn how to open up a bit more, also ADVENTURES. He'll be very willing to accompany people he knows and likes on various adventures and expeditions. Right now, that's mostly just the Dragon Age cast but as his CR grows he may team up with others as well! He does have a pretty strong moral compass, despite being a professional assassin, so I think that opens up a lot of possibilities for him as well.
Etc.: Lucanis and Davrin share one brain cell
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Like as probably obvious Turo's a friendly dude, but is the AI version rather than OG Professor Turo, and he definitely explores and studies a lot of the world—to the point he's definitely ran into trouble before and etc.
On the other hand I also play Arlecchino Genshin Impact, a trained spy and assassin on top of political stuff that has various info webs and etc. and doing her own thing more often that not if interested there.
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Also cooking. She's mostly a baker these days, but she could learn a few more cooking skills.
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Azul Ashengrotto | Twisted Wonderland | Paladin
Contact:
CHARACTER INFO
Canon: Twisted Wonderland (End of Book 6)
Armada: Paladin
About: Azul is a pretty boy based on the Disney Villain Ursula from Little Mermaid. As such, he is a guy that is on the surface friendly and helpful, but in actuality can be rather greedy and more interested in building up wealth and power through his business ventures and magical contracts. He has been trying his best to play nice so that he can build up some rapport and investigate the best avenues that will allow him to return home... for better or worse, mostly the latter soon due to future plans as mentioned further down. More information about him can be found here from his app if you're interested!
For those unaware, Azul has a business called the Mostro Lounge here: in addition to his usual services of selling potions and spells, this is a place that is a hangout spot to chat with friends, play games, or take part in any performances or entertainment using the stage that's been built in. If you are someone who wants to play music or put on a show or the like for an audience, be sure to let Azul know! We will also accept any interest in getting a job at Azul's business if desired, whether that be helping with the Lounge's upkeep, or assisting in his side hustle of magic and alchemy in some manner... just make sure to read your contract very carefully before you sign anything.
Abilities: As one might be able to guess, Azul is an octomerman: his true form is that of a mermaid with octopus features. As such, he is able to swim farther/faster, breathe underwater, enhanced grip-strength, and has the use of his tentacles to grab and lift objects. He despises his octomer form due to some severe insecurities regarding his appearance, so he will try to avoid being seen in this state very often if he can help it.
He is also an exceptionally skilled mage and alchemist: in addition to a wide variety of magic he can cast, he can also create and craft new spells, items, and potions that anyone may be in need of for nearly any request, no matter how impossible it may seem. However, there are times he may insist on people signing contracts with him using his signature spell "It's A Deal" in order for his magic to be able to accomplish the request being asked of him if it's a difficult request (or rather, if he feels it is difficult enough to require it), details of which can be found here. HOWEVER...
PLANS
CR Dreams: LMFAO WELL UH... given what's happening with him right now, both positive and negative CR could very easily happen with him here. I am open to anything and everything people want to do regarding Azul especially during and after the fallout of the player plot...
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(In before they are both grounded by Kaveh for an extended period of time and bond over that)
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Miriam's going to have such mixed emotions I think, lmf. On one hand, rude???
But she also understands losing control of one's self because of their power, since that's a closely held fear of her own. And she feels responsible for getting the Shards out of Azul before Crystal Trauma 2.0 happens, something something helping people > her own emotions.
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Faulkner | The Silt Verses | Corsair
Contact: Discord: Strixoid, Plurk: Badgirlcoven
CHARACTER INFO
Canon: The Silt Verses, finale
Armada: Corsair
About: Faulkner is from a world ruled largely by the horrors, in the form of hungry gods, their monstrous servants, and the corporations capitalising on all of this.
He's a former cult leader and
falseprophet for an outlawed, wild river god called the Trawler-man. An extremely lonely and troubled young man, his desperation for love and attention drove him to reckless ambition and a good deal of blood on his hands.Not that he'll tell you any of that. He's put it all behind him, or at least he's telling himself that. On the surface he's an adorable, cheerful little guy with big blue eyes and fluffy blonde curls and a rural accent you could cut with a knife.
He does gardening and caretaking at Cosmo Conservatory, where he can often be found hanging out with his giant three-headed dachshund, and cooking at Mostro Lounge.
Abilities: He has tattoos for plant and water magic, and wants to develop those abilities further.
PLANS
He may have also started some rumours that he's a prophet again during the Pearlescent God quest, and I'd love for that to come back to bite him at least a little.
MANTA Board:
Beneath the Ink Once More - He often takes on helping sea creatures, partly because he just likes having their favour.
No Rift Out Of Here - I'm still back and forth on him getting anything stolen; it might be funnier if he just avoids most of this via spending time inside the Lounge where it's safe. Come try his cooking.
Good Boy - I want to turn him into a cat, but I'm debating if he'd actually do that by choice. Maybe he'll just bring his Cerberus to poke around.
Live Free or Pie Hard - He's been leaning into the cooking, might as well make some weird pies.
Year of the Honse - Maybe we should rescue this… thing? But then again if it lives at the Conservatory he'll have to look at it.
Too Much Pep in the Potion - idk he doesn't need the potion but I have said he's become a sucker for questionable romance novels…
CR Dreams: All of it! Positive, negative, weird, whatever. I'd definitely love more found family! Other stuff is great too though, including people seeing through his just a cute little guy mask.
He's forming way more positive relationships than I necessarily expected and that's great—I love that his general arc has been giving him the chance to become a happier and more stable and less dangerous person, and that's the direction I'd like to keep going overall… but it doesn't have to be easy for him all the time.
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zelda | legend of zelda: tears of the kingdom | paladin
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CHARACTER INFO
Canon: Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, in between Memories 8 and 9. (Also Age of Imprisonment compliant.)
Armada: Paladin
About:
Abilities:
PLANS
MANTA Board:
CR Dreams:
Etc.: I'm sorry I'm so inconsistent and have so little to offer right now orz. I've been stuck in a very "I don't know, what do you want to do?" funk for awhile.
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keyleth has a bakery back home so i was going to do something with live free or pie hard, but where the tide sleeps could also be interesting! keyleth is a corsair, though, so she'd have to get dragged into that one. she's also prone to wandering around as any of her animal forms: birds, cats, white saber-toothed tiger, and all kinds of others. being a shapeshifter has advantages towards fun ways to meet people. let me know if any of this sounds interesting.
Riddle Rosehearts | Twisted Wonderland | Paladin
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CHARACTER INFO
Canon: Post Book 6
Armada: Paladin
About: An overly studious busybody with a quick temper and disdain for troublemakers, Riddle is another teen from Night Raven College; a prestigious magic school in Twisted Wonderland. As the Queen of Hearts stand in, he is known for being rather assertive, with a bark just as strong as his bite.
To Riddle, RULES are EVERYTHING, to stray from them is unthinkable and his passion for dutifully following them, those of the Queen of Heart's in particular, can make him look downright insane-- Where are you going? Do you not realize that Caterpillar is exactly 7 centimeters high? You MUST listen to his poem!!-- Without being Dorm Leader here, Riddle won't be forcing anyone else to follow his own country's customs, but that doesn't mean he won't be enforcing other things he deems important, like local laws, or allow you to cause HIM to fail at following one himself.
With a lack of experience when it comes to life outside of the Academics, and general cold countenance, Riddle can come across as a bit unlikable but he's aware of this and there's more to him if you know where to look. As long as you behave yourself, he will also be quite cordial. Underneath that uptight facade is someone who just never got to see the world; who likes sweets, and animals and enjoys a bit of competition. However stressed, repressed or lonely, the best thing about Riddle is that for having all the traits of a poor little Meow Meow he isn't one, and purely because he STAUNCHLY refuses to be. Underestimate him and he WILL kick your ass. Magically. Physically he can't throw a punch.
If you can bear with his eccentricities and not take his strict nature personally, he's a good guy. He'll be there for you when it counts, even if it's to scold you for getting into trouble in the first place.
Abilities: Although he favors fire, Riddle also has floral, water and generic 'force' (cosmic) energy magic he can utilize in combat. He has a lot of basic practical magic in his arsenal as well, in addition to basic prestidigitation he can also do things like fly a broom and manipulate objects.
His Unique Magic, "Off With Your Head" is where Riddle really shines.
"Off with Your Head" is a spell that effectively "cuts off" a user from their own magic. Once cast, a heart shaped locked 'collar' appears around the victim's neck. While not painful, it is uncomfortable and cannot be removed until Riddle himself dispels it.
It's used both seriously and for humor, so let me know if you ever want to be in magical timeout. I'd be happy to let people handwave or work out stupid instances they get punished for.
*Also help me figure out where the most unintentionally badass/hilarious spot an overly reserved, sheltered child would think is an acceptable place to hide a tattoo.
PLANS
Event: Riddle is essentially here to be a Deus Ex level interruption in the Overblot fight. Help take Azul down, scold him and then probably stew about it. In order to focus on that, I'm not currently planning on having him tag out before using that as a sort of introduction (unless otherwise plotted) so you won't be seeing him much until things go down.
CR Dreams:
Because Overblotting is something he'll never forgive himself for and that is probably going to translate to vocally denouncing everyone who does it in general, as is the Roseheart's way, I don't expect Riddle to make too many friends right out the gate. But my focus next month will be getting him out and about, throwing him at strangers and possibly doing damage control for whatever happens here.
Once established, though he'll want to..:
-Find somewhere to hole up and study (be it a cafe or Library) and probably ask for it on the network
-Visit the conservatory sometime. One of his secret favorite happy spots back on campus is with his dorm's hedgehogs where he thinks he can relax without anyone seeing him. Some good stress relief
-Pay a visit to Mostro Lounge (and maybe volunteer some hours, depending on how badly he needs to patch things up with Azul? He could use the experience and it might help foster some trust back between them..)
But! We'll see how things go! It's all new here!
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Miriam | Bloodstained: RotN | Paladin
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CHARACTER INFO
Canon: Bloodstained: RotN, post-game, before DLC
Armada: Paladin
About: Application!
Miriam's a young woman who's seen and been through some shit, but hasn't lost her kindness or sense of justice. Sure, she might be full of demonic rocks, but she's using that power to do good things. She wants to be helpful and prove that she's still human, let her be helpful!!
Those roses and petals on her aren't tattoos; they're part of a cursed crystal that lets Miriam use said phenomenal demonic power, but will eventually turn her into a crystal statue and kill her, or corrupt her mind and delete her sense of self and free will. Either or. The curse's spread is currently halted, but using her power too much or absorbing too many Shards (fragments of a demon's power) at once could cause it to start advancing again. So Miriam's in a constant balancing act of needing to use her powers to best help others but not so much that she petrifies herself. No pressure.
Abilities: For canon ones, she's got all the ridiculously OP abilities of an endgame Castlevania protagonist—which she's usually fairly mindful about using, with such severe consequences for their overuse. She can do so much shit, though.
PLANS
I'll be making a small log for general MANTA prompts this month, and tagging into the player event! Let me know if you'd like something specific.
MANTA Board:
Good Boy—Fun fact, Miriam still has a partial werewolf transformation power; the curse warped one of her Shards so instead of summoning a random werewolf she summons her wolf form. While her human form is also in the same room. Technically a werewolf! It’s also just a bit disorienting. She’ll be exploring the mansion that way but could probably use some help navigating around.
Can’t Let It Go—hello did someone say altruism out loud. She has partial custody of a gamigin mount now, and can help with making deliveries further inland. This demon horse doesn’t care too much about obstacles.
Giant Moth Bounty—She may have lost some of her powers, but the Rift tentacles haven’t grabbed all of them; she’s still quite capable of fighting things. Especially things distracted by shiny objects. Miriam’s kind of covered in shiny distracting objects.
CR Dreams: Friends, sparring friends, music friends, friends she'll probably leave a care package of cookies for, etc (she's actually decent at cooking, especially when she has instructions more specific than an old lady's abstract nostalgia). Connections good! Miriam's also reasonably good with a piano, and has brought one into the Seventh Heaven bar. It's available for anyone to play if they're interested, not only crewmates. Her fairy familiar might come over if Carabosse likes you. She's a frequent Ring of Returning user and is often all over the place when the ship is docked, and is available for hire as a bodyguard for squishier scholarly types (fee waived for CR, people who are reasonably friendly, or just tell her they can't pay, she mostly just wants to help people). Miriam's usually fairly reserved, but bits of her past are starting to poke out now, particularly after the crystal island broke open her trauma and existential dread. Normal Tuesday things.
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keyleth might also give her more druidcrafted plants. small things and they'll act like any other flower/plant cut off from its source, but they'll be pretty at least! she's very friendly and honestly very lonely, so she's likely to latch onto the people she's met already.