Little memory remains of this one, as it was back in University, about the year 1999, and I had only sat in for two sessions. My friend J1 was running a D&D campaign, I don't remember much of it, but I remember he was known for goofy, typically crude college-humour items at the time (and always having a turtle in his games somewhere), and it was amusing. I don't remember much else from this campaign, tbh my main (gaming) concentration at the time was on Fallout MUD (mentioned briefly in the source code here). In either case, DND was in the Comp. Sci. lounge, it was silly and fun, and it was my first TTRPG experience.
Played around 1999
The character before Sushi, and after Kabu. He started as a Kaiu Crab until the campaign saw to the creation of the group's own clan, the Shark Clan. An engineer and accountant, Kuraido was a good source of skill checks and... that's more or less it. He was a courtier, and did courtier things... vaguely speaking. Like he made various necessary checks, but his main thing was that good old skill Engineering, which managed to be useful in SO many ways during the campaign (how does this trap work, how do we get up there, etc). And also Commerce, which came up often enough that his high rolls in there came in handy. But mainly, he was the engineering bot, and otherwise mainly brought roleplay and story into the campaign.
Though, he did become well-known enough in J1's world that he got his own family mon, and saw other people take on the name as well. As well, I eventually got Way of the Crab as my heart has always been that of the Crab
Created 2015
With the below characters, their character sheets were thought to be lost, until they unexpectedly showed up! Though, they will stay in the long-lost character page, as they were all fairly short-lived characters (unlike the the extremely long-run Kuraido, who's character sheet is actually lost). However, as these character sheets are now found, we can at least examine them :D
The character named Strawberry. They were basically the party's buff-bot, spamming spells like Force of Will, Armour of the Emperor, and The Kami's Strength, which basically made the party members indestructable when cast on them lol. They earned a fair number of titles in their time, spider-slayer, ultimate spider-slayer, evidently we battled many a spider during this time lol. I don't have a whole lot of memories of casting, really, any other spells than the aforementioned three, heal every so often (Path to Inner Peace). They were the buff-bot, and maaaan were they good at it. They fought well, but they were a one-trick pony, and were really only remembered for those three spells lol.
Created in 2019
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An L5R character, inbetween Ichigo and Samusu (see next). She lasted for a few months, this character, but I never really used them for much. They were my attempt to make a "bad" character per-se (her name translates to 'Vile'), and she could raise the dead into zombies, was basically her thing. Very taboo and shouldn't be done, but J1 the DM was curious what I would do with it.
Evidently that was nothing. I raised a zombie once in some small shack in a town, and generally couldn't think of much to do with it or where to go with that, and didn't really want to do that, so I never really bothered raising the dead with her again, or... do anything else bad to be honest. She basically became a run-of-the-mill character until she died and was replaced with Samusu for the last two sessions.
Created in 2019
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This was at the veeery very end of J1's L5R campaign, and my previous character Hiretsuna had fallen. Now, as tempted as I was to make The Wall, I wanted to spend more time on that character, and build them up over time if I got the chance to play a long campaign in L5R again. Thus, for these last two sessions, I made The Cannon, basically an advanced level Isawa Shugenja, based around fire attacks, and basically just making Samus. Just a pure damage character for the end of the campaign (which didn't actually come in too handy, since the BBEG was just destroyed with our Void Shugenja's 'Unmake the World' spell, and just disintigrated the BBEG from existence. A somewhat... anticlimactic but also expected-to-be-like-that ending to the campaign, we were so high leveled).
Samusu's after-story was basically just going into evil places and just cleaning them up, was her thing. A quick two-session character built at the highest level.
Created in 2020
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