Ash

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Ash (Discord handle) is the player whose character is Steven, joining the table in session 17 alongside Brian. He is from the US [12]. Steven is his first-ever warlock build — a halfling Fiend warlock with Pact of the Blade and a dagger pact weapon. Ash is the “forever DM for my friend group” per his own intro [13] and flagged Steven as a few-days-old build at the table [14].

Characters played

  • Steven (s17-current) — halfling, 3'9", olive complexion, black hair, chubby [1]. Fiend warlock with Pact of the Blade and a dagger pact weapon that smells of expensive tobacco smoke when manifested [2]. Charlatan background: ran a fake-holy-water hustle outside an Aurelian church before the Aurelians sank his ship [3]. Deception bonus is enormous — a 26 with no special modifiers on his first roll [4] — and he stays mum about his backstory beyond noting “last time I signed a contract, I got nightmares” [5], L611), meaning he is already nightmare-bound by a previous pact (patron unspecified — backstory hook).

At the table

Ash’s first-session voice for Steven is the slick-conman cadence — “Time is money, and so is my time. My time is valuable money” [6], the chin-rub gesture [7], and the Halfling Luck reroll on the gambling-game one [8]. The halfling Luck feature actually triggered on the first contested d20 of the session, with the DM narrating the reroll as water splashing the die from a 1 to a 7 [9]. Ash also brought the table-rules-tutorial moment of confirming that Mage Armor’s at-will status meant Steven’s base AC should already include it [10], bumping the character’s AC from 13 to 17 mid-session.

His first combat hit was a nat-20 dagger crit on a water wolf that left purplish blood on the blade [11] — a visual the table immediately compared to (but the DM ruled distinct from) Hugo’s Voidforged luminous-blue blood.

See also

References

  1. ^ Session 17, line 141-143 — Inline citation.
  2. ^ Session 17, line 1826 — Inline citation.
  3. ^ Session 17, line 383 — Inline citation.
  4. ^ Session 17, line 389 — Inline citation.
  5. ^ Session 17, line 567 — Inline citation.
  6. ^ Session 17, line 387 — Inline citation.
  7. ^ Session 17, line 441 — Inline citation.
  8. ^ Session 17, line 554-557 — Inline citation.
  9. ^ Session 17, line 556 — Inline citation.
  10. ^ Session 17, line 1385-1395 — Inline citation.
  11. ^ Session 17, line 1840-1850 — Inline citation.
  12. ^ Session 17, line 28 — Inline citation.
  13. ^ Session 17, line 1099 — Inline citation.
  14. ^ Session 17, line 1374 — Inline citation.
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