Brian

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Brian (Discord handle) is the player whose character is Mike, joining the table in session 17 alongside Ash. He is from the US — Michigan, “about to be Wisconsin” per his self-introduction [9]. Mike is a Vedalken caster built around the Mizzium Apparatus — a multi-class cleric / druid / wizard concept that uses the apparatus to cast any spell on his prepared list via an Arcana check with a backfire risk.

Characters played

  • Mike (s17-current) — Vedalken (blue-skinned, partially amphibious, can breathe underwater for up to one hour, [1]. Multi-class cleric / druid / wizard built around the Mizzium Apparatus [2]. Lawyer-brained personality, lawful-precision in negotiation; refused to sign Hugo’s Black Mask soul-bond contract within minutes of being rescued on three escalating legal grounds [3] and replaced it with a verbal “one wish, eventually, should I live long enough” commitment [4].

At the table

Brian’s first session voice is precise, lawyerly, and combative-in-negotiation — Mike’s refusal of the soul-bond contract is built around “you bet with something you don’t have” [5] and “an expectation of reasonableness… in any court of law in these lands” [6]. Brian flagged at the table that he was originally going to play a very similar concept in a campaign that didn’t take off, hence the polished Mizzium-Apparatus pitch on first introduction [7]. His mechanical fluency includes the 2024-PHB ruling that Phantasmal Force does 2d8 psychic damage per turn rather than the 2014 1d6 [8] — Brian flagged the discrepancy mid-cast and the DM accepted the buffed wording.

The character name spelling Brian used in his intro is “Valdekin” [9]; the transcript renders it variously as “Veldekin / Vidalcan / Vildulcan / Vildalcan” through Whisper-mangling. Per the DM’s post-s17 correction, all of these are transcription errors for Vedalken, which is now the canonical wiki spelling.

See also

References

  1. ^ Session 17, line 155-161 — Inline citation.
  2. ^ Session 17, line 37-50 — Inline citation.
  3. ^ Session 17, line 732-744 — Inline citation.
  4. ^ Session 17, line 757 — Inline citation.
  5. ^ Session 17, line 738 — Inline citation.
  6. ^ Session 17, line 744 — Inline citation.
  7. ^ Session 17, line 45-50 — Inline citation.
  8. ^ Session 17, line 1701-1706 — Inline citation.
  9. ^ Session 17, line 37 — Inline citation.
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