A Continent of Banalities

Note: I go through character creation today. Scroll down to the second image if you just want to see the character. For today, and the coming days I’ll be making characters for ARC Doom. The game is about averting a fast-approaching disaster in a fantasy setting. I have written a convention scenario about saving the world by stopping a scoundrel from tampering with the creation of the world itself. Here’s the pitch: Oh no! The Pandemoniac has managed to break into the Prime Cell where the world is being made, and now they will subvert Creation from first principle! That blackguard!  Good thing for the cosmos that there are heroes such as yourselves to stop the scoundrel. Well, you will be heroes if you pull it off. If not you probably have a colorful future as chaos sludge ahead of you.  The pregenerated characters will have something of the mythical about them. They will be inspired by people from fairytales, and just-so stories, I think. Sometimes a bit of randomness is good...

Today we have our first non-Into the Odd character. I have created a Swedish character for the wonderful game Vaesen and transplanted him to Texas.  Anders Sundwall was a bright young boy from Göteborg, the son of a schoolteacher and a writer of uplifting literature for young women. His parents paid through the nose to send him to study medicine at Karolinska in Stockholm. While ‘networking’ wasn’t in their vocabulary, that was their reason for sending Anders to the capital. And network he did. Anders met Felix Stenbock-Oxenstiarna at Karolinska, and the two got on like a house on fire. Anders was by far the better student, but if Felix leant heavily on his friend at times, he paid it back by introducing Anders to the joys and privilege of being the third son of a friherre (baron). Wine, women, opium, and a certain leniency if one was found to be sleeping in class. Anders enjoyed it all as though he was born to it. Still, he managed to be a good, if not great student.  "You, S...