I love, love, love stumbling onto things from previous owners of books. there’s something really sweet about opening up a used book and being greeted by something personal – a lingering essence of someone unknown. maybe what’s left behind is an inscribing from one person to another, or underlined passages that a reader may have loved. maybe it’s a photograph, or maybe it’s pressed flowers and leaves tucked in the pages. whatever it is, it surely exists as a window to the past, and that makes the book even more special.
Context: most of my PCs started in prison. Bard got drunk and stabbed some people. Ranger is a perv. Homebrewed class magicked himself into a lords toilet by accident and was thought to be an assassin. Bard is now talking to that lord.
Lord: you look suspiciously like the description I heard of someone who murdered some people
Bard: what, nooooo. I’m a pacifist so it wouldn’t be me… *rolls a nat 1 persuasion*
Lord: *looks down at bards sword, looks up at bard* that’s a rather large butter knife for a pacifist
Bard: oh yeah I’m a pacifist with a sword. Wait….
*lord throws bard in prison*
*home brew had been watching this whole time, rolled stealth to get away and got a 2, proceeds to be captured*
They all get blackmailed into fighting a young dragon or get killed. And in the process the party gained a name. The pacifists with swords
op of this post, @lllness (spelled L – L – L, ness. not with an i), is a pedophile who has sexually abused minors along with a bunch of other shit. they very recently changed their url, it used to be maoh & they went by ph4u57 years ago. they have a public discord that anyone, including minors, can join. i’m tired of seeing them on this website & wish they’d get run off tbh!