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[tower of valor]! Most of the other players gave some directors commentary so I'm gonna talk about Iseul
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Up until then I'd often have some trouble working out how my characters would react to things so I decided to play a big impulsive moron
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I did the classic str/aura goku build and LOVED it
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Aura might honestly be my favorite stat
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I played some smart people since to compensate but I'm hype to be an idiot again
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The other thing I did was the malevolent entity build! I feel like I fell down on that one
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I didn't realize as a concept I could just talk to the GM in private (I still have trouble realizing I can just talk to one person)
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So I had the info I gave on Airirang at character creation and never actually discussed what their voice was going to be like or who was going to play them, me or Quinn, so I felt pretty panicky and overwhelmed whenever they showed up
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Which wasn't often!
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Iseul was kind of a resolve beast and HP tank
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Plus most of his moves were either ranged or reposition so he didn't get hurt often
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Behind the scenes, the concept for Airiang was that it was extremely petty and bored and would go after Iseul's loved ones in particular because it wanted to be part of an interesting adventure and had the mindset that loss and suffering made the best kind of story
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Playing stupid characters is SO liberating sometimes
Quinn Angstrom
orion lives for the drama
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Iseul was one of the few people fighting fit after one round of Charlotte on the train and while I didn't have to make a resolve roll
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I played it as that was Airirang coming out and electing not to fire at the departing car because it wanted to know what HG was gonna do with that loot
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You might notice Iseul was being a little loopier right after the encounter because that wasn't Iseul
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What everyone rightfully remembers about Iseul on the train is him being really indignant when he finds out about fursuits
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I was also pretty shy and didn't type up a lot of the internal monologues and feelings he was having about events like Cesta and Lucy's forbidden romance
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Orion and the Big Bad of VALR should talk
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He just got really gung ho over them and didn't indicate why
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I also didn't want to be too special because I was loath to make a Mary Sue type character which is why he didn't work for any great houses and the Belpharas were just a minor house
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If I'd done it over again I would have definitely wanted to make him a bigger deal as those plot hooks exist for a reason
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the whole point of a valor campaign is for your characters to be as cool and interesting as you want
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Orion has seen some shit over the years and it hates all these stupid archetypes and once you have a happy ending you hang up your weapons and get married and retire
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In a tragedy you hold onto your weapon until the bitter end and go out with a bang
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Seeing all the cool shit and arcs that everyone else was getting up to made me go "oh, this is OUR story and we can be as self indulgent as we like" and it was mega inspiring
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Which in turn gave me the courage to go "hey GM I want Kansui to pull a double agent arc and make everyone else think it's a Sasuke"
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Which didn't work out, RIP ninjas
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But it also gave me the courage to make a bunch of absolutely wild requests in Soliel
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I grew as a person going up that tower
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A fun fact about Iseul is that crocodiles don't stop growing
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So over the years the journey takes he's going from like six foot two to eight foot seven or so
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I don't remember exact heights
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I also had plans for him to be all... tortured and broody but then Ragnarok was like "you are like little baby. Watch this" and he turned into Ragnarok's biggest hype man instead which was really funny
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iseul being like SHES SO COOL was super endearing ngl
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Iseul focuses strongly on whatever is right in front or ahead of him
moontouched
he is a treasure
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He made a lot of puns about being either hot or cold blooded
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and ngl i think the party dynamic overall would have been worse if he was like. broody. him being upbeat and dumb was fun because zoa was upbeat and anxious to contrast
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As befits a reptile who sets his blood on fire to attack
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so you had the frontliners who were really serious and often broody and troubled for some really good reasons
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and these two armwaving morons in the back
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I think a lot of battles had Iseul doing more damage to himself than the enemy did
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this sounds about right
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He could cast from HP but had enough stamina that he rarely bothered and a ton of health limits on his weak techs and injury limits on the strong ones
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Sometimes my strats would be "get this idiot hurt so he can use his ult" and he would get great defensive rolls while everyone else was looking beat to shit
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I blame Orion
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honnestly some of my favorite moments in the campaign come from the rare but absolutely vital moments
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where despite Jun's innate tactical cleverness
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or Eleanor's incredibly flexible and imaginative mindscape
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Iseul is The Smartest Motherfucker In The Room
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because he runs entirely on instincts while Eleanor and Jun are mind mapping three moves ahead
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and sometimes you just need someone willing to cut the gordian knot
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iseul was that person
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also god i forgot iseul was like 8 feet tall by the end of the campaign
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this is very funny not only because eleanor was the shortest of the humanoids, but because the only person in the party shorter than eleanor was ragnarok
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so iseul hyping up a murderous rabbit that probably barely reaches his knees
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is a DELIGHTFUL mental image
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Iseul respects the Skygrasses so much
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I recall his strategy, in the dark maze where everyone was in different spots
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Was to go around crashing and blasting through walls while yelling
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Taps forehead
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Can't go in circles if you don't let em put you in a circle
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Iseul: "The shortest path between two points is a straight line"
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"Fuck these walls, they don't know shit about lines"
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Iseul was so good.
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A joke that I am not sure if I ever deployed onscreen is that he is just insanely hot by lizardman standards because of some snout length to tail width, scale density reasons and has absolutely NO idea
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That nobody in the party has noticed this
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that makes me want to retcon Cesta's Top Three to Lucy/Lucy/Iseul
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It's just really nice of them not to objectify him
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You have this power
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what a dreamboat