- These are characters that Dane Fox-McGraw & Benjamin Huffman are rolling for randomly.
- What is this character’s name? - Del Ramman and Katniss. Del is the full name used by the brother, while Katniss aggressively prefers going by a single moniker like Madonna, actively rejecting the family surname.
- What is their ancestry (i.e. human, elf, dwarf, halfling, etc)? - Hexblood. They are siblings sharing hag ancestry in their lineage, though they are currently separated or abandoned by their hag mother.
- What is your job or role (i.e. farmer, hierling/mercenary, shopowner, bandit, etc)? - Fantasy Game Designers / Stonecasters. The siblings operate as eccentric, anachronistic podcasters. They cast the Magic Mouth spell into small pods of stone ("Stonecasting") and place them surreptitiously around town walls to broadcast their bickering debates about magical game design metaphysics to a crowd of local children.
- How old are you? - Young Adult. They are on the younger side of the bracket, spending their days on their niche hobby rather than doing anything remotely productive or accepted by society.
- Describe your physical appearance. - They have a distinct, idiosyncratic goth aesthetic reminiscent of an eccentric Addams Family dynamic. Del is pasty with unkempt sandy hair that constantly falls into his eyes. Katniss sports a stylized, colorful variation of the Jenna Ortega "Wednesday Addams" look, complete with structured pigtails.
- Describe yourself with 3 adjectives. - Del is Naive, Optimistic, and Foolhardy. Katniss is Obsessive, Preoccupied, and Approval-Seeking.
- What is a valuable item/piece of lore/secret that this character possesses? Or do they value an ideal/concept or particular person (i.e. family member, guild member, honor, justice, love etc.) - An Ideal and a Secret. Del adheres to the absolute competitive ideal of "I have to be number one," desperately wanting to be the best in his sister's circles. Katniss possesses a major secret: she is the "Undercover Boss" running an illicit, underground roleplaying group for the local town youth.
- What is a particular quest you would be willing to recruit or hire the player characters to go do? - Accessing the Plane of Earth. Because casting Magic Mouth at a massive podcast-level scale requires an astronomical volume of components, the siblings have run completely out of materials. They task the adventuring party with locating, securing, and providing them with a safe, direct portal to the Elemental Plane of Earth so they can mine an infinite supply of jade.
- What would be their reward for succeeding? - The siblings offer the party an official title: "Credited Producer" on their Stonecast podcast. If the players play hardball, they will upgrade the title to "Executive Producer." Katniss will literally use her ink quill to write the title directly onto the back of the party's business cards, completely ruining them by using the space to scribble down character attribute notes like Strength and Dexterity.
- What would be the consequence of failure or refusing the call? - If the party refuses or fails, the siblings vent their frustration through their craft and their hexblood nature. They will rewrite their Stonecast audio narrative to feature the player characters as complete buffoons, naming their central villains after the party (e.g., "Doorlock the Dumb") and completely ruining the party's street cred in neighboring towns. Furthermore, they level a low-tier hag curse at the party that makes them permanently bad at games—ensuring they automatically draw terrible cards or lose every dice roll in local casinos and taverns, extending all the way down to drawing catastrophic outcomes from a Deck of Many Things.
Optional Questions - not required
- What are the goals and motivations of your character? - The siblings are motivated by a desperate desire for intellectual validation and creative legacy. Katniss wants the town to see her and care about the complex game mechanics she obsesses over, while Del is driven by a restless sibling rivalry to prove he is a better designer than his sister.
- How do these affect your general personality? - Their obsessive focus makes them incredibly idiosyncratic and socially awkward. Katniss is perpetually preoccupied, staring off into space to calculate rules balances even mid-conversation, while Del masks his complete lack of real-world work experience with a naive, excited bravado.
- How do you normally interact with your family/friends/peers? With your enemies/rivals? With people who work for you/report to you? With player characters? - They are viewed as weird, dangerous outcasts by the adult community, inadvertently triggering a minor "Satanic Panic" among local parents who think their secret youth gaming groups are a front for witchcraft. When interacting with an adventurer like Duncan, they treat them with a haughty, riddle-like deflection—happily accepting their dangerous exploration labor while treating a worthless podcast audio credit like a supreme noble title.
- Do you have a particular accent or language? Any idiosyncrasies in how you act and speak? - They speak Common with the fast-paced, highly opinionated, and cynical vocal cadence of modern internet media critics, constantly interrupting and talking over one another to debate game balance. Their primary physical idiosyncrasies are beautifully mismatched; Katniss has a habit of staring blankly into space to calculate math rules mid-conversation while aggressively twirling her Wednesday Addams-style pigtails, while Del hyperactively gestures with ink-stained fingers, constantly pushing his unkempt sandy hair out of his eyes to enthusiastically defend his designs.
- What impact have you made on the world? How have you shaped the local area? - Their presence has turned the local town into a hotbed of paranoia. By sneaking around town to hide talking stone pods on public walls, they have inadvertently convinced the local guard and parents that a sinister, underground occult movement is taking over, completely shifting the town’s daily social dynamic over a harmless gaming hobby.
- Do you have any current problems that prevent you from being a bigger player on the stage? - They have zero physical prowess or practical real-world skills, leaving them completely dependent on others for heavy lifting. Because they lack the martial strength to secure dangerous planar pathways on their own, their entire media enterprise is perpetually stalled by a raw material shortage, forcing them to resort to petty hoodlum behavior like robbing local apiaries for honeycomb components just to keep broadcasting.