A little backstory, I was playing Ghosts of Saltmarsh as my halfling ranger, and got a little fed up with our current captain's "Me first, the party second" choices and decided (with a talk with the DM) to stage a mutiny. In the end, I came out on top. After that I accidentally killed the party's favorite NPC and lost almost immediately. I ended up leaving the ship and the party on the back of a shark, never to be seen again, until now. I need a little help work shopping my backstory into something that I can use
A few notes:
- I have a bag filled with the bones of a dead skeleton companion that I desperately want to bring back to life
- I want somewhere in what happens to cross the line of me going slightly insane
Where does the redemption come into play? If the npc's death was an accident, it doesn't sound like you were entirely at fault, unless the "accident" was tripping and landing dagger first in them three times.
Redemption arcs are most potent when they take seemingly irredeemable characters and force their humanity to the surface, past the hard outer shell they've built for themselves to deal with being bad. From what you've said here, that doesn't sound like your character.
But, if the question is simply "what did my character do while they were gone?" My first idea with the bag of bone and the slight insanity is kind of a Castaway scenario. Maybe you were stranded on a desert island the whole time, with nobody but the bones of the island's precious inhabitant to keep you company a la Wiiiiilsooooon! Maybe you're obsessed with bringing them back to life because you've formed this idea of them and who they are in your head that you long to truly meet them, or maybe you want to do it out of gratitude for keeping you (relatively) sane.
Maybe for the delusional side, what if you're not 100% sure how you did make it off the island. Maybe you have a little amnesia about the actual leaving, and sometimes you go so far as to wonder if you ever really left. Could this all be a dream? Is this all some new madness you're being driven to after however much time you've spent in isolation?? What IS real anymore?? That kind of thing.
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A little backstory, I was playing Ghosts of Saltmarsh as my halfling ranger, and got a little fed up with our current captain's "Me first, the party second" choices and decided (with a talk with the DM) to stage a mutiny. In the end, I came out on top. After that I accidentally killed the party's favorite NPC and lost almost immediately. I ended up leaving the ship and the party on the back of a shark, never to be seen again, until now. I need a little help work shopping my backstory into something that I can use
A few notes:
- I have a bag filled with the bones of a dead skeleton companion that I desperately want to bring back to life
- I want somewhere in what happens to cross the line of me going slightly insane
- I am open to anything
Where does the redemption come into play? If the npc's death was an accident, it doesn't sound like you were entirely at fault, unless the "accident" was tripping and landing dagger first in them three times.
Redemption arcs are most potent when they take seemingly irredeemable characters and force their humanity to the surface, past the hard outer shell they've built for themselves to deal with being bad. From what you've said here, that doesn't sound like your character.
But, if the question is simply "what did my character do while they were gone?" My first idea with the bag of bone and the slight insanity is kind of a Castaway scenario. Maybe you were stranded on a desert island the whole time, with nobody but the bones of the island's precious inhabitant to keep you company a la Wiiiiilsooooon! Maybe you're obsessed with bringing them back to life because you've formed this idea of them and who they are in your head that you long to truly meet them, or maybe you want to do it out of gratitude for keeping you (relatively) sane.
Maybe for the delusional side, what if you're not 100% sure how you did make it off the island. Maybe you have a little amnesia about the actual leaving, and sometimes you go so far as to wonder if you ever really left. Could this all be a dream? Is this all some new madness you're being driven to after however much time you've spent in isolation?? What IS real anymore?? That kind of thing.