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Four Hundred Characters

More, actually. In over 50 sessions of this campaign, we've run into everyone from the iconic to the obscure. And when you tally them up, the heroes and villains, men and women from throughout time, the possibilities of the Story Line, aliens from beyond the grid of Earth, and even former beloved pets, we talled up a whopping 417 characters, including Aa, the Lantern who has decided that his name, first among all, should always be accompanied by hundred-foot tall block letters summoned out of emerald. But today, we're focusing on the five characters who almost made the list - five that represent a wide range of this campaign's sensibilities. There's humor, there's heart, and there's...

Orlando
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who entered this campaign on what I like to consider the Giant Pegboard. From time to time, half of our players visit the Hogwarts Express, a train barreling into the unknown, fueled by possibility. In the process, by traveling up the train from car to car, our heroes spend brief snippets of time throughout history, playing both detective and tourist. As more of the train is visited, more of the hidden history of this campaign is revealed. The Story Line is my favorite section of the campaign, and I really love to watch how the players try to determine where they will go or what the focus of the campaign will be. They are literally rewriting the campaign - most of these railcars are, in fact, created BY THEM, by choosing items they've collected in various other locations. In sacrificing these items to the Story Line, new doors open. Raven gave up a bottle of a rather potent, magical ale as presented to him by the bartender of Oblivion (a refuge for magicians on the run from a magical apocalypse as rendered by the Spectre). This bottle poured the party out into the Vietnam War, and for a brief snippet of time, they had opportunity to visit the Oblivion Bar of the 1970s, where they encountered the father of Flippy, Ronson; a giant nude blue man who had been exploding enemy combatants with just a thought, the Brazen Man; the Doctor, straight out of Doctor Who; and Orlando.

Who is Orlando? Well, that's still a mystery to the party, but what they do know is this: tens of thousands of years old, Orlando is one of a very few immortal human beings. But immortality has its drawbacks, and Orlando has burned all of the bridges he's ever had, including at Oblivion. And she knows it. Orlando is also transgender in the most literal way possible. Throughout the course of the session, as Orlando veered further and further away from his military position with the US Army, he began to take on more and more feminine characteristics until she arrived at Oblivion, drunk and demanding attention. And being dragged away from Oblivion by the proprietor and bouncer, she began to shift once more... but not before Han, in a moment of brilliance, changed the narrative. Providing a location in the present day, he planted a seed of change that may very well bear fruit...

This was supposed to be a short honorable mention. I'll do better with the next one.