It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️

@caelarkh

Cael! | She/Her, It if you're nicies | 20+ Writer and Lancer third-party game dev! Prev: Ironbound Shadows (#ISh) Curr: Mystery.... pfp - @frogbiansvevo.bsky.social banner - @schpog.bsky.social

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It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· 1d

Wolves wolves wolves wolves #30k (No clue what my basing’s gonna be) #WarhammerCommunity

Three mk vi tactical marines painted in dark grey armor with a red right shoulder and drab brown left shoulder

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· 3d

Prepping up a bunch of models to prime for Horus Heresy 😌

A contemptor dreadnought pointing forwards. It has a big chainsaw gauntlet :D

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· 6d

This be how we’re feeling right now (combat resumes next week)

The scene from Halo ODST where Romeo takes a Gravity Hammer’s bladed edge to the chest and only survives because it smashes through his sniper rifle. Stazja’s face has been photoshopped onto him, and the stat block for its Swansong Homing Lance has been placed over the rifle’s two halves. It has the Stunned condition, and appears to have dropped two vtt text blocks:
* weapon destruction: on a 1-3, all weapons on one mount are destroyed
* Unravel Causality: use reaction -> miss

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· 10d

Do you like the Baronies? Do you like tense political intrigue plots? Have you always wanted to punch a member of the UVF? Consider taking a crack at my #LancerRPG module, Ironbound Shadows! We've got mechs, arena plots, and tons of messy idiots to beef with. caelarkh.itch.io/ironbound-sh...

The cover of Ironbound Shadows, a big ol three-mission Lancer narrative about foiling a fascist paramilitary organization trying to perpetuate The Troubles in Baronic Greek-Ireland. The cover features artwork by Naruga that displays two mechs facing off within an arena.

A set of four character headshots by @Keymint.bsky.social. They depict...
Janvier Katsaros, Shipping Magnate - a smiling older gentleman in a blue suit with warm skin, wavy hair, and an avuncular demeanor
Lady Ari O'Teahan, Marble Magnate - A severe older woman in green and black with beige skin, light scarring, and long pale hair)
Euryalos Athanasidhe, First Prince of House Athanasidhe - a frustrated man in a black and gold napoleonic uniform with ginger hair, fair skin, freckles, and notable facial scarring
Dulcinea Athanasidhe, Second Scion of House Athanasidhe - a dismissive, snarky woman in pink victorian attire who resembles her brother, with long, wavy hair, ice-blue eyes, and a pallid, sickly complexion.

An example page showing part of the Briefing for Mission 1: Into the Garden, where the PCs are tasked to travel into a rural area under cover, meet up with an Ungrateful contact, and extract them before a fascist paramilitary can sniff them out. The page includes a quote from Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome, by The Mountain Goats - "Be flexible, be unreplaceable / In a world of heavy footprints, be untraceable".

A page from a combat encounter in Ironbound Shadows displaying a dense tactics and narrative section alongside a detailed combat map. The encounter is an arena combat against Pluto and Pomegranate, a duo of lovey-dovey Pankrati performers

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· 13d

Learned about the Dunkin promotional brand deal sunglasses from 2020 and am going through the five stages of grief about never being able to cop this fit.

Goodr x Dunkin sunglasses. One is orange with a pink sunset hue transition and the other is white with orange and pink “Dunkin” word print across the glasses arms.

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· 16d

The allure of Horus Heresy may be drawing me in…….

A wip of a kneeling Mk II space marine mini with a bolt pistol and a pair of binoculars in Heresy-era Space Wolves colors

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· 17d

I can’t believe they made me do that to my boys

The section of FFX where you have to mercy kill your Aeons. Yuna stands with her back to the screen, and to the left a selection list displays the names Atsede, Arknighs, Quill, Chappell, BajaBlst, and Peewee

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· 25d

Learned about some things about Gabriele D'Annunzio and realized I have much to learn about Italian History the other day.

Jim Downey, as pictured in a Conan skit where he expresses confusion over why people are so angry with "Jeffery Epst*in, the Financier?" The image has instead been captioned "The Arditi??? From Battlefield 1???"

Also if censoring that word doesn't evade the resistlib bots Im nuking the world

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· 27d

So far Stazja made a prayer to the Archangel, entered the field, immediately got structured, used a 1/scene reaction to perfect parry it and structure the Veteran, and then whiffed two whole attacks against a measly Grunt Breacher. Unsure if the Archangel likes her. #LancerRPG #IaM

A Veteran Bombard takes aim and targets four entire PCs along with an escort objective in one massive blast. It misses everyone badly except for Stazja (callsign Rayet) and the escort objective

Stazja triggers Unravel Causality, a reaction triggered when its mech would be reduced to 0 HP from an attack. It must make a ranged attack roll against the attacker's evasion; if successful, it completely nullifies the attack and reflects its damage and effects onto the attacker in their entirety.

Stazja makes the Causality attack and succeeds! (barely). The Veteran Bombard structures!

Later, Stazja dives after a Spacer Grunt Breacher and skirmishes with a Main-Aux mount. The first attack with a Parrying Blade rolls a 6 and misses. The second attack with a Chain Spear rolls a 6 and also misses. She needed like a 9 or something fyi

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jul 9

Crude drawing of a girl thinking “based based based based” but instead simply saying “wow” because the former sentiment is not socially acceptable.

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jul 8

I mean seriously, look at how crazy good these all came out

Duclinea, a woman with ginger hair, stands with her back to the viewer in a big pink jacket, black pants, and high white boots, her expression one of resolute determination. A blue armband is wrapped around her left bicep as she levels a rapier towards the horizon, her blade almost glowing blue. Tendrils of a pink and green aurora curl up and around her and flow out in the direction of the blade, a representation of the will and spirit flowing through her. Her right hand rests on the handle of a cane

Stazja, a woman with long orange hair and a fox tail, is presenting a tray of cookies with a broad smile. She is wearing a low-cut 1950s style red dress, a blue choker, and heart-shaped earrings, with a long scar across her face. The image's sense of domestic bliss is complicated by the splash of blood dripping from the corner of her fanged mouth and the fact that the cookies are shaped like knives and hearts.

In a past life, Stazja was molded into an assassin. She is sitting for a family portrait in a conservative black dress, her hands clutching a rosary. An older man looms in the background, cloaked in shadow save for parts of his face and a hand upon the young woman's shoulder. She is hunching forward, her blue eyes directed towards the hand with a look of anxiety and fear.

A version of the family portrait from before, but taken after Stazja was molded into an assassin. It is sitting for a family portrait in a conservative black dress, blood drenching its chin and neck. An older man looms in the background, obscured in shadow save for parts of his face and a hand on her shoulder. A rosary wrapped around her wrist glints in the light as both regard the camera with stony expressions. Stazja's hair is straighter, its face and hands are scarred, and its eyes are now red.

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jul 6

Or Picard, if you like

Picard in a silly looking metal mask that covers his eyes and forehead.

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jun 29

Alright there we go 🎊

Rating yalls OCS chart but its been filled out.

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jun 28

Exactly!!! A continuous stream of billions of people, all thinking and feeling and flailing and breathing the same way as you. How can we not delight in being a part of these masses, so vibrant and teeming?

Artwork of dogs playing together from Dog Thoughts, by Anna Haifinch

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jun 28

Got in the last two pieces for the visual update to Ironbound Shadows and oh boy lemme tell ya, it's going to kick so much ass. #LancerRPG #ISh #ttrpg

A closeup of a white, featureless mask with cyan eye markings and eye holes shaped in a gleeful expression. The mask's wearer has pushed it up to the left over a mane of messy hair, and a tearful eye is visible. The scene is bathed in red light.

A closeup of an armored plate which depicts an emblem of a red right hand upon a shield. The hand is wreathed in golden laurels

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jun 25

Yknow what, why not. Yall have to hear me yap so much about mine let’s return the favor

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jun 25

Stumbled across a very stupid OC sketch I did to cope with that one guy not aiming a little to the right a couple years back. Let it be known that I’ve never not been normal.

A quick and dirty sketch of Stazja with her hair bound into a bun as she looks to her left with a nervous and guilty expression. To its left, its NHP companion Antheia (an older woman with an overlay of seven extra eyes beside her face) exclaims “you missed???”

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jun 25

Yknow what, why not. Go my weirdgirl

A sketch portrait by Keymintt of Stazja Chae-Brigmore, a Korean woman with long red-orange hair, scarlet eyes, and a jagged scar across the bridge of her nose. She wears a sleeveless black top, a glittery red choker, and two loose necklaces of ruby beads meant to resemble pomegranate seeds. It is depicted looking off to the side with its brows raised in a beaming, optimistic smile that leaves a pair of sharp fangs on display.

Artwork by RaspberryMilkshake depicting Stazja, a Korean woman with red eyes, a fox tail, and a messy cut of ruddy orange hair. She looks towards the viewer with a bashful but friendly smile. She wears a white tank top, dark grey cargo pants, and black laced boots, all with red trim and a matching set of a red choker and beaded necklace. It's clear that Stazja has seen combat- an old gunshot wound is visible on its shoulder, and a jagged scar forks across the bridge of its nose. She carries a sword with a circular crossguard and a ringed pommel, and a red-beaded rosary is bound tightly around her wrist. The silver cross glints beside the simple wedding ring upon her finger.

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jun 24

Ended up being so nostalgic for it that I bought my own copy of the collector’s edition a while back. Iirc the map immediately tore on a fold seam the first time I opened it tho 😭

A copy of TES IV Oblivion in a games shelf.

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jun 22

HG 1/144 NZ-666 Kshatriya my beautiful baby girl. Why are you so terrifying to balance and pose omg.

A big green beetly mobile suit on a flight stand. She has two laser swords and four giant winglike shields on armatures that make her absolutely massive and unwieldy to balance

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jun 16

I do get the instinct tbh. Like, yeah, that forums offer a touch less immediacy and algorithm death spiral. But on the other hand:

Man playing a card aggressively onto the table. In this edit the card is “Mumsnet”

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jun 12

Guh okay I think the blorbo pride fic's done. Just gotta hear back on what the council says 😌 I'll probably be putting this up on Ao3 again when it's ready - maybe Scribblehub too? been meaning to look into that one #LancerRPG #OCs #CaelWrites

Word count
Pages: 7
Words 4124
Characters: 23229
Characters excluding spaces: 19178

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jun 9

Work on the vaguely pride-based OC fic continues. That's right gang it's starring her again. #LancerRPG #OCs

“Yup, that’s me!” She flashed her trademark, cheery grin – bright as sunshine, even with her pointed canines. “But, really, I’m not here to be a stage presence, I’m just here to be part of the community. So you can call me Stazja for now, okay?” Which would, hopefully, draw less attention than her stage name. When the teens continued to stare, it added “Um, She/It!” and tapped a hand against its chest to emphasize the cue.

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· Jun 2

Qrp with your pride flags 🏳️‍🌈 Technically I’m also a lil bisexual with it, but I mainly identify as a lesbian (and that flag is way more my color 🤭)

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· May 31

What would happen if hit guy with big squeaky hammer

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· May 29

There’s a reason Ironbound Shadows has three pages of playlists 😤 (Mild spoilers for part 2)

A page full of playlists of music for part 2 of Ironbound Shadows. It is too long to contain in alt text 😔

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· May 27

+++NAME: Stazja Chae-Brigmore (She/It) +++ROLE: Security Specialist +++CHASSIS: Spectre-pattern/DrC-82:3-4; [THROUGH THE STORM, WE WILL FIND A WAY] +++NOTES: A woman with a lot to prove. Don't let the martyr complex get the best of it. #LancerRPG #ttrpg #IphigeniaAtMidnight #oc

Artwork by RaspberryMilkshake depicting Stazja, a Korean woman with red eyes, a fox tail, and a messy cut of orange hair. She looks towards the viewer with a bashful but friendly smile. She wears a white tank top, dark grey cargo pants, and black laced boots, all with red trim and a matching set of a red choker and beaded necklace. It's clear that Stazja has seen combat- an old gunshot wound is visible on its shoulder, and a jagged scar forks across the bridge of its nose. She carries a sword with a circular crossguard and a ringed pommel, and a red-beaded rosary is bound tightly around her wrist. The silver cross glints beside the simple wedding ring upon her finger.

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· May 25

Priming weather is well and truly upon us so I finally got my Insidiants prepped with the help of my wife! Protip don’t commit to rolled bases for a high model count army you will regret it 😭 #40k #KillTeam #WarhammerCommunity

A trio of extremely dripped out headless 40K sisters models. A sister superior points a mace to the left of the image while bracing a codemnor bolting in her left hand. A dialogus raises her hand in oration to the right while a sister with a massive fuck-off mace holds it in front of her in solemn vigil.

Another trio. One sister strides forward with an arming sword, ready to fight. Her shield is decorated with chains and ghoulish trophies. Another readies a great broadsword, while the third stoically plants a simulacrum imperialis

Four more brandishing maces. Two carry crossbow pistols, while the other two wield hand flamers.

It’s Cael! 🐀🏳️‍⚧️@caelarkh· May 18

Getting enrichment in my enclosure by building a tank and stabbing the shit out of it #40k #warhammercommunity