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KAY HAYES

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KAY HAYES (they / them)
Director + DND DM + Disaster
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if disney ever changed their mind on green lighting VAT7K would you still continue on with the project?

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We never pitched VAT7K as a series, only to Publishing. I think pitching as a series would have been a muuuuch steeper mountain to climb. We saw it as more of a spin-off comic, but the feedback was that a Tangled-connected story of any nature would need to center on the more well known character of Rapunzel in order to get studio support. It makes sense, even though there's clearly a very active love and community for Varian. Publishing did express interest in the project if we were to tweak it and make it original by removing Varian and any other Tangled elements, but we passed on doing that because we felt the story was really built for Varian. Re-conceiving it without him, while possible, wasn't as appealing to us- just didn't feel right. That's kind of why I just decided to dump the little, underbaked bit of stuff we had...to let the fandom run with it and have fun! I've seen our early ideas expanded upon, artistically explored, and challenged in some pretty awesome ways. I can't believe I see fanart to this day, haha. But I'm pretty happy myself to just let the fandom take ownership and evolve it to their taste.

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Yesterday was Ectorā€™s Black Spider spell-induced dreamland session of my homebrewy Lost Mines of Phandelver campaign! The party had to rescue Ector from the depths of his own mind after being strung together in The Black Spiderā€™s web and placed under a sleeping spell. The web interconnects their slumbering minds where the Spider is playing some pretty wicked tricks on them- hoping to lure them into false, dreamlike versions of their memories where nothing bad ever happened while she searches their minds for information relevant to finding the Forge in the Lost Mines of Phandelver. The party had to wake Ector from pleasant illusions of having gone to a university where he had lots of friends, was a magical prodigy, and a favored pupil of the benevolent celestial, Hesdmaster Arteus Nocniste (his fiend patron outside of the dream.) Waking from the Spiderā€™s dream trap meant Ector had to recall his origins as an urchin in Luskan who was saved from execution as a thief by an ā€œangelā€ who just needed him to sign a little contract afterwards- one assuring Ector a better life and continued protection. The party is now fully awake from the Spiderā€™s sleeping spell and our next session will be our final showdown!!!

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Some NPC Portraits and story beats from my wife's ongoing Candlekeep campaign! My tiefling Ector got a new piglet named Secret!! ; o ; She was a wagon stowaway who took the party by surprise.

Also featured is the creator of Ector's favorite doujin "Tentacle Dan"- Phyllip Le Dew based on Lorlo's TikTok persona, Sensei La Dew. Who I love.

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Some NPC portraits for the next long-form campaign I'm going to run this March!! I'm doing a very homebrewy take on the Tyranny of Dragons arc- starting with Hoarde of the Dragon Queen. I created a guild with seven factions based off of different birds called the Guild of Flocked Feathers and each of my players is from one of them. They'll be coming together under order of the Guildmaster for the special mission of collecting five Tiamat masks. Pyrus is going to be NPC/PCing as their quest master! It'll be fun to play with him again.

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My pal @desdemonia made a "What Would Your DND Character Look Like at Level 20" meme and I had to do it with some of my babies (and my wife's baby, Hernando!) Ector discovers his own magic and defeats his patron before he marries Hernando, who returns home to the kingdom of Durvshava after running away to finally ascend his throne. Pyrus becomes Hernando's royal captain of the guard but rises from death as a revenant to continue to protect the royal heirs. Gibbon finds a way to live forever (oh no) by getting back together with his vampire ex boyfriend.

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Some more content from the last session of my homebrewy Lost Mines of Phandelver campaign.

This time, the party had to rescue PC Noone from the depths of her own mind after being strung together in The Black Spiderā€™s web and placed under a sleeping spell. The web interconnects their slumbering minds where the Spider is playing some pretty wicked tricks on them- hoping to lure them into false, dreamlike versions of their memories where nothing bad ever happened while she searches their minds for information relevant to finding the Forge in the Lost Mines of Phandelver.

To escape, Noone had to be reminded of what really happened in her past confront it head on with help from her party.

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I got married so I changed my handle to reflect my new last name!! Yay!

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