The group healer and mom friend, Dodona wants nothing more than for her community to come back to her safely so she can patch up their wounds and asure their wellness—physical and emotional. Despite a reputation for being overly anxious and panicking over a decision that so much at seems dangerous, Dodona is an extremely competent doctor and caretaker. She’s become a pillar of her community, looked to for comfort and care and guidance, but she has an extremely difficult time seeing her own value after a lifetime of doing her work without appreciation.

War between the five witch clans has finally come to a close, leading to the people of an endless bog trying to find stability and peace with each other for the first time in generations, even as new foes arise to take advantage of the turmoil. Dodona hailed from the clan of the Watchers, scholars of the night sky who most highly valued the academic work of the Astral Order, which predicted the future through the movements of the stars. The Solar Order—ambassadors, guardians, warriors, and healers—performed work vital to the function of Watcher settlements, but received little respect in return.

Dodona was made for a campaign-style LARP that hosted four weekend-long events each year. Unfortunately, it only lasted five events; I won’t get into the details, but it was a pretty up-in-flames sort of ending. No roleplay group (or group at all) can be entirely free of drama...

Dodona had a lot of costumes—each event took place over the course of three days, and I had a different outfit (or at least a variation) for each day for each event. It got to the point that I made a little dress up game for her!

She also just has a lot of art you can look at.

TBA!

Priscilla “Prissy” Fairmeadow is a witch. At least, she says she’s a witch. She thinks she’s a witch, certainly: she believes wholeheartedly in her spell books and enchantments, but it’s hard to tell if any of it is real. Prissy doesn’t have much in the way of thoughts in her head, so she may full well be fooling herself into believing in magic. Though about as dumb as a rock, wildly gullible, and sometimes a little too adventurous for her fellow halflings, Prissy is sweet and sincere, and always happy to help out (even if you take one look at her magic (or "magic") and would rather she didn't).

There’s not much to explain about this setting—it’s the Shire, just like you’d imagine Hobbits frolicking around through, but with Legally Distinct Halflings(tm) instead. It’s a cozy cottagecore dream of a place!

Shirefolk: the Shindig takes place over two weekends each year. It doesn’t have an ongoing plot or storyline; it’s a slice-of-life LARP about halflings having a big party together! For this weekend, at least, big and scary things are only happening out there, beyond our business or concern.

Since I hadn't expected to be able to go to Shirefolk at all for financial reasons, much of Prissy's costume was made out of stuff I just happened to have. I bought the yarn for the corset (which I crocheted myself), but was already buying yarn for a commission, so I got a bulk discount. The skirt used a huge amount of brown fabric I bought for a cosplay pre-lockdown and never intend to actually do, and the rest was scraps. I cycled through a number of tops depending on the weather; the sweater I bought for cheap off of Temu, but everything else I already owned. I do wish my hair hadn't been in such dire straits that weekend, though... I actually cut my bangs myself right before the event; usually I get my stylist to do them, and this hackjob is a great example of why. I think it makes sense for the character, though, at least!

The big hook with Prissy's first event was the plush frog. That was her brother, Percival "Percy" Fairmeadow, whom she'd accidentally turned into a frog—or maybe she just got hyperfocused on her "spell books" right before he went for a walk and when she looked up, a frog had gotten in through the porch, and she panicked. It was very intentionally left ambiguous what the truth was, and I think that will continue being the plan for Prissy at future events!

Rose-Tinted Treasures is a healer second, and a wanderer first. She likes people, and very much so; she wouldn't have learned to heal their wounds and ails otherwise, but she likes people because she loves beauty. She wants to see and experience new things and revel in their splendor; sometimes those are objects, sometimes it's nature, and sometimes it's people and their interactions with each other. Those, she can't hold onto, so she holds onto things, and barters them away for new things, little bits of beauty (or a good story, which she'll record in her ever-present notebook of pressed flowers and tales of lovely times) once she's ready to move onto something new.

Players in Twilight's Oasis are cynosures, elevated spirits who act as psychopomps guiding souls to the next life. Cynosures take features of animals, plants, and/or fungi onto their otherwise humanoid forms. The world is based on east Asian and Pacific Island mythology and history, along with wuxia stories and tropes.

Twilight's Oasis runs once a year all the way in Pennsylvania—it's a decent trip for me! It's more than worthwhile, though; this LARP is basically my favorite ever, which is real bold of me to say when I've only been to one of their two (three?) events. This past year (2025), due to site issues, they didn't manage to run, so I'm desperately hoping we get another game next fall.

My hair was dyed immediately before the event, and because of a mislabeled bottle, it came out entirely the wrong color... I was pretty upset about it, and I didn't manage to get my hair styled like I wanted, either. That's something I really want to have look better for next time.

Most of this costume was made for me by friends as part of a barter deal; I crocheted stuff in exchange for skirts and the top! The antlers were bought from an Etsy seller; the tip of one broke off basically immediately so I just shoved a fake flower in it and moved on with my day. I made the ears, scaled gloves, and matching scaled tail. I bought a cheap Aliexpress hanfu for the overmost layer, which I only wore at night, and used a big yellow shawl I crocheted for something else as the sort of ribbon you see draped over the arms and behind the back of a lot of people in hanfu. Rose-Tinted Treasures's costume was a little fancier than guidelines advised, but on purpose; she can be somewhat vain and materialistic, and I wanted to reflect that by wearing more "finery" than was entirely appropriate for her wandering. Of course, it's kind of hard to see that in the photo I picked, but there's a couple more here!

Next event, I intend to give her a cool face scar; she ended the last event promising to go on a grand but dangerous adventure with a friend, and there's no point in doing something like that if your character doesn't get a cool scar out of it.

Another player and I decided about a week before the game that our characters, unbeknownst to them, were half-siblings. Unfortunately, we didn't figure out a good enough hook to get them to realize that at all. Still, having the dramatic irony of their relationship hanging over us as players while their friendship grew in such a sincere way was a lot of fun!