B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 12:00
Speaker 1
"Eventually, one day, somebody will pray for a miracle, pray for something to save them to whatever gods are nearby, and that prayer will be answered because you'll show up.”
-Caduceus Clay
"You were not born with venom in your veins. You learned it."
-Caleb Widogast
“I’m going to take a leap of faith and believe, contrary to all evidence, that you are a smart woman.”
-Percy de Rolo
Speaker 2
"What you did was awful, truly terrible, despicable and unforgivable-- until you can forgive it. At some point, you'll have to do that. And I swear to you that I will be at your side until you do."
- Nott the Brave
"My greatest heartbreak is that when I have collected every last mortal soul and all of my siblings into my pit, that I will only have eternity to punish them."
- Asmodeus
"I don't want to die who I am. I would like to live long enough to be someone else"
- Percy de Rolo
Speaker 3
“I did my best in every town I went to and every town I left, no matter how they treated me, and a lot of them treated me with deep disrespect… I left every town better than I found it.”
-Mollymauk Tealeaf
“You can’t live in black and white. Everything is a beautiful color of grey”
- Jester Lavorre
"Not all narrative is bright, but it has its purpose."
-Matt Mercer
Speaker 4
"Sometimes breaking is making, even iron can start again, and there are many things that go through fire and find themselves much better for it afterward."
- Kerrek
“I may be the transmutation wizard, but you are the one who changes people.”
-Caleb Widogast
"Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential. It's love that saves them."
-Caduceus Clay
Speaker 5
“It’s so rare that we’re actually given the opportunity to be honest about everything; we might as well try it once and see if we like it.”
-Percy de Rolo
“That history hasn't been written yet and you are not out of time.”
-Zerxus Ilerez“Sometimes, things that are the most beautiful, are the things that can hurt you the worst.”
-Jester Lavorre
Speaker 6
“I think what his holiness is trying to convey is that he will be going on a spiritual journey, and there’s only room on that train for one dude!”
-Nott the Brave
“There is a place beyond the stars that your heart alone can reach.”
-Evandrin Alterra
“I'm either cursed or unlucky, and I don't believe in luck”
-Yasha Nydoorin
Speaker 7
“I don’t know if I’m the leader you deserve, or a good leader, but I’m willing to dedicate the rest of my life to doing whatever I can for all of us.”
-Keyleth
“I don’t know that your story will long be known. I don’t know who will remain to tell it, but it did happen — and it did matter.”
-Brennan Lee Mulligan
“I’m really really nice, but I don’t always make the best decisions…”
-Twiggy
Round 2 - 1:30
Speaker 1
“Real friends, the ones that make miracles happen, the ones greater than any treasure you can find on any adventure: they see the wolf in you, and love it too.”
-Grandma/The Wolf
"If the game is rigged, make your own game and rig that."
-Brennan Lee Mulligan
“My god, I don't know if there's any magic more potent than just doing something new.”
-Techtonia
Speaker 2
“In the same way your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't."
-The Void
“When you’re there in the dark, I am there holding your hand.”
-Cassandra
"You’re the meat on my plate, okay? And the veggies are my bid for president. But you’re the meat, mama, okay?”
-Kristin Applebees
Speaker 3
“Risk is inevitable in the lives of those that seek to do great works upon the face of the world. Danger, Combat, and even Death. These are the things we risk to make a difference.”
-Goldenhoard
"There is no pirate who can see the horizon through a squall; Doesn't mean it isn't there."
-Cathilda the Black
“Sometimes you mess with a honk, you get the bonk.”
-May Wong
Speaker 4
"Sometimes a thing gets broken, and when you rebuild it, it’s stronger for it, you know? A lotta things are like that. You put a sword in a steel forge, you gotta beat the Hell outta that thing to get it nice and hard and sharp, you know? Breaking things isn't bad."
-Digby Thistlespring
"A hero is a violent wanderer, who enacts their will bloodily, and with strange magics, upon the world."
-Arthur Aguefort
"She is so famous that nobody is even talking about her anywhere.”
-Dr. Aleksandr Astrovsky
Speaker 5
“Many miracles were granted to the world, and to mortal beings did I grant the greatest miracle of all: that the world might be reshaped through love and work.”
-Logran Soulforger
“Life is for living, that’s one of my rules… Number 2, sunsets are non-negotiable.”
-Daisuke Bucklesby
“When you’re not nurturing and multiplying the enemy, you are dancing on its dead body.”
-Megan Mirror
Speaker 6
"You might have a high level, but you suck at PVP! You suck at this game!"
-Riz Gukgak
“Wow, people can move in way different ways than when I was a kid. When I was a child, we would just have to fall down mountains.”
-Squing
“Sometimes decisions are not difficult. Sometimes they are just hard.”
-Golden Goose
Speaker 7
“It always sounds like a good idea but boom, five hours is gone, its 4:30 in the morning, there's a piece of pizza on your chest 'cause it's resting there while you scroll and it's just, you got nothing there ... The past is dead and buried. Focus on the pizza.”
-Pete Conlan
"Here’s some information. If you find it impressive, that’s up to you."
-Tula
“'There’s always something unknown and scary, monsters in the dark trying to get you, but when you find something in people that can help push that back, you hang onto that.”
-Ava
Finals B - 4:15
Speaker 1
"You are amusing ... in a what the hell is wrong with you kind of way."
-Jaheira
"I do not have violent urges, I have violent intentions."
-Minthara Baenre
“In this moment, we’re fine. Here I am. There you are. Breathing. Talking. Even laughing, if we want. Is it very precious to say that, despite it all, I'm… happy?”
-Karlach Cliffgate
Speaker 2
“We can risk violence here or face it for certain on the road, quite the choice isn’t it?”
-Zevlor
“Try to cure yourself, shop around. Beg, borrow and steal; exhaust every possibility until none are left, and when hope has been whittled down to the very marrow of despair, that's when you'll come knocking on my door…”
-Raphael
“You twine your life around the people you love. And when they are gone, you grow around their absence instead. It is just another way they shape you.”
-Jaheira
Speaker 3
"We're all doomed."
-Xan
"I don't want to hurt you anymore, I want to protect you"
-Lae'zel
What's my status? Since when do you care about me unless I'm impaled in something's guts?
-Lilarcor
Speaker 4
“I have seen what true leadership is, but it was never under your tutelage.”
-Rolan
“Ah - the little voice in the back of our minds. 'All is lost!' it cries out, and it's all too easy to believe it.There's only one good response to it: 'Shut the hell up’:”
-Wyll Ravengard
“A rough tempest I will raise”
-Gale Dekarios
Speaker 5
“Grace is bestowed by nature, not me.”
-Halsin
"Advice, eh? Well, besides working a little on your swordsmanship. Besides that, I'd have to think. Hmmm... find someone rich, and kill them. Find someone richer, and kill them, too! Hack and slash you way to fortune! Woo-hoo!"
-Lilarcor
“Loving another is not soft, wizard. It is one of the hardest things a person can do.”
-Minthara Baenre
Speaker 6
“You think you'd give up anything for a cure. But the Devil won't take anything - he'll take everything."
-Wyll Ravengard
"I cannot be caged. I cannot be controlled. Understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools!"
-Jon Irenicus
"This place crawls with life, but none of it flourishes.”
-Halsin
Speaker 7
“This little adventure of ours has taught me that we can’t let our lives be ruled by fear - or else we never really live.”
-Astarion Ancunin
“Perhaps she's keen to see me corrupt you. I can imagine she'd be delighted to turn a follower of Selûne towards the darkness.”
-Shadowheart
“Even the waves of fate can break upon the shores of will."
-Elminster