Okay is a word to describe that what we feel is between fine and bad, a survival word for those who are secretly depressed, a word for those who want to hide how they feel because they have this feeling that no one is interested to their shit. Okay is a word that can destroy you within minutes, without realizing it!

Ocean of tears.

Love is to blame.

Whenever I see you

or hear your name.

These facts may have been shared before but I'd like to share them again. :)

1. Blue Smile: "Blue smile" is a phrase used to describe a smile that is insincere and mocking. It is derived from the Welsh phrase "Glas wen."

2. Blue hyacinths: Hyacinths are used to express apology. Blue hyacinths symbolize sincerity. A bouquet of blue hyacinths are a sincere apology.

3. Blue period: This year had been especially rough and it's inevitable that we feel down and blue at times. However, I believe in you and I know you can pull through! You got this!

Morgle the Tortle - A tortle monk following the Way of the Astral Self. He is an unusually old tortle with greyish green scales and wearing a traditional monk uniform. I am currently using this character in Tomb of Annihilation. Morgle is an unsually old tortle (keep in mind tortles have a lifespan about fifty years) and tends to be very forgetful. Working with my DM we’ve expanded more about his backstory but I’m keeping that a secret. Just know that he’s getting guidance from a great tortle named Galapagos the Wisest and his spirit is what aids his astral self. He’s been called because a friend of his is sick with the dreaded death curse so he and other like minded adventurers set out to Chult to find a cure.

Yig Olmsted - A changeling warlock, having made an unknown pact with a Great Old One. He wears a dark purple outfit with a hood over his head. He also has a small goatee and dark skin tone. I am currently using this character in the Curse of Strahd campaign. All my party see is a odd, shaky human but what they don’t know is that he’s secretly a changeling. He is the proud owner of a small shop/museum called Yig’s House of Bizarre Treasures. One day a mysterious cloaked man enters and offers Yig a book. Yig was willing to make a price but man declines and states that it is free and then leaves the book to him. There is no author, the texts appear to have been written in a variety of languages, and the cover has an elder sign on it. The texts contain a list of spells and cantrips, as well as dark imagery depicting creatures with many tentacles and mouths. He read the spells and managed to learn and duplicate them perfectly, learning them in a matter of weeks what would normally take months to years to learn. He has also been having dark dreams full of creptic images and places he’s never been to. Then one day he awakes and finds himself in the Domain of Dread within Barovia, and that’s where my story begins in The Curse of Strahd.

Hektor Skarlett - A hobgoblin gunslinger. This is a homebrew class based on the gunslinger archetype created by Matt Mercer of Critical Role. I am currently using this character for an upcoming homebrew campaign. His is a tall hobgoblin with green skin, dark hair, and dresses like an old west gunslinger. The inspiration behind his character comes from Din Djarin from The Mandalorian, The Man With No Name from Fistful of Dollars, and Roland Deschain from The Dark Tower series. His backstory is that he was abandoned as a baby and was adopted by a human mage and gunslinger. They raised him as their son but throughout his childhood he was bullied by the townsfolk due to their predjudice against what they call “normal” races. His main goal is to try and earn their respect by following in his adopted father’s footsteps and becoming a gunslinger and the town’s marshall. To do so he takes on a job as an urban bounty hunter to hone his gunslinging skills.

Icarus Coppercorn - A satyr druid and follower of the Circle of the Stars. He has an unusual look for a satyr, having snow white fur, light lavender skin tone, and pinkish red eyes, indicating that he has some form of albinism. He wears green pants, a brown sash around his torso, and a brown cone hat, with his horns are puncturing through it, and tends to be carrying a lute around with him. He’s a pretty laid back character, preferring to go with the flow much like nature itself. Not much backstory for this character. Icarus has always been in love with the stars since he was a child. He hopes to map out all the stars in the sky and to play his music to appease a being that he refers to as “The Lady in the Stars”. He has a homemade star map which is his wooden staff that has a blue crystal embedded inside. The crystal reveals his map once in direct light.

Lenore Orianna Leviathan (yes, her initials are LOL) - A tiefling paladin. I figured her archetype will be Oath of the Watchers. She is a tiefling with reddish pink skin, hot pink hair, a pair of short horns above her brows, and is dressed like a standard paladin with a short cape to match. She speaks in complete valley girl, full of ‘like’ and ‘omigosh’, and she’s not the sharpest sword in the armory (if you catch my meaning). There isn’t much backstory for this character. She was sent off on a mission by her order to slay an ethereal monster when in reality it was really an excuse to get rid of her because the order found her so annoying and inept. She is optimistic and usually has a positive attitude. When in a fight she’s got a tough side that no evil creature should mess with.

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Hey everyone.

I just received some shocking and saddening news today. We lost one of our own. Tony Cavanagh (otherwise known as MilesNowhere on Prose), a great writer, a good friend, one of the pioneers that helped make Prose the strong community that it is today, has sadly passed away back in December. I just found out about this from a Facebook post that his wife Ashley, whom I’m friends with. She just announced this today.

I probably don’t have a right sharing this with everyone here, but I know that some of us—those that have been on this site the longest—knew him and were good friends with him and his wife, and I felt it was necessary to keep you in the loop. And I wanted to express how it truly hurts to lose a friend.

Tony, like I said, was definitely one of those people on Prose that helped make Prose the community that it is. He was kind and encouraging. And he was always funny and creative. The stuff that he would write could always bring a smile to your face or a tear in your eye. That just shows the true talent he had that he was willing to share it with everyone here.

Sometime between 2017 and 2018 he left Prose, along with several other of our family. I didn’t blame him when he did. My only regret is not having left with him and all the others when I could have. I became friends with him and his wife through Facebook, where he continued to write and bring a smile to everyone both friend and stranger. He helped form PoetsIN, a Facebook group where those with a passion for writing can thrive.

I’m deeply saddened by his passing. We didn’t just lose a friend. We lost a family member. While he may have left Prose, his passion, his kindness, his friendship, his legacy, is still here with us. We may have known him through a computer screen, but it feels like we’ve known him for a lifetime.

I’ll conclude with these words, as my farewell to my friend through writing and the web:

Tony, wherever you may be, I hope you are resting peacefully. From your family still here on Prose, we love you, and we’ll miss you.

And to Ashley, my dear friend:

We’re deeply sorry for your loss. Our hearts go out to you and your family. We’re here for you. We love you.

“In this life. Beyond the mundane of watching empires of thought rise, only to crumble - I found real love without any desire to search for it. So I guess I have that going for me.”

Rest in Peace, Tony.