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MOTD Content Folder

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Please don't post straight up Ultrakill fanart and outright MOTD vitriol onto the Mystery of the Druids tag. Do not pollute the main tags of a work just because the fandom is small, "everyone gets the reference/agrees", or you want exposure. There are people out here who genuinely are fans of this game and want to see works made by fans and stuff that actually relates to the game. We deserve the same respect as any other fandom. Use proper etiquette. Use proper tags.

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My theory on why halligan kept eating after getting told that it was human flesh is that he just straight up didn't hear lord sinclair say it. It took me years and a lot of psychological help to be able to understand speech in a place with a lot of background noise and I don't think halligan ever received any kind of psychological help. So he just heard clinking and eating noises and kept eating because not nd people get upset if you do something out of the ordinary he might have guessed that the murder cannibals serve human meat, but that's just halligan being halligan. Why am I still thinking about this game.

This is actually a really interesting take on the scene. For the most part, I have always believed that he was already a bit brainwashed prior to eating the meat and they were just sealing the deal (this is our first time seeing Halligan after what just happened in the forest when he passed out if I recall correctly)

You're thinking about this game because you like it and it's a great game. <3

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Another theory: since the ending seems to imply that time can be changed for everyone except the time traveller who is in a stable time loop I think that the reason halligan can do the salt thing is that he was a fully ordained druid in the past so his past self can do stuff in the future even if he technically wasn't ordained yet

That's... A really good way to implement the time travel aspect of the game into the narrative!

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Because this is obviously necessary.

I'm scared of what the response might be.

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I need everyone to know, in case they don't already, that every "something happens" cutscene in MOTD is, in fact, a prerendered cutscene. This isn't so much difficult to notice as much as it is difficult to truly process. That means that if I didn't think to organize the folder's videos by their size to find what is an actual, cinematic cutscene, I would have had to navigate through nearly 200 of files of stuff like this:

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This is what Lowry sees in his nightmares.

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Aw hell naw dr. Marcel has a new patient

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Crossover idea: mr. Halligan from Mystery of the Druids in literally every other piece of media ever

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Ship trope I'd love to see more of: "Are we in love? I mean, yeah, probably, but that's a problem for future us. Right now we're just trying to make it through the Plot."

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halligan’s insect-like thinking just rattles around in my brain. The Mystery of The Druids forever haunts me

also when i keep thinking abt a piece of media i’ve got a habit of making a playlist for it so if you want i’ve got a playlist i made last year for that game Here lmao:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bYVB4EhEeWl85K1CMS13V?si=73359a48cc654669

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Friendly reminder:

No way can one hide here

no way can one show fear

this calculating stare

Dun dun. Dun dun dun dun, dun dun dun. Dun dun dun dun, dun dun dun. Dun dun dun dun- dun dun dun-

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It's salt

"That's salt. Almost as fine grained as dust."

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*takes you on a museum date and proceeds to explain the most disgusting and bizarre facts to you with unveiled excitement*

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the captain's cat stares at gay people

Steve Lowry: What are you looking at me for, you tiny pest?! You'll get fur on my suit!

The Captain's Cat:

[Image ID: A rainbow with clouds on both of its ends. There are eyes on both of the clouds, staring straight ahead.]

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I had no idea droods had a fandom but IM SO INTERESTED. YES! SIDECHARACTER LORE. ty I now LIVE for this🍕👽

Aw yeah! IT'S THE MYSTERY OF THE DROODS! :D This fandom is like the human eat was to the circle, it's our source of life, it's uh...It's...It's yummy? And we eat it together? Hopefully not made of off dead people though unless you count House of Tales. Yeah I'm not very good at this, but thank you!

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I appreciate this blog so much for always making me smile when I see MOTD content, I got really into the game a little while back unfortunately it crashes Everytime I try to give Chris the bone BUT I was really happy when I saw a blog for fandom stuff I wasn't expecting to see, thnk u for the content it is what I am living on for this smol fandom ((tell me more about the druids?))

Thank you, anon, really. :,) It means a lot to me to know that, seriously. I mean, I love doing this either way but...It's really wonderful when people reach out and let me know they're actually enjoying it.

I just wanted to say that you're the reason I posted those things about Droods bug fixes. Because I can't believe I never thought to share them on here? They'll probably solve the problem you had, anon.

This fandom's just so wonderful, I always feel so safe and happy sharing stuff about my (usually incredibly obscure or at least somewhat unpopular) interests.

Honestly, jokes aside, I'm not the best person to ask about the Druids, there are some people in the fandom who are just so rad at doing research, but I just wanted to say that in case you didn't know, the mistletoe thing is actually true-to-life somewhat and a popular fact compared to everything else. It was basically their de-facto sacred plant...Even though, like all information about the Druids in real life, this fact is very hard to know for sure, let alone prove. I believe, though, that druids might have actually used it, as in real life, ordinarily toxic (when consumed) plants like mistletoe have medicinal purposes, much like the infamous "deadly nightshade". Their medicinal uses are plenty. You can even make mistletoe tea, ah, barring the obvious problems. Anyway, the whole mistletoe thing makes a lot of sense, seeing as druids were (hope I'm saying this right) scholars, and just generally knowledgeable people who would have probably found a use for that plant on a deep level, and maybe even have come to revere it.

The only thing that's quite weird is how mistletoe grows in the game, growing straight out of the ground, but you probably knew this already. Mistletoe (which is actually can refer to several kinds of species, much like violets or almost any other plant really) is a parasitic plant (note that I did not say parasite, it actually doesn't derive all of its nutrients from another plant, so it's only semi parasitic or hemiparasitc if you want to use the proper term), however it does need some kind of host to attach to, it cannot survive otherwise.

Anyway, Tobias himself (the guy with the idea for Druids in the first place) did say he was pretty proud of his level of research regarding the Druids (artistic liberties aside) and I believe him, especially considering that new information about the Druids probably wasn't even available when the game was conceived. I don't know how many people know about this, but the game was indeed supposed to have a sequel centering on Melanie and Halligan (He said so in an interview), so I would've very much liked to know how that turned out, because he did seem at least passionate about the subject and would've probably been able to do more with it as time went on :(

...A somewhat odd fact about the game itself that I bet you is completely useless and probably only has any relevance to me is that there are around 63+ still-frames of animation for Lowry's fan alone (something I learned while painstakingly trying to convert each image into a more readable format), which are all placed on top of Lowry's office, which is another 3D still-image, which is how the in-game animations (not the characters) work. Door opening and closing animations are only 4 frames each, so you can definitely tell what was important to the developers...A significant portion of the game's early frames are dedicated entirely to the "american water-dispenser" in the chief's office.

I don't know why I find that so funny. I'm just really, really into learning about every nook and cranny of the stuff I love on a technical level, so I guess if you want to know about that...You can...Well, you can count on me for that.

Wow, this got long! I don't even know what I'm saying anymore, anon, but thank you again, hope you have a good time :,)