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I wish there were Durge-specific paladin, cleric, warlock options where your deity/patron is Bhaal and your oath/contract broke if you defied him, which would lend far more gravitas to playing a redeemed Durge
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#dark urge#the dark urge#durge#bhaal#bhaalspawn#baldurs gate 3#I know Bhaal was a deity option for clerics in early access but I want them to bring it back and expand it#I love the idea of an evil paladin who obeys their oath to the letter while slaughtering hundreds#while breaking your oath to bhaal results in being an oathbreaker still but thatâs not necessarily a bad thing#it could have some really fun or interesting dialogue options with Shadowheart and Wyll who go through very similar situations#anyway I know⌠something something write fanfiction and I will be including this in my long-form durge fic#but it would be cool to see some implementation in the game#after Wyllâs story gets significant improvements ofc
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Drakengard cut content: items!!! boss battles!!!! sidequests!!!! different enemy designs!!!! deleted scenes and enemies!!!!!
Drakengard 2 cut content: So since you know about the cut-out hackable rape story weapon and that we were going to include a scene of caim killing verdelet with stills still in the game, lemme tell you something else: we wanted all your allies to battle at the same time as you but that was too much strain given to budget so we axed it. We also wanted something like a dating sim where you got different endings depending on the choices you made but then realized we couldn't really implement that. There were plans to make it open world, but eh, we didn't really go there either. The Unknown WERE going to shapeshift into your allies/characters from the first game, but you know what? nuh-uh. we thought about putting them in there in general but we didn't do that either lmao get absolutely FUCKED
Drakengard 3 cut content: what if our characters looked good
#gu6chan's musings#drakengard#drag on dragoon#the funny thing about Drakengard 2 is this is literally the tip of the iceberg with some of the shit they were planning#bc like not to be toxic but when ppl skip over dod2 in the remake debate i always feel like okay just say you dont rlly know anything about#this series bc the others are debatable at BEST but Drakengard 2 is literally. like#prime remake material bc aside from the fact it DOESN'T have the same bullshit atmosphere that make the other two games FEEL like anything#at all dod2 bullshit atmosphere is a direct result of them wanting to implement 1 million different things that would've been cool as SHIT#except they had literally no technological or financial means to do any of that shit lmao#i DEFINITELY see where they were going with the decision to opt for a mission system like the first game but man....#I would kill for an open world dod game đ i just wanna see what its like lol
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My humble opinion but
HEY YOU
YEAH YOU
YOU SHOULD PLAY THE SIMS 2
WHY??
CUZ ITS FUCKING AWESOME AND THERES ACTUAL GAMEPLAY AND I LOVE THE MEMORY SYSTEM. FUCK SIMS 4 EMOTIONAL SYSTEM. AND I DONT HAVE TO USE 3x SPEED LIKE I MOSTLY DO IN SIMS 4
YEAH
#sims 4#sims 2#and additionally I love how sometimes my sims directly LOOK into the camera#LIKE HELLO? THATS ME I SEE YOU#and thereâs like this mutual thing between the player and its avatar (the sims per say)#itâs like so cool#I canât really describe it but it makes the whole game feel alive#this is all in terms of sims 2#sims 4? all I can say is that itâs great for building cool houses and implementing tons of detailed features to your sims#other than that? 3x speed everything in their life#unless you force them to do some thing in order to stir drama#but sims 2 is like ORGANIC AND NATURAL#like you can legit make your sim willingly kiss another sim that you think would be so funny and then you realize how the fuck#they started a family together. and you thought these two sims are incompatible#LIKE THAT IS A LIFE SIM
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âż â synopsis: you are the new manager for team blue lock and you have a great idea to make the players get along better. after all, positive reinforcement worked really well on dogs, why not men? âż â characters: isagi yoichi, bachira meguru, shidou ryusei, itoshi rin, chigiri hyoma + kunigami rensuke referenced âż â cw: smut, fem!reader, she/her pronouns used, aged-up!characters(18+), pet names, kissing, penetrative sex, oral receiving/giving, semi-public sex, unprotected sex, hair pulling, overstimulation, rough sex, deepthroating/face-fucking, non-exclusive relationships, lots of jealousy, pda, use of foul language, suggestive themes, shidou is an asshole, rin threatens murder, somewhat proofread âż â notes: okay so every is going to ignore the logistics and mental gymnastics done to put all these guys on the same team and have any of this go on, right? cool. this work was requested by @anastasiablossomlove pls enjoy!
managing team blue lock was no task for a person of average conviction. anyone with less of a spine would be easily trampled and consumed by the members, all with big personalities and even bigger egos. you took to the role with exceptional organizational skills and a positive attitude that didnât falter, even under the cold glares of the less compliant men of the team (cough cough itoshi rin cough cough barou shouei). before the end of your first week you had drafted up detailed and individualized meal plans, unique to each of them. by the second you had worked with the coach to create special training regimes that works towards their fitness goals while providing challenge and variety. right under their noses you dug your pretty fingers into every part of team blue lock, finding every issue and soothing every conflict, turning a group of somewhat wild animals into a well functioning machine with you at its core.
and not a detail slipped your eye. you could always tell when kunigami had pushed himself too hard in the gym by the stiffness in his shoulders. honestly you doubt you wouldâve been able to convince him to let you help him if he wasnât just as sore as you predicted. but the minute your palms were pressing into his back he was groaning in relief, âyouâre an angelâ grumbled under his breath. heâs a bit less embarrassed the next time around, blushing while asking you to fix him like you did last time.
you quickly took responsibility for doing chigiriâs hair before every practice and game. after seeing it fall out of its style and flap wildly in his face whenever he reached top speed on the field, you decided he needed something a little more reliable to keep it out the way so his eyes could stay on the ball. though when his hair was this soft, who could blame you for taking a bit longer than necessary, brushing through the knots and gently scratching at his scalp. plus, he didnât seem to mind all that much, always red faced and all smiles, leaning into your touch. the thank you kiss he plants on your cheek lingers long enough to leave a matching blush on your face as a token of his appreciation.
being the backbone of their system earned you respect, acknowledgement, even affection from the overly friendly members of the team (cough cough bachira meguru cough cough shidou ryusei). no one could deny the benefits of having you around, always offering all kinds of helpful advice and showed not a shred of judgment when listening to their problems. and you werenât exactly ignorant to the fact that your constant support was causing some of your new friends to become especially attached to you. maybe to someone else it would be a bigger concern, but in your eyes, this was only another opportunity to do more for your team.
thatâs why you implemented the gold star redemption program to help motivate them. it was quite simple to follow, you had a chart with all of their names along with cute, slightly wonky doodles of them, and a list of ways to earn gold stars. from goals and assists to being on good behavior, whatever way they earn their stars, team members can then cash them in for certain prizes from you. the list had looked something like thisâŚ
2 â = snack or drink of your choice 4 â = a home cooked meal 5 â = a kiss <3 7 â = a massage <33 10 â = private training session <333
the objective was to give incentives towards cooperation. not to mention, itâs always good to strengthen bonds with your team members. it seems, however, that you underestimated how much of your time this new system would take up. or maybe you just overestimated how easy it would be to keep up with the greedy desires of so many egoists at once.
ever since your arrival, anyone with eyes could see that isagi yoichi carried a torch for you. you let him talk your ear off for hours about tactics and players, never tired of his company or too busy for his rambles. it gets his heart thumping obnoxiously loud in his chest. so yoichi makes it his objective to dote on you as much as possible to try to make up for all the time you spend fussing over everybody else. always staying after practice to help you or walking you home. so when you start handing out stars for that kind of stuff, isagi is already making a steady income. he considers himself a gentleman, so at first he spends his stars on meals. and heâs more than happy to eat your cooking, stirring up all kinds of wifey fantasies in his head and enjoying his lunches with you. but at night, when heâs lying in bed, the big ticket item at the bottom of the prize board haunts him. and when he canât take it anymore, he slips into your tiny little office that you share with the coach, a self-satisfied smile on his face when he lets you know that he just finished the stat sheets you asked him to fill out, earning him his tenth gold star. enough for one private training session.
in all the times you thought about sex with isagi, youâre not sure you ever pictured it to be like this. bent over your own desk, tennis skirt bunched up around your waist, your star player too eager to sink into your pussy to even push down your underwear. they stayed tugged to the side, thoroughly soaked from the way his hips meet yours in sloppy desperate thrusts. âi knew i needed to fuck you when i saw this skirt,â he confesses, eyes fixed to the point where you connect, mesmerized by the way his cock disappears inside you, âyouâve been tempting me all day, so be a good girl and take my cock, okay?â before you can respond he hooks a finger into the elastic of your panties to let it snap back against your skin, drawing a small yelp from you. he changs the angle to fuck you harder, deeper. you wonder if this could be the same sweet yoichi that carries your things and bashfully tells you your outfit looks good.
apparently that yoichi doesnât exist once heâs balls deep inside you, all thatâs left is the side of him youâve only caught glimpses of when heâs dominating his opponents on the field. and if you thought that it was a chance encounter, youâre sorely mistaken as week after week isagi makes sure he earns his ten stars and you get to know just how mean he can be. his grip is always tight around your hair, whether itâs pulling and steering you into the position he wants or guiding your head down to take more of his dick. god forbid he asks you nicely for something like he always does when youâre not âtrainingâ. one time you even had the gall to suggest the idea to him and lived to regret it as now if you want anything from him, isagi is only accepting the most convincing of your begs. âc'mon princess, mind your manners, if you wanna cum then youâre gonna have to ask really nicely.â and no teary eyed puppy dog look will get you what you want, even when he makes getting your words out so difficult. truthfully, he never intends to be so hard on you, but having you crying and begging for his cock is the only way to soothe the devil on his shoulder that tries to tell him to take you for himself. in the aftermath, you start to recognize your yoichi again, sheepish in his apologies for how rough he was with you, kissing away the tears that run down your face. heâs lucky youâre too fucked out to charge him for them.
thereâs not a world where you offer bachira meguru sexual favors in exchange for playing soccer and he says no. he was already gonna do that anyway, and now not only does he get to make even more of a game out of it, but his reward for winning is the cute little manager heâs had his eyes on for far too long? consider him sold. bachira knows it would be most fun for him to save up and have sex with you as soon as possible, but all of a sudden he has five and heâs itching for a kiss. one he decides to give you right before practice starts⌠in front of the whole team. but can you blame him? heâs already been waiting forever to feel those pretty glossed lips on his, you couldnât really expect him to make it through the next few hours when heâs so close to getting what he wants. and you could maybe understand that, but was it really necessary to go for a full open-mouthed wet almost make out that left you panting when everyoneâs eyes were already on you? you suspect not, but bachira doubles down, telling you it was of upmost importance that he got it in, else he wouldnât be able to focus. he neglects to tell you that he overheard reo in the locker room talking about what he was gonna do now that he had five stars. shidou already made it very clear that he would be first to ten, so bachira had to be crafty in order to secure at least one first from you.
meguru was certainly one of the more needy players, right under nagi that required some form of encouragement every step of the way to get anything done. bachira usually does what you tell him to, but not without whining about deserving a prize for being good. quite frankly, you dread having to ask anything of him, because he is determined to be fully compensated for even the smallest of requests. even a task as easy as grabbing something on a high shelf was met with a cheeky smirk and a request for a kiss. and donât think heâll budge either, holding the item hostage if he thinks he can squeeze two out of you. it didnât make it any easier that bachira didnât possess a shy bone in his whole body, openly showering you in affection when the others were around, holding your hand and nuzzling his face into your collar. it was enough to make even a professional like you blush. he acted as if he was oblivious to the jealous stares of his friends, but the smug cat-like smirk he sends them and the way he only holds you tighter when you try to shyly brush him off gives him away. it may come as a surprise considering his reputation for being a bit delusional, but bachira tries to root himself in reality for once. he frequently reminds himself of the nature of your relationship and tries his best not let his imagination run wild with anything that would be beyond the boundaries youâve clearly set. things like picturing himself taking you on dates, coming home to you at night, introducing you to his mom. they were all too dangerous to let his mind settle on them for too long.
and what better distraction than burying his face between your thighs. itâs hard to think of much when he hasnât bothered to stop lapping at your cunt long enough to take a breath in a couple minutes. suffocating was the least of his concerns when the clench around his fingers lets him know your orgasm is just around the corner. meguru swears that your pathetic little whimpers and the slick dripping down his chin are like a straight hit of dopamine to his brain and heâs at real risk of addiction at this point. lidded amber eyes travel up to watch your expression twist into one of pleasure as you gasp out his name. now that catches his interest. when your vision clears and your brain is functioning again after that intense high, you search for his comfort as if you had done any of the hard work. but all youâre met with is that signature wild look that he gets when he brushing past the enemy teamâs defense straight towards his goal. itâs your only warning that heâs far from tired and even farther from sated. âif i can keep going, so can you baby. i know you have more for me. jusâ need tâsee you make that face one more time.â you have no room to protest, his tongue already finding your clit and working towards bringing you to the edge once again. by your fourth time cumming, youâre sobbing for a break and debating whether you should charge him four times over or give him a star for each one.
someone who was on board with your system from the second that you explained how it worked, was shidou ryusei. what better way to celebrate another one of his blood pumping, heart stopping performances than racing to the locker room to blow a load in his favorite girl while his teammates debrief with the coach? to him it was simple, you fuck him, you feed him, you take care of him, you spend time with him. shidou is, by all of his definitions, dating you. while some might be turned off by the idea of dating someone who isnât offering exclusivity, he didnât see it as much of an obstacle. not when he spent star stickers like a gambler on a slot machine, having you multiple times a week if the economy allowed it. and if heâs short a few, no worries, ryusei is quite the negotiator. it starts one week when heâs only missing a star or two, promising heâll pay back the difference, you know heâs a good customer. itâs probably not a good idea to give in to him though, as the next time he wants a private training session, heâll insist theyâre only nine stars for him. he has made all kinds of fake coupons from 50% Off! to Buy One Get One Free! to even a homemade punch card in his own terrible handwriting. shidou was the first one to ever get a star taken away when he tried to give you an arbyâs gift card in exchange for a blowjob. he didnât try that tactic again.
the worst is when he tries to haggle in the middle of sex. your legs are thrown over his shoulders and his tip is kissing your cervix when he chooses to whine about not being able to kiss you because he has no stars left. he worked too hard to get good star credit, he canât go into star debt!! â and with his lips just hovering over yours, his hot breath fanning across your face, how could you say no? in a moment of weakness, you have unfortunately given an inch to shidou, infamous mile taker, and now itâs hard to get him to pay for any of his kisses, especially while heâs fucking you. you thank god that at the very least no one knows heâs been getting them for free⌠if only shidou would allow your life to be that easy. even worse than giving him an inch, you expected shidou to keep a secret. and you thought his big mouth was something you liked about him. until heâs using it to brag to everyone that heâs your favorite, practically your boyfriend, all because you let him get away with a smooch here and there. letâs just say you had to give out a lot of free kisses to smooth over the problem his bragging habits created.
honestly ryusei was starting to cause a lot of confusion outside of the team with his antics. what with his always hanging off your arm, giving you as much affection as youâd tolerate, calling you sweet nicknames. the people in your life were actually starting to believe you two were dating. not that shidou does anything to discourage such rumors, only grinning and agreeing every time someone mistakes you as a couple. hell, he was starting to get you confused, saying things during your training sessions that certainly didnât fit the transactional nature of the act. âholy shit youâre so tight- love this pussy, l-love you so much. say my name. câmon baby, say you love me and iâll make you feel so fucking good.â and only because ryusei always makes good on his promises do you allow yourself another moment of weakness.
itoshi rin didnât have much interest or faith in you upon first introduction. he sized you up as some nobody doing this whole manager thing as a fun extracurricular, so as long as you stayed out of his way he didnât care what you did. with his luck, he shouldnât be surprised that you were immediately in his way, extremely often, rambling to him about ideas and strategies that he had no intention on listening to. although even he could admit, he understood why the others were so easily charmed by you. he was wrong about how seriously you took your job. not that it changed anything. at least thatâs what rin tells himself, but in reality your relentless efforts and endless dedication to supporting all of them was something that spoke to him, made him a bit soft for you. it didnât help that you were his type in every sense of the word, your attractiveness doing nothing but make feigning indifference a lot harder for rin. your seemingly endless patience didnât help either. you always responded in kind to all of rinâs harsh words and cold stares, never let his sour attitude deter your subtle acts of service like getting grass stains out of his uniform and making sure he stays unbothered during his yoga. against his will, he was slowly warming up to you, but you were still caught off guard when rin started cashing in his stars, even if it was just a meal. he had lots of them sitting idle on the chart waiting to be used, so you supposed it was only natural for him to get some free food out of it. but you were even more taken aback when a couple days later he requested a massage from you with insistence that he only asks because heâs been extremely tense as of late. which wasnât entirely untrue. rin had been very tense. just not from anything soccer related like heâd like you to believe. he was tense from the stress of his budding feelings for you combined with the dread of knowing he probably will never have you all to himself. at least not with this stupid reward system in place.
he despises it. he absolutely hates going about his day knowing there are other guys, his shithead teammates, that are getting your time, attention, and affection for the price of a couple of stupid fucking stickers. he misses the days when shidouâs incessant bragging about how many times he was able to make you cum or bachiraâs unnecessary details of what your pussy tastes like didnât bother him. now his blood boils to hear them talk about you like that. that kind of anger makes it clear to him that being your friend was simply not an option anymore. which is how he settled on getting a massage from you. he would satisfy this overwhelming craving he has for you and go back to normal and be able to focus solely on becoming best in the world again without thoughts of you plaguing his mind. that was his hope going into it, but feeling your warm touch on his bare back, melting away years of untreated knots and neglected aches in his body, he could almost blush at the intimacy he feels. especially when that foreign kindness he loves so much is on display as you reassure him that thereâs nothing to be embarrassed about and that youâre proud he finally put his pride aside long enough to let you help him. youâve got him, hook, line, and sinker now. no use in struggling so hard, he supposes, as some part of him knows heâs doomed to fall sooner or later. perhaps itâs time to surrender. he fought a good fight, but his greed for you was candidly too tough of an opponent.
and to rin, surrender looked like asking you whenâs the soonest he could book a private training session. you donât think you could look any more shocked. rin had a quick turn around from someone you doubted even liked you, to someone reserving as much of your time as his stars could buy. the more often he was with you, the less time you spent giving those lukewarm brats the treatment he wants reserved for him. and he wishes he gave in a lot sooner when he feels the wet heat of your mouth around his cock for the first time. how fast he wouldâve folded if he knew how pretty you would look on your knees for him. rin tried to be gentle and let you set the pace, but between hissing out curses and barely biting back moans, that same greed to get more from you has his hand twisting itself in your hair and pushing down on the back of your head. he couldnât help it. and it was so worth it to watch you choke and sputter around his length but never pull away. he knew you werenât a quitter. âshit, feels good⌠donât stop,â he all but gasps, hips instinctively jumping to reach further down your throat, grip tightening when you try to come up for air. after a long moment of breathing through your nose you relax enough to let him ease himself the rest of the way in. rin sighs in relief when your nose finally presses against his pelvis. the way you look up at him starry-eyed and full of adoration made his chest feel heavy with desire to be the only one you ever look at. it drives him crazy that any guy on the team can see you like this, and that heartache has rin fucking your face to forget it. âfuckkk. donât look away, eyes on me, gânna cum in that pretty mouth.â
you couldnât deny that your new attempt at encouraging the team had its kinks. while overall the amount of arguments that broke out between players lessened to keep on good star-earning behavior, you could tell that it came with its own set of tension creating problems. you also couldnât deny that being pulled in every direction by men vying for your attention was both very time consuming and extremely gratifying, but you think you manage it well. save for when they were already pumped up with adrenaline from a game, that is when real issues arise. especially when a player from the enemy team thinks itâs a good idea to try and hit on the cute little lady holding the clipboard. fatal mistake.
it starts with your favorite pot stirrer, bachira, calling out from his position, making everyone else on the team aware of the situation. âno shot dude, she donât want you! focus on losing!â youâre confident you can diffuse whatever is about to go down before you notice rin leaving the ball alone in centerfield to beeline straight towards you. threats are flying from his lips on approach, quick to get in the guyâs face, planting his hands on his shoulders to shove him back. âwhat the fuck do you think youâre doing? iâll kill you if you donât get the fuck away from her.â you think maybe you have a shot of getting rin under control if you just- your eyes widen in horror as a flash moves in from your peripheral. there are no words, just shidou drop kicking this poor stranger at top speed. you cringe as you watch shidou knocks this guy off his feet, cleats first, taking rin down with him. what a way to earn a red card.
this was a fun project and request tysm!!! i just went about it in the interpretation i found most interesting, i really hope it was to your liking!!!
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#divider credit to @cafekitsune#blue lock x reader#bllk x reader#bllk smut#blue lock#bllk#isagi yoichi x reader#rin itoshi x reader#rin itoshi smut#isagi yoichi smut#bachira x reader#bachira meguru x reader#shidou ryusei x reader#shidou ryuusei smut#shidou smut#chigiri x reader#kunigami x reader#miwa sins
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Ohhhh I'm going insane. I think at some point during the development of veilguard the shadow dragons were not going to lose their hq if you didn't save Minrathous cause there is recorded voice over mentioning Ashurâs current blighted status and even a line from Dorian that would have had Dorian mention that he helped fight off the dragon during its attack. @/corseque matched up speakers to script lines and organized it all by conversation (I adore them sooo much for their work it's so NICE to be able to tell whos saying what for most of the script) and there are multiple mentions in Tarquins On Click VO, Ashurs On Click and ambient VO, and Dorians On Click VO that would only fit if you could talk to them post Minrathous being devastated.
*Dorian flashing back to my inquisitor dragging him and Bull along to kill all the high dragons in the south* and just so many lines referencing Ashur being sick-
Its tough to verify all the voice over lines are recorded or not at the moment because ealayer3 is veryyy finicky right now on what VO files it will open or just decide to crash at but Dorians line and the first line from Tarquin on this post ive checked and they are recorded.
Sadly Ashur's On Click and ambiant VO files crash when I open them at the moment but with the other lines having been recorded its likely his are too even if they're not implemented in the game. It would have been SO COOL to see and visit blighted Ashur over the course of the game if you didn't save Minrathous. I would have loved to see that progression.
#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age veilguard#datv#the viper#datv ashur#tarquin#dorian pavus#maevaris tilani#veilguard spoilers#I wish this was in the game SO SO BADDDDD#genuinely would have been amazing#also yes i have my computers notpad set to the dao font. love that font
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I see a lot of posts on here talking about the Solas/Elgar'nan segment in Blood of Arlathan and how it's one of the best scenes in the game, and they'd be right, but I don't see enough people talking about how comically the whole thing is undercut by quite possibly the most poorly-conceived, terribly-implemented looney-tunes-ass sequence in gaming history that surrounds it.
Like you show up with your friends to this Venatori party, and you're like great, we're sneaking in! Time for disguises. How convenient that these Venatori guys all wear hoods, right? Should be a piece of cake if we're all, you know, wearing hoods that would helpfully hide our identities. But no. We all go waltzing in with our whole-ass faces exposed, you know, the group of guys that have been murdering Venatori left and right and who Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain have definitely all seen in person before. Oh, and don't worry about walking into this notoriously racist elf-sacrificing cult if you happen to be an elf! You're only here in disguise so that you can rescue a GROUP OF ELVES THEY'RE GOING TO SACRIFICE but it's ok because you're dressed as a mercenary and not a dalish so it's all good don't worry about it :) :)
Then you get into this fucking party and oh my fucking god it's like they decided to take all of the most comically over-the-top stereotypes of villainy and put them on display. Because why not! The Venatori are all sickos anyway so of course they'd be out here doing sicko things! There's some guys pulling a halla apart with blood magic! There's other guys using slaves as benches! They're all laughing and joking about how EVIL they are, hahaha, how cool is that? The fucking guy from D'Meta's Crossing is here if you don't let him die, because he's a fucked up evil sicko too! You're supposed to be shocked at this hideous display; recoil in horror, even!
And who do you bring with you to help get through this crowd of absolute lunatics? NEVE FUCKING GALLUS. You know, the person so well-known in Minrathous that a Dalish elf living in Arlathan KNEW HER BY REPUTATION. Yup, Neve Gallus with her INTENSELY RECOGNIZABLE PROSTHETIC just waltzes up to some guy and he just lets her in. Because being EVIL also makes you incapable of coherent thought, apparently.
And then. AND THEN. You walk across the bridge where Elgar'nan makes his thought-sounds at you, and YOUR ENTIRE FUCKING PARTY is already there, just hanging out nbd. Also not wearing hoods or any kind of disguises that couldn't instantly be seen through by a five-year-old with amnesia but ok, cool. Why did we bother walking through all those sickos then when we could've just taken the secret back entrance like the rest of them, idk.
But just when you think you've reached peak stupidity, it keeps going. You're now standing there, at the front of a crowd of about twelve people, approximately five feet away from Elgar'nan himself, inexplicably blending in, when the big guy puts the mind control whammy on everyone. Oh no, you think. We've been found out! Here's the part in the plan where things begin to go wrong! NO. Your mage friends SECRETLY PERFORM MAGICAL GESTURES to block the mind control, and then you LITERALLY FUCKING SIDLE OFF STAGE LEFT without ANYONE NOTICING. I should reiterate that at this point, you are still about FIVE FEET AWAY FROM ELGAR'NAN and his fucking ARCHDEMON.
And to conclude this absolute comedy of idiocy, as soon as you enter back into combat mode, you immediately ditch all of your disguises. And of course then, ONLY THEN, Elgar'nan notices you've been there. Cut to the end of the actual good sequence, this dramatic conversation performed by excellent voice actors and written miles better than most other things in this game, and you reach your final prize: about six guys trapped in a little cube. Cool, you tell yourself. This was definitely worth it. You take your fade-to-black teleporter back to the Lighthouse and they're never heard from again.
This was the quest that broke me. This was the moment that all hope for Veilguard finally snapped. I consider myself to be a very resilient person in the face of camp and goofy writing, but this was too much disbelief for my brain to suspend. The mental gymnastics necessary to make this whole sequence make any kind of sense were simply beyond me. Even Solas's dulcet tones could not salvage it for me after that.
#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#veilguard critical#long post#rant#datv spoilers#veilguard spoilers#datv
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Hello darling askers and perusers of this blog! I hope your day has been great so far! Or if it's the morning, then I hope you have a great day! I come bearing two announcements for you all today, let's take a look-see!
1. Charges
"Charges?" I hear you ask, "whatever does this mean?" Well you know how in the game you can only speak to five objects per day? Well we will be implementing something similar here on the blog. We are going to officially ask for a limit of 5 questions per person whenever the box is open. Why are we doing this? We're mostly doing this to prevent spamming.
We open the box when we get around 20 asks in our inbox, and we close when we get closer to 75. And this happens FAST. We've noticed that some people end up sending multiple questions at a time, which we appreciate! We are an ask blog after all! But it takes up a good chunk of our inbox, so we end up closing faster. So if we limit it, we think we might be able to have the box open for longer times in the future! And no this does not mean you need to send 5 asks, 5 asks is just a maximum, and any more than that will be deleted unfortunately from our inbox.
Reached the limit? Have no fear! Your charges reset when the box closes, so the next time we open, you'll be able to send at most another 5 asks! Oh and unlike in the game, you can send multiple asks to the same character while the box is open!
We understand this might not be a favourable thing for some people, but this is experimental so do not there is a chance we come back on this decision in future!
And now onto or second announcement which I'm sure is much happier than this one
2. 1000 Followers celebration!
As you might already know, a few days ago we reached 1000 followers! And while waiting for this to happen, We Conjured up a plan! We planned that when we reach 1000 followers we would take even more inspiration from the game itself :
We are pleased to announce : Date the Mods!
You read that right! Tommorow, you, yes you can begin to directly acknowledge our existence! This is in refrence to how in the credits of the game, you can "date" the developers. Pretty cool right? We've prepared bios and questions for you to get to know us a bit better, which will be posted by one Sassy Chap! And afterwards, you can use the ask box to ask us questions too! We're looking forward to it and we hope you will be too!
We hope you understand the new change to asks, and we hope you'll engage with out Date/Ask the Mods!
- The Ask Everything Mod team
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Assuming you've already seen it, any particular thoughts on the live letter today?
the new content and msq updates are very intriguing as always! i LOVE the new deep dungeon iâll absolutely be trying to spend a decent amount of time there. more excuse to go back to shadowbringers zones in late game is always appreciated.
pretty damn happy w the implementations of feedback !!! i havenât done a lot of occult crescent or cosmic exploration but it was cool to see them address direct and specific points of contention and be like âthis is how we will fix it asapâ
and then FINALLY SOME MOTION ON VIERA/HROTH HATS. that was truly unexpected. like i was basically at the point of completely writing it off as something they would never actually get to. and then the bonus of having your characters bangs still visible when wearing a hood? genuinely that is the kind of thing i would have expected this game to go its ENTIRE EXISTENCE without changing. itâs just such a small thing and obviously itâs not GREAT to have hair disappear under a hood but i truly never thought of it as a huge problem, figured it was just a limitation of how gear models work. but now that im seeing the alternative and i know weâre getting it⌠i want it so badly. im so happy.
DUO QUEUING FOR CRYSTALLINE CONFLICT!!!!! IS SICK
Yeah very happy overall! i hope they keep on this level of just likeâŚ. getting shit done?? square needs to pump more money into this game it really stinks that we still have to hear about not being able to make content happen because of cost limitations.
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There's Other Kinds Of GM Advice: Theatricality versus Transparency
(This first appeared on the Indie RPG Newsletter)

I find that broadly there are at least two kinds of GM advice â and they have a very different philosophy underpinning them.
The first kind of advice aims at all costs to maintain verisimilitude. Itâs a solution that you can implement without breaking the playersâ immersion in their characters. This can just be stuff like Matt Colville explaining that if your players are taking too long discussing plans, guess what, orcs attack! Weâve all probably played a game where people were going in circles and not able to decide what to do. If it looks like weâre not able to decide, weâre probably going to be relieved if the GM makes something happen to break the deadlock and prompt us back into the action.
(Historically, this kind of thing was taken to egregious lengths like Gary Gygax saying if players start acting uppity, have a rock fall on their head. Itâs mostly gone now but reddit tells me that Cyberpunk Red which came out relatively recently still says something similar.)
The second flavor of advice involves breaking character and talking to your players directly. I know âtalk to your playersâ is a mantra repeated so often that autocorrect suggests it as soon as you type the letter t. At its worst, this advice is vague and unhelpful. Weâve all considered talking frankly to people in our lives, we just find it awkward and hard and annoying. But, but, but â at its best, just describing the problem as you see it and escalating it from a character discussion to a player discussion will make it go away instantly. Like magic. (If youâre not sure what that means: In a previous issue, I discussed Jason Tocciâs excellent advice on escalating conversation in this way.)
And since the theatrical flavour of advice has the weight of history on its side and transparent advice keeps getting boiled down to mantra form, I thought Iâd write down some examples of situations and some alternative ways to handle them:
Situation 1: The players are marines discussing whether to dive into the alien lair and recover their stolen engine (their main goal) or go and see if another missing team of marines is okay. There is only 45 minutes left and this is a one shot.
Theatrical: The other marines suddenly come on the radio and say, âhey weâre okay, please complete the mission.â
Transparent: âHey, folks. Thereâs 45 minutes left. If we donât do the alien lair now, we wonât be able to do it at all. Is that fine?â
Situation 2: The players are low-level fantasy nobodies who have a famous wizard friend. Theyâre about to tangle with some medium-level bad guy and decide to call in their wizard friend.
Theatrical: When the players try to contact her via a telepathic phone call / spell, she sounds breathless and says sheâs busy doing something way more important like fighting a dragon.
Transparent: âHey, folks. If we get the wizard in, sheâll absolutely make this fight a cakewalk. We wonât even need to roll initiative really. Is that what you want? Or would we rather have a fun fight?â
Situation 3: The players were having fun exploring when they meet a cool NPC (an android! an elf! an android elf!) who has this interesting backstory with an urgent, earth-shattering hook. They go along with the android elf because it seems more important but immediately look like theyâre having less fun.
Theatrical: Narrate how the android elf meets a group of other android elves and have the elf say, âHey, now that I have these folks helping me, you can leave it you want!â
Transparent: âHey, folks. Talking to you as players here, do we want to stick with this whole android elf plot here? It does mean that we wonât do any open-ended exploration. Which would you prefer?â If they want to ditch the elf plot, you could just retcon it entirely or do the theatrical solution.
All of these situations have happened at my table. Theyâre all relatively low stakes and I think whichever way you handle it, itâll probably be fine. But that said, some situations absolutely work better when done transparently so if youâve never tried the transparent way, give it a shot. If immersion matters a lot to you, try it at the end of the session.
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PS. The theatrical options often still require the players to willingly suspend their disbelief and go with it. If a player didnât play along, they might just say âI thought their radios werenât working, otherwise we couldâve just contacted them before. Why can they suddenly contact us now?â or âOh, the wizard is fighting a dragon right now. We can totally wait. Thereâs no reason we need to fight the bad guy right now.â And sometimes I canât shut off that part of my brain either so I wonât judge. But if thereâs a way to sidestep that situation even coming up, Iâm going to take it every time.
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Bad news: Iâm pretty sure they already made Coffee Addict!Tim cannon to one of the video games đ
the fanfictication of canon has started...
I personally do not have issues with some of the fanon headcanons of characters, right? like coffee addict Tim is fine I guess l, I think there's some middle ground there that people don't want to accept. and like the pit rage thing for Jason I think also has potential even though I personally see it more as a brain damage thing. I am a personal believer in the fact that fan spaces should be allowed to have these headcanons and jokes, it's what makes a fanon space thrive... but they do not need to be included in canon. like yeah it would be cool if Tim and Kon got together but I actually really liked Tim and Bernard and I know DC would fuck TimKon up. it would be nice if they would look at some of what people have to say about canon themes and stories and would implement some aspects. like hey maybe I do want to see some character development in my comics. maybe i want a little less angst sometimes because having angst 24/7 dulls the impact of said angst... but including headcanons like this just makes everything feel so cheap. like it is not a fanon work it is a canon work. there is a separation there that is important. sometimes things can live on as a fanon joke and it doesn't need to be in canon
#mostly mad about the replacement thing#sighs#no one believes in nuance anymore#the same way DC doesn't care about character development#DC stands for dumb characterization
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MODDERS WANTED!
Maxis lost and found: Sims 2 werewolf faces?
Nope, I didn't use any custom face templates or sliders to make this render. This werewolf face IS in the game! Once again, nothing to download here, at least not for now. Hopefully we can make this an actual thing. All the details and research under the cut đş
So I was digging through the Pets EP files the other day for a project I had in mind when I found these meshes:
The "Arch" in the name caught my attention, because that's how the CAS face templates are named as well, so when I loaded the preview I found these really cool werewolf faces!
That got me thinking⌠this was probably intended for the werewolf transformations, right? Looks like the devs scrapped this idea on the final Pets release. @/hypersaline already restored the werewolf fangs, and I was wondering if it would be possible to restore these faces too.
Are "temporary face sliders" overlays even a thing in this game? The closest interaction I can think of is the Plastic Surgery station and its preset faces for the failed surgeries, but those just create a new face in the genetic data of the Sim, which is permanent unless the player gives them another plastic surgery session. The ideal thing would be morphing the face with these "sliders" when they transform into werewolves, and then remove them once they go back to their human shape.
Anyway, I figured I could extract the meshes and see if I could preview the faces in Blender just to showcase them. The files are pretty broken, they don't even have a UV map and the vertex order is all over the place. So after some tedious vertex snapping shenaningans I kinda remade them in Blender. Here's how they all look, compared to the base second face template in the game:
Adult Female Face (afArchLycan):
Adult Male Face (amArchLycan):
Teen Female Face (tfArchLycan):
Teen Male Face (tmArchLycan):
No elder faces as far as I know, and obviously children werewolves aren't a thing in the vanilla game.
The modding skills needed to restore something like this (if it's even possible) are way out of my scope. So yeah, if any modder knows a trick or two about how to implement this face transformation back in the game and feels brave enough to give this a try, please count me in! My DMs are open. I'll be more than happy to help with anything I'm able to on the meshing department đââď¸
Until then, at least here's a showcase archived of what could have been for Sims 2 werewolves đ
#maxis lost and found#ts2 pets#I've wanted something like this for werewolves for so long#but honestly I don't have much hope for this actually happening#who knows! now it's out there let's see what happens
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Out of curiosity, whatâs your process for character design and implementing your inspirations?
ooh uhhhhhhhh honestly i'm not 100% sure how to answer that LOL i typically just go with the flow
though if you really want me to go into deeper depth i can try ??
basically when i want to make a design i already have a few ideas in my head like maybe character archetype or general theming. for instance my oc Buoy's entire deal was combining dogs and sailors together while also being really cute
i thought a more light-hearted approach would suit him since well . that's his entire deal . since the beach influence as beaches are often associated with the summer time and having fun :) and then an aquatic aesthetic would tie in everything together so it'll be cohesive
i also try to do a lot of wordplay? like how "sea dogs" is a slang term designating old sailors who have been at sea for a very long time.
you can see this in a few of my other designs such as my mafioso (forsaken), being a literal loan shark, and my hyperlaser having some elements alluding to lynxes because he is lynx-eyed
other things i consider is how the character would carry themselves. are they active? do they care about how they look? how clumsy are they? how intimidating are they? do they think of themselves seriously?
like for my banhammer design he is completely covered up in armour to protect themselves, treats themselves very seriously and is pretty damn scary, so their design features a lot of spikes and sharper shapes. scythe, on the other hand, is much more relaxed and confident in herself, but shows it off in a way different to banhammer. bh shows it via his bravado and demeanour, while i think scythe is much much more obvious about it and basically shows herself off (i.e. the open shirt, confident smirk)
same thing goes for what kind of vibe i think they should have. you can contradict this with their personality for fun too!! like for sword i think would give off very "heroic and brave" vibes, but that completely shatters the moment he starts talking because he is so naĂŻve and earnest. rocket, in turn, comes off as much friendlier and more clumsy than sword, but in reality carries himself with more maturity (???? not sure how to convey this but yk what i mean)
now for implementing inspirations,
it mostly just boils down to what i think would look cool on them HAHAHA or what little things i can sneak in to wink at the person who notices.
like icedagger already has a whole "winter" aesthetic going on so i just implemented it to his jacket and made it look like a snow angel. subtle things like that are best i think. same goes for my chance design having a lot of gambling/card game/dice elements implemented because 1. its awesome and 2. i thought the original iteration was rather plain
you can convey this however you want, but i found that sneaking it in through the shape/silhouette via clothes or body is most efficient
i DO try to keep the inspirations to maybe 2-3, 4 MAX. too many little secrets and you get the viewer lost. character design is a form of STORYTELLING, and if you can't get your message across on the first or maybe even the second go, then i think it's best to cut out a few concepts. a first-time viewer of your work should be able to understand WHO and WHAT your character IS on a surface level when looking at the design. you can work on the little intricacies later, but first and foremost you need to understand just WHO this character is before designing them
anyways yap session over sorry i like character design a lot
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Hello, hello, in keeping with the theme of differences between humans and hylians, what about the chain with a fem/gn human reader with curly hair and vitiligo? In Hyrule there doesn't seem to be much diversity in terms of hair or skin. I don't even think curly hair exists there and I think the chain's reaction to those features would be interesting.
SO real, im not confident from the clips ive seen outside of Botw and OG loz (the only two ive played so far) that there's even been a Side Character or NPC with anything more curly than like,, 2b?? đ
That's, so Rough. on their part. Yikes.
also pls feel free to lmk immediately if anything i talked abt below is offensive/made u uncomfortable/was in bad taste of me, bc i nor anyone close to me has vitiligo, so i cant speak on that experience, nor non-white curl types!! /gen
so heres a quick one, i hope u dont mind <3
(Like Zeldas hair is usually straight too, or like the slightest wave ever, just kinda weird bc youd think they JUMP at the chance to curl her hair for at least one game..)
Moon: Reader (she/they), Vitiligo! Reader (race unspecified, just described as ur 'darker/lighter shade'), Curly Haired! Reader (not explicit curl type, just described as more than wavy/loose curls)
Orbit: Headcanons-ish
Stars: smattering of links lol - but bigger bits of Twilight, Four, Legend
Comets & Meteors: CWs: none known, & TWs: none known.
Please comment if I missed any. /gen
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first thought is Four making hair ornaments/accessories lol
itd be cool to think that some hair bobbles dont work on lots of hylian heads bc i like to believe a lot of them have non-thick hair or slick hair strands
so like stuff is harder to keep in their hair, for some part of the hylian population not all
like in my little fictional verse? world? au? of linked universe hyrules, hair sticks are popular, bc they can be twisted around it or ponytail holders, basically anything that can in some way shape or form attach/provide tension to hold itself to their hair
idk maybe like other species besides hylians have thicker hair, esp in colder areas? habitats
but ur like, hylian shaped, so its super pretty for the boys to see, and Four has been â¨Inspiredâ¨
ur legit his muse atp, and he can be found casually working at the little accessories whenever there's free time, or if they're in town and he gets access to the forge
ur hair is just so easy to put things like this in!!





tho i will say Four struggles to actually implement pretty hairstyles to go with them, and the colors arent much better, they argue over it too much lol
surprisingly Twi, Wars, Sky, and Legend I could see actually taking the time to sit down and learn about ur hair type enough from you to help make something kinda close to these styles so u can actually have pretty hair and also use the hair ornaments Four's obsessively made 100s of
(some of the boys have also been gifted one or two to wear, Twi, Sky, Time, Wars, and Hyrule wear like one or two, but Wild, Wind, Legend and Four wear At Least 4 or more at any given moment)
It got to the point where u didnt have the inventory to hold them all, until one day Winds like:
Wind: hehe, just ask vet to hold them all
You: what?? i cant ask him to take up so much space in his inventory just for me! he doesnt even use but one or two i gave him..
Wind: nope, rejected, i pinky promise he'd do it, do it in a heartbeat too
You: I dont know..
Wind: just walk up to him and do ur best begging baby seal eyes, and Legend's gonna melt like a chuchu on a rock in the sun lol
you try it, with only minimal begging and puppy eyes, and before u even finish "hey, Lege, so, i was just wondering, if you dont have room of course thats fine, but i just have a lot of these-"
and he's already looking away and thrusting one of his bottomless bags at you, holding it out saying "well?? hurry up, i dont have all day cmon"
its lowkey become a competition amongst the Links who can do ur hair, doing the best/prettiest hairstyles for you,
they even have tiers like weekly basis, monthly, and recently have upgraded to yearly as u spent more time with them lol
(legit Legend outright puffing out his chest and crossing his arms all proud whenever u compliment his work, Twi grinning like a little kid all excited, if he was Wolfie when u complimented his hairstyle his tail would of coure be wagging, Wars preens and looks entirely too smug, dont tell the others but he's also the best at upkeeping ur hairstyle for you like adjusting stuff that loose or fell or if u need more hair oil or smth, Sky goes all pink in the cheeks and u swear his pointed ears wiggle a little when u compliment his hairstyle - and YES it secretly earns them more brownie points if u like it amongst their hairstyle competition)
oh and feeling jealous competitive for just no reason at all, against Four for making so many hair accessories, Legend is continuously making you bonnets, reversible ones, patterned ones, he even experimented with making some magical ones that kept your head warm/cool without damaging your curls <33
(u cannot thank him multiple times or thank him too excitedly, bc he goes all red and speedwalks off and actually hides from you lmao)
changing to the vitiligo aspects
there was a general sense of wonder from the heroes at your curly hair and skin pigments, but they definitely didnt press you abt it, even if some were clearly staring at you with these huge curious eyes at first (coughwindcough)
the curiousity rlly just turned to admiring not long after traveling together, and it was def a ritual to do a little spin and show all the guys ur new hairstyle whenever one of them helped you/did ur hair for you
but Wild/Legend/Wars were def the best abt helping make you/find you makeup here, whether ur the type to conceal ur pigment changes more, or blend them, or even do something kinda fun like this



they are very supportive of whatever choice u make abt ur skin, or even if u change ur mind every now and then/constantly, doesnt matter to them theyre rolling with it <3
(also goes w/o saying they dont care if ur vitiligo pigmentation is symmetrical or "aesthetically pleasing", its kinda silently, all-heroes-agreed, ur just beautiful)
Wild, Hyrule, Twilight and Wind would def have the most fun/take u up on ur offer on the designs like the above pics, once again, if u let them/thats ur style
(Wind would absolutely try to make small patches into something else, like the kitty picture lmao - u just go from looking at Hyrule's gorgeous light/dark skintone flowers he's bashfully painted down ur arm, to panning over to ur other arm in Wind's grasp filled with seagulls, a chuchu, the King of Red Lions boat??, and a really good drawing of Ganon himself where he used your lighter/darker skin tones to literally shade him đđLMAO??? Time tried to be srs and get onto him but he couldnt keep his laughter contained enough to do it, interuppting him midsentence and shit, bc u know he wouldve done the same thing if u gave him ur armđ)
but they truly dont make a big deal out of or stare excessively at you, they figure out boundaries quick, along with just being genuinely sweet and decent guys
and if any hylian stares at u weird or a little too long in public in towns or smth, they might even notice before you do tbh
You, minding ur business checking out a vendors items, suddenly hearing Wars slide up next to you with the kind of voice he only uses around particularly grating/annoying nobles
"She's not an attraction, move along. It's rude to stare."
And by the time your looking up and around for whoever he aimed that nearly hissed out remark at, it's just u and him at the stand again, and when u turn back to him, Wars is just smiling and holding up a fruit for you to evaluate
(one time Twi outright growled a bit at someone behind you and when u turned around to see wth was going on, he was pink cheeked and very obviously covering up by whistling badly lmao)
Rating: 10/10 very silly boys abt it all, the little ways they all care abt u is either sweet or silly or somewhere in between
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hope yall have been having a good summer so far, ive started a new job (again this year ;-;) and training is going okay, its in medical records, so wish me luck i dont do smth stupid </3
have a good evening/morning/afternoon!!
Peace out,
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#lu x reader#link x reader#linked universe x reader#linked universe reader#moon asks#lu x fem reader#lu x gn reader#lu gender neutral reader#lu fem reader#lu vitiligo reader#lu curly haired reader
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3e: Magical Rings
Rings. Simple circles of metal, worn on the fingers or toes or sometimes in the ears, these delicate pieces of human artistry are some of the earliest examples of creative expression we know can last beyond our lives, and therefore, serve as some of the most iconic examples of the way we use our signifiers to craft narratives of our lives. The promise ring, the engagement ring, the wedding ring, which are of course, all the same thing but companies want us to gild that lily forever, rings serve as a circle present in so many stories to symbolise a bonding, a binding, an eternity that we commit to in our lives and that we can only hold up as long as we continue to believe in that which the ring symbolises. Every ring can be called a ring of power, because it is the belief in stories we imbue in the ring that serves to give it that power.
And as any good item with significance, Dungeons & Dragons decided to start jamming a mechanical system onto them.
This is by no means a new thing for 3rd edition D&D; since earliest versions of the game, Iâm sure there were people making âmagical ringsâ important on day dot. This is a game for hacks who want to remind you of the cool fantasy books weâve read and back when the game was brand new, there really were only so many fantasy books that could be considered cool. Unbelievably, people considered Lord of The Rings one of them, yeah, I know, and apparently, they enjoyed those books and implemented their ideas into their own work. Wild, I know. Point is, it wouldnât surprise me if D&Dâs vision of magical rings predate D&D. What 3rd edition brought, in my experience reading the rulebooks, is a sense of acceleration and omnipresence.
The rules around rings in 3rd edition onwards is that you can wear two rings, and those rings will give you some magical benefit or advantage based on what theyâre supposed to do. This is where stacking bonuses tend to rear their head for newer players. After all if you have a Ring of Protection that improves your armour by +1, and you have ten fingers, and those rings are cheap, why not buy a few of them, wear them on different fingers and get a lot better armour? The game saw you coming and instead, the rules limit these bonuses by type and also limits you to one ring per hand.
My time with 2e, towards the end, represent the loot cavalcade that was Baldurâs Gate 2, in which the world is lousy with magical gear which is designed to make it possible to approach a reasonably open world of quests. In this case, you wind up with enough magical rings you just start selling them in sacks, to the point where it can honestly not be worth picking them up in the early game because whoâs gunna carry that malarkey? I do not want to pretend that 2ed lacked for this situation. Instead I want to describe the way that 3rd edition brought the idea of Unspecial Rings to everywhere. Almost every resource in the game that players got access to would bring new magical items, new feats, new character options to the board, and with that, youâd see some new rings.
When creating new magical items, the game provided a set of rules that described things that magical items could do, and the general family of effects they could have. Weapons, you might not be surprised, were good at making you better at attacking, and did special things when they hit things. Armour increased your defensive stats and made you better at surviving or enduring things. This could have some interesting side effects, some things that were judged on vibes â like, a trident that meant you could breathe underwater while you had it was probably okay, but it was definitely less okay than a suit of armour that gave you a swim speed and also meant you could breathe underwater. These were all put together by a complicatedly designed set of formulas that tried to price effects based on spells and then on the duration or effect of those spells.
What this meant is that knowing the best spells meant you knew the best ways to break these rules in weird outlier ways. An example that came up commonly was the âring of true strikeâ design a lot of players would conceive of, where you would make a ring that cast the spell true strike on use (ie, whenever you attacked). The formula for this implied that as a 1st level spell, cast as a 1st level wizard, this should cost 1x1x2000 gp. Since true strike granted you a +20 to hit on the next attack you meant, this item would obviously trivialising hitting things and thatâs pretty nuts.
(Please ignore that a wand of true strike was a level 1 item for 750 gp that would give you this effect for 50 attacks, but only if you were a wizard or a character with the appropriate spell on your list.)
Anyway, the math kicked in at this point and looked for the most expensive way to price the effect. This âring of true strikeâ was granting a +20 to hit, and that was priced differently to the 1st level spell that gave it to you, meaning that instead of 2,000 gp, it cost you 20x60x2,000 gp, or 2.4 million gp, which is, uh, a lot more than 2,000. This is because to craft a tohit bonus like that, you needed to be 3 times the level of the bonus, meaning that you needed to find a level 60 wizard who had the time to waste on your nonsense.
Point is that things were examined in terms of their effect and their style. Armour did things that weapons didnât do. Some weapons could improve your armour class but they needed a good flavour for it â like deflecting something, or blocking hits in melee. Staffs could store spells, wands could store spells but wear out, scrolls could store spells but only once, amulets could protect you in some way like improving a saving throw⌠and ringsâŚ
Rings could do anything.
Where most of the magic items have rules in them that make them hard to use in most situations, or gave them specific types of things they were best at replicating, rings could do anything. Permanent spell effects, on-use spell effects, permanent bonuses, a ring could be a real everythingamajig.
This was such a problem because it meant that even low level rings would wind up being useful, handy even to have around. A ring of sustenance turned off your need for food, for good, so you should probably have one of those for long distance travel. Itâs real cheap, after all, and all it takes to swap it off is to swap a ring on a finger. A ring of feather falling could be jammed on a finger while you fell if you were falling far enough. And a ring of jumping could be handy for mobility, and none of these things were particularly expensive (by the standards of an adventurer) by the middle of the game.
The really cracked thing though?
These rings were so good and so worth keeping around in a big keyring for handy applications most of the time because they let non-wizards access all the handy utility stuff wizards had all the time from day 1. When a category of magical item is desireable because it lets you replicate something that the wizard can already do for a fraction of the cost â oh hey, thereâs that wands conversation all over again! â you may have a problem class in your game.
Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!
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Omg we need the Fernando Aston Martin story! It would be hilarious like just imagine George trying to convince Logan that he should drive for Mercedes but Logan doesnât even know what he is talking about and because he practised his lines with Fernando he does not agreeđ
Sorry it took so long đ
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"Logan, what's your favorite team?" George asked, his eyes laser-focused.
Unlike his father, Logan was more preoccupied with the green cap in his arms. "Aston!" He yelled, holding the cap up with the biggest smile on his face.
The response did not elicit the same effect with George sighing and Toto looking displeased, a silent "fix this". Lewis seemed quite amused at the situation, already texting Fred to get a team kit in kids size for Logan.
"No, it's Mercedes. Can you say Mercedes?" Stress evident in George's voice.
"Mercedes!" Logan smiled and pointed at the Mercedes logo in the engineer's room.
Lewis leaned over the table and asked, "Buddy, who's your favorite driver?"
Logan paused for a moment, looking up at the ceiling, his face pensive. "Alonso!"
"Ugh!" George put his head in his hands.
It was bad enough he foolishly let Fernando babysit Logan, "something something bonding with his nephew". Logan had come tottering back, happy from an exciting game of tag and lots of $200 Japanese grapes, going on and on to Shov, Marcus, and Bono about how "Aston was so fun" and their "Car is really fast" and the most egregious of all, "Aston is the best!" "Alonso is the best!"
Some of the engineers smiled while Toto's frown deepened. Lewis laughed, "Why? Why is Alonso your favorite?"
Like being asked to recite the alphabet, Logan recounted the script Fernando had him memorize, earning a fancy grape as a reward for each line he recited perfectly. "Alonso is the bestest driver in the world. He is fast, and cool, and really smart. He is better than the grid.â
Each word was slow, methodical, and said with a smile. Logan looked up expectantly at the crowd, clearly expecting a reward or praise for his perfect recitation.
âIâm going to kill Fernando!â George scowled as James Allison started to look at the upgrade package, deciding on what could be implemented for the next race that would leave Aston Martin in the dust. The others returned to their work, emboldened by a sense of either deep competition or revenge.
âLogan, come here. Weâll leave everyone to do their workâ Toto called out. Logan hopped off the car and followed him, the green cap in hand. Maybe with enough treats, Logan can unlearn whatever ridiculous thing Aston Martin taught him. If Mercedes needed to fly in expensive fruit from Japan, they can write it off as a business expense.
Official F1 Group Chat [official use only]
George: watch your back Fernando
Lando: Woah
Max: ???
Charles: is this an official thing?
Carlos: what happened?
Alex: George
Fernando: what did I do?
George: you know what you did! Lance too!
Lance: What did I do?
George: brainwashed my son into an Aston Martin fan
Lando: đ§
Charles: đŽ
Max: đ¨
Carlos: đŹ
Lance: itâs not brainwashing! He just saw the truthđ
Fernando: đ no regrets
Lewis: to the brainwashing?
George: Iâm sending you both into a wall
Alex: George
Lando: bit of an overreaction
Fernando: Soon Oscar will see the light that is Aston Martin
Lando: Stay away from my son
Carlos: đ¨
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â PLEASE, DATE MY BROTHER : twisted wonderland



[synopsis] ortho decides to do something about idia's crush on you, taking the role of matchmaker
[extra] ortho reminds me of a minecraft torch. apparently, thereâs one called soul torch that's blue? i havenât played in a while. ALSO, I STILL HAVENâT FINISHED BOOK 6 HELP ME I CANâT DO THIS ANYMORE
-`âĄÂ´- What do you mean Idia's social anxiety, awkwardness, and his extensive knowledge of internet slang haven't captivated you yet?Come on, give Idia a chance, please.
-`âĄÂ´- Maybe it's the fact he's a robot and he can catch onto things faster than regular humans, but there can be no way you haven't connected the dots yet. Idia invites you to play video games and watch some new anime episodes in his room after classes. He's always talking about you, his hair turning slightly pink when you compliment him for anything he did, and he pays attention to every single word that comes out of your mouth. How hasn't anyone but Ortho noticed that Idia clearly likes you? He's starting to wonder if humans can be that dense or if itâs just you (not to be mean). Ortho isn't taking any of it. If his brother won't do anything to get closer to you romantically, he may as well do it himself in his stead.
-`âĄÂ´- Something about Ortho is that he's stubborn. When he decides to do something, he's motivated to do anything to achieve it. The Shroud brothers care deeply about each other; they would do anything for the other to be happy, which means Ortho won't give up. The idea of having you as part of the family makes it worth it. He can already imagine the future you and his brother could have together. Can he be something like a flower girl at your wedding? He hopes he can. But for now, he will have to focus on making you like his brother back first.
-`âĄÂ´- His first method is simple. Itâs better to start with something small; thatâs what his intensive research said. He starts mentioning Idia in every conversation where you're involved: talking about what he did the other day, about something funny he did, complimenting him, and flaunting all of Idia's new works. Ortho can finally use one of the 1,000 random features Idia implemented (Idia himself gets surprised when Ortho uses one because he had forgotten they were even there).
"Oh this? Big brother implemented this cool feature yesterday. My hair can now turn different colors and play music at the same time. Look, it´s like a disco ball!" And then his hair starts switching colors and playing music from Idiaâs very specific music taste. He looks like that one disco tree in the Lorax movie.
This method was working, but then something happened. More specifically, Ace and Grim happened. They both got tired of this happening for a week non-stop and told him to talk about something else that wasn't his brother, which didnât make Ortho very happy. They both went back and forth over the topic, with Ortho defending Idia and Ace getting annoyed over it. It only stopped when Crewel scolded them for talking in class.
-`âĄÂ´- Since the first one didnât work, he had to change plans. The second method was to drag you to Ignihyde to play some games with him in his room. And surprise, Idia is there. Wow, who would have thought? He didn't invite him; he was just there. He CLEARLY didnât know he would be there. Then final exams season started, and you had to stop coming by so you could study. Also, Idia was starting to get suspicious over what his little brother was up to and how you were always there when he got out of his room.
-`âĄÂ´- His last resort was to make the both of you have a date. A date that you both didnât know was supposed to be a date. Asking you both to hang out with the excuse of wanting to see this new movie that came out, only for him to leave the second the two of you arenât watching him. Heâs so proud of himself too, ignoring your calls as you try to ask him where he is. He leaves you both to have quality time and talk about whatever you guys want.
-`âĄÂ´- Now that he has tried all he could do and everything that popped up in his mind, Ortho will ask you to meet him somewhere, where he will ask you how you feel about Idia. He says he will keep it a secret, and he will, but please tell him already; heâs dying to know.
If you do like Idia back, Ortho will cheer and congratulate himself silently for doing such a good job. Heâs so happy all his efforts worked, and you and his brother can finally be together! He will even throw confetti (another random feature Idia doesnât remember implementing) and rub his victory in the face of all the first years, especially Ace and Grim.
Now, if you don't like Idia back, Ortho will short-circuit. It's even worse if you already like someone else, because that makes it harder for him to change your mind. It's not like he will resent you if you don't like his older brother; youâre still his best friend and he's happy for you, but he will mourn for at least a year the fact you could have been part of his family. At the end, he understands you can't force love and that you have the right to be with whoever you want to be, so he will drop it.
Maybe the real âyou dating Idiaâ was the friends he made along the way? Or at least that's what Ortho is going to tell himself while trying to figure out how to make Idiaâs heartbreak not hurt that much. Curiosity did kill the cat, huh?
#twisted wonderland#twst#idia shroud x reader#idia x reader#ortho shroud#twst x reader#twisted wonderland x reader#idia shroud#ignihyde
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