#making up adventurers

[makingupadventurers]

This adventurer is trying to outrun their destiny, but it's catching up.

[makingupadventurers]

Vizier who has gotten so preoccupied with baking sweets for their liege that they've forgotten that they're supposed to be poisoning them.

Sweets and treats are all the nutrients a princess needs

[jamjoob]

Screencap redraws for fun

[fexrox]

tears are worth their weight in gold

(happy new year!!!)

[zillychu]

I NEED Loop to be further tormented by finding out confessing to their party doesn't break their loops, and Siffrin wishes to see Loop again so hard he pops out of the favor tree so he gets to be Loop's guide

[makingupadventurers]

This wizard got more than they bargained for.

New Spell: Transmute Group Of Orcs To Polycule.

[trickstersaint]

i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism

(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)

[o-sunny-day]

Cause You and I will always be back then.

Thats Why…

You and I will always be best friends.

[makingupadventurers]

Berserker who was thrown out of magic school because "Smash It With Your Fists", while effective, is not traditionally considered "magic."

Originally posted on Cohost.

[makingupadventurers]

This adventurer has been doing a lot of thinking about their chosen vocation and is starting to have some serious second thoughts regarding the ethics of it all.

When an adventuring party goes through a dungeon it has horrifying consequences on the local ecology. From the perspective of a naturalist or an anthropologist the average adventuring party safely escaping a dungeon is the equivalent of a small natural disaster, often acting as a wound that the ecosystem may never fully recover from. Looking here at a dungeon that's just been 'completed'.

The local town has a major influx of gold from an adventuring party spending a few nights there. The innkeeper and blacksmith have both gotten more money than either of them could have overwise made in years. The local lord will come through here in a few days and falsely accuse both of them of treason so that he can take their possessions, and the town's economy will return to normal. The innkeeper and blacksmith with be banished, their sons conscripted into the war effort, and their daughters doomed to poverty, but what matters to the lord is the gold. The adventurers will never know.

The hydra guarding the dungeon who was killed was the alpha in the area. Countless male hydras will fight to take his place, most of them younger, their species' territory is shrinking due to the expansion of humans in this area, this gate and this marshland is one of the last good areas for hydras to nest in the valley left. Male hydras are the ones to take care of the young after they hatch, the ones taken care of by the hydra the adventurers killed were too young to compete with the hydras coming in to take his place, some will run off into the woods and die when the winter comes, most will be cannibalized by the males coming to replace their father.

The dungeon was a rare example of untouched ruins. It had art and artifacts that can never be replaced. Every "puzzle" that was "solved" and every pillar and carving that the adventuring party destroyed in a fight is an example of something lost that will never be replaced. Anthropology's understanding of the culture will forever be smaller. The "treasure" that the adventurers found is a bit better off, but most of it will forever be stripped of important context, even if any of it is studied one day elements of its origins will be forever lost, not to mention to many magic items that will very likely be destroyed in battle with the adventurers that stole them.

The mimics that were killed were an endangered species. They weren't common mimics, not that the adventurers know the difference. Those mimics were some of the only things capable of eating slimes, an invasive species in the area. The local town will have an infestation of slimes in a few years, and nobody will have any understanding as to why. They might even hire another adventuring party to deal with it. Luckily the adventuring party that went through this dungeon was able to kill a nominal amount of slimes, but this valley has far more slimes than it does mimics, and slimes breed far far faster.

The demon the adventuring party killed at the end of the dungeon was a servant of the brass goddess, sworn to protect the arts of a people long forgotten. Upon his defeat he will respawn in the underworld and finally reunite with the people who summoned him two thousand years ago. With one less sacred place of the old gods in this land, the conquest of the hanged king grows stronger, and an apocalyptic event that will bring this continent under his power a thousand years from now is ever so slightly more likely. The adventurers understood none of this of course, they don't care to know where the things who fight them come from, and one member of their party was a priest of the hanged king anyway.

The kobolds the adventurers killed will be found by members of their village in the morning, when their families begin to realize that they didn't come home after a hunt. Their kind is small and often killed by humanity when it is convenient to them. If their bodies are found they will be burnt at the village center, and the entire community will mourn them. One of the bodies will never be found, as its skull was used as an adornment to one of the adventurer's armor. The kobold elders will assure the children that those who are lost have returned to the great dragon below the earth, in a land where meat is plentiful, and humans never tread. The village will wonder if it can survive the coming winter, with less and less places to hunt every year, and more and more souls taken by human hands.

The adventurers will come to another town soon, and the wave of destruction will strike another part of the valley.

[ambrosiagourmet]

I think one of the biggest tragedies of Laios & Falin and their relationship is how much his actions impact her life. But like. Specifically how much they WOULDN’T impact her life as much if they weren’t both stuck in such a shitty abusive situation.

This part of the Falin-tries-makeup daydream hour comic is what got me thinking about it again because truly it just... it seems like such a like an offhand comment that I'm sure Laios didn't mean to be cruel or anything. That's just like. A little kid not thinking about what they are saying. ESPECIALLY when the kid in question is Laios.

But man they depended on each other SO much as kids. Too much. It really feels like they didn't have any other source of positive reinforcement, or anyone else to share themselves with. So of course an offhand comment like that has a huge impact on Falin.

Or this little bit from one of the flashbacks:

This tears me apart. Do you think it tears him apart to think about? I think it does. I think Laios holds every small failure to care for Falin against himself.

And then there's the Bigger stuff. The way that him coping with his own trauma ended up impacting her.

Like his interest in monsters. Like him going to find a ghost, and accidentally revealing Falin's magic to the whole village in the process.

Like him needing to leave. And leaving her behind.

He shaped her life so much, and he carries so much guilt for it. And again, there should have been other people there to help. The same things that made Laios need to leave home are the things that made his leaving so hard on Falin. She ate alone after that. She shouldn't have had to eat alone just because Laios wasn't there.

She was 9 when he left for school, and he was 11.

Nine. And Laios feels like he failed her because he didn't stand by her through this better. As an eleven year old.

Both of these kids deserved so much better from the world.

[rooniearts]

I don't know if you've answered this before, but, where did Shadow get a child?

Did he find it? Did someone give it to him? Did it just spawn there?

LITERALLY WAS JUST FINISHING UP A COMIC ABOUT THAT WHEN THIS ASK ROLLED IN!!! The answer is literally no one knows and Shadow won't tell

Bonus:

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[lilybug-02]

We have to dig deeper.

Bug Fact: “Kissing Bugs” carry a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi which causes Chagas disease. Left untreated, it can cause serious heart and digestive problems.

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[makingupadventurers]

Wizard who needs to log off and put the orb down for a while.

@ all nobles. WIZARDS. CAn. TELEPORT. no. we don't end up in SPACE. no. we are not all just 'using reynard's magic door andd a smoke bomb'. alvarus the succulent (respnd to my duel request) might but i am a REAL wizard. i did not spend 6 YEarS at the imperial cloister and 632 gold pieces per semester to not learn that MAGIC IS AFFECTED BY GRAVITY.

your bitch dropout court wizard throws a fireballl? IT ARCS you truffle-munching parasite. yknow cuz gravity!?? SAME. PRINCiPLE. codified into standardized spell addons by Arch-Lich Ferffiester.

who gives a f*ck he's cancelled for inventng necromancy 2000 years ago. last time i used a 'modern' & 'nOn-PrObLeMaTiC' gravitational accountment i BROKE my ankle (FUCK YOU ALVARUS U HACK).

now get off Wizlr go back to carrier pigeons. i don't care the dark lord took over the holy dovecote and calls it Xcote STOP BUYING ALL THE NEW MAGIC ORBS mine is cracked and leaks mana PLS HELP.

yours superiorly, drepsie the multi-intelligented

P.s report me and i TELEPORT MY TOWER ON TOP OF YOUR LAWN

[johnnyshrine]

★ 093 // “POV: You Died :("

[elbdot]

LMAO SURE THING, HERE YOU GO! Please use responsibly, thank u 😌