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[ffxivtribehydrae]

~ Reaper of the East ~

[fictional-twink-bracket]

Final

(PT: Final)

Propaganda

(PT: Propaganda)

Cloud Strife

Almost every men he interacts with either grab him/his waist or make innuendos at him (from randoms NPCs to the main antagonist of the game). He also look very dashing and convincing in a dress.

Mello (More under the cut)

it would be really fucking funny to get the guy with 'inferiority complex' as his special stat to Specifically second place

After blowing himself up to escape the cops, he starts living together with his childhood best friend again. One of his main traits is that this 'best friend' is the only person he wholeheartedly cares about.

There's a very conventionally attractive woman in the series who flirts with him on a few occasions. Despite being very intelligent and charismatic, he doesn't seem to understand when women flirt with him

forgot to mention in jy Mello propaganda that his best friend is called Matt

Despite not being Christian, he wears two rosaries and a cross on his belt at all times and has a cross around his gun (the same gun as in Romeo and Juliet). He also has a wallet chain made out of fake skulls and a skull pattern on his belt because that bitch wants so badly to be scary when he's like 120 pounds.

[Correction: Mello is likely Christian, specifically Catholic. see here]

Mello's death was intentionally left ambiguous, but one of the strongest theories is that he was so busy apologising to his male "best friend"/roommate for getting him killed that the villain killed Mello while he was distracted.

Even when he's a millionaire who has the Los Angeles Mafia at his beck and call, he says himself that his primary goal is earning the respect and approval of a boy he hasn't seen in six years. Obsessed much?

When he loses his millions and all of the Mafia members except him die, leaving with nasty injuries, it takes him like a week to track down his childhood best friend Matt and they move in together.

He admittedly feels very guilty over ordering the death of beloved DILF Soichiro Yagami, with one of the main reasons cited being that he thought his grey hair was "just too cute".

Mello ends up literally dying for a boy he claims to hate.

LOOK AT THIS SHIT. HE WAS IN THE MOB WHEN THESE WERE TAKEN. MF WAS 18-19 AND HAD MAFIA MEMBERS WITH GUNS AND BLOODIED HANDS RUNNING AROUND SETTING HIM UP FOR THESE PHOTOS. The guy in white on the bottom left is Near, Mello's arch rival who he is absolutely obsessed with, so of course he's in the graphic. Look at this NONSENSE

My man was sluttily licking his fingers and shit and flirting with the US president whilst... threatening to start World War 3.

[platinumrosetail]

Hi! I have one more Genshin Impact request! This one is once again crossing over with Pokemon, but this time it's with SAGAU.

It begins like other SAGAU fics. Reader lands in Teyvat and immediately gets called an imposter, but the moment they're attacked... she summons her level 100 Garchomp from pokemon platinum.

Basically she's able to summon pokemon to help her get away from everyone out to get her.

But the main part of this request is well Fontaine. I'm basing it off an old SAGAU post where the higher bond you had with the characters you have, the more they know you're not the imposter. I don't where this post is, but yeah.

So basically Reader mainly uses Fontaine characters, even spends a lot of time in Fontaine during her playthrough. So playable Fontaine characters and Fontaine as a whole, NPCs and the like, all know she's the creator and welcome her.

Cue the biggest open secret ever to be seen in Teyvat. While all the other nations are trying to find the 'imposter', Fontaine is just vibing. "What imposter? Never seen them."

Oh and I would prefer it to be Neuvillette x Reader please.

Ok 👍! Love the idea and yea I remember that post! 😁 also there are some adding things like wriosthley and such that happened between me and them.

Warning: noob author, female reader, imposter au, yandere characters, and others.

Characters: neuvillette, and wriosthley.

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you weren't expecting to get isekai'd into genshin especially with it being in the imposter au you read for it which usually have a false creator on the throne or no one on it yet which would be the case as you never heard the characters chasing you mention anyone on the throne.

thankfully before you were chased you did a little experiment by making a cut that was deep enough to draw blood but not life threatening to see if this was a sagau au or not, which by the gold blood you suddenly had means that yes you're in a sagau au, just need to find out which one.

that was easy as the first step you took in one of the nations they started chasing you and not in the 'your grace, we love you!' but instead in the 'want to kill you, imposter!' way so it was easy to see that you were in the imposter au.

you decided to try something that you never seen being used in the sagau imposter au fanfics you read before. that something would be summon a pokemon; a garchomp to be specific, a garchomp you had in pokemon platinum that was at level 100 when you finished the game, you'd think what with summoning garchomp would prove that you were their creator but nope that failed as they blame you for stealing the creator's; you, power.

you summoned your hoopa to teleport you to a different land besides the ones that attacked you which were; mondstadt, liyue, inazuma, and natlan. sumeru and fontaine were the only ones to have not chase you so you decided to go to one of them, you chose fontaine as they had your favorite characters in that nation you just cross you fingers that they aren't like the other nations as you would like to relax and hang with your favorite characters in your favorite nation.

upon making it to fontaine you decided to stay out of sight in the areas that would either have no one but mobs or on occasion treasure hunters ot fatui; you of course avoided both treasure hunters as they would go for your most likely bounty and the fatui as they're out right dangerous even if you had pokemon with you. so you mostly stuck to yourself with your pokemon and sometimes the mobs when they come by.

what you didn't know was while you were having fun with some water type pokemon like primirina, milotic, finizen, and palafin zero you were spotted and being watched by some melusines who were a daughter to one of your husbandos neuvillette. the melusines that saw you immediately reported you to their father but not out of malicious intent.

no, the melusines reported you to their father so that you wouldn't get hurt anymore from other nations as they heard what was happening and they could tell that you were the real creator that was being chased after wrongfully.

so now you're met with neuvillette the next time you go to the beach with some other water types; so as to give all of them your love. you were about to take a sprint and just run to the desert parts of sumeru if you needed to flee from fontaine when neuvillette stops you and told you that he won't hurt you.

you were almost skeptical but remembered that he wouldn't trick you as that wouldn't be like him even if you weren't the creator and was actually the imposter. so you followed him to fontaine.

you were heavily surprised that fontaine knew you were the creator but you guessed that since in some sagau fanfics there are a narion or two that knows your the real deal and not the imposter the rest of the nations believes. as a gift you decided to have some kalos pokemon help out and such, like furfrou, slurpuff, gogoat, and much more.

while sleeping you somehow created a baby lugia like the one from the anime of pokemon. you weren't expecting it so you were quite shocked when you found the little guy when you woke up. furina had dubbed it yours and neuvillette's child which made both you and him blush. oh, yeah, you and neuvillette are in a relationship and not too long after meeting wriothesley he also joined your's and neuvillette's relationship.

you had also given a few people some pokemon coordinated to them, like with furina you had given her a popplio and milcery. with neuvillette you given him a oshawott; who was named neuvillette the second by furina, a shiny vaporeon; that was mates to your sylveon as well to another, and for wriothesley, a sinistea, glaceon; who was also your sylveon and neuvillette's vaporeon's mate, and a sandshrew.

you were shocked to come to find out that the fatui believse you're the creator as well like fontaine, you found out bcause of both childe and arlecchino both told you when they had made a meeting that couldn't be denied. you also found out that nahida and the wanderer also knows you're the creator by a letter sent from her to you.

(going to leave up to yall on if the rest of sumeru believes you're the creator as well or not.)

you and furina had some fun doing contest once you introduced them to her, sometimes collaborating with her, you also taught them about gym and regular pokemon battles but the contests were more popular which was understandable.

thankfully the traveler was in on you being the creator and helped protect you sometimes, in return you tried giving them advice on where they could possibly find their sibling as they haven't made it to natlan yet, so when the other nations asked the traveler if they had seen the 'imposter' they and paimon lied and said no.

you heard from furina on how some traveling merchants were taking a trip here but encountered a gyarodos; which they didn't know that, that jumped over the boat before going to it's trainer which was a child, that had mystified the traveling merchant. you and her laughed very much at that story as that was very hilarious to hear.

you decided to give nhida and wanderer a little gift for being nice and not thinking you were the imposter, so you got nahida a shayman and wanderer a mimikyu.

sometimes one of the archons that still believes you're the 'imposter' would come by to ask if anyone in fontaine had seen the 'imposter' so neuvillette and wriothesley hides you down in the fortress of miropede until said archon leaves. thankfully for when a archon tries to use their powers like venti for example, nature hides you by not giving venti the answer he needs from the wind as whenever he comes the wind would stop until he leaves.

(a/n: and done! hope y'all enjoyed!! i quite like how this turned out, i always enjoy a pokemon!reader crossover so i was very happy when i received this request, just wished there were more of them; probably not with genshin at the moment a i'm getting a little burnt out as i just now made 3 genshin requested post, now if it's another fandom x genshin!reader then i think i could do that. anyway, hope yall liked it and have a wonderfull day/evening/night!!!)

[aquaburst3]

Hey hey! I'm Directionally_Challenged from ao3! This is a bit of a darker ask but I couldn't stop thinking about it. You mentioned in your series that you think Jamil might have been ordered to kill before. What other characters do you think have killed before? And what they feel about it.

Obviously Lilia, but he's a war veteran so yeah. I don't think he feels remorse for his actions since they were necessary but I do think that he's someone who maybe laments the overall tragedy that war brings to everyone involved regardless of sides. I wonder if Silver and Sebek have been taught to kill yet. Or if it isn't something they think about as a large deal so the first time the do/did is seen as just another duty to fulfill. Malleus well...hmm I'm not sure about anything to be honest.

I'd love to know your opinion but feel free to ignore me too!

As context for others reading this, I hc that Jamil is also a trained assassin for the Asims, and has been ordered to kill by his masters in order to protect Kalim before. I'm just applying it to my fics. To be honest, I imagine he has only killed people who kidnapped Kalim and the assassins who tried to kill Kalim. In other words, just NPCs. I don't think that he killed off any major characters.

Jamil has trauma and baggage surrounding that, which he shoves down. He feels some remorse about doing that in the cases where it's clear the assassin is being forced to do it against their will too. But for ones that kidnap Kalim? Yeah...he thinks they got what was coming to them. For the most part, he just feels like he was carrying out his duties. I also imagine that he had a mental breakdown the first time that happened to him, but now it has gotten easier...which is fucked up when you think about it.

As for how the others feel about that, I don't imagine many of the Night Raven characters are up in arms over it. Most of them understand that sometimes you have to make tough choices like that against your will and do what needs to be done. Pinning that on Jamil would be unfair. Kalim feels horrible about that. After Jamil has done that, Kalim has taken him aside to do things to get his mind off of things like having a sleepover, which had mixed results. Despite him feeling bad about it, he still does nothing to actually stop Jamil from doing it like talking to his father. Adriana, my "Yuu", will be somewhere in the middle. She will feel awful and be angry at the Asims for forcing a child to do such things, but would not pin it against him. Blaming him for something he's forced to do would be highly unfair. This will also add to her motivations for actions in Scarabia.

As for all of the other canon characters who I think have killed people before...

Lilia is the first to come to mind, because he's a war vet. Same goes for Sebek's grandfather for the same reasons. They both have PTSD about their days in the war. Both of their feelings on the matter are exactly what you said.

Sebek and Silver had killed people before, due to being required to deal with threats to Malleus' life as retainers. Like with Lilia, Silver doesn't feel that remorseful over it, seeing it as part of the job and another duty to fulfill. Sebek believes they got their just desserts for trying to take down the Young Master.

Jade and Floyd have. I always hc that their parents are the heads of the mob in the Coral Sea, so they have been involved in shit before, both directly and indirectly. (There's also that hc in the fandom that they murdered their other siblings in order to survive like how moray eel hatchlings do in real life. Personally, I don't subscribe to that one, because I imagine they were born in a womb like humans, but it's worth throwing out there.) While they feel a little bad about it, I don't see them being super broken up about it either.

While I don't think my own version of Deuce hasn't directly killed someone like the others, he has beaten up people almost to death and was indirectly involved in potion deals that have lead to others dying. Like one can imagine, he feels terrible about that and is doing his best to repent for that by being a "model student". (Canon Deuce is most likely a no in that front, due to both versions of his past being so watered down and doesn't even remotely match up to what would happen to those in gangs at a young age. Since that whole criticism is another can of worms, I'm leaving it at that for now.)

Leona, since I imagined that he had to take down assassins who tried to kill him before, too. He's in a similar camp as Jamil in that he has trauma surrounding that and feels a little bad about it, but also thinks they got what was coming.

Ruggie is a maybe. He lived on the streets, so he has likely seen shit. My own version of him is also Leona's retainer, so he might've been required to before. But, I can't really imagine any situations where that has happened in the past before, even for my own version since Leona is capable of handling a lot of that himself.

Malleus in the canon is another maybe. I can see him going either way. As for my fic, you'll see in due time.

Not to get into spoilers for my fic...well, let's just say that there will be a body count for Glorious Masquerade in mine, which includes canon characters offing cult members, other random NPCs and one major one. (Not saying which characters kill people in that mini arc. Where's the fun in that? xD)

As for OCs I've created, there is another example of one almost costing another OC their life indirectly, blaming themselves for that when the truth is more complicated. However, I'm not saying who, because spoilers. All I will say is looking back at certain passages in my take on Heartslabyul will make it obvious who I'm talking about, and would explain why this character acts the way that they do.

[adorablebanite]

Were your Durge/Tavs inspired by characters from other movies/shows/literature?

Lilla's neither; she's more of a "side character," but here are her biggest inspirations!

Judge Anderson (DREDD): Lilla is a Knowledge domain cleric - supported by her Patron Bane (introduced by Gortash, of course). Anderson can read minds, and Knowledge clerics have the same ability, as well as other Banite-adjacent abilities like Command, and Dominate Person. She's obviously going to be different than the other Banite cleric NPC's in game, as her job is to specifically protect Gortash (she protecc but also attacc).

I wanted her to be bookish, prim(in public👀), and an over achiever - essentially a prime example of professionalism, as the boss is trying to be a politician 😈

I really like Judge Anderson's innocent competence, so I wanted to keep that Lilla's front-facing demeanor; even when her arc does stray away from the good moral alignment after being hired on by Gort - in which her moral alignment clearly gets influenced by him, but she realizes later it's literally just in her blood to be a Banite!

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Lee (Secretary) -I love the innocent-to-confident character arc, (as you can probably see by the Judge Anderson arc as well,) but let's be real, Lilla was originally created for a smut so I could waggle my brainworms, and the Secretary holds a special place in my heart.

The movie greatly inspired Awaiting Further Instruction, and I really enjoyed having Lilla go through an adventure of finding her nature, with the help of Gortash, of course. You've got the pathetic Dom, and the pathetic Sub, and while they're both actually pathetic, they find a security in each other's world that even though it's unconventional and twisted, it brings them comfort.

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GoGo (Kill Bill): obviously vastly different from Anderson, so you can kind of see how the arc goes - and while I don't make Lilla nearly as sadistic as GoGo, she still does have a little streak of it when it comes to anyone who is threatening, insulting, or impeding Gortash in whatever way.

Lilla's demeanor can quickly switch from prim/professional/sweet, to taking personal pleasure in dispatching a rival for Gortash, depending on the level of the crime. Like him, she has a personal perception of justice that greatly aligns with his, and if she has been sicced on someone who has wronged him, she will sentence them accordingly. This can range from playful banter/underhanded threats and blackmail, to abruptly decapitating a goblin mid-sentence because he said something uncouth about Gortash.

My vision for her was the "loyal sidekick of the mob boss," and I find it extremely fun giving her a more interesting role than "yes master, no master," specifically for smut purposes.

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Scleritas Fel (BG3) : LOL Yes, my initial idea was: "Why can't Gortash have a little minion like Scleritas Fel?" And here we are 😅🫣

I didn't want to rip off the concept of Scleritas directly, but Lilla is still intrinsically tied to Bane because he made her - not like Bhaal made Durge - but more of a "secret, experimental ritual commissioned by Bane, conducted in the outskirts of Calimport where some Banites conceived a person designed to seek out and serve his Chosen, but she ended up being too loveable and the Banites couldn't stand treating her like Banites should, so they wiped her memory, sent her to an orphanage, and offed themselves in shame," kind of way.

Obviously Bane was also ashamed by his botched experiment, so they have a shaky relationship, but that's all been settled in the fic 😇

Ultimately I wanted to write something fun for Gortash - and give him something nice! Lilla is very nice, and likes him very much (bordering on obsession), and is actually very useful in many ways beyond smutty silliness! She does a lot of research, spies, transcribes, organises dossiers/blackmail material, and pretty much oversees his political campaign and businesses (legal and otherwise) while he does the big-boy-chosen work.

I'll do one about Destri (Durge) soon too 🥰

Now that I've prattled on, I'd love to hear about other people's inspiration for their OCs, if they have them!!

@melvinthedepressedrobot

@kaava

@obuoliukai

@walkerdraws

@ennissg

@beecreeper

@newtia

@sankttealeaf

(I have to rush now but I want to hear about everyone so please tag me if you end up doing this and you're not already tagged so I can see it!! 🙏🙏🙏)

[lazyscience]

DCC Challenge, Day 11

Time To Floor Collapse: 19 days, 5.1 hours (give or take)

Time for the recap episode!

Crawler @quartzandsundry

New Achievement! What's Going On?

When the chaos has ramped up to Threat Level You Better Run, the only place you want to be is ...not there. Or at the very least, not visible.

Reward: A gold Makes Me Wanna Holler box! Inside, an enchanted ring of Invisibility, a tome of Personal Shield (casts a sphere of radius 1.5 meters from caster's center mass, diameter can be extended 1 meter per 5 points of caster's INT with a corresponding increase of 30% mana cost over previous level) and a scroll of Moveable Feast (grants up to 30 party members/allies a full day of nutrition and Good Rest.)

Crawler @kathrynalexao3:

New Achievement! Spa Day!

Congratulations, it only took your party threatening to misappropriate Cairfrey's Yog's Special Chain and Oreniaa's heirloom William Shatner handcuffs to get you to address that Exhaustion debuff! You CAN take a hint! (when it's applied with a warhammer)

Reward: A gold Crime and Unwind box! Inside, an alchemical candle of Sleep (area of effect 1000 cubic feet, duration: 6 hours, scent: Authentic Common Scents Campfire), a Bed Upgrade to an Ultra-Stabilized, Size-Adjustable, Race-Adjustable Alleviating Sleep Apparatus, a really soft blankie in Mongoliensis Magenta, and a bottle of glitter Claw Polish in Purple Pain! give plus +5 to climbing and other skills related to navigating challenging terrain. And also raking people with them. Don't forget your toesies!

Crawler @king-ofconfusion:

New Achievement! Mass Extinction Event!

So that extremely elusive mob you were hunting? Has it occurred to you that maybe, just maybe, they've realized that you're a walking expiration date? Good job, crawler! You have materially decreased the number of Curly-corded Earworm Ringers in the dungeon!

The reward for good work, alas, pretty much always involves more work. Keep grinding away in that training room on those Track and Locate skills, and maybe yet you'll find the alchemist - or at least, components - you're after.

Reward: A silver Tommy Tutone box! Inside, a tome of 8675309 - a variant on Ping, 8675309 keeps a location active on its target. Also includes scrolls of Angel Say No, a shield against Bless/Banish actions from hostile cleric-class NPCs and crawlers, and enchanted Gym Socks of Runnin' Down a Dream, allowing skills related to motion to train 50% faster when worn (on your FEET. No shenanigans to try and get your own Legendary weapon. We've patched that.)

Crawler @oreniaa:

New Achievement! Snake Eyes!

The lunar New Year of the Snake is a year of looking past unfortunate associations to the beauty and wisdom beneath, to see as an oracle does, what is true and beautiful in a world that very seldom values truth or beauty when it comes in an unexpected shape (snortgasplaughs "comes" gigglesuncontrollably).

Go forth and as an oracle, delight and amaze with the wisdom right before everyone's eyes, if they could only see (that's highlighted for your party, who may not have witnessed the oracle)

(ten YEARS, oh my god. someone get that guy a crate of Sliquid.)

Reward: A gold YEARNING box! Inside is a tome of Charm Critter, Enhanced Pet Biscuit x3, and the earnest hope that all your communications are received with the clarification you intended them. And a very short red A-line dress and knee-high black boots. While I tend to appreciate more the NATURAL beauty of the foot, unencumbered, I have to say, that's a LOT of boot. Mreow!

Crawler @cairfrey :

New Achievement! Gone Girl!

There's something so much more frightening about what people come up with in their own mind, when a scrape of a pebble, a breath of air current, a passing shadow. Everything looks more mundane in the light.

What you can't see has SO much easier a time of killing you. But goddamn, does it make coming up with the clip show a pain in the ass. People don't want to just see the mess left behind, they want to see the magic happen!

(it is hard to disagree with success though)

Reward: A gold Invisible Touch box! Inside, an enchanted Leather Hauberk of Silence, granting Dexterity +5 and additional 15% bonus to Pass without Trace and Stealth skills, and an enchanted Explosive Shrapnel bolt! Once loaded, until removed will continunously reload a crossbow/mangonel style shooting weapon. Targets will receive the Suffering Bleed and Blood Trail debuffs.

Crawler @deathdovesong

New Achievement! "One of our best surgeons. A real killer!"

While as has been noted before, I tend more towards disassembly than repair. But I do respect hustle. And still having the energy, and frankly the give-a-damn, after a long day grinding trash mobs, taking the time and your own Exhaustion debuff to get an allied crawler to treat their Curse debuff before getting yourself to a saferoom is good recap, crawler. Everyone likes a good nail-biter!

Reward: a legendary Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happy Hour box! Includes a Heavy Unicorn mount with tack and carrier in Army green, and enchanted patch of the M*A*S*H 4077th, granting an increase of 20% efficacy of any healing scrolls, bandages or potions used for yourself or fellow crawlers, and resistance to the Shitfaced debuff (warning: this does not, however, decrease the risk of the Addicted condition.)

Crawler @clearbrightlight

New Achievement! The Sin of Empathy!

Much as chainmail turns aside a stab, soft words turn away a blo--no, no they don't. Which means you need big, brass ones, a big stick, or both to be kind in the dungeon.

which is probably even more than the tumbling furry hordes cavorting on the beach in your vanguard the reason people should get the FUNK outta your way. Get blessed, idiots!

Reward: A Gold Love Hurts box! Inside, find Enchanted Fae Scale Chausses of the Fleet (Biped Edition, basically chainmail chaps), +5 to Dexterity, and enchanted Bracers of The Amazons (casts I Need My Personal Space when crashed together) Because the best armor? Don't get hit in the first place!

Crawler @lazyscience:

New Achievement: Delores Don't sPlAT!

So you made the rounds, checked on allied crawler morale, settled down to some grinding and just when you thought the PAT was defeated, it Cockroaches back up and you have to beat it AGAIN in a different form! Fuck! U Can't Touch This is still roaring up from the south!

Reward: Knock some shit out tomorrow, and do your taxes, and you can buy blitz sticks. It's a stupid thing to do, but who said developing better coping skills were a linear process?

ATTENTION, all partied crawlers! Don't forget to update me on mobs, quests, or parties (defined at link) so I can award you achievements! Please let me know either in the replies to this post, reblogging with additions, or hit my askbox/DMs!

(please, do this, even with small and silly mobs/quests, it makes giving achievements so much easier!)

[loz-chainsofcorruption]

Hiiii I saw you needed some entertainment, so I have a question!

What is your favorite zelda game? Yap about it all you want, it doesn't even have to make sense, just go off :)

Ok luv u bye <3 /p

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I have only ever played two actually! And finished neither yet jfkfkgkg I often take ages to finish games... -v-;;

That's really tough though. The two I've played so far are Wind Waker and BotW and I like them both a lot for very different reasons.

This turned out longer than I meant it to lol so it's under the cut

I LOVE WW Link. Like he's half the reason I think I fell so hard for LoZ stuff in the first place. My sister had been info dumping for a while as she got into the fandom and I gained some level of interest as she continued to do so, but it was seeing That Little Guy when she convinced me to try playing WW that really did me in. He's my lil guy, my funny tiny son, silly boy, best facial expressions hands down imo. I spent like 5 mins crawling around at the start of the game because his face and the noise and everything cracked me up so much. I adore that guy and bought a nendroid after just one or two play sessions (and I'm kind of a cheapskate so that says something LOL). There's definitely something to be said about a more structured story that sends you place to place, and there really is so much personality in that game. The music is incredible too.

However, there's definitely something fun about the freedom in BotW. I've always been a sucker for open world games because I like wandering and exploring, and this game definitely does a good job of rewarding that sort of play. I like being able to just go whatever and do what I want in more or less whatever order I want. Granted, that probably means it'll take even longer to beat the game because I am SO ADHD that I will likely keep getting distracted and putting it off. But I put off beating games all the time regardless of how linear it is. On the flip side, I think the lack of linear story does kill a bit of the... Life and personality of the game? If that makes sense? There's definitely fun and quirky NPCs in this game but somehow... I feel like it's... Hmm... A bit more lackluster in that department? In some ways? But it's also a very different game environment-wise, so I can understand why. Everything about Wind Waker is bright and colorful and big in personality, and that's just the style of the game. Botw is a recovering post apoc world that's still in a struggle against evil. It's obviously going to have different vibes. (Though botw link having the most blank expression ever except when he's like cooking and a few other things is so... Fjgkkgkg even in cut scenes... I can attribute it to like, idk, disassociation or other fictional reasons for story purposes but like dang... His personality is very hidden unless you pay a lot of attention to dialogue options - which I'll admit reveals quite a bit and I love to take that into consideration for my characterization of him and wait this was about games not writing I got sidetracked uhhhh though the fact that botw has inspired me to write multiple one shots about it does say something. I do love a game that inspires!)

Something in both of these games brings out the gremlin in me and both have a different sort of allowance for that behavior HAHA in WW it's mostly like, breaking people's pots (even very expensive vases), throwing pigs off cliffs, or uhhh throwing bomb flowers at your boat guy (yes... I did all that... Don't look at me... I named my save file Nink, blame him...) while in botw, so far, a lot of that is being able to get creative with beating up mobs, which is its own sort of fun. (I laughed so hard when I dragged a giant metal box all over some tree house Bokoblins.)

All in all, it's really hard to pick, especially when I'm not that far into botw yet compared to ww, but I think... There's just so much personality in ww that charms me to no end that I'll pick that one.

Though I will say, I'm close to having to collect all the Triforce pieces in ww and I'm not looking forward to it because it sounds to me like it'll be annoying and tedious 😔 I don't like tedious tasks fjkfkgkg so that might make the game lose some points as far as how much I like it LOL

[choliosus]

I still think about qsmp purgatory

To me, that arc was absolutely perfect.

The stakes were so high, we genuinely thought some or all of the eggs might die depending on who the winners ended up being, and no one knew exactly how that would play out, so you had to just try damn hard to win for your kid. But there was even that chance that if your team did win that would be the wrong outcome and your kids would die.

But anyway the atmosphere was insane

That eye and the ominous fucking voice, that opening animatic of the mystery guy walking into a surveillance setup, monitoring everyone on the island, that’s so cool. So much mystery, so much implied power.

And then we get there and girlies have NOTHING. And it was fucking bugged or something for the first part so no one could fucking mine cobblestone. Then the random disadvantages pile on top of that, now you’ve got to worry about thirst, all the food is going bad and won’t stack.

And I watched Bolas pov so that’s what I am talking about:

This group was at every conceivable disadvantage. Right off the bat they only have like half the active members of the other groups, no one there is good at pvp, and most of those guys don’t really grind and play that much. They keep dying, Phil starts to make some progress and admins spawn mobs all around him to prevent even that. They give up, and resort to killing each other.

And somehow, from rock bottom, from passing through all the stages of grief and landing on insanity, this small group goes from being but a speck in the progress bar percentages to fucking winning the whole thing.

Watching their madness turn into actual power is sooooo wonderful to watch. They stay fully crazy. But somehow, that works. Going absolutely feral, saying fuck the rules and do whatever, yell mumbled nonsense at your enemies, steal all their shit, that’s the winning play.

There is something so gratifying in watching them go from day one of not having a base, dying over and over again, to week 2 where they are kinda doing the damn thing. And still don’t have a real base and die over and over. I mean that’s literally Jaiden’s main strategy.

And then Baghera with the fucking chainsaw. And Cellbit leaning into his character’s preestablished bloodlust thingy, and everyone collectively building off of each other’s energy.

And something about watching my favorite blorbos lose their goddamn minds for 5 hours every day. I loved every second of it. And it wouldn’t be able to be much longer, Slimecicle for one was absolutely exhausted, that guy doesn’t stream for more than a few hours and now he was grinding for 5 a day. Only adds to the chaos.

But the pace, it being every day and yet a scramble because of the time limit of play time.

The stakes of the eggs lives potentially being on the line

The complete foreign nature of an entirely new island?? With a new scary npc??? Unprecedented.

I absolutely love this arc.

It’s been a while and I still think about it.

I’m mostly making this post because we’ll mainly it’s 2am and that’s the sort of thing you do at 2am but also because I remember like during and right after the prison event people saying that was their favorite qsmp arc

And like good for you bestie but I do not get it

My heart belongs to purgatory

And I want to submit “ok but do you remember-“ to the council because it was fucking perfect.

And omg the fucking bolas shrine and Baghera and cellbit cameo in purgatory 2 like, ah my heart.

Bolas forever o7

[parvumchao]

NPCs YOU’LL PROBABLY SEE MENTIONED ‘ROUND HERE ( part i - SULLIVAN edition )

ROBERT “POPS” SULLIVAN. Bullet, Frankie, and Reggie's grandfather. City councilman in NYC; connections with mob members while he touts that he’s ‘tough on crime’; adopted Frankie and Bullet in their later teens; didn’t approve of his son Kelly’s marriage to Bullet's mother Florence, so he doesn’t approve of Bullet. Just used her for sympathy. Favors Frankie over Bullet ( most of the time ) and doesn't know about Reggie ( yet ). Will probably outlive the roaches.

JOHN SULLIVAN. Frankie's father and uncle to Bullet and Reggie. Eldest son of Robert. Fuck-up, but not as big as Kelly. Currently incarcerated in New York.

KELLY SULLIVAN. Father of Bullet and Reggie, as well as some others he doesn't know about. Only knows for certain about and claims Bullet. Hero and uncle to Frankie. General criminal, currently incarcerated in New York, but getting released soon. Asshole, fuck-boy, but in a 'fun if you're not arrested along with him' sort of way.

FLORENCE ( nee DARCY ) SULLIVAN. Mother of Bullet and estranged wife of Kelly. Con artist and thief. Currently incarcerated in New Mexico. Turned Kelly in to get immunity in an unrelated case. If she sees him again, she may kill him or renew their vows. Who knows?

RIVA DARCY. Maternal aunt of Bullet. Looks out for her when she's in town. Personal hero of the younger redhead. Hates the Sullivans. Tried to adopt Bullet when her sister was thrown in the clink until Robert got in her way. Enjoys showing up in New York just to cause Pops and Frankie some problems. Will definitely kill Kelly if she ever sees him again.

MICHAEL “MIKEY” SULLIVAN. Younger brother of Frankie. Perished in an auto accident. Honestly was Frankie’s heart; he loved that kid. It’s difficult for Frankie to speak of Mikey now, but if he does, it’s all glowing.

DONNY WILSON. Grown ass married man with kids / Ranch hand. Had no business messing around with Bullet at the age she was when they did. Ran out of town when people began to suspect things. Bullet calls him her first love, but that ain't it. Riva tried to stab him in a bar once. Disgusting POS.

LILAH BECKWITH. Bullet considers her her first girlfriend, though she was Frankie's at the time. Broke Bullet's heart and really just pissed Frankie off.

SARA JAKOB. The one who got away for Frankie, and by got away, I mean dodged a fucking bullet. He has a tattoo of her name in a heart on his chest and he refuses to get it removed. Very, very sore subject. She was actually really good for him, but he wasn't for her.

MIA ATINKSON. Gold digger who went mining in the wrong place. More on her later.

[qroier]

love the contrast between roier's little lego guy dancing with some npcs while cellbit's is brutally killed by mobs

[eccentric-nucleus]

as i've been thinking more about Working On Game Stuff i've been focusing on the sheer weirdness of some games that i like. like that post says,

It was a while yet before technological and economic affordance would allow the generic NPC to become that settled repository for dolorously “naturalistic” polished lore sentences that we know and begrudgingly tolerate from AAA and indie alike today – “Howdy stranger. What can I get’cha? Rare to see new faces in this town. It hasn’t been the same since the war –now that all the youngsters left there’s nobody to maintain our previously buoyant fishing industry. This damn war… Well, sorry for flying off the handle there. If you’ve got any [squirrel hide], I’d be willing to trade for ‘em” and on and on and on forever. This kind of stolid, researched and dutifully ‘characterised’ Quality Prose turns out to be perfect filler for the indeterminate non-spaces of the videogame text system, and we are once again reminded that the Iowa Writer’s Workshop was not the least of the CIA’s crimes against humanity.

i distinctly remember playing some now-shuttered mmo briefly and ending up with some quests to kill a boss, and having the new-to-me-then experience of seeing a huge wall of text about the whys and wherefores of why i should be killing these generic boss mobs. the realization that this text meant nothing; that both i and the game understood the point of this quest was to shuttle me off to a new zone with new mobs & and "story justification" was unimportant. and yet somebody still had to write those paragraphs of utterly meaningless text

but it's very easy to fall for the frame that a videogame world has some "inner world", the wookieepedia problem of thinking a work is just factual reporting from another universe, instead of being pieces of a work that are constructed and revealed in a specific order to evoke a certain kind of audience reaction. something flatly naturalistic at least isn't making waves wrt the fundamental interface between the player and the world; whether it's saying anything worthwhile is something entirely different

[snapsnzips]

Why Am I Even Here? My Initial Dragon Age: Inquisition Reaction

I didn’t even like DAI at first. Especially coming in hot from DA2 and a lifetime of built in keyboard habits from Bioware games. Suddenly trying to click-to-move has me stopping and shooting. I can’t walk around using my mouse buttons while I drink some coffee or have a snack. Every time I try to pause the game I jump and the pause is now way off where my small handed pinky can’t really reach.

I’ve always played dual wield rogues. I love them. I instantly hated them here. No DA2 gap closer, no click to move if I’m not quite close enough, she kept ending up back in front of mobs no matter how I positioned her. No health bars or nameplates on mobs, they were impossible to see for someone overwhelmed by the input of a new game.

Also wtf is that tactical cam? As a diehard DA:O combat enjoyer, I was in shambles.

I can’t name my save games, I have to maintain a text file with save timestamps of things I want to keep.

I had to be standing on top of something to loot it with no click to move for better repositioning. The hold key is more of a suggestion to your party than a command that they actually fucking stay where I put them. Releasing a party from hold (if they actually stood still for more than 5 seconds) is now a separate keybind.

I finally made it to the tutorial boss and was so mad about how bad melee rogues play that I restarted the next day with a mage. Things got a little better.

I remapped jump to a mouse side button. I remapped disengage to another mouse side button. I put pause on the key it’s used for the last fucking 20 years of bioware games. I gave up mostly trying to get my party to stop moving. (I’m never doing the temple puzzles again where it requires everyone to stand in really specific spots all over the room). I installed mods that:

widened search radius

constantly search pinged

extended gathering reach

quicker looting

more banter

deshine (why tf is everyone soaking wet?)

more hair mods because again bioware hair is all square blocks

HD textures

A Reshade preset

complexion textures

beard edits for the male NPCs because wtf is that facial hair?

And then I restarted again to get something better out of the character creator.

I ended up with a bunch more mods but those are the big ones. I finally ended up needing mods to stop Maryden from singing so loud when I’m talking to people, to shut up Xenon because he’s so loud and stop the requisition officer from talking so she stopped interrupting banter that triggers on zone in.

Weirdly I don’t hate table missions. Although I wish some of them could have been side quests. I managed to kill my Dalish clan at least once and also killed off the Wardens in a set of missions. At first I thought table missions were purely flavor so I didn’t realize I could accidentally murder people and get really bad outcomes. I honestly don’t mind the war table although I did eventually cut mission length to 50%.

I got a conversation zoom-in mod as well. The default conversation zoom is so impersonal it just felt bad. The game should allow more zoom in during none cutscenes.

In case you can’t tell, I’m a game restarter. I often need two or three starts into a game before I can finish. I’ll restart and play the intro a few times to get a feel for what’s actually going on once I’m no longer overwhelmed. I’ll also restart halfway through if I realize I’ve made some really irredeemable mistakes (those conversation wheels don’t always mean what you think), or if I realize I’m really into what’s going on and want to replay what I’ve already done for a deeper understanding before moving forward with my story.

Restart scenario: I had been playing DA2 from my original pre-order disc from over 10 years ago. When it went on sale over Christmas, I bought it so I could play the DLC. Which I did then realized as I was part way through act 3 that I didn’t want to go there again. Anders my beloved.

Since there’s no way to save a character outside a new game, I had a lot of early false starts with DA:I. But that’s probably a story for a next post.

[dappersautismcreature]

some of the Minecraft like mechanic rules/fanon parts I follow in fics/art(sort of a record for me but also maybe some ideas for you!):

(long post)

RESPAWN MECHANICS: 

quick deaths like being killed by a mob in five hits or less/far fall/explosion will make it easier to respawn quickly AKA get back up and walk it off. Those deaths caused the body less prolonged stress/pain and that is why they are easier to recover from.

longer deaths like slowly burning to death/being stabbed like fifty times in order to be killed/getting punched to death/drowning/suffocating/poisoned/withered etc is harder to immediately get back up from and may require some medical care afterwards to be at full health.

kids and animals (if they can respawn as they are generally npcs and have one life) take longer to recover.

if the death comes with physical or mental stress, such as dying alongside a loved one, dying while afraid, dying under torture, dying slowly, or dying repeatedly may cause someone to pass out immediately after respawning due to physical/mental exhaustion. these deaths may also cause scarring, trauma, or long term injuries, it’s a bit of a universal mystery, almost like the chaos in the universe itself decides which deaths cause that, as well as the state of the player themselves.

TOTEMS:

when a totem cracks, it infuses the players heart with a mixture of adrenaline and like, secret lifesaving juice(the totem’s blood). totems can be used one after the other but if you use more than 5 within about 20 minutes, your blood can start to get tainted. more than 10 within 20 minutes? you’re getting close to sepsis. 20 in 20 minutes? you are actively dying of sepsis, which is a slow and lasting death. blood poisoning basically. if you get really intense and start just repeatedly popping totems every second, after about 50 you’re insta-dead, and might even die again upon respawning.

CREATIVE MODE/ADMIN PERMS:

players in creative mode are immortal demigods that can only be struck down by admins (/kill commands), admins can be both mortal or immortal gods. Admins can affect the world around them with commands, and can alter the physics and rules of the world around them. Creatives are demigods with immortality and can only become mortal or vice versa with an admin’s help. (example c!Xisuma of Hermitcraft is a mortal admin, while c!Drista of DSMP is an immortal creative, and c!Callahan of DSMP is an immortal admin)

Admin’s can be trained by past admin’s but any player can technically be one, they just might not be a very powerful one, and people might not join their server. Admin’s can only affect their server, so if they entered another they might be more knowledgable on server mechanics, but cannot access them without hacking or that server admin’s permission. 

If a server is very big and popular, their admin is usually very experienced and powerful and old. That admin may even be able to travel through the void unbothered, thought to be because they are connected to Minecraft’s root code.

MINECRAFT CREATORS:

the creators of Minecraft are dimension hopping, reality bending, incomprehensible gods. they are responsible for general spawning conditions, communicator designs(will come up later), the vanilla Minecraft items, and the very source code of this universe. 

SERVERS AND THE VOID AND THE INTERNET:

servers are kind of like planets, each planet floats in the void, has an atmosphere, etc. but they are more like dimensions in that while you could theoretically physically travel between them, it is much much safer to teleport. and also each server operates with its own rules and physics sometimes. So view server/planets as something like dimensions with dark void in between them that warps time and space. don’t view it visually as the same kind of universe as ours, more like each server is the meat in a sandwich where the bread is the void? so below and above each server is the void, and that void is the same as every other void? like wormholes.

its much easier to just use your communicator to teleport between servers, your ability to do so depends on the admin’s imposed rules for the server.

servers like Hypixel or other multiplayer game servers like it are seen as hub servers where players can meet up. MCC is a sporting event server where people can watch the more famous players compete. 

famous players usually become famous through word of mouth, or posting clips or videos of their collaborations or moments or feats. these videos can be viewed on communicators. streaming doesn’t exist as the void could not permit streaming between servers. but there are big systems on big servers for downloading new videos, and famous players upload their videos on bigger servers.

TIME AND YEARS:

minutes, hours, days, months, and years all operate the same as irl. because irl its been about 11 years since Minecraft was created, I say that its been about 1100 years since the universe was created. servers age will start from the moment of their creation. but most servers will hold true to the date on the communicators expressed for example as 1/1/1143, and every 365 days it is a new year. Unless time is said to have been passed I say in a meta way that each stream/day of filming a video is a day. Some servers can be stuck in time, but this is usually either an admin twisting code illegally, or a glitch. 

COMMUNICATORS:

when a player spawns into a new world or server they spawn in with nothing except clothing and the latest edition of the communicator. it is updated with each new mc update so as of writing this players in new worlds get communicator version 1.20. all communicators usually have the time, world chat, coordinates, light level reader, and depending on the mods in the world or the permissions, and the status of the player as player, admin, or creative, it can have things like a world map, access to code, camera features, etc etc. 

PLAYERS AND HYBRIDS:

players can be born from parents but they can also just kind of, spawn into existence. a lot of player families are found families, but these are treated as close to biological as possible. players can spawn in at any age but most are spawned in as 6-16 year olds. when players spawn in without any player family, they spawn into single-player worlds. but can figure out how to get to other worlds due to being spawned in with a communicator. often the first few years of a player’s life are lonely, so they get very attached to their found families.

the ratio of born/spawned in players is changing every day as more players are having children, but as of around 1100 the ratio is about 40/60, the ratio of non-hybrid to hybrid is about 50/50

hybrids do not have to be vanilla Minecraft mobs, though those were most common in the early years. only in the past couple centuries have demon, angel, and more bizarre hybrids begun to show up, though it is believed most of them are quite old and just remained hidden. the most common hybrids are avian, pet-hybrids like dogs and cats, goat/horse/sheep, and piglin, creeper, or enderman hybrids. hybrids do not necessarily have to be created by procreation, oftentimes they are not, and are simply spawned in. it has been this way since the beginning. 

certain dimension exclusive hybrid players will be born/spawned in their dimensions, but can travel to the Overworld.

THE NETHER AND THE END AND THE OVERWORLD:

the nether has many civilizations that are very very wary of players, however they will usually let hybrids stay with them. if they have a kind community, these players may naturally choose to stay in the nether, but usually their communities outcast them and they are driven to the overworld. to do so they will create a nether portal. the nether is close to the bottom layer of the void.

the end has the endermen civilization, who look after the dragon on each server.  hybrids can usually get by ok in these civilizations, but similarly to the nether they sometimes escape to the overworld. to do so they sneak past the ender dragon and her guards, and spawn in at world spawn. the end is close to the top layer of the void.

WATCHERS:

watchers are the only beings able to traverse the void completely safely. thought to have long ago escaped the outer edges of the end, they now live in the void somewhere. there are no known records of them, just heard about through word of mouth and legends. it is thought they can control chance, luck, and things that not even admins can influence. it is rumored they destroy servers for fun, but those reports have been proven false, it is more likely that they have motives we do not yet know. the legends surrounding them report many pairs of wings, a lot of eyes, and glowing purple magic. 

MAGIC:

like stated previously, depending on the admin’s choices, the very physics of a server can be changed, and so, some servers can be very very technical and some very magic dependent. however magic cannot be brought over onto other servers with some very specific exceptions. if a player is cursed or blessed by a particularly ancient and powerful admin or a creator. if a player is conceived and born from two players on a magical server. and lastly if a player has managed to either hack through to the code of the server, been glitched, or hacked their own player code to allow for it. it is possible for them to be able to use that specific magic even on a server that doesn’t include that possibility in its code. however this can, as you could imagine, cause chaos and/or glitches as the server fails to comprehend what is happening, so admins can add magic-blockers to their server code. 

HACKERS:

hackers are usually ex admins, the most experienced being centuries old. it is important for them to keep their PlayerName hidden as that is one of the easiest way an admin or even creator could track them down, so they usually go by alias’. they frequent anarchy servers mostly, but some occasionally search for easy targets in the hub servers. going after kids is seen as cheap and highly unethical by most hackers. 

THE CANON-ICITY OF PAST LIVES ON OTHER SERVERS:

to clarify this section is referring to situations such as YHS being canon to hc!Grian’s backstory for example, or DSMP being canon to q!Bad’s backstory etc etc. and honestly? whatever the story calls for, but I love me some cross servers backstory, I love me some backstory that includes other servers. 

that being said, sometimes a story on a server will straight up say ‘hey this isn’t a characters backstory actually’ so hell, there are other dimensions where server’s work differently. yeah.

CONCLUSION:

I probably missed a few things as my mcyt experience has been Dantdm, Popularmmos, DSMP, Hermitcraft, Life Series, and now QSMP, and I am only an English speaker. 

feel free to tell me ur Minecraft mechanic head canons in the tags <3

[nanintell]

Angler Company Epic Dungeon dummy guide for the writer herself

authentic required: at least 130 (best case: 180) cause all maps need 130

setup: go for power setup also if you use space button for something like jumping, consider moving to another button to leave space alone for "circuit" map. also get your brain ready for some headache.

dungeon map type (2 each of these type except boss maps)

Toggle floor

Gundam (sorry gundam fans but it's easy to remember)

Circuit (a few engineers' nightmare haha *sob*)

Robot Boss

Silent Angler Boss (ref from a yugioh card lol)

HIGH POSSIBILITY THAT ALL BOSSES HERE CAN ONLY BE BINDED BY ORIGIN SKILLS AS ERDA NOVA AND ARK'S 4TH JOB BIND CONFIRMED TO NOT WORK.

Type Mechanic Detail

Toggle floor

first kill mobs to gather energy (max 1k) and use npc button at control panel to play a "minigame"

minigame rule: a small robot will walk around. you will need to control platform to have it reach the portal.

platform control: press tab to switch red and blue platform. if the platform is lighted up, the robot can move on it (not lighted up = a hole). 1 toggle cost 20 energies.

if you run out of energy, you will need to exit (by pressing npc button) to gather energy again.

if you want to skip a level (1 map has around 3 levels until you reach final goal), collect 1k energies, access control panel and press shift.

on second toggle floor map, the robot will come with special feature like being blind, invisible for a few seconds, being fast etc.

cheat sheet for someone who wants to clear it by hand: one long platform => toggle floor after the robot goes past the tile you want to turn off and not make a u-turn yet, jumping session => toggle floor when the robot is in midair or right after it jumps (there is a session in both maps that the floor color doesn't change though but others have different color), stack floors => toggle floor (2 times in a second if the floor below is same color) while robot is walking toward goal direction.

Gundam

clear mobs to gather at least 500 energies to unlock a portal. enter it to wear a gundam suit

in suit, hold npc to shoot mobs there also while shooting you can press up and down to adjust shooting angle.

press q to toggle floor (same mechanic as toggle floor type)

getting hit a mob will reduce energy by 10. if suit runs out of energy, you will be kicked out to mobs map.

the suit has stance of 0, so getting hit by a mob can make you fall (flower jumping quest horror)

if you fall, you will be spawned at start line.

toggle platforms are in swapping colors ie. red > blue > red > ... so you will need to toggle floor while jumping to another platform.

once you reach a goal, press npc button for a short while to clear it and enter the portal near the goal.

you will be in a mobs map and a boss will be spawned at the portal. kill it to clear the stage.

boss's only attacks are laser, its range is short but eats half of your hp.

Circuit

first and foremost, switch keyboard to the one that leaves space alone.

you will need to run current to the blue star point at the bottom of the map (the one on top map is the point where current originates)

press space button to create a wire which forced current to it. (basically short circuit). the wire will be created at where you stand and it will connect to the one on the direction you shoot the skill.

also you can hold space and press up and down key to adjust vertical position of the wire.

WARNING: you can’t create wire too close to existing horizontal wire or connector.

you can talk to labora to check whole map. if the circuit is way too messy, you can reset it by pressing tab.

on first map, once you make it. boss's barrier will be gone so burst it down asap. if you can't finish it off in time, its barrier will come back and you have to do it again (change wires, start and end point too)

on second map, if the boss goes down and hits red end point, you can hit it. also, it will also reset whole thing if you can't kill it in time or solve the circuit in time.

Robot boss

boss's mechanic includes homing lasers and kamehameha

homing lasers eat around 25-30% of your hp and will land on you 2-3 times per fire.

kamehameha has 2 types, red and blue. use barrier button to generate barrier OPPOSITE OF the beam color (toggle barrier button again to change color (if first generated is blue, toggle changes to red) or you can just dodge it if you are confident in your damage. (cause i sure don't)

kamehameha consumes around 30-40% of map so you can dodge it by standing on leftmost of the map (there is a warning area along with its color)

if you generate correct color, go take a hit. you won't get damage and energy will be charged up. however, if you failed, you won't be insta-killed (your hp will be decreasing fast so get away from it and heal asap) but your death count will be reduced by 1.

After firing kamehameha and you manage to get some energies, press npc button to enable the gun above after you got some energy to access it. use direction button to control direction of the gun and press shift to fire it. aim at the x mark on the boss to hit it. you can shoot the mark for a few times and each mark hit reduces 2% hp of the boss.

once you successfully hit the marks, the boss will be frozen for a short while which is a nice moment to burst it down.

Silent Angler boss

the boss normal phase has 2 mechanics. laser and mechanical rod

laser aims at player and will lock target and fire after a few seconds.

mechanic rod will target player in vertical and will also hit player in a few seconds. if you got hit by it, your skill will be locked.

the boss body is NOT THE FISH. IT'S AN ORB GOING AROUND THE MAP.

try to deal damage to it as much as possible. if you hit it to the certain level, it will overheat and stay still. if not, it will make a rain of stuffs along with earthquake which deals a bit of damage over time.

also note that, hitting boss will also give you energy which you will need it in next phase.

after overheating or earthquake, barrier phase will begin. the boss will warp to the background and a bunch of mobs will appear. kill it to gather energy to 1k and press npc button on the blue barrier at the middle of map (will appear after a while)

also the rod will appear 2 times at once but in fixed position. if it appears just above your platform, you can duck to dodge it but if it's exactly where you are standing, jump at the right time to dodge it. or you can just move to safe platform (i usually stood on where the barrier is so i just dodged them)

the rods during this phase have less damage but it will also REDUCE ENERGY BY 100.

if you can't activate the barrier in times, the boss will wipe out 2 death counts.

if you fall, you will be spawned on second floor platform. side depends on where you fell. (closest side of where you fell)

tips: the orb moves in U shape and makes a u-turn at top of left and right sides so if your burst skills can hit mobs in vertical direction, hit the orb when it's going up or if your burst skill can hit mobs in horizontal, hit the orb after it comes down and going from or in your direction.

[comradeboyhalo]

I feel like the issue with comparing the QSMP to DnD is that the islanders would all be different levels, but the writers have to handle everything as if they are the same level. BBH was able to take on 3 eye works and even kill one solo, meanwhile the morning crew got their behinds handed to them by a group of lesser ratio. How do you balance combat for BBH the level 10 Warlock alongside Fit the level 3 Paladin?

yess youre definitely right! ive been thinking about this too, cause i think the dnd approach is necessary for the storytelling (i.e the idea of a loose plot map that the players stitch together), but combat is a different matter. also now im just going to start thinking out loud so please dont take any of what i say below seriously LOL you gave me an excuse to ramble!

overall i also dont really think its the actual combat that needs tweaking. its really more that the players need ground rules of what commands/godmodding the admins can do, or whether or not egg admins are teleporting themselves back ooc. there just needs to be communication about whether or not these fights are winnable, cause players need to have some agency and not feel demotivated, especially seeing some of the reactions from fit/bagi/tubbo. i want players to feel regret, i dont want them to chalk it all up to "oh the admins are just op". there shouldnt be a meta explanation like that, yknow? but ill also talk about fight balancing cause now im curious and want to brainstorm :D

to be fair, bad was only able to take down the eye workers because he started throwing mines, and thats something he's only able to do solo. if mines are out, then it just comes down to him tanking all the hits, because no weapon of his can do enough damage to kill them. qsmp already is doing some type of balancing with the enchanted stick: in that case, the worker who deals the most could focus on bad and burn through his totems while the rest deal with weaker islanders. i also think confusion is a really useful tool, which is why the mobs during code attacks were so scary with the blindness/weakness effects. the best "choreographed" code fights happened when there were waves of mobs, and the code attacked intermittently. this gives weaker players something killable to focus on and giving stronger players a bigger enemy (the npc) if need be, while also automatically hindering their fighting because of crossfire and effects. bad is a lot more cautious with his hits in group battles too.

i think the bigger issue is that armor is so strong on the server that you need crazy good weapons to make a dent. but no one has crazy good weapons except for the admins and etoiles. to get anywhere, the islanders need really creative ways to deal damage while not contributing to crossfire. and this stacks up the odds against all the islanders, whether theyre strong fighters or not. if its doable, the players need to know that its doable, cause rn even bad's idea with reinforced cobwebs was shot down when bagi told him they could just break it in creative mode. which brings me back to my first point. COMMUNICATE SOME GROUND RULES!

but anyways everything im saying is pointless cause i dont know what the lore reasons are 😭. i dont know what the story goals are rn so i cant offer up any good ideas. i really hope that the goal isn't to kill eggs, because i honestly think the qsmp has proven pre-purgatory that we don't need egg-centric storylines to keep the plot rolling. i think a lot of fun fights (and even deaths) can still happen without it feeling forced on the player and viewer end.

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AQW Father's Day 2022 NPC Thread

Alright I'm going to just copy and paste everything verbatim from the twitter thread posted last year for /DreadForest, typos and all. Forgive me and the zilch amount of time I got

Omg all the time I had to censor words like kill and dead cause twitter would shadow ban you:

This isn't a Writer's Thread, just some extras for fun! 90% of the NPCs in the Father's Day release were already characters I had on hand I'll share where they came from as they may not reappear. They're DF Fan-OCs btw so info in the source material is non-canon to DF and AQW

If you've been here a while, you already know the dealio. Most of the one-shot concepts I turn into releases originated as Drakath/Hero Fanfiction. This Father's Day release is different in that the story itself is completely new and based on AQW canon, but includes DF OCs.

Lord Reignolds was originally a side character in the "Frog Fic" iykyk its available to everyone He got a downgrade from Duke to Lord but his abilities as a Necromancer got a boost in exchange to fit his purpose for the Telease. The details of that will be in the Writer's Thread

Within DF (non-canon fanfic, remember that), was a real wuss during the Rebellion. He's too squeamish to ever raise a corpse, and preferred to live quietly and not get himself into any trouble with the new King because of how terrified he is of Alteon

His paranoia is a constant but in the canon of AQW, Lord Reignolds' conspiracy crazy room had basis in fact while DF OC Reignolds was very much off of his rocker

Also in contrast- AQW Reignolds was able to bounce and take Marigold with him before King Alteon could find out about his unlawful activities. DF OC Reignolds was caught by Alteon when Marigold was much younger

As Chaos has no impact or presence in DF, Lord Reignolds did not become a Court Mage so that saved his daughter a lot of heartache DF OC Mari is removed from her father's care by Alteon earlier in her life so she's more expressive whereas her AQW version is sullen

DF OC Reignolds family has an estate where the flowers are care for more than the people who live on his land. And Mari is a curious and active child that has difficulties learning in conventional ways, which drove her Father crazy and made the servants protective of her

Within the "Frog Fic," Alteon puts his crown on the shelf for a moment and makes a decision as a Father. He wasn't comfortable giving custody of Mari to another, potentially opportunistic, noble. Rather, he arranged for Lady Celestia to find a quieter place for her to be raised.

Maybe I'll save the details for AQW Mari for later, since it also goes with what her purpose was for the Release

Moving on to Edward Vaughn who is also a pre-existing character I had on hand who would fulfil the needs for the release. Rather than specifically Ed who was the focus, his family and siblings are the main antags of the "Frog Fic" Ed himself is a special case however.

First though, thank you very much for your kind words! I have a lot of fun with any space I'm allowed to write in, and I find a lot of enjoyment creating scumbags like Ed! Funny you should say no face though

Edward has made no prior appearances in works I've made public. It's his brothers Henry and Richard (who's naming theme is based off of the House of Plantagenet) that are more active than he is as DF OC characters. Rather, Edward is solely an AQW Legion OC originally

Edward's family in general are supporters and big fans of the DF Hero, but are more subtle about their scumminess and deep hatred towards Alteon and the previous King But Ed gets no mention. He was far less subtle, was eventually caught for his crimes, and lost his head to a mob

As an AQW OC, Edward follows the conventions of his family where if they lose their heads, they'll still come back He manages to crawl out of his grave as a headless undead, and falls in with the Legion through unconventional means. None of his peers like him.

If you have something he wants, like gold or a pretty face, he'll act similarly to how he was in the release. But unmotivated, he's a lazy lout, enjoys picking on people weaker than him, and disrespecting his superiors. Idk he, wears a basketball as a fake head during meetings

Worse yet, he's a powerful fighter but will jump ship immediately if there's a paladin, warrior of good, or sweet hearted cleric that's cute around. "Bye guys, I'm a changed man, see you never." 6 months later, Ed comes back, said things didn't work out, does not elaborate.

As for Queen Eleanor and Ophelia, they are also DF OCs which we will have to go back...omg 9 years??? 9 years ago I made my first Modern AU fic that, of course, was Drakath/Hero At the time, I was making up placeholders thinking DF will eventually show Drakath's history.

WELL! 9 years later and here we are, the placeholders are now part of AQW's canon. I did talk with Cray about this and checked in with what AQ was doing. Messaged DF devs as well but didn't get a reply, then got scared, and didn't follow up with them

I promise I'll pull myself together in the future for the sake of AQW's lore quality. Lore is not the same across the AE games but checking in with each other, I feel, would be beneficial to get a robust understanding of characters as well as learn from different perspectives

I'm getting off track lol DF OC Eleanor is the wife of Drakath's father but is not his mother. Her family is affluent, rich, and a favorable marriage candidate. Problem was that she was unable to have children, but couldn't get a divorce because of the public shame.

Eleanor is a name come back to a lot because I really like Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was imprisoned by her 2nd husband (King Henry of England) and set free by her son Richard the Lionhearted. DF OC Eleanor feels that not only is she her husband's prisoner, Dkath is too

(remember this is all fanfic area that I made a long time ago, not canon unless something is expressly stated in-game) DF OC Eleanor holds no ill will towards Dkath, actually has affection for him as a son, and adopts a shivering/angry little dog that reminds her of him.

AQW Queen Eleanor was also married for her status and wealth. When Dethrix I successfully found and made a Vessel, he had her k*lled and framed it to look like she passed during childbirth. That way, there would be less suspicion on Dkath's origins

As for DF OC Ophelia, she was a teenage runaway who was too ashamed to return to her awful family when she realized that getting by on $200 she stole from her mom wasn't possible Eventually she finds work as a maid for Eleanor, but runs away when she realizes she's with child.

DF OC Ophelia is a scared, self-loathing person that makes big lies about how amazing, smart, and pretty she is. It's a way to force herself to get to that level, and eventually make those lies true. Fake it till you make it. Unfortunately, she's very unlucky.

Anyone named Ophelia is in danger of that cause of Bill the Bard, doomed to unfortunate and lonely ends which is why I have an affection for the name. DF OC Pheli would be a tool for her parents to gain wealth, wanted love but was only given fake affection if she was useful

She believes herself to be ugly, dull witted, and clumsy. A lonely and drab wreck that you'd have to put up with instead of want to be around. Having Dkath was actually a big turning point in her life, she cared for him a lot, and her life was a lot happier for a little while.

Then Dethrix's men found and threatened Ophelia into giving Drakath up. She only complied knowing that Dethrix was going to pass the baby off as his and his real wife's son. That way, he'd get to live like a Prince instead of having a cardboard box as a cradle.

After that, she fades into obscurity, once again alone in the world. In contrast to Drakath, she's a noble person in the ways of the heart but is invisible to others because of her poverty and unfortunate situation in life No one will notice or care if something happens to her

Meanwhile, no one will care if something happens to Drakath because he's a pathetic loser (Affectionate) Anyways, me and my friends joke that Drakath is cute while his dad looks like he spent too long in an air frier so we attributed Dkath's good looks to his unknown mother

That's how DF OC Ophelia, and now AQW Ophelia, came to be as a concept. She originally was a woman with black hair and pink irises but for AQW, they're green to better show the blood link to her son.

Bill is a completely new character for AQW, and softened things for AQW Ophelia. In the original concepts, he never existed so Ophelia really was all on her own. He could have been named Laertes but that's too on the nose and noble sounding. Bill is more down to earth sounding

That turned into a long but fun thread for me to make

This is all early concept/fanwork stuff outside of the context of AQW If you read this far,thanks for reading and I hoped you found stuff interesting! The Writer's Thread with Lore confirmations will be up on Monday