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Storytelling!

About meeting “things” in the forest.

(black arrows for character movement, red for camera)

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pieces from my obey me sticker sheets :D each brother got his own sheet with his favorite items! Super fun to design and draw waaa. Planning on designing sheets for the side characters in February because i personally need barbatos 

I’ll have leftovers up on my shop in a few days and then restocks in a couple weeks

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I've been so inactive lately lol...

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New Year's Resolutions

Whenever new year approaches, it's very easy to focus on examining how the last year went, and deciding what we want to aim for in the next year.

That in itself is a pretty healthy thing to do, but oftentimes the way we go about it is exactly the opposite.

Instead of concentrating on the things we achieved in the last year, the things that made us happy, the progress we made, it is easier to focus on what we didn't manage to do, the things that frustrated us, the lack of progress.

And that can lead to downplaying the positives, to cancelling them out with the negatives.

It's good to acknowledge what we achieved and recognise what we didn't get to do, but the latter has to come with a consideration of WHY it wasn't possible.

Did you prioritise your mental health and sleep needs? Did you escape the stress of living through a pandemic? Did you avoid social media where negativity is success and positivity is a finite resource that marks you for later destruction? Did you value yourself instead of measuring your worth by what you produce?

The answers are probably "no", and in such an environment, the positives are all the more impressive!

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Looking forward, almost all the goals people set for themselves are based on production. To draw more, to write more, to create better, to push your body, to work harder, faster, stronger, longer.

Very few goals are devoted to taking more care of yourself, to permitting yourself to have proper breaks, to allow yourself to step away so that you don't burn out, to reduce your workload for the benefit of your health.

Obviously there are caveats - we have to work to survive; our hobbies and creative outlets bring us joy.

But there is a balance to be struck that is often missed.

Your worth is not dependent on your output.

Your happiness is not dependent on your output.

But your sense of self-worth and your own happiness can be lost in the pursuit of producing more content.

Conversely, focusing on yourself, on acknowledging your successes, appreciating your progress, celebrating your continued existence, working on caring for yourself FOR yourself, and not just in order to produce more...

All of that can and does lead to a better relationship between yourself and your creativity.

Loving yourself is hard. But caring for yourself is an absolute necessity.

Appreciate your finished work before moving on to the next project

Enjoy your wips that don't make it, they show how much you are learning

Creating nothing? Good! Take the time to rest! Your brain needs rest to function well

Don't compare yourself with others negatively, everyone is on their own path

Give yourself permission to take proper time off from creating and social media

Cultivate your social media feeds to trim away the things and people that bring you down

Don't interact with trolls or people you don't like

Put your basic needs like diet, water, SLEEP, before everything else

Your brain is trying to protect you from burnout, listen to it!

Slow down - tomorrow is a new day

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I don't make new years resolutions. I look back at what stressed me out in the previous year, and I look back at what I achieved despite those issues.

My only goal for 2022 is to keep doing my best, and to remember and acknowledge my achievements as well as the hurdles that appear.

December and January are hard months for folks with depression and other brain related things.

Be kind to yourself!

❤️

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"Lucifer's Wedding🥀"

Art by Me btw.

‼️Do not repost without permission‼️ Thank you💞

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OM: New Event System Guide

Firstly, unless Solmare change their mind, the new mechanic introduced in the current event is intended to be permanent.

This is how events will function from this time forward, from the Celestial loot boxes to the lack of SSRs in the event Nightmare.

My guide for the new events is one step long and very simple:

DON'T.

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Events in the new system no longer have rewards. Instead they have prizes available via loot boxes, a type of gambling.

Loot boxes are required in most legal systems to list their odds of each item - even if those odds are equal. Solmare has not done this and risks the game being pulled from international app stores as a result.

If the odds are indeed flat, your chances of getting the first character SSR (Simeon) is 1 in 250, as each box has 250 items. You have to get that card twice in order to open the next box.

To get the SSR costs up to 125,000 points.

Versus the old system, 100,000 for the SSR.

To get the demon UR costs 500,000 points.

Versus the old system, 285,000 for the UR.

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The number of battles remains the same - 83 per day if the extra battles via adverts are available.

The base reward per battle is 120 points.

The base daily total is 9960.

The base event total is 119,520.

ie, not enough for the SSR.

(This is a keyed event so the base event total will be lower than this in fact.)

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The event Nightmare contains no SSR or SR cheat cards, only URs.

The odds of pulling an event UR do not change regardless of increasing or decreasing the number of URs.

The odds remain at 0.5%, ie an average of 1 UR for every 200 pulls.

This means your chances of having a higher battle total due to cheat cards is far lower than in previous events.

The only way to get higher odds is to use a UR voucher. You can try and win one for just 625,000 points ಠ_ಠ

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The loot boxes contain more prizes in terms of backgrounds, icons, and random items, as well as AP, DP and DV.

However, your chances of getting any of these is far small (1 in 250 per box), rendering most of the prizes useless, and opening the next box dependent on you earning up to 250 openings of the previous box.

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By the way, the Charge Missions this time around are also more expensive - anything from $200-400 depending on your currency - and no longer count level up sales or spending DP towards the totals.

Only purchased DP counts.

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tl;dr

In order to get the Diavolo and Lucifer URs you will have to earn up to 1,000,000 points.

Your odds of getting any one prize are 1/250.

Not listing odds of loot boxes is legally and ethically dubious and misleading.

It is possible to do 200 pulls and get only one UR.

This is the planned event mechanic going forward - without the 100 (x2) free pulls.

There is no guaranteed card prize for ftp players.

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Finally, please be aware that loot boxes are GAMBLING.

Obey Me has gone from a game that included one element of gambling via gacha, to a game that is solely reliant on gambling.

Nightmare is gambling.

Event prizes are gambling.

Gambling without odds listed is horrifically irresponsible.

Gambling games are NOT SUITABLE for minors.

People with adhd, anxiety, depression, and so forth are all at higher risk of falling prey to spending spirals and gambling addiction.

Please do not waste your money 😞

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Just gonna leave this here

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MC: Levi, what do IDK, LY, and TTYL mean? Levi, without looking up from his phone: I don’t know, love you, talk to you later MC: Ok, I love you too, I’ll just ask Solomon.

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Mephisto: In every timeline, he had met you.

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Barbatos: *kisses MC and refuses to break it*

MC: *trying to push him away*

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Mephisto: Every single time, he would fall for you.

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MC and Barbatos: *tries to conquer each other*

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Mephisto: And in return, you would fall for him too.

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Barbatos: *breaks the kiss and looks into their eyes* MC...

MC: ...

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Mephisto: *laughs* And you know what's funny? It was either you leave him or he leaves you. *smiles* Now, I wonder what will happen between the two of you in this timeline.

Mephisto: If I were you, I would save myself from this cycle.

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Barbatos: This time, I won't be giving you a chance in leaving me.

MC: But why...

MC: Why can't I leave you when you did the same with those timelines?

MC: Why can't I make a choice of my own?

MC: *cries* This is unfair...

Barbatos: *wipes their tears away* Because I wasn't selfish enough. This time... Even if you insist...

Barbatos: You are going to stay with me.

Barbatos: Even if it is meant imprisoning you within my grasp.

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*In the Demon's Lord Castle*

Diavolo: MC had fallen asleep.

Barbatos: ...

Diavolo: *smiles* You have told me that you would put yourself in check. Did I overestimate you, Barbatos?

Barbatos: *bows* I apologize, young master.

Diavolo: *chuckles* It's fine. It was just a rush of your emotions.

Barbatos: Young master, will MC remember what Mephistopheles had told them and what happened today?

Diavolo: No. I erased those parts. Tomorrow, you will see the very same MC you're used to talk with.

Barbatos: Thank you, young master.

Diavolo: However, Mephistopheles does have a point. This time, are you really going to do it?

Barbatos: I vow to myself that I will never leave them again.

Diavolo: Very well. I trust you, Barbatos.

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I wonder how the brothers (especially Lucifer) would feel if MC made a pact with Mephisto

Oof I think they would be pissed & hurt. Despite how much they fight they're very family oriented and they see MC as part of their family too. I imagine they see the pact as a very "family" thing. Lucifer's also the one who becomes the happiest when MC calls them family so he might feel especially betrayed? He's also very protective & possessive of his family (given what happened last time he loosened the reigns) so he might oppose it the most but in a subtle way compared to Mammon who may or may not throw a whole tantrum about it

Though I don't think MC will be able to make a pact with him cause even with the side characters becoming dateables and the addition of new characters OM!'s story still focuses on the brothers and they're the main characters, along with MC. According to S2 the pact also had special significance cause it was made between the 7 brothers/sins, so I don't think they'll add anyone into it.

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Actually, the devs may have did something clever with Mephistopheles character.

Mephistopheles is first mentioned in the German folklore Faust, a demon who serves under Lucifer, collecting and bringing corrupt souls to hell (though apparently, he doesn't like his job much). He also acts as a stand in or stock character in other works for the devil.

How ironic then, that he'd end up being "replaced" by Lucifer, not only as the RAD newspaper president but apparently, as Diavolo's friend. A "stand in" for the devil while working beneath him, which would also explain why his hair is so similar to Lucifer's.

Will the devs use such details to create a potentially interesting conflict in story? Probably not.

A few other interesting observations that I'm probably reading too much into at 2 AM:

Mephistopheles hair is purple, while Lucifer's is black. Purple is usually a stand in for the color black in comics and animation.

Mephistopheles eyes are green, while Lucifer's are red. Both colors tend to be used together often for a variety of different things.

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So @sourluci and I did a thing since we’re both into Tarot, we fit each character into a card! (with the honorable mentions of Lilith, God, and The Fall)

Lucifer - The Emperor

Mammon - Justice

Levi - The Hanged Man

Satan - Strength

Asmo - The Empress

Beel - The Sun

Belphie - The Moon

Diavolo - The Chariot

Barbatos - The Hermit

Simeon - Judgement

Solomon - Magician

Luke - The Fool

Thirteen - Death

Mephisto - The Wheel of Fortune

Raphael - The Hierophant

Lilith - The Star

God - The Devil

The Fall - Tower

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Not Abigail 😭😭

babe wake up the new Obey Me! students dropped <3

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:(

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So Diavolo asked MC to come back cause there was something important to tell them....is it cause Raph's gonna be an exchange student?

Does he need someone to hold back the brothers so they don't murder Raphael?

Does he need someone to hold back Barbatos when Raphael inevitably insults even the sand in the Devildom?

Does he need someone, who won't cause an international incident due to not being a person of political significance, to punch Raphael in the face?

Does he need someone to break Raphael outta whatever fictional-racism surrounds the Celestial Realm's view of the Devildom?

Can Diavolo not afford a real therapist?

Is it all of the above?

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HAHAHAHA I MADE SOMETHING.

Diavolo: HAHAHA FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!