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well that was ten minutes in picsart I do not regret

Lawyer: Does you have anything to say for yourself?

Swarm of Flood infection forms piled into the witness stand: (infects the entire courtroom)

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I love this Duo so much

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

You belong with me. 💚💛💜❤️🩵🖤

Letter on my site :)

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Reasons To Be Excited For Halcyon #4

Mechs Aren't Only Used For Fighting.

Dear University,

Do you want to stand out in the galaxy as one of the schools with a fleetball team? Do you want your alumni out in the pro leagues, fighting on your planet's team?

We are offering to equip up to six interested universities on participating planets with our signature light frames, funding for the construction of a fleetball field, and the stasis field technology required for the boundaries. Any Knight frame is allowed in the pro leagues, so alumni can keep the frame they played in at your school.

These frames contain cutting-edge neural link technology. While all mech frames are piloted with the mind, these frames have no controls at all, feeding everything directly from the mind, allowing the pilot's muscle memory and natural reactions to be utilized on the field.

Your athletes could play an intense, engaging sport from the safety of a mech's cockpit without losing any of the natural advantages of lightning-quick reactions. Are you in?

Knight Manufacturing

Subgroup of Bishop Collective

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guh

Reasons To Be Excited For Halcyon #2

Guns Aren't the Only Weapons...

REACTOR TEMPERATURE CRITICAL.

Slip behind a boulder and vent heat. Hissing and a tingle in my shoulders – no, the frame’s – as heat sinks touch freezing air. Indicator bars drop back into safe zones. Spin back out and find the thing that hit me – spindly legs and weapon barrels poking over a ridge. At least two targets. Flicker my eyes on a display and range calculations appear in my head. 

Shift a finger I can’t feel to open comms. “Aurora, mortar fire on your two. Distance five-five-three, incendiary shells.”

“Copy, Thresher.” 

Three thumps from my left, three fireballs blooming on the ridge. Three more reactors on sensors, all at the edge of mortar range. Two of them moving closer. 

“Eclipse, Claymore, push for the ridge. Aurora, keep their heads down. 

“Copy, Thresher.” 

Cracking of rocks from my right. Eclipse’s frame lumbering forward with Claymore’s leaping ahead. Impulses from my brain go straight to my frame and I’m moving too. The moving targets are in visual now – blacked-out plating and weapons. No database match, and I can’t find the third. Mortar shells are landing but they’re moving too fast. Bullets splattering off shields and splitting stone. Screaming of missile locks fighting digital blockades.

Aurora’s voice. “Thresher, I think I found -” 

Static. Nothing. 

Flip to rear lenses. Aurora’s frame collapsing with a two-meter silver spike in its chest – sensors tag it as D-38. No sound at all. 

“Find cover!” 

I’m in the open. Air shimmers atop the ridge, and I see the third target. Black plating and a white thing on its shoulder. Dead, bone-white with a blue light like an eye at the end. The light’s brighter now, and it blinks. 

Flip to my real eyes. A silver rod through my stomach. I can’t remember when it got there.

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WHERE ARE WE GOING???

THE DISTANCE

WHAT ARE WE GOING FOR???

THE SPEED

…AND THE REMOVAL OF AI IN THE WRITING PROFESSION

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Oh what’s this? A little horse for me???

…why are there so many Greeks in it

Leaves this on your doorstep and runs away giggling

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this is perhaps the most fun system I’ve ever played fyi

me and the space viking dad I play are loving the battle mechanics and ease of combat with all of the intensity of 25ft mechs dunking on each other in populated areas

if you’re big into this vibe it’s soooooo worth your time

Haven't done this before, so I'm throwing it into this space because it seems likely to be responsive.

You like Lancer's blend of combat mechs and narrative gameplay? Me too. What if it was less D&D4e and instead had a new buildcraft/combat system built only on d20s and d4s?

HALCYON is a mech RPG I've been building and testing for a while. I'll freely admit it has a lot of Lancer in its concepts, because my intent was to take those feelings of strategy, freedom, and power and streamline them into something that can be picked up and played by beginners or experienced RPGers with equal ease. The hex grid combat system allows for wild synergies and creative problem-solving with just enough structure to make resolution easy, while the Pilot-only sections are grounded and driven almost entirely by roleplay.

I'm thinking about trying to take this more public, but I'm looking for testers outside of my immediate circle. If any GMs out here would like to give it a shot or just check out the rules doc, shoot me a comment or DM and I'll send it over.

(photo is a sample of some incredible art/weapons cards being done by @birdofthenight. The finished product will have a lot more and maybe even some original music)

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ah yes, my favorite GM. burger leegan.

on a separate note, excellent finale. burger leegan’s making me cry again

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Here. Take a Rapunzel. Damn Nomura for not telling us the other three new princesses.

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lore accurate sibling dynamic? yes please! 🙂‍↕️

kh incorrect quotes #2

everyone liked Kairi/Riku siblings so I raise you: Ventus/Terra acting like actual brothers. like Terra is the older, slightly unhinged, tired brother. and Ventus is just. a nightmare. 

Terra: this macaroni is the platonic ideal Ventus: I thought that’s where Aqua keeps putting you Terra: Terra: Listen here little shit-

Ventus: do you know how long your shirt is supposed to dry for? Terra: it’s supposed to air dry, not machine dry Ventus: k.  Ventus: *casts aeroga in the background and a large gust comes through the room* Terra: WHAT WAS THAT? Ventus: NOTHING Terra: VENTUS GIVE ME MY SHIRT Ventus: IT’S GONE Terra: GONE WHERE Ventus: Terra: GONE. WHERE? Ventus: I  Ventus:  Ventus: how fast can you run?

imagining Ventus doing that thing where he kicks his legs like crazy to keep Terra from hitting him? Terra telling Ven it's dinnertime by turning the lights on and leaving the door open? wrestling over the last pizza slice???

idk I just think this is a dynamic that should be explored. that’s all I’m saying

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felt

I recently told an ao3 writer that I keep going back to their 260k word unfinished slowburn checking for updates for the last 2 years. They said I'm like that puppy that waits for his dead owner at the train station every day.

That's the realest thing anyone's told me online, I ain't even mad.

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gearing up to start a new sci-fi ttrpg this weekend that my friend wrote! it's one of three unique systems that our group just like. made up. (i have such cool friends the heck?)

my character is a space dad in search of his wife and kid after the planet they were inhabiting mysteriously exploded. this might be a direct result of my epic the musical obsession. oh well

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look as a dm it’s SO FUN to actually see the nat 20s up close

it’s worth the little voyage i think

Ashley, shocked : "Natural 20 !"

Matt, even more shocked : "Holy shit !! You can actually read that dice !!"

He even made the voyage lmao

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graphics like these bad boys >>>>

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four