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there’s something about the sight of steps leading down into the water. it feels like the ocean telling me to come home

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crochet aquarium

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Locus

its the scariest time of year when ghouls and goblins come out from the dark and everyone is frightened

Genre: Horror

Touchstones: Psychological horror films, like Citadel and Shutter Island

What is this game?: Locus is a ttrpg of psychological horror with weak, guilty characters

How's the gameplay?: Locus works by rolling 3d6 and checking against a character's stat, the result depends on the difficulty of the check, Easy checks use the Highest roll, Medium use the Middle, and Hard checks use the lowest roll. In addition, players have a hand of cards, these represent how your character's vices begin to burden them, they have a suit representing a Virtue and a suit representing a Vice, when you draw a virtue card its not added to your hand, but any other card is still added, what do cards do? Well, I can't say! Locus uses a lot of mechanics deliberately kept secret to the players, and what cards actually DO is a secret!

What's the setting (If any) like?: Not really applicable, the setting is whatever you need it to be, but if you need some inspiration go play the first 4 silent hills + Downpour and Shattered Memories, right now, go do it!

What's the tone?: Locus is about horrible people being placed in horrible situations, it is a dire game through and through

Session length: Locus lends itself to shorter, 1-3 hour sessions

Number of Players: 3-5 players

Malleability: No setting, it can be used for most Psychological Horror games you wanna run

Resources: the character sheet is so stupidly small you don't really need THAT much to run this game, just something to keep track of cards in hand

Locus is a solid psychological horror RPG, it has some very inventive mechanics and some very tried and true mechanics, which are all used to build tension in the narrative and take control away from the players

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Hamster Escapes the Most Dangerous Prison Maze 🐹

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We need to go back to using sailing ships full time like immediately. Yes it would take longer to get places but the Aesthetic is unmatched

Like there is nothing sexier hthan this

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getting big 45 minute vibes from this 15 minute recipe

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Mirroring Sheev's Plan by Sullivan

Performed by Austin Walker on AMCA

(originally posted on Cohost)

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Sheev's Plan:

get elected to senate for naboo

start new sith order

work republic and separatists against each other. recruit evil guy to lead separatists.

(this jedi kid is wicked strong!)

get jedi in deep with clone army. (save some clone jars for later? just in case...)

PIVOT: Make the jedi kid evil. dont need separatist guy anymore. got a new evil guy.

make my evil guy kill his jedi pals when they come to arrest me. ill finish em off with my lightning attack

(fucking guy used his sword to bounce my lightning back at me! honestly my fault. takes a minute for the lightning to wind down and he got my ass on the bounce. fair play. now i look like a leather couch but its fine. can blame jedi for THAT too)

Use the clones to kill the jedi, have my evil guy kill the seperatists, keep the army, spin into empire

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

chill as emperor for a while. humiliate Vader for a laugh. make death star.

Endgame achieved.

(Vader's kid blows up my death star)

PIVOT: get new young apprentice by turning him evil once he kills his dad, or maybe make Vader cooler by making him kill his gay son. either way its a win-win for me.

(thrown down hole and killed.)

PIVOT: good thing i kept those clone jars!! make new clone body to inhabit. takes time to get right. need something to do until then

build enormous fleet of big spaceships, each with their own super death star laser. keep em on the down low... why use em? they lose half the value as soon as you fly them off the lot

(clone son betrays me but its no biggie. its fine. have loads of clones at this point. whats one clone son?)

create a DECOY fascist empire. put one of my weirder clones in charge. Not giving them any of my ships though. can build his own shit. dont look at me. get a bank loan

let failed clone recruit vaders grandson (will explain why later) let those guys take over the galaxy with a different super death star. assume they built this one themselves. very cute!

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

(only via proxy tho. not done yet)

let(??) vaders grandson ("ben"?? ok) usurp failed clone and rule galaxy. wants to “kill the past” but whatever. can still make this work. NEED to keep this kid in the mix (will make sense when we get there)

drop the big news. Im not dead! Fortnite. awesome moment.

lead kylo ren to my base using complex scavenger hunt. puzzle knife.

tell him he’s always actually worked for me. big reveal. big moment. He's my lackey now. a little traitorous and unreliable, but this will pay off later trust me

use death star ships to take over galaxy even more

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

(awesome... but not enough. something missing)

let kylo ren lead clone granddaughter to home base using complex scavenger hunt. Puzzle Knife cool enough idea to do twice i think

taunt granddaughter into killing me so i can possess her un-janked body. All part of my grand scheme...

Endgame achieved. (??)

(kylo ren betrays me)

PIVOT: Possession stupid plan anyway. Instead, use ben and reys Horny Essence to make my nasty old body normal again.

throw ben in hole (grandson purpose revealed)

destroy resistance with lightning powers. shooting spaceships down with magic lightning basically a solved problem at this point.

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

kill the granddaughter actually. dont need her anymore. lightning powers classic for a reason.

ive got this thing in the bag as long as she doesn't bounce the lightning back at me off her fucking laser sword.

Endgame achieved.

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Pink Calcite from chenzhou prefecture Hunan province China

Photo: Future Mineral