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As of today every tabletop I'm in is done with(barring Lancer which is on another semi-hiatus), and we're in the in-between point where we figure out what to do next.

Things I wanna do next go around includes:

Playing a character that doesn't feel miserable is more upbeat

Be more of an active force in the game

Try to put more work into active story arcs instead of primarily reacting to the story around me

I am gonna miss my tired sailor, and grumpy soldier lad though. I might do some rough summaries of how the two games ended since I fell off my weekly posts about them I dunno though.

Talnath wouldn't retire. Does need to figure out his standing with the guild he's been AWOL from for over a year though. The party thankfully didn't try to speed run a shotgun wedding with his vampire girlfriend, and/or the party's monk at the end though.

Being an elf those relationship clusterfucks should (in my opinion) take ages to move for various reasons, one of which being Volenta being only recently released from the cosmos' most toxic polycule and Talnath wanting to give her the opportunity to realize her mistake of hooking up with him process that [???] amount of time worth of trauma.

Murtagh despite being made a god by the mechanisms of the universe would totally try to just keep people thinking Manannan was the one in charge while he does dumb explorer shit, and hunt Odin who has at this point more than worn out his welcome in this realm.

I never thought about shipping this character with anyone, but he also spent the first third of the game dealing with alcoholism and survivors guilt, the second third assuming he was dying and swinging rapidly between "Fuck it we ball" and "It's so over" and then he stopped dying and become a robot, and then the last third of the game was dealing with being destined to confront the status quo is the universe and the potential inevitability of divine ascension. How does one date after becoming a cosmic force?

I need to sleep getting close to 24 hours awake

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The evil one is a fucking lunatic

Uncut Gems - Mystia Dread

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uhhhhhhh guys.... THE MANTICORE PILOT JUMPED IN THIS THING

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yknow AI art has ruined an entire genre of painting to me, i saw one of those smooth anime-realism pieces and immidiately thought ''ugh, AI art'' until i noticed it was posted by an established deviantart user 6 years ago. like ive never been a huge fan of that genre but it looks like a pretty difficult style to master and i feel bad for the artists who specialized in anime-realism only to have their entire market jacked by people typing keywords into midjourney.

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So since Palworld has turned out to be backed by an AI shilling Cryptobro, can someone recommend a different monster collecting pokéadjacent game..

That's not Cassette Beasts? Nothing against it, it's not what I'm after.

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Last last week tonight today at like 0800 after hardly sleepling.

DnD Sunday: The Underdark is going to shit (yes it was already shit, yes it's getting worse. keep up) Betrayed by my evil* doppelganger in the least in character way but the most narratively predictable way. So that's on me, I convinced the others to let me try to break enemy morale by going for the one on one.

• Should I have known that the DM was gonna go for an attack on the city? Yes, it was the most obvious thing to do. Pull us away from locations of interest causing us to be late for the initial push. We should probably ask our Sponsor* if they have any McGuffins down here we should know about just in case this is a multi-purpose attack since they've had enough time to do as much spying as they could need down here honestly. • Would I as my character turn down a duel in favor of a siege? Hell fuck no, I believe this is the work of other party member's doppelgangers. I would pull my own teeth out before actively sieging a city like this So anyway the Owlin is real life mad because we had an off button for this coming invasion but I wanted to kill my double in single combat, break his cult's morale and try to guide them on a path that doesn't involve an invasion of the surface and blotting out the sun through unknown means. DnD Tuesday: #I_swear_this_isnt_Fate (Morgana Le Dragonne Fey is a real piece of work, I hate her and want nothing but to be on opposite sides of the world than her) Exploring a multi-thousand year old temple where people were doing some fucked up experiments on dragons to try to get one to achieve divinity.. What kind of god they expect to get after torturing one to death I don't know but probably not a good one. All and all not a whole lot to tell, a little exploring shattering a returning oneshot character's world view of their boss by revealing the whole "she's an ancient dragon and is kinda a bitch", small fight with some abominations left in the temple. Just lore chasing to try to fix Morgan's bullshit, that this cult broke. Lancer: Dustgrave (Honestly this is probably spoilers in a slightly too comprehensible way so look out if you don't know.) so we're just gonna leave some space for Ra here before we hit what nothing I'm actually gonna spoil, but am overthinking about We're in some shit, already had to field repair the Death's Head, and burnt a core power or two in a fight. And we're still not at the Mad Scientist (that Space 4chan caused to achieve chim as a prank) yet. So yes we're at that part of Dustgrave, and working with IPSN special forces in the most "I fully expect you to betray us, but my mech has all of the Zero Day Exploits and I do not want to D/D my friends so yes I'll take that hardware you're offering." kinda way I also hate how meaty the enemy mechs are right now.... it's concerning

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Uncut Gems - Raya

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Uncut Gems - Talnath/Evilnath

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Actual stuff of nightmares

Uncut Gems - Feather

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Charis Von Zarovich has the worst taste in men imaginable, and Nedylene concerns me normally evil* Nedylene is a big no thank you from me

Uncut Gems - Reverse Charis and Nedelyne

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Uncut Gems - Radovas

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Happy whichever seasonal holiday you celebrate to anyone seeing this.

Nothing to report tabletop wise really lancer is suffering from everyone's schedules suck + holiday scheduling sucks harder.

DnD Tuesday we had a Christmas special before we went on holiday hiatus

No Christmas Special for Sunday game

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Yeah it's just quiet on my end I've been playing a lot of Steamworld Build(really fun) and a Pokemon Romhack(Emerald Rogue kinda hard, need to reread some things about mechanics)

While arguing to myself that I don't need a retro handheld, or to modify one of my existing "classic" handhelds. Have been kinda tempted to get a Steam Deck that'd probably replace my aging gaming laptop and any desires of an emulator machine? I dunno needs more research.

I try to keep my wants in control in case my needs in case but you can't help buy just want stuff sometimes.

Anyways I suck at knowing what to tag shit and nothing here is anything anyone probably wants to read so meh

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I love SG1 so much

Gets funnier every time.

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My poor DM deserves less feral players, or at least a gift basket

I am not sorry, he did not deny anything he just deflected

this is probably an image for ants I apologize I am grandpa* and bad at computers. This post more than any post I have ever made requires context so if anyone asks I can try to get the cork board and string out.

Update: you are too late DM we are shipping them the council of degenerates has spoken

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I am once again begging the DM to give the enemy mechs more structure

I punched two different things through a wall, and crit killed a third thing.... I am almost ready to fight another god*

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I feel so dumb trying to format a post Tumblr on a browser vs on the app, nothing seems to work right.

Any smart people got an idea?

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Haven't posted in a while, but feel like rambling

Lancer: ???

Nothing to report, DM's been busy so we're still in a dark maintenance shaft about to get jumped by IPSN Special Forces

D&D: Sunday

I feel like I've mentioned some of this but we've been stumbling around some half forgotten cave network trying to get to the Underdark to try and reestablish communication between a Dwarven Hold under siege, and a Drow City they used to be on good terms with. Turns out the Drow are also kinda under siege from what is basically The Silence (yes British scifi fans those guys) so we've been doing the Adventurer thing of trying to shift local politics and gain favor to make the Drow less.... Prickly let's say prickly that's probably a safer way to put it.

In the process we've been on the hunt for a missing person, met my younger doppelganger and his harem, and his army that plans to unite the Drow under a single banner go to war with the surface and darken the sun, and stumbled upon a multi million year old temple to a universal karmic force that is a prison for a star/God eating GOO and went along with our wizard's doppelganger's plan to recharge the prison keeping the GOO weakened.

Now that we're up to speed, it turns out that the reason my Doppelganger gave up the prisoner so easy was that the person was already converted to the cause, and was going back to try and build support within the city itself, our Patron* wants to solidify her power block by having us go find some missing jewels used to power an ancient forge, I had a chat with Lolth who wanted me to go straighten out the local church/cult in her name. Which I was tempted to do anyway which lead to a fun conversation between two people that barely understand religion trying to meet a middle ground that makes everyone happy including a God and local politicians (who were totally ready to crush the church/cult for being too over zealous to please Lolth).

I also left my Barovian Vampire GF in charge of keeping tabs on the insurgent cult of my Doppelganger in the city while we're gone, this won't have negative repercussions because I didn't specify non-lethal methods of handling things if they start moving..... Oops/s

Also during the wrap-up in the city before going artifact hunting our Shadow Monk split the party and had to fight his Doppelganger, who might actually be a more terrifying war criminal than he is because he barely made it back with any HP left...

Also we stumbled across a version of Blackrazor, it's kinda a dick(Threw me across a room for being too lawful apparently, which is hilarious because I'm about as lawful as Eddie and Chavo Guerrero). The hunt for the forge crystals continues this coming Sunday.

DnD: Tuesday

That whole thing with the Illithid Roman empire? Resolved, we took the capital and killed the Senate while Julius took care of other political rivals off screen. Had a big fight with a GIANT half dead brain(Romulus and Remus), had a long rest but were down a player so the DM kinda bottle episoded us.

The session started with us getting vaporized and waking up in a sci-fi prison cell, after a few minutes of trying to brute force our way out and discovering just how depowered we were in this strange place we're following vague clues and running from something called a Lesser Inevitability, that the prison set loose after us for breaking out of high security lock up. Turns out we're on the moon(the real one not the fake moon hiding behind this one) and the entity giving us directions? The Sun, which is apparently a entity that exists to monitor the progress of our world and report any changes that need to be made to the AO3 writers guild that monitors the universe.

So while holding off the Lesser Inevitability we poke around the computers in this place, get some information on Solomon turns out he was the last person that this place took care of before they pulled everyone out and left the Suns as the sol(heh heh) moderator for this location. We also reported a hag that's been a thorn in our side for hacking writers guild system, so she's locked out of her fate changing bullshit which will make dealing with her much easier.

The session ends with us fighting our way to a legally distinct Stargate and teleporting back to the Capital for a long rest, after which we're gonna have to make a decision on what our next set of goals are. It's looking like the plan is try to and remove the stick out of Morgana's ass by filling the void left by having her emotions ripped out by stealing the emotions from an undead doppelganger of her that the sorcerer accidentally wished into existence with a loosely interpreted "I wish Morgana was dead" wish she got after helping kill a star creature. But first we gotta learn how they removed her emotions in the first place, then we gotta do it to a dracolich... Also gotta find Morgana again and hope she didn't do anything unwise with a sword that severs concepts after her freak out during an intervention her son hosted.

Isn't tabletop fun?

As always, if anyone for some reason reads this and wants more information ask away.