#( i assume they're good bc she's survived up until now )

[clochanamarc]

three people said yes and i am nothing if not vulnerable to the commands of my mutuals, so this is a DND starter call!! aisling's dnd details are below the cut!

okay so she's a human sorcerer (lvl 3 atm in bg3!)

and i'm adapting her into this so like, her mother was a sorcerer who planned to curse the village and the nearest kingdoms, her father was a farmer who loved his wife and children so much that he wasn't able to actively stop her from doing any of this, and aisling met and fell in love with a human fisherman (eoin) who would later die at moira's hand while trying to save a school filled with civilians.

aisling manages to defeat and kill moira, earning her the title of "folk hero", but the grief of losing eoin pushes her to leave the village and embark on her own travels, stopping frequently in towns and villages and cities to help the locals, create potions and healing salves, and practice her magic.

i'm not saying that camping with her is a wonderful experience, but it is, bc she typically performs small tasks for locals in exchange for things like apples, or a little oil, or some bread, and she makes some outstanding food with these ingredients and tools!

she can't light a fire very well tho.

also she uses three knives and a staff as her melee and range weapons.

i don't know nearly enough abt dnd to add more details to this, but i will say that, at some point in the dnd journey, she establishes a protected town in the woodlands in which she shelters and protects a large number of outcasts who have been ostracised from their communities due to their uncontrolled magic, skills, or other situations beyond their control. it's big and beautiful and she calls it home, but also the actual name for it is "ballyanam".

[thejacketscloset]

Re7ish ghoap/cod au but it doesn't follow the exact same plot bc Ethan and Mia hardly interact for like the whole game LMDIDJF

So Soap and Ghost are tasked with managing the transfer of a "bioweapon" to a secure location. They have no idea what the bioweapon actually is until they're already on the ferry tranfering them, so when they discover that it's a human child there's little they can do until the ferry stops. The child's name is Eveline, something Soap learns himself as it wasnt deemed important enough information for their mission breif. They're both instructed to tell Eveline she's being brought to her "new family" and to avoid any mention of what their mission is actually about, especially any mention of her being a bioweapon.

Of course, they recognize how shady the entire mission is, and don't heed to the instructions. Evelyn doesn't take it well, and they learn exactly what makes her a bioweapon. She infects the boat operators with the mold that she controls, causes the entire ferry to crash right on the baker family's property.

The baker family finds Eveline in the wreck and assume she's the only survivor, they take her in and the typical events of re7 unfold with them (decent into madness as she infects them with the mold. Very tragic, but also sooo cool in a horror sense pls play the game guys its so good)

Soap and Ghost survive the crash as well, but purposely avoid running into eveline after it bc they aren't properly equipped to deal with her powers after what they saw. They have 0 ways to contact the rest of the team, and no way out of the baker family's property except through it.

They venture through the different buildings together, see what has become of the family now that their minds are too far gone, and do their best to put an end to the suffering knowing they have no way to cure them of it.

Idk how it would conclude really, probably in a similar fashion to Chris' crew showing up to help at the end but instead it's the 141 bc they found out shit hit the fan someway and they battle it out with Eveline. Perhaps at some point one of Ghost/Soap get infected and they have to go through the process of scrambling to find a cure while they periodically lose control of themself and attack their teammate 😋. Fun stuff yknow <3

Finally managed to put it into words somehow but. Yeah. I need to put theses little shits into more horror situations

[hardestgrove]

You asked for prompts for the quad SO time to ask my favorite question, what are their after high school plans? Has Emily ever thought about college? I don't think you've ever talked about that, but sorry if you have!

BONUS question!! -> Emily's favorite foods? What do they like to eat? Can they cook, or is their diet more of a "fast food and whatever they find in the fridge" kind of deal?

fjghlsds I haven't talked about it yet yeah! i have thought about it tho!!

billy's og plan was to save up money and move back to cali but there's been alterations to that for a lotta pretty obvious reasons... so far that's his main goal in life. some variation of "gtfo outta here, ideally to cali" i think he's also gonna be going thru a process of sorting out his shit and what he really wants to do now that he's allowed to engage with his passions and can do whatever he wants. will not be shocked if he ends up doing something music related.

eddie still graduates in s4 (u know... assuming he does dfgds) his main life goal is to make his band actually fucking happen. I think realistically after graduation tho corroded coffin semi-falls apart as all things do in the gap between high school, college/adult life but he's likely gonna end up latching on to the twins who are both also EXTREMELY serious about a music career and both very competent already as musicians and likely that'll go places or at least help launch them all into their own various solid music in the long run careers.

emily was actually going to go to college until plot events make her realize she can't leave her siblings alone with their parents. like yes her brothers would still be there to look out for stacy and alison but the reality is it's a team effort and they've survived so long doing as well as they have because they stuck together. so they got into a really good school and had to defer/inform them they weren't going which also leads to a huge fallout with their father when he finds out bc like ofc. it's all very dark at the time bc emily saw college as an escape from the abuse but over time is actually glad they didn't go because like... they didn't know what they'd do there??? like obvs their dad wanted them to go into business but that's not what they wanted to do. they've got no clue what they actually wanna do with their life. ironically might get wrangled into the band since they already get very literally forced to play bass for the twins sometimes and eddie would 1000% jump on that and help w/ the peer pressure lol. honestly kinda unsurprisingly from someone who was so intensely single-minded about like, 1 escape plan and just survival in general emily's just kinda out at sea a bit once the plan is gone.

steve's in the same boat pretty much, they both know long run they don't wanna keep living in hawkins. that's honestly the one thing everyone agrees on tbh but like he doesn't know what he wants to do with himself or like, what he's even good at. he's still gonna be at scoops ahoy and family video for a while just trying to do something. him and emily (and sometimes billy) likely have talks about wtf they wanna do with their lives since they're the most ????? about it. he gets increasingly more sure tho that he wants kids and like, domesticness which becomes an interesting convo with the other 3 but no one in the quad is actually against the idea in the long run. honestly wouldn't be shocked if he ended up a house husband or some kinda 80s ned fulmer kldfjsgds

i think emily's fave foods are probably like, variations on pasta with tomato sauce, so like half italian food lol and milkshakes. so steve's job at scoops ahoy was a real bonus for them pfft. emily can in fact cook but it's much more on the utilitarian end of cooking because they're making things for 5 people and trying to do it kinda quickly since there's a lot going on. so a lot of things that are pretty easy like pasta and fired rice or involve defrosting things like frozen pizzas. it's also not a shock to see them eating their portion right out of the pan or eating the leftovers off plates a la stories you hear from the exhausted parents of young children lol i think branching out more in cooking is one of the things they'd be into exploring once they have less shit on their plate to deal with honestly

[vaspider]

I guess I should give a little update on our local crow family (and tag@neil-gaiman as well because why not).

When we moved to Oregon a couple of years ago, I realized that, oh, shit, there are a million crows in our neighborhood, so I started trying to make friends with them, because one should at least not be enemies with one's local murder.

So I started leaving out food & the like, going out at around the same time every day to put out healthy crow snacks like peanuts. The same mated pair started showing up a lot, and one of them -- the male, I'm assuming, bc he's bigger and the smaller one sits the nest -- started yelling outside our front window if I was 'late' on bringing out breakfast. My spouse started calling him Your Boss, and we decided to call them Crowley & Azirafowl, since this was 2019 and Good Omens had been released not too long before, and this pair fussed over each other constantly.

Anyway, their 2020 shenanigans were a main source of enjoyment for us during quarantine, and we did plenty research on the things we were permitted to feed them and so on. They started bringing that year's fledglings by (they had 3!) and we called them Pepper, Brian, and Adam. They all had very outsized personalities but Pepper was also the spiciest, with a very distinctive croak, and as it turns out, she's the girl, and has stuck around this year, as female crows often do until they pair up themselves. Brian and Adam fucked off, so I'm guessing they were indeed boys. Or possibly they died, but since I have no proof of that, I'm choosing to believe they're out their living their best crow lives.

This year we seem to have one surviving fledgling from a nest that initially had (from what we could hear) 2+, which is pretty normal. Last year was very outsized in terms of how many chicks made it to fledgling stage. Crowley and Azirafowl have started bringing the baby by, but we don't know them well enough to name them yet. They live in the pine tree south of our house, which we can see from the front porch.

There's an oak tree north of our house, which is where Odin and his mini-murder (Freyja, Baldr, and Tyr, who has a broken beak) live. This has led to quite a lot of squabbling when we put out food in the mornings, or when we refresh the cold water in the dish in the backyard, but it's just fussing, and everyone ends up getting fed.

The last few weeks have been pretty exciting in the corvid world, actually, with the following events:

1) Crowley and Pepper chasing a hawk away from the pine tree in an extremely dramatic fashion while Azirafowl hunkered down in the nest and covered the fledglings with her wings. Luckily I had just stepped outside onto the porch and got to see the whole thing. It was a true battle, with the crows divebombing the hawk aggressively and repeatedly until after its third attempt to get in to the nest, it gave up. Seriously, don't piss off crows, especially if you're a hawk. They will kick your ass.

2) When I go outside to put out Approved Crow Snacks in the feeder in the backyard & clean out the water bowl, I always whistle in a way that doesn't resemble any native bird & always in the same way, so they know it's me & have time to get the fledgling up off the ground if I didn't see him before coming outside.

Yesterday, I whistled even though I was 99% sure they weren't in the backyard. They weren't, when I came out, so I set about refreshing the crow snacks & washing out the water bowl so I could put in the ice water. (We're in PDX, so ice water was a definite must.)

While I was in the process of rinsing out the bowl with the hose, I heard a flutterflutter overhead, and casually glanced up a moment later. Crowley was sitting right overhead, staring down at me, perched in the ash tree in our backyard. "Hey, buddy," I greeted, which, again, is the same way I always greet them. Consistent behavior = crow friends. Then I went back to working, and just sort of casually talked to him, and he -- for the first time -- started 'conversing' with me, making little 'crrk!' noises when I finished a sentence, or paused in talking during my tasks.

I chatted with him until I was done, put out the ice water, and went most of the way back inside, pausing where I was as far away as I could be and still be outside. He moved as if he was about to take off, then realized I was still outside, and cawed once and loudly at me, so I took the hint, and went inside. He waited until he could see me in the kitchen window, so I was well and properly inside, and then came down for his snacks and sips.

So I guess now the crows know that when I'm whistling, that means there's about to be clean water and fresh food.

Also, Crowley had to come supervise and make sure I was doing things properly.

To close, here's a picture of Crowley giving me a Sassy Look while perched on the water bowl. The weird wire in the picture is the grape vine trellis the original owner put up, which is across the whole back of the house.