#controlley

[itsjellyyy]

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[jackals-ships]

so @almostourgalaxy "Dog almost killed Bachus one time" is a (partial) exaggeration, technically it's "Dog Tried to kill Bachus, i love him he Kinda had it coming + shoulda SEEN IT comin”

this was a little into the relationship, more than a few months less than a year, long enough that Bucks thought he had a good handle on their whole Everything Wrong With Them (not entirely false! he was good at managing a lot of their emotional outbursts, and realizing when they were gonna flip their shit Before Dog realized)

he forgot a few factors; a) getting Dog to admit to things is like pulling teeth so that means there's a lot he didn't know Yet, b) holy shit (justified) paranoia go bzzt. cuz Dog went in knowing they were being manipulated that ive touched on before but. But

the first sign should've been Dogs sudden preoccupation with How Does The ‘voodoos Thing…work. what can it Do what does it Feel Like, can the person you use it on. Tell. how would they tell you were fuckin around? is it an emotional thing? more oo mind controlley? what's it Like?

except they were asking it the same way they asked Everything, bright eyed head tilted Putting On Their Listening Face (return of the masks) so he didn't think anything of it more than “hm weird but im glad they're taking an Interest”

the second should've been the increased jumpy growly snarly that took Awhile to calm down that didn't Seem to have a trigger that tracked across in a way that made sense. Dog is snappy and snarly yeah but there's usually someone setting them Off

the weird looks he's forgiven for not catching because well. Dog does sometimes just Make Expressions that are hard to read. they Do just kinda stare at people because they don't always know what to say/want to talk

Dog didn't often sleep in his bed, sometimes they wanted Space and wandered in in the middle of the night/wandered Out. so he was used to the sounds of Dog locking and unlocking the doors

what Bachus wasn't used to was them waking him up with a knife at his throat, saved by the fact they're the only person that warm + small + the blatantly obvious fear-distress bleeding off of them

apparently, from what he was able to coax out, they got it into their head that He was in Their head. that he wasn't just fucking around in the ways they already knew, that it was runnin deeper, that he was fucking with their head to make them like this and want to be close to him, that he needed to get the fuck out

talking them down was, initially, less than successful. tried to come across reassuring and just sounded like he was lying, which was when they were “snarling that you'll cut out his traitorous tongue.” and generally getting more agitated

Dog, doesn't really remember that night very well. they remember the agitation and the threats, the bone deep something was wrong and needing Bachus to be the source of the wrong because they don't know where it's coming from

Bachus remembers it better, remembers not wanting to hurt them but they were going to stab him and well. it was after the agitation had passed that they talked, that he promised he'd never mess around in their head. and he kept to his promise

what Dog doesn't remember can't hurt them

[thatoneconfusedcitrus]

controlley where did you get all that snow

[packpack]

hello controlley from brawl of the objects

[ashofcreativitydesign]

RPG Design: Naming Conventions

The first thing I did when I starter designing Lords of Brackas was look at class names. I already knew what would be setting appropriate; class for psionics, class for controlley intelligent casters, class for innocent churchgoers, pickpockets, gunsmiths, etc. My issue was names that fit with the tone of the design.

It’s called Lords of Brackas for a reason; I’m doubling down on adventurers being separate from your average monster statblock (not necessarily in complexity, mind you). 

There are Fighters out there; the player is a Warlord.  Rogues are a thing; your pc is a Guerilla (or insurgent, haven’t quite gotten it).  Rangers exist; you’re DMing for a Warden Pontiff, not Cleric.  Magi, not Wizard or Sorcerer. Templar, not Paladin.  Artificer was actually pretty difficult, and just when I got the perfect name from one of my page followers (Warsmith), I realized I had 3 classes that starter with W, two of which started with the same word! So, artificer stuck around.

You get the idea, though; the names are meant to evoke *authority*.

[thatoneconfusedcitrus]

CONTROLLEY'S GETTING FU CKING CANCELLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ON TWITTER DOT COM GET FUCKED BITCHASS

[thatoneconfusedcitrus]

i was waiting for controller and controlley to fight to the fucking death tbh