#dungeon boss hack

[shima-draws]

GIRATINA?? IN MY PMD GAME???

[sleepylink]

I don't think they got to the Invisible walls in the Dungeons-

Biggest vent ever about a Zelda game:

ZELDA 2 IS ASS!

I literally cannot stomach it, the controls are awful, my eyes now bleed, and what the fuck do you mean that I died to a creature that looks like a Chu 5 CONSECUTIVE TIMES???

I can't grasp anything about it like how I'm supposed to use LITERALLY ANYTHING in the game, I get magic cool! HOW DO I EVEN USE IT IF I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE SPELLS ARE??? I have no idea what the NPCs are even talking about, I get I need fire to do something or a hammer (for some reason) to break roadblocks BUT HOW DO I GET THOSE IF YOU DON'T TELL ME EVEN A SLIGHTEST HINT???

What do you mean that the Knights can block every attack I make even if I hit the weak points??? Where the fuck is the candle that got brought up? Why is there not a single thing indicating a enemy in a dark zone unless I hit it from 3 pixels close??? Why does the beams not even do their job???

My eyes ache because everything is way too bright compared to it's predecessor Zelda 1, why? I don't fucking know probably because they're telling us to get off the game???

Why is A jump? It never has been for any Zelda game and usually A was interact or attack NOT FUCKING X-

To be honest, and I'll say it: If I ever play Spirit Tracks or Phantom Hourglass, they'll be better than ZELDA 2 OF ALL THINGS!

And thus concludes the "I hate everything" about Zelda 2 rant.

If there's anyone out there who loves Zelda 2, I Envy and Pity you and hope you get mental help and I pray your organs a healthy day because I literally cannot handle this.

[thydungeongal]

Oh Gal of Thy Dungeon, do you have any recommendations for games that dungeon crawl like Legend of Zelda, or hacks/supplements that support that mode of play? Mostly, think the dungeons in Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess. Thank you!

Hmmm, okay, of those I've only played Ocarina of Time but I'm broadly familiar with that style of dungeon design. It's sort of like a progression of locks and keys that need to be tackled in a certain order to get to the end of the dungeon, and while there might be branching paths they all eventually lead back to the main path.

So, the thing about those types of dungeons is that in my opinion they're very much system agnostic and can theoretically be plugged into any system. But what you might want to be aware of is that due to the infinite possibility space afforded to by RPGs sequence breaking becomes something that characters can be almost expected to do, because there will be fewer game mechanical contrivances in their way.

But that's not a bad thing. I think the combination of that Zelda-like flowchart dungeon of locks and keys AND allowing for creative tactics to sequence break it is basically best of both worlds. For an example: I once planned a dungeon for D&D where one of the obstacles was a very typical Zelda style big boulder in a corridor, but one of the treasures I placed elsewhere in the dungeon was a pair of gauntlets of ogre power which would grant anyone enough strength to lift that boulder. But if a character had had other means of overcoming that boulder (like a stone shape spell) then hell yeah.

Game Maker's Toolkit has a good series on the dungeon design of the Legend of Zelda series which you can use right now to help you think of dungeons the way Zelda handles them:

So okay, you can easily do Zelda style dungeons in pretty much any dungeoning fantasy game, but if you want a game that absolutely captures the aesthetic and vibes of the Zelda games I recommend Break!!

First of all, it has very much a flowchart approach to dungeon design already, which pairs nicely with Zelda dungeons, and it is explicitly inspired by classic video games, including the Zelda series. Heck, instead of hit points Break!! characters have hearts. It is pretty much perfect for that sort of thing.

[tf-rpg]

Second part of Jo-Go's initial transformation! She hacked a bit too far, and got imported into the vRRPG not as a usual player character, but as a sakura-themed Raid Boss deep in a dungeon. The penny's finally dropped as she realizes she can't get out, that this is her body.

Alright, maybe not that DEEP in the dungeon since she got given the Boss abilities of Colossus and Broodmother. She's filling up the whole place, and making her own little foxy minions for good measure.

An army of cute little helpers for an egotistical streamer? Yeah, maybe Jo-Go can get used to this quicker than expected.

She'd be in this boss state for quite a while, as the "Lady of the Azure Dungeon", the first major roadblock for any guilds trying to clear dungeons.

[therobotmonster]

In honor of he who died and rose after three days in the grave and now grants life ever lasting to his followers I thought it only right I got into the spirit once. So Dracula, this one's for you:

Just look at it.

You have what appears to be (and is) an accountant being menaced by boobalicious vampire women twice his size, so he's got Ethan Winters beaten to the punch by 34 years. But don't be fooled. One glance into his 30-yard stare and its obvious why only Mr. Weems can stop these sinister She-Vampires:

Weems is dead on the inside yet still living, where the she-vampires are animated from within with life, while dead.

He is their antithesis.

So yeah, a pile of jank with a fun name crossed my path, and now you all have to hear about it. If you're not hitting 'J', you have no one to blame but yourself.

Released on a scad of systems, but mostly the ZX Spectrum and the C64, The Astonishing Adventures of Mr. Weems & the She-Vampires is a sort of 'Gauntroidvania'. It's also trying to push the limits of how titillating a pre-NES era game could be, though the C64 port's interface missed that memo.

The hacked c64 version was the one I played, but giantbomb had a lot of gifs from the ZX verison that I've upscaled for demonstration purposes.

The only bit of story is from the back package. Weems wants to feel something, so he's decided to take on the Great She-Vampire or die in her buxom grasp. Fair.

This game is not recommended for people with epilepsy, dignity, or in general.

Mr. Weems has a garlic gun to defend his ever-dropping blood supply (vampire hunter is an odd professon with anemia) and destroy the baddies...

All three of them, which are all introduced on the first screen!

You've got bats, they pop out of pots and attack you.

The manual says these guys are Frankenstein's' monsters, but they're clearly the giant from Twin Peaks trying to warn you that you've bought a dud.

On the C64, the lesser she-vampires are clearly based on Dracula's brides, whereas on the ZX, they're more like ghosts with big naturals.

Which means that to get both kinds of vampire babe from the secondary cover, you'd have to buy a cassette for your c64, and and for your ZX. And I don't mean a cartridge, I mean a, Cassette tape.

If you manage to stalk your way all the way to the end and find the gear you need to destroy her, the Great She-Vampire awaits:

There's no boss fight, but there is a 1 pixel nip, at least on the ZX spectrum.

From there you book it back the way you came, only every screen now has a she-vampire chasing you in a murderous rage. Make it out, and you win. Or maybe you didn't, because just like the Dungeon of Fear and Hunger, you can never really escape Mr. Weems & the She-Vampires.

Only Weems increases the immersion by truamatizing you, the player. Mr. Weems is fine. You don't have to worry about the Weems.

So...

Is it a good game?

Not remotely, but that isn't the point in the slightest.

It's temping to say this is the Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies of video games, but that's not quite right. Weems has promise and ISCWSLaBMUZ doesn't make promises. It issues threats.

Mr. Weems has the charm of a concept that's all potential and zero execution. A dead-eyed accountant gunning his way in a Gauntlet-esq blitz through a vampire-babe infested castle is a fun idea, more-so with all the secret passages and 'gather items and backtrack to the boss' aspect. It's just everything else that goes wrong.

I mean, who doesn't want to hunt the Great She-Vampire to her penthouse for a good staking, I ask you?

[stellawolfearts]

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[beesmygod]

REVERSE ENGINEERING THE PURPOSE OF THE CROWN OF ILLUSIONS

just hear me out. then you can tell me if im insane.

in bloodborne, there is a unique piece of head wear called "the crown of illusions". it serves a single purpose: to open an illusory wall revealing the location of an otherwise entirely hidden NPC, annalise, queen of the vilebloods.

the crown is dropped after a boss battle and you are intended to put it on immediately after the fight so that the fake wall can be revealed in a cut scene. they did NOT want you to miss this mechanic. otherwise, why not simply have the throne room blocked by a fog gate? its fine for other bosses, right?

this mechanic is never used again. this is insanely weird because 1. there are other illusory walls in the game specifically in the chalice dungeons (twice, i believe, in the lowest possible levels). however, they function like standard fromsoft illusory walls and are revealed by hitting them with a weapon. the crown does nothing. and 2. there is otherwise no satisfactory explanation for this mechanic at all.

i have often expressed my frustration that when things dont "line up" in fromsoft games its chalked up to dev error or some flavor of "its all dreams/made up" which i refuse to entertain unless its the last possible explanation barring literally all others. this stupid crown has been bothering me for years because of how seemingly inexplicable it is. this has been doubled by the fact that the crown is not unique; alfred leaves a crown of his own (and must have had it to enter the queen's chambers) at the end of his quest and the titular sages of the "sage's hair" item are depicted as wearing crowns.

visually, the sage items are based off the real life concept of catacomb saints (and, in fact, i think "saint" would have been a better translation over "sage" considering this, but thats neither here nor there), hence the gems and jewels and crowns and shit. that part makes sense to me just fine. but where else would this illusion mechanic have been used?

ill tell you where: in the secret 4th layers of the "canon" (non-root) chalice dungeons!

canonically, there is only one chalice dungeon with a 4th layer, otherwise they all end at layer 3. this also intrigued me bc of its irregularity in a system of "dungeons" that are almost entirely copy-pasted rooms; why choose a completely random chalice in the middle of the sequence have an extra layer?

i came up with my own explanation for this that works a treat: the chalice in question, lower pthumeru, has rom the vacuous spider as its THIRD LAYER boss. rom is a boss you would have first encountered outside of the dungeons who has a unique ability: to block rituals and secrets from sight. the rom you fight in the main story is hiding a secret ritual and killing her reveals the ritual to the world. the rom you fight in the dungeons is hiding a secret layer of the labyrinth wherein the hunter will find a truly terrible secret: the source of the beast blood.

we now know this fourth layer IS narratively intended to be a secret layer...because EVERY story-related chalice dungeon had a secret 4th layer! they are "fully functional" if not a bit odd/broken (but not NEARLY not to the point of other hacked dungeons) but with bosses that either fucking suck or are placeholders (...or im coping lol). but look at this: ive timestamped this video at the point where the 4th layer elevator "reveals" itself!

other boss room exits are simply blocked by a fog wall (or, if you're on the last layer, it dead ends and you use the lamp to warp out). this "fade in" effect is the illusory reveal effect! as the linked post from the eternally fascinating hard work from r/tombprospectors reveals, there is some weird ass shit in these layers. enough that i started a red string wall of madness to try to keep track of it all. its not even weird stuff in a game dev way, i mean weird in a plot and lore way. its awesome lol.

the 4th layers were only discovered within the last 2 years. i am confident now about the mechanics of how this was intended to work, but still shaky on the ~lore implications~. what were kings and saints only permitted to see and access? what were they privy to that the rest of the populace of the dead civilization was not?

LORE THEORY: THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE AND USE OF THE CROWN OF ILLUSIONS WAS TO REVEAL SECRET 4TH LAYERS OF THE CHALICE DUNGEONS, AS EVIDENCED BY THEIR EXISTENCE IN THE GAME CODE AND MEANS OF ACCESS. THEY CHOPPED IT OUT DUE TO THE USUAL FROMSOFT DEV CYCLE INCLUDING A PART WHERE THEY SPILL EVERYTHING ON THE FLOOR MINUTES BEFORE LAUNCH AND HAVE TO PUT EVERYTHING BACK TOGETHER QUICKLY

[lostplay]

Game 59: Trials of Mana July2023 It's a little wild to me how harsh people treat this remake. Not that I'm actually familiar with the Super Famicom release, but considering that most of the game seems pretty 1 to 1 with the story of the original doesn't seem to be an actual downgrade for it. Most of the changes to the remake are also more quality of life stuff or make the game experience overall better. Like you're getting mad at the company giving you a cheeseburger when you asked for a cheeseburger? There just really isn't anything to get overall mad at to the point that it's unplayable. Maybe a few of the voice acting bits could be that as they tend to be pretty grating, but it's still not enough to deter the whole ride if you ask me.

As for the game itself? Trials of Mana is a RPG of it's time, and you can tell it is with how ambitious it was with it's story. 6 protagonists with their own backstories mixed together with 2 of the other protags to make a lot of interesting combinations and 3 different routes overall. The main problem here is that this game was originally made for the Super Famicom, so like, what exactly do you expect from it? It's a highly simplistic game with a lot of the charm from the game simply being a "babies first RPG". A lot of the story beats and overall world feels like it's meant for kids, and a lot of replayability and interest really come from exploring three different routes that 2 of the 6 characters are on. A lot of replay-ability traded for more simplistic dungeon hack and slashing mixed together with a bit of handholding the remake adds to streamline the process better as well. In a lot of ways, this game is meant to be played over a summer weekend as you choose your favorite 3 of the 6 protags and explore their stories. And if you get done with it, you can explore the other 3 characters you missed out on or even the 2 other routes you'll miss on the first playthrough. A lot of the game is just a re-trend of all the routes combine, but each route does have it's own unique dungeon and 3 different end bosses to deal with. A major fault and problem though is, for the most part, all the uniqueness attached to any given route is sectioned off, and not something that feels like it actually affects it's story. So while I do think there was possibility to add more to the games interactions with each character, and the various route combinations, mostly I understand just keeping it as 1 to 1 of an experience when the west hasn't even gotten these games here till the release of "Collection of Mana".

That isn't to say this game is lacking in its gameplay department though as largely the only loss we had from this remake is the ability to play with an additional player. I do think more RPGs should have co-op play, but overall the rest of the game does fair better with the improvements it made. Most of it is simple mathing, meta fixing roles, and making leveling up more streamlined. That attached to a lot of customization you can do, the simplicity of it's hack and slash combat, and the charming map design makes Trials of Mana pretty enjoyable to play through each dungeon. Sure, you're not going to be challenged by any particularly hard fights unless you set out to do so, but sometimes experiencing a story is just well enough good. A lot of the enemy designs are super charming, and the amount of abilities to experiment with is enough to make combat engaging the majority of the time.

Really, I'm just super grateful that Trials of Mana kept a lot of the charm it had as a Super Famicom game to it's remake. Perhaps I'm excusing it too much, but I really just find a lot of it's designs to be super charming, it's world super neat yet colorful, and it's story interestingly ambitious for the time it was made. My genuine hope is we end up getting more interesting stories from the Mana series as well as a lot of the series' charm is just from it's overall aesthetic. I know not everyone will feel the love for this game over something more complex or engaging, but sometimes a simple RPG just kinda hits the spot in a way I didn't know needed a scratch.

[tactical-mode]

Episode 12 - Airbuster

(Mama an Easter Egg behind you!)

Our hacked (hackneyed?) retelling of FF7 continues with AIRBUSTER. Also, a portentous flashback featuring Tifa…

You know the drill: story scenes in front, fight scenes at the back. Turn on CC to read the dialogue.

[Chapter 07] Scene 09

I just switched around two shots here and cut a little bit out of the music, starting the track later and ending it earlier. I sourced a heartbeat sound for that OG feel.

Scene 10

The establishing shot here is me playing with camera paths again, it took a few takes to run blindly up to the reactor core instead of coming into frame on the diagonal or not at all haha. The dialogue exchange between Cloud and Barret in OG has been replaced in 7R by a wordless gesture. The cut dialogues are:

Cloud: ”I know. You’re my watch, right?”

Barret: ”Damn straight. Tifa’s old friend… that ain’t good enough.” [gives him the bomb]

Scene 32-33

As the jump in scene number implies, 7R’s expanded journey from the core has been cut or moved to the previous episode. Lots of fun, with an incredible score! Snip snip.

There’s another shot with another preset path while I run up the stairs. Shots like this will probably become standard in the Episode-Episodes, now that I can do them! The scenery porn I used in Ep 003 — that I anticipated for all the dungeons — will likely be moved to Deleted/Extended-Eps.

Scene 34-35

The gods-blasted button puzzle just had to be included, uweeheeheehee. There is a sneaky cross-fade here as well, did you notice it?

The door-opening shots were done by approaching the doors, freezing the game, yeeting Cloud out of frame (and into the stratosphere), unfreezing and taking the shot. I’m sure there’s a better way, but I’m juuust proficient enough in juuust enough aspects of this to get it done with just a team of me.

Another preset path shot while Barret and Tifa run (serendipidously) center-frame. I was controlling Cloud… he was supposed to be running with them, but I must have run into a wall or something. Ah well, at least I didn’t biff the shot.

Scene 36

I really tried to find a way to get President Shinra to show up in person like he does in the OG. Unfortunately it’s not possible in-engine… at least, not with my abilities. If I ever find the time to fully re-create the original scene in Blender, I’ll do so. As it is, this is a mostly cosmetic change that doesn’t impact the story very much… except that it includes high tech drones and hologram-telecommunication, which the OG story lacks.

The music here is Shinra Inc from EC, chosen for its clanging synth lead and choral refrain — however, the first few seconds also include 7R’s version of Shinra Inc underneath, because that first D♭ from the EC version lacks the sonorous bass that is needed to sell the key change.

Tifa's line: "What's the President doing here?" has been cut... not only because it's kind of a dopey question, but also, because the President is not, in fact, here.

Scene 37

Airbuster!! 200+ shots and several hours of useable footage is cut down to 50 shots across 2 minutes. The first phase of this three-phase fight is all we need; in Remake this is a delightfully epic fight. Snip snip.

The music track here is the Black Mages recording of the FFVII boss battle music, Those Who Fight Further. I chose the Black Mages version, ironically, because it has the least amount of live electric guitar! The wailing synths that give this prog rock jam its texture are performed by none other than the maestro himself: Nobuo Uematsu!

Now that I have more of a handle on storyboarding, filming, and editing combat footage, I’m doing more combat storytelling than I thought I would be doing in this series, and it’s actually taking longer — weeks, in fact — but I think the results are better.

I hummed a bit on how to intro this fight, then I thought it might be fun to try and re-create the battle effects from OG. The swirling was done frame-by frame in a free photo editing program, I manually rotated and zoomed in. I then rendered the sequence into a file. I then overlayed it on top of itself with the second version starting on a delay and being 10% slower and blurred to high heaven with the exposure cranked up. It worked! The black curtains were made by blurring, pixellating, then blurring again the black bars, and pulling them apart. The establishing shot was a preset path while I controlled Cloud's basic attacks.

Heidegger's hologram is flying around this fight in 7R taunting us, and he ruined many good shots. It's a wonder I scraped together so many good looking takes.

At the climax, we showcase Cloud, Tifa, and Barret’s Limit Breaks — Cloud’s Braver has been demoted in 7R from Limit Break to basic move, but here it gets its due. I tried to mimic the limit break camera zoom with a preset path, and the timing was nice but I played the framing a bit safe - better than him bowing out of frame!

To get Barret and Tifa’s limits, I had to play through the chapter twice more, solo-ing the final fight with each character – to draw Airbuster’s big attacks (filling their limit gauge) as well as making sure that my allies’ attacks didn’t move the fight into the next phase before I had a chance to execute the limit break. For Tifa’s, I filmed it twice because the first take clipped through the wall. The second take also erred, but at the beginning, so I used the front half of one and then switched - see if you can spot the edit!

Final Thoughts

Kaboom!

In keeping with the “you can skip ahead once the combat starts,” pledge, we’ll leave the resolution of this battle for next time, and end the episode on a cliffhanger.

You know, despite the obvious departure of a giant glowing President Shinra, this is one of the more faithful sections in all of 7R; aaaand despite that, I didn’t even realize how different it was until I started making the episode. Fun to make, and I continue to outdo what I did last time. Happy.

[this-is-spn20]

Yandere!Sam Winchester Headcanons

A/N: yes i know I dipped out for a few months but I got inspo for this from browsing another fandom and tried looking for yandere fics of our favorite boys but couldn’t find any! If you want something right, you have to do it yourself lol. Requests are always open! 

Spread Love! 

-Marissa

WARNING: These headcanons are written with an unaware/unwilling reader! There will be the theme of stalking, harassment, unwanted attention, manipulation, and abuse (not sexual). Please do not read this if you are not comfortable with these graphic stories. Your consumption of media is not my responsibility.

***MDNI***

I DID NOT COME UP WITH THE LIST. ALL RIGHTS GO TO @dear-yanderee !

Word Count: 4,428

Suggested song while listening: Be My Queen by Seafret

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Sam may be (slightly) delusional, but he’s smart. And can be a bit sadistic, but he’s smarter than the average person, that’s for sure. Using his computer knowledge to spy on any and all social media you have. Hacking into your account while you were sleeping (he never made the effort of watching you in person, no no doll, you could possibly see him and it’d ruin everything. Just wait for him, Just a little bit longer.). He knew when you were sleeping because your laptop or phone wouldn’t have any activity for a while, meaning he could snoop around for a bit before you woke up. Took him weeks to dig through every square inch of your online life All your records, he’d print them out and clear his history so as to not set off Dean’s alarms or interest. Even though Dean knows something is up. 

Compared to Dean, Sam just knows how to persuade you into liking him. Incorporating himself into your life without you knowing. Making himself ‘small’, a background character.  That dickbag that bumped into you while walking in the park when there was CLEARLY enough room for him to pass by without nearly knocking you down (he didn’t even bother being gentle), well at that time, you didn’t know what a bad day truly was. Hell, if you’d just run up to him and cursed him out, you probably would’ve saved yourself a lot of grief. Probably. (Honestly, it probably would’ve made him more intrigued.) 

Working double, sometimes even triple shifts, are bad enough. But when your job is to stock shelves in the only (and by proxy) biggest store in town, it’s just more strain and stress. So when some big old, lanky, buff asshat shows up in your store and almost completely wrecks one of your perfectly stocked shelves, you get a tiny bit upset. As you take two carts to take all the stuff down, your boss radios you to tell you to have two more shelves stocked up before your next break for the big sale. And to tell you that you’re on call for the rest of the week. Whoever that asshole was, you wished to see him so you could tell him about himself. Or beat his ass. Or both.

Little did poor, naive little you know that over the course of those first five, horrible, months that Sam was programming your mind already. You never saw his face, but he was showing that, while he could make your life so unbearable at a moment's notice, but he chose to do good. To do right by you. He showed how bad it could get before he swooped in and put on his deadly charm. First coming up to you in the store while you were stocking an aisle and asking where the candles were. When you told him, he thanked you and struck up a conversation. Using everything he knew you’d like to hear to rope you in. He made sure the first time you met him, you’d never forget him. Ever. 

Now you’re just his little doll. Doomed to be locked up in the dungeon until you proved to be good for him. Then love, you’ll be allowed in his room! You may even get your privileges back. Only if you’re a good girl for him. Just for him.  He knew it was only a matter of time now before you break. He just had to be a little more patient. Then you were all his. 

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s start over, shall we darlings?

Affection: How do they show their love and affection? How intense would it get?

Giving gifts is his forte. When hacking into your computer, he made sure to make a list of your likes and dislikes. He knows your favorite movies, political views, your full name and date of birth, your blood type, your father’s dog’s name, everything. He saw the things you liked to buy online. Things you saved to your carts but could never afford to buy at the moment. So whatever is in your cart from whatever website, no matter the price, Sam takes it upon himself to buy the items and have them sent as gifts to your house. Anonymously of course. He loved seeing your face light up with surprise terror as you opened your door to yet another package on your porch with more items you planned on buying at the end of the month. If you could afford it of course. You wondered who was sending these packages. Someone you knew? But, you rarely showed anyone these wished possessions of yours. Was someone… watching you? I mean you always felt this… uneasy feeling in your chest lately. Maybe you should schedule a check-up with the doc. 

Giving gifts is his forte. When hacking into your computer, he made sure to make a list of your likes and dislikes. He knows your favorite movies, political views, your full name and date of birth, your blood type, your father’s dog’s name, everything. He saw the things you liked to buy online. Things you saved to your carts but could never afford to buy at the moment. So whatever is in your cart from whatever website, no matter the price, Sam takes it upon himself to buy the items and have them sent as gifts to your house. Anonymously of course. He loved seeing your face light up with surprise **terror** as you opened your door to yet another package on your porch with more items you planned on buying at the end of the month. If you could afford it of course. You wondered who was sending these packages. Someone you knew? But, you rarely showed anyone these wished possessions of yours. Was someone watching you? You always felt this… uneasy feeling in your chest lately. Maybe you should schedule a check-up with the doc. 

First, it was some makeup and a few nice dresses you wanted. You figured you’d still somehow ordered them. Even though your bank account didn't reflect such purchases. Still not convincing, even to yourself but, it was better than dwelling on ‘what-if’ questions. But as the gifts kept coming you got more and more… **concerned.** You’d confronted your coworker later the day after your umpteenth package. You told him that you appreciated his company while stocking the shelves, but you didn’t feel anything for him. To your annoyance, your coworker responded in complete confusion. When you told him to stop feigning ignorance he was positively confused. You and he didn’t know each other that well outside of work, so for this to be coming from you made him a bit angry. When you plainly told him what you thought had been doing, he told you to be careful, but he wasn’t the one doing it. In hindsight, you thought it was nice of him to express his concern. When he offered to walk you to your car that night, you were skeptical, but you let him do it. 

Sam didn’t take too kindly to that.

But Sam decided to cool down on the packages. Now he thought was the time to make himself more involved in your day-to-day life. Small run-ins, nothing alarming but you knew who he was now. It started with him paying for your favorite drink at the local cafe you loved so much. He kept his cool and acted like it was just such a coincidence to run into you! How have you been holding up? He even took to finishing your book collection for your most recent series. Maybe taking to replace your worn books. You didn’t notice until you picked up one of your favorite novels and had to crack the spine. Indicating it was brand new. Things really got intense when you walked out to your car one morning and saw all your tires were replaced. When you got in, a note on your steering wheel simply said, “Your tires we going bald. You’re welcome.”  You started getting more scared as the days passed. This person managed to get into not just your car, but also your house. A safe place. Your heaven. At least that’s what it used to be. 

You were terrified to leave your house every day. 

Blood: How messy are they willing to get when it comes to their darling?

Well, Sam being Sam prefers to keep his hands clean as much as possible. Plus him hurting anyone close to you will make you even more challenging to get. He also knows what losing someone feels like. Even more than you actually. Why would he choose to make things harder between you two if being with you and only you is his ultimate goal? Come on, don’t be silly. It’d do nothing for him to see you so hurt. Who wants to see their soulmate in pain? 

Unless it was absolutely necessary.

Like maybe one day you’re feeling a bit rowdy. You have a lot of fight, Sam had to give that to you. But why are you so insistent on staying apart? He can’t love you from afar, he refuses to live without your love. He’ll do anything to keep you with him. But as patient as Sam could be, there are only so many times you can push his buttons, love. Now if you keep fighting, I’ll have to punish you. We don’t want that, do we? After all, broken bones take a long time to heal�� But don’t you worry princess, he’ll fix you right up!

With mandatory bed rest included.

Cruelty: How would they treat their darling once abducted? Would they mock them?

Sam is a very loving person, so he wouldn’t really mock you at all. If you’re not trying to escape. If you are, you can expect to be tsked at and hear phrases such as

“Oh darling, I thought you knew better than to try something so stupid.”

“If you wanted to wear your chain today, you could’ve asked love.” 

“Princess, you can’t get away from me. I will always see through your little plan. Your eyes tell me everything.”

If you’ve managed to piss him off (which takes a lot of effort so… go you?), you can expect him to leave you with more cuts and bruises than you could imagine. Just remember love, the more you fight, the angrier he gets…

And no, your begging and pleading will get you nowhere. But it hurts him more than it does you. You deserved it. It was for your own good darling. Trust him.

Darling: Aside from abduction, would they do anything against their darling’s will?

No. Absolutely not. Sam knows love will come with time. He would never hurt you by doing anything you didn’t want him to. Including simply touching you (but isolation is a bitch babe.). Honestly, the only thing he is willing to do against your will is feed you. Especially if you go on a hunger strike. He will not allow anyone to hurt you. Not even you, and damn sure not him. He’d probably force-feed you through a tube. Same thing with being hydrated. He can't let his good girl starve now, can he? What kind of man would he be to let that happen, princess?

Exposed: How much of their heart do they bare to their darling? How vulnerable are they when it comes to their darling?

Sam gives his whole heart and soul to you. He is a straight sucker for you honestly. He dotes on you a lot. Tries spoiling you with things he knows you’ll like. If you weren't in chains…

He tries to get you to open up to him by telling you everything about himself. To hunting, to what his favorite pair of socks were in middle school. Sam shows you sides of himself that not even Jessica got to see. He doesn't want to scare you so he almost shrinks himself to be smaller. Less threatening. Less dangerous. Honestly, if you’re smart, you could use this against him. You can start slowly opening up to him. Give as little information as possible and start planning your escape. Sam won't trust you to be out of the dungeon, or even your chains, for a while. But you’ve got nothing but time daring. 

Fight: How would they feel if their darling fought back?

At first, it’d be almost amusing. If it didn’t happen so much he’d probably get a chuckle out of it. He hates having to use forceful ways to calm you down but he has no choice. He’s used more chloroform than he’d like but it was worth it. But the chemical burns on your face make him really emotional. He may look into paralyzing spells to quail your attempts. If he does find such a spell, you’re fucked. Not completely, but it's not looking good for you, love. He feels like you both are in some loop. Like a cat-and-mouse game, though it’s getting tedious. 

There is one upside to this though. These attempts of escape and fights give him an idea of how your brain works. Your fight style, and the ways you attempt to run from him and the bunker, give him more useful information and ways to stop your plans. Eventually, you can’t get out of the dungeon without at least 5 alarms tipping off Sam before you can even turn the door nob. Do with this information as you will, darling.

Game: Is this a game to them? How much would they enjoy watching their darling try to escape?

This is not a game to him. This isn't amusing in the slightest bit. Watching you try to get away from him hurts him deeply. You two are soulmates. Why can't you see this? Why run from him when he can give you the world. He waits on you hand and foot. He caresses you with the lightest touch. He gives you almost everything you ask from him. He will bring you the biggest, brightest star in the universe if you just love him, and let him love you. Open up to him. Adore him, like he adores you. Get lost in him and everything he is, like he does with you. You’ll do that for him, right doll?

Hell: What would be their darling’s worst experience with them?

Believe it or not, but your worst experience with Sam wasn't when he occasionally snapped at you for your smart mouth. It wasn’t when he forced you to eat to keep yourself alive for him. Always for him. 

It wasn’t even the time he came back from a hunt gone wrong and an argument with Dean once again, and Sam had come into the dungeon for the first time in a week. When he tried to land a kiss on your cheek, you’d headbutt him. Sam snapped and hurled harsh words your way, and you were struggling against the chains, Sam had enough of your shit so he grabbed your arm and slowly, very, very slowly twisted it behind your back until, through your screaming, you heard a sickening crack from your arm. Your ear-splitting screaming was heard throughout the whole bunker and you collapsed into darkness. Praying that this was your end. But when you woke up to some beige room on an old musty bed with a cast on your arm, you couldn’t stop the sob that ripped through your chest. Only for Sam to immediately wrapped his arms around you and coo at your tears rolling into his shirt. Declaring he’d never bring harm to you again, although the scars covering your skin told you otherwise. 

No, you see, the worst experience for you, dealing with Sam, was the day you realized you needed him. That you loved him. How could you not see it earlier? Sam’s doting nature, his soft smile, the obsession adoring look in his eyes, his velvet touch. Everything that was him. You loved him. You loathed him. He took everything from you, yet had given you so much. He gave himself to you. Trusted you with his very soul. And here you were. Being selfish, greedy, mean-spirited, reclusive, disrespectful, and just plain stupid. Sam could have anyone he wanted. But he wanted you, and you had the audacity to not love him back? Stupid and horrible. You hoped it wasn’t too late to win his heart.

Wait. This… isn’t right. Is it?

Ideals: What kind of future do they have in mind for/with their darling?

He wants to enable you in all of your passions and hobbies. He wants the not-exactly-white-picket-fence-lifeTM with you. You and the front porch relaxing, watching him work in the front yard and you smiling at him ever so brightly. He wants to watch you take care of your plants and gardens, in a huge house that he worked so hard to get for you. For the both of you. Watching you take care of your many dogs and cats around the house.

And running after you around the living room and kitchen, just to catch you. Him carrying you up the stairs while looking into each other's eyes. Him smirking down at you, knowing it's gonna be another long night of passionate sex and lovemaking. In the morning, waking you up with gentle kisses and licks and biting. Teasing you out of your dreams. Dreams filled with nothing but him. Going into the kitchen to help you make breakfast. You lightly scolded him after him messing up, because he could help thinking how sexy you look in his shirts. Passion-filled make-out sessions with teenage-level humping and grinding. Sam always finds himself in these fantasies, only to snap back into reality all too soon. Then he remembers you must be so cold and hungry in that old dungeon. But he knows that one day he’ll get to live out all of that with you and so much more. Not today, but one day. 

Jealousy: Do they get jealous? Do they lash out or find a way to cope?

Well, he doesn’t have to be jealous because you don't even go outside… 

Though he does keep a close eye on Dean. Knowing how he can be. 

Kisses: How do they act around or with their darling?

Sam is ecstatic when you finally allow him to touch you. His hands have been itching to cover every single inch of your body. He loves the way your skin feels on his hardened calloused hands. Your skin was still a bit rough from the scars Sam’s hands left behind. Those same hands touching you as if you were the best prize on earth. And to Sam, you definitely were. Kisses galore. When you initiated the first kiss, it was hesitant and a bit clumsy, but Sam cherished the way your lips trembled against his. Nothing mattered to him anymore at that moment. Only you. Always you. 

Love letters: How would they go about courting or approaching their darling?

As stated before, Sam relished the fact that you (subconsciously) knew he was always there. Sam always found a way to be a background character in your life. A supporting role. If you will. Always the blurry face in the crowd. But always there. 

Mask: Are their true colors drastically different from the way they act around everyone else?

Oh yes. He is very much different in different environments. He’ll coddle and hug and kiss you near death. He’s almost always in a good mood when he’s spending time with you. Happy BoiTM. When he’s with Dean, he’s pretty normal. They typical brother teasing, the good moments, the bad ones. Sam acts like he always acted before you came along and rocked his world. The same goes for Donna, Jody, Alez, and Claire. The interactions are the same. But when with you, he can't focus on anything else but you. That's also the reason why he won't bring his research into the dungeon/room when you're there. He wants to show you that he can separate work and home life. With you, he lets his obsession love for you run free. He just can’t hide how he feels about you, love. Also, cause he can’t focus with you around. 

Naughty: How would they punish their darling?

Isolation mostly, yet if you show yourself to be resistant to that, he’ll use physical pain and manipulation.

Oppression: How many rights would they take away from their darling?

Almost all of your rights are taken from you. You can’t use any means of communication (unless you found some way to get hold of a spell.), You aren’t allowed to use any electronics unless Sam is practically attached to your skin. The only thing you can do is use the bathroom alone. Sam will allow you a few minutes in there depending on what you’re doing. But he’s taking everything that helps you escape out of there, even the mirror… You can’t be alone when you shower though. Sam will stand there, in the hot and humid bathroom and watch your every move as you shower. When you’re done, he’ll help you dry off and help you rub your lotion on your now rough and scared skin with nothing but utter devotion swimming in his eyes. Your night clothes will be put on by him as well. All of this will be done with the lightest, silk touch. 

Patience: How patient are they with their darling?

Extremly patient. Most days, he’ll put up with you and your shenanigans. But some days, when he’s in a bad mood or just generally tense, he’ll have a shorter fuse. You’ve learned to follow his orders on these days. Lest you’d like to go back into the dungeon…

Quit: If their darling dies, leaves, or successfully escapes, would they ever be able to move on?

Sam would never let you go easily so I’d say death really could be your only escape, and even then, thats not a guarantee. He could always make a crossroads deal, or bargain with Crowley. Hell he’d even try bargaining with Death himself. He’ll torture a thousand demons to get you back. Sam will walk through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven to get to you. Sam will go as far as kill himself in hopes he can follow you to heaven be with you eternally. Sure he’d feel guilty about leaving Dean, but he’d be with you. He can live with that. After all, how many times had Dean left him, only to beg Sam to move on?

Now if you had escaped and were able to stay hidden, either by the help of some angels or demons or the other he’ll search the ends of the Earth to find you. If he wasn’t able to find you by himself, he’d enlist in Dean, Jody, Donna, Claire, Alex, Charlie, and other trusted hunters, hell he’d even ask Rowena to help. If all of them together weren’t able to find you, Sam would never get over you. He’d grieve you every day while you celebrate getting away from him.  

Regret: Would they ever feel guilty about abducting their darling? Would they ever let their darling go?

While Sam would never let you go, he’d feel incredibly guilty about taking you away from your home, your friends, your family, and your life. With him, Dean, and John constantly moving around due to hunting, he knows exactly how you feel.

Stigma: What brought about this side of them (childhood, curiosity, etc)?

Yes, in fact, his childhood and early adult life were a factor, constantly losing new friends to the hunting life, and then losing Jessica, his father, Dean more than once, and more people he could count. This, as one would imagine, would leave an impression on even the toughest people. Not to mention being bullied at a young age and not being accepted in any social groups just for being who he was. So when he first saw you, he knew he wanted you, and he wouldn’t risk you not accepting him, or being taken from him. 

Tears: How do they feel about seeing their darling scream, cry, and/or isolate themselves?

Hearing you scream and cry makes his whole body shiver as tears sting in his eyes. He’d do anything you’d like to see you only smile for the rest of your days together. Hearing your sobs late into the night makes his body feel as if he’s being dipped into the hottest lakes of fire. You could swear one day, you could hear the cracking of his heart as he watched you cry one day. You’d also notice how his tears would fall at the same time as yours did. 

Unique: Would they do anything different from the classic yandere?

On days when you’d been extra good, he’d take you for a ride in the Impala up to his favorite stargazing hill and bring a book and blanket. He’d read to you as you zoned out watching the stars glitter in the skies. Wondering how peaceful the star would be. Millions of miles away from you. You’d appreciate the little bit of freedom, even though you still had to wear a collar. But at least your wrists could get a break from those iron chains. 

Vice: What weakness can their darling exploit in order to escape?

The more you behave, the more Sam takes you out. Not in public places just yet. But it will come with time. Just stick it out and eventually you go to pubic places together and then you can plan your escape and get away from Sam once and for all. But keep in mind, if you fail and get caught, Sam will likely never take you out again. And if by some miracle he does, he will literally handcuff your hands together. 

Wit’s end: Would they ever hurt their darling?

If you piss him off enough he’ll slice your skin to ribbons and remind you what happens to bad girls. If you keep disobeying him he might just break a few of your bones. You can’t escape if both of your legs are broken, can you darling?  He’ll break your mind by either isolation or some sort of mind spell. 

Xoanon: How much would they revere or worship their darling? To what length would they go to win their darling over?

He damn near kisses the dirt you walk on. This man is devoted to you. He’ll bring you every star you desire, he will kill every monster, buy everything you can ever want, hug you for however long to make you happy and feel safe. Anything doll, name anything and he’ll do it. 

Except kill Dean. Nice try love.

Yearn: How long do they pine after their darling before they snap?

Sam would spend no more than a few months to a year pining over you. Using his time wisely before he just couldn’t hold himself back anymore. Even still, he was as calculated as ever in kidnapping retrieving you.

Zenith: Would they ever break their darling?

Yes. You’ll be broken beyond repair if you don’t get out.

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A/N: I hope you all enjoyed these headcanons! I'm back baby! Requests are open!

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-Marissa

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[thydungeongal]

Do you think the Zelda dungeons (specifically link to the past) would port well to d&d?

I recently answered a similar ask! :)

Here's the quick version of my thoughts while I recommend reading that post: I think structurally Zelda dungeons are fantastic as sort of like dungeon-like obstacle courses for players to overcome. However, you don't want to mimic every single design decision in a Zelda dungeon: the verbs players have access to are limited by necessity in Zelda games so there can only be so many solutions. In a tabletop RPG you can lean into the infinite possibility space and present open-ended scenarios with no single right solution and just let the characters throw their abilities and tools at it.

So, fewer ALttP item puzzles, more open-ended puzzles in the style of BotW and TotK.

[otakween]

Digimon Tamers: Digimon Medley - Part 1 Impressions

Another Digimon game for the Wonderswan color. This is probably the most low effort game I've played yet. Super repetitive dialogue and the dungeons are all like 8 screens of boringness with vending machines being the only thing you can interact with. The game has "episodes" and goes through all of Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 in a condensed fashion. It feels really similar to .Hack//Link. I wonder if there's a name for this sort of genre...

Anyways, I'm expecting this game to be pretty short, but I thought I'd get my thoughts in at the halfway point.

Notes:

I do enjoy playing as a different digidestined every episode, but they all play relatively the same, so it can only be so exciting.

Every single battle and boss fight have felt equally easy so far, zero challenge. I feel like they couldn't make it too challenging because there's no leveling and no equipment you can use, so everything has to stay pretty much static.

The dialogue is practically the same every episode. "X bad guy controls this area and the digimon are suffering!" and then "Mwahaha as if you could defeat me chosen children!" and then "Yay! We defeated X bad guy! The digimon in this area are free." Ground breaking stuff. If anyone wants a ridiculously easy translation project, it's free real estate lol.

The Japanese text has spaces in it, which suggests to me that the target audience for this was very very young. It kind of feels like I'm playing one of those McDonald's kids toy games at points lol.

The chibi character models are very cute. Seeing the Tamers characters crucified is also kinda hilarious.

Here's a screenshot of Piyomon calling Sora "Mimi." Oops! She calls her Sora shortly after though...

[satoshi-mochida]

Touhou Project dungeon RPG Labyrinth of Touhou Tri: The Dreaming Girls & The Mysterious Orbs announced for PC - Gematsu

Labyrinth of Touhou: Gensokyo and the Heaven-Piercing Great Tree developer Nise-Eikoku-Studio has announced Touhou Project dungeon RPG Labyrinth of Touhou Tri: The Dreaming Girls & The Mysterious Orbs for PC. It will launch via Steam, DLsite, and other storefronts between winter 2024 and spring 2025 for 2,980 yen with English and Japanese language support.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

The girls of Gensokyo weave together a dungeon RPG with not-so-easy boss fights in this fan-made Touhou Project dungeon RPG with an estimated playtime of 30 to 50 hours! Pick a frontline of four and a rear of eight to form a party of 12 allies out of a pool of over 40 characters, and create with over 1,000 skills to choose from! Hack, slash, and grow stronger, then make builds (or counter-builds!) to take down powerful bosses awaiting you in the dungeons!

Key Features

The True Thrill of Dungeon RPGs: Hacking, Slashing, and Character Growth

Among the enemies wandering dungeons, you’ll find especially troublesome (and tasty!) Rare Enemies that give much more EXP,

Giant Enemies that are several times as stronger than regular ones and tens of times more rewarding, and Special Enemies that possess various unique aspects to their fights and hold special item drops!

Raise and lower the spawn rate of various enemies, waiting in ambush for some and running from others as you explore vast dungeons!

Find the perfect hunting ground for your party and go farming for a while!

Use various means to devise certain, consistent strategies for powerful foes and grind, grind, grind to grow stronger!

Builds and Counter-Builds are the Key to Beating Bosses

“They’ll do this thing every X turns!” “They’ll always use this attack at X% HP!” “They have a 1500% party-wide nuke!” “They stop time and attack four times for 500% damage each!” “They buff every turn with no cap!” The bosses blocking your way may be powerful, but there’s always a solution!

Defeat countless powerful foes with special traits by ascertaining their patterns and weaknesses, then going at them with a well-trained party and a finely-honed battle plan!

Utilize Boss Refights to Use Bosses to Farm and Challenge Even Fiercer Battles

By progressing through the game, you’ll unlock the ability to refight bosses to your heart’s content!

You can either treat them as tasty sitting ducks to farm them and get their drops, or you can subject yourself to level restrictions to gain extra rewards from battling them!

There are even some powerful special rewards you can only obtain by beating bosses with restrictions attached!

Boss fights make for really intense battles with restrictions on, so be ready before you attempt them!

Skill Trees With Over 1,000 Skills For Designing Your Own Synergies!

Everyone loves Skill Trees! Each of the over 40 characters has their own massive tree exclusive to them!

Which of the many girls will you choose? Which skills will you teach them? Who will battle in tandem with who?

Form your own unique party and devise your own unique battle strategy!

Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.

Announce Trailer

English

Japanese

[dyke-quixote]

struggled to finish a mirror dungeon fight so you are getting cute lil agere hcs beamed into your inbox -normal anon

sometimes some of the sinners come back from the dead fucking emotionally crushed. like needs to be little right now type crushed.

the sinners who absolutely do that are: don, sancho, heathcliff, sinclair, gregor more rarely you might notice outis doing this as well but she. she fights her needs because she's in CONSTANT war mode to her own detriment. girl piss your pants youre not better than anyone else here DFJSFJISDFJ

if theyre in the mirror dungeons and end up fighting a final boss abno (or if dante is dumb enough to bring gregor to fight the golden apple lux fight) the relevant sinner just. needs to sit down and be baby. this is ESPECICALLY the case for sinclair and don+sancho when we eventually get the don sr fight. don loses it ANY time she has to fight the other kindred. also fucks heathcliff up to see & fight nelly again but he's at least handling it a little less bad. still needs to be little though.

all the sinners have ego + ids that once battle is over and they are on the bus they are. instantly little.

mini list of what ego i think would fuck with them (and you are 100% correct hex nail IS the babymode ego im stealing this from you) sunshower yi sang hex nail + 9:2 faust yearning-mircalla, lifetime stew & sometimes fluid sac for don red eyes (either) for ryoshu and perhaps even contempt awe (it all depends on her canto so take this one w/ a grain of salt) regret meursaut cavernous wailing hong lu fell bullet & binds & sometimes telepole. sometimes also holiday. heathcliff blind obsession ishmael rime shank & hex nail rodya lifetime stew, hex nail & cavernous wailing sinclair holiday, ebony stem & sunshower outis legerdemain & AEDD gregor

and base egos can result in a sinner going little. because thats like. their trauma manifested. thats gonna fuck with them.

the bad end ids also. instantly little when on bus.

often times dante can tell that a sinners going thru it when theyre doing luxes or mds and theyre like "if you need a break you can tell me" and the response really depends on who theyre talking to but. basically all of them except outis (who "does not need breaks" <- probably would regress youngest out of all of the sinners if she LET HERSELF) and meursault because hes. like mostly stonyfaced for now. thatll probably change after his canto.

id wise, you can get lil sinners by using the following (unethical life hack it makes them very distressed.) spicebush & w corp for yi sang lc remnant, the one who grips, & especially w corp for faust obviously Manager of La Manchaland don/sancho fucks with her but also. middle little sister & blade lineage. edgar family ryoshu fucks with her. idk if i hc ryoshu as a little or not but like. its literally the mom id. maybe becomes more protective of sinclair idk. i do not know meursault enough to confidently throw headcanons at him ;A; rip to him he gets to stay big always i guess idk i think the MAJORITY of association/office ids fuck with hong lu even a little. i think he very much loves his family even if they tried to kill him. like a lot of times. thats just how they show their love! (<- this does result in him chasing the other littles with a weapon. dante has learned VERY WELL how to read if hong lu is little before they get back on the bus because they have to confiscate his weapon before they do cause at that point hes like "aww ok! ok dante!!" but if theyre on the bus hong lu can fucking run and dante cannot keep up.) ncorp, sunshower, and especially wildhunt fuck with heathcliff. if its a wildhunt based regression dante's really the only suitable caretaker at that point because a lot of the problem is cathy is gone and no one but dante can understand that. ishy in general doesnt like sloshing but. rcorp and captain are also bad. she gets weird w/ the post rcorp headaches/migraines and it leads to a VERY weird littlespace where she needs to be left alone but not left ALONE but it cant be loud but it cant be quiet. rodya i think is fine when it comes to ids as well. she,, i like viewing rodya as the team mom. she's just as good as picking up on when the other sinners are getting overwhelmed as dante is. especially when it comes to sinclair and don and gregor. im a rodigor fan they are the token straights /silly. despite the fact that the other three bloodfiend ids fuck with their owners heads i think rodyas actually mostly fine w/ the princess id?? idk. at the very least she masks well enough to get from using it to using an ego that throws her. red sheet, molar, dawn, and twosg all fuck with sinclairs head in different ways. leaves him in distinctly different headspaces too. i think magic bullet, molar office, barber, and gcorp all throw outis's brain into wack. she is. not having a good time dante. dante why. gregor does NOT have a good time when he is gcorp. same with family heir or priest.

i really like the idea of dante being like. bus caretaker. verdante forever for me so like. dante being the like "good cop" caretaker. everyone prefers dante's care. dante threatens to get vergilius involved if someones behaving badly and not listening. its always said in hushed tones (as if he could hear) and it almost always works.

vergilius being less harsh to sinners who are regressed. he can tell. dont ask how. hes used to it.

occasional reorganization of seating arrangements for the handfuls of cg/little setups when someones little. faust being all embarrassed cause instead of being little and trying to ignore hong lu's quiet prodding (cause hes tactful about faust being little. hes nice. he has little siblings he gets it.) shes sitting in yi sangs lap in the middle of the bus. don wordlessly babbling in ishmaels lap or cuddling heathcliff. sancho napping on ishmael or play arguing with her older brother (heathcliff again wow). sinclair fast asleep laying on ryoshu (/p thats his adoptive mom to me) and no one dares say a thing. outis wordlessly keeps glancing at dante and they can tell. eventually they just go over and quietly ask if shed like to sit with them. shes like "i can handle this executive manager" but her voice is so much quieter than usual. dante just stares for a second before outis sighs and now dantes in her chair and shes in their lap. idk i like outis caring about dante in a very genuine way. maybe its the autism and how she sometimes comes off as less of "bootlicking" and moreso "socially inept" to me.

theres more but this is getting long and i am scared of tumblr cutting it off. (~1.2k word count btw LMAO??)

I LOVE ALL OF THIS. Yes yes yes... it's so good... your view on outis is PERFECT. Every headcanon here is good... Vergilius even yeah.... he knows how to be tough and the "bad cop" but he's secretly soft about them all being little.... agree with hong lu SOOOOO much yeah wah I love them........

[cobalt-the-noodle]

I want an Isekai where a Speedrunner/kaizo player/exploit hunter is isekai'd into a mmorpg world and has like, three days until the Evil Demon Samurai King of HeavenTM uses a super weapon to take over the world And they must use all their glitchy speed running stats to become ungodly op

Instead of plot armor and narrative bullshit, the speedrunner is actually explaining how the glitches are supposed to work to the Wacky twink sidekick Harem how his exploits work in the wirld's logic

"You see, if I get enough goblins to spawn in one place using that scarecrow hack I told you about, the entity count prevents the boss from spawning, and the dungeon assumes I killed it"

[andromeda3116]

not me (who has only ever dm'd a 4e oneshot) daydreaming about building a homebrew campaign based on journey to the west blended with certain concepts of dnd - like, the party is hired by the emperor to find the sacred scrolls that will *cough cough* give him *cough* greater enlightenment *cough hack* to better serve his *choke cough* people and so the campaign is the party journeying through fantastic lands filled with helpful people in small towns and scheming people in small towns and small towns in need of dire assistance and demons and minor gods until they reach the highest mountain and - depending on how they've acted through the campaign thus far - will either be granted the scrolls or have to take them by force and then return (by like the nimbus cloud or bird) to the capital city where they discover that the emperor intends to use the power of the scrolls to rule with a greater iron fist and so they have to fight their way through his armies to reach and defeat him - either to replace him with a better ruler or attempt to take the throne for themselves (depending on how they've acted through the campaign - if they've taken a cruel/bad route, the party would then be turned against one another in a final pvp)

and like. there isn't really a pantheon for clerics/paladins/warlocks so much as an alignment chart representing what spiritual path you have committed yourself to or become bound to and if you deviate too far from that path, you may find yourself losing powers or having them shift against your will

i mean, there's a ton of room in there for the players to do their thing and spend as much time as they want doing side quests or just getting there - and it being very wilderness-heavy would mean they'd need to build for endurance, and the final "dungeon" being basically room after room of mooks of increasing difficulty until you reach the emperor's final protector who may or may not be easy to kill - if the party has been evil, they will be, and the emperor will also be easy to dispatch and then the scrolls will activate to turn the party against each other - if the party has been good, the final bodyguard will be a bastard and a half (the emperor will still be easy) and kind of a typical final-boss situation

...anyway