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you know, i really didn't expect to get attached to aster when i made her. she was kind of a goof character. i don't really like pf2e as a system but i joined the game cause i like playing things with my friends and i thought i'd give it another chance and just not play a spellcaster. i just picked whatever class seemed easy and fun, kept it boring and simple with the ancestry, and chose the amnesiac background so i wouldn't have to look up anything about the world or put any further thought into her
she was literally just a cute dumb punch joke and then i made one weird improv decision and then she got one of her memories back and now i am so incredibly invested in her. why does this always happen to the joke characters
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Calypso Bynns for @samssims's Farming for Love
Job: Wizard
Aspiration: Spellcraft & Sorcery
Traits: Self-Assured, Gloomy, Cat Lover
Likes: Green, Egotistical Sims, Nature Enthusiasts, Gardening, Gossip
Dislikes: Ambitionless Sims, Pranks, Jazz Music, Fitness, Blue
She/Her, Pansexual
Calypso is the current resident wizard who keeps watch over Henford-On-Bagley/Chestnut Ridge. She lives in a remote corner of the valley, with only her cat Crowley to keep her company. While she rarely ventures into town, she loves to keep an eye on the going ons of the village–which she manages to do rather easily with her magic and crystal ball. She’s particularly intrigued by the new farmer that’s shown up in the village. Calypso senses a lot of possibility with Penelope. It sure looks like things are about to get more interesting!
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Baizhu’s Room
(note: this was written without any leaked spoilers or lore in mind)
Genshin 3.6 finally gave us access to the back room in Bubu Pharmacy, in anticipation of Baizhu’s upcoming release and story quest. And I have to give all the praise to the designers and developers here, because this small room has some of the best environmental storytelling I’ve seen in a game in a while, with only a few simple details. Today is Baizhu’s birthday, so I wanted to talk about it a little 💚🐍🌿
Nothing in this room is neatly in its place. The chairs aren’t in position, everything on the desk is messy and strewn about, and some of the drawers are left open. There’s a pillow on the desk, as well. Baizhu is quite frail and sickly, so this all paints a picture of him constantly looking for things and working, both as a doctor and frantically on his research into immortality, without having the energy or care to keep everything neat, and probably often falling asleep at his desk out of exhaustion (hence the pillow, though admittedly it could be for Changsheng, but I kind of doubt it).
There’s medicine on the bedside tables, which is probably just as much for Baizhu as it (and all the other medicine in the room) is for his patients. The bedside chair indicates he likely sits with patients there a lot so as to be as comforting as possible, but again, it’s also likely for people like Gui and Qiqi, when Baizhu is the one in bed. The sole small washtub thing stuck in the corner behind the screen... just makes me sad. I don’t know why in particular... it just does.
All of this, combined with the lighting, and the new, unique song, creates a room that manages to feel both warm and welcoming during the day, but solemn, lonely, almost suffocating, and unbearably sad at night, completely befitting the person who practically lives here, and the two very different sides he has. I say “practically”, but we have no indication so far that Baizhu actually does live anywhere else -- with his low energy and poor health, and all those damn steps leading up to the pharmacy, I’m fully convinced now that he does live here full-time, after seeing the state of it, which is... heartbreaking. He puts on a smile for everyone around him who are relying on him to care for them (and he loves his job, he truly does!), but his tiny, cramped patient room seemingly doubles as his living space, and even though Baizhu may lie and try to hide his own suffering... this room itself does not lie, and said suffering is bleeding from every corner here. The music is elegant, gentle, comforting, and soothing, but also delicate, weak, mournful, and again unimaginably lonely...... just like Baizhu. 💔
If you haven’t been here yet in the game, I highly recommend you visit it at least once; the atmosphere is simply unmatched. I can’t wait to see what happens here in Baizhu’s story quest, and how it will wreck our hearts even more 💚💔
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