#master of magic

[youlackconviction]

yeh go on, tell me again how LOKI can't fucking fight 😤

#mcu salt

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

Master of Magic

"Meet Rjak. He wants to rule the World. Only you can stop him." (Computer Gaming World #124, Nov. 1994)

[ghostiegwennie]

thē tri¢kŞtēr & thē ຟit¢h: 1/0

@galdrameistari

Alright let's go through this ONE. MORE. TI....... eh...... errr Let's not & say we did. Done that too many times now. I'm Gwen Stacy, NOT the one & only but definitely still ME. I was originally from the version of Earth known as Earth-65. You should know the rest. For the most part. I had to leave my world, & NO it wasn't for the Miles Morales of Earth-1610 or any of that. Different Gwen Stacy. Told ya I'm not the one & only. There's a universe where I am Captain America....Like seriously, another where I am the Mighty Thor....Gwor? Thwen? Never figured that one out.

AnyWAY.... this version of me is the plain old, synthetic Venom suit wearing, learning how to traverse the multiverse from Dr. Strange, Gwen Stacy. The good doctor MAY be trying to teach me how to use magic, & I MAY not be as good at it as the doc may have wanted. I picked up on the multiversal travel JUST fine though.

It was JUST another day, I had just walked into the Sanctum after a long-ASS day of patrols. You know, to do some lessons with Dr. Strange when my spidey-sense went off. That totes shouldn't happen in here. Before I could even begin to fully wonder what the hell was going on with THAT a flash of green blasted the door that I had just came through, Enchantress zooming out of the hole before Gwen do much more than jumped out of the way.

"I thought you spider-people were supposed to be fast! GET HER!!!" Dr. Strange came running out from the direction Enchantress had jus came from.

"She stole.........." The doc's voice was lost to me, I went after Enchantress. Plus I didn't want to stick around here & hear the doc's degrading lecture. It worked out.

THWIP!!!!! THWIP! THWIP!!!!

It didn't take me long to reach her. I let lose a web slinging myself towards the witch, she turned suddenly, suspending me in air.

Well Fuck.

I haven't quite got the hang of magic yet, as stated earlier. I shot a web at the Seidr, & she blinked causing it to dissolved in midair. I really need to figure out anti-magic webs. Wonder if the doc would have any ideas. er.... Not without the cost of 3 theses, & 4 courses on the book of such & such along with a lecture about how I'm not doing good enough in my studies.

Think Gwen. Think.

[holyshitdragons]

Sss'ra, Master of Magic (1994) + Status

Well, we'll be damned.

For as little as it may be, having at least four people who, despite our long inactivity, as well as the slightly niche nature of a lot of what we do, (post lots of retro dragons!), decided to follow us, just on the off chance we'll keep posting more silly giant lizards and classic games and books.

For a variety of reasons, we took a bit of a hiatus from Tumblr--disagreements with the management of the website, most particularly, but until we can properly set up an alternate page..as well as archive a lot of these posts proper...

Well, we may as well keep posting a few dragons here and there again.

Thank you.

To get us back in the groove, have a pretty famous dragon, if you're a fan of 4X games--Sss'ra, the Myrran Life/Chaos wizard! He's always been one of my favorite wizards, honestly. Very strong character, and, well, when I was younger, bipedal or not, getting to play as a dragon was always a win.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Master of Magic - Merlin by Iwo Widulinski

[whimseysthrone]

Dominions 6: Same Great Taste, More Accessible

Don’t play it for the graphics I love fantasy strategy games. I’ve played piles of them. That includes most of the Age of Wonders series, Master of Magic (the original and the new version), Warlock, Fallen Enchantress, Heroes of Might and Magic 1 through 5, and more. But Dominions outshines those games in multiple ways. If you’re already someone who plays the Dominions games, you’ll have heard…

[allimili]

https://www.tumblr.com/allimili/775822310068322304/i-love-the-way-you-draw-the-cookies-popping-their?source=share

Different anon and I can't help but imagine that the cookies always magically fix their phone because they love them so much...or magically enchanted the phone.

extra:

[sualne]

mithrun sketch to celebrate

[tritoch]

the warrior of light as a game-breaking force of violence

there's a moment, relatively early in dawntrail, that establishes succinctly how out of place the warrior of light (as the savior of eorzea and main character of four successive final fantasy game plots) is in what is essentially the story of fresh new final fantasy protagonist wuk lamat. and it sets up quite nicely how the framework of fantasy video game conflict pulls the warrior of light forever towards violence as the expansion goes on.

spoilers through 7.0 follow

consider wuk lamat's kidnapping and rescue. bakool ja ja holds his blade to wuk lamat's throat, taunting you. his lackeys line up against your party in neat little ranks suspiciously reminiscent of a classic final fantasy encounter screen.

and it simply does not matter to the warrior of light. you stride right through their combat setup because you are beyond that by now. the warrior of light has absolutely no respect for the "we are about to do ATB combat" lineup. the camera even jumps the line for you in one continuous rotating shot, crossing the axis of action as though to emphasize through the disruption of visual convention how far outside the game's boundaries you are.

this is how far you are above the problems of dawntrail's first half. you cannot even be bound by the normal rules of cinematography and video game combat. everyone else here lined up for a good old-fashioned scrap and the warrior of light said haha nope actually. i'm going to stroll through here like a god of war astride this tiny battlefield. your henchmen cannot even raise a hand to me. i don't even have to engage in violence directly anymore. my mere presence is enough.

in fact, not only can bakool ja ja's henchmen not raise a hand to you, he's not even worthy of your direct intervention. he kidnaps wuk lamat and steals her keystones and frees valigarmanda and kidnaps hunmu rruk and none of it warrants the warrior of light so much as raising a finger. he's wuk lamat's recurring villain, that's not your problem. you're just here to take in the scenery.

zoraal ja spends his whole life aspiring to be thought of as his father's equal and a worthy successor to the dawnservant as the "resilient son." all it takes for gulool ja ja to acknowledge you as a warrior on his level is like a five minute sparring match. the acknowledgement from gulool ja ja that zoraal ja hungered for his whole life and would eventually go full cyborg supervillain to get via regicide is something the warrior of light receives casually in a throwaway line after their level 93 solo duty on the way to more important plot conversations.

it really seems for a second, in the first half of dawntrail, like you are strong enough and the problems simple enough for this to be a clean and easy adventure. bakool ja ja? power of friendship'd. mamook? successfully reintegrated, no worries about the crimes against humanity. rite of succession? handily won. nothing can stop you. even duty finder queue times have been conquered: you can do all your duties with trusts now.

all of which only makes it better when the second half has sphene ask you and wuk lamat directly: could your strength have been enough to save alexandria? could you have found a different way?

i know some people get very annoyed we don't intervene in the gulool ja ja fight. now personally i think if you see arthur and mordred squaring up it's rude to intervene, but beyond that, it simply wouldn't have mattered. by the time zoraal ja's forces arrived in tuliyollal, alexandria and tural were already on a collision course and doomed to conflict. your hands alone could never have averted this conflict. sphene was always bound to do what she did—and certainly a gulool ja ja without his reason would not be any more inclined to peace than wuk lamat and koana were.

there's a great little moment just before living memory where estinien, champion at reading the room, is like "okay so if thancred and i stay here that frees up you up, aibou, to do what you do best and save the world and have epic fights. woo!!!" and immediately afterwards you basically have to apologize to alisaie because part of the sort of unspoken premise of this whole trip in the first place was that you were, finally, not going to plunge into mortal peril to save the world. you were finally going to take it easy. you were finally done with that. and she has to sort of ruefully be like nah it's fine bro. i was trying to get you to take it easy and not do insane risky world-saving violence. but y'know these things (interdimensional invasions) happen.

by the time you reach the very last trial, all pretense that the warrior of light could have ever been beyond these problems has vanished. you were, very emphatically, not strong enough to hold onto all that was dear without sacrifice. gulool ja ja and otis and cahciua died. yyasulani was irreversibly changed, physically colonized and culturally decimated by another dimension. you systematically shut down each part of living memory, and all its friendly, charming, loving ghosts, with your own hands. with your own clicks.

not even the vaunted strength of the warrior of light is enough to overcome sphene's inexorable logic of conflict. and so, in the end, she plucks you out of the crowd and says, explicitly for reasons of your strength, that you are going to have to do a boss fight now. you are going to have to kill her and you are going to have to do it in a proper 8-on-1 trial, and she forces you to affirmatively state that you understand you're going to kill her.

did you think you were above it all? did you think you could get away from here with your weapon undrawn, with your hands clean? that for you and you alone the logic of conflict comes undone? wrong. wrong. wrong.

your strength cannot redeem you, says sphene. your friends cannot make these sacrifices for you. if you would play the hero then you must play the hero. no half-measures.

back to the duty finder with ye.

[lez-bichi-lover]

I like to think they didn't have a good first impression on each other 💥💥👊

[lawoffgirls]

⊹ ࣪ ˖۶ৎ Revision and Void State; how to revised your failed attempts with the void state!.𖥔 ݁ ˖

This thread will be based on the idea I had when @/samoaconsiencia(twt) asked for help in our LOA group on how she could revised failed attempts to enter the void state.

Well, I've always been very obsessed with the idea of ​​void, I've been to a toxic level, but nowadays I even like to research more about it to understand both the state and learn more about our mind, but anyway, I've always been thinking, how could I revised my previous attempts failed with the void state, because it is reported as pitch black, I would not feel or hear anything, how would I visualize this? And then when Skye shared this doubt in the group, it seems that my mind went PLIM ✨️ and this idea came up!

Step 1:

You will choose simple things that you want to manifest, such as a tablet, eye color, appearance, etc.

(You can also choose an event, or something that has already happened and say it was a success story of the void!

Ex: your sp liked your story

You can say that this happened because it was a "test" success story of the void!!)

Step 2:

You will define a number of attempts that you have tried to enter the void, for example, let's suppose that you want to review that you have tried enter the void only 4 times (it doesn't matter if it was more or less than that, that choice is yours, it's a revision).

Step 3: Now you will revised that in all these attempts that you decided, you were successful, and in each attempt, as a "test" mode you took on One of those desires that I asked you to choose in step 1, and then that's it!

"But angel, how do I revised?"

It's simple my love, you will define your goal, what you want to review, in this case it is the failed attempts to the void, which will now be successful attempts, in this you accept that you have achieved it, and live your life!

But of course, I know there are people who have a hard time just accepting it like that, so here are some fun ways you can use to revision!

⊹ ࣪ ˖۶ৎ Writing;

You can write in a diary, notebook, list, both digital and physical, how your attempts at void went, what you assumed in them, if you want you can even put dates to make it seem more "realistic", and then whenever you need validation, read it!

⊹ ࣪ ˖۶ৎ Visualization;

In this one you will use your imagination, if you are the kind of person who loves to fanficte, prepare the playlist (or not), close your eyes, relax and visualize yourself waking up from all your attempts at success in the void, with everything you manifested in the form of a "test"!

⊹ ࣪ ˖۶ৎ Affirmation; If you are a more "minimalist" person, then this is for you, create small affirmations, which imply with the attempts to the void, for example "I entered the void as a test and when I woke up from the state there was my brand new iPhone 15 , it really works"!

⊹ ࣪ ˖۶ৎ the original thread!

[submastrain]

Jester!Ingo! 🔥 I just had to make a back view too of this outfit.

[bet-on-me-13]

Sam is Adopted

So! Have you ever noticed how Sam doesn't look like either of her Parents? Her Mom and Dad are Blonde and Ginger, and neither of them have Purple Eyes. How would Sam ever come from either of them?

She tells people that she dyes her Hair and wears Contacts, but the reality is that she was adopted as a baby by them. They had just found out that Pamela was Infertile and they wanted an Heir foe their company, so they decided to Adopt a kid.

But the Adoption Agency didn't have any kids who would realistically look like them, so they just got the first kid they found.

She had been left at the Orphanage by her Mother citing an inability to raise her and an unstable income. She never told the Agency her name, but told them that the baby's name was Sam, named after her Grandfather.

Sam was raised knowing that she was Adopted, but never really put much interest into it. Until one day when she decided that her adoptive Parents support of the Anti Ecto Acts was a step too far for her. She took an Ancestry DNA Test to see if she could find her Bio Mom to get away from them.

The results came back, and she found out that her Mom was a woman from Metropolis named Lois Lane.

[cubbihue]

Genuinely has Timmy ever decked Irep for Peri after all the shenanigans he was put through?

Timmy's certainly felt like decking him once or twice!! But he'd never do it. Timmy knows better than anyone how terrible it feels when you're punished or reprimanded for just.. being yourself. Irep's just a kid, doing what anti-fairy kids do!

But also, Irep went through one hell of a growth spurt at school, and now he's twice Timmy's size. So, Timmy's options are pretty limited now. At best, he could use Anti-Cosmo as a measure to get Irep to listen to him, but it's becoming less effective the older they get.

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[hoshizoralone]

maid-ster chief

[oldschoolfrp]

"Where do summoned creatures come from?" asked Melar. "Are they assembled from raw energy like illusion, or do they have real existences in some other place, from whence we snatch them as we need them?"

(From Philip Rennert's short story "Master's Thesis, The Space Gamer 62, April 1983, with Denis Loubet illustration)

Combatants in Metagaming's Wizard could conjure illusions or summon physical creatures to fight for them. The Summon Myrmidon spell produced an armed human with no apparent free will. In this tale young Melar devises a series of experiments to summon warriors and attempt to awaken their true personalities and determine their origin. Unfortunately for the entire wizard guild the process works, and one of the summoned men escapes with the knowledge of who has been randomly abducting so many of his people and returning them with fatal wounds.