#october 30 2023

[royalarchivist]

Phil: I don't need a gift, Etoiles, your presence, your- your- your comedy, your-

Etoiles: Philllll, shut the fck up! What do you want my broooo?! What do you want, my petit frerou [little bro], tell me, I have everything you need! Do you need fruits? I have fruits! Do you need Netherite? I have Netherite! Do you need Dark Metal? I have Dark Metal! What do you want?

Phil: [Laughing] No, it's fine, I don't need anything, it's all good. You are- you are the gift. You are the gift, Etoiles.

Etoiles: Phil, Phil I have something for you. [Trying not to laugh]

Phil: Yeah?

Etoiles: [Hands him a gun]

[card-of-the-day]

Today's Card Is: Ghostrick Lantern

[glitterlikegold]

michellebranch: Tour is over. Now what? Did you catch the brand new song at the top of my set? 🕵🏻‍♀️ I’ve spent the year writing and I’m happy to report new music is on the way 📻❤️ 📸@ baeth for @ mtv

[averbaldumpingground]

We'll be not okay together.

The lights are turned off. Your comforter's faded, the same lumpy mess in my room. The same scratchy bed sheets from college.

But it's not the same. The posters on your wall, the music playing softly from your laptop. How you would never stay for me like that.

I'll try to remember it now, more than a decade of feelings.

Time. Time never held on so tight.

[chronicles-of-kats-dnd-game]

Lost Mine & Abyss Session 13 - The Spider's Web

-The party follows the bugbear king to his throne room, Valark vanishing along the way. The king sits in his throne, motioning the party to sit at a nearby table- where their employer, Gundren Rockseeker, sits weakly, arms chained to the table.

-The king explains that he is being paid 300 gold for the delivery of the party for the Black Spider- but that he likes the Black Spider even less than the party, and so will let them go if they can beat his price.

-The party begins to pour out their combined treasures, coming up with 350 gold. The king approves, but says that he is receiving services from the Spider as well, and asks what else they can offer to him.

-Sen protests that he was not part of the original group. The King counters that anyone who has meddled in the Spider's plans must be captured, by his orders- they must all negotiate. They protest that they were only sent as protection, and know nothing of his goal- while the King says that the dwarf has said they are very important to unlocking it, and that under threat of torture said he could not do it without them.

-King Grol allows the group to speak among themselves. Gundren begs for the party to free him. Sen notes that he has no money on him. The dwarf pleads that they will all become rich if they can just get him to the mine, that they will all receive their payment, a bonus, and a share of the mine's profits. He tells them that he's the only one that knows the forge's location- the Black Spider can't find it without him, and they must speak a phrase only he knows to activate it. He desperately tells the party that if he is a liar, they are free to kill him.

-The king interrupts them, asking if they have come to a conclusion. Vierna first, asks for some information on the Black Spider, asking which House he is from. The King does not care for the ways of drow, but says he has spoke of Mizzrym- that he is watching out for two of that house. Vierna asks if Valark is one of those names. The King confirms, and asks if he is traveling with them. Vierna says he is on his own path. The King says this knowledge of Valark raises the base price to 400- his employer is very insistent on finding him, and is the one thing he fears.

-Dakwert speaks up, taking off his magical necklace and offering it out. He tells the King of its powers, of how it gives him his magic- and that it comes with a built in tutorial! He protests that he has a very good axe and no need for spells. The warlock tells him it could give him a bigger axe, an axe on fire- Green Flame Blade used to demonstrate. Showing more of its storage power, he begins shoveling all of the offered treasures into the extradimensional necklace, asking that they let all of them go in exchange. (😭)

-The King thinks on this deeply, then takes the necklace and wraps it around his neck, the gnome's necklace a tight choker on him. The warlock tells him that its magic will take an hour to work, but to trust him that this will be all he needs and that he can let them go. The King proceeds to roll a nat one and trusts this statement completely (😭). He walks over to unlock Gundren's chains, sits back down on his throne to admire his new necklace, and tells the party they may leave.

-He gives the party the additional information that the Black Spider is in Wave Echo Cave, working to find his way through it, but cannot make much progress without the dwarf's map. He shares as well that two twin drow of House Mizzrym are the Black Spider's greatest fears- their names Valark and Virith. Where one is, the other is never far- and that they are very good at hiding themselves. The Black Spider is also nothing without his staff, he says. He gives a request to the party that they kill him.

-As the party takes their leave from the throne room, the King picks up a Sending Stone, speaking into it "Your wizardness, we have your adventurers." Reclining on his throne, he tells the party he's given them a head start- and that he suggests they start running. Sid launches the angrily restrained Creak towards the throne, missing him as she hangs from the wall. A response comes from the stone- "Understood. I'll be on my way." He ignores the goblin, telling them they have about a minute until he teleports in, and recommends again that they run.

-The King apologizes, saying that if they can manage to kill the Black Spider, he will be fully on their side- continuing to sit still on his throne, watching. Dakwert, deprived of his magic, starts running from the building, Sen with him to warn the druid, who starts preparing his spell of speed for their getaway cart. Sid prepares his Spirit Guardians. Vierna asks for the Sending Stone, the King tossing it to her.

-A loud crackle of magic sounds from the next room as a teleportation circle activates. The door to the next room opens to a coin flashing through the air from the hand of a drow wizard and activating an aura of magical Darkness, blinding the party. He then casts Rime's Binding Ice, freezing Gundren and Vierna in place.

-Sid, unable to see but in front of the wizard, takes out his Scroll of Thunderbolt and casts it upon his enemy, setting his robes on fire. The orc sends a mighty Magic Missile his way- blocked by the drow's shield spell as magic flows around his robe. Dodging through the Spirit Guardians, the drow wizard launches another blast of ice towards the orc, freezing Sid in the process.

-Appearing from the next room, Creak launches at the Black Spider with her daggers, missing and hitting his cloak instead, a maniacal laugh sounding through the Darkness. Sen charges back through the other side of the castle to shoot the wizard from behind, Dakwert hanging on to him. Creak gets another attack in making the wizard turn in fear, whispering "Glory to House Mizzrym" to him, heard only by the orc.

-Dakwert calls his familiar to him from the necklace, the psuedodragon leaping from the bugbear king to Vierna to break her out of the ice. The orc breaks out Sid next to him as well. The Black Spider reevaluates his situation, casting Invisibility and disappearing from the battlefield. Creak hisses and runs for the teleportation circle room, swinging her daggers in a blind rage. From the caged other tower, the angry screech of an owlbear is heard.

-The pseudodragon flies to Gundren, thawing out the dwarf to reveal his life rapidly fading. It sends a telepathic image to Dakwert of the dwarf's situation- and of the Coin of Darkness's location. Sid charges in to help, stabilizing him with Spare the Dying and carrying the dwarf on his back, picking up and deactivating the coin on the way.

-Unfrozen, Vierna starts yelling obscenities into the Sending Stone, its duplicate alerting the party to the Black Spider's general area- climbing up the open-ceiling owlbear tower. The party continues launching attacks towards the drow in his attempts to leave, as he continues to cast Misty Step to keep distance into the Wood. The Pseudodragon's bites and Sen's arrows continue to find him, Vierna continuing to yell after him. Badly beaten, he shouts into another Sending Stone calling for the wizard Iarno's help- and is eventually teleported away.

-Opening the door to check on Creak, Sid is flooded by a powerful energy as he finds the teleportation circle destroyed, dagger marks all around, and a goblin staring very intensely towards him. The dragonborn picks her up along with Gundren, and starts carrying them back to the cart. Defeated, Creak gives no resistance.

-Frustrated, tired, and badly weakened, the party makes their way back to their cart and the waiting druid. Seeing that they got what they came for, the cart takes off down the path, magically sped along. The orc runs up last, jumping on the back for Vierna to drag him up- while the drow smiles and instead drops him under the cart's wheels as they are removed from the party, the orc's strange stone bouncing onto the cart. There, our session ends!

[outfitsinspiration]

Who: Emili Sindlev

What: Mayol Jewelry L'Enfant Terrible Necklace (€212.00) Where: Instagram - October 30, 2023

Worn with: Champion t-shirt, Miu Miu skirt and loafers, Chanel bag, Shevoke sunglasses

[vyxart]

[chiaraferragniwardrobe]

What: UGG classic ultra mini platform in driftwood (190,00€) Where: Instagram - October 30, 2023

Worn with: Falconeri sweater, The Frankie Shop coat, Saint Laurent jeans and Sportmax bag

[endless-traveler]

One of these days I’ll get around to fixing up this blog…

[thehiddenhermit]

watching the fnaf movie on a totally legal website right now

[charlotte-of-wales]

The Danish Royal Court has released three official portraits in honour of Prince Christian’s 18th birthday, which where taken this morning by photographer Dennis Stenild in the Hall of Knights in the Crown Prince's family home, Frederik VIII's Palace at Amalienborg | October 15th, 2023

[bad-time-storys]

day 27 of Hermitober, prompt: tarot

First of all, look at the hair! It's so beautiful 😍

Second, there's only 4 days left, like it's starting to get really hard to draw and I'm happy that I'm done but also, I'm sad that it's almost over 😭

HermitCount: 26/24 (Ahahaha!!!!)

[jens-holland]

Came up with my own drawtober prompts for this year! I will be using it as a witchtober prompt list, but feel free to use it in whichever way you choose! If all 31 days are too much for you, I have highlighted every 3rd for something a little easier. Please tag me on instagram or tumblr and use the #jenstober23 so I can see your beautiful works of art!

[outfitsinspiration]

Who: Emili Sindlev

What: Shevoke Zulu Tortoise Sunglasses ($120.00) Where: Instagram - October 30, 2023

Worn with: Champion t-shirt, Miu Miu skirt and loafers, Chanel bag

[rabbitcruiser]

Alaska was purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km2) on March 30, 1867, by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.

[burning-idiot]

Day 1, mother