#scythe-armed

[feroluce]

Connecting dots tonight (didn't connect shit, I've connected them, etc) because of this post about item descriptions to do with Sampo I saw a few days ago and! I feel like there are so many interesting things that could be implied from this!! Because the recipe for the High-Tech Protective Gear is given to you by Bronya (before the IPC invaded Belobog!), who says this little interesting tidbit about it:

This is an item from before the Eternal Freeze, 700 years ago. Even to the rest of the universe, it would be SORELY outdated. It cannot be made in Belobog anymore due to the loss of entire eras. It is effectively useless; this recipe had to be somewhere gathering dust, kept around solely for archival purposes. There is no reason for Sampo to know about this item or have any idea how it works and yet. AND YET. He's just running around selling knock offs!!

He shouldn't even know how to make these, but the fact that he does means Sampo either

had the blueprints from off-world before he came to Belobog (most likely but also most boring answer)

broke into Qlipoth Fort and copied down the blueprints (completely plausible - he's possibly shown doing exactly that in his splash art)

found another copy out in the ruins of the old world (also completely plausible - Sampo is astoundingly resilient against both the Fragmentum and the cold, as noted by Lynx haha)

Meanwhile, the Inferior Protective Gear recipe comes from an NPC in the underground, and when she gives it to you, she talks about building robots and the robot fighting scene sorry about the quality I didn't have screenshots for her dialogue so I had to use wiki

Which makes me feel like it's safe to say that the inferior gear is mostly being used in the underground, especially by the vagrants and their robots for fights, because...well, who else would use it? Cocolia has made it illegal to explore too far into the Snow Plains, and besides, it's way too dangerous for most civilians even WITH gear. The Silvermane Guards are funded by official sources, they have no reason to rely on Sampo for armor. So it makes sense for an underground mechanic to know the recipe; there's probably not as much market for it up in the overworld.

And if you look at the descriptions, you can see why this probably wasn't something that could be made in Belobog anymore; it requires a charging system of some sort.

We know it's not a problem with the basic materials because all three ingredients can be found right in the administrative district. But the underground only has two of them; somehow, despite being in the planet's crust, and literally crawling with robots...there is no metal down there. It isn't found anywhere, sold by anyone, or dropped by anything. And metal just so happens to be the one ingredient Sampo replaces in his knock off version.

The Inferior Gear uses trash instead, something which, going by the words of that same mechanic, is MORE than abundant in the underground- any good quality parts are extremely difficult to come by down there.

Anyway, all his shadiness aside, I love the implication that Sampo is smart enough to be able to take this item that no one else on the planet probably knows anything about, and was able to figure out what he could replace, and how, and with what, in order to make it easily accessible to the people of the underground, even without access to overworld resources. Because his version DOES work! It literally gives you the exact same amount of defense boost as the IPC one!

Someone should absolutely still knock him around for it, though, world's most slappable face fr fjkdsjfdkjafk

[dirty-spiced-chai]

SLEEP TOKEN

Take Me Back To Eden

(as a hoodie)

[scythetherifle]

based on interactions with @zipper-stick and @scythesrightarm

[bcbdrums]

just girl things ldkjhg here are myself and the resident creature @midnightcaptions after a fun and SOUL-filled nine days of vacation!

a few highlights of the week:

seeing Twisters (first movie theater trip in YEARS)

petting pigs and cows at the county fair

making death city skull mushroom pizza

eating exotic meats like Soul wild boar and red deer

making Stein's famous roast duck

burning Soul's curry

making pickles from her homegrown cucumbers

making pepper jelly from her homegrown peppers

okay just generally FOOD (we cooked and ate so much food you can't even imagine it was so very much food)

playing the Soul Eater anime twice through in full (though we only actually sat through maybe ten eps w/o doing something else like cooking) but basically discussing SE all the time lol

playing with NEW PUPPY (i'll let her share him if she's so inclined)

a GOOD TIME was had. already looking forward to the next time~

[lilis-doodle-dome]

Wasn’t at all what I meant to draw, but here we are.

Don’t ask me how long the keys on the scythe took :)

[acidhydraart]

is this anything

[lesbiangiratina]

ive seen you make a thousand posts about testament and mildly admired their gender from afar but somehow it’s the post u made about the succubi that made me a bit like Oh okay i see now. i didn’t know they were cool like that (bigender ) (siblings or like one being cleaved in two halves or something Sorry im reading about it now)

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay :) its not actually explained why theres 2 succubi now, they used to have just the 1. But i Choose to believe in succubus mitosis cuz its funny. They switch between calling each other dear brother/sister in testament’s intros so theres some kind of connection there. Also the original succubus was so cutesy too btw

[speedlimit15]

i often think about the girl i supervised at the pharmacy who told me she taxidermied rodents and bugs as a hobby and put little outfits on them and made diorama scenes for them to exist in

[creatively-cosmic]

RED lost!

RED gave EVERYTHING to ??????????

RED B̵̩͠L̷͍̈́A̶̯̎C̸̀̊K̷̠̿E̵͍̾D̷̂ OUT̴̉̌

NOW, WHO'S NEXT?

bonus picture from the wip. jeff da killar

[lucksea]

happy pokemon day to the best pokemon ever made... maybe one day you will be in another game

[shiominato]

NO I DONT LIKE THIS

[sovenasark]

A pair of commissions I've been working on for a friend. Had a lot of fun doing two very different types of night-time lighting for these :3c

[aestheticallypleasinganimeboys]

Scythe Riebaure - Wild Arms 4

[fawkesthefox]

@bugsinthebayou

doodled some guys :3

[secondlastk]

rowan damisch truly makes like 1 decision and falls into *checks notes* 120+ years of suffering

[thegreatcrowdragon]

For Whom The Bell Tolls

(An idea for an abno that just kinda hit me out of nowhere)

“I have given you all that you require, and yet you come to me asking for more. And for that, you shall be greatly punished.”

For Whom The Bell Tolls is a small golden bell attached to a short metal pole. If rang, the employee will gain a relatively large stat boost to one random stat. If used by the same employee twice, that employee will become Marked, with a small bell appearing next to their name. After a few minutes, and if the Marked employee is not killed, the abnormality will breach. For Whom The Bell Tolls breaching form is a large, greyish dragon-like entity, face and body almost completely covered by a ragged black cloak. It will make its way towards the Marked employee, killing anyone who gets in its way. Once it kills the Marked employee (or something else kills them), it will return to its cell.

Weapon: Chime (golden scythe)

"It came, took what it wanted, and left, only attacking when someone got in its way."

Ego: Chime (long ragged black coat)

"While it had many forms, it was always wearing that same raggedy black cloak, obscuring almost all of its body from sight."

Gift: Chime (small bell hairclip)

"The only warning it gave was the loud ringing of its bell, fortelling that someone had taken more than what they deserved."