#twv spoilers

[naazaif327]

Fascinating that besides the unexpected bad weather in both storylines, the two main threats this season have been (at least for now) decidedly unsupernatural in origin, with our protagonists separately facing human traffickers and terrorists. I’m wondering exactly how all this will play out in the long run; the continued thread of the horror of sudden weather phenomena shines through though, and the show still maintains that specific White Vault feeling throughout. The scene in ep 2 where Dís struggles to get a new flight in the airport manages to be endlessly engrossing. I don’t know how KA Statz does it, but she manages to make scenes like that feel so authentic and simultaneously fraught and tense.

[leliana-sings-mozarts-requiem]

White Vault spoilers below the cut

I KNEW JASON WAS SUS BUT I DIDNT THINK HE WAS THAT BAD JESUS CHRIST

[silvandar]

Finally listened to Goshawk. That ending had me shrieking.

Why does everyone hate Hilde 😅 she's doing her best! Is it fear of a strong woman?

Jason. You named him Jason, and thought we wouldn't notice?

I keep forgetting the scale of the Families, and so am surprised every time a random person ends up being Family.

Ooooh yay, more Icelandic words to learn! I absolutely love hearing the languages and the Bablefish style translation. One of the best things in the show imo!

What is happening ahhhhhhhhh.

As is traditional by now, it's time to make a large cup of coffee and start from s1 e1 yet again.

I love this podcast more than is healthy 😅

[ratpyramid]

[nerdyydragon]

I refuse to believe Graham Casner dies in that bunker. To date mans has survived:

All previous expedition and survivalist experience he had up to Fristed

Those weeks in the bunker

Demonic psychological warfare

Being dragged underwater

Actively hiding from forrmynður in an uncharted cave system for multiple days and not dying of starvation on Svalbard

Post-Fristed PTSD

Patagonia~

Cave-ins and murder

Fog From Hell

The helicopter ride BACK TO SVALBARD

He is a cockroach. You can’t kill him. They can try, but this bitchy Russian-Canadian man is impossible to kill. If anything he just gets more powerful. Personally I think he should be given a military shipment of explosives and be turned loose. He deserves it.

[bluemoonrabbit]

Listening to TWV: Goshawk without having heard Echoes: God this shit is slow and boring.

Relistening after having heard Echoes: GIRL YOU IN DANGER.gif

[eggcats]

I'm thinking about the first arc of The White Vault again, and how my absolute FAVORITE aspect of the horror is so subtle you don't even realize it at first but once you do - even if nothing bad has kicked off yet - you're still anxious.

The story is told from the stuff left behind at the base! Their journals and notes and audio and video logs and the Documentarian doesn't know EXACTLY where they all fit together on the timeline. THEY'RE NOT THERE TO TELL ANY PART OF THEIR STORY OR CLARIFY ANYTHING.

It's the fact that you already KNOW none of them survive. You know that whatever happened was so bad that there were no survivors. And it lends a whole other aspect to the horror of listening to these people try to plan and survive what's going on while the entire time you KNOW it doesn't work. You know they fail. And that's horrifying.

They're already dead by the first episode! They're sitting there joking and drinking and complaining about the coffee while you're listening in knowing they're all dead and the only thing you can do is listen to their story slowly be pieced together to try to figure out HOW they died. You can't do anything to help! You know they don't make it home but they don't! Even when stuff starts going sideways and there's already a body count and they're still trying desperately to survive and you have to sit there with the knowledge that they don't succeed.

The absolute horror that went through me when I realized in like the first or second episode, when nothing was actually going on yet, that they all die because I realized how I was accessing their story? That's a feeling I wish I could replicate. If I could wipe my memory of this podcast JUST to relisten to this first arc blind again I absolutely would.

It's phenomenal. (I may have some complaints about how the story continued past this point but this first arc will keep this as one of my favorite horror podcasts forever.)

[wolfbirbisme]

season 1&2: man, I can kinda still understand Rosa- maybe I should look into a spanglish podcast so I can brush up on my spanish :) season 3: 

[mutsukiss]

And on another note I'm so pleased w house of leaves bc it reminds me enormously of the white vault :]

(heavy spoilers for twv and a bit for hol under readmore i just wanna ramble)

I know in twv there is technically a monster(s) inhabiting Oupost Fristed and Base Camp Piedra, but the place itself is also alive and actively hostile. It's not only the Forrmynður who dislike the presence of others in the site, the land itself is a willing participant. Some people might say that the infinite storm and never ending night are product of the Guardians but as I have always understood it, the Site is very much its own organism and reacts to the presence of others accordingly, the Guardians acting like an immune system protecting it against infestations and infections. The Site doesn't warp around and shift and evolve like the house does, it's not plastic in that sense, but it does have the ability to detect and proccess the stimuli that inhabitance creates and it reacts accordingly, same way the house does: while the Family roams somewhat safely among the Guardians, strangers are identified as harmful individuals, alien to the Site itself. The house reacts to its human inhabitants, but not to the family's pets. It, the place, has the capacity to take actions for specific situations based on individuals, granting it consciousness or at the very least awareness. There's a vague, intangible nervous system, same way there is a musculoskeletal system and a respiratory system and a circulatory system and a digestive system. The place itself is an organism (maybe it wouldn't be fitting to call it an animal) and it acts as such. And God, that is just so wonderful and horrifying. The land hates you, wants you gone, wishes you harm and makes the active effort to wound you. I find few things more terror inducing than that. You can't run from the monster, there is no safe room or dark closet you can hide in, crawling under the bed is useless; at every single second your presence is known to this thing that is both nowhere and everywhere, and until you get out of there your life is in immediate danger, constantly, no matter what you do. So pray it allows you to leave.

[antiromantichq]

Com sua origem tendo raíz italiana, os bailes de máscaras eram ocasiões onde as pessoas podiam se disfarçar e esconder suas identidades, permitindo maior liberdade que se misturassem sem distinções de classe ou status, promovendo uma atmosfera de mistério e luxo. 

IC

No baile anual do the white veil não seria diferente, para os convidados é obrigatoriedade vestir roupas formais e máscaras que cubram mais que 50% de seus rostos, o serviço de comida e bebida oferecido geralmente de alta qualidade, incluindo pratos gourmet, coquetéis especiais e uma variedade de bebidas finas.

O local é decorado com esmero, utilizando elementos de luxo para total imersão de seus convidados na atmosfera misteriosa e sensual da ocasião, como flores, iluminação sofisticada, detalhes dourados e todo o glamour que só o TWV pode oferecer.

Numa noite onde você pode se esconder entre a multidão, o que pode acontecer?

OOC

Boa tarde, players! Hoje é final de semana de evento e dessa vez, estaremos combinando com nosso plot drop que é um apagão! 

É algo bem simples e clichê, acredito que vocês já tenham jogado algo assim anteriormente, porém se é algo que vocês pedem e que traz maior fluxo de interação pra tl, eu faço! 

O baile de máscaras começa às 20h IC, mas como sempre o discord é liberado antes para vocês cadastrarem bot, tirarem suas dúvidas caso não saibam utilizar a plataforma e também poderem conversar ooc para plotar.

A partir das 19:00h vocês podem postar os looks de seus personagens com as tags #ntigram + #ntievent + #ntimasquerade, incluindo só a roupa deles, ou só a máscara, toda essa questão de mistério IC fica conforme suas respectivas preferências e é incentivado que vocês expressem se querem ou não que seus chars sejam reconhecidos, para seguir a linha de desenvolvimento que imaginarem como melhor para o evento/drop.

O plot drop terá um post separado com mais detalhes para vocês conferirem, mas já fica o spoiler que o apagão acontecerá IC às 23h.

As regras são sempre as mesmas: plotem, se divirtam, respeitem os outros chars e seus respectivos player e se for para plotar briga/confusão/qualquer situação caótica ou negativa, primeiro combinem todos os detalhes entre si de forma ooc para que as partes envolvidas estejam de acordo. 

[argentlune]

I haven't come to terms with what happened to Graham yet. I'm sitting here like

[naazaif327]

Horrifying to have such human and intentionally cruel and sadistic villains this season. Despite the eldritch beings of the last 5 seasons being cognizant and fucked up enough to demand sacrifices, there was something comforting about their alien lack of understanding about the depths of the harm they were causing. Listening to Es (and Lewis) take pleasure in torturing Jean and toying with Iffy, it’s truly nauseating in how intentional the cruelty is. They’re not even ruthless efficient pragmatists, they’re barely capable hunters, they’re doing it this way because they want to.

[avatarofthebeholding]

THIS HURTS ME. The situation is so familiar to Graham that it feels to him like that first loss of Karina being dragged out the door all over again. I’m sure he started to make that connection as soon as Josefa started repeating the “When you see it, it sees you” chant.

Also oh Josefa I’m SO sorry I saw this coming for her but OW.

[eldritch-bf]

Is the documentarian going to condemn Casner to death and take over the family business, seduced by the allure of the Forrmynður, or has she snuck in explosives on her person and is playing the long con and going to enter the white vault herself and destroy the sites from the heart of it?

[ratpyramid]

Love how Graham Casner refers to everyone from the Svalbard team by their first name apart from Walter.

And this continues even after death when the creatures imitate them. He still likes that one slightly less.

[prim-moth]

Feeling so fine right now :) <- is not fine