tbh i think that even unwinnable fights should be winnable. some of the BEST fights i've ever run as a dm were ones i built kill the players (in a fun way. I had some cutscenes prepped so even the loss would be a different flavour of win)- but then they were clever bastards and managed to either win the fights or pull themselves out of trouble. I think it's perfectly fine to plan for a fight that players aren't supposed to win, but you need to let them. if they can't win, they can't lose, and the meaning of that encounter is diminished. do that too many times, and they stop trusting you to give them roleplay prompts and start expecting to sit there waiting while you drive the story for them.
but if they can win... if there is always the chance to win, no matter how impossible the odds, then they ALWAYS have hope. they always get invested. they feel the big emotions of success or the big emotions of failure, and you fucking Win as a dm/roleplay prompter/lead bastard.
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listen. I fully believe that with every battle Lance has with trainers, he's holding back. He's one of the few who can communicate, and even battle, with some of the ancient clan dragons who are known as world eaters due to their sheer size.
Lance as a dual champion is NOT the same as clan leader Lance. thanks.
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“Bomk.”
*A muse of yours has been bonked!*
-Shuriken
Screaming, Trixie took cover under a table.
"STARLIGHT, THE SKY IS FALLING!!!"
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so i COULD review my blocking bc we have probably the first full run through tomorrow..... or i could review my music bc that needs a TON of fucking work and just like pray that future me is gonna actually remember to review my blocking during free block or collab instead of rambling about vat7k....
or i could do neither and make a cover of dead princesses go to heaven
guess what im gonna be doing
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God, the fact that we're eldritch gods to Ralsei is So funny. Imagine if god from the bibble or cthulhu or whatever came down and was like "hey, nice pajamas, you make those yourself? hey, isn't your existence super fucked up? Why don't you take a moment to think about how fucked up your life is. Anyway, you should do murder!"
a/n: LITERALLY. he was quite explicitly made to cope with God From The Bible saying shit like this to him too. being meguca is suffering
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Hmm hmm debating making Crow's fear-infatuation with Aeris into a genuine short-term crush post-SOTH that Aeris knows about and is uncomfortable with, not only bc it would be a very good harsh lesson for himself given the fact that he is Not In A Good Place right after he escaped but also bc Aeris himself doesn't have enough problems so I gotta slap him with the aroace axe of 'I wish I could be this for you but I cannot' as well as 'I don't know if it's because I can't feel as other's do and I worry if there's fundamentally something wrong with me' autistic aro experience on top of it. Crow grows out of it eventually ofc and in the long run Aeris as YW can't exactly linger on himself for long but it would be an interesting take to spin on the whole concept since Crow/YW pairings are so common in fandom (for good reason)
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Kirby Star Allies is one of, if not my absolute favorite Kirby games, and I recognize while it's on paper one of the weaker entries in the core series, it appeals to me personally on multiple levels and I think I should revisit it more
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I've got very little spare time to write right now. I know we're technically two weeks out from the next Lost Kin update, but I may have to delay depending on how those two weeks go. We'll see.
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No post-gig IG post from Muse after Rock Werchter. Silence from photographers too. They’re not pleased about what happened last night huh.
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This dumbass is a powerful as hell magician.
What kind of magic? Good fucking question.
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y'know I know I did up that whole "Nemesis and Dae's backgrounds" post already but like
kinda considering
making Dae a draconic bloodline sorcerer, after beginning a second playthrough with it and also kinda liking where my idle musing keeps running off to with it
also like
"Bhaal almost made a dragon but figured that was A Bit Too Obvious" is kinda hilarious to me lmao
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"Trixie isn't gay. Trixie is Trixie!'
. . . she's bi, don't worry.
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To Cure Dream, how does it feel to return?
"It feels amazing! I'm so happy to see everyone again, I just hope I can keep helping people to chase their dreams like I did when I was younger!"
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Sol's Spider-Muses!!!
// While I mostly write DB OCs, I've fallen in love with Spider-Man all over again, thanks to someone very close to me, and I'm here to announce that I'll be adding these five, that's right, FIVE Spider-Muses to my muse list!!!:
Ben Reilly
Kaine Parker
Miles Morales (Insomniac)
Peter Parker (Insomniac)
Peter Parker (Spider's Shadow)
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO @dragvnsovl FOR THE WONDERFUL EDIT!!! I hope I can portray all of them well, and that everyone enjoys writing with them!!!
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// as far as portrayal and backstory/events goes, it's a mix of game, pokespe and anime, with a hefty dose of rewriting things here and there to make them fit together and fix canon.
as far as own lore goes, there's the obvious one involving zapdos and volk being its guardian/chosen human or however you want to call it, the lore behind the bird trio and their primal forms all around ( it's free real estate baybeeeee!! ), his year in hisui and of course the relationship with roark. these are things that have become way too relevant to how i write volk to just write around or ignore at this point, but the only bare basics needed is knowing his relationship with roark since zapdos is not something that will frequently come up and not something he would ever bring up to most people and he has every excuse under the sun to never talk about hisui again.
of course it'd still be pretty fun to write more with the feral bird so i do hope to be able to write something around it eventually!
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Cardan has successfully infiltrated the Conjuring universe and the IT universe so now I need more horror interactions. Demons don't scare him, ( he grew up with Balekin, duh ) and he has an inpacable talent at being dumb enough to talk into horrible situations, so really, come claim this Fae boi.
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