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[restless-rae]

friend.

Its strange, the concept of a friend.

“They’ll be there for you, till the end”

But what if my experiences taint the friend?

What if they cringe and recoil from the cries of help I send?

What if I’m darker than they can comprehend?

I have seen what happens when the darkness spills over to them.

What did I do to my friend?

[her--words]

“The triumph of my ability to do anything or wear anything that could result in someone looking at me in a burning way was beyond the prayers of even the holiest monks.”

[kikaikiga]

~ Dicey Dungeons ~

"Fighting against fortune would be a lot easier if you weren't a walking dice."

WARNING!! IF YOU READ PAST THIS POINT BEWARE!!! MANY TERRIBLE DICE PUNS ARE ABOUT TO ASSAULT YOUR BRAIN!!!! (some knowledge of dice rolls may be needed to fully appreciate certain references)

Think you know dungeon crawlers? One after another, all the same old game but just wrapped and packaged slightly differently? Well it's about time that trend was broken and I think I've just found the winning contestant. Allow me to introduce you to 'Dicey Dungeons' - A Dungeon Crawling game show where everything depends on the roll of the dice ... quite literally.

Now, I know that with the amount of DC's out there I'm gunna need to do some serious convincing so let me start from the beginning as, after all, it's generally a very good place to start. As it goes, beginnings typically have introductions and ours is given by the hostess of the evening - The rather brutal Lady Luck. A wise word to all contenders - Beware this keeper of fortune, for she is not all that she seems.

Speaking of contenders, let's look along the board and inspect our players. 6 entities, 6 dice, 6 different playstyles. Seeing a pattern yet? No? Well let's see if I can help clear up those snake eyes. Each of our rolling stones have their own unique playstyles, with some differences being as small as a slight skill variation and others being a total upheaval to the standard gameplay style. My advice? Stay away from 'Railroad Nine' if you want to have a simpler time!

I guess i've been a bit vague as to actual gameplay so let me enlighten you a little. On each floor map you spawn on a random tile, surrounded by either Monsters, Health, Chests, Merchants and/or the exit door. Now, depending on your playstyle you could go the quickest, most direct route possible and ignore 'optional' enemies and chests etc., or you could explore every path and interact with everything on the level. Either of these ways could work, but bear in mind that if you play in a hurry, you may be dead before the dice hit midnight.

Okay, okay, so I might be getting a little carried away with all these puns but they just roll of the tongue! Anyway, back to the game at hand. After each encounter with an enemy, you gain experience towards levelling up , providing you've won the battle of course. You can also gain a maximum health increase, a random reward (extra die/weapons/skills) and some very valuable coins. What can you buy? Well, we shall come to that shortly. Backtracking a second to those chests I mentioned, you've got all sorts of weird and wonderful goodies to potentially be found; From weapons/skills to item upgrades and a few other little perks that i'll leave for you to discover. After all, it's no fun if I give away all the secrets on the first roll of the dice!

Right then, about those coins you're so eager to spend. You'll come across two different types of caravans on the map; One is a merchant, one is a blacksmith. The merchant will allow you to buy skills, weapons, health or upgrades (redirects to the blacksmith) whereas the Blacksmith allows you to improve on your attacks. This may sound rather simple but theres one minor detail you need to keep in mind ... your bag is limited. Why would this affect things so much? Well let me explain.

Your backpack consists of 20 slots, I know, sounds like a lot. However, you can only equip up to 6 items at a time. Still not seeing an issue? Well what if I told you that all your items are different sizes ... yep, you read me right. Some items take up two slots rather than one, meaning you're going to have to compromise between the amount of skills you have against the strength of the skills you have. Not so simple now is it.

Moving forward a few rolls, things start to get a little dicey. Dungeons typically have bosses and this is no exception. After climbing through several floors, you get to battle one of the many brutes of the realm, each of which have their own special skills and their own quirks. All I can say is good luck, your going to need as much of it as you can get.

After an initial run through with each character, things begin to start unlocking all over the place. For starters, a challenge hall full of enemy profiles which, in my opinion, are well worth taking the time to read through as there are some pretty funny lines in amongst it all. Next, an episode room where we start to realise this game is a lot bigger than it initiialy seemed ... as in, 36 episodes bigger. And to finish up, a suprise spin the wheel game at the end of each episode ... what more could a young diceman want eh?

I realise I havn't given my usual half essay on settings etc. but this is one of those games that doesn't really need much saying in that regard. Even so, I guess I should at least do this properly and give you the general gist. The entire game artwork appears to be all hand drawn, and I must say, very skillfully at that. It's light and easy on the eyes and keeps the game playable for longer before burnout which, for me at least, can be a major issue if a game is too dark or too heavy on the graphics side of things.

I can happily say that this Dungeon crawler is tab friendly, with options for Fullscreen or windowed, and seperated audio levels for music, voice and sfx which is always a happy find. An unexpected detail I found whilst browsing the steam store page is that this game supports 6 different languages. Not a big deal for those of us that aren't bilingual but I can appreciate the effort that goes into little extras like that. Speaking of extras, a cool little feature I found is that, as you unlock each combatant, the title page changes slightly ... how? Well that would be telling.

Now, this is where I hand in my dice and say goodnight as, although theres plenty more I could delve into, I feel the rest is best discovered by playing for yourself. 'Dicey Dungeons' definitely has a lot more to it than meets the eye on first glance and it's well worth sinking some time into, especially if your an achievement hunter/completionist as steam has 53 achievements, seperate to the ingame unlocks. Each time I re-launch the game to double check something I seem to lose hours discovering new and intriguing gameplay so that's got to count for something ... right?

Play on, Play well, and may Lady Luck be gentle with you.

[edengayle]

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[cocoa-coated-fish]

Bring me somewhere beautiful where I stop being afraid.

[katherinewilliams221b]

For A Greater Good Fun Facts and Self Assesment (spoilers)

Long Post

What worked and what didn’t:

I think the overall structure worked pretty well. The most difficult part was, with the plot and subplot already created, scattering all those ideas throughout the text in such a way that at least made some sense. I regret not writing more about Mer Yankelevich, I feel like the crumbs I left on the way were not enough; in my attempt to make it subtle it lacked information about her. The key piece was of course her sister, and I should have introduced her sooner.

MC’s evolution. I feel like Kate’s learnt a lot with this experience (I’m not only referring to the Deathly Hallows or Grindelwald) When it started, she was very discreet and kept a low profile, not knowing what to do really, not taking more risks than necessary. And then she ended poisoned and splinching just to protect a document she thought was important. I hope her evolution is noticeable for the reader.

Worldbuilding. Grabbing HP concepts that were forgotten and full of potential, plus a dash of original ideas from me and blending them with muggle features was my absolute favourite part of the process.

On that note, I dont own these concepts: Durmstrang, Igor Karkarov, Nerida Vulchanova, umbrella flowers, fanged geraniums, billywigs, Appare Vestigium, glow-worms, trick wand, chamaleon ghouls, 

If you’ve read the fic and thought: “everything happened so fast” or got a general odd feeling about the timeline it's because I made a series of  monumental mistakes: setting a chapter limit, telling you about it and then tried to stick to it.  At first the idea sounded nice: this is my first “big” story  with complicated components. I should (and I did) do an outline of what I want to happen in each chapter and stick to it methodically so I don't forget what's happening or lose track of the plot. Well...it kind of backfired. So I wrote the first 3 chapters and at that point I thought “okay everything is going as planned, I’m going to put it out there”, bam, instantly cursed. After that it got ridiculously difficult to make the story that I wanted. Why? I needed chapter space that I convinced myself I couldn’t add. Dumb.

The major consequence of this was the lack of character backgrounds. It started out good, but as I kept writing and publishing I realised that I missed some great opportunities to make amazing ocs. That’s Corentin’s fault in a way: he wasn't going to be a major character, really, just a piece to help Kate a bit. But we all fell in love with him so what was I supposed to do? Also, Sheyi Mawut owns my heart and he got just a bit of spotlight. A shame.

I wish I had written more about them, but I think I wasn’t ready just yet to make it even more complicated.I just wanted to prove I could concoct a mystery plot and now that I know I can manage a fair amount of information I think I can take it a step further and deepen new ocs a little bit more.

I’m thinking about the datura series and I know why I got blocked and tired of writing it; it wasnt going anywhere because I wasnt prepared, and I didn’t do the months of outlines and planning that I did with this one. I’ll come back to the datura story one day, subjecting it to a sever rewrite. The ideas are there, I just need to be organised.

Although the chapter limit was problematic it was also a good exercise of managing space and deciding which things were unnecessary for the story. I dont think there’s any filler chapters, perhaps the last ones, but there is important information there too so... However this sentence  from the blog  wordsandstuff reassured me (and I think I did a good job at that?)

If you set out to write 10 parts and you write a fantastic story in 8, you haven’t failed and it’s not too rushed. Concise writing is an underrated talent. Focus on how effectively you engage the reader, not for how long.

I spent more than year writing this! When I started, I had a lot of ideas, I wrote the last two chapters then the first 3 and I really thought it was going to be that way with the rest of the story... okay... lesson learnt. #humbled

Other thoughts:

I received a couple of comments on ao3 that said that they were pleasantly surprised. Maybe I should change the tags because they are misleading? Clearly this wasnt what people were looking for lol.

One particular comment stood out to me and quoting it said:  “You did not choose the easy way with a fiction with so few characters from the fandom.”  And I’ve been thinking about this since I read it. It didn’t occur to me that there were few mystery fics (maybe I should write more things like that? Maybe throwing some power couple detective work 👀 ) In any case, I’m glad  I contributed with something different to the fandom, and the fact that the Charlie bits are very scarce but people who read it still liked it is really flattering.

I wanted to make sure that all the characters had strengths and flaws, I didnt want to severus-snape them so maybe I overdid it with that bit of introspection kate does at the end...

Also, I did the kiss and fade thing twice to mention sex. I know some people dont like that but since it wasnt the point of the story and I havent done research on how to write sex scenes I didnt include them. I have that on my “to learn” list.

Conclusions:

Writing the whole thing was incredible. It's my first ‘big’ project and its not a great work (there are some things I wish I did better, thats what you get when you are an agatha christie wannabe) and not writing more character backgrounds will haunt me to this day,  but I think it's at least good for a first series and I’m proud of it. I loved spending hours doing research and trying to piece together this puzzle. And of course I’m not an expert and I dont want to sound pretentious (like this is my first story) but if you are planning to write this type of genre I can be another source of tips and tricks for you.

If I read the story after a while and I dont cringe, I would call that a success.

FUN? FACTS!

Bakunawa really belongs to Filippines mythology

Snapdragons have different meanings, one of them being: “grace under pressure or inner strength in trying circumstances”

The entrance to Grindelwald’s room was going to be in the duelling classroom, strangely shaped as a triangle. I had this system where one of the round candle lamps descended and lined up with a line on the floor (serving as separation for duels) it created the Deathly Hallows symbol. I couldn’t make that work because it wouldn't make any sense for Nerida Vulchanova to shape a room like that.  Here are some sketches:

Lucius Malfoy was going to appear as the Ministry employee that goes to Durmstrang, but after revising the events of the OoP I realised it was impossible.

Kent Jorgensen was going to be around Kate’s age and the charms teacher and he would have a small crush on her. After seeing some pics of Pen Medina, I rewrote the character completely.

The series was going to be 6 chapters long (I’m glad I decided not to) one for each month. The chapter names were ridiculous: January of Beginnings, February of reputation, March of Students, April of Discoveries, May I? and June of Endings. #tragic

The Dolohov family was going to be a part of the plot but I had to erase that part because it was unlocking another layer of complexity that I just couldnt handle.

I dont remember exactly the chapter but I got really confused with the names Rhode and Hodges and there’s one chapter where I accidentally mixed them (I corrected it I think), but for a while I could stop calling Rhode, Hodges, and vice versa lmao

Here are some sketches that helped me describe and imagine things

Thank you for accompany me in this journey, especially if you endured the process with me lmao. You’ve been here for over A YEAR! <3 Mindblowing

Also I’d love to know your opinions about the way you read the story, I mean, I know some people read it as I published, and some other readers found the story already finished, what are the differences? Should I stop the updating system and drop a story all at once? I know it is difficult to keep up with a complex story if there’s a lot of weekly or monthly gaps between the chapters, so I wanted to know.

Sending you a virtual hug 💜💜

[clexaao3feed]

The New World

by WordsandStuff

Clarke is sent down to the Earth by her mother in order to prevent the council from acting upon their decision to end her daughter's life for what she knows about the Ark.

On the planet, Clarke must find herself in a world she is woefully unprepared for. She faced trials and triumphs, victories and defeats in a world she believes she is the sole living inhabitant until one day that all changes. She learns she isn't alone and with that discovery, everything she had prepared herself for, everything she thought she knew about life on Earth is about to change.

Words: 4018, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The 100 (TV), The 100 Series - Kass Morgan

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen

Characters: Clarke Griffin, Lexa (The 100), Abby Griffin, Marcus Kane, Thelonious Jaha, Raven Reyes, Anya (The 100), Indra (The 100), Lincoln (The 100), Octavia Blake, Jasper Jordan, Monty Green, Echo (The 100), Ontari (The 100), Mountain Men (The 100), Nia | Ice Queen, Gustus (The 100), Niylah (The 100)

Relationships: Clarke Griffin/Lexa, Clarke Griffin & Lexa, Anya/Raven Reyes, Indra/Marcus Kane, Octavia Blake/Lincoln, Bellamy Blake/Echo

Additional Tags: Community: au100, Inspired by The 100, Alternate Universe - Canon, Modified Source, Novel, NOT a one-Shot, Lexa Does Not Get Shot, Slow Burn, Clexa will happen but not for a long time., Clarke Griffin-centric

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[key-vonn]

Tell me what you see, when you open your eyes. Are the skies blue and clear Or clouded like the mind? Are the fields below filled with life Or sown for their crops? Limitations are created by the mind But broken by the body and senses. A cloud is not a cloud, But a roaring lion, king of the sky's jungles. These formations in the sky stretch the imagination, Revealing, not rain, but the accuser of blame. Shaped by winds and water, Never the same and always changing, These creatures and beings shift overhead. Some of these shapes remind us of loved ones we remember, Others simply resemble a floating phallic member. #clouds #nature #IL #ILLINOIS #poetry #badpoetry #imagine #WhatDoYouSee #words #wordsandstuff #SKRRTTT

[im-not-just-a-number]

"Some loves just need to be loved before you know how truly you love someone!" #skinnylove #writerslife #writersofinstagram #excerptfromabookillneverwrite #writing #writer #life #quote #wordsandstuff

[ohsolosoousa]

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[ao3feed-the100]

The New World

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by WordsandStuff

Clarke is sent down to the Earth by her mother in order to prevent the council from acting upon their decision to end her daughter's life for what she knows about the Ark.

On the planet, Clarke must find herself in a world she is woefully unprepared for. She faced trials and triumphs, victories and defeats in a world she believes she is the sole living inhabitant until one day that all changes. She learns she isn't alone and with that discovery, everything she had prepared herself for, everything she thought she knew about life on Earth is about to change.

Words: 4018, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The 100 (TV), The 100 Series - Kass Morgan

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen

Characters: Clarke Griffin, Lexa (The 100), Abby Griffin, Marcus Kane, Thelonious Jaha, Raven Reyes, Anya (The 100), Indra (The 100), Lincoln (The 100), Octavia Blake, Jasper Jordan, Monty Green, Echo (The 100), Ontari (The 100), Mountain Men (The 100), Nia | Ice Queen, Gustus (The 100), Niylah (The 100)

Relationships: Clarke Griffin/Lexa, Clarke Griffin & Lexa, Anya/Raven Reyes, Indra/Marcus Kane, Octavia Blake/Lincoln, Bellamy Blake/Echo

Additional Tags: Community: au100, Inspired by The 100, Alternate Universe - Canon, Modified Source, Novel, NOT a one-Shot, Lexa Does Not Get Shot, Slow Burn, Clexa will happen but not for a long time., Clarke Griffin-centric

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[4rt-e]

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[buttonbreaker-collectivesigh]

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[howard13th]

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[vegeterryn]

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