So this was the Puzzle I used for the Anoria One-shot. It was a very simple puzzle. Could have shaped the room better, but it’s a clock. You light the torches to set the time. Someone rolled a high enough Investigation to know it was a clock. There was a riddle telling them what time to set it to. Like a typical DnD Party, they proceeded to over think said riddle, question FAR too much what time of day “Twilight” was, and hurt themselves because the puzzle was trapped. Eventually the Barbarian brute forced his way through it.
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if you would all allow me to be delusional for a moment - so i went back to staring Very Hard at the neighborhood map and. um. well. im chucking my marbles out the window! as always take all of this with a Hefty grain of salt!
i thought i saw a weird pixel in Frank's window so i zoomed in. then i took a screenshot, and fucked with the contrast/brightness settings. and uhhhhhh
UHHHHHH
FRANK??? HELLO???? HE'S IN THERE? i'm pretty sure im Not seeing things bc that is definitely a vague gray tube-outline with a yellow spot in the shape of Frank's nose. hidden in the dark. and i might be seeing things but in the pane next to his face it kinda looks like his hand is on the window? but! Frank's in there! what the fuck!
so naturally i slowly scrolled through the neighborhood Zoomed The Fuck In. obvi there's nothing in Home's eyes, and Barnaby's & Sally's single visible windows(?) are closed. I couldn't find any out-of-place pixels in Julie's or Poppy's.
but! Eddie's kinda freaked me out a little! look at this shit!
on the top left pane... are those fingerprints pressing into the glass? and in the lower left, is that a fucking Face peering out? a creepy ass face that almost looks like some sort of mask? there seems to be another Shape in the upper right... another face perhaps?
and then there's the weird window shine in the lower right (along with maybe Another face...). it almost looks like a string of letters. there isn't a single pattern/design like that anywhere else in the neighborhood. what's up with that....
oh and also, just went back to double check the post office's display window
there seems to be another face - all the way to the right in the darkness. judging by the shape of the paler (yellowish?) pixels between what must be eyes, i think that's Eddie. and i think i see ears and a hat... not sure though. this one is really tough to see but it's There
(side note: Eddie is totally fucked, isn't he? between the faces(?) and hands behind his door, Home sitting in his display, and the hyacinths by his building, the emphasis on his memory (or lack-thereof) in a project that is, in a sense, About memory... i'm concerned! and eating it tf up! hell yeah lets get funky!)
now i couldn't see any, like, concrete Faces or anything in Howdy's store. but! you can kinda see inside! observe~
in the big open window, you can kinda make out some sort of container on a counter and what might be shelves or a kind of brick pattern. and then above the 100% sign... hold on are those fuckign Eyes? lets take a look zoomed in & without the image adjustments!
yeah those uh. i think those are eyes. Wally-esque eyes peering out of the darkness. though they also mildly remind me of eyespots on insect wings. butterfly eyespots, perhaps. inch resting indeed...
WAIT I LIED!!! there DOES seem to be another string of letter-like symbols in the neighborhood, not just the post office's window shine. now it could be just a wild coincidence, but at the same time it seems kind of... purposeful. like that's not normal shading/coloring.
check out the blue window border on Howdy's Place, next to the apples. the lighter blue pixels seem Arranged. i think i see a clear N, and either an R or a P... along with some other symbols that i don't recognize as anything. the lower ones look kinda like faces? what could the top one be? is any of it anything or am i looking too hard?
in short: they're watching us watch them and there's way more to the map than initially meets the eye....
(edit: i've added a reblog w/ the images outlined! badly outlined but a clearer View of what i see nonetheless! + some notes on more little things outlining helped me notice)
Living on the Hedge – Fey Labyrinth Encounter for D&D 5e
What fey deem as “fun” may not translate in the real world, cheeky flora and animated statues lay in wait to play… Custom tokens D&D 5e stat blocks included!
last night i dreamt of walking through an empty airport parking lot, dragging an empty produce cart, looking for a car that wasn't there. i climbed a utility pole to catch a bus without paying, rested on a pallet of folded blankets in a slowly flooding room, and carefully painted broad orange stripes on my clothes in preparation for a funeral
Exploring the Prospect of an Exciting Crossover: Half Life 3 Meets Portal 3 with Gordon Freeman's Iconic Gravity Gun.
We check out a teaser of the possibility of a much anticipated convergence between Half Life 3 and Portal 3, as Gordon Freeman's renowned Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator, famously known as the "Gravity Gun," makes an in disguise appearance within the Portal 2 testing environments of Aperture Science.
my night got completely derailed by a post that had a map of what constituted the midwest and i just want to take that person gently by the hand and tell them that no, memphis and nashville tennessee are not, by any stretch of the imagination, midwestern
I know im in the minority of people who are still very split about mounts, and obviously im not asking to have them removed. They're fun to control, look great, and overall they've been a net positive for the game. But I do sincerely wish map completion was designed without mounts in mind. Make all maps 100%-able by foot. And then players have the free choice to use mounts to make completion faster or easier.
I'm frightened of you knowing who I am but, could you possibly give me your frank frankly theories pretty please idc if you only have like 2.1 I want them regardless of how many you have.
mayhaps?
ah man i wish i had some to give! i think all of my Frank theories (at present) are tied into other theory posts! he simply doesn't have a lot to chew on yet
Adventure League: Whispers in the Dark Maps.
Lost City of Bulobo: 3500x3500
Secret Staircase: 490x490
The Fane: 2590x3500
Remade the maps from the DM Guild Adventure League module: Whispers in the Dark. Check my reddit for full scale downloads of these maps. https://www.reddit.com/r/Tombofannihilation/comments/12th7o2/adventure_league_whispers_in_the_dark_bulobo_maps/