#also just beat that dungeon and died on the tracks

[justlovekarma]

did i forget that you cant get the stamp book so soon? yes. 

do i care? no :3

anyway, enjoy this. i actually did this more so i can try out backgrounds :3

maybe ill get better someday

#LoZ Spirit tracks #spirit tracks #first dungeon #i love spirit tracks #like i really really do #also just beat that dungeon and died on the tracks

[avephelis]

Plz tell me all about your dunmesh party!!! Also can I try to draw some of them???

OF COURSE YOU CAN?? I'D BE HONOURED!! and they're actually all sonas! came about in an aggie voice call. there is a little bit of lore though let me remember it-

basically the gist of things is that they venture into the dungeon to aquire. erm. "monster and adventurer stock". which is totally normal and moral and definitely doesn't involve hacking limbs off of living or dead bodies.

i think there was a bit of stuff on each of us if i can remember it? i'll put that under the cut

top left: mine! he's a tall-man. mainly does a lot of melee fighting and survivalist stuff (would definitely know his way around a monster cookout and freak biology autism session too), but his competence is nerfed by an insanely stupid lack of impulse control or concentration. has definitely died the most times. also, we decided the dungeon meshi equivalent of contact lenses would be a spell that enhances vision but comes with the drawback of keeping your eyes open unless you conciously make an effort to close them. so not only does he have my freaky predator stare he definitely sleeps staring at you.

top middle: goober's (@liverteeth)! dwarf who specialises in healing magic, but she tends to use it less for helping people and more for uh. body horror fucked up science medical malpractice. they and my guy are definitely the most invested in the "party business", so to speak.

top right: cam's (@craftycalico)! tall-man/beast-man (calico cat), if i remember correctly they were going to be mainly specialised in tracking and trap-laying, in a very classically ranger sense. a lot of experience with the outdoors.

bottom left: term's (@t3rm1n0s)! half-foot who TRIES to specialise in elemental/combat magic, but considering as far as i remember half-foots don't have a whole lot of mana, he'd probably just. blow himself up lmao? the weird little propellor hat twig thing could be some sort of monster parasite that helps with that, though. regardless he's excellent emotional support! height-stunted heart of the party.

bottom middle: andy's (@bandy-andy)! kobold weaponsmith and the party muscle! he actually doesn't care at all about the party's limb-hacking deal and just tags along with them to use the chance as an excuse to study dungeon architecture, which he has a vested interest in, and otherwise wouldn't be able to study venturing into the dungeons on his own.

bottom right: ari's (@arieava)! half-elf who ACTUALLY acts as the party's cleric in a more traditional sense. specialises less in healing the body though and more in spiritual protection and rituals. not super sure about the whole limb-hacking thing but he's kind of in too deep at this point.

i think that's everything i remember but i might've recalled something wrong in which case one of these freaks i have tagged will maybe beat the shit out of me. OH WELL! anyway. chaotic evil ass failparty let's be honest here.

#not sure how to tag this one but i should for sorting purposes so uhh #dunmeshi sona #mcytblr arthouse #asks #oh and erm #tw mutilation #lmao #if you did draw any of them i would love you forever and ever tbh

[crychaoss]

Summary of what happened today - The Timer

To start off the day, the egg quests were all in binary code, and the icons next to them were all black blocks. The code translated to "Your time is almost up".

Before the timer hit 0, it started raining and the weather became foggy and really dark.

The timer ran out and the Federation told everyone to go back to the dungeon Jaiden was sent to. Leo said that she doesn't want to go because something bad will happen so she and the other eggs were sent to the hotel. As the first people arrived to the opening of the dungeon this clip was played:

The dungeon was reset and was much harder. Many people died but no presidental lives were lost, and at the end they managed to beat it.

The buttons from the timer room were removed so they couldn't go in, but they saw that the Code Entity was in the room. After a bit, the Code dropped a book in the room and the members were let in as well. In the book the Code wrote - team 1: (2711, 2519), team 2: (3240, 2421).

The members made two teams, one of the teams were Cellbit, Roier, Max, Pac, Mike, Bad, the other team was Foolish, Jaiden, Fit, Antoine, Etoiles, Pierre.

Both teams went to their coords, where they found a black trapdoor on the ground, which was made from the same material as the train doors, and after a really long ladder ride, they found a room with a create machine and redstone. They had to connect the redstone to the machine which made train tracks. While they were doing the tasks, a train could be heard and the Federation said "The train is leaving"

Everyone tried to climb up and go to the train station, but the train left just before they got there. They chased after it and went to the very end of the tracks until they found the portals. Some people were able to go through (including Bad, Foolish, Fit and some others), and they were in the nether, but it was a closed up station, and the two trains were there. The admins tpd everyone out in front of the portal and broke it before everyone could go through.

After that, QSMP global tweeted the following picture and everyone went to spawn to talk about what happened, and it also started raining again. The event ended here and everyone went on their seperate ways.

Roier then went into the Spawn tp room to join the others at Lucky Ducks, and a black sign can be seen in front of the common warp teleport which had ":)" on it. Same thing happened to Antoine but neither of them noticed it. The sign was broken by Roier when he went back to the room again.

(A bit of a correction, the sign was already there before they event went to the dungeon but nobody seemed to notice)

Cellbit did this at the end of his stream, which was interesting. We also didn't find out why Foolish's gun was taken, but it's fine. Our boy has some tricks up his sleeve. But at the end, no eggs died, and no one lost a life.

#qsmp #summary for my tumblr folks #this was crazy

[otakween]

Digimon World 3 - Final Thoughts

I've beaten the third Digimon World woohoo!! It was a brisk 40 hours, the perfect JRPG length. Overall, it was way better than Digimon World 2, but maybe not better than 1?? I dunno. It was definitely more enjoyable than 1 gameplay-wise, but if I look at it big picture it was way more generic and less memorable. Defeating the first Digimon World felt like more of a triumph and beating 3 felt kinda hollow (because it was easy and anticlimactic).

Despite any gripes I have, I could see myself replaying this. I'm especially interested in a potential revisit (like 10 years from now lol) because I found out that the PAL version of the game (Digimon World 2003) is the true, complete version of the game. Whoops...

So uh...Lord Megadeath and Snatchmon huh...great naming sense guys, good job.

Confession: I straight-up ignored all of the side quests in this game. Skipped all of the card battles, never got the fishing pole, etc. In the end, I don't really regret it because those card battles were kind of pointless anyway.

Confession part 2: I WAS planning on getting back to the side quests in the post-game until I realized that there is no post-game in this game. This is one of those games where you beat the final boss and they kick you back to the start screen with no opportunity to save. I hate it when games do that TT__TT now there's now proof that I beat it!

That ending was kinda lame. I liked the final battle with all of the epic FMVs, but the epilogue with the kids was literally so boring. They did not make me care about any of these characters in the slightest.

Speaking of FMVs, this game had so many!! The FMVs combined with the awesome pixel art definitely made this game great. It was a little lame how half of the world was just the same environments but palette swapped, but eh...whatever. There was enough variation to keep me excited.

Travel in this game was BULLSHIT. I said in one of my previous posts "fast travel will probably come soon!" NOPE, never came. The worst was when you beat a boss and then they made you back track throughout the whole dungeon for no reason. Thank God I played this on an emulator because an unexpected death would have set me back AGES. Very often it would take me an hour in REAL TIME to get to the next place I needed to be. Entire game sessions were just me walking across the map. If it wasn't for this mechanic, the game would have been like 10 hours long lol. Definitely artificial padding.

I noticed a couple of digimon here and there that I had never seen before. I think this game had a great variety in its wild encounters, although it was kind of weird to battle so many ultimates and whoop their butts so easily.

Speaking of easy...I think this game was maybe too easy or at least too exploitable. Health items were dirt cheap so it was super simple to stock up on 99 of each at all times, the counter crest allowed me to deal massive damage beyond my digimon's levels. The final boss fight with Galacticmon was just a game of letting my digimon attack until they died, resurrecting them with a healing item, and repeating that cycle until the battle was finished. The resurrection item brings back all digimon in your party with their full health which is pretty OP. By the 2nd half of the game this strategy became unbeatable and battles became kind of stale.

SO many random battles, like an obnoxious amount. I would leave one random battle, take a single step and another one would be triggered. I listened to a lot of podcasts slogging through this.

One of the weakest parts of this game was the plot/writing, but that was also weak in Digimon World 1 & 2. At least the translation seemed pretty decent this time around. I guess the "stuck in the game world" cliche was kinda fun.

The other thing I ignored in this game was the bonus digimon you can pickup along the way. I did end up getting two of them, but I never used them. They start at level 1 and ain't nobody got time to level up digimon from level 1 halfway through the game. Also, I wasn't super interested in using Guilmon when my Renamon already had MegaloGrowmon in their digivolve roster. I kind of wish this game allowed you to catch the wild digimon because you could create some really crazy parties.

My "main digimon" that I ended up using the most was Kotemon in their Kyukimon form. This was unfortunate because I think Kyukimon is butt ugly, but oh well lol.

The blasted mechanic in battles was really great and I hope they bring it back in future games! It allows you a second chance when you're in a pinch and just feels epic. I rarely used the digivolve option in battles, so it was nice getting a "free" digivolve every now and then.

I could go on and on about this game apparently, but I'm gonna wrap it up here. I have many many more games to get through before I start the next season of the anime. Onwards!

I give Digimon World 3 a solid 6.5 out of 10

#digimon world 3 #video games #digimon #digimon world #PSX #epsxe

[writtengalaxies]

HI HI HI could I mayhaps get some Illinois hcs/a fic with him and a reader that's sorta. His rival? Like they'll find each other in tombs or dungeons and they'll quip and race each other to the center to find what they're looking for, that sorta thing. Preferably with plenty of Tension(TM), where they're like. Definitely flirting. Rivals homoerotic style you know

OH I GOTCHU. (We love a homoerotic rival situation in this house.) (Also omg I'm so sorry this has been sitting, I finally have more than two days off to do everything dfghjk)

Illinois fucking James.

Sometimes you beat him, sometimes he beat you. You'd swear he was tracking your movements and plans...and honestly there was a good likelihood of that too, considering you were doing the same damn thing. It didn't help that he often flashed you that smug smile that lit up his stupid, handsome face. Or that he didn't talk down to you like others in your shared fields (both of history and treasure hunting) did. Or that you both kept saving each other's lives from traps.

It just wouldn't do if one of you died, right? Where would the fun in it all be if it wasn't for that?

It also didn't help that you caught the way his face looked at that first fancy function that you both showed up to attend, and you felt a smug bit of pride in how he looked flabbergasted and flustered over your appearance. You just didn't talk about how his appearance in his own fine, form-fitting suit, sans his stupid hat, threw you for a loop too. Or the way you both were proud of the ways you both handled questions and dodged individuals by sidling up next to one and other, spitting plenty of quips between you both as you danced.

So what if some of your non-adventuring colleagues, who had no idea what you did in your free time, thought you two made a dashing pair. You ignored their comments about your closeness, the way you two seemed to read each other's body language without needing words. You especially ignored their pointed questions, asking if you were sure you and Mr. James weren't an item?

And just because you've both seen each other at your most vulnerable moments, hurt or needing help, and neither of you ever hesitated, that didn't mean anything. Just because you wanted to kiss that damn smile off his face, or you caught him staring at your lips sometimes, eyes clouded over with some thought or another...or just because okay maybe you have kissed a few times, but that was just the adrenaline high trapped between the two of you, nothing serious, right?

Especially not because, after a night where you were forced to share the same tent because the winding tomb you were in partially collapsed and you had lost your supplies, he had quietly said "The greatest treasure I could ever steal would be your heart...darlin'~" with a wink. 

That bastard.

#my writing #askbox and you shall receive #markiplier egos #ahwm illinois #markiplier illinois #iswm illinois #gn!reader x illinois #illinois james you motherfu #khaki colored flirt

[bzedan]

[ID: An edit of the Parmigianino painting Cupid Making His Bow, showing a figure from the back, mid-buttcrack up, leaning over, braced against an unfinished bow. They are looking over their shoulder and have the head and tail of Garfield in cartoony contrast to the late Renaissance painting style of the body and wings. The figure is also Garfield orange. A script tattoo on one buttcheeck reads "February 2024." /end ID]

Listen, last year I did two hours and twenty-eight minutes and when I hit two hours and fourteen minutes this year I was like "whatever, print it." Also I liked how they hung together and some life stuff kind of meant that what I needed was a very loopable couple hours, not a curated several hours. I think every time I hear a Donavan song I go "this is my favourite" but it's more like "this is my favourite right now." More love and relationship type songs because you can't get away from that in music tbh, but also it's a fun thing to theme around.

Related media to some of the songs:

"Oh Snap" has some muddy origins, like any phrase. Wild in this article to see that as of this 2009 article it had worn its ironic welcome.

'Heartbeat' by Riggs is from Heavy Metal (1981), well not *from* the movie, but was in the movie, which is so specifically of its genre and era and also so specifically for me, who ended up with a sizable Loc-Nar tattoo. I think you can gauge pretty quick if a deeply '80s metal animated movie is for you and it conveniently is available on Archive.

It was a wet month here, hence all the rain songs, I hate linking to Insta, but latimes.404 had a nice little rundown of stats. The 1933 record mentioned is why we have such monster flood abatement where we live. I can’t remember which Raymond Chandler story it is but one scene takes place in a house that had been swept down a hill by a community ruining flood and THATS the record mentioned in the video. That’s why every four way stop is crossed with gutters that bottom out your car.

Bump of Chicken! 'Sleep Walking Orchestra' slaps. I am a Delicious In Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi fan (vol 13 and 14 on preorder, bb!), it's as specific as Heavy Metal, so I guess decide if you want a cooking manga/anime that is also very intense, and monster-nerdy. (and also kind of horny). Anyway, the official video is a more all-ages delight.

Anyway here's a link to February's playlist on Spotify, with the track list below the cut.

And embedded, if you like that:

'Sometimes' - Nick Lutsko

'There's No Love in February' - The Orion Experience

'Riki Tiki Tavi' - Donovan

'For What It's Worth' - Buffalo Springfield

'Downtown' - Petula Clark

'Braveheart - Original Mix' - DJ Sammy

'Magnify' - Real McCoy

'Everybodies Girl' - Dwarves

'Wildflowers' - Tom Petty

'Lost Souls/Eelings' - TR/ST

'Nightmare' - Dead On A Sunday

'Boy Problems' - Carly Rae Jepsen

'Gotta Get Up' - Harry Nilsson

'One Night/All Night' - Justice

'Brand New Key' - Melanie

'Crockett's Theme' - Jan Hammer

'Baby I'm Burnin' - Disco Mix' - Dolly Parton

'No One Dies From Love' - Tove Lo

'Just a Friend' - Biz Markie

'Cupid' - Sam Cooke

'Angela's Theme ("You're Just What I've Been Looking For")' - ET TU'

'So This Is Love - From "Cinderella"' - Ilene Woods

'If You Should Try To Kiss Her' - Dressy Bessy

'Horizon' - 1991

'Selfish Soul' - Sudan Archives

'What's Love (feat. MUNA)' - Empress Of

'The Beat Goes On' - Sonny & Cher

'Slow Ride' - Foghat

'Walking In The Rain' - Grace Jones

'Heartbeat - Soundtrack Version' - Riggs

'No Matter What - Remastered 2010' - Badfinger

'Raindrop' - Tripping Daisy

'It Never Rains in Southern California' - Albert Hammond

'Your Heart Is A Muscle' - Carly Rae Jepsen

'A Central Rain Melody' - Bart Graft

'Sleep Walking Orchestra' - BUMP OF CHICKEN

'Novocaine For The Soul' - Eels

'Parasites' - Ugly Casanova

'Haunted House' - Sir Babygirl

#meche makes playlists #playlist #Spotify

[smoreal]

Alright I’m posting the timeline in two parts or three, but here’s the first chunk of the sonic games for @z0nic and anyone else to reference!

NOTE: This is very rough; assume the dates are US unless otherwise stated; actually playing/watching a runthrough of the games are gonna give you better insight, these are just quick summaries

GUIDE:

** = Maybe don’t stress too hard about putting this one in lol, just had to add it jic

“…”/‘…’ = Quotes pulled straight from Speedia or Wiki, I can link Wiki's semi-complete list here > X

 + = Missing some details, synopsis might be rough lmaoo I’ll try to link websites to start your search so you can get a clearer picture of wth is happening here, my bad :(

{…} = Contains most of my asides and/or fun facts, feel free to skip these

SONIC TIMELINE:

Sonic (‘91) – 7 Zones, 6 Special Stages; Sonic chases down Eggman on South Island to free the flickies! Beat the game with all 6 emeralds and you get the good ending, without all 6, you get the bad ending where Eggman taunts you with the emeralds.

Sonic 2 (‘92) – 11 Zones, 7 Special Stages (Introduced Super Sonic and Tails); Sonic rides his biplane ‘The Tornado’ to West Side Island, meets Tails and together they stop Eggman from collecting all 7 emeralds to power his superweapon, the Death Egg! Without all the emeralds, you get the bad ending where Tails’ is implied to have died.

Sonic CD (SEPT. ‘93) – 7 Rounds, 7 Special Stages (Introduced Amy Rose and Metal Sonic); Implied to be before the events of Sonic 2 (due to ‘a hidden image unlocked through the Sound Test, shows Tails saying, “See you next game,” implying Sonic CD occurs BEFORE Sonic 2’); Sonic stops Eggman from collecting all 7 Time Stones from Little Planet (arrives only one month out of the year), meets Amy, saves her from Metal Sonic, and stops Eggman from creating a Bad Future. ‘In the good ending, Little Planet thanks Sonic with a shower of stars and leaves Never Lake; in the bad ending, Little Planet still leaves, but Robotnik uses the Time Stones to bring it back and the player is urged to replay the game to achieve the good ending.’

Sonic Chaos (OCT. ‘93) – 6 Zones, 6 Special Stages, and considered to be a ‘follow-up’ to Sonic 2; Eggman has one chaos emerald and is looking to collect all 6 for ‘nuclear weapons,’ but in his search has caused South Island to sink. Sonic and Tails stop him.

Sonic Spinball (NOV. ’93) – Considered a Spin-off from SatAM, there are 4 Zones, 4 Bonus Stages; Find all 16, BLUE chaos emeralds! Eggman is trying to take over the volcanic ‘Mt. Mobius’ to turn it into a base, ‘The Veg-O-Fortress.’ Tails is also here, but the Tornado is shot down and Sonic is left to climb up the base ‘pinball style.’ GOAT behavior.

Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine (DEC. ’93) – “The game is set on the planet Mobius, which is inhabited by bean-like creatures. Dr. Robotnik conceives a plan to bring terror to the world by kidnapping the citizens of Beanville and turning them into robot slaves, and eventually creating an army that will help him rid the planet of fun and joy. To achieve this, he creates the "Mean Bean-Steaming Machine" in order to transform the bean-like creatures into robots. Putting his plan into motion, Robotnik sends out his Henchbots to gather all the bean-like creatures and group them together in dark dungeons so they can be sent to the Mean Bean-Steaming Machine. The rest of the game's story revolves around the player character, "Has Bean", and their journey to stop Robotnik's henchmen by breaking into the dungeons and freeing the bean-like creatures.”

+**Sonic Drift (MAR. ’94) – 3 Grand Prixs, 6 Tracks; This was only released in Japan. Technically first racing game? {We aren’t counting the arcade games that are super rare, but I’ll list them here: Sega Arcade Classics [Japan, DEC ‘91], Segasonic Cosmo Fighter [JP, APR. ‘93], Segasonic Arcade [US, SEPT. ‘93], Segasonic Popcorn Shop [JP, APR. ‘93]} And you can drive as Amy! Win!

+Sonic 3 (FEB. ‘94) – 6 Zones, 7 Special Stages, and Right after Sonic 2; Death Egg crashes into the mountains of Angel Island. Eggman meets Knuckles, last echidna of Angel Island and Master Emerald guardian, (Master Emerald keeps the island afloat and is as strong as the 7 chaos emeralds), and convinces him that Sonic is going to steal the Master Emerald. Sonic and Tails show up, Sonic is Super (presumably from the events of Sonic 2), Knuckles punches the emeralds out of him, takes them, and gets out of dodge. They make it to the launch base, ‘where the death egg is under repair,’ fight Knuckles, but then the Death Egg relaunches and they defeat Eggman for it to crash. Again. Launch Base is the final zone from this game. {Probably best if you had your own look at this since it’s important, here you go ;-; (x)}

+& Knuckles (OCT. ‘94) -  8 Zones, 7 Special Stages (but this time you seek out the Super Emeralds to get Hyper Sonic, Hyper Knuckles, and Super Tails); First Zone, after Launch Base zone from Sonic 3, is Flying Battery Zone. Sonic attempts to stop Eggman from relaunching his Death Egg while Knuckles fights off the EggRobo. Ngl it’s hard to quickly give a rundown on it since there’s a good amount of IMPORTANT lore that’ll be a mouse-ka-tool that will help us later :) so I’ll leave this (x)

+** Tails and the Music Maker (OCT. ’94) – Music teaching game. It’s cute, and idk how you’d fit it into the lore but it’d be pretty fkn sick if you did. (15min vid)

Sonic Triple Trouble (NOV. ’94) – 6 Zones, 7 Stages; Sequel to Sonic Chaos, Introduced Nack the Weasel (Fang the Sniper) and has Sonic and Tails stop Eggman’s plans by getting all 6 chaos emeralds (after he loses them from a ‘test misfire’ that send them across the ‘island’ idk which island it doesn’t specify) Knuckles helps Eggman, again. I’m pretty sure Fang is just in it for himself lol, either way he isn’t on Sonic’s side. {Also did you know Fang’s bike is called the Marvelous Queen?? Very cash money of him}

Tails’ Skypatrol (JP, APR. ’95) – 5 Areas(?); Tails comes to a ruined, remote island. Witchcart “uses the island’s railways to travel to all points and trap its inhabitants with enchanted crystal magic.” Tails saves the island from Witchcart and her minions.

+Knuckles Chaotix (APR. ’95) – 6 Attractions, 6 Special Stages, and you’re collecting 6 Chaos Rings this time :), and also Mighty makes an ‘official debut,’ {despite being introduced prior to this game alongside Ray in the arcade game Segasonic the hedgehog [JP, ‘93].} “A mysterious island” comes out of nowhere ig bc of the events of S3&K. Eggman finds out about these Chaos Rings by going through a Giant Ring/Ring Portal that leads you to the special stages in previous sonic games. The six Chaos Rings are described as “crystallized power of the Master Emerald.” Eggman makes his own Dark Rings to power his robots, and takes over this new island. Knuckles shows up to figure out what the connection is between this island and Angel Island, saves Espio from Eggman and Metal Sonic, and then together they work to rescue the others to take down Eggman… {you should read this jic I missed smth}

Tails Adventure (NOV. ’95) – Good luck understanding this one, I’m getting contradicting notes (from the Speedia) saying that “the English language manuals {state that} the story is set after Sonic 2,” and that our boy is on “vacation.” But I’m also reading on the wiki that this shit happened BEFORE he even met Sonic sooo…. Let’s just stick with Chronology ig?? Here’s the link chief.

+Sonic Labyrinth (NOV. ’95) – 4 Zones, 4(?) Bonus Rounds; Eggman tricks Sonic into wearing special shoes that make him go slow as all hell, and they’re called “Speed Down Boots.” Find three keys in each stages to escape the zones within the labyrinth and stop Eggman. (x)

+**Sonic Drift 2 (NOV. ’95) – 3(?) Grand Prixs, and a Final Road; Sonic Drift 1, but ‘bigger’ and ‘better.’ Playable Amy, Knuckles, Fang, and Metal Sonic, let’s fkn gooo.

Sonic The Fighters (JULY ’96) – 10 Arenas; Introduced Honey the Cat, Bean and Bark! Sonic and friends all have a chaos emerald (8 this time lol) and they have a tournament to figure out who will use all 8 emeralds ‘to power a spaceship’ and stop Dr. Robotnik and Metal Sonic ‘from building an evil fortress in space.’

+**Sonic Schoolhouse (OCT. ’96) – FIRST FEMALE VA FOR SONIC LETS FKNGOO. Anyways, Sonic teaches you math, reading, and spelling through fun minigames :) (schoolhouse playthrough)

Sonic Blast (NOV. ‘96) – 5 Zones, 5(?) Bonus Stages; Eggman shatters a chaos emerald into 5 shards ‘with a laser,’ Sonic and Knuckles team up to keep him from collecting the shards and ‘fortifying his island base.’

Sonic 3D Blast (NOV. ’96) – 8(?) Zones, 7 Special Stages; Before you ask, no, unfortunately for me, they are not the same thing. In this one, Sonic has to save these flickies that live on Flickie Island, but they aren’t just any flickies, they’re special bc of their ability to move freely between dimensions “via the Dimensional Rings.” Eggman is the one endangering these flickies bc he’s using them to ‘further his research.’ Pretty much to find chaos emeralds. (x)

*(please add her in I beg of you idk how you’d do this but you’d be a legend I’m trying to figure this out too)* Learning With Sonic (NOV. ’96) – “Dr. Eggman has built Gameworld, a carnival-like tower.” Amy, Sonic, and Tails have to overcome the games to get the chaos emeralds.

Sonic R (NOV. ’97) – 5 Tracks; Sonic and Tails join in on this World Grand Prix when they find out Eggman is participating. Knuckles and Amy join in. Eggman was using the race as a way to distract Sonic while he ‘hunts for the chaos emeralds.’ {Fun fact: If you owned the game and popped it into a cd player, it would play just the music :) pretty neat! One of the best soundtracks of all time and you’re able to listen to it or play the actual game… society has fallen.}

+(?)**Sonic Pocket Adventure (’99) – Pretty much ‘dumbed down vers. of Sonic 2’

Sonic Adventure (SEPT. ’99) – You got this.

#holy shit this took me a while #shitposts #smoreal sonic scrolls #sonic timeline #mmm ill refrain from putting this in my lore tag bc this def needs more editting #um ill hopefully have te rest out soon. this is everything pre 2000s #next post will be post 2000s #and if i do a third one that one will be 2010s ig

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Frick it YET ANOTHER KARMALAND LIVEBLOG TIME

THE VIDEO.... HE’S WATCHING IT!! HE DIDN”T IMMEDIATELY GET MAD AND TURN IT OFF

MAYBE WE HAVE A CHANCE MAYBE THERE’S HOPE

Luzu in the memory video: I just want you to be happy. Quackity: ...and that same day he betrayed me.

Quackity: I miss this version of Luzu Me: *BREAKS DOWN CRYING*

THE PHOTOOOOOOOO AGH

Quackity and Luzu in the video: I love you! I love you very much! Quackity: I really miss this version of Luzu to be honest

AH....

:(((

Quackity shooting the video when Luzu said “All I want is your happiness Quackity” AGH..........

oh frick that almost got me I almost teared up at that FRICK OFF, IM NOT GONNA CRY OVER YOUR LORE AGAIN (yet)

Luzu and Quackity are such good actors

MAN!!! HE CARES THOUGH!!! HE STILL CARES

He didn’t immediately get mad and refuse to watch it. He still cares. They both still care so much. But there’s so much hurt and anger that I’m not sure they’ll be able to have a conversation that could fix this

Quackity: I miss that Luzu, the one who wasn't corrupted. It’s a shame I have to kill him. KILLING ME WOULD HURT LESS

Quackity: When there's someone you can't help no matter how hard you try, you have to put them to sleep. UH. WHAT KIND OF PSYCHOLOGY CLASSES WERE *YOU* IN KING

“A cardinal rule in psychology is not to help the patient to keep paying you” WTF QUACKITY

Well Rubius certainly isn’t going to help with this situation

oh frick that’s true I wonder what Rubius would’ve thought of the video

Quackity: Rubius, where are you? I’m sad Isn’t it interesting how both Rubius and Quackity go to each other when they’re sad and lonely? :( Unhealthy coping strategies

WISH THIS WASNT TRUE lmao Rubius....

Isn’t that the horn Vegetta gave Rubius??

oh frick I just missed a big chunk of the convo frick

Rubius: The other day the lying detector machine was malfunctioning. Oh also i might have to put you in prison for seven days Quackity: Wait WHAT RUBIUS. YOU KNOW LUZU LOVES HIM YOU BASTARD DONT SAY THE LIE DETECTOR WAS FAULTY oh wait he was probably talking about the faking the election thing PFT. I SWEAR I DONT HAVE A ONE-TRACK MIND

Rubius: I have to gain Luzu’s trust Quackity: I DONT WANT TO TALK ABOUT HIM RIGHT NOW! AGH. PAIN. But I do wonder what Rubius is planning

I love that Rubius put him in jail but he didn’t take away Quackity’s gun

LMFAO

Not Rubius and Quackity having to Roleplay “bad cop beating up a prisoner” rn BRO...

Rubius: *threatening to hit him, roughing him up, being a masochist* Quackity: 😏 QUACKITY. WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS.

well the Rubuckity fanartists are gonna have a field day with that

Rubius: Who's your leader?? Quackity: God's my only leader! Rubius: No! Luzu is your leader!! QUACKITY HAS BECOME CHRISTIAN /j

Rubius: To the dungeon!! Quackity: Yeah? I bet i can last longer down there than you did on that soccer match THAT”S BELOW THE BELT QUACKITY LMAO

WHAT DID QUACKITY SAY??? PARDON???

lmao the windows sound

Rubius rn be like

OH HE SHOT A MINION UH OH

He’s gay, depressed, and STUPID

Rubius: IT”S OK I”LL TRY AND BUY HIM OFF Rubius: *offers to give the minion a lapdance*

IT”S LITERALLY “DUMB AND DUMBER” WHEN RUBIUS AND QUACKITY ARE TOGETHER. They’re literally two of the most intelligent manipulative strategic people but as soon as they’re together they have 0 braincells

Quackity: I’ll kill him! Rubius: I CAN’T HE’S IMMORTAL, I DONT KNOW WHAT LUZU IS FEEDING THEM PFTTTT

Wow they trapped him in an eternal death / revive loop that seems INFINITELY worse

Man I wish I knew Spanish I’m missing so many jokes and I’m just sitting here fuming

Quackity: This roleplay is so exciting Rubius: That’s what she said I HATE HIM

GOSH

I CAN”T BELIEVE HE JUST “That’s what she said!” US IN 2022

THEY BOTH DIED. IDIOTS

AND AGAIN

Literally everything that’s green dies next to Quackity INCLUDING Pepe the frog

I know it’s a bit but Quackity screaming for Rubius to help him just reminds me of him screaming for Luzu to help him. I am in hell

Rubius and Quackity: *being stupid and being accidental comic relief* Me: *unfortunately able to make everything sad*

How the heck did Rubius manage to befriend this mob that killed them both like 10 times

Oh and it’s attacking them again LMAO

Luzu, watching Rubius and Quackity getting murdered over and over again by this mob from his mansion: And people had the audacity to get mad at me for saying I wanted to protect Quackity

Rubius: ATTRACT HIM, SEXUALLY ATTRACT HIM TO ME RUBIUS SHUT UP!!!!!!

Rubius’ coping strategy is automatically flirt, seduce, or flatter and it SUCKS

WH--

QUACKITY.

I hate when Quackity says something so Terrible that even I, someone with terrible Spanish skills, am like 😒 

Quackity: My mind is on automatic right now, it’s like a hamster on its little wheel That’s cute... but also he’s very right

These stamina jokes are frickin killing me

These two really are “Idiot Gays” representation

Quackity: Why did I spawn in your bed? Rubius: Because you like me. Quackity: Honestly, yeah. I do > Thinking about how Rubius and Quackity are able to rely on each other because there’s no feelings involved and they’re both aware of and accepting of each other’s worst traits and tendencies, and how they turn to each other for comfort when the people they’re in love with aren’t there for them > *dies instantly*

Rubius after Quackity broke his coffee machine: Why can't you be still for once?? We could do great things but no!!! 

Quackity: Do you sometimes feel like very dizzy and can't stop laughing?? Rubius: YEAH Quackity: Well I've been feeling like that this past 30 minutes

Luzu’s going to survive this frickin arc solely because Quackity and Rubius are too distracted and stupid to focus on coming up with a plan

FRICK I JINXED IT as soon as I said that they got back on topic

OH FRICK HE ACCIDENTALLY CALLED RUBIUS LUZU oh dear

LMAO THE ACCIDENTAL VOICE CHANGE

OH HE’S SHOWING RUBIUS THE VIDEO???

oh man that seems like such a personal thing to show Rubius oh man

OH HE’S STAYING OUTSIDE WHILE RUBIUS GOES TO WATCH IT? or no he just wanted Rubius to hear it

Oh

OH

OH MY GOSH

Minions, blocking Quackity from entering Luzu’s house Quackity: Henchmen, you know I'm Luzu's lover, don’t do anything to me

I CRAVE DEATH!!!!!!

Quackity: Rubius, I have a confession. Me and Luzu are no longer friends. Rubius: Yeah I could tell LMFAO QUACKITY. THAT KINDA GOES WITHOUT SAYING

Rubius cracks me up I want to see fanart of that

Quackity: I have a proposal. Help me kill Luzu. Rubius: Killing him would be a gift. I want him to suffer. Quackity: Rubius, I understand that killing him would be a gift, but in honor of all our years of friendship that's the last gift I can give him 

OH. HE CAN’T KILL HIM. No matter how furious Quackity is he can’t kill Luzu he can’t kill him I FRICKIN CRAVE DEATH

HE’S STILL PLANNING ON KIDNAPPING THE KIDS NOOOO

well better than killing them I guess

OH NO HE DOES PLAN ON KILLING THE KIDS, FRICK

He told Rubius he had illegitimate children with Luzu AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I mean is it more or less fricked up that Quackity plans on killing them if he also claims them as his AND Luzu’s kid

OH MAN Rubius found out Luzu killed Osito Bimbo and he's going to kill Luzu for killing one of his own OH FRICK

Rubius: I’ll gain his trust, and once that day comes, his death will come.

the question is though: will Vegetta stand by Luzu’s side? And if so, what does that mean for Rubius? What will he do if Vegetta tries to get in the way of his and Quackity’s revenge?

LITERALLY. YOURE SO RIGHT ANSU

Wait I completely missed that WHAT ABOUT TITI

THEY”RE SO STUPID I LOVE THEM

Quackity: Rubius, would you betray me? Rubius: No. I’m doing all this just to mess with Luzu

Oh Quackity was saying he can go after Titi if Rubius betrays him? Or is he saying he can help Rubius get Titi (the real Titi) back?

ARE THEY GOING TO MANIPULATE SAPO PETA INTO HELPING THEM WITHOUT REALIZING IT??? awh oh noooo oh nooo not Sapo Peta :((( He’s such a kind person he’ll feel so sad and so used, and he wants Luzu and Quackity to get back together. If he’s the reason Luzu gets hurt or is part of the reason Luzu dies, he’ll never forgive himself

Rubius: I have a lot of trust in Sapo Peta Me: *SOBS*

I love Sapo Peta

Quackity: I'll find a way to bring Titi back. If Rubius doesn't betray me, I'll give him Titi back. If not, I'll kill him

Quackity: I will seduce Sapo Peta and I will make him bring back Titi Rubius: If that means you trust me then it's fine, because I didn't understand what you meant by all that. NOOO THAT”S JUST AS BAD STOP PLAYING WITH POOR SAPO PETA’S HEART LIKE THIS

Quackity rummaging thorugh Rubius' chests: YOU HAVE SO MUCH STUFF!!!! Rubius: Well if you played Minecraft instead of f**king around-- LMAO GETTEM

Quackity broke a vase and was like “I BREAK EVERYTHING I TOUCH” noooo baby boy nooooo that’s the trauma talking

Quackity: I destroy everything I touch! Rubius: It's amazing, man, I don't know how you do it RUBIUS YOURE NOT HELPING

Rubius: No, Vegetta can’t help us. There was...a situation the other day. I married Lolito because Vegetta deserves better Quackity: you WHAT

Quackity: Vegetta must hate you now Rubius: ... I’m just saying I wouldn’t trust him to help us :((( consequences of your actions

Rubius: Vegetta is dangerous YEAH HE SURE FRICKIN IS. HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE YOUR DEMIGOD EX-BOYFRIEND SCORNED

“I’m hated by Vegetta. I disgust him” I feel bad for Rubius but also CANT BLAME VEGETTA FOR THIS ONE KING

EXACTLY!!! EXACTLY!!! GLAY IS RIGHT RUBIUS IS A HYPOCRITE

Quackity: I’ll get Illojuan to help us. I’ll make him play a whole week in Karmaland Rubius: If you manage that it’ll be an even greater achievement than killing Luzu LMFAO

oh is he teaching Quackity Illojuan’s accent? That’s genuinely so cute ... awh

THIS IS CUTE AWWWW

Rubius is Polish??? Or Norwegian?? Oh I suddenly understand all the jokes now, I was wondering why everyone kept affectionately calling him a Norwegian rat

Rubius did NOT just offend Mexican street food I’LL KILL HIM

Quackity: When will you come back to Mexico? Rubius: When everyone forgets this cancellation, just like they already forgot I’ve already visited Mexico PFTT alright that got a laugh out of me

Quackity: Once a friend of mine asked about you!! He asked what was going on with you AND I DEFENDED YOU!! DRAG HIM QUACKITY

OH THIS BASTARD DID *NOT* JUST MAKE A JOKE ABOUT PEOPLE SAYING HE’S MORE MEXICAN THAN QUACKITY

QUACKITY IF YOU MURDER HIM LIVE ON STREAM WE”LL ALL BE YOUR ALIBI, NONE OF US WILL TALK. RIP HIM A NEW ONE

Quackity forgives BUT I SURE DONT, IM GONNA START BITING

I’ll leave my commentary there for today since they wrapped up the lore, but mannn. That was. A lot.

We had Quackity accept he’s sad and misses Luzu, accept he had children with Luzu, and accepted he and Luzu were lovers. That was. SO MUCH TO TAKE IN.

But the biggest thing is he can’t kill Luzu. He asked Rubius to do it for him. I really didn’t expect that, and it says a LOT about them and their relationship (both Q and Rubius’ and Q and Luzu’s). Agh.

#i talk #karmaland talk #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[sleepymarmot]

I have finally beaten the first boss of Scrivener's Hall solo! And finished the dungeon with the help of others.

A day or two ago he killed me many times. After improving my build a bit, I returned. My many attempts at killing him with a two bar Pale Order build were unsuccessful. At first I tried to do the mechanics, but it was too hard to keep track of where the books were shooting their lights, so I was overwhelmed. Then I tried to burn him down, but got swarmed by the mechanics. But I was improving: last time I kept dying around 70-80%, maybe 50-60%, and now my best attempts were around 30-40%. A big help was that early in the fight today I finally figured out I should swap Azandar from tank to healer, and he went from dying within the first thirty seconds to staying alive throughout the entire fight.

Then I realized that 1) in the middle of the fight I was neglecting the back bar because I had no time to swap; 2) I could really use a bonus to stamina and magicka recovery. So I changed to my solo Oakensoul build, edited it a bit... And managed to defeat the boss on first try!

Here's what we were using:

(Me: Chakram of Destiny; Pragmatic Fatecarver; Cephaliarch's Flail; Inspired Scholarship; Spiteward of the Lucid Mind; Sanctum of the Abyssal Sea. Azandar: Abor's Augmented Ward; Triptych Physic; Ritual of Salvation; Shields of Erudition; Crimson Font)

Unfortunately, that was not nearly enough for the second boss. I could survive the poison vomit once or twice in a row, but that only got me to around 80%. I tried several times, but it was obviously hopeless with the gear and skills I currently have. So I had to call for help in the group finder, and I had a full team in approximately 5-10 minutes and cleared the rest of the dungeon in the blink of an eye.

This was actually my second completion of the dungeon; earlier the same day I asked in group finder to run it in "story mode", but the team who assembled ran through the dungeon pretty fast and also didn't hunt the scamps, and I didn't feel comfortable stopping to admire the scenery or ask them how the scamps work. So I was unsatisfied with that as Jarcanist's one canonical chance at this quest, and returned to try again solo — and that's how I ended up spending approximately two more hours on a single clear.

I have to say: going through the dungeon alone and discovering it for yourself is significantly more fun than blindly running after strangers from the queue who already know everything. It feels like a real adventure! I wish this way of doing dungeons were more accessible — I'm not even talking about the kind of story mode in which every enemy dies from a light tap on the shoulder, but something that might pose a challenge, but still a challenge that is solvable without having extremely specific gear and skills at hand. Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful to the people who come to my rescue, and playing with other humans is its own kind of fun, but I wish it were an option instead of a necessity.

And now, I'm going to run it a bunch of times again. Need that Velothi lead asap! So far I've killed only one scamp (during that solo run), and of course wasn't lucky enough to get the lead in the very first chest. Oh, and give me those sweet, super expensive Glass Eyes of Mora too.

Btw: shout out to this video of the dungeon's full content that I used as one of the guides.

After this, doing the Runemaster Xiomara boss in Apocrypha even one competent partner, let alone with a group, is pleasantly familiar! I visited him on a whim, just to check how the boss feels after beating his dungeon equivalent, and ended up in a group in which we quickly did a Bastion Nymic and two other bosses I needed for the Defender of Necrom achievement. Did the Runemaster three times, and still no lead...

As you can see from the long post, this was all pretty exciting! I'd been looking forward to this dungeon for the entire year, it's relevant to the character I'm playing, has cool design, and rewards I'm interested in — so I'm happy to finally get around to doing it.

#eso #jarcanist #blah blah blah

[dicesmasher]

Mental Outsourcing for DMs

Let the players help you!

DMs have to keep track of a LOT of stuff, especially in combat, especially when the fight involves multiple types of monsters, allied NPCs in the party, and the PCs of absent players. On top of this, any interesting combat will be more than damage numbers - it will involve spells, status conditions, terrain, et cetera. And you need to be switched-on for every turn, every round until the fight is resolved, improvising, strategising and flexing your rules muscles.

Meanwhile, the only thing a player typically has to keep track of is their own resources, and they often don't have to engage with the fight until it's their turn.

After running a game today that involved combat with multiple allied NPCs with their own sets of abilities, and feeling the mental strain of a complex combat that took forever just to get through the first round, it became obvious that I was struggling to keep things going smoothly.

A player of mine suggested after the session that I could have handed the NPCs to some of the players, so they would be the ones having to keep track of them, not me. This discussion then expanded into the issue of players controlling the characters of other players.

DMs often have different methods for dealing with the absence of one or more players. You could just find an excuse for them to not be in the party for the time being - Critical Role is known for doing this, and it's a good solution for player absences that are expected to last several sessions. However, you can't always really justify a PC leaving the group, leading to another tactic, to just keep the PC in physically but reduce their presence roleplay-wise, and control them in combat - good DMs often have access to their PC's character sheets anyway.

This second method comes with its own problems. If the PC is present for a major story beat involving them and their backstory, the player won't be there to roleplay it out and make their own decisions, making this a poor method depending on where you are in the campaign's story. Also, any character involved in combat is at risk of dying, and no player wants to find out that their character died while they weren't at the table.

This can be mitigated. Firstly, if a player can't be there for a session they really need to be in, I cancel the game and find something else to do with the group, like a one-shot with different characters (good if you know about the absence well in advance), playing another game (especially a rules-light RPG with little prep) or just watching a movie or having a chat (I'm still promising my group we will watch Dungeons and Dragons 2000, the shitty one with Jeremy Irons.)

Mitigating the second problem comes mainly from an agreement among that group that anyone handling another player's character do so responsibly and respectfully and will be very careful to keep that character alive, even if that means the PC starts making out-of-character decisions. The DM can also give that character plot armour by having enemies attack them less often, or letting them survive situations that would normally require passing some hard checks. (Example, the party just barely escape an old mine full of monsters, but the barbarian got left behind in the chaos. As the rest of the party starts lamenting his loss, he staggers out of the entrance, having somehow survived, covered in the blood of himself and his enemies, and collapses unconscious.)

Of course, I was already doing this when I was controlling absent players' characters as the DM. All I need to do is give another player access to that character sheet, and let them play it out. In combat, that player now gets to control two characters on different initiatives, allowing them to get a taste of something different while also getting to engage even more than usual in the game.

I'm going to try establishing a common repository for character sheets in my group, which would get updated at least for each level-up that occurs. If a player has to skip a session, I can then just ask them for their status in terms of resources (HP, spell slots, etc.) to quickly remake their character sheet and hand it to whoever else is willing to use it.

#Writing this at midnight so probably not well structured or written #This post is actually about how to deal with absent players lol #Seriously do something with the group still if you cancel the session. People put time aside for this!

[nauticalmyles]

January 7, 2025

Pokemon Sleep

100 Sleep! Though tbh kinda cheated that one. Started tracking but went to bed like 2 hours later.

New sleep style: Persian 2* - Sturdy Sleep

Finished all weekly missions.

Binding of Isaac: Repentance

Now that I finished Mother with all normal characters, I'm just gonna make a list of what I need to do and randomize what I go for.

Tainted Jacob -> Lamb. Was having a really good run and just a tiny lapse in concentration had Esau hit me and immediately got hit by another enemy.

Next run got greedy trying to get SMB from Boss rush. Esau hit me on the first wave and shortly died after.

Next run wasn't quite able to beat Lamb but managed to beat Hush so successful run in my book. (Anything to stop playing this character)

Tainted Keeper -> Greed mode. Super easy with Keeper generating extra coins. Bought so many things.

Pokemon Ultra Sun

Struggled hard against the totem Marowak. 4 levels under was hard. Managed to beat the trial after matching levels but just barely. Arbok MVP, Intimidating, Glaring both, and doing quite a bit of damage before fainting.

Spoilers for Breaker of Horizons below

Breaker of Horizons: A LitRPG Adventure

Nic gets attacked midair after jumping off the tree and almost dies. He hides for hours until another creature makes movement nearby. The movement makes the hunter that attacked him ("Baby Boots" as he calls him) nuke the entire forest with fire. After getting away from that, he rests at his home base for a while. Then goes to meet with the monkeys to plan to attack a different creature the next morning. To prepare, Nic goes around eating things. He also runs into a group of actual-people. Then he happens upon an area of the forest with slimes and a perpetual death tree. He manages to steal the fruit off the tree and then runs back to participate in the raid with the monkeys. After killing the horse-person, the monkeys betray him, though don't kill him. Nic upgrades with various things, then goes back to kill the rest of the monkeys.

It feels like Nic doesn't have any goals other than just a vague get stronger and don't die so it doesn't feel like anything is really happening.

Maybe once he clears a dungeon like Sophie keeps saying to do, more things happen.

Starting to see more of this universe's system. Reminds me a bit of the one in He Who Fights with Monsters where they have a base and they alter it with "drops".

#NM MJ #2024-01-07 #Pokemon Sleep #Binding of Isaac: Repentance #Breaker of Horizons: A LitRPG Adventure

[zachsgamejournal]

COMPLETED: The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild

I did it. I finally beat this game. Literally bought it on day one. While I'm proud of the feat...the ending was...underwhelming.

What I loved about Ocarina of Time is how it A.) Felt like an open world B.) Felt like you do things out of order, like you were "discovering" the world. Neither were true, but they are true for Breath of the Wild. So in that sense, this game is a fulfillment of OoT's promise.

So--we last we left off we were climbing a volcano to take on the iguana divine beast. And it was a bit of a disappointment. Far simpler than the camal or elephant. I'm not sure I was upset, just unexcited. It's the third dungeon with the same aesthetic and puzzles, so starting to feel tedious. And the boss--a complete joke. While I struggled a lot with the first boss and a little with second, this was a 1-and-done deal. And basically my whole strategy was run up to it and hit it till if died. No crazy patterns or anything. Extremely underwhelming.

Roughly around this point we had enough hearts to go for the master sword. But that means navigating the lost forest. I remember the first time playing this I got really confused. When I discovered I needed to follow the wind by holding a torch and seeing which way the sparks flew, I applauded genius design. Now that I knew what to do...it was less exciting. The trees were cleverly creepy though.

It was fun to see the Deku tree again, but we didn't talk much. Hi Link, I've been waiting for you. Here's your sword.

Master Sword in hand we set off to take on the Bird Divine beast. I was really excited for my wife to see the bird folk, but she was watching ER in the other room. Ah well. I was excited to see the birds except they're all really arrogant for some reason. Didn't enjoy that.

I enjoy the mini-game getting on the beast. It was fun shooting the shield generators with explosive arrows, but also really easy. Similar to the lizard beast, the dungeon was really simple, no real surprises. The boss was slightly harder, but now I've got so many skills, weapons, and bad-ass meals that I don't have to be half-as-skilled as when I started.

So with all the Divine beast enrolled in our cause, we grabbed a few towers and shrines, focusing more on stamina. I also started tracking down the memory quest. I knew there was going to be more "story" here, as the game is not very heavy on plot compared to other Zeldas. While it did provide a little more character development for Zelda herself, but it did add much to the plot. I think the real depth of the game's story is in the side quest of its characters. I had hoped to do more there, but I felt we needed to move onto a game the whole family could enjoy.

So when it was time to take on the castle I was sure there were going to be guardians. So I knew I needed to learn to counter lasers, which I never learned before. It took some practice and frustration, but I actually got pretty good. And a defeated guardian drops tons of parts! I got excited and killed a few just for fun.

Afterward, I visited a fairy for some equipment upgrades and stopped by Impa's. She gave me the iconic blue tunic that's in all the flashbacks. It shows enemy HP. I'm not sure what the point of that is besides seeing when an enemy is way out of your league??

Anyway, we snuck our way into the castle grounds Solid Snake style. The castle is huge. You can't fully explore it, but it's still imposing. I'm impressed they still let you climb everything. Makes what could have been very linear feel open and exciting. While exploring, I dropped into this room--somewhat accidentally. Then the doors shut and then Lionel shows up. Damn it! I've specifically avoided these guys! Somehow, though, I was able to defeat but I lost a lot powerups and food. I wasn't sure how check points worked in the castle, so I was worried about how much I'd have to repeat if I died.

I make it inside.

Calamity Ganon drops down, though he looks like a spider-Ganon. I'm feeling anxious given the supplies and skills I've lost on the way here. But thankfully the Divine Beast Champions send in their attack and knock down 50% of his health. That's good, because he hits pretty hard in the fight. I don't quite figure out the best strategy, but I have enough supplies to survive the fight and work in some good hits.

After he's defeated, we end up outside where Ganon takes on his true form...I guess. I gian bull! This is much easier, as I just ride my horse around and shoot at weakpoints Zelda reveals. Once he's down, i guess he's banished to the space between dimensions with phantom ganon and that's it.

There's no real story after that. Sadly, but not unexpectedly, you don't get to keep playing. That's an unfortunate thing about Zelda games, they always end at the end. Normally that's reasonable, but every Zelda game is about restoring a turbulent world to peace and happiness, while giving you good world building. But you never get to enjoy this world you build. Just a couple of cenimatics showing the NPCs having fun.

Lame.

So the game is done. I think this is my 2nd favorite Zelda with Ocarina being my favorite. I enjoy the world they've built here, but I think it being a post apocalyptic world where everything of significance happened in the past is a weak choice. Looking at two great games, Dragon Quest 11 and Ocarina of Time, those games did a great job having a mostly functional world that then "ends" and shows all the changes and consequences of that. But then you have the chance to save it. Not saying this needed to take that route, but the world and characters made that great--not the lonely apocalyptic world this is.

#Zach's Game Journal #COMPLETED #The Legend of Zelda #Breath of the Wild #Nintendo #Switch #Video Games #Gaming

[cyberdragoninfinity]

what are some of your headcanons (if you have any) for jaden and zane? they're my favorite gx characters (and imo the epitome of adhd/autism solidarity) and i like hearing people's takes on them. also .

OH BOY DO I!!! :D omg it's so funny you ask, I love Jaden and Zane too, and ive been especially having Zane Brainrot for like the last 72 hours so the headcanons have been COOKING big time..... in general i love coming up with yugioh guy headcanons, there's so much potential there eheheh.

here's a little platter for each of them, off the top of my head:

Jaden:

I think you're dead on the money with him having ADHD.... it fits him SO well. He especially strikes me as someone who doodles a Bunch in the notes of his classwork to help with focus issues (to varying levels of success.)

Impulsively throws up a peace sign 90% of the time someone takes a picture of him.

I know in my heart this kid can and will take any opportunity to shout "Parkour!!!" while jumping off of picnic tables and benches and shit. Just channeling all his energy into unabashed teenage boy jumping and bouncing around and goofing off. I think even before I watched GX I felt like he had the energy of this vine.

Loves video games!! Nothing beats dueling of course, but he'll have a grand old time with his beat up Gameboy Advance SP, playing Pokemon Firered for the 5732754 time. I think he'd really love games like Smash Bros. too, just has a great time with them. He'd also love Sonic the Hedgehog...definitely loves the Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack. (Every SA2 song sounds like a gx dub background track. buy my silence!!!)

He's constantly leaving a trail of napkins and crumbs everywhere. Jaden feels very "shoved a snack in his pocket for later" energy. Popping out a pack of Oreos mid-duel to nibble on.

Would enjoy nearly all superhero movies regardless of quality. This specifically pisses Aster "perpetually writing a Batman video essay in his brain" Phoenix off to a tremendous degree <3

Definitely had a fursona when he was like 12 and it was absolutely like. A zany cyborg superhero sparkledog with space powers or something like that. Just total shameless self indulgence. The Neo Spacians are basically his OCs after all!! He's a creative kid. ;w;

Zane:

Likes heavy metal but also the crustiest early 2000's techno you can imagine. Unironically thinks the 7 minute long full version of Darude's Sandstorm kicks ass.

Lately I've been especially into the idea of Zane enjoying TTRPGs and particularly being a bit of a Perma-Dungeon Master (i, a perma DM, enjoy inflicting this upon characters lmao). I think he'd really into running these dense, edgy, rules-and-combat-heavy campaigns where there's like a solid 70% chance your character is gonna die. (Meanwhile Atticus does everything in his power to make the stupidest, goofiest character imaginable every time he plays in one of Zane's campaigns. unstoppable force meets immovable object etc etc)

I feel like bad eyesight runs in this family but Zane either never bothered to get glasses/contacts or willingly doesn't wear them. Is he glaring at you from across the room? Nope, he's just trying to make out a sign on the wall and he can't see shit. :/

Might throw "has a gluten intolerance" on top of all the other shit he's dealing with, as part of my ongoing agenda of making characters i like have gluten issues. Probably lactose intolerant too like Syrus. Guy looks like eating is probably one of his least favorite activities. Like. he'll do it. but hes not thrilled about the experience.

ok sorry i assign "Pokemon liker" to like every yugioh character but I'm really enamored with the idea of zane and syrus being "kids where one got pokemon red/gold/ruby and the other got blue/silver/sapphire" i think it's so sweet ;__; Zane has MASSIVE "gets really into competitive Pokemon and takes it dead seriously" energy. Stays up late playing ludicrously difficult ROM hacks and testing competitively viable teams. I think he would really like Dialga. <3

Definitely picked up some of Jaden's dorky ass slang whether he wanted to or not. He straight up says "throw down a facedown" in one episode and out loud i was like "oh he DEFINITELY got that from jaden." they are FRIENDS

Has a three-monitor desktop computer setup and all three monitors have a different cyber dragon painting for their wallpaper and it's not entirely clear if he commissioned them or ripped them off google images.

#GOD SORRY FOR THE TEXT WALL. I GOT EXCITED FDSGHSDFH #i also really like the autistic!zane headcanon.... it fits really well with him i can see why it seems to be a p popular take!! #ygo posting #asks #anonymous #yugioh gx #mfs arent ready for my extensive 'zane's dnd campaign' headcanons. a deep rabbithole #ygo headcanons

[thecrowswillfindme]

A rundown of all my Skyrim ocs

No one asked, I just wanted to, also no one but me will probably understand

1. best mum TM Mal

Adopted So many kids

Trying her best running things

Werewolf mama

Will kill for her babies

That one lion meme “They’re so cute I want to touch them..but I won’t”

2. Loveable Dragonborn Daviln

ADHD golden retriever husband

V forgetful/ easily distracted (got side tracked and missed his wedding) (he made it up dw) (he just followed the questing dopamine)

Married to quintus and loves him so much

Big dad energy

Has trauma around falmer the poor Babi

3.Not so loveable Dragonborn Kreet

Short

Doesn’t like being short

Very angee

Sarcastic is his only language

Trans boi and will cut out the tongues of anyone who misgenders him❤️

Assassin boi

Complete opposite of Daviln basically

4. Slightly twisted childhood friend Ril

Imperial companion

Best friends with farkas and vilkas

Lil cruel but it’s ok

Left by dad for the war like farkas and vilkas so brought up by kodlack

Very in love with his girlfriend Ingun black briar (maven doesn’t know cuz both of them a lil scared) (ingun petname nightshade) (rils is puppy or loveable wolf)

Very long hair he is very proud of

5. Omg help her mum Brym

Adopted chaotic son because they’re both mixed race

Nord and high elf, not great couple in the Great War but very nice couple still

Someone let her have a break

Pining for aela poor dear

Cannot control the son

6. Chaotic lizard wolf hybrid son Ryk

Half argonian half wood elf

Scales talons ears and a tail (with no scales weirdly)

He may be small but in his chaos causing abilities he’s great

Fucks with the companions all the time

BFFs with Lucia

The punssssss

7. Pretty noble half breed Luna

Homeless until pushed in front of dunmer nobles by crowl as kids

Adopted bc she has vitiligo between her dunmer cornflower blue skin and her wood elf tan

Very pretty, very nice

Quite often mistaken for stupid

She lived on the streets for 8 years, she will end you

Pinning for crowl

Does not know crowl is pinning back

8. He is pinning half breed Crowl

Mercenary

Very sensible

Always feels responsible for everyone because of trauma ✨

Very bad romantically( someone help the boy pleaseee)

Half high elf half orc so toll boi

Has both the ears and the teeth

9. Needs her death revenged for half breed Allimi

Another of the half breed gang

Kidnapped by some bullies when they were all kids and sold to some bandits

Not nice things ensued

Dies in a dog ring

Was so nice and sweet

Half orc half dunmer

Crowl will avenge her death tho

The bandits will not be having fun

10. Get your dog away from me it don’t bite yes it do half breed Illec

Also kidnapped by bullies, but survived the bandits..physically

Mentally not so much

Kinda crazy

Locked in solitude dungeons long term

Crowl visits him lots

God someone get a therapist for this poor boi

There you go✨

EDIT NO I FORGOT MY FLOOF SON

11. Never trust him with your septims Keleith

Kajeet

Best friends with ril

Met when he was begging in windhelm as a kit and got robbed by the local nord teens and Ril on a trip with the companions beat them up and gave his bag back without a word

Keleith promised himself to find the stranger and pay him back

He tries to follow his family’s paw prints by being a trader

He loses money faster then a sieve losing water

He tries so so hard

He fails even harder

Does eventually meet Ril and they become quite good friends ironically (wolf and cat)

Ingun doesn’t like Keleith because he’s always in some sort of scheme that will eventually fail

Scared of his own shadow tbh

A literal scaredy cat

12. Old man Tyr

Oldest oc

Retired Dragonborn of his au

Last person alive from when he started in all factions

Lives in a small Dwemer ruin in the reach he piltched and made over

Keeps a pet dwarven centurion he tried repairing to fight for him called Dave (kinda just walks around, only sort of recognises audible sounds)

Always says he’s “at his last war dog” as he always said 13 war dogs and he would die since he was young

His 13th war dog Lecky is now old too but stays by Tyr’s side

Half expects Alduin to meet him at his death

Would like to go to sovanguard but as an imperial he is unsure he will (he does though, as even if he wasn’t born nord he was a nord hero at heart)

#skyrim #skyrim oc #elder scrolls #the elder scrolls v #the companions #dark brotherhood #thieves guild #ryk in his social media throne #ryk will come down

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Thoughts on Imin & Iminyë, Tata & Tatië and Enel & Enelyë?

Mhm that question is a bit unexpected but I don't let an opportunity to talk about some probably very unknown characters go to waste. Also sorry that it took me so long to answer.

First of all I kind of have a thing for fixating on minor characters with barely any background information or anything about them because they are pretty flexible in how they can be fleshed out. Those six are like the perfect example for this. All we know about them is that Imin, Tata and Enel were the first elves to awaken at Cuivienen and that Iminyē, Tatië and Enelyë were their wives. Their names mean First, Second and Third and their Tribes (Minyar, Tatyar and Nelyar) were named after them. We have a little bit more knowledge about Imin because it is mentioned somewhere (I'm not sure where because I don't own any copies of the HoME because they're super expensive where I live) that he was pretty arrogant and proud.

And that's basically it. We don't know whether they sailed or if they remained, if they died or lived or whatever. It's all open and I love that. A blank canvas for me as a fanfiction writer (even though I don't write very regularly) to work with.

There are so many interpretations one could go with. I have seen some nice ones, like each couple being the parents to one of the high kings (and siblings of course) or I have read a fic that made it clear that Ingwë was actually Imin. I have seen different and unique takes that were fantastic in their own rights.

Now my personal thoughts are basically my own Headcanons regarding their personalities, families and fates. I'll have them under the cut because the post would get too long otherwise, also because I don't know if you'd be interested in Headcanons...

Imin & Iminyē

I like to keep Imin's arrogant character traits because it gives him personality and a bit of a motive already. He is kind of a dick towards everyone who is not part of his people but those thirteen aside from him who are Minyar? Helicopter tribe leader through and through. He loves them to death and will do anything to protect him from harm. There are so few of them and he knows that if anyone dies there is not much hope for his people surviving.

Iminyē is the one who organises their people's daily lives because she has a very good eye for logistics, if she had ever made it to Valinor one would've maybe even considered her a Noldor, because of her way to approach things from a very logical perspective.

The only reason Ingwë becomes leader of the Minyar is because Imin realises that he is not very capable of leading his people into the West after Oromë shows up. He considers Ingwë the one to most likely succeed in that task and be a just and good king. Iminyē's disappearance a few years prior might have had an impact on his decision. He goes West but slowly fades away on their journey.

Tata & Tatië

The only ones who actually survived the first age because of good decision making. Probably the only ones who awoke with braincells as well (I promise I'm not biased or anything).

Tata steps back as leader of the Tatyar as soon as it becomes clear that Finwë is the best man for the job. He still assist him with the management of their tribe but at heart he is a warrior, the warrior of the three elf fathers so to speak. He is the first one to discover that a well aimed stone can do serious harm and also the first one to tie a ponty rock on a stick and make a spear. That's his accomplishment and he's very proud of it. Also probably the only one in Beleriand who'd be able to beat Fingolfin in a sparring match if he wanted to but he doesn't because he isn't really that fond of the Noldor or rather what has become of them.

Tatië on the other hand is a very motherly person, not just towards members of her own tribe but to others as well. She basically adopts everyone she comes across instantly. Therefore the number of their children varies from the three they have biologically to up to maybe sixty on an emotional level? Finwë is definitely one of them. She is also very good with plants and animals.

I have not yet decided if they die in later ages, if they sail or what their role would be. Idk I have to figure that out.

Enel & Enelyë

They're both formidable leaders and take their task very seriously not because their People are so few like it is with Imin and Iminyē but because there is so many of them that it would be hard to keep track of them if they didn't take everything seriously.

Enel is quiet, like really quiet. He doesn't like talking that much but his actions speak more than words ever could. While Tata is the warrior of the early elves, Enel is the healer. He knows what he's doing immediately, out of pure instinct. He's good with children too. His people aren't bothered by the lack of words.

Enelyë is the first 'greatest Singer of the Eldar'. She has a crystal clear voice and probably discovered some sort of proto version for a song of power. She uses her abilities to keep the fear away from her people's hearts and to deliver some sense of security. Also a very motherly person.

Now these two are the only one's who really die. Iminyē was lost, probably in some dungeon of the enemy, Imin faded over the loss of his beloved wife but Enel and Enelyë? They died protecting a small group of their tribe that was out looking for berries and other eatable food from a group of Melkor's servants. The only survivor of this group was their only child Elmo, later taken in by Elwë and Olwë as an adoptive brother. Elwë is voted by their people to become the next leader.

That's basically it! It's just like a breakdown. I have some more detailed information about them but that would've been too much for now.

#actuallymiriel #tata #tatie #imin #iminye #enel #enelye #tolkien #silmarillion #elves #tolkien elves #cuivienen #my shitty headcanons #i wanna talk about more characters so bad #sharing headcanons is like my favourite thing

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My Dungeons and Dragons campaign is turning one year old today, 8 of September. I made a thread on twitter explaining bits and pieces of it, and figured out I could also show it here- Since well, it’s been such a huge thing for me! We're now in the 48th session and it's still going strong- In fact, they finished the first of three acts a week ago.

In order, the first picture is the map -and the second one is the logo-. They have been part of the campaign’s identity! Then, just below, there’s the 3 player characters and the patron, who’s served as a NPC:

First one is Hákarl, a dwarf-goliath artificer Second one is Glar, a human Astral Self monk  Third one is Laestis, a kalashtar rogue/hexblade warlock And last guy is her watcher patron, Vest!

They first started in an inn called the Nest, run by the Aarakocra lady and her adopted kenku grandkid, Kavla. There, they also met the first NPC that would kinda bring them in to big time chaos: Dalshen.

He was a knight in training of the Dharka, who found out something suspicious nearby the inn, and needed some help with it. From there, they followed the tracks until they landed in an old ruined city, and found a temple to the Five Ghardan gods (since it was before Uragan, the fifth god, was murdered), and a cult that was following said dead god, led by Novra.

They kicked her ass, and she was put in trial, but she died after something strange destroyed her from within. It’d be the start of a long investigation to find out what caused her death. It’d lead the players to travel to Jalia, in an old temple she lead before her assumed death.

Here’s few maps from the corrupted temple: It was attacked by some extremists of The Chain (a faction that is against the caste system of Gharda) with crystal grenades, and closed down, as they’re known to cause crystal corruption. There, they fought Nilodus, the first watcher they actually met: an undead crystal creature, result of said corruption. They had the first rough boss fight and then left, after a NPC that travelled with them (Kandris) got infected by the crystal corruption. 

Outside they saw some fight ongoing between The Chain and some of the Ghardan templars. They met Iratha, their leader, -and threw her a crystal grenade to her- and were aided by The Chain, which was for the most part against the use of violence. Then, they realized these grenades had been smuggled in by someone who wanted to stir chaos between Gharda and The Chain (and Remyra), in hopes to stir a war.

Said person was Uth’gaeel (the fancy drow warlock from up there). They followed him to an underground workshop, where they found out the crystal grenades are made out of crystallized people. They fought their second watcher down there, and followed Uth’gaeel to a crystallized tower (that last gif). They managed to down him relatively easily, but then, he promptly turned into a watcher himself.

And boy, that was a hard fight! They managed to beat him, but ended up realizing this whole conflict had way more to it than they expected. Watchers have been roaming around for over a thousand years, and they have been pulling the strings to make Gharda and Remyra get into another civil war since forever. Still, they had some free time to, uh...

Have a well deserved beach episode. Nothing important here. Nope, not at all. Other than meeting a friendly watcher running a mobile library and finding an old shrine to the five gods, with a strange warforged that may have been a god in disguise. But, anyways! After that break...

They travelled together with The Chain to their base, the fallen dwarven city of Dhum Urnam. They met a plethora of NPCs there and had some time to meet them, and recover Hákarl’s lab, as he was born in this city before it was attacked. But a few strange happenings made them realize there was something weird ongoing in this city. And when I say weird, I mean “there’s something making fake copies of people and fleshy lumps all around”.

They travelled to the inner part of the city, where they had to fight copies of themselves. They found these were controlled by the four big baddies- And realized there’s some big watchers behind all of this. 

After defeating them, down they went, and found out what was creating all these copies: a fleshy watcher heart down there, beating and full of eyes. They kicked it’s ass, and it seemed like Dhum Urnam was finally free of danger! Or not, because they can’t catch a rest-

After fighting a statue possesed by a watcher, they found out one of the NPCs - Myca- was a victim to the crystal corruption. They decided they wanted to try and heal her up, by going to her mindscape and cutting the corruption in it. That didn’t work out well. They found out they had been cornered by one of the big watchers -Solaralith-, who is inmensely more powerful within a mind than she is physically. That last gif is the battlemap of the fight, and she was pretty much as big as the whole thing. They were entangled in a battle they couldn’t win, until Vest helped them out... By killing Myca outside of the mindscape, thus severing their connection with Solaralith.

With no time to recover, they were told Iratha (yeah, that Iratha from ages ago) was planning to siege the city. After some quick preparations, the day arrived, and they advanced through the territory to find her out and finish her, to ruin her plan.

They first defended a point with cannons from attacking dragons, used by the Ghardan troops...

Then travelled to an old ruined temple in the middle of a big lake. There, they fought her dragon, Jimmathael, and Iratha herself.

A rather straightforward fight against a golden dragon and a paladin, which seemed like it was coming to an end. But then, the final boss of the act made an appareance. Iratha, who had been crystal corrupted ever since they threw a crystal grenade to her, severed her own’s dragon head and took it’s place, in a gruesome transformation that led to Amalgam:

This terrible creature gave them hell, as it transformed the battlefield and summoned five flowers to assist it. These flowers gave her few buffs and made her resistant, and each of them symbolized one of the five big watchers... Who seemingly, seek to replace the Ghardan gods.

But they managed to conquer it! With it, came the end of the first act. 

It’s been a big big ride. I didn’t expect my first campaign to work out for so long, and after almost 200 hours of playing, I have to say I’m just incredibly proud of all the work I’ve done for it. It’s a long post, but I hope you enjoyed the read if you made it down here!

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #ttrpg #tabletop rpg #dungeon master #gharmyra #dwarf #monk #kalashtar #artificer #rogue #warlock #monster #eldritch #sygdomthings #366hell #hakarl #glar #laestis