#also we got zombies

[achromant]

hello, I just followed for your orctober stuff and scrolled through some of your blog and wanted to ask, what is guild wars 2?

OOOH BOY HERE I GO! ahem.

Guild Wars 2 is a high fantasy MMO, similar to maybe Final Fantasy Online. Guid Wars as a series is about as old as World of Warcraft, but has a much smaller fanbase; mostly because the company behind it, ArenaNet, seems to be allergic to advertisements (it's gotten better since the last two expansions).

These days, the core game is free, with only the expansions costing money. Well, some expansions, as they just throw in older expacs for free now. Even if you start with a free account, you can technically buy an upgrade by just... using ingame currency, which is a WILD concept to me.

Most notable features of the game are probably the character customization, free dyeing of armor, and a few thousand unique armor and weapon skins. Players often joke that the true endgame of GW2 is fashion (and they are RIGHT goddamnit). All five playable races are so ridiculously detailed in lore and design, it's incredible. Sylvari for example are not plain elves, they are full on plant constructs that grow from fruits on the mother tree. Asura are not just gnomes/goblins, they are a highly educated society of geniuses that would openly strive for world domination if it werent for their inherent bureaucratic tendencies.

The mounts in GW2 are among the best you will find anywhere, so much that World of Warcraft just copied some for their Dragonflight expansion.

Guild Wars 2 has a medium sized active player base, smaller than WoW or FFXIV, but they are an amazing community. We have veteran players, including me, who routinely patrol the starter maps to offer advice and maybe some healing to newbies (supported by the ingame mentor system). You might receive random mail from players gifting some cake. There's festivals, community parties, role playing, fashion contests, races and minigames.

If you are a seasoned MMO player, GW2 offers raids and the smaller strike system, which is being constantly expanded. Extreme MMO experts might find the game a bit flat, but that's only superficial. For beginners, I'd say the story is beatifully written. You can explore the open world, meeting players along the way (every map holds around 50-80 player at a time). You can choose any class and complete any content, including endgame. Any class, any race, (almost) any playstyle is viable, and nothing about your build is permanent, you can adjust your whole build on the fly.

Aside from the obvious MMO parts, GW2 also has structured PvP (5 vs 5 players) and the so called World vs World, which is a large scale week-long epic battle of three teams of around 50 players on each side (which btw is not as draining on the CPU as you'd think)

If you plan on giving it a try, I'd be more than happy to give you a more detailed overview of the game. This little chaotic hellhole of an MMO is very dear to my heart <3

This is by the way for ANYONE reading this: If any of you want to try the game, hit me up. DM me here on tumblr, or on discord (@ achromant). Even if you already play the game and are still new or just lost - ask me anything you want. I have close to 18k ingame hours.

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #ask achro #also i LOVE meeting new people ingame! #we even got furries #and elves #and gnomes #and ogres #and undead sassy lich overlords #and that one psycho pumpkin king dude #pumpkin dude and lich dude are husbands according to the fandom #also we got zombies #and plant zombies and crystal zombies and ice zombies #and dragons who are responsible for most of the zombie population to be honest #you can fight the personification of death #or kill a god

[tricoufamily]

visiting the hometown

(want everyone to know this edit came to me in a dream and i changed the lore just to do it)

#in the dream i was like editing it but i was also there? it was weird. it started as a dream about lawson in a zombie apocalypse #ok important tags first so i can write an essay #ts4 #ts4 render #ts4 edit #the sims 4 #beckett #lawson #blood sports #but yeah if you haven't been here before beckett and lawson never knew each other as kids #if they did it would be a butterfly effect and mess w a bunch of other plot details. so i decided to work around it #also if ur new they've had a friends with benefits thing going on for a long time but lawson is in love with him. beck doesn't know #originally beckett was put in foster care as a baby bc of neglect and was bounced around foster homes for years #he was a troubled child always getting in fights a kleptomaniac undiagnosed autism etc etc foster families tried and just didn't want him #then when he was around 12 a very nice old lady named cora got him and they ended up forming a great bond they loved each other #she was going to adopt him then when beckett was around 15 or 16 his birth mother reentered the picture and wanted him back #it started a really nasty legal battle and cora died. we can't say for sure it was the stress of this fight but beckett certainly thinks so #anyway he did go back with his birth mother and things got really bad for him. he dropped out of school started doing worse crimes and so o #but none of that is what even changed #now LAWSON is also from west virigina like beckett. it's a small town lawson was new he had no friends #he was a very clingy possessive child who cried and threw tantrums so much #he met beckett and the rest is history. beckett didn't really mind how lawson acted he didn't really find him annoying like everyone elsedi #besides he didn't have friends either #lawson has wealthy parents they were welcoming to beckett at first if a little apprehensive. then he stole something from their house #and lawson wasn't allowed to hang out with him anymore. but he still did in secret. they still have no idea that beckett's even still aroun #or just how involved lawson is with him and his. activities 😬 they just think he's their good little college boy #in the original beckett moved to Not Gotham City when his mother got him back but in this version lawson is going to college there #and beckett's been distant from him for a while things are awful for him and lawson says hey. what if you gave the city a try. and he did #so really you could say the events of blood sports are all lawson's fault the end

[cocoaletta]

jpeg shitty res go brrrrrr

#fable 2 #fable #fable lady grey #fable 2 lady grey #omg when she’s a zombie #when she’s not a witch but she was the victim of a witch hunt so the hunters have made a witch of her #i told my boyfriend about how she murdered her sister and he was like ‘did her sister deserve it’ #‘no but i support women’s wrongs’ #also i kinda wish we got more of her not just as a passive love interest #anyways time to go work on commission

[thychesters]

ohhhhh hogback's complete disrespect of cindry. she was kind to him in life and he is rancid to her in death. he remarked about her being kind but he could not extend the same courtesy to her whatsoever. she's respectful to him but he is not in turn -- he takes her engagement as a rejection, and then he digs up her grave and steals her body with a complete disregard to her loved ones but moreover herself! and that means nothing to him because at least he got what he wanted! she was not rude or cruel to him, just kind, and still in death she doesn't get any respect from him. even in death he digs her up and lays her on a slab and puts someone else in her body, someone who will be subservient, and "her personality had changed but all that mattered to me was that she was still beautiful."

#fuck offfff #oh goddddd and i thought sanji was pissing me off #never mind that we also got an ass shot of robin after zoro's shadow zombie blocked her attack #living for chopper fucking chewing hogback out though #because 'all you've done is take a corpse that can't stand up for itself and make another person miserable' #complete disregard for life and what it means! #i hope cindry kills him with a plate #kate watches op #thriller bark

[uselessgaywhovian]

the problem with playing D&D is you have ships 'n' blorbos that only 4 other people know about

#still thinkin' about that motherfucker Cormac from the Thieves Guild #and how he lives rent free in Ariadne's brain #and therefore my brain #and how i have to deal with the fact that she wouldn't think about #that as much as she's plagued with conflicting feelings about this motherfucker #i honestly don't think that there's much reason that she would've made as much of an impact on him as he has on her #and it's driving me insane #like he got under her skin instantly because the first time they met she had just used her inspiration point only to roll two nat 1s #trying to get a crowd to disperse before things got rough #and this motherfucker sweeps in and does what she couldn't while also kind of shitting on the temple #which she couldn't even really argue because he wasn't really wrong but also this is the thing that makes up her identity #and she was fuckin' pissed #i mean we did also get sent to make a deal with him to keep the city chill while rise of the zombies was dealt with in the high district #so she #the temple's Brand Newest Paladin in full fuckin' armor gets sent into the den of the Thieves Guild #to talk with the guy who's been pretty openly (and frankly fairly) dunking on said temple #and we come out of it having to do a favor for him to get his help #and as much as she'd love to cover it with 'well we're really doing it because the prince wants us to and it's for the good of the city' #the fact that at the end of the day they were doing something on this motherfucker's orders was such a bur under her saddle #i think he got the party drinks while we were talking with him but ariadne didn't touch hers #because A) she's pretty sure someone would've spit in it and B) fuck u cormac fuck ur hospitality and fuck u #ANYWAY #all this happened over a year ago irl (not sure how long in-game) and YET #there's also the problem that our sessions have been shorter and more sporadic #which gives me more time between sessions to obsess over stupid shit #like a NPC who we haven't seen in a fuckin' year

[perenlop]

AWWWWWWW ogerpon follows you around!!!!

#thats so fucking cute what the hell. my bestie #also i dont mean this in a ‘’wow… pokemon is NOT for children anymore’’ way but im surprised how often death is referenced now? #like it always was obviously but im used to there being a level of sanitation with the franchise #maybe its bc i powered through the anime and it tries not to mention it where it can #but yeah in the dlc we have the lake that lets you see ghosts and the loyal three are kinda like zombies and stuff #ntm turo and sada in the main series #ogerpon is a murderer and i love her for it #also there were glimmets at that lake… hmmmm #more credit to eves theory that theyve got a carbink/diancie thing going with terapagos #but im getting ahead of myself #echoed voice

[ilovefredjones]

as much as i wish there was a zeddison someday duet in z3, the whole cast version is actually so cathartic. when everyone joins in for the chorus it’s just like... so here is a group of teenagers. they are choosing love in a world of hatred. they are choosing life, and hope, and compassion, and togetherness, and community. their someday hasn’t quite arrived yet but they are still dreaming of it. still daring to hope for a future where they can live and love peacefully. ‘someday, this could be ordinary. someday, could we be something extraordinary?’ ‘we’re gonna be someday.’ it’s a statement. and conclusion. a prologue. they are choosing to be the future —this intangible, elusive someday— they want. together, they are choosing the future. they are going to make someday happen, now. today.

#zombies #zombies 3 #disney zombies #call me a lit/lang student but someday is such an interesting song lyrically #‘we’re gonna be someday’ #like it could be interpreted as ‘we’re gonna be (comma) someday’ like dreaming of a future where they can be together #but take the comma out. and it becomes a song about choosing to be the change #like. obv i am a queer person & something that motives me to be open & authentic is that i could be helping someone else be more comfy in+ #their queerness. i am choosing to be that someday i dream of where i am open and happy and proud you know? #bree’s line also kills me like yeah she’s just a girl in love w a zombie too :( #like i said. and as milo also said (real) we should’ve got a purely zeddison rendition #but don’t be too mean to all cast version :) #zombies spoilers

[oifaaa]

I love how you wrote “crying” in the latest baby jason art, the y and g look like they have little fishes there hehe. Sorry this is so random,,,also I love your baby jason uwu

I need to stop drawing baby jason he's literally all I've been drawing for two days now I need to draw other things

#bellabethabelle #ask #hes so easy and fun to draw is the thing #also off topic #but i need to tell someone about this dream i had last night #set the scene #its a zombie apocalypse #and im driving down a road nead my house #when i come across dick and jason fighting #neither of them are zombies bc obviously jason is immune and dick is too busy to get infected #anyway i hop out of my car #pick up a bloodied crowbar from one of the dead dead zombies on the ground #and i start helping dick beat up jason #and then we arrest him #and i think i win an award for arresting him #music man is also there #he is also elton john #hes in the prison i put jason in #if dreams are really meant to tell you something i got no clue what any of this means

[ldworldblues]

despite the game only giving us surface knowledge of leander for the prologue i now believe i understand his character more deeply than anyone else (to be proven)

#touchstarved game #leander touchstarved #if you understood what i was trying to go for in this playlist let me kiss you #yes i think he's just as touchstarved™ as mc is and yes i may be leaning with the leander is a zombie/immortal theories #i also think he's got a dark obsessive vibe coming from him but idk we'll see when the game's out LMFAO #maybe i'll do my own brainrotted analysis of him soon from the crumbs of content we have atm #Spotify

[dummerjan]

today couldn't be more not-my-day i just want to scream and have a cry

#my laptop is breaking down #i just got my period and have had a headache since last evening #i have been awake since 5.15 despite only having to get up at 6.30 #and then my teacher called in sick and we have to do fashion illustration/technical fashion drawings at home #none of which i have ever done which is ok she knows that #but it still makes me want to cry because i am overwhelmed #and the really short term change of plans is not something i can handle well to begin with #and i have to go to school today anyway because of a ( likely exhausting/stressful) meeting with a counselor #nothing dramatic just too much at once before 9 am #i have been awake for 4 hours but i feel like a zombie #if only my laptop wasn't breaking down i need it for school today. #it's getting worse my the minute and it's taking for ever for icloud to upload files #i also overdid it socially lately #not my day whatsoever #could i at least not be on my period? #me being able to cry is thanks to only taking 1/4 of my usual anti-depressant dose #it's kinda nice #i dont want to cry but not being able to when the feelings are there is also frustrating #meins #okay enough venting #i am going to be a grown up now #or try to at least

[vvanessaives]

what if violante talked gale out of the whole ascension to godhood thing. and what if she died at the end of it all. and what if gale, crushed by the insurmountable grief, decided to use the crown. and what if he brought her back from the lands of deads. and what if violante is insanely angered with him for that but also fond of that feeling that brought him to defile the laws of nature. and what if she's forever bound to him now, and she hates him but she loves him and it's going to be eternal

#rena.txt #like it's no necromancy but it is. like it's the higher step. i mean he doesn't want a zombie he wants her back as she was it's not enough #he needs more power and he can't accept that she's leaving him behind. it's like a part of me died with you but we're also alive but we wil #never be the same #like violante has been s*icidal for her whole life i think. especially in the last years. before gettig snatched by mindflayers she was #ready to tear herself apart but death got whisked away from her hands again. and when it actually happens? and finally she can find the #rest she wanted oh so badly it gets taken away from her again for his selfishness. like. the layers bro..perhaps.......... #AND IMAGINE his resentment when he gets called 'selfish'. like. i did all of this for you and you call me selfish? the hatred the betrayal #the horror and the love. and in the end it doesn't matter he thinks. it will pass she will see reason. they have eternity for forgiveness. #idk if i'm making any sense today i have so many thoughts #AND LIKE. it's not real life anyway. she's a walking corpse. smth IS wrong with her. and this second life is nothing but pain. she doesn't #eat bc she doesn't need it and everything tastes rotten anyway and she's cold. perpetually cold and she can feel it and there's not even a #beating heart in her chest..THE HORRORS........... #the god won't let me die / i'm god matching couple shirt they could get....AKFJSLFJSFKSK

[new-haven-psych-ward]

Kamen Rider Geats episode 42 poorly summarized via memes with as little context as possible:

#kamen rider geats #kamen rider geats poorly summarized #kamen rider geats ep 42 #we got weird cults baybees #cross that one of your bingo cards! #imma be real these episodes are getting more and more chaotic and so are my recaps #also gotta love when the costume department pulls out the terrible wigs #no hate towards em but white wigs have never looked good #inevitably i will see the actor's hair peeking through #save me mr obama post is for daichi and kekera #honestly man what were you expecting #literally no one on team jyamato had your back and you were expecting the dude you've talked to maybe twice to help you #all that knowledge and he still can't read the writing on the walls smh #also buffa catching the sword was impressive #figured we'd do the zombie regen thing but im not complaining #neon i am so sorry honey that the plot won't let you be helpful #maybe you get to get your powers back soon and talk keiwa down with the power of friendship #the xbox bit is about our fav tanuki and how he's treating this world rewriting stuff #anyway see you suckers next week

[thewitchqueen281]

I know a lot of people liked the show but also a lot of people liked fallout 4 so idk if any of you mfs can be trusted

#fallout new vegas #i am SO pretentious about fallout and im happy to be #literally i hate how the ghoul looks so.much #MELT THAT MAN #I WANT THAT MAN GREEN AND YELLOW AND GRENREGINOUS #ghoul fuckers you people are barely even monster fuckers #thats not my ghoul!! #also the ghoul lore in the show dorectly contradicts the game lore #you dont start going feral you either are or your arent #its qlso literally a dorect reference to the VERY REAL horrors of atomic bombs #its why feral ghouls dint have clothes #they were so close their clothes got disinterested #also there arent more ghouls unless a bomb goes off #you only become a ghoul by being in proximity to a bomb #being a ghoul is also like were making light of it but #while not immortal thats just how some.people like #looked after the nukes in the real world dropped #we like to joke here but fallout is at the end of the day a very intense political satire #and to dull any of that down to basic zombie horror.... #idk it doesnt sit right with me?

[b0nelessdoodles]

dnd this last weekend was intense af!

shoutout to the paladin pulling a clutch move to juice up the goblin with god powers and giving him a power trip 2 seconds after he got brought back from death saving zone

#dungeons and dragons #dnd #dnd character #dnd goblin #dnd sorcerer #listen aoe damage is so important when you are going up against hordes of zombies #there were 6 waves and tic only had 4 fireballs man had to make that last one count #thank you rhami for being mvp as always #everyone did a fantastic job tho in this fight like omfg #the way i was breaking my teeth hoping that patience wasn't going to die out there holy shit #i fuckin love this whole party so bad i love you breakfast club #i also really wanna draw the moment not long after this of tic just #walking up to the edge of the little tower he was on and announcing to rhami that he was done being up there #before just full trust jumping off expecting him to catch him #their friendship is so important to me #tic can be in such a shit mood and rhami will be like “hey buddy its gonna be okay” and pick him up and everything is okay again #sorry rhami you got adopted by a gremlin #anyway this fight was sick af we are all awesome and so is the dm for being able to run that massive battle holy shit

[mars-ipan]

so funny when i make it back to my dorm on fridays and i’m like “god why am i tired…” girl you just roleplayed for 8 hours of course you’re tired

#marzi speaks #hi folks. fridays are my dnd days. one campaign goes from 12 to 5 and the other from 5 to 7-8 ish. Hough #‘mars why do you play that much dnd’ I NEED THE ESCAPISM. FOR MY HEALTH #also. going from my super fucking bulked out goblin spores druid #with 44 max hp (thank you dm for stealing 3 max hp from me today. cruel) and some crazy good spells #and a fucking RAT. ARMY. that the dm regularly tries to cull bc i gain more rats each session (they be fuckin) #into my silly little pathetic gayboy half elf warlock with 27 max hp. who finally got through an encounter without being downed today #(there was a raid on his villian organization by some heroes. he fought them with his nighttime face mask still on #(yes it was funny as hell. also we may be turning one of these heroes into a villian and i mayyyy just pursue him romantically) #oh pellet. i fucking love you girlie. you saw a horde of zombie goblins and just started fucking cackling. you made one of them YOUR zombie #oh cal. i fucking love you buddy. you dumb faggot. your closet is so glass you don’t even know it’s there

[gideonisms]

it's really irritating and difficult to live my life sometimes and for what? not striving to accomplish any huge goals here but the tiny ones, are also excruciating,

#why couldn't i have been born with a fixation that makes me incredible at math or computer science #then i could at least keep the money rolling in #who cares if you eat dinner at 1 am or struggle through basic decisions and interactions if you've got that cash money. #then you're just eccentric #there's like whole social & economic theories devoted to this i'm aware #but sometimes it's like. okay i understand that socially we have decided to do things earlier in the day not my fault for hating that #but i also would like to see the sun. i would like to visit coffee shops and take pleasant strolls and have friends in my area #and do little tasks and contribute in some way to my society #and i would like to do all of this without playing 5d chess to work around the whole way that i am #i have projects of my own you know! and then i'll do one social thing and just be like a zombie the rest of the day #i forgot to get a working microwave today. how do you forget to solve the same problem you've been having for a week and a half again #what? it's just empty space in there #sometimes it strikes you eating dinner at 1 am that maybe you are the messy bitch #self love through the other or something