Just a Spark
Tw: fire, some like hopelessness or despair? Nothing extreme in this one
No no no no no...
Supervillain’s eyes frantically looked around their office while they stood in the doorway. The state of the room was in one of total disarray, or it appeared more like a complete disaster struck it. Drawers were gaping and wide open, bits of glass from a vase littered the floor like sharp confetti, and decorations and photos were ruined on the floor.
They ran a hand nervously through their hair, “Fuck,” they cursed. They did not swear often, but this situation called for it. They quickly made their way over to their desk, careful of the surrounding debris. Supervillain dug through each drawer but everything of importance was gone.
Supervillain slammed the final drawer closed and looked up to their computer now. They cursed again, it had a huge spider-webbing crack across the entire screen. They tried to power it on, but to no avail. They had not been gone that long! Who has been here?
They just looked at the trashed room, all their hard work was toast, it was gone, they would never see it again. And they thought no one would be able to find their office! Was it one of their own who turned their workplace into the equivalent of a rage room? Supervillain was about to go and check the security footage to find the culprit when they heard a small flick..
They spun around and standing in their window they spotted their enemy. They grinned maliciously, holding a now lit lighter to a piece of paper. Supervillain’s eyes widened as they could not stop their final pieces of work being engulfed and eaten by the merciless orange flame. Their enemy held a cruel glint in their eye while watching the villain’s horrified reaction.
So many hours were lost to a single tiny spark.. What would they do now?
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I had the perfect idea for a starting area for the ARR walk!
We could start in a city, but I want to walk at least most of the zones in each, and wanted to start in La Noscea (Ending in Limsa) because we could then take the ferry to Vesper Bay and walk to the Shroud and on to Coerthas.
So, who better to gain a blessing from than the Wanderer himself?
We'll start at the lookout to the Wanderer's Palace by Camp Bronze Lake, on the symbol of Oschon. Then make our way up to Outer LN, through Nym, and back to the other side of Upper LN to head out towards Aleport.
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I don’t think this will burn it down u think maybe will make everyone a bit more cautious and unfortunately probably a little more reactionary but there is a possibility this maybe makes some changes for the better hopefully
unfortunately dream stan’s are like cockroaches nothing will ever truly kill it but god i can pray
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alright lets talk ttrpg goals for 2023! this post is about games im writing that i want to finish this year, ill make another one for games i want to play in 2023.
i have. so many half finished games. in fact i even have several games that are written!! they just need to be laid out and put out there. so heres the goals and the order for said goals
1- Record Collection 2K23, and the yet-unnamed game for it that ive been writing up over the past few weeks. part tarot-driven game, part... play? there’s stage directions in there in any case
its based off the four wind albums by the Oh Hellos, later on the two characters in the play only talk to eachother via lyrics from each album, moving through the seasons as they move through their story.
ofc i want to finish this one during the jam, which means by the end of january. very much pushing myself to just Get It Out There and not worry so much about it being exactly what i want, because i can always come back and update it later. its horribly (affectionate) self indulgent already so to b clear i am writing this game for Me, so the only person who needs to like it at any point is Me :3
2- There Is An Anger Inside Of You. ive been noodling at this game for over a year now, with the creation date on the word doc being may of 2021. its done!!! its finished, i swear to god, i just need to lay it out, and i already know how im going to do that i just need to *grabs myself by the shoulders* fucking do it
its a game about being angry when youre not able to express it, the struggle of keeping your anger under wraps being played out as a rather unfair game of chess. and i am going to get it out by the end of february.
3- The Lady, The Tiger, and The Accused, a hack of For The Queen based on the short story The Lady or The Tiger. its another one that is currently completely written out, but rather than laying it out and getting it out there my goal with this one is to get it formatted for playtesting. its a three player game, players taking on the role of either The Lady, The Tiger, or The Accused, and answering the prompts as such. i really love it, but it needs to be played by people and revised before ill feel comfortable declaring it finished.
also, i want to actually crowdfund and print this one, with art and editing and maybe some pretty extras and such. so my goal is to start playtesting it by my birthday, the 17th of march. after that... im not sure! crowdfunding it by the end of the year would be wild i think, since, in true For The Queen style, id love to get a gaggle of artists to draw Princess cards for it, and that takes time! so the goal is more to have it ready for crowdfunding by the end of this year, and if that happens sooner then thats cool and good!
4- Someones Simple Book of Spells Volume One: Paper. This one is also FULLY WRITTEN *sounds of agony in the distance* i just need to LAY IT OUT
and honestly since i already know how i want to lay it out lets put this one for the end of april. yes this is pretty much a game a month for the next bit but theyre all SO CLOSEEEE to being done anyways its just that final push, i could accomplish most of these goals in a weekend if i just did it so. im going to!! do it!!!
5- ok finally, one thats actually not almost finished, its The Center of the Known Universe. a small anthology of games originally started for the weird west jam but never finished.
its got some of my favorite concepts ive ever thought of though, a game about aliens freezing time in a small western town and LARPing as cowboys, two wild west wizards battling it out at high noon, a game about supernatural cowboys falling in love while experiencing all the seasons of the desert, and more. its a love letter to the small desert town i currently live in, and i want to see it come into being. im going to give myself the summer for this, lets say the goal is to have the full first draft written by september. i also would love for this one to go into print, so a secondary goal is to have it ready to crowdfund in time for ZineMonth 2024, so february of next year.
i think thats probably all the projects i can set goals for this year, october-december is always very busy for me so im not gonna set anything besides the two i want to get ready for crowdfunding in 2024, though i do have several other half written games lying about (looks nervously at my over-4000 word “ttrpg ideas” doc).
maybe ill get into the swing of actually finishing games and get to them as well! but if not thats just fine :3
you can always find all my games over on the Grey Jay Games itch.io page, and i may make a sideblog just for GJG, but for the moment all game news and stuff from me will be right here @resident-corvid
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