#interdimensional rift

[autumnslance]

Been thinking about this Stormblood exchange from the Omega quests a lot lately. AI and automation isn't new, just some tools and what they can do are new to the public. But still. The idea of a machine that can't tell fact from fiction, and so its output consists of inaccurate facsimiles, is itself not a new idea.

Transcript, bolded emphasis is mine:

NERO Halicarnassus, you say? The Queen of Dimension Castle?

CID What's this? You know of her?

NERO You mean you don't? Well, I suppose a blue-blooded brat such as you would have no interest in humble folktales. It appears a lesson is in order. Halicarnassus is a character from an ancient fable. In the tale, she is one of the chief antagonists, and as such things are wont to unfold, she meets her end at the hands of the heroes─incurably valiant youths not unlike our adventurer friend here. Literary historians have speculated that the tale could be loosely based on events which took place in the Fourth Astral Era, but little remains of that age, and there is no way to verify the claim. Indeed, most now assume the story to be a work of pure fiction.

CID …You mean to tell me that Omega is populating its grand experiment with fictional characters?

MIDGARDSORMR 'Twould seem your understanding is yet lacking. Scant grasp have I of that which men know and know not… Mark me, then. Omega hath no soul. No mind's eye in which to envision a rival. To bring forth new life, it must needs draw upon that which hath already been─its every creation being another's conception. This limitation is concealed by the breadth of its experience. It possesseth the means to retain the knowledge of entire eras─and not only of this reflection. Yet it perceiveth not this knowledge as we do. Fact…fiction…the distinction holdeth no meaning for Omega. All is equal in its eyes. If a thing is logical, it can be created.

NERO Hahaha! That such a wondrous weapon should exist! It surpasses my wildest imaginings, and they were wild indeed! But I gather not everyone shares my excitement. What's the matter, Garlond? Lost your nerve?

CID Quiet, Nero. We adults are thinking.

#Final Fantasy XIV #Stormbloood #Interdimensional Rift #Omega #Garlond Ironworks #Cid Garlond #Nero Scaeva #Midgardsormr #Deltascape #Halicarnassus

[dragonsong-tales]

Interdimensional Rift

#FFXIV #ffxiv hyur #ffxiv au ra #ffxiv wol #cirine #omega #Interdimensional Rift

[toruq]

i like to believe that the more anne opened portals the more pandoric anomalies came to be in jorvik. like. a giant glowing pink mushroom appeared in her bedroom one day and she threw a blanket over it before she went to school, skipped all her classes, and spent the day in the library frantically trying to find a solution to rid of it. linda probably walked in at some point and gave a polite wave and came back three hours later to see her still there sweating over a pile of books and was like okay what the freak. of course anne would never tell anyone and at some point she found a healing spell and used it whenever more anomalies popped up. she was quite successful in keeping her secret of escaping to pandoria

#sso #ssoblr #i got this idea after doing the new everygray rep #its so interesting to me #i am liking to think that that quest where we had to close rifts in silverglade... #it must have been a rep #with that vacuum thing #that was forever ago #but i like to think that she caused those rifts too #it started with a mushroom and became interdimensional cracks between realities lol

[cassynite]

Sparrow Happy AU please? I'm so simple ;3

Aaaah thank you so much Arrow!! Sparrow Happy AU is so fun <3

This story details an adventure in Mendev featuring Passerene Cygnarus, a young woman who used to be called Sparrow in her youth and who was never captured by slavers. She grew up with her brother Isore in Dehrukani, before Isore finally started his years-long ambition of carving footholds in positions of power to help steer the general cultural and sociopolitical atmosphere of Avistan as a whole. Big plans, and Rene is mildly wary of the fact that her brother has major Evil Guy vibes, but he's her brother and she owes him for the years he sacrificed raising her, so she plays assistant.

Their latest project is to help rebuild a "fuck you mansion" for one Count Daeran Arendae, after his home was destroyed in the demon attack on Kenabres. He was briefly conscripted to the Crusade, before the newly minted knight commander booted him out, so now he's lavishing in Kenabres employing architects to build him a new home.

The story mainly follows Rene following a long an adapted version of Daeran's companion quest, where she figures out he's got a head full of ghosts, befriends him (and maybe more) and saves him anyway <3

See a snippet below the cut!

"And after?" The count gives an elegant shrug. "It was good fun while it lasted, but camping in the cold rain in the armpit of the Worldwound? I can spend my time better in a privy." Rene had done her research on the count long before they accepted the commission, and knows that he's not quite telling the truth. He had been in Kenabres during the demon attack that had incited the current Crusade, though whether he actually helped or not isn't verified. What is verified is that his honorable cousin, Queen Galfrey of Mendev, appointed him to the Crusade as an attache to the newly minted Knight Commander, possibly in response to the alleged heroic actions he took in Kenabres. It didn't matter either way why she did it, because the brand new leader of her armies took one look at Count Arendae and informed him his services were not welcome. Rene winces just thinking about it, the slight and all it implied. Though looking at him now, she understands why a military commander decided against dragging him on a campaign to retake the lost city of Drezen. The young noble hardly seems like the kind of man who would stand mud up his trousers or sleeping on hard ground for weeks at a time. The embarrassment of the rejection might not sting so much when the kind of job he was turned down for was trying to fend off the encroaching demon scourge. But it might also be why he's building this fuck-you mansion to begin with--it would be a way to distract from the recent shame by pointing attention to some new outrageous thing, and also make it clear that the social stumble was not something that bothers Count Arendae one bit.

And a second one, mainly because i like this one a lot but it feels too short to put on its own:

"That was the most haunted man I've ever met in my life." Isore gives her a placid stare. "I found him rather irreverent, personally." Rene snorts. "Come off it, you know what I meant. That man's got a ghost, or a curse, or both. You could feel its fingers on your neck." "And it likely will not kill him until after we are finished building his ridiculous house. Let it go, Passerene. He is not our concern." Isore always had the final say on such things, but then he usually is the one who points them out. "Isn't it strange though? Aren't you the least bit curious?"

#cassy answers #arrow90-art #oc: sparrow #daeran arendae #oc: isore #cassy writes #cassy wips #pwotr pals #also featuring rene creating an interdimensional rift and meeting kc sparrow! but that's a minor plot point

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

Last night I had a weird ass dream where my sister woke me up to give me the longest hug, saying "you did it, we did it" over and over again, leaving me utterly befuddled, until I turned on the tv and saw both Katie McGrath and Melissa Benoist had come out in televised interviews saying that they played Supercorp as a ship and that they were endgame. Kinda like how Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor did after XWP finished airing. And it cut to footage after footage of people reacting and celebrating a la Korrasami after the LOK finale.

It was very emotional. Lots of shared tears. Very much a global coming-together kind of feel.

#like... why would my brain use my sister to give me a supercorp endgame dream?? #it was a nice hug tho #very warm #very much my sister #also keep in mind that we were sleeping and then awake in a sort of post-apocalyptic interdimensional rift #totally normal #as dreams do

[sirensongsea]

C:\Users\OMEGA\Programs >Run “ADORATION.exe”

#ff14 #ffxiv #gpose #atlas tau #midlander hyur #omicron #omega-m #omega-f #omega #the interdimensional rift

[katkalis-the-fanartist]

Some Hyrule Warriors interdimensional malarkey leads to an instance where these two end up collaborating to resurrect some form of Demon King. And why?

Eh, just so I can draw my two favorites together in some way and have an opening to doodle ideas and concepts I've thought of for fun. A way that hopefully makes a little sense.

#the thing is like #yuga is some form of ganon from another world and ghirahim can tell cause of his supernatural connection to demises spirit #yet theres still a ganon somewhere they can probably revive or something thanks to interdimensional rifts #ghirahim wants his true master back or at least wants a demon king to rule once more #meanwhile yuga is planning to steal their power and/or bargain for a portion of it if they succeed #im one of those people that pretends hyrule warriors is canon btw especially since the games are left to interpretation #all for fun! #the legend of zelda #hyrule warriors #albw yuga #ghirahim #my art #fan art #au of some sort i guess it can be called

[kyndaris]

A Lesson in Radio Waves

I first played Night School Studio's Oxenfree after hearing good things about the title. Many of the reviews I read spoke of the excellent writing and praised how the dialogue easily flowed between characters in an almost realistic manner. Years later, I played Afterparty, which was another game from the studio. Set in Hell, the two protagonists would challenge Satan in a drinking contest to earn the privilege of returning to the World of the Living. It was an interesting conceit and I was eager to see what Night School Studio would make next.

Imagine my surprise when they were then acquired by Netflix to make exclusive games for the streaming giant!

Thankfully, though, Oxenfree II: Lost Signals was released on multiple platforms and could be purchased on Steam. But while it is true I do have a Netflix subscription and could have played the game on the platform, it's been a pain to figure out how to access their library of games as they are not readily available on the Desktop app version. In fact, it's why I've yet to play the sequel to Valiant Hearts. Given how laden down with games I've been, though, it's been a right struggle.

Anyways, Oxenfree II: Lost Signals acts as a sequel to the original game. Instead of following Alex and her friends around King Edward though, the main protagonist this time round is a woman called Riley. Five years after the events of the first game, Riley has returned to her hometown of Camena Coast. Although she is here to purportedly help in the study of radio anomalies around the town, depending on one's choice of dialogue options you soon learn she has a fraught relationship with her ill father. Later, if you so choose, you can reveal to Jacob, Riley's companion throughout the game, that she's pregnant. Possibly another factor for why she came back to her hometown.

As you explore Camena Coast, Riley and Jacob soon stumble upon a strange phenomenon. When they see an interdimensional portal open up in the sky above King Edward Island, they are also gifted a vision of three teenagers (Olivia, Charlie and Violet) trying to communicate with the dead. Riley and Jacob, fearing what the portal might bring, set about triangulating radio signals from multiple transmitters to close it for good.

Over the course of the night, Riley and Jacob experience strange supernatural events, confront the posse of teenagers dabbling with powers they know not, and grapple with the return of World War II era ghosts. But what came as a real surprise for me was the reveal that Alex, the protagonist of the first game, was also reaching through the void in order to break herself and her friends out of the time loop they found themselves in five years ago.

It all culminates in one last confrontation at King Edward Island where one person must sacrifice themselves to close the interdimensional rift for good. In my playthrough, that choice was easy. I picked Olivia.

One might wonder why I would pick a young teenager over an expectant mother or Jacob but since the death of her parents, Olivia hasn't had much to live for. But by choosing to stay behind, she is able to be a version of the parents she lost, which was her entire goal from the very beginning.

Oxenfree II doesn't have much in way of complicated gameplay. It essentially has the player click, or use the directional keys, to move Riley around a static screen. While there are the occasional objects Riley can interact with, it's actually the dialogue that serves as the basis for the game (and the tuning of a radio). Whether that was fleshing out the lore behind the island and its cult, or the characters.

What I liked most were the visions where Riley was visited by her future son, Rex. Through these interactions, we were able to see the parallels between their relationship and the one Riley shared with her father. And I, always keen to know more about the people around me, or the fictional characters I play around with, can fill in the gaps and feed my own headcanon for how things shake out.

There are only a few things though that I wish could have been answered such as the identity of Rex's father and if Michael, who I brought back in the first game, would be considered a canon event at all.

But while I liked the story for what it was, I felt like the decisions I had to make didn't make much impact to the direction the story could have taken barring a few side conversations with people over the radio. This meant that no matter what I chose, the ending would always be predetermined with a few select differences based on the person I chose to close the rift.

Given this was the last game I played in 2023, I was hoping for something with a bit more oomph. Unfortunately, Oxenfree II was a slowburn fizzle. The mystery too, with the floating bodies and distorted voices, added a bit of variety, did keep me invested in the story but didn't give me any unsettling vibes like games such as the Little Nightmares series or Limbo. Then again this may have been because of my already high expectations for the story, which was let down by the fairly rote story I was given.

On a completely unrelated note, by the time this post goes up, I should be overseas with bleachpanda. The two of us are probably somewhere in South Korea, fumbling our way through the language to visit iconic sites around the country. So, if you see two Asian-Australians either lounging in a cafe or struggling to have ourselves understood, come and say 'hi.' I know bleachpanda will probably wonder how I might have written a whole blog post while she wasn't looking but as I've told them countless times, I have these scheduled and the actual moment I've written these posts is sometime in the not too distant past.

Of course, given I've gone overseas, that does mean there WILL be travel posts coming to the blog soon!

While bleachpanda has made it VERY clear they don't like my idea of ugly candid photos, I'll strive to take some nonetheless. My humour, as always, is stuck somewhere between that of a 6-year-old and dark dry wit.

Doubtless, I won't be able to UPLOAD any of the photos of @bleachpanda to my blog but I'll most assuredly be using them to torment my erstwhile travelling companion as we traipse around Asia.

#video games #oxenfree II: lost signals #riley #jacob #rex #radiowaves #interdimensional rifts

[tendebill]

[oc]

i made a bunch of random oc doodles recently (and i wanna make more), so i will be spamming your dashes with my sillies for a couple of days ^^

uploading both versions, cuz the polish one is funnier, but no one will understand it so i decided to add the english one too :3

#tendebill art #tendebill ocs #doodles #oc #original character #ellie and seph my belovedsts #seph cant catch a break at all #but sometimes i also rememeber that ellie doesnt have it easy either #memory issues caused by the magic she has #said magic destroying her body and mind #said magic being the reason why she makes interdimensional rifts appear everywhere she goes #the pressure of being at the center of all of this #bestie cant catch a break #but i stand by the fact that seph is way more tortured by the narrative

[crystalmannequin]

(hey everyone i figured out what WoL looks like under all the pretty glamour)

#𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 ? (ooc) #crack tag (tbn) #(CRYSTELLES ARE FOUND IN THE INTERDIMENSIONAL RIFT ALONGSIDE SHINRYU) #(MANIKINS ARE MADE OF CRYSTAL ORE ONRAC RETRIEVED FROM THE RIFT. WHERE SHINRYU ALSO IS) #(cosmos chaos and wol are all just crystal goo people confirmed)

[autumnslance]

Shameful how this plot-important Mark XIV Thermocoil Boilmaster still isn’t a housing item in game.

#Final Fantasy XIV #Omega #Interdimensional Rift #Garlond Ironworks #Thermocoil Boilmaster #Stormblood #Iyna Cauld

[tetranymous]

I can't get over how it took me like halfway through the new Kirby game to realise that the energy drink item was not in fact a bottle of soy sauce

IN MY DEFENCE

#kirby #tetranynous.txt #look i just assumed it was a weird localisation thing and didnt question it #and i have LITERALLY never seen an energy drink outside of a can #yeah kirby went through an interdimensional rift and can absorb the abilities of enemies and can control a car with his mouth #of course an entire soy sauce bottle is a healing item

[legionofmyth]

Rifts Dimension Book #02: Phase World - Faster-than-Light Space Travel

🚀 Explore Rifts at warp speed! ⚡ Let's take a look at Phase Drives, CG-Drives, R-Drives, and the Spacegate Jump system in Rifts Dimension Book #02: Phase World. #Rifts #PhaseWorld #FasterThanLight #SciFi #RP

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#Cosmic threats #Dimension Book #Dimension hopping #Exotic worlds #Force fields #Interdimensional travel #Megaverse #Multiverse #Palladium Books #Phase technology #Phase World #Rifts actual play #Rifts Dimension Book 02 #Rifts Dimension Book 02 actual play #Rifts Dimension Book 02 review #Rifts RPG #roleplaying game #RPG gameplay #rpg review #RPG supplement #science fiction rpg #Strange beings #tabletop RPG

[sirensongsea]

𝘈𝘛𝘓𝘈𝘚:\ 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯

#ffxiv #ff14 #atlas tau #midgardsormr #the interdimensional rift #gpose #atlas’ memories of being an omicron and the war of the dragonstar are damaged and they do not remember anything beyond arriving on eitherys #although they’ve gotten flashes of them from particular events #... they were not okay after fighting omega’s recreation of midgardsormr.

[melissa-robin-ultros]

Finally continued and beat the Omega raids today!

#Melissa Robin #Warrior #Cid Garlond #Alpha #The Interdimensional Rift #Final Fantasy XIV #Stormblood #Omega Raids #GPose

[heart-star]

At the end of Rift apart Ratchet, Rivet and friends go to finally look for the lombax even though it was this desire's fault if existence almost collapsed but luckily it's not the 1st time this happens because of the good guys at some point. In fact i think that game is relatable to Crash bandicoot 4 & SKYLANDERS superchargers (if you played all 3 you know i'm right). So the 4 friends go to their search after some days to prepare while some intruders follow them hidden, I put some references in the rifts can you recognize them? #bringbacktheskylands #portalmasterip #skylanders #skylanderscrossover #crashbandicoot #crashbandicoot4itsabouttime #ratchetandclank #ratchetandclankriftapart #rivetandkit #lombax #search #captianqwark #captianquantum #pierrelefer #interdimensional #rift #annoyingorange #spacegoofs #zigmab #xilam #tinyrobots #lazytown #thedaymybuttwentpsycho #crossover #tawnaverse #dingodile #talking #heroesunite #skyparallels #inspirationalskyland https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckjm7ybszx9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bringbacktheskylands #portalmasterip #skylanders #skylanderscrossover #crashbandicoot #crashbandicoot4itsabouttime #ratchetandclank #ratchetandclankriftapart #rivetandkit #lombax #search #captianqwark #captianquantum #pierrelefer #interdimensional #rift #annoyingorange #spacegoofs #zigmab #xilam #tinyrobots #lazytown #thedaymybuttwentpsycho #crossover #tawnaverse #dingodile #talking #heroesunite #skyparallels #inspirationalskyland