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The acclaimed setting of Symbaroum has enticed and fascinated fans of tabletop roleplaying games since the launch of the game in 2016. Now this dark and mysterious world welcomes an even wider audience, with the production of a Player’s Guide, Gamemaster’s Guide and Bestiary adapted for 5E, published under the Open Gaming License. Note that you will need the core 5E rulebooks to fully enjoy Ruins of Symbaroum.

Welcome to the world of Symbaroum

The rich and nuanced Symbaroum setting revolves around the Ambrians – a civilization that two decades ago were forced to flee their ancestral soil after a devastating war. Their new and promised land borders on the vast forest of Davokar, covering the remnants of the Empire of Symbaroum which fell into ruin hundreds of years ago. Brimming with natural resources and mythical treasures, the forest calls out to the Ambrians to be explored and plundered, but the road into its depths lays far from open. Not only are the shadows beneath the foliage fraught with danger, monsters and infectious Corruption; there are also the elves of the Iron Pact who have vowed to die to keep anyone from disturbing the ruins of old, warning that the ancient evil of Symbaroum stirs in its sleep.

About ten years ago, Queen Korinthia of the Ambrians finally vanquished Chieftan Haloban and his Jezites.

Now you can join in the adventure! Seek out the barbarian clans to trade or to plunder their treasuries; establish a base of power among princes, guilds, or rebellious refugees in the capital city of Yndaros; survive encounters with trolls, dark-minded beasts, and undead warlords. But always remember the warnings spoken by the wardens of the forest: tread carefully and do not disturb the ruins of old, for the horrors of Davokar are about to awaken!

If you want a more in-depth introduction to the setting, with its dark wilderness, its warring factions and infectious corruption, you are welcome to download On the Nature of Davokar - a report from a lecture at the wine cellar Tuvinels in Yndaros, transcribed and commented by the famous explorer Iasogoi Brigo.

Aside from the base core rules referenced in the 5E OGL, the Ruins of Symbaroum Player’s Guide contains everything you need to create characters and set out to explore the world of Symbaroum. We provide this information in five major sections: an introduction to the setting, new rules for gameplay, new character origins, new character classes and feats, and a set of resources (equipment, spells, etcetera) for making characters and for use during play.

New Rules

To emphasize the dark fantasy nature of the setting, new rules for traveling and rests, social challenges, and magic are introduced. Regarding magic, wielders of mystical powers cannot avoid being affected by the ever-present threat of Corruption — the gathering of darkness to each character’s Shadow which, if left untended, can manifest as terrible physical transformations and even the eventual loss of the character entirely, as Corruption consumes them mentally and physically.

New Origins

Aside from familiar folks such as humans, elves, and dwarves, the Symbaroum game world lets you create PCs and NPCs who are changelings, ogres, goblins, trolls and even a particular form of undead. Also, the more recognizable folks differ quite radically from what you would expect – for instance, in Symbaroum the elves (rather than orcs, trolls, or similar) could be described as the default enemy of adventurers and explorers.

In Ruins of Symbaroum, character Backgrounds are generally tied to Origins. The following Origins and Backgrounds are included in the Player's Guide:

Origins: Human (clanfolk), Dwarf, Elf and Troll

Abducted Human - Runaway

Changeling – Broken Home, Mage’s Assistant

Dwarf – Dreams of Doom, Life-Debt, Outcast

Elf – Avenger, Exile, Mediator, Scout

Goblin – Laborer, Convert, Wild

Human – Common Folk, Faithful of Prios, Houses of Nobility, Merchant, Refugee, Scholar of Ordo Magica

Ogre – Learned in Magic, Raised by Common Folk, Sellsword

Troll – Artifact Collector, Journey of Discovery

Undead – Revenant

New Classes

The Ruins of Symbaroum Player’s Guide presents the classes Captain, Hunter, Mystic, Scoundrel and Warrior – each with between four and seven different approaches (called Subclasses in the 5E OGL rules), and all of them with customized features up to the 20th level. The captain class is something special, as its members have the capability to command and train others, to improve the fighting ability of a group as a whole.

Approaches: Ironsworn, Rune Smith, Weapon Master and Sorcerer

Captain – Merchant Master, Officer, Outlaw, Poet-warrior

Hunter – Bounty Hunter, Iron Sworn, Monster Hunter, Witch Hunter

Mystic – Artifact Crafter, Self-taught, Sorcerer, Theurg, Troll Singer, Witch, Wizard

Scoundrel – Explorer, Former Cultist, Guild Thief, Thug, Treasure Hunter

Warrior – Berserker, Duelist, Knight, Rune Smith, Tattooed Fighter, Weapon Master (plus unlocked: Templar, Wrathguard)

The graphic design of Ruins of Symbaroum borrows elements from the award-winning design of the original Symbaroum game.

Both these spreads are drafts (works-in-progress) from the Ruins of Symbaroum Player's Guide.

Note: the cover art is a placeholder and will be replaced.

The Ruins of Symbaroum Gamemaster’s Guide provides tools and guidelines for running the game, developing the setting and creating your own adventures. The content may be summarized as follows:

Invoking Symbaroum

Gamemaster’s Rules – on Ability Checks, Combat and Challenge Ratings, Time Within the Game, and Shadow and Corruption.

The Setting – describes three settlements central to the setting: Thistle Hold, the town of explorers and treasure hunters; Yndaros, the capital city of the kingdom of Ambria; and Karvosti, the cliff of the barbarian High Chieftain deep inside the forest of Davokar.

Running Ruins of Symbaroum

Building Game Worlds – guidelines on how to understand and develop the specific game world of Symbaroum.

Adventures and Landscapes – instructions on creating adventures and adventure landscapes where the PCs dictate the course and outcome of the story.

Chronicles – tips on how to design an adventure chronicle (also called campaign or adventure path) set in the world of Symbaroum.

Magical Items and Artifacts – a huge number of mystical artifacts that all come with ready-made adventure hooks, as well as guidelines on how to create mystical artifacts of your own.

Optional Rules

Troupe Play in Symbaroum

Adventures in the Underworld, Yonderworld and Spirit World

Advanced Traps

Pitched Battles

PC-owned estates and domains

Forest expeditions of different types

Ceremonial Magic

And more

Note: the cover art is a placeholder and will be replaced.

The Ruins of Symbaroum Bestiary is in most respects a reflection of the award-winning Symbaroum Monster Codex, but with stats and rules adapted for 5E – the difference being that it also includes the monsters and adversaries featured in the Symbaroum Core Rulebook.

Hordes of the Eternal Night

Twenty-seven original creatures that haunt, roam and wreak havoc on the world of Symbaroum.

Each creature come with full color art, lore, an adventure Set-up and between one and four variants with different stat blocks

Beasts & Monsters

Approximately sixty creatures presented with shorter descriptions and stat blocks

Sorted into categories, such as Abominations, Predators, Spiders, Undead and Winged Creatures

Adversaries

Approximately seventy types of cultural beings presented with shorter descriptions and stat blocks

Sorted into categories, such as Champions of Prios, Elves, Outcasts, People of Davokar, Townsfolk and Trolls

The abominations of Davokar come in different shape and sizes...

Do you want to know more and even playtest some of the new mechanics right now? If so you should head over to DriveThruRPG and download the free PDF Ruins of Symbaroum 5E - The Promised Land.

There you will find some of the optional rules, a selection of origins, classes and approaches, along with four readymade player characters and an adventure. Enjoy!

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shadowron · 3 years

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Summoning Elementals in Total Eclipse for Shadowrun (1st Edition)

One thing I really like about this adventure is that it forces the players to think quickly. Like DNA/DOA, they must start the run without much chance for Legwork, like Silver Angel, there is a strict time limit for the job (by midnight), and like Queen Euphoria, it involves kidnapping, but here:

There are 4 members of The Elementals to grab, and

Each of them has their own bike.

Of the 16 archetypes in the core book, only 5 of them start off with a vehicle. Hope they didn’t have to take the tube to the meet. Because they either need to follow the band members, or break into their studio and find their home addresses.

Any how many runners are there?

If fewer than 4, then you can’t follow all of them.

And do you need the entire team to nab each one, or can you split up?

The adventure doesn’t give any guidance for recommended party size.

What if they get spotted?

What if one member warns another and calls for backup?

Accordingly, how the individual snatchings happen depends upon just what the players choose.

Holding the Wind

If they get the drop on Windy – pretty easy. She’s washing her hair, because she’s a teenager in a 1950s sitcom apparently. Maybe she manages to get off a shot with her light pistol, but otherwise, she’s taken.

If they don’t get the drop on Windy – holy drek. She has called in two of daddy’s merc chummers – each armed with a light machine gun – and has Lone Star on the way.

Number of Condition Monitors: 6 (two mercs, 4 cops)

Dousing the Fire

Wildfire is visiting his arcade full of thrill gangers, so whether he notices the runner or not, extracting him is not going to be easy.

If they get the drop on Wildfire – they have to sleaze past Micro (dwarf technician), armed with the Centurian Industries Laser Crescent Axe

and Thud and Blunder (troll bouncers), sporting the fashionable and stunning Reinco Shock Gloves.

I wonder if they bought these at Bloom’s Troll Emporium.

If they don’t get the drop on Wildfire – the above, plus six Gang Member archetypes armed with Tiffani Self-Defenders.

As a kid, I had a squirt gun that looked like this.

Number of Condition Monitors: 9 (1 dwarf tech, 2 troll bouncers, 6 gang members)

Aside: Video Games in Wildfire’s Arcade

Street Samurai Showdown

Mage Fire

Dragon Wars

Corp Wars

Nuked Pre-Pubescent Samurai Dragons

Panzer Hunt

Unicorn Nights

You know which one you want to play.

Shooting Bambi

Here we meet the rest of the Brothers Bloom, Hoss and Josh: owners and proprietors of Bloom’s Troll Emporium. Their equipment and skills really illustrate the divergences that can occur in any family, goblinized or no. Both of Bambi’s brothers were supposedly already established in their careers when they took over dear dad’s business, but still back up Bambi at the store.

What sort of careers do you think they have?

Hoss here is a Troll Street Samurai with some equipment changes: gone are the Smart Goggles, Ares MP-LMG with Deluxe Gyro-Mount and Smartgun Link, Panther Assault Cannon, and Harley Scorpion. It gets replaced with a Colt Manhunter:

I won’t bother posting Josh’s stats because he is straight-up the Former Troll Bounty Hunter from Sprawl Sites. No changes.

Then there’s Bambi.

I know other British comedies too.

As noted earlier, Bambi is the Rocker archetype with troll stat modifications and a RIDICULOUS amount of weaponry.

So, these three really should have no trouble taking out any group of runners, but just to be that way, they also have pet wolves.

Four of them.

Number of Condition Monitors: 3 (Josh, Hoss, Wolf)

Uglying the Coyote

Now we come to that final, crucial member of the band, the Native American Keytar player Coyote. While the text states he has an apartment “on the other side of town”…

It’s in Canada. You probably don’t know it.

…the team finds him on his community service night, where he drives out and visits a group of tribal squatters near the Redmond/SSC border. After they try and fail to sneak up on them, they will have to fight Coyote along with 5 gear-stripped Tribesmen,

A Snake shaman with a Power Focus 2 and Force 6 Field spirit at his beck and call.

Number of Condition Monitors: 7 (5 squatters, 1 shaman, 1 spirit)

In Conclusion

All told there are 25 condition monitors printed in these sections, so including the band members themselves, your shadowrun team must get through 29 opponents if they wish to successfully kidnap the band. Good luck, chummer.

#shadowrun #clerks the animated series #the young ones

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thecreaturecodex · 5 years

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Phraint

“Grasshopper” © Fabio Di Castro. Accessed at his ArtStation here

[Commissioned by @crazytrain48. Like the deodanth, the phraints are an Arduin race that, if I took all of their listed abilities, would be ridiculously powerful. So this is a decidedly PC powered version. The emotionless trait is borrowed from the android, and in general these might make good android analogues for those GMs who want to keep science fiction out of their fantasy.]

Phraint CR ½ LN Humanoid This tall, lean humanoid resembles an insect, with two arms, two legs and long antennae.

Phraints are eusocial insects with similarities to grasshoppers and stick insects. According to their lore, they are the descendents of a space-faring civilization. Phraints pride themselves on their logic and reason, but have difficulties understanding the complexities of the emotional spectrum. Their society is rigidly caste-based, with low caste members being completely sterile and blue or green in color. High caste phraints, so called nobles, are purple to red in color, and are capable of reproduction. Typically, only a single female, the queen, lays eggs in a phraint community, and she takes multiple mates to ensure variety in her offspring. Other fertile females typically defer to the queen, but some may leave to form colonies of their own or even turn on and murder their queen in order to take over. The core of phraint society is the “stick”, which refers to a clutch of eggs incubated together—sticks may be comprised of only half-siblings, but the members of each stick work, train and live in close proximity.

Phraints are technologically minded, and their settlements often feature intricate engineering projects in order to increase crop yields, produce tools and goods more efficiently and otherwise make life better. Their diet is omnivorous but mostly liquid. Alcohol has little effect on them, but some poisonous plants have intoxicating qualities to a phraint, and are used by nobles for ritual purposes. Phraint soldiers are renowned for their acrobatic, graceful fighting style, combining mobility with heavy weaponry in order to make pinpoint assaults on key weaknesses in the enemy line.

Phraints as Characters A phraint does not have racial Hit Dice, and advances by character class. A phraint character has the following racial traits

+2 Dex, +2 Int, -2 Cha Phraints are quick in both mind and body, but have a diminished sense of self. Medium size A phraint gains no bonuses and suffers no penalties due to its size Normal speed A phraint has a land speed of 30 feet. Scent +1 natural armor bonus +4 racial bonus to Acrobatics Efficient (Ex) A phraint requires only 1/3 the food and water of an ordinary Medium sized creature. Emotionless (Ex) A phraint can never gain morale bonuses and is immune to fear effects and emotion effects. They have problems processing emotions properly, and thus take a -4 penalty on Sense Motive checks. Languages A phraint begins play speaking Common and Phraint. A phraint with an Intelligence bonus may select from the following bonus languages: Dwarven, Gnoll, Gnome, Goblin, Orc, Undercommon

Phraint fighter 1 CR ½ XP 200 Init +3; Senses Perception +1, scent Defense AC 18, touch 14, flat-footed 14 (+3 Dex, +1 natural, +1 dodge, +3 armor) hp 11 (1d10+1) Fort +3, Ref +3, Will +0 Immune emotion effects, fear; Weakness emotionless Offense Speed 35 ft. Melee greatsword +3 (2d6+3/19-20) Ranged javelin +4 (1d6+2) Statistics Str 15, Dex 16, Con 13, Int 13, Wis 10, Cha 6 Base Atk +1; CMB +3; CMD 17 Feats Dodge, Fleet Skills Acrobatics +7, Climb +5, Knowledge (engineering) +5, Perception +1, Sense Motive -4; Racial Modifiers +4 Acrobatics, -4 Sense Motive Languages Common, Dwarven, Phraint SQ efficient Ecology Environment warm plains or desert Organization solitary, pair, crew (3-12), patrol (4-24 plus 1 3rd level captain per 10 individuals), or retinue (10-100 plus 1 3rd level captain per 10 individuals and 1 5th level noble per 20 individuals) Treasure NPC gear (studded leather armor, greatsword, 3 javelins, other treasure) Special Abilities Efficient (Ex) A phraint requires only 1/3 the food and water of an ordinary Medium sized creature. Emotionless (Ex) A phraint can never gain morale bonuses and is immune to fear effects and emotion effects. They have problems processing emotions properly, and thus take a -4 penalty on Sense Motive checks.

#phraint #bug people #playable races #pathfinder 1e #arduin grimoire

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ins0mina · 4 years

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fantomcomics · 5 years

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What’s Out This Week? 7/24

HOW BOUT THEM SDCC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Archie Vs Predator 2 #1 - Alex De Campi and Robert Hack

Betty, Veronica, and Predator-Archie have been left in the wreckage of their town, all their friends dead. Normally, they'd just go down Memory Lane and get home again where everything's okay, but that's no longer an option. It isn't until they find an undamaged car and drive it down a different road where they can finally return to Riverdale-but their hometown feels different. And it's made even more bizarre when they come face-to-face with a few people they'd never expect: themselves. Only different, newer versions. Little do they know, Predators on Mars are watching them-planning their next attack.

Valkyrie Jane Foster #1 - Jason Aaron, Al Ewing and CAFU

JANE FOSTER STARS IN AN ALL-NEW NEW ONGOING SERIES! A new hero emerges straight from the pages of THE WAR OF THE REALMS! For years, you knew her as Dr. Jane Foster, one of Thor's most steadfast companions. Then you knew her as Thor, the Goddess of Thunder, who took up the mantle when no other hero - god or human - was worthy. Now Jane takes on a new role as Valkyrie, guide and ferrywoman to the dead! But her days of punching are far from over.

Batman: Curse Of The White Knight #1 (of 8) - Sean Murphy

In this explosive sequel to the critically acclaimed blockbuster BATMAN: WHITE KNIGHT from writer/artist Sean Murphy, The Joker recruits Azrael to help him expose a shocking secret from the Wayne family's legacy-and to run Gotham City into the ground! As Batman rushes to protect the city and his loved ones from danger, the mystery of his ancestry unravels, dealing a devastating blow to the Dark Knight. Exciting new villains and unexpected allies will clash in this unforgettable chapter of the White Knight saga-and the truth about the blood they shed will shake Gotham to its core!

Sword Master #1 - Shuizhu, Greg Pak, Gunji, and Kris Anka

You saw him tear through Fire Goblins in WAR OF THE REALMS with his big, damn magic sword! Now learn the mysterious origins of LIN LIE, A.K.A. SWORD MASTER, Marvel's newest Chinese superhero, in the English language debut of the original series written by Shuizhu and drawn by Gunji! Haunted by dreams of demons, Lin Lie hunts for his missing archeologist father - and for the secret of the black sword he left behind. And in a brand new story written by Greg Pak (NEW AGENTS OF ATLAS), Sword Master teams up with SHANG-CHI! What happens when an undisciplined, untrained kid with a magic sword tangles with the one and only, undisputed MASTER OF KUNG FU? (Spoiler alert: they will indeed drive each other crazy, with huge ramifications for the Marvel Universe!)

Fearless #1 (of 4) - Seanan McGuire, Claire Roe, Carmen Nunez Carnero & Various

THE FIERCEST LADIES OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE - ON AND OFF THE PAGE! Straight off her silver-screen debut, Captain Marvel takes the world by storm! And speaking of the weather, Storm of the X-Men faces a problem only a goddess could solve. Add the Invisible Woman, and you've got an unstoppable trio in a story by Hugo-nominated novelist and SPIDER-GWEN: GHOST-SPIDER writer Seanan McGuire! Then, Leah Williams takes us back to the golden days of romance with Millie the Model! PLUS: Get your dose of herstory with profiles on classic and contemporary creators!

Star Pig #1 (of 4) - Delilah S Dawson and Francesco Gaston

Like many late-21st-century teens, geeky 16-year-old Vess gets packed off to spend her summer at Space Camp-which is literally in space. Tragically, a shuttle accident sends her and the rest of the passengers careening toward a cold, frosty death among the stars. But when a gigantic, space-faring water bear miraculously rescues Vess and her beloved retro Discman, it's the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and an incredible journey home, all set to the nostalgic tunes of Vess's 1990s-heavy playlist.

History Of The Marvel Universe #1 - Mark Waid and Javier Rodriguez

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Marvel Universe - in one lavishly illustrated series! From the Big Bang to the twilight of existence, HISTORY OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE chronicles completely, for the first time, everything that was, is or will be! Lushly illustrated text tells the complete story of the Marvel Universe, revealing previously unknown secrets and serving as the ultimate reference book for Marvel fans! Witness the greatest tale ever told - and be prepared for some shocking revelations!

Marvels Epilogue #1 - Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross

An all-new standalone epilogue to the classic MARVELS graphic novel written by Kurt Busiek and fully-painted by Alex Ross! A "Marvels" look at the "all-new, all-different" X-Men of the 1970s. In this 16-page story, Alex and Kurt bring Marvel's world to brilliant, realistic life one last time, as the now-retired Phil Sheldon and his daughters, in Manhattan to see the Christmas lights, find themselves in the middle of a clash between the outsider heroes and the deadly Sentinels, giving them a close-up perspective on the mutant experience. Also featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this special story, and other bonus features.

House Of X #1 (of 6) - Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz

FACE THE FUTURE! Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman (SECRET WARS, AVENGERS, FANTASTIC FOUR) takes the reins of the X-Men universe! Since the release of Uncanny X-Men #1, there have been four seminal moments in the history of the X-Men. Giant-Sized X-Men. X-Men. Age of Apocalypse. New X-Men. Four iconic series that introduced a new era for Marvel's mutants and revolutionized the X-Men. In House of X, Charles Xavier reveals his master plan for mutantkind...one that will bring mutants out of the shadow of mankind and into the light once more.

It’s a hefty week, so whatcha hauling home, Fantomites?

#House Of X #History Of The Marvel Universe #Marvels Epilogue #Star Pig #Fearless #Sword Master #Curse Of The White Knight #Jane Foster #Valkyrie #Batman #Archie Vs Predator #comic #comics #comic book #comic books #WOTW #What's Out This Week?

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kleeboy · 5 years

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okay im deleting and reposting this because i put a swear word in the tags and it wasnt even showing up in searches for my personal, and i don’t trust the mobile editor to fix my problems but its time 4 me to make a post

Here's what I’ve got for a Thunderbirds D&D AU! I'm not gonna get into numbers and stats and levels because I do that enough when I play normal d&d and I'm gay and tired. Also, there’s probably gonna be a touch of rule bending not only to reconcile d&d with the Thunderbirds canon but just to boost the fun factor a bit. It’s not like we’re setting up a playable campaign so it doesn’t really matter as long as we’re not making it unrecognisable as part of the d&dverse. At that point, you might as well just call it a fantasy AU (still lit tho lmao). This is mostly TOS based but I’ll add some notes on TAG stuff now and then in italics because I’m here to provide. It’s hefty, so everything's under the cut. Hopefully comprehensible.

IR (presumably going by some other name but we’ll just stick with that for sake of ease) is still a rescue organisation - it operates on a somewhat smaller scale but access to magic means it’s got a pretty big reach for typical d&d technology. It’s centred around an ancient deity that few people have heard of and even fewer worship. There’s only one known temple dedicated to said deity and it had been abandoned for a long time before they found it, so it’s currently being restored - if rather agonizingly slowly. Anyway, IR is deity-based because nothing screams “fight for a cause” like paladins! They’re paladins, mostly, is what I’m saying.

Jeff is likely an ex-adventurer, probably a paladin but I’m seriously considering cleric just for interest’s sake so sue me, I love clerics. His party did some pretty cool stuff back in the day, and adventuring pays well as long as you don’t die, so he’s pretty well off. He left the party and settled down in one place when Scott was born, and the rest of them presumably disbanded and went about their own lives eventually. Or maybe they’re still out there causing a ruckus. Who knows. Pretty easy to just say “and he’s not there anymore” for TAG, rationalise his disappearance as you please. Either way, at some point he decided to start an organisation that would make saving lives a bit more structured than the usual “Let's hope a squad of adventurers stumbles on our predicament” that people have been relying on.

Scott is a Battle Master archetype fighter who multiclassed into paladin. Battle Master provides the most appropriate mechanics for a field leader, and also seems like the sort of thing Scott would have been doing previous to IR. He’s the least proficient spellcaster of the group if only by virtue of his class, but access to paladin magic gives his fighting an extra kick which, along with the Battle Master maneuvers, makes him pretty damn dangerous with a sword. It also means he can cast Find Steed, and because said steed’s form can go beyond normal when permitted by the DM and we’re making the rules here I’m giving him a pegasus, which is about the fastest flying mount you could get as far as the monster manual goes. A roc would just be too much. Very VERY cool. But too much.

Virgil is a College of Lore bard into paladin. When it comes to support classes, nothing beats a College of Lore bard for versatility. He’s got the range, darling. Slap an arsenal of magic items on that and you’re well on your way to the d&d equivalent of Thunderbird 2. He has some good offensive spells and weapon training but mostly works to keep others from getting hurt. With a high constitution, the Tough feat, good armour and a shield he pretty much becomes a mobile wall to be put between danger and anyone who can’t take too many hits. Find Steed again lets me give him something interesting to ride, and what better than an owlbear. A big one. Not quite as appropriate stat-wise as the pegasus for Scott but when it comes to aesthetics I’m yet to find something as good as a bear-shaped and -sized owl.

John is predominantly a Divination wizard, with a low paladin level - two maximum - giving him access to a lot of powerful magic but leaving him, how do you say, squishy. Divination is gameplay-wise pretty underwhelming, with not many spells to its name, but for someone whose job is centred around keeping an eye on things, the ability to see very far away and receive premonitions is gonna be useful. The system by which distress calls are sent is giving me some concept trouble but when it comes to receiving it’s as easy as a focus with some capability to project images and sound, gear already necessary to cast Scrying. So, as in canon, rather than going out on missions (at least for the most part), it’s John’s job to keep tabs on incoming signals and active operations. This is all based in the previously mentioned temple - out of the way enough to let me call it a T5 equivalent. He also has the secondary job of making sure nothing else tries to take up residence in the decrepit building. They had to clear it of goblins the first time. As far as Eos goes I don’t have room for all my thoughts (so many) but let’s call her a sentient magic item. Additionally, TAG John probs gets a level or two in cleric.

Gordon is a paladin into druid, Circle of the Land (Coast). He and Alan didn't have any previous class levels before becoming paladins. Neither of his classes give any bonuses for it beyond proficiency for paladins but nobody can stop me from making his primary weapon a longbow, plus the Sharpshooter feat is helpful. Coast druid is the only subclass of any d&d class that has a specific focus on water and what could go wrong if we let him turn into animals? It also has some good circle spells, when he gets to that point. He’d probably have a lot of fun with Mirror Image. There was probably an incident that catalysed his becoming a druid, I'd like to think it's the equivalent of the boat crash just placed on a different point in the timeline. Might get into it at a later date.

Alan is just pure paladin, it's all he's really had time to do with his life so far beyond being a kid and growing up, y'know? I’ll get a little into the subclass here, all of IR’s 3rd level or higher paladins take Oath of Devotion. From the PHB: “These paladins meet the ideal of the knight in shining armor, acting with honor in pursuit of justice and the greater good.” Devotion’s core tenets are honesty, courage, compassion, honor, and duty. Also their Channel Divinity: Sacred Weapon is just really cool. Who doesn’t like glowing stuff, man. Alan's got some more powerful paladin abilities than any of his brothers but probably has the lowest total level regardless. Giving him the Athlete feat, which lets him jump and climb a lot easier, feels appropriate. He snuck a griffon home when it was a baby, and is trying to train it. It's not very well behaved and causes a ruckus when it gets bored but he adores it. One day it’ll make a phenomenal companion. For now, it will continue to attempt to eat his fingers.

Brains is an artificer! Love that class. Artificers, rather than casting spells (though they can do that), make magic items. The artificer class is from Unearthed Arcana and a lot of the mechanics can be hit or miss, it’s been revised many times by lots of different people. But when it comes to the basic idea, it’s the obvious choice for Brains. The less common a magic item, the longer it takes and harder it is to make. The higher level an artificer the more, and more powerful, their creations are. Pretty simple. Also pretty much every version of artificer you come across has some sort of option for a mechanical companion so there’s MAX for you.

Tin-Tin is also an artificer, with a few levels in paladin for good measure. Her time is split between making and repairing gear and going out on missions, and when on call is incredibly useful for lightning fixes and is incredibly creative when it comes to the ways magic items (and nonmagic items) can be used to get out of predicaments. This is the character who constantly has Inspiration. Kayo is an Assassin archetype rogue into paladin. Assassins do… a lot of damage. If you know much about d&d rules (I don’t expect you to), the only thing scarier than a bard, stat wise, is a rogue. +10 to stealth is pretty easy to get by 5th level, combine that with Sneak Attack and Assassinate and you can deal up to 26 damage in one hit with a dagger alone. I said I wouldn’t do any maths but I lied.

Penny doesn’t necessarily have any class levels, though rogue would be appropriate. She falls more under the NPC umbrella, somewhere between Noble and Spy, perhaps? NPCs have a lot less restrictions when it comes to what they can and can’t do laterally, but it’s harder to make them powerful without assigning a class. I also think it’d be really neat to use the fantasy setting to make her nonhuman. High elf would be fitting and cool, but she’d also make a fantastic tiefling. Though, like, call me biased, everyone would make a fantastic tiefling.

I think that’s all I’ve got to say on the matter right now. I have a lot more specific details that I’ll get to eventually but this post is more of a jumping off point listing some options for anyone else who might want to mess around with a d&d AU but doesn’t know where to start. Pick out things you like, ditch things you don’t, add whatever sounds cool, and honestly? Congratulations on getting through this whole thing. This post is kind of in shambles. And thanks! I love taking any excuse to pore over these books.

Shoot me an ask or something if anything’s too incomprehensible or there’s something up with the formatting. Later, skaters.

#thunderbirds #thunderbirds are go #dungeons and dragons #long post #kleeboy talk #no commentary in here because last time i said the f word and got put in the naughty corner

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It is Gemini New Moon and I am back! (for now) My life is still a maelstrom but the dust is starting to settle.

I’ve been getting more into different forms of divining and I bought a pendulum while I was in Amsterdam that I would like to try out. I will probably give more info on that later.

Some highlights from when I was away:

Aries Season: New Moon I had to leave the apartment cause my roommate was being extremely noisy again. I went to a gallery where some witches and artists had their things and a witch I met at Treadwells when I first moved here remembered me and we made friends. She offered me some free sound healing sessions at her place since she wanted to practice. I also met a wild aries witch who is an aries poster child in everyway, she also has short white hair and paints red markings on her face (I thought it was for tonight its an everyday look) and has futuristic tribal blade runner vibes. When I got home at 1pm I exploded on my roommates who wanted to have a party (They knew I had to get up at 5am for work) and declared I was moving out. Did a million find a new home spells and started hunting

Learned how to make bioplastics and bonded with the teacher at the design museum over alchemy. Making bioplastics is so similar to what alchemists were doing in their hunt for stripping down something to it's core elemental material and reshaping it to whatever they like. It also sparked my potential new interest for diving into industrial design as a career.

Went to see my sister in Paris and saw the Notre dame burn. The night air smelled like fire and brimstone

ended Aries season with a bang when my sagittarian witch friend was going through a breakup and bought me to an easter/spring inspired fetish party where everyone was dressed either as catholic gay kings, floral nymphs in pastel bondage or frisky rabbits. They had berlin DJs and the top floor was flooded with red lighting. I ran into the Aries witch there near some ritual of people in pig masks rubbing paper on someone's latex to cause some friction. I got home at 2 and had to get up at 8am for work.

Taurus Season After intense pressure hunting I found a new home though I knew I wouldn't be satisfied there. The woman who owns the house turned out to be pretty christian and doesn't want anyone bought over without her permission. So the house hunt continues.

Beltane was spent with some nice witch friends in the Heaths (of course) we found a nice clearing in the woods that was super secluded with bluebells growing everywhere. We had a blanket and bought everything from floral incense, to crystals (I got a jade crystal ring for everyone to charge and wear) to flowers (we each bought so many that we ended up casting a circle with flowers like roses, bluebells, carnations etc), and foods! I made truffle oil melted cheese sandwhiches and beetroot pea and spinach sandwhiches and sandwhich cookies with rose buttercream and matcha with gold dust and lemon curd lavender with silver dust. I also bought grass vodka to be mixed with elderflower soda. My friends bought a lot of things from blueberries to flower wines to weed to scented oils and candles. I also finished the last of my shrooms with them and the trees felt very much like sentinels though in the sense that they seemed to be watching us in our witchy shenanigans instead of a sense that they were protecting us. We each lead part in a ritual and told stories but I bought black heart candles to purify us from any attachments we had from former relationships to bring clarity or a fresh start. A new witch friend I made who was invited made us do some estatic dancing in the circle (in truth she was cold cause it was cold) but it was a great way to get the energy going and moved our sacral energy upwards when she made us twerk to attract love to ourselves lol. Then my sagittarian witch friend anointed us with oils for clarity and love and we all smelled really nice like nectary flowers. We stayed until it got so dark that the distant city lights were the only thing giving us light. We packed everything up and didn't leave a trace.

Eros moving into virgo amongst other aspects has made my sexual frusterations intense plus that venus mars square was really painful to go through. I got closer to my work crush who seems to like me too but it wouldn't work out as a FWB unless we kept it really secret because of our work position. So I decided to do a lust spell to attract another lover with a lust candle I made back when I lived in NJ. I gathered it when I was taking some stuff back during christmas and realized the love spell candles I made during last valentines day magic fair still had a lot of energy. There was only 1 lust spell candle left cause they all sold (The candles were all heart shaped and the size of your hand. The black was for cleansing relationships and was ylang ylang scented with added charcoal, the violet was for new friendships with lavender, the pink was for romance with rose oil and the red was for lust and hookups with red rose and cinnamon.) The history with the lust spell candle came from a previous successful lust spell when I used a huge red dick shaped hoodoo candle to attract a FWB on the taurus full moon and it was very successful but I still had a lot of the candle left over so I recycled the successful spell into the red wax for the new lust candles. Anyway I was going into this back story because I burned this on the full moon and it burned bright and strong the whole night into the next day for 13 hours straight. When it reached the end no wax was left, it instead grew into a massive flame which split into 3. I was mesmerized watching it, it seemed like the middle flame was me or someone having to make a decision. It went for a smaller flame on the left and they grew into a bigger flame as the little one died down then BANG!! the disk it was on E X P L O D E D and shards of glass flew Everywhere... There were pieces of dried rose petal which was the last fragment of the candle the fire had to burn on that scattered in the air like a mini meteor shower and lit little fires on the carpet of my bedroom floor. As I was cleaning I wasn't sure how to process the meaning. It was supposed to be a road opening spell to attract a FWB my way but the aggression seemed like an intense conclusion. So far I will see how it unfolds. My official Eros Return is the 10th of this month.

While I found a really cool dream apartment by the heaths I wasn't sure if it felt like the right place. I found a magical tree that was like it's own altar or temple in the woods. It had blood red leaves and the light underneath it shown like autumn. Stepping under it's cavernous-like red canopy felt like entering another realm. Underneath the ground was littered with shells from some dead seeds and the trunk of the huge tree had a large open mouth with thick saucer-sized brown mushrooms growing out. It looked like an altar so I prayed to it to help find me a home. A week later I found a nicer apartment on the east side to the park.

Gemini Season

Gemini season started off aggressively and with a lot of confusion.

I went to Amsterdam this past weekend! It's a beautiful city with big fairy energy. They are obsessed with flowers, you can buy bulbs everywhere and flowers are growing from every corner, there is nature everywhere, you can get shrooms and weed everywhere, the homes are old and beautiful with details that remind of you fairytales or iced gingerbread houses, the air is filled with sounds of chimes and bells from everyone's bikes, you have alluring enchantresses ensnaring dumb tourist men into their lairs as men glue themselves to the windows peering eagerly into their other worlds, you have shops with no clocks with the most comfortable seating to sell you joints for 4 euros while you sit there for god knows how long in a perpetual high as you eat snack after snack. Also since its the lighter half of the year the sun sets at 9:30PM and the sky isn't completely dark until 10:15. I tried to look into their urban planning and architecture centers to learn more about the city's design. It's so harmonious with nature its inspiring. I took home some shrooms (One I am excited to try is called Roaring Dragon which would be appropriate for Litha lol), some wizard like long wooden pipes, a mini mermaid tarot deck, a crystal pendulum, some goblin incense I was enticed to buy cause I was dumb high in this fairy themed shop (and in truth I wanted to buy everything cause I was dumb high and thought everything was GREAT) and a love attraction candle.

Now here I am ready to start a new moon cycle. I am really overwhelmed but I want to get my feet back on the ground lol.

#long post #aries to gemini season #personal

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ethrildragon · 6 years

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RTT Review Responses

Since I can’t really respond to FF.Net reviews on ff.net (unlike AO3) I thought maybe I’d respond to them here.

“ Blood adoption magic sucks. Why can't it be PERMANENT, even after the new parents who did the adoption on the kid die? Whats the point of it even being around if it gets canceled as soon as the owners of the blood used in the adoption die instead of staying forever inside the kid until the day the kid dies themself? Especially if the kid is the ONLY child of the people who did the ritual? Would they lose the inheiritance their blood adopted parents left them if they lose the blood adoption fades before they are adults? Are they still considered adopted by the family and entitled to inheirit everything if there is no one else to inheirit? Though I'm confused. Now that Harry is back in the future with Tom HOW can Dumbledore find him again? In the past didn't they REMOVE every single spell future Dumbledore put on Harry? So what does the old man possibly still have on Harry that will let him find him, especially if Harry and Tom decide to leave the country? Plus Harru should ask the goblins if there was a way to BLOCK whatever future Dumbledore from tracking him. A spell or enchanted item like Toms ring that will continue to block Dumbledores attempts to find him. *lol* Though what YEAR is it when Harry and Tom arrived in the future? Is Harry now OLDER than he should be if he had stayed and grown up in the future, or is younger than he should be, or did he and Tom arrive the year he is supposed to actually be the age he is now? “ - Sakura Lisel

Hokay, so great comment! Let's get started.

I always imagined blood magic to be finicky, you know? It only lasts so long as the person the blood is from (or their blood relatives) is still alive (example the protections on Harry in canon). Or the strength of the blood magic is dependant on the intent behind casting blood magic. So a blood adoption would only last for as long as the adoptive parents are alive because the intent would be for them to adopt the child so that the child would become theirs.

As soon as the intent was gone, the blood magic would go away. If the parents died, there would no longer be any intent so the blood adoption would go away. The intent has to be renewed so that the blood magic would stay active. In this case maybe if Abraxas had still been alive the blood adoption would have still worked because there would still be family that wanted Tom and Harry to be a part of the family. Lucius and Draco have never met Harry or Tom so they wouldn't have the proper Intent to keep the blood adoption going.

The blood adoption would be more for having the family magic bind to the adopted children, and to make them feel more at home and comfortable with their new family. After that magical binding occurs, it wouldn't fade with the blood adoption. That magic would become part of the child's core. The blood adoption just helps the process along. SO Malfoy magic (like the wards around the manor) would still recognize Tom and Harry as family even if they aren't blood. Family magic is different from blood magic as it would be tied to a person's magical core rather than to their blood. To stop that connection Tom and Harry would have to be 'burned' from the family line.

In summary: Tom and Harry are not blood related to the Malfoy's (by blood adoption. I mean purebloods are all related anyway), but their magic is still recognized by the Malfoy magic because of the bonds the blood magic made. Any inheritance stuff would be up to the family. AKA: No incest stuff is happening. Move along.

Now onto the next part: Dumbledore can find Harry because of that special magic core inside wittle Harry. Even though all the spells Dumbledore cast on Harry have been purged, Dumbledore still has tools and stuff that allow him to trace Harry's magic. Kind of like the under age trace on the wands. When Harry was a baby Dumbledore took a sample of Harry's core so that he could keep tabs on Harry. That's how he was (almost) able to pull Harry back through time. The bond between Tom and Harry, as well as all the other stuff that has happened to Harry over the years (see blood adoption, seeing death, the CASTLE) have altered Harry's core just enough that Dumbledore can't pinpoint Harry's exact location. He's only able to trace Harry to the British Isles. If Harry and Tom leave the UK, Dumbledore wouldn't be able to trace Harry very well, but he'd know that Harry has left.

If the goblins knew how Dumbledore was tracking Harry's core, they'd block it. The problem is there are so many different ways to track magic that it'd take a lot of testing and experimentation to find the method Dumbledore is using. It'd be like...having Harry try on every type of bullet proof vest in every size possible and then shooting at him with a non lethal gun until they found the best vest that would protect him. The best the goblins can do is put all those protections on a single unmoving location and plunk Harry down in the middle. But lets be honest, he's a teenage boy and teenagers don't sit still for very long.

As for what year it is? Heh. You'll find out.

I hope this all makes sense. I tried to put this info into the actual chapter, but it made the chapter drag ON and ON and it really didn’t make sense.

#RTT #review responses #Tomarry #Harry Potter #Fanfiction

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haltraveler · 7 years

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I attended the PaizoCon preview banquet. Here’s my (incomplete) notes:

Jason’s too drunk, Sutter’s the star

Starfinder CORE RULEBOOK (sort of), spiral-bound Delve on Sunday is SF Draconic corporate overlords mentioned Mechanic AI can be robot or implant Each class has 4 sample builds Character themes (Ace pilot, bounty hunter, priest, scholar, spacefarer, icon, mercenary, xenoseeker, outlaw, themeless) +1 ability score?, improves with level (every 6) Many spells kept from Pathfinder (magic missile) New (logic bomb, microbot assault) Goblins are hard to get rid of. So yeah they’re here. :) (they still have dogslicers but also have tech) Pull The Pin feat (set off someone’s Grenade if they arent expecting it) Badass guns (looks like a Gatling gun, flamethrower) look MUCH like tech guide art style. Space dwarves mine asteroids Legacy section includes conversion rules and updates on old core races. PCs are starship crew from lvl 1 5 roles on starship (skill-driven) Rules for making new ships/upgrading them Gamemastering chapter (traps, afflictions, biomes) Pact Worlds (all of old planets minus Golarion, Idari (Kasatha generation ship)) Setting in core book Each pact world has 2-page spread Factions (HELLKNIGHTS IN SPAAAACE, Free Captains, Android Abolitionist Front, Xenowardens) Nyarlathotep is CORE DEITY! Oras god of Evolution Aspis Consortium (Illuminati-esque) Azlanti Star Empire!? (THEY BECAME AN INTERSTELLAR EMPIRE HOLY SHIT)

Dead Suns AP Mysterious asteroid sets off race to find ancient alien superweapon Through Pact Worlds and beyond “Dead Suns” references superweapon’s abilities 1st has a gazetteer on Absalom Station (double-sized) Each AP has a new ship and new planet

Alien Archive cover! Dragonkin! Security robot Dozens of player races Skittermanders Alien gear Each alien is on a 2-page spread

Pathfinder They still do it ;) Book of the Damned Cover has Charon (no hat :’(), Noticula, Mephistopheles Compiles all the old books plus new material September release Spotlight on Orcus, Jubilex New pocket editions (APG, GMG, B2, UE)

Ruins of Azlant AP More traditional AP Aboleths, obviously Upcoming mini set has tie-in minis

War For The Crown Taldor civil war! Working for Princess Eutropia (Goodly ruler) “James Bond meets Game of Thrones” Focus on intrigue CRYSTAL IS WRITING IT Amber Scott doing both APs

Ultimate Wilderness Cover has Feiya, Lini, and someone else (new iconic?) Overview of Druidic sects NEW ICONIC REVEAL: SHIFTTER Martial class “Druid paladins” Natural Weapon combatant Starts w/ animal aspects, later full wild shape Capstone: Final Aspect allows shifter to have all of their five animal aspects at once Can become mix-n-match creatures. (Impossible Creatures nostalgia, I’m wierd) New Iconic doesn’t have a name yet but she looks BADASS

I don’t really care about PFS but that stuff is happening now, notes might be sparse Year of Factions’ Favor (both card and RPG) Season is integrated into War For the Crown AP Taldor’s attacking Absalom (good luck!) Starfinder Society In-universe Society has been around for several hundred years, recently suffered a serious disaster, most veterans are gone PC data has in-universe repercussions Year of the Scoured Stars (investigating what happened to the Society)

Maze of Death 14th set Sea Drake (not quite as cool as B2 art but still awesome) Minotaurs (Inner Sae Bestiary inspired) Minotaur Artillery Ghul Young Blue Dragon (large), perched on a rock, based on Wooten art Basirond/Mindfrond Case Incentive: HUGE AIR ELEMENTAL, it’s real big, and water elemental! BOth based on mythic Elemental art. DROWNED PEOPLE INSIDE!!!! SO BADASS. Earth and fire in a future set.

#pathfinder #starfinder #paizocon #paizo

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deadlydollies13 · 7 years

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The Potion Master’s Grace Ch. 7

Madame Malkin arrived within the hour of Severus sending the letter. Grace stood on a pedestal in the middle of her room as the old woman pinned and measured Grace. “I never get to do many pieces outside of the school uniform, so I’m rather excited! Oh, stand straight dear, I don’t want to make this too long,” Madame Malkin said, pinning Grace’s hemline. Grace fixed her posture, standing perfectly still, “Sorry. I’ve never had someone make my clothes before, so this is all new to me. Frankly, a lot of things are new to me here.” “Strange to see Severus so kind to someone. He seems like an entirely different person,” the woman said. “Now, tell me what your style is, dear.” Grace knew she had to get certain styles of clothing, Severus said it was necessary to a young lady’s wardrobe and she passed this on to Madame Malkin, who wholeheartedly agreed. But then, Grace got an idea, “Do you know who Audrey Hepburn is, Madame Malkin?”

Grace woke up early the next morning to start making breakfast. Not at all a morning person, she padded downstairs and immediately made a pot of coffee. At least he’s got that, I won’t die. Severus wasn’t up yet, and the house was dreadfully quiet. She pulled out her wand, that was twisted to keep her hair up in a messy bun, and flicked it, “Accio record player and a Beatles album.” She figured since she was still in the Wizard world, she’d be safe from the age restriction laws on magic. Her record player flew down into her arms along with the Beatles Greatest Hits album. She put the record on, replacing the empty atmosphere with a little morning pick-me-up. Her mood was diminished when she opened the refrigerator and there was nothing in there. Not a single thing! I guess I’ll have to go grocery shopping. Merlin, what does the man live off of if Missy doesn’t do it for him? Grace was in no mood to go walk over to the town and get food, nor did she want to change out of her PJs, so she begrudgingly called Missy.

“Yes, Mistress Grace?” asked the tiny house elf. “Missy, can you do me the biggest favor?” “Yes, of course! Anything for the kind mistress!” Grace felt horrible for taking advantage of the poor creature but this was a drastic measure! “I need you to run to the store to fetch me these things, and here’s some money. I promise this will be the last time. I really do appreciate it, though, Missy,” Grace handed her a list of all of the ingredients she’d need for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Later that day, she’d run to the store herself for more of a variety of ingredients. “Missy doesn’t mind, Mistress Grace! Missy loves helping the young mistress!” and she vanished with a pop. Grace sighed and leaned on her hand as she sipped more of the dark, bitter liquid. She’d gotten herself addicted to coffee at a young age, and now if she doesn’t get her fix, she goes through caffeine withdrawal and gets a headache. Just then, Madame Malkin floo’d through the fireplace, startling Grace out of her sleepy daze, thankfully, not spilling any coffee on herself. Madame Malkin was carrying about a dozen boxes. “Oh, I’m sorry dear, did I startle you? Severus said to just drop off your clothes when I was finished, I didn’t expect you to be up so early,” Grace rushed over to help her with the boxes, stacking them on the floor, fighting the temptation to rip them open. “Oh no, it’s fine, Madame Malkin. I was up making breakfast, you didn’t interrupt anything,” Grace gave the woman a kind smile, running a hand through her unruly, red curls. Madame Malkin looked at the tiny girl strangely, “Oh, I thought Severus had house elves for that.” “He does,” Grace added. “She’s out getting me the ingredients because the kitchen is scarce. But, I think from now on, I’ll be making the meals from now on.” Grace winked and gestured to the fireplace, “Madame Malkin, I can’t thank you enough for everything. Anything you need, any help I could do around the shop, just Owl me, okay? Bye-bye now, have a nice day!” The fireplace flashed the green as Madame Malkin stepped through. Grace sighed, Who knew I’d get weird looks for being a good person and not being lazy? She flipped the record over to Side B and checked her phone: nothing. Luna probably wasn’t up yet. She always liked sleeping in just as much as Grace did. Grace smiled to herself; she was so lucky to have a friend like Luna in her life. She hadn’t had any real friends before she met her, she never quite connected to the girls at the home and she left all of her childhood friends in Dublin when she was taken away from her family. She remembered the day she met Luna so crystal clear, it was such an important day to Grace.

An eleven-year-old Grace walked aimlessly around London, looking for this Diagon Alley described on her Hogwarts letter. The Nobles’ said they knew nothing of the place, and they both had work, so Grace was left to her own devices to get her school supplies. She was starting to panic and was too afraid to ask just anybody if they knew of this secret place. She was looking high, low, left, and right for some sort of sign pointing her in the right direction. Then, she saw a tall man and a young girl with the same platinum blonde hair, and peculiarly dressed. She shrugged, and figured it was worth a shot. “Excuse me, sir? Can I ask you a question, please?” Grace called out to the tall man. They both turned around to the redhead, the young girl, about Grace’s height, looked at the distressed letter in Grace’s hands and then back up to her with a wide smile. “She’s going to Hogwarts too, papa!” the smaller blonde said to the taller. Her voice was high pitched and almost melodic. She had big blue eyes, long hair down to her waist, and chubby cheeks painted with freckles. If it weren’t for their hair, they could have been sisters. The man gave Grace a slight smile, “What is your name, child?” “Grace McClivert, sir? I-I don’t come from a wizard family, sir. I don’t know where to go for my things and no one here has heard of Diagon Alley,” Grace said, checking her letter once again to make sure she had the right place. The man knelt down to Grace and whispered, “That’s because non-wizard folk can’t even get to Diagon Alley.” He pulled back and held out his hand, “Xenophilius Lovegood. And this is my daughter Luna.” Grace shook his hand, “Pleasure to meet you.” Luna grabbed Grace’s hand from her father’s and took it in her own, their hands dangling at their sides, “You can come get your supplies with me. I’m a first year, too.” Grace followed the odd girl and her father to a pub named The Leaky Cauldron that Grace hadn’t noticed before. Inside, there were dozens of people dressed in jewel-toned cloaks with peculiar hats. Suddenly, the Lovegoods fit in perfectly, and it was Grace who stuck out like a sore thumb judging by the strange stares she was getting. Mr. Lovegood led them out back to a brick wall and tapped on the stones in a particular pattern and the bricks disappeared. Grace’s eyes widened and her jaw dropped as she saw Diagon Alley for the first time. It was so much more colorful and cleaner than London’s inner-city. The buildings looked to be misshapen, or it could have been the streets. Plus, the air smelled much cleaner than that of London’s. Grace couldn’t believe her eyes, the place was truly magical. Their first stop was Gringotts Bank, and Grace was glad, especially after Mr. Lovegood told her that the shops didn’t accept Muggle money. Mr. Lovegood went to one counter to speak to a goblin, but Luna led Grace to another counter, never leaving the redhead’s side, which made things much easier. Grace set a stack of three month’s worth of allowance on the counter, “Is there any way I could… maybe get this converted into Wizard currency, please?” The goblin grumbled something in annoyance but started counting her notes. “Wow,” Luna said, picking up a note and holding it up to the light. “I’ve never seen Muggle money before. Is that the Queen? Our currency doesn’t have anyone like Minister Fudge on them,” and set the note back on the counter. Grace giggled at the girl’s amazement over a note. What strange girl, indeed. Grace noticed the two beaded radishes dangling from Luna’s ears, “Did you make your earrings?” “Why yes, I did. Aren’t they wonderful? Radishes are so cute,” Luna said, reaching up to her ears. “I love making jewelry and clothes, anything that has to do with art, really. I can make you some if you’d like. But then, you’ll have to teach me more about Muggle things.” “It’s a deal then,” Grace said, taking the pouches of Wizard money from the counter. She peeked inside to see gold, silver, and bronze coins, no bank notes of any sorts. “I have no idea what these are, Luna.” “Think of gold for Galleons, silver for sickles, and copper for Knuts. They’re actually bronze, but it helps you remember. And there are seventeen Sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine Sickles to a Knut. You’ll catch on, but I’ll help you for today,” and with that, Luna pulled Grace back out into Diagon Alley to start shopping for supplies. Grace made a few observations throughout the day: Luna was very intelligent, despite her airy personality, her father worked for a magazine called The Quibbler and was a bit neurotic, Wizard currency made no sense, and most all Wizards were very kind. The two girls got their books together, got their robes fitted together— where they learned they were almost exactly the same size— and got their wands together. Luna’s wand was made of mahogany, 12”, unicorn core, and had a tulip handle. Grace’s was ebony, 10”, unicorn core, with a handle that sort of spiraled, almost having a blue sheen to it. Luna got a light gray owl, but Grace decided while in the owlry, the birds were too much, and an Owl would never be allowed at the Nobles’ flat. So, she decided on a cat, a black one just like the witches in the movies had. She named the tiny kitten Cas and the shop owner promised that he was trained to be a perfect witch’s assistant, but really, Grace was just looking for a good excuse to get a pet cat. Before the day ended, and Grace had to return home to the Nobles’, Luna grabbed both of Grace’s hands, “Promise that no matter what houses we’re sorted into, we’ll still be friends?” Grace couldn’t believe that in just one short day, she had already made a friend, and she wasn’t even trying. She wondered if Luna was like her, and didn’t have many friends. Plus, going to a new school with a friend already made would make the transition a lot easier. Grace nodded and smiled, giving Luna’s hands a squeeze, “I promise.” Luna’s smile went from ear-to-ear as she hugged Grace tightly, “Oh, wonderful! I can’t wait for school to start now! Be careful of the Nargles!” That was the last thing Luna called out before disappearing with her father among the London crowd.

Missy soon returned with the ingredients and Grace began on breakfast, despite Missy’s protests to help. Instead, Grace put her in charge of record duty— just to get her to stop hitting herself— and had her run upstairs to her room to fetch her Sound of Music soundtrack. Missy’s job was flipping the record once the one side was finished and Missy was very proud of her new role, especially after Grace had convinced her she was being a very big help.

Severus woke up that morning to the house being filled with The Beatles, but now as he made his way down the stairs, dressed and ready for the day, the house was filled with happy-go-lucky, sing-songy, music, along with a voice he had never heard before. He peeked into the kitchen to see a tiny redheaded girl dancing in her pajamas around the stove and singing along to the record playing. Grace had her eyes closed as she spun around, not noticing the professor leaning up against the kitchen door frame with a very amused smirk on his face. “I have confidence in confidence alone. Besides which you see I have confidence in me!” she hit the last note, which Severus may add was quite impressive, with her arms open wide. When the button hit, she took a breath and finally opened her eyes, seeing her audience. The girl practically jumped back with a screech and hit her back on the counter, “Bloody hell!” she let out on accident. She’d probably have a bruised spine from her reaction. Severus couldn’t help but laugh. Not at her, but at her reaction, “Are you alright?” “ ’s not funny!” her face was as red as her hair now. “You should really wear a bell! Bein’ all mysterious and shite and poppin’ up outta nowhere like that! Now I’m gonna go hide under a rock for the rest of my life! I made fresh coffee!” her accent was thick and with her embarrassed state, she just went off with no filter. She tried to stomp out of the kitchen but Severus held out his arm to stop her, “You’re not going to hide for the rest of your life.” “Yes, I am!” “Why? What happened to that confidence you were singing about? I thought you were pretty brilliant,” it had been so long since the house wasn’t filled with misery and tears, Grace’s aura of sunshine and happiness accompanied by music was a pleasant shock to Severus that seemed to chip away at his stone cold heart. Now Grace was blushing, “Really?” She had never sung alone in front of anybody before, and therefore never had any feedback and had her believing that she wasn’t any good to be able to sing alone in front of people, to begin with. Severus, with a straight face, said, “I never lie, Miss McClivert.”

“What do you mean you’ve never had pancakes before?” Grace gaped at the man across from her as he drank his coffee and shrugged. “My parents weren’t exactly… Mr. and Mrs. Brady, Grace,” he gave her a sad smile. Grace decided not to push. She knew how difficult it was to talk about a dark childhood and wouldn’t appreciate it if she was on the receiving end of questions. Instead, she chose to brighten the mood, “Well, then I am honored to be the first to serve Severus Snape chocolate chip pancakes. Now eat your bacon, mister, before it gets cold!” “Can’t believe I’m getting bossed around by a fourteen-year-old.” “Hey! I’ll be fifteen July 8th! It’s a national holiday, I mean, everyone should know,” now she was just being silly. Severus wouldn’t expect any less since she’s had three cups of coffee. He was just glad she wasn’t jumping off the walls at this point. “I’ll alert the papers,” he said sarcastically. “Anyway, Grace, do you have any plans on changing out of your pajamas?” “On a normal day, no, but today, I have to garden, so yes! I’ll be right back!” Grace got up and ran up the stairs. Severus turned around to see Missy standing in the corner where Grace had put her so the house elf would stop trying to help. “Missy, you may clean up.” “Oh, thank you, master! Missy has been dying to help!” the tiny house elf couldn’t have gotten back to work faster.

Grace came down the stairs moments later in an old t-shirt, patched up overalls, sneakers, her hair braided in two long side braids, and an old straw sunhat. She was awfully pleased with the farmer aesthetic of her outfit, but Severus didn’t seem to share the same opinion. “They’re gardening clothes! They’re not supposed to be pretty and new. I do look adorable, don’t I?” she gave a little twirl. Severus just rolled his eyes, “Sure, Grace, whatever you say. Did you remember to take your inhaler?” She nodded. “And you have your wand?” “Yeah, yeah, yeah. If I’m not back in twenty minutes you can send a search party, you’ll find my body mauled by a rake and strangled by a gardening hose,” she made her way to the door but he followed her and grabbed her wrist. “Grace, I’m being serious, I-“ and then he noticed them. The thin, silver scars on her tiny wrists. She was so pale, they could hardly be noticed, but he felt the raised skin under his fingers. He grabbed her other wrist, flipping them, checking for any new marks. Thankfully, they were all old, and tiny. What happened that made her do this? Who hurt her so badly to make her think that she would deserve this? Why has no one ever said anything about this? Grace’s cheeks were tinted a dark red and her eyes had started to fill with tears. She pulled her wrists away from Severus’ grasp and went out the door, keeping her head down. “I’ll be back soon,” she called over her shoulder and ran down the driveway, rubbing at her eyes to stop her tears. She could feel Severus’ stare boring into the back of her skull, the stare that everyone gave her. Oh, you poor thing, being taken away from your parents. Oh, you poor thing having to live in an orphanage. Oh, you poor thing with depression. Let me give you a sympathetic look every time I see you. That was why she didn’t open up to just anybody. The only other person she had told was Luna, but thankfully Luna didn’t change how she acted towards Grace. She made sure not to mention certain things, but she didn’t treat Grace like glass. But now she was afraid Severus would change his ways towards her. She liked how things were going, she liked how they had just started to casually talk to each other, not as a professor and student. And now everything was going to change.

Severus didn’t know how to feel. He was mad at Dumbledore, even Filius, for never noticing the signs. Or maybe they had, and never done anything about it, making it even worse. The least someone could have done was warn Severus about her. Now he was sure she’d be avoiding him for a while. And of course, he didn’t want that. He didn’t blame her, though, for not telling him. It’d take her a while to completely open up if she ever chose to, but he wasn’t going to prod at her. She had been outside for a few hours planting. Severus looked out the window; now she was using the Aguamenti charm. Silly girl. She spent hours in the dirt but chooses to use magic to water them? He sighed, setting his book down, and went outside, careful not to startle her. When he finally got to stand next to her, she didn’t say a thing, just kept her gaze towards the garden. Finally, he spoke up, “Grace-“ “I’ll wear long sleeves,” she cut in. “Or lots of bracelets.” “Why on Earth would you do that?” “To hide them. So I won’t embarrass you when we’re out in public or something.” Severus couldn’t believe she had just said that. His heart felt heavy, but also wanted to slap the daft girl for even thinking such a ridiculous thing. He grabbed her shoulders and turned her to face him. Her eyes were red from crying. “You stupid girl! What could have possibly happened that made you think this way? It is not your fault, there is no reason to hide it, but you need to talk to me, or else I can’t help you. And I’m not going to stand back and watch you self-destruct from the inside-out, Grace!” Grace stared at the man with tear-filled eyes, but when she opened her mouth to say something, but all that came out was a strangled sound before she covered her face with her— dirt-covered— hands and began to cry. “Merlin…” Severus muttered, pulling the girl close. He had gotten used to troubled children, being the Head of Slytherin House, but he never had one of them as his ward. There were no other parents call to come console their child. He was the one who had to console her and take care of things. “I’m so stupid!” Grace said, wiping her face, but only smearing the dirt she had on her hands across her cheeks. “You’re not stupid, Grace. Far from it, actually. Though, apparently you have no common sense since you forgot to put on any sun protection!” he said, gesturing to her pink arms. “And you’ve got dirt on your face.” “Bloody hell!” She tried rubbing it off with the backsides of her hands, but it was only making it worse. “Here, let me help,” Severus pulled out his wand, pointed at her face, and said, “Aguamenti.” Grace now stood there, soaking wet, gaping at Severus. He had the audacity to laugh. A full-blown, doubled-over, laugh! When he looked back up at Grace, her eyes were narrowed and her fist was clenched around her own wand. “Run,” she growled. Grace chased Severus throwing every harmless charm she could think of, but the potion master just kept blocking them. She chased him up the walkway to the front door before he ran inside, closing the door as Expelliarmis hit the wood. “Come out here and fight like a man, Severus!” she pounded on the door, but he was not budging. “No!” he called back and leaned against the door to catch his breath. Between Grace’s screaming demands to be let inside, he heard a new voice coming from the other room. “Severus, is that you? What is that banging?” Severus felt the color drain from his face, and then he went into a panic, “C-coming, Grandmother!” Merlin, why is she here? Why didn’t she Owl? He threw open the door and was met with a wand in his face and a very pissed off Grace. “Go in through the back door, run upstairs to your room, clean yourself up, and be the perfect young lady. You have ten minutes,” Grace had no idea what was going on, but Severus looked dead serious, and she knew not to question him when he was in a mood. “Audrey Hepburn?” “Yes, sure, whatever. Nine minutes and fifty-three seconds,” and he closed the door. Grace sprinted around the manor and went in through the back door very quietly and up the stairs. By the time she reached her room, she was out of breath, but the clock was ticking for some reason Grace did not know yet. She grabbed the first box she could get her hands on and threw it on. Luckily, it worked in her favor. The dress was black and knee length, with spaghetti straps and in a fit-and-flare style. And thanks to Madame Malkin, who included shoes and accessories with every outfit, she put on the black kitten heels and black elbow-length gloves. She had no time to fix her hair and face, so she waved her wand and instantly, her face was clean and her makeup was done and her hair had been put up with her curls pinned. Finally, she could take a few puffs of her inhaler. Grace made her way down the stairs and stopped before she went into the sitting room, where she saw Severus and an elderly woman conversing over tea. Who is she and why does she have Severus totally spooked? The woman looked very stern and composed herself almost regally. Grace figured she was from an important Wizard family that descended centuries back. And by the way, Severus fidgeted in his seat whenever the woman directly addressed him, Grace waited by the door so she would not interrupt the woman. When the woman took a moment to sip her tea, Severus looked over at Grace and a look of relief washed over him, “You may come in, Grace.” The woman looked over at Grace and eyed her up and down. She seemed to take in every detail of her as Grace stood before with her hands behind her back. “Grace, this my grandmother, Margaret Prince.” Grace looked over at Severus— who was awfully pale, paler than usual— and back to the woman. Merlin, if looks could kill. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, madame,” and she curtsied. Grace mentally slapped herself for doing so because Madame Prince raised an eyebrow to the naive girl and Severus couldn’t help but smirk. “Excellent manners, you have taught this Muggle girl, Severus. She looks and acts like a perfect young lady,” Grace had to bite her tongue not to snort at that comment. Oh, so this is how it’s going to be? I’m the damn Muggle charity case? “I’m glad to hear you think so, grandmother, but I taught Grace nothing other than Potions. Miss McClivert has always been well-mannered, even as a First Year at Hogwarts. And she’s one of my top students,” now Grace had seen everything; an actual compliment coming from Severus Snape. He looked over at her to give her a small smile, and Madame Prince just “hmph’d.” “Are you enjoying your stay here, Grace?” she asked, turning back to the young girl. “Oh, I love it here. It’s beautiful here, even more, beautiful than Hogwarts, but I suppose Hogwarts lost the initial charm after it became more and more like school as the years went on.” “What is your house, dear?” Grace was almost too afraid to answer, even though it was a simple enough response. But Severus was a Slytherin, and maybe he had come from a lineage of Slytherins, and Madame Margaret would dislike any other house just like Severus loathed the Gryffindors. Severus nudged Grace to answer when she started to zone out into her thoughts, “Ravenclaw, madame. I’m a Ravenclaw.” At that, Madame Margaret’s face lit up, “I was a Ravenclaw as well when I attended Hogwarts! Is there still a crystal garden in the center of the common room.” Grace relaxed and mirrored the woman’s enthusiasm, “Yes! And the stairs turn into a slide.” “My dear, we were the ones who created the spell!” “Really? That’s amazing!” The two girls carried on with their conversation about the Ravenclaw Common Room, favorite classes, professors that were Margaret’s that are still there to this day, and Margaret even went on about the Quidditch teams during her years at Hogwarts which really sent Grace on a tangent. Severus sat back in astonishment; he really couldn’t relate to what they were talking about, and he was in shock at just how well Grace was getting along with his grandmother. He didn’t even get along that greatly with his grandmother and they were related. His grandmother had loved his mother so much, she was her pride and joy, her Princess Eileen. But then Eileen fell into wedlock with his father Tobias and Margaret forced the two to get married as if to not shed so much darkness on the Prince name, even though his father was a Muggle. And that made Margaret resent Tobias, though she had a very good reason to because he was an alcoholic and abusive to both he and his mother. Once Severus was born, Margaret barely even saw the boy enough to form an opinion, and therefore a loving bond was never formed between the two. Instead, Tobias would call the Princes’ “freaks,” and forbid any magic in the manor. His parents would fight constantly, and it would always end in Tobias getting piss-drunk and beating Eileen before passing out. When Severus would try and stand between his parents, he would only receive the first of Tobias’ throws, and get locked in the closet. Finally, Eileen just couldn’t fight him anymore, and Tobias hit too hard, and she never woke up. Margaret had almost killed Tobias, but Tobias threatened that if anything were to happen to him, he would send Severus somewhere far away from where Margaret would never find the boy. So, at the sake of keeping her grandson, the only memory of Eileen, in her life, she stepped back. Tobias moved them out of the manor, which now bore the ugly name of Snape Manor, and into a small house in Spinner’s End. Severus looked over at the two women, who were still talking and laughing, and he thought about Grace’s adoption papers, still tucked away in his desk. He really hoped Margaret would have an overall approval of Grace. Yes, she was Muggle-born. But she belonged there, with him, with them.

Grace had snuck away while Severus kept his grandmother occupied to cook dinner. Often, Grace would come back while the roast was in the oven, talk a while, and then excuse herself to go to the bathroom or “check on the house elf.” But really, Missy’s job for the night was to watch the roast and make sure nothing caught on fire. Though, if you asked Missy, she was very proud of her role as Grace’s helper, because “Mistress Grace” was extremely kind to the house elf, and even sang softly as she danced around the kitchen, cooking. Dinner went extremely well, and the food was delicious. Every time Severus or Madame Margaret said something nice about the meal, Grace would grin and wiggle happily in her seat, never giving Margaret the slip that she was the one who actually cooked, instead of Missy like she was supposed to. Madame Margaret had even let Grace have some wine during dinner. Severus was apprehensive at first on giving the child wine, as he was apprehensive on anything that had to do with alcohol because of his father, but he knew Grace was smart enough to know better, and it was only one glass. But he soon regretted it because every time she took a sip, she would glance at Severus and smirk, like, Look at me, I’m practically grown up, drinking wine and conversing with the adults. It wasn’t until towards the end of the night when things took a bad turn. “So, tell me about your biological parents, Grace.” Grace froze and her eyes grew big, “Well, t-tell about what, madame?” “What were they like? Or, were you orphaned at such a young age that you don’t remember them?” Severus couldn’t believe this. He could see Grace grow paler by the second, and her eyes glanced everywhere but Margaret. Grace’s voice tightened, as he was sure her chest was doing the same, “N-no, I remember them, madame. And I wasn’t orphaned, I was taken away by child services.” “Oh dear, I’m sorry. What happened?” Grace’s pale skin was now turning a shade of green, and she was finding the floor very interesting. She stood, “I-I think the wine’s made me a bit dizzy if you’ll excuse me,” and left to go upstairs without a reply from Margaret. Severus looked at the now confused woman across from her, “Grandmother, not even I know what happened to Grace and her parents. But whatever it was, it was horrible and made Grace very mentally unstable. She’s lived in a foster home for two years, then skipped around foster family to foster family until she came across one who kept her for four years and then threw her out all because they were having a baby of their own. You must understand that Grace may have had a dark past but she’s a wonderful girl, a brilliant girl. And I don’t know why she hasn’t already been adopted because any family would be the luckiest family in the world to have a kid like her and they’re moronic for ever giving up on her. And it’s all because of what her monstrous parents did to her, whatever they did to her, and it’s not fair. Everyone looks down at her like she’s some broken porcelain doll but she’s not. She’s so strong and so full of love and the nicest person in the world, I don’t even think she’s capable of hate. Have you ever met someone like that? Someone not capable of disliking someone because they see good in everyone, even those who don’t deserve it? Because I haven’t, no, not until this tiny, redheaded, Ravenclaw girl skipped into Potions class and has been, probably the only student in my entire teaching career, to not be afraid of me or not give me any problems. And-“ Margaret held up her hand to stop Severus from going on, as she had heard enough. Severus blushed, he hadn’t realized he went off on a tangent about Grace, he just didn’t know what came over him. The same thing had happened when Grace was still in school and he went off about her to Minerva and Albus. “Severus, I don’t know why you insist on going on. My impressions were made from the moment I met Grace. Tonight was just time to get to know more about her. Now, go, she obviously needs someone right now.” Margaret got up and went to the fireplace to flood home. “Oh, and Severus, do fill out those adoption papers. Like you said, any family would be lucky enough to have that girl,” and she left. Severus stood there, blinked a few times, and finally things set in. When he wrapped his brain around what his grandmother had just said and gave him permission to do, all he could think about was Grace.

Grace had already changed into her pajamas and washed her makeup off. Now she was staring at herself in the mirror, with a million things on her mind. She had barely heard the knock on her door, and then someone come in. “Grace?” Severus called out to her. “In here,” her voice was strained from having a lump in her throat she was forcing herself to swallow. She didn’t want to cry, she was done crying over that. Crying never did anything but make people pity you, and she was tired of the pity too. Severus came in and saw Grace leaning on her hands against the vanity surrounded by bottles of her different medications. A jolt of panic went through Severus and he grabbed both of Grace’s shoulders, “Grace how many of those did you take?” Grace was both shocked by the question and by being man-handled, “What?” “Your pills! How many did you take?” Now he was checking her eyes, making sure her pupils weren’t dilated. “I took the amount I’m supposed to take before bed! Merlin, what’s wrong?” “We need to talk, Grace?” “About? And can you let go you’re gonna bruise my shoulders.” Severus let go, “Sorry. And we need to talk about… about this,” and grabbed both of her wrists. Grace sighed, she was really in no mood to talk, but she somehow knew the man wasn’t going to drop it until she did. She went over and sat on the edge of the bed, “Fine. We’ll talk since my life is just oh-so-important to everyone.” “Grace, what I mean is, you can’t keep everything bottled up inside, or else you’re-“ “Or else what? Huh, Severus? Please, tell me what else I’ll do? Jump out the window? Because you already thought I had just overdosed myself! I’m not stupid, Severus!” “I never said you were stupid, Grace! And I didn’t mean to imply that, I was just worried,” tears had already begun to form in her eyes and he sat next to her on the edge of the bed. “But I can’t help you if you never tell me what happened with your parents.” She was quiet for a few minutes, staring at the wall, trying to gather her thoughts in a way to tell her dark secret. It was easier when she told Luna, she had written it all down for Luna to read. Grace never actually orally told anyone what happened, not since the court case. Then, the tears really started to flow, and she shook her head to stop them but it was no use. “You wouldn’t want to know… You’d think I’m broken and disgusting,” her voice was strained and she frantically wiped at her eyes to stop her tears. Severus’ stomach started to twist in twenty different directions. He had an idea, but he didn’t want to assume and also wanted Grace to come to terms with it. “Grace…” “He told me if I told anyone he’d hurt me! I didn’t know any better. And she knew, she knew and still did nothing! And it went on for years! My teacher was the one who called Child Services because I had asked her about a period because I was afraid of getting pregnant from my father! Shit like that happens all the time, Severus, did you know that? I was seven! I had to stand infant of a courtroom, at seven-years-old, and tell them what my father had done to me,” her sobs were uncontrollable now, and she was gasping and wheezing for breath. Severus, whose heart was now shattered into a million pieces at the sight of the girl, and now wanted nothing more than to kill her father slowly and painfully, pulled her close, hand on her head, trying to get her to calm down. He didn’t know what to say, nothing could have every prepared him to respond to this sort of thing. Once she had gotten enough oxygen back into her lungs, she continued, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” “What the hell are you apologizing for?” “Cause I’m a mess! Congratulations, you’ve got a stupid, whore Mudblood for a ward!” Severus could have slapped her, but instead just tugged her hair and pulled her away to look in her eyes, “Grace McClivert, I never, ever, want to hear you describe yourself that way again! Do you understand me? What happened to you was not your fault, and you didn’t deserve any of it. I’m sorry it happened, I’m so sorry you have to live with it, but you can’t make it disappear, and you certainly can’t hurt yourself in order to replace the pain he caused you. Promise me, Grace?” Grace nodded and went back to hugging Severus, and she felt safe with him. She had spent years after being taken away being terrified of men, which made being in an all-girls home a good thing, but she had felt instantly comfortable with Severus. Now, with the relief of finally getting things off her chest, and the exhaustion from her breakdown, she relaxed enough to fall asleep against Severus’ chest. He didn’t leave her side for another two hours, afraid she was going to wake up from a nightmare.

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Fox N Forests – A Blast from the Past

With their colorful platformer FOX n FORESTS, Bonus Level Entertainment intend to revive the 16-bit era and at the same time build a »pixel pipeline« to be able to produce games of various genres with a pixel look more effectively and quickly – assembly line nostalgia at its best.

Those who remember classics like »Super Ghouls’n Ghosts« or »Wonder Boy in Monster Land«, will know immediately which kind of games inspired us to develop »FOX n FORESTS«. FOX n FORESTS wants to revive the 16-bit era and add many additional elements; not only from the games just mentioned, but also from classic series like Mario, Sonic and Zelda. FOX n FORESTS is a modern 2D action platformer in a 16-bit look with role-playing and puzzle elements as well as a core mechanic linked to them, giving the player seamless control of the seasons by the press of a button. The whole thing is rounded off by a fun story in the style of a fable.

Successful Kickstarter

FOX n FORESTS’ Game Director Rupert Ochsner and Executive Producer Holger Kuchling founded the studio Bonus Level Entertainment in 2016. Together with Independent Arts Software from the German town of Hamm as well as talented freelancers from all over Europe, the company intends to revive the heyday of 16-bit games. For this reason, the developers already think beyond FOX n FORESTS and plan to build their so-called »pixel pipeline« consisting of structures that allow the studio to effectively turn a series of ideas and genres into high-quality software in pixel-style. To get their idea going, the team consisting of long-time programmers and artists ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for FOX n FORESTS, which earned them as much as 107,875 euros in August 2016, clearly exceeding the targeted amount of 95,000 euros.

New interpretation of the 16-bit look and feel

The core mechanic and basic idea of the game is the change of the seasons, which is seamlessly integrated into the gameplay. Apart from close combat and ranged attacks, protagonist Rick the Fox is also able to manipulate the seasons from moment to moment in each level. With the press of a button the player switches from spring to fall, from summer to winter etc., depending on the level. But as enthusiastic as the team was about this special feature, they thought hard about how to transfer the 16-bit look and feel to today’s time. The requirements were clear from the start: Nostalgia, yes, but in combination with modern game design. So, they made sure to exactly imitate the color range of the Super Nintendo and also to adjust the sound to the technical limitations of the 16-bit machine; however, elements like the then predominant ratio of 4:3 had to be discarded; FOX n FORESTS will feature a 16:9 look. There were a lot of other factors which required attention, especially in terms of game design, look & feel and technology.

Game design

If you take a look at the development of the gaming genres since the rise of the 16-bit consoles, you can spot one trend across all genres: A lot of games feature RPG elements, no matter whether platformers, racing games, action-adventures or shooters. Even sports games today include complex career modes. This development is comprehensible since the elements mentioned are a great asset for most of the games as they generate additional depth and, above all, long-time motivation.

This depth can also be found in FOX n FORESTS. The developers have integrated a currency system and created a hub area which offers various shops and where you can learn new moves, find hidden bottles and fill them with potions as well as expand your life and magic meters. As a further adjustment to modern gaming behavior, the classic »Game over« was discarded. The backtracking embedded in the game concept is entertaining and integrated in a contemporary fashion, and the so-called »reward system«, too, follows a modern approach. Ideally, the players are to be rewarded for every single minute they spend with FOX n FORESTS. These rewards include the integration of a number of super secrets, well-hidden secret paths and hard-to-unlock bonus levels. On top of all this, the game still also caters to passionate core gamers who are looking for a real challenge.

Bonus Level Entertainment have a special passion for the 16-bit era. FOX n FORESTS is only one of many planned games in a number of different genres.

Despite all kinds of modernization measures, the retro character is kept up in a lot of other situations, for example through the use of cheat codes which you can unlock via gamepad input in the main menu, or via classic »mode 7« effects (a texture-mapping mode of the Super NES console and the Game Boy Advance handheld, which allows to rotate and scale a background level, among other things), a feature most players will still remember from Super Nintendo.

In order to achieve the aspired fast platformer gameplay in the style of »Mega Man« or »Castlevania« without restraining the change of seasons, the team decided during the pre-production phase to switch between two pre-defined rather than four possible seasons per level. This allows for a number of creative possibilities without causing a ��trial and error« feeling in the gamer. The result: The player doesn’t have to stand in one spot for too long and go through all sorts of decision options, but seamlessly integrates the change of seasons in his game. Obviously, there are still a few puzzles, but it’s now more about finding them than taking ages to solve them.

In one world you can change from spring to winter, in another one you can switch from spring to fall or from winter to summer. Water will freeze and thus become passable, fog will clear, wind will blow, rain will put out flames, etc. Animals, too, are affected by the change of seasons: Aggressive wasps sleep in winter, while vigilant crows rather hatch their eggs in spring. So, there are a lot of secrets to uncover, skill tasks to complete, and hidden paths to be found without affecting the fast gameplay experience in a negative way.

Look and feel

One of the basic questions arising from the decision to imitate 16-bit consoles was: »Super Nintendo or Mega Drive?«. The choice was quickly made in favor of the Nintendo console since the graphic possibilities offered more freedom compared to the competition from Sega – apart from the processor. This factor is irrelevant though in case of today’s platforms. Apart from a few exceptions, the team strictly sticks to the requirements of the time back then, like the number of animation frames, the maximum number of color ranges or the customary sprite sizes. So, there are legitimate reasons why the boss enemies in FOX n FORESTs were deliberately animated less smoothly than, e.g., standard opponents. A similar decision was made with regard to the sound: Unlike the Mega Drive sound chip, which was set up like an autonomous synthesizer, Nintendo used soundbanks for the Super Nintendo, which could be fed with imported sounds. Plus, the number of the simultaneously useable soundbanks was limited. Since the team experienced the 16-bit era to a large part also from a professional point of view, it’s actually possible to achieve this level of authenticity.

The targeted change of the four seasons is not only a neat effect, but the core mechanic of the platformer.

For this reason, we also made sure to include a lot of references and easter eggs. One of these elements is the level »Foggy Fable«, which pays homage to the »Ghosts ‘n Goblins« series. Hence, it’s no question why the first chest was placed on the left at the start of the level!

Technology

Apart from the adjustments to today’s standards like the 16:9 widescreen format and a comfortable save game system, technology and programming mainly focused on sustainability and flexibility. This approach was enabled by building the so-called »pixel pipeline«.

The pixel pipeline

For us at Bonus Level Entertainment, the pixel pipeline is more than just a tool chain. In fact, it includes the complete process and structures required to develop creative and diverse 16-bit games as efficiently as possible. FOX n FORESTS is not only a creative dream come true, but also a means to an end – a basis to establish and hone required workflows.

The engine

This decision was accompanied by the essential question about which engine to use. Bonus Level Entertainment works with Unity 5, not only because Unity is supported by all current platforms – be it PC, console or mobile. Apart from the comparably easy port to other systems, it was the long-term experience of the team, the large Unity community and a number of useful tools and plug-ins which led to this decision. For example, there are a large number of competent and especially affordable »engines« for Unity, which can already be used as a solid basis for the development of a platformer, shooter or RPG. You can then build on this basis, without having to develop or program every single essential mechanic from scratch. The tool chain, which was developed thanks to and with FOX n FORESTS, and the flexibility of the joint development between Bonus Level Entertainment, Independent Arts Software and talented freelancers provides the possibility to develop games in a 16-bit style not only efficiently but, above all, simultaneously, thus optimizing quality, time management and budget planning.

The pixel pipeline is therefore not only of a technical, but also of an organizational nature. Once the graphics for a game have been finalized, the respective team members can already start with the pre-production for the next project. The game and level design work similarly. Both are closely linked at Bonus Level Entertainment. Other areas like the sound are outsourced though and processed by freelancers to guarantee economic flexibility.

What comes after FOX n FORESTS?

In addition to a potential successor of FOX n FORESTS there are also plans for a shooter in the style of »Gradius«, »Axelay« or »Super Aleste«. An action-adventure similar to »The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past« is also possible. Thanks to the pixel pipeline, all of these elements were already considered during the production of FOX n FORESTS, which is also clearly visible: FOX n FORESTS contains two shooter levels, which not only exist to add some variety to the gameplay, but also to provide for useful empirical values for future ideas. The RPG elements of the game have similar functions.

From the start, the entire development environment was set up to be able to consider various genres, so the motto of Bonus Level Entertainment – »Reinventing 16 Bit« – could be put into practice as efficiently as possible.

About the Author

Rupert Ochsner

is Co-Founder, CEO and Game Director at Bonus Level Entertainment

After jobs at Independent Software Arts, Beta Film and Deep Silver, Rupert founded the Munich-based studio Bonus Level Entertainment together with Holger Kuchling (image below). The CEO and Co-Founder is currently working as Game Director on the pixel platformer FOX n FORESTS. Prior to that, the Austrian-born used to work on a number of notable titles like Saints Row, Sacred und Risen.

Twitter: @FOXnFORESTS

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