#pokemon expansion pass

[galacticrain]

This has been rotating in my brain ever since the Nintendo direct.

#not art #pokemon #splatoon #pokemon legends arceus #splatoon 3 #splatoon spyke #pokemon ingo #splatoon 3 expansion pass #ingo #subway boss ingo #pokemon black and white #spyke #pointy beard gang

[candiedmemories]

I want a new pokemon mystery dungeon SO BADLY

#disappointed by the pokemon presents this morning #though there was some cute stuff #might get the new detective pikachu #and watch some of the anime stuff they showed #but i havent bought scarlet/violet yet and am still on the fence #if the dlc is included with nintendo online expansion pass then maybe i will #pokemon #nintendo #pkmn #pmd #pokemon mystery dungeon #scarlet #violet #pokemon presents #pokemon direct

[scraftyisthebest]

More Rambles on SV DLC News

Anyway, now that I've had a day to let everything sink in from yesterday's Pokemon Presents, a bit more of a ramble on SV DLC.

Seems we are getting more new evolutions, including a new alternate evolved form of Applin in Dipplin and surprisingly, a Duraludon evolution called Archaludon. They seem like pretty cool new additions. Dipplin is a candy apple, which is an interesting spin on Applin's apple theme. Stat-wise I'm curious how it will differentiate itself from Flapple and Appletun.

Duraludon is not what I expected to gain an evolution, though Archaludon admittedly looks pretty cool, being a bridge. Duraludon already possesses a naturally high base stat total so how Archaludon changes from that is going to be interesting.

We also have two new Paradoxes, Raging Bolt being Ancient Raikou, and Iron Crown being Future Cobalion. Seems Suicune and Virizion weren't the only ones to get them. Raging Bolt's long neck is something though...kinda goofy there. Entei and Terrakion will have Paradox counterparts of their own as well I imagine at this rate, to complete them as trios.

Seems the mysterious turtle we saw from Liko's pendant in Horizons is just Terapagos itself, in its Normal Form, while the bigger type-shelled form is its "Terastal Form". Notably this isn't necessarily a Terastallized state, and since Terapagos is implied to be the harbinger of the Terastal phenomenon that raises some interesting ideas for what role it may play in the story. Terapagos may have even more forms that we don't know about which I look forward to seeing.

Ogerpon seems to have a different appearance when Terastallized, in this case it seems to have special ties to Terastal itself.

From a story structure standpoint this DLC seems to be mirroring SwSh's DLC in terms of how the halves are placed and structured. The Teal Mask being Part 1 seems to be like the Isle of Armor, being able to be accessed as soon as the main story kicks off and being an additional side story intended to be slotted into the main story while expanding on the original base story and lore in a way. Kitakami like the Isle of Armor will be its own mini-storyline with the festivals and whatever we do there on the field trip much like how the Isle of Armor was a training quest in the Master Dojo that ends with raising Kubfu into a great Urshifu.

Meanwhile The Indigo Disk being Part 2 is like the Crown Tundra, being intended as a post-game quest after completing both the main story and DLC 1, only this time it's actually hard-locked to only being unlocked after completing both. It seems it's a post-game quest, while with the Crown Tundra it was a legendary catching expedition, this time we're an exchange student at the Blueberry Academy and we're taking part in the BB League and the tests to challenge each of the BB Elite Four. Like Galar's Crown Tundra it seems to be looping back to mainland Paldea for the finale of the overall story, and as we all know it'll be Area Zero, and returning to there for the final story segment, akin to how the Crown Tundra looped back to Wyndon Stadium for the Galarian Star Tournament. In both cases going back to where the base story's finale ended, with SwSh it was the Champion Cup and beating the undefeated Leon, in SV it was exploring Area Zero and taking down the Zero Lab, and for SV's DLC the final Area Zero visit may be something related to Terapagos and a finale we may not know about.

Based on the above speculation this also ties into how the anime and Horizons, with Liko's story, may build up and what its finale may be. While both Journeys and Horizons are multi-region and doing their own thing, they do take story elements and plot beats from SwSh and SV respectively, especially with Ash's and soon to be Liko's finale. Ash's finale in his Journeys story (and his story overall) was the Masters 8 Tournament in Wyndon, ending off with a grand final battle between him and Leon with Ash emerging victorious, mirroring SwSh. Liko's story already has the pendant, which we now know is Terapagos, as a major plot point, and the finale of her story in Horizons may have its climax take place in Area Zero, especially with Liko taking down the Explorers and maybe AI Sada/Turo will be involved as well alongside Koraidon and Miraidon, and of course Terapagos, in some sort of climax that will establish Liko as the new hero of legend and a legendary herself, much like how Ash himself ended off his story becoming the World Champion, the strongest battler who ever lived. I'm definitely very interested in how both SV's DLC and Horizons will pan out in that regard and what kind of story they're trying to tell with Area Zero and its mysteries in both the games and the anime at present.

Lots of rambling but there you go.

#pokemon #anipoke #pokemon 2019 #pokemon 2023 #pokemon horizons #pokemon journeys #ash ketchum #satoshi #pokemon liko #liko #liko pokemon #pokemon scarlet and pokemon violet #the hidden treasure of area zero #pokemon sword and shield #pokemon sword and shield expansion pass #scarlet and violet dlc #scarlet and violet #sword and shield #swsh #sv #pokemon sv dlc #terapagos #archaludon #dipplin

[blazichu]

When they inevitably add DLC to S/V, it’s almost certainly going to have to do with the tree house and/or the geodesic dome we see but never visit. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a matter of ‘tree house in scarlet, dome in violet’.

Second prediction (which is actually my first prediction from months ago, when it was confirmed S/V wouldn’t feature any returning characters) is that said DLC will have returning NPCs, because they had to specify that the main story didn’t.

#i'm beyond the point where i can believe that they won't pull the expansion pass bullshit again #the handling of pla/daybreak would give me hope #but the teams are completely separate #so who's to say #pokemon fugue tag

[snowflop]

I have a few things to say about the direct but they're all overshadowed by the announcement of a sequel(?) to one of my favourite games of all time, Fantasy Life for the 3ds, that looks soul crushingly disappointing. My disappointment is immeasurable and my direct is ruined.

#why does it look like animal crossing what have you DONE!!! #look how they massacred my boy #i'm miserable desolate and inconsolable how could this happen to me #that aside really dlc heavy direct huh #like the fire emblem dlc... i haven't bought it yet it'll depend on how much extra story they add in wave 4 #splatoon dlc is... fine i guess um #i wish it wasn't split in half AND the first half is just a cosmetic swap for the square #like YEAH i like inkopolis WAY more then splatsville but not enough to pay for juuuust that y'know #Marina backstory is interesting but... hopefully theres more then just that I'm not overly invested in her past tbh #uuuhhhh what else GBA games fucking FINALLY but it's expansion pass only pain and suffering on planet earth #idk if i wanna play fe7(6? idk which one that was and i don't wanna go check) that badly to give them the extra dough.... #if they add more fe games though or god forbid pokemon ones I will succumb 100% sorry #wish they'd just sell them to me though orz #in terms of new games the only one that stuck out to me was... Fashion Dreamer i think was the title? looks fun can't wait to try it #nintendo #snow blogging

[wevelocityteampresents-blog]

Playing Pokémon Stadium on Nintendo Switch Online - Nintendo 64 is like playing an emulated version on some web browser.

At the rate they’re going, Nintendo would be better off re-releasing the bootleg Pokémon Stadium for Nintendo Switch Online - Sega Genesis.

#youtube #pokémon #Pokemon Stadium #bootleg #Sega Genesis #Nintendo #Game Freak #Creatures Inc. #At least with this version #you get to hear some nice renditions of Japanese Pokémon songs #But in all seriousness #DON'T buy the Expansion Pass #Nintendo has done a lot of scummy things #but this definitely takes the cake as their worst caper yet

[n8-istockphoto]

We’re live with our Pokemon Sword Shiny-Locke!

#pokemon #nuzlocke #pokemon sword #shiny-locke #pokemon sword and shield expansion pass #twitch #cobrastryke lightningbolt

[emotionallyunstablegamer]

(932) I remembered almost every detail of this game. What a simple fun little adventure and a unique take on on-rail "shooting" need to go finish the sequel. Had a ton of fun with Anna and my nephew.

#932 #zacks #big #list #sept #2021 #2022 #july #pokemon #snap #n64 #switch #expansion pass #emulation

[bogleech]

I completely missed that a Mortasheen book was getting kickstarted! What's the best way to get updates on that? Is there some way to sign up for a bogleech.com news letter? I don't want to miss when it comes out

Oh it was kickstarted three years ago, but with the intention of coming out in only one year. A lot of stuff happened :( It's a tabletop RPG that's actually been in development by other folks for now a grand total of I think 15 years, with me just being the art and concept side. I was never really let in on 90% of that development or what caused it to go on that long but now I have enough stuff together that I should be able to get the book out for real in 2024, with the help of the remaining gameplay dev Morgan Mullins, a huge boost of additional development help from @gutsygills, and a dozen different artists I've paid to contribute.

Having sunk so much of my life into it, I won't make it at all possible for people to miss when it comes out. It's basically the thing I have to bank on as my main career for the foreseeable future, the first book is only intended as the start of a series of expansions, it'll have its own official website and get pitched to actual gaming stores. I've been really sweating to make it look as professional-ish as possible.

Like the core D&D books it will have to be fairly pricey, we're looking at 200-300 pages, but I'd also put out much cheaper digital versions, and maybe little skinny "monsters only" books for people who just want to look at those :)

The stats/abilities on these pages are already a little out of date, the gameplay system had some last minute updates following a lot of backer playtesting!

I dunno how many people reading this have maybe never heard of Mortasheen yet but it's a horror-comedy flavored homage to Pokemon and Digimon set in a world sort of like ours, thousands of years from now where there's goofy monsters and mutants and biotech while humans are very rare and endangered. Actually the setting most similar to it now is Adventure Time of all things, if it had a whole lot more body horror and no magic (but lots of biotechnology indistinguishable from it). But when development of this game began, Adventure Time was just that weird short pilot Nickelodeon passed up on. Now it will be coming out after Adventure Time had a finale, sequel movies and the first season of a followup series. It has literally taken more than an entire Adventure Time to get this done :( I did not mean for an answer to an ask to go on this long but it occurs to me as important information for my followers in general!!!

#mortasheen

[spinjitsuburst]

prime empire thoughts yes please

1- the world of prime empire overall. what are your ideas about it?

I personally they should've played with the ideas of invisible walls or show us how far the game actually expended. idk maybe that's just me but like the world of prime empire in its whole looks overlooked jgsjgl like there's so much you can do.

I also wanted so bad someone from the outside to interfere with the coding or something as well idk WHY DID WE GET SO LITTLE WITH A SEASON AROUND VIDEO GAMES

2- what are you thoughts about scott? (also does he play a big role in cabinet man? (since you also requested asks about cabinet man))

Cuz I think he is greatly underrated in prime empire (but yknow maybe that's just me)

3- jay's skin. I want all your thoughts about jay's skin. Superstar Rockin Jay should've lasted for much longer or at least become a gag in the future (or yknow the fact that there was a cult created out of it)

anyway yeah I like this season a normal amount. Toootally fine with how they handled it.

Can't wait to read your thoughts about it all ( ouo)

GJHJSHFJKGHJKFDSGH HOOOOO BOY

Ideas about the world of Prime Empire as a whole

OHOHO I HAVE SOOOO MANY MY FRIEND

first of all, most if not all the NPCs have some degree of sentience. That's an idea that I think should've been driven more home by the show itself but Blazey and Okino are not the only characters in the game that have free will and the ability to think for themselves. I believe this so wholeheartedly.

Prime Empire was split into different areas that I wish were explored more (honestly a lot of this season boils down to "I wish it were explored more"): Terra Technica, Terra Karana, and Terra Domina. Terra Technica obviously is the biggest area, with the entry point for players entering the game, the Speedway Five-Billion, Scott's Garage and Jay's Club, and at least one other area for the Dance Competition mini-game. I also think this would be where most of the shops run by NPCs in the game would be.

I think most NPCs reside in this area. To really hammer home the fact that they are PEOPLE, not just assets in the game, I think they have homes within the city. Y'know how in Pokemon games (except ScarVi rip) you can just walk into people's houses and there's NPCs inside? Yea it's like that. Except the NPCs leave the houses and explore as well because they have their own thoughts and lives.

Maybe it's just cuz I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom non-stop and it's taken over my brain but I think about the open-worldness of Prime Empire in a similar manner. You can pretty much go anywhere and do anything within the world of Prime Empire. You can scale buildings (if you have the skills unlocked for it) and find secrets everywhere. And most things respawn at certain intervals so players have the chance to pick them up. Kind of like a MMOPRG sorta vibe

BUT there is a sort of thing like you mentioned above - invisible points that you just can't pass. Like the place is enclosed by some giant wall you can't see, and doesn't let you pass through. If you TRIED you would just be running in place basically, never actually getting anywhere. You can see things beyond where stuck at, but they're just for show - there's nothing actually there to interact with, it just gives the guise of depth.

Basically Prime Empire is meant to feel endless, expansive, big, real, until the reality crashes in that it definitely isn't. And sure most people wouldn't care and would have fun playing anyways, but for those who aren't interested after this illusion is broken for them, discover that hey. How do you get out of here again?

Oh right.

They can't.

And that's when people start kinda freaking out. Which I imagine then Jay or the League of Jays step in to try and calm them down and get them to relax and have fun anyways while Jay waits for the rest of the ninja to arrive.

2. Thoughts about Scott and his role in the Cabinet Man AU!

OHHH MAN I LOVE SCOTT DUDE YOU'RE RIGHT HE'S SO UNDERRATED i think he's a super fascinating character to consider in Prime Empire. Given that Unagami clearly had a plan to cube a bunch of players for his portal, he definitely would've come after Scott first. When did Scott figure this out? Did Scott and Unagami interact in-person before this? How was Scott able to evade Unagami long enough to set up his garage's stealth barrier? He's so so so interesting to me

He's clearly a kind person who wants to help people to some degree (sneaking Jay into the garage with him in the shorts, letting Jay run his club from his garage, inevitably sacrificing himself so the ninja can get away, etc.) but he's also very wary and unwilling to risk himself in a lot of ways. He and Jay clearly come to care about each other to some degree in canon, given Jay seems fairly protective of him

and Scott trusts Jay enough to let him into his personal and secret place

LIKE I DON'T THINK THAT GETS TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH. NOT ONLY DID SCOTT AGREE TO HELP JAY HIDE OUT FROM UNAGAMI BUT HE LET HIM RUN AN ENTIRE CLUB OUT OF A SECRET TUNNEL CONNECTED TO HIS GARAGE

there was no reason for Scott to have done either of these things. Was it desperation because Jay's the first person Scott's seen in 30 years? Maybe. But clearly they care about each other to some degree

as for in the cabinet man AU! Jay considers Scott an older brother type figure. He, Scott, and Unagami actually got along well when Scott first got sucked into the game (the game is a lot newer than it is in the actual show given that Jay was 8 when he entered and there is no way he was in there for 30 years lmao, Jay would've been around 16 when Scott entered the game, Scott being 18 or 19, and Jay was around 21-22 when the ninja enter the picture). Unagami was excited to prove himself and give Scott a fun game experience, after all. But y'know, once Milton Dyer realized what happened.... things soured.

Jay and Scott were pretty much on the run together from then on. They care a lot about each other and Jay's extra devastated when Scott gets cubed. Once Jay and Scott leave the game, Scott takes time to rediscover life and reunite with family, but the two stay in close contact and see each other on a weekly basis for a while. Scott's still one of the first people Jay will reach out to if he needs help or advice with something not-ninja related

3. SUPERSTAR ROCKIN' JAY AAAAAAA

okay okay okay okay so obviously you and i met through skybound content so just in case you don't know yet

i'm. a little. unhinged. about superstar rockin' jay

i have so many thoughts about jay's avatar ranging from "this is my Gender and i want to look like a fucking lego" to "WHY DIDN'T NINJAGO LET HIM KEEP ASPECTS OF THIS" to just white noise in my brain and in the center of that white noise is me rotating his minifigure in my mind

HE'S SO COOL!!! HE'S SO COOL AND I LOVE HIM AND HIS DESIGN IS INCREDIBLE LIKE OKAY okay okay okay okay blue and yellow are contrasting colors that mesh REALLY well together and I think the glamrock persona with stars and triangles and shit looks super incredible and it's just a really nice and appealing design and I think that Jay would have like a v-tuber avatar of SSR Jay after the game cuz like LOOK AT HIM. THIS IS PEAK HEGHHAGJFHKGJKJHKJFHGKJFG god im so normal

this is why people call me the ceo of superstar rockin' jay. that design is every aesthetic of mine mashed into one. i'm so obsessed with this design it consumes my core being.

at the end of the day i too. am superstar rockin' jay

i lost track of the point of this question uhhhhhhhh OH YEA I WISH THEY'D LIKE. BRING IT UP MORE OFTEN LIKE JAY WAS AN IN-GAME IDOL!! HE WAS A PERFORMER!! DID HE HAVE FANS??? IS THERE SUPERSTAR ROCKIN' JAY MERCH???????? he should exist outside of prime empire screams

anyways this was a lot of words i love prime empire i love prime empire so much it's so good and more people need to talk about it please please lpease

#HAT BLESS YOU FOR THIS ASK EHHEHE I LOVE INFODUMPING ABOUT THIS SEASON AAAAAAAAAAAA #runs around in circles #this season is everything to me #jay #jay walker #prime empire #ninjago #superstar rockin' jay #spinjitsu screams #ask #cabinet man au #lego ninjago

[howlingday]

Pokemon AU Ozpin hated dealing with Ultra Beasts just another threat to deal with but at least they are so uncomfortable even Salem has given up trying to tame them and Guzzlord is the most dangerous of them all so when Jaune showed off a white and gold Guzzlord he just caught saying how they match he almost reincarnated from the shock because of course beings from other dimensions love him.

"I guess this is good-bye, Gulpy." Jaune sniffed as he handed the ball containing his recent friend over to Ozpin. "I hope the island they send you to is full of enough food to feed you."

"You have my word, Mr. Arc, that... Gulpy will not want for anything." Ozpin stated from brhind his desk. I understand that you will miss them fondly, and they will miss you all the more. But his appetite is too great for us to be able to nutritionally satiate, so we shall send him to an appropriate location where he can eat his fill."

"Okay." Jaune wiped the tears from his eyes as he stared at the ball, before leaning down and pecking it's shell with a kiss. "I-I'll miss you, Gulpy."

Jaune turned away, then ran after he was past Ozpin's threshold. Glynda stepped forward with the crate open in hand. Disciplinarian and Longest Memory exchanged a look, then both gazed through the wall, following an outside entity until it was through the floor.

"I wish you wouldn't lie to him." Glynda said as Ozpin placed the ball inside. "Though I fear the truth may be more painful for him to bear."

"Our enemies are great and numerous, Glynda, and our allies moreso the fewer." He sighed and gazed out to the setting Sun. "Guzzlord is too powerful a Pokémon to be trusted, especially in the hands of a child. One moment, it is a friend, and the next, it and the entire world, including it's trainer, are swallowed into it's ever expansive belly."

"I suppose you are right." Glynda shut the crate, the sticker reading to say, 'Deliver To: The Grimmlands'. "The truth would be all the more harder for him to understand."

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Jaune hardly slept that night, or a few nights after, without sobbing at the thought of his newest friend, Gulpy. He hugged his Pokémon a little tighter, much to the chagrin of Crocea Mors, and swore he would never let them go. A week had passed since his parting, and Jaune slept a little easier. When asked, he would give a sad smile and reply, "Well, I'd hate to think what Gulpy would think about me being sad. So I have to be happy, because I know I'll see him again some day."

#rwby #rwby au #ozpin #jaune arc #glynda goodwitch #guzzlord #pokémon #pokémon au #rwby pokémon au

[doubleddenden]

Just for fun, I'm going to make an absolute WORST CASE scenario for Pokemon day (with sillies)

Pokemon decides to announce NFTs (they did put out a job listing for an NFT expert months ago)

Pokemon merch that's just more overpriced garbage. Shitty pastel tshirts that just have the pokemon logo stamped on the left breast area- $50, only goes to size XL.

Pokemon Go has way too much screen time for yet another Kanto fest

Pokemon Masters, Unite, and Cafe just won't end their trailers.

New tv show that's just a vague reality show about celebrities that liked Pokémon once, and it's more of an episodic celebrity biography show with one line or two about Pokémon. Not even fun ones, C tier at best. So, something like T@yl*r Sw*ft's boyfriend's football career, but one line about playing Blue for a few hours at his cousin's house.

Pokemon Home fees will increase

Pokemon Bank will close TODAY

Port of Red, Blue, Gold, Silver, Ruby, and Sapphire to NSO- you have to pay for online to access it over cloud- internet connection required, and for some reason you have to pay extra for them in a Pokémon exclusive expansion pass. No word of third versions. Does not include the events or Japan exclusives.

Black and White 1 remakes announced. It's chibi like BDSP, colors are dry and washed out, there's graphical errors in the trailer frames, they state BW2 specifically is not part of the remake, they promise tweaks to make the gameplay EASIER than ever. Parts of the game are made with AI and script rewritten by Chat GPT, with an error you spot easily in a trailer. Masuda has the remake game director's neck clenched tightly from the back. He looks at you and says "you will buy the games this time. This isn't a request." Japan pre-order exclusives are amazingly crafted Reshiram and Zekrom statues that even have light up tails and eyes, and also you get shiny versions of them only in the Japanese copies, US gets a cheap piece of paper with generic stock images of Pikachu and Charizard on it, everything is shiny locked for everywhere not Japan.

They tease a Legends game. You think it's going to be amazing, you think oh my god we're getting Legends Unova... wait, it looks Japanese, maybe LEGENDS CELEBI???...it's Legends......... KANTO, and it's the most gorgeous thing you've ever seen after the clear lack of care put into their non gen 1 games since the Switch launched. A selling point is, once again, no new Pokémon after the og 151 so older fans can enjoy it better. Your starters are Charmander, Charmander, and Charmander, you might encounter Bulbasaur and Squirtle in post game. Your job is to stop EEEVIL outsiders from the rest of the regions with their newer Pokémon from settling into Kanto. Johto is having an awesome party next door with all the regions invited, but there's been a convenient landslide blocking the only way over. It's just reskinned Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee. Professor Oak is your age and putting moves on your mom.

Features a mythical Pokémon based on depression that looks like a tiny salary man, comes with its own movie featuring Ash as a depressed Millenial realizing he peaked at 10. He has to get a job. Pikachu is dying of old age and Ash has to "grow up" and release him and all of his other still living Pokémon. It cuts to real life, and Pokémon was just a game he has been playing for years to cope with his parents' divorce and eventually his own with Misty, then May, then Dawn, then Serena, then Goh, etc. Ash's dad is finally revealed: it's Chris Pratt with bad cgi wrinkles, back with milk. They go to the arcade to play Mario to stomp on some................................................................................................................................................................................... KOOPAS.

"Well that's all. Oh wait, one more thing!"

Ed Sheeran and T@yl*r Sw*ft music video featuring 1 Pikachu in a frame that can be easily edited out, with a song not even about Pokémon. The song sounds like shit and is about another breakup.

There, the bar has been lowered to the floor. It cannot get worse.

#pokemon #pokemon day

[lanibgoode]

kids are gearing up for the pokemon scarvi expansion pass stuff in anticipation for getting it for christmas and i stg, pcs and pokemon end up inside walls so often instead of scarlet violet it should have been pokemon fortunato and pokemon montresor

[necromancy-enthusiast]

Power creep in pokemon is so funny, I finally evolved my galarian slowpoke into slowbro and it has a signature move called 'shell side arm' that inflicts physical or special damage depending on whichever is more effective against the target, and it also may poison the target, plus his attack and special attack stats are both pretty good anyway. Damn...

And of course there's all the pay to win *cough* I mean expansion pass legendaries like ershifu and calyrex, but everyone always brings those up.

#necro plays pokemon

[gamenu]

          At the edge of a cliff nearby their camp, a certain rider sits, holding the egg to her chest while she stares out at a vast expanse of stars. Stars that look nothing like the ones back home; she cannot even find the twinkling Sapphire Star, the holy light which guided her ancestors to new lands. Constellations Mari cannot make out or recognize . . . stripes and arms of galaxies so unlike her own. Humming a lullaby, not just to the egg, but to herself, she ponders quietly.

                                                  -- @rathalascendant

          After making sure all the Pokemon were fed and the younger ones were off to sleep, Nicole had taken notice that Mari wasn't in the camp anymore. It wasn't hard to find her, and she didn't go far. It was easy to pick out another human among the starlight.

          It's with a soft, gentle sigh that she goes out and sits next to Mari. Quiet at first, before looking up to the same stars she was looking at. Just listening to the little lullaby that Mari was humming. It was. . .calming.

          With a moment or so passing, she reaches up and points to one of the constellations. One of the ones closest to her.

         ". . .this one is tha Milotic constellation. See? From this star point. . ." Nicole points at one end, and then trails her finger in almost an elongated snake like fashion. "Ta there. I's by far considered one o' tha most beautiful Pokemon ever. One tha' inspired a tonna paintin's an' fashions."

          Letting her hand rest back on her lap, she smiles at Mari. Of course the stars aren't the same as for her back home. . .but nonetheless, Nicole wanted to let her know she'd listen, she cares, and if it helped Mari process and cope with everything more, they could talk more about her home and stuff.

         "--Wha' kinda constellations do youse have at home?"

#rathalascendant #༼ 🌟 open your messages! ༽ #༼ 🌟 Breeder Nicole would like to battle!!!: Pokémon ༽

[theinstagrahame]

It's time for the Monthly-ish Mail Call Hype Post!

Another set of awesome games I've gotten in the mail, and why I'm hype about them. Because people out there making rad stuff and I'm super into it!

It was a pretty big month. A lot of stuff arriving coincidentally at the same time, not all from crowdfunds, but still a really exciting collection. Let's dive in!

Beam Saber: I've played this one, and just started a campaign. Plus listening to Friends at the Table play it in Partizan (Which I legitimately cannot recommend highly enough). Mech Anime Forged in the Dark! It's genuinely a fantastic game.

Coriolis: A friend in a Discord server was clearing some room on their shelves before moving, and offered a few titles up. I wound up with three of them, this and the next two. Initially, they told me the box would only fit two, so I debated between Coriolis and DCC, and ultimately picked Coriolis because the sci-fi universe it takes place in seemed unique compared to what I've really experienced. An exploration-driven, Middle Eastern-inspired universe sounded really fascinating.

Dungeon Crawl Classics: I first became aware of DCC early in my TTRPG career, and was honestly mostly intrigued by DCC because of its use of Weird Dice; D3s and D5s and whatnot. I've heard mostly good things about it, and haven't done nearly enough Dungeon Crawling in my day, so I was quite pleased when it turned out this would also fit in the Discord Friend's "get it out of my house" box!

Last Fleet: This was the game I'd wanted from the pile. I'd recently backed Wreck this Deck, also by Black Armada, and have played Flotsam. I was intrigued by the pitch for this one, so it was the definite from the Discord friend.

Hull Breach: Mothership took the indie RPG scene by storm, and this book looked fantastic. I still haven't played Mothership, but honestly having this makes it feel like I could just about pick it up and throw anyone in. It's packed with scenarios and extra content, in a really great package.

Animon Story: I've been searching for the right Pokemon-themed RPG for a while. Too many of the ones I have seen spend a lot of time on the combat system, which I honestly find the least exciting part of the franchise. I want to explore and meet cool little guys. I confess I haven't read this one, but what I've heard of it sounds way more inspiring than most of the ones I've looked into.

The Hexcrawl Toolbox: I have The Bottled Sea and the Undying Sands from Games Omnivorous (Plus Vaults of Vaarn and Isle of Ixx). This box looks like an incredibly expansion of those ideas, and it's such a great package.

Enoch's Wake: Big fan of R. Rook games, ever since I had Richard on my (defunct) podcast to play a session of Moonlight over Roseville Beach. Enoch's Wake is a fresh take on a science-fantasy setting, and I really wanted to dig in and check it out more.

Sanctuary and Sentinel: I've followed Meghan Cross' work in the scene for a while, and it's all great. I love stories about lone sentinels guarding something long beyond the point of its relevance, and listening to how the two games intersect on Party of One really sold me that the Kickstarter had been a good investment.

The Book of Gaub: I will admit, I fall straight into peer pressure. I've heard about the Book of Gaub, heard all good things, and was really intrigued by the premise. It's honestly not even a game supplement per se, as much as it could function as an in-world text and concept, with annotations to make it usable in a game. The writing is fantastic, the art is great, and I really can't wait to find an excuse to bust it out. (I may or may not be trying to squeeze it into that Beam Saber campaign...)

Aberrant Reflections: Another that I'd heard really good things about, but also I had heard the words "puzzle dungeon" used pretty close to it, so I absolutely could not pass it up. It's been a great year for adventure content, so I am intrigued to get stuck into this one.

A Butterfly Dies and Cocoxoca: Primal Quest grabbed my attention because I don't feel like we see a ton of work in the stone age setting. A Butterfly Dies seemed like a really interesting premise, drawing on Mexican myths and murals to give a perspective on that world that I hadn't seen before. Cocoxoca was a pamphlet adventure that I thought would make a fantastic add-on.

Viva la Queer Bar: As someone starting to explore their queer identity, this was honestly a no-brainer. I'm honestly hoping this could be my first Descended from the Queen game played (I've got For the Queen, and have flipped through the cards, but still haven't brought it to the table). Again, heard incredible things about this game, so can't wait to check it out.

Guild: I did say earlier that I've not gotten enough dungeon crawlers in my background. I've been kicking around some Discords with Disaster Tourism in them, and have been watching this grow with interest. It came with so much stuff I really had to, packed a lot into two zines, a bookmark, and a tearaway pad.

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