#vaal rambling

[vaalskra]

me and my partner have been naming the stray cats outside their house. we have our newest son, grand slam. his nemesis and lover, hotdogwater. their third wheel who spends his summers in greece, refried bean. why are all the neighborhood cats intact males.

#vaal rambling #they (my partner) told me today that they loved grand slam #he’s our son now i don’t make the rules

[shimishtar]

i love oc x canon (alsoi made a wrong label for vaal it should've been book 3 IM SORRY 😞😞😞)

Doodles because I have no internet and I miss DF (too busy with college)

Bonus Ylgr (a good friend's hero oc) and her wife, Bolemira.

#dragonfable #vaal #sepulchure #my hero oc!! #john wings or zhejian #bolemira #and my friend's hero oc ylgr #aka probably the only bolemira liker out there #rambles #amadeus #uwaa wyaaaa #SOBS

[joficeandwind]

Monster Hunter is J’s Warrior Cats /lh

Unironically yes.

#j rambles #anon #I want to be a scholar in that world so fucking bad #Imagine being able to dissect a Zinogre or Vaal Hazak

[oasisofgalaxies]

Smashing two of my favorite medias together like rocks

#MHW HERMITCRAFT. THEY ARE THE MONSTERS #this started out with me joking that Joe would be a deviljho #although realistically maybe a mizutsune #and then I started Thinking #Cleo is easy. Vaal Hazak #Grian. hm #kulu Ya ku LMAO #actually he could work as an aknosom #anyways yeah this is gonna live rent free for a bit #nebula rambles

[elendsessor]

ok my favorite kind of elder dragons are the parasitic ones since we actually see what harm they’re capable of doing outside of being told they’re harmful to the environment and i really have to give props to blackveil vaal hazak since he’s easily the best “roaming” elder dragon (aside from the magalas because honestly there was so much done with gore that no elder dragon can stand on the level of showing that domino effect).

see the problem i have with roaming ones is you barely see what they do unless it’s story stuff and worldborne was MASSIVE missed opportunity. they tried remedying this by having extreme weather whenever they’re around (except in the elder’s recess at least it’s insanely hard to tell) but while yeah extreme weather is bad…. it looks way too natural. teostra in particular makes this really obvious by having things in the wildspire wastes look a little warmer. wow so cool clearly a massive problem. we do see what elder dragons are capable of in fights of course but some of it is harder to depict without their own unique arenas. nergigante is the one we see the most but really nergie’s more of the real hero since he actually y’know kills and eats other elder dragons so aside from the affect of potentially scaring some off from their territory he’s the least harmful. and has been fighting them off for years and is what helps regulate elder dragon populations so really the demonization of him is very very fabricated after the initial zorah storyline. only closest one is velkhana but she’s actually pretty passive outside of story stuff. most of the ones in world kinda just mind their own business anyways.

but vaal is built different.

(anyways big ramble beneath the cut)

you can already see the effects of what his presence has brought about the second you get to the rotten vale without even meeting him. effluvium is nearly everywhere and a ton of the small monsters are coated in the stuff which does harm them, and when you do fight vaal you see him fuck up those lil guys repeatedly even outside the introduction cutscene. he also has the best elder dragon theme in world no contest. only problem is that he’s pretty easy??? all he has is the effluvium to prove a real threat so popping on anti effluvium decorations simplifies the entire fight. he moves slow, acts slow, the ai isn’t particularly good, and though he hits hard it is relying heavily on if you have your health cut.

blackveil is somehow infinitely more terrifying than a massive mesh of rotting flesh and is absurdly unique

this is what happens when black mold mixes with cordyceps and it’s so fitting for what vaal hazak is. kinda surprising we haven’t had a fungi based monster until him at least in mainline (might’ve been one that existed before that i’m forgetting). but it’s more than just appearance that makes this thing horrifying. while another chill unless provoked monster, the damage has already been done once you first encounter him.

the entirely of the great forest’s deepest depths are covered in spores and before meeting him you see a bunch of familiar monsters caked in it. the atmosphere is dreary, at least the forest floor choked by sickly mold. he doesn’t even attack you when you finally get the run in, rather moving past you like you were never there. worst part? effluvium resistance doesn’t save you—it only removes one problem. he attacks faster while still hitting hard, each breath spewing more and more of that mold, further covering the foliage and whatever creature is unfortunate enough to be caught in the crossfire, chipping away at your health. you step in the pale patches, you start taking damage at a relatively rapid pace.

then there’s that ultimate move, where blackveil puffs itself up. most elder dragons when they do this call for the player to get as far away as possible. not with him. he covers such a wide range that, unless you farcast, you will get stuck traversing through a sea of spores. the only “safe” space is right beside the beast, aka the last place you want to be, since he can easily hit you.

this is straight up some of the most anxiety inducing stuff in mainline monster hunter and does show that killing it isn’t enough. the spores don’t magically disappear. it sticks, and all you got rid of was the source… until you return to the forest in any quest or expedition he isn’t in, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any threat. that’s just a gameplay thing. thinking on a logistical level, were hunts to have a visible effect within the world, yeah that shit isn’t clearing for awhile.

this is how roaming elder dragon fights should be, and it’s easily the greatest one to come out of post old school monsters.

#sorry i just need to obsess over him for a second #this fight fucking rules #shantien rambles #monster hunter

[hurrakka]

Oh my god. I am obsessed with your Left 4 Dead AU for Leon and Sasha. Is there any fanfics for it yet? I can't get enough!

I also just saw your art of Leon talking to Chris about the Vaal Hazak dragon, and I love the idea that Leon would so be obsessed with playing MHW. Like dude needs a vacation, he shuts off all communication and just binges that game. Who needs sleep? That's his escape from all the shit show that has become his life. He can pick pretty flowers, catch rare creatures for pets and kill monsters without getting thrown around in real life and he can make cool armor with it. (He may or may not even get some ideas on how to fight B.O.Ws using some crazy shenanigans inspired by his own game antics.)

Chris really wants to know why Leon suddenly thinks riding B.O.Ws like a bull is a good idea in the midst of combat. Leon just really wanted to try it in real life. It was just as cool (but a lot more terrifying) as he expected it would be.

Sorry. I'm rambling. I just love your art and all your crossovers for these boys. They're amazing. I can't get enough.

Going back to MHW having an entirely different character as a layered armor is hilarious I can just imagine my hunter on vacation and hires Leon Kennedy to do the work. Guaranteed, he'd have a much better time in the MH verse and do a bunch of goofy shit like knocking a monster out of its powered state w/ a capture net and spam aerial attacks to get more mounts. Since the monhun games are canon within the RE verse, I like to think that he dabbled on on some of em, to the point of even actually trying some tricks on B.OW.s like he did monsters. If giant monster can pin him, let him ride em (and stab em) like a mechanical bull as a treat. He could probably bring oversized hunks of meat laced w drugs to bait zombies and it may actually work lmao. OH and tysm for enjoying my l4d au brainrot. I don't think there are any fics yet? Aside from this one which was a trade I did.

#crossover gang hell yeah #manifesting more of those in mh wilds

[anchanted-one]

Legend of Lightning Chapter 83. The Foundry

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43208574/chapters/118881853

Akahte entered the innermost sanctum after her bodyguard, the brutal Khem Vaal. Or was it Zash, right now? They switched at just the wrong moment, sometimes!

She cast out her Senses, and called out sweetly. “Revan? Revy-poo? Up for a little chat? We loved your little welcome party. Revan? Babe?” She frowned. The madman had harangued her every step of the way, so why was he silent now? She cast her Senses around to look for him, but this kind of tracking wasn’t her forte yet. If someone wanted to hide, she’d never find them.

“What a headache,” she sighed, massaging her temples. “Listen, Revan. If you don’t come out now, I’m going to send Khem in after you. You won’t like it.”

<Give me the order, little Sith,> the Dashade assassin growled. He always looked so angry! <I wish to feast on this deranged Jedi.>

“He’ll probably cause some irritation in your system,” Akahte smiled. “You heard how he rambles, didn’t you?”

She was followed into the room by Andronikos Revol, Ashaara Zavros, Lieutenant Talos Drellik, Lord Vemrin, and Darth Decimus.

“We have seized control of the whole facility,” Lord Vemrin grinned evilly. “The Foundry is ours. All that’s left is taking Revan.”

“Right,” Decimus grunted. “Alive, if possible. I’m sure the Emperor misses his favorite plaything.”

“Such an arrogant lot.” A hooded man materialized out of the shadows. “Congratulations on taking the Foundry. But it comes with a self-destruct, you know. When you overran my last line of defense, I sat to work activating it. You may have saved your foul civilization from oblivion, but you will not use the fruits of my labor to harm the Republic. Never again!”

#star wars #swtor #the old republic #star wars the old republic #star wars fanfiction #swtor fanfiction #jedi knight #hero of tython #sith inquisitor #darth nox #lord kallig #sith warrior #emperor's wrath #revan #the foundry #flashpoint #swtor flashpoint

[somajean]

I am back on my absolute Bullshit and there is nothing but OC lore below the cut

Okay. So. Vampires. I have an OC world. I have original writings and ramblings and things and ✨ jazz hands here ✨ ideas for future content use. But the most important thing I should just. Write down and scream to the void at some point is my Vampires. There are actually 4 distinct species of Vampire, and only two of them are fucking related at all. The other two are just convergent evolution saying hello like the carcanization processes of our world.

With that outta the way? FISH VAMPIRES. SEA DWELLING MFs. The key traits include bioluminescence, scales, androgeny, long "hair" and hermaphroditism. Basically, long long time ago there was a big ass Dragon, right? And it was in charge of the dark. Well, the truest, deepest, darkest place in the world is of course the bottom of the ocean. So deep the sun could never reach. Even the moon was "light reflected" so the surface? Ehhh. Not so useful. Old Dragon fucker was named Vaals, and set about mitigating things that could pass from deep to shallows.

Well some mixing inevitably happens; as it does in water. Sediment finds its level but life constantly evolves. So this siren swims down and she is so sure of herself and so beautiful and so fucking on point. And then she meets. The dragon. And she is NO LONGER the most beautiful thing, because how can you be more beautiful than a singular concept made manifest? She is of course, offended by this. And she tries to illuminate the ol' dreggin. Yeah, no? No. That didn't go too well. It's like staring into the center of an iris, it's not reflective of light. You can light the surroundings but not the actual subject in question.

But she is intelligent and not so scared. And so she's offered to stay. And to hell if this Siren doesn't stay! But she gets lonely with little to do and nothing to lure or torment, even if she can catch her own food. So what's this sea critter do? She talks to the dragon! And the Dragon comes up with a solution. It could lay eggs and suffuse them with her genetic material so she's not so incredibly bored anymore. Give or take a little while for whatever pops out to mature. She's game!

And so, those eggs made the first of the sea vampires- the Met Halla Van. The clutch didn't get individual names, that wasn't a thing they did back then. Even having forms of communication was a total pain because this was like, Cambrian era evolution. They little hatchies grow up, yay, and keep the siren company. And she dies of old age. Which, eventually, was bound to happen. But the little vampires just... didn't. They reached maturity and stayed that way.

A few of them died from sea critters or decompression swimming up or from light, which, understandable. But the numbers were dwindling. So they got together and thought, OK. Being lonely is kinda shit actually. So they lay eggs of their own and fertilize them. And, as it turns out, when your progenitors are a concept made manifest, a fuck load of magic and only one creature's genetic material, you kinda just take after the genetic material part.

So these vampires make a stable deep sea breeding/cycle experiment. They sort of lamprey on big things but by and large are just vibing (tm) with Dragon Parent. But, as time goes on and more foreign material gets introduced into the mix via food, blood, stray magic, etc, the critters start to deviate. The fishies that don't die after hatching look, generally, more and more and more like the bipedal siren than a mix of a dragon and a siren. Some of those little ones have bad fangs, a lack of fins for propulsion, and all that. So there has to be a solution to safeguarding these weird little genetic abominations. The eventual solution was to move up in the northernmost regions and hide directly under and inside ice shelves they started to hollow out.

So the "land walking" fish vampires were referred to as the Van Van Vaals. They can feed off the blood of each other, or fish, or people that wreck ashore into the icebergs. More on that... Later? Later. Different post this one is long enough.

#SJHLore #I'M BACK ON MY BULLSHIT #Sea Vampires #Basically #Fish Vampire #Talking about the origin of some feesh

[siennasproductiveadventures]

Finally got the Monster Hunter Rise demo todaaaaaay!

I am NOT HAPPEH with how insect glaive plays on the Switch at all.  I am quite upset with this because I love glaive.  I love my bugs.  I love flying through the air without a care and being the Mounting Queen.

I am quite enjoying Hunting Horn though.  Hunting Horn has always been my backup weapon for cases when glaive just won’t get the job done in MH World (looking at you, Kushala, you buttshot.)  My sister is also quite enjoying the Light Bowgun.

I buff, she knocks monsters on their butts.  Hell yes.

#sienna rambles #monster hunter #monster hunter rise #also mizutsune killed me like eight times but I finally murdered her and she might be my new favorite so far #Vaal Hazak and Velkhana #I am sorry but I has new love #perhaps we can still carpool

[regalisventi]

back at it again in this krispy kreme with another ll card edit, vaalni is my good son please appreciate-

#my art #vaalni #i saw the new chika card and was just 'oh yeah that'd be a vaal pose' #and then spent a day on this #worth it tho.... im happy with it ovo #i call them card edits despite redrawing everything bc i dont feel like its a redraw when i use the exact pose of the card sdlfkghdfg #card edits are fun tho.... takes a *ton* of time and energy but i like how they look sdfklghd #enough rambling tho pls appreciate #vaal is good.... #he stays positive even with a parasitic demon possessing him #give him hugs he deserves them #my ocs

[fvaleraye]

Tonights DND Session in a Nutshell

A Vaguely Magical Looking Crystal: *exists*

Literally The Entire Party:

#Vaal Rambles #Friend Shenanigans #DND Shenans #it was a fun time asdfkljn

[vaalskra]

cringe posting this. cringe posting that. im gonna start unhinged posting. what then?? what will you do tHEN???

#vaal rambling

[wizzroboe]

Anyway here's wonderwall the team

#using that boss sprite i made because. well why not #Octavo ocs #cadence of hyrule #loz #Pokemon #Pokemon teams #zoro's nickname is vaal for reasons I'm sure you can figure out #ngl it'd be fun to make a poke-au of an au #Delphox Scyther Gengar and Morgrem could fit as the 'champions' Pseudo never had #and they're all just. dynamaxed when the heroes fight them #but when the heroes face him. he not only takes his monsters back. he uses zoroark and ditto to make the fight 3v3 #which means I've gotta mess with ditto-pseudo. beady-eyed pseudo sounds. odd. a bit unnerving #;;roboe ramble #;;more like roboe rambles too dang much

[artnerd1123]

What's their opinions on monsters and questors??

Oh yo interesting question :0

I think they both have sorta similar opinions on the surface! They both kinda sympathize with monsters, and like hanging out around them sometimes. And they both think questors are interesting and pretty good for business!

Now why/how they sympathize and what kind of business… that’s the difference~

Berimont sympathizes because most of them are just livin their lives and trying to do their own thing. He also highly sympathizes with those that want to be closer to the human inhabitants of the world despite any stereotyping. Their striving towards a better world inspires him. He’ll often hang around in forests near the marketplace with the monsters that chill there. And he likes questors bc they get a lot of stuff from his little shop out at the trade market! He loves their stories about their travels, and they usually have a bunch of seemingly “useless” junk from their quests. Makes running the shop fun and profitable for all parties involved :D

Mara, tho, she’s… a lil different. She sympathizes with monsters bc of how a lotta people don’t like them. She loves how some of em push back, take over towns, and give humans what they deserve for being so rude and hateful (bc, unfortunately, bad people exist are are real Heckin mean with stereotypes). She also jus thinks they’re rad. Both in appearance and in general. As for the questors, she can easily pawn off dark objects on them when they’re not looking. If she thinks they’d use one, she’ll slip one into their bags/tents/etc while they’re traveling around. Not to mention the more glory-seeking ones are scarily receptive to these objects. Makes her job much easier ._.

#berimont marbles permutatio #mara permutatio #afw #aaa this was fun ;w; #two tiny lil rambles for the ask!!! #perf ^^ #and gives a lil insight to their general motives/personalities kinda #v noice :0 #thank u vaal!!! #arty asks #birds of odd feather; strange creatures of nether #boof;scon

[sanctum-of-fantasy]

My online activity has dropped....all due to video games and school.

Specifically Final Fantasy 14 and Monster Hunter World and on that note:

Tobi-kadachi, paolumu and legiana are great and I love them~

However the Rotten Vale is nightmare fuel and so is every apex monster down there.

#Anony rambles #Vaal Hazak could give anything nightmares #F u c k that place its hell and death

[caramellody]

If anyone can get me some solid reference images for the electrohammers I would. Greatly appreciate it

#vaal rambles #yeah...i may or may not be thinking of making a prop one