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anon i see your ask and i would like you to know i am going bbbbrbbrbrbbrbrbbrbbbbbrbbbb (positive !!!)

probably gonna take a while to draft a good answer for you but do know i am thinking abt it so much :]

#chatter #eheheheheh :] #thank u for asking me about one of my silly little guys #ily platonically 🫶 #made my day

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oh ive got some art sitting around from a while ago i can post. friends and i are back in battlecat oc hell with our own little headworld clans, i can share my guys from it

so here’s Bitternpaw, apprentice of RustClan

Bittern here would be the angsty teen who’s part of the protag party and maybe gets some POV in the arc. Generally apprentices become warriors at around 14-16 moons of age, but at 17 1/2 moons old Bitten hasn’t gotten approval for eir final assessment. For this slight she blames:

1: The leader she grew up under, Lionstar, who only took interest in his son and neglected any duties that didn’t serve his own ego.

2: The current leader, that spoilt son Brindlestar, who despite being two moons younger that Bittern became leader through nepotism and his father’s death. Bittern has such a one sided rivalry with him. He barely notices her and she’s so fucking pissed. Seething.

3: Her parent in the clan, who decided coupling with a contentious warrior from an enemy clan was a good idea, as was only revealing their disloyalty in the midst of Bittern’s apprenticeship. Ey thinks perhaps Lionstar purposefully ‘forgot’ to give em a warrior ceremony, to shun and ostracize em much like eir peers did. Clan tension is quite high at this point of time, skirmishes and worse have been common for years.

Though Bitternpaw had never given a reason to doubt her loyalty (beyond flimsy blood relation), she’s growing quite disillusioned with RustClan. When a prophecy incites some apprentices from the three clans to venture out beyond their territories, Bittern chooses to go with them despite not receiving any call from StarClan. Ey’s older than the other paws and so finds herself taking responsibility like she’s an older sister to them.

#my art #my characters #image #alt text #warriors oc #cats #eir parent isnt a terrible person and doesn’t deserve All of the anger bittern has for them #they had a decent relationship until the secret came out and bittern wants nothing to do with them now #it’s Complicated #bittern doesn’t like ANYBODY in her clan. except for younger cats who are uninvolved. #and her mentor who’s tried to stand up for her but she lashes out at them in her frustration and they’ve quit putting up with it #not Everyone is against her but enough clanmates are that she’s written off all of them regardless #leaving the clan for a journey allows her to start fresh and reconsider her options

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Terror Ball new intel | Nov 20 2023

CHANGE LOG:

1: The storm has intensified yet again. This week we see it shift into a new hue, Green. We saw it enact player stat increases, much like it’s counterparts in (Dark) Cyan, (Dark) Purple, and Crimson rain. We have yet to confirm the differences in how these varying colours behave. Weather reached Torrential several times in todays games, but did not cross over into Nor Easter.

2: This set of games was our first best-of-three series! In Terror Ball so far, it’s typical that each match is simply one game, with the winner moving on to contest the winner of the next match in a 3 game tournament. We’re starting our first best-of-three tournament for a total of 9 games spread out between several streams, where each match will play three games to determine who moves on. All three games will be played regardless of if a team has already guaranteed their success with 2 wins by the second game. If a team can win all 3 games, they would receive a special prize.

It was determined in this weeks games that the prize of this tournament will be a pitching increase, much to the chagrin of the Board Walkers, who had their potential stadium on offer but lost the vote. They would be the final team to get a stadium.

3: N.E.R.D. Games Manager Gina cryptically posted “More? I think more. You want more?” This was followed by a fan vote between an ace of spades card and a two of spades card. Ace won the vote, and we saw today that each team gained a new secondary pitcher! Pitchers will now rotate every game, with one pitching and batting and any others simply observing the game from the stands. Here’s a quick look at the new pitchers and their pitching stats as of the start of the games. For a closer look, head to terrorball.io

5: Lawyers.

GAMES NEWS:

There were some errors this series, of the tricky buggy sort rather than the ‘fumbling balls and slipping on the field’ sort. Gina did her best to whip up some quick fixes between games, but the temporal shenanigans and other such things managed to evade her. What can you do, sometimes the players simply decide to swing again after striking out and it can’t be helped. The Comfort Inning Cranes stadium was extra cozy today, with even opposing batters having gentle, lovely dreams when they took a snooze.

In this first best-of-three, we saw our new pitchers in play! Fandango and Aldrich pitched the first game, which was won by the Cranes with a score of 9-2.

The second game saw familiar pitchers Ava Jayonut and Shepherd Wheat take the mound again, in a game that was again won by the Cranes with a clutch home run by Ava in the bottom of the fifth inning to take the lead, final score 8-7.

Much action occurred in the final game. There had been some discussion of someone by the name of Germa (pronounced Jerma) at the start of the second game. Gina came to realize that this Germa was “Another [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. Just like ours with [REDACTED] [REDACTED] as the [REDACTED].” She got in contact with them to invite them to our final game, which they accepted.

Umpire Germa (pronounced Jerma) took the mound for the Al Dente in the third game of the series, while Fandango returned for the Cranes. With the help of Germa and their home stadium‘a irresistible meatballs, the Al Dente took the final game in an upset with a dramatic final score of 13–21.

POST-GAME RESULTS AND FINAL NOTES:

The Sleepy Hollow Cranes with two wins advance to face the winners of the next series,

Apple Barons v Board Walkers best-of-three, occurring on November 22nd at 7pm EST at TerrorBallLive on Twitch

Unfortunately, poor Raul Lorem, beloved player of the Cranes, was chosen to sacrifice some of their skill in an attempt to appease the storm. They will be sharing this burden with a player from the Apples/Walkers set of games, so hopefully neither player will be too negatively impacted. Best of luck to them both o7

We did learn via Gina’s bluesky account what previous occupation Raul held before becoming a TBall player, which is that they were a fire lookout. Very interesting.

Lastly, in personal news… after attending several weeks of games, this [REDACTED] is finally taking home a caught ball. The a home run in the first inning of the third game 🎉! Great work from beloved Cranes player Sophia Kettle. Though we did not with the final game and thus the potential special bonus treat, players from both teams gave it their all and that must be commended!

That’s all for now, as I set my prized ball amongst my possessions. Signing off.

#terror ball #chatter #image #alt text #long post #i’d put a readmore but tumblr hates when i have images under a readmore #i don’t want to bother trying to wrangle tumblr into working without deleting/duplicating anything #if you see any typos or important things i missed. no you don’t 💕

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broke artblock temporarily today to draw an icon for my friends’ MotW game (dm’d by @skies-seas, who made the first draft of this guy’s design). A cormorant demon businessman, father of one of the PCs (Solas, @lupathemoth ), who made his first proper appearance today (but i was in the process of drawing this icon so he had a placeholder for this time)

also as a bonus, the same PCs pet raven, Raum, after being let outside in the Seattle rain and having a bad time about it. so so so sad and wet. sopping wet beast. miserable. give treats rn. rn.

#friend stuff #others’ art #others’ ocs #there he is :] #i didn’t wanna lose the cormorant beak/bare skin shape so i didn’t push the mask look as much as i would have liked #which is a shame it’s such a cool idea

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broke artblock temporarily today to draw an icon for my friends’ MotW game (dm’d by @skies-seas, who made the first draft of this guy’s design). A cormorant demon businessman, father of one of the PCs (Solas, @lupathemoth ), who made his first proper appearance today (but i was in the process of drawing this icon so he had a placeholder for this time)

also as a bonus, the same PCs pet raven, Raum, after being let outside in the Seattle rain and having a bad time about it. so so so sad and wet. sopping wet beast. miserable. give treats rn. rn.

#my art #others’ ocs #friend stuff #ttrpg #birds #the raum drawing is ref’d off of that one photo of canuck the knife crow bc i was envisioning how round he is there #and the Stance #but a sad soggy version of it #anyway i love drawing birds #turns out i’ll come out of art block to draw birds

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also recently i had the pleasure of catching Kitty sleeptalking, something i’ve only heard once or twice before

[Video of a longhaired black cat with white markings, comfortably asleep in a bed. Periodically, he lets out soft meows that move his whole flank, while his ears twitch. He receives some gentle scritches on the head, and stops meowing. He does a big stretch of his front legs and spine, then returns to his original position, unbothered.]

#chatter #video #video described #audio #cats #he twitches in his sleep pretty often but talking is rare #he’ll flex his whiskers and twitch his paws and flick his ears

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a new silly sleeping position from Kitty

#chatter #image #alt text

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Terror Ball new intel | Nov 11 2023

We learned two new past occupations this week!

Jonathan Grolon was* a troublemaker (*did that ever really end?)

Edison Yarucan was a prom queen

As a recap, we learned previously that

Ava Jayonut was a prosthodontist

Guinevere Cheddar was a perfumer

In addition, we have confirmation that the umbrella person stolen away by the Storm in previous weeks is truly lost. We now know of 7 marked gravestones in the stadium known as A Quiet Place, including the four who were taken Off the Table when More Or Less was put into place. RIT

former Apple Baron batter Jolene Shepamary

former Al Dente batter Ana Ottoman

former Board Walker batter Alden Drill

former Cranes batter Emilio Tromuryn

Deborah Ubuntu

Finley Braxton

Umbrella Person

A Quiet Place, despite being won by and built for the Cranes, does not seem to be exclusive to their team. The special game played this week between the losers of the tournament (neither of whom had their own stadium yet) took place here after a vote. Stadium information is shown on the site now, but the Cranes page shows only their older stadium, Comfort Innings, and A Quiet Place is not listed.

Stat offerings continue in an attempt to appease the Storm, but still it intensifies each week. We saw Crimson, Dark Cyan, and Dark Purple today in equal measure, and spent much of the games in Down Pour and Torrential. The weather this week did not ramp up to Nor Easter, however.

#terror ball #chatter #i don’t think we’ve actually seen All of the Off the Table graves #but we’ve definitely seen Jolene and that’s enough to assume all 4 are in there

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ohhhh Walkers. the Storm did not favour you 😔

best of luck with that new infield boost though! you’ll get ‘em next week i’m sure

#terror ball #chatter #image #alt text

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thunderstorm came in suddenly and the second rumble was Sooooo loud and apparently hit the yard next to us and i was very nervous and did a self portrait abt it. and then horses got brought up in some way and i did another self portrait abt it. also i got new glasses today yippee

#chatter #image #coming down off the anxiety. it’s been quiet after that big boom so it’s ok i think #also it’s weird having new glasses. the last lenses i got like 5+ years ago. and the frames i’ve had since i was a kid but they were #getting broken and i needed plastic frames so i got new ones. with the fun magnetic sunglasses as a free bonus #feels weird. LOOKS weird. the edges are very warped #but i can actually read things at a distance further than the length of my body. and even closer objects are sharper than usual #fuckin wild #the height of the ground felt a little wrong. i’ll get used to it tho #plastic frames feel weird. but i was told they’re better when you have super thick lenses #it’s not too bad it’s close enough in shape to my old ones that i can adjust ok

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🎉🎉🎉 we got it

#fallen london #chatter #image #i have had a bad day. followed by a night in which my sllep meds decided not to work so i gave up on rest #but at least ive got The Skull 🎉 #it took several trips to the mirror marches but finally all 5 are in my pockets #and i can get rid of these cursed opportunity cards and have more than one usable slot

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So I want to do a poll for interest checking! I am considering making a discord or possibly starting up a forum for outside of in-game interaction roleplaying. Feed in your thoughts and circulate it!

#fallen london #polls #i think so but i’m anxious about it #i’m used to rp with just one specific friend group #it’s been a while since i’ve branched out and i’m not used to rping in flondon. so i’d be out of my comfort zone #but it sounds fun #i think i’d be willing to try in an organized space #whether forum or discord

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came back from Fruits of the Zee and made an immediate beeline for the Forgotten Quarter. Within my first set of 20 actions I pulled up the fourth eyeless skull out of the five I need for my first trip to Nadir 🎉

#fallen london #chatter #thanks RNG 👍 #can i get one more #it’s been nice to me about this #i’ve been spending all my actions Seeking Curios prior to FotZ #also gaining revolutionary renown through opp cards because i was curious which i’d hit first #definitely gonna be the skulls #i’m just letting nightmares hit 8. going to the mirror marches a couple times is more efficient than downing a bunch of laudanum #+ i don’t have that kind of money

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i’ve been seeing flondon x animal crossing stuff around and i really liked the idea. and then the insp grabbed me by the throat and dragged me out of the mires of art block and exhaustion so here we are !

i wasn’t immediately sure what to do with Mel since i don’t really associate Mel with any particular animals ( i mean Mel has a raven but i don’t think species is Symbolic for Mel). But a wolf fit well enough and then from there this design was soooo easy to put together. very pleased with how Mel’s colour palette translated over

Knoll on the other hand was very easy to pick an animal for (obviously a bat. its their fursona.) but much harder to design? Maybe because there aren’t any animal crossing bat characters so i struggled to figure out the style, especially for their facial features. i’m content enough with this but it took me a while

#fallen london #fallen london oc #image #alt text #my art #my characters #char: philomel #char: knoll #eyestrain cw #any post with knoll gets that tag rip #me staring melancholically at the fun animal crossing au stuff crossing my dash. #like a sad animal on the other side of a window. wanting to participate so bad. and then i remember i’m an artist #maybe i’ll do some sskies guys too. this was fun. i’ve been really struggling lately #gonna have another go at drawing tomorrow. maybe make progress on some planned stuff

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Perseverance! Rookie member of the EEG’s field research team. She’s a nerd-jock newbie who wants her idols to like her sooooooooooo bad.

-> Biology major with a particular interest in ecology! And bugs she likes bugs. And really all sorts of fun crawly invertebrates.

-> Perse is no stranger to the EEG headquarters, she’d been coming here for years before her official admission to the team! With two older relatives to shadow, she got to know a lot of the older members during her frequent visits. She greatly admires all of them.

-> She maintains some terrariums to raise and study copepods and amphipods. As well as several potted plants.

-> Perse has the same level of passion discussing a new and as of yet undocumented species as she does showing off the cute little house moth that almost gave Maven a heart attack.

-> She’s a hobbyist photographer with a Leica 1(A) 35mm. She’s into wildlife photography, and though her work isn’t very technically impressive, you don’t need to be an ace at something to have fun with it!

-> Perseverance maintains that she is NOT a nerd like her cousin, Maven, is a nerd.

-> She’s very athletic and energetic. She enjoys a daily jog, and plenty of exercise both indoors and outdoors. She loves going on hiking or full on camping trips with her uncle Phoenix.

-> She and Phoenix are very close. They’ve got a really easygoing and playful dynamic, with plenty of in-jokes built up between them. Phoenix was a constant in her early life, almost a third parent. He’d often visit to play with her and to babysit so her dads could enjoy a free evening every so often. He still dotes on her as much as Perse will let him get away with, but he respects that she values having a more adult relationship now. Still with plenty of fun, of course!

-> Perse and Maven weren’t really around each other as young kids, but became friends as they got a little older. Maven’s scientific leanings led to Perse finding and developing her own passion for study and exploration. Maven and the rest of her family have been nothing but supportive and nurturing, and she’s grateful for it. But she wants to make sure they know she’s not just a little girl anymore, and she’s ready to be the one offering support when needed.

-> She’s more than willing to get her hands dirty and to do ‘boring’, menial work. Especially if it means the people she looks up to see how diligent and cooperative she is :)

-> Perse is very needlessly competitive, though in a lighthearted sort of way. She doesn’t mind taking a loss, because it’s more about the challenge than the winning. It’s about the thrill. But don’t expect her to go easy on a challenger, because she still plays to win. Game night is a disaster

#image #alt text #my art #my characters #char: perseverance #set: eeg #flight rising #flight rising art #named after the Perseverence rover!! #she technically started this because i hatched her FR version to commemorate the rover’s landing #though Tune is the one who prompted me to generate a story #Perse’s tattoos are inspired by the ‘family portrait’ engraved on the real rover!! #also. Perse might have a sibling since there’s a twin rover to Perseverance named uhh Optimism i think? #if i do make them a character they’ll get a bug tattoo as well. they won’t be part of the EEG tho. they’ll be a background character #which is fitting bc the Optimism rover is for testing purposes and stays on earth #not a Spirit/Opportunity situation

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Maven! Small guy KEENLY aware of the crushing weight of responsibility. Director of Mission Control after Odyssey’s ‘retirement’. Doing their best.

-> Following after their mentor, Maven is the current head of Mission Control, a small team tasked with monitoring the status of expeditions, keeping the portal stable, and maintaining the technological systems that assist in these efforts. Maven’s the one calling the shots. In the case of a hazardous situation, Maven has to make an assessment with what information they have access to and decide what to prioritize. They’re inclined to recall the field team when faced with any untested issue, but the current owners/investors of the whole project aren’t too happy when supplies get wasted ‘for nothing’.

-> In practice they usually just go along with whatever Odyssey advises to the absolute best of their ability. And they Will Not complain.

-> They’re kind of usually too worried about have a personality for the entire duration of a mission. They fixate on the job and fret over it 24/7 until everyone makes it back in one piece.

-> When they can relax, Maven’s got some hobbies. They’re into embroidery, playing niche card and board games, and enjoys science fiction and mystery stories.

-> Their cousin, Perseverance, bullies them relentlessly for being a nerd </3. Even though Perse is the one who writes essays on oscillating genes, or the influences that parasites exert throughout an ecosystem, just for fun, so. >:(

-> Maven and Perse didn’t grow up very close in both a physical, spacial sense as well as an emotional one. Their teens is when they started to connect, when their families moved closer again. Maven babysat fairly often and helped her out with schoolwork, leading to Perse taking an interest in Maven’s aspirations and making them her own.

-> She’s a grown woman now and can look after herself, but Maven’s still worried for her now that she’s joined the team officially. They don’t want to get her killed. But then she goes and pulls some shit to make them reconsider all the effort they’re putting into worrying. Like showing Maven a big fuckoff moth she found by releasing it into their room. Again. (..it was a cool moth though)

-> Maven has to babysit Perse’s terrariums once she starts joining expeditions. Maven does not like crawlies.. but they are committed to upholding the highest standard of care for these creatures. They were reaaaaaally anxious about it the first time, but Perse said they did a great job, and they kind of grew to enjoy it? The feeling of being able to do right by these little animals and keep them safe. They don’t mind it, actually.

-> Maven was just stepping into the leadership role on that fateful day they lost contact with the field team. It was supposed to be straightforward, one of the first missions they’d be commanding with little input from Odyssey, up until it all went very wrong. When the storm hit, they scrambled to manage the crisis. In the time it took to restore communication, Maven was certain they’d gotten three people killed. Instead, they just got one person killed. Like it really makes a difference. They are quite certain that Opportunity’s disappearance and presumed death are their fault and they’re not dealing with it very well.

-> They look up to and respect their mentor a lot and honestly it’s just.. easier to let em overstep and take some responsibility away from them. Maven feels Complicated about it. Relieved, sure. Patronized too. They feel crushed that Odyssey doesn’t seem to trust their ability.. but is e really wrong? They’ve already proven to be inadequate. They’re not sure they’ll ever move past this.

#alt text #image #my art #my characters #char: maven #set: eeg #flight rising #flight rising art #named after the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter! #along with its other objectives it’s utilized as a communications relay for active landers and rovers

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okay, good to know! I think I’m gonna go in on the cruiser, i’ll try a zub on an alt later in the future

I just recently hit PoSI so I’m new to zailing in FLondon, I have enough to pick any FotZ ship I want and I’m eyeing either the Obstinate-class Cruiser or the Nyx-class Zubmersible. @ folks with more experience, do you have any advice? What benefit is there to having a zub/what does the gameplay look like? Is it worth it?

#chatter #fallen london