#Ancestral Games

[rawliverandgoronspice]

So beyond the whole "Ganondorf is now Canonically a Femme Fatale" conversation, I feel like this part of the interview wasn't discussed a ton? Because apparently the original vision was that Zelda doubted whether to restore Hyrule at all (an interesting conflict! put it in the game next time!), and then got punched into the past and then seemingly was convinced of the necessity of her role and Hyrule as an entity (I'm extrapolating but it feels like it's what's being suggested, the direction they wanted for her arc, and it's basically what we get in the game).

And uhhh.

that certainly does not help the whole. imperialist. thing.

#totk #totk critical #zelda #thoughts #when will my brain return from the imprisoning war... #the Dreaded Imperialist Debate #because then the game ends up being about “never doubt your divine right to rule! it's your duty to reinforce your ancestral power!!” #and wow does it suck!!! #she's powerful but never does a thing in the entire game #she just drifts gently and is a big crying noodle you can harvest resources (+ sword) from #literally what does she do that's unique to her and doesn't involve assisting somebody else (especially rauru or link) #she doesn't even like.... seal ganondorf #or deal any kind of damage to him #(except badmouthing him to rauru and sonia which does literally nothing and changes nothing) #genuinely zelda deserved such a better arc #everyone deserved so much better

[deroyse]

Art challenge!

I've got a pretty weird idea today 👀

and i'm curious what will come out of it

#ori #ori fanart #ori the game #ori and the will of the wisps #illustration #fanart #art #artwork #ori and the blind forest #art challenge #spirit #ancestral tree

[mrpsychokiller]

Cover artwork for the card game Are you a Werewolf?

scan source

#🧃 #art #werewolf #werewolves #wolves #thats a very sick artwork i found it uncredited on pinterest and was quite surprised to find out its a card game #does sound fun its like ancestral amongus #sourced by me

[greatperharps]

am I living or just waiting for buff studio to release new games

#7 days decide your story #charlie in underworld #underworld office #the ancestral legacy #not exactly a hero #argo’s choice #murders on Budapest #buff studio #games #buff studio games

[vintagerpg]

Can you imagine waiting a fortnight for anything in this day and age? I can’t! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at The Ancestral Trail (1993), a serialized fantasy fiction released in fortnightly intervals in the UK. Every issue a new environment and a new, monstrous foe. It’s a pretty standard, if sometimes surprisingly gruesome, story, but the real draw is the art by Julek Heller. Amazing stuff!

#rpg #dungeons & dragons #roleplaying game #tabletop rpg #d&d #ttrpg #podcast #Ancestral Trail #Julek Heller

[hollow-knight-fights]

Hollow Knight NPC Fight Round 1, Wave 3

#hollow knight #hollow knight game #hollow knight poll #tumblr poll #tumblr polls #tumblr competition #round one #snail shaman #bardoon #forgotten crossroads #ancestral mound #kingdoms edge

[nerevarbean]

Goris the Maggot King, who i only became aware of this morning

#i just visited the venim ancestral tomb page on uesp bc i was doing some research on bolvyn for fic reasons #and then it mentioned this guy and i was like ''how tf have i been playing this game for so long without encountering this guy'' #who has a surprising amount of backstory #morrowind #my art #tes #dunmer #elder scrolls #necromancer #he is summoning a skeleton #i am shocked tho #that the game can have someone with the title of maggot king in it and i did not know

[vox-off]

i whinge about an extremely old computer game under the cut

so i was playing shandalar - as one does in the year of our lord 2024 - and was loitering about, picking fights, when a wizard attacked a nearby town. no biggie, i've got me a pretty bitchin' izzet burn deck, go to rescue the town, maybe get a cool card

now the wizards have all had like 14-21 starting life total up to this point. but THIS bitch had 100. i'mindanger.gif. fortunately for me, his deck sucked. well. okay i can see how his deck would be a problem for literally any other deck. his tactic was 'make everything expensive to cast' buddy a solid 28 of my 60 cards are 1 drops. i'm running 19 lands and still get flooded. i've got a core of lightning bolt, shock, fireball, opt, and ancestral recall. my 'big spenders' are guttersnipes at a whopping 3 cmc. maybe a docent if it gets dire. you can't cast shit for shit and i may be killing you 1/10th of your health at a time, but by god i am going to death by a thousand static shocks you

i beat him three times and each time, the game would crash before the 'you done beat him' screen. i got so steamed about it i rage quit and went to bed

googled about it this morning. turns out the ONLY enemy in the game with 100 life is the final boss. somehow the good good quality game of Modded To Fuck Shandalar glitched the final boss into a random city on the map with exactly zero Final Boss Time conditions met and then, presumably, crashed under the weight of its own embarrassment

#voxbox #mtg #magic the gathering #shandalar #the actual core of my rage quitting was because i somehow saved my game in the nanosecond before the duel started #and shandalar has ante. so my options were: win the duel and crash the game. or lose the unwinnable duel and lose a card #and it was only anteing cards that would be extremelt difficult to replace #so i ended up having to load over and over until it anted a card it wouldn't be a colossal pain to replace and then concede #i did not feel at all guilty save scumming to save my good cards there #i worked hard for that volcanic island. and that ancestral recall. and that other ancestral recall. and that third ancestral recall

[lynpheas]

i literally live on the winx club wiki because i rly dislike coming up with ocs for established fandoms and sometimes i need to give a teeny tiny minor character a major role for the sake of my fiiiic

#textp #winx club #tbh for the pnf-style fic i'm planning out #i've been just rereading stuff on the wizards of the black circle #bc i haven't watched season 4 since grade school honestly #and man the wizards are super underutilized #they're the only villains that don't want to take over the magic dimension mmm #with no ties to the ancestral witches #so their entire backstory is free game #and honestly their motivations are too #their designs are still cool as fuck #i remember i rlly used to like anagan when i was little #i should do a winx rewatch Soon bc i'm worried my fic characterization and timelines are getting a little wonky

[tmae3114]

I’m thinking about the fact that the Fissure’s wildlife is broadly analogous to that of Greenguard again because

We’ve encountered gorillaphants, seed spitters, tuskmongers, and togs, and we’ve seen vultragons in the distance. These are all very distinctly creatures of Greenguard, specifically. And their presence there, mutated as they are, suggests that these were the creatures who lived in Hawkscry prior to the Fissure. Which means Hawkscry had an ecology very, very similar to Greenguard

and we know that when Hawkscry was destroyed, most of Greenguard’s magical knowledge went with it

and I’m just

#dragonfable #WHAT IS THE CONNECTION!!! WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO!!! #the shapeless empire may be able to claim Hawkscry as their ancestral lands (and. yeah. fair enough) #but there is SO CLEARLY some kind of unknown/forgotten tie between Hawkscry and Greenguard here #I am Also still thinking about it from a meta perspective #(i.e. beasties from the very beginning of the game showing up in a book finale location) #but atm mostly from an in-universe perspective

[zincbot]

started up baldurs gate 3 after 2 days of downloading

#baldurs gate 3 #i made. orc man :) #i do this a lot when prompted with a character creator but i remade as best i could one of my Many unused dnd characters #i dunno how many subclass options this game gives u but i have an ancestral guardian barbarian i miss greatly #cyril my beloved #he's a single parent to 3 younger brothers #he's big and soft-hearted #too big sometimes. i accidentally merked that brain whopps #now i'm just running around collecting angry women #don't tell anyone but i'm a big stealer. no way i can afford 79 bucks on a game i wasn't even sure my computer cld run

[stormy-blossom]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Volo (Pokemon)/Original Character(s), Volo (Pokemon)/Original Female Character(s), Volo (Pokemon)/Original Male Character(s) Characters: Volo (Pokemon), Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Volo being Volo, love him but hes gotta be the bad guy..., Pokemon Legends: Arceus Spoilers, Giratina's here for like a second..., Love Confessions, Not Actually Unrequited Love, yay?, Probably not she's crying by the end so... whoops Series: Part 1 of Through the Eyes of Another Summary:

It's not like she wanted to fight him, after everything they had been through together Elora thought he was her friend... apparently she had been sorely mistaken. A burning feeling of betrayal tearing her already weak heart apart.

What else was she supposed to do?

(The Post Game battle from the protagonists point of view)

Hi! I wrote a little fic from my PLA protagonist Elora's point of view if you're interested :)

#Volo #Pokemon Volo #pokemon oc #oc x canon #★stormy's ocs★ #fanfiction #pokemon legends arceus #Ancestral tale shipping #Backstory of Elora wanting to punch Volo everytime she sees him post post game #Local 23 year old man beefing with 15 year old girl more at 8

[sadlazzle]

man i am rlly struggling w rennala this time around. idk what exactly im doing so differently but her second phase is absolutely handing my ass to me

#i had less trouble using sorceries against her and she’s mad resistant to them #she’s nowhere near as resistant to holy/lighting damage #plus the run i jst did was kind of dead on arrival tbh #i got stupidly caught in her phase 1 bubble aoe twice so we knew it wasn’t gonna end well didn’t we #i think i need to go back 2 ancestral follower ashes .. they’ve always done me well early game #plum plays elden ring: holy hell

[incarnateirony]

Oh, by the way, Shea. You once tried to color my lineart. Of the many things we bit our tongue on,

My lineart on the left from 2009 or so, when I lived in Texas, before we were ever together. The right was you coloring it during the second wave of our relationship in the late 20-teens.

It's a perfect illustration even in lineart of you fucking things up and taking lazy routes, like deleting half of the eyes, much less the... the... I mean.

How about this, take my own art of the same essence, from around 2002, because again, I was the only one invested for a lifetime,

I was young, I drew it on a corner of paper and it's ancient, so it has the resolution of a thumbnail and that is what it is, and such is the cost of a lifetime of work ironically dating, but I'm pretty sure how you can see a literal teenager had better vision in every sense, and here it did have the singular eye for sake of size, sure, but the rest of it is just a perfect example of you butchering everything of mine you trace over.

You literally have no shame.

That wasn't a fucking scarf around his neck, Shea.

It was a snake.

(...and part of his wing but you're good at cutting those.)

AND YOU CUT OFF HIS FIBER OPTIC TAIL TO SHOVE HIM IN GREECE. or a very lazy egypt with no defining hieroglyphics.

That's what the wires behind him were Shea!! My guy literally connected to Akasha Internet with Peacock Fiber Optics, my gal. You fucked up the thing again, and it's a perfect example how you've fucked it up the whole time while trying to trace.

Cut him out of his element to shove him into another time you decided he belonged in, and thought his snake was a scarf to wear!!! You know, the one who can't see for shit at night unless it's a full moon because somebody fucked up him and his ancient family's eyes.

Even the underbelly, you didn't understand the highlighting, and it looks nothing like a snake belly now, I don't know WHAT the fuck that is, but you keep fucking up that it's all snakes!!! and where did the seraph wings go even in the under-wrap i just. ITS ALL SNAKES SHEA. ITS A SNAKE IN A HELMET WEARING A SNAKE CONNECTED TO AKASHA INTERNET

Maam, the wire tail framed akasha through infinite monitors. That is literally where he belonged, and was always placed, and I just couldn't finish because my connective tissue disorder gave out before finishing his wing much less the walls. But his cable tail was there and you cut it to displace him.

Like deadass even in the stupid roleplays you loved, that thing only existed in the halls of digital akasha, or on full moon nights. On the original I had ironically turned up the brightness to hide some wire scratches I never finished either but you can still see them on the wall behind him, as well as his tail starting under him, and you fucked it up.

What is not clicking. Also why the fuck are his talons blurple.

NO SERIOUSLY, EVEN IN YOUR STUPID GAMES!

CRAZY COCAINE BEAR LADY HUMPING MY DO NOT HUMP CAT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT WHETHER IT'S AARON, ASH, OR WHAT YOU CALL HERMES OR THOTH OR WHATEVER OF THE DAY, YOU ARE NOT IN THIS GAME LOBBY, YOU HAVE YOUR OWN SERVER, PLEASE HOP THE FUCK OFF MY FLOPPY DISK NOT ONLY HAVE YOU MIXED UP YOUR COSMIC DATA AND PLAY DISCS, YOU'RE TRYING TO PLAY ON MINE AND IT'S FREAKING WEIRD

YOU ARE A PIECE OF CRAP PERSON. IT'S A GOLDMINE OF A QUOTE. HENRY IS FUCKING TIRED AND YOU WON'T TAKE A MESSAGE. WHAT EVEN IS THIS MOVIE

seriously lady what isn't clicking, "Min" was the fucking helmet. Almost like a Persona mask or something idk. Try that hat on. secret third trick to pop a lid. there's a jar in a box under a nuclear reactor in the bottom of the sea o/~ Happy listening! Who taught you the sounds of the ineffable? Who taught you ANYTHING you have corrupted?

You cannot harass us back, you will just destroy us both, and that includes you.

Amenti, Shea.

My name is Aaron. I misheard "ah Min" from what I thought was "Ash". I added to it with other random stuff as an idiot kid I had around me. It became Minerva, then went back to Min. But it was always Aaron. The halls of Amenti were calling. I asked who I was and it answered. "Min" is just the first Rumpocky incident, and you're even feeding on the corpse of my mistakes wholesale, and refuse to stop. Kinda like me yelling that you're Cowardly Maya and you heard Mara. Same energy. Same misheard lyrics.

You aren't in this game lobby. You're still doing the Idiot Kid part in your mid-thirties because you've refused to listen for a hundred lifetimes.

I'm not just being mean when I say you were literally the problem and slowed me down five or ten years with your distractions and letting you throw haze over the path trying to Everybody's Interpretations Equal every time your shit didn't make sense, or was contrary, or we winced at you displacing him and cutting off his tail but not wanting to disincentivize you trying to grow your art, or whatever. You were literally in my way, and got angrier when I stopped letting you lead us both down into roleplay and channeling distractions land, and now we're here. With you stalking me years later and refusing to understand why. And you accidentally Belief*ing in me until I am the cosmic GM that is breaking and rearranging your system from home base. And you aren't in this game lobby.

The only reason any of you is here at all is you keep trying to break in, and I decided to acquiesce to your weird screaming banging on the cucumber latch road shortcut door pissing on the floor stalking, and it's not going as great for you as you think.

Henry is tired, Shea, he just wants out of your cages. You can't own me anymore, even if you got confused about who I was. And he thinks you're a piece of crap person and bad bird parent. An alchemically lid popped goldmine of a quote you happened to catch while ~working on something. Happy listening. I guess.

Human Vesuvius two, electric boogaloo. The citizens couldn't see the signs. They thought they would be fine.

#piratecandyrumpockyridingsniffmakesbuttrumhoopleborpna #woman i literally work in halls of reflection #will you stop trying to copy lives #it won't work #every day i log into a Unified Platform powered by Genesys to reflect people's own psychodome #between guiding a bunch of socials #even sitting here #in a game skin #while you keep trying to summon one or honestly several of mine #you're really fucking up the weather in here #madam it is not a fucking metaphor #you still think virtual systems ready is irrelevant huh #like you are so lost to your own mess you actively refuse gnosis #lady #you want real bad to find a way to write me to be the baddy here #it's you you're the baddy #it's you and it's here and it's a con and it's in the room with you #my brothers my daddy my ancestral memory my soul #not yours now hop the fuck off of me #that's my save file and you're fucking it up #so now it's fucking YOU up #IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS FUCKING DIFFICULT TO DUMP YOU CRAZY COCAINE BEAR LADY

[hollow-knight-fights]

Hollow Knight Everything Else Fight: Round 1

#hollow knight #hollow knight poll #hollow knight game #tumblr poll #tumblr polls #tumblr competition #vengeful spirit #sharpened nail #ancestral mound #forgotten crossroads #nailsmiths hut #city of tears #round one

[tealchameleon]

I have no issues with vegans except for the ones that are anti-Native. I am not a vegan but I wholeheartedly agree that animal processing facilities and the livestock industry are horrible for the earth, not to mention they are inhumane to the animals from birth to inevitable death.

But the second you tell me that Native peoples, who have been practicing sustainable, ethical, and respectful hunting and fishing methods for millennia, are the same as these giant evil meat factories? We’re gonna have a problem

#natives wanting to fish in ancestral rivers or hunt buffalo on their land are not the same as a fucking meat factory #and if you rly think that then you’re just peddling Colonialism 2.0 #I admire the dedication of vegans and I do think that most of the time intentions are good and noble #but god there are some that say this kind of shit and it’s so racist #“they’re killing the earth by eating its creatures”’ #no fool WHITE people are killing the earth bc their meat eating practices are not sustainable or ethical #native ppl are not killing the earth by eating their traditional game #otherwise the world would’ve gone to shit thousands of years ago #deep #personal #indigenous #native #veganism