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pratchettquotes · 8 months
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"But, but--you said we had to use magic--" Amanita began.
"No, I didn't," said Granny.
"But anyone could have done that," said Magenta.
"Yes, but that's not the point," said Granny. "The point is that you didn't."
Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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bizarrebazaar13 · 5 months
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fallen london item themed ask game
foxfire candle stub: when did you start playing fallen london?
hastily scrawled warning note: if you could go back and change one decision you made in the game, what would it be?
exceptional short story: what exceptional stories, if any, would you consider canon for your oc(s)? if you haven’t played any, which ones do you think would fit them?
puzzling map: favorite in-game location?
london street sign: what location(s) would you most like to visit in real life?
trade secret: is there anything you wish you knew before starting the game?
first city coin: which city, besides london, are you most curious about? past or future cities are both fair game.
antique mystery: do you avoid spoilers, or do you not mind them?
potential christmas card: what’s your favorite fallen london festival?
attar: most interesting place outside of london?
buttered chess-piece: what advanced skills do you think your oc(s) would canonically have the most knowledge of?
unlawful device: do you enjoy the laboratory?
amanita sherry: what is your oc’s favorite neathy food and/or beverage?
stolen kiss: if you could add one canon spouse option to the game, who would it be?
infernal contract: has your oc sold their soul? if not, do they plan to? if they have, would they ever want it back?
remote address: which of the available lodgings sounds most appealing to you personally?
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rebeccathenaturalist · 7 months
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Okay. So I was willing to give Erin Patterson a chance to explain herself when this story first broke earlier this year. However, it would appear that investigators have found enough evidence to press murder charges.
If you haven't been following this story, Patterson picked death cap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides) and cooked them in a beef Wellington which she then served to family members and herself, but not her children. (The kids apparently had leftovers later but scraped the mushrooms off.) Everyone who ate the mushrooms, including Patterson, ended up in the hospital. She survived, but three people died, including her ex in-laws.
She initially claimed it was an accident, but it sounds like her story has enough inconsistencies to raise serious suspicion. It will be interesting to see how this all pans out in the courtroom.
Originally I saw this as yet another cautionary tale of making sure you don't pick the wrong mushrooms. However, maybe the moral of the story will end up being "don't try to murder people with toxic fungi, for all sorts of reasons." (Also, fiction writers take note of potential plot holes if you're going to use mushroom poisoning as a plot device!)
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mourningcandles · 4 months
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Unlawful device and amanitha Sherry
unlawful device: Do you enjoy the laboratory?
I love the university laboratory! Working with my students and hearing their thoughts on various experiments is always fun. They always have such interesting perspectives... I'm thinking about the time the Visionary Student cut open nearly a dozen animals while the Gifted Student couldn't bear to hurt a spider. I think she nearly cried. That interaction was so terribly mundane that I finally remembered how bizarre else everything was. So yes, I do enjoy the laboratory.
amanita sherry: What is your OC’s favorite Neathy food and/or beverage?
Solacefruit! Solacefruit is definitely Idris' favourite. Fresh fruit is quite rare in the Neath and the effects on the mind only add to the appeal. After all that business with their Nemesis, they could use a bit of calm.
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decompose1 · 1 year
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Do you have any ocs that are objectum or any characters from media you believe to be objectum? Im curious
Amanita canonically is! Aer relationship with CRT was always meant to be an objectum thing- part of why i put so much emphasis on the idea that CRT is not alive, they're a machine!
... Honestly, writing Amanita was like. me playing a funny game of seeing how long it would take people to notice. Eventually, Cobalt did realize, so it got joked about a little in the Paper Crane entries- here (art by Cobalt, of course!):
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but i also implied it a good few times myself! see:
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:o]!
Aside from Ama, i consider Task Manager to be objectum... but in a weird roundabout way, sort of Polybius, too??? I couldn't possibly explain right now in the story placement but. You may view them:
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so those are my main ones!
Uh, hilariously, i had like- joked that i was sad i could not project anything objectum-y with Tulip because in her story, her mentioned partner was another flower.... but now... i think you could count Constitulip just a little. if you account for the chassis not technically being like. the Alive Object and more like an electrical device/container for Constitution to inhabit. LOL.
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cagneyblooms · 1 year
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ohohoh what's this!? A MUSE ARG AU!?
she has like, 6-7 attacks im gonna say, but i only have 1 figured out so rip
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ok so basic plot for my au is:
H0018 has been missing for weeks, and his daughter Dot Lyborn is worried about this immensely, but she's helpless to do anything at all to figure out where he is
untill....
one morning, dot wakes up to find a weird device on her windowsill, presumably left by somebody. being confused yet also slightly curious, she takes the device around not having anything to do with this until she finds her first ever muse and finds out that it was ramona (who is now her mentor! or would she be called a familiar?) who gave her the device and that she can transform into the magical hero "Amanita"
finding this out, dot is now tasked with defeating every single muse and saving their hosts, but for her, her own goal is to find H0018 and rescue him and all the other human experiments (not h0022!), and stop happy meat farms once for all! (.. and also try to juggle this all with her middle school life and attempting to hide it from her friends)
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sporefound · 2 months
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“ i’m fine, i just need a moment. ” || @netherill
" you don't look fine, " amanita claims, sarcasm flattening out her voice. her brow drops in a mild display of frustration. stubborn as she could be, she didn't have much patience for it in others. it was practical for gale to let her help him. the wicked wound torn into his flesh was spitting blood, singing for her steady hand.
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" a moment is all it takes for infection to set in. at least let me clean it, maybe even stop the bleeding, " the way she reaches for her pack confirms this is not a suggestion. the leather bag fastened to her hip is filled with what would have been her wares, brought to the surface to trade for this or that before promptly returning home.
unfortunately, home was farther away than ever before & this silly, stupid man was one of the few people she had to rely on. they would only be strong as their weakest link & in another life, she would have left him to his own devices. now she knows that shared survival is a bit more efficient, a bit more interesting. her frustrated expression brightens when she fishes a small tin out of her bag & a smile splits her features at last.
" don't be stubborn." she advises, tapping her finger against the edge of her tin, " it will sting, but it will hurt no worse than the wound itself. "
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thecodingsheep · 2 years
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Reflecting on Hilbert's House
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During the first four weeks of my senior capstone, my production team and I had two achievable and amusing game concepts, Amanita's Talismans Shop and Hilbert's House. My team and I cherished those concepts and would love to work on them throughout the entire semester if we had the opportunity. Regardless, we had to part ways with one of our concepts so that we could devote a respectable amount of time to developing our chosen game idea into a cake pop-style proof of concept. We decided to select Hilbert's House, the sandbox puzzle escape physics based-game, over Amanita's Talismans Shop, the stealth heist-themed game. We saw the value of choosing a game with a more straightforward closed game loop of solving rooms' puzzles to escape and rinse and repeat for the next level. Compared to Amanita's Talismans Shop's game loop of sneaking past enemies operating various trap-making devices at the player's disposal to accomplish the goal of reaching the level door and rinse-and-repeat. Despite that, the main reason Hilbert's House was the concept my team and I decided to pursue was how silly, unique, and fun the game could become with the added bonus of having intriguing core mechanics like "Squish," eyeball arms for grabbing, etc.
What is Hilbert's House?
Have you ever exited a room only to reappear in the same room you just left but at a new entrance, and you are a potato? On a planet shaped like a lotus flower, where every time a star dies, something on the planet shift! Threatened by outside forces on that planet's petals, Hilbert, a genius and passionate magic researcher, built a safe house of sorts to hide in and trap intruders who sought to ruin him. Caught in the crossfire, players open their eyes as an ordinary potato on one of the shelves inside Hilbert's kitchen. When they try to leave, they suddenly seem to renter the same room but at a new entrance. Determine to escape, the player must interact with characters and objects to solve room-based puzzles for one step closer to freedom from the maze-like prison, Hilberts House. After communicating the game idea with many friends and family outside of Champlain's Game Studio, they all seemed fascinated by how such a mundane character set in a magic's only struggle is traversing the environment. They enjoy how original Hilbert's House was as the lore explains gameplay as to why rooms seem to repeat themselves. Since the concept's game loop appeals to the escape room theme games, it opens the player demographic to a wide-range audience, making the game concept, not niche. The only qualms they had were what other methodologies the lore is conveyed outside of character narration and the room repeating itself with minor changes! However, the environmental artist expressed how they were going to incorporate strange lotus-themed plants to convey how Hilbert's House takes place far from earth. The team wants Hilbert's house mechanics, systems, lore, narrative, environment, and characters to feel and make sense of how we want the concept to become.
Learning Experience
Even though Hilbert's House game loop is more straightforward, and has low ceiling scope, it provided us a safe space to ensure that we can achieve a minimum viable product while slowly challenging ourselves with new features in our respective disciplines. I have been slowly incorporating shaders and other forms of visual effects into Hilbert's House to help immerse the player into the environment, with my bubbles and smoke shader. We furthermore frequently divert work responsibilities each sprint to stay on track with our road map. During the earlier stages of the project, any jokingly made side conversations became features in the game, like the thought of making the potatoes physical being like mashed potatoes to get under the door to exit the room. That idea became the first core mechanic the player acquires to "escape" the kitchen during its first iteration, the squish mechanic. That cycle became full team meetings discussing the room puzzle's minimal requirements and what each discipline can do to execute it to a functional state. If the puzzle requirements seem too over scope, not fun, or distracting to the overarching storyline, then we inform the designer to rework the puzzle. In conclusion, my production team is challenging ourselves while keeping the core gameplay simplistic, which so far has kept our enjoyment in what this game concept can become!
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oflionsandphoenixes · 3 years
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Amanita is an eccentric witchy mushroom child who looks after and cares for Acantha! she lives in the forest and very much appreciates and believes in the nature spirit of the forest!
somehow she’s always found with weird devices and nobody knows where she gets them
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sense8screencaps · 4 years
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If you feel like putting into words everything that went wrong/made you dislike the finale, I'd love to hear it
plotwise, it’s under the read more below! and it’s more of a rambling i had 2 years ago + what i remember 2 years later now lmao. logistically, what went wrong i think i’ve answered before. basically if netflix didn’t give the show a tight timeline for filming the finale, i think things would have turned out smoother. if it took an extra year or two to release the finale, i think it would have turned out with much higher quality and more consideration with regards to like everything really
act 1: the plan
planning and subsequent rescuing of wolfgang in the first 30-40 minutes instead of the whole thing taking an entire goddamn hour. cut out wolfgang trying to kill himself. a waste of 5 minutes that should have directly introduced the chairman.
cut out lito’s meltdown and don’t have rajan show up at all. it was a lazy plot device to help jonas escape and a waste of 7 minutes
will and riley meet up with felix and bug instead of that French lady riley like can we get some more lito and kala instead
will fighting bodhi was absolutely pointless??? An excuse to have a fight for no reason like it wouldn’t have made bodhi trying to stab whispers in the club any different (it would’ve made it better imo coming out of nowhere)
the dani and amanita scene was good but a serious continuity error since the show is supposed to be from the perspective of one of the 8
river el-sadaawi was a completely useless character to introduce like it should’ve just been hoy and yrsa talking with riley
convo between hoy, Riley and kirsty was a solid waste of 3 minutes
act 2: the exchange
rajan should not have been part of the exchange lol just swap him out for Felix and it’s all good
Considering Whispers does nothing in this finale other than being a hot potato passed around by people if he died in the club when Bodhi stabbed him it would’ve made an interesting turn of events
hot take: mun shouldn’t have shown up and a more creative resolution to sun’s story could have been written better
I feel like puck should have been part of this scene somehow
everything else pretty much okay
act 3: the lacuna
instead of staying at rajan’s random friend’s place just say it’s riley’s friend? literally makes more sense that way
no lacuna or bodhi shit. it was all deux ex machina like something could’ve been written better by strictly having old man of hoy and yrsa without needing to introduce new mythology
The lacuna concept felt cheap and removed a lot of what I thought kept the sense8 universe grounded in reality.
The mother was pointless to introduce like they could have gotten yrsa or some shit to get them the info on lila being in naples with whispers or just simply have his damn blockers wear off momentarily for will and wolfgang to figure out where he is instead of some weird old lady telling them her son’s backstory and somehow omniscient power of knowing whispers’ location
If Bodhi really didn’t want to be complacent with her stance on Milton and BPO why only NOW did she bother to take action? Why did the Mother only contact them now when God knows how long this weird zombie shit has been happening?
Also why the fuck did Bodhi not even bother to go with them to Naples to kill Milton? She didn’t want to remain complacent and yet she remained so throughout.
act 4: naples
another hot take: they all should’ve sang “rather be” by clean bandit instead on their way to naples. also diego didnt need to show up lol
capheus, felix, wolfgang, kala in the car. rest is the same
this scene should have happened halfway through at the ~90 minute mark
exposition of talking with lila could have been more elaborate. i don’t like that they cut out lila interrupting their pizza party
The transition to Sun and Riley meeting Alphonse and Sutra was messy and badly edited. Everyone in the cluster suddenly is there too? Like at least give some sort of indication they all went to meet Puck
trojan horse/forcella was good but not written or executed well
Kala should have been with Felix and Wolfgang while infiltrating the Forcella. Capheus should have been driving Nomi, Bug, and Amanita and picking up the rest of the cluster along the way/during infiltration of the Forcella.
“My wife... you’re a killer! Teach me!” seriously uncomfortable with Rajan saying that as if he didn’t sound like some kind of sociopath
Kala shouldn’t have gotten shot anyways it was literally 5 minutes of screen time that could have been allotted to a more satisfying confrontation between Lila, Milton, The Chairman, and our Cluster rather than an attempt to get an emotional response from a shock moment.
Jonas’ last monologue went on for too long; for some reason he really had to explain things instead of just “showing” and letting the audience infer to figure it out (particularly the psychic ligature/psycranium stuff)
the bad guys died in literally the most emotionally unsatisfying way. i didn’t need the chairman in this. say shit about whispers manipulating everyone from the top. the chairman being the zombie of like whispers or lila would’ve been way more elaborate. seemed like the writers somehow wrote themselves into a pit where they couldn’t think of anything better. Will and Wolfgang not confronting Whispers for a final time detracted from the emotional and psychological impact Whispers had on their well-beings.
Also like the bloodbath overall was a bit unsettling considering we saw pretty much everyone we know from the show kill bad guys which wasn’t really justified? Like Sun and Mun just knocked people out and killed maybe 4 or 5 people but damn the rest of them not even the slightest hint of trauma? Idk it was weird and I didn’t like it
my queen lila shouldn’t have died
there was so much bad editing here especially with trying to make it look like miguel/lito wasn’t absent
act 5: wedding
if they just cut out a bunch of the bullshit i mentioned earlier we could have gotten a montage or at least some sequence of the sun, lito, kala, and capheus’ stories getting resolved. maybe even some shit with nomi and the guy.
Cutscene to talking about a penis joke with rajan and kala instead of updating us on Cepheus or lito’s lives? Yeah totally makes sense
Hernando should’ve officiated the wedding
Transphobia curing weed brownie? No thanks
rajalagang... cool motive but terrible execution for the most part? idk i needed more rajan and wolfgang being gayer with each other. but then again if rajan wasnt in all of this it wouldve not really made any difference other than probably having just kala and wolfgang kiss 
the orgy should have strictly been the 8 + hernando + amanita + mun + zakia. no one else.
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mittencone16 · 3 years
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makomaragi · 4 years
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my sleep schedule is all messed up, I wanted to post this last night when I got home from work but instead I watched game grumps and fell asleep :))))
i wrote a dumb for valentine’s day!!
Title: Cliches
Pairing: Aurea Juniper/Fennel
Rating: PG, nothing nsfw minus a small mention of sex
“I was surprised you wanted to come to Castelia for dinner,” Fennel mused as she held the paper menu perhaps too tightly between her hands, and much too close to her eyes despite having glasses on.
“You said this was your favorite restaurant, so it seemed logical.”
“Yeah, but I’m still surprised you initiated coming to the city on a holiday. Especially for dinner.”
The professor shrugged. No, she didn’t like the travel to the city. No, she didn’t like being out on greeting card holidays that implied dinner. She mostly certainly didn’t like cliché romantic tactics. But Fennel liked all of those things, and for a few single evenings of the year, she would play along.
“It’s just one evening,” not sure if she was saying it to Fennel as a reason why she wanted to do so or convincing herself of the explanation.
“You were so prepared, you had reservations and everything,” Fennel had set the menu down, folding her hands together and resting her chin upon them.
Aurea smiled at this, having learned from her past mistakes.  “I don’t know why you’re looking at the menu. You always get the same thing,” the professor chided her.
“Yeah, but they have all of these specials for Valentine’s Day. We could split one of these.”
“Or we could get two different things and share anyway.”
There was something Fennel truly loved about going out for dinner on special occasions. Perhaps because it was one of the few times a year she got to see her girlfriend in an evening dress. Even having seen her in similar sights before, she still managed to get flustered when their eyes met after the fact. Aurea had let her hair down, leaving it to fall over her shoulders in a way that seemed to emphasize the slight natural curls at the ends of it, or maybe it was simply caused by the tight bun she wore it in all day. The dream scientist was fairly certain that Aurea had changed her shoes before they met at the restaurant – she wasn’t one to wear heels for any length of time unless the situation demanded of it. But she had for the occasion, black heels to match the dress. Even looking at her in the attire left Fennel feeling red in the face, hating when she caught herself staring at her for too long.
The professor had been fairly quiet over dinner, Fennel deciding it was merely fatigue from the day. Not that Aurea was the most talkative person on the planet to begin with, or maybe Fennel herself talked enough that the other woman had grown so used to just listening. They had seen each other briefly that morning before departing to their respective labs with the knowledge that they would be meeting in Castelia for dinner that evening, truly the only thing that was out of routine. Fennel had gone as far as bringing the dress she would be wearing and changing after work to avoid taking the ferry back home again, giving herself some sort of suspense when Aurea would see her in it at dinner.
The roses Aurea had sent her at the lab didn’t hurt, either.
“Let’s take a walk,” Juniper suggested as they left the restaurant and made their way back in to the city.
“Okay, I just thought you were in a rush to get home.”
“What gave you that idea?”
“Just that you’re always in a rush to get home. And it’s cold and snowing and I don’t really want to be outside long.”
“Just a few minutes,” she promised, placing a hand on her lower back as she guided her down the street.
The city never quite stopped, though the corner of the park they found themselves in was as secluded as it would get given the circumstance of the holiday. Fennel silently decided they had probably looked a tad out of place from the others in the park – someone feeding the Pidoves, even so late in to the evening, a few people riding bicycles, all dressed appropriately for the weather. Then, there was her and her girlfriend, heels clicking loudly against the pavement, and overcoats not suited for how cold it was getting to be.
Aurea taking a seat on the bench seemed to surprise Fennel, who followed her lead.
“Thank you for dinner, it was nice,” was all Fennel blurted out in her confusion when the professor remained silent. “I know you must of hated all of this, but I really loved it.”
“I didn’t hate it at all,” she smiled. “I had a rather lovely evening with you.”
“It was so crowded everywhere, though. I know you hate that. But you did it for me, hm?”
The professor only nodded, her smile growing warmer somehow, taking Fennel’s hand and began reaching for her opposite pocket on her overcoat.
Her Xtransceiver beeped. She was tempted to ignore it given the circumstance, not that Fennel was aware. But she noticed first who was trying to contact her, and she wasn’t one that could go ignored.
Her wide eyes met the dream scientist’s for half of a second before she hit the appropriate button. “Hi, Bianca,” the young blonde’s face popped up on the small screen as she held the device up a bit higher.
“Professor! Are you still in Castelia?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, you’re in the park! I can see the fountain behind you! I’m right down the street at the Pokemon Center, I’ll be there in like, thirty seconds, I need to speak to you!” Bianca hung up before the professor could get a word in.
Fennel laughed, but Aurea was certain it was out of hindered annoyance.
It wasn’t more than a minute later that the pair saw Bianca turn the sharp corner in to the small park, nearly hitting a lamp post when she sighted them. “Professor Juniper!” she called, seemingly running in place to find her footing before appearing before them. The young blonde was breathing heavily, leaning forward with hands on her knees attempting to catch her breath. After a few seconds of this, she composed herself, straightening her hat and glasses.
“Professor Juniper,” she repeated in a much calmer tone. “I need to speak with you! This is very important!” Bianca must have realized she was speaking much louder than necessary, at the same time seemingly noticing that her mentor wasn’t alone.
“Oh, hello, Doctor Fennel,” Bianca gave a nervous wave which Fennel returned. “I didn’t expect to see you here as well!”
Surely, the young girl had put together the circumstances given their outfits and the holiday, but it didn’t appear that way.
“A trainer contacted the lab while you were gone. He wants to come the whole way from Hoenn and compete for badges here.” “His family moved here from, Hoenn, I should of said that first!” Bianca gripped at her hat and shook her head. “But so he wants his first Pokemon from you!”
“Tell him to make an appointment at the lab, it’s fine-”
“No, no, that’s the thing! I made one for him! Tomorrow! I just forgot to tell you before you left today! So I needed to tell you! I’m telling you now!” Bianca nodded confidently. “You said you were going to the city and I didn’t know for how long so I needed to make sure you were back tomorrow! I was already in the city, because originally said he wanted to meet me here from the docks, but THEN he said he wanted to see the Pokemon lab and have the whole experience and meet you and stuff.”
“Right.”
“So, I told him, I would tell you right away, because I didn’t know how long you’d be in the city, and he might have to come another day! But your calendar was still open for tomorrow, meaning you didn’t have anything going on in the morning, so I put it on the schedule. So, if you had planned on staying in the city, I knew you would of put that on the calendar!”
“Yes, thank you, Bianca.” Aurea wanted to address why this couldn’t have ended at the phone call, or why the conversation itself couldn’t have been had on a phone call. But either way, it was an interruption nonetheless.
If Fennel had been annoyed, she was doing a swell job of hiding it all.
“I’m going to go find the Pokemon Center for the night, so I’ll see you guys later,” Bianca waved, until Fennel intervened.
“You’re not going to go see Cheren?” the dark haired woman inquired with a sly smile, of which she was sure annoyed her girlfriend.
“Hm, no. I’m hoping to see him over the weekend, though. He’s pretty busy with the gym and all, and he’s so far away now.”
“If we’re handing out starters, I’m going to need you at the lab tomorrow, Bianca,” Juniper purposely interrupted. “I don’t mind if-”
“Okay, I’ll go back on the ferry with you then!” Bianca exclaimed, bringing her fists to her cheeks in excitement.
“Right, then,” the professor sighed more pronounced than she meant to. “Can you give us a moment, please?”
“Of course! I need to run back to the Pokemon Center and grab my things, anyway,” and just as quickly as she appeared, Bianca was gone again. Aurea had the fleeting thought that Bianca probably had not considered that she was out for the holiday with her girlfriend. It certainly wasn’t something she broadcast, but she was sure her assistant had some idea of their relationship.
“So, no late night for us then, hm?” Fennel’s eyes drifted down, fidgeting with a seam on her dress.
“I guess not.”
“Well...in that case...I think I’m just going to stay at Amanita’s tonight, then.”
“Why? I know this wasn’t what we planned, but-” Aurea’s face fell, grabbing Fennel’s hands in some attempt to keep her there.
“No, no, I’m not upset, Aurea,” the dream scientist rose from her seat, adjusting her dress some more.  “It just doesn’t make sense for me to go the whole way home and then get up so early to come back to the city for work. Especially if you have to get up and be at the lab so early now. I mean, it’s already almost 10. By the time we get home it’ll be after 11, and you’re getting up at like 6...”
“You’re right...”
The walk to the old apartment seemed simultaneously dragged out yet not enough time. Neither of them spoke much, mostly concentrating on how to navigate crumbling city sidewalks in heels despite how well lit the streets were, Fennel clinging to her girlfriend’s arm for most of their journey until they found themselves at her apartment’s steps.
Fennel placed her hand on the door knob, turning to face the other woman. “I’ll see you tomorrow after work then, okay?”
“Yeah.”
“Hey, this feels like old times, doesn’t it? You dropping me off at my apartment before you left. Or sometimes you’d stay.”
“Mostly you’d come to Nuvema, though,” she smiled at the memory. “I wish you’d just come home with me.”
“I don’t think Bianca wants to watch us make out on the ferry,” Fennel laughed, leaning in and kissing her gently on the lips. “We can make out at home tomorrow. Maybe more than that, if you’re nice to me.”
Now it was Aurea’s turn to laugh softly, kissing her again and pulling her in to a tight embrace. In the few short seconds she held her, her emotions quelled up too quickly for her liking, trying to sooth herself by concentrating on the scent of her beloved’s hair. This was not where their evening was supposed to end.
Fennel had already changed in to her pajamas and was removing her makeup and jewelry in the bathroom when Amanita finally made her appearance. The older scientist had known she was at home, somewhere, having left the door unlocked and leaving amenities out for her after receiving her text.
“So, what are you doing here? Not that I mind, it’s just weird that you’re staying at your sister’s on Valentine’s Day when you could be with your girlfriend,” Amanita lingered in the door frame.
“It just didn’t make sense for me to go back to Nuvema this late. Aurea has to be up early now, she has a trainer coming last minute tomorrow morning,” Fennel answered as she removed her earrings. “It sucks. I was really looking forward to going home and spending time with her tonight.”
Amanita shook her head, she didn’t need to hear the details of what Fennel had intended for the evening any further than that.  “What’s wrong? Did you guys get in a fight or something over it?”
“No, not at all.” Fennel paused in her routine, gingerly placing her hands down on the sink and facing her sister. “I just….I don’t know. Aurea wanted to take a walk by the fountains, and we sat down on the bench and she...I’m not sure. It seemed like she wanted to talk to me about something before we got interrupted. Bianca called, and then showed up, actually...she has a new trainer coming tomorrow morning.”
“Maybe she was going to propose.”
Fennel laughed, shaking her head. “No, I highly doubt that. She’d never say it outright but I know she hates gimmicky holidays.”  Even so, she turned to face her sister.  “Why, did she say something to you about it? Do you know something I don’t?”
“No, I swear, she’s never mentioned anything about that to me. It was just the first thing that popped in to my head given the circumstance.”
Fennel made some sort of confused face, rolling her eyes, ushering herself past her sister and in to what used to be her bedroom across the hall, Amanita following close at her heels.
“You mean you didn’t even consider that?”
“No, not at all. I honestly didn’t even think of that until you brought it up.” Fennel rearranged some pillows on the bed, pulling the covers back, still mulling over this new development. “Besides, she doesn’t want to get married. If we did, she’d just want to go to the court house and sign some papers or whatever. The whole proposal thing just isn’t her style. It’s something she’d bring up over coffee, very nonchalant.” She sat down on the bed, seemingly pondering over it all, making the realizations as she spoke. “Believe me, if I thought it was something she wanted and we had been talking about, I’d have asked her myself, a long time ago. For some reason, in my head, whenever I thought about it, I always imagined her asking me. So I’m just going to leave it up to her, if she decides she wants to. I’m fine with how things are now. I’d love to get married someday, but we don’t need to. We already live together.”
Amanita couldn’t help but chuckle. She always knew how boring Professor Juniper was, and truly could see her asking her sister to marry her in the same tone as asking her what they were going to do for lunch that day.
Yet, Fennel still was going on about it. “And she most definitely wouldn’t have proposed to me on Valentine’s Day. If, she was going to, it most certainly wouldn’t be on a holiday. She’d think it was overdone and too cliché.”
“Unless that’s what she’d want you to think.”
“Stop it! I’m going to bed!” Fennel giggled, practically shoving her sister out of the room and shutting the door. Even if her sister was teasing her, she was annoyed now that the thought was in her head at all.
But, she would go to sleep with the confidence of what she had already told Amanita, quickly talking herself out of it. Maybe Aurea would ask her to marry her someday, but it wasn’t any time soon. Let alone over the most predictable, silly holiday – that, she was very sure of.
Arriving home at nearly midnight, alone, certainly wasn’t how she had planned to spend the evening. She threw her overcoat over the couch haphazardly, collapsing on the couch herself. She didn’t much care if she ruined the dress she was wearing in doing so.
There was a passing thought that she should change in to something more suitable for sleeping and make her way up the stairs to the bedroom proper. But it meant seeing the candles she had put there earlier, wanting to surprise her newly betrothed, now making it at least two instances uncounted for.
The professor allowed herself to wallow in her sorrow for another moment on the couch. She was being over dramatic over the circumstances and she knew it. It wasn’t as though Fennel had any idea, which was the whole point. It was true that Aurea herself hated most cliches – but Fennel didn’t. If it meant something to Fennel, she would suffer through the embarrassment and lack of creativity of her decision that evening for the rest of their lives if it made her happy.
Picking herself up off of the sofa, she chose to hang her coat back on the hook as well, plucking it from where it lie until she heard a swift sound of something hitting the floor. Even in the dark she knew what it was, leaning down to pick up the small purple box that fell out of the pocket. She couldn’t even bring herself to open it again, having hoped the next time she saw it would be when Fennel did.
She wasn’t one to say that everything happens for a reason. She didn’t much believe in fate, let alone higher powers, or that anything was controlled by anything else. There were only coincidences.
Unless, maybe, this just wasn’t meant to be tonight. Another, better, opportunity would present itself. It was her own fault for not waiting, really – she had picked it up from the shop only fourty eight hours prior. What was she to do with a ring that was meant to be hidden until the intended purpose? Fennel was quite nosey and the only option was giving it to her sooner than later. All of this under the assumption that she would agree to it in the first place.
She decided then and there that it was best she take her father’s advice and speak with Fennel’s parents first. If only to make herself feel better about it not working out this evening. She dreaded the thought of it, though supposed it was the proper way to go about this, despite her trying to forgo bringing them in to this all together. There was a sense of relief washed over her in the epiphany, thinking of what Fennel’s parents would of said to the both of them had she not made them aware of her intentions. It truly was better that it didn’t happen that evening. Maybe she would thank Bianca tomorrow without context.
She knew there was a reason she hated cliches. They never worked out the way she wanted them to.
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nitewrighter · 5 years
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Reidan acting like they're just engaged/married for a mission and seeing how well the two of em work and mesh together prompt!
They’re in their 20′s here, this is Post-Dragonback.
“And everyone tells us we haven’t been together long enough, that we’re too young, all that nonsense,” said Aedan, “But between all the Talon attacks, Null Sector invasions–No time like the present, you know?”
“Well we assure you Mr and Mrs–” The Vishkar realtor, glanced at her tablet.
“–McGillicuddy,” said Aedan and Rei at the same time, Rei twisting the ring on her left hand.
“Mr and Mrs McGillicuddy, you’ll find no safer apartments than in a Vishkar development,” said the realtor, “And you said you were a… scientist, Mr. McGillicuddy?”
“Mycologist,” said Aedan, resting his chin in his hand, “I have a particular proclivity for the amanita genus. Have you ever heard so lovely a name as the ‘destroying angel?’”
“Can’t say that I have. The Vishkar corporation has a great interest in the life sciences,” said the Realtor, “I can’t speak to our human resources department, but you could have a very comfortable position with us.”
“Don’t worry, he doesn’t bring his work home with him,” said Rei with an easy hand wave, “The kids should be fine.”
“Kids..?” Aedan’s eyes widened and he glanced at her.
“Potential kids,” said Rei, elbowing Aedan, “Vishkar’s supposed to have amazing schools, isn’t it?”
“Yes–kids–schools,” said Aedan, quickly turning his attention back to the realtor.
“Y’know, Null Sector, world ending, now-or-never stuff to think about,” said Rei.
“Vishkar is happy to provide couples and potentially growing families all the support they need,” said the Realtor.
“How kid-friendly is the neighborhood?” said Rei, “Everything’s so… sleek around here–”
“Hard-light technology is highly adaptive,” said the Realtor, checking her watch and now moving to usher them through the apartment, “And we make a point of allowing for large parks in the area for excellent quality of life. We’re in the process of putting one such park together for this development.”
“Parks!” Rei repeated, “Yes, we saw a lot of construction coming in here, didn’t we?”
“Loads of construction,” said Aedan, “Amazing how you’re able to take such swathes of the city so fast.”
“Hard-light does allow us to speed things up considerably,” said the Realtor, now several feet away from them, clearly trying to signal them into the next room.
“With so little resistance from the locals, too!” said Rei, making a point of lingering in the hallway with her arm hooked in Aedan’s, “You turn on the news these days and—”
“It… greatly benefits Vishkar’s competitors to paint us in a negative light,” said the Realtor, quickly, “But the quality of life in our developments speaks for itself. Now, I’m afraid we are on a schedule–”
“Oh of course, of course,” said Rei, walking down the hallway with Aedan.
The Realtor smiled with some relief and then let another door slide open. “So to finish off our tour, here’s our master bedroom,” she said, gesturing around, “As you can see you’ve got a gorgeous view of the city. Payment options are in the tablet I’ve given you.”
“Could you show us the showers work one more time?” said Rei, “Vishkar technology is so elaborate–”
“Oh the smart features of the bathroom are very intuitive,” said the Realtor, briskly walking to the door,  “But I’m afraid we’ve run well over our allotted tour time. But I’ll leave you to look around the apartment some more and we can discuss pricing when I return.”
With that the realtor headed out the door and the bright vapid grins decorating Aedan and Rei’s faces were replaced by cool, methodical expressions.
“Such a big apartment!” Rei said, walking through the apartment and stepping up on a chair to check the light fixtures for bugging tech.
“Gorgeous place,” said Aedan, pulling a listening device out of one of the lamps.
“Nice neighborhood,” said Rei, pulling a near microscopic camera out of the smoke alarm. After a brisk sweep, they met back up in the living room. 
“Standard showroom, seems clean,” said Aedan.
Rei brought a finger to her ear. “Marti? You there? We stalled as much as we could. You’ve got about 90 seconds until she gets back to her office.”
“Roger. We’ve gotten the data we need. The twins will set up the usual mission evac. How was playing house?”
“Oh we were adorable,” said Rei, heading for the door, “Meet you on the roof?”
“Meet you on the roof,” said Marti, clicking out of the comm network.
“McGillicuddy?” said Rei, looking at Aedan as they walked through the hall, “Really?”
“You made me sacrifice the hair for this mission–”
“It’s only for a week, you big baby—”
“You made me sacrifice the hair so I’m keeping the brogue. Anyway, the sooner I get this contact out, the better,” said Aedan, itching at his should-be-brown eye.
“You look good blonde, though,” said Rei.
“I look like an asshole blonde,” said Aedan.
“Little bit,” said Rei with a grin.
“Meanwhile you look amazing–” said Aedan.
“What can I say? Mom’s ashkenazi,” said Rei with a toss of her thick heat-styled curls, as she and Aedan took the stairs to the roof, “You know, that was a nice touch back there.”
“The ‘evil mushroom scientist’ bit? Oh I’ve been around enough of Vishkar’s types to know what they pick up–”
“No, I mean the part where you went sheet white when I brought up kids–Very organic,” said Rei.
“Oh–yes–that,” said Aedan, rubbing the back of his neck.
Rei paused on a stairwell. “…you weren’t acting,” she said, her brow crinkling.
“Well even for our dramatis personae, that’s… that’s a bit young,” said Aedan, continuing up the stairs.
“The role is young, stupid, horny rich couple, happy to show up, join Vishkar’s cult and gentrify the hell out of this city,” said Rei, “Of course my character would want kids to cement that.”
Aedan snorted. “Well, you’re the actress–”
“Stunt,” said Rei, with a slight smirk, which faded as they ascended the stairs, “Why do kids freak you out?”
“Kids don’t freak me out,” said Aedan, “The prospect of me ever having kids–that–I–I–don’t like to think about it.”
Rei’s brow crinkled a little. “Is this.. some kind of clone thing?”
“No–well, yes–well it’s nothing to do with mum. I’m my own person I just–It’s just–”
“Just what?”
“I wasn’t born, Rei. I was made,” said Aedan, “Nanites are dangerous–We don’t know if a human is capable of carrying something like me. If I ever–You know, we’ve ventured way too far into the realm of the hypothetical, so we should just–”
“So you’re scared of… what… whatever kid you might have might… burst out of someone like in the old sci-fi movies?” Rei tried to present the scenario as something ridiculous, but one look to the horrified expression on Aedan’s face and she pushed her hair back from her face, “…sorry.”
“I mean–yes, that’s probably not going to happen,” said Aedan, glancing off, “But I–I just don’t know if a nanite-based embryo might… hurt… whoever’s carrying it.”
Rei put a hand on Aedan’s shoulder, “I’m sorry, I really didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable like that–”
“No it’s fine–It’s the mission, it’s the role—I should have thought ahead on it…”
“I don’t think it would, if it means anything,” said Rei, as they reached the door to the roof.
“What?” said Aedan.
“If you ever had a kid–you’re talking about it like it’s a monster or a parasite, but… it’s still human,” Rei ruffled his hair a little, “You’re still human.”
“…give or take several trillion nanites,” said Aedan, glancing off.
“But anyway–deep hypotheticals,” said Rei, opening the door, “Nothing we need to worry about right now.”
“Right, said Aedan, running a hand through his dyed-blonde hair as he watched Rei step out onto the roof where Marti, the twins, and their dropship were waiting, “Nothing to worry about.”
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theonyxpath · 4 years
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What Else Are We Doing During Our Shut-In Time?
Titanomachy art by Shen Fei
We’re adding some sales and project options to our current schedule in order to make it easier to buy and play our games during this time when our community has both shut-in and with financial challenges:
The IPR Bundle sale featuring our extra KSed books and Screens bundled together is still ongoing, and you can find the info below in the Blurbs! section featuring our sales partners!
Then, starting Wednesday, all of our Jumpstart PDFs will be free on DTRPG with a new sale we’re doing to give folks a chance to try out our many game lines! If you’ve ever wondered about a line, wanted to try it out, then this is a great chance to get a starting adventure and some pre-generated characters to give it a try with!
Dark Eras 2 art by Alex Sheikman
We’ve also been looking at ways we can provide lower price-point projects beyond the sales, and we have started a few initiatives with that in mind.
For example, in addition to their larger, planned, PDFs, we’ll be offering some of our current projects broken into separate, smaller, PDFs. We’ll be starting with Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras 2, and when the single-volume PDF and PoD goes on sale in a couple of weeks, we’ll also offer individual chapter PDFs.
We’re hoping that will allow folks to pick up the chapters relevant to their current gaming for a much reduced cost. We’re also looking at other projects we can offer in the same way, that I’ll announce as we move on them.
For our community that has discovered the wonders of gaming with their friends virtually, through streaming or through Virtual Table Top venues like Roll20 or Astral, we’re building token and adventure/map packs to make that experience easier. I’ve already seen and OK’d packs for Scion, Scarred Lands, and the Trinity Continuum which we’ll have up and available very soon.
(Maybe even this Wednesday?)
Vigil Watch art by Alex Honore
As always, we also continue to look to ways to help the many creators who we rely on for all their phenomenal work on our projects. Especially during this time of uncertainty. So we’re doing another Developer Town Hall Day next week where our Onyx Path crew will be available for our developers to check in with in a couple of designated time blocks since our devs live around the world and some are still doing their full-time jobs.
Our Dev Town Hall last month went great, so we’re hoping this one will be helpful for all our devs as well. This time though, I’m opening up the discussions just a bit to all of you folks.
Please pass on to me any questions you want us to discuss with the devs, and I’ll make sure we bring them up during the chat.
We hope you are all doing as well as can be hoped, and we’re hoping that this time is made a little bit better for you because you have access to our:
Many Worlds, One Path!
Blurbs!
Kickstarter!
The M20 Technocracy Reloaded Kickstarter will start at 2pm Eastern US time on Tuesday, April the 28!
Highlights of M20 Technocracy Reloaded include:
An Operative’s Handbook that provides a detailed overview of life in the Technocratic Union, describing the organization of the Union, the Conventions, and the roles that sympathizers, extraordinary citizens, and Enlightened Operatives play in the overall structure of the Technocracy.
An examination of Technocratic initiatives on a global scale.
Devices, procedures, and hypertech used by the Technocratic Union that explores the Enlightened Science, allowing operatives to apply similar effects in the field, if they have sufficient understanding of the principles that allow these gadgets to function.
A comprehensive list of citizens, cyborgs, operatives, progenitor creations, and allies to use as NPCs.
Storyteller support that explores story seeds and metaplot to shape a chronicle for their needs.
Onyx Path Media!
This week features part four of the Trio’s Scion Actual Play sessions!
As always, this Friday’s Onyx Pathcast will be on Podbean or your favorite podcast venue! https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/
In advance of the Kickstarter launch this week, the popular and high quality Mage: The Podcast spoke with Danielle Lauzon and Travis Legge about M20 Technocracy Reloaded:http://magethepodcast.com/index.php/2020/04/25/technocracy-reloaded-kickstarter-preview-with-danielle-lauzon-and-travis-legge/
Technocracy Reloaded Kickstarter Preview with Danielle Lauzon and Travis Legge
Back to our regularly scheduled broadcasts, on as ever, we’ve got a lot on Twitch. Matthew was in the audience for the fantastic Scarred Lands: Purge of the Serpentholds last week, and really recommends you check them out!
If Scarred Lands isn’t your thing, that’s okay! We’ve got lots more, including two sessions of V5, Behind the Screen – Chronicles of Darkness, Pugmire – Paws & Claws, Changeling: The Lost – Littlebrook Reunion, Changeling: The Dreaming – The Last Faerie Tale, Mage: The Awakening – Occultists Anonymous, Dark ErasWerewolf: The Forsaken, and Chronicles of Darkness – Tooth and Claw!
You can subscribe to our channel over on twitch.tv/theonyxpath to catch up with any episodes you missed!
Come take a look at our YouTube channel, youtube.com/user/theonyxpath, where you can find a whole load of videos of actual plays, dissections of our games, and more, including:
Trinity Continuum – Aberrant: Community Service: https://youtu.be/oY9gGocsTtU
Changeling: The Lost – Littlebrook Reunion: https://youtu.be/rrGUattOO_o1OiLEtvunkM
Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood City – Chicago by Night: https://youtu.be/FEYdTKI-NgI
And MORE Trinity Continuum – Aberrant: Community Service: https://youtu.be/o_mcjV0uEAs
Do subscribe to our channel and click the bell icon if you want to be notified whenever new news videos and uploads come online!
Occultists Anonymous are here with a new special Mage: The Awakening series:
Richmond Mini-Series 01: Hubris in Richmond Meet the new Mages for this special short story arc. Drifter the manipulative Mastigos, Amanita the assassin Thyrsus, and Vicar the haunted Obrimos. Something is going on in Richmond, Virginia, and these Mages are barreling right towards it.  https://youtu.be/0x_0K-SqIaQ
Richmond Mini-Series 02: Tele-Commute Vicar duels with an Angel sent to kill him in a church. Drifter speaks with the Arrow Sentinel, Guan Yu, about working together. Amanita begins to research the Seer agent’s plans. https://youtu.be/SyrLzMRY-rI
Here’s the Story Told Podcast first episode in their new actual play series of Demon: The Descent:  The Aggregate Choir Welcome to Berlin, 1971. The Unchained hide themselves in the surveillance state of the GDR in a city under greater scrutiny by mortal eyes than almost any other city in the world. When Demons hear a radio station from the West, long thought silenced by the God-Machine, they gather and begin to investigate…   http://thestorytold.libsyn.com/the-aggregate-choir-file-1
Additionally, Monica Speca joined the Story Told Podcast to dive deep on the Great Houses of the Realm for Exalted 3rd Edition: http://thestorytold.libsyn.com/exalted-great-houses-of-the-realm-part-2-with-monica-speca
One of Matthew’s personal favourites, Devil’s Luck Gaming, continues their Werewolf: The Forsaken chronicle over here: https://www.twitch.tv/DevilsLuckGaming 
Please do give them a follow!
Please check these out and let us know if you find or produce any actual plays of our games! We’d love to feature you!
Electronic Gaming!
As we find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is live! Our dev team has been doing updates since we launched based on the excellent use-case comments by our community, and this thing is awesome! (Seriously, you need to roll 100 dice for Exalted? This app has you covered.)
Update: the devs are working on the updates for the roller in both Android and iOS; here is the rundown from them:
1) Redo the UI for system for Android. It will look the same as the current design. My goal is to have something ready by Saturday to send out to the Facebook users, asking them if this fixes the issues. This will be a beta type thing. This will break several of the fancy dice.
2) If the above worked out and the android users give all the clear, we’ll redo the graphics system to fix the fancy dice that got broken. We’ll do another Android beta through Facebook. This might take up to two weeks, as my schedule allows.
3) If everything worked well, we’ll release to Android for real at that point.
4) Port all of the existing stuff to iOS and release on that.
On Amazon and Barnes & Noble!
You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle (from Amazon) and Nook (from Barnes & Noble).
If you enjoy these or any other of our books, please help us by writing reviews on the site of the sales venue from which you bought it. Reviews really, really help us get folks interested in our amazing fiction!
Our selection includes these latest fiction books:
Our Sales Partners!
We’re working with Studio2 to get Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau out into stores, as well as to individuals through their online store. You can pick up the traditionally printed main book, the screen, and the official Pugmire dice through our friends there! https://studio2publishing.com/search?q=pugmire
We’ve added Prince’s Gambit to our Studio2 catalog: https://studio2publishing.com/products/prince-s-gambit-card-game
Now, we’ve added Changeling: The Lost Second Edition products to Studio2‘s store! See them here: https://studio2publishing.com/collections/all-products/changeling-the-lost
Scarred Lands (Pathfinder) books are also on sale at Studio2, and they have the 5e version, supplements, and dice as well!: https://studio2publishing.com/collections/scarred-lands
Scion 2e books and other products are available now at Studio2: https://studio2publishing.com/blogs/new-releases/scion-second-edition-book-one-origin-now-available-at-your-local-retailer-or-online
Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books? Try this link! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Onyx-Path-Publishing/
And you can order Pugmire, Monarchies of Mau, Cavaliers of Mars, and Changeling: The Lost 2e at the same link! And now Scion Origin and Scion Hero and Trinity Continuum Core and Trinity Continuum: Aeon are available to order!
Deluxe Exalted 3rd Edition continues its fantastic sale at IPR, soon to be joined by Game-Line Bundles! Check them out!
As always, you can find Onyx Path’s titles at DriveThruRPG.com!
On Sale This Week!
This week we present the Vigil Watch 2: The Yorling of Mansk PDF for Scarred Lands available in PDF versions on DriveThruRPG on Wednesday!
This Wednesday, we’re also adding two new Art Packs to our Community Content sites! A new Scion Art Pack on the Storypath Nexus, and a new Scarred Lands Art Pack on the Slarecian Vault!
Plus, we might have a few extra surprises for our online gaming friends we’ll announce on Weds!
Conventions!
Though dates are subject to change due to the current COVID-19 outbreak, here’s our current list of upcoming conventions:
UKGames Expo: https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/
GenCon: https://www.gencon.com/
Tabletop Scotland: https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/
Gamehole Con: https://www.gameholecon.com/
PAX Unplugged: https://unplugged.paxsite.com/
And now, the new project status updates!
Development Status from Eddy Webb! (Projects in bold have changed status since last week.):
First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep.)
Exalted Essay Collection (Exalted)
Under Alien Suns (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
Mission Statements (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
Adversaries of the Righteous (Exalted 3rd Edition)
The Clades Companion (Deviant: The Renegades)
The Devoted Companion (Deviant: The Renegades)
Saints and Monsters (Scion 2nd Edition)
M20 Rich Bastard’s Guide To Magick (Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary)
Wild Hunt (Scion 2nd Edition)
Dead Man’s Rust (Scarred Lands)
V5 The Faithful Undead (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)
V5 Trails of Ash and Bone (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)
V5 Forbidden Religions (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)
Redlines
Dragon-Blooded Novella #2 (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Hundred Devil’s Night Parade (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Trinity Continuum: Adventure! core (Trinity Continuum: Adventure!)
Contagion Chronicle Ready-Made Characters (Chronicles of Darkness)
Novas Worldwide (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
Exalted Essence Edition (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Dearly Bleak – Novella (Deviant: The Renegades)
Second Draft
Exigents (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Many-Faced Strangers – Lunars Companion (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Kith and Kin (Changeling: The Lost 2e)
Assassins (Trinity Continuum Core)
N!ternational Wrestling Entertainment (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
Development
TC: Aberrant Reference Screen (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Contagion Chronicle: Global Outbreaks (Chronicles of Darkness)
M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
They Came From Beyond the Grave! (They Came From!)
Crucible of Legends (Exalted 3rd Edition)
The Book of Endless Death (Mummy: The Curse 2e)
Manuscript Approval
Post-Approval Development
Scion: Demigod (Scion 2nd Edition)
Scion: Dragon (Scion 2nd Edition)
Editing
Terra Firma (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
Lunars Novella (Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Buried Bones: Creating in the Realms of Pugmire (Realms of Pugmire)
Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)
Player’s Guide to the Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)
Contagion Chronicle Jumpstart (Chronicles of Darkness)
TC: Aberrant Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
Trinity Continuum Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum)
Masks of the Mythos (Scion 2nd Edition)
LARP Rules (Scion 2nd Edition)
One Foot in the Grave Jumpstart (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2e)
Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Post-Editing Development
City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)
W20 Shattered Dreams Gift Cards (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th)
Cults of the Blood Gods (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)
Hunter: The Vigil 2e core (Hunter: The Vigil 2nd Edition)
Trinity Continuum: Aberrant core (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)
Monsters of the Deep (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)
Legendlore core book (Legendlore)
Titanomachy (Scion 2nd Edition)
Pirates of Pugmire KS-Added Adventure (Realms of Pugmire)
Tales of Aquatic Terror (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)
Indexing
Art Direction from Mike Chaney!
In Art Direction
Scion Titanomachy
Tales of Aquatic Terror
TC Aeon Terra Firma – Getting ready for Josh.
V5 Let the Streets Run Red
WoD Ghost Hunters – KS art being worked on.
Aberrant – Contacting and contracting. On the homestretch.
Pugmire Adventure 
Hunter: The Vigil 2e – Backer TShirt going out.
Mummy 2
Deviant – Rolling along.
Legendlore – Kickstarter on hiatus.
Technocracy Reloaded (KS) – Tuesday.
Cults of the Blood God – Rolling along.
In Layout
Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad
Vigil Watch – Part 2 out Wednesday!
Duke Rollo Book – Yep… laying that one out.
Proofing
Trinity Aeon Jumpstart 
Pirates of Pugmire – Backer PDF out to backers this week, I think.
TCFBTS Heroic Land Dwellers – 2nd Proof.
Lunars: Fangs at the Gate – At WW/Paradox for approval.
Scion Companion – Just waiting for two tweaked pieces.
Contagion Chronicle
Cavaliers of Mars: City of the Towered Tombs
At Press
Night Horrors : Nameless and Accursed – PoD proof ordered.
Dark Eras 2 – PoD proof shipping.
VtR Spilled Blood – PoD proof shipping.
TCFBTS Screen and Booklet
They Came from Beneath the Sea!
Geist 2e Anthology – PoD proof shipping.
C:tL 2e Oak, Ash, & Thorn – PoD proof ordered.
Today’s Reason to Celebrate!
On this date in 1948 was born Frank Abagnale Jr., CEO of Abagnale & Associates and criminal. Check out the film “Catch Me If You Can” for the quick version of his life. Definitely took roleplaying way too far.
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musubiki · 5 years
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Do the coattails have an actual leader? I know they work with Amanita for a while but they're not her army, right? just townspeople/witch haters? (Also, does this mean coattails exist in every corner of the world?)
yeah theyre not her army!!! she just pulls all these secret strings and somehow gets them to do what she wants,.,.
and yes!!!! they exists everywhere!!! anywhere there could potentially be a witch catch them sneakin around being freaks. (i think they also like keep track and watch known witch families so they know where and when to attack them during power transfers)
but for a leader, yes they have one!!!!! he doesnt show up until the 2nd big arc!!!! in the first arc (amanita as the main bad guy) the coattails are less of a threat and actually just act more as plot device/annoyance kinda??? and for like fun story scenarios, but in the SECOND ARC theyre gonna be a much bigger threat because they get a new leader which is gonna be the crow witchs baby brother (who is equally as brilliant as murda, but super evil) and they’ll also feature that technology vs magic struggle as well as being key to the big main bad guy of the second arc (unnamed)
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decompose1 · 2 years
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amanita doesn't actually know what flash is either btw. ae at least gets that he's some sort of electrical device but ae doesn't know what he . does
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