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amostdelectablescribbler · 6 months

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i’m making a new thing and want help

i’m doing a whodunnit in which we know pretty much whodunnit and it’s about how they did it and how they were caught. We are now at the “how they did it” part. I am not that clever, so i am asking for help. For context, this story is inspired by the following image that i nicked from @ultrainfinitepit (you don’t mind me writing something with these guys as a base for inspiration, do you? They’re just so gorgeous and full of character i just gotta!)

We got, by chapter order:

-What The Cat Dragged In: i’ve decided he’s gonna be the counterpart to the protagonist, alongside a woman who looks like Jane Romero from Dead By Daylight operating the radio, and they go and bust into a big room in a mob base full of half-finished plans and clever things and riddles and foreshadowing, but i need something to foreshadow, which brings us to:

-High Stakes: a corrupt casino owner, who is this cool smooth-talking vampire lady, who uses her looks and her charm to keep your attention while she changes the rules and stacks the deck. What would the tells of someone lying be? How would you bait someone?

-Dead Man Walking: a voodoo skeleton drug lord who cheated death and is buying lives and enslaving people in exchange for drugs. I can do this myself as there’s always cameras, witnesses on the street reporting it, people going missing in the same few locations, etc.

-Swimming With The Fishes: a selkie jazz singer/theatre actress/opera singer/whatever fits better who wears her pelt as a scarf, and drowns people who disturb her performances or for suggesting someone is better, or someone being better, they get drowned. She wants to stay desperately relevant and perpetually famous.

-If Looks Could Kill: drop-dead-gorgeous gorgon (a la medusa), possibly a runway model or fashion designer, who kills by turning people to stone and disguising their bodies as mannequins in her shop. She seduces them into going to a backroom with her and turns them to stone in a nice pose, but what would that look like?

-All Bark, All Bite: a werewolf cop who is higher in the chain of command than Clyde (protagonist. Will do a big wip intro later) and abuses it regularly in the previous chapters. Is mean and corrupted by the monetary gain of protecting the previous charismaniacs from legal trouble at the “behest” of the guy below. What would corrupt cops do to pull the wool over peoples eyes? What would be the tells that you’re being played for a fool and silenced?

-Angel-Face: a mob boss who made a deal with a little-known angel called Lucifer for immortality in exchange for his own soul, or the souls of others. He’s been the kingpin holding all the other operations together, and he’s been doing it to get the bodies from the others and sacrificing them in exchange for immortality. It becomes a race to piece together the puzzle before one of the supporting cast gets sacrificed, culminating in Angel-Face failing to meet the sacrifice deadline and getting dragged down to hell by the Devil. This one I can do myself, as i can use regular wet footprints on the floor, security cameras, and following cars in a cool chase scene, the very climactic works.

My plea to my mutuals, and in general those cleverer than myself, can you guys come up with some genius schemes for these brilliantly illustrated Magnificent Bastards?

#writeblr #creative writing #writers of tumblr #writer problems #whodunnit #noir-fantasy #writing #schemes #psychology

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atomic-chronoscaph · 2 months

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A Scattering of Jades - art by Guillaume Sorel (2006)

#guillaume sorel #fantasy art #horror art #cover art #alexander c. irvine #mystery novels #fantasy novels #le soleil du nouveau monde #fleuve noir #2000s #2006

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zakuromancy · 1 month

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killing time 🔪

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oldschoolfrp · 1 month

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The party sets out for adventure -- Ugurcan Yüce cover for The Dark Eye introductory box set, Schmidt Spiele -- Schmidt France version "L'Œil noir;" originally released in German as "Das Schwarze Auge" (DSA). This art has been attributed to a second alternative version of the 1984 1st edition, and to the 1988 2nd edition.

#The Dark Eye #Ugurcan Yuce #Ugurcan Yüce #Das Schwarze Auge #l'oeil noir #JDR #jeu de role #jeu de rôle #L'Œil noir #DSA #Initiation au Jeu d'Aventure #fantasy RPG #adventuring party #castle #fantasy castle #1980s

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thestuffedalligator · 6 months

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I completely forgot Le Collège Noir was getting an animated adaptation, and oh my god this looks unimaginably cool.

#i'm not aware of the source material #but i watched the pilot a few months ago and it lit up my brain like a christmas tree #dark horror supernatural fantasy. regional european folklore. *a hurdy gurdy*#give it to me. i need this in my grubby raccoon paws #le college noir #horror #kinda #Youtube

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animepopheart · 8 months

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★ 【noir】「 arknights 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

#skadi the corrupting heart #arknights #lumen arknights #anime art #fantasy art #artist: noir

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bubblyernie · 21 days

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Obsessed with this genre of man specifically. Didnt have the mental capacity to add them but extra big shoutout to Tyrell Badd, Eddie Valiant, and Jules Maigret. Also sorry for making columbo tall, i didnt realize till afterwards that hes like. a short king.

art tag // commission info

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goryhorroor · 7 months

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day 1 of 30 days of horror: non-horror movies that feel like horror movies

#horror #horror movies #these movies are more thrillers dark fantasy crime noir but they trend the line of horror very carefully or they freaked me out as a kid #gone girl #the black cauldron #prisoners #watership down #zodiac #the lovely bones #return to oz #horroredit #moviesedit #filmedit #cinema #30 days of horror

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emilianadarling · 4 months

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A very belated title card for Heart Beats Slow from The Neon Lights of Coruscant series, featuring @lovey-dovey-and-sad's beautiful art! Luke and Din's first kiss from Chapter Two, showcasing the point of impact in question. 😊😀

(Plz go check out lovey's comic for the full delicious experience. 👀)

#dinluke #dinluke big bang #star wars #i made this compilation for easier 'all in one pic' sharing purposes #and then promptly fell off the face of the earth for Real Life Reasons before posting WOOPS #so so so fun to be able to share it today #lovey-dovey-and-sad #cam_elot #the neon lights of coruscant #heart beats slow #neon noir #urban fantasy #cam and I could not have even imagined a more stunningly gorgeous depiction of this moment!!

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ineffablemossy · 7 months

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Still thinking about Aziraphale's press card number being 66

I just love this detail and not seen anyone post about it before

#good omens #Aziraphale #mr fell investigative journalist #the resurrectionist #good omens s2 ep 3 #ineffable husbands #neil gaiman #give me the fact #number of the beast #well nearly #66 #good omens 2 #michael sheen #delicious details #costume design #babygirl living out her noir detective fantasies #love this for her

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anim-ttrpgs · 12 days

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Promotional art by team artist @chaospyromancy

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is a neo-noir investigation-focused RPG with (as you can probably guess from the title) a supernatural twist. Eureka fills several voids we have noticed in the TTRPG space. Eureka supports investigation to a degree we haven’t seen before, ensuring that searching for clues is a granular and player-driven process, but also ensuring that the whole story doesn’t grind to a halt after one single failed investigation check.

Though most PCs will be mundane humans—or perhaps because most PCs will be mundane humans—Eureka also supports playing monstrous PCs, such as a vampire, in a way we have never seen before. This isn’t just a watered-down stat bonus, it’s like playing an almost entirely different game, with all the monster’s strengths and weaknesses to account for while solving the mystery, plus the added incentive to keep it a secret from the other PCs as well as their players.

If you like or are interested in Call of Cthulhu, Monster of the Week, Dresden Files, X-Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Apocalypse Keys, or Gumshoe, you’ll probably find something in Eureka to really enjoy.

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is kickstarting from right now until May 10th! Back it while you still can!

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If you want to try before you buy, you can download a free demo of the prerelease version from our website or our itch.io page!

If you’re interested in a more updated and improved version of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy than the free demo you got from our website, subscribe to our Patreon where we frequently roll our new updates for the prerelease version!

You can also support us on Ko-fi, or by checking out our merchandise!

Join our TTRPG Book Club At the time of writng this, Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is the current game being played in the book club, and anyone who wants to participate in discussion, but can’t afford to make a contribution, will be given the most updated prerelease version for free! Plus it’s just a great place to discuss and play new TTRPGs you might not be able to otherwise!

We hope to see you there, and that you will help our dreams come true and launch our careers as indie TTRPG developers with a bang by getting us to our base goal and blowing those stretch goals out of the water, and fight back against WotC's monopoly on the entire hobby. Wish us luck.

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gebo4482 · 5 months

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Le Collège Noir by Bill Otomo

#le collège noir #bill otomo #animation #fantasy series #concept art #creature design #character design #artwork

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oaksentinel · 10 months

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Welcome, Twitter refugees! Nice to see more familiar faces (usernames?) here too. Enjoy your stay!

Anyways, I feel like this is a good time to put all my vtuber armor designs in one post.

#traditional art #fantasy #artists on tumblr #vtuber #hololive #vshojo #vesper noir #gawr gura #zentreya #knight #knightubers

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kronehaze · 9 months

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But what if fantasy

#also hi sorry about being dead I uh #moved continents and died #oops #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanart #ladybug pv #felix agreste #marinette cheng #chat noir #felinette #ladybug #kronehaze art #placeholder tag for this fantasy au depending on where my brain goes #cuz this will either be high fantasy or a Deltarune au

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oldschoolfrp · 1 year

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"Built from a thousand kilometers of flesh and steel, it writhes in the passions of those who live in it. Everyone and everything is connected here; there are no accidents. Take a walk down any street and read the writing on the wall: 'Welcome to the Sprawl, chummer. Too bad you could make it.'" (Steve Venters cover art for Shadowrun supplement Sprawl Sites, FASA, 1990)

#Shadowrun #Sprawl Sites #Steve Venters #sci fi #urban fantasy #FASA #cyberpunk #noir #lightning #skull #rat #magic

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ariadnethedragon · 1 year

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ORLANDO BLOOM as RYCROFT PHILOSTRATE

Carnival Row (2019-)

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