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zaozoruzhna · 2 years

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Happy Music Monday from all the lovely folks over at the Mushroom Musume dev team~

This week I wanted to showcase one of the standard tracks that will be coming out in the next update: Requiem of the Perennial. Arguably a fairly simple track, it was a fun exercise in chord progression - specifically the Royal Road Progression (which is the informal name, which is a direct translation of Ōdō shinkō, which is used to describe something as easy or painless; it is also known as the Kaokuma Chord Progression though that term was coined as late as 2014; formally, however, it is known as the IV△7–V7–iii7–vi Progression - but trying to pronounce that is like naming Elon’s next kid.)

The RRP is popular in Japanese Pop music, though it originated in the west amidst the jazz and blues waves of the 20th century. In fact it’s still used commonly enough (though less so) in the west - as seen in songs like Viva la Vida, by Coldplay(2008); It’s Gonna Be Me, by NSYNC(2000); and Never Gonna Give You Up, by our good chap Rick Astley(1987).

The difference in the use of RRP in the west however, is an occasional lack of that juicy seventh note - or with variations that bring it more in line with the (subjectively) more removed-from-blues music that dominated the western pop scene relative to their eastern contemporaries at their various times.

But of course, like most musical tools, the RRP is a varied and wonderful tool with which artists can express themselves in a manner of ways (for instance, Requiem of the Perennial doesn’t sound very pop-y, now does it?)

Just listen to a couple uses of RRP in eastern music, such as Blue Bird, by Ayumi Hamasaki(2006); Gravity, by LUNA SEA(2000); and Tabun(”Probably”), by the up-and-coming Yoasobi(2020) - (Seriously, check that last one out).

Enjoy the vibes, and remember to check out Mushroom Musume on Itch, available for free download on PC/Mac/Linux and Android platforms here:

https://mortallymoonstruckgames.itch.io/mushroom-musume

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15hachimitsu · 1 year

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I came across this in my YT feed yesterday, watched it out of curiosity, and found out that most of the Japanese music I enjoy uses the "Royal Road Progression" (IV-V-iii-vi).

I haven't formally studied music or music theory, so this came as a surprise for me. It started to make sense that there's a certain feel to Anisong and most Japanese music in general; it just took me being educationally rick-rolled. /lh

So I decided to test if a current earworm of mine contains this progression. More under the cut.

Since I recently re-watched Bakumatsu Rock (archived in an external HD) while our internet was getting fixed, I re-listened to (and fell in love again with) some of the songs, most notably "INTERSECT".

I tried to find its guitar chords in a Japanese chord site I frequently use, and lucked in on the song being available, plus details like what key it is in (B♭ minor). This prompted me to do a quick research on the B♭ scale and its equivalent roman numeral notation.

Using the information I obtained, I found that the chorus uses VI-VII-v-i in general (with some variations). At first, I couldn't make anything out of it, but my husband suggested we try to use the relative key in major (which is D♭). Once we did that, and tried to map the chords again to its roman numeral notation, it turns out that it was, indeed, using IV-V-iii-vi. Later on, in watching the cited videos and reading some comments, I learned that VI-VII-v-i is the royal road progression in minor scales.

I can't believe watching this video sent me into a rabbit hole of music theory. Maybe next time I'll try checking out the chord progression of some of my other favorite songs. XD

For now...

#long post #mostly me discovering chord progressions #i appreciate these kinds of content very much #thank you David Bennett Piano #music theory #royal road progression #now which series next? a3? banyaro? milgram?#bakumatsu rock

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caterpillarinacave · 5 months

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A week in a midwestern AmericInn would kill them both

#Actually the Midwest could probably kill them. Hell pool at an AmericInn would probably kill them both #A single chlorinated pool could end the royal bloodline of Atlantis #Cut to Arthur in middle school thinking he’s going to DOMINATE the swimming unit #Cut to his attempt to breathe in chlorine. Cut to an hour straight of screeching and hacking #Aquaman #arthur curry #orm marius #Men’s Road-trip to Mt. Rushmore but Arthur and Orm just get progressively more ill as they go #Arthur has like a vague political reason to head towards the Great Lakes or something and he was instantly like “omg road trip 😝🤩🥳💅”#“My dad never took me on road-trips as a kid so this will be great!!!”#Arthur on FaceTime ghost white collapsed on a hotel room floor while Orm chugs water straight from the bathroom tap in the background :#”no babe it was a great idea one of my best I swear- wait don’t put mom on DONT-“#He didn’t get to bring Junior just FYI.

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mylezwuzwriting · 7 months

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About the author! (me <3)

my name is myles! im 16, and a nonbinary/transmasc and queer aspiring author. my goal when writing is to make something that makes someone feel how i feel when reading, and to just...tell my story. i mostly write high-fantasy/romance, and im currently working on Project Souls.

You can find my writing content here:

RoyalRoad (find my stories!)

Project Souls - Campfire

Project Souls - Spotify

my goal for this account is to build a community of fellow writers with similar interests, to support and help each other. i follow back all writeblr accounts!

WRITING TAGS!

#fynley greer - main character number one! #fynley's aesthetic - the aesthetic of my boy

#arden callahan - main character number two #arden's aesthetic - the aesthetic of my other boy any other names are probably side characters or antagonists

#sodas / #souls of dust and shadows / #project souls - my wip :)) #sodas spoilers - slight spoilers of my wip!

other than my writing interests, i also love moths, greek mythology, mother mother, and victorian clothing! i draw and listen to music in my free time. i am a senior in high school, and i have a part time job. im planning on going to college next year! my main account is here and my art account is here

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tddverse · 5 months

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The Dark Descent

Threa is plagued by the Ancient Genetic Deviation Syndrome, giving rise to the dreaded entities known as the "Phantoms". These once-human beings are now lifeless vessels, and their existence is shrouded in a mist of mystery.

This affliction has haunted the world for centuries, and as cities crumble and lives are lost, the burning questions of why and what these phantoms seek remain unanswered.

Should the people continue its DESCENT into the unknown to uncover the origin of this phenomena, or shall we just keep ourselves in the blissful embrace of ignorance?

#royal road #fiction #worldbuilding #story #fantasy #scifi #dark fantasy #webnovel #dark creature #mystery #author #novel #writers on tumblr #creative writing #creative inspiration #story in progress #fiction writing #ongoing #organization

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amalgamat1on · 1 year

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Royal Road Gold and best Gamelit fantasy. Jackal Among Snakes by Nemorosus.

#royal road #fantasy books #fantasy #gamelit #progression fantasy #indie author

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justwriteyoudummy · 2 years

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New Cover for The Trick Tower Tourist!

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/56725/the-trick-tower-tourist

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UH SO YEAH THIS HAPPENED LAST NIGHT/TODAY AND ASKLJGHSDKGJHAS:KFJHAS:KGFJAGOASF I LOVE IT

#The Trick Tower Tourist #Trick Tower #New Cover #webnovel #Royal Road #LitRPG #Literature RPG #New Author #Author in progress #Writeblr

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trujellyfish · 2 years

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Noctis prefers blond(e)s

#ffxv #noctis/prompto/lunafreya #i refuse to acknowledge the progression of the game #noctis and luna get married #prom and luna finally meet and become besties #prom becomes their royal consort lmao #road trip shenanigans resume

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autistickaitovocaloid · 2 years

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Anyway tonight's cursed knowledge is that Donut Hole and Never Gonna Give You Up almost use the same chorus chord progression.

#art talks about stuff #donut hole specifically uses a chord progression called the ''royal road''#which is like IV-V-iii-vi i think #and it's pretty popular in jpop from what i've gathered #anyway #there

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lapontoart · 5 months

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A new Chapter of the "Masters of Sand" was added.

#original character #novel #royal roads #story #work in progress

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novusscarlet · 6 months

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Totally not writing a new story w/ Kaijus as the main theme... 👀 Probably gonna post this sucker on Royal Road after I get another couple chapters done.

#kaiju #original fiction #royal road #reincarnation #progression #nova's art

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obcurityandbeyond · 9 months

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A fantasy story about an autistic mage who finds a family in his party while his stubborn sense of duty drags them all on a path of justice that can only lead to the top. Deacon is a scriptyr, a gray-skinned cousin of elves and hobgoblins. His party consists of Marla — an outgoing and scatterbrained halfling, Bones — an animated skeleton alchemist whose always down to clown, Halwark — a true hero, through and through, but naive about the established powers the party faces, and Sonnet — the creepy which who seems to think death-threats and flirting are one and the same. Join them on their journey of humor and drama.

#writers on tumblr #writeblr #fiction #my writing #fantasy #royal road #writing wip #progression fantasy

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jennamoran · 4 months

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The Far Roofs: Systems

Hi!

Today I’m going to talk a little bit more about my forthcoming RPG, the Far Roofs. More specifically, I want to give a general overview of its game mechanics!

So the idea that first started the Far Roofs on the road to being its own game came out of me thinking a lot about what large projects feel like.

I was in one of those moods where I felt like the important thing in an RPG system was the parallel between that system and real-world experience. Where I felt like the key to art was always thinking about the end goal, or at least a local goal, as one did the work; and, the key to design was symmetry between the goals and methods, the means and ends.

I don't always feel that way, but it's how I work when I'm feeling both ambitious and technical.

So what I wanted to do was come up with an RPG mechanic that was really like the thing it was simulating:

Finding answers. Solving problems. Doing big things.

And it struck me that what that felt like, really, was a bit like ...

You get pieces over time. You wiggle them around. You try to fit them together. Sometimes, they fit together into larger pieces and then eventually a whole. Sometimes you just collect them and wiggle them around until suddenly there's an insight, an oh!, and you now know everything works.

The ideal thing to do here would probably be having a bag of widgets that can fit together in different ways---not as universally as Legos or whatever, but, like, gears and connectors and springs and motors and whatever. If I were going to be building a computer game I would probably think along those lines, anyway. You'd go to your screen of bits and bobs and move them around with your mouse until it hooked together into something that you liked.

... that's not really feasible for a tabletop RPG, though, at least, not with my typical financial resources. I could probably swing making that kind of thing, finding a 3d printing or woodworking partner or something to make the pieces, for the final kickstarter, but I don't have the resources to make a bunch of different physical object sets over time while I'm playtesting.

So the way I decided that I could implement this was by drawing letter tiles.

That I could do a system where you'd draw letter tiles ... not constantly, not specifically when you were working, but over time; in the moments, most of all, that could give you insight or progress.

Then, at some point, you'd have enough of them.

You'd see a word.

That word'd be your answer.

... not necessarily the word itself, but, like, what the word means to you and what the answer means to you, those would be the same.

The word would be a symbol for the answer that you've found, as a player and a character.

(The leftover letters would then stick around in your hand, bits of thought and experience that didn't directly lead to a solution there, but might help with something else later on.)

Anyway, I figured that this basic idea was feasible because, like, lots of people own Scrabble sets. Even if you don't, they're easier to find than sets of dice!

For a short indie game focused on just that this would probably have been enough of a mechanic all on its own. For a large release, though, the game needed more.

After thinking about it I decided that what it wanted was two more core resolution systems:

One, for stuff like, say ... kickstarter results ... where you're more interested in "how well did this do?" or "how good of an answer is this?" than in whether those results better fit AXLOTL or TEXTUAL. For this, I added cards, which you draw like letter tiles and combine into poker hands. A face card is probably enough for a baseline success, a pair of Kings would make the results rather exciting, and a royal flush result would smash records.

The other core system was for like ... everyday stuff. For starting a campfire or jumping a gap. That, by established RPG tradition, would use dice.

...

I guess technically it didn't have to; I mean, like, most of my games have been diceless, and in fact we've gotten to a point in the hobby where that's just "sort of unusual" instead of actually rare.

But, like, I like dice. I do. If I don't use them often, it's because I don't like the empty page of where to start in the first place building a bespoke diced system when I have so many good diceless systems right there.

... this time, though, I decided to just go for it.

The Dice System

So a long, long time ago I was working on a game called the Weapons of the Gods RPG. Eos Press had brought me in to do the setting, and somewhere in the middle of that endeavor, the game lost its system.

I only ever heard Eos' side of this, and these days I tend to take Eos' claims with a grain of salt ... but, my best guess is that all this stuff did happen, just, with a little more context that I don't and might not ever know?

Anyway, as best as I remember, the first writer they had doing their system quit midway through development. So they brought in a newer team to do the system, and halfway through that the team decided they'd have more fun using the system for their own game, and instead wrote up a quick alternate system for Weapons of the Gods to use.

This would have been fine if the alternate system were any good, but it was ... pretty obviously a quick kludge. It was ...

I think the best word for it would be "bad."

I don't even like the system they took away to be their own game, but at least I could believe that it was constructed with love. It was janky but like in a heartfelt way.

The replacement system was more the kind of thing where if you stepped in it you'd need a new pair of shoes.

It upset me.

It upset me, and so, full wroth, I decided to write a system to use for the game.

Now, I'd never done a diced system before at that point. My only solo game had been Nobilis. So I took a bunch of dice and started rolling them, to see ... like ... what the most fun way of reading them was.

Where I landed, ultimately, was looking for matches.

The core system for Weapons of the Gods was basically, roll some number of d10s, and if you got 3 4s, that was a 34. If you got 2 9s, that was a 29. If your best die was a 7 and you had no pairs at all, you got 1 7. 17.

It didn't have any really amazing statistical properties, but the act of rolling was fun. It was rhythmic, you know, you'd see 3 4s and putting them together into 34 was a tiny tiny dopamine shot at the cost of basically zero brain effort. It was pattern recognition, which the brain tends to enjoy.

I mean, obviously, it would pall in a few minutes if you just sat there rolling the dice for no reason ... but, as far as dice rolling goes, it was fun.

So when I went to do an optional diced system for the Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG, years later, to post here on tumblr ... I already knew what would make that roll fun. That is, rolling a handful of dice and looking for matches.

What about making it even more fun?

... well, critical results are fun, so what about adding them and aiming to have a lot of them, though still like rare enough to surprise?

It made sense to me to call no matches at all a critical failure, and a triple a critical success. So I started fiddling with dice pool size to get the numbers where I wanted them.

I'm reconstructing a bit at this point, but I imagine that I hit 6d10 and was like: "these are roughly the right odds, but this is one too many dice to look at quickly on the table, and I don't like that critical failure would be a bit more common than crit success."

So after some wrestling with things I wound up with a dice pool of 5d6, which is the dice pool I'm still using today.

If you roll 5d6, you'll probably get a pair. But now and then, you'll get a triple (or more!) My combinatorics is rusty, so I might have missed a case, but, like ... 17% of the time, triples, quadruples, or quintuples? And around 9% chance, for no matches at all?

I think I was probably looking for 15% and 10%, that those were likely my optimum, but ... well, 5d6 comes pretty close. Roughly 25% total was about as far as I thought I could push critical results while still having them feel kind or rare. Like ...

If I'm rolling a d20 in a D&D-like system, and if I'm going to succeed on an 18+, that's around when success is exciting, right? Maybe 17+, though that's pushing it? So we want to fall in the 15-20% range for a "special good roll." And people have been playing for a very long time now with the 5% chance of a "1" as a "special bad roll," and that seemed fine, so, like, 20-25% chance total is good.

And like ...

People talk a lot about Rolemaster crit fail tables in my vicinity, and complain about the whiff fests you see in some games where you keep rolling and rolling and nothing good or bad actually happens, and so I was naturally drawn to pushing crit failure odds a bit higher than you see in a d20-type game.

Now, one way people in indie circles tend to address "whiff fests" is by rethinking the whole dice-rolling ... paradigm ... so you never whiff; setting things up, in short, so that every roll means something, and every success and failure mean something too.

It's a leaner, richer way of doing things than you see in, say, D&D.

... I just didn't feel like it, here, because the whole point of things was to make dice rolling fun. I wanted people coming out of traditional games to be able to just pick up the dice and say "I'm rolling for this!" because the roll would be fun. Because consulting the dice oracle here, would be fun.

So in the end, that was the heart of it:

A 5d6 roll, focusing on the ease of counting matches and the high but not exorbitant frequency of special results.

But at the same time ...

I'm indie enough that I do really like rolls where, you know, every outcome is meaningful. Where you roll, and there's never a "whiff," just a set of possible meaningful outcomes.

A lot of the time, where I'm leaning into "rolls are fun, go ahead and roll," what it means to succeed, to fail, to crit, all that's up to the group, and sometimes it'll be unsatisfying. Other times, you'll crit succeed or crit fail and the GM will give you basically the exact same result as you'd have gotten on a regular success or failure, just, you know, jazzing up the description a bit with more narrative weight.

But I did manage to pull out about a third of the rolls you'll wind up actually making and assign strong mechanical and narrative weight to each outcome. Where what you were doing was well enough defined in the system that I could add some real meat to those crits, and even regular success and regular failure.

... though that's a story, I think, to be told some other time. ^_^

#the far roofs #jenna moran #rpgs

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tddverse · 4 months

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The Labyrinth of Wrath

The final part of the prelude of "Labyrinth of Wrath" has been published and marks as the end of the "Humble Beginnings" Arc. A new start of Noralie's journey in The Dark Descent will begin in a new setting and new plethora of characters (not majors) as a new phantom threat looms over the district of Runenbach!

#dark fantasy #fantasy #fiction #story #horror #author #scifi #royal road #fiction writing #webnovel #mystery #work in progress #worldbuilding #creative writing #amatuer writer

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sugoi-writes · 2 months

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Nun!Alastor x Reader - The Confessional - Part 1

It's 1 AM, and @st-alastors-confessional has me foaming at the mouth. I wrote this far-too-long drabble based off of the MOD's Nun Alastor. Please please enjoy!

Warning: Not proofread in the slightest, with implications of sacrilege and sinning behavior. You've been warned! I might do another part with more debauchery down the road hehe

The sermon was going swimmingly, all things considered. The Pastor and Priest, St. Vox, lead with a soulful, boisterous tone. Albeit, he had always led his sermons with a strong, charismatic energy. He left the congregation absolutely enraptured, waiting on hand and foot for him to speak again.... You, another sinner among the crowd, tried to absorb what you could from his ravings and ramblings.

Clearly, when you wound up in Hell... you found out the hard way that God was, indeed, real. You had long been a on-Christian, and even if you still weren't... you couldn't look the facts in the face and say they weren't true. It was a simple notion:

God was real. You were not a loyal believer. You did a bad thing or two, and now you're in a church in the heart of the Pentagram, seeking answers.

You were hoping to find a way to get into Heaven... St. Vox's approach was very traditional, almost 'Dark Ages' approach. A phrase you heard once or twice rung through your mind, clear as the morning church bells:

" When a coin in the coffer rings, a soul in purgatory springs..."... no, was it sings??? That, you werent sure... either way--

Many wealthier, gullible sinners would shove money towards the Church, desperate to buy their way out of Hell. The more meek, kind hearted sinners would often throw money to the offering plates to prevent their love ones from suffering the same fate... Whether their monetary sacrifices were successful or not... well, that's yet to be seen. And no one truly know where that money goes...

And so you searched and listened in the pews patiently, hoping that something would reveal itself to you... Would living justly get you out of here? Would denouncing sin in its entirety get you the ticket out of this hellhole? Hell, did you need to declare yourself celibate? You certainly wouldn't be opposed, after some of the shit you saw on Day One...

In all honestly, you'd be willing to throw a few dollars in the pot on the off chance your gut was wrong about St. Vox's approach. As you know, your intuition had led you astray before...

You were five Sundays deep in this contrived drivel, and yet, you still had questions... The questions that plagued your mind could only be answered by the Priest, ideally during Confessional tonight... But, as you tried your best to stay awake through another biblical tangent, you were startled by a choral uproar. The choir, made entirely of clergy, was the closest thing to Heavenly that they, or any sinner, could hear in Hell.

Honest efforts were being made to sing the hymns and profess the Gospel accurately. The pitches and incantations were perfectly admirable, even enjoyable... and surprisingly, all of this was all done in Latin. It was nearly enough to raise goosebumps across your flesh, your senses pleased by the perfect, harmonious progressions.

One among the nuns who sung, with strong, crimson features, met your gaze in the middle of the refrain. You felt the gaze burrowing into you deeper, trembling subconscious as the song made you sway along.

A pointed, yellowed smile graced your eyes as the deer demon sang along. The overall tone of the higher melodic line had felt like cashmere; it was refined and soft due to their(?) unique voice texture. It was a tone that you felt was familiar... a comforting one. You couldnt put your tongue on it, squinting slightly at the demure nun. They(?) seemed to notice your infatuation, their hands folding neatly together and clasping a fine, ornate rosary. Their hands were elegant, long and thin, reminding you of a Royal... surely, those hands were used for more than empty prayer?

You felt your mind run to impurities and sin almost instantly, panicking as you tore your sight away from the Nun. You felt your throat running dry as you shook your head in shock. You couldn't be thinking this way about a nun-- a NUN? Quite literally, a celibate being, devoted to God and His work. This felt... wrong. So wrong, even for a sinner like you.

Your legs brushed tightly against one another, hoping to stiffle the feeling that pooled in your core. You watched the way that the Nun's chest rose and fell, how the angular jaw was complimented by the small, bobbed tufts that framed it. Your eyes became lost in the visual stimuli as you pondered just how demure and sweet this Nun must have looked under the habit...

You bite the inside of your cheek as you felt the Nun's eyes still looking to you, as if they KNEW exactly what you were thinking. 'If you keep undressing me with your eyes, I might catch a cold,' your mind mimicked in their voice.

You felt indecent, completely exposed to someone who you should be regarding as an example of purity and devotion...

As the hymn finally concluded, the Priest dismissed the clergy. He was swiftly wrapping things up as the coffers and offering plates made their rounds around the room. The nuns assisted, coming row by row to collect generous donations and desperate offerings. You felt yourself stiffen as you noticed the red and black demon making their way closer to you, voice teeming with a startling sweetness.

"Blessings unto you, dear Sinner. Many thanks. ...Blessings unto you, dear. How has your mother been fairing--?"

As the velvety voice grew closer to you, you felt yourself unable to move, paralyzed with fear. What if they knew you were lusting over them so superficially? Would they be able to tell?

You nearly fell into the aisle as a sinner slammed into you from behind, thrusting money towards the chaste nun," Pl-Please!!!! Please, this is all that I have!!! Sister Alastor, Sister Alastor!!! Bless me!!! Bless me, Sister!!!"

The Demon nun took pause at your row, noticing you struggling under the weight of the sinner on top of you. Your lungs felt like they were being squeezed shut, unable to expand in their efforts. You pushed with all of your might, eyes closed as you fought back," W-Watch it, you f-- Ugh, you putrid FUCK!!! Get off me!!!"

Swiftly, Sister Alastor's hand was on the neck of the sinner, squeezing tightly as he gasped and gurgled. The nun simply smiled, head tilted," Dear sinner! Your penance is null and void if you cast discomfort and pain upon thine neighbor!" The nun's neck practically snapped at velocity they cocked their head up, looking downcast at the panicking demon. Unable to look up, you missed the smile Alastor wore, threatening to tear the demonic face of the nun in two.

"Take your vile hands and cast them into the River Styx... for your blood money is not welcome in these halls... Now leave this scared place. "

The sinner gasps, coughing and sputtering as he scrambles away, causing you to fall forward out of your pew. Just when you think you're about to eat shit: two large, taloned hands delicately hold you aloft.

"Are you unharmed, little lamb?" You blink for a moment, looking up slowly... only to find Sister Alastor's face an inch from your own. You stuttered as your hot breath fanned against his face, your legs threatening to give out under you.

"Y-Yes, Im-- I'm quite alright. Thank you, Sister..." You allow Alastor to place you back onto your feet, the hands of the docile-looking demon smoothing out your outfit and brushing off imaginary debris.

"I apologize for making you intervene. Thank you-- I would've been trampled to death, were it not for you." The deer Demon's smile could have made the devil tremble... but to you, it seemed entirely sincere," Thank me not, dear Lamb. For the Lord always calls upon his disciples to help those in need." Alastor takes a step away from you, bowing their head and giving you a polite curtsy.

"Alas, I must be away. But, should you need to seek council... the Lord always has room to hear out your wayward strifes and confessions." You reach out and almost touch the Nun's habit, sheepishly blushing when you sense the farmer's flinch.

"A-Actually... will the Priest be seeing anyone for Confession tonight? I... I have concerns. Concerns I feel like he could help me through... Im troubled, and just..." Your eyes are downcast, unable to look at the devilishly handsome demon," Im... concerned about my salvation. And need advice on how better to achieve it... or, if its really too late for me now."

You feel your heart leap into your throat as the Nun's head pulls off a complete 180° spin, the body following suit a moment after. Alastor clasps both of your hands in his own, smile wide and full of glee," But of course! Our hallowed halls could never deny such an honest soul seeking the Lord's guidance!" Alastor's head grows closer to yours, voice hushing. You're forced to lean in too, his voice hardly above a whisper.

"However, he will be unable to see anyone just yet. Return at the Witching Hour... he will have an audience with you then." Your eyes widened as you smiled back, eagerly shaking the nun's hands," O-Oh thank you-- Thank you!!! I appreciate that! I'll be back soon, then. Bless you, Sister Alastor! "

You nod and bow back to the nun, who regards you evenly but warmly, before watching you leave. You did not see the smirk that spread across Alastor's face... the glint of excitement that lights up his candy red eyes.

Oh, he knows damn well that Vox will not seek an audience with you that late in the night... who best to stand in for the Priest other than himself... the Mother Superior?

His mind festers with demented excitement as you stumbled out of the church, looking like a scared, timid doe... Oh, how he would enjoy seeing you again. He would need to prepare for your visit... after all, you would be doing your fair share of confessing AND atoning for your sins... your eyes hid nothing from him. And he was going to enjoy seeing them well up with blissful tears, a wanton expression gracing your cheeks...

The click of the nun's shoes echoed as he followed the other clergy members elegantly, his face not giving anything away. Oh Lord, how you've blessed him with a most delightful pleasure... he'd be sure to repent for his indecency later.

#nun!alastor #nun alastor #hazbin hotel #alastor x reader #alastor x you #alastor x y/n #radio demon #alastor the radio demon #ahahah i tried keeping things tame but Nun Alastor makes my brain m e lt #i very much enjoy the blurssed imagery of alastor as a nun #i hope yall enjoy it too!!!#this was cranked out in one sitting so i hope this isnt SHIT AHAH

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