#story from a game

[dungeonmalcontent]

Level 1 Party: gets abducted in their sleep and has *all* of their gear stolen and are hung up like livestock at a slaughter house.

Party: wakes up

Party: chooses violence.

Party: the ogre that captured us comes back for a snack and we beat it to death with our bare hands and extremely basic spells.

My Duergar artificer upon killing the ogre: "don't *kick* screw *kick* with *kick* me *kick* you *kick* stupid *kick* oaf!"

So, anyway. Session 0 looked like that one scene from JoJo: Golden Wind where they beat up a random rude guy, except we're all dwarves + 1 half elf (probably half dwarf).

#d&d #dnd #dungeons and dragons #5e #ttrpg #still laughing about this #story from a game

[tariah23]

The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.

#it’s just??? #at the end of the day all these people want to do is draw and write their stories and share them with the world #why is death from stress the end game for so many of them #this should not be part of the package when finally deciding that this is what you want to do with your life #rambling #I still never got over miura’s passing man #and Togashi is still here but he’s been suffering from the consequences of overwork #it’s just… all so bleak #fans just need to learn to be patient if these changes are ever made and to be respectful #your fav series is not gonna die just because you can’t get it right now #I’m glad that gege does this now like he takes a break every 2-3 chapters and that’s good #this should be normalized

[critterbitter]

Local pachirisu child attempts to befriend two patrats (because they know the chopsticks game, and therefore must be cool, right???)

Alas. The children do not know how to communicate. (Want comics that aren't sad child hours? Check out the masterpost for my submas content!)

#origin story #also CAN I GET A WHOOO YEAH FROM ALL THEM FOLKS WHO PLAYED THE CHOPSTICK GAME #art #pokemon #sketchbook #submas #myart #fanart #pokemon ingo #submas comic #nimbasa trio #baby submas #ingo #emmet #elesa #pokemon elesa #pokemon emmet #gym leader elesa #subway boss nobori #subway boss kudari

[golden-snackoos]

forget me not.

#apollo justice #ace attorney #trucy wright #thalassa gramarye #lamiroir #machi tobaye #my-art #the middle-most panel is drawn from the part where thalassa gets injured #her story is always so sad to think about #the way the parts left unsaid are soo miserable to think about with these games..

[lilybug-02]

You’re making a lot of promises there Chara…

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—Full Series—

I enjoyed doing this little Flashback scene. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled freakout session soon. Having monochrome color is very nice.

Here is a gif of Chara spilling their water because YES. And I spent way too long on it :)

Wow technology is so cool.

#Frisk is finally name dropped!! WOOHOOO #Az and Chara are my Little Lily bugs and I love writing their interactions #they still have a lot to learn about each other though. it’s only been a few months! #the tiny nudge made me happy #untitled goose game is just chillin in the corner #if you want lol. I ain’t cannonizing anything there #gif #I’m really happy with all this. I was planning on making almost 7 pages but with some help from friends I decided to cut it down a lot #i’ve also really been wanting to solidify all of their pronouns for a while now but couldn’t find a suitable time #anyways…I still have some vacation time planned so the next update will also be somewhat delayed #thanks to all those who are still loving the story #much love #bread #art #deltarune #deltarune chara timeline #chara #Asriel #Kris #my art

[villetteulogy]

If Coryo was solely looking out for himself throughout TBOSAS and never had genuine feelings for Lucy Gray, then explain this passage

He could’ve landed in one of the districts closer to the Capitol, but instead chose to exile himself to District 12 hoping to be reunited with Lucy Gray. The mere possibility of their reunion is the only thing that keeps him going. And that’s love.😌

#hunger for power and obsession with control can 100% coexist with love btw #the latter isn’t diminished by the circumstance that the person feeling such love later made poor choices #it just makes their story a tragedy #disliking a character and/or thinking they’re irredeemable is one thing #but believing that snow was evil from the start is just wrong #he’s digging his own grave but is unaware of it #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #snowbaird #coryo x lucy #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #coriolanus x lucy gray

[gauntletqueen]

When a non-horror game has a horror section, I often find it a little more effective or memorable than a full-on horror title's horror, in a way. I think that's because, for characters in fiction, they usually don't know they're about to experience a horror story, so they aren't mentally prepared at all. As the audience, we know that when we boot up Silent Hill, we're gonna see some scary stuff and can mentally prepare accordingly. But when some innocuous children's platformer or RPG or whatever suddenly throws genuine horror elements at me, I'm taken out of my comfort zone much more roughly since I don't expect it at all. I think that's neat :>

#Fallout has some great examples of this #A Hat in Time and Rayman as well #the Zelda series of course #One of the most fun uses of this trope to me is in games with sidequests #Where you're send to some location that might be kinda suspicious #maybe sent to get an item or look for someone who got lost #and Oops! The places is Haunted by Actual Ghosts! #An until now unknown element of this world! #That's so fun #you get to feel just like some investigative journalist or whatever from a horror story #who has no idea what they're about to get into

[elvyn]

Anyway, I finished Baldur's Gate 3

#Astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #my art #and I'll probably play it again #a fantasy game with choices is always a fun fantasy game #And it has elves #that's the most important thing haha #I really enjoyed the story of Astarion and Shadowheart. My two fav characters from this game #And the game has a lot of great npcs too

[mugwot]

someone

#act 5 my beloved my beloathed #at this point in the game i think my brain was a bit fried cos i legit forgot how stories happen and was like yep this is how i die #made it so i straight up exploded afterwards lol just inconsolable #mal du pays #is me when i fucking gets you #cracking open a boy with the cold ones #oh to have your head grabbed in a vice grip by your inner demons <3 #isat spoilers #like kinda big ones #isat siffrin #isat mal du pays #in stars and time #some pose practice kinda got away from me #turns out if you change up how you sketch it can make you a bit looser with it which was nice c: #in this case i sketched with light colour on a dark background #my art

[bongosinferno]

A devastating and confusing thing about the Fallout setting, when you explore the pre-war aspects, is what the creators think about pre-war America. In the first games we only get hints of the pre-war world, but they seem to be some sort of wild fascist nation invading Canada. In Fallout 1, the first thing we're introduced to of the pre-war society is seeing a soldier shoot civilians and laughing.

Now, for the first 2 games and New Vegas we don't really know much. What we know is that there's a fascist military group known as the enclave who were a sort of US deep state even before the war, and that the government teamed up with corporate interests to preform vaguely MKULTRA-ish experiments with the Vaults. Basically, the government was an extreme version of the 50s American jingoism and McCarthyism.

This is well and dandy, I guess issues come up more when we get to the later games, especially 4, where it seems like none of this extreme plotting and societal civil unrest which would exist is seen. The society as presented in 4 also seems quite progressive, gay people are featured in the opening, and none of the baggage of say, civil rights not existing are included. Now on a baseline, I don't want settings to be more conservative, homophobic and sexist etc., but it becomes a very confusing setting when it's displayed both as this jingoist extreme thing with fascist tendencies aswell as a progressive place where everyone is seemingly equal. If you're focusing on the 50s as your setting, and American nationalism in the 50s, then you can't have McCarthyism spoofs and anti-communism as a societal paranoia norm while also general equality is the norm without misunderstanding why McCarthyism and nationalist jingoism is bad. A massive harm done in anti-communist paranoia is how it degrades and vilifies any progressive movements (women's rights, civil rights, homosexuality) as being morally un-American and therefore connected to communism. To ignore this just makes any critique of MacCarthyism and jingoism weird!

Basically, pre-war America in Fallout 4 becomes this both sides thing where America is both pure and equal and white fences in every instance that we see as the player (the intro), while also supposedly being this dystopic MacCarthyist hellscape that's broadcasting gladly about their war crimes in Canada, and wants to root out communism. I guess the only fix for this issue without getting into the fine print like they had to do is just not to focus too much on the pre-war world.

#fallout #fallout 1 #fallout 2 #fallout 3 #fallout 4 #fallout new vegas #fo1 #fo2 #fonv #fo4 #I'm almost half-way through the show #it suffers from this too but whatever I'm just going to count it as it's own thing #it gets a pass or whatever. telling a video game story and telling a tv-series is completely different #they can do what they think is useful. #We see a bit of what the I'm talking about in New Vegas with mr house being able to be that rich etc #but new vegas cares more about the fallout of Fallout 2 + new ideas than some pre-war America. The most we get is like Poseidon energy and #Raul. but Raul doesn't really care that much about the details of the past world #his life seems pretty normal. it's not that important. #dead money and owb did this like... Okay. wasn't too bad it was fine. I don't like those DLCs too much. Dean Domino is whatever

[dungeonmalcontent]

My players finally fought (and successfully killed) my false hydra variant. It was built when I wasn't quite so good at making monster stat blocks and they had the benefit of encountering individual heads before so they knew to have their ears covered.

Given the amount of prep they were able to do for it, I had changed things up from my original plan. My original plan was just to have it be the hydra down there with some environmental storytelling. But things worked out just perfectly for them to run into an important figure that they had been accidentally dodging for the whole campaign.

See, the setting has a lot of mysterious elements inherent to it. The. If one being that it isn't quite a land of the lost. It's a prison. It's a demi-plane where things that the gods of various universes send the the interplanar problems they don't want to deal with (like a prototype/precursor of the sort of realm of Sigil). And the players are basically in the general population portion of this prison plane. But the wardens, of which there are/were six, are in the prison as well and are in charge of keeping the truly dangerous things in solitary confinement.

And they've just, just barely, met the last warden that is still taking their job seriously. Some have been mostly killed while others have given up after countless eons. But there's still one doing his job and he needs to put the false hydra's remains in confinement so it can't possibly regenerate or be revived. And the players have been told by another entity in the plane that they have come to tentatively trust that they cannot let this warden take control of the hydra.

And I'm just... Really excited for my players to finally confront the last serious guy in the setting. They might even fight him and there are just... So many interesting possibilities.

#d&d #dnd #homebrew #dungeons and dragons #5e #ttrpg #fantasy #writing #story from a game

[psychictimestone]

Thinking about Silver and the references to his love of (blue) skies 🔵☁️

#silver the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #Sonic Forces #Sonic colors DS #mario and sonic at the olympic games #Sonic 06 #the last ones translated from the Japanese side of forces if anyones wondering why its diff from the english line #This all started because I was curious about the JP side of forces lol #also the text with silver and blaze is from Otherworld Comedy aka the 2023 calendar stories #its a very cute detail #if you wanna read the 2023 calendar i'll leave a link in the replies to a really great fan website that has them all translated into english

[random-autie-fangirl]

The holy quartet of video game narrators which are actually living beings (...and also kinda suck)

#slay the princess #undertale #the stanley parable #little misfortune #stp narrator #chara dreemurr #tsp narrator #mr voice #I love this trope #love when the one telling the story is stuck within it #love when the narrative itself is alive and malicious #and I love lemony snicket and pseudonymous bosch #...but there's something about the way it can be used in a video game #where the narrator/protagonist relationship can be more personal #also lemony is far nicer than anyone here (from what I can remember) #hey look! I did a thing #fucked up video game narrators>>>>>>

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Oh my fucking god??? I *knew* there was something fishy with no writers/quest designers being credited. Also: outsourcing is not an excuse not to credit the gamedevs doing hard and deserving work.

This is genuinely contemptful towards everyone involved, gamedevs and players alike.

#totk #totk critical #when will my brain return from the imprisoning war... #yeah no Fuck TotK #we have taken a hard turn towards fuck TotK #gameplay is cute but you don't get to disrespect my profession and my fellow gamedevs like that #nor one of my favorite game series #this is... so fucking revealing #still on the conspiracy board of “they had another story planned and it didn't work out and everyone parted in bad terms” #and this is how they fixed it #wow wow wow #best zelda story my entire ass #and the lack of honesty!!! #I'm so furious hahaha like what the hell

[kedreeva]

OC Askbox Game

I'm avoiding writing and you probably are too, so let's at least think about our characters while we do it.

You know the drill- send me a number (ONE number, you can come back for more) and I'll answer for an OC of your choice (if you know their name) or my choice (if you don't know their name). Feel free to name some of your OCs in the tags of your reblog, if you want to be asked about them.

How did you choose their name?

Were they created for the story, or was the story created for them?

Do they have a love interest, and was that their choice or yours?

Do they have a best friend? If so, how did they meet? If not, have they ever/why never?

Did they have a pet as a child?

What catalyzed their introduction to the plot?

What attribute of them (some facet of their personality, their history, their look, or whatever etc) would you find most important to somehow preserve if they were transplanted to an AU fanfic?

If your character's financial situation were to suddenly flip (someone poor becoming rich, someone rich becoming poor, etc), how well would they handle it? What would be the first thing they would do?

If your character could have handed their role in the plot to someone else, would they have?

Free Space #1: Which of your OCs would be most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse? Which would die immediately?

Does your character have a pet peeve?

Has your character committed any crimes (per their universe's laws)? If not, which crime would your character most likely commit?

Who is your character's closest (by relation, fondness, or distance) blood relative?

How does your character feel about riding horses (or your world's closest approximation of a horse if it lacks horses)?

Is your character's first instinct fight or flight? Is there something that could force them to do the opposite?

What is your character's favorite leisure activity?

Is your character holding any grudges? Are they likely to stop?

If your character were trapped on a deserted island, what three things would they want to have with them? Which person would they absolutely hate to be trapped there with? Which person would they enjoy being trapped there with?

Does your character having any health issues, whether they're aware of them or not?

Free Space #2: Which of your OCs would you most like to meet in person, if they could become real (or you could visit them) for a day?

Final Question: Ask me your own question about my OC

Remember: play nice! Send an ask to the person you reblogged this from, and try to send a few to folks that reblog from you!

#Writing #writing games #askbox games #fic prompts #as for me I'll name a few of my OCs but feel free to ask for others if you know them #From Flight's End: Sark'an Kedreeva Cazaes Malik Aislynn Valiss Kalstralev Khelios Alyria Ciara Damalis #From The Final Pack: Osker Steve Dalton Charlie Jasper Penny Scarlet Abigail Marcus #From Korvhan's story: Korvhan Rouchelle Davis Marie #I've seen so many of these but most of them are fairly generic #I want weird answers to weird questions #Maybe I'll make another one if this one goes over well #I have a lot of weird questions

[a2zillustration]

Part 2 of 2

Thanks for tossing me the ball on this one Larian I am now running with it at mach speeds.

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#- rubbing my hands together - welcome to the tags #Obviously the game was prioritizing Gale in this interaction bc it's his story and that's who Larian wrote #BUT NOT ME BAYBEEEE THIS IS CROISSANT'S TIME TO SHINE and be an excellent foil to his character #I DUNNO I just really liked playing a character who also has a buckwild amount of insecurities about this relationship - #- but in a very different flavor. I've loved keeping that in mind as the romance plot plays out. #As much as I appreciate the constant validation you give Gale from in-game dialogue bc he needs that- #-I also like holding up Croissant like a mirror to get him out of his own head. #AGAIN THIS CHARACTER WAS WRITTEN JUST FOR ME NGJKFLNDKH I love this game #Anyway now we get to grapple with Gale talking to Mystra :''''''') #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #act III spoilers #gale romance spoilers #croissant adventures #tav #gale #gale dekarios #gale x tav #breadweave #comics #I think this 6-pager was the first time I felt like I had a handle on drawing Gale btw that man is an artistic enigma #ADDITIONAL EDIT: thank you so much for your responses on part 1 you are all wonderful folks - esp the ones mad that I made this 2 parts LOL