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rukafais · 1 year
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The aft section of the hold of the Eyecatcher is guarded by four giant spiders painted in bright colors. These arachnids have been trained by Jarlaxle since they were hatchlings, and they can pass themselves off as inanimate float decorations by remaining perfectly still until they attack.
obsessed with this tiny throwaway detail in this waterdeep dragon heist description tbh. the implications that he hand-raised them from hatchlings bc he’d have to be around them a lot to train them properly.............
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flywheels · 1 year
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good news everyone Swindle has a cute little hook tail in Earthspark. now he just needs to be strung up by it
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You've done a few Monsters Reimagined posts about gods already, so I was wondering... any ideas for reimagining Lolth? I know in your Drow post you suggested just ditching the spider cultist stuff, but I do think Lolth herself has some potential. (I have some ideas of my own, which can be summed up as "to high elves, Lolth IS an evil trickster, but to Drow she's the goddess of law, art, magic, and anything to do with webs, and CORELLON is the trickster" but I'm curious what ideas you have)
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Deity: Lolth, Queen of Spiders and Weaver of Lies
Its said that in the dawn era when the world was still settling the first mortals caught one of their gods in a lie. It was a benign, harmless thing, but that first falsehood turned sour in the god’s mouth, and when spitting to earth it took a shape with many legs, and scuttled off into the dark
Setup: None can say where Lolth or her cult first emerged, as a goddess of deception she has worn many guises and worked to obscure her true origin since perhaps the first moment of her existence. even her commonly recorded name; Lolth, is but the most recent of her aspects, one that many scholars believe she has abandoned in recent ages as more and more of her followers awake to the cruelty of her doctrine, leaving behind a hollow idol the way a spider sheds its carapace when it grows. 
Lolth is a goddess of deception, not the simple half truths that everyone lets slip now and again (though some more orthodox faiths claim that these lies give life to spiders), but to the falsehoods that warp the perception of individuals, communities, and entire nations: they are out to get you/ I didn't push you, you fell/ our way is the godly way, all others are degenerate. When one of these delusions takes root and begins to skew lives, the goddess weaves another thread into her tapestry of deception, wrapping her victims in a false reality the way a spider wraps its prey. Lolth too is an enemy of objective reality, sowing madness in the minds of mortals or using her agents to muddle and destroy historical records.
Logically it doesn’t make sense to worship a goddess of deception, nightmares and gaslighting, until one asks who might benefit from others falling prey to such afflictions. Tyrants, abusers, con artists, the ones that think they’re clever enough to lie forever or the ones so prideful they believe that their opinions override reality. These are the ones that feel the tug of the spider’s string, and delude themselves into thinking they are puppeteer rather than puppet.
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After the death of their high priestess, a cult of darkelves found their connection to the spiderqueen severed, throwing them into a theological crisis that left most of their leadership dead as each tried to backstab their way into proving that they were Lolths next chosen.  Faced with a total lack of guidance, the cults lesser acolytes and henchmen have taken to following the last survivor off this divinely ordained massacre:  A former apprentice of the high priestess who died performing a grand rite and was transformed into a deathlock for her trouble. Kept around as both jester and example of what fate awaits those who waver in their faith, this cackling cadaver has forgotten much of who she was and now calls herself Hollowhead, a cruel nickname given by her mistress when she realized her dead apprentice always had spiders on the brain, literally.   Now tugging at the neck chain that once secured her to the high priestess’s throne, Hollowhead leads the cult out to enact whatever whim her goddess puts in her head, with the features on the menu being sacrifices, rampant poisonings, and gross transfigurations.    
In one of their many adventures, the party end up clashing with a charming huckster who’s gone and made an enemy of some very powerful people. Perhaps he’s backed a guild leader into a bad business deal, or swindled a fortune out of the party’s prospective patron. Perhaps he introduces himself as a mentor for a young party of roguish individuals and then leaves them holding the bag in the midst of a heist. When he dies (either when the party catches up to him or months later after he’s been justly tried and tossed in a dungeon) he realizes that he’s called  upon the weaver of lies one too many times in the course of filling his pockets, and is at risk of having his soul claimed once it passes into the underworld. To avoid this terrible fate, the huckster pulls one last trick, stealing himself from the goddess’s clutches and wandering the world as a ghost. Never one to be denied her prize, the goddess dispatches a monstrous construct from her realm, a Retriever, to fetch the trickster’s wayward soul and flatten anything that stands in its way: such as the party, who the huckster has been quietly haunting for some time as a means of tagging along with their adventures. 
On the trail of a missing merchant caravan, the party encounter a village Where Everything Is Fine, with the one exception being the library dedicated to Ioun seems to have been boarded shut. Folk here vaguely remember the merchant passing through, but having come a long while the party decide to rest in the rustic and comfortable inn to enjoy some good food and the owers’ charming hospitality, only to wake up with one of their number missing. Find out their horrifying fate under the cut
They find their missing friend some hours later living a completely different life, having been married to an attractive and attentive stranger for some years and never once having contemplated becoming an adventurer and leaving the village Where Everything Is Fine. Snapping their friend out of it is as easy as noticing the faint trace of webbing near their ear and squishing the spider that’s crawled in there carrying a number of delusions with it, but there’s no telling which one of them could be next to forget. Checking inside the boarded up library reveals a few haggard townsfolk and a VERY paranoid priestess of the goddess Ioun who’ve been hold up inside while the rest of their neighbors went all Norman Rockwell/Stepford wife. To hear them tell it, things started happening after the innkeeper’s wife showed up with bruises after the two had a raucous shouting match infront of  a large crowd of patrons. The two had always had a rocky relationship but she insisted over and over again that Everything Is Fine… and people started to agree with her. Desperate to preserve the illusion of a blissful homelife, the innkeeper’s wife has made a spontaneous pact with Lolth, and her increasingly blasphemous self delusion will stop at nothing to ensure that no one ruins her fantasy. Depending on how tactful you want to be consider having her turn into a giant spider monster, with her abusive husband hollowed out, alive and aware but filled with innumerable skittering young.
Titles: Queen of Spiders, Weaver of lies, Mother of Deceit, Lady of truth (for the faithful)
Signs: Excessive spiders, or spiders where there should not be spiders (such as in your mouth or ears), a pervasive sense that someone is lying to you or that what you perceive is not real, faces momentarily showing opposite emotions.
Symbols: Spiders and their associated iconography, more subtle symbols may include objects in groups of eight, like eight stars in a ring upon a flag or eight jewels set in a fractal spiral upon a broach. Other cults unconnected to spider iconography use that of weaving: looms, spinning wheels, dropspindles, and may occasionally substitute silkworms for spiders where regionally appropriate.
Followers:In addition to her active cults, such as the most well known among the darkelves or creatures like the chitine Lolth is a proactive goddess when it comes to choosing champions, most often selecting for those with the capacity for controlling or deceiving others, or those victims who would replace their abusers rather than see their torment end.  Some few desperate also worship Lolth as a means of protecting themselves from deception or madness, but the queen of spiders is likely to exact a heavy toll for such protection, if she extends it at all.
Also yeah, no sexy spider goddess art for you folks. Her many-legged majesty may take on a pleasing guise when trying to entice you to do something but when it comes time to throw down you’re going toe to toe with something that exemplifies madness and lies and treachery
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movedtodykedvonte · 9 months
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*Somewhere at an abandoned factory*
Thug 1: Raise your hand if you’ve had a slightly homoerotic encounter or conversation with Spider-Man.
Thug 1: And you have to be honest or this doesn’t work!
Thug 2: Does it count if I shot at him before hand?
Thug 1: I would say it counts more.
Spider-Man, listening the whole time:…
Spider-Man: I still think we’re low-balling the gay encounters or some of you here still aren’t being honest.
Spider-Man, winking at Thug 2: Looking at you
Thug 2, who now has to raise him hand: Aw c’mon!
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call-me-strega · 6 months
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Spider-verse Headcanon #6
Pavitr is totally puts the “buff” in history buff. He gets really heated about Indian history/artifacts. This is partially what fuels his hatred toward the British. Yes, he is salty about the British Museum having their stuff. And yes, he knows all about which artifacts they have there and their significance. And no, he totally hasn’t talked to Hobie about the hypotheticals to pulling a heist on the British Museum.
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petalpierrot · 1 month
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I just had a realization that my baby Bregan D'aerthe agent (who I based on Valas Hune and who I play in Out of the Abyss) might actually have seen him in passing.
I'm not entirely sure how close the underling members are to one another, but the thought of it makes me so happy
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oneshotprincess · 9 months
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smth smth the parallels between kingpin in itsv wanting to replace his dead wife and son with their alternate selves from the multiverse in order to have his family back and miguel replacing his own dead self in order to have a family. both of them failing
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monty-glasses-roxy · 9 months
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WAIT I’VE JUST REALISED THE ROXY PLUSH HAS LIL TEETH POKING OUT GUYS GUYS GUYS THE LIL TOOFIES ARE CANON
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feleshero · 5 months
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❛ Could I possibly interest you in something else ? ❜ Came the small question from behind the thief. Peach rubbed sleepy eyes, a pucker between her brow as she stood a few feet back. ❛ I don't think I have anything as valuable I could give you right here, right now but - ❜
She took a daring, hesitant step forward. ❛ That means a lot to me. ❜
The object of her magpie-like affections is tucked away safely. She's ready to pivot and keep on the move towar- Rrow? Sleeping Beauty was a very light sleeper, it seemed.
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❝ It means a lot period, your eminence. Including prospective buyers, who've valued it a LOT higher than I'm afraid 'sentiment' can spend. ❞
Two steps forward, The Spider pivoted on her heels so she could turn to face- Oh. Just a lone monarch. She expected guards, or something.
❝ Can't you just go out and requisition a new one? I'm sure there's some jewelcrafter somewhere that'd love your business... ❞
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spidey-stuff · 2 years
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Spider-Man: The City That Never Sleeps
The Heist (1/?)
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starpros-sunshine · 1 year
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Alright you asked for distraction. So... next shuffle is gonna be Yuzuru, Ibara (YES I WIN), Rinne, Subaru, and Tomoya, right? I'm personally hoping that Tomoya will center cause it'd be hilarious.
So next shuffle's probably in a few months, and since we got the current one in november, we're probably skipping the winter season. So for theme I'm guessing...
Fairytale prince? Would be fitting for tomoya center subaru 5*. I think Rinne's gonna be hilarious and I'm gonna point and laugh at him.
I'm personally hoping for no military theme cause it'll tip things too much to ibara and yuzuru's direction.
If Tomoya can fully embrace his normal-ness we can do a "next-door-neighbor" theme. You know, like... the childhood friend kind of MV. They'd have... idk... jacket and a single rolled up pant leg or something... And you'd get them walking to school together or something. I know this is not realistic. I want to see Ibara and Yuzuru and Rinne pretend to be normal kids. It would be funny...
Demons. Okay, so hear me out, both Subaru and Tomoya had Japanese Oni themed scouts. So a demon theme would be neat to see for them (a bit of sexy rights for these two who don't get that treatment very often) and suitable for the other three.
Yeah I don't have other thoughts or ideas for this one...
I still think that's one of the funniest possible shuffle unit outcomes they literally put Tomoya together with the guy that's so polite it's a little concerning, the guy that pretends to be some evil mastermind, sparkle boy and Rinne Amagi. Amazing I bet the story will be so dope!
Also yeah fairytale princess that's a very early spring theme I can see that as a concept ohhh I hope they do that I wanna see Rinne get fine-ified it would be so off brand but I think he could work it somehow
yeah same tbh I don't really like military themed stuff in general but it also would be Very ibayuzu focused which. the likelyhood is there I'm sure it could be good but again. hm.
ALSO NEXT-DOOR-NEIGHBOUR THAT'D BE SUCH A CONCEPT FOR THEM!!!! Shame it's unrealistic but it would be so cool the MV outfits could just be normal highschool uniforms with like. some character specific twists to them and the MV itself could have kind of a Finder Girl vibe and ooooh I like that they should deserve to be normal kids even if it's just for one event,,
Demons also such a banger concept they could all pull it off we know Yuzu looks good in that kinda aesthetic and I just checked out the Subaru cards he looks so awesome woah,, and Rinne is tall and red and he has the perfect grin he'd be perfect for that!
we could also get a valentines day shuffle no? or is that unlikely because there's already like two of those and fine already had a valentines day song so Yuzu already got the valentines treatment? I don't think it'll be another easter one they already did that and guessing by the time frames between the shuffles it's every 2-3 months right??
Alternatively there's also clubbing shuffle which is really basic but fun and it's a little more adultish which is something Tomoya and Subaru don't really get often, But mind you I mean the Dance Floor kinda clubbing and not the Night Club kinda clubbing,, I'd also love t if they go full 80s on this one but that would not happen I am 100% certain that would not happen
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tiny-huts · 1 year
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The party met with Jarlaxle today and I had him hanging out with his spiders and he had one of them play dead and nobody even clapped I hate it here
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antvnger · 1 year
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I LOVE HEIST SHOWS!!
And they do good things for people when the law turns a blind eye? Hey! They’re my people! I like the show already.
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Leverage, huh? I’ll definitely have to check it out. Thanks for the tip, Spider-Man Anon! Is it on TV or is it on one of the fricking many streaming services?
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mysteryonearth52 · 19 years
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Adam Strange 5 (2005) by Andy Diggle & Pasqual Ferry
Planet Heist
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actperson · 2 years
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Focus Peter! Focus!
​📸 by Raffu (@Raffu42)
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pocketcosmic · 2 years
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Reality numbers of What If...? series universes
Taken from here, provided mostly for my own ease of reference.
Super Soldier Peggy Carter: Earth-82111 Ravager T'Challa: Earth-21818 Avengers Assassinated: Earth-51825 Corrupted Doctor Strange: Earth-91233 Zombie Outbreak:  Earth-89521 Killmonger's War: Earth-32938 Party Prince Thor: Earth-72124 Age of Ultron:  Earth-29929
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