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the important other context for anders’ tactics settings making him run out into danger and nearly die on me so he could get in range to save fenris during the last straw, which happened in game and is now a permanent part of my worldview, is that not twenty seconds later they started bitching at each other about templars, during the last straw, which is also now a permanent part of my worldview
fenris rlly showed up to the last straw like yeah despite all this i will fight to the death at your side to save the mages because the friendships i’ve made have changed me. but if you think i’m not going to complain the entire way—
it was this one
anders who just blew up the chantry and nearly died saving fenris but somehow still has the energy to start this: by NOW you must see the templars are evil
fenris, in the process of aiding and abetting the mage who just blew up the chantry, and also in the process of lopping the head off his fifty-seventh templar of the evening: idk i think they have a point
“If your whole family dies but you’re not alive to learn about it, does it make a noise?”
–The DM, brightly, discussing the consequences of a TPK with the current stakes for the world on the line
DM: I hate to admit. That is actually a good plan.
Player: Marrying [Fighter] off to a fae prince???
DM: These are all. valid options. I hadn’t considered that last one but. They are all good options.
I’m facing the apocalypse with The Rock, Ezio Auditore, and Darrell Hammond. I’ll take it.
You?
Arno, Connor, and the criminal minds people, awesome
I got to do some like, legit atmospheric horror work a month or so back.
The party, after ditching the giant dragon turtle, was making their way through the forest in search of a small village they’d seen from its back–the only sign of civilization. Their unicorn friend Albion had dropped them in a region of the faewild he said contained a trusted ally–but no one had come to find them, and they need to get moving, so the village is as good a place to start as any.
Along the way they ran into a pair of charming rabbitfolk brothers named Brush and Briar, struggling on the side of the road to right a partially-smashed cart. After cautious, exact-words exchanges in which Max the bard did some serious work to make the party appear nonthreatening and avoid accidentally imposing a debt, the brothers explained that they were from the nearby village of Little Ivywood, and they’d been attacked by bandits on the road and nearly lost all their worldly possessions because the bandits accused them of “betraying their queen”. They explain that Little Ivywood surely has some pro-mortal sentiments, but that certainly neither of them have betrayed any queens!
The party, who were headed that way anyway, of course take the brothers under their wing and help them get their cart back to the village. Along the way they chat about the faewild, about the bandit problem (bandits are described as “bestial” and there are claw marks on the cart), about how about 20% of their carrots “bite back” and it’s very offputting, dontchaknow, but such eternal suffering does seem to be somethin’ of our people’s lot in life.
So they pass several pleasant hours before coming up on the village of Little Ivywood.
The…………very….very. Quiet. Village of Little Ivywood.
Max and Andromeda are the first to see the bodies in the fields.
The party puts Brush and Briar behind them and–in a moment that made me the DM ache over how recently they were a ragtag bunch of misfits half of whom had never taken a life before–do a VERY professional check-and-clear sweep of the village. It’s…bad. If there are survivors, they’re nowhere near.
The wounds are grisly, and the attack was…thorough. Nimbus the ranger finds the marks of boots and cloven hooves in the dirt, but is having trouble checking trailsign–he grew up in a village just like this. While checking houses, Audie the wizard finds a cellar door thrown open with the bloody body of one rabbit dead on the floor outside it, and a rug thrown aside under the trapdoor–someone who gave his life to hide his family, only to have them die anyway.
Andromeda, the aarakocra paladin, stays in the air on overwatch. While checking the perimeter, she sees a glimmer in the treeline and drops down to check–expecting to find enemy scouts coming back for stragglers, or perhaps an injured survivor taking shelter in the hedgerow, and finds–
Snares.
Iron running snares, set in between rows of crops, paths in the hedgerows, along gaps in the underbrush. A cruel, condescending kind of joke–the kind of perimeter you set up when you intend for no one, not a single living rabbitfolk, to escape the slaughter.
With no small amount of guilt, the party takes what they can from the homes–they haven’t been looted, this wasn’t a bandit raid. And then–something moves.
The trio of liondrakes emerges all spite and fury; held at bay by the heavily-armed party but hissing insults, calling Brush and Briar traitors, demanding to know why the party would defend them, swearing to kill them all in the name of their queen or die trying. And something–doesn’t add up. The liondrakes scoff at the idea of serving the Courts–it was the Summer Court, they say, who killed these people, and their own queen, the Queen of the Wilds, who tried to save them. They say, again, that the party is harboring traitors, and…
and it’s Nim who makes the 20+ insight check.
Brush and Briar lived in Little Ivywood. They were farmers, not merchants. So, on the night their families and neighbors were slaughtered by the Summer Court…
What were they doing in the middle of the woods with all of their worldly possessions?
I’ve gotten REALLY behind on the Suncrest updates ever since the party entered the Faewild! I’ll try and get the broad strokes over here–there’s just been so much going on! Some FANTASTIC character moments and setpiece RP encounters too.
This last week knocked them all out of the park though, I gotta get y’all caught up.
i'm not the praying sort, but i'll probably always have a soft spot for the astronaut's prayer
for those who aren't familiar with it, it's a possibly-spurious quote by alan shepard (and is thus sometimes referred to as the shepard's prayer) on the launchpad of Freedom 7, immediately before he became the first american in space. it goes like this:
"Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up."
you can't really place all the blame for bad female character design on artists because a lot of that comes from higher up the chain of command, which is something I learned the hard way when a client had me draw breasts and eyelashes on a wasp so that it was obvious she's a girl wasp
every gym leader is like “I lost!?! UNBELIEVABLE!” buddy you live in a world where every ten year old child has always been offered a free fire breathing monster at least once and you brought nothing to this fight but anthropomorphic flowers
gym leaders’ whole job is to provide a specific challenge, a battle of a certain type and difficulty level. if you’ve brought the tools and skills to complete that challenge, you’re going to win by design. the pokémon in that battle are probably not actually the strongest pokemon they have.
when gym leaders go “argh, how could i lose??” they’re acting to give your victory legitimacy because you’re 10. they’re like a villain cosplayer letting a baby knock them over. they’re being nice!!
Coincidentally, The Veatles (Vulcan Beatles) also have a song called 'I Want to Hold Your Hand'. It is, however, much more filthy than the 20th century Earth song.
Hi all! I have some unfortunate (but fortunate sort of) news to share.
I had just started my new job a few weeks ago but, unfortunately, I had to put in my two weeks notice last week due to being misgendered multiple times within the first two weeks of employment and many other large red flags.
The reply was "Nah, your last day is Friday" instead of honoring the two weeks notice.
This means I am back to being “out of work” for the time being and have already begun my hunt for a new job once again.
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Everyone- eat the rich! everyone on the Titan was a self entitled rich person (except that poor kid rip)! They shouldn’t have exploited the victims of the Titanic!
News sources everywhere-
Why do I keep seeing James Cameron all over my news (I know these are both Insider, but I have been seeing James Cameron in the news for days from several different outlets, I’m just lazy) Listen, I know he did the time and made the movie but how is he any different? Rich white guy? Profited off of the exploitation of the tragedy of the Titanic? Self entitled expert? Bleh I’m over seeing his crusty wannabe Saruman face all over my phone. Go back to the Avatar movies and think about what you’ve done.
Image descriptions- two news articles, one titled “James Cameron estimates he’s spent more time with the Titanic than the ship’s actual captain after 33 voyages to the wreckage” and “The Titan sub was likely trying to surface and the passengers probably knew the hull was starting to crack before it imploded, James Cameron says.”
A news article titled James Cameron on Titanic Submarine Loss: “Struck by the Similarity of the Titanic Disaster Itself” and a lovely hands rubbing meme with the text “James Cameron eyeballing the opportunity he never thought would come: Titanic 2”
...I'm writing this under the assumption that you don't know any better, because hoo boy is this a bad take
James Cameron legitimately numbers among the small handful of people most qualified to talk about the Titan disaster. The reason why is because being a filmmaker is almost a side project compared to his very real contributions to submersible design, oceanography, and undersea exploration. Cameron has spent decades in the field of undersea science and submarine engineering. He co-designed a submersible called Deepsea Challenger which he personally took to the Challenger Deep, the lowest point of the Marianas Trench and the lowest point on Earth, alone; the first and to date only person to have ever done so solo. His hyperfixation is not the Titanic, it's submersible engineering and undersea exploration in general.
Here's him being presented the Nierenberg Prize (for contributions to oceanography) in 2013:
Note that in the above interview he literally says that he made Titanic essentially just to get the funding to go to the wreck site (and to have the funding to continue to do so decades onward). He's made 33 dives to the wreck of the Titanic.
The reason why he appears in the news is not because he wants to talk about the disaster. It's got little to nothing to do with him having made Titanic (though that is tangentially related). It's because everyone knows that he is an actual, legitimate expert on the issue of submersible engineering (as well as both diving and diving to the Titanic wreck in particular), and so they bombarded him with interview requests and requests for comment. He specifically did not respond to any such requests until after the deaths of the passengers had been confirmed, because he knew that the sub had imploded and they were all dead, and he didn't want to be insensitive and drown everyone's hopes by telling everyone that the search and rescue was pointless. Here's him on ABC News next to his friend and associate Dr. Bob Ballad, the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, who is probably the only other person more qualified than Cameron to talk about the recent disaster:
TL;DR: James Cameron is not being interviewed because "he made Titanic"; he's being interviewed because he's a well-known and verifiable submersible engineering and undersea expert.