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Tezzeret but he'd bald

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Do you have any encouraging words for today.

Here's my favorite snippet of dialogue from the movie Starman: (Starman is an alien, for those that haven't seen the movie.)

Mark Shermin: Have people from your world been here before?

Starman: Before yes. We are interested in your species.

Mark Shermin: You mean you're some kind of anthropologist? Is that what you're doing here? Just checking us out?

Starman: You are a strange species. Not like any other. And you'd be surprised how many there are. Intelligent but savage. Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you?

[Shermin nods]

Starman: You are at your very best when things are worst.

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Space Tezzeret doodle

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What if a card gallery was also a story portal

That's what this new Foundations page is. Click a card, go to a piece of related story or lore. It's that easy.

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Liliana wearing the tortured mind mage costume from some party store in ravnica

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@jacebeleren

EVERYONE HAS TO PUT IN TO GET NOTIFIED WHEN THESE ARE BACK IN STOCK BECAUSE I NEED THESE IN MY LIFE

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Other foundations spoiler note I'm so glad my daughter made it in, she's so overpowered and I love her. This art of her looks incredible too!

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Imagining Ajani putting a single massive paw on Elspeth's head and saying in the most serious voice "Boop."

POV: You are Ajani :3

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Final one unless i get more last minute trick or treats! below cut backstory! May want to read NORA's before this one as they are closely tied.

Velocity, aka Venus Bolaños, is a clone. when the original Nora died, before putting her mind in a robot, he tried to create a clone of Nora and grow her to the age the original Nora was via Tachyon manipulation. This didn't implant her with Nora's personality however, merely some memories as if she was watching a movie. what it did give her was speed, from the ability to manipulate tachyons inside her body. she ran, and left to try and experience the life she'd seen but wasn't allowed to have herself.

To clean up after his mess, Chuck sent NORA after her to kill her as her first mission. She almost succeeded, beating her nearly to death. However Velocity convinced NORA to look up the death toll were there no heroes in the world, and she decided to save Velocity instead and rebel against Chuck. NORA helped her recover and spoke with her, and the two came to agree to live in different cities to keep resources tracking them down split up. they visit each other for holidays, and due to their civilian identities looking identically like the living Nora, they pretend to be twins.

Trick or Treat!

Go go step on the gas and run! Take this fast one to get to all your nightly events in time

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Alright trying this one more time, backstory below cut. If you've seen any gabrielle posts before this has some Edits because the game is having a Soft Reset so it will be a bit different

TWs for child abuse, nonconsensual unnecessary surgery, body horror, and cannibalism

Gabrielle is the fourth of a system of 7 (the other 6 are Alyssa, Jazmine, Red Bess, Banshee, Eliana, and Angelica), and the half doppelganger child of Viktra Mordenheim (the dark lord of Lamordia, basically imagine if Geralf Cecani was an abusive lesbian mom) and Elise Von Brandthofen (a talented graverobber and in our campaign a doppelganger). Viktra several times over their childhood abused them and vivisected and put them back together while awake in a demented attempt to teach them anatomy and try to make them be like her. elise fell into a coma, and when she did viktra got worse, adding neglect to the pile as she worked ceaselessly to make an artificial heart that could fix her. when it finally worked, angry villagers who had had loved ones dug up hy Viktra as test subjects came to burn down her castle and destroyed her notes just as elise awakened. the tragedy and terror caused viktra, gabrielle, and elise to be transported to Lamordia with viktra becoming the dark realm's dark lord, and elise seemingly disappearing. viktra seemed determined that if she could recreate the unbreakable heart, elise would return to her after seeing such a sign of devotion.

Gabrielle being their daughter, viktra realized she made the perfect test subject as she was elise's closest genetic relative. one of her experiments in this fashion killed gabrielle and transformed their soul into a banshee, unwillingly filled with a rage and hunger towards any living thing she saw, then left to deal with the emotions of being forced to eat a person after they had died. elise at this point found her, and due to her now frankensteinian Half Life did not trigger gabrielle's undead state allowing her to give some semblance of comfort to her. after years of dealing with this state, a Vistani woman named Eliana, the chosen one of Ezra (god of the mists) heard of her and came to try and soothe her. she succeeded for a year, using magic to keep her from harming her. eventually, while elise was absent, villagers decided the banshee must have grown weak, and sent people to kill her, leading to Eliana losing control and banshee killing everyone present and entirely devouring eliana. devouring a god's chosen infused her soul with enough divine energy to resurrect her.

leading her to discover to her horror her body wasn't in one piece. viktra had torn it apart and infused it in seven different people; all previous victims of gabrielle as a banshee. she tore herself out of their bodies and reassembled herself, and was stuck living with viktra for a bit. she discovered the seven people referred to themselves as the virtues, and bonded with one of them; a drow named Kindness. despite all their issues the others also saw gabrielle as a sibling due to them all having a shared "mother" in viktra. she and kindness escaped and joined a vistani theater troupe to have safety, with gabrielle writing scripts and helping perform in exchange for a safe place to live.

when they next returned to lamordia, viktra was angry, and sent an army of zombies to kill gabrielle's troupe, aside from Kindness and one member, who she kidnapped. she gave gabrielle an ultimatum: help her fetch a few resources or have her closest family killed.

seeing her in a plight where she would be easier for her to persuade, ezra made a different offer to gabrielle: become the messiah they murdered and take on her role of spreading the word and miracles of ezra, and she would give them the power to save her family from viktra

that took SO long to type out.

trick or treat!

A special treat! Have a Miracle for halloween! Just be careful what you wish for....

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The Will of Duskmourn

Happy Halloween everyone!

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Trick or Treat!

Go go step on the gas and run! Take this fast one to get to all your nightly events in time

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Here's the inbox trick or treating tradition this year: Send me trick or treat and I'll send a magic card I've made this year