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there’s very much two kinds of vicar amelia art

-straight distilled body horror. life itself is a form of torment. what does it really mean to be human

-that wolf has the biggest bonkhanagahoogs you have ever fucking seen. fat fuckin tiddies on this wolf

i love the bloodborne fandom

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Unrealistic

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All I need is for someone to gently cup my face and tell me I'm not as doomed as I feel.

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So for my Signalis TTRPG I had to figure out how to handle Falke. Her presence can easily overshadow the actions of the characters, not having her around dont feel like a fun solution I thought about and I think that I have to go the same path as the video game, she have to be compromised in some way or become an antagonist. Her fate should be an interesting thing to find out during play so I wrote a special move to interact with her.

Our Beloved Commander

Falke bioresonance module makes her vulnerable to the echoes of the disaster that ruined the base. Is this the result of a flaw in her module, trauma from a previous deployment or tempering by AEON …?

When you meet with Falke roll +persona - reality collapse level

On 10: Your interaction grounds Falke and she takes the time to talk with you; you stabilize by 1, gain 1 temporary resolve and take +1 forward to handle an issue or trouble. Remove 1 from Falke degradation

On 7-9: she help with your issue or a trouble, take +1 forward to solve it but pick 1 below:

You feel you need to be perfect to not let her down, take +1 stress after the interaction.

Her presence is so overwhelming, you have to confess or report something to her.

The interaction is so inspiring that it fills a regard slot, you are going to talk about it all day. This prevent you from using any of your other regards for this cycle.

On a miss: the interaction starts well but then you notice that the commander is acting strangely. The GM marks Falke and pick from a list of marks that have different effects.

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you can domesticate a trans girl by putting your thumb on her tongue

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salt & vinegar chips are snacks for fucking masochists. literally the entire flavour of the goddamn chip is “acetic acid, which will hurt your tongue, and then just salt on top of that to hurt it worse”. it’s brutal. this chip is designed to hurt you

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If I could ask you for some advice, what do you think helps the flavour text of a mech or piece of equipment sell a player on the fantasy of using it?

I'm finding it frustratingly difficult to do so with my own homebrew content: I can come up with lore and backstory easily enough, but re-reading it feels dry, and I can't help but contrast it with how the descrptions in official content and other supplements is more evocative, at least for mechs.

Let's observe some corebook Lancer flavour text and examine the various varieties it comes in.

Purely Functional

While it's usually not the most fun type of flavour text, this just tells us what the weapon is, and - if it has any particular tags or on-hit effects - why it's like that. The Hand Cannon is a good example: here's what it is (modified pistol), here's why it does more damage, and here's why it has Loading.

The main advantage of Purely Functional flavour text is that it provides space for other types of flavour text to breathe. Flavour text is a great place for jokes, but it's not good for every piece of flavour text to be a joke - the pauses between notes in music are just as important as the notes.

Obfuscating Vendorspeak

The Bristlecrown Flechette Launcher this is a great example of dark humour that Lancer uses quite often: marketing fast-talk to cover up something really unpleasant. The joke here is based on us understanding precisely what the equipment does mechanically, and then seeing how the manufacturer tries to sell it. There's a bunch of dense technobabble here meant to obfuscate the fact that this weapon fires knives in every direction specifically designed to kill infantry.

Deadpan Weirdness

The joke here relies on describing something extremely weird like it's the most natural thing in the world. Wait, you're telling me that in a world where I can just print new parts if the old ones break, they put DRM on my fucking knife and I have to apologise to the fucking knife maker to get a new one? What the fuck, dude? Why are you acting like this makes any sense?!

My sword uploads fucking what to the Space Internet?!

Third-Act Twist

This type of flavour text disguises itself as something else - most often Purely Functional - and then hits you with Third Act Twist. It makes you go "wait, what?!" It's very classic setup-punchline stuff. You're telling me my mech can rot?!

As a side note, Lancer loves to use this for its NHPs.

WHY DID YOU PUT THAT IN SCARE QUOTES, LUCIFER

Worldbuilding

This is similar to the Purely Functional, but instead of just describing technical specifications of the weapons, it puts the weapon in the broader context of the setting's history. Okay, so we know what this weapon is and what it does - why was it built? What was the original use case, and why? Most importantly, what can the existence of this weapon tell us about the world that build it?

Whimsical Aside

This is the insertion of a light-hearted, humanising little insertion regarding how this piece of equipment gets used in the field. This serves to remind us that soldiers aren't cold, unfeeling killing machines: they can be as emotional, irreverent and silly as the rest of us, and they do things like name their mobile bombs...

... or call resupply drones "mech snacks."

The Ominous Out-Of-Context Quote That Explains Nothing And Only Raises More Questions

As I've said in multiple textmash memes, this is basically Tom and Miguel's shorthand for "this technology is Intensely Fucked Up in a way that it is more fun and scary not to explain." This is essentially Lancer's version of SCP's [REDACTED].

You might think this is the domain of HORUS, and you'd be right, but every single manufacturer indulges in these - although IPS-N had to wait until NRFaW to get theirs:

What the fuck do you mean by that, Lancer?

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Freaky lesbian scientist inventing mechs purely to live out her mech combat fetish reblog if you agree

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🦅🦅🦅🦅OH SAY CAN YOU SEEEE🦅🦅🦅🦅

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blunt force feminization

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you care about mecha stories because of the humans inside wielding building-sized weapons to wage their battles, I care about mecha stories bc I want to fuck the building-sized weapons.

we are not the same

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"im lovesick" "im lovesick" uhmm you didnt get the love vaccine?? cmon :/

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Joking with your friends about kinks is a lot of fun, but sometimes there's a magical moment where they pause for just a microsecond before making a face that's three parts disgust, one part shame, and one part arousal and you realize that you haven't stumbled across one of their kinks.

You've found a kink they're in denial about.

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You know how when you shine a laser at a helicopter the cockpit blares with alarms because it thinks a missile is locking on? Turns out they don't take the implants out of mech pilots that function similarly once they're discharged. Shine a laser at your mech pilot gf and watch her freak the fuck out.