#❅ ┊ DASH COMMENTARY

[scarrfaze]

"What an ominous feeling all of a sudden..."

[king-of-wrath]

Apparently, even in the year of Our Lord Two-thousand and Twenty-four, people need this simple chart explained to them at length

[statementlou]

Kate Cassidy's video tribute to Liam

[hellsmayflower]

"National boyfriend week,huh? So....who's my boyfriend?"

[musou-fuuin]

"BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK-" Rather than using her words, the komainu of the Hakurei Shrine is doing what all dogs do best when they want to get their owner's attention.

"Uggggh. Aunn, please shut up..." Reimu complains as she turns back over in her futon, desperately trying to cover herself. Winter is approaching, but has it ever gotten this cold this fast? She's seriously freezing her butt off here.

Aunn however isn't letting up, and even now is trying to pull the covers off Reimu. The shrine maiden continues to lay stationary with an iron grip on the covers for a few moments longer until...

"I SAID KNOCK IT OFF!!!" But as soon as she grabs Aunn to try and calm her down, a massive earthquake shakes the shrine, knocking down the little possessions that Reimu has. She holds tightly onto Aunn as they lay on the tatami floor bracing themselves, until... It stops.

With the tremors having ceased, Reimu pushes herself up off the floor and rushes to open the sliding door outside. When she does, she peers her eyes through the blizzard to see something that hadn't been there before.

A large figure is now looming over Gensokyo. A mountain, perhaps? Reimu stares at the structure shrouded in darkness for a bit, trying to think for a moment until she comes to a conclusion.

"It's an incident." Reimu closes the door and rushes back inside to change her clothes. Something more suited for braving the cold that had been tailored by Alice a long time ago. They're old clothes, but an effective alternative to her shrine maiden uniform.

"Aunn! Watch the shrine. I don't think I'm going to be back for a while." Prayer slips and needles equipped, Reimu opens the sliding door again and takes off into the dark cold of the night.

It's time once again to fulfill her duty as the Hakurei Shrine Maiden.

[bingbongbugtime]

Eevee is cool but what about wimpod how do we feel about wimpod

[thaumatology]

Therapy doesn't 'fix' you, it's not magic. It just gives you tools to deal with whatever your problem is.

[battle-subway-ghost]

You guys just need more things to talk about than Pokemon I think

[damnedance]

15 years and i’m still here

[drillrundunsparce]

what the fuck is wrong with people on this website

[gorbalsvampire]

On Humanity, Tenets and Convictions

The V5 corebook does an appalling job of explaining how these mechanics fit together and what they represent; I don't think even the Players' Guide really hits it in the terms that are needed. I don't want to jack the excellent post by @vixensdungeon but nevertheless, the urge to explain things on Tumblr dot Com, the App and Website, is very strong in me this morning.

Humanity itself is objective. Each notch on the scale has defined, concrete mechanical impact on what the character can and cannot do, and these are consistent no matter what the character thinks or believes or feels, and these are universally applicable, no matter who your character and my character and her character might be. At one end of the scale your character is Literally Unplayable; at the other, they are more human than most humans, certainly than most RPG protagonists, and might as well be unplayable considering the role of the TTRPG as societally unacceptable behaviour simulator (cf. Power Kill, as usual).

Tenets are subjective but shared. They are the ethical rules on which our story operates: the things that we have agreed should provoke a moral crisis in our vampire protagonists. For Humanity loss to occur, you need these cues and triggers, these "thou shalt not" rules, and for that central fact of the game - that unlife isn't life and living it makes you less of a person - to come up in play, they need to be rules your character is going to break.

Without Tenets you have no idea what makes Humanity vulnerable and precious and worth saving; there are not many universal, objective, "doing this always gives you a Stain" rules in V5. You have to do the work here. The game needs you to decide what's horrific in order for its personal and political horror to exist at all. You cannot skip this. You cannot rely on a universal morality that isn't there and isn't shared to dictate Humanity loss. The game needs you to think about these things.

Convictions are subjective, and entirely personal. They are the "but thou must!" imperatives which allow your character (and only your character) to justify breaking the Tenets and retain a grip on their Humanity. They create the opportunity for your character to resolve their moral and ethical qualms in their own favour every so often; to stop the process of play being a nihilistic rush down the Humanity scale. VtM works if you all speedrun down to Humanity 4 and act like the usual "chaotic evil until proven otherwise" TTRPG protagonists but it aspires to make you think and feel things about that and the rules are set up to demand you meet that aspiration.

If you want a vampire game where the state of being a vampire isn't a moral issue, can I recommend Vampire: the Requiem Second Edition? A game with an objective, universal definition of Humanity and the threats to it as "experiences that remind you you are not a human being any more," and the more fundamental that reality check is, the less likely it is a character will retain Humanity when confronted with it? It's extremely tidy and doesn't demand that you establish and interrogate any of your own principles. It's not moral "degeneration," it's experiential "detachment," and that hits very differently.

Also, none of this is to do with Lines and Veils. Tenets are rules you want your characters to break. They are the substance of your morality play. They will come up in play and they will do so often. Lines and Veils are rules about what you as a player do not want to have to experience at the gaming table and they are not supposed to come up/be directly narrated. One of these things is part of a core gameplay function and one is a safety tool. Know the difference.

[scarrfaze]

< -- guy who's engaged

[king-of-wrath]

Reblog if you like long-winded lore posts

[fexrtherexper]

"theres magic and chaos in the air tonight. I wonder what thats all about."

[dannyphantom-fenton]

Okay, I saw a comic of Dash telling Danny he respects his bisexuality and is bullying him as a nerd, not as a member of the LGBT community, and it got me thinking.

What if Dash eavesdrops on a conversation and believes Danny is pregnant?

Obvs this is a trans Danny au, and something happened to Ellie, and Danny is carrying her core. Vlad finds out and is himself about it. However, Dash hears this argument and puts things together in the wrong way.

Vlad corners Danny after school. Dash is staying after to practice for football and is going to practice when he sees Vlad dragging Danny into a room. He decides to listen in at exactly the wrong time.

“Daniel, you must stop being so irrational about this-“

“Irrational! You almost killed her because she isn’t a boy! I barely managed to save her! Now I have to stop taking testosterone because of you, and I have to worry about raising her during high school and putting off College-”

“I can raise her.”

“Not a chance, fruitloop. She’s my daughter.”

“She’s mine as well.”

“You were the one who decided to throw a tantrum and not only create her, but try and destroy her because she isn’t a boy! You don’t get to touch her!”

Cue a conveniently timed ghost attack or call from Maddie, but they leave without realizing Dash was listening in. Dash now has to grapple with the fact that the nerd he’s been bullying is pregnant, and the mayor, who he thinks he’s heard Tucker say is his godfather, is the other dad!

(Dash grew up with them, so he already knew Danny was trans.)

Dash immediately enlists the other A-listers to help him protect Fenton.(Because Dash may be a bully, but he’s not evil. He’s not gonna beat a pregnant man, especially since the mayor has apparently been creeping on Fenton.)

This all culminates into protective A-listers making it known Fenton is off limits and an extremely confused Danny who doesn’t know what’s going on.

[tadcpomni-blog]

The wedding is starting rn!!! Happy wedding (first) anniversary for Ragatha and Pomni!