#AND a man turns into a fucking skeleton dragon at the end for unclear reasons what more COULD YOU WANT

[theladyweaver]

Watched Hellraiser (1987) for the first time. I see what all the fuss was about this movie fucking rocks

[wildmagicplant]

The Adventures of Greenpeace

this is the result of me bugging all my friends from college to see if we could reconstruct the story of our dnd campaign from my senior year. i’m sure we missed things and that the order, especially in the second half, is a bit messy, but i’m pretty impressed with what we got. i’ve put it under a cut because uhhh it got long

According mostly to Prince Orlando Bloom’s notes, he and Lady Azalea arrived in Iljak (a small city on the Sea of Fallen Stars in Faerun) to discuss with Lord Pendleton Snyde (Snood/Sneed/Snode/etc) the diplomatic and economic relationship between POB’s kingdom and Iljak. Lord Snyde wasn’t there when they arrived, but a servant named Hank was, and he was pretty great apparently. This is when we learned that Iljak doesn’t have a zoo, aquarium, public beach, library, or museum, but does have an inn/tavern named the Lactating Lizard and a pirate-themed dinner restaurant. Iljak also had a temple, where they met a dragonborn named Surina who they encountered again later. It also, memorably, has a store named The Bob’s (“Bobs bobs bobs! Lamps lamps lamps! Bobs bobs bobs! Buy a fucking lamp!”). At the Lactating Lizard, they were entertained for the evening by a bard’s performance, and met Jerry the bartender, as well as a ranger, Shepherd Commander. That night, POB woke to discover Lady Azalea was gone, leaving behind a wig as a clue. He met Hector the Well-Endowed next door, and they went to report Lady Azalea’s disappearance (thus starting the endless stream of missing posters). POB went to see Lord Snyde again the next day, and he was having a party which was actually a gladiatorial-type thing, forcing slaves (including Bjorn and Karangalan) to fight animals for entertainment. Trevor Goldenthroat apparently appeared now as well after performing at the tavern the night before, and helped attack Lord Synde as a revolt was led by Bjorn. Shepherd joined in the fight as he couldn’t stand the cruelty of forcing animals to fight. His usefulness was questionable, however, as he fired his bow instead of his arrow. Lord Synde was killed with a vine whip from Bjorn, and chaos reigned for a little while before POB helped set up a democracy (including a constitution which has a full text somewhere). Fluffy also met them, presumably in the tavern. At some point, everyone went to the Black Market and Davian purchased an unusual and mysterious cube (“The black market is now open.”). The democracy was questionably popular, and other area nobles began investigating the killing of Lord Synde.

The party met Kallista (alias: Kelly) at the guard station back in Iljak. At this point, Davian Goodfortune had shown up in place of Lady Azalea, but no one realized they were the same person. Bob of The Bob’s store gave the party a shipment of lamps to deliver somewhere else, and they set off to do that as it was becoming clear (possibly was already very clear) that they weren’t terribly welcome in Iljak anymore. At some point in this process, the group named themselves Greenpeace. Possibly as part of a delivery mission, possibly for some other reason, the party traveled into the woods and encountered a maze. The maze was easily navigated by virtue of meta-game knowledge, and in the maze, owlbears were fought, Shepard obtained his wolf companion, who he named Skoll, satyrs were befriended, and sentient plants attacked. POB found a very nice boulder. On the way out of the woods, the party ran across a temple with very unusual looking statues that they concluded were probably traps. They were absolutely correct, and managed to escape without too much incident.

They also encountered a troll in the woods somewhere who was minding his own business, but the party was worried he’d attack them, so they decided to go on the offensive. Karangalan created an illusion of fish near it; the troll was completely fooled and went after the tasty fish smell. The troll was alerted to the party’s presence, but it was conclusively defeated by the party conjuring vines to tangle it, horrifying whispers to terrify it, and a small gnome to poke it in the butt. Then the party killed it.

It’s unclear exactly when this happened, but the party ended up helping a lizardfolk person in an adulthood ceremony, possibly, and fought dinosaurs. At a similar time, the party killed a very young black dragon and stuffed its body into the bag of holding. (“It was a young dragon and it was malleable!”)

Not long afterwards, the party decided to set out for a larger city, Alaghon, taking to the seas to travel. While sailing, POB and Karangalan became best friends by way of friendship bracelets and hair braiding. Somewhere along the way, the ship was attacked by both werewolves (Shepard got bit) and orc pirates (where a particularly nimble orc managed to backflip over a magical thunderwave), and possibly someone in the party had trouble operating the ship’s cannon. The party managed to survive these encounters, and made it to a small sea-side village (possibly on the island of Ilighon and the small city of Sapra), where they were stuck for some time because of terrible storms surrounding the island. Some of the party attempted to find nets, which turned out to be more difficult than expected in a fishing village, but a small man who may or may not have been a goblin had some nets, and they were attemptedly stolen and then actually paid for- or possibly paid for with glitter transformed temporarily into money.

Having been tasked with retrieving a noble’s missing daughter, Greenpeace tracked her to a creepy hut. While the party attempted to prepare an ambush, POB knocked on the front door. It was inhabited by some hags, and after somewhat of a comical battle including capturing a hag in a net and then someone else cutting through the net to attack the hag, Surina (the dragonborn who traveled with the party briefly) killed one of the hags and the other was also dispatched. Davian also acquired a small pseudodragon he named Agatha around this time.

The storms that had forced them to land on this island showed no sign of letting up. Realizing they couldn't continue by ship, the party tried to explore through the woods. They heard a strange noise and saw a beast fly overhead clutching something familiar- their companion Fluffy. A battle was fought with the wyvern, and it was defeated, although Fluffy didn’t come out of that fight very healthy.

After continuing on through the woods, the party encountered a very stereotypical wizard tower, complete with absent-minded but well-read wizard. He requested that they deal with a cyclops that was eating his sheep before he would give them information on the storm that was still, after some time, surrounding the island. (Sheep were also painted at some point while staying with the wizard.) The party went to fight the cyclops in its cave, and while an ambush was being planned, Fluffy charged in and promptly missed the giant cyclops with a javelin. It was eventually defeated, and the party realized there was also a child cyclops that they convinced to come back to the wizard’s tower and the wizard would take care of it. The wizard was less than thrilled with this arrangement, but the party convinced him that the cyclops could be trained as it was still young, and he agreed. Probably. The wizard rewarded them with magical Rare Candies that allowed them to become instantly stronger and more experienced, as well as information about the storm.

After looking through his books, the wizard told them the storms were probably caused by an ancient being called an aboleth, which commands water and weather and is worshipped by lesser creatures called chuul. After telling the party more about aboleths and giving them magic to let them breathe underwater, they set off to defeat this aboleth. The party fought through a number of chuul before reaching the aboleth’s underground, partially-submerged lair. It attempted to throw the party off by giving them visions. A selection of some of the visions follow: -Kelly: caravan she deceived. defeated some skeletons by means of meta-game knowledge of greek myths. -POB: a vision of his father being disappointed. defeated by means of a bracelet from Karangalan and the power of friendship -Trevor: Duelling Banjos. -Davian: fighting an evil version of himself -Karangalan: fighting a few shadowy monks The visions having been overcome, the party began attacking the aboleth in earnest. After some potentially deadly missteps, including Karangalan being mind-controlled by the aboleth and Kelly accidentally turning herself into a potted plant, it was barely defeated. The party made their way back to the surface and returned to the wizard, who let them stay there for a night before they made their way back to their boat and continued on their way.

As the year approached Midwinter, Greenpeace took a short break from adventuring to celebrate by drinking, having a snowball fight, and watching the sunrise.

End “Season 1”

Somewhere else, a different adventuring party met in a tavern. They were approached by a rich looking man, somewhat suspicious, but nothing that set off their internal alarms too much, and he hired them to retrieve a magical sword from a tomb. They did such, although many of them died in the process (including a wizard being smothered by a magically animated rug). As those still standing exited the tomb, they were ambushed by their employer, and they realized he was actually a devil- a rakshasa. Despite one of them being a paladin, this was completely unexpected, and they were horrified to realize they’d given this magical artifact to such an evil creature, but he disappeared after trying to kill even more of them, so they hoped nothing would go too wrong with that in the future.

Begin “Season 2”

The storms gone, Greenpeace made it to Alaghon, where they stayed for a short time. They met up with Darvin Dundragon, the paladin from the other adventuring group, after a night of misfortune for him when he accidentally slept with a gnome who he killed with a lamp instead of any other, better option [“What do you mean, non-lethal damage?”].

While in Alaghon, the party decided to find someone to identify some magical artifacts they’d picked up, or to try and buy some, possibly. They were directed to a nearby mage college, where they were greeted by a very hyperactive wizard who offered to introduce them to other wizards, and just talked a whole lot, really fast. They also met the headmaster of the college, who was distinguished, and didn’t bother with them for long. Beyond the caffeinated wizard inventor, the person they interacted with the most was a divination specialist named Hope. He probably helped them on their quest somehow, whatever it actually was at that time, and he and Kelly also hooked up. After that, it was revealed that he could keep spying on the party whenever he wanted, and didn’t take no for an answer. The party’s actual tasks, whatever they were, in Alaghon accomplished, they set out by sea back to Iljak.

On the way, they ran into yet another magically dangerous storm. This one crashed their ship and left them stranded in a mysterious land that looked and seemed much different than what they were used to. After some exploring, the party realized they were now in the Feywild. They journeyed for a while and ended up following Bjorn, who broke slightly from his silent and mysterious ways to lead everyone to his relative, who turned out to be a very important Fey who the party immediately nicknamed Lady Grandma. They also met Prongs here, whose real name she kept secret for her own reasons. Prongs was set her apart even from the unique look of other high elves from the Seelie court in the material plane by a pair of antlers growing out of her head, which also was the origin of her nickname. Prongs joined the party, as she was on her own quest and could get more done with them, but before Lady Grandma would let the party leave, she asked them to rid a neighboring part of the forest of intruders. Fighting bandits of some sort that wanted to burn down the forest (and thus accomplishing the second of two environmentally good things Greenpeace ever did), as well as some displacer beasts along the way, they succeeded. The displacer beast hide made very nice armor for the otherwise vulnerable new party member, Prongs. Davian also succeeded in finding the last ingredient his parton wanted from him, although none of the rest of the party ever knew about any of that. Returning to Lady Grandma, she sent them on their way back to the material plane, with POB having obtained a pet fairy dragon.

Back on the material plane, Greenpeace returned to Alaghon. While in Alaghon, the party noticed posters for a Battle of the Bands upcoming, and Trevor convinced the others to participate. When it came time for the Battle, one competitor, Silverback, never showed up, but Greenpeace beat one group [whose name I’m pretty sure was a pun on Iron Maiden] before it came time to challenge the past winners, King. As it turned out, King was led by Trevor’s former mentor. The party defeated them, and Trevor reclaimed his magical instrument and a sense of accomplishment at beating his former mentor.

At another visit to the mage college, the party’s relatively peaceful shopping trip was interrupted by a portal to hell opening in the museum of the college. Greenpeace and a few of the wizards dealt with the incursion, but not before some devils made off with a few powerful artifacts. There was suspicion that this had something to do with the sword Darvin had accidentally rescued for the rakshasa, but the more immediate trouble was that the headmistress of the college seemed to have been in league with the devils somehow.

Greenpeace was eventually given a patch of land to create a home base as a reward for their good deeds. Or something. Through the use of magic (both arcane and druidic), they created a set of dwellings inside and around a cluster of several large trees. Everyone called dibs on rooms, and some roommate shuffling occurred, but eventually, it was settled as a new home base. Once it was fully grown/constructed, the party threw a housewarming party of sorts, with Fluffy creating signature alcoholic drinks for each member of the party and POB trying to dance with Prongs, which went very poorly.

While no leads were forthcoming with regards to the rakshasa, Prongs asked the other members of Greenpeace to help her find her brother. The party journeyed away, following a lead from Hope’s scrying, and were led to a mind flayer colony. They made their way underground to try and rescue him. The party was separated, causing trouble for everyone, and also letting POB and Prongs have a quiet moment alone, when POB told Prongs that he had written to his father and if anything happened to him, she should take her brother to the kingdom and POB’s father would take care of them. Fluffy almost had his mind eaten, some of the party fought a behir, Trevor’s use of Bigby’s Foot made an appearance, and they were nearly overcome by combined attacks from mind flayers and drow. However, back together, they managed to rescue Prongs’ brother, although he was weak from his prolonged capture. While some members of the party had an interest in keeping him around in a flirtatious capacity, Prongs and her brother, along with Lady Grandma, decided it would be best for him to stay hidden and rest. Since his capture had occurred after he seemingly murdered a giant elk, a sacred god of the forest, (which, incidentally, is how Prongs got her prongs) and the Fey community was still somewhat skeptical of his “I was under mind control” excuse, after he recovered, he went back to clear his name.  

The party was led to a large temple, and when they snuck in to see what was happening, they discovered the rakshasa completing a ritual to transform a red dragon into a shadow dragon. They left, knowing they couldn’t fight it directly, but hoping to prevent this some other way.

On one of their adventures, the party was travelling through a swamp when they were ambushed by a horde of bullywugs. The bullywugs attempted to take them to their leader but through a lot of very dramatic fire magic, the unending swarms were defeated. Unfortunately, they ran almost immediately into a green purple worm and a swamp dragon with tentacles growing out of its back. These proved more of a challenge, but still no match for Greenpeace, who killed the monsters (Davian using Banishment to great effect, in particular). After defeating this strange dragon, they found its lair, and also its horde of erotic novels.

The missing band from battle of the bands re-appeared outside of Alaghon, revealing themselves to be a pack of good werewolves who patrolled the area. Their leader, Miranda, told the party about some strangely behaving fire giants in the mountains nearby. The party went with Miranda and her pack to go investigate, and Shepard talked to them about how to manage his case of lycanthropy, which seemed to have popped back up. The fire giants headed into the mountains and down into a tunnel. Greenpeace followed, and attempted to gain information from some of the giants without alerting the rest. Somewhat successfully, they made their way into the underground tunnels, and came out at a ruined underground building complex. While trying to sneak across the city, they ran into a horde of strangely dancing zombies (led by one notably familiar looking gnome with lamp pieces impaled in her dead body), and made it past them to what seemed to be an old temple or castle. Inside, they were confronted with a terrifying death tyrant. It was a long and dangerous battle, with the territory itself against them (lava pools in the floor and tentacles coming out of the walls), not to mention the death tyrant itself. Shepard managed to land the killing shot on the creature, but not before dying. He was revived shortly thereafter, but one of his arms was burned away in the lava.

In all the treasure Greenpeace found along the way, the most unusual was the few magical cards from a powerful object known as the deck of many things. While they didn’t find many cards, those they did had far-reaching effects. Bjorn lost all his worldly possessions, although he didn’t really have any to start with. Fluffy, having drawn two cards, had to duel an avatar of death and deal with a distant relation of a bartender he knew trying to kill him for no reason. Trevor, luckily, got a castle and a loyal manservant. In an unusual turn of events, Davian drew a card that caused him to lose his memories of the past months, resulting in him believing he was still disguised as Lady Azalea. Sadly, Shepard drew a card that made Miranda, now his love interest, go wild and try to kill him, forcing him to end her life. Prongs, meanwhile, drew a card causing her to take incredible pleasure in murdering people. Luckily, being a druid, she didn’t kill that many people in general, so it didn’t become an addiction as was feared, and was mostly managed.

Having realized the rakshasa was too dangerous to be left alone any longer, Greenpeace set out for where they thought his lair was. The sky overhead grew dark and colorless the closer they came to his mountain home, and they began to have some idea of what his plan might be. Talking to villagers in the small town outside the castle he seemed to be residing in, the party learned some of the story behind them, including that the castle used to be inhabited by an order of paladins before something went terribly wrong. Approaching the castle with no plan beyond trying to stop whatever was happening, the party used their often-resorted-to tactic of claiming to be travelling lamp salespeople to convince the lady of the keep to let them in. She introduced herself as Rachel, and led them up to the upper floor of the castle. It became clear that she was the rakshasa’s wife, and that she was a vampire. The rakshasa appeared and monologued about his plan: that he and Rachel had a child who would never be able to exist fully in the material plane due to its parentage, and so, he was trying to bring the darker planes into this one to give his wife and child a place they could live and survive. The party seemed mildly sympathetic to this, but also agreed that it couldn’t be allowed to happen for the sake of everyone else who already lived there. A battle began, with all the stops pulled out on all sides. In the midst of the fray, while POB was on death’s door, he and Prongs admitted their feelings to each other, knowing this may be their last chance before death, and there was a Big Damn Kiss. Rachel and the rakshasa were both formidable foes, and it seemed impossible until some clever tactics from Darvin led to the rakshasa’s defeat, and then Rachel’s soon after. The world was restored to normal, and Greenpeace triumphantly went home.

Months later, they gathered again, this time for a happy occasion: the wedding of Prongs and Prince Orlando Bloom. Bjorn, to everyone’s shock, showed up with his adopted daughter. There was much merriment, drinking, attempting to fire people in cannons, and also a very happy wedding. The story ends there. (Although Greenpeace (almost in entirety) agreed much later to go to the nine hells and defeat the rakshasa fully so he couldn’t return and wreak havoc once again.)

[isaacathom]

time to think about various story ideas ive had, yeehaw

ACitDS - Thomas trying to find their parents amidst the angel/demon war. pretty neat. I wanted to make a game out of it so the player could decide which way Thomas swung in terms of angel/demon, giving leeway for players who made mechanical choices against the ‘moral’ choice (cause like, split progression, man. it was gonna be pretty flexible and based mostly on choices within the world, though one route was locked behind a specific skill progression).

ACB - ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. war story about a commander trying to protect their homeland, except they arent even a commander in that homeland, and also its just really complicated. I like the individual characters i guess, even if im pretty sure Black themself was... not... my best character. I’ve made more ableist ones (hhhhhh) but that wasn’t my finest, so acb would need a total rehaul to fix that sorta thing. characters neat though.

SFY/414 - the whole gang of criminals help a guard catch other criminals story. or gay suicide squad, as you wish. i like my characters, and i like a whole lot of it, and i like the world. the core premise is a lil shaky but if you get past it, fun times, i think. i love tamjol especially.

SFY/425 - i dont know shit about the civil war plot except that tamjol is there and gets accused of being a traitor after his group finds out he’s a Shonyul, thats a fun one. thats basically the only thing i know for certain about it, that those scenes happen, and maybe one where he confronts his “father” directly, idk, weird stuff all around.

SFY/BTH/386 - sailing time. theres a storm, a mutiny, a second bloodier mutiny, and then a whole ass dragon eats like 2 whole boats without warning, god damn.

CCC - we have established i think that idea slapped i just never wrote shit. i dont remember any of their names. i just know some fuckers got lazered in the chest. tight.

Codename Seren - oh no

Codename Sworl - uhhh bunch of aliens get sent to earth disguised as teen girls to track down a different group of aliens. i remember nothing except that the sworl Charlotte ended up falling in love with a girl called Aaliyah (??????) who was actually one of the enemy aliens, and also that the sworl overlords were trash. everything else, big ol’ no clue.

EC - former MC fanfic, crystal’s sister and BIL get kidnapped by the goddess of fire in order to get the city (of which the BIL is like, the prince?) to do a bunch of specific things so that the fire goddess can release the imprisoned goddess of darkness. also one of the members of the motley gang crystal acquires is actually the fire goddesses missing daughter, and another is the descendant of some of the dark gods closest attendants who bailed and were hunted down. and the other dude is like. the son of a ghost? like? a ghost? like his human ass father found a portal to an afterlife realm and fucked one of the librarians and now their kid is half fucking ghost, I dont get it, also the man had a wife so uh W. Skye’s dad was messed.

GGS - hell yea. gods forming pacts with a bunch of youngsters who die in tragic circumstances (one was a car accident, another got crushed by a tree, and a pair got caught in a burning house). fun times. the car one had the war goddess as her partner and was able to summon a magic gun, the tree one had the god of time and fought with a magic sword while his COMPLETELY HUMAN sister kept tagging along on his missions and using a dustbin lid as a shield to help him out. nice. i love them all.

KoA - i dont remember whats happening there except that one of the kids was like, iron resistant? so she could use magic even when in iron? and fter they got captured by the govt or whatever they found out about her power and things escalated and im like 90% sure they fucking. hit her on the head with a shovel and killed her? i. i dont know why that was what i decided should happen in my novel but there you go, huh. her sister was very upset and i think ended up finding out she was iron resistant too? i dont remember the plot of this.

Kingdom Keys  - crocodile minigame and a littol skeleton man. basically if you found three keys you could access this area and get a wish granted by the goddess, and the skeleton dude had tried this previously and sort of failed? its kind of unclear but i think it was that he’d adventured with the main girls mother for the keys and i think she died? so then he used his wish to save her life? or the other way around? i think he died trying to get either the 1st or 2nd key and at the end the mother made it to the goddess and used her wish to bring him back, except he was a skeleton for Uh Reasons (how fucking long did it take???) and then i think the mother died after, i DONT know. i just remember littol skeleton boy man dude. he was like, 16 but also like 40, i think, i AM Unclear

Mermaid Cafe - there is no plot to mermaid cafe except that a mermaid like, comes on land and hides her identity, goes to a cafe by the sea one day to be a little closer to home, and then gets trapped along with a bunch of other people when the sea goes Very Bad. it was a very weird dream.

Minds Eye - ? gods claim your kids when theyre born and raise them? there was no further plot. i dont remember shit.

Mistakenbound - the last gasp of my hs phase, may it rest in peace. some heart player got murdered for revolution b4 the game starts but persisted as a ghost and pretended to be a blue blood, which while it was based more off the story of Rhia from COdename Seren, is a fuck of an aradia ripoff, whoopsie fucking Daisies

LOTMV - light demigod gets “kidnapped” by a dark demigod, sparks a war, very complicated, i mostly like it. one draft had the light demigod killing her shitty soldier ex-boyfriend at the end of the story after he almost murders the dark demigod, who has all but become her gf in the time since she left home. fun stuff.

Puppeteers Rebellion - buncha voodoo shit, smth about voodoo being outlawed and a countess using her powers in it to try and overthrow the kingdom, being foiled by the princess who she had (inadvertently?) been training at a sewing circle thing. i think?

Re:Memory - rebirth where your actions in your previous two lives determine your class, protag is class 1 (worst) because her last lives where a fucking infant and a murderer. befriends the princess (class 7) and idk what the hell were they planning to do but it was gonna be smth.

RiH - story about a thief with a metal arm trying to save the metal forest from an unnatural rust, aided by a knight who is one of the few people who actually notices their presence. was actually an MSPFA, ripperino, i still have like, 4 panels total and nothing else.

Royalty Story - uhhh country being run by Queen Adelaide acting as regent for her like, 21 year old son, but then she gets taken captive by this woman named Hazel who starts running the kingdom, forcing Adelaides three kids to flee the castle and try and find a solution. idk what was going on. the kids were Jackson, Morgan, Lillian, in order, iirc? cause the naming scheme was -an (sound). i thought it was neat. Lillian was the only one who shortened her name, to i like just Lilli, but Jackson was never Jack. they were neat.

SoaCS - pirate sets off a curse that means they are followed by a terrible icy storm, ends up being cast overboard by their (new) crew and saved by a woman on an island, who then also helps them escape when the storm ravages her home. then they go on a whole thing try to fix the mistake that HE made, resulting in them going back to where he had abandoned his crew in search of treasure. lotta fun. he even directly saves her life at a point where he had failed/refused to save one of his old partners last time, which was neat, but overall she was saving his ass. fun times. never wrote much for that.

Shadow Huntress- idk theres a girl called Blake and shes aways running because she thinks if she stops people will notice the scars of battle with like, The Darkness. physical battle, but also the emotional toll. ends up mentoring a few of her classmates who became hunters sort of incidentally. idk.

TDoC - so theres a demon king in the center of the lake, and around this lake are a bunch of cities with demon lords. and you have to kill the demon lords in order in order to be able to access the demon king and kill him. and there was a mechanic in place where you could only kill one demon lord/king. so the new party who is trying to free themselves from demon rule is accompanied by a group who tried many years prior, and in the first battle one of them fucking dies while trying to kill the lord because it turns out! that in the last attempt! he had succeeded in laying the final blow, and his soul was forever weakened and could not withstand the demonic energy this time, so from the outside he basically stabbed down at this demon lords week spot and then the second his blade made contact there was a burst of energy and he collapses like a sag of bricks who barely lives to the end of the battle to explain what happened. that was neat. i like the idea of the party by the time they get to the demon king being people who had all killed a demon lord, meaning they shouldnt be able to kill the king, but then they all manage to deal the final blow together, with their combined souls withstanding the initial burst of energy and killing him. whether they all die afterwards or just kinda pass the fuck out to be found by their allies outside who react to the demonic death wail, idk. i think its neat. that end sounds kinda cliche but presumably they had their best soldiers (demon killers) and then a handful of people with them who HADNT killed a demon who should have been able to, except the king could fucking smell em and wiped the floor with them early, knocking them out or killing them to focus on toying with the ones he wanted revenge on. I’m down for that. cause then its slightly less of a like, “twist”, since in the planning to kill the king SOMEONE would have noticed that they had to send some non-heroes :P So make sure you do, I guess.

TFOS - princess vs dragon, she has a gun and she wants revenge for her older sister and aso to save her kingdom. aided by a mage a knight and a rogue, bunch of lesbian mfers fighting dragons, Nice.

TFT - proto GGS, main difference was that becoming a demigod was essentially randomised and that there was like. a god of computers. who i think i reworked as a god of technology? or something? tech generally, not computer tech. idk. cherry was cute.

WTDD - the worlds surface is a series of spinning gears with cities and towns on them, and the gears all powered a music box below the earth which kept this colossal dragon asleep. and then one day the gears stop and the dragon wakes up. something like that. the initial thing was world is gears, but id probably shift it to a city or an area? cause the idea of a city constantly rotating sucks ass. admittedly that was straight up the reason the gears stopped in the initial writing, because the villain (??) was sick of the rotation ad fucking. blew a gear up. nice.

YD3N - uhh bunch of robots? one for eac letter of the alphabet (so there was Aden, Byden, Cyden, Dyden, Eden, etc) and Yd3n was the source of all of them. and then a robot called syd3n manages to escape and finds the aid of a local engineer called Ignis Lex, and they try to free their siblings and especially Yd3n, and find out the purpose for the alphabet crew. fun fact, this entire story came about because on the way home from uni I saw a dude in front of me with a jumper that said ‘Sydney’, except the last y was covered and my brain misread what was left as Syden, which is why theyre the protag. Neat.

thats the only ones listed. its missing a few, but i dont remember them much or have names for them :P