Thinking about how if i ever had the opportunity to make. a mascot horror game or story that i'd have it take place right before the eventual Big Fall of the establishment
[Big ramble under the cut lmao]
Something something reuse how I thought for Security Breach we'd play as Vanessa and the five nights formula was doing the shift but slowly discovering through each shift that Some Shit is happening and she has to stop it (directly before we found out Vanessa was Vanny/Vanessa was the security guard's name)
LIKE!!! I fucking adore how a couple of standout mascot horror games have been [primarily Indigo Park, I'm willing to give it a shot and it's deadass because of Rambley and his role as an AI assistant], but a lot of what I've seen personally (stares at. Fucking. Garten of Banban), it's a lot of post fall. Always investigating or going through the abandoned place where shit's gone wrong (thank you BATIM for starting the chapter-based formula -bangs head-)
But like. I've always thought about what it would be like for a mascot horror game to take place before the fall, or even during it depending on the execution.
Before the fall, you're either a kid who's a regular at the establishment (daycare, amusement park, whatever) or even an employee working there-
(or even MORE interestingly, if we go with a chapter-based thing or even similar to FNAF in terms of there's a set thing for whatever, the POV keeps changing between different people- wait I'm cooking. i'll get back to that later actually)
-And slowly as it all develops, you watch as everything begins to just. Fall apart. Employees leaving, the place coming down into disrepair, something's up with the main mascots of the place but you don't know what (at least in universe, we all know this formula as players)
Actually, coming back to the changing POVs, you can even draw in inspiration from DBH (I only watched gameplay back then oops) where the perspective changes between different people. A child enjoying their day, a first time employee, a long time employee, a parent of a child. Hell, depending on things, you could even have a moment where (depending on the location) you play as a fucking burglar looking to steal shit (before getting. Fucking bass boosted)
And eventually there'd come the inevitable end where it all closes down, leaving whatever living mascots inside to rot (insert Abandoned by Disney line here /j)
LIKE!!! I want to see people expand on the formula!! I want to see people fuck around and find out!!!
Honest to god, I might take this and run with it myself cause now I'M getting ideas.
This system does not require faith — only accordance.
Alt text: Screenshots from Revolutionary Girl Utena with overlaid text. 1: Dios on a white horse, standing up high on a broken bridge. Text: An innocence is infallible.
2: Dios and young Utena looking at young Anthy, suspended in the air on the swords of hate. Text: The decisions made by one are not decisions.
3: Anthy's silhouette against a pink background, pierced by many blades, hair flying. Text: They are inevitabilities —
4: Touga looking out the tower window at the stars. His shirt is open and he holds a potted cactus. Text: what would have happened anyway,
5: An apple with a slice cut out, pierced by many forks. Text: only accelerated.
6: B-ko the shadow girl in Prince costume, taking a heroic stance. Text: An Innocence is a continuous, compressed event, a sacred human being.
7: Akio, dressed as End of the World, holds Utena, dressed as a rose bride. Text: It is an honor and a glory to live when one is in office.
8: Closeup on young Utena and Dios's feet, standing at the edge of a sheer drop. Text: YOU — Is one in office now?
9: A dark, empty stage with a rose design on the lowered curtain. Text: No.
10: Young Utena standing alone under a spotlight. She is staring at the spot where young Anthy disappeared. There are cracks in the wall resembling the shape of the swords coming out of Anthy's body. Text: We are alone.
We could make Sqq a transformer in his past life. Like optimus prime sorta transformer. Cybertronian.
He'd be the only surviving seeker (winged guy) on the autobots side (I don't know all the canons but I don't think they have, like, any). Pretty young when the war started - unfathomably ancient for humans, the kiddie of the group to them.
And he arrives on earth. Discovers the Internet. Immediately gets hooked on critiquing stupid Web novels in every language, which being a sentient machine he can do at great speed without forgetting anything. Decides to read the final chapter during a battle because he's so close to the end and airplane had better pull SOMETHING good. Is so infuriated (distracted) by the ending he messes up and immediately gets killed by some low level decepticon. After FIVE MILLION years of war he gets offed by some loser over a stupid human story that wasn't even very good. He dies SO furious.
If it comes out that a celebrity you're a fan of is a piece of shit, that is nobody's fault but theirs and most definitely is not the fault of the fan. It's the fault of the individual who decided to lie and exploit the admiration they were receiving from the public.
You are not a bad person for expecting the best in people, and you are not a bad person for supporting someone who turned out to be a liar with corrupt morals. In that instance, you were deceived.
It is not wrong to believe people are good but in the same breath do not hand out blind devotion to a person you do not know. Maintaining boundaries is important for both you and those you admire.
doing my anatomy study is fucking torturous bc every time i read some shit like “birds dont have a diaphragm” my brains like “hmmmm…… birdperson…..” and then i end up thinking abt him instead of studying
For the sake of reiteration, people on the other Blue Bird of Despair site are using Stormblood in negative connotation in comparison to how they believe Dawntrail is going to shake out. I am taking this cynicism and using it to gauge people's feelings on each chunk of the story. Assume that each chunk includes Post, Raid, and other extra side activities as well as the main MSQ story.
With that in mind I'll be making a weekly poll for this sort of things. Because where better place to do it than the lull between 6.55 and now the launch of a new expansion and a new arc in total?
Once again to reiterate as I did for A Realm Reborn: In hindsight or just in general, did you enjoy Heavensward and its content? Whether it was in the past with ARR's systems still clinging on in the form of having to level two jobs to open up your advance job at 30 and the initial aether current placement or as it is modern day, with revamp dungeon system to be more trust like along with other QoL upgrades that have followed it over the years?
I'll be following back all the quotev ppl 🫡 Esp if you interact w this post first so ik where you're coming from
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currently getting my tuchus kicked by whatever germs decided my body was free real estate so consider this a mini hiatus until whenever they’re rightfully evicted rip
Started watching Milgram recently and honest to god this is the only time I’ve ever been ok with an evil alter trope. I’ve never seen the relationship between two alters in a system be so well written before.
the horror of my best friend’s exorcism is the same horror of rosemary’s baby. the mounting dread and frustration that gathers as you watch this poor, naïve, and trusting young woman try to claw out of a cage society makes for her that she can’t escape, a hole she’s digging deeper for herself because she mistook it for the escape route. you want to scream at her to wise up because if it was anybody else—someone smarter, someone less trusting, someone bolder—the story would’ve ended the moment things started acting up. but she isn’t any of those things and that’s the beauty and the ugliness of this horror story. she was just a woman who didn’t know better and look where that got her.
you do not want kicking the heat on for the winter to involve carefully timed sessions across several days with all doors and windows open to make it safe to breathe
you don't want to flee indoors every time someone down the block lights a fire or stays barbecuing or has a smoke
and you do not want to be stuck practicing shallow breathing in a respirator because there wasn't enough warning to let the air purifiers scrub the whole house first
Sure it's for the aesthetics, it really wouldn't make sense if gen2 synths had any effect from nicotine. But it raises a different question, can Nick 'breathe'?