#Cthulhu Saves the World

[nicolaz-stimz]

Baba Yaga Chan From Cthulu saves the world/Cthulu saves Christmas

[videogamewhales]

[ID: An image of the Dolphin enemy, a dolphin standing upright on its tail fins holding rope and a harpoon, from Cthulhu Saves the World. End ID.]

Dolphin from Cthulhu Saves the World (2010)

[matovilka]

Cthulhu Saves The World

[mysteamgrids]

Cthulhu Saves the World

[pitagain]

#365DaysOfVGM Day 102:

Existence Collapses [Final Boss] (Cthulhu Saves the World [2010])

You know, many people would’ve posted at least more than 3 Final Boss themes by now, but I like to space these out nicely, to make a point:

Finales are overrated, in most cases they shouldn’t be all a work is known for. But good finales are still worth my attention, of course.

Here’s a good “traditional-sounding” Final Boss theme with all the intense Organs, “epic” Choirs, lingering Flutes, catchy electric Guitars, old-fashioned Drums, fast-paced Horns, among a few other instruments you’ve come to expect in this kind of music by now, to finish off the game’s absurdist titular premise! You can’t go wrong with the classics as long as you know what made them good in the first place, something this track demonstrates quite well!

(Length before loop: 3+ minutes)

[paig-does-it]

Found an even longer version.

I don't recognize all of these but I tagged the ones I could.

[darkparablesthorst]

Inspired by the previous reblog, the idea of the fairytale detective being non-human would be fun to dive into since we don't have much of a backstory on her. The possibilities are endless.

She could be a cryptid.

Perhaps an eldritch construct sent by higher beings to restore the balance of magic.

She may even reveal herself to be a forgotten deity, far more ancient than the gods and goddesses she has helped in the past decades, awakened by the increasing irregularities of magic.

Maybe she's already dead and was replaced by a superhuman android built by the detective agency she worked at to keep a better hold on the volatile world of fairytales, because, I swear, the detective was not the same since Eipix took over lmao.

Perhaps she's the incarnation of humanity's collective yearning for the magical and fantastic, which is why she has such an affinity for the supernatural when those fantasies turn out to be real.

Maybe she's a changeling, an infant swapped at birth and grew up drawn to the songs of the brook, the whispers of the wind, and the calls of the forest in the middle of the night, all of which easily fly past the attention of others.

[cthulhusstepmom]

Ghost is a walking dichotomy, Soap has discovered. He's watched him strip the layers of a man's skin away to get information from him, seen him snap someone's neck in as little time as it takes to take a breath. But he's also so capable of heartbreaking kindness. His genuine concern for the fish, the way he saves the best part of his plate for Soap; offering it to him with reverence. The way he's cleaning Johnny's wound so tenderly. It's in these moments of gentleness where Johnny almost forgets what they do, what they've seen, who they are.

So when Ghost's voice snaps into that serious tone it's almost like a slap in his dizzy, goofily smiling, face.

"Wha?"

"Where is it? I'll get rid of it for you." Under the sharp tone is still that lethal gentleness, and even under that is a shaking fear.

"Oh, oh Ghost." He shifts, uncomfortable in his skin and wanting to be anywhere but here. "Ye... Ye cannae get rid of it."

His Lieutenant draws back a little, a mix of apprehension and offense in his eyes.

"It hurt you, nothing else matters."

Soap can feel his heart splitting as his throat starts to burn. Ghost stares up at him with fiery eyes, hands still holding his wrist so so softly.

"Where is the snake Soap? I promise you it'll never hurt you again. Whoever brought it in is going to have hell to pay too." He earnestly promises and Soap feels a single hot tear slip out of his eye.

"Ghost..." He chokes out. "Simon... It's mine."

The small room goes silent. Nothing even dares to move but for the violent flinch the sentence rips out of Ghost.

He doesn't dare say anything, doesn't dare to move or even breathe. He looks down at Ghost and Ghost meets his stare with turmoil roiling in his gaze.

Soap doesn't know what he expected, screaming or sobbing or angry silence but the frantic confusion he can see in the other man is as far as can be from what he'd thought he'd get.

They sit there like that for a few long moments, each absorbed in his own thoughts, before Ghost slowly rises from his kneel. If Johnny were in better spirits he would tease him for the quiet cracks his knees make. And with that violent tenderness he slowly curls an arm around Johnny and leans him down into the bed, pressing behind him and holding him close just like they'd done on any number of frigid nights out in the blind. And they just sit there holding each other in silence as they slowly drift into a dreamless sleep.

[eldenringchest-side]

CREATURE infected with AUTISM play CTHULHU SAVE THE WORLD for 9 HOURS

[charrednewt]

Some time ago, a person told me that playing only D&D is a bit like only watching blockbuster Marvel movies - it's fun to do sometimes but limits your perspective. I got a little bit skeptic at that, but then she and the people of that gaming group made me try a lot of those indie ttrpgs they were talking about.

I did not love all of them, but trying new systems has been very enriching. Sitting down at a table and starting something completely new for an afternoon is a lot of fun, especially because most of those systems are much lighter than D&D. Which, we can all agree, is actually a beast of a ruleset. The fact that it is considered "starter" material is kind of absurd all things considered.

I say a lot of stuff on this blog about "play another game" and I really want people to understand what I mean about that. monopolies are bad. DnD has, through marketing and business decisions and luck and capital, dominated the entire hobby in a way that no other creative genre has ever seen before.

[probablybadrpgideas]

THINGS I AM UNREASONABLY ANNOYED ABOUT BY GAME SYSTEM

D&D: Please put a disclaimer that you are not a universal system. Every time I see someone try to do a political mystery game in D&D, I take 3d10 psychic damage and have to make a death saving throw.

Pathfinder: Look. If i wanted to play a game about fighting Cthulhu there is an extremely famous game specifically designed around doing that. Literally no-one is ever going to say "Wow, I want to play a Cthulhu themed game! Time to stat up a musical halfling from a magical fantasy land!".

Chronicles Of Darkness: Just admit no-one uses any of your rules. You have Social Door Rules and Integrity Conditions and Corruption Levels and I bet at most 50% of COD players could tell me which of those I made up. Just admit people aren't dressing up as Alucard The Bringer Of Shadows because they want to sit down and do calculus.

World Of Darkness: You know that old guy who's still doing his job even though he is way too old to do it any more, but he's now an institution so you can't get rid of him? Like that. The 90s called and they want literally everything about this back.

Call Of Cthulhu: I appreciate the commitment to authenticity, but maybe stop hiring actual disgraced mental asylum directors from the 1920s to design your sanity system?

GURPS: Look. Look. Listen. We both know that you just want to write history textbooks. These are history textbooks with a few stat blocks begrudgingly put in. If you just give me a book on early Chinese history I will read it and go "ah, very interesting!". You don't need to put in a list of character choices. We're all nerds. We'll read them. Live your best life.

Powered By The Apocalypse: I actually can't think of anything wrong with PBTA. That's not a bit, this is literally the perfect system. Take notes everyone else.

Mutants and Masterminds/Heroes System: Your systems have probably the most customizable character creation in the world and you both just make reskins of the Justice League over and over again. Maybe we only need one "thinly veiled copyrighted characters" setting? You can fight over it once you decipher your combat mechanics.

FATE: Ok I won't lie, I have no idea how the fuck FATE works. I have read the rules repeatedly and played three games and I still have no idea what invoking an aspect means. I don't know why. I grasped the rules of fucking Nobilis but this one just psychologically eludes me. This is more a problem with me I guess, but I'm still annoyed.

Warhammer 40k: Have you considered spending less on avocado toast? Then you might be able to afford to charge less for things?

Exalted: Apart from the lore, the setting, the mechanics, the metaplot, the character creation and the dodgy narrative implications, I can't think of anything to improve here.

[open-sketchbook]

my girlfriend is asking for where she can find your written works, she really likes the one post you made about your mindstate wandering w/r/t making porn stories and she'd love to support you & read your stories

Sure!

I write my (public) fiction on the website Sufficient Velocity, a sci-fi forum. Most of them are in the form of 'quests', interactive stories; my day job is an independent tabletop roleplaying game designer, so the two things go hand in hand.

I unfortunately am both very busy and kind of a mess mentally, so fiction gets picked up and dropped a lot, and I write less than ever these days due to the shambles that my life has become.

For my quests, the stuff I'm proudest of is...

Castles of Steel, a longrunning (though currently on hiatus) story set in an alternate world much like our own, but with radically different gender politics. It's about the first woman in the navy of a country a lot like 1910s Imperial Japan, and more generally about how state power and imperialism entangles itself with and recoups social progress.

A Splinter in your Mind, a retelling of the Matrix with new characters and reimagined twists and worldbuilding. It makes the trans subtext into trans dommetext, and I feel its some of my cleverest writing.

Suffer Not, and especially its sequel The Witch Lives. Suffer Not is a Warhammer 40,000 fic about an Inquisitor who abuses her powers to actually make people's lives better, and is the story of her slowly realizing it is not enough. The Witch Lives takes place ten years later, following the grown up psyker the Inquisitor adopted, and focuses much more on faith, history, and the little people.

The Spider-Liv Trilogy started as a silly and honestly kind of bad extreme-divergence spiderman AU, but its sequel The Amazing Arachne is, I think, genuinely really good, because it's about what happens when a superhero gets hurt and then doesn't get better.

I've managed to properly publish two pieces of writing, as in you can get them in book form, and I'm still really proud of both.

Whispers from the Deep is an adaptation of the quest that defined the setting of my roleplaying game Flying Circus. It's about a young woman who steals a plane and runs away from her abuser with her boyfriend, and then has to take up life as an aerial mercenary in a 1920s-themed post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Also, she's a fish person and her village is a Cthulhu cult!

Lieutenant Fusilier in the Farthest Reaches is a pastiche of the Richard Sharpe books by Bernard Cornwell, moving the setting from the Napoleonic Wars to a bizarre future world where sentient, cheerfully productive robots were invented in the early 19th century and promptly took all the jobs, elevating all of humanity to the gentry and then to the stars. It's about a redcoated robot soldier who uses her immortality to save up and buy a commission in the Army of Great Britain and Beyond, a position normally occupied exclusively by humans, and then facing the fallout of her decision and the life choices leading to it as her first deployment spirals out of control. It's also, sorta, a parody of Star Trek; the Galactic Concert is a mechanized, Regency-themed Federation, and the back half of the book is basically about how the problems of a world cannot be solved by an away team of well-meaning people with stun pistols.

[videogamewhales]

[ID: An image of the Fire Whale from Cthulhu Saves the World. End ID.]

Fire Whale from Cthulhu Saves the World (2010)

[earthtocaptainsky]

Inktober day 27: Relic

Tim Drake would totally find some evil Cthulhu artifact and steal it Tomb Raider style, you cannot convince me otherwise. Go ahead, try. I’ll wait with my perfectly formulated argument of I want it and I’m the artist here. Tim also goes on wacky adventures and side quests that turn out to be wildly important all the time. Somehow he went from meeting a girl in France to saving the world from the literal plague in Hong Kong. Quite the way to start off his career as Robin I’ll say. Plus he ends up dismantling the League of Assassins while trying to find evidence Batman is trapped in time. Talk about a side quest. This is also a side quest. For what? Well, I guess I’ll leave that up to you Crew!

[counterspelling]

Mulligan conceded that “this fight was not fair,” but the TPK was neither planned nor inevitable. Their main adversary was a gravely injured, near-undead Fairy Godmother with few hit points, accompanied by a pack of uncanny human-object abominations to adjust the action economy for the players. There were paths to victory: Mulligan noted that Axford’s plan to go directly for the Godmother’s shard, possibly with Timothy casting Sleep, could have succeeded had a stealth check by Pinocchio and Gerard not gone disastrously. And bad rolls (nearly every death save rolled a 3 on a 20-sided die) meant the window to victory narrowed fast.

A common critique of shifting the genres in a D&D game is to ask, “Well, why don’t you just play a game or a system that isn’t high fantasy?” Why not explore the 1920s in Call of Cthulhu, or psychological horror in Ten Candles, or perhaps a modern-day tale that takes place within one of the settings in Paradox’s World of Darkness? But this encounter was terrifying precisely because of how frighteningly it deviated from the logic, the known rules of 5th edition D&D.

Mulligan was insistent that he’s playing within the expectations of horror as a genre: “If we were doing high fantasy, I would not have created an encounter this challenging. But we’re in a horror world. I’m looking at the audience, looking at my players, looking at the crew, and going, Here’s how heavy my thumb is. Here it is on the scale, and we’re doing it before the encounter starts, for all to see.” - via polygon

[nomsfaultau]

not that I plan on revisiting 116 East Normal Street, but it would be extremely funny if a hypothetical second chapter from the POV of the residents trying to investigate Techno because he’s so ‘strange’, in the process proving Techno wrong on his assumptions.

-Tommy is a magical girl with a raccoon mascot? No, he sold his soul to a dark god and this is his warlock pact + familiar. He was NOT warned about the dress code. Saving people is a PR stunt to save the dark god’s image (had a recent hex scandal)

-R4N800 isn’t a potential alien robot invader, they just got five night at freddy’s’d. I don’t know how to explain the raygun that makes chickens tho to be fully honest. Potentially used Agony to necromancy some chicken nuggets?

-Tubbo is not a multi armed alien, actually he’s a kid (multiple kids?) in stilts trying to pretend to be an adult so that he can still date R4N800 now that he’s been killed and reanimated as an adult looking robot. Also so he doesn’t have to do homework anymore.

-Michael isn’t an eldritch abomination, Techno just doesn’t know what toddlers are like.

-Squidkid isn’t a were-Kraken, actually when running home to change out of his wet clothes he spawned a Rube Goldberg chain of events that resulted in Cthulhu awaking (who Tommy’s patron is beefing with, hence the magical girl battle). The tattoo monster thing is real tho, they just hate getting wet so Squidkid had to leave before it killed Techno. Might be an immortal pirate trying to learn to be a land lubber.

-Niki is perfect no notes. But the series of coincidences needed for her to live in the neighborhood for YEARS as a detective and not clock anyone else is peak comedy potential.

-Techno thinks that Philza is an immortal who thinks Techno is an immortal. Actually, Philza is a human who thought he realized Techno was immortal and decided to use his history degree to pretend to be immortal too so Techno isn’t lonely. Also he does museum heists to get all that ancient artifacts, he’s an infamous thief and several world governments are after him.