#Dillinger Escape Plan

[artemisiavulgaris1114]

Haven't had a lot of time for personal art lately, but I finally finished Lilith's updated character sheet! I've been slooowly picking away at it since I posted her first character sheet ages ago >_>

See notes below (I promise there is a fanfic-related point to this stupid level of detail):

fig 1. Pre-tadpole. Her hair is naturally pale purple/white, but it becomes stained red with the blood of her victims--a sign of Bhaal's favour. A barn owl skull, which she wears as a sort of pendant, and a bronze spike on the end of her braid which can be used as an improvised weapon. Her pupils reflect pinky-red when she is under the influence of murder, and become more dilated the more she kills, signifying a kind of animalistic blood craze. fig 2. Items she kept on her person pre-tadpole, some of which were recovered from the mind flayer colony, along with most of her old armour. Incense for meditating on the Prayer for Forgiveness whenever she needs to remind herself of her purpose. A small femur from an unknown animal carved into a fountain pen on one end, and a needle sharp shiv on the other. Accompanies a handmade skin and bone-bound journal, the parchment of which is enchanted to hide any ink written on it in Lilith's blood. Only someone with her blood is able to read the hidden ink by spilling a drop of it on to the page. A verdelite ring with the inscription "our freedom", and a sending stone (wonder who has the other? 🤔) fig 3. Weapons and items she normally keeps on hand, including her longbow, Striga. An elixir of viciousness, oil of sharpness and malice. An arrow of arcane interference and an arrow of many targets. She also keeps a bloodstone in a small pouch hidden under her armour at all times. fig 4. Her post-tadpole armour, fashioned by Dammon from the salvaged pieces into something new and sturdier (she's much more vulnerable after losing her status as Chosen). Seen here are also her earrings, the only thing she still has from her childhood. The stone set in them is a type of obsidian called mother's tears. An ornate bronze mortar and pestle, and a little herb pouch with purple datura embroidered on it, gifted to her from Karlach after act 1. It's a little cutesy for her tastes, but Lilith keeps it for sentimental reasons. The threadbare book from the arcane tower, which becomes her new journal.

Feats (Pre-tadpole) These were powers granted to her by Bhaal, lost along with her status as Chosen.

Hot monster chick When channeling the urge, she becomes rabid with bloodlust the more she kills, and her eyes become completely dilated. The slayer form can start to emerge in her, however, it’s only ever partially formed (to her immense self-resentment) so she just gets really big scary eyes/teeth/jaw and talons, massive strength and agility, and the preference to walk on all fours. She also gets weird patchy feathers, and kind of looks like a scrawny undead owlbear--an endless source of torment and entertainment for Orin.

Shadow glimmer This is essentially gaseous form, the deathstalker mantle ability and umbral shroud combined into one feat. A typical pattern of attack would be to take out as many from the darkness as possible with her bow, before charging while invisible and dispatching the remainder with knives, making it look like she's transporting around, as it activates every time she makes a kill and she kills very quickly. It can also be used as an escape maneuver, but is detectable by the naked eye as a thin swirl of shadowy smoke, as well as see invisibility and other similar spells. She can still be physically injured in this state.

And, most importantly...

Theme Song!!!!

[possible-streetwear]

[rastronomicals]

The Dillinger Escape Plan

[walterkov]

Greg Puciato - Lowered (feat. Reba Meyers) @giftober 2023 | Day 18: Romance

[iamtryingtobelieve]

Oh baby gnaw me down to the bone

Soon you'll find I'm never gonna take you back home

Well there's so much you never told me

And there's not much I want to know

'Cause your pretty little face will do just fine

You'll be the star of my very last show

Let's go for a long ride

I'll show you places you won't ever want to leave

[scumgristle]

asshole.

[innovacancy]

Greg Puciato The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA 23 May 2023

If there is a single word that can be used to describe Greg Puciato more than any other, that word would be “range”.  He’s been a core part of no less than four wildly-different bands over the past twenty years, perhaps most famously as vocalist for The Dillinger Escape Plan, and since 2020 he’s released two albums under his own name. The first, Child Soldier: Creator of God, was very much the work of an auteur, with Puciato playing every instrument save for percussion on the album; he followed that in 2022 with Mirrorcell, and now the efforts have culminated in his first tour of all solo material. That go-round recently stopped at The Sinclair in Cambridge, MA for a night that built on the singer’s reputation for intensity, even as he’s created albums undeniably distinct from what he’s made as part of other projects.

Between both of Puciato’s albums, there’s a wide variety in style - Mirrorcell plays its metal influence close to the chest, especially in its guitar parts; Creator of God walks a wider range of paths, and Puciato and his band play liberally from each record throughout the night, with a lean towards the latter.  Another facet of Puciato’s range is that of his actual vocal performance, the credential that lets him travel easily between stylistic choices, be that the cavernous metal salvos of set-opener ‘Reality Spiral’, the close-up restrained menace in something like ‘Evacuation’, or the serrated intensity he summons in ‘Fire for Water’.  His impressive adaptability puts him in a pantheon with names such as Mike Patton, whose music in Faith No More inspired Puciato as a young man, and who collaborated with Dillinger just before Puciato joined the band as a vocalist in the early 2000s.

The entire band onstage is as ferocious as their songs can be, each imbuing their instrumental part with accompanying physicality, and Puciato is no exception, whipping around with his microphone cable trailing in the air and at times lifting its stand up with his left arm whilst signing to the mic in his right hand.  Though his solo efforts thus far don’t skirt into so-called “mathcore” territory, there’s still a wealth of instrumental complexity here, like the particularly impressive drum performance of ‘Fire for Water’ or the deep, churning bass that carries ‘Deep Set’ - which in keeping with its lyrical refrain finds Puciato looking far across the room with characteristic, intense focus behind his eyes. The band showcase some modifications to ‘Evacuation’ that better suit their instrumental lineup, but the distinctly synth-led recorded version is an interesting crossbreed with Puciato’s Black Queen project, striking a figure reminiscent of HEALTH or Carpenter Brut, the latter of whom he collaborated with in 2022. He quips of ‘Lowered’ that the song is hard to sing alone, as he’s joined on the Mirrorcell version by Reba Meyers of Code Orange.

The final run of songs in the band’s set are all drawn from Creator of God, concluding the same way the album does in ‘September City’.  The song morphs significantly throughout, beginning with an airy, almost gentle delivery from Puciato that is cut through by a singular guitar which foreshadows the final explosive movement of the night in the song’s second half.  It’s the perfect microcosm of what makes Puciato’s material so compelling: the fury would be notable in and of itself, but by expanding beyond those confines into a wealth of sonic variation, he makes something truly cosmic in scope. The result: a nascent discography under his own name that is fast expanding into a beacon of creativity in the realm of metal-indebted song.

[christsizedshoes]

I CAN PLAY SUGAR COATED SOUR IN INTRO WHEN I FIRST heard that song i thought "woww... it'll take me YEARS to figure out how to do this AND IT ONLY TOOK 2 AAHAHAHAHAHA GOT YA FUCKERS

[onlyhurtforaminute]

GREG PUCIATO-ALL WAVES TO NOTHING

[possible-streetwear]

[rastronomicals]

The Dillinger Escape Plan

[cardest]

New Jersey playlist

Songs of New Jersey. Jay & Silent Bob will bang to this one!

[spotlight-report]

Live Photos: Greg Puciato at the Crowbar 2024