#How to plan a birthday party

[oceans-beloved]

Meme dump yayyy🥳✨️

(off to make more now muhahaha >:3)

[icewindandboringhorror]

Just curious what the average level of personal investment in these sorts of things is. Like, how much do people usually get into silly stuff like this their friends ask of them? etc. etc. Which I know, only surveying a small sample on a very specific website means I'm not getting an exact average idea lol, but.. curious nonetheless .. Maybe reblog for bigger sample size but also this is not very serious at all/not worth a call to action gbhjbhjb

[maddymoreau]

Listen I completely understand why Amata makes me leave Vault 101 despite the fact I resolved everything peacefully. What I can't understand is the fact I NEVER ONCE BEFORE LEAVING CAN CONFIDE IN MY CHILDHOOD BEST FRIEND ABOUT MY FATHER DYING??!!

If they weren't going to give me the option why give me this quest RIGHT after his death?!?!!!

Amata telling me I can’t stay would’ve hit harder if she knew I had NO family outside the Vault.

What a missed opportunity.

I really am the LONE wanderer no one has my back in this game except Fawkes.

[skinreflectsthesun]

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[quantomeno]

I was thinking about murder mystery parties a while ago and thought wouldn't it be nice to make a Laytonesque version and thus I had the idea for a

Professor Layton Puzzle Party

A cross between a murder mystery game and an escape room, mixing puzzles and detective work.

Everyone gets assigned a character and sit together at a dinner party where some sort of mysterious artefact is going to be on display.

Mysterious events ensue (possibly a murder) and the guests must solve the mystery. Whoever works it out first wins. I've got more complicated rules for how everything functions, but there'll be a villain and a villain-behind-the-villain and their aims are to avoid being detected.

Obviously, it wouldn't be a Professor Layton Puzzle Party without puzzles. Each guest is given a set of puzzles to ask other guests. The guests all have clues/testimonies/information that individually do not add up to much, but can make sense when they find out each other’s clues. To hear these clues, however, a player must solve another player’s puzzle. Some of the clues are red herrings and some are blatant lies. Throughout the house there are also hidden puzzles which offer extra clues, and there are also just general clues lying about. Hint coins are also hidden which can be used to get hints for the puzzles.

The puzzles are a mix of riddles/logic puzzles and actual tasks that involve objects present in the room. Not all of them are explicitly marked as being puzzles, however. For example, a set of books lying on a table could point to there being something hidden in a certain room. Hint coins are also hidden and can be given to guests in exchange for a hint card. These hint cards come with the puzzles. There'll also be a prize given to whoever solves the most puzzles as an added incentive to solve them.

Of course, it also wouldn't be truly Laytonesque without a dramatic finger point scene. At any point in the game, a player can gather the group together and make an ‘and that person is you!’ scene, explaining the mystery as they understand it. If their logic does not hold up (e.g. false accusation or correct accusation but with no proof) then the accused can rebut the argument and the game continues. If the player uses evidence to prove their point and it is correct, then it will be confirmed. These scenes can be performed to unveil any mystery within the game, even minor things. The risk in announcing things too early is that everyone will hear it and any clues used for your reasoning now become public knowledge. Parts of the mystery can be revealed bit by bit, and if a different player realises part of the mystery during the ‘and that person is you’ then, provided the player who initiated the scene has finished or is unable to offer any new explanations, they can follow on and add their own revelations. To avoid people doing them too often, a player must wait five minutes after the end of a scene before starting a new one. It is thus best to wait till you are certain and have a clear idea of the full mystery.

And in case you're wondering, there's no Layton, Luke, Emmy, Flora, Descole etc etc. To make things more interesting and so everyone is equally likely to be the villain, all the characters are original. I've got more or less an idea of the story and the characters (about 10 of them), though the villain might not always be the same person each game (and to make things more malleable, you can remove characters if you have a smaller group etc).

[bloomingsalma]

i think one of the most disappointing things is to see that your childhood friends have grown up to represent the kind of people you're disappointed in

[satans-knitwear]

Are we still celebrating your birthday yet? Did it happen?

it is coming... 😳🫣🫢

help me celebrate??✨ my wishlist ✨ cshpp ✨ pypl ✨

[agenericplaceholdername]

Frak's Merlopian Berry Crème [Ninjago Theory]

Or: How much time passed between the end of Crystalized and the Merge?

Ninjago's timeline is a black box of mystery, and probably always will be. While I (like many fans) have my own timeline, the only canon, concrete details of the Ninjago timeline (during the show's run) are a couple of year gaps between Seasons 7 and 8, and Seasons 14 and 15. Some amount of time passes between the other seasons, and several years pass between the Merge and Dragons Rising Season 1. But how much time passed between the end of Crystalized and the Merge?

We know that the events of The Quest for Lost Powers occurs in this time, the Monastery is rebuilt, the Ninja get new outfits, Jay and Cole briefly fight, and Jay and Nya dance. All of this could take place in several weeks, maybe 2 months or so. However, I argue that a significant amount of time passed, at least a year. My main source of evidence? Frak's Merlopian berry crème pie recipe.

In Seabound, Zane says he has "no mention of the word 'Merlopian' in any of [his] databases," meaning that Frak could not have created his recipe before Seabound. I also find it unlikely that he created it in the immediate aftermath of the Great Flood, since it would seem a little tactless given... everything. Cole informs Kai that Benthomaar returned to rule Merlopia in Farewell the Sea, implying that was a recent development.

Benthomaar could have opened up relations with Ninjago prior to Crystalized, enabling trade and therefore the development of Frak's pie recipe, but it would have to be very close to Crystalized, and I doubt the people of Ninjago would be support such a move. Benthomaar and the Merlopians aid in the fight against the Crystal King's army, so it's more likely that relations were opened after Crystalized as a result of their help.

So Frak creates his recipe and shares it with Arin, maybe right before, but probably after, Crystalized. Arin doesn't say anything about this being one of the last things that Frak did, so they probably remain friends for some time after, until Frak moves away. Another stretch of time passes, significant enough for Arin and Frak to lose touch. Since they were best friends, this has to be more than the several weeks I proposed earlier. Only after that does the Merge happen.

So, given that Frak and Arin were friends at the time of Crystalized and for a period of time thereafter (which we know from the Merlopian Berry Crème), then lose touch before the Merge, a decent amount of time must have passed between Crystalized and the Merge. I'd say probably a bit over a year, but it's up for interpretation.

Feel free to offer contrary interpretations/theories!

[mayprilayunely]

HAGUMI WEEK DAY 7 - FREE DAY (BIRTHDAY) !!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAGUMI KITAZAWA!!!!!!!!!! U R THE MOST SPECIAL CHARACTER TO ME ILY. I DREW UR BIRTHDAY CARD AS TRIBUTE. I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE HOW MUCH I LOVE HAGUMI 🧡

[ratatatastic]

[antigonescholar]

25 is a big birthday i need to do smthing funnnnn

[insanechayne]

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[doberrrman]

birthday tomorrow. regretting making plans to celebrate

[shinylittlewrittings]

DP Promt!

Tw: mentions of death and the consequences of it. Not explicit or detailed, but still.

So it's been a few years, the Anti-Ecto acts have been abolished, the Fenton Parents arrested for all the trouble they've caused and so on so forth. Whatever you want.

Our story starts when team Phantom(Danny, Sam, Tucker and Jazz) take the (trusted)authorities down to the basement to shut down The Portal.

Right before they cut the power Danny stops them. Not to keep the portal open, just to give them a warning that he has his suspicions of what may still be there. Of course he gives no indication of what his suspicions are.

The power is cut and they watch as the tear in reality gives a few pulses before it softly collapses in on itself, pretty anticlimactic.

Then the stench hits them like a freight train. When they can finally look through the tears in their eyes... they see Danny's body.

Danny, didn't survive the accident. He's not a halfa because he's half-dead-half-alive, he's a halfa because he stopped dying right in the middle of forming. He's very much a ghost, he's just too connected and tethered to his body to the place of his death to finish forming. This is how to comes out he's Phantom.

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[theinfinitedivides]

with an axe bitch?????? you fr???????

[confused-spood]

Where else am I gonna rant if not to a group of random strangers that barely know me, right? So ofc I'm gonna rant here cuz these people have no idea who tf I am.

....turns out I have no words to explain how I'm feeling right now so I offer this emoji instead: 😔