#Rain Plays SWTOR

[rainofaugustsith]

This scene was worth it for the 51GB Operation SAVE THE NAMES download. Not really planning on playing again but peeking in on this date night now and again seems like fun. I wrote a story about Lana and Viri playing a sexy game of sabacc a few years before this date night. This totally tracks with that story. :D

[dameronswife]

tfw your cousin makes fun of your special interest of your partner and calls it an obsession (vaguely derogatory) and then Also forgets entirely that you have partners, but you're expected to keep up w all their interests and their bland ass bf....

[inyri]

❛ why does it feel like this is goodbye? ❜ from the sentence starters 👀

 (I’m not sure if we’ll get here in long form- I’d thought so once, but given the current pace of my writing I suspect I’ll bring Equivalent Exchange to a natural close before we reach this point in the story, then continue Nine and Theron’s tale in shorter pieces. It's a bit of a cheat, but that's authorial prerogative for you.

Something lost is found. SWTOR. Nine/Theron.)

*

She sits on the edge of the bed, looking up at Theron as he scuffs nervously at the floor with the toe of his boot. (Stars, she’s missed this bed, missed this whole apartment even if she doesn’t miss the Kaasi rain falling in sheets against the windows or the periodic assassination attempts- but ah, the view from the balcony toward the sea-)

“You look,” she finally says, considering his expression carefully, “like the tooka that ate the bulabird. What exactly did you do while I was off with Acina?”

He turns to make sure the door’s closed before he answers. “Oh, you know. Took a tour of the place. Sliced a few things- databases, mostly. Census data. Population records. The Intelligence database, for about ten seconds.”

“You-” she chokes. The fact that he’s still standing here means he probably got away with it, but- “I thought I told you to behave yourself. If they figure out what you did- I know you’re not keen on parallel work with the Empire, Theron-”

“I didn’t get caught.” He rolls his eyes and rummages in his jacket pocket for his commpad. “I didn’t get caught last time either, for what it’s worth, but I did find what I was looking for.” 

(Last time? That’s- oh, lovely brilliant reckless idiot boy, he’s going to get himself into far more trouble than she can fix one of these years.)

She raises an eyebrow as he holds the commpad out toward her. 

“I found you.”

She gestures up and down along her body. “Of course you did. I’m right here. I know that mess with Lorman looked like a near enough miss, but-”

Theron shakes his head vehemently, pressing it into her hand and curling her fingers closed around it. “No, you don’t understand. I found you- pre-Cipher you. In the archives.”

“Impossible.” Or it ought to have been; after Hunter she’d watched the Minister purge her file with her own eyes and even then there was nothing left of an old life in it, nothing left but a ghost. The Ghost. “Not in the Intelligence database. They burn all that out when we CIpher.”

“Not in the Intelligence database, no.” He crouches down next to her as her heart twists in her chest. It ought to have been impossible. It ought to have been. “But I followed a thread from the personnel records, and then another and then another and then I found this. Imperial Academy prospective cadet interview number 00-828317. Locked subfolder, but-” he shrugs.    

The number doesn’t hurt. They didn’t take that from her, before, but there’s a pressure building behind her eyes- too close to something that they did, then. Far too close. She takes a deep breath. “Did you see it?”

“Only the first few seconds, and not with audio- didn’t want Lana to notice before I could pull it off the network. She looks like you, though.” 

“I suppose she would.” She lets the commpad settle on her lap, looks down at it like it might bite. (It might.) 

After a moment Theron stands. “I should go. You don’t have to decide if you want to watch it now- I shouldn’t have assumed-” 

“No,” she says, reaches up for his hand without looking and her fingers lace through his. “Stay.”

He sits down beside her; she presses play. 

[she is eleven years old.

she is eleven years old and wearing a white blouse and a black skirt and her hair in two neat plaits down her back and she is standing, hands folded, in front of a table where four men and a woman sit in identical uniforms, backs to the camera. 

we’ll begin, says the man second from right. please state your name for the record.

she nods, and opens her mouth. mustn’t smile too much or they’ll think she’s silly, mustn’t pull at her plait or at her shirtsleeves, mustn’t-]

(oh Void oh Void oh Void it HURTS and he holds on to her- should I stop it? I can stop it- and she shakes her head furiously so he just keeps holding on)

[yes, sir, she says. it is important to show respect, father said. my name is N-]

It’s impossible. It’s impossible. 

It’s her name. 

She does stop the recording then, not because she wants to but because she’s going to bleed all over his damned commpad if she doesn’t. Her nose drips down onto her shirt until she pinches it closed and then she turns her head toward Theron as he mutters apology after apology into the top of her head. “I had a feeling,” she murmurs, “that was going to happen.”

“So that’s your name? N-” he almost says it aloud but stops himself, free hand pressed against his mouth. “Stars, I'm sorry. I don’t want to hurt you again.”

“It may get easier with time. We can try more of the video later- I only remember a little bit. I thought it might all come back at once, but-”

Theron nods. “I hope so- that it gets easier, I mean. That it comes back. But your name, it… it suits you.”

“Does it?”

“Yeah.” He kisses her hair, then her forehead, then the tip of her nose beneath her still-pinching fingers. “Though it’s weird- why does this almost feel like a goodbye?”

“To Cipher Nine? No. it's not-” she shakes her head. “It’s- hello, Theron Shan. My name-” she breathes in and the pain lessens and it wouldn’t matter anyway, all the pain in the universe would be worth it to see that look on his face again and again- “is Nyriala.”

[sc-intothedarknightofthesoul]

🤥 LYING 🎂 BIRTHDAY CAKE 🍁 MAPLE LEAF 🙈 SEE-NO-EVIL 📣 MEGAPHONE 🌪️ TORNADO 🌈 RAINBOW from OC emoji ask? For either Kasta or Ezra (or both, if it's not too much)

🤥 LYING - are they good liars? do they have tells to show they're lying?

Kasta: Their lies are a hit or miss. They're honest to a fault at times, blunt even. There are moments where they get away Scot-free with a white lie. Then comes the times they tell their friends they're fine when they're literally dying on the inside. It drives their travel buddies crazy.

Ezra: There's a reason she's an Imperial Agent in my SWTOR playthrough. Considering the bad crowd she's in and who's the ringleader running that whole show, let's just say she's picked up a few tricks. She's a bit short, but she takes advantage of that and her ladylike mannerisms to assume an innocent persona if it means getting herself out of a sticky situation. It doesn't work on Aval Agents, though.

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This is gonna be a long post, so I'll put the rest of the answers under a cut:

🎂 BIRTHDAY CAKE - when is their birthday? do they like celebrating it?

Kasta: Their birthday is April 2nd (same day as Xianghua), but is born in 1562. For a long time, they didn't like to celebrate it because of the first birthday they had after their father passed away, but that eventually changes as they continue on their journey. It also helped that Xianghua, a friend of Maxi and Kilik, also shares a birthday with them, and they sometimes celebrate it together when they can.

Ezra: Her birthday is September 17th, 1560. She has a habit of being so busy with her tasks that she forgets when her day rolls around, but she does appreciate when someone does wish her a happy birthday. She's not a fan of the parties, tho.

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🍁 MAPLE LEAF - what is their favourite season? why?

Kasta: Spring. It's not too hot, and it's not too cold either. Plus it rains a lot during this time.

Ezra: Autumn. She a lot of the things associated with it, the nice hot chocolate, the colourful leaves falling from the trees, etc. Her better memories happened around this season.

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🙈 SEE-NO-EVIL - whats a side of your OC that they don't want to show other people?

Kasta: For the most part, they are a chill person that can easily forgive others for their wrong doings (but they have limits) and people tend to open up to them about their problems or secrets as a result. However, they also have an anxiety problem, which can manifest itself as emotional outbursts of deep seated anger that was built up over time. It's a part of them that they are ashamed of having cos they know that in the end, not only will it not solve their problems anyway, they can't solve every problem.

Ezra: A lot I have in mind for Ezra will be explored further, but for what I shared in the story now is that she prides herself on being a practical thinker, someone who is always checking to see if her head is screwed on at all times. She's also an imaginative thinker too, a mind that has the urge to create and escape to, a mind usually found in fantasy novelists, artists, and musicians, a mind she often brushed aside as childish as there was no room for that in her line of work.

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📣 MEGAPHONE - how loud are they? what do they speak like? got a voice claim?

Funny story, I picked the Taciturn Cynic for Kasta on accident when I played Libra of Soul for the first time. How? A habit I've sort of abandoned a long time ago is that I would turn down my game's volume so I could listen to my music (I can't live without music blaring in my ears 24/7).

Kasta: I'm kinda already satisfied with the voice I already gave them in Create a Soul (Taciturn Cynic), but if I had to pick a voice for Kasta outside of Soul Calibur, it'd sound similar to Jade from Beyond Good and Evil (R.I.P Jodi Forrest, her voice actress):

Ezra: Her voice I'm not completely satisfied with in Soul Calibur cos she actually shares it with Natalie, but if I could pick a voice outside of the game, it would probably sound similar to Beatrice from Over the Garden Wall:

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🌪️ TORNADO - what is the biggest change you've ever made to them? how have they changed from their original version?

Kasta: Oh, the many stories I've told about Kasta's little phoenix moments. First, they were a character I made in TERA Online, then they became a vampire OC based on the vampires from the Legacy of Kain games, then an online persona set in the modern era, and now they are a Soul Calibur OC. The only thing that did not change about them are the moon-shaped horns and their red hair. As for them being a Soul Calibur OC tho, I think I should refer you all to this post of every design change I've made before sticking to the one I've made recently:

Ezra: Compared to Kasta, not much has really changed about Ezra, except her skin got tanner and she became more well-endowed compared to the first time I drew her:

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🌈 RAINBOW - what advice would they give to their younger self?

Kasta: "You can't save everyone you love. What matters is that you honour them by living in the now."

Ezra: "Just because someone seems friendly and claim they will give you the moon, doesn't always mean well. Show them their true colours by showing them something they like and then tell them no."

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Thank you so much for the ask! I love going into details about these two as far as I'm able, there's so much more I wanna tell but I don't wanna spoil my fanfic like a dummy.

Ask list is here:

and have a wonderful day or night!

[sullustangin]

Fluffy February Day 26: Rain

SWTOR

Time: KotFE, early days

Words: 697

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“Uh… Theron?”

Theron pulled himself out of the mainframe deep dive he’d been doing on the data collected from Asylum.  It was well outside of ‘business hours’ for most planets, but Odessen, as the home base of a revolution, didn’t play by rules very much. 

That, and its ops manager was a complete workaholic, who was only kept in check by the Captain.  Her methods of doing that…

…brought a smile to Theron’s face.  He couldn’t think much further on the subject in front of others. 

Koth was giving a hard look at the security holos that monitored the exterior of Odessen.  “Virtue’s Thief’s pad cam just activated.  Motion.”

“It’s supposed to rain,” he replied, turning back to his work.

“It’s her,” Koth insisted.

Theron cast a look up at the ceiling.  “She’s been threatening to fly off and give the Thief a test drive – can’t go far in her present condition, but it might settle her ---”

“Doesn’t look like she plans on going anywhere.” 

There was a note of …something that made Theron turn to Koth.  “And?  She goes out to check the ship at night.  Sometimes.”  Yes, he was defensive of her. 

Koth made a face, concerned and distinctly uncomfortable, and he continued to look at the security holos.   “She’s wearing her pajamas.”  A beat.  “She might be having one of her… things.”  Koth made a wobbly hand motion, as if to convey ‘off-balance’.

Theron’s temper flared for a split second, but then he recalled Koth had seen her at her absolute worst. 

Koth rushed onward.  “Listen, last thing we need is her down with pneumonia or a cold or even just some of the enlisted trying to get a peep show through her viewports and end up seeing her… not all there.” 

“She’s got a privacy filter up on the ports,” Theron reassured him as he gathered his things to go.

“But Lana doesn’t need to know.”  Both men said that in unison, and Theron departed the war room.

Lana carried enough guilt about Eva’s condition, as it was.  Each sequela ate at her.  She never complained, but Koth and Theron – for different reasons – knew it.

~~

Please let her be here.  Please let her be here.

Theron didn’t know what sort of memories they’d stumble across if she wasn’t.  As worried as he was, as she came into view, his footsteps faltered in the moonlight that peered between the clouds.  It was the night-time equivalent of a sun shower

Eva was standing there, perfectly still, looking up.  Occasionally, the eyes would close in slow, deliberate blinks.  Involuntary shivers went through her; it was barely warm during the day, and night was heading toward frost.  The moonlight and shadows played across her face.  She seemed utterly at peace.

“Eva?”

She looked at him.

The peace did not leave.  The eyes were bright and –

Ok, she was here.  Right here.

“…you do know it’s raining, right?”

Eva nodded vigorously. Then she returned her gaze upward just as the moon wrestled itself out from behind a cloud, and its light gave her an unearthly glow.  “First time since Yavin.”

Theron startled and shook his head.  “Eva, it –”

“Spacer,” she interrupted him, her focus not compromised in the least.  “It might have rained on Coruscant and a whole bunch of other places, but I haven’t been on planet for a rainstorm since –”

“Yavin.”  He said the word softly.

Prior to landing here, on Odesssen, and finally – finally! – falling in together, it had been the last place they’d been together and happy.  It was the last place Eva felt rain.

“And now that you’re here…” Eva bandied the idea about, prompting his memory about what they had done, often, in the rain on Yavin.

Well, might as well make it two for two. 

~~

Koth kept an eye on the security holo.  He saw the brief conversation.  He saw Theron step in, and –

Well, if he was kissing her like that, there was some sort of sane explanation.

Koth turned off the security holo and purged the last half hour of footage.  Let it never be said Koth Vortena was not a good wingman.

~~

@fluffyfebruary

[talesfantastic]

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU

Late to the party, but a reminder that I write Star Wars muses - in the Old Republic Era, with additional later-on verses for movies and shows. I'm redoing bios but right now I have KOTOR's Revan and HK-47 written up.

I have most of SWTOR's Theran Cedrax written up (a companion to the Jedi Consular) and will be adding his constant companion, Holiday.

Additionally, I'll be adding an old SWTOR muse, Seran-vin Kast, an Iridonian Zabrak bounty hunter who is very much anti-Sith, but also has an understandable beef with the Republic.

Under consideration are my Jedi Consular, Liana Raine Carmine as well as her cousin, Sith Inquisitor, Sarre-ha Carmine Kallig. Side eyeing KOTOR's Carth Onasi and Canderous Ordo, too... but that's further down the line. Sort of hoping I'll find those two out in the wilds of Tumblr's SWRPC.

TL;DR I love Star Wars and everyone should play Knights of the Old Republic, The Sith Lords, and Star Wars: The Old Republic asap.

[serenofroses]

🖊+ Revan

I've been meaning to answer this ask but I keep forgetting about it, oops.

Anyways! I retconned a couple of things regarding my Revan and I'll share my random notes about her.

Her name is Sonam Nevrakis.

She's a Sith Pureblood transwoman.

She identified as a lesbian and had slept with other women because she has no shame.

She is one of the two main protagonists alongside with Yuthura in both kotor 1 and 2.

She's romantically involved with Yuthura. They met when Yuthura, who goes by Elysia Daru and a Jedi Knight, went into undercover at the Sith Academy to get closer to Revan but the two got way more involved together that sparked the Force Bond. Revan knew who she was and played along much to Yuthura's surprise.

She is the biological mother to Kritanta and Eleni who are apart of my swtor casts. She is also the grandmother to Ania and Jazz.

in the beginning of kotor, she didn't start off as a tech class. instead for her amnesia, she's a fully fledged Jedi Knight. This was a nod to the 'play as a Jedi' mod I used to play.

despite the amnesia, she still remembers her first born son who was a young child at the time. not to mention the romantic feelings for Yuthura still lingers within.

She doesn't like rain. They always ruin her hair

lastly as she is one of the two protagonists for kotor 2 with Yuthura, Revan didn't fuck off from. the galaxy and stayed to be with lover and her two children. After her death, her legacy continued on through Kritanta, Ania and Jazz.

[demongoddessallurasiren]

My 7 personas.

The first time I had a persona was probably back in early 2010's. It started out as an alias but then I started to build this persona up in my head, what she likes, what she listens too, what she eats, how she acts. This first persona is called Aira Sterling.

Aira is really into grunge clothing and grunge/alternative rock type music. She's pretty much a tomboy, 'one of the boys' types.

The second persona is Taylor Monroe, this one got created during an ex I was dating, it started our as cosplay OC I was doing with my ex but after we split, I was considering letting the OC go but it still felt strong there.

Taylor is enby, they love to dress in soft goth/pastel goth clothing and love techno/dance music, and all things faerie related. (I came out as bi-sexual but hadn't realized that I was non binary)

The third Persona is Allura Siren, she came about after I met my boyfriend who later became my husband.

I originally came up with the name Allura when I was playing swtor.

I then kept playing with the idea that Allura is a Succubus Siren who lives to empower other women and themselves by reclaiming their Sexuality. (I had a strict father and I wasn't allowed to date till 16 nor wear makeup or dress 'provocatively' so I think Allura was created so I can take all of that back)

My 4th persona started out as a joke, my husband made. Usually when I sneeze, I would do do 2 or 3 times in a row but one day I sneezed only once and my husband joked that it was a new identity. I joked and said. Yea her name is Morrigan and she's a dark witch to come for your soul!

The 1 sneeze started to happen more frequently and sooner than latter Morrigan was created. She doesn't have a last name because she was based off a single sneeze so I thought it fitted. Morrigan is the dark part of me. The part that gets made at the world and wants to see it burn. She likes dark witchy music.

The 5th persona is Lilith Pendragon (Howls moving castle fanatic here) Lilith is my sad, depressed self, she got created when I started to have more and more anxiety. Usually when I feel like total shit about myself. She dresses in hipster boho sad girl clothing & stays indoors and enjoys rain and storms.

6th one is Luna Bloodmoon. She's a werewolf (cuz I fucking love all things werewolves, yes I want a bad dragon werewolf toy lmao) Luna is full of love for everyone. She just wants to have a gazillion of friends and cuddle and be loved in return. I imagine her wearing soft girl clothing, losts of whites, pinks & baby blues. This is when I discovered that I'm actually pansexual & became a big advocate for my queer friends & family

Last one is Brea, they are non binary as well and more male presenting in clothing. They love rap like post Malone and Ashnikko. They have short dark blue Hair, that's shaved on one side. This is a newish persona. So I'm still trying to figure them out as a whole...but I do now know that I'm non binary fem presenting queer, so that's awesome!

So anyway thanks for reading my weirdness. These personas are a part of me and its a way for me to explore myself I guess...I'm honestly not sure entirely, I just feel these different personas in me and I think I use them to work stuff out, who knows. Thanks!

[rainplaysswtor]

SWTOR: New Player Combat/Survival Tips

If you're familiar with SWTOR, these are things you probably know backward and forward. Think back, though: when you first downloaded and started playing, were they all so obvious - particularly if you didn't play similar games/MMOs before? Here are ten things I wish I'd known when I started playing SWTOR. If you're a newbie, hopefully they will help you too. 1. Take a picture of your abilities bar. 

There are several bugs in various areas that will inadvertently unlock your abilities bar, sending your carefully arranged abilities scattering in all directions. You may accidentally unlock the bar yourself, or forget to lock it again after adjusting something. 

Take a photo of your characters' abilty bars. Use the screenshot function in the game. Use CTRL+Print Screen on a PC. Take a photo of the screen with your phone. Whatever works. That way, if a character's abilities go floating, you will have a reference guide to put everything back in its proper place. 

2. Kill the healers first. 

In a lot of fights, there will be medics or other NPCs who heal their colleagues as you're fighting. Needless to say this can complicate your fights. 

Sometimes the medics really will have nameplates that say 'medic.' Other times they won't. You have to learn to pick them out of the crowd. They usually hang toward the back of the mob, as opposed to the other NPCs who will charge at you. They are also often weaker and don't have gold or silver tags. You may spot them fiddling with a scanner device in their hand or casting Force healing toward whoever you're fighting. Look at what your own healer companions do, and learn to recognize it - and then take out the healers first. 

3. Learn what your interrupts are. 

Every character is given at least one 'interrupt.' This is an ability that, as the name would suggest, can interrupt a cast or an action being taken by an enemy NPC. If you use this skill, you stop the enemy from doing whatever it is trying to do to you. 

How do you find out what your interrupt skill is? Click P. Now click on the first entry, and scroll down the list to browse your abilities. Click the second and do the same. If you mouse over each ability, you will get a text box that tells you what they do. 

Every class and advanced class has their own interrupt(s), and the icons often have different meanings with different classes - so do read the descriptions.

Once you have found your interrupt, make sure it's on your ability bar. How? Unlock your ability bar with the small padlock on the left. Put your cursor over the skill you want (you can only do this with abilities that are NOT marked as "passive"). Put the skill on the ability bar. Lock it by clicking the padlock again. 

I tend to keep my interrupts and stun breakers on the far right side of the bar so I always know where they are immediately. 

4. Learn what your stun breakers/cleanses are. 

Every character also has at least one 'stun breaker.' This is an ability that will break a hold that an enemy NPC has on you or cleanse a negative effect they've given you. you want to know what this is and have it on your abilities bar ready to go. 

How do you find your stun breaker (s)? See above. 

5. Learn what your stuns are. 

As the name would suggest, these are skills that momentarily stun or incapacitate an enemy so they stop fighting you. If you're having trouble in a fight, stunning them for a second can help you take a breather. 

Find them and put them on your ability bar by following the instructions above. 

6. Know if your character has heals, and what they are. 

Some advanced classes, notably Marauders, really don't have any good ways to heal themselves in battle. Others, like Sage and Mercenaries, have a lot of heals for themselves and others. Find them. Add them to your abilities bar. 

For the characters that have a lot of heals, like Sorcerers, Scoundrels and Operatives, I find that it helps to keep them all in one place - in my case, on the left hand abilities side bar. 

7. Use your Heroic Moment. 

Heroic Moment is a special set of abilities you can call upon. You can get eight of them in total. They are awarded when you finish each class story for the first time. They include an orbital strike, a kick, Force lightning, and more. You will also be slowly healed for the entire two minutes the Heroic Moment is active. The abilities will appear in a special bar above your regular abilities bar - use them as you will. 

If you're having trouble in a fight or fighting a boss, do not feel shy about calling on your Heroic Moment. You can only use it once every five minutes. If you have a boss fight coming up, don't feel bad about hanging back for a moment to let it cool down. 

8. Repair your gear whenever you can. 

Your weapons and other gear get damaged as you fight. As it wears down, it's less effective at both offense and defense, and your fights will become more difficult and longer. Repair it whenever you can. You will know if you need to repair your gear if the "repair all" button is lit up when you are interacting with a vendor. Invest in the Legacy repair perks, which allow you to summon a field repair droid. Buy the Legacy perk which places a repair droid on your ship. As you are out and about, remember just about any vendor can repair your gear, not just the ones marked as medical droids.

8. Make friends with at least one companion. 

Your companions can be set to heal, tank or go on the offense (damage). The higher your influence is, the more effective they will be at any role. IMHO it's really worth it to work on getting at least one favored companion to influence level 50. Or as high as you can. 

You can raise your companions' influence by giving them gifts they like, getting approval (or even disapproval) from them in conversations and cut scene choices, and sending them on crew skills missions. There are two Legacy perks - Legacy of Altruism and Legacy of Persuasion - that will raise the amount of influence you get from conversations and gifts. IMHO they are worth buying. 

8. a. Use Presence stims

Let's say you have a required companion for some content - something that annoyingly happens more and more. Let's say your influence with that companion is low. Buy a Command/Presence stim from the nearest medical droid. They're usually pink. These stims raise your presence level so your companion(s) will temporarily be more effective. 

9. Get some datacrons

Datacrons are little magical cubes that you can find here and there on SWTOR's many planets, moons, and even the Fleets. Each datacron will permanently bump up your Mastery, Endurance or Presence stats slightly for all your characters and give you some XP and a lore entry, and those things are always helpful.

If you've read the guides for the datacrons you might be intimidated. It's true that some of them are so hard to get that you may spend hours trying. When I started playing SWTOR I didn't even try to get the datacrons because I was intimidated.

However, some of them are so easy to get that you literally just walk up to them. No jumping, no grouping up, no fancy tricks. Thus even if you do not have the desire to go on an ambitious datacron hunt, do try to get the ones that you can stroll over to or access easily.

10. Change your camera angle. 

If you look at videos of SWTOR gameplay you will notice that people play from a variety of angles. Some are close to their characters, some are not. Different fights and area of the game may call for different angles. Play around and figure out what works best for you. Sometimes the right camera angle can help you see something that's making a fight tough and show you how to resolve it. 

[rainofaugustsith]

Toss up between soloing the Dread Seeds quests on both factions and soloing the Fleet datacrons.

Everyone in the swtor community what was the most difficult but rewarding challenge in the game? I’ll go first. 

My toughest and rewarding challenge was beating all the Exarchs, twice.

[swtorpadawan]

Why I Can’t Play A Dark-Side Jedi In SWTOR

Let me start off by saying I totally respect the right of any player to play their SWTOR character however they like.

You want to declare Skadge your favorite companion? Knock yourself out. You want to kill [X] ? That is your choice.

Having said all that… there’s a reason I can’t play a Dark-Sided Jedi. Either Knight or Consular.

I can play a dark-sided Smuggler. I can play a … mostly neutral-ish Trooper. I can play a light-Sith Warriors, Sith Inquisitors, Imperial Agents and Bounty Hunters… and I’ve enjoyed most of all that.

But I simply can’t do that kind of ‘switch’ with the Jedi OCs.

“Is it because you’re a Jedi Apologist Fanboy, SWTORpadawan???”

… No. 😠

Its because of their companions, and what their companions need from them.

Felix Iresso is dealing with legitimate psychological and professional trauma. His brief time as an Imperial prisoner and his memory loss have ruined his career. Is it technically possible to be kind and appreciative of him as a dark side Consular? Yes. Is it realistic? Probably not. A DS JC should be drooling to make use of the Holocron in Felix’s head.

Felix deserves better than that.

Kira Carsen has had a rough life. She was a child on Korriban, and that was rough. The Sith Emperor extended his consciousness into her mind, and that was rough. She fled the planet – something only two acolytes on record have accomplished – and that was rough. Then she spent her teenage years growing up on Nar Shaddaa, where she was constantly surrounded by criminals. That was really rough.

Bela Kiwiiks has been good for her. Kira says as much and shows it in her actions as well. But Kiwiiks is also fairly orthodox, and someone like Kira can find that suffocating. Nevertheless, for most of the game, her moral code is pretty damn close to ideal.

Kira will pick up pretty quick on a dark-side Jedi Knight. She’s not afraid to call them out, even if the DS JK isn’t inherently unkind to her.

She doesn’t deserve to deal with a dark-side Knight who will compromise her own ethics.

At the time Nadia Grell becomes an actual companion, she is reeling from the death of her father.

That state of mind – in a Padawan – requires an abundance of compassion and patience.

Most Dark-Siders are not known for those qualities.

Nadia needs better.

T7-O1 is best boy. He is the most precious little paragon in the game. Don’t rain on him.

🥺

That’s why I can’t quite bring myself to play a Dark-Side Jedi in SWTOR.

[rainofaugustsith]

So while FFXIV is on, the only thing I will log into SWTOR for: repeating the date night with Lana. Which apparently comes with a most adorable title if you run the mission enough times. And she sends different letters depending if you played for fun or went for it.

Cut scene with Viri playing for fun. Love the callback to the SoR cantina moment, but with Lana as the confident one.

[a-master-procrastinator]

Song challenge

Tagged by @raven-of-domain-kwaad and @inventedbyawriter, thank you :)

RULES: Make a new post and spell out your URL with song titles then tag as many people as there are letters in your URL.

I'm super weird when it comes to music (most of the songs I have are popular or super basic, I have more appreciation for soundtracks and classical), but let's see if I have enough to spell my url.

(while I was scrolling through songs I asked myself why my url doesn't have any W or B bc I have several cool songs with W and B)

Not tagging this time (again) bc I can't think of 21 people to tag (also bc I'm tired. 2 am is perfect time to post on tumblr you see), sorry.

A - Another One Bites The Dust (Queen)

M - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Fall Out Boy)

A - Africa (Toto)

S - Sonne (Rammstein)

T - Take Me To Church (Hozier)

E - Everybody's Fool (Evanescence) (even though it was used by the one who tagged me)

R - Rain (Grandson ft. Jessie Reyez)

P - Play The Game (Queen)

R - Rebirthing (Skilet)

O - Out of Hell (Skillet)

C - Carry On My Wayward Son (Kansas) (no, not just bc of Supernatural, it's a very nice song)

R - Rolling In The Deep (Adele)

A - Awake and Alive (Skillet)

S - Shots (Imagine Dragons)

T - The World Is Not Enough (Garbage)

I - In The Shadows (The Rasmus)

N - New Divide (Linkin Park)

A - Anchor (Skillet)

T - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Sly and the Family Stone)

O - Oh No!!! (Grandson) (technically it's not on my playlist, but I ran out of songs starting with O, and this one I've at least listened to a couple of times)

R - Radioactive (Imagine Dragons)

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I also couldn't resist the temptation to spell url with other tracks, so I put all tracks from my player (aside from songs) in random order and got this:

A - Aliit Ory'shia Tal'din (Ludwig Göransson, Joseph Shirley, from Book of Boba Fett)

M - Masquerade Suite: Waltz (Aram Khachaturian) (oh, probably my favorite waltz so far)

A - A Thousand Tears (Ludwig Göransson, from The Mandalorian)

S - String Quartet no. 8 in C minor Op.110 (Dmitri Shostakovich)

T - That Slippery Little Hutt Of Mine (Jared Emerson-Johnson, from SWTOR)

E - Empire Arrival (Natalie Holt, from Obi-Wan Kenobi series)

R - Ratism (John Murphy, from The Suicide Squad)

P - Project Star Dust (Michael Giacchino, from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)

R - Race You to the Surface (Kevin Kiner, from The Clone Wars)

O - Opening Title (David Arnold, from Good Omens)

C - Concerto for Violin, Strings and Harpsichord in E minor RV 278 - I. Allegro molto (Antonio Vivaldi)

R - Rey's Theme (John Williams, from Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens)

A - Alderaan, the Throne (Lennie Moore, from SWTOR)

S - (The) Shepherd's Boy (Murray Gold, from Doctor Who)

T - Testing Allegiance (John Powell, from Solo: A Star Wars Story)

I - Iziz Cantina (Mark Griskey, from KOTOR 2: The Sith Lords)

N - Night on Bald Mountain (Modest Mussorgsky)

A - A Window to the Past (John Williams, from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

T - Twin Moons (Kevin Kiner, from Star Wars: Rebels)

O - Obi-Wan (John Williams, from Obi-Wan Kenobi series)

R - (The) Rueful Fate of Donna Noble (Murray Gold, from Doctor Who)

[likesugarintotea]

WIP Ask Meme

--tagged by @sullustangin

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send  you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips. (You can make your own post or reblog this   one!) This isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? DnD campaigns? If you have an unfinished project, it counts!! 

Y'all do not want my entire catalogue of WIPs, I promise. It took me 15 minutes to just read the titles aloud to my wife, and only 1 or 2 of those was taken up by maniacal laughter at the middle school era fanfic I still have saved. And I didn't include my DnD or RP folders.

However, I will give you SWTOR because that's what this blog is for, and also some of my originals because if you can't shamelessly self-promote on tumblr, where can you?

I am also going to add a cut because this is a long fucking list.

No pressure tagging @sithwarblade @walk-ng-d-saster @lovelyladyl @davidoodles @grandninjamasterren @storyknitter and anybody else who wants to play. I cannot possibly tag as many people as I have WIP even if I go with my short list.

SWTOR (not in alphabetical order because I have lots of subfolders in the SWTOR folder and I cannot be assed to alphabetize them after typing them out)

-Chasing the Sun

-Disavowed Rewrite

-Coruscant

-Kattori Backstory

-Planet Timeline

-Piratical Passions

-Bad things come in threes

-Datacron Party

-Regency AU

-Date

-Date 2

-Do you have a date

-It was too quiet onboard the ship

-Prelude to Destiny

-Rishii

-Safi-Theron

-Safiya Adraiel had never been unsure a day in her life

-After wedding

-Theron was already settled into a corner booth

-In the early days of the Alliance

-jacket earbuds now

-safi theron ily

-Sweetheart Hill

-Sweetheart Hill v2

-Sweetheart Hill v3

-Theron Says ch 1

-Theron Says ch 2

-Balmorra

-Chocolate

-Coruscanttrooper

-Coruscantword

-Gauntlet

-Hoth troop

-Medcenter

-Names

-Ord Mantell

-Phila pieces

-Phila timeline

-Phila

-Post Hoth pre Gauntlet

-Quesh

-Quesh 2

-The Gift

-Thoughts

-Trooper

-The force

-The sky was black

Originals (same not in alphabetical order warning applies, as well as this is only original stuff that I remember what it's about because honestly I have no idea what 3/4 of this stuff is)

-Poppies

-Mines

-Maddie

-Alleleiruh retelling

-Calandra

-Dragon Rain 1

-asdf

-There are fairies in my fireplace

-Kaele Rowan's Lies

-The Cadelan Wars

-The Godborn

-Everyone knew that linda was crazy

-Linda's Lament

-Panacea

-I look dreadful in white

-Reia

-Daire Royal Family Tree

-The Savage Prince

-The tower was unbearably hot

-Cold Moon

-doorway

[badsithnocookie]

arcann

Playing ff14 and realizing many restrictions in swtor are ridiculous. We don't even have rain

not even a day night cycle. not that xiv doesn’t have its own issues (my glam closet is full up </3 yoshi p give a wow/gw2 style wardrobe plx) but. even teso, which uses (a newer version of) the same engine as swtor, has a fuckin day night cycle.

[tearlessrain]

I posted 11,900 times in 2021

964 posts created (8%)

10936 posts reblogged (92%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 11.3 posts.

I added 403 tags in 2021

#horseblogging - 94 posts

#tearless vs swtor - 80 posts

#long post - 67 posts

#reference - 36 posts

#khatte - 36 posts

#polycult of the kraken - 25 posts

#elves behaving badly - 20 posts

#ask meme - 19 posts

#jial-ro - 14 posts

#holy shit - 12 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#look i’m sure valdrynn ‘walking electrical storm with a laser sword’ kallig could pull off stealth and infiltration if he absolutely had to

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

granted it would be better if this wasn’t an issue in the first place but it’s still one of my favorite things when the directors/writers of a show/movie are super cagey about a character the fans broadly interpret as gay-coded, and then the actor gets an interview and he’s like “oh yeah I decided to play him as profoundly homosexual. that was on purpose. as far as I’m concerned he thinks of nothing but cock. and also his copilot, whose actor I’ve been in cahoots with about this since episode one. they are both so incredibly gay and you can quote me on this.”

922 notes • Posted 2021-11-28 02:45:44 GMT

#4

Which wolf clipart?

this fucker:

I call it Lumpy Kiba and I’ve seen it used for car decals, stickers, clipart, traced with varying degrees of obviousness by artists of all skill/experience levels, I’m pretty sure I saw it in some small local company’s logo once.

here’s the original still from Wolf’s Rain (which is not a lot less weird-looking, but it looks fine in a stylized anime where it’s supposed to be), which I saw early in high school and ever since have had to live with apparently being the only one who knows that all these people just fucking traced an anime wolf.

See the full post

1148 notes • Posted 2021-04-15 23:55:38 GMT

#3

I’m sorry but this is the funniest possible content warning for a star trek episode

10944 notes • Posted 2021-04-13 00:57:24 GMT

#2

I miss when computers and websites were just wildly customizable in ridiculous ways. when I was a kid I was messing around and randomly found a little running horse cursor that was just there for some reason and changed the hourglass to that. and then got yelled at by my dad because he assumed I’d downloaded it off the internet but yknow.

nobody does shit like that anymore. I can’t just put “the 5th moon of jupiter” as my facebook location anymore because they decided to be killjoys so they could stalk people better and windows won’t let you customize your whole interface in stupid ways and they treat their user base like idiots.

like not to be a salty old man but there’s no joy in it anymore I’m just resigned that even if I customize shit I’ll still be forced to install the next mandatory update that will put it all back to its pristine bullshit original state and also break my system volume control for some reason.

41253 notes • Posted 2021-07-19 04:32:26 GMT

#1

a garbage man ran out of the bushes in front of my car, which is fine because I’m used to deer on that road and was already driving carefully, but I’m so used to deer that instead of like, watching the truck to see if he was crossing again I watched the bushes he’d come from in case there were like. 1-2 smaller, frailer garbage men following him I guess.

46516 notes • Posted 2021-08-16 18:21:46 GMT

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