#SWL

[evans-endeavors]

NECROSE

(he/him/they/them)

Ex-Orochi scientist who became filth infected. Lillywhite has managed to maintain some lucidity as he fights to free the Dreamers. But even as he works for them he destroys and assimilates their pawns.

Perhaps he's trying to usurp them by stealing strength from those he devours.

[rintheyordle]

Yahoo, she's finally done! Hope you enjoy! Here's Kezia on a Custodian's shoulder just hanging out after working on it. :) Custodian bestie. Been having so much fun in SWL, and I love my OC Kezia and she works SO well in the game too soooooo... this had to happen. Now to contemplate if I make a motion graphic to it....

[lanternowl]

My design for the main boss of my TSW ttrpg session

Mnemosyne, the Memorial Mother, Gaia's Memory Partition. The Corrupted RAM.

[swldx]

Geophysical Alert Message wwv

:Issued: 2024 Sep 17 0905 UTC

# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center

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# Geophysical Alert Message

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Solar-terrestrial indices for 16 September follow.

Solar flux 170 and estimated planetary A-index 23.

The estimated planetary K-index at 0900 UTC on 17 September was 5.33.

Space weather for the past 24 hours has been severe.

Geomagnetic storms reaching the G4 level occurred.

Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be strong.

Geomagnetic storms reaching the G3 level are expected.

Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are likely.

[mel-addams]

“I’m Devinder Crousley, and this–is Delving Into Darkness.”

“Or, at least, into a lovely twilight, soon to be dark. I’ve come to Egypt to visit a couple old Oxford mates, and happened upon some rather curious rumors circulating amongst the locals. As I understand, not far outside the town is an area referred to as “Serket’s Domain,” where one might be able to find some scorpions of unusual size. But not just any supernaturally oversized arthropodic cryptids! These are, so I’ve heard, potentially descended from those in the tale Isis and the Seven Scorpions. And–oh, what luck!”

"A spectacular specimen, indeed! Its claws alone appear to be over 20 centimetres, the typical length of the entire body of a Pandinus imperator–or, emperor scorpion–one of the largest mundane scorpion species. And while standard scorpion chitin will fluoresce under UV light, this one appears to have unique striations, glowing even without the use of my blacklight–in multiple, atypical colors, akin to a railroad worm’s bioluminescence! Fascinating… Primarily prominent are fiery orange markings, located on both the stinger and cephalothorax, presenting as a large dorsal spot with eight to ten radial lines–almost like a sun with rays. Perhaps these markings might be used amongst others of the species as a form of signaling, possibly for general communication or mating purposes? However, an additional green spot just above its two front-facing eyes is relatively quite small. While it appears to me not unlike an illustrated "third eye" of sorts in combination with the surrounding orange markings, it’s possible the green mark acts as a form of lure for prey–bugger."

“It would appear Isis’ seven scorpions–or rather their descendants–are as formidable as you’d expect from the legend! I had assumed the initial specimen was an adult, but I now believe it more likely a juvenile, as many others have arrived that seem to be, um–they’re a few metres long! I shall endeavor to report further observations and provide more accurate measurements once I’m at a safer distance, but for now, it’s time to go! Until next time, dev-iners!”

(I had an idea to have seven scorpions chase me for a SWL anniversary contest, but it evolved into a short Redfall-flavored cryptid-hunting pseudo-eposide!)

[paint-lady]

The Untethered

Some more swl inspired art and a lil teaser for my players <3

[mjrkime]

The Secret World

It really baffles me that this game isn’t on many people’s radars. The unique feeling of magic realism mixing in with sci-fi it gives literally has no match. Funcom has always been PERFECT with this kind of stuff ever since The Longest Journey and what they’ve done with this MMO is incredible.

My god, EVERY major quest has a cutscene, every single landscape is a damn masterpiece and the world is drowning in small details. Yeah, it is an MMORPG, it has interface, standard MMO quests, but it oozes with character. Oh, and references. Stephen King, Lovecraft, etc. GALORE. And the music! The atmosphere in this game is incredible! 

More screenshots below

[sabusthings]

I’ve been writing up some stuff for a potential Secret World Legends game since the Kickstarter I had backed last year for the TTRPG version of it released its raw text book, and because it’s all I can think about, I drew art of the 3 handlers potential players could interact with lol

Simon, Illuminati/Blue faction handler, my olde OC when i still played the MMO, and his pet bug dog Rubi. A lazy kinda guy but when the going gets tough, he sticks around to see what happens!

Fran, Templar/red handler, has been around for A While, a Very Long While. They know what's up and can probably deal with it, but their fuse is so smol and punching is so much easier to solve things

and Hannah, Dragon/Green handler, she is the worst thing you can inflict on a brand new agent of the Secret world; a teenager with a superiority complex.

[is-a-vampire]

Hasdatean's rockstar world tour, featuring his vampire rock band, In Cold Blood

I'm the only person in the world who loves this man but i love him enough to make up for it

lyrics credit to @yves-and-scessernee (i asked for specifically silly ones)

[toxinfox]

You know something's a problem when the Illuminati, Templars, and Dragon work together to deal with it. And yet, this unlikely scenario is exactly what's happening as Tristan d'Eagan (Illuminati), Alexandra Bishop (Templar), and Carlos Hernandez (Dragon) find themselves driving down a dark desert highway and pulling up to an infamous hotel...

Daunting as the prospect of dealing with the spectral glue trap that is the Hotel California is, however, Carlos packed a secret weapon.

(A short Secret World Legends comic that I've been meaning to do for a while, finally made real as a bit of gift art for @paint-lady , with a hefty cameo from her character, Maru. Done in Photoshop.)

[0crooked-arcade0]

{{Like, all of five people are going to know, let alone take intrest in what I'm gonna say but hear me out.

Does anybody here remember or still actively play, Secret World Legends? The Fandom on here is kinda small, but I've been thinking about the tie in game 'The Park' that got played by a bunch of people on YouTube and shit. It was supposed to be a precursor to the update patch for the game that made tweaks to the Atlantic Island park questline but it kinda just, fizzled out.

The player base had pretty meh opinions about it because the majority assumed it was a one off indie horror and therefore didn't have the incredibly dense lore of the parks origin to refrence back to-

Like....like guys-

Guys it's not JUST, a commentary about post partum depression, it's not a cheap ass, "It was all a dream", type story.

Guys-

The antagonist isn't a hallucination, that's the bogeyman. In SWL he's a real person. He's not a metaphor, this is a "The trope is alive and trying to kill you " situation and it's done SO WELL.

That bastard is a menace and arguably one of the most influential horrors in the cryptid power bracket. His boss fight is a literal nightmare and we don't even know if he's gone for good.

GUYS YOU GOTTA LISTEN IM SO FUCKING CONVINCED FROM THE CONTEXT CLUES WE GET IN 'THE PARK', THAT HIM AND LORRAINE ARE CANNONICALLY EXS.

THIS ASSHOLE ISNT WITHOUT A CAUSE, IM ALMOST CERTAIN THIS ENTIRE DYNAMIC IS THE MESSIEST BREAKUP IVE EVER SEEN BECAUSE I HAVE RECEPTS THAT CALLUM COULD BE ONE OF THE BOGEYMANS BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN-}}

[evans-endeavors]

Dan "Watchman" Rodriguez

(he/him)

monster hunter, demon swordsman, gay✨

Just a templar with a possessed demon blade, and an attitude problem. My main boy in SWL.

[gaiasbee]

my bee ass stumbling over into overlook motel only to find out its infested with demons and has a portal to hell

[lanternowl]

Made Halina for my TSW ttrpg game. Think she turned out cool.

[secretworldcookbook]

Agents of Avalon is upon us and this woman wants to sell you 50 apples. That's right, the Envoy of Avalon Quartermaster is here to sell you 50 apples for the low-low price of 250 Marks of Favor!

[mel-addams]

PARTY REVENANT

So, in the SWL discord, silly things were shared and folks got extra silly (including our local @vomher; also, note that "Vh'mhyrr" is an edlritch-ification of "Vomher"):

So, as is my wont/community niche when folks say amusing things that give me a delightful mental image...I went to doodle it! Except...I recently bought a set of colorful ballpoint pens (at Rite Aid, of all places). So, what was supposed to be a quick sketch ended up being a nice clean illustration, so I could do a proper test of them! (Turns out their ink is thinner than Bic, so it's harder to get light shading with light pressure, and they're prone to glorping eventually when you try. Alas. BUT it came with brown, which turned out to be critical for this piece! Revenants are pretty much ALL BROWN)

I started out with a pencil sketch, then sorted out the lineart and some minor grey shading with a trusty Bic ballpoint pen. For the wraps I did an underlayer with yellow, then did curved hatching on top with just brown for color and shading. The coat is scribbly to give it a rough texture, both for aesthetic and to help differentiate it from the wraps. It's primarily brown, with some light blue to desaturate the worn/aged edges of the leather pieces, then purple to add further shading (and help differentiate from the wraps even more). There's even some rainbow-y iridescence in the black feathers attached to the coat! Though I did fill them in with black first...I think next time I'll try laying down the color, then going over them with black, to see if it's easier to balance how dark they are. Overall, I'm pleased with how it turned out!