#a massive bummer

[blackjackkent]

Shadowheart leads them down from the House of Grief into the Sharran catacombs below.

Upstairs was warm, welcoming, as part of its facade as a place of healing and comfort. The cloister offers no such illusion. It is cold, the walls lined with shadows, the only light from flickering torches set every few feet.

(A/N: Fun fact - the scene is lit to appear as if light is coming from barred windows above the player, but I had a look around with freecam and there's nothing there, just solid wood. XD )

A few locked doors provide little resistance to the blade of Lae'zel's greatsword. Shadowheart explores the secured rooms with a strange combination of nostalgia and pain.

In one room, they find a vast array of disguises, clothing of a hundred different colors and styles.

Documents are strewn in a corner of this room, records of Sharran activities. Some of them speak of the mission Shadowheart herself was sent on - the quest for the artifact now in Rakha's pack, the githyanki power it holds, and its unexpected illithid occupant.

Rakha is far more interested, though, in another report she finds crumpled on a desk:

This is the first description she has seen of her activities as Gortash's ally from anyone other than Gortash himself. It sends a cold chill down her spine - but also rouses a flicker of curiosity.

"You know this place?" she asks Wyll. "The Devil's Fee?"

"I was a little young to be consorting with diabolists when I was still in the city," Wyll says dryly. "Perhaps Karlach would know?"

"Perhaps." Rakha squints at the piece of paper, then pockets it restlessly.

-----

The other room smells of blood.

Rakha looks at the broken, gore-streaked body on the table for several minutes, searching herself for any trace of the beast's eager hunger at the sight. But there's nothing, just a sort of weary familiarity with Shadowheart's words.

She too learned to kill people in a place very much like this. She remembers the noblestalk memory, Sceleritas passing her a scalpel, the blood pouring over her hands.

The Sharrans are not like the Bhaalists, not precisely. They are colder, more methodical, less gratuitously sadistic.

And yet their victims are just as dead, all the same.

-----

Finally, just before the final door, she finds a notebook labeled "The Unburdening."

She remembers, now, the strange mental prodding that went along with Viconia's questions, so subtle as to be beyond notice at the time. The Mother Superior was searching her thoughts, her memories, for anything Shar might desire.

Rakha takes a certain savage pleasure in this idea. She has very little memory to harvest; Viconia would have found nothing of use, surely.

She does wonder, though... had she gone through with it all, what this mirror might have chosen to take from her.

-----

"I remember this now," Shadowheart says bitterly as they descend the final steps towards the cloister's inner sanctum. "A whole stolen childhood spent in these halls. The Mother Superior must be close. Soon this will all be over."

Rakha does not answer, but thinks it will be no more over for Shadowheart than it is for herself. Viconia did not "map" Shadowheart - but the answer would no doubt be the same as the one Rakha found.

The scars will linger, though their cause is gone.

[beardedmrbean]

[mwagneto]

markiplier fnaf videos have done more for me than the hungarian government ever has

[violentlydefending]

finished emio: the smiling man!! pretty solid, really great presentation, iffy pacing, and a few underwhelming elements, but i was able to have a good enough time with it. the epilogue was a real highlight for me, but there were a few standout moments in the game proper as well. wouldn't say no to playing more if more entries get made and will definitely be checking out the remakes of the other two entries at some point :]

[alteredsu]

ugh, so everything is on pause till i sort through stuff ☹️

[sidsthekid]

nolpat :(

[silvergyus]

fucking horrible day. first, pengdungie deactivates on twitter, then I get on here and see lia deactivated too 😔

[xpastelsweetsx]

Hey yall I uhhhhhh I got laid off from my job

[tealchameleon]

Ok I know I’m several years late to the party but I just watched the Cat Blanc episode of miraculous ladybug and my brain is broken. Please I need to scream about this to someone. I haven’t lost my mind at a show like this since I was a kid watching the reveal of the author in gravity falls like omfg this has utterly ruined me

[rpgbabe]

those of you with food allergies... god bless. that would suck so bad if i was allergic to something stupid like onions or mushrooms or sth god... ur so strong.

[malcolm-reeds-pineapple]

We put my dog down a few days ago which is already devastating enough, but now my cat seems to have caught on that Nick maybe isn’t coming home this time. She’s going around the house crying and looking all over for him and it’s making me even sadder like she’s just looking for her big brother. As if that wasn’t bad enough, I heard my dad crying while he told the cat that he missed the dog too. I think this is actually the saddest I’ve seen my entire family

[catboynutsack]

me: heh yeah I'm tough as hell...... I'm punk as hell........... I don't go with the grind........... I do drugs............ heh...........

also me: *sniffling and holding back tears bc I forgot to pay for a $2 spike (mlp) plushie at the thrift shop and accidentally stole it and I feel bad*

[bd-bandkanon]

I’ve decided I’m just gonna start posting my random doodles on a more daily basis from here on, including repetitive dull & incomplete shit nobody wants to see

if I neglect to do that someone please shake me.

[patiencetaught]

{ my cat is dying. so, if anyone believes in the power of prayers or vibes or positive thinking, my wee furry fellow and I would appreciate it }

[fishklok]

I cant look at Danny from Grease without thinking of Melik now my brain is ruined

[vivanightcity]

ahhhh

i was certain i'd taken screenshots of my very early modded minecraft explorations from like ten years ago, and i did.

Dragon mounts was one of my favorite mods, as was the original Witchery. Both of which, I believe, stopped being updated around 1.7.10, witchery did for sure.

It's so wild to come back now and there's these projects to make spiritual successors and continue them on, Bewitchment is a great continuation that has most of the same energy and spirit, and I know there's a 'dragon mounts reborn' out there too, I just didn't know about it until after I found out about ice and fire.

anyways, look at the dergs!

I am so tempted to make a 'improved' version of this old awful ass dragon platform base i made. I used creative and I thought it looked good. (I'm not actually ragging on it, I think it's cute ugly and very old minecraft)