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My friend is running a text-based rpg campaign, and I'm absolutely in love with it, so I decided to draw a 'cover' for each day in the story. We'll see if I can do one for each day, but I'm SO proud of how these turned out so far - all of them are inked in my notebook first, and then coloured digitally. If anyone's interested in the story, I've explained more about it all under the cut!
OKAY. So the game is called City of Mists, and basically it's...kinda hard to explain, but I'd call it 'cyberpunk noir', but with a 90s technological aesthetic. Kinda like when you read Issac Asimov's books and they're using computers but it's all cassettes and film-based technology. Anyway, it's awesome. Every character has a normal life in the city - their 'logos' - but there are some characters who are called Rifts, who have something mythological manifest within them - their 'mythos'. Now, the mythos can kinda be anything, but the point is that it's a legend or story that manifests within the character, and thus gives them new abilities. And every Rift has to balance their logos and their mythos - because to delve too much into your mythos means you forget your normal life and become entirely consumed by the mythos...but to focus too much on your logos means to lose, and forget, your mythos entirely. The 'mist' of the city obscures mythological and supernatural things from those who haven't 'awakened' yet - but Rifts can see through the mist.
So, my little guy is - sighs. Okay. Y'all are gonna laugh. Please be aware that I know, okay? I know. It's fine. This is a choice I've made. But he's called Nakis Sandhu, and he's an investigative journalist (NOT with amnesia) who, when he was a kid, was involved in a train accident that killed his parents, but him and his twin sister miraculously survived. He's trans, and he has a van - he doesn't live in it, thank goodness, but it is important because his mythos is Captain Nemo from 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas (this is why he looks like Sacha Dhawan, because like....Sacha Dhawan should play Captain Nemo and I'll die on that hill). And so Nakis, when his mythos awakened, turned his van into the Nautilus - Captain Nemo's submarine - and so it now works underwater too, and can travel undetected. He also becomes like, a technological genius and can invent stuff on the fly, but he never studied engineering or anything - it just comes to him in flashes of inspiration.
Nakis' main thing is that he's trying to figure out what happened in the train crash when he was a kid. He saw something different to everyone else, because he saw through the mist - what everyone else thought was an accident was actually two Rifts duking it out (I think). One of these Rifts was a blue bull that is apparently called 'the Bull of Thunder', and the other was a man with fire based abilities - called 'The Burning Man'. On Day 2, Nakis discovered a metal case that had belonged to the Burning Man, that had been hidden for twenty years - since the day of the accident - and was full of clues, including some photographic film that needed developing. Unfortunately, seems that there's a strange filter on the photos, so it's impossible to tell what's on them...luckily, my guy made friends with a photographer on Day 1 (who I believe is another player character) whilst investigating something else, and as a result he's now passed the film on to him, in the hopes that he'll be able to clear them up.
One funny thing: Day 0 was supposed to be a 'chill' day to figure out how the game mechanics worked, and figure out what your character would do on a normal day. Nakis immediately went to investigate something and then nearly ended up drowning RIP. On Day 1, when continuing to investigate the thing from Day 0, he...got shot in the shoulder HAHAHAH but he's fine, he's doing great, he didn't bleed out in his apartment which is always a win. He also bumped into another player character by doing this - so yay!
#taka draws#city of mists#uhhhhh idek what to tag this??#art#original art#digital art#SKSKS anyway it's like#if i had a nickel for every time i had an investigative journalist character with a van and a train crash related backstory#i'd have two nickels#which isn't a lot but it shows that i have a type SKSKKSSK#but yknow i wanted an investigator character#and i didn't want a police officer or detective or PI so....#ANYWAY#nakis sandhu
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One notable achievement I've unlocked in a ttrpg session is making my character make such a bad decision concerning drugs at the club that an AVATAR OF DIONYSUS had to step in and prevent my character from making said decision
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Did this animation last year in the span of less then a month. It aint much but it's honest work.
Characters belong to I (Genesis, the umbrella boy) and seasfoams (Efrain, the sad boy).
#just two dudes being guys just guys being dudes just dudes going against god itself#efrain tag#genesis tag#city of mists#city of mists ocs#animation#im not gonna tag this too much but yeah the main reason im posting it is cause artfight is coming up and i want this to be a ref
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#Vaporwave#aesthetic#ai art#digital art#colors#lofi#nostalgia#retrowave#video game#concept art#art#dreamscape#unreality#vibes#dreamcore#liminal#evening#architecture#city#neonwave#liminal spaces#building#skyscraper#cityscape#cyberpunk#night#plants#blue#fog#mist
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Some drawings of the City of Mist version of Mahadi 8)
Already almost died in intro session, he's doing great \o/
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aah yes. my favorite hispanic and latina author Sarita Jota Martinez
#sarah j maas#sara j maas#throne of glass#acotar#a court of thorns and roses#a court of silver flames#a court of mist and fury#a court of wings and ruin#a court of fey and flowers#a court of frost and starlight#cresent moon#cresent city#target#feyre archeron#feyre acotar#feyre x rhysand#rhysand#rhys acotar#azriel#azriel x reader#azriel x you#azriel acotar#rhysand x reader#rhysand x you#rhysand acotar#booklr#book review#bookworm#books#booktok
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No thoughts, just the urge to run City of Mists again
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Paula Morytko
#edinburgh#scotland#architecture#city#street photography#fog#mist#canal#dark aesthetic#dark academia#academia
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at night, everything feels like a dream.
instagram.
print shop
#photography#original photography#photographers on tumblr#gothic#goth aesthetic#urban photography#urban landscape#street photography#city#cityscape#night#night photography#mist#foggy aesthetic#fog#foggy#street lights#road trip#road photography#dark and gloomy#dark and moody#darkness#dark aesthetic#goth#spooky#spooky season#spooky aesthetic#spooky vibes
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Fade to ⬛
All are my OCs
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#photographers on tumblr#lensblr#city life#photography#urban#lights#street photography#original photography#city photography#urban photography#night photography#long exposure#sweden#uppsala#february dusk#mist
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by utrechtalive
#utrecht#netherlands#nature#photography#fog#mist#trees#canal#fall#autumn#curators on tumblr#water#cities#architecture#dark acamedia#aesthetic
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Meanwhile, in the murky depths of some underground tunnels:
Wondering how Nesta kept a straight face honestly.
#hofas spoilers#house of flame and shadow spoilers#house of flame and shadow#crescent city#bryce quinlan#bryce danaan#acomaf#acotar#sarah j maas#acotar fandom#rhysand#feysand#feyre archeron#a court of mist and fury#a court of thorns and roses#feyre#azriel#nesta archeron#nesta#night court#fantasy books#book boyfriends#new adult books#book meme#acowar#acosf#a court of silver flames#a court of wings and ruin#acotar series#romance books
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Imagine you're in the CoN and your high lord & lady visit and you have to watch her sit on his lap as he fingers her while knowing you will forever be trapped under a dark mountain with no way to feel the sun on your face or grass under your foot or hear the birds chirping with the knowledge that your steward is an evil man and that your high lord's rich little circle has never made an effort to change things for the better or realize that there are other "dreamers" here and your only hope of any change is a woman whose personality is wearing red and who can't stop thinking about herself but she also absolutely hates your guts for no reason other than the fact that you were born in the Hewn City and who hasn't faced or gotten over her trauma in the 500+ miserable years of her existence.
#court of nightmares#a court of silver flames#a court of thorns and roses#a court of frost and starlight#a court of wings and ruin#a court of mist and fury#morrigan acotar#mor#hewn city#fuck the ic#fuck mor#fuck rhys#fuck feyre#fuck amren#fuck cassian#fuck azriel#i cant possibly hate these mfs any more than i already do
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#aesthetic#ai art#digital art#colors#lofi#nostalgia#retrowave#video game#concept art#art#dreamscape#unreality#retro#evening#lights#street#side street#city#neonwave#liminal#vaporwave#cyberpunk#cityscape#synthwave#eerie#plants#liminal spaces#fog#mist#night
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A little sneak peek of a City of Mist Mahadi picture i'm super slowly working on. Taking the man for some adventures in the modern world soon :)
Posting a wip because hooo boi this will take time and i wanna show him off already lol.
#missed the man#mahadi the rakshasa#city of mist#another kidnapped npc at your service#wips#(yes i'm shamelessly pouring all my fav vic / asmo / xander vibes into this one)
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