#essence system

[monkeyslunch]

Dumb Small Dog One page RPG jam.

A simple one-page RPG that helps you embody the role dumb small dogs have in our society. It may require skill and practice.​

Built on the Essence system​

[greeniegaes]

Just your local fish yao thinking about how to save his master and the tyrant prince wanting to kiss said fish

[high-voltage-rat]

Adventurefriends 2 and Archive E-189-L making me insane tn.

The auto-mecha-detection-cube made to react to "intangible inexplicable unknown forces" and "extra-reality entities" originally going off in response to the hero. The cube having coffee spilled into it making it stop registering the hero. The hero drinking coffee, then having a seizure and dreaming of the galaxy exploding- the events just prior to the Reset. Like coffee is the way to register the change in the universe.

The fact that the hero's essence was incompatible with lock and key, that they're registered as an anomaly by Aequillibria, that their mana levels can't be read by manaphages (remnants of shadowscythe tech).

Sk'aar needing to 'consume certain aspects' of the dream world in order to wrest control of it from "its current master", that being the hero. People being the most complex and therefore best to consume- the best route to eventually consuming the hero themself.

"And you, [Hero]. I know you. I know all about you. I know what even you don't know about you. I know this world, this dream of yours, and I know your world. Memories and mana eternally flowing. Information just out of reach of visibility. Now I have you. You have me. And we will unleash that which slumbers-"

The fact that Sk'aar was held off by coueage and stories- by memories, memories of friendship and camaraderie specifically. That it is described as relishing in the Hero's despair, that it can "turn the dream into a nightmare", wielding fear... and being defeated by hope. Just the same way that the Shadowscythe nanovirus was defeated- hope from the presence of a trusted friend and leader.

The fact that Lock and Key are storage units, charged with storing information from before the Reset, as well as something they couldn't contain- something that should have corrupted them. They instead "woke" after reaching symbiosis with that thing- that they can now act, but still have to do so working around their protocols. The fact that they are "a pair among many".

The fact that Aequillibria is clearly a computer system too... and "virus" has a meaning for computers just as much as for biology.

[kalied0skull]

driving myself insane over the fact i spent 20 minutes in bed when trying to fall back asleep this morning remembering the lyrics to a song so i could add it to a playlist later only to wake up and forget every single word

WHERE'D IT GO

GIVE IT BACK

I KNOW IT WASN'T MY THOUGHT BUT I WANT IT NOW >:(

[fuckdamn]

everytime i’m faced with wild overt misogyny that’s just platformed like it’s nothing i remind myself that people don’t actually have to feel this way about women. men are fully capable of treating women like human beings and viewing them as such. “but socialization but male fantasies but patriatchy speaks through us even when we don’t recognize it” sure but actually regardless there exist men who are fundamentally not raging misogynists and they generally seem happier and better adjusted. misogyny to me isn’t disappointing because “oh i can’t believe Men, as an essentialized category of person, are like this” it’s disappointing because people make the choice to be like this. “it’s my biological imperative as a man to dominate you” okay well it’s my biological imperative as a freaky bitch to dominate you so what now. what biological imperative is making you comment “onlyfans detected opinion rejected” on every picture of any attractive woman. i think i will always be understood by most people as a woman and i’m learning to accept that and trying to like it but misogyny makes me feel very trapped of course. but misogyny is a choice. which means some people make the choice to be misogynistic which is profoundly frustrating. but many other people choose not to be actively misogynistic and i believe anyone could choose not to be actively misogynistic if they wanted. so it’s a whole thing

[fell-maverick]

I gotta hunker down and actually work on those E20 Mega Man Zero/ Mega Man X Command Mission games I wanna run with my friends (two of whom won't touch video games with a 10 foot pole, and one who isn't as heavy a gamer as I am, and another who runs in a different gaming circle than I, so they know NOTHING of the lore which means I can curate it to my whims Mwahahahahaa!!!) ... The Zero timeline I can't do much with till I have their characters for that bc I'm literally just doing a what-if Zero 2

But the Command Missing timeline takes place after the Giga city incident, X and Zero getting transferred from Central back to the 17th, and Gate's (assumed alive for this) shenanigans from X6 coming back to haunt them. It's an original plot... I HAVE the basic down.

A corporation named Blue Fairy Corp. Has been innovating for Reploids for a long time now, their current project, called Project Pinocchio, offers Reploids a chance to be... More human. Real tears, an easier time adapting empathy, advanced taste buds and enhanced nutrient converters so they can consume human food over energen for the energy they need.

And they're even promising that in the near future, thanks to the advances of Project Pinocchio they can offer humanity immortality and Reploids mortality.

X has been BEGGING to investigate Blue Fairy ever since ads for Project Pinocchio started cropping up. He doesn't like it, not one bit, but without probable cause the Maverick Hunters can't do Jack. Not even when Humans and reploids start disappearing off the streets. Nothing links back to Blue Fairy... Until, one day... Alia gets a call from Gate.

This is where the player characters come in. For both timelines the players are Reploids created by Gate during the events of X6, an expirament to replicate X and Zero, different from what he's already done, sealing them for 100 years. Depending on the timeline (I'm making the split who goes to face off against Gate and Sigma) one set of the player characters are dead due to the destruction of Gate's base in Area Zero. (The games have two different sets of players, one is playing in both and we've talked about their characters being twins who never got to meet bc whichever twin is alive in one timeline the other is dead...and who are capable of combining like Bit and Byte could *CACKLE*)

In the Zero timeline it's X who wakes them up and they're chased out of Area Zero by one of the four guardians (probably Harpuia) and X leads them to the resistance.

In the Command Timeline X, Zero and Axl are sent to retrieve them and claim that as Maverick Hunter assets because part of Gate's arrest was that he had to give all of his stuff up to the Maverick Hunters, or allow it to be bought and sold. There was quite a bit left in Area Zero and somehow not only does the CEO of Blue Fairy know those experimental Reploids exist, but they've purchased all remaining assets in Area Zero just to get them. Gate can't let that happen, if they survived he won't let them become corporate toys. He's not exactly happy to make them MH assets either, but lesser of two evils and despite it all, he trusts Alia and knows X will do right. It's on this retrieval that X finally gets the probably cause to start looking into Blue Fairy and then the 8 stages open up.

I have the Maverick names too (two of which are courtesy of two of my friends. They really helped me out @_@)

[paint-lady]

back on my what if secret world legends was a d10 system bullshit

[desalvar]

Booping but like a mutual /Cat Distribution System/ kind of situationship 👀🐾

Odd, somewhat cat shaped abominations found and bonded with each other (!), general populace breathes sigh of relief

I love them so much, fate-assigned distribution has nothing to do with the unwell shit they did to get each other 💜

[fruityfroggy]

Here, have an angy birb-Mhin doodle

[the-hwaelweg]

The thing about living past your 20s is sometimes you wake up and your whole everything hurts, for no discernable reason.

Possible reasons for today's pain include:

It's cold

Didn't move around enough in my sleep

Moved around too much in my sleep

Astrology?

Wore new shoes for 45 minutes yesterday

Body's haunted

General Januaryishness

[peaceful7ea]

"You can pirate non 5e rulebooks" Ok and what about my comment expressing frustration about being told to switch from 5e over and over again when I just want to have fun playing the game I understand made you think that I didn't know this? You think I have a hard drive full of RPG rulebooks and I don't know this? Our table has a group chat for sharing Transformers TTRPG pdfs, do you think they just fell out of the sky? I said it was *easy* to pirate 5e, not that it was the only fucking option.

[nagid27]

Dear Powerful Momentum Seymour, I have binge watched the Tumblr cringe series from 77 til current video (190) in about 1 week, and May I say:

You are now a part of my personality. You are the part of me that says "hey, y'know that totally normal thing you're about to say? Well...

Say it in a different voice!"

And now that I have the essence of your soul, it will never

Never

Escape.

Thank you for your contribution to my psyche.

[githvyrik]

in my worldbuild I’ve been making there are 3 types of Beings that are like. “sapient and sentient” I guess for lack of a better way to say it but essentially they’re all just types of creatures we could theoretically converse and share ideas with. anyways they’re humans (which are Magic now), fairies (which are basically dragons), and angels (which are more like super magical shape-shifting bone parasites) and humans are like man I’m soooo jealous of the way fairies have super strong magic or how the angels have like wings and junk but whatever we have our own magic and meanwhile the fairies and angels are maddeningly envious of human hands

[subconsciousmysteries]

The so called "unique duality of type 6 that no other type has" really isn't that special once you actually LTR. Whether a 6 is a Rebel or a Conformist they are fixated on the same thing: Faith. Finding or creating a framework that explains reality, to give them Faith that they are ready to experience reality. Not realizing that the experience is inauthentic when it is done through the lens of a mental framework, and they don't actually need a framework for everything to be alright, they already have the power to experience reality without dying.

Typing someone as a 6 because they are a rebel or a conformist is WRONG! Other types have this same duality between rebel and conformist too. It's called being a human being and facing the dilemma between doing what is right and doing what is easy. It's the dichotomy between growth and stagnancy. Every type has its own version of it. To name one example 7 has a dichotomy between being a dumb consoomer (conformist) and being a disciplined visionary (rebel). I could go on forever.

There must be the primary fixation on Faith and building intellectual belief systems to explain reality, and an intense sense of fear and lostness without this belief system solidly intact. Or else it is not a 6.

Also there's no geometric reason for any type on the enneagram other than 9 to be a unique snowflake so please just stop trying to make snowflake 6 happen. It is never going to happen.

[silent-sentinels]

let me be clear: i still don't think "we" actually exist as a system. believe me, i know all your reasoning already and i understand them, because we are the same person. i don't think we deserve to call ourselves a system or plural, but that's neither here nor there.

with that being said, i am now willing to play along if it gives us one less thing to worry about. god knows we have bigger issues at hand and i simply don't have the energy to care anymore. so sure, let's pretend i believe you now.

[bsahely]

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