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[stylecouncil]

tagged by @northcountrymaid I’m just tagging everyone that sees this and wants to do it ❤️

[musubiki]

balor 🥰

[bluerosefox]

Possessed Pearl's

You know how in some ghost stories sometimes its not a person or a land that's haunted but the items?

Well what if, when looking for a mother's day gift for his mom, Danny is looking around a pawn shop and finds a necklace, it's missing some pearls but it's just enough to pass off as a decent gift. Danny humms but decides against it and goes to leave it....

That was until he gasped out blue frost and spots a ghostly woman appear out of the necklace with a somber smile. She isn't as seeable as the other ghosts in Amity though, meaning she doesn't have enough ectoplasm on her own (that might change the longer she's in Amity and around Danny though) and that right now only Danny can see her.

And Danny well... hes been doing his hero gig for a bit now, might go and ask if there was anything he can do to help.

And later Danny's good deed... bites him back. Oh boy. Because now he has the Bats looking into Amity Park... Wait what do you mean Martha is now strong enough to be seen?!

[mutable-manifestation]

Ghost Chirps AU Part 5

Part 1 & 2

Part 3

Part 4

***

While “Jason” (i.e. Alfred with an empty jet that Jason will meet up with later in order to “arrive” in Amity) hops a private jet, Red Hood is busy searching the Fenton home from top to bottom.

The local police move slowly, and by the time they arrive Jack and Maddie Fenton are both tied up and disarmed in their living room under heavy guard.

They hadn’t been restrained immediately, Batman talking him into giving them a chance to implicate themselves first.

Hood let him take the lead, but he didn’t even get a chance to ask a question, being cut off at the first indication he might want to talk about their “work.” Less than 60 seconds in, and the pair had outright confessed to violating the meta protection acts - and in tedious detail.

The questioning didn’t suffer any from them being tied up.

Far from the mulish silence or crocodile-tear laden denial of most criminals, they instead doubled down, insisting that nothing they had done was illegal, then jumping to the assumption that they were “possessed” - and boy had it been a nasty surprise when the whole house came alive trying to attack them with a quick verbal command.

Well, trying to attack Hood. And only him, for some reason.

One laser also freed the Fentons, who turned out to have even more weapons built into their suits. 

Somehow. 

Despite them being skintight.

That had been a pain, but Red Robin was able to hack the system using one of the couples’ own devices while Hood dodged - and kept the stray fire away from the others - leaving everyone else to recapture the pair. A blessedly simple task once they found out the lasers would splash harmlessly off of their armor (save for a gross film of green goop left wherever they grazed).

They take turns knocking each unconscious to change them in order to properly disarm them - Batman and Nightwing taking Jack first, followed by Orphan and Spoiler dealing with Maddie. 

The only non-weapon laden clothing they own turns out to be pajamas. 

This is around when the police show up, looking hesitant.

They, too, cite the “Anti-Ecto Acts.”

Oracle had debriefed them on the supposed Acts and “Ghost Investigation Ward” on their short drive over. Both were utterly bogus - the Acts had never even been proposed, let alone been approved as law, and the so-called “GIW” had no ties to the government.

The Fentons had been furious and denied the information intensely when told, but the cops mostly just looked relieved.

Apparently there’d been a lot of property damage by the GIW and Fentons both that had supposedly been dismissed under the Acts as “necessary in the pursuit of ecto-scum.”

For the Fentons, half of this damage was in the form of broken fire hydrants, cracked sidewalks, and totaled cars - they’d never been good drivers, before, the cops disclosed, but they’d become even more negligent since the ghosts began appearing, to the point they had to have a news segment warning when they would be on the road.

The lack of fatalities thus far had been nothing short of a miracle, they claimed.

“Of course there haven’t been any fatalities!” Mrs Fenton defends. “Our work is to protect people from those things, not make more! Officers, listen to reason-” Hood snorts disdainfully -”The Red Hood is clearly a ghost! All our systems targeted him the moment they came online - and they only target ecto-entities. He’s clearly taken these heroes under his sway - why else would they be working with a murderer!? You have to do something before he starts up his killing here in Amity!”

The officers look at him a bit hesitantly, but Batman is unmoved and gives the cover story Hood had outlined back in the alley.

Any concerns the locals have are quickly assuaged.

But for the whole explanation, Jason is trying not to shake even as he falls apart in place.

Their little website called them ghost-hunters, making it pretty clear what “ecto-entities” meant. 

Their system supposedly only targets ecto-entities.

The system had only targeted him.

The system only targets ghosts.

Jason had died.

A lot of his family members had died, too, granted. 

But Jason was the only one who seemed to come back wrong - anger sticking in his throat and never quite fading, an inclination towards violence even when he wasn’t angry well beyond what he’d ever felt before, and a sea of other emotions (that he would never acknowledge aloud) and triggers for those emotions that he always struggled to make heads or tails of.

He doesn’t have the meta gene. He knows that. He knew that.

He just assumed that the test missed it, because he knows he doesn’t know magic - the All Blades being the only exception - and he couldn’t think of another explanation at the time.

But he came back wrong.

And as he stands there, he wonders if he came back at all, mind on Solomon Grundy.

Wonders if he isn’t just some ghost, wandering around possessing his own corpse.

He jolts, as the thought strikes him: what about Danny?

If he’s a ghost and chirping is a ghost thing then what about his KID!?

Absently, he notes that Bruce has started interrogating the cops on what they meant by “ghost attacks.” 

He ignores the discussion, hustling for the door in the kitchen down to the lab.

He slams and locks the door behind him - in Red Robin’s face - as he descends, making a b-line for the computer he’d seen when the Fentons had dragged them all down there to start bragging about their crimes.

The only thing Oracle could get out of the whole building was things that were openly available online; direct connections were impossible.

Opening up the screen, he gets to cracking.

Going for the surface level files first, it turns out he doesn’t even need so much as a password to find what he wants.

One of the video game sub-files has an unrelated file in it: ghost notes.

There are plenty of other notes, of course, but he’d only been skimming to start, looking for anything hidden.

The Fenton parents were too open to bother, of course, with plenty of more obvious files strewn haphazardly across the home screen, but it’s always better to check. That there is a hidden file means it was likely made by either Danny or Jazz.

And it’s a treasure trove.

Sub-files for rogues, allies, conditional allies, and “halfas” were what greeted him.

The last being the only term he didn’t recognize, he clicked.

6 files: Clones, Danny, Dani, Dan, Vlad, and Red Hood.

He clicks his own file.

What greets him is a picture of himself 4 days ago, looking just to the left of the lens in an alley that he distinctly remembers searching for the kid in.

Just below is text.

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??? Name: Red Hood

Species: probably a halfa

Status: Nnnneutral? I think? I know, I know, heads in bags. But Valerie tries to kill me all the time! And we’re allies sometimes! Hood- uh- looked for me? Okay I guess I can’t really judge this yet but please read the first met section before you judge please you guys?

First met: Aug 17, 2005, was in Gotham to bother Batman, stopped to think a bit on some fire escape - decide on the first prank yknow - but then my ghost sense went off. It felt like a halfa so I thought “oh cool, must be Dani” so I chirped, but then Red Hood - who was chasing some guy down an alley at the time - froze and looked around. I dropped visibility and chirped again and yeah, he definitely heard it. Humans can’t so he’s definitely a halfa - no glow so he can’t be a full ghost and it felt nothing like an overshadowing. 

Ended up following Hood around the rest of week - forgot to prank Batman, damn - and playing hide-and-seek with the chirps. It was really funny. But he very obviously doesn’t know he’s a halfa. But the guy is, like, scary levels of smart, so I’m sure he’ll figure it out on his own now that the chirp thing made it clear that something is up. Hopefully.

I figure I can go back in winter break - he should have it figured out and let his emotions process enough by then to at least hear me out when I explain the AEA and GIW and everything, then it won’t matter so much if he can, like, track me by voice or something if I talk since we’ll have MAD by then.

Despite his reputation, the people living in his haunt seem to love the guy. I can see why. On top of the whole smart he’s actually really nice to people he’s not shooting in the knees (which only even happened one time in the week I was there? It was actually pretty relaxing - most quiet week I’ve had since the portal opened THANK YOU TUCKER for hacking the portal hatch to be inoperable for a week). 

Where was I? Oh yeah, he’s actually surprisingly nice to people? So like, I think he’ll probably hear me out if I go back and be polite? I hope. Hate to leave the guy in the dark and him end up on the GIWs dissection table for “lots and lots of painful experiments.”

Not that those guys could even catch the Box Ghost. But uh, Hood doesn’t seem to have powers either? Or if he does he doesn’t know about them I don’t think - he only used the chirp the whole time I was their - not even to cheat with moving around.

Seriously. That guy's acrobatics could make Freakshow’s contortionist green - er, red??? - with envy. Actually wait, aren’t contortionists and acrobats different things?

SAM NOTE: help^?

Powers: 

?

~~~

Jason leans back, breathing deeply.

“Not a full ghost,” “not 'overshadowed'” - a term that sounds likke some kind of cousin to possesision - “definitely a halfa,” “humans can’t hear chirps.”

Halfa. 

Half. 

Ghost. 

Half Ghost.

It should sound absurd - you can’t be half alive and half dead.

But Jason has seen the Lazarus pits, has met Solomon Grundy, has met aliens and bullshit magic and can pull magical swords out of his own damn chest.

Half alive. Half dead.

Hopefully not just a fancy way to say possessing his own corpse.

He doesn’t have time to deal with every file - he’ll “confiscate” one of their USBs with a copy of everything for himself before leaving the rest to Batman & co, of course, minus the halfa files (a small part of him wants to shove his condition in Bruce’s face and demand he kill the clown again even though he knows it’s a futile hope, but the rest - the same part that snapped and denied and refused to say he was a meta less that a day ago now - cannot stomach the thought of even more rejection. Of a Bruce that believes he’s a monster. Of a Bruce that mourns him even while he’s right there. Or at least, more than he already does.) - but while the files copy he take the time to look at Danny’s.

The image has two people, Danny Fenton on one side and a version of the kid in a black hazmat suit with white hair, tanned skin, and painfully familiar green eyes. And floating.

~~~

Human Name: Danny Fenton

Ghost Name: Danny Phantom

Species: Halfa (half-human, half ghost)

~~~

It’s the section after that that makes Jason’s breath catch in his throat.

~~~

Death: The Portal Accident

So like, there was no audio (thank GOD I do not want to hear myself screaming) so. Details: When the portal didn’t work when they plugged it in mom and dad left for fudge, Jazz went to try and talk them into a more realistic career choice than ghosts. Sam and Tucker came over and Sam dared me to climb in and check it out - it was broken anyway so no harm. Except it wasn’t broken, just that my parents put the on button inside. Which I caught myself on when I tripped on a wire.

Anyway, electrocution! 

(T - Danny for the love of god be more serious, the cheerful tone is creepy)

(D - Hey! I’m the one who died! Shouldn’t I at least get to write my own epitaph)

(S - …Danny this is not an epitaph. You don’t even HAVE a grave)

(D - wow way to rub it in Sam)

(T - yeah Sam)

(S - ugh! Whatever, just stop with the chatting in official files)

(T - “official”)

(S - Tucker.)

(T - shutting up now)

Electrocution! I got zapped to death, but the ectoplasm from the portal was also opening up on top of me and a lot got bonded to me I guess (S - probably because of the electricity with how you ended up with some of Vortex' powers for a little while) at the same time said electricity was reviving me? - probably getting my heart beating again or something, I was a little busy screaming to pay attention (T - yeah okay we're going to Nasty Burger after this. And playing Doomed) - not that it would’ve mattered without the ghostification preventing me from melting me all the way to death.

Status: Me!

Powers:

Chirps! (ghost echolocation of some kind! humans can't hear em - halfas can, of course, in either form)

Form Change (really Sam? This barely counts)

Human form

Ghost form (no need to breathe)

Flight (last clock speed 210mph) (T - and climbing. Dang dude)

Invisibility (S - don’t forget shareable.) (Shareable. sigh)

Intangibility (Shareable)

Ecto Rays (eyes & hands) (T - and butt) (D - dude! I’m deleting that. Tucker why can't I delete it. TUCKER) (T - bow down in awe of my ksill) (S - ksill) (D - ksill) (T - yeah okay it’s permanent now) (D - aw man!)

Ghost Sense (S - why do we never test your range?) (D - no need? They always make themselves obvious or are being sneaky specifically to annoy me so *shrug*) (S - I still think we should test it)

Power Absorption (that time with Vortex’s weather powers)

Cryokinesis (Wayyyyy to much ice. NOT testing max output on that) (T - yeah frozen city was enough, let’s not cause an ice age. Tech needs some cool but too much is still bad and I just upgraded Patricia)

Ghostly Wail (cone of destruction, very exhausting - always at max output. Not to be used)

GHOST FORM ONLY (but really just never)

Cartoon Body (D - what???) (S - Freakshow literally turned you into a puddle and you just turned back and were fine. I don’t know what else to call that) (D - okay fair. but:)

GHOST FORM ONLY

Physical Enhancement (better strength, speed, stamina, durability, reflexes, balance, etc much better than human) (T - why does this look like dnd knockoff stats haha)

GHOST FORM ONLY (S - obviously mr last place in PE)

Resistances (pretty solid on the overshadowing, avoided being taken in by Ember until targeted, didn’t get turned to stone during the Medusa thing) (S - which was pure luck! Be careful!)

Ecto Electricity (ghost stinger, but I really don’t think this counts Sam. I mean I just. Make my ecto zappy. But it’s still just ecto) (S - so is your ICE and you don’t just call that "just cold ecto") (D - fine, but it feels overly specific) (S - maybe writing it all down will make you stop. Forgetting. POWERS!) (D - come on Sam that was a lucky hit! I was distracted! And it turned out fine!) (S - Fenton…) (D - oop okay doing fire now)

Ecto Fire (made Dash’s shoes melty that one time by make the ecto hot) (T - really needs more testing)

Tech possession (chasing Technus into computers, not very tested)

Ghost form only, i guess?

Overshadowing (control people, copy their voice, invade dreams - the control one erases the person’s memory so they don’t know they were overshadowed just lost time. I hate Walker. SO much) (T - rip Danny’s reputation, you’ll be missed)

Probably ghost form only

Duplication (T - That’s optimistic) (D - I’M WORKING ON IT OKAY!?) (S - pretty sure it just falls under cartoon body until you can actually separate) (D - :( betrayal)

Probably ghost form only

More? (D - ugh I hope not) (T - hey don’t say that, maybe you’ll get a power to make the JL give a crap about Amity) (D - honestly I’m getting pretty close to letting Boxy loose in Gotham) (S - Danny, don’t stoop to their level!) (D - it's only box ghost!) (T - I mean he has a point)

~~~

Jason changes his mind, seeing the commentary, and deletes the entire hidden file from the computer as soon as his copy is made. He can go over everything and bring any important info to Bruce separately, the bat’s can just chew on the parents’ files for now.

Once the original files are thoroughly and irretrievably removed he pockets his shiny new USB, makes a second one with all the official files, and heads back up and out - carelessly brushing past a thoroughly irate Red Robin with a pair of firemen and broken jaws of life. And not a scratch on the door; impressive - just in time to get Oracle’s text that he’s got 2 hours and 16 minutes to be at the location on his HUD so he can “arrive” to Amity.

And a fresh set of civilian clothes will be waiting in the plane, Alfred as reliable as ever.

“Files,” he says, tossing the safe USB to Batman and interrupting his interrogation of the police officer.

He catches it effortlessly of course, but the officer stops paying attention to him to jolt at Hood’s reappearance - even outside of Gotham his reputation is fierce.

“I sent a copy to myself. I’ll review them and give you an overview, but other than that consider this the end of my involvement in this little shitshow,” he says, continuing smoothly to the door. “I’m heading back to Gotham.”

Now, he has a little over two hours before Jason Todd needs to arrive in Amity Park. He only needs to lay hands on a laptop that he can isolate from Babs’ influence and he should be able to review the Halfa files in full before he "lands" - after he figures out just why the kid has a grudge against the JL.

[coquelicoq]

i have absolutely no filter in one very specific area, which is that if someone smells good i always tell them immediately and with great enthusiasm. unfortunately this has led many people to think i was hitting on them when actually i just really like smells. apparently i can come across as incredibly forward to people, but only that subset of people who smell really really good. if you smell normal we will probably have a regular time.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Woe, map be upon ye

The coverts of Switzerland's aerial corps do not operate under a single centralized administration, but instead operate as individual units under the leadership of their respective cantons. Each covert has slightly different specializations, for example the Bern and Sion Coverts situated on the grounds of large fortified castles with notable military history, or a small offshoot of the Zürich Covert which is used solely by miners, while others, such as the Zermatt Covert, are more focused on mountain rescue. In the modern times as consequence of the Confederacy's political neutrality, most coverts are only in civilian use, inhabited primarily by couriers who deliver messages not merely to other coverts, but to all towns and villages, providing communication even to the most isolated mountain communities. Still, each covert typically has at least one battle-worthy dragon in case of internal conflicts such as peasant uprisings.

In the 1790s, the small Saint-George Covert just off the border with France has begun attempts at expansion into a military covert in response to fears of invasion by the newly formed French Republic

[sugarsnappeases]

rita skeeter, at the end of the first war

[ratatatastic]

culinary crimes against humanity, hand in unloveable hand we will put raw onions in our pasta, i think they'd be best friends if not because their teams dont know what to do with their pregame meal choices

[u5an5]

Of things extra: Once Upon a Witchlight Ep. 25 | Firefighters

Episode | Masterlist

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! Fair warning, this post contains SPOILERS. If you don't want to be spoiled, STOP READING !

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The bullywug seems to not be paying any attention at all to what you're doing, so engrossed in this work, as you look at him for a moment. And then you notice how he looks.

You can see that the leathers that he's wearing are worn and wet, they're covered in sweat. He has been working, and working, and working for who knows how long. He looks exhausted, he has dark bags under his eyes. He's breathing heavily, he's covered in soot, the little bit of hair that he has on his head is singed. Where eyebrows would be, they have been clearly charred away.

The work he's been doing here must have been taking up all of his time for who knows how long, and he is not stopping until the work is done.

He doesn't even seem to notice as Gideon begins to channel his Innate Flame ability, and you watch as all of the fire begins to enlarge for just a moment, the six embers on the floor glowing incredibly bright, nearly blinding. That core in the centre, that bright white core of the flame, illuminating this room in a quick flash of brilliant light...

As a rain cloud forms ahead and water begins to rush down.

All of the individual flames are completely snuffed out, and you hear for a second a quick huffing and

"A- Are they gone? Is it- Is it over? Are they finally gone..?"

As the embers themselves illuminate.

Gideon can hear inside his head

"One of us. One of us. One of us! One of-!! Traitor."

As the fire begins to be doused by the water, the chanting stops, being replaced by chittering.

And you watch as the embers slowly collapse for a second before blinding light again, and flames whip out this way and that. 12 large pops and crackles come out as you see tiny little flame sprites shoot out of them and they begin to skirt around.

Gideon hears inside his head

"Not one of us. Enemy. Traitor. Fire traitor. Form the master."

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6x[Sprite]'s surround (Krew)

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Turn 1

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The way that those entities of pure flame move is almost... hypnotic. You try to pry your eyes from them but you find it difficult to look away (charisma saving throw)

You look at the bullywug and you find him entranced by the flame for a moment but his eyes... he steels himself. He's exhausted, he's had enough of this. He's been staring into the flame for Gods know how long and he will not succumb to its allure. He pries his eyes away from it and he skitters to one side of the room. He finds a corner and a table that he upturns and hides behind, away from fires.

Twig and Frost however stare into the flame. One particular sprite has captivated them, and as the fire sprite begins to actually dance, spin and twirl, Frost and Twig are so entranced by it (Charmed-like effect on Twig and Frost after failing throw)

You can only move towards the sprite that hypnotized you and you cannot take any actions against it. You can repeat the save at the beginning of your turn, after moving towards it.

All of you are overcome with this hypnotism of these entities. Gideon, in your head you still hear the spattering of voices as they talk over each other, in your innate fire you feel almost like you could communicate with them. And from what you can hear, they're incredibly distrusting of you, as they believe you're here to destroy.

You watch as Twig is slowly moving towards one of these fire things, Frost is staring intently at one of them as it dances.

(Frost) - He moves towards the sprite, totally hypnotised

[Sprite1] - You make your way into the space with this fire sprite and you stare into it. This tiny little entity, no larger than the palm of your hand. As it swirls and dances it begins to rise up into the air, almost as if it is walking on smoke. It swirls around your head, doing this beautiful elaborate movements. And just as it makes its way directly to face you it smiles at you with its large, burning ember eyes. And you blink. You realise it's not something you should be fooling with. But its grin is right in front of your face. Sharp teeth, anger on its face, as flames whip around it (-3 fire damage, Ignited) It almost seems to drink in your pain

-He rears back in pain and warns others about the sprites as he gets a grip on himself (charisma saving throw, succeed)

-He lashes out with his magic, creating a white-blue ball of swirling energy that collapses, looking almost like a snowball and as he tosses it into the sprite in front of him, he doubles it and throws it at the sprite on his left (Chromatic Orb, -1 sorcerer point for Twinned Spell Metamagic, disadvantage; attack, hits -18 cold damage to Sprite1; attack, hits -19 cold damage to Sprite2]

[Sprite1] & [Sprite2] - You watch as (Frost) throws these icy orbs at these sprites, and as the ice and fire collide they burst and pop, as both of them disappear, completely decimated

Gideon, In your head you hear "No! Traitors. Create the master."

[Sprite3-6] - All of these entities move towards them and begin to dance, and they whip around them, surrounding them in ring of fire, blasting their magic (Twig -quite a bit of damage, Gricko -4 damage, Kremy -1 damage, Gideon -4 damage, all of these fire damage; +1 Ignited charge)

(Gricko) - reaction; he jolts back as he holds out his rook totem and silvery spectral wings surround him (Gift of Metalic Dragon; attack hits)

(Kremy) - Feel fire of these entities lick at him (-4 fire damage, +1 Ignited charge)

-He waves his cane as all light from the fire go out for a moment, as shadows whip around the room and then climb up his body. Ominous jazz faint wails of dead are audible as his form turns into something resembling silhouette, as neon glyphs appear on his body with markings resembling blacklight skull makeup on his face (Form of Dread, +2 hitpoints)

-Neon pins appear in the air around him, as they fly towards sprites (Bane 2lvl, fails on Sprite5)

Bane - Up to three creatures of your choice that you can see within range must make Charisma saving throws. Whenever a target that fails this saving throw makes an attack roll or a saving throw before the spell ends, the target must roll a d4 and subtract the number rolled from the attack roll or saving throw.

(Gideon) - (-4 fire damage, +1 Ignited charge) He takes out his cigar and puts it right to its head. After he takes a puff he comments how he does not like either how many weird creatures having direct access to his brain, nor being called a traitor, as he punches it as hard as he can (melee attack, hits -12 fist damage, -6 fire damage - immune)

[Sprite3] - despite looking entirely made up from fire, when you punch it directly in the body your fist does connect, doing critical damage, as you see licks of flame and sparks shoot out from where it lands and you watch as it pops into a puff of smoke

"Summon the Master"

(Gricko) - (-2 fire damage, +1 Ignited charge) Holding his totem, he asks it for help as he transforms into large, two-headed vulture with huge wings, as he lets out a cry (Star Form)

-He flies up between closest sprites and begins to beat his wings as a whirl of wind starts to rise up, picking up pieces of debris, obscuring them from the view (Dust Devil)

(Twig) - (-1 fire damage, +1 Ignited charge) A sprite floats directly in front of Twig's face, as she reaches out into the debris, as she grabs the sprite and pulls it towards her. As she holds it in her hand she marvels on its beauty, as she seems to be having a silent conversation with it. She looks down and agrees to something, as she puts it into her mouth and swallows it

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Turn 2

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As you begin to watch the one Sprite still visible to you it begins to swell... and shift. Bright piercing light fills the room and you feel yourselves overcome yet again by this strange hypnotizing undulation of the flame (charisma saving throw)

(Frost) once again feels the need to move towards the Sprites, hypnotized by them ((Frost) failed the saving throw)

You notice as Embers once again ignite as 12 more Sprites pop out.

(Frost) - He moves towards the sprite (-1 fire damage, +1 Ignited charge; saving throw fail)

You look at the Sprite and it's beautiful. It's primal. You're intelligent, you know that life as you know wouldn't exist if not for the flame. And these are entities of pure fire. As the Sprite looks up to you, you no longer see the sharp teeth and wicked smile. It looks demure and quite cute as it smiles up at you, and for the first time you hear a voice in your head, saying "Eat me."

-He shrugs, stating it makes perfect sense, as he swallows it

You feel warmth in your belly, the type of warmth you have never experienced before. It is cozy, it feels safe. It feels like... this is exactly what you were born to do.

[Sprites] - They surround everyone ({Frost), fail; (Gricko), fail; (Kremy), hits -2 damage, +1 Ignited charge; {Twig), hit -3 damage, +1 Ignited charge)

(Kremy) - (-7 fire damage, +2 Ignited charge; saving throw fail)

You immediately look down at one of these things and you feel a connection to them now. This fire that burns in your belly is... not unnatural, it is... primal. And these entities could be- should be one with you (Charisma saving throw disadvantage, fail)

You look at this entity as it floats in front of you. You pick it up, and as you're holding it you hear "Eat me."

-He shrugs and swallows it

And you watch as {Kremy) picks up and consumes one of these Sprites

(Gideon) - He sees that (Gricko) is being surrounded by Sprites and he charges at the one closest to him and swats at it (melee attack, hits -8 damage)

You feel your fist connect like with the previous one, and just like the previous one it pops out of existence

(Gricko) - (-4 fire damage, +2 Ignited charge; saving throw fail)

-He tries to take a closer look at the embers that made the Sprites show up (Int check, 12)

Looking around, trying to assess what is going on, you notice that the embers are becoming brighter. You notice that, even with the rain, these never fully went out, some part of them wasn't extinguished, though it was very close. Fighting the sprites individually seems to be pointless. And then you remember that since making the rain, you haven't used an water, didn't you... (P.S. from DM: There are buckets of water btw, you know)

-He whips his wings, as he sends his cyclone towards the buckets and the ember closest to them. It picks them up, as water rises into it, as water covers everything on its way, including the ember

[Ember] - (Gideon), you hear in your head "NO! THE MASTER!", as this ember darkens and turns into pile of ash

-He screams for others to go for the embers, as he plays high annoying tone on his ocarina and in flash of blue a cloud of sturges appears, as it swarms around the sprites (Wither and Bloom, hit -1 necrotic, -2 necrotic, -2 necrotic)

{Twig) - She shakes her head, as she regains clearness of her mind and as others instruct, she flies up to the bucket and she douses the closest ember in the water

[Ember] - (Gideon), you once again hear in your head "NO! THE MASTER! Traitor!", as this ember darkens

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Turn 3

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You see the embers once again ignite, the four left of them begin to glow. You watch as one of them launches an orb of fire towards the ember {Twig) just doused and it lights up back to life

{Frost) - (-3 fire damage, +1 Ignited charge; saving throw succeeds)

-He grabs the closest ember like a hot potato and using his mind powers he throws it into a bucket of water (Mage Hand)

With a sizzle and a pop, you watch as it lands and immediately feel pain in your belly and a sense of almost... sadness. For just a split second.

-He moves to the closest bucket (-3 fire damage, +1 Ignited charge) and drinks from it

This is disgusting. This tastes the way dirty feet smell. This is not liquid the way the water should be. It is filled with chunks of moss and algae, leaves and bits of things, you are unsure if you swallowed a bone. There is silt swirling through this stuff and as you get to the bottom its consistency is more like watered down porridge rather than beverage And it is rancid. But your efforts are not fruitless. You feel that burning core inside of you extinguish, and the lack of this warmth fills you with coldness. You feel much colder than before, as a shiver comes over you.

[Sprites] - Move towards closest ({Kremy), fail -7 fire damage, +3 Ignited charge; (Gricko), -3 fire damage, +1 Ignited charge)

(Gricko) - You feel the need to stare into this Sprite that is next to you, as the overwhelming sense of warmth in your body begins to overtake you. You look towards this sprite... (charisma saving throw, disadvantage) However, you do not succumb to the allure of this entity, and you focus back on the mission at hand (succes)

{Kremy)| - (-3 fire damage, +1 Ignited charge; saving throw succeeds)

You break the eye contact with one of the Sprites and you shake off the charm, though you feel... warm. You begin to sweat. There is a fire burning inside of you... You are on the verge.

-He blasts a spell at one of the sprites and, feeling a little hungry, chomps down on the other (Eldritch Blast, hits -11 damage; Hungry Jaws, hits -6 damage, gives +2AC)

[Sprite] - As you blast it with a spell, it extinguishes. [Sprite] - You toss this sprite into the air, and as its careneing down towards your open maw, you hear "I didn't ask for this-!" as it lands on your tongue and you swallow it whole.

You watch as |{Kremy}| begins to illuminate. Between all creases of his scales you see light spilling forth, as the remaining embers begin to throb and pulse with fiery light. And then you see smoke spill out of |{Kremy}|'s nose, his mouth, and in unison, (Gideon), from these embers and one remaining sprite, you hear "The Master comes forward...", as |{Kremy}| begins to take off his clothes.

|{Kremy}|, it is warm. You're sweating profusely, you open your mouth to take in a breath and you watch as smoke pours from |{Kremy}| maw, as one, two, three, four, five embers, followed by two sprites, which begin to swirl around the center of the room. They create a swirling fame whirlpool, as from it a fire elemental rises, The Ragnaros.

And you see as, in the middle of the room this entity begins to rise. He's an elemental of pure fire and ember, it's infused with his body.

The room itself is filled with smoke, the vision in here is significantly lowered. You're having a hard time seeing each other, your breathing is labored as you breathe in this ash and smoky air, as this entity is looming over you, incredibly large.

But you can see a light within him, drawing your attention, as you look at its hypnotic dance (charisma saving throw)

(Gideon) - (saving throw, fail)

As you look at this being, you see kin. Family. An entity of flame. And those sprites weren't wrong, you were treacherous. You tried to douse the flame. But you should never douse the flame. You should feed the flame. And as you look around you, your friends... they're not family, they're not of the fire like you are. They will try to stop this being and that is unacceptable. (You see your friends as foes, and this entity is friendly to you)

-He spins around from the elemental and swings his leg at (Gricko), protecting it (attack, miss)

-As he misses he catches (Gricko)'s head between his hands and as Gricko smiles at him he smiles back and punts him in face (attack, hits -9 damage, -3 fire damage)

Though this entity haven't said to you anything, it's not like these Sprites were able to, you feel its approval, you feel its happiness with you, that you are one of the fold, you are one of the many, you are one of the Flame

(Gricko) - He looks upwards as he finds a balloon basket above Ragnaros, the thunderbird cries out and fills it up with water (Create Water)

As the water fills the basket, the weight of it causes the ropes holding it to give way and all of baskets contest spills out onto the elemental, covering him in water, doing him significant damage. You watch as bits of this Elemental are extinguished, you can see the rocky, magma-like exterior beneath the flames, as smoke pours out all over the room. It becomes harder to breathe.

-He then calls Dust Devil, hoping to once again make a whirlwind of water

{Twig) - She looks at Kremy, then Gricko, then fires a blast (Eldritch Blast, hits -13 force damage)

(Kremy) - You're hit with green fetid magic, the smell of swamp water infused with the power within it. He's still a little out of it when he looks up after spewing out the Elemental. He's confused when he sees (Gideon) hitting (Gricko) in the face and sorry when he sees the elemental. The last thing he sees is a green bolt of magic, as he falls onto the floor, his consciousness fading in and out as he lays limp.

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Turn 4

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(Frost) - he turns around, spits the disgusting water out, seeing the Dust Devil doused with water, he tries to teleport the creature into the water of the swamp (Vortex Warp, -3 sorcery points for roll to be at disadvantage, succes)

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It is hard to see in this smoke filling the room, this entity oozing smoke from the moment it was formed. The Master, as it was called by these Sprites. You've had enough. Kremy is unconscious and this needs to end now. You see a look of shock and dread on its face, as it pops out of existence. You hear a loud SPLASH!!, and the sound of rippling waves, as this entity is submerged in the water.

You wait one moment. Two. Three. And you hear nothing else.

No sounds of an entity trying to claw its way out of the water, all is... quiet.

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[ybkitten]

If you know anything about me, you know I cannot resist a beautiful monster girl. Artfight attack for MoriStarCake on Twitter & Instagram!

[butch-bakugo]

It still blows my mind that no body wants to own movies or CDs. Like I don't like not owning any movies or shows I like and wanna rewatch. Maybe I sound like a boomer but I'm not planning on paying for Netflix for the rest of my damn life just for this one movie I love that their hosting. Imma go on the internet and get the DVD.

We really shouldn't allow these streaming services to kill DVDs and CDs. We should not let them kill physical media. They want you to not have a physical copy, so that when you stop paying, you don't have access to the product your paying for. Buy more CDs. Buy more DVDs. Buy a damn VCR. I mean shit, a fucking Xbox or playstation can play any DVD, blue ray or not. Your car has a radio for a reason.

Don't let them kill physical media. Because if or when the cards fall, you'll be left with nothing.

[the-unconquered-queen]

*The key to both of these features is that the necessary amount of points for success is in no way paywalled and you can get the best of every outcome provided you make good choices

[sqlmn]

by the power of modern day AU, I am delighted to announce that Fulj can have a girlfriend ! I haven't named her yet but have a few in mind so ... soon (TM). She is the one that she loved in canon before the whole memory wipe and as you can see, penchant for black, black hair, brown eyes, and prone to weird statements. Perfect balance to Deacon's weird questions.

HOWEVER ! I mentioned the problem of Deacon still having facial blindness to someone and how there is no glow from the deities for him to identify them. And her solution is the funniest thing ever so I have to do it. He identifies people by smell. So when he is in the same room as Ymber and Oh when they first cross paths, he doesn't really think about it. But later when he sees Ymber alone and gets the same kinda scent, same cologne or something, he knows that's not the taller guy therefore that's his scent ! Perfect!

So... unfortunately.... Deacon really can't beat the weirdness allegations in AUs...... he's stuck like that. Fulj has referred to him as a guard dog in canon and now he's a tracking dog. RIP to him.

(and because Deacon gets my facial blindness I am giving Fulj's girlfriend ANOTHER trait of mine I wouldn't wish on anyone because it's also really funny. She can't smell. She can taste ! She just can't smell. So she loves talking to Deacon because he explains smells as foods for her to get the vibe across. Which are REALLY weird conversations no one else wants to hear.)

[ffroppydisk]

okay but

Andrew doesn't trust Neil once Neil is back from Baltimore. How can he?

The guy lied to his face time and time again, even when accepting to say the truth.

And Andrew only finds out once all the lies Neil had kept came back to bite him in his ass.

After all the trust Andrew had given him with HIS OWN PERSONAL TRUTHS, Neil goes and breaks his trust over and over and over again.

How can Andrew trust him at first? How can Andrew not feel betrayed by that?

Just imagining Andrew discovering the first parts of Neil's lies (through another person, mind you) must have been like a punch in the guts.

Yet Andrew moves on quickly enough from the pain because there's a bigger issue and it's that Neil is missing and he's in danger and Andrew is once again not keeping his part of the promise even if it technically doesn't stand anymore. And he has priorities.

Sure enough, his priorities have nothing to do with how much he himself is hurting.

[astranauticus]

the rwd season 4 qna inspired me to start thinking about college au headcanons except a lot of these are gonna be really specific to my school and y'all are just gonna have to deal with that <3

Kyana feeds some of the school cats. she would feed all of them if she could

Dani smuggled Plug (the scrawniest black cat you've ever seen) into her dorm room illegally and somehow management hasn't caught her yet (based on a true story) (Kyana visits to see Plug all the time)

Finbar keeps an updated tier list of every canteen in the school with breakdowns of the best stalls/dishes for each

A senior from the school of engineering once said to me 'all the engineering people dress like rats cuz our classrooms don't have aircon' (context: tropics) anyway that's Dani

Kyana would probably be involved in a lot of freshman orientation events from second year onwards. she just likes talking to the new kids and giving them advice like she would be the kind of orientation group leader who'd get messages from her freshies asking about all kinds of random nonsense because she's made sure they know they can always contact her with questions

VR-LA is The Guy you go to for textbook pirating resources

(this is more of a 'wouldn't that be funny' but VR-LA is just Veerle's discord handle)

Docent is the name of VR-LA's old laptop that broke down so he gave it to Cassimere (computer engineering major he met once at a networking event) to fix except Cassimere got everything off the hard drive and then somehow managed to fuck it up Even More so he had to get a new laptop (and named it Emi)

Roy has gotten food poisoning from his dorm meal plan at least once (based on at least one true story)

The heap trio + Mandy would be those friends constantly playing majong in the dorm lounge and if all the majong tables are taken they just play in one of their dorm rooms on a towel to dampen the tile shuffling noises (it was Mandy's idea)

Every morning Dani goes to the drinks stall at her faculty and orders one iced coffee to the point where the stall owner starts preparing an iced coffee whenever they see her approach (based on my true story)

Roy would be one of those people who goes clubbing every other week and every time he tries to drag the rest of the heap trio and Egan almost always goes and Dani would go if she didn't have a good excuse but always begrudgingly. anyway Roy would always be the only one having a good time until Egan gets drunk enough to start having fun

Finbar actually uses the dorm kitchens instead of just buying canteen food and it always makes the hallways smell really good

Vhas also uses the dorm kitchen sometimes but like. one time i walked into the pantry on my floor and someone had left cut sweet potatoes and 2 eggs in an inch of water in a pan on the stove. that's Vhas

Kyana's constantly applying for overseas exchanges and international summer/winter school programmes. the world is large and she wants to see it!

Maxim's the definition of a hall phantom. you know he lives on your dorm floor because you pass him by in the hallways sometimes and literally nowhere else. sometimes you're not convinced that he actually exists

VR-LA and Maxim's friendship stems from them being from wildly different faculties (VR-LA's in STEM, Maxim's doing anthropology so arts/social sciences) but also having lots of weird interests they cant really bug anyone in their home faculties about

Elyse is in student government and every once in a while Finbar receives a series of angry texts about the newest idiocy she's had to put up with

MR-SN and AS-TR start a stargazing club together. other notable members include AS-TR's girlfriend E-DN, MR-SN's friend C-RA (the one who always volunteers to carry the heavy ass telescopes) and MR-SN's friend K-LB who he pestered into coming to fix one of the wonky scopes even though K-LB's actually in electrical engineering but he's the only engineering person MR-SN (an arts student) knows

oh and of course VR-LA joins because he genuinely just likes space (developing a crush on his club chairperson was not on his bingo card)

Kyana and E-DN were MMA sparring buddies at one point which is how she found out about the stargazing and joined immediately

honestly i can probably think of more but this post is fuckin long LMAO

[spicyicymeloncat]

I DREW ALL THE GREEN BOYS!!!

These boys! They’re in order of game release (hopefully) and it’s my initial take on every link and how they compare to one another. I say initial bc I wanna make more interesting designs for them later on (like give spirit tracks link uniform that looks like a royal guard outfit yknow). Oh yeah btw these are the 28 green men from the poll a while back.

There will probably be more Loz art so uhh yeah