#gambling fool

[bbbartblog]

Chibi Prisoner~

[maddiedrawz]

supercorp: the duality :P

i will nOT be blamed for this

full drawing~

funny story, i sent this to my friend mindie who knows nothing about supercorp but everything about art. we do that sometimes, send art to each other for thoughts and such. anyways, she was like hmmm maybe the left one is looking dark cuz “like the red light shit” AND I GASPED AND SAID IM KEEPING THAT RED SUN LAMP LETS GO???? LMAOOOO she doesn’t even know that she just gave me the biggest epiphany HAHAHAH

[fly-sky-high-bug-games]

I'll take awhile before I can make this into a full proper post with explanation (and sketch illustration) of each segment, as well as the bird view from the market, entrance and a better view of the smithing corner buuuut have this for now~!

[yukiire]

wow hot damn who is this guy huh ?

i sure don't know him at all

why he look like that???

[feroluce]

Connecting dots tonight (didn't connect shit, I've connected them, etc) because of this post about item descriptions to do with Sampo I saw a few days ago and! I feel like there are so many interesting things that could be implied from this!! Because the recipe for the High-Tech Protective Gear is given to you by Bronya (before the IPC invaded Belobog!), who says this little interesting tidbit about it:

This is an item from before the Eternal Freeze, 700 years ago. Even to the rest of the universe, it would be SORELY outdated. It cannot be made in Belobog anymore due to the loss of entire eras. It is effectively useless; this recipe had to be somewhere gathering dust, kept around solely for archival purposes. There is no reason for Sampo to know about this item or have any idea how it works and yet. AND YET. He's just running around selling knock offs!!

He shouldn't even know how to make these, but the fact that he does means Sampo either

had the blueprints from off-world before he came to Belobog (most likely but also most boring answer)

broke into Qlipoth Fort and copied down the blueprints (completely plausible - he's possibly shown doing exactly that in his splash art)

found another copy out in the ruins of the old world (also completely plausible - Sampo is astoundingly resilient against both the Fragmentum and the cold, as noted by Lynx haha)

Meanwhile, the Inferior Protective Gear recipe comes from an NPC in the underground, and when she gives it to you, she talks about building robots and the robot fighting scene sorry about the quality I didn't have screenshots for her dialogue so I had to use wiki

Which makes me feel like it's safe to say that the inferior gear is mostly being used in the underground, especially by the vagrants and their robots for fights, because...well, who else would use it? Cocolia has made it illegal to explore too far into the Snow Plains, and besides, it's way too dangerous for most civilians even WITH gear. The Silvermane Guards are funded by official sources, they have no reason to rely on Sampo for armor. So it makes sense for an underground mechanic to know the recipe; there's probably not as much market for it up in the overworld.

And if you look at the descriptions, you can see why this probably wasn't something that could be made in Belobog anymore; it requires a charging system of some sort.

We know it's not a problem with the basic materials because all three ingredients can be found right in the administrative district. But the underground only has two of them; somehow, despite being in the planet's crust, and literally crawling with robots...there is no metal down there. It isn't found anywhere, sold by anyone, or dropped by anything. And metal just so happens to be the one ingredient Sampo replaces in his knock off version.

The Inferior Gear uses trash instead, something which, going by the words of that same mechanic, is MORE than abundant in the underground- any good quality parts are extremely difficult to come by down there.

Anyway, all his shadiness aside, I love the implication that Sampo is smart enough to be able to take this item that no one else on the planet probably knows anything about, and was able to figure out what he could replace, and how, and with what, in order to make it easily accessible to the people of the underground, even without access to overworld resources. Because his version DOES work! It literally gives you the exact same amount of defense boost as the IPC one!

Someone should absolutely still knock him around for it, though, world's most slappable face fr fjkdsjfdkjafk

[jubilationsart]

Getting watermelon is its own gacha game when you spend $5+ and MAYBE get something edible. Fruits un general

[theactualsunshinechild]

Okay so now that the Black Swan story quest has officially dropped the lore that Sampo IS in fact a part of the Masked Fools, I think now is the best time for me to present to you my thoughts on what Sampo's fool's mask should be.

Bear with me now, this is going to sound stereotypical, but I have my reasons. I think Sampo's mask should be that of a black cat.

Aesthetically? Flawless. It will make his green eyes pop, go great with the blue hair, and gives the designers an opportunity to give in to the slutty punk goth aesthetic they were kind of already cultivating.

Thematically, I think this is very appropriate because black cats, while nowadays mostly considered to be "bad luck" were initially more about the change of luck. If a black cat crossed your path, your luck would be fated to change, whether for better or worse. As he says, where there is business, there is Sampo. People with cash will suffer because he will sell them junk. People in a bad situation can be taken right out of it by Sampo, but may have to pay a price. He brings luck and he takes it away with a clever word and a flick of the wrist. To a certain degree, encountering Sampo in the story has consistently been in line with this notion! We were having a good time exploring when we found him in the snow, and he got us into an altercation with the Silvermane Guards. Later when we were in a really bad pinch trying to escape Bronya and the guards, he whisked us away (along with Bronya, changing her luck in the process too). When we were in need of a guide to the surface willing to get us in touch with Serval? Sampo to the rescue. Trouble with stolen artifacts during the museum event? Sampo was at the source. Still need help at the museum? Sampo is your man. One can even argue that our luck turning sour on Penacony only started happening after encountering Sparkle disguised as Sampo which can count if you want. Either way, Sampo is a tricksy little creature and luck follows silently in his invisible footsteps.

Therefore I think black cat imagery suits him very nicely, especially with his whole slinking around through dark alleys and knowing the ins and outs of places and always carefully eluding situations that could end poorly. Probably has nine lives and claws to deal with anything he can't wiggle out of. Just as willing to steal scraps as he is to indulge in given treats. Terribly charming in that same way that cats who know they've caused you trouble are, making huge innocent eyes at you until you shoo them off with a sigh. Always capable of appearing when you least expect it and turning the whole situation on its head.

Point is, in my humble opinion, they need to give Sampo a black cat aesthetic for his Fool form because I think it is classic and fits him.

[rollingsim]

the plans changed

[accursedpenner]

Aventurine's gambling motif actually makes his characterization weaker as a whole

It does nothing for his role as a Perservation unit and because he has a tragic backstory (that honestly, by itself, does WAY MORE to sell him as a Perservation unit, re: "May your schemes be forever hidden"), his main appeal is that people can play with what is NOT there!

This isn't a fault of the fans. Fandom does what it does best (speculate)

But from a character design stand point, his character is spread too thin. Hoyo wanted to try to do two things at once; maybe even three things at once, and it really strained his screen time.

If he was just a gambler with no tragic backstory/ an unknown backstory that is also a schemer that turns the tables to reach his goals, that would have been fine. Nice n simple.

If they wanted to keep the tragic backstory so that he can grow up to be someone who utilizes his innate "luck" (given to him via the blessing of his peoples' goddess), knows he has it, and KNOWS how and when to utilize it to become some kind of Big Boss archetype that has NO Connection to the IPC or even if he made an enemy out of the IPC because he out foxed them, that would be a lot more interesting.

But when you try to mash these two ideas together, A gambler who never loses due to his innate luck given to him as a blessing (which honestly takes the risk out of gambling ENTIRELY because he will always win anyways), you will never get the best of either.

[actual-haise]

[hawnks]

I have this very clear idea in my head of what my cursed technique would be if I was a Jujutsu sorcerer but it's also like insane <3

[niftukkun]

THE FOOL - commonly meaning new beginnings and foolish actions both; the perfect card to represent the reckless and foolish iterator that started it all.

[link to speedpaint here] [design notes under the cut]

this card is very pre-game -- pebbles had just recieved the Golden Pearl (<- this will be a recurring object) and started pulling more water than he needed. the fool himself is the main feature, reaching for the metaphorical cliff (the pearl) (a cliff to fall from like in the original fool card) as the consequences start to flicker into being under his feet, the sheer possibility writhing into reality as he barrels on without care to the consequences he will bring down to both himself and his sister. the start of it all, and the start of the end.

other design notes include: -the rot (this is the first time i've drawn it and i am very proud of it) (also proud at how it almost looks like a hologram, not quite real just yet) the fact that pebbles' arm comes from the same direction as the rot (the consequences. the cliff.) -the gold pearl shining like a star (i swear the original fool card was looking at a star but i guess it's not? something something the brilliance and beauty of the star blinds the fool to the consequences and danger) -the halo (if you look at the speedpaint i will upload (have uploaded?) you'll see that i wrote fool in morse over and over) (also the halo is meant to be split into five parts with the circles being the marker for where its split. cause yknow. five pebbles.) -and the outfit design (my own headcanon, its inspired by traditional filipino dress. in specific the top is a barong tagalog and the skirt was inspired by something i saw in the fabric part of the ayala museum. the sash was one, so there'd be something that trails cause that always looks nice in illustrations and two, to tie pebbles to moon (moon is wearing a filipiniana pre-collapse and those sometimes have sashes))

[narzissenkreuz-ordo]

ARGHHH ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????????? AT LIKE 40 PITY????? ARGHHHH MY SUNDAY FUNDS..........

[doukeshi-kun]

my wife couldn't play games with me 😔 so i must return to my origin (playing a literal gacha card game)

[pallas-cat]

i can't quite identify if my passive suicidal ideation (which i have constantly on at the background and vomit on here every two days) is to be taken seriously right now as it's becoming more active/clear. i mean i'm Like That at few times a month so it's just me having the Mental Illnesses but something feels worse right now. it's weird because i don't hate every aspect of my life but i don't like anything in it either and i want to escape and give up everything right now.

[luck-and-larceny]

Scenario: Malika meets Nymeia face to face and is granted the opportunity for a single question, and a single wish? What would Malika ask, and what would Malika wish for?

This is a tough one. She has a lot of questions, but so much of the appeal comes from the mystery of it all.

I don't think she'd want to ask, "Am I right about what you want and the correct way to worship you?" I think definitively knowing one way or another would just make things boring for Malika. Her favorite thing about luck is that you never know what card you'll draw or what number the dice will land on. Getting a straight answer from Nymeia on exactly what to do or not to do to get the best results would take all the thrill out of the gamble. And she lives for thrills so that's out of the question.

So hmmm...

So her wish/question might be something like: "Can I weave something on the loom of fate and see what happens?" or "Without the use of your divine magic, will you play a game of chance with me?"

Or she might ask if Nymeia would be down for a one night stand. I imagine she'd think there's no greater way to be blessed by the goddess of luck than by, y'know, gettin' lucky with her.

Thanks for the fun ask!