#garotte

[whumpetywhump]

The Sign - Ep. 5

[innominaterifter]

I didn't think about this cosplay at all until I got my hands on the whip, but now...

[phthalosblues]

Anyway sveta is my baby child and is also a tgirl.

[tilthedayidice]

Could I get a dice palette for my warforged bard Garotte? She's plated in mithril and has soft yellow glowy eyes, and wears navy blue and bright red. Her signature spell is shatter!

Hi sugar!!! I really love the inclusion of a favorite spell!! So much so I encourage others to include their favorite spells or attacks for their characters and what colors they associate with it!!

For example i personally associated Shatter with a more blue purple but monilith-of-orchids here associated it with more of a bright white/blue! Love this

HD Dice Milky Yellow

HD Dice Milky Red

Dice Envy Hanabi (Old Mold)

Dice Envy Blekki Stone

Chessex Gemini Black/Astral Blue

Chessex Aqua Cirrus

Wiz Dice Frostborn

[monolith-of-orchids]

Hallo Tatiana! I would love to hear about your OCs <3 - Mitch

🐈 CAT — does your oc prefer a wide circle of friends or a few close friends?

💘 HEART WITH ARROW — what and/or who do(es) your oc consider the most important to them?

🍝 SPAGHETTI — what is/are your oc's favorite food(s)?

🤔 THINKING FACE — what are some of your oc's quirks/mannerisms?

Omg thank you so much!! Ok so some info about her, she’s a robot lady named Garotte. She’s a bard that plays the electric guitar!

She definitely prefers a very small group of friends, like 3 is the limit.

There’s really only one person she considers important to her, and that’s her BFF/partner in crime Belle. They’re the ‘Bad Idea’ gang, and get into lots of trouble.

She actually cannot taste! But she can smell, and barbecued meat smells the best to her.

She’s got a lot of quirks, but her biggest ones are that if she gets an idea in her head, it’s almost impossible to sway her from it. She also is a cutthroat businesswoman, who lives to wheel and deal.

[cloaksandcapes]

We love asking for inspiration in our Twitch Chats during our live streams. The viewers help us come up with some really cool ideas, and we don't think we'd ever have considered trying to make a garrote weapon otherwise.

The mechanics are all a bit more wordy than we would normally like, but it's not really a normal kind of weapon. So, if you use it, let us know how it works out!

Singing Garrote

Weapon (other), rare

“This garotte is made of an enchanted piece of a strong, metal fiber. It has an odd cobalt sheen to it.”

You can use an Action to make an attack against a creature using this magic item, if they are not aware of your presence, or have the Stunned, Incapacitated, Paralyzed or Unconscious condition.

The creature must make a Dexterity or Strength saving throw (their choice) against a DC determined by an attack roll using your Dexterity or Strength. This item counts as a simple weapon with the finesse property.

On a failed save, the creature takes 4d6 Bludgeoning damage, cannot speak or use verbal components, and has the Grappled condition. A creature can use an Action to attempt to escape on their turn with a successful Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check against your escape DC (8 plus your Strength modifier and Proficiency Bonus).

At the start of your turn, if the creature is still Grappled, you can use your Action to continue to deal 4d6 Bludgeoning damage. If a creature is Grappled and takes damage in this way for a number of rounds equal to or greater than 3 plus their Constitution modifier, they must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or gain the Unconscious condition.

On a successful save, the creature avoids the attack and is aware of your presence.

Sounds of Violence. As part of the Action to deal damage to a creature, the magic item can emit a sound of your choice to help obfuscate the sound of a struggle. Any Wisdom (Perception) checks made to hear the sounds of the creature being Grappled, or thrashing, is done at Disadvantage. This does not affect the sounds of other creatures who may see and call for help, or if something is broken such as a vase shattering during a scuffle.

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[kkachi-rkcl]

The dental hygienist told me I was doing a great job today and I have never felt more powerful in my life.

[many-gay-magpies]

is harris finally dead

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Begg Garott fans.

[vounoura]

I’ll complain abt Pillars from sunset to sunrise but goddamn did their paladin orders go hard

[titleknown]

@randomencounters

truly baffled by the type of guy who says this about this gun

[kabretoss]

wiriting.....is hard

[monterraverde]

[ @gnzma ] "aigh. 3am group fight. see ya there "

"Fuck yeah!! Bring it on!"

"Hey! wait for me!!"

@gnzma

[lonesomedotmp3]

sleep deprivation is turning me evil I'm genuinely wishing the most heinous vile fucked up things on my flatmate right now. there is a thin wall separating our rooms and if you keep talking to your fucking video game friends this loudly I am going to club you over the head and then [the rest of this statement has been censored for graphic bloody violence and threat]

[castillon02]

January: an Omega watch that could level a city block. February: a Montblanc garotte-pen that could write a headline as easily as take a head off. March: a tuxedo jacket made out of a new stab-proof nano-fiber.

Q Branch had assigned these to 006, 005, and 009 respectively.

When the new Aston Martin was ready in April, Bond was too: ready to put his persuasive blue eyes to good use.

"Q."

"No."

"The odds of one going into the Tiber again are---"

"I specifically waterproofed it. It's technically a nautical vehicle. The answer is still no."

Bond smoldered.

Q kept his dark-ringed eyes on his monitor. His shoulders slumped for a moment before straightening. "Fine. If you sign this." Q handed him a letterheaded sheet of paper.

Under the circumstances that the man known as Q is removed from his position at MI6 due to the destruction of a gadget that Q has provided to me, I, the undersigned, pledge to provide at minimum a replacement monthly salary for at least 48 months immediately following the removal of Q's employment.

"No one's going to fire you."

Q arched his eyebrows. “Here: your current issue.” He handed Bond a plastic Bic pen. The top half had been chewed on and not by Q; the molar imprints didn’t match. 

Bond’s lip curled involuntarily. 

Q smiled. 

Bond signed the contract. 

Later, after the car and its surrounds exploded, Q turned up at Bond’s flat with two cat carriers in tow. “I expect we’ll be kept in the manner to which we’re accustomed.” He flopped onto Bond’s sofa.  

It’d probably be a month or two before MI6 hired Q back, which was time enough for good Quartermasters to have a rest and be spoiled. Bond would have to thank 006; the Omega had worked perfectly.

[ewingstan]

Going into Ward, one of the things that interested me is that pretty much everyone who read it, no matter what the felt about it as a whole, seemed to like what it did with Tattletale and incorporate it into their understanding of the character. To a certain extent this makes sense, outside of Amy people's problems with Worm usually aren't that characterization had been changed. But few other aspects of Ward have been talked about with so much relative positivity, or influenced so much retroactive analysis of Worm.

After reading her interlude, I'm starting to understand why.

From the bat we're given blunt and effective portrayals of how alone Lisa feels. Half of her descriptions of other characters focused on how they reminded her of people she's lost. The Heartbroken are primarily described by the ways they do and don't resemble Alec. Aiden by how he does and doesn't resemble Taylor. Imp and Rachel get mentioned but don't get to make an appearance at all, furthering the effect—reminders of her closest connections are everywhere, but the connections themselves are nowhere. She's left with the "expanded Undersiders," and is painfully aware of how they either dislike her or will never form a close connection with her.

There's a lot more emphasis here on how her power is a separate entity than there was in Lisa's Worm interlude. She's snarking at it, talking about it as something that interjects, drawing a clear divide in her head between what it figures out and what she figures out. Is that her knowledge of its nature developing, or simply a new way of looking at how it always worked?

The framing in the passage above seems to suggest that its encouraging her to distance herself from others, pushing her to interact but specifically feeding her information that will prevent close connections. Questions of agency and identity aside, I do like this as an aspect of powers-as-coping-mechanisms: she was triggered by failing to save someone she was close to, not recognizing the signs that he was unwell. Her power helps her see the signs she couldn't before, but it also seems to try to prevent those close connections from forming so she can't be hurt the same way. Not that its successful. Can't stop betting on losing dogs and all.

What she calls people internally is interesting. I figured she had been calling Sveta "Garotte" earlier to needle her, but she continues to call her that in her own thoughts, as does her power. Valkyrie gets to be "Valkyrie," and Vicky isn't called a cape name at all. There's a few ways to interpret this; I'm tempted to say that Lisa sees Victoria as a relic of pre-Gold Morning days, and sees Sveta largely in that context. Though I also feel like there's some refusal to see her or Rain as people who are separate from what they've done in the past. A lot of the comments I've read while reading the last few chapters are people debating whether she should've gone "white-hat," and I get the sense that she sees something dishonest in that. Leaving behind the things you've done isn't something she can do—even Lisa Wilbourn can't leave behind the failures of Sarah Livsey.

That might be something to think about in the context of Victoria claiming Tattletale is awful because she represents "giving up on something better." Its kind of baffling in that context; many people have pointed out that cutting the number of overdoses in half was way better than anything the heroes ever did, but Victoria resents that TT saw merely halving it as acceptable. She prefers methods that highlight a certain attitude towards a problem over methods that are effective at dealing with a problem. Having zero tolerance for overdoses and being able to do fuck-all about it becomes preferable to halving it, because not giving up on an ideal world is better than actually making the world better. As little regard as I have for Victoria's position, it seems that the text is giving it some credence by positioning Lisa not just as pursuing the methods that will make an actual difference, but also as rejecting the idea of "something better." Sveta can't be more than Garotte, overdose rates can be halved but not lowered further. Its weirdly reifying of Victoria's position, making Lisa a foil to it rather than a reflection of an entirely unrelated worldview.

There's a few team leaders in the parahumans-verse who get characterized as encouraging and benefiting from chaos within their ranks. Jack Slash had a self-image of himself as a master manipulator who knew just how to keep the Nine at each others throats to keep them in line, though of course his power was pulling heavy duty there. Trickster exulted in sowing chaos, but while he could use it to his advantage when working alone it explicitly got in the way of the Travellers as a whole during their operations. Lisa incorporates aspects of both; she seems to be cultivating a "this chaos is all part of my design" air for Faultline and Victoria while actually always being on the cusp of losing control of her own team. It seems less like something she's doing deliberately and more like something she has to deal with, even if she later frames it as part of preparing Aiden or something similar.

Man, her relationship with Aiden. First explicit mention of Taylor we've had since the beginning and its for a blunt confirmation that she sees herself as failing Taylor in the same way she failed Rex, and is terrified of doing with Aiden. It feels both like she's holding him at arms length and that she's desperate for a close connection with him.