#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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[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

[warriorprincesstramp]

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.

[mothmanavenue]

can i confess something else that will absolutely get me stoned in the town square since im dropping my unpopular opinions. I don’t like altean broadsword Lance. i already disliked red paladin Lance. the broadsword was like rubbing salt in the wound. why couldn’t he have his own niche. why was his character development just making him keith. i understand that it was like “he accepts that he doesn’t have to be a leader and excels as a co-leader and you can find happiness that way yada yada yada”. but you could’ve done that without making him keith. also now give him something unique, cool, that falls in line with his sniper bit. i’m not saying just give him another gun, im saying give him something quiet and lethal. like a garotte. yeah i want garotte lance.

i yap a lot more in my notes by the way if you were interested in other unpopular opinions. don’t send me hate messages or comments i won’t read it and will block viciously i also will not be debating this this is my hill to die on <3

[theoutcastrogue]

"The knife is a weapon of the Other"

"The emerging martial art of Bartitsu, appearing in middle-class magazines during the Boer War, was the encapsulation of British civilian gallantry. Yet Bartitsu would have slid into obscurity had it not been for its curious appearance in the Sherlock Holmes canon. The final showdown of the ‘duel’ between Holmes and Moriarty is a wrestling match between two Victorian masterminds. When Holmes returns to London he tells Watson that he and Moriarty went to battle at the Reichenbach Falls unarmed. Holmes managed to ‘slip through’ Moriarty’s grip as he possessed ‘some knowledge’ of ‘baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling’, adding that the art had on occasion been useful to him.

Founded in the 1890s by an Anglo-Scottish engineer, Edward William Barton-Wright (1860–1951), Bartitsu was a synthesis of British boxing, French la savate (kickboxing) and Japanese jujitsu. Barton-Wright tapped into the need for a bourgeois form of self-defence, something which he could promote as being British and yet was also exotic and refined.

The principal aim of Bartitsu’s promoters was ‘to provide a means whereby the higher classes of society may protect themselves from the attacks of hooligans and their like all over the world’. These urban gangs were a new form of folk devil, descendants of the mid-Victorian-era garotter. While they were armed with clubs, knuckles, iron bars and leather belts, it is doubtful that they carried firearms. Nevertheless, the press did represent the hooligan as a threatening presence.

Perhaps the scares promoted the growth of a burgeoning culture of ‘British’ self-defence which avoided the aggressive and increasingly unmanly action of using a firearm against a ruffianly lower-class opponent equipped only with basic weapons.

Barton-Wright follows a literary tradition when he presents his martial art as a British form of self-defence. Pierce Egan’s well-known self-defence manual was supplemented with a word on the ‘Englishness’ of physical heroism, arguing that ‘Englishmen need no other weapons in personal contests than those which nature has so amply supplied them with’. In 1910 the former lightweight boxing champion Andrew J. Newton said in his manual Boxing that ‘the native of Southern Europe flies to his knife’, whereas the ‘Britisher […] is handy with his fists in an emergency’. Elsewhere it was maintained that the ‘Italian, Greek, Portuguese, or South American’ ‘give preference to the knife’ while the Englishman extols boxing. For Barton-Wright, British boxers ‘scorn taking advantages of another man when he is down’, while a foreigner might ‘use a chair, or a beer bottle, or a knife’ or, ‘when a weapon is available’, he might employ ‘underhanded means’. The views of these articles reappear in a later self-defence manual of 1914, where it is argued that Britons ‘live in a country where knife and revolver are not much in evidence’. This statement about the low number of firearms and edged weapons can be read as an attempt to extol British virtues and is not necessarily representative of reality. The knife is a weapon of the Other. Barton-Wright’s view that English practitioners of Bartitsu are principled men is reflected in the Sherlock Holmes canon, where Holmes never uses a knife, although his enemies, whether foreign or British, do so at times."

— Emelyne Godfrey, Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) (very abridged)