#godsfall

[haveyouheardthispodcast]

[theladyragnell]

A stranger at a party releases Brennu Zahin from an enchantment, and while he recovers, they write letters. They shouldn't have much in common, but Elyn of Procyon is determined to be his friend, not just his rescuer.

A fic for a different D&D campaign than usual! This is the Godsfall campaign, what I was writing epistolary recaps about over at @letterstosestrilles over the past five years, and this is the first non-recap fic!

This is 32k, a slowburn romance with lots of epistolary elements and trauma recovery (mind the warnings), and a decent introduction to the campaign since it’s an NPC’s viewpoint of it from level 8 on. If it intrigues you, there are links to the blog at the end!

[vartian]

Foq’s playlist for Arc 11 of Unprepared Casters

[mankillercalledbunny]

Parasocial relationships are fucking bizarre

Podcasters keep showing up in my dreams and then I wake up and I'm sad that we're not actual real life friends

[slumbering-shadows]

Love how everyone is sooo concerned about Nyxara wiggling her way into Lore's brain but nobody seems to notice the Apolius coming out in Bastian. there is something wrong with this man

[samyazaz]

Maliah is usually nervous around strangers, but the stranded traveler she picks up in the rain turns out to be charming, fun...and just a bit mysterious.

Godsfall, Maliah/Marsa, 30k, a rockstar AU.

[liamarmitage]

I have been designing a collection of altered Tarot cards for my fantasy world of Reuel, where many stories will take place. As I create the cards and unveil their lore I will share them here.

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In the decades after the Godsfall the survivors began building new civilizations and with those came artifacts from the before times that people adapted for the new world. One of those was the Tarot deck, essentially the well known Rider Waite Tarot deck. In time it became known as a Fate or Moira deck and the original cards transformed as people looked at the world in new ways. Each entry in this series describes one or more cards. 

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The Empress has always represented bounty and physical comfort but modern deck users will be surprised that it was historically represented by the figure of royalty on a throne. Today the card not only is represented by a grandmother hard at work cooking and is often named the Grandmother though many continue using The Empress feeling it works just fine. 

[authoralexharvey]

Alex Does NaNoWriMo - Day 22

I didn't get much done yesterday because instead I spent over 5 hours sorting a playlist, which I haven't done for writing in years. So who is really winning here?

Still not me lol anyway if you want to see a 25 hour playlist of standalone fantasy pieces, the OSTs of various games, and piano renditions of Zelda songs, the products of my labor are [here]. It's still a work in progress tho.

One thing I did do, however, was write more academic-sounding stuff. Or, at least, I hope it sounds academic. I haven't been in school in years. By the end, I'll have referenced so many fake texts I could make a fake bibliography if I really wanted to. I'm kind of thinking about it. How odd that this is the book that became so academically-inclined when my last major project was literally set at a college lmao

Anyway, let's talk stats.

Words wrote today: 547

Total words: 28,787

Excerpt:

The famed writer [NAME] once wrote in their epic poem, “[TITLE]”, that: The earth itself wept blackened tears. / O, foul scourge so cruel / to rip us from the breast of the Gods. This poem was itself inspired by the writings of [NAME], a historian alive during the Godsfall. Though [NAME]’s accounts have been met with derision due to how ‘human’ they make the Divine sound, they remain the source of most of the available texts we have regarding the death of the Gods. In their work “[TITLE]”, they say the following: I have seen the death of the Gods with mine own eyes. I have stared into the great beyond in Their blackened corpses. Indeed, the earth itself weeps for Them, the same ichor which comprises Their blood. I have felt Their grief, so deep it shadows my own. It is the death of fathers, mothers, siblings, dearest friends. It is all of these and none of them. It is a horror all its own. In this, [NAME] elucidates to us the dire circumstances. The death of the Gods was a harrowing event, one felt even by the bones within the earth. 

Tag list (ask to be added!): @linaket, @sarandipitywrites, @belovedviolence, @anoelleart, @flowerprose , @bardicbeetle

[rpg-weather-cycle]

Current Weather: Dampened Resonance of Increased Anarchy Unregulated [Citizens of five-spirals are restricted to standard movement. Citizens of five-spirals cannot cast the spells of the type "Legal". Theocracies cannot invade semi-real space. Entities looking at the sky may be inflicted with the status effect Immune to [???]. Attempting to enter sewers will result in temporary death (revocable by class: reality maintenance worker). Exclamania cannot be considered property of five-spirals. Democracies cannot trade with other nations. Godsfall amount is randomized every second. All entities are inflicted with the curse ê±õVº¬ýUn«.]

Hopefully that's enough

We should have realized the election would allow them entrance.

To be fair, who would have guessed a combination of election fraud and miku would win? We just need to do what we can to prevent five-spirals from destroying all of this.

It might be too late.

[city-of-five-spirals]

Hello Exclamania! Thank you for considering letting us create an embassy here. We are very grateful that Ignore That. FIVE-SPIRALS is informing you that you must CEASE & DESIST all operations in your local 9-sphere. Failure to do so will result in a LAWSUIT.

Ah, the expansion division is doing it again. Well, while you are stuck here, you might as well learn what we are about. The river doesn't remember what it was, but us who serve the final mountain still do. Remember, you always have the right to ask for a lawyer! From your only friend, [???]

Quarentine32723892: this blog is run by the mods of @rpg-weather-cycle NineteenthOfTheAshes: It is not for a single character, and most likely the citizens of five-spirals you meet will never be seen again. Quarentine32723891: After all, we are a whole city, and one with an uncountable population too! EighteenthOfTheAshes(burning): This pinned post is still under construction, feel free to check back on it later

Official™™™ Guide to [Narration]: Hello You are not a citizen. Leave! It's so nice to see you againagainagainagain! I'm sure you are wondering You were not, Coward what those bits and pieces of text in a single pair of square brackets are! Well, have I the explanation for you!! Those are what we call "The words of the Narrator" you asshole. They are the divinescumscumscumsumkillthegodsbringourweapons GODSFALL words that describe everything relevant happening. Of course, some of our five-spirals organizations can edit them, but that doesn't make them untruefalselieswrong! Please leave, you are ruining us. Our blood is on your hands. They are written as absolute truth, so if something changes them, the world usually changes to match, and due to please go, please the retroactive naturetruthtruthtruthnature of this, most people will never notice the difference! Now, onto some specific examples We can't handle this any longer of this in action. Let's say the wor- [The guidemakers fall over, dead. The guides were not meant for you. It seems they tried to warn you, at least you assume that is what those bits in italics were about]

Tags: #out of character - contains or is out of character content #interactions - interactions with other blogs #completed interaction - completed interaction #internal documentation - my friends #asks - messages from the anons, long may their infinity reign

[justdiptych]

Two new acquaintances you might make during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose in Fallen London - The Abbot-Commander of Godsfall and Verity, the Collector.

[captainjimothycarter]

Anyone have some podcasts they recommend?

Ive reached the ends of mine and I need something new to listen to as they update.

I listen to: Not Another D&D Podcast, EOS-10 (basically take Star Trek with a touch of MASH), Welcome to Nightvale (dont judge, his voice is soothing), and Godsfall.

[theladyragnell]

Two memes that go well together!

I was tagged in two things, and since both of them are to do with WIPs, I thought I would do them together!

From @pluckyredhead:

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it. 

Except in very unusual circumstances, I only write one thing at a time, so the only WIP document title I’ve got is:

godsfall brennu pov

And then from @idiopathicsmile, I’ve got:

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

Returning to Mashoy is both disorienting and a relief.

And then to tag (goodness, do I even know who’s writing fic these days? I’ll do my best): @samyazaz, @sovinly, @pluckyredhead (for the slightly different meme), @myrmidryad, @eisoj5, @emilianadarling, @returnsandreturns, and @dollsome-does-tumblr! I’m one short, but I’ve decided “a” doesn’t count as a word. Anyway, all of you feel free to do either or both memes, as you desire!

[fictionkinfessions]

I haven't ever been public with this, but since the show and fandom have been dead for a few years.... Pera Rivers, I miss you. I loved you so much, and it hurts to think that we'll never hear our ending. But you'll always be my Sparks, and I fondly remember the way you lit up my world... In more ways than one. I hope you're happy, wherever you are out there.

Your Squish,

Xion Praeten (Godsfall)

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[mankillercalledbunny]

So I've finished season 1 and what a goofy yet compelling story!!! Aram really created such an interesting and detailed world I want to Interrogate Him

Also the fact that they were releasing this in 2015 and literally had a gay wedding episode release the day after the Supreme Court ruling... I realised that and had to sit down and cry

I've started Godsfall and I'm so excited because the episodes are short! They're easily digestible!! But there are SO MANY OF THEM!!!!

AND IT'S ALREADY QUEER FROM EPISODE ONE

[theliterarygnat]

Reading Summary: 30. April, 2024 (The Hunger of the Gods, Chapters 41-49)

Wasn't able to read as much as I'd have wanted. Such is life when one gets to go to work.

CHAPTER 41 | GUÐVARR A strong, shocking start. Guðvarr's capable of apologizing and admitting failure? Damn. It's also quite interesting that Guðvarr can recognize and feel thanks towards his aunt's help, even feeling responsible to return the good deeds. Also I think this might be the first chapter (that I noticed) where there's no mention of Guðvarr almost pissing or shitting himself, or having otherwise unfortunate reactions in his crotch area. Progress!

CHAPTER 42 | BIÓRR The godsfall isn't much of a godsfall if only like 2-3 gods died.

CHAPTER 43 | GUÐVARR Gwynne, please, I beg of you, why are we in his brain so much. Stop.

I'm having a hard time picturing the events of this whole shield-dance, but honestly this doesn't truly feel all that important so maybe that doesn't matter.

pg. 386 No joke, I wish Gwynne had cut that thought "I wish I was getting paid", because that is just an objectively funny thing to say about anything ever.

CHAPTER 44 | BIÓRR I do love the conversation between Rotta and Lik-Rifa. Exactly the type of genuine (at least genuine-seeming) affection and emotion that I've been wanting from her! It's also interesting that on pg. 391, it's mentioned only Kráka and Bjarn were quiet; even Breca is having fun, it seems!

pg. 392 Tannbursta… tannbørste… toothbrush…. Idk if I like it or not, but it is a little funny.

CHAPTER 45 | ORKA pg. 395 "Myrk's teeth drew back and she hissed at them" I mean I do hope you mean lips and not teeth, because those don't really tend to do that.

CHAPTER 46 | GUÐVARR pg. 407 I just cannot stop laughing at this man.

pg. 408 Im imagining Guðvarr's reaction is that bloated emoji face.

CHAPTER 47 | VARG Funny. Not much else happened. I honestly would have preferred the chapters to be more meaningful sometimes, and longer. It's becoming a little exhausting to have to jump this much between the different characters' heads without any payoff or time to get invested into their story again.

CHAPTER 48 | GUÐVARR I am getting second-hand-embarrassment just from reading "Guðvarr lurched to his feet, upending the table". I had to actually skip some lines just to avoid my face cringing into the fourth dimension.

pg. 418 Ughhhh and here I thought we finally left this bladder quirk behind. I genuinely don't think it does anything for his pitifulness when it's used so many times; mans probably got a medical condition at this point.

CHAPTER 49 | ELVAR pg. 424 Why is Gwynne allergic to question marks and the 'asked' dialogue tag? If it's a question, mark it so! Use tone indicators! More varied punctuation! Use mood and tone to make dialogue more impactful!