#indiana jones: throw me the idol

[boardgametoday]

Funko Games unveils four Indiana Jones Board Game Adventures

Funko Games unveils four Indiana Jones Board Game Adventures #tabletopgames #indianajones

Funko Games has unveiled four brand-new games inspired by the world of Indiana Jones, three of which are available now. The games are for Indiana Jones fans of all ages and experience levels, ranging from intricate strategy adventures to outrageous party games. Indiana Jones Cryptic is the first in an innovative new interactive mystery game line of “Puzzles and Pathways Adventures” from Funko…

[wrwnbabo]

"SOUND ON!

We were lucky to have our protagonist, Jerry, be voiced by award winning actor, Mr. Alfred Molina. You definitely know him from some of the roles hes played over the years in movies and tv shows like Frida, The Spider-Man franchise, Chocolat, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, An Education, Feud: Betty and Joan, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (throw me the idol!) and his new series, Three Pines.

When we asked Alfred to be our lead, we were kind of embarrassed. He's a Juilliard trained actor whos won awards on the biggest stages, and we asked him to make bird noises. But ill tell you this, he absolutely nailed it. Not only is Alfred a great actor, but he's a super nice human being and a joy to be around! So happy to have him as part of our "Flutter" family!

Here's some fun clips of Alfred in the recording booth that we wanted to share with the world!"

IG post from @fluttershortfilm

[scooptroopfanfic]

Runaway CH2

Note: Please check the warnings on the Chapter Select before reading

Lucy rings Steve’s doorbell. She is surprised Steve still lives at home, but she really does have the room to judge. As the door opens the packaged popcorn, candy, and Yoo-hoo are revealed to him.

“Hey, Stevie. Wanna let me in so we can get set up?” He grabs one of the bags she has from her pile. Lucy looks back at her brother’s van and waves him off. Chrissy shyly waves as Eddie casually waves at her before he drives off.

“Is your brother taking a girl home? Wait. Is that Chrissy Cunningham?”

“It isn’t like that Stevie. It’s a deal, not a date. You should know about this considering you used to throw a bunch of parties.”

“I didn’t touch that-“ Lucy gives him a knowing look as she enters the home.

“Liar. When Eddie found out we were friends he immediately ratted you out. I don’t really judge. One of the tamer things Eddie has to offer.” She says as she puts down part of her haul on the kitchen counter. “Plus, you outed yourself to Dustin in the elevator last summer.”

“Right. Forgot about that.”

“Fair. We did end up on the weirdest trip I have ever been on thanks to those Russians.” Steve then goes through her haul of snacks meant for the next couple of hours.

“Yoo-hoos?”

“Yeah! They are a Munson essential. Amazing!” Steve gives it a skeptical look. “Come on Stevie! Trust me.” She says as she takes out the popcorn and starts getting it ready.

“Fine. If there are no objections to movies tonight. Robin picked them and said for me to force you to watch it even if you try and be nice and put me out of my misery.” Steve then spreads out the array of movies Robin has chosen.

“Yes! Like I would stop these movies from playing. You got into this job by saying the Star Wars with the teddy bears. You need to at least see the movie once so maybe you can remember the name Ewok so you can impress Dustin.” Lucy says as she holds up the Star Wars movies with an Indiana Jones squeezed in for good measure. “She left us Indie so that you can have a break. I have a feeling you are going to relate a bit to the adventurer knowing the stories Dustin tells Eddie.”

“He talks about me to him?!”

“Yeah, Stevie. You’re his idol. Like the big brother, he never had. Just don’t tell him I let it slip and we can have a bit more of a break than Indie.”

“Deal.” As he says this the popcorn starts popping and Steve gets out the bowl.

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“Why do the teddy bears have spears?”

“Because George Lucas and Co wanted something cute and fluffy to sell to the little kids but badass to sell to the older ones. Now watch the movie.” Lucy says as she grabs some popcorn from God knows how many bowls. On each side of the sofa, they have spread out one to two bottles of Yoo-hoo each. Lucy plops her head down on Steve’s shoulder and they attack the clones.

At this point, it is well into the night. The duo has watched the other two Star Wars movies with Steve asking questions along the way and Lucy answering them without spoiling anything. When they get their Indiana Jones, and the Raider of the Lost Ark break Steve asks fewer questions, but it is clear from the two Harrison Ford performances he enjoys the simplicity of a professor turned adventurer.

“Thanks for putting up with this Stevie.” She says softly.

“I’m not putting up with anything. I mean would I choose Star Wars any day of the week? No, but I haven’t been able to spend time with you on one as I have with Robin since Starcourt, and well… I have missed you.”

“Aww Stevie! I didn’t know you missed me and our closing shift shenanigans.” She says as she looks at him slightly laughing. They lock eyes for a few seconds. Lucy then stops laughing as the air begins to get tense. Steve slowly begins to lean in, and Lucy follows.

Right as they are about to close their eyes a sharp set of knocks is heard at the door. Steve and Lucy jump back away from each other and Steve runs for the door. When he is out of eyesight Lucy gives the biggest sigh and curls up on herself covering her face with her hands, her blonde wild hair blocking the rest of her face.

“Stupid…” She says to herself.

“Good evening. We heard reports that Lucy Munson was here.” At this, she gets up and walks to the entryway.

“Yeah. Here I am-“ She sees immediately the flashing lights and the silhouettes of two police officers. “Oh. Sorry. Is there something I can help with?”

“We are going to need you to come with us.”

“Why?”

“We can’t say.”

“Well, I don’t know what you want with her but if she needs an alibi she has been here since the early evening.” At this, the officers go back to their cars and talk to each other. They then quickly come back.

“Ms. Munson your home is a crime scene. I recommend you find somewhere else to stay for a while.” The officer says.

“She’ll be here as long as it is,” Steve says as he gently pulls Lucy back towards him.

“If you hear even a peep from your brother, call the station.”

“Yes officer…” Lucy says softly as Steve gives a nod and shuts the door after waving.

“Fuck… fuck fuck fuck.” Lucy says to herself as she starts to grab her stuff.

“Hey! You can’t just leave. It makes you look guilty and may lead them to your brother.”

“You’re right. I hate that.” Lucy says as she stops what she is doing. “But I can’t just stand here. Eddie is a soft soul.” Steve gives her a look. “Deeeeeep down. He is a little scaredy cat who couldn’t hurt a fly. He needs to be calmed down because he is losing his mind right now.”

“We can worry about this tomorrow. First, we need to sleep. You can take the guest room. I’ll show you where it is.” Steve then helps her grab her stuff and takes it upstairs.

On the bed is a large shirt and pants folded. “I uh keep this place ready in case anyone is in a tight spot. Guess it paid off.” Steve says as he puts her stuff on the floor next to the bed.

“Yeah. Thanks, Stevie.” She says as she gives him a hug.

“Yeah. It’s not a big deal. Let’s get some sleep and find your brother tomorrow.” Lucy gives him a kiss on the cheek.

“Goodnight kiss. For good luck.” Steve gently goes and closes the door before he responds.

Lucy groans in embarrassment as she flops into the bed.

“Now let’s find Eddie.” She sinks into the bed as she closes her eyes. Eventually, she sinks further into the bed until she is past it and in a black plane. She walks along the surface of the black water below her and she looks around. Eventually, she finds Eddie lying down in a canoe curled up and asleep. She runs over to him before placing her hands to cradle his head before entering his mind.

The first thing she hears is Eddie. She feels the sheets on his bed as she springs up.

“Chrissy wakes up!” He says as she convulses with glazed-over eyes. He starts to shake her and snap at her. “I don’t like this! Chrissy wakes up!” At this, she rises into the air and her bones start to snap and contort.

“Eddie,” Lucy says before she grabs him and the scene in front of them changes to a typical evening with Eddie playing his guitar and Lucy in the living room listening as she works on her homework.

“Lucy! Chrissy she-“ Eddie says as he is hyperventilating and crying.

“I know. Cops came by to try and take me in,” she says as she drags him into a hug and sits him down. “Now let’s calm down and listen to your practice.”

“Where are you?! Are you safe?”

“Yes. I am at Steve’s house and can stay there for now. Let’s focus on you. The press hasn’t gotten to the story yet and the police officers haven’t officially started the manhunt… but I have a feeling that are going to do that soon. You can’t let them catch you.”

“Well, I am hiding out at Refer Rick’s place. Please try and bring me food or something. I am getting hungry. I was planning to have Chrissy over for dinner before she left but well-“

“You don’t have to explain yourself to me. I just saw you didn’t do anything. We can say here if you like to get some rest. I’ll try and bring something by tomorrow. I’m gonna guess some snacks, easy-to-make meals, and yoo-hoos?”

“That sounds great. Thanks. For the future food run and this.” Eddie says as he gestures around to the scene.

“No problem. I’ve been trying to help Max out at night with her dreams, so I have had a bit of practice lately.” Eddie then looks concerned.

“Is that why you have been so tired lately?”

“It has been a bit taxing doing it every night, but I should be fine and so should you. We are technically resting.” She says with a laugh. “Now, which memories should we dive into this night.”

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Lucy looks like a zombie as she reorganizes the movies recently turned in.

“Are you ok?”

“No….” Lucy moans out as she accidentally drops her tape in her hands causing her to bend down and pick it back up.

“Did you have a sleepless night?”

“Not in that way. Nightmares.” Lucy says as she rubs her eyes.

“You mean you didn’t take the opportunity I gave you?”

“Yes and no. We can talk about this later when I can think.” Lucy says as she shooed off Robin. Lucy continues to clean up around the store. A violent clang can be heard from the front of the store.

“Where is she, Steve?”

“Who?” Steve asks as Lucy moves to the front of the store.

“Her. Lucy, I need your help. Your brother he is being framed-“

“I know.”

“I need your help to find him so we can find out what happened and what sort of being we are dealing with now.”

“Are you saying the Upside Down is open again?”

“So far doesn’t seem like it but our creature may just be for this section of the campaign.”

“Dustin, I know you love my brother, but he is the DND player. Speak Common to me.”

“He is the key to this whole mystery.”

“Hey. You help me get him food and I can help you find him.”

“Deal.”

“Do I get a say in any of this?” Steve asks as he blocks the front of the counter.

“No. My brother is starving. Look. We can either do this with your help or Dustin and I can walk on over to where he is and who knows what may happen to us.”

“Fine. Now how do we even find a guy like that?”

“Easy. You have talked through a scenario like this before and you pre-planned this. I mean we thought it would be me on the run, but it works.” Lucy then jumps to the counter and starts using the customer database. “Just need to get a house number really quick.”

“Hey, this is private customer data.”

“And I am an employee Stevie,” Lucy says with a wink as she types in the name she needs. “Now let’s get my brother.”

“I have some other-“

“Fine. I am going myself. Dustin, you stay back and keep bothering this guy and your friends to help. I think we have another incident.” Lucy says as she checks the time and nods to herself before she goes into the back to change and leave.

As she opens the door she is greeted with a stark white wall. As she turns back the hallway continues to a door with no handles. She feels a weight on her face and feels it realizing there is a muzzle over her mouth. Lining the hallway are similar doors but each has a number. She starts to walk forward. As she does the sound of a clock chimes in the distance as the laughter of children rings out from behind the door at the end of the hallway she is walking down. As she continues down the hall the laughing turns into screams and cracks can be heard. Thumps sound from behind the door as she gets closer. The lights start to flicker. She reaches for her door, her fingertips brushing it before she feels a hand on her shoulder. She turns around quickly and winds up ready to punch.

“Lucy? Are you ok?” Steve asks as he backs up to space himself away from her threat of violence.

Y-yeah… just worried about my brother… I-I need to go.” She says as she wipes her nose and rushes off. Dustin tries to stop her, but Lucy looks at him with a look that makes him hesitant long enough for her to leave.

——-

After a while, Lucy appears from the gas station with a bag full of snacks and microwaveable food. She seems very shaken up as she huffs to herself. She starts her walk to Rick’s house, but she hears a car screech down the road. Eventually, she can hear familiar arguing as it whips by and eventually stops further down the road.

“Finally…” Lucy says to herself as she jogs forward.

“Get in,” Dustin says loudly as she gets closer.

“I call trunk,” Lucy says excitedly through labored breaths as she walks around to the back and pops the trunk.

“Don’t you dare! You’ll mess up-“

“Stevie sweetie you have to chill. I’ll ride-“ she looks at the crowd for a second. “…uhhh hump.” Dustin gets out and Lucy squeezes in before Steve drives off.

“So… Lucy…” Dustin says as he seems concerned. “How are you doing?”

“As good as can be considering my brother is being framed for murder.” She laughs. “But other than that, I am peachy.”

“Welp, I tried.”

“Hey! She is going through a lot here. She is the sister of a killer going through a mental break!” Robin pipes in from the front.

“He is framed.”

“How do you know?”

“I just know.” As Lucy says this she looks down at her hands and notices them shaking. She starts fiddling her fingers and clasping her hands. As she does this Dustin pats her on the shoulder.

“Eddie does that when he is nervous about something. You’re going to be ok. Eddie is going to be ok.”

“I know. Eddie and I did discuss this whole plan a while ago and he seems to be following it perfectly.”

“Why do you have a plan for this?!” Dustin looks at her like she has grown an extra leg.

“We are the children of a criminal. Of course, we need an escape plan.” Lucy looks at Dustin with a hurt expression.

“Munson’s…” Steve chimes in from the front causing Lucy to lean forward into Robin and Steve’s space.

“You got something to say, Stevie?” She says as she leans in close to whisper. “You didn’t seem too bothered by it yesterday.” She then pats the side of the seat as Steve freezes unable to respond. “Aww come on. That wasn’t even the worst thing I could say.” She says with a laugh as she leans back into her seat having Max and Dustin look at her bewildered.

“So, what did you grab for your brother?” Max asks trying to brush past everything.

“All the essentials. Some water, some chocolate milk, some snacks, some meals… enough to last a few days before he has to start begging.” She says as she shows the boys.

“This is an amazing haul of food.”

“Yep. Figured if it is good enough for a child to enjoy it should be able to satisfy Eddie.” She says with a laugh as she closes the bag.

———————-

They pull into Rick's driveway at night. Lucy reaches into her jacket pocket and pulls out a flashlight as she climbs over Max.

“Hey!”

“Sorry! Got places to be!” She clicks on the flashlight and runs off towards the house. She tries the door and realizes it is locked. She then remembers the night before with Eddie being in a canoe. “Right. Wrong building.” She says to herself as she clicks off her flashlight and runs over to the boathouse. She tries the door there and finds it locked. She starts trying to jimmy it.

“Lucy? Where did you go?” Steve calls out into the night. Lucy sighs as she holds her hand in front of the door. She hears a click from the door and pretends to have physically done something to the door instead of what she did when Steve appears again next to her.

“Going with the plan Stevie.” She says with a sing-song voice. She then opens the door. “Benefits of being a child of a criminal.” She gestures to the open door for them to go inside.

She begins to walk her way in when suddenly she enters the doorway to the white hallway again.

In the real world, her friends continue searching for her brother, unaware of what is happening due to the darkness. Steve begins stabbing around with an oar until Eddie lunges at him with a broken beer bottle. Everyone starts panicking.

“Lucy a little help,” Dustin says as he turns around to her to find her still with her eyes glazed over and her nose bleeding as she looks on.

“No! Not you too!” Eddie rushes over and starts trying to wake her up. “Please don’t do this to me. Not now.”

Lucy hears none of this as she suddenly snaps back to the real world, her blue eyes returning to normal. “What the fuck?” She looks around confused and scared as she tries to calm her breathing. “Where?” Before she can continue Eddie continues to shake her. “Stop it! I am fine for now!” She grabs her brother’s shoulders to stop him. That is when she notices he is almost crying.

“Eddie. I’m not going to be sacrificed. I’m more final girl material anyway.” She adds the joke at the end, but he isn’t laughing. At this, she drops her fake smile and tightly grips his right shoulder as she talks to him in his head.

“What did I tell you on that day? I’m not leaving you alone as long as you will let me hang around.” She then smiles on the outside as she severed the connection. “Now can we all sit down and figure out what the hell is going on?” She says as she guides her brother to sit down.

Others try to touch him, but he backs off still very jittery. Lucy is in a similar state, but she is holding herself together a bit more. Most people are questioning Eddie, but Steve comes over to check on her.

“Why didn’t you tell me what was happening?”

“I don’t know. I guess it made it real.” Lucy says with a hollow laugh.

“How long have they been happening?” There is a sadness and fear in his eyes.

“I don’t know. I’ve been dealing with what I saw in that place as a nightmare. The whole thing happening when I am awake thing is new though. Like maybe a few days? Yeah, that sounds right. It was the reason you almost took one to the face earlier today.” She smiles but it looks uneasy. “Sorry about that by the way.”

“It’s ok. You’re cursed right now according to your brother and the kids.” Steve seems to think about something for a second before he nods to himself. “I was wondering if you could tell me what exactly is going on when you are in there?” At this, Lucy seems to sink back into the past. Like she is physically there but mentally somewhere else.

“A time and place I am never going back to. The only people who know about it… they aren’t around anymore besides Eddie.” She realizes something. “Wait… that’s not right…” she then winces as it feels like a spike drove into her skull. She sees a flash of three people. Angry blue eyes, scared brown eyes, and dead grayish eyes. “Ugh, that’s not right either. I think I need sleep. That will help with the whole gaps in memory thing?”

“Or it will bring you closer to whatever is happening,” Steve says looking at her with worry.

“Don’t worry my valiant knight. I’m confident that you’ll find a way to save me in time. You have a surprisingly good record of getting to places just in time with solutions and you better not change that now otherwise I am haunting your ass.” Steve smiles unsure as he offers his hand to help her up which she takes.

Lucy looks over to Max and sees a sad sense of understanding. Lucy’s eyes widen as she realizes what it means. She is not the only one in danger.

[wuxiaphoenix]

Raiders of the Lost Plot

Dum da dum dum, dum da dum....

Ahem. I was reading up on Draft2Digital as a self-publishing option for going wider than just Amazon. (Current thoughts: Looks promising, want to think about it and do more research before I commit a book that way.) One of the many articles I read was written by, shall we say, someone who was less than impressed by the quality and quantity of indie writers.

Made us sound downright uncivilized, he did. Not properly gatekeeped! Not properly edited! No agent in sight, and no hint of a manuscript scrutinized by the eagle eyes of Real Publishers to make sure it was fit for the reading public. Scoundrels, to be sure.

Which led me to think about the fact that “indie” writers - short for independently published - could easily be written as Indy Writers. And from there... well. There’s all kind of fun to be had. Ah, if only I had movie screenshots....

The consequences of a cheap cover!

(Indiana Jones weighing a bag of sand in his hand, about to switch it out for an idol of pure gold. This Is A Mistake.)

The hidden fees of traditional publishers.

(“Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes....”)

The horror of the lost plot points!

(Dr. Henry Jones: “I wrote it all down so I wouldn’t have to remember!”)

Falling down the research rabbit-hole.

(“You know Marcus. The man got lost in his own museum....”)

The triumphs of Doing the Research!

(“You said Belloq’s medallion only had markings on one side. His staff is a foot too long.”

“They’re digging in the wrong place.”)

And when all else fails, throw in the Plot Ninjas.

(Professor Jones and seagulls versus an attacking biplane.)

Not to mention the wry thought that given some of the howlers I’ve seen on the shelf these past few years, the Real Editors of tradpub are not who I’d trust to gatekeep my fiction.

(“Top. Men.”)

What do you think? Should we adopt the whip and fedora as our signature, or just keep laughing?

[shogikappa]

My Top 10 digital pinball tables, June 2023

I’ve always been a fan of pinball, but my interest in it had been renewed after playing on the Beatles pinball machine in 2019. After getting tired of getting my ass handed to me by unfair mobile games, it was really refreshing to play games where my loss could only be blamed on my poor play, rather than the designer having calculated it all to make things hard for you so that you have to pay for microtransactions. In any case, I started looking for more pinball games after Flash was no longer supported and Pinball King and Funhouse Pinball (not the Rudy one) became defunct and I need newer pinball games to play. I’ve discovered lots of tables I’ve never played before and here are my top tables.

10. El Dorado (Zen Pinball) - Pinball FX3

Not to be confused with the more well-known pinball table of the same name by Gottlieb. Admittedly, El Dorado is kind of an acquired taste. It didn’t look very fun at first, but after playing it for a bit, I found it pretty fun, and I only really fell in love with it after immersing myself in the role of an Indiana Jones-style archaeologist, and you’re pretty much playing as one digging up treasures, deciphering ancient glyphs, avoiding traps, and collecting idols and poison remedies. As part of Zen’s older original tables, El Dorado is relatively easy in that it’s very easy to keep the ball in play for a long period of time, and the ball saver could be activated easily in the mobile version and on Pinball FX2, so I will say this table isn’t one that offers the most excitement when it comes to the thrill of risking losing your ball all the time as with many of the other tables here. The treasure-hunting theme and the minigames and toys however quite sold me, and the gameplay is fun too, but you might wanna give this game more goes and throw yourself into the role for better enjoyment.

9. Pin-bot

I first discovered Pin-bot via the NES adaptation of the game, but I was always frustrated that it added animated enemies that gobbled up your ball (making you lose it) and other enemies outright destroying your flipper. They probably thought that adding enemies not present on physical tables could spice up the experience, but it just makes me wish I was playing on the real machine instead. With pinball you already have very limited control - 2 flippers. With one or both of your flippers taken away by enemies or additional enemies that eat your ball, that’s a massive handicap and only serves to make me want to play the real table instead. The Moon cheese ball though is a nice touch.

Pin-bot has been recreated for Visual Pinball and is on PSP as part of the Williams Collection. There was also an OK port of it for the Pinball Arcade on mobiles. The game is pretty straight-forward: You want to give Pinbot eyes and score jackpot, and try to reach the Sun as you move around the Solar System. The game is relatively simple to learn and is quite fun for what it is, although it does lack some of the features and presentations present in the more exciting pinball tables from the 90s.

8. Who Dunnit

Who Dunnit has been ported to Visual Pinball, and used to be available on the Pinball Arcade for mobile. Here you play as a noir detective trying to gather clues and interrogating suspects to solve murders. This table incorporates a roulette portion, a slot machine, and essentially a sort of deduction minigame. I personally find it to be great fun. Solving murders would culminate to a climatic roof chase mode where you have to shoot a changing target within a relatively short time limit. It doesn’t have a whole lot of modes, but it packs a lot into a relatively simple-looking table.

7. Pinball Noir - Pinball FX

Another noir detective-themed table, this is a newer Zen original table and these are not plagued by the problem of being too easy to keep the ball in play that you could play for long periods easily without losing a ball that was common in Zen originals in El Dorado’s time. It seems that it’s going for a more modern full-colour display style too since it doesn’t seem to be basing the score display on DMDs. This monochrome-ish table’s got a lot of style, although it seems to me that where you’re supposed to shoot at any given time isn’t so obvious, as everything will just be lit. The voice acting is also a little poor, with the lead actor sounding way too try-hard to sound like a noir detective in a way that doesn’t sound natural. Nonetheless, this is a table I find myself coming back to again and again. It’s fun to shoot the mobsters and score jackpots after they’re down.

6. Curse of the Mummy - Pinball FX

Now this table doesn’t look like much at first, but there’s a lot going on here. I believe you play as archaeologists raiding the mummy’s tomb, although that doesn’t seem very explicit. There are lots of objectives to do here which physically change the layout a little, like building a bridge that connects the two upper playfields, and lighting torches in a maze which turns the centre waterfall into a passageway. Also helping the game is its Egyptian-sounding soundtrack, which seems to be something that’s missing from other Egypt-related games, surprisingly. Just to reiterate, don’t be deceived by the simple-looking layout. There’s a lot to do here.

5. Nautilus Remake - Zaccaria Pinball

I find this to be an outlier in Zaccaria Pinball, in a good way. Now most of the Remake and Deluxe tables in Zaccaria tend to be pretty easy. This table, although the same applies, has really good presentation. An update inspired by their 70s pinball table, this modernized take introduces multiball, ramps, modes, and a wizard mode into the mix while adding a nice soundtrack that makes you feel like you’re diving in the deep sea. I really love this table, although I wish it would ramp up the difficult to match those of the 90s Williams tables and make it so that it’s easier to drain the ball. As with other Zaccaria tables though, there’s no graze period. If you get down to 1 ball, multiball mode immediately ends and you won’t get a few seconds to score a jackpot like Williams tables tend to give you.

4. Whirlwind

Previously available on The Pinball Arcade, and also on the Williams Collection for PSP and on Visual Pinball, and recently made available for Pinball FX, I accidentally discovered this machine after confusing its name for the predecessor table of Hurricane (it turns out to be Cyclone, not Whirlwind). As part of the “natural disaster series” along with Earthshaker and later inspiring features found in the famous pinball table the Addams Family and the Twilight Zone, Hurricane has a very thematic use of its iconic spinners called “Whirlwind spinners” on Wikipedia (though the article strangely does not mention the Whirlwind table), which will cause the ball to be thrown off its trajectory. The physical table also has a fan mounted on top of the backglass which blows wind towards the player’s face when the storm is here (the spinners are spinning). The goofy “storm blaster” and wind from the backglass are also nice treats, and you could hear the wind telling you to “Feel the power of the wind”, a line which would be referenced again in the Addams Family and the Twilight Zone. Overall a very fun table with a very thematic use of spinners.

3. Cirqus Voltaire

At first I didn’t like the theme. Some kind of evil cirqus controlled by a green-faced ringmaster? It seems evil circuses are kind of an overdone trope. Now I will still say that the theme isn’t an especially appealing one, but it really makes up for it in gameplay. You’re trying to perform various acts in hopes of joining the circus, and over the course of the game, you’ll perform the various available acts. My favourite is the juggler, who actually juggles the balls around the juggler ball locks.

But the star of this table is really its wizard mode - what happens after you successfully finish all the marvels. Without wanting to spoil the ending, this is something you should definitely give a try. This table has one of the most climatic endings I’ve seen in a pinball game.

2. Twilight Zone

Available on Visual Pinball and recently for Pinball FX (there was also a super easy adaptation on the Pinball Arcade), Twilight Zone is one of the most well-known pinball tables and its prices are very high if you’re looking to get a machine. If you’re one of my friends, you probably already know I’m a big fan of the TV show, but this table boasts one of the most complex rulesets I had come across in a pinball game.

With a few features taken from the Addams Family and Whirlwind, the goal is to “unlock the door with the key of imagination”. Now I was thoroughly disappointed that on the physical table, the door doesn’t actually open. Pinball FX’s recreation rectifies this by opening the door every time a door panel is awarded. This table is also filled with unconventional features like a gumball machine that dispenses a lighter and faster ball sometimes, and “invisible” magnet flippers called magnaflips.

The Twilight Zone is usually very punishing for its residents... But sometimes, perhaps, just before you score the jackpot, the game will give you opportunities for easier shots... which in itself makes for something quite unexpected and fitting for its theme... of the Twilight Zone.

1. The Getaway: High Speed II

Released for Pinball FX/FX3 and also available on some other platforms (mobile, Visual Pinball, formerly the Pinball Arcade), The Getaway is the sequel table to High Speed. Now I was pretty happy with HS, but after playing the Getaway, it pretty much completely replaces the original HS.

You play as the owner of a sports car trying to pick up a beautiful hitchhiker and running the red light while outrunning a cop in pursuit. The most eye-catching feature is the metal ramp equipped with electromagnets that speed up the ball above the playfield, called the Supercharger (which is apparently something you put on cars to make them go fast). This table also boasts fast-paced gameplay with a matching fast-paced soundtrack (as opposed to HS) as your ball would need to be fast in order to make the necessary shots. This table is also probably the fastest-to-wizard mode table I’ve ever played, with me reaching wizard mode in under 3 minutes regularly. Loop shots are fun as you try to keep looping the ball around the orbits, gaining increasing points for each successive loop. A little gimmick this table has its that in order to move to the next mode, you need to press the launch button, meaning you pretty much have to take your hand away from a flipper button, although it’s considerably easier to do on digital recreations when all you have to do is to press Enter when your flipper key is the right shift.

Overall a very exciting table just due to the fast action it delivers, making it my favourite table, along with Twilight Zone.

Conclusion

These are my personal top pinball tables. I do realize tables like the Addams Family and Medieval Madness are among the most popular tables, but they just don’t resonate with me as well as these ones here, and I wanted to include games other than ones found in Pinball FX’s Williams tables and Zaccaria Pinball here as well for some diversity, hence Pin-bot making it into the top 10s.

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Diamond Select Toys in Stores Now: Indiana Jones, MODOK, Sue Storm and TMNT!

Diamond Select Toys in Stores Now: Indiana Jones, MODOK, Sue Storm and TMNT! #tmnt #modok #fantasticfour #indianajones

Not at New York Comic-Con? Well, there’s a convention happening right now at a comic shop near you, and it’s got comics, toys and even exclusives! Read on to see what’s shipping to your local shop this week from Diamond Select Toys and Gentle Giant Ltd, including some San Diego-exclusive products. Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark Idol Vinyl Bank A Gentle Giant LTD release! Throw me the…

[giantmonster]

[bunjywunjy]

Any facts about blanket octopus?

while female blanket octopuses can reach over six feet long counting their fashionable cape, the male blanket octopus only reaches a whopping 0.9 inches in length!

it’s okay though, he makes up for his diminuitive size by stealing tentacles off of the deadly stinging portuguese man-o’-war and fwapping would-be predators with them like a tiny indiana jones.

YOU THROW ME THE IDOL, AND I’LL THROW YOU THIS VENOMOUS TENTACLE I JUST RIPPED OFF OF A DEADLY CREATURE

[padme-amitabha]

Vad*phra is the Sn*mione of the Star Wars fandom. Disgusting, creepy, abusive and wrong. Yes, Snape had a creepy obsession with Lily but I doubt he would ever be into Hermione who is old enough to be his daughter. Same with Vader. (Isn’t she like two or three years older than Luke and Leia?) Why would he not focus on his son and be a petty villain and spend so much time hunting down this oh-so-important b****? Oh that’s right, because they need to sell more of her comics. Not only that, didn’t he hit her (using the force and also choked her) multiple times and treated her as a tool to get the job done? Even that audiobook with her confirms that he treated her like garbage and she’s afraid of him or something. But they keep including this unnecessary unoriginal character wherever they can. Why is this ship popular again? Do people have a thing for dark and abusive ships? Or it’s probably just Vader fangirls using her as a self-insert.

Considering she’s supposed to be an Asian, lesbian character, the writers aren’t transmitting the message clearly. Instead they shamelessly keep inserting sexual innuendos in their interactions and even though she’s supposed to be gay, she acts like she can’t keep it in her f****** pants every time she’s near him. And they even try to whitewash her on multiple occasions and try to make her look and act like a dark Padmé (please, your unoriginal trashy OC could never measure up to Padmé Amidala). Her jokes are forced and annoying, she acts like a complete w**** and turns everything into a joke. Being “quirky” doesn’t make your character good when said character has about as much depth as a piece of paper. They try to force some Anakin/Padmé parallels to show her one sided idolation. Hence the existence of the godawful popular “dark” crackship. Not only that, she manages to sink her claws into Luke too. And I have seen people ship them as well. Few characters enrage me as she does. For someone who’s supposed to bring diversity into the franchise, she is acts like a (shameless) straight white female (she is Asian in some issues but white in others). What’s worse is her creator Kieron Gillen supports this trash of a ship and acts like he’s surprised to discover them. As if there wasn’t enough of Marvel comics to fulfill fanboyish power fantasies. Being able to write for George Lucas’ franchise is probably making these writers have delusions of grandeur.

Not only that she is given a ridiculous amount of importance for someone who actually has no place in the main story, her job could still be done by Boba Fett but we needed more Strong Woman™ in the story. And oh boy, the plot armor is strong with that one. She keeps coming back even after he throws her out into space because how else are they gonna make some cash? These writers have taken it way too far with their fanfiction. What were they going for? A Bellatrix Lestrange in Star Wars who is infatuated a villain? This unoriginal b**** (ripping off of Han, Padmé, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft) is one of the worst and shallowest characters in existence.

I try to stay away from this trashy crackship but when it shows up on my dash, I just lose it. F*** you Disney for ruining Star Wars.

[esepoimipullula]

Alright, so... this is the utterly self-indulgent essay. XD

For any non-Italian readers: remember the introductory note on my translation of Goofy and The Perfect New Year’s Eve Handbook? About Italian Goofy (Pippo) having a huuuuuuuuuge family? Well, everyone in this family is, ofc, either just as quirky or nearly as quriky as Goofy himself... which makes for a lot of interesting personalities. Like Goofy's cousin, Indiana Pipps. Or Arizona Goof, in English. Presumably to make the joke at least a little bit subtler.

... yes, "the joke" is that he's literally an Indiana Jones parody. Who happens to be related to Goofy and look almost exactly (or exactly, depending on the story) like him. He's an "adventure archaeologist" who spends most of his time scouring South American jungles for lost pre-Colombian temples full of traps and treasure, travelling through scorching deserts to find legendary Egyptian ruins, and stumbling into fantarchaeology/Ancient Aliens/magical/mystical relics. He's brave, smart, passionate, confident to the point of being actually a bit arrogant, kind of reckless and hotheaded, a little rough, rather snarky, and has a strong sense of justice... and a bunch of strange habits and quirks. Like his penchant from entering buildings from the window rather than from the door (because that would be too easy), his preference for sleeping bags over beds and tents over houses (though he does have a house just out of Mouseton... in a dangerous swamp complete with crocodiles), his dislike and distrust for city life in general, and his love for a particular brand of strong-flavored liquorice candies called "Negritas" that almost everyone else finds adsolutely disgusting. Through the years, he's fallen in love with a bunch of female characters (starting with Clarabelle Cow, or so the internet tells me... Goof guys trying to steal her away from Horace must be a bizarre family tradition) and he's had a bunch of female characters fall in love with him, as you can expect considering he's the Dr. Jones of the Mouseverse and everything. But none of these crushes has ever really gone anywhere... whether because of a bout of obliviousness preventing him from realizing his temporary sidekick had been head over heels for him the whole time (sorry, Martina), a misguided attempt to present as a more traditional academic for a nerdy professor who unexpectedly turned out to be really into the adventurer type, or fairy law forbidding him to marry his French fairy sweetheart (yup, that happened).

Ironically, his most constant and long-lasting is with his nemesis, Dr. Kranz. (Nope, no name given.) (Yes, this is going to be an "enemies to lovers" kinda thing... except with, like, A Twist. So if you don't like that kind of dynamic or think people shouldn’t like messed-up ships or anything like that, you'd probably better stop reading.)

Kranz and Indiana appeared together in Indiana's first story, Mickey and Goofy in: Raiders of the Lost Temple by Bruno Sarda, and have been chasing each other for one reason or another ever since. Kranz is an adventure archaeologist, too, but despite being (almost) as skilled and succesful at his job as Indiana, he spends an awful lot of time following him around and trying to steal his discoveries... most often by putting on some disguise, stalking him from a distance, and popping out of nowhere with a gun and a mocking smirk as soon as Indiana finds the hidden lost idol/treasure/artifact/city.

Despite some weird occasional foray into the world of attempted world domination, Kranz is (mostly) into the whole villain business for the money and the fame. The money because he loves luxury (especially fast cars and five-star hotels) and sells a good chunk of what he finds or steals to unscrupulous clients or outright villainous organizations to afford to live the good life, and the fame because he has a big ego and (somehow, still) a reputation as a respectable archaeologist that feeds into it... and he's always trying to overshadow Indiana, because he hates being always second best to him. Which is just as well, because Indiana hates his attempts to steal his own discoveries, his criminal activities, his utter lack of ethics, and his greed. Whenever they see each other without either of them ending up on the wrong end of a gun or tied up for the local authorities to find, they usually still end up at each other's throat anyway. Or at least, insulting and teasing each other the whole time.

Except... it wasn't always like that. Back in the day, Indiana and Kranz were actually students in the same college. And roommates (YES, "and they were roommates!"). And "inseparable" best friends who got along very well despite their differences and genuinely cared for each other. And after graduating, even adventuring partners, at least occasionally. Kranz already loved money and luxury, and Indiana had already started to develop his simpler yet more bizarre tastes, but they were good together.

There's actually a recent mini-series about their college years written by Bruno Sarda himself, Young Indiana. It's pretty much a shipper's delight, as it contains high amounts of fluff, overdramatic (and suspiciously coupley imho) friendship drama with a happy ending, hugs, kisses, straight love drama taking a backseat as the focus stays firmly on the friendship drama, and a certain amount of foreshadowing of (angsty) things to come. But their old friendship was already an established fact before that...

Like in the story Indiana Pipps and the Return of Doctor Kranz, where Indiana ends up telling Mickey the story of how they parted ways and became enemies. Which was apparently inspired by something that happened in the Martin Mystère comics, but I've never read them so I wouldn't know. Long story short, Indiana and Kranz where on an expedition together when they unexpectedly found an absurdly powerful ray gun left behind by Ancient Aliens. As it turned out, by that point Kranz had already been in contact with a shady organization that would have paid good money for something like that, so he proposed they should sell the gun to them and share the profits of the sale. Indiana immediately opposed the idea, of course, being all like, "wtf dude idk about YOU apparently but I have morals and also a sense of professional ethics"... so Kranz knocked him out, took the gun, wrote him a note about how you shouldn't slap good luck away, and fled to the other side of the world, where a man from the organization would await him. But when Indiana woke up, he immediately started trying to track him, eventually ruining the sale right before it could go through and throwing the gun into the sea, where it would never be found again. At that point, Kranz swore he'd have his revenge on him by basically costantly tailing him and ruining his life and career, never leaving him a moment of peace.

Which he's sometimes been pretty succesful at, considering there's been a whole story about Indiana being so stressed due to Kranz appearing out of the blue to ruin his day, it turns into some sort of bizarre mania where he believes everyone and anyone is secretly Kranz in disguise. However, the same story also has Kranz being so stressed due to Indiana constantly foiling his schemes that he goes on a cruise to just forget about him and relax for a while... and ends up jumping off the ship when he mistakenly believes Indiana might be on it, too. So, that's a two-way street, I guess.

So, basically... friends to enemies, genuine affection being ruined by greed and ambition and turning into resentment and spite and straight-up hatred, a degree of mutual obsession and general unhealthiness. But that's not really all there is to their relationship.

There's also stories where they're forced to collaborate to reach the same goal and have to behave more or less civilly, or even where they choose to do so willingly and end up actually still being a good team. There's stories where getting good results while working together makes them behave almost amicably, as much as they're able or willing to. Stories where they acknowledge their past together, if not their old friendship, and even the similarities between them. Stories where they find themselves with someone they both look down down or hate even more than each other, and find some common ground insulting and snarking at them in-between doing the same to each other. Where they grudgingly help each other out.

And then, there's Indiana Pipps e il soccorso obbligato. The story I blame for getting me into this ship in the frist place, when I could be here reading and writing Scroldie or Dimeshipping or Donsy or Mickey/Minnie or literally any other of my Disney comics ships that people other than me actually ship.

In Il soccorso obbligato, Kranz gets kidnapped by some shady guys while he's working on a revolutionary archaeological discovery, except he's not been kidnapped and he's not actually close to finding anything that awesome, and it's all just a convoluted trap to get back at Indiana for laughing at him one time because he's terrible. But Indiana doesn't know that, and so he and Mickey rush to the rescue and fly to a whole other continent to find him...

That story really has everything. From Kranz coming up with a ridiculous and ridiculously cruel plan because he might be used to Indiana insulting him and mocking him but sometimes his former friend laughing at him and acting all superior and better than him still hurts, to Indiana actually falling for it and trying to justify to himself why he does, telling himself that after so many years spent (fighting) together there's a bond between them and he owes it to Kranz... and admitting he’s worried about him. From Indiana still remembering little details about Kranz and their past together and looking almost fond as he talks about them, to Kranz being both petty and obsessed enough to leave a journal full of insults to Indiana for him to find as a clue and setting his password to a mocking phrase about him (and Indiana, who should expect some stuff like that or at least be used to it, still getting riled up and planning on giving Kranz an earful when he finds him). From Kranz assuming Indiana would only come save him if he threw an imaginary fantarchaeological discovery into the mix because then Indiana wouldn't be able to resist his "archaeological curiosity", to Indiana considering said discovery more of a secondary concern and actually regretting and feeling almost guilty for mocking Kranz the last time they saw each other before the supposed kidnapping... and recklessly, unthinkingly running over a thin ice bridge over a gaping chasm just to get to him, throwing all caution to the wind even as he tells himself he doesn't even know why he's doing it. And the way they still KNOW each other despite everything that happened, maybe even because of everything that happened! The angst! The complicated, unspoken, repressed things! Being a softie and a sap, I'm always a sucker for "the hero and the villain actually have a bond and care for each other on some level even if it's not the healthiest or most normal thing"... but considering the history between these two? Though the story in itself is very fun and entertaining, it never fails to break my heart a little.

And in all honesty, I might end up writing fanfictions about them. Fanfictions full of angst and pining and conflicted feelings and "we were never lovers but oh god we could have been --- if you hadn't screwed up everything in the end, at least" college stuff with a mess of obliviousness and repressed feelings, most likely.

[jackkeanfmp]

Relics in Pop Culture - Golden Idol from Indiana Jones.

My last bit of research from Indiana Jones is the infamous Golden Idol. Lets see if this thing was worth risking death for.

What immediately sticks out to me about the idol is how shiny it is, I’m going to go out on a limb and say this thing is made out of pure gold (in the Indiana Jones movie of course).

But now for the main feature, the design. It gives off a very Aztec vibe from the face design. The overall quality of the idol is quite good but very minimalistic, well everything except the head.

Size wise it’s not big at all, and obviously not very heavy if it can be replaced by a bag of sand. But like I mentioned in the post about The Ark of the Covenant, context matters, The Chachapoyan Fertility Idol, also known the Idol of the Chachapoyan Warriors (shortened to Idol of the Warriors) or Golden Idol, was a six-inch tall, solid gold representation of the Chachapoyan goddess of fertility known to the Inca as Pachamama.

That is what the idol is and what it represents. It’s quite a mouthful but it helps the idol in being more meaningful and throws us into what Indiana Jones goes hunting for. I’d say this piece does belong in a museum.

[abubblingcandle]

NADDPOD Manchester Summary

Just thought I did a highlights bit but while it is fresh in my mind you guys might appreciate a summary. If I have forgotten anything please let me know!

The scene starts between adventures on the deck of the Stormborn over the ocean. There are puffins floating on the sea below and a peaceful quiet. The Band of Boobs sails the ship down low and scoops a puffin on board. The next eight hours are spent by Moonshine attempting to awaken the puffin. She does so successfully and Hardwon names the puffin Peter. Peter is not sure about his new found intelligence and begins an existential crisis about how his life before was worthless. 

A raven flies down and lands on the ship with a note tied to his leg. It is quickly realised this is not Caw Caw and Hardwon laments that Caw Caw is off living his best life somewhere. The note is a note from Ren asking for the help of the Band of Boobs as his family has fallen upon hard times since the crick rebellion ran them out of town. He asks for their help to retrieve an idol made of arcanium from an old temple on his family’s summer island and offers to split the profits with them if they succeed. The band of boobs decide to go help Ren as in the end they could just steal the idol from him for themselves. Ren’s island is in a little archipelago of islands and has a lovely beach with a house built out of the cliff and an infinity hot tub over looking the sea. 

I can’ t remember the exact details of the exchange when they arrive but Rin things the boobs are hired help and tries to order them about. Ren offers them towels, Moonshine strips and changes into the towel. Ren tries to identify with Bev about how mad these poor people are and out of solidarity Bev also changes into the towel but to preserve his modest enlists an air elemental servant to help him out of his armour behind the towel. Rin offers them to stay for a dinner of puffin (much to Peter and Moonshine’s outrage). Instead they leave to the temple to retrieve the idol. Ren changes into an all silk Indiana Jones outfit and gives Beverly a matching one which he changes into.

They arrive at the temple, it is a temple with a stone carving of what looks like a bullywug king and some words underneath and the first roll of the whole session is a history check by Beverly or Moonshine to read some variant of elvish. Caldwell gets a nat 20 and identifies this as the bullywug language and translates “Squash the ant, step on the ladbug but be kind to gullywugs” (that was the gist can’t remember the exact words). 

Everyone tries to convince Ren to go first but Ren refuses insisting the poor people go first. Caldwell rolls a persuasion check and gets another nat20. Ren charges into the temple up the stairs and falls off a ledge with a scream. The Boobs follow him down and find the shit being kicked out of him by a giant stone ant and a giant stone ladybug. There is also a giant stone gullywug lingering back near a throne. They dive into the battle. Moonshine throws an unconscious Ren out of the way of the stone gollums and Bev uses Ren as a spring board to touch hands him and stab at the ladybug. They try to negotiate with the ladybug but it has plans on world domination, eradicating all other life so the world is only populated by ladybugs. Moonshine relates but it is discovered that this is actually only a giant stone beetle with spots painted on but he desperately wants to be a ladybug. Ren turns invisible to avoid the fight like the coward he is. They kill the ladybug but Moonshine promises to pass on its message in the outside world. Hardwon uses his new found Animal Husbandry proficiency (which Murph found absolutely hilarious) to befriend the giant stone ant and rolls a nat20. The ant lets Hardwon ride it and stops attacking, Hardwon calls him Anthony. Beverly dashes up to the stone Gullywug and brushes its teeth. The gullywug proclaims “you have been kind to the gullwugs” confirming that the riddle outside was instructions. Hardwon is devasted at the loss of his new friend but uses the towel to cover his eyes as Moonshine, Balnor and Bev finish the ant. The Gullywug gives them a key before disappearing. 

Caldwell gets a nat20 on an investigation check and finds a key hole in the seat of the throne. It opens into a chute leading into darkness. Moonshine shouts down and rolls a nat 1 on an investigation check. She is convinced that Cooter is down there as a crick elf is shouting and dives down head first taking about 20 damage. Bev uses featherfall on himself and Balnor and Hardwon grasps Ren to use his ring as they dive down too. It is pitch black but Bev uses the radiant light from his sword to illuminate the room through the unnatural blackness. There is a giant pit about 60ft in diameter with a plinth with the idol on in the middle. Hardwon throws Beverly who uses the whip from his costume to grip the plinth and pull himself up (another nat20 and after this one Caldwell kissed the dice and threw it into the crowd). Hardwon is convinced it was a great throw from him. Caldwell uses an investigate check to find that the room is booby trapped with spears in the walls. Bev grabs the idol and misty steps back over the pit. They all run and try to climb the chute. Bev goes first and races up, Balnor follows more slowly, Moonshine casts jump on Hardwon before climbing, Ren casts fly on only himself and Hardwon jumps up. On the way out of the crumbling temple Moonshine grabs a bit of the stone beetle/ladybug. When they leave the temple the idol has a prerecorded warning but Ren grabs it and smashes the idol into five pieces before it can finish. 

Turns out arcanium can be used to power wish spells and is nothing to do with the drug R-Cane which pisses off Hardwon as he only came for the drugs. They return to the house as nothing happened when Ren smashed the idol. When they return to the house Rin has bought some dwarorphans as slaves which infuriates Hardwon but he is talked down with a promise of the hot tub. Hardwon summons the dwarven daddies who have a great time. Moonshine summons some otters and it turns out Ren is incredibly afraid of otters. Earlier (cannot remember at which point) Bev gave Peter the amulet which upset Paw Paw so he gave Paw Paw some frosted cheerios. They free Peter to do whatever he wants forgetting he has the amulet and he flies off with it.

It starts to rain, getting worse and worse causing the hot tub to flood and the house to begin to fall apart. Beverly magics an umbrella to make it wind proof (another nat20) and it turns into a holy relic with the same powers as the amulet. Gullywugs climb out of the ocean and the king Gullywug is stood atop a rock. The gullwugs are angry about the destruction of their temple; they demand a sacrifice. The boobs try and sacrifice Ren who uses time stop to run away. Moonshine tries to convince the gullywug king that they can have the island back as their home and rolls a nat 20 on the persuasion check (Murph is getting more and more annoyed at this point with these rolls). The gullywugs agree only if the boobs help them fix the hot tub. 

Moonshine casts locate object on Ren so they can convince him to use the wish spell using the arcanium as none of them have the spell. They find him in a cabinet in the basement of the house. Time stop used Ren’s last ninth level spell and so they convince Rin to do it instead. I can’t remember the lie they came up with but Caldwell gets another nat 20 and Rin agrees to use the wish spell to get Hardwon a giant real ant. Moonshine also uses reincarnate to turn the bit of stone bettle into a real ladybug. The gullywugs protest the giant ant and try to kill it. Hardwon calls the dwarorphans onto the ants back and they escape into the sunset.

Quotes!

1) Murph: I knew it, I knew when I put the puffins there you were going to do this but I did it anyway

2) Emily: I charge at Rin shouting it’s a crick rebellion then stop as I just reach him and say just kidding 

Murph: Rin shits himself

3) Moonshine: Well actually you can have my towel Rin as I have never been more dry in my life

[ink0ming]

シークレット

x / @idollings

kicking her feet so that they swung back and forth on the bench, she was always constantly moving in some way. could squids even have adhd – because she likely did. no matter how energetic or erratic that she could be, orenji always listen to kiiro when he spoke. considering that she was one of the few that he spoke so openly with, she thought of them as being closer than most. their personalities clashed greatly, but it was nice to have someone mature around to keep her from getting into too much trouble. 

“ほほ？i totally noticed that too!” when it came to speaking to kuro … he really did not seem to care too much for the smallest of the group. their personalities just didn’t mesh, not the same way that it did with kiiro’s. “can you believe he called me a ‘shortie’ last time i talked to him?! toooootally ruuuuuuude. but then he just calls akai by his name. boo, it’s super mean. でも〜, it’s a little like you and me, ね？” pointing back & forth between the two of them, she tried to emphasize her point. 

Personally, Kiiro did not mind the way his counterpart had been rather hyperactive and such -- it gave a nice change in dynamic in his life. While he always was the type to take too many precautions in his life, she was like a whirlwind to constantly keep him moving towards directions that he hadn’t planned on. Frankly, most people would probably not even look at the yellow inkling -- he did not have nearly as much bite as Kuro, and he wasn’t putting himself out there like Akai -- but Orenji was the only person to actually look past the nicknames he was given such as ‘boring’ or ‘nerd’ and saw a little more once she was able to be closer to him. By no means was he boring ---- he had levels of sass and snark that could keep up with others, perhaps even more vile than both Orenji and Aoi were capable of. But he was not the go-to person when someone wanted to go head-first into trouble.

Snickering under his surgical mask, he nodded slowly, “そうそう, I thought I was just being paranoid and was seeing things that are totally not there.” Listening to her lamenting about the black inkling’s treatment towards her, Kii really hated the way that the rowdie was talking down to the orange inkling girl; surely, he could not force people to like each other, it was just that they weren’t compatible... but a little decency was apparently too much to ask for from that brute. Sadly, as much as he gave him the sassy remarks, he was not as brave as Murasaki! She full on would ask the black inkling to have a fist fight -- sometimes she even hunted him down during turf wars or ranks, specifically seeking him out to splat him. The two of them were certainly two of one kind, but Kiiro could gladly say that the purple inkling was sticking up for those who got bullied. “Yupp, yupp, see -- I kind of feel bad for Akai though... he is practically throwing himself at the guy and he is just too stupid to see it. Like, how pathetic is that, am I right?”

What shocked him though to the point that he choked on his soda, he coughed and tried to avoid that the sugary drink was shooting out of his nostrils; how come that the smaller had been directing to their relationship to be anything like Kuro’s and Akai’s?! Staring at her with wide eyes, he could feel his face heat up, freezing in place as he was unable to move or speak at first, until the initial reaction wore off. “W-W-W-W-W-Wha-Wha-ha-- WHAT?! U-Us?! You and me?! W... What do you even MEAN, Ooooorenji, ehhh?!” Clearly, he knew that he was a lot colder towards others than he was towards Orenji in particular -- he had little to no issue ditching people when he could save his own ass, but he would head-first jump into a pesky situation Indiana Jones style to make sure that the smaller was not going to get harmed; though he did not see how either Akai or Kuro were like this for each other, neither did he see how either of them were throwing themselves at each other the way the red inkling did... “You REALLY need to elaborate on THAT one...” Leaning forward as he furrowed his brows, blinking curiously at the smaller.

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[thirst-refinery]

Disneyland Headcanons {Solo Triplets x Reader}

A/N~ In December I visited my best friend @faestae ( @faestae-writes ) in California! She’s such an amazing friend and took us to... you guessed it, Disneyland! During our adevnture, and much time spent waiting in lines, we came up with headcanons for what it would be like to visit the most magical place on earth with the Solo Triplets. So here they are folks! I hope you enjoy them, and make sure to give lots of praise to Fae; because she essentially wrote all of these.

• Matt plans for Disneyland weeks in advance. He made a paper countdown chain to hang over his door and everyday he tears a link off with you until there’s none left.

• According to Matt’s meticulous plan, you’d be sharing part of the day with each triplet. Ben in the morning, Matt in the afternoon, and Kylo in the evening.

• Ben drags you directly to Fantasyland, choosing to spend his time with you there.

• Taking advantage of the morning’s short lines, you hit as many rides as possible and King Arthur’s Carousel is first. Ben skips like a happy child to the front of the line and makes sure your horses are next to each other. Like a proper prince, he helps you up and gives your horse a pat before leaping up on his own. Locking hands in the middle, you go up and he goes down, admiring you in the early morning light. On Peter Pan’s flight he puts his arm around your shoulder like he was Peter himself pretending to sprinkle pixie dust into your hair as the pirate ship takes off. He looks on London and the island of Neverland in awe, leaning precariously over the side of the ship. He tells you one of the lovely mermaids in the lagoon remind him of you. And despite the unnaturally long line for Small World, it’s a must. It was his grandmother’s favorite ride in the park and as you cruise around the happy world with his hand in yours, he remembers her.

• Afterwards you take a break, choosing to get beignets as a late breakfast. Ben practically eats his whole then watches as you take your time enjoying the sugar topped pastry.

“You’ve got something-” he gestures to your powder sugar covered mouth after you finish. “Here let me take care of it.” He leans over taking your chin between his fingers, and licks the sugar off your lips. “All clean.”

• After breakfast Ben takes you to The Mad Tea Party. Just before your turn Ben begins stretching as if he’s an athlete about to compete in the Olympics. He lunges low, bringing an arm across his chest and holding it there for a few seconds before switching to the other. He continues the process, asking you to pull his elbows back, then stretching each arm behind his head then swinging them in front of him, shaking out his wrists as the cast member allows you to pick a cup.

• You end up in a blue one, and as the ride starts Ben places both hands firmly on the wheel in the center.

“Hold on tight, kid.”

It starts gradually, but in a matter of seconds the cup is spinning so fast you fear falling out. Ben’s hands are flying flying around the wheel, arms flexing as he uses every ounce of his power to turn spin around and around. As Alice chimes in that the tea party was coming to an end, Ben leans back with an exasperated sigh, panting as he wipes the sweat from his brow.

“How did I do?”

• Next is Matterhorn. Ben may be fond of children's rides, but Matterhorn is a guilty pleasure. He screams with delight on every whipping turn

• As Ben’s time comes to a close you’ve ridden almost every ride in Fantasyland, except one; Snow White’s Scary Adventures. You insist that you can’t ride everything but exclude one. He disagrees as he glares at the Evil Queen in the window.

“I’ve never liked this ride, ever since I was a kid.”

It takes some convincing, but he agrees to ride it with a promise that you’ll reward him later for his bravery. Ben sits as close as possible in the already compact cart, holding your hand so tightly his knuckles turn white. Your cart traverses each dimly lit scene, and each time the Evil Queen pops up, Ben throws a protective arm in front of you; cursing under his breath.

• Finally it’s Matt’s turn. He meets you at the entrance to Adventureland and Ben hands you off to him with a kiss before joining Kylo. Matt asks where you’d like to go first, listing off a few things, but you already knew where he wanted to go. You take him by the hand and bring him to his favorite, Indiana Jones: Temple of the Forbidden Eye.

• The lines are much longer now, especially for such a popular ride, but you don’t mind; after all you have each other for company. Old forties music plays over speakers while you wait and when he sees you swaying, he smiles. Matt takes your hands, swaying with you to the tune of the music. Before long you’re in his arms, dancing in what little space you had, shuffling forward with the line

• The wait goes by faster than you’d expected and soon it's your turn to board a Jeep. When you’re buckled in, Matt turns to you with deadly seriousness.

“Whatever you do, don’t look into the idol’s eyes.” he says, “Promise me.”

You locked pinkies on it. And when the time came, the idol beckoned you to sneak a peak with its sinister voice. Matt quickly covered your eyes, and you did the same to him.

• After Indiana Jones, you stop at Jungle Cruise; another one of Matt’s favorites. He helps you into the boat, and you find a place to sit right in front. The guide’s jokes throughout the ride are terribly cheesy, but Matt bursts into deep laughter at each one, muffling his giggles into his hand.

• Eventually you find yourself in the Adventure Outpost, Matty following you through the shelves of toy snakes and jungle inspired fashion. You get a prescription from a mechanical witch doctor, that you thought was a fortune teller at first, and when you go to find Matt you catch him trying on a hat identical to Indiana Jones with a matching whip.

“Look at you!” you laugh as he poses like he’s on a movie poster.

Despite his gentle insistence that you didn’t have to, you bought him the hat and whip.

• He didn’t take them off, even when getting pictures taken with Disney characters. You ran into Jasmine and Aladdin outside of their oasis and you couldn't help but stop to talk with them.

“What a handsome adventurer you have!” Jasmine had said.

Matt grinned proudly in his new hat.

“He’s the best,” you agreed “I’m very lucky.”

•The sun sets, signaling Kylo’s turn. You meet him outside The Haunted Mansion, which he’s already acquired two fast pass tickets to.

• In the elevator Kylo stands behind you, tickling your sides at the scream and lightning strike. You leap up in surprise and Kylo catches you, chuckling into your neck with a kiss. Kylo helps you into the Doombuggy, and when he settles in beside you, you admire his handsome profile in the dark. You can’t stay mad at him and when you lean apologetically against him, he puts his arm around you. In the descent to the graveyard is the only time you’ll ever hear him sing, his deep voice mumbling along. You make a silly face in the mirror and he makes one right back and to the ghost sitting between you.

• You grab something for dinner at The French Market, the two of you sharing a bread bowl of hot gumbo to save room for the churro. You break the churro in half for Kylo, then take his hand for the stroll to Tomorrowland

• You start with Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, in line Kylo boasts about his unbeatable high score; a true Astro Blasters sharpshooter. He shows you all the secret targets but you always forget—desperately trying to follow his aiming so he slows down his usual target blitz to show you the secret target on the roof of the red hallway. When you see that he beat you anyway by a long shot, he shrugs and insists he went easy on you.

• On the Astro Orbiter Kylo sits behind you, letting you work the controls. He holds your waist, resting his chin on your shoulder as you take the ship as high as it can go. From here you can see the surrounding area twinkling with lights as you go around and around. You point out the things you recognize while Kylo hums in acknowledgment. As the ride ends and your little ship returns to ground level, he pecks your cheek before hopping out.

• After dragging Kylo to Star Trader, you spy a pair of classic Mickey ears that light up in sequence. Mesmerized, you simply hold them up to him and he rolls his eyes as he fishes for his wallet. When he asks you if you want anything else, you grab another pair for him. Begrudgingly he agrees, but secretly loves the accessory.

• The last thing on your to do list is the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage. Kylo protests your decision, hating the thought of being enclosed in a small space underwater, but you push the vision of the ride at night to him anyway. Clearly, you really want to go, so he goes.

• Inside the submarine, you and Kylo share a window cheek to cheek. You look out, pointing gleefully at each display of vivid color and plastic reef.

“Kylo, look!” you motion to the window, but he only shakes his head.

“I know.”

You turn to him in the dim light and he stares back at you, dark eyes taking each detail of your form. He admires the way your face seems to glow with absolute joy.

“Try and enjoy yourself a little.” you tease.

Kylo smiles, his face barely an inch from yours; to him it was just the two of you in this submarine. “I am.”

Bonus: When your feet get sore from standing in line, they each put in effort to alleviate your pain. Ben gets down on one knee as if proposing and offers you his lap to sit on. He rests his arms around you, nuzzling his face against your neck and occasionally peppering you with sweet kisses. Matt wraps his arms around your middle, lifting your feet barely off the ground as he leans against the nearest wall or pillar for support. Kylo dead lifts you, picking you up like a child and cradling you against him until your feet feel better.

[meduseld]

Since we're not getting a second season how would you continue the lost symbol series?

I don't know which book would be next chronologically, but the format of one Langdon suited case/treasure hunt/mad dash per season with a new team works for me. Especially if it also slowly (key that it's slooowly) develops Langdon from this nervous omg what do self to the later version that's like "oh, this again. it's cool, let's go steal the ark of the covenant to save the world". And he doesn't have to have Book!Langdon's a little too suave and smart and womanizing persona. He's not Indy. I think it's more like that really awesome professor that's famous and everyone is blown away by, but also constantly trips in public and seems to have no concept of his own fame and always does office hours, except one time you're in there and the Feds burst in? And some dude covered in head to toe tattoos screaming about stealing God's crown for himself? And Langdon just ducked you behind his desk with a "sorry, this happens sometimes" and then vaulted over with some idol thingy in his hands and called to one of the agents (Jones) to make sure you got home okay. And you did and he was out for a week and a half and was suddenly back with a big old bruise on his face and an ancient manuscript the Uni library was salivating over with no explanation. He made sure you *were* okay but dodged any further questions. Also to that end, I think the show would benefit from keeping some of the characters around (the books have a whole cast change and a "girl per book" format). I'm not just saying that bc I love Nuñez, but bc you're asking the audience to care about his relationship with the Solomons and you can't just erase that, especially after all we've seen them go through (and the obvious resource they'd be for future quests. Why wouldn't he call the experts that love him and would drop everything to help?)

So while I don't know what a season long plot would have, beyond like artifacts and codes and puzzles and the show universe dodging the bonkers implication of their premise, I think the smart thing would be to pick up on the potential promised in the season 1 ending. Start with a cold open/end of an adventure (like in the first Indiana Jones movie) that has ties to the season's story. After the action of the intro, he hands over the artifact or whatever to Sato, showing the team and maybe how he feels about the partnership (hopefully not great so that can be worked on over the season). Establish his team and such, and then start a whole new adventure.

But yeah if I was Queen of the Television, it would be him in a team up with Nuñez and their adventures (I'm actually thinking it could be like a Spirou & Fantasio joint) in different storylines. They have that great duo vibe and so forth. And obvs keep Sato and her hot agent bf because that was great too. The Solomons need to remain, even if it's offscreen bc again cutting them would undermine everything in Season 1. Peter is his dad figure, and while Katherine could be an issue with the future girls (I do like them as characters) you could throw them back into a distance relationship being tested through this. So you can have the new girls, but not loose that. Or at least have them choose to be better as friends but since she has access to actual fax psychics, cutting her would make Robert seem a lil dumb and plenty callous.

So a la Kim Possible, then. Which is to say, Nuñez is more the Kim, Robert is the Ron who is somehow running this whole crazy scheme, Peter and Kath are a combo of Wade and the twins, and Sato is not Wade, but here to send them on missions and help........... so long as it fits her own agenda. Maybe a Bonnie style frenemy? Anyway that's what I got