#inua

[blu3berrydraws]

--- Wang Fire

So there's this au people've been discussing in the server -twirls hair-

@ablueeyedarcher has a fic where in Sozin's comet, Sokka did not make it during the collision of the fire nation balloons. Instead, he ends up badly injured in the spirit world !

Years pass, Sokka is presumed dead, but then he returns and knocks on Zuko's front door aka the fire nation palace hah

It is SO tasty so I had to doodle a little something for it

[indiegamesource]

Oh... I uhh... well... of course!

[shoezuki]

The very first planet Gepard ever visits, Sampo warns him about time.

"So," he hums, somehow maintaining his cheery tone but sounding stern. "Time is like... weird. Okay?"

He stops and stares. They're standing in some sort of boulevard, an empty promenade of red cobble bricks and neat trees with discolored blue leaves that curl in odd ways. It's early, or maybe midnight for this strange planet, because they're completely alone. Gepard is glad for the solitude, the chance to adjust. Something about the air feels sweet on his tongue, the bright, celestial bodies in the sky painted the world pale purple and sent flickering solid shards of light shifting through the air. He swears he can feel the slow, lazy rotation of the planet in his bones.

Sampo Koski is, of course, completely unaffected; he's walking alongside Gepard, along some thin, raised platform between the writhing garden bed and the street. He smacks a hand against Gepard's shoulder every time his balance waivers.

Sampo is still now, though, quiet and looking at Gepard. He realizes he's expected some respond to whatever he said. Gepard blinks owlishly. "Huh?"

Sampo snorts, his laugh genuine as he smiles at Gepard. He swears he can feel Sampo's laugh, goosebumps rising where it brushes over his skin. It might be the effect the planet has on him, but Gepard's pretty sure it's actually the effect Sampo has on him. The uncanny glow of solid light and the violet tint the dark sky that drapes over Sampo definitely doesn't help him or his heart.

"I mean," Sampo hums, pausing to tap and a shard of light near him, the small contact sending it flickering into smaller and smaller angular shapes before vanishing. "Time is weird. It's weird everywhere but especially here. This planet is located in some sort of temporal anomaly that makes time stop going in one line and creates a... bend in the timeline, I guess?"

"That makes no sense," Gepard says, because it doesn't. Sampo nods as if he said the opposite. "Exactly! Technically, we are currently... it's not today, but it's two days ago."

"But..." Gepard frowns, hand on his chin. His head hurts the slightest bit, either Sampo being the cause as usual, or the strange not-dark darkness of the planet's night. "Two days ago we were still on the Astral Express. But we're here."

"We're on the Express, but also here."

Gepard stares at him, expecting Sampo to laugh and call Gepard gullible or giggle at his own shitty joke. When he doesn't Gepard groans. "I don't want to think about this."

Sampo laughs again, loud and Gepard's skin tingles. "It's true, I swear! It doesn't make sense because it doesn't. Look at your texts then." Gepard listens at Sampo's prodding, literally standing beside him and poking him in his ribs. Gepard smacks his hand away lightly as he opens his messages with Serval. Sampo unabashedly stands behind him, rests his chin on his shoulder. Gepard's hands shake a little and he can feel Sampo's grin against his cheek.

He'd been messaging Serval every day, just as he'd promised when he'd told his sister that he was leaving the planet. He'd sent her photos of the stars from the Express, of the room they'd given Sampo and him, one particular photo of Sampo having fallen asleep on a couch in the common area with a teacup that Stelle had agonisingly balanced on his forehead.

He had sent her photos of the plant they are on, too, but the photo of Sampo sleeping from two days ago is the last thing he sent. It shouldn't be, but it is.

"Did you seriously send Serval that?" Sampo whines, digging his chin into Gepard's collarbone. "Awww, c'mon! My reputation with your sister is already in tatters! Don't give her blackmail material against me."

"She wouldn't blackmail you," Gepard says automatically, although he sounds unsure. Sampo snorts and steps away and Gepard misses his warmth. "So are we... in two places at once? Can I message you and stop you from getting us kicked off the Astral Express?"

"No-- wait, hey! C'mon, it wasn't my fault--"

"You broke Himeko's coffee machine. How is that not your fault?"

"I wasn't broken" he pouts, ruffling his hair and sending fragments of light flying, "it was... in a state of reconstruction! For all they know I was going to make the coffee machine better, completely free of charge! They had no reason to exile us like that."

"You. They kicked you out," Gepard corrects, "you're lucky I didn't take Himeko's offer to stay with them." Sampo throws his head back and laughs, his hair bending in the windless air like he's under water. Gepard can't help but smile at him, heart inflated in the silence.

They walk a moment, around pristine buildings made up of red shimmering bricks, intricate windows glowing faintly. The tree-like plants, tall spindly things with feather-like leaves, seem to bend and swirl as they walk by.

Sampo, as always, can't stay silent. "The time thing on Silap-Inua is really, really wild because you can actually see it."

"what do you..." Gepard trails off as Sampo stands right in front of him, looking weirdly giddy and excited. "You can see it, right?" He says, slowly lifting his arm and waving it. Gepard frowns, watching the strange way his slow movements seem to stutter, as if Sampo is moving between stillness. Gepard blinks, looking around at the flickering light crystals, the stilted, jittery movement of swaying trees. "...Woah."

"I know right?" Sampo is brimming with excitement, the feeling of his ecstatic joy contagious, making Gepard smile. "Time is cut in half, or something. I don't know someone tried explaining it to me years ago but I was too busy thinking about what I could use this for."

Gepard frowns at that, Sampo meeting his scowl. "What do you mean by that? Use the time... thing for what?" His smile is bright, bright, almost enough to make Gepard oblivious to the mischievous glint in his eyes, the sly tilt of his head.

"You see, if you move fast enough..." He hums, suddenly blinking out of Gepard's sight with his last word. Gepard balks, steps back, his vision overtaken in the next second by blue hair and bright green eyes and the overwhelming intoxicating feeling of lips on his.

Sampo is gone before Gepard can pull Sampo into his skin or recoil or nudge him back, whatever it was he intended as he'd raised his arms to grab him. "S-Sampo!" He chokes out instead, a laugh behind him making him spin around.

Sampo was close, close, and his movements brief snapshots as he smoothed fingers over Gepard jaw, cheekbones, a thumb at the corner of his lips as he held his face. Gepard knew without a doubt he was blushing bright red, Sampo tracing the small, near-nonexistent freckles the redness of his skin brought out.

There was shards of light just overhead, flicking gold in Sampo's irises. Sampo's breath was a shiver over Gepard's skin his fingerprints were leaving burning marks over his neck and face. Gepard didn't realize he'd grabbed Sampo's hands, his fingers like soft handcuffs around his wrists and keeping him in place.

He made a gutted sound in the back of is throat and Sampo smiled like he understood what Gepard was too choked to say. Gepard was ready to lean in when Sampo kissed him again.

They stood for a long stretched moment, the planet spinning under Gepard's feet and in his bones, Sampo's breath and warmth and the sure line of his figure against Gepard's keeping him from spinning into space. It was getting light out, probably, if the purple sky burning into shades of orange and pink was anything to go by.

Sampo hums. "The time thing makes stealing a ship on Silap-Inua really easy, too."

Gepard leaned back and peeled Sampo's reaching hands from his shoulders. "Don't you dare." His laugh sends sparks down his spine.

[miyakuli]

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons

I keep playing short games since I don’t have the energy for longer games those days (=v=) I discovered this one randomly during Steam spring sale and idk, watching the trailer made me interested right away (the atmosphere, the music), and the gameplay seemed quite original for me too.

You follow two brothers who are gonna find a cure for their sick father. The particularity of the gameplay is that you’re gonna control both brothers (each a stick) through different puzzles so a controller is definitely needed. Also, although it is already ten years old, the game still holds up well and takes us on a little journey full of wonder but also nightmare.

❤ A beautiful dreamlike universe that unfolds through its different atmospheres (we go from enchanting settings to much more violent and cold sceneries). ❤ A gameplay mechanic at the service of its narrative and emotions and that’s good!! (my hands happily worked and cried together xp). ❤ I really appreciate the fact that you don't need to understand the dialogues to get to know the characters ; we discover their personality simply through their intonations or even with small interactions with the environment (excluding puzzles). ❤ A very nice soundtrack that serves the story well!

+/- Puzzles that are not too repetitive, the gameplay evolves a bit. On the other hand, there are not too many difficulties and we advance quite quickly in the game...

✖...which is quite short (4h for me) and which deserves to be a little longer to bring the dramaturgy more intensely. ✖ Camera control is very slow. ✖ Simultaneous control of the brothers can be a little difficult to grasp.

An unpretentious and touching little game in its way of delivering emotions, so prepare the tissues if you are emotional :p

➡ My Steam page

[rubia-peregrinart]

villain commanders, animal forms not to scale blah blah blah holy hell i’m finally done with these.

Apus (Paradisaea apoda), scout and courier Morelia (Echidna nebulosa), lab technician Kreta (Bos primigenius), tracker and enforcer Hadal (Praya dubia), spy and assassin Inua (Canis rufus), hound leader

[razaldia]

Week of 12/19/22 Stream Schedule

TUES @ 6pm ET - 🀄️ Mahjong Night THURS @ 6pm ET - 🤖 Doraemon Story of Seasons SAT @ 10am ET - 🐔 Pioneers of Olive Town SUN @ 1pm ET - 🧊 Inua

Streaming at twitch.tv/razaldia

More info about the games below!

Happy Holiday Week! As I don't celebrate Christmas personally, I'll be streaming on both Christmas Eve & Christmas Day. Due to Sunday being a holiday for many, we won't be streaming our usual Oregon Trail and will instead be trying out a puzzle game!

Mahjong Night will be on Riichi City this week. Anyone wanting to participate in friendlies can grab a free account by downloading the game through Steam~

Doraemon SoS sees us returning to the gorgeous autumn landscapes that only West & East Natura can provide! We almost lost Calf (our horse) to another farmer but were lucky that the precious child ran away to return to our farm. It was an emotional rollercoaster last time, but things should be a bit more even-keeled this time around.

Pioneers of Olive Town has us returning to the farm in the middle of winter. We're well on our way to getting the town restoration projects finished up and are just trying to prep our farm for the final placement of some of our buildings.

Inua is a puzzle game that jumps between different sets of characters in the same place all separated by time. It looks very snowy and mysterious and should be a nice lowkey game for a holiday.

Hope to see you all live, but if you can't make it, everything save for Mahjong Night will get moved to Youtube!

[megkenobi]

Inua: A Story in Ice and Time is gorgeous.

It's more of a narrative than an actual "game" but it's been really well done so far.

[awesomeplayquotes]

Boys should never see their fathers fall. It upturns worlds and steals words. 

- The 14th Tale, Inua Ellams

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Two Big Plays: "3 Fingers Back" & "Three Sisters" Take to the Toronto Stage to Unpack War, Colonialism, Violence, and Oppression.

#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #DonnaMichelleStBernard's #3FingersBackPlay A @tarragontheatre &#LemonTreecreations co-production & #InuaEllams' #spThreeSisters adaptation after #Chekhov #otcThreeSisters A @Soulpepper & @obsidiantheatre co-production

The cast of Soulpepper’s Three Sisters. Photo by Dahlia Katz. The Toronto Theatre Review: Tarragon/lemonTree’s 3 Fingers Back & Soulpepper/Obsidian’s Three Sisters By Ross Two plays take to the Toronto stage in two nights courtesy of a few wonderfully inventive theatre companies, delivering some deeply moving and ultimately compelling theatre that sets its eyes on Africa, to explore some…

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[shoezuki]

fuckit we ball im posting the silaap-inua mini fic to ao3

[miyakuli]

Inua : A Story in Ice and Time

I come back from work, I want to play something short. Open my wishlist, see Inua, check the duration, 3 hours. Perfect !

Inua is a fairly linear point & click but which takes us easily in its narration linking 3 different temporalities which will come together as our actions progress.

❤ A well-constructed story, based on historical facts and which manages to cleverly mix fantastical touches through Inuit folklore. ❤ The Inuit culture also very well represented through language, music and legends which really gives an authentic aspect to the story (besides, the creators have done a real research work on these traditions to respect them as well as possible). ❤ Speaking of music, it's beautiful and really gripping (please make it accessible somewhere, I really need to listen to it!!! ;o;). ❤ A beautiful artistic direction with a simplistic and warm side as well as a very nice work on the colors of the different temporalities.

+/- The dialogue between the different periods is well thought out and the gameplay offers at times to influence the course of time according to our actions and it's a very good idea, but far too little exploited ><

✖ I would have appreciated more hidden details for the point & click aspect ; it's pretty empty in the end. ✖ A slightly too confusing ending with still a lot of questions and it does not give a real finality imo compared to the main theme ; Personally, that frustrated me a bit.

Inua will offer us an immersive and skilful story but with a gameplay phase that is a little too passive which could have pursued more its idea in view of the connection of the eras between them.

And just because I'm in love with the ost, I let you with the trailer so you can enjoy it too xD

➡ My Steam page

[shelley-sackett]

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