#lobcorp scenario

[judey-80085]

3 cheers for sinclair

[rlyehtaxidermist]

so much of angela’s character arc is rooted in “how would an actual feeling person respond to the ayanami rei ‘you are a plot device to be used and discarded for someone else’s story’ role” that i think it would be funny if she adopted rei and trained her in the art of the last minute betrayal revenge gremlin surprise

[picaroroboto]

(guy who played LobCorp in the time between Canto 5 and 6 voice) the other thing I really gotta talk about about Canto 6 is this:

From the new Sapling of Light mechanic. You can see the cursive text above the ability says "Hokma", and those exact towers and winged clock imagery appears in the Records Team room in LobCorp, Records Team being lead by the Sephirah Hokma. Hokma who turns into a clock and messes with the usual time control abilities during his Core Suppression.

Dante realizes this ability by thinking about why their head is shaped like a clock, and because they don't want Heathcliff to be trapped in his past anymore. Hokma's Core Suppression is about proving to him, who wants to stay in the past, that you're strong enough to face the future. It's thematic overlap! It's crazy! It's amazing!

Okay, also: judging from the fact that this is the first Sapling of Light ability, it's like we're moving downwards from the top of a normally-oriented Sephirot instead of the inverted one in LobCorp, which would imply: - there will be further Sapling of Light abilites that may also be thematically connected to the Sephirah, but we'll be moving in reverse order compared to LobCorp (wonder what the power associated with Binah will be, since that would be next?) - whatever Kether means in this scenario, Dante already has it (and we add one more point on the scoreboard for the Dante-Ayin theory)

[shuuen-no-cimory]

what districts would LIs even be from? or at least which one of them would be from nests?

like I'm pretty sure whitney grew up in backstreets, and with how clueless sydney is i'd almost call them a nest dweller

...on the other hand, we already have the city's Britain...

Crack my fingers and open your eyes. I'm gonna write about this in FULL THROTTLE as I've been thinking abt all this for THE WHOLE MONTHS.

WARNING: some aspect might spoil any of the lore related to both medias That's an interesting question... Personally I do think they all collectively came from District 20 LOL BUT YES, defo Whitney came from Backstreet, District 20 nonetheless. I can already imagine them ever joined Dead Rabbits at some point if they didn't decide to enter any Wing or pursue higher education (as per Vrel ever mentioned how Whitney might wants to be a doctor.) Robin... I personally enjoy the idea of them coming from District 12's Backstreet when Lobcorp. still running as the Wing. Or maybe D22 where Vergilius orphanage is on. Ok no, I'm joking, that's gonna be a bit painful but kinda interesting scenario alright. Other possibility I have in mind is that Robin might be living in District 21's Backstreet, right at the coastal area that's under Middle's control. In this scenario, Bailey themself might be someone involved with The Middle. Probably a Big Brother/Sister. As for Sydney, I could imagine them came from Nest K, or at least Backstreet area in D10 that's under Dieci Association's control. This can play into an interesting scenario of how Sirris (who I could see might be working for K Corp. or any high school in Backstreet 10) met their partner, which I can already see very fitting to be part of Dieci. Oh on the side note, River is defo a Dieci alright. That fist filled with knowledge say it all LOL Kylar... ISTG I can't not imagine him as Edgar Linton HFVJSFVHSD but yes, they might be a rich Backstreet dweller but with family involved/under the protection of/influenced by The Ring. Or hell... What if they're involved with Church of Gears instead. That'll be pretty fun idea to think of... Alex... I can imagine them to be on the well-off side of Backstreet dweller. As District 19 is under S Corp. that run in agro-industry bizz, I might put them here. HOWEVER, seeing how adamant many people wants to leave District 19 (Yi Sang, Blade Lineage), it's a little hard to imagine them staying on District 19 either. Though I might change this once Don's Canto drop, which could possibly take place in either District 20 or District 19. As of now, I can think they might be coming from Backstreet T, probably on the same area where The League of Nine used to live on. ... Which then also make Remy possibly a D19 dwellers as well! However, I can see them as one that's backed out by syndicates instead. A big shot one, that is. Move on to Avery. Definitely some hot shot in T Corp., could be Class 5 worker. Them being 'interested' in science (or that's how they claimed to be when we met them as PC for the first time), rich, gaudy, and all that kinda scream a Feather to me. Could be one that involved with some Syndicate as well. The Thumb, perhaps...? Oh, as I write this, I found that northern area of the City supposed to be a lot richer and developed. That might be where they came from too. However we couldn't make any assumption yet as this part of the City hasn't get much attention from any of the game/media. With how keen they're to stay out of The Town, can I say Eden might be Outskirt dweller...? Maybe someone who used to be someone from the City but decide to pull off? Perhaps even might be someone that ever put some hands on The Light project while not directly took part of the group. I can imagine them as someone living on the outer area of Black Forest, alright? Like, maybe someone that knows about the Three Birds and been telling people off. Maybe in Ruina era, they ended up joined the Library once it got yeeted to Outskirt lol who knows. AND OF COURSE, we couldn't talk about LIs without talking about the beasts! Both Great Hawk and Black Wolf is under Site X-394 trust me. I can already see them on Outskirt, alright. Probably not on the same part of Outskirt as Eden but still around that area.

AND WHILE WE HAVE FINISHED THE LIS, I might as well talk about some of the People of Interest as well. THERE'S TWO THINGS I CAN THINK OF ABOUT WINTER: Either a Claw/Arbiter, or someone that used to take part in Smoke War or the War between Wings. If he was a veteran of Smoke War, I can see them on the winning side, or someone that's ended up like Salvador. Perhaps they might be retired fixer too, an Ex-Dieci that used to be the one who did Ruins-delving to retrieve Relics. Wren is defo someone who visit Backstreet J often, might even be District 9 dweller. They might be one with a Nest permit but not really living on the Nest themself. Hell, they could actually run a bizz on Nest as a way for them to smuggle things to-and-from Backstreet J. Though them as part of a pirate syndicate that deals more in smuggling bizz is a good possibility too, alright. Zephyr is, clear as a day, as part of pirate syndicate OR sailor ship akin to the Pequod in either of the coastal districts. I can see them as part of the Twinhook, though they might run their own syndicate instead. I have two ideas for Ivory Wraith in mind, according to "which" we're talking about. As an actual person, Ivory might be part of Index who had a clash with Church of Gears and fallen victim. However if we talk about them as the Spirit, I can imagine them as something like Bloodfiend. In a way, a nonhuman born out of Distortion-esque phenomenon. Harper... What can I say about them but Dongrang? LOL. I just can imagine them as a big shot on K Corp. that's close to who Dongrang is. Someone influential enough to be taking care of Teary-Thing. Yeah, something along that line... If not, they might run their own clinic that provides healthcare, but of course with whatever The City-esque business backed it. With the new Dieci Association updates I can confidently say that Jordan is, without doubt, a Dieci's Saint, at least on Section 4 or 5. If not, at least he's at the same level as Dieci Meur. One thing for sure, Niki definitely NOT from District N. They'd disappear as soon as they whip up a camera. N Corp and its Taboo is just something... As for the others... I have no idea yet, but maybe I'd came up with one later on!

[lakeraydia]

sorry for having lobcorp ocs It will continue to happen. originally the first picture i was practicing drawing der frei and got sidetracked and then the second picture is a bunch of ocs (team captains in this scenario) . hi everybody

[multitrackdrifting]

In light of the recent Limbus shitshow, are you still gonna finish up library of runia or are you just done with Projmoon?

Well I can't refund it so the least I can do is play it - but I don't plan on publishing my lobcorp video that's about 2-3 hours long for the time being. I probably won't resume streaming Ruina however.

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth if people would use a labour of love of mine to say "hey look there's something good here", I know there is something good there - but the CEO and his unquestionably stupid decisions makes the game impossible to talk about. I'm gonna be honest as far as boycotts go you and I probably know people who play league, overwatch or cod or something (maybe) or play something from a company with just as bad of practices that are either not as publicised or simply too far in the past for people to care.

I don't expect people to boycott nor do I think it's the bare minimum standard, people I know, especially those with larger platforms refuse to post about it even if they do play it or still keep up with it but yeah it's basically branded as a game now because of the controversy.

The thing about boycotts a lot of the time and I know this will be kind of bizarre to hear but I think they're very aesthetic in nature in that a lot of people usually clamour for them when they have less stakes in the matter so it's much easier to put pressure on others to do something they would not do for League (Riot Games), or Overwatch (Activision Blizzard).

This exact scenario has actually arisen with people talking about the game in that way and honestly it's not even like a what-aboutism kind of thing it's like, people really do not truly care about the ethics of the situation a lot of the time and many others simply do not know when they make their game-playing decisions, so it's really difficult to get mad about in most cases. That said, this game is niche enough where people probably know, but I wont assume their reasons for playing. Some people, however, are reveling in the backlash about the game bc they're not real fans or something for being upset about seemingly capitulating to reactionaries. This exchange I saw earlier honestly boggled my mind lmao - when the dog whistle is loud as fuck.

We don't have the complete facts, but unlike the nuance enjoyers on youtube & twitter that doesn't automatically mean I'm obligated to financially support a company because I obviously am concerned about the broader company and their job security.

On one hand it makes me frustrated beyond all belief that the decision makers (because lets be real falsely assigning blame to the artists, programmers, writers etc. at pmoon that aren't in a decision making role) are stupid that their art has to be undermined. Yeah, I don't doubt that there is more to the situation but if you make a tweet saying "we didn't do shit and we will sue u lol" and then announce a new banner the next day of course people are going to think you're a slimy company.

I'll put it like this anon: I might enjoy LCorp & Ruina privately at the very least, but Limbus is probably the most embarassing piece of media to be openly associated with, especially when you have people reveling in that a lot of women & lgbt+ members are going to be "filtered out" of the company by what they're reductively describing as "drama". Whether people boycott or not is up to them, but I'm waiting to see if they just brush it aside and pretend like nothing happened over time - I won't spend or post about the game, but I expect we won't actually see a genuine resolution until Canto IV ends and they realized that they didn't actually net anything from firing the artist or capitulating to an audience that will just as soon threaten their financial stability the moment they're validated for having achieved this outcome once before.

It's completely embarassing to be an open project moon fan right now, and honestly I could care less whose comfort media it is, I don't really care what they post or like - for me personally, this ordeal is so shameful that a video I worked hundreds of hours on is probably never seeing the light of day. That's about the gist of how I feel about how icky it is to even bother talking about their games. Fanart is one thing I guess, maybe I'll rb some from time to time, but honestly yeah I don't feel like making anything PMoon related pretty much until we have clear cut facts and if we never get it then yeah I'll just make peace with the reality and stop caring about Project Moon.

To answer your overall question, I probably won't bother making anything anything content wise for the game or even bother talking about it outside of DMs with my friends because yeah it's pretty much embarassing as fuck to even associated with this world. I think the art here is good, in terms of its writing & the artstyles of each of the games, I respect what is made there - but unfortunately we're the laughing stock of every other gacha community & honestly Idec about the hypocrisy of it all, I'm just astounded that they keep making it worse without ever really getting to the heart of the backlash. For LCorp & Ruina fans specifically I feel for them because it's not like they could've ever foreseen that this whole gacha endeavour would send everything up in smoke.

As for being Project Moon's strongest soldier (joking), I have less than zero interest in promoting their work until I have a decent confidence of vellmori's side (which I suspect is not even known because of either unknown factors, or a generic NDA that prevents them from commenting on their contract termination, not that unusual, especially if some kind of severance package is offered alongside it). Basically, I don't want to do any heavy lifting, even though I don't have that big of an audience, it just feels gross to bring them money when KR fans are outwardly begging other fanbases to stop playing and whether you do or not is up to you, but I'm personally just waiting till they shoot themselves in the foot enough times to completely walk away from this community/world. I do think that expecting everyone to express a deep remorse about a situation they did not create nor can they really control for the time being and self-flagellate about it is stupid though.

Hope vellmori & the pmoon staff get an equitable outcome out of all of this because as mad as I am I'm not so selfish as to think that having a dumb boss means you should have no job.

tl;dr - I don't want to openly associate with the "brand" even if the company =/= the community, it still feels weird, but that is just my own choice. I don't expect others to boycott. I'm waiting to see what happens, but judging by the reactionary replies to the latest banner it's probably nothing good in our future if Limbus survives this ordeal - since you will mostly have people who revel in the exodus of LGBT+ & women from the fandom.

[overworkedblorbobattle]

angela lobcorp. propaganda

hey spoilers ahead. just saying. also no major cws but, time loops babey. and manipulation.

angela is an ai robot who was made in the image of someone (carmen/c) who died before the story began but started the story off. her objective was to complete the work started by the abc trio. angela was specifically programmed to experience time 1,000 times slower than the average human. imagine that. you go through your day and one hour itself is not that. it is an hour to everyone else but to you it’s longer. unimaginably long. you have to keep an eye on every little thing that goes on. you have to understand everything that happens. you cannot fuck up in the slightest.

angela was handed a ‘script’ to a ‘play’. she had to follow this script to its exact parameters. if she messed up ONE line or ONE thing or even TRIED to save the employees, make things safer, or help the sephirah, she would be punished. everything would be reset. the employees wouldn’t remember a thing, they’d be ‘new’. (the same employees. different ranks and memories.)

the sephirah would have their memories completely wiped as well, all except the lower level sephirah, hokma and binah. but everyone above wouldn’t know what happened. angela had to get used to this. she was forced to go through so many “scenario errors” and an alarm would sound, deeming a reset. one wrong word, hesitation, being too nice, unsatisfactory death quota, and more. she didn’t want this, she didn’t deserve this. even x/a had told her when she questioned something “a machine should behave as a machine.”

benjamin was the only one around for her until he was gone. until she was truly alone. until angela had to be someone who was cold and uncaring to the world, to the deaths of the employees, the well-being of them, the safety of the company, the sephirah.

.

[ratlesshonret]

Who's your nugget number 2.718281 (rounded up)?

I've actually answered for Nugget 3 already, so I'm going to round down instead and answer for Nugget 2.

Lond0n is a rich kid from the Nests, who was hired by Lobotomy Corporation to be fast-tracked to Central Command captain. At the time, I spent all my LOB on making his stats as good as possible for the then-new Central Command Team.

Overall, he's the epitome of a rich kid in some ways. He thinks he's better than everyone around him, constantly gives orders, and generally has an air of superiority about him.

However, in combat it's a different story. He refuses to use melee weapons, instead using ranged attacks so he doesn't get close to opponents. He also tries to avoid looking at the Abnormalities for as long as possible, due to being scared of them. He will deny this.

In general, he's a complete coward who runs from combat whenever necessary. Despite being part of the Eternal Five, and having been in the Corporation and now the Library for ages, he has never grown any backbone.

He claims to not care about his colleagues, but everyone knows that's bullshit. If the worst case scenario happened, and Toki or Odelie or even Geomeuntugu were in danger of death, he would easily break through his paralyzing fear to save their life in exchange for his own.

London appears to be the typical "I'm better than you" rich kid, but in reality, he has a heart of gold and a desire to be cared for, and he loves his friends more than anything else.

LOBCORP DESIGN INSTRUCTIONS

H Color: 0, 121, 61 F. Hair: 7 B. Hair: 28 Eyes: 6 Brows: 0 Mouth: 7

LOR DESIGN INSTRUCTIONS

HAIR

Type 4 23

Color 116 41 52

FACE 3 1 1

[nanjokei]

sorry people trying to claim some kind of insane doomer scenario about how project moon would have died and signed a deal with the devil to make a mobile game is so insane to me. they were doing perfectly ok. they just wanted a bigger cashflow for more ambitious projects as far as i remember 😭 you people are such annoying doomers AND honestly lets be real kind of telling lies here. like this is called lying

like.. at worst lobcorp and ruina are cult classics. but theyre not unpopular by any metric nor was projmoon flopping ever after like, idk 2019 at the very latest

and this isnt me coming to the defense of A Gacha Game i just think misrepresenting the facts just to bolster your melodramatic blog post is honestly so annoying to me. it is literally an early access game with in app purchases idt its anything crazy compared to the other two games rollouts. if anything, its similar to early access except they have way more legal obligations bc of the money/lbr, gambling aspect

[jestressofnihil]

Lobotomy Corporation is (and I'm saying this half as a meme and half as an actual valid comparison hear me out I know this is a very 2014 thing to say) a lot like Dark Souls in a lot of ways.

Not only because of how difficult it is, but because of how it makes you feel rewarded. Not because you became very cool and strong, but because you just learned by your own experience. It's a satisfying and tense process, it feels like obtaining real EXP points. It's even more rewarding because it's not a phisical thing, there are no reflexes. Just mind strenght.

There are two fucking amazing feelings in LobCorp, being able to finally manage a Meltdown is one and the other is realizing you now can deal on a regular basis without that much trouble with an abnormality that used to fucking terrify you.

The latter is reasuring in the way it solidifies how much you've improved since before. That abno you extracted once, killed 80% of your employees and you promised to yourself you would never ever extract again? Yeah now that's just the one Cooper works on, it's their thing, it's okay, who cares. Like, yes, that monster is horrible and frightening, stupidly dangerous and unstable.

You have experienced how bad it can get under bad management

And you just happen to know how to tame it now

My personal ones are Queen of Hatred and Red Riding Hood, and that makes me kinda love them now.

And if that rewards your ability to stay safe, Sephirah Meltdowns force you to get dirty and confront how much your team can really last. And that?

That's cathartic.

So, yeah. You are prepared, okay. You have trained your agents. Maybe even strategically placed your abnos to minimize risk and maximize profit. You have been playing carefully and safe, avoiding any mistake because, hell, as long as you know what you are doing there is, most of the time, no problem at all!

What if we change that?

Most Meltdowns (and most of Gebura's missions) force you to break with the safety. Abnos are going to scape. Your agents will be badly hurt. Ordeals are going to happen. Maybe even Midnight Ordeals. It's virtually impossible to save everyone. You need to do this. But also, you can always rewind safely ONCE YOU HAVE WON.

So let's go with all we have. Hard.

If an abno breaches, you supress it with all of your strenght. If you can't, you let it go around. You won't rewind until you can't end the day anymore. As long as one agent stands breathing and sane, the day is not over. If you have four Alephs roaming around, Red Riding Hood chasing the Wolf here and there and one or two crazy employees killing randomly or releasing abnos...this for once does not mean defeat

And it's cathartic becase usually you are not allowed to be fine with this level of chaos and destruction. This apocaliptic scenario is what you always tried to prevent. Now you can just let it happen.

It feels a lot like buying a new phone and getting to brutally destroy your old and barely functional one. It feels like that time I got to destroy with a hammer my ceramic hob to make my landlord's insurence pay for a new and better one.

All of that work you have been protecting now serves it's purpose and breakes. It's amazing. It's so great.

Lobotomy Corporation is not just a hard and painful game with narrative meaning behind that pain (even if, yes, there is pain and yes there is narrative meaning behind it!). It's not Pathologic. I'm a depressed college dropout with empty plastic bottles all around my room. I don't have the motivation to keep going with a game just because of art.

Lobotomy Corporation is a hard and painful game. It's also a fun and rewarding game with cool and interesting mechanics, a colorful and charismatic cast and lot's of self contained stories waiting to happen to you.

Lobotomy Corporation is a good game. Not only a good story, not only a good piece of interactive narrative and art. It's a good and fun videogame.

It really disheartens me that I see a lot of people disregard Lobotomy Corporation. Especially in the wake of Limbus Company's popularity. I was even told to skip it by one of my friends when I got into Project Moon last year (<3)

People say it's bad, it's hard, it's not worth playing, "Just watch a recap video" or "Just go straight to Ruina" or "Play it with cheats" (the gameplay experience is vital to the story but im a grouchy old woman about this) and while Ruina definitely can be played without playing LCorp first. A big theme of the game, repetition and cycles, hinges on you having played LCorp.

Not to mention LCorp is just, an amazing game? It's a clever little title that's an incredible experience, with some flaws that I think are outshined by the power-trip level moments when you're finally able to overcome the web of bullshit it throws at you. I'd put it in my top 3 games of all time, tbh. higher than Ruina.

If you're getting into Project Moon for whatever reason, I HIGHLY implore and recommend you to give Lobotomy Corporation a try before Ruina. It takes a bit to get going but if you see things through to the end, you won't regret it, I promise.

You'll make it. I know you will.

[ruinaimagines]

Announcement & Update

Hello to all that follow this blog and apologies that it has been so long. Unfortunately, in classic fanfic writer fashion, medical problems have recently befallen me and have consumed most of my time. That said, I come with some good news!

Requests have opened once more! 

Now, you may be wondering what happened to the requests I have failed to write. And my answer for that is because I was so backed up I have chosen to rid of all of them and instead opt for current, newer ones to help get back on a proper schedule. A cleaning of the plate, if you will.

The deletion absolutely has nothing to do with the content requested on whether I will write for it or not, so if you really want something to be written, just request it once more! I just hope that this way I can figure out and prioritize better.

Thank you all for your patience, and I truly hope that I can get back to writing! 

Additionally I would like to thank you all for the 100+ followers, it makes me happy to know so many enjoy this blog.

-Mentis

[ein-liebloser-wanderer]

⸸ The Beholder, the Arbiter, and the Executioner ⸸

(A Yandere AU where I turned the Black Forest Birbs of Lobotomy Corporation into controlling eldritch husbands. OOC and fanon are to be expected.)

Characters: Big Bird/O-02-40, Judgement Bird/O-02-62, and Punishment Bird/O-02-56, GN L-Corp Agent (S/O)

Contains: anthropomorphized Abnormalities, the birds are brothers, polyamory (at least their attempt at it), slight codependency, unhealthy relationships, jealousy, possessiveness, mentions of torture, controlling behavior, intimidation, power imbalance, domination

Description: I said at some point about writing the idea of the birds sharing a darling, and now, I finally have. Well, here it is, loves.

Word Count: 1500+

It was an agreement. An arrangement of sorts. One that left the brothers pondering, wondering if this was truly the right decision.

Unsurprisingly, it was Judgement Bird that proposed the idea. The little one was too jealous and demanding to ever think of it, and the brawnier of them all wasn’t the sort to take the initiative. But of course, even the fair avian had trouble accepting it. As much as he liked to play the role of a fair sage, the Bird of Judgement had his reservations.

Unfortunately, this was the only solution that most of them could benefit from, and the only one of the two that included him. Had he been more selfless, perhaps he might have allowed his brothers to do what they will with the human. But no.

He wanted his share.

Understandably, the target of their affections couldn’t care less about the conclusion they have come to. They were doomed either way, regardless of who got to keep them. Having three ‘guardians’ didn’t change much from anything they already did as an Agent.

But at least they still had Big Bird

Out of the three, the human found O-02-40 the easiest to approach. Gentle, kind, afraid. It was rather immoral to take advantage of his timidity, but they would be lying if they said they didn’t feel empowered by it.

It was ironic, really. Despite being a monster, he was the one who would cling onto them like a baby chick would to its mother. Then, he would ask them about the bloodstains, about the tears on their uniform, and-was that another Abnormality's EGO gift?

The entire time, his heavy, ink-black arms would be wrapped around their waist, holding them close to his chest.

“Had the beast come?”

His grip would loosen slightly only after seeing them shake their head with a smile.

“No. Don’t worry about it.”

It was quite obvious that the Agent favoured him. Not that the human would choose from any of them if they had a choice on the matter, but this was enough.

Enough to make him burn with pride and make his eyes shine more radiantly than gold.

Enough to make the other two green with envy.

He won’t deny that he was scatterbrained, but his skull wasn’t so thick that he couldn’t notice the red glint in his brother’s eyes whenever he and their beloved were together. Punishing Bird had always been that sibling who wanted more than what everyone had.

Perhaps once, he always gave in to his brother, but for once, the hulking avian was adamant about keeping his share.

Big Bird was a compassionate creature at heart. It was why he could never deny his brothers, even if he knew they were only manipulating him to get what they wanted. This time, however, his desire to protect the human was stronger.

How convenient. It made his chest warm that the human preferred him over the others—even if it was because they had no choice. That alone was enough reason for him to be…selfish.

If the many-eyed avian wasn’t asking about the ‘Beast’, then he was inquiring the human about their work, about the various Abnormalities they had met up with, and of course, the Birds.

“How are they doing? Is his neck still aching? I bet it is with that terrible posture of his.”

“Has Little B returned what he stole from you yet? Hehe, I saw you frantically searching around the facility for it, silly. Of course, I know.”

“Those scars around your neck. Did he…no, no, you would have told me if he did.”

“They hadn’t done anything to hurt you at all…right?”

He might attempt to play it off as simple, ‘brotherly’ concern, but his unblinking eyes said otherwise.

This was how the Agent discovered that he was capable of being manipulative. Not that they found it worth fretting about. The hulking avian was still the epitome of a birdbrain. Just say nothing but positive things about his brothers, and he would back off. That was what the human had been doing for a long time now, and it always worked.

At leas that was what the Agent preferred to believe.

Every time they left his containment unit, they would swear they saw the glow in his eyes dim.

They could only wonder just how much of his ignorance was genuine…and how much of it was feigned.

But O-02-56 was…different.

For someone whose eldritch form looked like a swab of cotton, the Abnormality was a wrecking ball. A force to be reckoned with. He hated to be belittled, so he became someone who could bite off more than he needed.

He and Big Bird were complete opposites.

Punishing Bird was, true to his name, fueled by retribution. Nothing brought the fair-feathered avian greater satisfaction than inflicting divine punishment on those he deemed a sinner. Whereas his brother felt genuine concern for the welfare of others, he was just vindictive.

But was that really the case? Or was it just bias from the human’s perspective?

No, he really was just that.

There was no deeper meaning behind his cruelty nor actions. There was no sympathetic story to explain as to why he is especially brutal and merciless in his ways. He was just efficient at what he did.

After all, what was punishment but a righteous means of instilling fear?

That wasn’t to say that he was evil. Ultimately, no Abnormality could be truly called that. Such labels only applied to humans. Though they originated from the latter, they were ultimately nothing like them. For instance, could one call an organ extracted from its host ‘human’?

And just like that organ, the Bird of Punishment could only do what it knew best. A heart won’t stop beating until the end even after it left the body, and he won’t stop punishing sinners either, even if he was no longer the Executuoner of the Black Forest.

Disciplining and hurting others still felt natural to him. Not that he would ever do it to his brothers—because in his eyes, they could do no wrong. Pain was just how he showed he cared for others, truly. He only wished the best for everyone, and by inflicting enough of it, he believed he will frighten them away from becoming the Beast.

But as for his beloved?

His very human, very sinful little seedling?

It was almost maddening how much his mouth watered. His true one.

Perhaps it was because he saw the human slacking while on duty, or because they were prone to mental breakdowns at the worst times possible (seeing the death of a friend isn’t an excuse to panic).

Or perhaps it was because he knew, deep down, that his little seedling would never love him?

That rather than a confidant, the human saw him as their captor, tormentor, a scourge in their life?

He knew. The human might try to hide it, but he knew.

It was hard not to when his brother, who they should see as another one of their ‘captors’, was instead treated better. He would dare to even say that Big Bird was the only one they truly liked. They could never conceal the spark in their eyes whenever their manager orders them to come to him. It was…baffling.

So, was it really a wonder why he just itches to hurt them? Why he wants to leave deep, bleeding lines down their back for his brother to see?

‘No fair. You can’t just sign an agreement and reap all the benefits for yourself, big bro.’

He wondered if the human even knew what his brother was truly like. Were they aware that only desperation and a crippling fear of loss lied within him? That had they left him on his own devices, the Beholder would have decapitated them a long time ago?

Punishing Bird would never tell them that, of course. He understood at the very least that the arrangement relied on what little fondness the human had for him.

For now, he was just content knowing that even the Great Bird of Judgement didn’t have any luck with love.

The human neither disliked nor hated O-02-62. Rather, they feared the Arbiter.

Even with half of his face covered in bandages and his eyes gone, there was this perpetual feeling of being observed. Around him, the air feelt so thick that it was suffocating just to be near him.

The avian might call them ‘his’, but that was only on paper. The way he treated them wasn’t any different from how a warden would abuse his prisoner.

If they so much as act out of place, falter in their actions, or break one of his many bizarre and irrational ‘laws’, the human would find themselves bleeding from every part of their body, skin torn, their blood pooling on the concrete floor beneath them.

On his most merciful days, the most he would do was wrap his ink-black fingers around their neck, and just slightly, very slightly, press his talons into their skin. On his worst…well. Truth be told, they couldn’t even guess the worst he could do.

There were many ways one could torment another with a long line of barbed rope, after all, and he hadn’t even done half of them yet.

The tall and noble avian would say that he did all of it out of love. That he acted cold and calloused because he mustn’t let his own feelings cloud his judgement. As far as the human could tell, he was telling the truth when he said he would rather get himself executed than do anything to truly, irreparably hurt their beloved.

In his abnormal mindset, he truly believed that all those floggings and sessions of strangulation was for the best, and not even Punishing Bird was fit for the task.

Unsurprisingly, the three often fought a lot.

Big Bird furious about the new scars on his beloved’s skin. Punishing Bird about how greedy the former was being. Even the Bird of Judgement had trouble keeping his composure.

It shouldn’t be so relieving to see. Seeing the conflict shouldn’t bring them so much joy, but it did.

Because as long as they were too busy, too immersed in their fights and arguments, trying to drag their human doll from one containment unit to the other, they could feel relief.

Even if they wound up being torn apart in the process, even if they might not survive, anything was better than the alternative.

Should the Beholder, the Arbiter, and the Executioner ever come to the same conclusion…one could only imagine what would happen should the advent of the Apocalypse comes true.

It is honestly embarrassing how long I've been wanting to write this idea down, and now that I have, I don't consider it enough. I might write more on this scenario.

Anyway, if you have read this far, I would like to say thank you~

[lobpoints]

They do not know that one the point of LC is that A could have break out of the cycle of pain during all those 10,000 years or maybe even in the earliest version of the loop but he always fail to do so (Angela's voice "you are a prisoner trapped in the prison you created your own, but the key have always been in your hand", Angela's success in replicate the script handed to her perfectly doesn't mean anything if the manager himself fail to overcome and properly face the ordeal that are presented to him) until the moment of the end of LC then maybe the actual long process of it says something more about him as a person rather than just simple notion of "guy who so determined to torture people and himself for his gain"

[funnyboxman]

Most debuffs and buffs found are in a separate document in my blog that I probably should link in the guidebook (although I should update that too, thank you for reminding me!).

Defense ratings for E.G.O. Suits are completely up to the person making the abnormality. I tend to keep it on 25% intervals, however. For ZAYINs and the other weaker abnos, I also usually have an equal percentage of weaknesses and increases (so 2 resistant damage types means one very weak).

I thought that too, but there really isn’t much to do with Temperance as a stat. In Lobcorp it’s mainly used for work speed, which I couldn’t figure out a system for, and means moderation. I truly had no idea what to do, so I made it the main talking stat. If you need to persuade or barter, that’s what you use. It’s not useful in most combat scenarios, but it still has its uses. As for the AC thing, I can sorta see it working??? I mean, it IS based around self-restraint, which could work for keeping yourself away from enemies. I might have to think about different AC types now-

Thank you for your feedback!

The City: A Lobotomy Corporation TTRPG Complete Guidebook

Sorry this took so long! With 8012 total words and 46307 characters, this thing was bound to take a bit. But, without further ado, it's here! A complete guidebook explaining everything about the system in (relatively good) detail! Complete with Character Creation, Abnormalities, Running a Facility, Combat, AND E.G.O. equipment (not in this order), you have everything you need to know to play your own game! Have fun reading this, boyos. Now that this is out of the way, I'll get back onto making abnormalities for a while. I'm hoping to make around 100-130 total before stopping, so this is gonna be chock-full of content eventually. Oh, and for anyone who doesn't know what Lobotomy Corporation or Project Moon is, you can just use this as an SCP foundation system, they're fairly similar in concept! >_0 Have a good day, and remember:

Face the Fear, Become the Future

- FunnyBoxman

[geolyte]

umm uhhh hi i made this. enjoy

[nicestpamkale]

Everyone in the Library of Ruina/Lobotomy Corp fandom should have these things in their friend group;

One friend who's completed lor

One friend who's completed lobcorp

One friend who has played neither but knows all the lore of both (especially this one. It feels like having a professional team sometimes)

One friend who has played neither, knows nothing, but knows all of the memes

It creates hilarious scenarios where the unknowing one prompts the Knowers with the lob and lor knowers giving similar (but different enough to confuse) answers and the mediator confirming (sort of) while the rest of the group watches in horror

"Gebura can Wreck Shit"

"I know Gebura could wreck shit I've seen her wreck shit-"

"No you don't understand-"

"TELL THAT TO THEM!"

"Okay but what if Gebura... didn't wreck shit?"

"Literally impossible"

"Ohmygod"