#lore™

[vindictes]

the executives are the heirs of rocket after giovanni

[lucian-v-ghost]

Let's say hypothetically the uplink has been broken and the android has consciousness, and for some reason the consciousness of the original body is also still in tact and functional, is there a... protocol for this? What would happen?

In the event of an uplink connection severance combined with a malfunction of the Cryogenic Suspension pod, the occupant of the pod would be ejected. When this occurs, there is a medical team on standby to assist the occupant.

Once the occupants conscious brain function has been restored, an S.E.C. Division team is deployed to collect the conscious Android form. If less than 48 hours have passed, the Android is deactivated and returned for repair. If more than 48 hours have passed, or the Android starts to deviate, it is considered a rogue asset, scheduled for decommissioning upon retrieval.

In this instance the occupant is compensated with a week of paid holiday and a new Android form.

Ghost Industries Ltd. protocol regarding rogue assets requires immediate decommissioning to prevent data regarding the company from leaking to the company.

However, if the Android has deviated for enough time, it is considered a Variant. This means that while it may have basis on the mind of the previous occupant, it is no longer the same person. So far, no S.T.E.V.3. or A.L.3.X. models have ever deviated enough to be classified as variants, so usually once the Android has been decommissioned, memories it may have stored in the Red Box during the period it was disconnected from the Cryogenic Suspension pod are returned to the previous occupant in a digital form for later viewing.

Previous efforts to insert the recorded memories into an occupant that had experienced that period of time in an alternative fashion have resulted in trauma, and as such, medical teams recommend viewing the memories manually.

[taesanism]

/ᐠ. ｡.ᐟ\ ʰᵉʰᵉˎˊ˗

ㅎㅇ! my name is yoie ⋆｡ﾟ

twenty-three｡ korean｡ any pronouns

# moa, engene, onedoor, zerose, atiny, turning # horror enjoyer and monster enthusiast # gamer (derogatory)

ㅂㅂ!

⋆｡ﾟ☁︎⋆ on repeat ↻ te quiero by kissoflife

[xitsensunmoon]

TW: HORROR, GORE

Wanted to post this tomorrow but GRVGR couldn't wait lmao🤭 something is definitely going on hehe

[landinrris]

Football AU: In which Carlos is a Premier League football player and Lando is his long-term boyfriend who owns a pottery business.

[duchess-doodles]

Have a wip because I'm going fucking insane

[cellgatinbo]

tubbo and pac: (chanting) Legs Are Legs! tubbo: some legs work better than others but Legs Are Legs! pac: you know, i used to have a, uh- (looks down) ...uh, you know, nevermind.

[airenyah]

i need to talk about this line here for a second, because it's an attack on me personally. but not the english translation of it, no, it's the og thai line that really gets to me. because he says:

มันโอเค​นะเว้ย ที่จะมีความรักอ่ะ [man - oh-keh - ná wóiie • thêe - jà - mee kwaam rák - àh] it - okay - [particle] • that - will - be in love - [particle]

he specifically uses the term มีความรัก which is more like "to be in love". which means rather than "it's okay to love", this line is more accurately translated as:

It's okay to be in love.

and as someone who really really really struggles with self-acceptance for my own romantic feelings for others, this distinction is really important to me. i can deal with loving others. i love my family. i love my best friend (you really don't go here but hiiii @magsimags i love youuuu 😘 (i know you're rolling your eyes reading this as usual)(i don't care)(i love you)). i love my other close friend. i love my summer camp gang. i love my friend that style reminds me of. i love each and every single one of the friends i've made in this fandom over the past few years (you know who you are 💖). i KNOW it's okay to love. i do it all the time. loudly. as evidenced by the fact that i just HAD to tag my best friend in this post to publically tell her i love her even though she really doesn't care about my thai blorbos, just because i really couldn't NOT tag her to tell her i love her. anyway. i can love. loving is fine.

but to be in love??? that's a whole different story. having (in my case romantic) feelings for someone feels like a heavy burden. it feels humiliating. i hate it. i don't want it. it stresses me out. and the person i have feelings for especially can't ever know about it. see, i will talk about my crushes/romantic feelings, but mostly to family and friends (the better they know the person i have feelings for, the harder it gets for me to admit to it), and even then the word "be in love" won't ever come out of my mouth in my native language. in english it's easier, but in my native language i just can't say it. it feels heavy. it makes me cringe. being in love is horrible.

so when style said "it's okay to be in love" specifically? that was a punch to my gut. because this is a truth i have not yet managed to accept for myself. and if the person i had feelings for specifically told me "it's okay to be in love" so firmly and so earnestly? yeah, i would crumble too

[zofi-persson]

Gotta love how my mom, a couple of hours ago, saw me staring at the window and just went "no"

God, you go out of the window once to visit your neighbour as a child, and people won't let you live it down

[psychomusic]

oc time again! + her town & culture (heavily inspired by pre-roman italic populations)

she is suri sauthon. her story is linked to my swtor imperial agent, tar'x, but most of her life except for the one year away where she meets him, is spent in a town in the mountains of mirial.

despite mirial being cold and desert, and many cities developing underground, her town flourishes thanks to a force nexus, venerated in the form of an ancient, sacred, alive crystal. the ecosystem of that mountain depended on what "the horned crystal" was capable of giving them, but mirialans couldn't live off of that alone, so they developed trade and some rudimental technology, even if oftentimes it was bought thanks to the highly profitable trade of a plant used to make medicines that slowed down aging and had overall healing properties.

note: everything that's generated by this nexus has these healing properties BUT they have to be processed, except for those who bathed in the waters of the cavity under the crystal - the "real" nexus, but not the worshipped one. the waters were sacred but they were not thought to be miraculous, unlike the crystal, who instead was thought of as the keystone of the ecosystem: without it, everything would fall apart (and that is partially true: the cavity was the "real" nexus but thanks to the crystal, also strong in the force, the properties were spread all over the mountains). those who bathed in the cavity's waters - so, all of the town, who had a sort of baptism there - could eat the plant, make whatever food with it, and not only that plant, but everything generated by the nexus, that, again, had similar properties. this allowed people to live up to normal life-spans without advanced medicines or, much, really. to those who didn't live there, though, after the processing, had incredible effects, slowing down aging - for those who took it regularly - and making people able to live up to half a century more than the average]

originally, there were four tribes of nomads that lived thanks to horned farm animals that decided to settle down into one bigger town and other smaller settlements, to live off of transhumance. this division of the tribes stayed into the political and social organization: every person belonged to one tribe specifically, and had slightly different rituals and culture. for examples, each tribe had their own priests and healers, with different techniques and traditions. the town, tho, was guided by a group of people in the high priesthood, a position you could reach only by having earned the trust of all tribes. those high priests had many roles: they guided the people into sacred processions common to all the tribes, they managed the trading with outsiders, they did the maintenance of the temple of the summit (the one that functioned as casket to the crystal) and created a special liquid to offer the crystal that helps it grow.

this particular temple was important because 1. it was very visible, from every angle of the town, and it became an important identity symbol; 2. it stored the venerated horned crystal; 3. it had the altar where sacrifices were made for the crystals. that altar had a hole connected to the cavity, that allowed the liquids to reach the underground; 4. it had various symbols: statues representing each tribe + the high priesthood, and typical mirialan tattoos carved into the wood of the trees that served as columns for the temple, symbolizing 8 values that who dared to enter HAD to have; 5. it was on the way to an important lake (called "mother lake" because the lake the town was built around to depended on the waters of that other lake) where they traveled to in important processions; 6. it was said that a the wizard who unified the tribes made it with its magic, making the plant grow to hold the temple's roof. this wizard was, actually, a force user, obv.

BACK TO HER THOUGH: she's daughter of one of the high priests, who was in charge of managing the trades with outsiders, and lives in a house on the mountains with her mother and him. her parents are from different tribes (that's one of the things that earned him trust from the 4 tribes): when a child is born from two different tribes, they don't pick one to allign to, but they're usually linked automatically to the one with more relatives in it (in her case, the father's tribe: she had many uncles and aunts on his side while her mom only had one sister).

later, though, she got quite tied to her mother's tribe due to a mysterious illness that only her mother's tribe healer was able to cure. she spent 4 years (from 10 to 14 years old) living with the healer and learned her secrets. to better study, she wrote them down. when she returned home, she studied to become a priestess with her father. at 22 (the average age: you can't become priest before your 20s), she was supposed to take a test and become a priestess, but the healer of her mother's tribe died and the tribe asked her to take her place. she couldn't technically do that, but both tribes estimated both her and her parents and she was allowed to become both. she then decided to try to become a high priestess, and became one at 25 (a quite young age). being part of the council, she tried to convince the various tribe healers to unite their knowledges and write them down, and eventually made it. healers still remained tribe based but they now had an "upper, inter-tribe level" similar to high priesthood.

years later, the sacred horned crystal is stolen from the temple by some Hutt mercenaries looking for a profit. given the trust she has earned from all the tribes and the fact that her father is the high priest that deals with outsiders (and she's been hearing stories and advice about it since she was little), she is the one tasked with getting it back. without the growing crystal, the keystone to their ecosystem, the village would have lasted only a few years. in hrr quest, she meets imperial intelligence agent tar'x laran and, as they "solve the mystery" and fight to have it back, they get closer. they'll get married and have a daughter, Vegoia (who's the only one who actually will get to the plot of my story. this was all background)

[cacturnia]

Two of them!!

[lucian-v-ghost]

One final bit of Lore™ for you all before the computer returns.

On every level of the Ghost Industries Ltd. R&D facility, there are vending machines for drinks, mainly sodas or water, as hot beverage consumption is usually restricted to the various cafeteria areas throughout the facility.

Most of the sodas available from these vending machines are Shize™ branded. Many employees have raised concerns about these sodas as experimentation has found that a liberal spray of water will cause the can to emit a sound similar to a moan of sexual gratification.

While this is somewhat odd, the various beverages themselves are undeniably delicious. We especially recommend Shize™ Tropical Storm or Shize™ Blueberry Melon Twist.

Ghost Industries Ltd. Would like to reassure all employees that the Shize™ Sodas are simply normal soft drinks and do not contain player souls of any kind.

On a related note, the Shize™ Vending Machine on Sublevel -7 that contains cans of Shize™ Thirst Born, has been quarantined until further notice.

[transingthoseformers]

Do NOT let me try and puzzle out cybertronian taxonomy again, it will only end in frustration

... but I also want to though—

[robotsweater]

whoa dude have you seen this???(hands u another drawing of my trans bg3 Tav that’s obviously self indulgent projection)

[googleitlol]

“Flowers?” Pigsy grins, nudging you with his arm. “Sounds like more than just a friend.” He laughs, and Wukong reaches over you to swat him away.

He gives his brother a look laced with annoyance. “Stop that, they were only children at the time–”

“I mean…” You trail off, glancing up at your friend to see his eyes practically bulging out of his head. All of them, in fact, shared the same look of disbelief. Even Ao Lie, who has been quietly picking at the grass beneath him, was almost staring into your soul.

[piowasthere]

how does mer lunar feel about having his hat played with?

mf- i said not to ask-

think about it this way, normally it's just a hat, a piece of clothing

this here is a fin (ig?). a part of his body. smth he can feel when touched.

and it's sensitive. if smth even grazes against it - he will feel it. now, depending on the intent of the touch, u can get various reactions out of him. (or none at all, it's like if u smeer ur shin against a rock, u acknowledge it but don't really care)

and yes, he did found out about its sensitivity bc of Gemini. sue me.

also the same thing goes for all of his tentacles.

do with that knowledge what u want.

and before anyone even dares to ask.

the question if he squirts ink shall not be answered.

don't even try.