#mods to have him as a follower are a necessity

[skyrim-forever]

[lelelego]

You've vaguely mentioned Eli's life pre-bullet to the head before so I was wondering, is there any part of his old life that's liable to come back to haunt him eventually? Ex partners, old debts, stuff like that?

if anyone it'd most likely be his ex partner, who i frankly have not developed very much under the guise of "many of eli's memories from Before He Was Shot In The Head has been muddled resulting in a return to his bolder personality from when he was younger". he's got a name like damian, or ethan, or nathan (eli genuinely can't remember so neither will i!!!!)

anyway very long post about what happened pre-new vegas and what may come back to bite him in the ass that got away with me under the cut. SORRY IT'S SO LONG!!!

eli only remembers bits and pieces of this, but the essential bullet points of that mess is as follows:

eli gets into a travelling caravan that wants to see more of the world outside of shady sands. the caravan's leader is damian/ethan/nathan/gathan/kathan. he is very charming and very lovely to eli, as are the other people in the caravan (~about 7-8 people large, with 2 brahmin.)

he decides this is an excellent opportunity to pick up being a mailman to earn some caps along the road in addition to being the caravan's travelling engineer/repairman.

they make a happy bunch, taking on non-violent freelance work such as scavenging, repairs, ranching, trading, transport... making a good amount of caps for necessities and a treat or two. they get along, and eli is more and more charmed under the arm of dathan/iathan/rathan, and eventually confesses to him, much to the guy's delight and they start a Thing that eli is too scared to put a label on for fear of being booted out of the group by Creating Drama

they travel into utah and arizona.

-than is very hot and cold with eli; one second he'll be nudging shoulders with him and telling him sweet things, and the next he's yelling at eli for being too much of a burden because of his leg. (this is where eli gets very good at maintaining his leg brace.)

as they travel in utah and arizona the idea of becoming a caesar's legion protected caravan grows teeth in -than: there's more than enough work and it's no surprise that CL caravans are well protected and reap various benefits that simply don't come with being freelance.

while resting for the night sometime they're approached by a CL scouting squad and the leader has a drink with -than. obviously a recruitment effort, and it solidifies the idea for -than - but the scouting leader requires a buy-in or offer for caesar of some kind, caps, a valuable invention, or (you guessed it!) a pretty slave.

and boy, isn't eli just the prettiest thing?

so they start to travel together towards a bigger legion camp, but the CL scout doesn't exactly keep this deal under wraps, and espouses to eli the wonders of being a slave under caesar's legion. he could have such a wonderful life being his, not having to worry where he slept, when his next meal is, hell, not having to think at all! wouldn't that be wonderful?

eli escapes that mess the very next night. being small and quiet's always had its disadvantages, but not that night.

eli ends up escaping to the nearest town without a CL flag and pays what he can to another caravan to bring him along, that he can fix things real good and pay them a little more from his paycheck from the mojave express.

he manages his way back to shady sands to his sister camille, who's working as part of the local police force (still under NCR?) in the city, but the anxiety that -than knows where he might be gets to him and he starts travelling in california again, jumping from caravan to caravan and town to town delivering mail and earning what he can by offering repairs and gun/armour mods.

up until he lands the strange job to new vegas.

so like i said before eli really doesn't remember a lot of this, all he knows 100% is that there was a guy named -than who tried to sell him into the legion in exchange for a caravan contract, and he managed to run away. he gets bits and pieces in dreams that make his heart rate increase by 200% but that's really it. i imagine -than was probably very unhappy he escaped and the big fat paying contract with CL either fell through or he got something subpar, and holds a grudge against the one person who decided not to go along with his plans for once.

and if you made it here thanks for reading!!!!

[twosides--samecoin]

Plz I’m begging, can you give me an enlightenment of what a modern Maccready would wear. I’m dying to style him modernly and have no clue what he’d wear 🙂‍↕️

Hey gamer, thanks for the ask!

RJ grew up in Little Lamplight. The real life version is Luray Caverns, nestled 75 miles away from DC and protected by Shenandoah State Park and George Washington National Forest. I grew up in a town with a teen pregnancy problem where people wore RealTree Camo to prom. I now live a couple hours from Luray, so I feel Modern RJ is someone who I could have gone to high school with.

He grew up country as fuck - there's not an ounce of city slicker in RJ. All the street smarts he has is because he was observant enough to earn them. When he says he's from DC, it's because he knows it's the closest city he grew up near that anyone in Boston's gonna recognize. His fashion can't be bought in Georgetown or the Prudential Center, unless the trend of the day is blue collar chic being sold to the rich.

Modern RJ was the kind of country kid who's teenage uniform was a green flannel and a Master of Puppets Metallica shirt. He was the kind of scrawny where he was 130 pounds soaking wet and 2% body fat and wore the same blue jeans from ages 14 through 17. His second fave shirt featured Iron Maiden's Live After Death.

He cherished them; like many country kids who feel a bit different from their peers, he clung to his band shirts. You wouldn't catch him dead in Carhartt and RealTree unless he literally died while hunting. Not that he wasn't proud of his friends, or ashamed of where he was from - he just dreamed of getting out. Band shirts represented something bigger, a Great Beyond; a world he wanted to travel, a life he was priced out of living as an orphan from Virginia.

Buying clothes is not something RJ enjoys - he's a single dad and feels a level of guilt attached with spending money on himself, knowing how much grocery money would be wasted on a leather jacket and pair of jeans (speaking of groceries, RJ has a family of three to feed - Duncan insisted they keep that damn German Shepherd who followed RJ home from his mechanic shift at the Red Rocket). He's still driving the same red rusted-to-fuck '96 Chevy Silverado that he kissed Lucy in for the first time, the same one that drove them out of Virginia. Maintains it himself since he can get the parts at cost.

Though he's frugal, Modern RJ is picky about his fashion. His closet isn't one that features abundance. His clothing is utilitarian; earth tones in a range of faded browns and greens, duck canvas, twill denims with no stretch. A heavy mechanic jumpsuit for work. The coolest colours he wears are grey thermal shirts and a blue shearling jacket when in colder weather. There's an olive green jacket he likes in the springtime. He prefers a tough, protective pair of leather boots for everyday footwear. For casual shoes; given the choice between Chuck Taylors and Vans, he'd wear whichever was on sale, but preferably the Chucks.

He has a few long sleeve button-downs out of an eye-rolling necessity for job interviews. He hates wearing ties and has never owned a suit. Before she died, Lucy gifted him a brown shearling leather jacket to wear on his motorcycle.

He's most comfortable wearing his old green flannel and band shirts. Otherwise, he can be found wearing a white t-shirt and blue Levi's every now and then - Lucy always liked Bruce Springsteen.

When you grow up can't-rub-two-pennies-together poor, it means you appreciate the material things in a different kind of way. RJ's clothing is all about emotional comfort and memories; he's afraid to let go.

I loved writing this! Thanks for sending me the ask, anon! The people demand my RJ brainrot and I aim to please <3 Thanks again & have a great day :)

BONUS: An outfit mod I am working on for RJ!

[kotaromita]

Based on the CYBER SNIPER set and @kusanagi-nene-official-mods' cyber apocalypse AU, I designed a Kotaro in the same universe!

Rather than offense focused like Akito, Toya, Nene, and Emu are in the set, I wanted to keep in line with his tendency to flee from conflict and give him an EMP multi-tool for the sake of disarming any enemy for a chance to run and hide.

More details below!

Following the apocalypse he’s become hyperfocused on protecting Takato and stockpiling supplies. With people he knows he doesn’t hesitate sharing whatever he has at the time so long as Takato is safe and well taken care of.

He is unsure where his parents are and spends any time he isn’t scavenging or hiding looking for them and anyone else he recognizes. He’s incredibly lonely despite willingly isolating himself for safety most days. He’s perpetually worried about Akito and Kohane.

Because of his habitual hoarding of necessities he was once ambushed and robbed. In the struggle his wrist and numerous bones in his hand were broken. It was painful constantly and unable to heal properly so with Akito’s help he amputated it. He was able to take a split-hook prosthetic off of a casualty of the apocalypse. It’s too small for his upper arm so he can’t wear it for long periods of time without discomfort.

In a roleplay with @hellsaoyagi he and Toya sang together and reminisced.

Interacting with @kusanagi-nene-official has led to the two of them becoming allies in their situation, although they don't often have the chance to interact in person due to their differing goals.

More information about the AU you can get from primarily Nene's mod and maybe the people running the Emu, Toya, and Rin accounts that are also associated with the AU! I'm just trying my best to mesh with the world they've created. It's so much fun putting Kotaro in lots of different AUs since, what with him having no cards and alternate outfits, I have almost complete freedom, hehe.

Lastly, this is basically how I envision his prosthetic!

Just imagine a more high-tech version of this, what with the colored bits being lit up and so on.

[x-xirasol]

i have no idea how many people here play Webfishing AND like TMC but bro this is what happens if someone has two active interests

HEADCANONS TMC VICTIMS + WEBFISHING

CESAR

- webfishing character: white cat with black tuxedo pattern

- cosmetics: black flannel (open), white undershirt, black long pants (replicating a Tuxedo)

- strategy: buys everything because he doesn’t really care about an efficient game play etc

- game play: wants to 100% the game (but gives up multiple times through it)

- extra: asks Mark to play together all the time, semi gambling addict, pushes Mark all the time because it‘s funny, enjoys hearing Mark playing the guitar, listens to NO music while playing, loses hope quickly if he doesn’t get the fish he wants

MARK

- webfishing character: white cat

- cosmetics: black hoodie, black long pants, bandage

- strategy: only buys the necessities first and if the money allows it, he‘ll spend it on unnecessary stuff, cosmetics aren’t that important

- game play: doesn’t follow a specific goal and just goes with the flow

- extra: plays it with Cesar all the time, likes the game without any mods, semi interested in gambling, plays the guitar in game, doesn’t listen to the game music but puts on matching music to the game, actually relaxes when playing the game, is the emotional support for Cesar

ADAM

- webfishing character: black cat with white calico pattern

- cosmetics: white beanie, black hoodie, blue long pants, bandage

- strategy: buys ONLY the necessities, focuses on saving up and then getting multiple upgrades at once, cosmetics are bought later

- game play: wants to 100% the game

- extra: downloads many mods to the game ESPECIALLY the ones where you can push/shoot players (cough Jonah cough), plays his own music instead of listening to the game music, plays the guitar in game, initially planned on playing it alone but doesn’t really mind Jonah playing with him, "this game helps me relax" while he yells at the game for not giving him the fish he wants

JONAH

- webfishing character: yellow dog (trying to replicate a golden retriever)

- cosmetics: white beanie, tan flannel (open), white undershirt, tan short pants

- strategy: bro has no strategy, he‘s more focused on having a good looking character than actually looking for efficiency in fishing, will buy literally EVERYTHING, necessary or not

- game play: only goal is to have a full journal, the rest is not that important

- extra: gamble addict, falls into the water ALL THE TIME, will yell at Adam for downloading mods all the time (but will get used to it), likes to listen to the game music, likes to listen to Adam playing the guitar, laughs at Adam all the time whenever he rages

[dextixer]

Yknow, at first i thought i would just make a thread telling everyone how manipulative this post about how "I dont hate critique but critique bad" is, to warn people about snakes in the FNDM hiding in the grass.

But then this utter clownshoes decided to invoke Monty, to talk about Montys wishes. To weaponize a dead person as a cudgel for a fucking internet argument.

This is why i hate most of the RWBY FNDM, because they are all sunshine and rainbows, all progressive, all nice people, or at least they portray themselves to be until they take off their fucking masks. And then all of these supposedly nice people reveal themselves to be manipulative ratfucks.

So, lets be very clear. If you invoke Monty in your shitty internet arguments, you are just a morally defunct person, you are lower than fucking trash. He is a deceased man. His corpse is not there for you to parade him like a fucking puppet for your own arguments.

The fact that it follows a fake ass "nice guy" facade is just the icing on the cake.

Despite the claims of the OP, they were not "suggesting that hate discourages people" they were being a snakey fuck by at first saying "Criticism isnt bad" and then outlining literally EVERY single tired anti-criticism buzzword phrase in existence. Everyone fucking knows that most of the time "Im not saying x is bad BUUUUUT" leads to the person revealing that, yeah, they are saying that X is bad. Its the most fucking elementary silencer for any argument in existence.

We have the ol reliables of

>"If you no like, just leave" >Conflating criticism with hate >Implying that people should not criticize passion projects >Implying that RWBY receives unique kind of criticism that no other thing does

Alongside that we also have some weird implications that RWBY is disliked for being "cringe" and of course, more instances of conflating criticism with "hate". If one pays attention they could easily spot a pattern, take a shot of your favourite drink anytime you see the word "hate" or its synonim when the supposed thread is supposed to be about criticsm.

As far as for the second part of the post that comes after my reply.

Criticism does not have to be constructive, its good when it is, but if a person can see something wrong, they can say its wrong without offering a solution. I dont need to be a professional doctor to see a bone sticking out where it shouldnt be etc.

And lets get back to the old sticking point "Oh, but why does RWBY have separate critic communities".

Because the fandom MADE it a fucking necessity! Just like with shows like Game of Thrones and many others! You think critic spaces or subreddits are some kind of never seen before thing before RWBY?!

The only reason RWBY has them is because of the fucking Fandom!

The RWDE tag on tumblr only exists because people were ASKED for criticism to be something that people could avoid, by tagging a post as RWDE anyone using this platform can easily blacklist the tag and NEVER see anything from it! And yet the Fandom instead of doing so CONSTANTLY comes into the tag, and then constantly bitches and whines about how criticism exists!

The critics subreddit exists because most people there were slowly pushed away from the main sub. It didnt START as that, but it became that when the mods of r/RWBY decided that instead of moderating discussions they would rather throw out all the critics because fans would NEVER behave in critical posts and would either mass report them or cause conflict!

Whether someone likes RWBY or not has NOTHING to do with personal morality. Its also extremelly ironic that there are constant "uwu, people say me bad because i like RWBY" claims with nothing to back them up while on places like twitter you can see RWBY twitter accounts say that anyone who dislikes RWBY is just a misogynist or the like.

I would rather take the most toxic critic foaming at the mouth about how RWBY is bad over people like op, ratfuck snakes who pretend to have no problem with criticism while sneaking in the same fucking anti-criticism shit into their threads.

I dont even criticize RWBY that much anymore and i mostly just tell the critics spaces to not even talk to the larger fandom, and its because of dipshits like the OP.

Because the RWBY FNDM is full of these nice presenting, nice writing manipulative jackasses who are just smiles and rainbows while saying the same tired bullshit as always. Just a reminder, just because someone is "polite" does not mean they are not full of shit.

[pretzelcoatll]

Day 2 of @torque-witch #Witchtober2024:

Something in the Air

I need to get out of this town. 

The world ended so suddenly. Or, at least what we used to call the world. None of us could have expected it to happen. I remember, the day before I was at my nephew's fifth birthday. It was themed after some children's cartoons with color coded zebras. My parents had shown up late and I had work early the next morning, so I barely got to see them. I didn’t even get to hug my dad goodbye. They’re all gone now. 

Some extra dimensional creatures slipped into ours through a hole just outside of our atmosphere that night. At least that's what the scientists on the TVs said. They’re probably not alive anymore either. News and propaganda spread fast. Creatures that consume humans. Only moving in darkness. The religious dubbed them demons. Some streamer apparently tried to exercise one. Mods had probably been taken by that point because what immediately followed was 5 minutes of the poor guy getting ripped to shreds through an infrared lens, and then 40 minutes of the sounds of flesh tearing and bones crunching as the creature slowly ate him.

I don’t know how I survived this long. One incidental happenstance after another that kept me in places with enough light to last until sunrise. And that continued for what I'm pretty sure was about 2 weeks, though it felt like months until I came across this town. 

Situated across a small stone bridge from the main road was this 12 block by 7 block town. Only one way in, only one way out, with a large blood stained barely legible welcome sign that read “Welc- -shine”. The perimeter of this small island seemed to have been recently boarded up with large flood lights to shine light around. With the bridge boasting various forms of string light, solar charged path lights, and every few feet a large flood light on either side, all dark in the sunlight as I approached. The towns folk were nice and welcoming enough, they’d all lost loved ones and understood the value of “community”. 

Apparently the old residents of this town, who now only 6 of still remained, tried valiantly to fend off the shadows, and for the most part did well for themselves. The small man made island was well equipped with both diesel and solar powered generators, as well as their own gray water and reverse osmosis systems, all incase of natural disaster causing their inability to leave. So they have been able to support themselves as well as keep the majority of the town, and especially the perimeter well light in the darkness. 

My time here has actually been pretty easy going. If you don’t think about it all too hard it's almost like nothing has changed. We take shifts during the light hours to scavenge the neighboring cities of food and supplies, batteries being our biggest necessity. We’ve got a large hefty community garden that was started when we found one of the old ladies who used to live here was an heirloom seed collector. We threw a party that day. Some of the more mechanically inclined took it upon themselves to learn how to make a simple desalination plant to supplement the RO water. They also do repairs on the generators as needed. We fish, we play cards, we sing and dance and some of us even tried to find love again. We get new occupants every now and then. We also lose some of them during scouting parties. All in all it could have been worse. 

It’s been about 2 years since then. Food is more scarce and a bad storm took out a large portion of our crops, but we are rebuilding.  Although the scouting parties are always able to find good portions of meat lately. They say animals have been breeding a lot more abundantly. I know they are lying. 

I need to get out of this town. Because there is a scent in the air. And it smells delicious.

[cannibal-queen-rosie]

Weclome to Franklin and Rosie's Emporium! How can I help ya today?

I've seen a lot of a particular role-play question asking blog and I'm mildly interested in contributing. I've never done something like this on tumblr before so bare with me!

Basic Information:

Roleplaying blog for Rosie of Hazbin Hotel

Mod is Tig, as in @hackedtig (main blog). Yes I'm an adult, She/They pronouns.

This is for fun, not to be 100% Serious. I do have a full time job so be patient with responses.

I prefer to keep things SFW/Mildly suggestive, but respectable people off anon may ask -select- NSFW themed questions. Answers to these questions will be placed under cuts. (Any NSFW questions asked on-anon will be ignored)

I won't be answering every single question or submission received, y'know, on the off chance someone does submit something unsavory.

If I post with someone or something that isn't what I'm particularly with on a narrative, their blog name will be placed in the tags w/ an AU notice.

This Blog's Rosie

Rosie is an Overlord that rules over her district of Cannibal Town. She runs her shop with Franklin.

So far, Rosie has only had the one husband, trading out her love life for her Emporium. (something something the emporium is her second husband).

She is good friends with Alastor, but has no romantic or sexual attraction to him (He's an ace in the hole, haven't ya heard?)

She mingles and likes to flirt with Carmilla. (Mod ships BloomingGun first and foremost!)

Despite her right and proper exterior, she does possess the capability to go feral. You have to try real hard, though.

Much better at pure cooking than baking. Franklin handles more of the baking for her.

She makes and sews most, if not all, of the products she sells in her Emporium, including the outfits.

She's familiar with modern slang and modern technology, but prefers her old stuff. Has a smart phone out of necessity. (Needs must when you're runnin' a business, sweetie!)

Words are more of a game to her. To impress this carnivorous overlord, you've gotta think a little more outside the box.

Actually Demisexual (An emotional bond has to be made before she's comited to getting physical), is very supportive of the entire spectrum and entire community. When she says auntie Rosie, she means it!

Happy to talk about and support her customers within reason!

(Yes, she's also happy to let people ask Franklin questions too!)

Tag key:

Mod posts/answers in italics: #mod talks / #tig talks

Rosie responds in red text: #rosie posting , #rosie answers

Franklin responds in orange text: #frankie posting , #frankie answers

Posts that are centric to this blog's 'canon': #canon blog post

Posts that are not centric to this blog's 'canon': #au blog post, followed by #blog-name-here as well.

Suggestive answer posting: #questionable judgement

More clear NSFW answer posting: #private client list and #lewd posting

Happy asking!

[drarryspecificrecs]

HP Pride Secret Santa 2022 : Masterlist of DRARRY fics

@magicaltrans || official masterpost (N/A) || AO3 || ∑ = 16 works The Mod(s) : @achillesangst + Banner © : @digthewriter's Festive - The Pride Edition

1. All The Time In The World by @basicallyahedgehog [M, 7k]

Since he hit puberty, Harry has been using glamours to make his body look how he feels. But when the Horcrux inside him dies, taking his body's ability to accept magic with it, he is left back at the starting line. /// Or, after the war Harry figures out who he wants to be with the help of his family, the world's best best-friend, and a surprising person from his past.

2. ash, fire, ash by @corvuscrowned [G, 900]

Malfoy tosses the butt of their cigarette into the flames. “They’ll know it’s you doing it eventually.” “Good,” Harry says. “Then maybe it’ll make them remember my name.”

3. day after tomorrow by grow_as_we_go [T, 4k]

Harry meets a familiar face while he’s at work, will it be just a one night stand or something more?

4. the deer, the desert and the 630724th universe by @piarelei [T, 3k]

In every lived universe (and some where life never struck), Draco is with Harry. Nothing changes about that in the 630724th universe.

5. Let Me Count the Ways by @thebooktopus [E, 3k]

Intimacy comes in many forms. Draco wants to explore them all with Harry.

6. Snapshot by @vitaminpops [M, 6k]

Various glimpses into Draco's and Harry's lives. Take a shot every time a camera is mentioned.

7. the sweetness of you by @blue--dreaming [G, 300]

In which spoiled surprises can still be sweet.

8. To Have and To Hold by @toxik-angel [T, 10k]

the most bisexual wedding of the century! you get a bi! you get a bi! everyone gets a bi!

9. turn the landscape into a blur by @beyondtheclose [T, 3k]

The first summer after, when everything was hazy and he was being dragged to testify at so many trials that he began questioning how he even knew so many people, Harry bought a car. He comes to learn how much easier it is to tell someone your secrets when it’s dark, and the necessity to keep your eyes glued on the road ahead outweighs any obligation of eye contact.

10. World's Worst Hangover by @stargazing-enby [M, 4k]

Harry and Draco get drunk-married in Vegas. The following morning, when they wake up naked and hungover in the same bed, Draco thinks everything is over. Luckily, Harry won't let him run away and pretend this never happened.

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✔ other fests in 2022 ✔ fests in other years

[nnn-lll-nnn]

how fares the xanxon army?

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION

XANXON MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, MOD, XANXON INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, XIA, XIEPHR, XZAN, &C &C &C.

PUBLICATION DATE

1RST OCT 16TH 1975 2 ARG

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HAYL XANXONI [OBLIGATORY]!

AZUL XANXONI!

PRAIZ XANXONI!

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THE XANXON ARMY is a part of the larger Xanxon Military, specifically the ground forces. It is the greatest fighting force in the I.T.C.G.[A.]'s records and the largest, not only Intertimelinally but also proportionally speaking, relative to the Xanxon Military, it remains the largest branch.

The following is a list of all actions pertaining in relation to the Xanxon Army, as a service record and a log of all actions considered even remotely noteworthy, since January 1 1rst, 1975 2 ARG, from the Dayi Operation on Dazaan, to the present day [16OCT1-1975-2ARG].

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###KAZ--- [REDACTED]

###KZA--- [REDACTED]

###KHZ--- [REDACTED]

###DTL--- [On January 1 1rst,] Xanxon ambassadors meet with General Ryan Ponitownolskiy, of the pro-Xanxon forces, in Warsaw Poland, Dt.A.L..

###DZN--- Just a mere two or so weeks [13-14ds] prior to the Invasion of [REDACTED], Xanxon forces, some 36,000 elite troopers, assaulted the small town of Dayi during the identically named operation. In spite of being outnumbered by the roughly 155k Imperium troops, they were able to so nobly push the invaders out, however this would only be so long lived naturally, as by the 14th enemy reinforcements arrived and crushed the forces present with some over 300,000 hostile personnel piling onto the much smaller force of highly trained Xanxon troopers, who pulled back out of necessity.

###SDW--- On January 1 14th, the Xanxons commence their Invasion of [REDACTED], which seems some rather immediate success, however, after the cruel war crimes committed by the Imperium, and their overwhelming numbers, Xanxon forces were forced to fall back at and after the key and decisive battles, of Carcass Ridge and The Lublin District Pocket, see below comments upon this document for further clarification regarding this campaign. Afterwards, the Xanxon Army was forced to retreat off-world, having dealt heavy casualties, at least at a one to one ratio with the enemy, and unto him they struck.

###WRD--- (Various minor conflicts).

###DTL--- After repeated Imperium aggression, the cowardly evil of Markovich struck again, and this time during Operation Sodium, an Imperial plan to crush Xanxon and local resistance efforts by eliminating most of our leadership, and by capturing or killing General Relek, who, contrary to official Imperium statements, is not guilty of any such war crimes as he is currently being accused of.

###DTL--- On Nov. 16, 2009 D.t.A.L. Local Time, various Bari/Batti-Class Nation(alist) heroes in Europe launched a gracious military coup takeover against the decadent democracies in Britain, France etc., following Ivan Morozov's decision to side with the Xanxons, and save his country of Russia from the clutches of Imperium "freedom". Likewise, General Jeac Ben Venice of France had also decided he'd have had enough of the Imperium's false promises and lies and oppression.

###GSH--- Following this, the opening of the front in January, then by April of the 1rst ARG Cycle, and in April of the GSH's year 2020, our heroes successfully took Leyai City against the evil Soviet and American Imperialist forces. This grand, great and sweeping counteroffensive action had just coincided with many events on the rest of the Interntimelinal Plane.

###T71--- {{AZR-K-15.-8}} It was here that the Imperium failed to even begin occupied the Trinity Seven Dash One world, as we had just quite simply beaten them to it.

###T72--- Minor clashes and an alliance with the Triangleheads had just begun by this point in time.

###DNG--- Likewise, Dazaan had just completely fallen. The Xanxon Army had crushed the evil forces of the Imperium here as well. Predominantly in Asiatic environs.

###DTL--- It was around this point that a massive, full scale Invasion of the DTAL United States has begun, and they lost their capitol very rapidly.

###DTL--- Fortunes for the devilish continued, however, as an equally despicable Empire had just arrived, invading through Germany. What followed was a lengthy and costly struggle. From early to mid December, up until March 1rst of next year (2010), this Empire would fight, as they did in Germany, and in France, and in Poland, and in Berlin, and in Italy, and in Madrid, and in Vladivostok, and in Saint Petersburg, and as in Manchuria, and all before Markovich had committed serious and completely ignored by the community war crimes, achieving a rather speedy victory.

###GSH--- A long, lengthy and complex war had just begun. Following various actions, Interntimelinal World War One had just begun. And it would be bloody, as on the battlefield we had played honorably, and they had just returned that honorable nature with a show of barbaric force and pure malicious evil, trampling upon every single agreement they had signed, promised and had sworn upon. We had to eventually accept a negotiated settlement, which had granted us most of what we had wanted in exchange for peace, simply because we had just slaughtered that many. And it is this settlement that we can indeed consider a victory.

###KRG--- We had joined in upon the imperials in fighting for what they claim and what we prove to be our objective, and that is the rules by which we as responsible hlGl geostrategic citizens must indeed quite follow. And so he had joined upon even unto this dearest conflict.

###2BT--- After repeated attacks, our rather quite slightly troubled ally of Ner was just plain forced to invade Preska, an evil regime, however, by now after August and September, the war had mellowed out in Preska.

###WRD--- It was there, during the heroic and altogether futile fighting in Manchuria, that the enemy had unleashed such terrible weaponry systems and am entire race of such Insectoids as defined by Aichi. We had begun to secure victory by this point, however.

###WRD--- Various conflict, all minor, occured by this point.

###XXE--- And yet it was within our own Empire, that traitors have just tried to seize and secure their ill-gotten power. And yet it is the heroic and impossibly good Xanxon Army who had stopped these terrorists dead in there tracks.

Many conflict are still ongoing, and we are always innovating and improving.

We yet look forward even unto November.

HAYL XANXONI!

(Note, some materials contain the listing of '1975 1', and this is an error, and or indicates oversimplification. Presently, we are in DASH TWO, 1975 ARG time, or the SECOND repeat proper in the year. And it is of this year that we are currently in the Month of OCTOBER, 16th day, FIRST [MONTH] CYLCE OF OCTOBER. And it is of this that there are currently a remaining FOUR Cycles of the year before we enter DASH THREE, then all months repeat five times, before we enter DASH FOUR, and then all months repeat for the second last time, as we enter DASH FIVE, and one last cycle happens before we enter 1976 DASH ONE.).

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[grimulf-of-the-wilderness]

—(••÷ ℝ 𝕌 𝕃 𝔼 𝕊 ÷••)—

Hello, my name is Cryptex and this is an independent blog for the original character

𝙶𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚞𝚕𝚏

A Hilichurl Rogue from the series Genshin Impact.

We Are Down To Role Play & Write With

Canon and or Original Characters

Crossovers, Verses, Alternative Universes, Different Timescapes

Everyone -but being mutually following each other helps tracking.

We Adore

Literate paras, with long winded replies!

One liners, or casual chats between muses {We tend to mirror what we get}

Asks, prompts, inquiries

Secret admirers, gifts, submissions.

A mix of shenanigan’s and Koala-T

DM’s if you jus’ wanna geek out over the fandom or have a plot storm.

➽ ＲＯＬＥ ＰＬＡＹ

Mun | Writer: Is over the age of 25 and I do not want to interact with minors.

Canon | Divergent I’d say I am Divergent A.F.  and sorta canon {CanonBending-Evolving} I adore Genshin Impact lore and there are many details to this original character that reference it.

Standard Role Play Rules: No God-modding, forcing a ship or killing the muse w/o discussion.

TheTrim: I appreciate a trimmed post but if you cannot, I got you covered.

Plotting, Planning & Brainstorming: I’d prefer to have you feel comfortable enough to reach out and say hello, lets write! But you don't have to, it can be a totally spontaneous reaction between our muses upon the dash. Please keep in mind, if you tag me or merely mention me I may miss it, in that case throw something at Grim.

Stand Alone Projects: I tend to view paras | chats | stories as stand alone. All separate from one another. I compartmentalize it in order to have creative freedom, to write whatever I  like with whomever, even duplicate muses. However, three-way plots or storylines are fun IF they are plotted out and discussed between all parties.

Thread Dropping: I tend to give fellow partners Two Months and IF there's been no reply, no PSA posted, blog went inactive I will archive the thread and move on. If you make a come a come back and want to start something new or pick up where we left off, just DM me.

Muse Insertion: Please do not insert your muse into my storyline that I have worked on with another writer without OUR permission, especially if you are coming after my muse. Going full on ‘Ima kill him’ and then tagging me w/o plotting before hand is just rude and poor RP etiquette.  

Discord: I do have it but I am not passing it out like tic-tacks. If we are working together already and you want to move something off the dash, into a private RP or simply to keep in contact, DM me.

➽  RELASHIONSHIPS

I adore them. All kinds. Friends, rivals, acquaintances, lovers can all come at me.

Romantic Shipping: Is chemistry based. Let me say it again =  100% chemistry based. I must admit, having a banter between muns is nice but not a necessity. Please be respectful of other ships, I do not write for exclusive muses. This is NOT a 1x1 blog. 

I will not write romantic ships or smut with minors, 21+ Adults Only.

Canon | Non-Canon Characters Shipping: I will ship with both. I am not a snob. I prefer creative freedom.

The Smut: There is a chance it can happen. A plot or ship is involved before it evolves to the intimate point. It will be tagged as NSFW for those who would rather not see it. If a thread evolves to something of an intimate nature and you’d rather not write such items, I am happy to use fade to black. Or if you’d rather not have it public on your tumblr dash it can be moved to private RP in discord.

21+ please, no minors, do NOT interact. Adults Only.

➽ EXTRAS

Following: Chances are IF I followed you, I lurked and would like to work with you. Take a follow as an open invitation to jump into my DMS to plot.

Triggers: This blog can harbor mature topics. I will do my best to tag accordingly. 

tw: knives    tw: nsfw   tw: death    tw: suicide    tw: gore   

GIFS | Icons: Are not necessary if you do not have them, its ok. I will work with you.

I like to create, I do make my icons, gifs and some art pieces for my muse. Please DO NOT steal EVERYTHING from this blog, or I will HEX you and Grim will EAT you. 

—(••÷ 𝔻 𝕀 𝕊 ℂ 𝕃 𝔸 𝕀 𝕄 𝔼 ℝ 𝕊 ÷••)—

➽ This is me reiterating some things… 

This can be a dark role play blog with subject matter that may be objectionable | problematic for some people. Please understand that there could be mentions of death, spirituality, gore, paganism, horror, magick, violence, suicide, drug use, alcohol, mental disorders,  torture, NSFW and other potentially triggering subjects that could be a routine part of this role play blog from time to time. Viewer Discretion Is Advised.  If I am writing about something rest assured I have either researched it to a degree and or its personal experience.  To make others comfortable I do tag things. I can only do so much, remember you can unfollow, block, hard- block and or YEET me right off your dash at anytime and that’s OK, you do you. 

➽ I  Do Not  Write

NSFW-SMUT OR ROMANTIC SHIPS With Minors

->this includes excessive gore, abuse, drug use, alcohol use, mental disorders etc. 21+ Please. I will come to you with inquiries, while plots are being discussed and or played out should stories veer in a direction that heeds caution.

➽ Communication Is Key

Should I write, post or do something that has offended you, please let me know and I will do my best to make amends. I’d rather have a writing partner of mine, come to me and address it directly if something is amiss. It is easy to alter a reply, remove or add something in. My writing partners comfort and level of contentment is of value to me.

➽ I loathe drama,

hate and shit-shaming other writers over personal disagreements. Everyone has the right to be here and to enjoy. I have watched tumblr dashes explode with direct callouts or vague, toxic shaming. Even lynch mobs rallying in discord to wreak havoc upon fellow creators blog or platform. Its BS.

   —= If that’s your thing, be gone. =—

➽ Cliques: I prefer to include verses exclude. 

➽ No hate will be tolerated here. PERIOD.

-On the topic of 'Ask's" being open, if its abused they will be turned off for a period of time.

➽ A friendly reminder: this is a hobby and I write for FUN. 

➽ I am a firm believer that no one loves a muse  MORE  than the writer.

[believerindaydreams]

What mods do you use for project mojave other than… obviously Project Mojave?

Chortles: I have a hundred-odd mods running right now, so it's quite a list. Let's see...

My baseline is a stripped down version of the invaluable Midnight Ride guide , although I don't bother with the DEF UI and all its submods (Bethesda's vanilla UI isn't that bad to me) or the sorter stuff (it's a lot of extra work to get lil icons and subcategories for things that I don't want subcategories for anyway). I also stay far away from the mods they recommend *not* using; you can also get remarkably far just by checking a mod's comment section to see if a mod has problems, and ignoring any that do. You get a sense of what mod authors are trustworthy that way after a while. Reg, for instance- after doing hotkeys, quick trade, the mod configuration menu, I know without even checking that anybody who did the baseline necessity mods like that does reliable work.

On top of that basic stuff to make the game not crash and not have infinite ammo everywhere, - RedRocketTV makes the best player houses (having a My First Infirmary really makes Goodneighbor a reasonable starter home). LeahtheUnknown does immersion mods from fine dining to auto-lockpick (after playing Hinterland's much better lockpick minigame I never wanna bother with a Fallout bobby pin again, but I digress). SKK has quick start mods that work beautifully (you can go from the mirror to stepping out of the vault in thirty seconds). Zorkaz has a settlement mod for Nick's agency so you can give him and Ellie nicer digs, along with many other mods close to my heart, such as wells (they look great in Nevada).

But as for your actual question, what I use to make the Mojave feel like the Mojave: Wasteland Imports, for many many items including my beloved Sunset Star bottle caps. NCR uniforms for, erm, NCR uniforms. Follower of the Apocalypse coats by @radbeetle who does many other great mods. New Vegas Companions for Cass, Arcade, Veronica and Raul, also Unlimited Companion Framework to bring everybody at once (do not use Amazing Follower Tweaks it sucks). Alex's Companion Inventory Overhaul is my much praised affinity gain mod by the by. One of Leah's mods for gardening- having blueberries and garlic in the Mojave is a bit weird, but feels much less so than growing Commonwealth plants in Nevada. Matter of taste, ahem. Project Mojave itself only has prickly pear and barrel cactus for foodstuffs.

Project Mojave Settlement Objects is unnecessary but nice to have. I had the XVASYNTH better voices mod from the start, and tbh if that's better I really don't want the originals. Nobody can pronounce Mojave correctly, so the NCR outpost all sound...kinda brain dead. Womp.

Also I have yet to figure out how to get music to work at all when in Nevada, despite the Project Mojave tutorial. So, you know. Womp.

I'm testing out a fridge mod for iced Sunset, and a matter modulator for Arcade (I keep dying whenever I try to get it so have not played with it yet).

Finally, because it's *my* Mojave I'm emulating....Nora Spouse for a live Carla, one of Reg's mods lets me rename her. I have, however, totally forgotten which of the numerous Boone presets I am using for everyone's fave sniper- I tested a couple and had to give him a shave anyway. Lol.

Thanks for encouraging me to ramble at length! Feel free to follow up.

[himbo-only-zone]

Hey can I request the whole fluff alphabet for shuichi ty in advance <3

shuichi saihara || fluff alphabet

I don't know if I write Shuichi well but uhhh we tryin, I hope you enjoy!! I'm honestly really really really proud of this one. I'm soft for shuichi now?? Holy fuck??

- Mod Anna

a. attractive. what does he find attractive about you? he finds himself admiring your hands. not in a creepy way, he just really likes holding them. he likes holding things and being able to fidget with them, so your hands are definitely something he likes.

b. baby. would he want a family? he would, but it's not a necessity! he would love teaching kids how to be detectives if they wanted to follow in his footsteps. imagine a kid sitting on his lap while watching criminal minds or something like that.

c. cuddle. how does he cuddle? he likes spooning, whether it's him as the big or little spoon. he likes to hold your hand while you're spooning, and having you close is nice. he'll plant little loving kisses on your neck if you're the little spoon.

d. dates. what are dates with him like? he likes escape rooms! he can use his detective skills, and it's time with you. if you're a little slow, he'll help you out. but if you don't want help, he'll sit back and enjoy watching you. he finds you adorable either way. he's the epitome of "you're doing great, sweetie!"

e. everything. what are you to him? (ex. you are my _____) you're his mystery. he wants someone he can learn inside out, and he wants to know every aspect of you. he finds you interesting.

f. feelings. when did he realize that he was in love? he was learning more about more about you, and the more you opened up, the harder he fell. he realized he had a bigger soft spot for you than most. you made him so happy and pulled him in so quickly.

g. gentle. is he gentle with you? very. all of his actions are very gentle, and that doesn't change with his lover. he'd like you to be gentle with him as well, but that's not a necessity.

h. hands. how does he like to hold hands? he likes to have them close with your fingers intertwined. on tables, in coat pockets, anything. he just wants to be able to hold your hand, run his fingers across your knuckles, play around with your rings. anything.

i. impression. what was his first impression of you? he was more focused on analyzing you rather than forming an opinion. you seemed like a nice person to be around, and he put that down as a mental note. everything else was just body language and personally notes.

j. jealousy. how often does he get jealous? not too often, but he'd never say if he did or not. clues on his to pick up on it are: he will not make eye contact with you whatsoever. he built up his courage to look you in the eye more and more, but he completely loses it when someone seems to be a better fit for you than him.

k. kiss. how does he kiss? who initiated the first kiss? his kisses are really soft and gentle, rarely rough. he doesn't want to hurt you, plus he's really nervous you won't like it. he surprisingly initiated it, but it was really cautious, and he asked for consent a million times.

l. who says "i love you" first? you do. you come to work with him while he's investigating a case, hugging him from behind. you mumbled it softly, and he was shocked. he took his fifteen minutes break then and there to just mentally prepare to say it back. the boy loves you so, so much.

m. memory. what's his favorite memory with you? you two were laying down, going to bed, and he had been super stressed from work that day. without having to ask, you just pulled him into his chest and stroked his hair for a little while. he didn't have to worry about the day, he had you. that's all he truly needed.

n. nickel. how much does he spend on you? he would pay for things that you wanted, but if you insisted, he'd let you pay. he's nervous about being too chivalrous, he wants you to be able to be comfortable and independent! so he's really careful with it.

o. orange. what color reminds him of you? rainbow, to be honest. seeing a rainbow reminds him of happiness and joy, which you give him. now with you around, he notices bright colors more often.

p. pet names. what pet names does he use? he's extremely nervous about using pet names, so he'll usually hesitate and/or stutter when using them. he likes darling and my dear the most, though. when he's really courageous, he'll throw in a baby. and then he'll shake his head because that sounded awful coming out of his mouth.

q. quaint. what's his favorite non-modern thing? he likes doing cute things like pulling out your chair and kissing your knuckles. chivalry is not dead with this detective.

r. rainy days. what does he like to do with you on a rainy day? he likes watching documentaries with you in his lap. he'll rest his chin on your shoulder and watch, humming softly when he picks up certain details and begins to solve the case.

s. sad. how does he cheer you up? he's really, really gentle with you. he'll ask what you want, and he'll provide. he'll go to the store if you want ice cream, he'll bring blankets if you want to cuddle. if you want anything, and i mean ANYTHING, he'll do it for you.

t. talking. what does he like to talk about? he likes talking about ... anything, to be honest. he likes hearing about your day more, but he'll talk about himself as well. he's really comfortable with you the more you know each other, so it could be anything.

u. unencumbered. what makes him relax? just being with you. he likes physical affection the most, though. long hugs, playing with his hair, holding his hand. he just wants to close his eyes and enjoy your warmth and affection.

v. vaunt. does he show you off? it's more of you showing him off, to be honest. he likes doing small things, like holding your hand in public, but you've gotta be the one to show the relationship off. he won't object, though, he'll just be very flustered.

w. wedding. when, how, and where does he propose? he would have to take a while to think about it. he would ask kaito for advice constantly, and he'd probably have an ear piece. he would do it at a park, at night where it's really empty. kaito would make kokichi distract you, and then shuichi would drop to one knee behind you. “a-ah, i really ... don't know what to say, i had a lot prepared, b-but it's all kinda gone now ... but i really, really love you, s/o. and it would make me really happy if you would marry me.”

x. xylophone. what song reminds him of you? what's your theme song? nine in the afternoon by panic! at the disco reminds him of you, and your theme song is the only exception by paramore!

y. yes. does he think about proposing to and marrying you? yes!! every time you do something cute, he's mentally screaming about how much he wants to marry you.

z. zebra. if he was able to get a pet, what would he get? he would love to get a cat. like a small, cute kitten. he's like one of those dad's who are like "i don't know..." and then he gets super attatched.

[simslegacy5083]

Sims 4: Surrogate Sim Challenge

Do you like pregnancy gameplay but don’t want a bunch of kids to raise?  Do you want to help other Sims achieve their family dreams? Are you a supernatural sim who wants to see the world populated with your kind?  Then this just might be a challenge for you!  

There are multiple ways to set this one up and play it.  The bones come from a Sims 3 challenge that I adapted to my Sims 4 game.  You can find the original at https://modthesims.info/t/586655.

I use mods in my game and I will outline how to incorporate those alongside guidelines for vanilla gameplay.  

I developed this with female sim surrogates in mind but this is the sims so your surrogate can be a male if you want to use cheats/mods that give you that option.  I also developed this scenario for a starting age of young adult. If you prefer to start as a teen I recommend lengthening the teen lifespan to be equal to that of a young adult if you are able to do so.  That will give you get an equal amount of time to complete the scenario using either option.

The scenarios and/or measures of success are guidelines, feel free to adjust to your liking/gameplay style.  

The challenge is considered complete when your sim reaches adulthood or achieves the stated “measures of success” for a given scenario, whichever comes first.  At that point you can do with them as you please but I have included a post challenge idea at the end.

Scenario Suggestions

 Base Game Friendly Scenarios:

The Original Scenario: A young naive sim is convinced by their deadbeat mother that selling their babies is the way to make money to support themselves and their mom.  

Measure of Success: In this scenario success is measured by reaching adulthood with a total net worth of 200,000 simoleons. 

Tragedy Leading to Necessity: This story starts with a young male Sim who was on track to become a professional athlete until an injury in his teens shattered his dreams.  While in recovery he met his bride to be, they got married and had a baby shortly after.  Sadly his struggle with depression following the accident left him unable to hold down a steady job.

His wife loved being pregnant and raised their child on stories of how amazing pregnancy was to the point they became obsessed with it.  Overall the couple was happy but struggled on 1 income.  They also were never able to have another child.  In her desperation to have another baby the mother Sim had a secret affair and eventually her dream came true.  Sadly her secret was revealed and while the male sim ultimately forgave his wife he never quite bonded with the child (the younger child should not be listed as his care dependent). 

Tragically the mother died when the 2nd child was a toddler (do this in game if you want the ghost hanging around for some added interest) leaving our surrogate sim to raise their sibling and care for their father, whom they have a strong relationship with.  They decide that surrogacy is the way they want to support their family after their mothers death.

Measure of Success: You are able to move into or build a house/apartment worth 100,000 simoleons, you maintain a good relationship with your father, your sibling achieves the happy or top-notch toddler trait and is at least a B student.

 Pack Based Scenarios:

 Eco Lifestyle Pack: your Sim is the child of a freegan who could never bring herself to forsake her values to make a living and has always struggled to get by.  When she was young she thought surrogacy would be a way to help others and raise herself out of poverty without compromising her ideals.  Unfortunately a surprise, complicated pregnancy early in life left her infertile.  She raised her child on her beliefs and now the child is going to do what her mom could not.  

Play this scenario on one of the storage container lots in Port Promise and make it more challenging by only allowing your Sims to survive on what they can grow/scavenge/obtain for free/craft at the community lots using bits and pieces.

Optional Gameplay Elements That Fit Well With This Scenario:

Off the Grid Lot Trait (Base Game): Minimal water and electrical resources

Simple Living Lot Trait (Cottage Living Expansion): Require ingredients to cook all recipes

Reduce and Recycle Lot Trait (Eco Living Expansion): Active management of trash output

Laundry Day Pack: Add wash basin/clothesline laundry requirement

Measure of Success: You achieve a net worth of 100,000 simoleons, have established all 3 community lots, and Port Promise has a green eco footprint.

University Pack: Starting from little or nothing your Sim decides to become a surrogate to pay their way through college without incurring any debt.

Measure of Success: Your sim graduates with honors, no school debt, and is rank 3 in the organization of their choice.  For this scenario it is acceptable if your sim ages up to adult before graduation. 

Any Supernatural Expansion Pack: Your sim is  a supernatural sim who has decided to use surrogacy as a way to populate the world with their kind.  While some supernatural sims have other ways of doing this, maybe your sim feels conflicted about turning adult human sims to vamps, or they are an alien raised to be an inseminator who decided rather than using abduction and impregnation of human men they wanted to take a more direct route.  Whatever the reason, how many supernatural offspring can your sim birth and send out into society without being discovered?

Measure of Success: Your sim has at least 10 children (not including miscarriages if you use a mod that gives a miscarriage chance) and their supernatural nature is not discovered during the challenge.

The Setup:

Starting Out: Regardless of the scenario the setup for this is intended to be a rags to riches story.

Start homeless or set your Sim(s) up on an inexpensive starter lot (ideally less than 15k with furnishings).  After placing your sim in the world you will cheat the available household funds down to anywhere from $0-$2000 (explanation for the big range here in the “getting pregnant” section).  

Optional Setup: Start with only 1 outfit per category/per family member and reuse some clothing pieces across different categories.  Only plan new outfits once a “year” (1x every 4 sim weeks or at the start of the season you begin in if you own the Seasons expansion), at which point you will add a new outfit to the next slot for each category. This way the household will randomly mix and match between their outfit options as time goes on.

The Surrogate: Your surrogate sim will start as a young adult (or teen if you prefer).  They are the responsible party of the household.  They support the household through surrogacy, cleaning, cooking, repairs, and caring for their sibling if using that scenario.  They may have any traits and any aspiration you choose.  

Your Parent Sim (if playing with one): Your parent should be an Adult or Elder sim.  They should not have a job.  Otherwise you may play the parent as you see fit but this challenge is about your surrogate so I recommend leaving the parent Sim to their own devices for the most part. 

If playing the Eco Harbor scenario the parent should have the freegan trait and if playing the Tragedy/Necessity scenario the parent should have the gloomy trait.  Otherwise they can have any traits and any aspiration you choose.

Your surrogate is intended to be the primary caregiver of the home.  As such it is recommended that if the parent autonomously chooses to help out around the house you may let them but you should not force them.   

Your parent sim does not have to remain a part of your household for the entire challenge but there should be a gameplay scenario involved that explains why they are gone.  If your parent dies during the challenge you can still achieve the success measure for all scenarios as long as for the Tragedy/Necessity scenario your father dies while you and he have a good relationship.

Your Sibling Sim (if playing with one):  Your sibling will start out as a toddler.  They can start with any trait you choose.  As they grow up I recommend using random chance for their additional traits but you don’t have to.  Your sibling should remain part of your household until young adulthood, at which point you may choose to have them continue living with you or move them out.  If your sibling dies during the challenge you can still achieve the success measure for the Tragedy/Necessity scenario as long as, if they have reached or passed the age in which a requirement is specified, they have met the requirement.

General Notes: 

At any point you may move the household off their initial lot and into nicer digs or renovate your current lot as you can afford it.

Your sim may enter into a relationship during the challenge.  If you are playing a scenario where a measure of success is net worth your sim should not combine their income or get income assistance from a partner sim until the challenge is complete.  If you want to marry and bring in a partner sim with $0 you can do that but then your partner sim should not have a job until the challenge is complete.  If playing the supernatural challenge you may choose to reveal your true nature to them but they should not find out by accident.

Your sim may have children of her own, to raise, during the challenge if she chooses.  

Becoming a Surrogate (i.e. getting pregnant!):

No matter which way you choose to get pregnant, I recommend not trying to get pregnant more than 1x/day.  

Feel free to mix and match these “insemination” options as time goes on.

If using a method that costs money upfront you can start with more money in the beginning to cover the cost of the initial procedure or let your sim seek odd jobs at first to save up the funds for the initial attempt.  You can also use the money cheat to reimburse the cost of the procedure if you’d like.  I did this only if my sim successfully got pregnant.  

Without Mods:

You’ll be getting pregnant the “old fashioned” way.  You’ll have to get the romantic relationship up high enough with your chosen Sim to make them interested in “donating” for the “procedure” (and if they’re married their spouse may not be amused!).  

With Mods: 

There are a few mods I have used that give you other options for getting pregnant.  

MC Command Center (MCCC): This option is a sure thing so if using it I suggest using a random number generator to determine each time if the “procedure” was successful.  The random chance below is meant to mirror the standard try for baby success percentage.

Generate a random number between 1 and 10

1-2 Not Pregnant 3-10 Pregnant

Lumpinou Woohoo Wellness: This mod has 2 options that come from the Alternative Pregnancies module.

The Surrogacy option. The big upside to this is that it's designed with this gameplay in mind and adds some extra gameplay features related to surrogacy.  The big (in my opinion) downside to this is that the surrogate pregnancy buff will disappear when you travel to another lot.  Your sim will still be pregnant but without the buff they will not have the 2nd/3rd trimester pregnancy walkstyle.  The buff can be manually reapplied using MCCC, if you use that mod.  The buff for the next trimester, or labor, will appear even if the one for the previous trimester is not showing.

Artificial Insemination option: There are 3 tiers here which are meant to simulate different real world artificial insemination options.  Cost ranges from $500-$1500 dollars and each has a different success rate.  

KS Explore (note this mod has not been updated in awhile): Once you have your license one of the available services is an artificial insemination clinic that is open 24 hours a day.  Each attempt will cost $350.  I did find one issue with this option, when the procedure was successful I was not able to take the pregnancy test.  If this is the case you can wait it out or cheat your sim into the first trimester.

Pregnancy Duration

If using the Lumpinou surrogacy mod surrogate pregnancies are set at 2 days by default.  I went with this and updated my game to make pregnancies 2 days regardless of the insemination option I chose.  Whatever you choose I do recommend keeping pregnancies short, no more than 3 days, the goal here is to have lots of pregnancies/babies!

Pregnancy Aging

You can play this challenge with any lifespan settings you prefer.  You can also play with pregnancy aging on or off.  Pregnancy aging turned on adds another layer of challenge.  

Choosing Your Surrogate/Surrogate Family

I recommend picking this based on random chance.

Without Mods:

Generate a random number in-between the number of available, populated, residential worlds in your game, going from left to right.  The number generated is the world your surrogate family will come from.

Ex. for the base game let’s assume you’ve populated Newcrest.  In this case you would generate a number between 1 and 3.  If it returns 1 then your surrogate will come from Willow Creek.

Next generate a random number in-between the number of families with eligible male sims in residence.  You decide how to number the families and what age range you consider eligible to donate. By default young adult through elder sims can try for baby.  The number generated is the household of your surrogate family.

Finally, if necessary, generate a random number in-between the number of eligible males in the household, from oldest to youngest.  The number generated is your baby daddy!

With Mods: 

If using any of the mods I mentioned in the getting pregnant section you will be presented with a list of eligible sims to choose from.  Generate a random number in-between the number of available sims.  The number generated will be equal to the sim at that spot in the list.  That is who will donate for the procedure.  Depending on the mod your baby daddy might be a baby momma!

Note: If you prefer you can choose only to be a surrogate for single sims/same sex couples.  Not doing this can lead to some interesting outcomes with EA or MCCC story progression turned on.  I personally found that to be part of the fun but its up to you!

Making Money 

A goal of the challenge is to make the majority of your sims money through surrogacy.  Other than odd jobs initially to save up for the first insemination attempt if needed your sim should not have a regular job during their surrogacy journey.  However, if you’d like you can have your sim engage in skill building activities that generate revenue.  

Surrogacy Fee For Service

If using Lumpinou’s surrogacy option your sim automatically receives 8,000 simoleons per pregnancy.  You can use this amount for all methods but to make the math easy I suggest using 10,000 simoleons for any option that does not auto generate a payment for services rendered.  

In addition to this sometimes the prospective parent(s) would like to see a certain outcome to the pregnancy and will tip you if you are lucky enough to deliver.  You will determine the prospective parents preference for both the number of babies and gender of babies.  

The breakdown below is based on the standard 3 max babies per pregnancy setting but you can modify this if you prefer to play with the option for 4 or more babies per pregnancy turned on.  

Be careful if you play with 4 or more multiples allowed and choose to donate to married heterosexual couples with story progression on (the household you are sending your offspring to needs enough household slots to accommodate them after all!)

Total Number of Babies

To determine parental preference for the total number of babies born generate a random number between 1-3 (or more if needed).  If you give birth to the desired number of offspring you will get a 5,000 simoleon bonus.

Number of Fetuses:

Singleton

Twins

Triplets

Sex of the Babies

Next, to determine parental preference for the sex of the babies generate a random number between 1-2.  If the prospective parents desire a twin or triplet pregnancy outcome you will generate a number for the desired gender a corresponding number of times (i.e. if they want twins generate 2 numbers, one for each baby).   You will get a bonus of 2,500 for each baby of the desired sex.

Baby Gender:

Female

Male

Final Payout Calculation Example:

If you generate a 2 on the quantity (twins) and generate a 1 and a 2 on the gender (one girl, one boy) then your sim ends up having a single girl, the payout would be as follows:

---10,000 (base rate)

---2,500 (for the girl gender roll)

After Birth:

If using the Lumpinou surrogacy mod the base fee will be automatically deposited into your household funds and you will add any bonus fees manually using the money cheat.  Otherwise you will use the money cheat to add the fee for service and any bonus to your total funds.  You will then send the child to its new family (using mod features if using the Lumpinou mod) or using the manage household options.

Subsequent Pregnancies:

After your sim gives birth I recommend not trying to get pregnant again until the new baby buff that you receive expires.  This will simulate the after birth healing period for your sim.  

I have provided additional recommendations related to subsequent pregnancies based on various mod buffs in the mods to add extra realism/challenge section.

Note Regarding Your Surrogate Children:

Babies born in the sims start out with a high relationship with their parents by default.  This means if you send them off to their new home while they are infants they will be considered friends and interact with you as such.  

If you want to minimize this age them up to toddler and use cheats or MCCC to change the relationship level to acquaintance before sending them off.  Do not do this if using the Lumpinou surrogacy mod as that expects you to send them off using mod features while a baby.  If using Lumpinou you’ll just have to consider the surrogacy process akin to an open adoption.

This is it for the basic challenge guidelines.  

You can stop here or keep reading for information on other mods that work well with this and a post challenge gameplay suggestion.

If you give this a try I’d love to hear about it! Did you use one of the suggested scenarios and if not how did you set this up? How many children did your sim have/with who?  What happened to them after their surrogacy journey was over?

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Post Challenge Gameplay Suggestions

Either during or after the challenge develop a relationship with all your children.  Can you eventually find all your offspring, befriend them, and host the mother (or father!) of all house parties?

Mods That Add Extra Realism/Challenge to the Gameplay:

Little Ms. Sam (LMS) Pregnancy Overhaul mod: This mod does a few things but the one I like the most is the option to choose the size of the pregnancy belly. Just like the miscarriage chance you pick one belly size to apply to your game at any given time.  If you do not choose one of her belly options you will have the default EA belly.  Like the miscarriage mod you can choose to use this however you like.  Use 1 belly size for the entire playthrough, cheat to know the total number of babies upfront and adjust the belly size based on the number of fetuses, increase the belly size as the number of pregnancies stack up and your sims body responds to being pregnant more quickly/her stomach muscles are weaker, it's up to you!

Lumpinou’s WooHoo Wellness: I’ve talked about this mod a lot already but in addition to the options to get pregnant the mod also has options related to gameplay once you are pregnant as well as various options related to relationships, paternity, etc.  This is a modular mod so you can pick and choose what gameplay options to introduce.  

Healthcare Redux: This mod introduces health based complications to your game.  It's a modular mod like WooHoo Wellness so you can choose just the pregnancy package if you would like.  This introduces a prenatal care system, potential pregnancy complications, and the risk of induction/C-Section.  It also introduces some realistic afterbirth buffs.

If when using this mod your sim ends up having a C-section a 3 day buff will be applied to her after birth related to the procedure.  In this case I recommend waiting until the buff clears to simulate healing (and trust me, her pain will be evident!) but you may try to get pregnant again right away if you prefer.

Wicked/Wonderful Whims: If using a mod like Wicked/Wonderful Whims that introduces periods; if your Sim starts her period between pregnancies I recommend letting the period complete before attempting to get pregnant again.  

KS Slice of Life: Another modular mod, pick and choose which packages you want to add.  Nothing directly pregnancy related here but the social and healthcare options add a lot of interest to the game in general.  If you use the social package of this mod however your surrogate children have a high chance of finding you and calling/coming to visit randomly as they get older.

MC Command Center (MCCC): As its name implies this is a command center for your game introducing multiple gameplay tweaks.  In addition to the ability to generate a pregnancy you can also turn on an option that will give you additional pregnancy related buffs.

PandaSama Realistic Birth (Paetron only at this time, public release coming soon): This mod is not recommended for use with Lumpinou’s surrogate pregnancy option since that is designed with the idea that you are not supposed to accompany your sim to the hospital for the birth.  If you use the Lumpinou artificial insemination option you will have no issue.  If you use this mod you pick your birth method during the pregnancy and have the option to choose a natural birth, a C-Section, or to use the surgical machine as usual.  You will experience a period of laboring in the hospital and then your sim will go into the birthing area to give birth using the chosen method.  Choose whichever birthing method you prefer.  Does a twin/triplet (or more) pregnancy always dictate a C-Section in your world?  Are vaginal births after C-Section an option?  Will you leave the birth to random chance using random number generation?  The choice is yours!

KS Explore: The insemination clinic is the main pregnancy related piece of this mod but it introduces a large number of rabbithole based adventures for your sim to experience.  As mentioned previously, this mod has not been updated in awhile.

Trigger Warning: This Final Mod Contains mention of Miscarriage and pregnancy loss

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Little Ms. Sam (LMS) miscarriage mod:  This mod has multiple risk chance options for miscarriage and you pick one to apply to your game at any given time.  You can choose to use these however you like.  Use a static risk chance for the entire playthrough, cheat to know the total number of babies upfront and adjust the risk based on the number of fetuses, increase the risk as the number of pregnancies increase and your sim gets older, you decide what works best for your gameplay.  

If your sim miscarries you can choose to try again to get pregnant right away or wait.  I recommend waiting at least 24 sim hours from the time your sim loses the baby, simulating some time for her to grieve and for her body to heal.

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This Week in Gundam Wing (June 13-19, 2021)

Here’s your weekly roll-up everyone!  Show your fellow fans some love!

--Mod LAM

Fanfiction

The Life of the Immortal Jellyfish (Ch.1/34) by @lemontrash​

Pairings: Duo x Wufei

Characters: 5 pilots + Relena, Hilde, Noin, Une

Rating: MATURE

Tags / Warnings: mostly canon compliant, post-Endless Waltz, UST, insomnia, roommates, Preventers, developing friendship, slow burn

Summary:  Is it chance that lands Duo and Wufei in the same university dorm room? They're not stupid enough to believe that but too tired to fight it. Duo's dragged himself back from the brink of going too far and remains teetering on the edge while Wufei's doggedly trying to prove himself to the 'good guys' in the aftermath of the Eve Wars. Sleep and normalcy eludes them both. As they become increasingly aware how damaged they are, they start to edge towards friendship, or something more, but all too soon the peace seems jeopardised by a new and manipulative threat.

And We'll Drink (to the Gentle, and Meek, and the Kind) by @boxofhatebrains

Pairings: Howard x Professor G

Characters: Howard, Professor G

Rating: Teen and Up

Tags / Warnings: drinking, getting to know each other, period-typical sexism, smoking, pre-canon, unrequited love, plans for the future

Summary: Desperado wants to know what makes this guy tick, what makes it impossible for him to despise Mike like he does with the other scientists. What his hobbies are. What he dislikes.He just wants...and it’s awful. He hates wanting for things. Wanting for these things comes with disappointment. Always disappointment.

Six Meetings between Death and Duo Maxwell by @angelselene

Pairings: N/A

Characters: Duo, Death of the Endless and Desire of the Endless (Sandman Comics)

Rating: Teen and Up

Tags / Warnings: Sandman crossover

Summary: The first time Death sees him, he’s a little boy with ragged hair and purple eyes that seem to glow. Humans don’t have eyes like that, she knows, but whether he’s a child of a more than half-forgotten god or goddess or something else, she isn’t sure.

Fanart

Dad Bod Duo and Duo Care Bear by @gundayum

Month of Trowa by @theboringbluecrayon

Duo Sketch by @owodeya

Duo and Zechs Doodle by @keiko1183

Gigi (Gundam Hathaway) and Relena and Heero and Relena by @alphaikaros

Other Fanwork

Headcanons and Discussion

A bunch of folks answered the OTP Meme when asked, so be sure to check your mutuals.  Some highlights: 

@lemontrash on Duo x Wufei, Heero x Wufei, and Heero x Trowa

@lifeaftermeteor on Wufei x Relena

@noirangetrois on Heero x Wufei

And a special treat - @gemstonecircles answered several via ficlet!  

Fighting Against the Odds (1xR, PG-13, sex/violence)

Turn the Necessity to Glorious Gain (1xR, G, contemplative)

“What hath night to do with sleep?” (2xH, G, sleep systems)

Nicknames (5xS, PG, humor)

Best of the Bunch (2xH, bi!Duo, PG, humor)

Other Fun Stuff

@cuteciboulette continues to share highlights from their DJ collection. This week’s is from “Fantasia”

Which GW Pilot Are You Quiz, results featuring @incorrectgundamwingquotes, @cloakandfire, @gemstonecircles, @lemontrash, and @grey-sentry

@incorrectgundamwingquotes​ continues to bring the laughs (Exhibit A, reference to NSFW off-screen 3x4)

@janaverse shares some randomly generated quotes (featuring Heero, Duo, and Vodka)

Calendar Events

@gundam-wing-pride has compiled a Roll Up of Pride Event posts

@gwcocktailfriday is back with this week’s prompt!  Be sure to post your responses on Friday (June 25) between 3-5PM EST!

@gundamzine has opened up the mailing list, so be sure to register to get your FREE PDF on October 1!  In the mean time, be sure to follow the account so that you can learn about the stellar 2021 Zine Crew members. Also consider donating to the team’s chosen charity, World Literacy Foundation (donations are optional, but encouraged when possible). 

@seasons-of-gundamwing is still looking for prompt suggestions for the Summer Boys Event (July 25-31)!  TODAY (June 20) IS THE LAST DAY TO GET THEM IN!

The @gwshootingstars event WILL NOT BE HELD.  However, @lifeaftermeteor is going to look at the possibility of still convening some Q&A this fall/winter on the so-called “Big GW Server,” if schedules align.

And as always, be sure to check out our consolidated events calendar and let us know what we’re missing!!

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Sims 4 Sixam Challenge

This variant is adapted from the version of this challenge for TS2. The original idea of the challenge was to play the aliens on their home planet, but since TS4 doesn’t allow you to create your own worlds or have more than one lot on Sixam, we’ll have to slightly revise that part. Instead, the aliens from Sixam have found a habitable, though strangely empty new world. There, they seek to establish a new colony.

Getting started

This challenge requires only Get To Work, but features from any packs can be incorporated if you want. Start a new game and create 3 households of young adult alien Sims to start with. They can have any features you like, the only important part is whether they can get pregnant or not:

One queen, a Sim who can get pregnant

Two drones, Sims who can get others pregnant

Three caretakers, who can neither get pregnant or get others pregnant

Remove all premade Sims from the save. If you want, you can keep some of your favourite male premades to get abducted later, but that’s not a necessity. Pick a world to start your colony, and move your three households into 3 empty lots. Build a nursery for the caretakers and a house for the drones. For the Queen you have a choice: the Queen may have a palace on this planet, or you may cheat to acquire an Electroflux Wormhole Generator, and build a palace on Sixam where she spends most of her time by using bb.enablefreebuild on Sixam. If you have City Living, give the lot where the Queen spends their time the on ley line lot trait. If not, you may cheat to give her (and any queen after her) the fertile reward trait.

After that, play rotationally. The task of the drones is to woo the queen. The task of the queen is to have as many babies as possible with the drones. Move any of her babies into one of the nurseries. The task of the caretakers is to take care of these babies until they become teens. If the number of Sims in one nursery ever grows too large, move one caretaker and some of the younglings out, give them $18,000 and let them establish a new nursery. 

Castes

Once the younglings become teens, you may roll to assign them one of five castes: Reproductive, High Councillor, Technician, Caretaker or Worker. If their caste is anything other than Caretaker, they move out of the nurseries and into a household with other aliens of similar age and the same caste. The caste determines what their tasks are, whether they can reproduce and what jobs they can get. The rules are as follows.

Reproductive

This caste consists of two subtypes: Drones and Queens. Queens are the only aliens with the ability to get pregnant, and Drones are the only ones who can get others pregnant. All other Aliens get the “neither” setting. There may only be one active Queen at a time: if there already is a Queen, the next eligible aliens have to sit out their turn until the current Queen becomes an elder. If you don’t have a mod to age your pregnant Sims, your Queen needs to age up at the moment she would have aged up anyway.

The Drones do not stay with the colony they were born with, and will be shipped off to a new colony to serve a new Queen when they become Young Adult. When that happens, create a new Drone in CAS (or download one from the Gallery) and move him in. The Drone born in your game becomes unplayable: either delete them or turn them into a townie. If a friend is playing this challenge as well, it can be really fun to exchange your drones with them, and have them live out their lives in each other’s colony.

A Note on Gender

While I generally refer to the Queen as she/her here, Queens and Drones may be of any gender and any agab. As with any of the other aliens, how you want to play their presentation and gender identity is completely up to you, the player. However, I consider it to be not in the spirit of the challenge for the player to be able to pick and choose which Sim gets to be your new Queen. Therefore, at the start of the challenge you may decide whether you want to roll for the ability to get pregnant regardless of agab for reproductive Sims. The rest of the gender customization is up to you.

Caretaker

These Sims live in the nurseries and take care of the Queen’s spawn. They may not take jobs, taking care of the young aliens is their job. 

Technician

The smartest aliens, these aliens are focused on building their skills and collecting things. If you have Discover University, they will go to University as well, and are invested in building robots.

Available careers: Astronaut, Criminal (Oracle Branch), Freelancer (Programmer branch), Secret Agent, Tech Guru (Start-up Entrepreneur Branch), Doctor, Scientist, Gardener (Botanist branch), Military (Covert Operator Branch), Conservationist (Marine Biologist Branch), Education (Professor Branch), Engineer, Civil Designer (Green Technician Branch), Salaryperson (Expert Branch)

High Councillors

The richest and most powerful aliens, these aliens are focused on getting rich, having the most lavish houses and getting ahead in their careers. If you have Get Famous, they are also focused on fame.

Available careers: Business, Criminal (Boss Branch), Painter (Patron of the Arts Branch), Style Influencer (Trendsetter Branch), Critic, Politician, Social Media (Internet Personality Branch), Actor, Military (Officer Branch), Conservationist (Environmental Manager Branch), Education (Administrator Branch), Law, Civil Designer (Civic Planner Branch), Salaryperson (Supervisor Branch).

Workers

The common folk, these aliens are focused on arts, crafting, gardening and running their own businesses. If you have Dine Out, they may also start their own restaurants.

Available careers: Athlete, Culinary, Entertainer, Freelancer (All branches but programmer), Painter (Master of the Real Branch), Style Influencer (Stylist Branch), Tech Guru (eSports Gamer Branch), Writer, Detective, Social Media (Public Relations Branch), Gardener (Floral Designer Branch).

Human Sims

If there is currently no Queen available, you may abduct a single young adult male human Sim. He is moved into a house on his own, and you may cheat to get the satellite dish to attract aliens and get him abducted. His task is to get abducted as often as possible, and raise the resulting babies himself.

Finances

The rules in this section are entirely optional; if you prefer to play with unlimited funds then that is totally fine.

The economy functions in two phases: the first ends when the first Sims born in-game become Young Adults. During phase one, the nurseries, queen and drones subsist on grants from the Galactic Colonization Initiative. This grants the Queen and Drones $500 each per baby. The nurseries each receive $1000 per birthday. During phase 2, the High Councillors, Technicians and Workers owe taxes to the other castes. The amount they owe is determined by their weekly bill amount: High Councillors owe an amount equal to their bill amount each to the Queen, a nursery of their choice and a Drone household of their choice. The Technicians and Workers owe an amount equal to half their bill amount to the Queen, and an amount equal to half their bill amount to one of the Nurseries.

When establishing a new household on an empty lot, Sims receive an $18,000 grant. If there is a house built for their caste that is uninhabited because all inhabitants have died, you may choose to forgo this grant and establish a new household on that lot with freerealestate.

Rich aliens may donate to nurseries or humans in need on top of their taxes. Additionally, they may leave their current funds to a nursery when they die, but they may not sell their house to get more funds to donate.

End Condition

The challenge ends when a Queen whose birth mother was born in game dies of old age.