#morning in the tomb

[shiningdesignersreflections]

Chapter 1: Morning in the Tomb

Narrated by no one.

Narrator: With water dripping in the distance, the dark, cold stone chamber underground is a far cry from the burning desert above.

Narrator: Drip drop... Drip drop...

Narrator: The sound of water dripping is amplified and lost as it travels through the tiles.

Narrator: Interestingly enough, though, it seems to carry the beeps of an electronic device.

Narrator: The beeps come from the massive stone coffin in the chamber... out of which comes countless black cables and a pale hand.

Narrator: When the pale hand moves, the coffin's lid moves out of the way ever so quietly. Then, the lights in the chamber jump to life...

Narrator: A black-haired girl sits up from the coffin as she yawns.

Tess: Good morning!

Choose either "What are you doing sleeping in a stone coffin?" or "That's really scary!"

If "sleeping," ...

You: Holy, what are you doing sleeping in a stone coffin?

If "scary," ...

You: That's really scary. I thought it was some monster saying hi to me...

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Tess: It's pretty awesome in here, and I just got a new pillow. It feels great. Do you want to give it a try?

You: I'll pass...

Narrator: As she stretches, she notices the game controller in her hand. She sits back comfortably into her pile of pillows and starts checking her phone.

Narrator: There are a gazillion apps on her phone, but it only takes her a second to spot a green one.

Narrator: It's an app where the player can grow their own plants, and the garden Tess keeps on that app is already a lush green.

Tess: Let's see what I'm going to plant today. White poplars seem nice... they grow pretty fast and can block out sandstorms for me.

Tess: But salt cedars have a nice shape to them, and their flowers are beautiful.

You: Do you like this game?

Tess: A whole forest grows when I'm sleeping. Doesn't that sound awesome?

Narrator: When Tess finishes planting trees and logs on to Moments under the name "MasterDiviner_Tess," her phone goes crazy with comments and notifications.

Narrator: "This is to redeem my vow for helping me pass my exam! You rock!", "My mom's health check results came back just fine, like what you told me."

Narrator: "Is this a scammer's account? I always get my fortune checked before I game. I've done it five times already, and I always ended up losing!"

Tess: This kid's got some guts. His ID is... Yeeso?

Tess: Win some, lose some, no? But... it should be 50/50, right? It's a different kind of lucky when you always fall on the wrong side.

You: Do a lot of people come to you for fortune-telling?

Tess: There has been a surge recently. Well, I should be specific and say, since what happened at Ninir a year ago.

Tess: It disturbed a long-standing peace and troubled a lot of people, which is why they came to me to seek help from fortune-telling.

Tess: But peace will return. The world has seen its fair share of disasters, and peace has never failed to return.

Narrator: The light from Tess' phone shines on all the game consoles in her coffin, and she has just about everything imaginable. The controller she was holding before she woke up is now buried deep within.

You: You can game in the coffin?

Tess: Apple has a wide Wi-Fi coverage in Wasteland, and it's so stable that you can even game when you're in this chamber.

Tess: The Internet is a good thing. You don't need to go out to be able to play all sorts of games and shop. The only catch is that people aren't willing to deliver what I buy.

Tess: The locals aren't fond of this modern stuff, though.

Tess: And there are priests from the other tribes who claimed that "Wi-Fi signals would interfere with their connection with the gods." It's anyone's guess what they based that on.

Tess: I don't agree with that, but from the standpoint of traditional and cultural inheritance, it's still important to keep ceremonies solemn.

Tess: Which is why I still brave the sandstorms and travel to the Quicksand Shrine, where I dance and pray and announce my fortune-telling results.

Tess: Speaking of fortune-telling, I just saw a beautiful sapphire light in my dream. The Rainbow Light was drawing the sapphire light towards it, though.

Tess: That's a good sign, but I can't let you in on the details just yet.

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

[harrowedsoup]

Kinda fucked that Wake had a baby for the sole purpose of killing it to cause an apocalypse but that baby turned out to look almost exactly like her and from a lot of accounts have a personality similar to her.

Gideon is her mother’s daughter even if all her mom wanted was a bomb. That’s so fucked.

[frontlinebicepsoftheninth]

one of my favorite things about gideon is the characterization of "born 2 be jock 😎🔥💪 forced 2 be goth 😔☠️🦴" like quite literally one of the funniest character choices i've seen an author make and pull off

[aria-larsen]

this is a cover for a comic assignment in my graphic design class, where I decided to illustrate The Soup Scene™️ from Harrow the ninth

and here’s the sketch but I forgot to save it initially so now some parts are erased lol

[addamii]

Apologies for the lack of art recently, I’ve been dedicating my entire life to this animatic. Here’s this frame of Nona and the gang :)

Going around the circle to the right starting from Nona there’s hot sauce, beautiful ruby, honesty, kevin, and born in the morning

[thechekhov]

They bring a sort of Twice Divorced Energy to the Not Yet Married playing field.

[camillarekt]

wild how harrow just gave gideon her body like it wouldn't be the most unimaginable torture. like imagine if u had to live in the body of the love of ur life. look in the mirror every day and see them. running their hands over their hair as u tie it back. feeling their skin but its not them anymore. having no idea if they're ever coming back. wow.

[theriverbeyond]

how i sleep knowing griddlehark haven't even spoken for almost 1,000 pages ❤️

[scalierpepper]

necromancy is cool

I really struggled with this angle and I was too stubborn to give up so there's a lot of things that aren't quite right, but I want to call it done and I really like the composition so I send it into the tumblr void for you to see anyways ~~

[cheerupqueerup]

Happy 4/13 to people who wear aviators and wield swords, short angry perfectionists, bitches with one arm, nerds with glasses, people stuck in dream bubbles, angsty teens on spaceships, people who have ascended to godhood by tragic means, annoying men with perfect hair, unstoppable eldritch horrors, people in alternate universes, platonic soulmates, ghosts, apocalypse survivors, and everyone else in The Locked Tomb series

[arithmonym]

necro-cav pairs on tandem bikes. thank you for your consideration 🙏

[nikonuee]

Hey DunMeshi gang, have we considered:

Falin has feathers now

Birds floof/puff up

Marcille kissing Falin and all her feathers puffing up

DO YOU SEE MY VISION, FARCILLE ARMY?

[bloodbonesandmarrow]

I was Nona for like the whole 5 hours I was at Sacanime today

[theejaguar]

Tamsyn Muir was haunting the walls of my room last night and she told me personally that in Alecto the Ninth there is explicit lesbian sex

[Harrowhark Nonagesimus fingers Kiriona Gaia in the chussy]

[witchhazelevesque]

If you have a specific lyric in mind too, feel free to share!