#no-knock raid

[queerdraws]

Fanart for a snippet of my most favorite heartbreaking moment from swordsmans's fic bone-breaker ospreys mate for life (rated E)

[trappedinafantasy37]

I went to a very old save of mine in which I knocked out Minthara in Act 1 and I talked to her again in the throne room. If you knocked her out, this is how she looks at you when she questions you:

She seems genuinely disturbed over your actions. Can you blame her? You were the one who knocked her out. You brought her harm for reasons that she cannot understand. She can understand someone killing her as that is what she expects of those around her. She will criticize your choice of sparing an enemy and showing mercy to someone you have greater reason to kill. Even though she has doubts about you, she shuts herself down, thinking she should be more grateful rather than doubtful of you.

You can tell her that you saw her as a potential ally, but she will call you a hypocrite as Gut and Ragzlin were not shown the same mercy, nor was any other True Soul.

You can even tell her, "You were simply too stubborn to die" as a means of trying to take any culpability off yourself. To try to turn the situation into a little jokey joke. However,

Minthara does not take it as a compliment and she knows you are full of shit. Even though you took the "good" path, she does not trust you.

Minthara understands mercy and even she believes some people are deserving of it. Sadly, she does not see herself as one of those people and is disturbed as to why you gave her mercy. There is no answer you can give her here that will make her trust you. She knows you went out of your way to spare her and only her, and that frightens her.

Remember, this is not the first time in which Minthara's entire army was killed right from underneath her and she was deliberately left as the sole survivor. Orin slaughtered all of her men in a blink of an eye, and Orin's "mercy" only brought her pain and torture. Later down the road, Minthara criticizes herself for not paying more attention to Orin when she first arrived at Moonrise. And so she is giving you a lot of attention, she is watching you, studying you, because she fears that you are going to hurt her the moment she takes her eye off you. Because you already have. Your "mercy" gave her a concussion, your deception had her found guilty of incompetence, and she was then subjected to even more torture by the Absolute in which she was given permanent brain damage. She is afraid that the only reason that you spared her, is because you want to torture her. Even when you show up in Moonrise and enter into her mind prison, she is expecting you to kill her and begs you do it quickly. She is not expecting mercy from you, only death. She is only in that predicament because of you. Why would she think for a single second that your mercy comes from a place of good intentions?

She knows fully well that she owes her life to you and that her life is entirely at your mercy, one you can revoke at any time. She doesn't trust you, she doesn't trust the rest of the companions, but she cannot leave nor walk away. There is no good way out of this for her and she's afraid of the cycle repeating. She is not going to make the same mistake again. Instead of her oath to you being from a place of affection, her oath to you comes from a place of fear.

[wwheeljack]

Still haven't caught sight of Drag Strip's or Wildrider's names, but that's three out of five components of Menasor who show up in the race alone.

[accidentcache]

top five dabi moments :3

okay so

number 5; the whole shut up and drive 😭😭 funniest shit ever i love my passenger princess

number 4; this. sorry i didn’t have a better video of it but he really went all out for no reason

number 3; the whole sibling fight with shoto. every swing connected during that one bit and i know i see some people saying how their fight was poorly written and blah blah

BUT. coming from the eldest sister and an older sibling, they animated his rage so well. it felt like a sibling fight gone very wrong and i loved it.

number 2; whatever the fuck kinda aura this is because holy fuck i’m obsessed

and NUMBER 1;

THAT FUCK ASS MANIC GIGGLE HE DOES??? yeah. YEAH

ask me for for my top 5!

[melonthesprigatito]

You know a Pokémon fangame is maybe a little overly violent when both the Player and the Rival have unique "Knocked Unconscious By The Villain Team" sprites

Edit: WAIT I JUST HAD AN EPIPHANY

This game has so many references/plot similarities to Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs

Guardian Signs ALSO has special knocked unconscious by the bad guys sprites. The whole "Villains attack characters directly with Pokémon" happens all the damn time in cutscenes. One of the characters gets assaulted and left for dead while the Pinchers kidnap his wife and daughter. All that stuff isn't out of place for a Pokémon game.

It's the fact that The Shadows in Unbound have really edgy designs and are super serious all the time. Even the grunts are all edgy and emotionless. THAT'S the tone clash that's bothering me, not their actions.

[enbnuuynoises]

*waves hands*

You are not immune to gay(pan) Hare propaganda

-They/Them!

[kyuohki]

I may have made an impulse purchase...and I do *not* regret it one bit!

(Edit: MeteorBricks is the shop! You can find 'em here or here!)

BEHOLD!

TEH CUTES!!

No, seriously, they are absolutely fucking adorable, and building them was an amazing way to wind down (and the buzzing in my brain quieted, too.)

The instructions are pretty simple, tho a couple of spots I had to start segregating the bricks bc either the colors were too similar, or I thought I was missing a piece.

Details under Cut, in order of build!

Valere!

She was the easiest to put together. Not too many similar brick colors so no confusion, and very simple! Set the stage for the boys!

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Zale!!

It's my Boy!!! :D His hair is *messy* and I was giggling through placing every piece. His bangs are on a pivoting piece, too!

He was slightly complicated bc there were 2 yellows, an orange, and a tan that all washed out while using the instruction manual on my phone. Thankfully, each color for the flat 1x2s all were of different quantities (and the instructions had word descriptions and clear markings of which one you needed), so just had to separate and count to verify what went where. If you decide on a Zale of your own, separate and count the flat 1x2s.

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Garl!!!

Bestest Boy!!!

It goes without saying that he gets the most pics! He was also the most complicated, as well as the one that I nearly had a panic attack that I was missing a piece! (My fault bc at this point I was so excited that I didn't look at the step piece list; and in the mini build pic, the 3d model blurred the edges of two pieces, making it look like one and of course I couldn't find it bc it didn't *exist*!)

His hair lifts up and down, and his backpack not only opens, it will hold the 2 extra items you get with him! I remembered the apple in the listing, but not the sandwich or cherries, so it was a nice surprise!

[elissastillstands]

Doing BG3 co-op with @frxstguardian, and here are some early scenes with our Tavs! They're adventurers, they're friends, they love shiny things, everyone else is in fantasy peril and they're living in a sitcom.

[bitchapalooza]

I’m curious, what is everyone’s take on nations being born? Do they just appear out of thin air like canon suggests? Do they birth or sire them themselves? Or are they born from humans, it being a long standing(or old depending on the time period ig) fear for parents finding out their newborn is a semi-immortal representation of their kingdom/empire/country to be?

I like all three theories depending on the narrative at play but I’m leaning towards the last one because it sounds cool now that I actually put it into words lol

[lonelysatoru]

zoro needs to stop i’m sorry

[jazzums]

i wanted to save sazza and the grove and minthara and volo and halsin but i keep fucking up by not doing things in a specific order

[twilightakiishi]

the first time takiishi realizes he might like you is when he’s out shopping and sees something he thinks you might like, or imagines you wearing it. he doesn’t actually realize it though — more like gets a weird feeling in his chest and tells endo they need to leave soon; he’s not feeling well.

[fascinationstreetmp3]

kind of interesting that quil, the alfira alternative for the durge murder camp event, is so hard to naturally encounter but she also has unique dialogue for a dragonborn pc

[dw-flagler]

it's interesting that no matter who you side with they're both cops doing top tier cop stuff

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

He received 60 years for each of the two murders, but his sentences will run concurrently. He will be eligible for parole after serving 30 years, and must also pay $20,000 in fines.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/houston-cop-sentenced-to-60-years-in-prison-for-felony-murder-conviction

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[blackjackkent]

OK, taking a look around the distillery, the Waning Moon. Further reminders that this used to be a Selunite settlement before the darkness rolled in. (Headcanonically, it's just Karlach, Shadowheart, and Gale doing the searching around here, as Hector has wandered outside to be violently ill after his drinking contest with Thisobald. Mechanically I can't actually leave him outside because there are a lot of locked chests. XD )

Some of the more interesting bits to discover:

Thisobald's exploded corpse for looting, which got us a bunch of wine for camp supplies and a key that opens a nearby door.

Behind the aforementioned door is a special distillery area where Thisobald was apparently attempting to create a new kind of toxin. We got the recipe for it and can create it ourselves if we can find a local shipment of "corpse roses" although I'm not sure how much I care since I haven't engaged with the alchemy mechanics in the game at all.

Most of the other loot is also alchemical supplies, although we did find a club that grants extra damage when used while drunk. XD

Found the ledger that He Who Was wanted, written by the dead distiller, Madeline, who he wants to punish. It is labeled "For the Attention of Justiciar Netasha" and contains long lists of names of townsfolk who said anything bad about the Thorm Regime or members of the family during their takeover (including a plea to go easy on one set of names, since they are Madeline's best friends - a plea which, it seems, was ignored by the justiciar).

Hector may hate quite a lot of what he's been through on this adventure, but this place is making him realize that being a villager in this area a hundred years ago might quite possibly have been even worse. And...perhaps it's not entirely to his credit, but he's a little more inclined to listen to He Who Was and participate in further punishing Madeline. The amount of cruelty he's seen, both recorded and in person, towards Selunites in this place is still infuriating him, even though the really explosive anger has calmed.