#norfuck

[madeofvoid]

NORFOLK WIZARD GAME SPOILERS + non relevant rambling about The Gothic Horror RPG set in My Hometown.

I'm in love with this campaign. This is honestly more entertaining than HTP especially when the monkey(little agent/fierce?) is "on screen." I think it's just. Built this way. Like all of WoD is made so you have to play absurdism completely straightfaced and while HTP is a MASTERWORK of storytelling that I recommend to everyone I meet within 5 minutes of talking, it's just. So much funnier to know that all of the myriad Horrors that Big D and His Sons have gone/are going through, are happening at like, the same fucking time that an /x/ poster, an art student, and a fucking monkey are doing a Cyberchase.

And this is made explicitly funnier for me because like, during the time that this is set in the universe of the setting, I would've been some kid living just across the river from this shit going down. In short, the Gothic Horror RPG is indeed Set In My Hometown and I think that's really, really, neat.

In length? I can imagine exactly where the mousepad or the knickerknackery would've been. Norfolk--explicitly downtown/waterside district just screams "there's some magic shit goin on here" for myriad reasons, ESPECIALLY in the early-mid 00s.

Waterside had a sort of almost-liminality to it that came from the Y2K era crashing over itself like the waves against the docks where the giant ass paddleboat ferries would stop. Where glowing orange jellyfish the size of shopping bags haunted just beneath the surface of the water that my mother warned would poison me if I so much as dipped a toe in. I never saw any fish in the Elizabeth River like in the James or York. I always chalked it up to pollution. Nothing but those ghostly jellies can live here, I thought. Then I'd walk past a statue of a faceless, half-chololate half-weathered-copper mermaid mid stroke and just wonder at the dichotomy that it struck between the waters so murky I couldn't tell if it were a few inches or a few miles deep, and the haunting, blank visage of a creature that should represent, if nothing else, that the waters are pure and full of life. Or, at least, that they were during some point in the dubiously vague, vignette toned past that perhaps my grandmother or my great grandmother(rest her soul) knew of. I always thought that maybe they saw the mermaids in the water, but I felt it too childish to ask. (Either that or the acrid smell of old people in my great grandmother's house burned all thoughts but leaving from my brain every time I would've brought it up.)

Idunno, I'm fucking rambling about Y2K-era Norfolk now and all of it is to say that yeah, that is the PERFECT place for a World of Darkness game to be set in. I doubt there's anywhere else in america beyond the Seven Cities that would be a better fit for the setting and all it contains. Maybe Metairie or Tampa, but those lack the leviathan of NATO HQ lurking in the shadows.

Idk if SpeakerD/OgrePoppenang/Alfabusa live here, but they've picked a great setting.

[h9rd-t6-miss]

God the fucking THEMING of the awakenings is getting to me so good.

Bill getting confirmation that his whole world view is correct, down the the aliens, and using his magic to literally unravel the conspiracy

Sibyl's want for human connection and understanding and connection through art being the thing that both damns and saves her in the same moment, sending her to a world of gore and dreams only to wake up again

Fucking boringass Everyman Samson getting monkey's-paw-ed into killing someone else with the one thing that he concentrated on so singlemindedly (SIDE NOTE; did he actually awaken? Or is this another mage fucking with a mortal? Where is this bastard's avatar? Earndil COME BACK HERE I HAVE QUESTIONS)

And Mr Parker.

"Everything around here feels like it's still dying."

NOT FOR GODDAM LONG IF /THE COLLECTOR/ HAS HIS WAY. Unflappable and psychotic indeed.

[aurelianpen]

All the norfuck wizard Awakenings were so good they go from very goofy to some of the best surreal/chilling narration in seconds

[vibrantvenosity]

norfuck wizard gang

[angelyrica]

[gunnerina]

Virginians and Brits: how do you pronounce Norfolk?

[starringmeacomplicatedlovestory]

God I fucking hate seeing this sign

[jcheechoo]

Ok accent rants r deleted ill go to sleep now

[zartharn]

Hi, Dear! Thoma Howard is my all time favourite historical figure and your videos are gifts for me. To me he is more like the perseon, who selfpitying himself bc EVERYBODY unfair and mean with him. But you impressive was so hillarious too! And Norfuck? Love this! All in all thank you for the amzing content!

Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoy them!

[englishreformationsuggestions]

get your knickers in a twist when commoners are clearly more capable than you

[girinma]

I love talking about Norfolk VA with people who aren’t familiar because they’re never ready for how it’s pronounced.

[pbgvparty]

Highlights from tonight so far include seeing my coworkers present awards and talk about Juniors, the English Setter breeder making me cry, and the anticipation of the Norfolk/Norwich terrier pronunciation scandal that rocked us last year

[3000s]

its pronounced norfuck

[goregrishdotcom]

I be like suffuck...norfuck.. lol

[portrait-d-unefemme]

They just pronounced the L in Norfolk on Quantico and I am DISGUSTED

[fleurdeneuf]

the duke of norfuck is back!

Hey, Eccles crew....Just in time for #ceappreciationweek, Elizabeth is back on Netflix!

What better way to celebrate the movie themed day??  ;)