#novaverse

[toweringclam]

I found a way to split the difference between "Gideon sacrifices herself for Harrow in every universe" and "perspective switch in the second book because previous MC died" in the Harrow Nova AU.

At the end of the first book, Harrow would force Gideon's hand to absorb her soul, but it would be less about self-sacrifice than "this is the only way I'll ever reclaim my birthright as a necromancer." Same outcome, different motive.

However, in the second book, she wouldn't be dead. Only mostly dead. Her soul isn't in her body, but her body is still functioning fine. Better than fine, even. Her death-wounds healed themselves, and, despite being in a vegetative state, her muscles haven't atrophied one bit.

This is because Gideon is hemorrhaging thalergy, just like Anastasia was before they euthanized Samael. Gideon has made Jod promise not to do that and to explore other options, but in the meantime, she's slowly dying just to keep Harrow's corpse breathing. Gideon is still sacrificing herself, but by inches.

[ask-harrowhark]

Edit: THE OOC MEANS THIS IS A OOC POST HELPP this is an ask blog y'all 😭 😭

[OOC]

when the funny butch dad charm doesn't work with your spouse

[arsene-inc]

GilaRPGs and the Novaverse : Getting the setting out of the game line

Or What is a game line really ?

Getting out of the game line to develop a setting. What does it mean ? Well there's no better start than an exemple so let's check what Spencer Campbell or GilaRPGs is doing.

Actually no, a better start is defining the terms. Curse you leftovers from uni. So what is a game line ? In the TTRPG scene, it is usually thought as all the games that shares a Name, or all the books that share the same setting AND system. We all know the D&D line even if we sometimes wish we didn't. But there's other lines : Pathfinder, Nephilim, Knight, Vampire the Mascarade, etc...

Multiple editions ? Supplements ? That's a line, don't cross it.

But if games with the same setting and the same system are of the same line, what about game with the same setting but different systems ?

A New Challenger appears : Spencer Campbell, one of my fav. His name is often reason enough for me to buy.

(translation for a future video on my french ttrpg channel)

I could talk about the evolution of LUMEN toward a diceless,healthless system, how every other games influence this transition. I'll leave you waiting on this one.

In short, one of his big games is Nova, inspired by Warframe, Destiny and the likes. To summarize : Sun exploded. Nobody knows why. Sun shards implanted on the planet. Now the night won't leave me alone.

A Measly lot of years later, the power of these shards can be harnessed, Humanity can continue. Sparks are invented, mecha-armour to explore the Dusk and defend settlements from their many ennemies. Cause we weren't alone when the sun exploded.

Well I said invented but some Sparks...... One of them was inspired by Satan and the only thing we know about it is thus : The Sky went red and it appeard out of the Dusk. Great. No reason to worry at all. It's not like you can't make a horseman of the Apocalypse party with some other Sparks... (something my player actually did, these edgy mfers) The setting is very succint, it's a small book. But it's the Start of the Novaverse.

No, we can also find Luna and Nest in the same setting. Interesting detail : they focus on two of the enemies' factions found in Nova. And none of them have the same system. Well that may be a little exaggeration. Dusk also exists with a similar system and on the Sparks side.

Before writing about them, I will note that supplements for Nova exist. Nova Dusk Denizen. Zine sized, each zine on a singular faction with more lore, more enemies, more tactics for the GM.

So Dusk is the first new game of this Novaverse. The first to use the LUMEN 2.0, now diceless and based on ressources. For me, it's a debate if Lumen and Lumen 2.0 can be considered the same system. More importantly, this is not a supplement. This is a full game. A modular game (another discussion for the future). Nova's focus was on combat, action. Dusk is not. It is exploration. The monsters usually die in 1 hit. Clearly two distinct experiences.

Then Spencer crowdfunded and published Luna. Another change. Here we play a Nova enemy faction : The Lunar Cult. Their goal : infiltrate a city and convert its sun shard for holy moonstone. This is not the type of adventures Lumen is built for. So the game uses the Resistance system, from Spire and Heart, a more adapted system.

This rpg also does something I appreciate more and more : One type of story only, we know what we want and we will play it in a fewshot campaign, 5 sessions max.

To go back to the original question, I ask of you : Same lore, same setting, but is it the same line ? It is a different experience and a different system after all.

Last May, GilaRPGs crowdfunded Nest. Back to Lumen 2.0, still an enemy faction : the Corvus Dominion, an avian alien race. And again, a game for fewshots. Since nothing has been published about it yet,I can't tell you more.

Same setting, sorta same system, but another game.

Thus what is a line ? How do you conceive it ? A base game and supplements ? Including the various editions of its base game ?

It's not like I can't use these games for Nova. Here we have two problems for the sparks to solve. How about multitable ? Between Nest and Nova ? Between Dusk and Nova ? The players of one game reacting to the actions from the other game and vice verse ? Wouldn't that be an interesting experience ? Wouldn't you want to try ?

Plus, the novaverse is not Spencer's only setting like this. He also has Obron, starting with Rune, his solo game inspired by Elden Ring and Dark Souls, where we play an Engraved. Then comes Reap, also solo in Obron, same system, but this time, you're a necromancer.

Since the game designer opens his game to 3rd party content (another reason to love him), someone had the great and terrific idea of a Realm that works for both games. Both characters are there at the same time. On the Rune side, you fight the Necromancer. On the Reap side, you fight the Engraved.

Now we leave the Rune system to go back to Lumen 2.0 again, with a group, for Thorn, also happening in Obron. And that's all I will say about it, the game is not completed yet.

I love this concept, especially with smaller games. While not zine sized, Spencer's game usually count around 50 pages.

We can focus our game on one type of story, of adventure in a particular setting, with an apropos system. Then make another game in this setting but for another story, another system adapted to this story. No more breaking your brain to try and make a size fit all system.

Generally, with a game it's the system that gets out of the line. We create an SRD for other creators. (Don't be afraid to use SRDs , they're here for you) It's rarer to take a setting and make a new different game in it.

Imagine the possibilities : Multitables with different games, reacting to each other, especially if they have opposed goals. There are players who love a setting but hate the system, the types of adventures the base book proposes. Now they can find a game for them in this setting.

 It is (or is it ?) a new direction for ttrpgs. The world of darkness games may profess to happen in the same world, but I always found them too separated. It is something I think about when creating my own games. What would happen if I take this and change the system ? We can find similar ideas in other games.

Starfinder and Pathfinder share the same setting, the same system, bur with different scopes, in different genres.

Spire and Heart : same setting, same system, different stories. Knight and Parias share the same setting too, for the system, it is the same base, but one is heroic horror, the other is survival of the outcasts. The french author Vivien Féasson also does something similar with Perdus sous la pluie. 3 games in the same setting but one is an horror experience, one is exploration and settlement building, and the last is Life in the biggest citadel.

Let's see what sort of discussions this causes...

Wait a minute ! Isn't Obron the name he gave to the planet in the Novaverse game Dusk ? What is happening ? What secrets are you hiding Spencer !?

[artificial-radiance]

concept art/redesigns for hellions in a nova campaign im running :]

this one is called "the nurse" by shard scouts -- she is seen tending to the wounded and dying, which is very unusual amongst hellions. humanity still thinks their sapience is dubious at best thanks to the circumstances.

[nugsanart09-works]

SAGAU that is just that: Self-Aware AU

just what it says in the tin. no cults, no yandere, just plain old ddlc minus the damned romance aspect. (Monika, i love you but i have had enough of the romantic shit)

warning: i am basing this on my character roster and shenanigans. you can play around with the idea but yeah, my content is based on my account if anything. also, novaverse lore because screw it imma inject my own spin in this thing

there are hierarchies on this thing:

GALAXIES = other media

NEXUS = Genshin Impact/Hoyoverse

NEBULAE = leakers/content creators/playthrough folks

(SUPER)NOVA = the player (me and you); referencing the big bang even though it means that I fucked up the symbolism tier for this lol; can be the SI-OC/Reader/"Creator"

AURORAE = the Creator's mouthpiece/interactive HUD; kinda like Paimon in-game and not lorewise

SUNSHINE = the ones in the nova's character roster a.k.a. the ones that came home

EARTHSHINE = the characters who have the potential to "become aware" a.k.a. stubborn fucks who refuses to come home smh; if the sunshines try to tell the earthshines about the situation, the earthshines would not hear them or understand it one bit

*note that op is not the smartest when it comes to cosmology but pls ignore that for the sake of

✨ fancy titles ✨

the first ones to gain awareness are Traveler and Paimon.

they were the first ones you gain as playable characters so they deserve that much, esp if they have to deal with your shenanigans as their nova

the next one to realize smth is up would be Amber

the sagau that i know of tends to start off with Kaeya a lot but i fully believe my girl Amber should be the first teyvatan aware for the amount of times her baron bunny saved my ass

when you, her nova, gained control over her, she gained access to some perks such as:

conditional immortality — when left alone by the nova/not in the current party, she can now just. not die. permanently that is. unless the nexus decides that she will be out of the narrative, she just cannot die and will constantly respawn. if the nova is logged in and she didn’t heal herself, her hp will be in the red zone lmao

disabled friendly fire — a sunshine attacks another person whether they are a fellow sunshine or not, the attacks will just go through them without harm. enemy mobs, specific plant life and the likes are the only ones capable of getting damaged

access to the inventory – anything the nova has attained, they can take and use. good luck with your hoarding because your food are definitely gonna decrease by a LOT once you log back in

private chatroom — just so they don't go insane, sunshines can gossip and pass news to one another on how things are going on their end. they speak of how far the nova (not traveler) is with their journey, and maybe just be a support group since i subjected them through a lot of bs

time loop — ...yeah. so long as you (the player) haven't progress in the given storyline in-game, you essentially trap them in an localized time loop. characters will end up "blinking" back to where they are initially if [1] the nova logged in, or [2] traveler, piloted guided by the nova, is in the area and the playable character is included in the quest the nova stumbled upon

spectators to the music — whatever bgm you have whether you have the in-game music on or are using a custom playlist, the ones in your current party (along with the parties beside the current one if you're toggling and choosing between the groups) will hear it. jean and tighnari are definitely disappointed in me for playing unholy while yaoyao is in my active team that one time w h o o p s

gained written and verbal language — whatever language you have downloaded in the game is now something the sunshines are proficient with.

for example: i have both english and korean voice packs downloaded so therefore they can speak both now. i only have english for my text. if i end up doing the typical isekai bs in the sagau community with my kr voice pack activated, the only way i can communicate with them is through writing back and forth in english lmao. if they manage to communicate with me in the self-aware Monika way then once they start speaking i am screwed since i don't speak korean :') – i don't see them speaking in textbox since [1] my speed reading sucks ass and [2] do you want your screen to be filled with text? do you?

depending on who you obtain next, they're the ones next in line with the madness. good thing they have the sunshine trio to help them out with this now. hallelujah Amber 🙏

that's it for now since this is enough of an info dump alr + this is the basic stuff you need to know for now. the rest of these will be just me and the shenanigans i subjected my playable characters through. that or someone's requests idk. hope you enjoyed this thing

[doritopaw101]

I have so many ideas for how I would rewrite the world for mlp.

The world itself is interesting and wanna explore it more as well as the main six.

Something I do enjoy about the main six is that they’ll all adults with jobs. Like yes these are adults who pay taxes which is definitely out of the norm with protagonists who are like teenagers.

Twilight definitely intrigues me cuz, well, she comes from the prestigious Canterlot and gets yeeted to this town. Like she’d definitely have some opinions about it and I wanna explore that

Calling this Novaverse as a placeholder

[arieschaos]

This is Cecil. Finally happy with how he’s looking, next I’ll need to do a character sheet and illustration. But Nova, Caleb and Stella’s pieces have to come first.

[nova-versao]

Faltam apenas algumas horas para encerrar mais um ano, e chegar um novo tempo🕚.

Novos planos e novas metas colocado no meu coração direcionados por Deus se tornaram reais em 2024! E tudo será um grande testemunho. Melhor do que começar bem é terminar bem...🙌🏼✅🌺🦋🥹✨💟

#gratidao

#Jesus

[king-sassy08]

Working on my own stories and staring pensively at the screen thinking: hmmm....what is this story missing? It's lacking something...

[Hears PARANOIA by Heartsteel of LoL]: AHA! Fuckable villains!

[bogking-arts]

A drawing of an unnamed character I've been working on. At first, I thought he would be Fet, but he wasn't bulky enough. I'm thinking he'll be Solan Siam Sivral, the archer, but I would need to change his hair and adjust his clothing a bit. We shall see!

[toweringclam]

Thinking about how the Tomb would be opened in Harrow Nova. First, I subscribe to the fan theory that it required both John and Anastasia's blood to open the door, so it must have followed Harrow's flogging at the altar. Second, I think that in both universes, this is when she loses her parents, even though they're alive in Harrow Nova.

Here's how I see it playing out:

Up until she was like 9 or 10, Priamhark and Pelleamena were still trying to force the necromancy into her. Forbidden rituals. All-night cram sessions. Harsh punishment if she so much as touched a knife, let alone a sword. They'd already adopted Gideon, so Harrowhark (as she was still known) managed the Doofenshmirtz-esque feat of being an only child and still not her parents' favorite.

Gideon dared her to steal the chain since there was some arcane rule that they couldn't take that away or something. At this confirmation that they had birthed a cavalier, they punished her near the point of death at the altar. Gideon intervened, but only by convincing them to demote her to cavalier instead of killing her.

After this, the truth of her birth came out in an argument, and Gideon decided that this whole rotten house needed to burn. She went to the Tomb and, with hands still stained by Harrow's blood, she undid all the wards, hoping the monster inside would kill everyone.

However, Gideon changed her mind when she got to the corpse. Of all the horrifying realizations of the day, the one that broke her was when its eyes shot open and stared at her. It's faintly luminous, golden eyes.

HER eyes.

Gideon panicked and ran, sealing it all back and never speaking of it to another soul. She realized that her eyes were not those of a savior but of a monster.

This leads into my idea that this Gideon is far less confident than the main universe version. She still projects confidence but is plagued by doubts and imposter syndrome, now with the deep-seated fear that she's actually some kind of demon. (Unaware that those are God's eyes)

[ask-harrowhark]

G: Corona is alright though but she is the last person Harrow would call to take care of our kiddos

H: Right, because we both know that Ianthe will be there too.

[novaxera]

Nova x ColourPOP 🎨🍭🫧 #aiart #novaxera #novaverse #artpop (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Clw0b3iOE0m/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[toweringclam]

Harrow the Ninth from Harrow Nova's POV once Gideon forces reverse lyctorhood onto her in that Pyrrha-G1deon way.

another edit: I need to clear that up. Harrow keeps her own body. At the end of Harrow Nova's gtn AU, necro-Gideon dies protecting Harrow (in my head, Gideon always dies protecting Harrow in every AU). Gideon figures out some way to reverse-lyctorhood Harrow. So the Cav becomes the lyctor instead of the adept.

Haven't worked out how she stops the process yet. Probably Ianthe. Ianthe would be my constant in all the AUs. She's always herself. Always becomes a lyctor. She's too good the way she is to change any of her bits.

I just want you to imagine Harrow Nova on the Mithraeum with all those silly dinks.

Instead of the memory-loss plot, I'm going for a Harrow Nova murder spree on the Mithraeum.

I think that works.

edit:

And because Gideon was her adept, Harrow can no longer die.

This realization is what tips John off to something being different.

[nugsanart09-works]

Where the on stand-by sunshines/aware characters are when off the field

okay so

sunshines (aware) and earthshines (unaware)

two versions of the same people existing at the same time, one being unaware of it

what im getting at is that once you get these people from the banners, the sunshines become separate entities compared to the ones that are fixed in the storyline

they now have an independent will, however limited it is to express it

now, back to the topic at hand

the sunshines

on one version of this au, i can fully see that if the nova is not on a specific area the people within the vicinity acts more "human-like"

or at least maybe in the eyes of the low friendship level sunshines ig

since they are free to do so without the code interfering their movements

the sunshines who arent in the party will be going on about their lives unless the nova pulls them in

if called in, the sunshine's consciousness will be pulled in and will manifest at the back of the current sunshine on-field

while their earthshine self will take over whatever they were doing initially

if what their previous goal at hand had to do with anything with their version of forbidden knowledge, the earthshine will forget immediately

and will just proceed to do their other tasks

being forced to not wonder why they were doing something out of character, or rather in character for some, in the first place

they (the earthshines) may try and remember the details but no, the code will just make them dismiss it

this is the version where these people are still helpless against the code

which is where friendship levels will kick in

the higher your friendship level, the more likely they can "break" your game

both the aurora and the sunshine will gain more traction when it comes to communicating with their nova

the other version is that the sunshines themselves are in the "storage room"

a.k.a. the party selection screen

the ones not in the current party will have access to your device your apps you current tabs the serenity teapot so long as the nova isn't within it at the moment

they will be booted immediately once the nova's loading screen kicks up

to those in the four man squad, they will be with Paimon

kinda

they're pretty much watching the active sunshine the nova is using

it can get a bit dizzying for them if your character switching is too fast

imaging getting flashbanged while getting yeeted to where the former sunshine was at high speeds

it's like how apparition from h*rry p*tt*r works essentially

that's it for now~

[xlovebitz]

let's go lesbians let's go 🧡🧡🤍💖❤️