#ogre magi

[oldschoolfrp]

"Japanese ogre" by Greg Bell from D&D Supplement I: Greyhawk, TSR, 1976. The Greyhawk supplement introduced rules for "ogre magi" or "Japanese ogres," clearly based on the oni of folklore, though the term oni was not used at this time.

[maidot]

ANOTHER REPOSTING FOR MY ABANDONED TUMBLR XD.

this time ... random ships i did for some frens

[frankfiorentino]

Finally getting around to posting my Inktober 2023! This is Part 1 of 2

[asdaricus]

Japanese Oni, also known as Ogre Magi

by Midjourney v5

[gorojji]

ogre magi

[dotajournalist]

Ogre Magi declared he's running for presidency, as a Democrat. He also revealed his running mate to be himself.

[chronivore]

Ogre Magi

[tonyshape]

[ask-the-fogbound-serpent]

@ogre-n-partner

Shinji tried his hardest to maintain composure when approaching the twins. He didn't want to scare them and definitely didn't want to anger them.

U-Um hello there. How do you like the event...? Are you planning to ask the Magi anything?

"Oh! H-hello!" Iter said, giving Shinji a small smile. "The event has been quite lovely, everything is so nice..."

"As for the Magi, we have no clue!" Tempora said, giddy and loud and thrilled all at once. "This is our first time seeing them, and there's nothing specific we really want. Oh wait! Iter!" She turned towards her twin, bonking Iter with her own head, as if to get her attention (but mostly just to annoy her), "You should ask for a book on the island! You love books you big nerd!"

After a second of annoyed warbling at her sister, Iter turned back to Shinji, "W-what about yourself?" She asked, "Is there anything specific you would like from the Magi?"

[phantomguild]

Destiny stared at her glass that she refilled, her thoughts growing darker by the minute. She should've been able to do more over the centuries. If she was stronger, maybe she'd have been able to fix her world sooner. Repeating time, seeing her world fall to the cataclysm again and again had taken its toll on her morale. However, a small group of voices pulled her back to reality.

"Hm?" She mumbled, finally noticing the Pokémon that had approached her.

Destiny's ear twitched as she registered the marshadow's voice. She tentatively took one of the sweets from his outstretched hand, attempting to force a smile, at least for this one's peace of mind. "Thanks. I was just thinking about..." She paused, the words failing her on how to shorten it down. "... my making up for my greatest mistake."

"It's fine," she said, trying to shield herself. "Getting the chain of events to prevent my world's destruction isn't anyone else's responsibility but mine and Cin's."

"I mean, I'm the one that helped light the match leading up to everything back in the Limestone Caverns, and I haven't even been able to fix it after all these millennia. So it'd be pretty pathetic if I couldn't even make it up to everyone in my timeline for that."

Destiny took a moment to process what was in front of her. She'd seen hybrids before, and in fact, she'd grew up alongside one in her village, but she'd never seen one like this before. Shaking herself out of her brief reverie, she took a cookie from the edge of the plate.

"Oh, uh, thanks Waffle. I said this earlier, but my name's Destiny." Biting into the treat, she let her thoughts wander for a moment. "Though that's just my... alias, I guess you can say."

[ask-the-fogbound-serpent]

For a moment, the two didn't really know what to say. After all, such a topic was meant to be handled with care that they feared they did not possess.

After a short and quick mental conversation between the two, they stepped forward towards Shinji. Carefully, slowly, Iter pressed her head against his shoulder, trying to give some comfort with physical contact before speaking, "W-we don't know exactly what happened, but we promise you this; you wont feel this way forever."

"At first it feels insurmountable." Tempora continued after her sister, "Like you can't escape it no matter how hard you try. But slowly, if you let the people you love help, you'll grow around that sadness. The hurt will always be there, but it wont be as all encompassing."

"We know what it's like to lose someone you love." Iter said, "It was years ago and it still hurts. But it's better now. Our family is there for us, like how your friends are there for you. Give yourself the Time and Space you need to heal and grow. You wont feel this way forever." She repeated the words, an assurance not just to Shinji, but to herself and Tempora too.

(@ask-the-fogbound-serpent) Tempora and Iter plodded over to where Shinji stood, approaching a bit more carefully so as to not startle the other. 

“H-hello.” Iter said, head bobbing in greeting. “It’s nice to see you again! We hope you’ve been enjoying the festivities.”

“We also hope you got guidance on whatever you needed!” Tempora said with much more enthusiasm than her sister, “Did you ask the Magi for help? And how are you feeling now? I hope everything is good!”

Shinji looked at the pair and then returned to the Pokeball. He thought about Tempora's question for a minute before answering.

I...I don't know how I'm feeling...I don't know if I'll ever be alright...I-I

Poni quickly grabs onto Shinji's arm, hugging it.

Pon: Hey, it's gonna be ok...you have me and the others to guide you through it. Hell, some of the people here already showed their support.

The ogre looks up at the twins.

If you guys can help comfort Shinji here, that'd be great.

[oldschoolfrp]

Elf: It's an ogre! Wizard: How big? Elf: Average, I'd say. Wizard: Say 18 hits. Does an average of 5.5 hits per melee round Cleric: But what if it's an Ogre Magi? Dwarf: ON THE SECOND LEVEL? Don't be a twit!!! Wizard: Lessee, Muriel does about 4.5 points damage per round. Elf: Right! Wizard: Gromel has 17 strength and . . . Dwarf: 18! Wizard: has a +3 Warhammer, so he does 10 hits per round. Marius only has a mace, and does but 3.5 hits . . . Cleric: But I'm only AC 4, and I've only got 7 hits! Dwarf: You go in, or I bust your head! Wizard: and I'll throw Magic Missile, doing an average of 4.5 hits. That's 22.5 per round, and he averages only a quarter of that! Elf: All set? Cleric: But he's on a better table!

(Number crunching min-maxers at play, Glenn Blacow, cover of Alarums & Excursions #26, September 1977)

[pokeask-magi-retreat]

@ogre-n-partner

Shinji and Poni walks over towards the Magi carrying berries and water.

Pon: Hey there Magi. Hope you've been well. I brought my friend along this time, I think he could use your advice.

Shinji waves slowly.

Shin: He-Hello...

The trainer pulls out a purple and white pokeball.

A while ago...I lost one of my first friends, I kept him around in this pokeball since that day. Even though everyone tells me otherwise I can't help but feel it's my fault.

Shinji starts to tear up.

W-What do I do....I want to stop blaming myself but I can't...

[The golden light of the trio makes themselves known to Shinji, reaching a small hand out towards the pokeball.]

[The pokeball is then adorned with amaranths, rainflowers, and rosemarys, the trio speaking as one.]

Grief and blame are a part of the healing process, however difficult they may be. The care that you feel towards this partner is unfading, and their memory will continue on so long as you continue to be vocal in regards to their significance to you. This is a new beginning, but that does not mean you cannot take the time to remember them, however many times you need to.

(( @ogre-n-partner ))

[secrets-and-streetlights]

My Theories / Thoughts on the new HtP audio log

Spoilers under the cut! Don't read unless you listened to the ghoul lore episode!! I will know!!!! (also massive post)

okay there is. so insanely much to talk about with this audio log. I have so many theories and thoughts, but I'll just share my main ones in no specific order.

Keep in mind that I'm no WoD scholar, so some info could be wrong or be interpreted by the Ogre Poppenang team differently. A lot of this info is coming from the White Wolf wiki.

The Lost Sons

I have a lot of theories on who the sons D lost were. My actual theory is that we'll never know so it remains mysterious. However, endlessly theorizing is fun so: 1.) D says that he lost a son and that it wasn't the first time. So we know at least two sons are gone. Assuming he has only lost two sons, they could be stand ins for the two lost Primarchs from 40k.

For those that don't know a lot about 40k, two of the emperor's sons are 'lost'. Thier names are never said and as far as I know their exact fates never confirmed (but assumedly killed). This goes with my actual theory of not actually knowing what happened.

2.) Anton. During the Australia story, D mentions Anton offhandly. I agree with @sensarna that Anton is a stand in for Angron. We don't know the exact details of that hunt so there is no way to be sure. Biggest point against this is that D gets very intense about saying "Markus' Brother's" name, so I doubt he would mention it offhandedly.

3.) I want to avoid using things not in the series but I'll be drawing on primarch fates from 40k for this. Fates are defiantly not one to one since Door is alive/has both hands, Horus is alive/a horse, and so on. But I immediately thought of Jaghatai Khan when hearing the Australia story.

Simplified for non-40k fans, Jaghatai is supposedly fighting space elf pirates in the space elf dimension, trapped in its endlessly twisting paths. In HtP, this could be interpreted as Jaghatai being trapped in a changeling freehold. Other primarchs are also trapped/lost in places (like Leman Russ and Vulkan) but Jaghatai is involved with the closest thing 40k has to cruel fae.

4.) The previous lost son(s) was not lost as in killed (necessarily) but lost as in changed. This has nothing to do with the Australia story but I'd be surprised if Markus was D's only supernatural(?) son. Leman is probably a werewolf or a gangrel, Lorgar could be possessed by a demon or a nephandi mage, Vulkan could be a wraith constantly possessing people, Roboute could be a changeling lost to banality, anything.

Markus and the Thing (1982)

We know a few things about Markus contacting the unknown force (which I will refer to as the Thing). The Thing is not a 'monster' or a 'demon'.

The Thing is described as or something from the Abyss (with a capital A, even). The Abyss is portrayed differently in every WoD game line, the descriptions conveyed by how that game's supernatural would interact with it. Its a cursed sea to Wraiths, a realm of sensory deprivation to Demons, and the realm of paradoxes and unreality to Magi just to name a few.

D himself says that he doesn't know exactly what it is or how exactly Markus contacted it, so he may be wrong in saying it is/from the Abyss. However, we do know from the Kevin audiolog that D was part of a hunt that killed a Lasombra Methuselah, whose clan has Abyss powers. I'm willing to give D the benefit of the doubt and assume that the Thing is related the the Abyss.

So, what the hell is it?

1.) While kind of a copout, we probably won't ever know its exact nature. The fifth edition Hunter book is full of creatures that don't fit into any neat classifications. It could be something totally unique to this story.

2.) While also unlikely, it could be a Neverborn. They are a major part of Wraith. Neverborn are forces of primordial destruction, endlessly slumbering while they wait for the end of everything. Their minds are the source of the Specters' hivemind, commands carried out through dreams. The 'million eyes' Markus caught a glimpse of could have been an endless hivemind trying to destroy the universe suddenly becoming aware of a lone child.

The big points against this is that getting into the world of the living is difficult for any single wraith/specter, more so for a whole group of them. Maybe whatever ritual Markus did made it easier, we don't know.

3.) According to D, Markus has had a 'sorcerous aptitude'. This immediately made me think of an Avatar. Avatars in mage are a kind of spiritual guide to Magi, always pushing them to realize their potential. Since Magi can have literally any paradigm (the way a mage understands magik), their Avatar can be literally anything.

I'm unsure if Avatars can manifest for anyone aside the mage, but during an Awakening anything could happen. From the picture of the Thing (assuming the photo is diegetic) we know it was visible. If not interrupted, maybe Markus could've even stopped the fae. Or he could've been consumed by overwhelming power and died.

I think this is best supported theory, especially since D has no idea how Markus did it. Markus didn't have to know how to do it. He just needed to believe that it'd work.

4.) Lastly is the most closely related to Changelings. Fomorians. The oldest nightmares of the Dreaming. They are too alien to describe properly. Whatever Markus was doing, he thought he was "channeling a rival power in the fae court". If we're assuming the main power of the court was Seelie, this would mean he was using Unseelie (or possibly Shadow Court) power. Fomorians are supposedly the predecessors to the Unseelie, so Markus might've tapped into something much older than intended.

So why isn't this my main theory? Fomorians fit the physical description (as in, indescribable), are related to the enemy the Family was hunting at the time, and are esoteric enough that D could possibly not know about them.

Because as far as I know, The Dreaming not associated with the Abyss in any way. Its quite the opposite, since its the place of dreams and nightmares. Where the Dreaming is overstimulation, the Abyss is deprivation. That is my interpretation at least. This theory would have to assume that D was just wrong when name dropping the capital A Abyss, which doesn't seem right to me.

The Funny Drink

So the whole Draught thing. This post is long and rambling enough as is, so my theories will be brief.

We know that the draught can bestow any of the following. Strength, Speed, Endurance, or (uniquely for Norfolk) Domination. D says that the Domination one could "give victims complex orders that can be carried out without question."

I think the two lines of thinking are the ones brought up by @possiblylando , mainly that the domination draught is a red herring or that it was used to make someone attack Occam.

The other draughts could also be in use instead, assuming the Ghoul only has one.

If the person that took out Occam wasn't very strong, the Strength draught could give them the edge to overpower him.

Whoever killed Fatigue could've used the Speed draught and cleaned up/fled quickly after making him suddenly explode.

More theory than example but Brok takes a punch from D in chapter 4. D says "Your papa could never take a punch like that.", which could be the Endurance draught at work.

Summary

What a good audio log. Can't wait for the next episode!

[the-witchs-cafe]

Kieran from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet would turn into a witch in Puella Magi Madoka Magica!

Cause of Witchification: Was already regarded as an outcast by most of the peers around him, he initially latched on to the player and the fabled "ogre", who was often depicted as the villain in the tale of the Loyal Three, as a beacon of hope. Unfortunately, after overhearing his grandfather revealing the truth behind the Loyal Three and the so-called "monstrous" ogre- and him begging both his sister and the player not to tell him, he believed that the reason why they left him out of this is due to the fact that he was nothing more than a beast- just like how the rest of Kitakami saw Ogerpon, especially with the reveal that it had revealed itself to both Carmine and the player, and not Kieran.

In a desperate attempt at befriending the ogre, he had acquired the teal mask that Ogerpon had dropped during its intial encounter with Carmine and the player; holding on to it and refusing to let go until the player had to defeat him in a pokemon battle. The shock of betrayal and jealousy had turned into an aura of resentment so powerful and toxic that it was akin to that of the poisonous Pecharunt; reviving the Loyal Three from their slumber and allowing them to cause havoc amongst the village once more.

While Ogerpon and the player chased them out, Kieran stayed behind to fix its reputation amongst the people of Kitakami and reveal the truth behind the Lousy Three they had revered for generations. Despite that, Ogerpon had chosen the player to be its trainer; shattering his heart once more by this sense of betrayal and filling its cracks with envy towards the person he believed had ruined his life, the player. After their final battle and watching the player catch Ogerpon, he locked himself in his room and vowed to get stronger- he vowed to take the player down to the depths with him, even if it took every fiber of his being...

Over time, he had turned into an exhausted, bitter, angry shell of his own self; the champion of the Blueberry Academy possessing a crown of thorns and a venomous tongue. Not a hint of hope were behind those eyes- only the hollow pit of bitterness and despair were reflected within them-

At least, that way, nobody could hurt him ever again- he was strong enough to defeat that wretch once and for all and take back his life... until the player waltzed into his line of sight once more, this time for the title of champion...

[racefortheironthrone]

Warhammer Gaslamp: Peoples of the Old World

(For Introduction, see here; for Imperial Society, see here; for Geopolitics, see here.)

While the Old World of 2725 IC is dominated by the nations of Men, the non-human species of the world are by no means vanished - although all have seen enormous amounts of change over the last two hundred years.

Although they still maintain their traditional alliance with the Empire of Man, the Dawi of the Old World suffered badly from their pyrrhic victories in the Skaven and Greenskin Wars, to the point where they have begun a slow, inexorable demographic decline - not helped by increasing assimilation into the Empire. Increasingly, the Dawi have begun to coalesce around the master plan of the Great Reckoning, an effort to avenge every single Grudge in the Dammaz Kron in one fell swoop through the creation of an army of 100,000 Slayers. When the last of the Grudges has been satisfied, the sages of Dwarfkind believe that the Ancestor Gods will return and restore their people to their former glory.

Proving that it is truly an ill wind that blows no one any good, the shift in the Aethyr mentioned earlier had a profound influence on the Asur. With the increase in the concentration of Aethyric energy around, Asur born since 2594 have universally developed psykic abilities seemingly independent of their access to the Winds of Khaos, such that the younger generation now primarily speak mind-to-mind, can move themselves and objects with a thought, and much more that was once the exclusive ability of magi. Among many of the Asur, this is seen as a sign of the gods' continual favor, but these new abilities will need to be pressed into service sooner rather than later, as the blessed isle of Ulthuan is gradually sliding beneath the waves....

While their territories in Laurelorn have shrunken dramatically, the territories of the Asrai in Athel Loren remain quite strong in Bretonnia thanks in no small part to their political influence on Forest Law in L'Ancien Régime. As part of an increased level of caution (or paranoia), the Spellsingers embarked in a campaign of educating the entirety of their population in how to magically transport themselves between the remaining forests of the Old World and the spiritual dimension of Underhill, where magic remains strong and the verdant world untouched by hands of men, and to use the Glamour to move undetected in the human world.

[From the 9th Edition Imperial Encyclopedia]: Halflings (noun). A malevolent subspecies of mutant, destroyed in the Great Gene-Purge of 2614.

Life for the Vampire Counts has become increasingly more dangerous and complex. Driven from their seat of power in a vicious war that left much of Sylvania a faintly glowing wasteland of bomb craters and barbed wire, the survivors live on the run from the Imperial Plasmic Survey and the Schwarzmänner, although some vampires and thralls alike can manage to stay one step ahead via falsified blood samples and living in masquerade in the teeming throngs of urban society. Many of the surviving vampires have developed wealthy clients from among the nobility and the haut bourgeoisie, who are willing to risk the attentions of the state in exchange for infusions that extend their lifespans by decades. At the same time, the Vampire Counts are learning how to play politics by Imperial rules...

The Old World has changed, but the Greenskins have not. Although banished beyond the World's Edge Mountains, they still practice their traditional ways of WAAAGH! and generally making a mess of things. However, they have adapted to the age of gunpowder by trading with the Ogres of the East for the 'splody stuff, from the Orkish love of really big shootas and the Goblin fascination with bombs. The Greenskins might wear top hats and call their warleaders Nobz now, but they are still the mad, anarchic bastards who refuse to die.

Despite their defeat in the wars with the dwarfs and the mysterious explosion that engulfed Skavenblight in 2573 IC, the Underempire of the Skaven has adapted to their new circumstances in new and strange ways. While increasing urbanization has allowed the Skaven to spread through the sewers and subway systems of the Empire, they face new competition from the "Untervolk" and the increasingly impressive efforts of the human Technomancers. So instead the Skaven have allied with the Slaaneshi to sell warpstone dust drugs to the stupid stupid man-things, using the financial proceeds and the insidious long-term effects of warpstone dust to weaken humanity from within.