#oh neat fantasy!!!

[demenior]

trick or treat! for anything fealty and/or volstrucker related 🫶

i'm still working on it, but bc of this i started writing up a whole thing about the volstrucker and how i think they function/work

here's a sample

The Residuum:

I consider residuum to be, effectively, fantasy magic cocaine (yes, functionally, that’s suude, but that's made from residuum so i'm doing a same-same here). It should not be ingested, but ironically, that’s what most people do with it. Absolutely addictive.

Volstrucker are walking around with a small fortune implanted within them

They keep the knowledge of these implants secret not only to protect their identities, but to keep them from being targeted by black market operatives who would steal the residuum for resale

The activated implants function in several mechanic ways (a reskinned Bladesinger, iirc), and I’ve added a little extra in my writing. I figure there should be some really good payoffs for all of the training and getting shot up with the fantasy coke that could kill you from using it:

Rather than a 10ft boost to walking speed, I treat it like being hasted

This comes with the round of exhaustion when it ends, but! The trick is that it's not held to the 1 minute spell time, the Volstrucker can control when it ends

They can keep their implants active until the residuum is burned out, but, how much strain can their bodies handle?

Activating the implants also heightens their senses

Mechanically this would be some boost to perception checks

I write it like they’ve had a veil on, and the residuum hitting takes that away. Colors are brighter, sounds are louder, the world moves slower (because of the haste). This is all good for being alone and moving in on an assassination target.

Amplifying spells

Mechanically, what I call Amplifying allows for casting a spell at a higher spell slot, while spending a lower spell slot.

It is extremely taxing on the body and so can’t be done often (a once per long rest or smth like that)

In writing this means getting to decide to boost just how damaging your spell is going to be

Components

In a pinch the implants are expected to serve as emergency spell components. But due to how expensive residuum is, the expectation is that  Volstrucker should be carrying all of the spell components they require

Trent does not like this, but the Volstrucker discovered that you can burn your residuum at low levels (not a full activation) to push back fatigue.

This is important if you’re working deep in enemy territory and can’t afford to sleep for a few days, but need to maintain your senses

There is a price to pay on the other side—the lethargy that hits is even heavier than the usual fatigue, and often amplified depending on how many sleeps you are in deficit

By keeping the residuum “on low”, you burn through it faster

Restocking

If a Volstrucker lives long enough (5-8 years, depending), they will burn through their reserves

By this point, their body is so dependent on having residuum that if they do not get another round of implants they will go into withdrawal

This has a high likelihood of death, and so is to be avoided

In theory they could be weaned off of the residuum safely, but due to the nature of everything going on with the Volstrucker, this has never happened

This round of implants has a much faster recovery time. Most Volstrucker recover at home, with no need to be drugged as their bodies are accustomed to the excess of residuum and they can control it, so they are not expected to accidentally kill themselves

No Volstrucker has lived long enough to need a third round of residuum implants

[caprart1]

Deathless death

[science-lings]

a traditional fairytale-type AU but Bruce Wayne is simultaneously the Knight, the Princess (Brucie), and the Dragon (Batman) but he's secretly just a dad who wants to hang out in his spooky gothic castle with his dozen kids and keeps getting into situationships with the 'heroes' sent to 'save him'.

[nyatbinary-81]

@vulpixisananimal sifstem art jumpscare!! more specifically i got bored and decided to mess around with sif and mal's outfits.

[reillymackay]

a twilight cleric(/sorcerer) eladrin for an upcoming campaign, heeeere's margaux✨

[loserelf]

i think i gotta delete tiktok .

[sea-buns]

Fabian rolling another nat 1 in episode 2 to do the exact same thing is starting to feel like a really fucked up 12 Days of Christmas

Like I popped open the Fantasy High advent calendar and it was another day of Fabian failing in an extremely traumatic way

[h0neyfreak]

I wrote a paper in college for a children’s fantasy class on how PJO handles disability (specifically ADHD and dyslexia) better than almost any other book for kids that tries to be “about” disability. And rereading it now as more of an adult (I think I was 18 when I took that class) I was worried I’d spend the whole time cringing at my past self but like….I was correct and I’m glad I said it. “Your brain is wired differently and just because it’s a benefit in certain situations (fighting monsters or reading Ancient Greek) doesn’t mean it sucks any less the rest of the time. Especially in a world that doesn’t acknowledge the existence of monsters or write anything in Ancient Greek” is a based take on intellectual disabilities that genuinely meant a lot to me as a kid with (undiagnosed) ADHD.

[reneesfanworks]

they got me an optical pen for christmas let's fucking gooo

[gu6chan]

99% just my autism speaking here but something ive been noticing lately that im sorta kinda 😶 about is when ppl are like "I think you'll like this" but not bc they ACTUALLY think you'll like it, rather they just got into it and want you to also get into it so "I think you'll like this" is a nice personal hook. i love chill stuff as much as any other person ofc but given i don't divulge that EVER, what makes you think my berserk reading, made in abyss watching, drakengard playing ass would like YURU CAMP????

[shaniacsboogara]

thinking about my tiefling rogue after months of only having my half orc warlock on the brain... 😈

[tigirl-and-co]

I have a BotW/TotK opinion so unpopular I think I would be murdered for it

[artskls]

holy crap i just found this in my drafts it’s been....years?? since i doodled these

original comments:

did you know that the ffvii item list wiki has an illustration that goes with every item. Like the different chocobo greens are actually just different vegetables apparently and the Don Corneo mission items tell you exactly what the three dresses cloud can wear look like

[averagefungus]

does anyone have that one tumblr post about disability in fantasy and the magical sides to help those with them, like a poem with a kind women with crystal balls for eyes and that one ship captain with a lesbian wife. That one yeah

[skxrbrand]

One of Skarbrand’s lines to Nurglish Factions is that they ‘serve the wrong god’. That sort of implies that a Daemon Spirit can, well, convert from one god to the other god (the ‘right god’). Which has some fun implications :3c

[thedeadthree]

HMM.. una and aemond?? 👀

hi hi alyssa deariee ! i hope ur doing well love! ♡

send me an OC + an alternate love interest for them and i’ll tell you what i think of the idea

OHHHH YOU KNOW I HAVE HAD THIS ON THE BRAIN ONCE OR TWICE BELIEVE YOU MEE ! and in fact aemy almost WAS her love interest ! (in fact there's a scene in HIUH i have in mind where like... some like baelor or aemy even aeggy himself muses on her being VERY VERY a*emonds type? ofc he's like hehe giggling kicking feet bc she chose aeggy likely internally-ish but! still!) i see them as being quite alike in a few aspects (dragonriders of the cannibal and vhagar both of notoriety throughout the realm for being TERRIFYING, their knowledge of the histories and the desire to rise above their station/rule etc!) and respect each other highly! shes fascinated with the arcane and possesses a bit of an unhinged side ( a bit leg says <3 ) i think they would take a liking to each other swimmingly !