#oxventure in the dark

[thismustbethursday]

[25thhanabusa]

Oxventure Requests #1

Vampire! Corazon: I did not have Corazon reference until after I started inking. I have not drawn this man in so long.

Robin: He's a little surprised someone picked him is all. Also my brain wants to give him shorter sleeves.

Zillah with a cuddly animal: I did not have Zillah reference, but I feel like she's carved into my brain. I adore Zillah so much and is probably NY favorite Hobbyhorse to draw.

I'm currently on vacation, so I'm doing these requests when I'm at airports. More requests will come soon.

[oxventure-text-posts]

[oxventurebigbang]

Hail and well met, adventurers!

Posting for Oxventure Big Bang starts tomorrow, February 20 and continues until the 23rd. We have 9 10k+ stories based on excellent art, and also the excellent art they're based on. It is a veritable buffet of fanworks!

Two works per day will be released on the AO3 and announced here, so keep it locked to one or both of those places. Get excited! Or perhaps build some sort of Tremendous Tumblring Man to get excited for you. I don't judge.

[noumios]

apparently in 2024 i'm drawing edvard lumière and i'm having a great time

[sierradee]

Threw together a collage of my oxventure fanart from last year while I watched the Kobolds episode. It's wild to look back and see how many I made (I couldn't even fit everyone in).

They have filled such a meaningful space in my life for so many years, I'm excited and bitter-sweet thinking of their retirement as a guild.

It's also funny to see I have the style consistency of a broken slip and slide.

[oxventurequotes]

bug: one last thing before you go - killing? yes? no? maybe?

kasimir: ideally not

bug: ideally not. i can work with that.

bug: CHARGE!!!!

[a-casual-egg]

Some time ago, I saw a post about fan kids, and since then, I've been thinking about some of the fan kids I made up, so I wanna talk about some of them!

Under the cut because it's a lot

Charlie:

Charlie is Dob and Egbert's adopted demon child. Bismuth had them investigate some spooky goings-ons, and they find out that a little baby/toddle demon playing is the cause of all the chaos. They're won over by the baby/toddler almost immediately, and Dob looks at Egbert with big puppy dog eyes and asks if they can keep them. Egbert says yes, of course.

When I first made Charlie up, a friend of mine suggested that Dob and Egbert name them Charlie after Charles Fontelroy Stripworth Colcahoun The Third At Your Service (Dob wanted to name them the full name but they compromised on naming them Charlie). Charlie was originally based on this Tumblr post:

but became a lot more.

Charlie has very pointy teeth and likes to bite. They bite their toys and their blankets and their chewlery and their dads. They bite a lot and they have a lot of energy. At first, Dob thought he had as much energy, if not more, as Charlie, but he was sorely mistaken. He's often exhausted before Charlie is, but it is so rewarding when Charlie actually does sleep because it is soooo cute when they sleep.

Not only does Charlie love their dads and biting, but they also love asking questions and sharing information. They find out a lot of information by being a little kid just walking around and asking random questions. After they learn stuff, they tell their dads every small little bit of information they learn, and their dads listen to what their kid has to say.

For example, one day, Charlie asks Dob what he and Egbert are gonna do for date night, and through many other questions, Charlie learns Dob's entire plan for date night. With this new information, they go find Egbert and tell them everything. He's just like, "Oh yeah? Really? Very interesting." the entire time while Charlie like flops on the bed or the floor and stretchs their arms and legs in the air like little kids do. When Dob finds out that Egbert knows all about it, he's sheepish, but Egbert gives him a kiss because he appreciates all the thought put into date night and Dob melts.

Overall, Charlie is very observant and likes mimicking their dads, leading them to mimic Egbert's tail moments with their own tail. Since I love the idea of tails being like another hand/arm to grab stuff, I think Egbert would notice Charlie mimicking their tail motions and pick them up with his own tail then plop Charlie into his lap for a big cuddle. It also works for when Charlie is about to do something they shouldn't, Egbert can just pick them up with his tail and either gently but firmly explain why Charlie shouldn't do what they were about to or just go back to doing whatever he was doing while Charlie pouts.

Dob is more silly with Charlie and lets them paint his nails for fun. Being that Charlie is around like 4-8, the nails are messy, but Dob still loves them and shows them off to people. He also invents a lot of games for him and Charlie to play together.

I don't know how quickly Charlie is introduced to the rest of the guild, Bismuth, and Suzette, but they love them so much even if Corazón is offended when Charlie interrupts him with baby babbling.

Anabelle:

Anabelle is Barnaby's daughter from most likely a fling. Her hair is usually in braids, and she isn't really emotive. She's kinda similar to the Dimmer Sisters in the sense that she's kinda like a creepy little girl from a horror movie. She loves animals, especially reptiles, and has a snake that she talks to (I have a working idea that the snake helps her like a support animal of some kind).

Barnaby is very sweet and loving towards her because he doesn't want his daughter to have the awful childhood he did. She's very intelligent, however, isn't great at talking to people like her dad is, and often hides behind people just watching. She's probably autistic to be honest.

I have a sorta joke with her where she invents hair dye because she deserves to, so her hair is usually a soft pink in my mind. She runs her hands through her hair to calm herself down and because she likes the feeling.

She's also very silly. She and Barnaby have a lot of inside jokes, and they make each other laugh/giggle. They probably have the same laugh if that's possible. Anabelle is also silly in the way that she wakes her dad up by hitting him in the face with a pillow.

Barnaby doesn't really bring up Anabelle in order for him to keep up his reputation as a rich socialite that does random things for fun, but I have two like main ways for Anabelle to meet the hobbyhorses.

The first one is Barnaby brings the crew back to his place after a dangerous heist and she's peeking out behind a wall and someone notices her, points her out, and Barnaby picks her up and asks her why she's up so late (It's bc she missed her dad). Then she's introduced to the others, and they simply adore her.

The second one is Edvard and Kasimir stumble into her during a heist, then she joins them on a heist and talks about her dad and how cool and sweet he is. To Edvard and Kasimir it's a random child and a random father but then later like not during the heist but a later time maybe in Eleanor's townhouse the three of them run into Barnaby and he asks Annabelle to explain and that's how they find out Anabelle is a Fortescue and also they know a lot abt how soft Barnaby actually is.

She and Lilith get along really well and talk about snakes and spooky stuff. Lilith becomes Auntie Lilith very quickly. She watches Edvard a lot, and he explains the science he's doing while only kinda being creeped out by this blank-faced child. Edvard does eventually become her step-dad, and he nurtures Anabelle's love for science. I think as an adult, Anabelle is either a leech or a whisper and becomes known as the leech or whisper with a big snake.

Eddie:

Eddie is the son of Edie Valentine and Billie Joe Thicket. He's named after Edie's little brother Eddie and is an absolutely precious little angel. He's a sweetiepie who loves his family so much. He's a big hugger like his mom and dad and will follow his family members around like he's a little duckling. Edie usually stops him if he tries to follow her on a monster hunt, though. She'll scoop him up, explain why he can't go, give him a kiss on the forehead or cheek, and hand him to his dad.

While he can't visit his mom at work, he can absolutely visit his dad at work and does so pretty often. He's met all his dad's coworkers, including the animals. He waves and says hello to everyone just like his parents. Eddie is very close with all of Billie's bison and Buckthorn. When he's visiting his dad at work, he always visits the stables and pets the animals. He's probably named one of the bison, and Billie very proudly says that Eddie was the one who named that bison every time. It's also probably a very silly or cute name that Billie says with the same dramatics he does for every other bison name.

When Edie gets back from monster hunts, Eddie is so excited, and Edie gives him so many kisses while he giggles. He then tells his mom all the stuff that happened while she was away. He does big gestures with his hands as he recaps everything because he's seen his dad do it, and Edie thinks it's so cute.

I headcanon Edie as autistic and Billie as having adhd so I think Eddie might have both (frankly all these fan kids have at least autism or adhd). His parents and the posse help him a lot with making things accessible. He has his own orange or yellow noise-canceling headphones and his own stim toys.

Edie also makes a lot of Eddie's clothes to avoid any fabrics that put Eddie in sensory hell. He has a few skirts and dresses because of this. He likes the way the way they move and spin. Everyone in the family is supportive about it and will fight someone who's a jerk about Eddie's fondness of more feminine clothes.

Speaking about the family, I think Eddie wakes up pretty early, like his mama and like Uncle Silas, so a lot of mornings, he'll "help" Silas with making breakfast, which mainly involves telling Silas all his favorite breakfasts and what he thinks would make good breakfast combos, picking inconsequential things for the breakfast (like which measuring cup should Silas pour the water into when making pancakes (using pancake mix), which egg should Silas crack next, and which frying pan should he use), and setting the table.

He also reads the funnies in the newspaper with Grandpa Nate, and they laugh at Garfield together. Maybe Nate even reads some of the comics out loud in funny voices to make Eddie laugh. Eddie could also use the funnies as reading practice, like a member of the family points out a word, and Eddie tries to read it, sounding it out as he goes. They congratulate him when he's figured it out.

He's just a happy-go-lucky little guy who has adoring parents! So adoring that they'd probably be cheering at school plays (like I think the Addams family are in the Addams family movie). Eddie loves his family soooo much, and they love him just as much.

[autisticwriterblog]

📃 & 💕 for oxventure perhaps?

📃 what is the plot of your hyperfixation? and is it a movie, game, show, etc?

Oxventure is an actual play series on youtube, where a group of British games journalists/gaming youtubers (Andy Farrant, Jane Douglas, Mike Channell, Luke Westaway, Ellen Rose, and Johnny Chiodini) play a variety of tabletop RPGs together. There are four different parts of it (not including one-shot episodes):

The Oxventurers' Guild: The original series, a DnD playthrough that went on for years. It's about a ragtag bunch of adventures causing chaos. I enjoyed it a lot but I never got past season 3, and then was too daunted to continue so I'm not sure what happens after that. The DM is Johnny.

Oxventure Presents: Blades in the Dark: a playthrough of Blades in the Dark, an RPG with an aesthetic that reminds me a lot of Dishonored. It's about five people who decide to give crime a go, some more successfully than others. The GM is Luke.

Oxventure Presents Deadlands: A playthrough of Deadlands, an RPG set in a wild west setting -- except with monsters and other weirdness. It's about five people who answer an advert and get sent on a mission by a bereaved woman to take revenge on the people who wronged her. The Marshall (GM) is Andy.

Oxventure Wyrdwood: the latest series, another playthough of DnD, but this time with a gothic horror setting. It's about five people who come together to try and solve the mystery of what caused magic to start malfunctioning. The DM is Johnny.

💕 tell us about one of your favorite characters and why you like them!

Let's go with Delacy. He's from Deadlands, and is a 13 year old boy who knows his way around a gun. I like him because he's an unhinged little weirdo who can jump to murder at the drop of a hat, but at the same time, he's just a kid who clearly doesn't know a lot about the world or how to talk to adults. He's just a load of fun to watch, and I love the way Luke plays him. (I also HC Delacy as autistic.)

[stickthisbig]

So I'm not usually the type to do a fic preview? But my writer's block has been fucking atrocious and I could use the support, so here is the prologue to the thing I'm working on, which is a post-canon OX Blades story about getting the band back together to face a great evil. Is the evil maintaining adult friendships? Who can say.

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Not all good endings are happy, and not all happy endings are good. 

The camera pans out on the Hobbyhorses and their entourage leaving the desert, the Barricade gone, magic leaching back into the world. Within the hour, Eleanor will try her teleport spell for the second time, and they will be gone.

The camera tracks away from the mountains, drifts like these things always do, ceases to be, because the story is over. The attention of the storyteller is no longer relevant to the world he created.

But let us stay instead, hovering over the mountain, the compound, the Barricade. Among the dead are Roth, various Red Sashes, and the silent, inanimate mechanical men. Among the living are the scientists, the other Red Sashes, and maybe Kellie Dimmer, whose fate is unrecorded.

The living muster their forces, figure out how to retrofit one of the train carriages, leave for Volisport never to return. The dead just kind of sit there.

And Amadeus Astor-

Eight people received the heaviest dose of magical energy that any being has ever received in the history of Geth. Six of them teleported away, one of them took her shot, and Amadeus Astor-

Amadeus Astor.

Amadeus Astor certainly doesn't not die, it's not that kind of thing. But despite the fact that Astor is not alive does not in this case quite mean that he is one hundred percent dead. Instead he is in a state of horrid life-unlife in the middle of the desert with little around him but the mortal remains of a few Red Sashes and his man Roth.

In the time in which he is not dead, he sees the strangest visions of a world that could never be, never was, and will be again. He feels come over him a force that literally no one has felt in 500 years. He ruminates on his loss and the nature of what he would have needed in order to be whole.

And then he really does die.

Seven years pass.

And then Amadeus Astor becomes a problem. 

[randomthunk]

Happy birthday to senpai and best friend @the-last-teabender! In honor of this occasion, I have drawn Edvard in his swanky gold rose jacket, because he is a swanky gentleman.

[ctrl-alt-em]

Like Looking in a Mirror or Mesmerism would have been good first special abilities for Barnaby.

Mesmerism (when you sway someone, you may cause them to forget that it’s happened until they next interact with you) would have been practical on scores and fit the team. It’s got some supernatural /magical nature to it like Ghost Contract and would help him be sneaky and help mislead people. It pairs well with his social connection preferences for scores.

Like Looking in a Mirror (you can always tell when someone is lying to you) would be fun from a story telling standpoint. Not only would he know if one of their targets or contacts is lying, but also his friends. Imagine him asking one of them if they always intend to rescue him from the Dimmer Sisters, he’ll know the answer was no. Just the tragic potential of this ability makes me wish Barnaby had it.

Also, it would have been neat for Barnaby to get Ghost Voice (you know the secret method to interact with a ghost or demon as if it was a normal human, regardless of how wild or feral it appears. You gain potency when communicating with the supernatural) due to his experience with the Dimmer Sisters and the ghost fox / djinn.

[25thhanabusa]

Howdy. I'm going to be spending the day at the airport, so may as well doodle.

Send me your Oxventure requests. Any campaign. They'll be simple sketches.

[oxventure-text-posts]

[oxventurebigbang]

Day 1 reveals!

Get excited for our first two pairs of works!

The Losing Hand [story] [art]

Art by sabinelagrande

Story by TheMysteriousGeek2345

Mature, gen, Delacy centric

The Deadlands Posse choose to inherit the powers of the Horseman of the Apocalypse. Delacy learns a lot about the consequences of power as a result.

we could build

Art by theoxvest

Story by sabinelagrande

Explicit, Barnaby/Zillah, pre-OT5

The last thing Zillah expected was to wake up to a street full of snow.

Two extremely different vibes, so you're sure to find something to enjoy!

[melsrainpod]

what is it with Ellen's characters and their dead friends/family being resurrected by antagonistic forces and used to emotionally manipulate those characters? I love Ellen and her genuine portrayals of quiet yet powerful anger, but like, *come on*