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[skegulium]

[Don't you ever tame your demons But always keep 'em on a leash]

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WOOOOO RIGHT IN TIME!

Commission for @rebatrolls of her troll Vadaya Urvata! It was a really fun experience getting to dress one of my favorite boys, and I learned a lot about rococo leaves and floral patterns since I uh. Decided to be stupid and hand draw on the gold embroidery. And rendered the mask.

This really was a labor of love and I'm really honored to have the chance to draw him proper and looking snazzy!!

Thank you again Reba for commissioning me!

[Full Resolution]

[12thperigeeball]

And last but not least, the winners of our Ball Writing Contest!

"Well The Weather Outside is Frightful"

"Is This the Part Where we Switch Partners?"

@rebatrolls | @byrdstrolls

[fantrollology]

Alaska, do you get many eccentric patients?

"I wouldn't say I see any more than any other fleet doctor. I do have some recurring patients with notable abilities, and I've dealt with some interesting cases because of those abilities, but outside of that working with them is like any other patient."

His gaze turns to the ceiling and he presses back in his chair to consider this for a second. Did anyone stand out? After a moment, he taps his pen on his desk and returns to look at you.

"Actually, I do contract work for fleet programs occasionally. I'd say one of the more eccentric mix of trolls I've worked with are probably those over in the IPC. Specifically those within the Rebel Rehabilitation Program. Lots of stories there."

[activatingaggro]

how cruel is the golden rule when the lives we lived are only golden-plated? and I knew that the lights of the city were too heavy for me though I carried carats for everyone to see

Fool's Gold, matching for @rebatrolls' Kindra's first ball out of the program.

[prince-liest]

@rebatrolls I feel like this was a fittingly cinematic moment to immortalize.

[mirkstrolls]

And adding on to that, how important is being hemoanon to Taz? Is it simply business, or are there religious connotations to it? Why did she choose going hemoanon over caste impersonation?

It’s pretty important to her, but the reasons why are somewhat of a muddle!

Taz got religion at roughly the same time she became aware of her ancestral legacy, both of which combined to give her one hell of a grudge against the status quo. Caste inequality wrecked her ancestor’s life; caste inequality led to the death of her religion’s messiah figure, that sort of thing.

The actual order of events, though, started with the ancestry thing. Taz inherited a vast treasure, but she also inherited several enemies who may or may not be on the lookout for the next Tasend. Her ancestor’s letter advised her to conceal her caste, name, symbol, and even horn shape – Taz chose to go hemoanon rather than impersonate another caste because of the religious implications, and also because if she couldn’t be her Real Self, she’d prefer to dodge the whole system. 

And then once she was hemoanon, she figured she might as well get into the criminal underground. If everyone already thinks you’re a criminal, why not roll with it?

[cloudbattrolls]

GLIESE: reunite.

It’s weird when the sky is a ceiling, even if it’s a really high ceiling. Nott station rotates around the planet like a particularly crazy top; it probably keeps going through the sheer power of spite.

No wonder Hadean wound up here.

You worry your fang with a lip, eyes darting back and forth in the crowded streets. Some trolls openly carry guns, others sport obvious tech on their bodies. Cigarette smoke and trying-too-hard cologne waft over you as you take out your phone and tap the map icon.

It’s an open space, Hadean will be able to see you coming. You’re dressed in as casual of wear as you have, blue t-shirt and sweatpants, stuff Karina brought you that you’re sure will come at some kind of cost. You still can’t figure her out.

Whatever. You get to see him! That’s what matters.

You bounce over to the open-air restaurant and scan for him, but he’s never hard to find. He’s right in the line for the sizzling vendor’s stand.

“You got piercings!” You say, incredulous and delighted, shifting from foot to foot as your ears flick. “Now you have a new brand of douchebag to fit into.” You toss off, but your huge grin takes away from the snideness.

You want to hug him.

You press your fingers together instead, your worry crashing back down on you. 

Will Hadean even want to be friends with a psychic blueblood anymore?

[ladytrollfishes]

How often does Download think of his caste in relaton to his teammates? Does he think it influences the way they all treat him compared to each other?

Often, really. He’s probably more aware of it than his teammates, but he’s probably aware that it influences how he treats them, than they treat him? He’s confident they love and respect him and don’t think of him as the lowblood of the team. 

Like. Firewall has him interpret for her because he gets to tell people to fuck off, and she thinks its funny that a yellowblood does it, but that’s not because Firewall thinks differently of him. That’s because other people think differently of him.

But half of Download’s insistence that everyone else be on the front lines and is also an asshole about it, is because he knows that his teammates are tougher than him, and could basically wipe him out clean. He can’t be bothered by the fact he doesn’t have privacy because he’s lowblooded and lives with Sniffer. Sniffer mothers the people she’s around, because that’s how she copes with listening in on people constantly, but Download hates it when she does it because he’s absolutely 100% vested in maintaining his personal agency in his day to day, that most yellowbloods with useful psi don’t get this, and her slight infringement on it is a reminder of those blood caste politics. He gets snappy with Sniffer about this. 

He’s bothered by the fact Virus could hop in his head and use his psi and basically just keep him around for doing puzzles because he knows his psi is the most useful part of him! He also dislikes that Virus reminds him of all the gross shit he has to do on the job, and so Virus gets the most shit from Download, but also Virus is like a dumb baby cactus who rolls over people’s toes and offers hotel rooms to children and he’s touched by kindness even though he’s not particularly inclined to be kind himself. 

He’s not so bothered by Firewall. They go way back. He communicates for her and the best with her, and her powers just like. short out his, which yes, could get him sick, but also like... doesn’t really impose herself on him at all. She cooks for him, he talks for her- BEST BUDS (: 

And of course, sometimes his teammates do that castist thing and he’s like. EYE ROLLS and gives them shit accordingly. But you know, he doesn’t always say why. Sometimes he just gives them shit. 

[princetrolls]

♦♥ for Astazy, my doof.

♦ oh jesus. He has a weird refusal for getting the help he needs but also really wants it. His own forgetful memory on top of his no talking about himself policy makes this quad extra hard considering his faux personality he always has going on. While it’s not perfect and a very bad way to deal with it his wine nights are a good time in his mind. It makes him feel weirdly validated when he can get Nomi to open up during them.

♥ His job has him wearing a lot of hats!! He’s an intel gatherer/spy so and is naturally ready to use his wiles to get things. It makes it hard for him to realize when he’s serious himself. Except when they’re genuinely reciprocated he gets very cold feet and plays chicken. It’d take someone incredibly persistent That’d have to work up from a pale role to a flushed role. Honestly he’d be a bad lover though, forgetful, busy, date night is wine night. etc

[anontrolls]

> Kindra: Do a fetch quest.

[ closed starter for @rebatrolls ]

You are not, typically, the sort of person to play errand-guppy for other trolls. For one, it’s not a particularly efficient job for you to be doing, and for another - well. It’s hardly fitting for the station you’d prefer most people to see you as a part of. Just because you’re not, legally speaking, much to speak of doesn’t mean you have to act like it.

Unfortunately for that impression, however, you sometimes have to make sacrifices on that front for other goals. In this particular situation, it’s got just a little to do with wishing to make a better friend of dear Riccin, and more than a little bit to do with the opportunity to test your new theory on Kindra!

Riccin has asked Kindra to retrieve something for them, from their old hive. It’s a rather important fetch quest, the sort that you’re immediately somewhat disinterested in on the basis of it being for an ancient book Riccin claims to have excavated from a set of nearby ruins. Your utter lack of religious or ancestral beliefs, and also, well... not being able to read the damn thing, you’re assuming, means you’re not particularly invested in the item or its impending translation, yourself.

But it benefits you to be interested in what your friends are interested in, and you are interested in Kindra, who Riccin has soundly instructed to not enter their actual hive. You can sort of see why, standing in front of it - it’s an epic thing, a towering thing of stone with large panels outstanding from one circular face that rotate as the wind blows.

It looks old, is what you think. You don’t imagine ‘old’ is a good place for Kindra to be. For you, though - well, you just hope Riccin hasn’t left the place too cluttered. It doesn’t look as though it’s got an elevator installed.

Still, you’re not wandering in there on your own just yet, not before he arrives with the keys. You can jimmy a lock with the best of them, but you don’t exactly want Kindra arriving to watching you break into his best friend’s hive.

Besides, you have a surprise for him that’s just as likely to please him as it is to put him off, so you’ll take all you can get to tip the judgment in your favor. Thus, you are left standing on the stone path up to Riccin’s monumental hive, hands tucked primly to the small of your back - just for long enough that when you see Kindra, you grin, blatantly fluttering your fins in greeting.

“Fancy meeting you here, darling,” you call down, feigning shock, “Don’t tell me you’re also here for the robbery? You hardly seem the type, my dear!”

[trollsjam-blog]

this is just a psa my girlfriend @rebatrolls completes me and i love her, bless

[skegulium]

❄️ + Dzhiya my sweet child

Dzhiya is currently at the ball! She tried to go with her little brother Corbin, however Corbin is a rural boy at heart and frightened of large crowds, so he got cold feet at the last minute and stayed hive with their lusus.

So! She's gone stag! She loves socializing and frankly, she does have FLARPing clients of her own there that she can meet up with and socialize. Not to mention, Kuanfu's there, isn't he? If anything, she can just hang out with her weird psuedo-dad and whatever Weird Jesters he's hanging out with.

She's gone dressed as the titular character from Vampire Hunter D because, well. She DOES hunt vampires in her free time!

Frankly, she's having a lot of fun.

[12thperigeeball]

Ball Writing Contest Entry 1 - Romantic 

Link to Submission: https://rebatrolls.tumblr.com/post/736828065673609216/well-the-weathers-outside-is-frightful Submitted by: Rebatrolls This drabble features: Vadaya Dufuna and Iconic Conetl The trolls Iconic Conetl belong to: activatingaggro This drabble is… [ ] Platonic [X] Romantic

[taimatrolls]

i'm not saying i told you so. or even that i told you so multiple times! butttttt.... =:P

oh ur pretty much ASKING for another noogie!!!!

[activatingaggro]

We're up all night 'til the sun We're up all night to get some We're up all night for good fun We're up all night to get lucky (nyaaa)

Kua and @rebatrolls' Tykhae at the 12th Perigee Ball 2023! Everyone fucking hates the entire cat schtick, but Kua thinks it's a great play on his name, so they're all just having to deal with it.

[prince-liest]

Curse of Strahd: An Angel, a Devil, and a Grandmother Walk into a Bar

Basic session summary for the Curse of Strahd campaign I’m DMing for @pigeonfancier, @cloudbatcave, and @rebatrolls. We had our second session today, in which they successfully defeated a potentially haunted suit of armor using what was technically a sword-and-board, in the sense that it was a sword permanently attached to a decorative board backing used to hang it on a wall.

CAST LIST

Rose (Aasimar Cleric), played by Mar (@pigeonfancier)

Ursa (Dwarf Sorcerer), played by Cloudy (@cloudbatcave)

Faithfulness (Tiefling Paladin), played by Reba (@rebatrolls)

SESSION SUMMARY 2 (1/15/19)

The three of you entered the Durst household at the behest of two young children waiting outside, who had pleaded with you to rescue their crying baby brother from his nursery on the third floor. Wary of a monster in the basement and nervous about your lack of equipment, Faithfulness immediately burgled a decorative shield hanging from a wall, and subsequently a similarly decorative sword attached to a wooden backing mount. Now marginally more equipped, you began your search for the missing child, making your way to the third floor nursery.

Before entering the nursery, you encountered a suit of armor - which Faithfulness immediately prodded with his sword, prompting the previously still object to animate and attack the closest party member. After an awkward and damaging battle that ranged up and down the manor’s spiral staircase, Rose managed to lever his decorative sword into a hole that Ursa and Faith magically burned into the chest of the suit of armor, and hauled it over the staircase banister, sending it crashing to its destruction on the first floor. And then proceeded to magically mend and burgle that, too.

Thus armored, you explored the nursery, discovering that the crying baby was but a disappearing apparition, and meeting the ghostly figure of the baby’s nursemaid. Unable or unwilling to communicate, she eventually watched Faithfulness from the nurse’s suit mirror as the party discovered a hidden door to the attic, where you plotted to open a locked door before barricading yourselves in an empty room for a long rest.

HIGHLIGHT REEL

Rose seems to be determined to burn the house down, and has alluded to attempting to do so several times - seemingly not entirely sure if he’s willing to wait until the party is out of the house.

Ursa, delighted at the party’s success, attempts to high-five Faith... who stares blankly and leaves her hanging. Good will? What’s that?

Rose: “Warlocks fuck!” / Ursa: “Of course warlocks fuck, it’s just... but... I lost my train of thought.”

Rose excitedly declaring that he has discovered that the nursemaid is, in fact, a ghost! ... Several minutes after Ursa and Faith had reached the conclusion themselves and were already debating what to do about that.