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[chelseajackarmy]

Jordan Oesterle // Boston Bruins

[virtues-end]

Your explanation about the Words of Power and if Shea had to use them in the past depending on how we headcanon our MC had me wondering.

Will we get in-game flashbacks about MC's and Shea's first meeting, or is it purely headcanon based with only passing mentions?

Asking because I can't help but imagine my MC just scared of Shea at first, to be honest? Because of how afwul the previous keeper was and all. Like, considering my MC is a barghest, I guess the dog comparisons are all the more accurate, so I'll go with that. It's like the idea that even a dog who bite its previous owner because of mistreatment won't necessarily be bitting any human - it may instead just be scared of other people instead, and once you gain its trust, it will probably be even more loyal and devoted to you than most other dogs. This is sort of what I imagine, but I don't know how much of this is up to our choice!

By the way, if this won't be in the game itself or if you don't consider it too spoilery, what did Shea think back then, if the MC was just genuinely scared of them when they met?

I'd like to include in-game flashbacks eventually. To the MCs time with Shea, or perhaps that first year after they woke up. Or even previous jobs with Shea. I've also considered writing them as separate snippets, but to be perfectly honest I've never much enjoyed writing those (and would much rather focus on writing the game). I also like having everything in one place, available to the reader. :-)

I have written some snippets in the past, however. One from the POV of Shea, and the other from the MC. They're a bit old, but I do still like them. I might even rewrite some of them and add them to the game eventually!

the clearing / imprisoned

Beware that they might contain some spoilers (the clearing specifically).

[sketchy-tour]

Oh I should share more of just little tidbits of myself here more. Show off my collections or give insights on the things I enjoy. I dunno, sometimes I forget I can blab about stuff on here!

Anyway! Yall wanna see the chatterphone I got for Wally??? Because it is the most delightful thing ever and having one fills me with such joy and whimsy!

LOOK AT THEM! A couple of sillies!!!! He was so MENACING in the box haha. Oh I always wanted one, especially after seeing his lovely acting skills in the movie Skinamarink!

Wanna gather items that remind me of Wally to put all together on the shelf with him along with any other official WH merch I get over time! Rearranged my whole shelf so Wally could have the top all to himself.

[bellamoss2]

Theo and ThePlayer hiding from PickyPiggy

Every smiling critter is alive and tries to stop ThePayer and others. Smiling critters are driven by hunger, admiration and fear before The Prototype.

I don’t think I’m going to post more about this AU.

I want to focus more on my own stuff.

[taitavva]

if i draw during lecture does that make me a bad student ????? .... no (<- lying)

[pokemonfrommemory]

A lovely young lady

[soubidou]

Finally got around to watching the Burrow's End finale and what. an. episode !!

I cried

I laughed

Izzy said that Aabria was going to win an Emmy and I waa like "well YEAH! They should make a category for best live play sequence!! Like, have you seen that Viola turn???" And man, just the themes and unraveling of the plot and scenes and the fact that Aabria does not miss one bit of info from her players and PCs... DM goals. Table goals.

Brighter than the sun, swifter than the wind!

[jeremiahthefroge]

Man there's really something about the way MCD very slowly sinks you into this bigger narrative and makes you forget it's "just" a minecraft world. Sure, as far as episode 24, we're still getting YouTube intros where she introduces herself as Jess, but we've also got Levin, and all of her struggles with potentially having to give him up. And there's the looming threat of the shadow knights, there's Sasha in the village, the subplot with dale and molly and logan and Donna, there's Zenix being missing. We've got Aphmau acting stressed, acting sad, acting worried about the NPCs in her village, regarding them more and more as people as they appear to BE people.

Side note, all the plot stuff with Lords being a reality-warping force, turning simple NPCs into evolved thinking + feeling characters and having those characters devolve when they're away, are we meant to see this as "the NPC's AI gets so advanced they become more involved characters in the video game but if you turn off the video game they cease to exist" or like "minecraft is a sort of portal for irl people to interact with this other dimension, which they see as the minecraft world, and they're warping the reality of another real place, and real people are forgetting their memories when the lords are disappearing" or what?

Players don't seem to be the only people who can be lords, given Bright Port's Lord Burt, who clearly has the same/similar effect on Brightport that Aphmau has on Phoenix Drop (his absence causes some guards to start forgetting things and acting weird, as well as some of the roads disappearing). Plus there's definitely some variance in the personalities and stories of the NPCs around her, Lord Burt says that Azura is a special guard that can't be corrupted by the king bc she's pure of heart and has a bond to him. I don't think we're meant to believe the NPCs are just NPCs, at least not by this point in the series.

I'm interested to see how this develops and I'm curious as to how I'll want to handle it in my potential rewrite, if I decide to divorce the plot from the game of minecraft entirely. Which I did intend to, to give the characters a bit more breathing room. I wanted to start out with all the characters being fully themselves so we can get good early interactions.

Though there is very much something to be said about Garroth being stuck in that NPC state and Aphmau being around slowly brings his memories and autonomy back. Especially since she never seems to hold it over him, just glad to get to know him as he becomes his own person again.

Could make it a curse that the King cast, to prevent the people of the kingdom from organizing against him on their own after he starts killing off lords to steal their land. Making the only real threats to him the remaining lords and not just any town full of peasants with a bone to pick. Much to consider.

[shythalia]

I think GTA 6 should have occasional hurricanes of varying intensities. Only because it would be funny for players to just try to hang outside while they get blasted with wind & water in the face.

[girlwarlock]

Trick or treat! ฅ^>⩊<^ ฅ

happy halloween! 25 blank DVD+RWs!

[jils-things]

pokemutuals imagine your insert and/or oc in pokemas what are they talking about to the player 🤔

[masked-and-doomed]

Anyway listening to Pulse and Anxiety 2 makes me wanna paint the Conclave as Funger enemies. I think they could fuck hard as bosses.

[owlthex]

Why is it when I have an interesting question, nobody has kept track of that statistic?

[emberdune]

So I've noticed that they went and translated "the dreamer" as "the dreamer unit" in French, the same way you would say "an Eule unit". While I'd love to speculate how there's hidden nuggets of information in different localizations (how the Dreamer is canonically a Replika in French, for example), I'm sure it's just the translation team taking creative liberties and/or working on assumptions based on context. Still, one can wonder.

Update: In the German version, they used the masculine word for dreamer; while in the Russian version they used the feminine one. Once again, it probably doesn't mean anything but it's interesting how in both languages they could have used either grammatical gender but each went with a different one, following some internal logic for what felt right.

[tuesdayisfordancing]

Fandom wank but to the extent that Rebecca should apologize for fucking with the players’ careers, so should Ted. She may have been actively trying to get them relegated but he did not make any reasonable effort to be a head coach who wouldn’t get them relegated. Now obviously she was lying and he was upfront about his priorities but still if we are talking about the potential consequences to the guys it’s really not much different! It’s a matter of degree mostly. I agree that it weakened the depth of the show that we didn’t see anyone else find out and respond with a variety of levels of anger and understanding but I see some statements that make me really raise my eyebrows about this.