#remnant starforged

[aitze]

A set of portraits from a game of Starforged where, during the setting creation, we decided that AI is programmed by people taking drugs to create them in their minds.. My character Remnant is on the top left.

Remnant was found by the rest of the crew in a derelict spacecraft with no memories of her past except for her project to create a true AI, a copy of herself called Shard. She later turned out to have been a researcher for an evil multisolarsystem conglomeration.

[companionwolf]

CT's List of Solo Journaling Games to Try [as of 10/9/24]

Bolded are ones I own.

- Sad on the Moon

- Star Drifter

- Alone Among the Stars

- Lost Ship

- Letters to the Stars

- Anamnesis (+ Cryomnesis)

- CHVLR

- Delivered!

- Two Stand to Fall

- Alone in the Station Remnants

- Hope Is Not a Plan

- Space Between the Stars

- Gateway Home

- Alone on a Galactic Map

- Capsule

- Blood on Red Soil

- Corporate Onboarding

- Hardcase

- You Will Die Alone Out In The Black

- What Waits Beyond

- Cyan Starlight

- Red Snow

- Planetary Loop

Bonus: not exactly journaling but...

- Across a Thousand Dead Worlds

- Starforged

- Stars without Number

[gatheredfates]

What does your heart look like? ✧˖°.

Tagged by: @arinaxiv, @riftdancing and @thefreelanceangel who read me for FILTH.

Anyway.

broken, missing pieces that once were there.

Your heart has been torn before, chipped and maybe even shattered. Some pieces will never be recovered, and you are shaped by the loss. But it can still be shaped into something tangible, something good, even with its flaws and imperfections. You don’t have to do all the work of rebuilding by yourself. Allow other hands to leave their fingerprints on the new heart you create from the remnants.

Okay, hi quiz that calls my characters out for filth. You don't need to do this to my baby. Having her formative years shaped by Garlean occupation, losing most of the ability in her legs, and nearly all her friends / family until she found Siyoh again? OUCH. Azuma is one of those characters who absolutely smiles through 95% of the pain she has gone through and it is. A problem.

iced over, out of the sun

Your heart is very lonely, isn’t it? Is your fortress of ice self-made? Are others afraid of you, or are you afraid of them? Are you afraid of hurting them, or of being hurt? Vulnerability and connection can be frightening, but that’s no reason to shy away from their light, to tuck yourself small into corners, to build up frigid walls to keep yourself from feeling. You will heal when you allow yourself to draw closer to the flames and thaw.

I expected Kor of all people to get called out, so this result is not shocking. She is dealing with the terrible ordeal of wanting to live; cracking the veneer and thawing the frost is a terror she experiences on the daily.

I did the quiz for Ashe, Seelu and Elandervier respectively but I didn't like the results SOOOOO I didn't post them here. :') But I did TRY to do some of my alts!

Tagging: @ythealleycat, @starforger, @valdiis, @gaygentofchaos (c'mon moro get addicted to talking about your ocs like the rest of us), @thebrassbat, @syerraffxiv and anyone else who wants to do it! If you'd like to be tagged in any dash games I participate in, I heavily recommend you like my permanent interaction call here! The quiz can be found here!

[unabashedrebel]

Shapes of the heart

Kirollis’ results (And pretty accurate too)

broken, missing pieces that once were there

Your heart has been torn before, chipped and maybe even shattered. Some pieces will never be recovered, and you are shaped by the loss. But it can still be shaped into something tangible, something good, even with its flaws and imperfections. You don’t have to do all the work of rebuilding by yourself. Allow other hands to leave their fingerprints on the new heart you create from the remnants.

(How to play: Follow this link! Regardless of who gets tagged here, feel free to lift it and make your own :))

Tagged by: @safrona-shadowsun​ & @kavtari​ Thank you both!

Tagging: @ishgard​ @thundergodreborn​ @starforger​ @wildname​ @riessestarsinger​ @thefirstperished​ @lukelxiv​ @vazaymir​ @areniaagn​ @risrielthron​

[sullustangin]

Forged Alliances Part 2: Manaan

Continuing on my replay of SoR with my latest smug...

Part I here

So, it’s been awhile since Tython and Korriban.  Originally, in game, T3-G2 reaches out to the player to send them to Manaan.  Alas and alack, 7.0 killed the breadcrumb quest, so now you just get a direct “go to Manaan” pass from Fleet.  I have the video saved on a previous smug playthough and the text commemorated in my fic series. 

I recently played KOTOR, and the music on Manaan comes from that game; the game map is a clear tribute too.  It’s more pronounced here than it was on Taris.  I can see why people were getting super hyped for Shadow of Revan to drop, with all of these references and planets to revisit. 

Once the player arrives on Manaan, Theron talks about his favorite thing: intel (like father, like son).  Or, in this case, why he does not have intel:  Darok isn’t sharing with SIS as promised.  This goes beyond SpecForce tensions with SIS however.

Even as Theron is dealing with the potential traitors in SpecForce, we also have some potential zany activities going on.  Although Eva is seeing credits as they speak about infiltrating a lab (hello, kolto!), there’s also a few ghosts coming back from the dead: namely, Rakata technology.

If one played the planetary quests on Tatooine and on Belsavis Pubside or Impside, they encountered the remnants of world-ending machines and/or prisons built by the Rakata.  Now, Darok and Arkous seem to moving this stuff around for unknown reasons.  Nice and creepy. 

At the end of the briefing, Theron mentions meeting a contact and seeing if the information she has is worth the hype.

Eva disapproves.

“She?” could convey surprise, but what’s so weird about a female contact?  Do only men play spy games in the Old Republic?  We know that not to be the case based upon planetary missions for SIS Pubside.  Maybe “she?” is meant to represent the player wanting to know who this person is.

Me personally,  I interpret this as sort of a hard push by developers for the Theron romance; this could be read as jealousy.  And indeed, the developers did push both the Theron romance and the Lana romance throughout Forged Alliances and SoR, especially in the finale of Rishi.  (Are you sure you REALLY want to go to Yavin NOW instead of talking to a SPY?!)  There are some opportunities to play on the rivalry and/or potential for a love triangle.

While poking around the scientific horror show (and stealing kolto), Eva runs into Jakarro.  This leads to one of the better comedic set-ups in the game:

Theron:  Their story checks out (....)  Charges against them both for smuggling, disorderly conduct, assault...

Eva:  Even the droid?

Theron:  Yeah, why do you ask?

(screenshot out of order...but you see the ‘problem’ with C2-D4 being charged with assault....)

The gag here is somewhat representative of the stronger writing on Pubside Forged Alliances and SoR, honestly.  The Imperial side has no parallel to this interaction.  Throughout Forged Alliances and SoR, Impside, there are more plotholes and less neat incorporation of prior content -- and more ‘forced’ funny bits rather than the well-played visual gag here. 

Honestly, the writing in Forged Alliances/SOR for the Republic feels like compensation for the Dreadmasters and Oricon.  In that case, the Pub sort of just gets plopped into Oricon, while the entire planetary plotline of Belsavis for the Empire was dedicated to the set-up.  “Here, it’s your turn for crappy writing,” essentially.  Although the Empire has more breadcrumb planets that lead up to this point (Dromund Kaas for the Revanites, Nar Shaddaa for the Starforge, as well as Tatooine and Belsavis for the Rakata tech), it’s nowhere near as well-integrated and well-written out as the Republic’s end of the content; the Republic side clearly conveys the danger of the Revanites, Revan, and even the Emperor -- it makes the player feel how important this operation is.  I did not feel that sense of urgency as I played through on my Impside character.  It just felt ‘lighter’ and less serious/significant.  

We also encounter Lana Beniko, an exceedingly polite Sith Lord.  What’s interesting here is how the writers handle Jakarro and the player’s opposing faction operative.  If you play Pubside, it’s implied that Lana and Jakarro & D4 team up while Theron continues to be your handler.  If you are Imperial, Jakarro & D4 and Theron become bros while you and Lana remain a team.  This results in different dialogue and some different dynamics throughout SoR.  Still, the five of you are fighting for the same cause, and Lana, as ever, is pragmatic:

We leave off Manaan aware of the potential of an Infinite Army:  the Revanites are using Rakata tech to make self-repairing soldiers that could be unstoppable.  We’ve thwarted them here, but what’s not to say they’ve already started exporting this stuff to manufacturing sites around the galaxy?  Darok was shopping for smugglers who could handle such merchandise (including Jakarro), and we leave our intrepid friends wondering where the traitors-- and their Rakata tech -- are off to next. 

[sithhoplite]

SWTOR Characters Part One

Star Forge:

Darth Sha’kira, Sith Pureblood, Juggernaut

Armor

Eradicators Warsuit

Reaver’s ie Marrs get up

Fortified Electrum Chest, Greaves and Handgear

Weapon

Besked Vibroblade w/ Pink-Purple Crystal

Lord Lakadimos, Human, Juggernaut

Armor

Nimble Brawler

Dark Praetorian

Weapon

Redeemed Starforge Lightsaber w/ Silver-Blue Crystal

Jabhat-Nusrah ie Cipher Nine, Cyborg, Sniper

Armor

Imperial Officers (for trips back to DK)

Dark Legionnaire

Makeb Assault (black/grey dye)

Restored Triumvirate Armor (black/grey dye)

Ascendancy Soldiers Tunic, Greaves, Gloves (white/red dye)

Weapon

Corellian K5 Sniper Rifle (Crimson Crystal)

Darth Sete’bos ie Darth Imperius, Chiss, Sorceror

Armor

Dark Acolytes Robes

Traditional Nylite Robes

Weapon

Redeemed Starforge Lightsaber (Crimson Crystal)

Tahrir Al-sham, Cipher 9, Chiss, Sniper

Armor

Imperial Officers Uniform

Outlander Guerrilla (blue/white dye)

Weapon

Corellian K5 Sniper Rifle

Lord Tygetus, Pureblood, Marauder 

Armor

Reaver

Remnant Yavin Warrior set with Mara Elite Helm

Weapon

Ordtech F7 Lightsaber (Crimson crystal)

[companionwolf]

I've uh accidentally gotten myself started in 4 solo games at once?

They're the Wretched, Cryomnesis, Starforged, and Alone Among the Station Remnants.

The PC of each of them is still... uh, a fictionalized me, though: the Wretched's flight engineer, Cryomnesis's crewmmate, Starforged's courier-gearhead, and Remnant's former mech pilot... I don't really want to play a character? It means more to me to just play as myself, I guess.

Should I make a blog for posting journals when I do finish these? To keep it all organized? I'd like to share eventually, though I don't write journals or play these games with the express purpose of stuff being read by others...

[aitze]

Hi! My name is Alice, or Lancelot. My pronouns are she and they. I am an artist from the Netherlands. This is my blog specifically for art. I mostly draw ttrpg characters, but also, occasionally, other things. Tags:

Types:

Characters

Portraits

Icons

Has background

Commissions

Fanart

Tokens

Isometric

Self Portraits

Sketches

Group Shot

TTRPG Art

Games:

Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition

Monster of the Week

Masks: A New Generation

Apocalypse Keys

Songs for the Dusk

Blades in the Dark

Glitterhearts

Starforged

Beam Saber

Shadowrun

ROOT RPG

LARP

Campaigns:

Eberith (5e)

Tiriande (5e, I'm the GM)

The Big Team (Masks West Marches)

Draconia (5e)

Curse of Strahd (5e)

Wild Beyond the Witchlight (5e)

EXU (5e)

Dice Disasters (5e AP)

Tranquility (5e pbp)

Characters:

Sister Amiriel, moon elf assassin (5e)

Celestrasza of Draconia, revenant dragoon (5e)

Lorelai Lesrektia, cursed prince (5e)

Meridia Venator, dhampir cleric (5e)

Nemesis, medusa paladin (5e)

Nemesis, amalgam cultist (BITD)

Remnant, amnesiac programmer (Starforged)

Theophania, occultist mech pilot (Beam Saber)

Viscera, hexblood sorcerer (5e)

Brandy Alexander, elfsimar paladin (5e)

Angraxaethe Sevsarstra, dragon nova (Masks)

Blossom, human wedlock (5e)

Iphigneia, eladrin pugilist (5e)

Sir Lancelot, fey construct knight (Masks)

Alstroemeria sin Filan, elfsimar barbarian (5e)

Divine Gate of the Radiant East, aasimar sorcerer (5e)

Lieveling, drummer (Persona game)

Bring me Misery, tiefling phd student (5e)

Pashmina, legacy (Masks)

Whither Willow, firbolg huntress (5e)

Muriel, mad priestess (larp)

Safia, convert paladin (larp)

Petal, magical girl necromancer (Glitterhearts)

Tarugiel, angel (Monster of the Week)

Turtle, cat knight (ROOT RPG)

Jasmin, isekai druid (5e)

Kassandra Glaive, dhampir vampire hunter (5e)

Heresy, risen demon (Apocalypse Keys)

Grace Judgment, brainwashed vampire (5e)

Fennec, conman warlock (5e)

Dr. Marzipan Sweetling, deserter military doctor (Songs for the Dusk)

Charity, maid bodyguard (5e)

Misaurystes, void wizard (5e)

Carmilla / Infrared, catgirl vampire (Masks)

Beans, Transformed gorgon (Masks)

Competitions / Potlucks / Months

Artfight

Secret Satan

Swordtember

Generic Memes