#sequence: rescue

[0vergrowngraveyard]

the champions arc in archie has to be one of my favorites

look at the boys!!

AUGH look at them!! they’re so fancy!! aosth gang out here running the world!!!!

also i love breezie’s character in this arc

and because i can’t go one post without even mentioning them

brothers

[rescuebabiesau]

How Each Mosaic "Transforms" (Magical Girl style)

Boulder stomps his feet, appearing to absorb the soil and ground under him up from his feet, through his legs and then into his torso and arms. Moss forms over his entire body, and then he tilts his helm to "break it free" of the moss shell, revealing his neck gone and replaced with a hovering helm over his body.

Blades summons a small tornado around himself, which appears to pull his individual components apart- pulling shoulders from arms, arms from hands, helm from torso- and then when the tornado dissipates, his separated parts hover together into their basic shape.

Chase snaps his finger and then his whole body shifts to a glowing, somewhat featureless silhouette- he lifts his arms and his second pair of arms appear, his wings unfold, and his tail appears- before rings of electricity move down from his helm and he returns to a solid, non-glowing form.

Heatwave does a front-roll- his body melting into its semi-solid form mid-roll and then re-solidifying as he comes back up onto his feet- his tail unfurling once he's out of the roll.

[furry-tian]

Breaking News:

Local brown bear emerges from weighted blanket and doesn’t know where he is.

[randomnameless]

Seteth :

I cannot help but be concerned, given your tendency toward incautious behavior. While boldness can be a virtue, I do hope you will bear in mind that recklessness is not. A moment's negligence can lead to a mortal wound for even the most skilled fighter.

Seiros the Warrior :

"I could have killed that guy, after outrunning half a dozen spells thrown at me!"

Cichol, who knows better than to argue : "sure you could"

HC : Seteth facepalmed when he heard student!Cassandra say she doesn't need to work on her res stat if she can "outrun magic" and ranted at Rhea for three weeks straight about her giving the most ridiculous pointers to humans and how she will be banned, from now on, from giving seminars to students.

He wanted to ban her from giving seminars to anyone altogether when she revealed she never told anything to Cassandra, it's just "common sense" to run in magic circles but they were interrupted by a messenger telling them Adrestia launched a campaign in Brigid.

[switch]

do people know that the bit where captain rescue watches my little pony is the same ytp that had the baron of baron-ness the knight of knight-ness bit that gets reposted on its own a lot in it. do they know.

[butterflysnowflake]

typical Snow overthinking about extremely minor characters but man what exactly was Olga's (javelin in the neck lady) role in the ACU? she wasn't ever-present like Janet (who I think we've all come to the consensus was Wolf's assistant/secretary/girlfriend) but she was still pretty important in the grand scheme of things and I kind of love her

[toa-archive]

Currently on the Archive:

At least three twitter accounts have been wiped due to artists understandably not feeling comfortable with the shitshow Elon is causing leading to a scramble to preserve as much as possible

One storyboard artist's website is offline, another's security certificate has expired (Less worried about that one) and one artist removed the entire section of Production art with 3Below

One website lost artwork during a revamp though thankfully was able to track it down again on a non-english fan account

One website keeps getting jiggled so frequently everything is saved off just to be safe at this point. Some works have never reappeared nor were caught

Discord/google caches aren't even lasting an hour after an account wipe which when you factor in instagram refreshes (And sometimes twitter) are so hit and miss meaning things vanishing aren't always caught as fast as they might have been

Youtube is still nuking ToA content usually because of false copyright claims meaning things that end are being lost

Regular website reshuffles leading to storyboard sequences/artwork vanishing that might not have been elsewhere. STILL sad about the loss of the Gumm-Gumms riding Stalklings while chasing Strickler and Barbara but after being uploaded for at least 4 years it seemed safe... Until it wasn't

This user is Very Stressed and this is before real life obligations. It's very hectic right now.

[yakketymax]

Hi hello hi, what sort of playstyle are u thinking this game will have? Like, visual novel, first person wandering around, top down pixel game, etc? The concept art and stuff I’ve read so far looks fascinating!!!

Okay okay I know exactly what I want to say here but it might come out as word spaghetti so PLEASE work with me here

Teacher's Pet is a first person game and is a mix of 2D and 3D! The hub area where Eugene and the kids you've rescued so far stay at, along with the exploreable areas that get uncovered after you rescue the kids where you can search for and collect missing items for the characters, are in 2D! The exploreable areas are point and click with moveable parts and several scenes you can move through to find everything and the hub area, the characters are 2D models with talking sprites and looping animations, both by themselves and interacting with one another. Levels are in 3D, however, and so are the characters! Each level is a different part of the "school" that you have to go through to eventually reach the student at the end of it.

All in all, it's a first person adventure game that splits itself between being a point-and-click search and find and being a seven part chase down adventure where you are risking your life with every step you take, with a little bit of We Are Friends Now! We're Having Soft Tacos Later thrown in

[thereluctantinquisitor]

Seren: I wish I was more like you. Estinien: Strange, coming from the Warrior of Light. Why? Seren: Nothing seems to frighten you. Estinien: I have known fear. Many times. There is nothing to admire. Seren: But it never stops you. Estinien: Because there is a difference between feeling it and falling to it. Seren: So how do you stop yourself from falling? Estinien: Not that long ago, I would have said anger. Rage. Blind hatred. But now... I remember the people who rely on me. Who need me to push through. Seren: ... That is worthy of admiration, Estinien. Estinien: I don’t do it to be admired. Seren: Even more so, then.

[Continuation of THIS flashback sequence.]

[alectology-archive]

what enough people don’t realise in the fandom is that the last three books are literally fanfiction. working with harriet and rj’s team just meant that sanderson could minimise in-universe lore errors, that’s all, lol.

[mnemonicpneumaticknife]

Han: If Jedi and the Force are real then anything could be real! Even space vampires!

Luke: Han, there's no such thing as space vampires.

Han: How do you know? I've salvaged ships who's crews were sucked dry. I assumed it was mynocks but how would they have gotten inside the ship without depressurizing the whole thing? And the crews final logs. *shudders*

Luke: Chewie, do you think there are space vampires?

Chewbacca: [long slow speech]

Luke: Yeah. I suppose we have more immediate concerns than whatever horrors exist in uncharted space.

anyway sound off. at what stage do ppl think Han figured out the Force was real. the boring answer is after seeing Obi-wan vanish but i think he could rationalise that away as his eyes playing tricks on him. what do we think.

[sayjoisme84]

Fibanacci cat (sort of)

My cat snickers.

Fibanacci sequence is a mathematical sequence found in nature. It was first notice in India around 200BC.

[watchmilestv]

Go check out my episode 29 review of The Homebrew Network Mythcraft the Podcast!

[cybertron-after-dark]

You bet your ass it is, and Im taking this opportunity to yap about the werewolf meat episode, how far rescue bots as a show likes to test the limits of its age rating, and how often it likes to skirt the horror genre.

Rescue bots is, on its face, transformers for younger kids. The focus is off the war and the violence and the big scary decepticons with guns and swords and sharp teeth, choosing to focus on how the Autobots use their size, power and abilities to help people. But even without an authoritarian faction that needs to be stopped, even without being set in an active warzone, this is still a show about the Autobots working for the emergency services. There is still danger, there is still action, there are still stakes. Smaller-scale, buy no less deadly, and they do not shy away from stating it outright, or dancing right at the line of showing it.

A lot of the threats in this show could take lives if left unchecked; Fires, cave-ins, collapsing buildings, car wrecks, plane crashes, all stripes of natural disasters. They don't shy away from making the disasters feel real. People get hurt. People they make you care about get hurt. And they damn near end up dead once per episode at least.

The lycanthropy meat episode isn't the most graphic example of the disaster thriller aspect, but it IS an excellent example of how the show often leans into horror genre conventions.

(Spoilers for Rescue Bots s2e09 - Feed the Beast ahead!!)

This particular episode is a wonderful showcase of the Rescue Bots crew's understanding of how to fuck around with genre in a kids' show and make it WORK.

It's a simple enough premise: Cody and the bots find what they think is a cryptid called the Maine Ridge Monster, try to get proof it's real, and try to catch it.

Through the episode, we keep getting these shots of the monster framed by cameras. fleeting glimpses and snapshots before it runs off or the camera is destroyed. It gives almost a found footage feel to the episode, if only for brief moments.

And until about halfway through the runtime, aside from through a camera, all we see of the monster is the carnage it leaves in its wake:

The bots, save for Boulder, are straight up afraid of it! It may be an earth creature, but it's fast, it's big, and it's got teeth and claws that sure as hell don't look cuddly. While Boulder is skeptical of any malice for the critter, thinking it must just be a scared, confused animal, the others are just intent on finding it and catching before it can hurt anyone.

And when we finally see it for more than a quick shot, it's on a full-on rampage.

Breaking into a warehouse, tearing apart the wall with nothing but its claws, making a mess of the place, putting up a fight against heatwave, and eventually causing the whole building to start collapsing in on itself, with the bots and Cody inside.

It's a wild animal. A strong one. A dangerous one.

Now, the standard rescue bots episode is still relatively formulaic: Something goes horribly wrong, we're not fully sure what it is, Cody does some poking around, the thing going horribly wrong turns out to be reject tech that was meant to be in the Best Left Forgotten section of the lab's storage that some doofus dug up, Doc Greene finds out how to fix it, the Burnses and the Bots put that plan into action, all is fixed. This episode is no exception. The reject tech in this case was meant to be a canned synthetic meat with an infinite shelf life, but it reacts unpredictably when the poor bastard who eats it isn't exposed to sunlight.

Unfortunately, the two poor bastards who've been eating it all episode are Graham and the mayor, and we find out that's what the fake meat does through a transformation sequence that I honestly find mildly upsetting as an adult. Primus knows how some poor 5 year old in 2012 would've reacted seeing it.

You see that? That's bones. That's bones and fangs and the smartest, sweetest character in this show going completely feral and losing his mind. We are in body horror territory that wouldn't feel out of place in a goosebumps episode. Hell, even the concept of werewolf meat that turns you into a werewolf feels like it came straight from a goosebumps story.

Ultimately, this is still a kids show, so everything ends up okay; They find Graham and the Mayor before they can hurt anyone (or before anyone can hurt THEM given there's an angry mob forming), Boulder gets Heatwave to step off before he can choose violence, talks some sense into his partner, and calms him down until daybreak, where they turn back to normal and Doc Greene has a cure ready. Happy ending.

But like. Happy ending or not, that was horror. That was horror by people with a great familiarity of how horror cinematography and tropes are used. That was a creature feature where nobody was unfortunate enough to really get hurt, but with the threat of it happening constantly looming overhead.

And it is NOT the only example of the crew showing that level of genre savviness. The flying lobsters episode everyone likes to bring up as an example of how goofy this show is? That entire thing was an homage to the Hitchcock movie The Birds. Early on, there was an episode about a fake alien invasion that played out like a proper sci-fi horror flick, and dropped little references to the movies The Fly, Alien, The Blob, and Predator. And THEN had their own homage to The Blob with the Squish episode.

I'm not really sure how to end this quasi-essay or what point I'm trying to make other than that the writing in this show is Batshit insane in ways I love so very much so I'm just gonna leave y'all with the detail that made me want to gush about this episode to begin with.

The only time we see the camera framing applied to something other than the monster(s) is early on into the episode. With Graham and the Mayor as the only ones in the shot.

The fucking cinnamon tography.

Things that canonically exist in the same world as transformers prime because they also exist in rescue bots:

-fairies

-ghosts

-time travel

-still-living dinosaurs

-optimus's third mode, the fucking t-rex

-a machine that cheats death and reverses the aging process

-skyrim, if blades making the arrow to the knee joke is to be taken at face value.

-mass displacement tech the way the fandom's been portraying it for ages

-the exact same altmode-locking paralytic virus from beast machines

-full-on mind control, effective on both humans and bots

-lycanthropy inducing fake meat

-a hal-9000-esque rogue AI intent on turning the world comatose to keep humanity maximally safe

-freaky Friday mind swapping

-time loops

-machine that forces you to sing in full musical numbers

-Allspark day, which is basically cybertronian new years day

We need to start subjecting the prime bots to the weirdass facets of their world.

[prokopetz]

Concept: metroidvania with one of those "you begin with endgame gear and do a tutorial fight with it before losing all your stuff due to Plot" segments, except the player Hero and the Demon King "final boss" suffer mutually inflicted cutscene death at the end of the fight.

Now you're playing as the Princess you were meant to rescue, armed with whatever gear you could loot from the corpses, escaping the Demon King's Cursèd Citadel backwards – starting from the endgame biome – while the place falls apart around you thanks to the demise of its load-bearing boss.

The central gag is you notionally have endgame gear, but most of it has no obvious application to what you're up against, either because of the Citadel's ongoing collapse, or because the Hero's puzzle solutions on the way in were stupid, and you have to deal with the aftermath on the way out.

Though there'd be some gear progression, much of the map would be knowledge-gated by the need to figure out unintended applications of your existing gear. Any required interactions would be tutorialised, but you could freely break sequence if you know about them before you're "supposed" to.

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

Defending the grove from the raid is SUCH a handful I'm reloading to complete the Find Doni quest properly I'm reloading because a refugee got eaten by a spider I'm reloading because I got so excited about finishing the battle that I forgot I was supposed to knock Minthara out