#stahn's house

[frigid-moon-fall]

For the heck of it, since I had to take it apart anyway, the Aileron bathroom.

Observable features

1 window (for ventilation?) (the window's sprites also aren't aligned correctly and allows you to see through the cracks) You can also examine the back of the house from the outside for an uninteresting message about seeing the bathroom.

2 fairly large bottles of something

2 wash cloths (or perhaps the one on top is a bar of soap)

2 folded towels

2 hanging towels (with the usual Tales green stripe)

Water heater? with a pipe leading from the wall (the only thing we see outside is a well, which has nothing visibly attached to it and is pretty detached from the house)

Fairly large and deep wooden bath that could comfortably fit more than 1 person

Washtub and stool implies that the bath might only be meant for soaking, not washing

There is no drainage system seen on the floor or in the bath, though (not even on the obscured side of the bath's sprite)

If you examine the washtub, you'll obtain an old (loser) ice candy stick, implying that Lilith or Thomas go to Neuestadt sometimes and get ice candy while they're there

Bath mat

An unseen but clearly active light source in the bath's room that focuses on the dividing wall

Sink

Medicine cabinet

Hanging hand towel

Bench-type toilet that is installed separately from the surrounding bench pieces, and may not be a flushing type

Unknown thing hanging from the ceiling in the toilet's room. A light?

The most useless privacy wall ever for the toilet's room

Male villager who insists he's only passing through, who one of the guide books says is a lifelong creeper that Lilith will never escape from, jfc

The camera doesn't move at all down here, so some elements are always hidden by others.

Outside texture (daytime for easier viewing)

Spare paper sits on a shelf

Paper roll on the wall to the right of the toilet

Bin beside the sink

Full view of the toilet

TOD's level of technology is difficult to grasp. They have stuff and architecture from a lot of different centuries. In reality, when things were invented versus when they became common across most households are also very different dates, so that's another thing to think about. But uh. Yay, indoor plumbing of some level is common enough that even old-fashioned family homes in farming villages have it.

Extra, useless info: While recovering the Eye of Atamoni, you're only able to visit Lienea on Leon's Side. If you try on Stahn's side, Leon will stop you when you wander too far away from Neuestadt. If Leon isn't in the party, Stahn won't let you leave the city.

If anyone wants other rooms done, I'll try.

Oh, I also got an actual shot of the bathroom in the manor. I'll add it to its post. An observation on it relevant to the Aileron bathroom, though... they bothered to include (unseen) toilet paper in the Aileron bathroom, but not the Gilchrist one lol

[cannonscore]

quick animation test w byleth!!

reblogs > likes !

[atopearth]

Tales of Crestoria Part 2 - Side Stories

Side Story Cress

I actually quite like this story! I found it saddening to hear that Cress' master Mibaru became a monster because Cody took advantage of him when he was severely injured after fighting the monster in the forest, and sold him to a place that does human experiments where they transferred his soul to the monster Mibaru tried to kill but lost to. It's pretty crazy and sad. The only thing I'm glad about is that Cress now knows Cody was a bad guy... Emil and Marta are pretty cute. It's interesting how Emil houses a monster spirit though, it's a nice guy too lol. Omg, I can't believe the villagers killed Mibaru... I mean, I can believe it because the monsters in this story are definitely the humans more than anything, and really, the general populace are as worse as everyone else tbh lol, but omggg, I wanted to strangle them when they tried to divert responsibility for killing Mibaru (when they realised it was him after he was dying and changed back to human form) by blaming Cress for not telling them the monster was Mibaru. Like, excuse you? They all told you guys to stop and what did you do? You just kept killing him, even though he didn't fight back, and even though he was protecting the village from monsters the whole freaking time! Honestly, I'm so glad Kanata and everyone ditched this village, because I honestly do not care about them. They're all so utterly selfish. I'm happy Cress made them realise the gravity of their actions, but I'm still mad. They don't feel guilty for killing Mibaru, they just don't want to be seen as "bad guys", ugh. I feel so sorry for Mibaru. He gave his life and everything to protect this village and they're all a bunch of ungrateful people. Like, I know Mibaru is glad that the villagers are united enough to even fight off a monster they're scared of, but seriously, I'd be more happy if they could use their brains too. Anyway, I'm glad Cress is leaving the shit village and going with Emil and them to prevent other people like Mibaru coming into being. I think I'd love to see more of this adventure too!

Side Story Velvet

I wonder how Velvet feels... She lives only to exact revenge on the people who killed her brother, and now she's met a boy that looks just like her brother and dreams of adventures just like him.. Wow, the tale of the sisters Presea and Alicia sound pretty terrible and dramatic with initially Alicia doing everything she could to save Presea from her illnesses (causing Presea's growth to stunt from one of the "cures"). Then, it ended up with Alicia getting in trouble when she worked for a nobleman and caught the attention of the son who was a bit crazy and locked her up because he wanted her, and then she killed (probably) him and even got the Stain of Guilt, but enforcers never came because Presea cut off Alicia's arm to remove it. Like whoa, dang, you can do that? Ohh, so incarnations are physical manifestations of sin (special monsters?) and they absorb the sinner into themselves? Oh no.. The reason why Alicia even became an incarnation/monster was because Presea cut off the Stain of Guilt...otherwise, she would have stayed human since it's supposed to prevent them from turning into incarnations... I feel so terrible for her...she practically killed her sister who basically gave her life to help find cures for her..

I find it pretty saddening how in the end, it really was impossible for Alicia to ever come back. I feel so bad for Presea. But at least she got a letter of her last words telling her the things she wants Presea to fulfill for her. Surprisingly, Laphicite(?) didn't end up following Velvet on her journey to rid of these incarnations, but I guess someday he might since he wants to get stronger. These side stories have been pretty nice~ It was interesting to know that Velvet’s journey seems to be on destroying these incarnations and the things or people that caused her brother’s death, so in a way, it sounds like a selfish revenge story. but at the same time it isn’t.

Side Story Farah

I thought this story was going to be more light-hearted and fun since Farah is acting like a superhero and Captain Chat is a nice pirate that really knows how to lead and motivate people even though she's so small haha. I found it really funny how she got the villagers who became bandits to respect her and want to follow her lol. But otherwise, she's really smart! She knew that the villagers wouldn't be good news if they came into contact with them (since they're seen as bandits), so she told her lackets to always record with their vision orbs if they were to come in contact, which really helped! Because these crazy hasty villagers really wanted to condemn them more because they were bandits than because they supposedly did something wrong. It's nice to know how beneficial these vision orbs are to clearing your name, as it is to frame you lol.

I didn't expect Farah's story to be so terrible though. When she was young, she never understood the ramifications of putting a recording on vision central, so when she saw this kid who was always a bully to other kids continue his antics because he thought children couldn't be condemned, she decided to teach him a lesson by recording how arrogant he was about it all and putting it for everyone to see, causing him to be condemned and thus disappearing. She's felt guilty about it all this time because her reliance on the vision orb caused her to not understand the gravity of using it, so it's really cool to see her perspective of all this, and why she wants to make the villagers and everyone realise that the responsibility doesn't lie with the enforcers who take them away, but the people themselves who condemn them, they are the ones who are essentially "killing" them. I think Farah's journey (whilst "forcing" Reid to come along with her lol) would be a good one. She wants to go around to places helping people understand the true meaning of condemning people, so that they won't have regrets like her. I think he a really meaningful journey! I think I might like this story the most just because of Farah haha.

Side Story Leon

Ooh Leon's story is actually cuter than I thought! It's interesting that Stahn's soul is captured inside his sword so Leon's trying to find a way to get him out and back into his own body. It's kinda funny to see Leon "talk to himself" since no one else can hear Stahn except him and the other people who are kinda similar to them? But I see, Leon was helping out the king and stuff because he knew something that could help them, but since that's kinda backfired now after saving all the kids they were experimenting on...not that the king would probably help them anyway so whatever to that idea lol. Anyway, Leon really is strong huh? To the point that Stahn was always trying to catch up to him ever since they were kids. It's kinda cute.

I think the coolest thing was Leon recognising that the fake Stahn wasn't actually "his inner self" coming out and wanting to defeat Leon no matter what etc, but instead it was just a fake copy of Stahn that this evil mirror or whatever thought of Stahn as, when Stahn was much more than that. It was really cool to see how honest Leon was about respecting Stahn for being able to do things he couldn't do, such as join as a captain for this neighbourhood watch for this village he randomly came across and ended up protecting. He "died" chasing after this thief, but it's pretty amazing how pure Stahn's heart is and how kind he is. I also love how much Leon respects him, they have such a cute relationship! I think their journey will be pretty fun hahaha.

Overall, I have to say, in a sense, the side stories might be even more interesting than the main story! Hahaha, I guess I love the different objectives they all have for setting out on their respective journeys, whilst bonding with the people that are important to them, it’s basically their own main story and I really enjoy that. For now, I think I might like Leon’s story the most because I think he and Stahn seem to be such good buddies and I would love to see more of that, otherwise I really like Cress too! Hopefully we’ll get continuations for these soon~

[sciencenewsforstudents]

A portion of the brains of people living at an Antarctic research station shrank during a long stay, a small study finds. Social isolation and the unchanging white landscape may be to blame.

“It’s very exciting to see the white desert at the beginning,” says Alexander Stahn. A physiologist, he began the research while working in Berlin, Germany. “But then it’s always the same.”

A crew of eight scientists and a cook lived and worked at the German research station Neumayer III for 14 months. Although joined by other scientists during the summer, the crew alone endured the long darkness of polar winter. Temperatures can plummet as low as –50° Celsius (–58° Fahrenheit). Such harsh conditions make it impossible for people to leave.

This creates a lot of isolation. That and the static environment create the closest thing on Earth to what a space explorer might experience, says Stahn. He now works at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Stahn wants to understand how long-term travel in space might affect the brain.

The German Neumayer III research station in Antarctica has adjustable supports that help it adapt to shifting snow cover. 

CREDIT: ALEXANDER STAHN/UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, CHARITÉ-UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN

Animal studies suggest similar conditions can harm the hippocampus (Hip-oh-KAMP-us). This brain area plays a big role in memory and navigation. For example, rats housed alone or in bare cages are worse at learning than rats housed with other rats or in enhanced cages, Stahn says. But whether this is true for people is unknown.

Stahn and his colleagues imaged each team member’s brain before and after their polar stay. Over that stay, part of the hippocampus in the crew’s brains shrunk by an average of 7 percent. That’s compared to healthy people who didn’t live at the station. Stahn’s team reported its findings online December 4 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Stahn says there are good reasons to think these changes can be reversed. Stress, such as isolation, can affect the hippocampus. But the brain area also responds to stimulation. That might include interacting with new people and exploring new sites.

[thestarinhiseyes]

@pranking-masters

Lyra had meant to travel back, she had always meant for that to happen, but she hadn’t intended to go back as far as she had. She had been frightened and excited at the thought, her fingers trembling slightly as she put the chain around her neck, holding the time turner in her hands. She took a deep breath, eyes closed and spun, counting as she spun. She felt disorientated and she had opened her eyes, the colours blurring around her, shapes indistinct. She had felt a sickness, bile rising in her throat. She had to keep herself from throwing up, she couldn’t lose the contents of her stomach now. 

She had collapsed on the ground, fists clenched, sucking in deep lungfuls of cold, clean air. The next several days had passed in a blur of their own and she had spun so many webs, so many lies, deceived so many people. She didn’t like lying, she wasn’t naturally inclined to it, but it was necessary. She had to keep her secrets, she couldn’t let anyone know who she was, where she had come from and why. In this time, Lyra Carina Rosier didn’t exist, she hadn’t yet been born. Instead, she assumed a new identity still similar enough to her own that the lie was easier to swallow, easier to tell. Lyra Carina Schmidt, a fifth year Ravenclaw (the hat had kept her in her house). She had told Dumbledore that she was transferring from Durmstrang and he had appeared to believe her to an extent but there was a small amount of doubt that she thought she could detect within his expression. He had naturally asked her a lot of questions and she had answered them the best that she could without giving anything away. When he had asked her why she had left, she had drawn on her knowledge of her own beloved city’s fractured history. It felt terrible to use something as awful as this but she needed to do it, she needed everything to be plausible.

She had found it difficult at first, she had to pretend that she didn’t recognise the castle or any of it’s features or teachers. She had managed to pull it off quite well as far as she was concerned. There had been a few wobbly, rocky moments and she always ducked her head, hiding her face with her hair whenever she saw Severus Snape. That had been one of the hardest parts for her, seeing her intimidating Potions Professor as a student, the same age as her. He still had that same look on his face and it gave her the chill’s and not in the good way. The first time she had seen her father, she had stopped dead in her tracks, the breath stolen from her lungs. She hadn’t quite fully planned what she was going to do to change his fate and subsequently her own. There wasn’t much that she could do at least, not until he had met her mother and she had been conceived. If she moved too quickly then she might prevent herself from being born. It was confusing at times, even for her. 

There were a lot of people who had been interested in her, who had asked questions and wanted to get to know her a little. One of the things that struck her was how people were friendlier even if they still seemed a bit wary. She had struggled throughout her whole time at Hogwarts, only finding friends in Slytherin and even then that was limited primarily to Draco and Blaise. She had certainly found it easier in her later years once Luna had joined Ravenclaw. They were both oddities. 

Time had passed and Lyra had integrated herself into the year and had quickly established her excellence and skill in Charms. There was something familiar and heartwarming about Professor Flitwick getting excited about her Charms work, just as he had in her own time. Potions classes were boring, she didn’t particularly like Professor Slughorn. As terrifying as he had been, Severus Snape had been a good teacher. 

She had thrown herself into her studies during the week but during the weekends, she took the time to go for a long walk around the Black Lake and the grounds in the morning after breakfast. Depending on how she was feeling in the afternoon, she would either read or she would go flying. She loved the freedom of flying, she always had done. That morning she had eaten a few slices of toast, drank some pumpkin juice and had wrapped her scarf loosely around her neck and had walked out of the great hall and out onto the grounds. She had slipped her hands into her pockets and sang a little under her breath as she walked, completely oblivious to the prospect of anyone around her. It was early, it was a Saturday and there hadn’t been many other students around and it was highly unlikely she was going to run into anyone. 

“Die sterne lan ihr glitzen stahn, mit mir sie wollen weinen.”

[allisallies]

//muses page for mobile users! o:

Fire Emblem:

Kiran (Heroes)

Sharena (Heroes)

Sylvain Jose Gautier (Three Houses)

Lukas (Echoes - Shadows of Valentia)

Shiro (Fates)

Owain / Odin (Awakening / Fates)

Lissa (Awakening)

Granblue Fantasy:

Vane

Gran

Tales of (series):

Vicious (Crestoria)

Aster Laker (Symphonia: Dawn of the New World)

Sorey (Zestiria)

Lailah (Zestiria)

Judith (Vesperia)

Stahn Aileron (Crestoria mostly, a bit of Destiny here and there)

Farah Oersted (Crestoria only)

Spada Belforma (Innocence, I want his Crestoria background)

Pokémon: (Masters EX mostly for easier cross-overs and appearance and personality based)

Hau (Sun & Moon, some Masters EX)

Red (Red & Blue and cie, mostly Masters EX)

Leon (Sword & Shield)

Blue (Red & Blue and cie, mostly Masters EX)

Lance (Red & Blue / Gold & Silver, mostly Masters EX)

Falkner (Gold & Silver)

Other Video Games:

Sakamoto Ryuji (Persona 5)

K Project:

Asahi Tori (Yellow King OC)

Hidaka Akira (Septer 4)

Boku no Hero Academia:

Shirakumo Oboro (Loud Cloud)

Kirishima Eijirou (Red Riot)

Other Manga/Animés:

Ittoki Otoya (Uta no Prince-sama)

Conrad Weller (Kyo Kara Maoh)

Their status can change depending on my inspiration and motivation to write them.  I’m free to add or remove muses as I please depending on said motivation and inspiration.

Find the ghost muses (booooo) over here! Any muse from this list can go on that link, and any from that link come back here, hey, I’m fickle, shhh.

[teefa85]

Since I got bored and started re-reading Defenders of Terrakyu (my cheesy “turn my muses into Magical Girls” fanfic), I found this hilarious gem from the Fright Night chapter.

Context:  Rutee takes Emmy (her future daughter) into a haunted house.

“This isn’t scary…not half as much as Elraine!” she exclaimed.

Rutee looked at her.  “Who is Elraine?”

“Not a nice lady!” Emmy replied.  “Dunno how she and Rea-Rea are sisters!”

(Emmy, being my OC younger sister for Kyle, is basically Rutee 2.0 like Kyle is Stahn 2.0...).

[skateofministry]

Osoyoos man stabbed, hit with skateboard during robbery attempt | iNFOnews

(JENNIFER STAHN / iNFOnews.ca)

July 05, 2021 – 1:49 PM

Osoyoos RCMP are on the hunt for a suspect after a guy was stabbed and struck with a skateboard throughout a tried break-in this previous weekend.

RCMP state a 52-year-old Osoyoos local was approached by a number of youths while strolling near Kingfisher Drive and 89 Avenue around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, July 3.

One of the male youths asked him for cash and when he stated he didn’t have any, the suspect attacked him with a knife and struck him with a skateboard, according to an RCMP media release.

All the youths, consisting of the suspect, removed.

The victim’s better half had actually been strolling a number of metres behind and she pertained to his help, cops state. He suffered small injuries and they had the ability to stroll house to call 911.

Anyone who might have seen any part of the attack is asked to call Osoyoos RCMP at 250-495-7236.

To contact a press reporter for this story, e-mail Howard Alexander or call 250-309-5343 or email the editor. You can likewise send images, videos or news ideas to the newsroom and be gotten in to win a month-to-month reward draw.

We welcome your remarks and viewpoints on our stories however play good. We will not censor or erase remarks unless they include off-topic declarations or links, unneeded indecency, incorrect truths, spam or clearly phony profiles. If you have any issues about what you see in remarks, email the editor in the link above. 

News from © iNFOnews, 2021

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[redigitizing]

Rules: answer the questions then tag people you’d like to get to know

Tagged by @richea, thank you!! <3

Tagging: @soymilkheaven, @applegelstore, @kuramahan, @lion-magnus, @chaos-online, @spiritguardian and @limpulsive !

Nickname: hallie Gender: female Star sign: libra Height: 5′5 Hogwarts House: ravenclaw, with a hint of slytherin? haha Favourite Animal: i love birbs! if i had to pick one, maybe the swallow? i read a lot of stories/poems about them when i was young. Favourite Colour: green! Current Favourite Song: nothing beats digimon adventure’s Butterfly. Favourite idea to get creative with: i tend to hyperfixate on things and my brain is literally 90% Tales of Destiny. the other 10% is devoted to basic life functions that keep me alive. What do I like to do when I’m alone: sleep until noon, read, catch up on my games (ToD2 why must you be so hard) and write! so much writing. What do I think of my friends: I LOVE THEM and im always ready to like, *Will Smith pose* LOOK AT MY LOVELY FRIENDS Average hours spent sleeping: 5ish? but if left alone i’ll sleep 10 hours. Cats or dogs: doggos~ Number of blankets I sleep with: just one, but i have like five stuffed animals crammed onto my bed... (stahn the sheep falls off every night) Dream Job: i’ve always planned to work for the government, i’m just not sure which department yet. i did some work for the international education division last year and while it was cool, the bureaucracy was also extremely frustrating lmao so, tbh, i’ll have to reassess how much of a ‘dream’ that would be. Dream Trip: japan... ; w ; When I made this account: this account has existed since mid-2013. it’s cycled through quite a few fandoms. Number of followers: 950, but most of them are dead blogs from my HxH days that i cant be bothered to clear out.

[liliannorman]

Scientists’ brains shrank after a long stay in Antarctica

A portion of the brains of people living at an Antarctic research station shrank during a long stay, a small study finds. Social isolation and the unchanging white landscape may be to blame.

“It’s very exciting to see the white desert at the beginning,” says Alexander Stahn. A physiologist, he began the research while working in Berlin, Germany. “But then it’s always the same.”

Explainer: Antarctica, land of lakes

A crew of eight scientists and a cook lived and worked at the German research station Neumayer III for 14 months. Although joined by other scientists during the summer, the crew alone endured the long darkness of polar winter. Temperatures can plummet as low as –50° Celsius (–58° Fahrenheit). Such harsh conditions make it impossible for people to leave. 

This creates a lot of isolation. That and the static environment create the closest thing on Earth to what a space explorer might experience, says Stahn. He now works at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Stahn wants to understand how long-term travel in space might affect the brain.

The German Neumayer III research station in Antarctica has adjustable supports that help it adapt to shifting snow cover.  Alexander Stahn/University of Pennsylvania, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Animal studies suggest similar conditions can harm the hippocampus (Hip-oh-KAMP-us). This brain area plays a big role in memory and navigation. For example, rats housed alone or in bare cages are worse at learning than rats housed with other rats or in enhanced cages, Stahn says. But whether this is true for people is unknown.

Scientists Say: Hippocampus

Stahn and his colleagues imaged each team member’s brain before and after their polar stay. Over that stay, part of the hippocampus in the crew’s brains shrunk by an average of 7 percent. That’s compared to healthy people who didn’t live at the station. Stahn’s team reported its findings online December 4 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Stahn says there are good reasons to think these changes can be reversed. Stress, such as isolation, can affect the hippocampus. But the brain area also responds to stimulation. That might include interacting with new people and exploring new sites.

Scientists’ brains shrank after a long stay in Antarctica published first on https://triviaqaweb.tumblr.com/

[emmanessance]

send me a fruit peach: do you have any piercings or tattoos? yeah i have a tattoo of saturn. its blue & i was gonna add red to make it old-school 3d but it hurt too badly since it was a stick n poke. i dont love it but i dont dislike it raspberry: favorite flower? um like all of them lol. im really fond of wildflowers right now like poppies & forget-me-nots. but also i love catmint bc i have a bunch of those and there are ALWAYS bees & other insects on them lemon: do you have any pets? what are their names? yeah i have a dog named sampson, a cat named sophie, a hamster named Rufus T. Barleysheath and a horse name Winchester (i hate that name so we call him chester for short). also this hurt to type bc we're at a very low number of pets right now & its really sad :(( also we just had to put my bunny down so it was weird not including him :// but his name was bongo mango: what is your trademark? idk what this really means but assuming its what i say often it would be "amazing" but it has a specific inflection that i cant describe online lol passion fruit: how would you describe your style? uh right now its changing but before it was lots of anthropologie & some uo?? idk i just had a very bold & expensive style ig lol. now its becoming slightly more instagoth & im buying more uo items & thrifting a little more often pineapple: sexual orientation? agh idk anymore i identified as pan for years up until like a week ago but now i guess im questioning again strawberry: favorite desserts? ice cream cherry: can you play any musical instruments or can you sing? yeah i can play the piano, trombone, & ukulele, but im really not a fan of playing instruments & i dont really play them anymore grape: if you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where would you go? right now i'd love to go to sweden, scotland, ireland, australia, somewhere in africa idk where, russia, or the north pole lmaooo. if i had to chose one place though id probably pick australia bc i wanna see the great reef before it dies completely banana: favorite horror movies? i just saw scream & really enjoyed it. idk though i find most horror movies are really bad & not scary in the slightest :// blackberry: is your life an action film, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or drama? uh whats the one where the main character is constantly confused & has a lot of unaddressed problems but is trying her best to work towards a bright future pomegranate: when do you feel the most confident? when im dressed to go out cantaloupe: what are your parents' names? andrew & jill guava: dark & dramatic makeup or natural makeup? um natural makeup but im trying to get into bright & creative makeup tangelo: if you could be any mythical creature, which would you be? a mermaid lmao i always wanted to be one as a child plum: favorite clothing brands? anthropologie, american apparel (rip), & urban outfitters coconut: favorite perfume? happ & stahns, whatever their pink bottle is lychee: satin or lace? lace blueberry: what do you want to dress up as for halloween? im thinkin i wanna go back to one ive done like a witch. or maybe ill try somethin new and be a watermelon. but also im not a fan of dressing up as something for halloween apple: what do you use more, tumblr or twitter? tumblr kiwi: what's something that fascinates you? planes & bees & biology & memory & the human brain & just humans themselves actually watermelon: do you have a job? if so, what is your job title? no job :// i want one, but im very picky & also im only 15 so i cant get one for another 3 (?) weeks papaya: what song describes your aesthetic? this is really hard but im probably gonna have to say space song by beach house cranberry: favorite time of the day; morning, afternoon, dusk, or night? dusk for sure bitchhhh god i fuckin love it nectarine: would you consider yourself an emotional person? no, just an emotionally confused person lol orange: do you have long eyelashes? nah theyre average, not short though apricot: what do you do when you're sad? if its depressed sad i go to my room & surf the internet & listen to music or watch tv & sometimes paint or journal & also i drown myself in dr pepper & starve myself & stay up all night. if its a different kind of sad then idk ig i just get over it really fast star fruit: favorite sea creature? those little tiny crab things that wash up on the beach & bury themselves in the sand really fast so you cant grab them. i forgot what theyre called but i think it starts with an M & also their shells are all over the beach dragonfruit: do you drink alcohol? yeah

[frigid-moon-fall]

Since the post about the PS1 version of the manor went well, why not take a closer look at the bedroom in the remake? We still don't know whose room it really is, but Hugo comes out of it when you first enter the manor, and Leon heads up the stairs when saying he'll be in his room, and he comes from its general direction in a hallucination of Rutee's. With it being simplified so much, it's really anyone's guess whose room it actually is. These are the sacrifices of streamlining.

Anyway, details! Both visible and invisible.

First off, the things that are easy to see from this screenshot alone.

The (currently open) curtain around the bed for added privacy

The books aren't kept especially tidy

There's a piece of paper left on the desk with something on it. You can't examine it.

There's a picture frame on a shelf, turned to face the wall. This is an entirely different asset from the one in the foyer, which just happens to be turned away from the player's view, so it's likely this is on purpose. Whatever the picture is of, it's good to remember that the picture in the foyer is of the whole Katrea/Gilchrist family, and it's displayed openly.

The tissue box on the bedside table lol

And now things that you can't see.

There's a towel hung up in the bathroom somewhere entirely off camera

The bathtub is way bigger than the camera angle implies

The full painting on the wall

Full details of the coats in the armoire (A big strong artist should totally draw Leon or Hugo wearing those)

Full details of all the rugs

(Edit: Full shot of the bathroom!)

And now you might have noticed that all of these are isometrically oriented sprites instead of the usual top-down textures you'd expect from a 3D environment that looks like this. That's just how TOD's remake does things for a lot of areas. I guess it makes the art style easier to keep consistent, but it sounds like a pain to keep the skewing effect looking good across all rooms that use it.

By the way, if anyone wants something similar done for other areas, let me know which and what parts of it you're interested in specifically.

Oh, while we're at it, let's make a useless list of observable features in the most likely candidate for Leon's room from the PS1 version. We really don't need to, but whatever.

A whopping five different sets of drawers that Ori!Stahn is too polite to snoop through

A giant table meant for one

Two potted plants, neither of which would be in the general line of sight of someone sitting in either of the chairs (90 degrees to your left/right doesn't count), sitting on either of the window sills, or laying in bed

One trash can beside the desk, and one trash can beside the bed (They are specified to be trash cans in-game. It is not a chamber pot.)

A clock or radio on the desk. I'd sooner guess clock from the two hands.

A useless little nook that only houses one of the potted plants

A Marian She is not a room fixture, sorry

Oh, you clicked it? Okay. Here's my theory of where Leon sleeps....

On this couch in the dining room because that's the room where he spends all his free time anyway

[cannonscore]

progenitor god

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[yggdrasil-mith0s]

@tales-aesthetic I completely understand this. These games have saved lives. I'm glad they helped you get through a rough time. They did for me too.

Let me go ahead and give my answer. I'll give a shortened version.

When I was in 4th grade my dad was diagnosed with brain cancer. It was after my mom and him split up. The hospitals werent good down here so he was flown to Philadelphia (our home city) for better comfort and better treatment. It progressed to far, though. I bought Tales of Destiny when he got sick and played it through the entire sickness. It helped me cope with my father dying and helped me deal with his death. I was constantly playing Destiny when he was in the hospital because it was the only thing that worked to help me to stay afloat. He got so sick and became a vegetable and couldn't move or talk. He basically looked dead already but his heart was still beating. The last time I saw him I told him about the game... I ended up breaking down amd crying because I knew it was the last time I would speak to him. They took me out of the room. They gave took us back to where we were staying (a relative) and they sat me down in front of the tv and gave me the ps1 controller. They said to keep pushing and it would be okay... I played all night and it saved me from a dark place. Well my dad was sent home cause the hospital couldn't do anything anymore and they basically gave him his last days in the house with a in home nurse giving him pain meds. I played Destiny by his bed... He couldn't talk or move still. But I felt like he was watching me and I was telling him everything I was doing... I beat the game just an hour before he passed... It was almost like he was hanging on for me to accomplish beating the game before letting go. Like he wanted to be there and be proud of me. They said he could hear but idk if he could or even process what I was saying. I told him I beat the game... And not long after he went into critical condition. They took me out of the room as he died... I'm crying right now saying this so I'm going to wrap it up... But at his funeral I said he was my hero like Stahn was. When I got home from the funeral I started a new game on Destiny. It was like he was still next to me when I started over and to this day it has a comfort to me because I relate it to the last time he was beside me and how he was proud and hung on for me to beat the game. It was probably just coincidence but that game helped me cope with his death. It kept me from a deeper depression. With every Tales release it pulled me out of depression. I tried to commit suicide and failed a week before Xillia came out. Idk what happened but Xillia pulled me out of that pit because when I beat the game I felt happy. I felt like life was worth living because I could be like jude and gather courage and keep going. These games literally saved my life. They mean the world to me. I have lost a bunch of people close to me. Grandparents and friends... And each time I turned to this series to help me cope and it always worked. That's why Destiny is my favorite game because I still feel like he is watching over me as I play. I know it's cheesy... I just miss him. And that's why I still constantly play Destiny, especially when I'm down. I love everything about these games and what they've done for me.

I'm sorry I didn't mean to sound depressing but it's really a good thing. I wish Namco/Bamco knows how much these games mean to some people and what they've done for people.

Tales of series question!

Why do you enjoy the games?

I want to know why you’re all fans of the series and what it means to you!

[sciencenewsforstudents]

Socially isolated and faced with a persistently white polar landscape, a long-term crew of an Antarctic research station saw a portion of their brains shrink during their stay, a small study finds.

“It’s very exciting to see the white desert at the beginning,” says physiologist Alexander Stahn, who began the research while at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. “But then it’s always the same.”

The crew of eight scientists and researchers and a cook lived and worked at the German research station Neumayer III for 14 months. Although joined by other scientists during the summer, the crew alone endured the long darkness of the polar winter, when temperatures can plummet as low as –50° Celsius and evacuation is impossible. That social isolation and monotonous environment is the closest thing on Earth to what a space explorer on a long mission may experience, says Stahn, who is interested in researching what effect such travel would have on the brain.

Animal studies have revealed that similar conditions can harm the hippocampus, a brain area crucial for memory and navigation (SN: 11/6/18). For example, rats are better at learning when the animals are housed with companions or in an enriched environment than when alone or in a bare cage, Stahn says. But whether this is true for a person’s brain is unknown.

The German Neumayer III research station in Antarctica sits atop 16 hydraulic supports, which are adjusted to adapt to shifting snow cover.

CREDIT: ALEXANDER STAHN/UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, CHARITÉ-UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN

Stahn, now at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and his colleagues used magnetic resonance imaging to capture views of the team members’ brains before their polar stay and after their return. On average, an area of the hippocampus in the crew’s brains shrank by 7 percent over the course of the expedition, compared with healthy people matched for age and gender who didn’t stay at the station, the researchers report online December 4 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

But there are good reasons to believe that this change is reversible, Stahn says. While the hippocampus is highly vulnerable to stressors like isolation, he says, it is also very responsive to stimulation that comes from a life filled with social interactions and a variety of landscapes to explore (SN: 11/6/18).

[chellyfishing]

i have so many aus that live in my head that i haven’t managed to make happen in the real world here is a partial list:

vesperia au where the gang drives around scooby doo-style debunking local paranormal myths with science.

symphonia au where colette is a werewolf. that’s literally all i have for this one, just that colette is a werewolf.

xillia bowling au. team jude vs team gaius in league bowling. this has existed since before xillia 2 came out but i’ve modified it since then with ludger as the dude who works the counter handing out shoes and stuff because even in aus he’s broke.

legendia au where will and grune are de facto dad and mom of a kind of boarding house/school for juvenile delinquents where the others are all sent for various reasons.

high school abyss au where natalia is overachieving school president plus head of the drama club which she maneuvers into putting on the star of ispania with herself as the lead.

destiny au where stahn and rutee are expecting their first kyle and stahn submits rutee to a reality show where they find your biological family and hilarity ensues because hugo is times a billion the most dysfunctional. the swordians are dogs so also there are dogs.

neo-noir zestiria au where pseudo-femme fatale alisha comes to PI rose for help finding sorey, who has gone missing. i can’t figure out what happened to sorey which is a bit of a stumbling block.

softball au for odin sphere where mercedes and gwendolyn are captains of rival high school softball teams. also there is a loooooot of dysfunctional family drama, and by drama i mean comedy.

odin sphere as midsummer night’s dream.

four words: mr. wright’s murder mysteries.

elizabeth comstock was brigid tenenbaum until burial at sea ruined everything, au where burial at sea never happened because it runs counter to the entire philosophy of the series. i’m salty about burial at sea. that’s not an au.

there’s the citcom but at least that’s been partially written.

(insert lanthanide and actinide series of greek myth aus here)