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[mayfairemooncorsets]

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[honourablejester]

Heart: The City Beneath Character Concept: Gnoll Vermissian Knight

Trying out actual character creation over here. And I really want my train knight, my armoured paladin of a warped subway network that got hooked into a vast, reality-breaking eldritch thing.

Character creation in Heart is pretty easy. Pick your ancestry, which has no direct mechanical impact. Pick your calling and record the core ability from it. Pick your class and record the core ability from it. Pick 1 major and 3 minor abilities from your class. Pick your equipment. Pick two starting story beats from your calling. Fill out the details around the mechanical core, including answering the questions from your ancestry and calling. Voila! So:

Character Sheet: Ahkoura Roselight, Vermissian Knight

Name: Ahkoura Roselight

Ancestry: Gnoll

Class: Vermissian Knight

Calling: Enlightenment

Skills: Discern (Enlightenment), Delve (Vermissian), Endure (Steelbones), Hunt (Phantom Lens)

Domains: Technology (Vermissian), Warren (Tunnel Rat)

Active Story Beats: Gain favour with a faction that can help you learn more about your goal. Find a helpful text.

Equipment: Scrapsword (kill, d6), Magelight Rig (delve, d6).

Resources: Spare Wires & Capacitors (technology, d6).

Trinkets: Small sphere with a southern star map on it (Gnoll). Brass-inlaid tin half-filled with brown, gritty stimulant (Gnoll). Book of handwritten theories and observations (Enlightenment).

Abilities:

Core Ability (Enlightenment): “UNORTHODOX METHODS. You blend together method and madness in pursuit of your goals. Gain the Discern skill. Once per session, before you roll dice to resolve an action, instead state that your result is a 6. You succeed but take stress.”

Core Ability (Vermissian Knight): VERMISSIAN PLATE. Your armour is made up of scavenged, barely-understood technology from the alternate realities inside the Vermissian network. Once per session, when you consume a resource with the Technology or Occult domains by augmenting or repairing your armour, roll the resource’s dice and choose one of the following:

• Remove stress marked against Blood, Mind or Echo equal to the amount rolled.

• Inflict stress on a delve or adversary equal to the amount rolled.

• (D8 resource or higher) Gain access to a skill or domain for the rest of the session.

• (D8 resource or higher) Increase your Blood protection by 1 for the rest of the situation.

Major Abilities (Vermissian Knight):

AETHERIC FIELD. Your armour buzzes with static that makes your hair stand on end; this discharge can keep you safe from the body-warping effects of the Vermissian. Once per session, activate this power. You gain +3 Echo protection until the end of the current situation.

Minor Abilities (Vermissian Knight):

TUNNEL RAT. You have performed the Rite of Suffocation, and know ways of slowing your breathing to survive longer. Gain the Warren domain. You can hold your breath for a very long time, allowing you to stay underwater or in toxic areas for extended periods.

STEELBONES. Your armour bolts onto special implants that absorb harmful energy and distribute it through your body. Gain the Endure skill. You can fall distances of up to 3 storeys without taking damage.

PHANTOM LENS. Various blood, ichors and spittles have been used to treat these lenses, allowing you to see into dimensions other than the material. Gain the Hunt skill. While you wear these lenses, you can track anything – even if it doesn’t leave a tangible trail.

Character Concept:

I wanted the Vermissian Knight:

“The Vermissian is a cursed, centuries-old mass transport network that the people from the City Above built to get from place to place quicker. To power it, they tapped into the wellspring of potential that is the Heart, and damned every single tunnel and station to eternal weirdness. The Vermissian never officially opened. Now, desperate people, fringe historians and heretic cults hide in the infrastructure, using the strange unreality within to further their own ends. Using barely-understood technology and living in the space between worlds, the Vermissian Knights do their level best to understand the parasite reality and protect others they find there. They are in high demand as companions on delves: they have an understanding of the Heart, a good sword arm and a suit of powered armour built from scavenged train materials that helps keep them (and their allies) alive. Knights will inscribe the names of landmarks that they have discovered, or found stable routes to, on their armour – it is as much a research project and an advertisement of their prowess as it is a means of protection. Each knight’s suit is utterly unique, using technology taken from a dozen different places: different gauges of steels, different weights and levels of protection and flexibility and controls that are often inscrutable to anyone but the creator themselves.”

I love them instantly and completely. I’m gonna be a train knight and explore a cursed mass transit system.

And because most of what I want to do with this character is explore a cursed mass transit network, I had two main callings to choose from: Adventure and Enlightenment. Adventure because exploration is half the goal of that calling, and Enlightment because I don’t just want to see things, I want to know how and why they happen. I did go for Enlightenment in the end. I don’t just want to explore the Vermissian as it is now, I want to seek forbidden, dangerous knowledge on how a fuck up this titanic and massive happened. And, possibly … could it be fixed? Or used?

And. With that in mind. Ancestry has no direct mechanical benefit in Heart. But. The gnolls. See, humans are the tinkerers of the setting, they’d have reasons to want to unravel the Vermissian. The aelfir, high elves, the ones who built it, might want to know how they’d botched it. But the gnolls. The gnolls are currently at war with the aelfir and the City Above, Spire. They’re the enemy. And the gnolls come from a techno-occult culture:

“The gnollish empire (and its capital city Al’Marah) is founded on their advanced demonological and mechanical abilities; there are tales of djinn being bound into brass spheres to power uncanny devices. In the confines of the Heart, where the gaps between realities are thin, they can achieve unthought-of results in mechanoccultism – and great machines from ages past thrum and whirr in the hidden depths, just waiting to be found.”

“Al’Marah, the capital city of the southern gnollish desert kingdom, has no state religion. The government there dictates that the souls of all people who die within sight of the central ziggurat of Al’Marah are absorbed into the Source: a coruscating realm of energy from which djinns and ifrits are drawn to power gnollish machinery. They know this to be a scientific fact because specially-shielded teams have braved the depths of the ziggurat, found heaven and reported back on it with first-hand eyewitness accounts.”

The Vermissian was an attempt to run a mass-transit system off occult energy bored from the core of an eldritch extra-planar nascent god/reality seed/parasitic reality/thing. And the gnolls. The gnollish capital city is powered by their heaven. They hooked up their machinery to their afterlife.

Can you imagine a gnoll coming to the Spire, looking at the massive fuck up that was the Vermissian, and just going … How did you all fuck up this badly? This is basic occult power transmission! What did you do, or what did you plug into, that managed to do this?

One of the options for how you, as a gnoll (who are, again, currently at war with the City Above), even wound up in the Heart in the first place is that you are an escaped prisoner of war. And I was thinking. She escaped through the Vermissian. She ran into the weirdness of the tunnels, and no one followed her, and it turns out there are good reasons no one followed her, and she nearly died (or worse than died), and the only reason she’s alive now is that the Vermissian Knights pulled her out of the mess and got her to Derelictus. So she’s washed up in the undercity, very battered, very confused, and maybe she should be thinking about how to continue escaping and get home, but …

What was that? What she saw in there. How do you get that? What has to happen?

And the Knights. The Knights helped her. They pulled her out of there. They looked after her.

And just. The Vermissian. How do you manage to get … What has to happen? What did you plug into? How did you do it so badly?

So she decided to stay. Nascent loyalty. Raw fascination. She decided to become a Vermissian knight, and work her way up the order, and somehow get to a point where she can find the original plans for the system, and figure out what the blue bloody hells went wrong.

She can justify it a bit. If this went so badly wrong here, will the ziggurat back home eventually go wrong too? Her people need to know. Maybe the enemy, the aelfir, just fucked up on a titanic scale, maybe the gnolls won’t ever have to worry about this happening because they’re not incompetent, but … just in case. What if it was something else? Is it just the nature of the Heart? What is the Heart, and how does it compare, technologically, with the Source? Was it a fuck up of method? Did the aelfir do something very silly with their couplings? What happened, and how replicable a mistake was it?

So. Her calling questions: What impossible thing is she hoping to achieve in the City Beneath? What’s the first step on her journey?

She wants to find the original blueprints for the Vermissian network. She wants to find the original insertion point, where the aelfir ‘dug deep into the City Beneath and pierced the Heart Itself, seeking to use its unimaginable energy to bind each station with one another on a mystical level’. She wants to find out what went wrong.

And her first steps there are to ingratiate herself with the Vermissian Knights, to join them, work for them, build up trust within the order. And to search for documentation that could give her hints towards what she seeks. Hence our starting Enlightenment story beats: “Gain favour with a faction that can help you learn more about your goal. Find a helpful text.”

For her Vermissian elective abilities, I kitted her out for exploration and tracking, mostly. I was tempted to give her ‘Black Knight’ to get the Occult domain, which would make sense from her backstory, and if I was actually running her I’d talk with a GM about that.

I also took no abilities that would actually give her any protection, aside from Aetheric Field. I probably should have. I was tempted by the Arcane Rebreather for permanent echo protection, or the obvious Armour Plating or Stalwart. But. I just want her to poke around? No fall damage. Ability to hang around underwater or in toxic locations. Tracking ability. I want her to look for things, not necessarily survive them. And, I mean, Vermissian Knights are fairly tough from a standing start.

So yeah. There’s Ahkoura Roselight. A gnoll Vermissian knight who just really, really wants to know, in exacting detail, how the hell you manage to fuck up this badly. Heh.

[afoxofcosmicproportions]

The Journey is Complete

After 9 months, and almost 94 hrs of gameplay, the campaign finally comes to a close. The story is completed, the world is saved, and our characters may finally rest.

I started this co-op Baldur's Gate 3 run this past February with a good friend of mine, and together we set out to save Faerûn one Wednesday night at a time.

Words cannot describe how happy I am to have finally completed this campaign! We've already decided we want to do another run, but this time maybe we don't play the heroes everyone wants us to be....

Ardere Noctem (My Paladin) and Goel Steelbone) (His Monk), may you both get the rest and life you deserve after all the pain of this campaign. You've earned it my friends!

[memwazz]

SEVEN : Division United

This story is the one I currently focus on.

SUMMARY

It follows the Seventh Division, a dysfunctional superheroes team protecting a fictive, slightly futuristic version of the USA ruled by a martial law. Most of the plot revolves around them and the teenage MC Erwan fighting different antagonists with or without special abilities, while trying to handle their chaotic daily life together.

Created circa 2019.

CHARACTERS

Protagonists :

ERWAN (R-0)

he/him

A teenager with a mysterious power who meets the 7th Division after a terrible misunderstanding.

ROXANNE (Chlorine)

she/her

A superheroine of the 7th Division who will become Erwan's best friend.

ALOÏS (The Clockworker)

he/him

The leader of the 7th Division.

EZRA (Queen Elizabeth)

he/she

Aloïs' twin brother and the creator of the Division.

ARTHUR (Day Bird)

he/him

The only member of the team not to have a surhuman ability.

GRACE (E-DEN)

she/her

A superheroine and member of the 7th Division.

MYKO (Nuclear Blast)

they/them

The latest hero to have joined the team.

RUBY (Dead Whispers)

she/her

Arthur's teenage daughter who has psychic powers.

Antagonists :

LILYAS (Reborn 7.0)

he/him

A man who was genetically modified in order to bring Roxanne back to the mafia.

KREATOR

he/him

A mad scientist who creates giant chimeras to eradicate the human race.

JORDAN (Gambling Joe)

he/him

An animated skeleton controlling fired, eternally cursed after selling his soul to a vampire.

ARISTIDE (Ariki)

he/him

The vampire Jordan sold his soul to.

LEANOR (Red Velvet)

she/her

Ezra's former best friend who resents him and aims at his downfall.

THE PURGE:

GINGER

he/she/they

The leader of The Purge, an antagonist and rival group of superheroes.

THEO (Motionless)

he/him

A member of The Purge.

HA-YOON (Steelboned)

she/her

Another member of The Purge and Theo's best friend.

RAVI (Thunderstruck)

he/him

Ginger's boyfriend and teammate in The Purge.

MILDRED (Krystal Klear)

she/her

The youngest member of The Purge.

Minor characters :

LOUISON (Mimesis)

she/her

A young freelance superheroine who admires Roxanne and tries to look like her.

SAMIRA

she/her

Grace's wife.

RONNIE (Dark Eagle)

he/him

Arthur's close friend, an influent informator and occult expert.

LYSSANDERA

she/her

Erwan's biologic big sister from another planet.

NA'WËNN

she/her

Lyssandera's childhood friend and ex lover who's forced to fight her.

SELGAR

he/him

A giant harpie, originally one of Kreator's failed experiences.

CAT

she/her

Aloïs' girlfriend/lover/crush.

CHARLIE

he/him

Ezra's personal secretary.

[niseag-arts]

I got really into steampunk once. I still identified as a girl then, and the idea of having a nice corset always excited me. I told my mother this, because i was young and financially dependent. well. Mum told me i was too fat for a corset, that it wouldn't look good on me because I am, admittedly, very large. it was the end of that discussion but to this day it baffles me that she would say that. Because corsets are, if they're made well, meant to fit everyone in a similar silhouette. they're historic garments. like, queen victoria wasn't super skinny either (at least not as she aged), and she wore one. Would i probably need whalebone or steelbone in order to keep the rolls contained? yeah, and that would make a corset expensive. but I never got one...because I got told I couldn't wear something like that. I still look at things sometimes and remember what i've been told so many times. in my mind, if clothes are fun they are not for me. I don't get to have self expression beyond the print on my (always black) tshirt and the colour of my jeans, which i have to buy at a specialty store in order to find a size that fits. ....i don't know where i was going with that. but reading this is making me want a corset again. gents, though, so it perhaps may function as a binder too. i'd probably have to have something custom made.... maybe one day, when i have money

So this is a totally useless rant, but as a skinny girl, I’m getting extra, extra tired of fat-shaming.

I work for a corsetier at a Renaissance Faire. We sell corsets. Not flimsy bullshit costume corsets; like real, durable, waist-training corsets. Today a woman came in with her boyfriend, so I helped her pick out a corset and try it on. While her boyfriend—who was decidedly enthused about the whole corset thing—sat watching me lace her in, he told me, grinning, “Of all the good jobs at the Renaissance Faire, I think you have the best.”

I shrugged in agreement. “I touch butts and reach down cleavage all day; I mean…” Because we like to be a bit rakish at the Faire, and, y’know, it’s true. Tying people into corsets pretty much invariably requires getting handsy.

The couple laughed at that, and the boyfriend said, “That’s the job I would want!” But then he chuckled again and said, offhand, “Or maybe not; while we were looking at the racks, there were some pretty big sizes on there!”

Our sizes are all done in inches, and the biggest we make is a 46. And you’d better believe our large sizes sell. For a second I wasn’t sure what to say to the guy’s comment, but I answered him casually. “We get a lot of beautiful big ladies in here.” Because we do. “We make corsets for real women, not Barbie dolls,” I added. Wasn’t trying to be smart, just kind of tossed it out there because that’s the line we like to use when people ask about larger sizes, and because, again, we do.

The boyfriend went quiet at that; I didn’t think anything of it, I just kept on lacing. A moment later, he said, a little awkwardly (but sincerely enough), “Didn’t mean to be offensive.”

I quickly smiled and brushed it off, said he wasn’t, said I was just saying. (Don’t want to make the customers uncomfortable, you know?) And that was the end of it. His comment had rubbed me the wrong way, but it wasn’t a big deal. Now, I wear a 20-inch corset. I’m a few cup sizes short of being one of the Barbie dolls. Like his girlfriend, I’m one of the “hot chicks”; he doesn’t have to worry about offending me by implying that I wouldn’t be fun to poke and pull at.

Honestly though, of all the people I fit sexy technically-undergarments to in a day, fat girls are maybe my favorite people to lace up. Because they are just so damn happy that we have stuff that fits them. They are so damn happy that the corsets we make in their sizes are all the same pretty, shiny colors and cool flower/dragon/skull/etc. prints that the smaller corsets are, not ugly beige and boring “granny” colors. They are so goddamn happy that at least one (of several on the grounds) corset shop carries things that they can wear, that they actually want to wear, and that they look fucking awesome in. This is only my second season working, and we’ve fit 60+ inch waists and double-K busts. The only people we’ve ever had to tell sorry, we don’t have anything that fits them, are twelve-year-old kids.

It’s half-wonderful, half-heartbreaking how excited those women get. Women who say with sad smiles, when we ask if they want to get fitted, “Oh, no, you don’t have anything that fits me,” and then are stunned when we’re 300% confident that yes we do, and we have options. Women who can’t stop smiling and looking at themselves in the mirror after we’ve got them laced in.

I had a lady last week whose waist I measured (cinching the tape tight, as per procedure) at 41 inches—honestly not all that big. So she picked out a 41-inch corset to try on. I could tell halfway through getting her laced that it was going to be a bit big for her, so I mentioned it and said she might do better to try a smaller size. She started crying on the spot. She was so overwhelmed; she couldn’t believe someone had just told her that a 41 was too big. She told me about how hard clothes shopping was for her, how her mother would tell her she needed an XXXL instead of an XXL, how she had recently lost weight but still couldn’t wear certain colors because they didn’t fit or she wasn’t confident enough.

She did end up getting her corset, and after I checked her out she asked if she could give me a hug, so we ended up standing there hugging each other for a minute. While we did, I told her, “Do not ever let anyone tell you any bullshit. You are gorgeous.” She said, “I have a new boyfriend and he keeps telling me that.” I told her he was right, and to just keep telling herself she’s gorgeous; it was okay if she didn’t always believe it, but to keep telling herself anyway. (That’s how I talked myself through shit when I had bad anxiety.)

We all know fat-shaming is bad. The stupidity, fatphobia, and misogyny of it has pissed me off since I first became aware of it. But working with clothing, especially as figure-hugging and precise as corsets, has given me a new perspective on it—how much it affects people and just how shitty it is. Like, what does it say that I had a grown, only average-big woman crying into my shoulder because she was so overjoyed not to be the uppermost extremity of what a manufacturer can clothe?

My job rocks and it’s really rewarding, but sometimes it highlights some of the ugliest shit about society. I’m so glad I work at a shop that’s not bullshit about body types and operates with more people in mind than just scrawny white chicks like me. The fat women I work with are a ton of fun to lace up, and they’re so much more than their size—they’re cool, they’re smart, they’re funny, they’re sweet, they’re great to talk to, and yes, they’re hot. I’m so damn done with them getting short-changed and shamed by petty fucks who refuse to make them nice clothes, who refuse to even try to work for them, who refuse to consider them pretty. This whole rant was useless and won’t get read, but I had to vent because it’s been driving me nuts.

So actually, screw you, random dude. Fat girls are the highlight of my job.

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[chickensgod]

I’m so tired and I’m in line to graduate and also I’m in a steelbone corset and four inch heels so I can’t walk at all and also no one can even see the corset through the gown so what even am I doing

[mayfairemooncorsets]

Fall is officially over one week from today. But the days will start getting longer. Seems like that's a dichotomy, doesn't it? It's been a grueling season, and I'm hoping winter plays nice this year. I'm also hoping to see a fox running up my street in the snow again. That was *magic.* Just remember this particular fox can come to your house this winter, too. And if you want to run up the street in the snow while wearing it, I won't tell anyone. #corset #corsets #paymentplans #commission #pretties #ribbons #custom #custommade #handmade #artisan #steelboned #tistheseason #craft #readytowear #presents #fox #foxes #embroidery #fae #fairies #forest https://www.instagram.com/p/CmHxKexJcIs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[anomanxious]

@steelboned

normalize reading a book without caring if the spine breaks, folded cover, misspelled annotations and just ruining the book completely as a form of art

[his-pretty-kittybaby]

I wish i woukd havestarted wearing corsets right after both kids were born then maybe I wouldn't look like Mike wosowski from monsters Inc right now. But also my c section scar was hurting super bad especially after the second baby! That one hurt soo bad!!! Like even being in the car ride was painful . So I couldn't put pressure there 😖 plus whenever I wear a regular waist trainer or one of the velcro ones my incision would get so resort and painfully it still does sometimes but with a steelbone corset it doesn't I can wear it comfortably for hours

[memwazz]

HERE COME...

✨THE✨GOTHS✨!!

I finally found the motivation to create costumes for all the members of The Purge after years of procrastination yaaaay 🎉 The Purge is another group of superheroes in SEVEN. They are the 7th Division's rivals and act like terrorists because their leader's viewpoint is criminals can't be saved and have to be killed. Which also makes them a criminal but let Ginger be Ginger 🤷 1) Ezra joins The Purge after losing his mind and leaving his own team during his corruption arc. He gives up on Queen Elizabeth's colorful costume to become Killer Queen and causes a lot of trouble, both in the streets and in The Purge itself. 2) On his right stands Theodor, mostly known as Theo or by his pseudonym Motionless. He's able to temporarily paralyze enemies or slow their moves with a simple touch. He doesn't have any convictions/motivation/reason to live and doesn't quite know why he's here. He disagrees with Ginger but stays because he owes him life and has nowhere else to go. The friendship and Dad-Son relationship he will build with Ezra will help him to get out of apathy. 3) Then comes Ginger, the head of the team. He's convinced he's right and is the good one and also thinks she's kind of a genius who should always be obeyed and listened to. Because of this, he's physically and mentally abusive with his team and half of them hate them. Their ego is absolutely over-inflated. His pseudonym is just GINGER in caps locks and he doesn't wear a mask/costume because he likes his name and face too much. Also they can shape shift a bit so they don't need to hide. His powers are originally related to technology though. 4) Jeong Ha-yoon or should I say Steelboned, is Theo's best friend and longstanding mission partner : she would do anything for him. However, she hates Ginger like no one because he kinda tortured her so her power would be more effective. Ha-yoon still stays in the team because Ginger can help her getting the revenge she's obsessed with, but they always argue and even beat each other's asses. She's a metal bender btw

5) Mildred is nicknamed "Krys" by everybody and it doesn't seem to make sense, but it's actually because her pseudonym is Krystal Klear. When her power is activated, she can see through people's eyes for a short time and therefore predict their moves and attacks. She's the only person from the team to agree with Ginger and to think they're doing the right thing. She swore them loyalty and follows orders blindly.

6) Last but not least : Ravi's probably here only to kill people and fuck with the leader. He's Ginger's boyfriend and a fucking sociopath who kills the people The Purge arrests with an extreme violence. He's also the person behind the identity of a famous serial killer who mutilates his victims' faces. He's can produce little lightnings with his single finger and therefore his pseudonym is Thunderstruck.

[anomanxious]

@steelboned you skipped hades :)

so did this happen to anyone else

[onkar]

Four Winter Haiku – 6

By: Jim Bates Cold weather walkingWinter birds flitting alongSinging merrily. Sleet switching to snowIcy land turns softly whitePleasantly peaceful. Hard sub-zero coldSettling in like frozen steelBone deep and chilling. Bright full moon settingShining through snow covered pinesLighting thoughts of joy.

[xxsugartitsxx-posh]

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