#sylvernoct

[vvyvernicus]

Joined a Twisted Wonderland Game Night and...

It was really fun! It started with Fibbage where everyone picked a character to roleplay as. Then we wrapped up with a few rounds of Gartic Phone, which is like a combination of Telephone and drawing doodles fast.

My alias for the duration of Gartic Phone was "Crowley". I wanted to showcase some highlights of the stream as well as my favorite messy sketch.

This was my prompt. As you can see, it started cute with a Crowley tsum and turned into... Something else 😂

This one devolved into madness very quickly which led to the creation of toilet Crowley, drawn by yours truly.

So majestic on his throne while he contemplates his life decisions.

I personally blame myself for this one's descent into darkness. Poor Grim 😔

All in all, it was a very relaxing and chill stream with lots of fun moments. I encourage you to check out the channel. The reason I found out about the game night at all was because of the very helpful videos.

This one was pretty great too. It started wild and ended just as crazy.

[return-to-twisted-wonderland]

🔆anon

“Who would win? S.T.Y.X and Ignihyde's main frame or one sparky little tick who’s hungry?”

To be fair, if TWST had Pokemon, STYX and Ignihyde would probably come up with anti-Joltik measures. An electricity stealing bug that’s small enough to sneak in that is widely known and documented would probably be an obvious problem.

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Now, does Skion care? Kinda, but he’s going to take it to Idy’s room anyways because 1, He gets to mess with his brother, and 2, Skion cares more if he CAN do something rather than if he SHOULD.

Hopefully Ortho has said anti-Joltik measures.

Also at least their parents get warning since one of the rules for Skion staying at NRC is he has to call, text, and video them in a regular basis. He’s 100% going to show them his new buddy, so they have forewarning.

At least Skion’s going to make sure Joltik is well fed. Just give him something that converts movement to energy (plus pokefood or something for a balanced diet). Although if he forgets, his devices are going to be closest, so…

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Side note, I saw a video of someone giving twst characters pokemon (Sylvernoct) and they said they thought it would be fun to give the Shrouds Eevees since it would be like a first experiment with evolution and their kid’s personalities.

I liked that idea, and it makes me think of what would Skia’s Eevee have done once he was gone. Ortho’s would have had Robot Ortho, so what about Skion’s?

And Skia totally would have chosen a Jolteon if he could, Flareon second. (Is he mainly an electric type trainer at this point?)

(Video I’m talking about: https://youtu.be/3bIn86pYdHc?si=a3y7Ca9BosccvGvK)

*opens mouth, closes it, opens it again*

Damn, no ghost type eevee for Ortho, huh?

I'll see myself out.

[bluerosesburnblue]

Someone just liked this post today, which reminded me that I have some good news! I recently found a Youtuber who's started making Twisted Wonderland content. She hasn't done any of the main story stuff yet, but she has been going through past events, playing all of the scenes and adding in any musical stages where they should be so you can get a feel for the experience. I believe she's also adding in the character vignettes that you get from their cards, too. That's Sylvernoct (https://www.youtube.com/@sylvernoct/streams) on Youtube

So far she's done

The recent Playful Land's Miraculous Marionettes

Fairy Gala and its variant with an alternate cast, Fairy Gala Remix

The Phantom Bride event that I mention above

Beanfest: Bean or be Beaned is upcoming (and still one of my favorites)

So, if you want to get a feel for what the game is like if you're interested, or you're a new player who missed some of those old events, I'd say check this channel out!

What do you think is the best way for someone to get into Twisted Wonderland?

Honestly? Probably just downloading the app and playing it yourself if you can. Unfortunately, it's not out in some countries and there's not a lot of people out there making full video playthroughs of it, either, so there's really no other good way to go about it if you can't download the game for whatever reason, which is a real shame

If you can play, though, the game itself is very newcomer friendly. You can really take it at whatever pace you want; main story content is always available and does not cost any in-game energy to access. There is an energy system, but it's for leveling up your characters and is incredibly passive. All you need to do is select the class you want, select your characters, hit start, set it to loop, and you're good to go, no other input required until the next time your energy is charged up. Even when I started the game, it was pretty easy to just go through the story with underleveled characters because you always take in a borrowed one from another player and most people are very kind and put up their best ones, so you always have a plethora to choose from

The one thing that you do miss out on would be the story events because they're only archived if you completed them, but even then the North American server has been doing a really good job at rerunning old events (except the Culinary Crucibles, RIP Chef Silver card, I want it so bad). I've even noticed that if the NA server runs what would be considered "sequel" events to previous ones that they did, then you can usually access the scenes for the first one in the archives as long as the sequel is running. Some people do complain that the NA server does events too fast/often, but the reason for this seems to be that they're trying to get it up to date with the Japanese server

Speaking of events, this month after the current combat-focused event (the Joint Exam) ends on June 8th, the NA server will be getting a rerun of The Phantom Bride, a story event where a ghostly noble who died before finding her true love returns to the school hoping to finally fulfill her dream of finding a husband. When she selects one of the students and the others find out that the marriage would bring him to the afterlife, they set out to do what they can to save him. Then, later on in the month, we'll be getting the second Camp Vargas event. In the first event (which reran last month), Coach Vargas took all of the sports clubs out into the woods for a weekend training camp that ended up getting more intense than expect. Now, he looks to do the same for the boys in the art and culture clubs, too. So if either of those sound interesting, now might be a good time to hop in!

If you do get into it, anon, I hope you enjoy! The game has a lot of things to love about it. Not only do I love pretty much all of the characters, but I find that the game is really respectful towards classic Disney works and their stories, and does a fantastic job working that into the characters and even the worldbuilding, which pulls double-duty not only inventing a mythos where all of the Disney movies happened in the same world, but imagining what those locations would look in modern times. The game also leans into the "magic boarding school with different houses the students are sorted into" idea (for anyone looking for a Harry Potter alternative), while taking the concept in a more mature direction since, with a handful of exceptions, the main cast are all ages 16-18. I think it's safe to say that it's actually one of my favorite pieces of fiction at the moment, so I'm very flattered that you asked me for advice on getting into it and I hope this helped out a bit!