#tales of torment

[spectrum-studios]

Here's all current interactions in Tales of Torment

A Block Tales au

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CRUEL KING:

And here is my friend who helps with this stuff @0rangejulius / @adriftinthev0id

Also, @niko-aspin , here's a tag so you can enjoy reading it from the original source!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[alackofghosts]

i want to do it too, take in all the sweet life caught inside this world

[luck-of-the-drawings]

smth smth about 'the thing that the character did that you thought was rly rly funny in the moment is actually linked to a terrible trauma that lies within said character.' or wahtever.

[artyartpile]

softly, finding comfort in the night's warm embrace

[holygroundgone]

just absolutely fucking obsessed with the 0.5 evil marriage bad end deep in love deep in suffering of it all, everything that could've possibly went wrong went wrong and they're in it together

[fromtheseventhhell]

Seeing people clutch pearls over Arya having killed people is so funny cause the list is literally rapist, murderer, torturer, criminal, some combination of the bunch...and all people who Arya has personally witnessed, or directly heard about, committing these acts. Like, contrary to popular belief, she is not just a mindless killing machine.

[total-drama-brainrot]

cooking up a fantasy au rn that's got me giggling and kicking my feet

[not-poignant]

Hey Pia!

I have sort of binged your stuff over the last two months! I love all of it, and the characters feel so detailed and easy to love. I ended up with some questions. I am sorry if these have been asked already.

1. In Fae-verse what would happen if Gwyn got out from Crielle early and left Efnisien with her and Lludd (kind of like the Feral!Gwyn Au). Would Efnisien ever get away like in Spoils? Would his heart song ever change? Is Fae-verse Efnisien sort of stuck with the family curse and unlikely to go through anything like he does in Spoils?

2. I think it said somewhere that Efnisien's true power in Fae verse was char, burning, that sort of thing. Is that in some way related to Olphix and his fire or is it different?

3. What kind of Fae would Arden be and his power/ heartsong?

4. What kind of Fae would Gary be and his power/ heartsong?

I appreciate it's quite a few questions so please don't feel like you need to answer any/all of them!

Thank you for writing :D

Hiya anon!

I'm glad you've been enjoying all the things, that makes me really happy. :D

Okay so for answering your questions:

Efnisien is born evil. There's no 'getting away' - he's worse than Crielle and he experiences genuine joy and happiness over that. He was evil as an infant, and he was never abused or harmed in any single way. It's impossible for fae Efnisien (in the canon) to go through anything like human Efnisien's growth journeys. He's a completely different being to me!

It's not connected to Olphix. :D All common fae are connected to a different elemental force. Gwyn's is light. Crielle's is dra'ocht. Efnisien's is fire/char.

No idea! But probably Unseelie. I've gotten this question a lot and I've never known. I think that's partly because if I ever by some miracle write him into the universe, I don't want to lock myself in to a fae type I just made up off the top of my head for an ask, and want to leave it extremely open. But I'm pretty sure he'd be Unseelie.

No idea! But also probably Unseelie, lol.

I don't really think things like 'how would they work in this world' until I actually have to sit down and write them. I think there's a part of my brain that likes to leave a lot of reserve space so I can be more creative. I've noticed that like, especially in the years past, I used to make up more answers or invent more answers on the spot, but then I'd feel like I was letting people down if I then went and did something totally different, and I'd also feel very restricted? So these days I do prioritise like, 'if this ever happens, I'd like to not have already put something in place if I don't know for sure.'

Gary could be Seelie too, tbh, I just vibe with him more as an Unseelie fae. That makes more sense to me. Arden has enough deep-seated sadism that I'm comfortable with him being a kind of fae that can feed off pain or anguish or similar, but not sure on the type at all. My brain just goes 'no' whenever I try and think about it lol

[the-noted-collector]

So...on my stories.

Primarily, this is a brief overview of certain Eckil's Tale things that I recorded as events but don't particularly wish to detail as I don't feel I could do the scenes properly. It also addresses Radio Catalog and the hinted at Former Glory.

First things first; Eckil's Tale

It hasn't been updated since July, but trust me, Eckil's been busy. I'm skipping a few points between what happens with Comotasa, to their confrontation with Atlas. Most of the evenrs between there are duels and Dangerous MYN stuff, which stars above and depths below feels so far away now. The story will pick back up within the next day or two, shortly following a rp me and @staring-at-my-keyboard did with Atlas and Eckil.

Next, the other two stories.

Starting with, apologies that one only has a prolouge and the other doesn't even have that. I have a particular format I want both stories to have, issue being that those formats are causing me some small issue with getting plot points and the like across. That being said, I am figuring things out, and hope to at least have Radio Catalog's first proper chapter out soon. Former Glory's prolouge is also in the drafts right now, so that'll be out at some point either this month or October.

[spectrum-studios]

Tales of Torment au update logs!

If you don't want spoilers to the base game, then I recommend you go play the game!

Anyways all logs will be in order of their post! Past the read more line!

Log 1

Also the au name is Divine Torment/ Tales of Torment.

So it starts off like any normal story, but instead of the player [in this au they are addressed as Vona] (or however you wish to address them) being normal, they were cursed by what seemed to be angels, but they weren't later discovered by Cruel King who accompanies them as they share a very similar goal. they weild a white sword that's shackled to the dominant fighting arm! (Yes, it does hurt Vona/player if they let the blade go at all) and the only "assumed way to break the chains" is to aquire all the swords so they can be a regular mortal again and just recover. Vona/player does expirence episodes of torment from the curse.

And that's what I have for the time being

Have a great day/night!

Log 2

We got some updates to Tales of Torment au! Especially the one responsible for the divine curse!

But it's mainly character relationships for this one!

For a start, Cruel King and Vona/ player are allies with a shared goal also because Vona/player snapped CK out of the Ice dagger's hold and he wants to repay the kindess also because Vona, didn't kill a single knight.

Noobabor, Blue, and Red are friends after their second encounter on thy train. (They actually met when the 3 were on a mission to um oof someone but called it off after having a brief talk)

(I struggle with his name, correct me please if i spelled it wrong) Shelenski has been friends with Vona/player for some years way before the events of Block Tales. His goal is to break the divine curse!

Griefer is an uneasy ally... he kinda wittness the horrors of what Vona's Curse does and just immediately assumed the Venom Shank did the same.

Log 3

Tales of Torment au update time!!!!

First off, we have Divine rivalry. Aka Karen's yelling and even kicking each other's butt's. And we all have a new enemy opponent type known as Divine Champions! Aka people who succumb to the Divine curse and are lost under the Divine's influence (or propaganda).

The first one, Vona/player and CK fight, actually comes from the Blackrock calvary!

It also introduces a new attack pattern for both sides! It acts like the slingshots in base game, but the number of hits can vary in a big range of numbers. (Ex. 20 hits or 10 hits!) And theoretically, you can attack infinitely with this attack pattern if you had the energy!

Also, if you are curious, all battle areas/arenas for Divine Champions are like a crumbling version of the place they came from!

Heres a translation for different mechanics atm: Ticks! = health points!

Now, to plot stuff! Shelenski almost dies again but is saved in the nick of time! And Vona/player now has the first out of many cursed swords and an ally! And both CK and Vona/player got sent to the hospital after beating a Divine Champion, CK literally got impaled by a spear, and there are no plans for him to die, so don't worry! We also had the first possession episode for Vona/player in the story.

And finally, some very basic stats:

Vona/player has extremely high stats as they've won battles over the span of 5 years, but they don't have the ability to equip battle cards except for call cards. (self explanatory as allies tend to stick by them) most attacks they preform deal HEAVY amounts of damage which ends up one shotting most enemies anything at a boss level or mini boss will take 2 to 5 hits.

Cruel King was freed from his ice dagger curse and has gotten a very fast mental recovery! He deals the same amounts of damage like base game, but his health is beefer thanks to him wearing his old adventurer armor. He does now knows the new attack pattern and is slowly getting used to it! (He originally thought it was cheating because he's never even seen anything like it, lol)

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And that's all for now! Have a great day or night!

[kiro-sveta]

I don't know if this has already been done (sorry if so!), but I've been trying to figure out who to draw for this meme, and woke up in a cold sweat with this image in my mind this morning and needed to try to draw it 😅

[mariana-oconnor]

Me: *destroys drum*

Goblin: *beats invisible drum and now the whole camp hates me*

Me:

[computersucker]

the early 00s were a great time in cinema to see paul bettany battered and pathetic

[sarandipitywrites]

Happy STS, Saran!

What is your process for turning an idea into an outline (or to the point where you are ready to start drafting if you don't do outlines)?

Hey Kate, happy STS!

So, I thought I had a very organized process for this. Outlining DRDW felt very organized. But now I'm outlining a new WIP, and. It is not organized lmao.

Putting it as briefly as possible, what happens is: I have an idea. It's an ok idea, but it's missing something. Not too jazzed to work on it. It sits in my drafts for like a year. Then something comes along and totally rewires my brain about how I've been thinking about the idea (this time it was a cover of I'm With You by Avril Lavigne because ???) and I become absolutely rabid about it and must work on it RIGHT NOW.

The best way I can explain the actual outlining process is: a craft store has exploded and I'm sitting in a pile of yarn, trying to untangle it all. I follow the initial brain-rewiring as far as I can and, when I hit a knot and can't go any further, I switch to a different string (flesh out characters, setting, figure out themes, make character models in HeroForge, whatever's easiest) and follow that until I can't anymore. And then I keep untangling threads one by one until I have enough to write a draft.

Which is... kind of chaotic. But I've kind of accepted that my brain will only accept 'we'll figure it out later' to a certain extent, and if an absolute mess of documents and bullet points fends off the writer's block, then that's how we're doing it lol.

Thanks for the ask! 💜