#thanks to NPCs

[emi-writings]

At some point I am just going to start making up women for the DSMP, we have too few of them.

[darc-la-farse]

JUNIOR YEAR!!! I BELIEVE IN YOU!!

[sweetmapple]

drew this so fast, Mohg-posting is no longer illegal. Long live Mohgwyn and his fruitiest surgeon

[johnnyspells]

"So all cholesterol is good. Change is absolutely necessary. And whatever you said about hot lady summer, it sounded like you kind of had it figured out."

[stayatsam]

Eclipse child [OC]

[hydrachea]

Thinking about Robin and Sunday's halos.

About how Robin's halo isn't a closed circle, but more like a branch forming a circular shape, where the start and stem don't touch. It's also uneven in shape and splits into three flowers, like it's allowed to grow freely, unobstructed. Something about Robin having left Penacony and having escaped the confines of her cage, being able to flourish. About her being able to let people in, and connect to them.

Meanwhile Sunday stayed behind to be the head of the Oak family and conform to the strict role that's expected of him, and his halo is a perfectly symmetrical shape that's practically fully closed off. It's sharp, almost more like a crown of thorns than a halo. And it almost doesn't have any openings to let anything, or anyone, in easily. It actively discourages getting close to it.

And then if you want to get sappy about, which I will - Sunday doesn't let anyone in, with that almost completely sealed, thorny halo of his... But there's an opening in Robin's halo, and so it can fit around Sunday's. Something about him always being able to find solace in her, because there's room for him in her (halo) heart always, by design.

Anyway I'm not normal about them.

[pokemon-npcs]

… I forgot that dialogues change after a rematch, so it came as quite a shock to me when their script were different from the first battle.

[ganondoodle]

(wip) totk rewritten botw2 edition

rough ideas for the reworked healing system- bottles+potions are back and must be used in real time, cooked meals are not storable but better than potions, different types of portable pots?

wasnt sure if the portable pot should have different effects or just have designs you can change, but decided to add a few different types for roughly different types of players without too many options that could overwhelm but still add some variety to any gameplay AND a more meaningful reward for bigger quests!

-my goal with this is avoid the pausing to spam apples into links mouth to heal problem, to readd some difficulty with more limited healing in general (bottles must be found or gained as a reward, usage in battle like in skyward sword via wheel menu and then used in real time) and adding more variety via the design of the pots, a neat new item since they are portable (set up a campfire, then option is added to add the pot for cooking), and make cooking a lil more interesting besides it spamming your inventory even more with healing stuff AND add some meaning to bottles and potions again bc imo they were one of the most useless things you could get when playing botw/totk- which is why cooked meals are not storable but with better effects, think of it like a bit more customizable and zeldafied elden ring mechanic with the usual heals and the one time physic buff

so if you got into a bossfight and lost it, you could set up a cooking spot before the arena to give yourself a temporary buff via a meal and restock your potions for in battle healing and/or effects depending on how many bottles you have, if you have trouble dealing damage for example you can use the firey pot to add some extra attack dmg (and yes it stacks if you do attack effect in the firey pot it adds extra attack damage, maybe even with a hidden bonus)

(got similar planned for the parasail .. like dif types with dif effects like faster gliding speed but more stamina usage- one used like koga does in aoc that lets you glide fully soundlessly ...)

(legend of zelda)

(also no NPC will give you a shitty cooked thing as a 'reward' anymore, if anything its a bottle that you can use like in the old games ..)

[variksel]

yknow its funny relistening to s1 and realizing Fully and Really that if the dad crew hadnt played the witch is dead and if someone in the fan discord hadnt made a joke about the witch who they were saving having been erin o'neil and if anthony hadnt made it canon for funsies then erin wouldve died for Realsies in the ep 21 library fight because she wouldnt have had her birds to save her. there wouldnt have been any more erin in the podcast without a funny little discord comment

[cornflowersisblue]

Kar'niss laughs and makes other strange sounds, and talks about a blessing 😈👀

[driftingballoons]

Contrary is a fantastic ability

[dragonsmashorpass]

And now that all the polls are over... here are the NPCs from most to least smashable!

Arvelle - 90.9% Galore - 87.9% Merrigan - 86.1% Glass & Gloss - 85% Arlo - 84.1% Fiona - 83.7% Patches - 82.7% Pinkerton - 77.8% Sage - 77.2% Scrying Imperial - 76.7% Avery - 76.1% Upsky Dan - 74% Joxar - 72.8% Crim - 72.5% Windsinger - 72.5% Shadowbinder - 72.1% Roundsey - 71.3% Marva - 69.9% Tomo - 68.7% Susie - 63.5% Flamecaller - 60.9% Spritfire - 58.7% Baldwin - 58.4% Luminax - 57.9% Gladekeeper - 56.5% Higgins - 55.6% Stormcatcher - 55.6% Earthshaker - 51.8% Tidelord - 49.8% Arcanist - 49.5% Velya - 49.2% Plaguebringer - 48% Lightweaver - 47.3% Swipp - 44.4% Icewarden - 38.9% Edgar - 32.7% Pearl - 28.4% Scribbles - 24.7%

Congrats to Arvelle for not only winning, but being the only one to get over 90%, which is even more impressive considering her poll was one of the most voted on too!

Also congrats to Sage for getting into the top 10 despite not being a dragon, and to the Scrying Imperial for getting into the top 10 despite not even having a name. And not a single deity reached the top 10, with the highest one being Windsinger at number 15! And Icewarden being the most unfuckable deity, which honestly, expected. ACAB. I really thought Plaguebringer would have done better though! (Especially since Luminax of all things got a majority smash! Didn't see that one coming.)

Swipp had a rather poor showing, we love dilfs unless they actually have kids I guess. And the disparity between Spitfire and the other two couriers...the allure of his edgy color combo gave him such an edge.

And 69% of you wanted to smash a piece of cardboard. Nice.

[yourplayersaidwhat]

(Context: NPC's Father [Noble] has clocked that Psychic is not human because of his mother-of-pearl colored blood)

[Noble]: "So, what are you? You aren't an elf, or a human..."

Psychic: "What makes you think I'm not human?"

DM/[Noble]: *Flabbergasted*

[stealingpotatoes]

Do you think the rumor, that Thrawn ate the Stormtroopers he killed in the 2017 book, are true? Or is it just a storie, spread by alien hating imperials?

how did you so perfectly and accidentally nail the vibes of npc idle dialogue

[iridescentmirrorsgenshin]

part two of an odd textual mystery analysis (haikaveh focus)

(part one of my thoughts can be found here!)

immediately after wrapping things up at the house of daena, kaveh takes to finding alhaitham solely in order to tell him what went down regarding the book (i've heard that in the CN, kaveh apparently looked for alhaitham for half a day??? help. the dedication)

alhaitham is shown to leave his perusing of a book stall to approach kaveh when called, which is an extra animation? (for me this is similar to the extra animations in the flashback scene within their house in cyno's story quest ii, with alhaitham putting the book down when interacting with kaveh)

kaveh teases alhaitham, making him guess what he has in his bag - to which alhaitham goes along with, with his own dry sense of humour, guessing that it's the book, to which kaveh counters, but actually confirms by telling him that it's The Book

kaveh tells alhaitham about the circling of names being due to him as an inadvertent instigator, to which alhaitham replies that he knew something like this would happen, ever since he saw Kaveh having circled the murderer's name - to which kaveh questions, because kaveh recalls returning the book to the house of daena after doing so?

only for alhaitham to reveal that he read the book (previously?/after?) in the house of daena.. and that kaveh left the book in the study, after he circled the name of the killer. meaning that alhaitham saw the book that kaveh took out of the library, and was comfortable enough to open it, because he knew kaveh would be fine with it, because the study is their shared space??

(this reminds me a parade of providence where kaveh stresses that it's fine to look through documents that alhaitham has left out, since alhaitham wanted kaveh to look through them, but now it seems that the study is canonically their shared place? im thinking of kaveh's birthday letter calling it 'my' study, due to him being so comfortable with his residency with alhaitham... oh :D)

kaveh being embarrassed about being caught out, but not annoyed with alhaitham looking through the book. they really are at so much more ease with each other!!

kaveh then asking if alhaitham if circled a name, to which alhaitham confirms, saying that the second one (green ink... being the complimentary colour to kaveh's red ink okay...) is his, all in order to signal a red herring to throw off the people checking out the book after kaveh, in order to avoid kaveh spoiling the killer

kaveh then questions why alhaitham only circled one, in contrast to other people, to which alhaitham rationalises by saying that circling two names is more than enough to avoid a spoiler, considering that kaveh used permanent ink when creating the spoiler

kaveh pulls alhaitham up on this and says that alhaitham only circled one name on the first page, too, because he thought it would be funny - to which alhaitham agrees, saying it's more fun that reading the book, and kaveh agrees!

in the line with their new rapport in bickering in cyno's story quest 2, this truly is just inconsequential bickering, they're enjoying each other's responses and chasing it, not misunderstanding the other and actively getting hurt. they've improved so much!!

alhaitham congratulating kaveh on officially owning the book, to which kaveh dismisses dejectedly - the camera pans out onto the traveller and paimon, but we see alhaitham say something to kaveh, continuing their banter outside of the player's knowledge

this quest essentially happened because alhaitham and kaveh are that comfortable in sharing things with each other, and believing the other to want to share things, such as alhaitham perusing through a book that kaveh checked out from the house of daena, and feeling comfortable enough to interfere with one of kaveh's actions - using permanent ink to spoil the killer, in order to avoid spoilers for the next person, and, perhaps dually, repercussions on kaveh's part. kaveh shows no upset with this action, nor alhaitham looking through the book he left in the study

it nicely ties together the beginning and the end - kaveh and alhaitham dually act as the catalyst for the quest in their actions regarding the book, and we immediately cut to kaveh going to tell alhaitham about it when the problem is sorted. we start with alhaitham and kaveh, although we don't know it at first, and we end with them? it's an inconsequential quest, v fun, and v silly, but i love how we get lil insights into haikaveh's life in their home outside of the player <333

[chloefraazers]

horizon + animorphs dossier [ battle morph || bird of prey || personal ]

— Horizon Forbidden West PC | part 1