#this isn't gonna make my next playthrough any easier

[byberbunk2069]

December 29, 2064 Some hours after So Mi's friends picked Veil up from the bus station

Made using So Mi's Apartment addon for AMM

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say, i heard you reblog a post about role playing games. do you happen to know of any ones that i, a beginner, could feasibly get into in this day and age? i tried DnD but a combination of not having anybody to play with (whether irl or online) and a dissatisfaction with low level boringness kind of made it fizzle out for me

oh hey an ask from 3 months ago that I didn't even see. hi.

ANYWAY. First things first, i cannot recommend @theresattrpgforthat enough. Ain't nobody better at recommending rpgs than that blog right there. Now, on to my thoughts.

If you want a DnD-like rpg, Pathfinder 2nd Edition is gonna be my first recommendation. It's harder to find games for on account of being significantly less popular than dnd5e but it's probably the 2nd most popular game. It's also completely free, with everything being hosted on https://2e.aonprd.com/. It's got everything except adventures, those ya gotta buy. For the next 10 days, there's a humble bundle that includes PDFs of lots of the pre-remaster legacy books, and includes a couple adventures, including a whole adventure path going from level 1 to 20. As a whole, the game is different to dnd but it's recognizable. Big fan myself, and paizo isn't a bunch of pricks. The setting is also super gay. There's a potion of trans your gender, and one of the main religions in the world is the worship of 3 gods in lesbian polycule.

Ironsworn: probably my favorite RPG, period. (also has a space version, that works the same way). It is narrative focused, and designed for solo play or in groups with no GM. Works just as well by yourself, as a duo, in a small group, or in a traditional way with a few players and a GM. It's structured around it's vow system. Your character makes a vow, you decide how difficult that vow should be to accomplish, and as you do things that advance it, you mark progress. Eventually, you make a roll to try and fulfill the vow, with the difficulty determined by how much progress you've made. If you fail that roll, it's bad. Cool thing is that just about everything works that way. Undertaking a journey, delving a dungeon, fighting a dude, it's all handled with the same system. It's a game about perseverance and struggle and relationships, both with people and with places. also very fun to play for writing practice. It's mechanics are rooted in it's setting, but there's no reason you couldn't play it in basically any setting. the youtube channel Me, Myself, And Die is, essentially, Critical Role But It's Solo RPGs, and he did a great season where he played Ironsworn, check it out. Also, Basement Fort on youtube did a duo playthrough. I've only seen the first episode but it seems like a fun watch, as well as showing off duo gameplay.

the Witcher RPG: i haven't played this myself or even looked at the books yet, but everything I've heard about this game has me super excited about it. the general consesus seems to be "yo this is wayyyy better than I thought it would be, why aren't more people playing this, what the fuck". If somebody more familiar wants to talk about it, that'd be dope.

gonna ramble about the rest much less, LIGHTNING ROUND OF RECOMMENDATIONS

Dungeon World: same genre as dnd, but much less crunchy gameplay. Much easier to learn.

Kids On Bikes: it's Stranger Things but as a ttrpg.

Call of Cthulhu: get spooky, idiot. The players are investigators unraveling some mystery or another, and trying to keep their sanity in the face of some cosmic bullshit.

Lancer: it's about mechs! closer to anime-style mechs than battletech style, from what I can tell. I've heard good things.

Vampire: The Masquerade: you will NEVER guess what this is about. It's a classic, it's great, it pretty much redefined the way I think vampires should work. The new version of Werewolf: The Apocalypse is coming soon, and I'm real hyped for that, too.

Shadow Of The Demon Lord: my understanding is that this game is basically "DnD 5e, but good".

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Minis FE Awakening Blind Playthrough Chp 11

I'm a bit late but we back! Back to plot and more marriages! And apparently a time skip I suppose. First up: Gank Gangrel in what was the most anticlimactic revenge ever, but Emmeryn's been avenged, so that's already been squared away, woop woop.

First up, suppports marriages. Maribelle and Ricken. Idk they seemed to be around the same age range, so I just went with it. Also Ricken and her interacted in story so that's more than enough inventive for me. Still continuing with the theme of just marrying as opposed to like dating or getting to know each other. It's a miracle any marriage in this game lasts more than a year.

Next, Lonqu and Cordelia. Honestly I'm just gonna marry em off bc Lonqu wasn't like, violently sexist to her. He actually was pretty nice and teaches her lance stuff, and he blushes in like their C support, and in a FE support game this is more than enough. They should get married soon.

Back to plot plot plot. Gangrel is backkkk.

Typical dumb villain stuff. Shoulda just killed us when we were 10 levels lower. He's so dumb. Uh, anyway, he is being evil and so evil that eventually the mook soldiers realize how evil he blatantly is, so they all leave.

This soldier probably died for saying this lmao

For some reason the game and plot try to make what Emmeryn did like a super impactful thing, but she literally said one thing about "war is bad" and then chucks herself off a cliff and its portrayed as this super moving and motivational thing? I really don't get it. I've seen people do a lot worse and it not move people, but I guess this is a kid's game so welp welp. Good enough contrivance.

I guess it's good enough to make our lives easier.

We finally get our dancer! Wooop best girl is here by factor of being dancer! Dancer important!

As a reward I'm gonna try to marry her off to Libra idk. I actually haven't checked if he can.

Gameplay-wise I was a dumbass and didn't see Gangrel's range and he killed Chrom with the leven sword, which I recognize from Smash! Be glad there's image limits bc it cuts out a lot of my stupid deaths because playing as many FE games as I have doesn't stop me from being an idiot. I think that's just a given for my life I think.

Anyway we win, I try to get some more lvls for Virion, and we finish the Plegia arc! At least that's what I think this arc is.

Chrom lampshades that the credits screen didn't show and we have a temporary happily after after where all the hets all get married and have kids asap, which I think is historically accurate to the end of irl wars.

Actually this does explain why Chrom didn't call himself this. Coulda sworn FEH said differently but I'm actually surprised they explained it, props.

Apparently ppl who play this part blind get jumpscared if they don't know Chrom gets force married here to whoever has the highest support. I knew this thanks to the power of FEH and memes, so I just married him off to first girl.

TIMESKIP. Chrom asks what his eugenics kid's stats are still looks the same but now he has a kid. Isn't he like 19 now? Did he have the kid at 17? Well I guess medieval times idk. Sumia, Chrom's wife doesn't want to bother mothering and demands to join Chrom in I think the next bad thing to happen.

Suma dgaf about the kid it's time to more fight. Who cares about postpartum recovery. Also Lucina's eye automatically denotes her as a main character. The benefits of royal wet nurses I guess.

The Roommates(tm) have married banter that's more emotional than any interaction between Chrom and his wife, and then we get revealed to the next Bad Thing plot.

Apparently this place called Valm is attacking us bc some guy named Walhart (?) is being mean and evil, I sure hope his motivations are like 2% more interesting than Gangrel's.

Virion is back and acts like he wasn't part of our army like 2 years ago, and comes with what I think is his retainer, Cherche, whom I recognize from FEH.

Anyway Viri here says that he was from Valm and came back bc Walhard and wants to help stop before he invades the world or whatever, so I guess that's our next plan!

Agh, I ran out of images again, but anyway Virion is being a weird womanizer so in response I probably will just keep him single, and then I get Donnel & Lissa support, Lonqu & Cordelia, and Virion & Miriel. More supports, more plot!

Conclusion: I think that's the end of Arc I. Gangrel existed to kill of Emmeryn and make Chrom exalt, and I'm guessing this next guy Walhart will probably do something similar? For now I'm focusing mostly on trying to get as many ppl married off as possible, but I'm looking forward to whatever happens next bc I honestly have no idea.

Hasta!

[secretagent9]

14 (What is your favourite moment in the game?) and 30 (Why is Omori special to you?) for the Omori ask game? :D

ahsjassa aNOTHER ONE THANK YOU

favorite moment, uhhhh! UHHH! there are so many, aaaghhhh TOO MANY. I CAN'T PICK JUST ONE so you get multiple, sorry not sorry. actually, two, I'll stick with two, otherwise I'll be up all night/morning, lol.

when Sunny goes on stage and plays his violin at the end of Memory Lane. just... not only is he playing the song Mari played on her piano, the one that's slowly been creeping back into his memories over the course of the game, but the way he just breaks down afterward... in front of all those empty chairs... and it's dead silent but you can tell that he's probably crying because he's doing the thing that Mari wanted them to do together and the violin itself has caused him so much pain and grief but it was a token of love from his friends and asagdhjakmnasj MY HEART COULDN'T TAKE IT THEN, IT STILL CAN'T NOW

the group hug after Sunny and friends finish the photo album. it was so sweet, seeing them all together again, and I loved how Hero forced Sunny into it (and the surprised look on his face). the only thing that kinda soured it for me was that Basil wasn't with them, so it felt... incomplete. wrong, even. poor boy probably wasn't in a hugging mood, but he sure as hell could've used one, right about then.

THE EXTRA SCENE AT THE VERY END WHERE SUNNY SMILES AT BASIL AND THEIR SOMETHINGS GO AWAY AND IT'S THE FIRST TIME WE'VE EVER SEEN HIM GENUINELY SMILE AND IT'S LIKE THIS SIGH OF RELIEF FROM THEM BECAUSE THINGS MIGHT ACTUALLY, FINALLY BE OKAY. a lot of things broke me, but that one scene was what had me openly weeping for a bit, when i got back to the title screen and could actually process everything. god.

ok so I lied, I picked three, I couldn't help it.

next! why is Omori special to me...? oh boy. we're gonna get sappy here, now, hang tight.

so, I love video games, but I don't play a lot of them because I'm lazy. it's easier to just watch streams and playthroughs (plus depending on who's playing, the commentary can really make the experience that much better), especially if it's something I can't see myself ever playing, anyway. but I love narrative-driven/focused games more than anything, so I'll usually try to play those if I hear they're good.

enter Omori. I knew nothing about it when it came out and only found out it existed when I saw that some YouTubers I liked were playing it. so, I watched the trailer and thought it looked and sounded neat, and decided that I'd get it and play it for myself, if only so that I could watch those playthroughs, later. I didn't want to spoil myself on it like I did with Undertale, another all-time favorite of mine. I wanted to play it completely blind and have that special experience with it that I couldn't be bothered to try and have with other games.

that waaaaaaas, what *checks* back in march? maybe a bit earlier; steam won't tell me when I installed it, but I finished it over the course of a few days. it's december now and I still think about it almost daily. that's... a big deal for me. huge, really.

i cried a lot more than i thought i would, playing it. not to say that it's hard for me to cry over fictional things, because it isn't really, but i was still really surprised?? like, i genuinely don't think that any other piece of media has affected me as deeply as this game has. in recent memory, at least. sure, it's not perfect, it doesn't reinvent the wheel or anything, but it didn't need to for me. I fell in love with its music, its characters, its story... and by the end of it i was fucking devastated, but also happy for the hopeful note it ended on. buuuut, i couldn't stop thinking about it. i wanted more time with sunny and his friends, i wanted to see them heal and move on; i was satisfied with the way things ended but still felt like i hadn't had enough because it was so... left put to interpretation. i needed closure, dammit!!!

SO! I started reading fanfics. which I've never done before. and putting my own ideas for my own fics together and! actually writing them!

Omori gave me the fucking fanfic phase I never had!! AND I WAS HEAD OVER HEELS FOR UNDERTALE, when that came out!!! my love of which is coming back with a vengeance, now that deltarune's a hot topic again and I'm discovering fics i never knew existed.

and maybe it's got a lot to do with the pandemic and life for me being pretty stagnant over the last couple of years after college ended, but I've genuinely been so happy?? having played this game and found this community of people who seem to love it as much as I do??? and having found all these wonderful stories to read and been so inspired by them that I've wanted to start writing more, which is so hard for me to do outside of fucking forums because my motivation is literal shit???! I've never been this involved in anything before, and for so long, and I don't see any of these feelings fading any time soon, and... yeah. it's a very, very special game to me.