Sanji mentions Zeff several times in his time with Ivankov. And it's only a few months before the Sabaody reunion when it finally clicks why that name is familiar....
"Zeff... Zeff... You e mentioned that name quite a lot now.... Wait. You don't mean Red-leg Zeff, do you?"
"Um, yeah? But I don't know what the hell you're on ab—"
"Scarlett Spritz, the little bitch!"
"E-excuse me??"
"Scarlett Spritz! She's that old fart of yours, the one you call Red-Leg!"
"......fucking what now?"
"Ugh, jeez, I have to spell it out to you. Okay look. Your dad, Red-Leg Zeff, used to be a well known drag queen named Scarlett Spritz. Why I even looked up to her! She inspired my look today, you know. Too bad she left the heels behind. Disappeared without a word. I always wonder what happened to the poor girl. She isn't doing drag anymore is she?"
Meanwhile Sanji is short circuiting as Iva drones on and on about the whole year that they were friends, even running off to dig out an old photo of Zeff dressed as his alleged drag identity.
"That was the straightest cis man I knew and yet he could walk in heels of any size better than I could! Can you believe that? ....Candy? Darling? Hello, earth to Candy-dear?"
No, no, no... she wasn't poisoning thrm, she was giving them a "potion" that would make them appear very ill for a while so that they would be eligible for skipping military service.
idk man like i am of course the number one believer that if you're raised in a very culturally conservative environment you need to put your whole pussy into deconstructing the ideas and flawed reasoning and thought schemas you were raised with and not just substituting one language of orthodoxy for another and calling yourself progressive. but it will never set right with me that "having MAGA/republican family members" is treated like a valid gotcha against anyone if they themselves do not subscribe to those beliefs. like yeah like 40-50% of the country is conservative to some degree. a lot of people think that shit. isn't the point that we WANT there to be more people willing to walk away from the political beliefs they've been raised with? why are we holding people responsible for what their dad thinks?
I've been designing a table top RPG with a friend, and it's just been released as part of the Breathless Game Jam!
A Breathless Game of Exploration & Survival on Islands Adrift in a Void
Scott and I both have a deep love for open world survival games, such as ARK, Conan Exiles, and Valheim, and we also share a passion for table top RPGs. We decided to combine the two a few years back, and A Song for the Lost is the result! It's not quite finished yet, but it's in a suitably playable state and we're hoping for playtesters and detailed reviews.
The core dice system is quite simple - it's built on the Breathless system by Fari RPGs. However, there's a great deal of additional content: management of a Refuge of survivors from a skyship crash, resource management, crafting, taming creatures, and random generators for both environments and creatures. It's a paperwork-heavy game, inspired by Band of Blades - a Forged in the Dark RPG by Evil Hat Productions. I like to think that it rides the line between being a "crunchy" classic RPG and the more modern, rules-lite style.
Give it a look if you're interested in this sort of thing! Comments and reviews can be left directly on the itch.io page, or you can reblog this with a review, or message me directly (via asks or DMs)!
And what, pray tell, is so wrong with that? Must a king lower himself to the vocabulary of insects? Must an academiac explain his reasoning to kindergartners? There is no shame in knowledge nor is there in verbosity. Quite the opposite, they are to be celebrated. But I guess this is the world we are forced to inhabit. This world... This planet, teeming with life and all its infinite possibilities. And you would dare dilute it, so that a simpleton's mind could comprehend it? I will not stand for this. No more shall a man be judged for his might, his ambition, his intellect. No more shall we look down on those who propose a mere thought experiment about owning a human pec9sdjv0 c9i2ewokhndvoi adsjvci uwqeowdsxujvnli ufdsiuljfcniu ofeidcvjpc9nUIODSuljvniuwqopisafjvp985erioewaudJHB9jrg8frjuv8ar9jvuw08rd9vujq35g89spdujigk[0e9ravjik0rvu9jq54w8yvh r8og;af9ukjgmoiaelgurj9g8zboifyhvlo8fivujawp89 OC:Ivjare0sd9oizl
Now that im so far into my transition one of my favourite things to do is to roleplay being the protagonist of a genderbend manga. like I'll pretend I didn't do all that and it's all coming as a big shock to me and i'll act out the awkward dialogue and even throw in an "I have to find a way to swap back!" or two
Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.
The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there
the species that can take you out are literally wizards with magic boom sticks that instantly wound you from a distance. they're mostly just scared of you though, if you catch one without the boom stick they're very easy to kill. also they leave treasure chests full of delicious food around where they live and if you're smart you can figure out how to open them. going into one of their settlements is basically a dungeon crawler RPG.
honestly i never thought the phrase “i want that twink obliterated” was like a sexual thing. like when i read the phrase i imagine “a meteor like the one that killed the dinosaurs is summoned from the heavens and hits the twink in question” type situation
Lumineon recently enjoyed a surge of popularity due to a recent romcom. In the movie, the male lead is repeatedly squirted by the Pokémon whenever he tries to impress anyone, especially the female lead's father.
Some Pokémon trainers worry the popularity may lead to poorly-bred or over-caught Pokémon. Others think the movie did a good enough job of presenting Lumineon as annoying to prevent trouble.
That's right, I'm still working on this. The rate at which I get to run tabletop games is very slow, especially when I have to (chose to) make an entire system to go with it. The good news is, the classes are (almost) done. There are currently six classes for the PCs to choose from:
Assassin - Delvers into the mysteries of darkness and shadows, Assassins explore the meaning of Lolth as the Underdark, the unseen that dwells beneath, the invisible that shapes the visible.
Berserker - Never ones to over-complicate matters, Berserkers embrace Lolth as the Bear-Goddess, and apply her hunger and rage to the obstacles that stand before them.
Cambion - Touched by the Abyss, Cambions explore the demonic power that gnaws at the root of their being, and unleash it upon those who would defy them.
Gelebrant - Gelebrants seek to answer the deepest mysteries of the faith, of powers that Lolth herself sought, and led to her banishment. While their theology is questionable, their elemental powers are undeniable.
Glamourist - Practitioners of the old elvish ways, of Lolth before she was cast down, Glamourists do not indulge in nostalgia, but exploit the benefits of long ages of elvish trickery.
Revenancer - Unusually, Revenancers are priestesses not of Lolth directly, but of her servitor, Kiaransali the Vengeful Banshee. They are accorded less respect than priestesses of Lolth, but their hordes of undead are most useful.
Each class has 5 edges (basically class features), 5 circles of 5 spells each (plus eight shared spells), and 5 class rituals (plus seven shared rituals). I'm still detailing some of the class rituals.
But, the problem - well, one of the problems - is that now I need to work on DM-facing stuff, like statting up monsters. Which has inevitably led to me trying to figure out the cosmology of the world, because I want to understand how everything fits together so the PCs can break it more convincingly.
This got long, so more after the cut:
So, broadly, I'm stealing some high concepts from D&D 4E, in particular the Dawn War between the Gods and the Primordials. I'm doing a pretty heavy scrub on the Gods and bringing in a lot of my own instead, partially because I've ditched alignment.
In brief, the Gods were born out of high concepts (like home, justice, fate, crafting, grace) and the Primordials were born out of elemental concepts (air, earth, fire, water, slime). They each constructed/birthed/subdued their own homelands, and looked beyond those confines, and found the same place, what we now call the Prime Material Plane.
The Dawn War raged for approximately 2d6+3 Adventure Paths, suitable for Level 30 characters, and in the end, the Primordials were dead, imprisoned, or turned traitor. In the process, their homeland was ruined into what is now called the Elemental Chaos, a sucking miasma that threatened to destroy all reality. The Prime Material was used as a metaphysical plug in the tub, dooming the souls of its inhabitants to be drawn into the Elemental Chaos upon death.
Now, the inhabitants of the Prime Material, the Primal Spirits, were significantly less powerful than the Gods or the Primordials, but they had numbers on their side, and more importantly, the Gods had little stomach to continue warring. By this point, the Gods were tired of war, and many of the Primal Spirits had allied with the Gods against the destruction of the Primordials. The Gods and the Primal Spirits made peace, with the Gods promising to help protect the souls of the inhabitants of the Prime Material, and the Primal Spirits agreeing to act as guardians against the return of the Primordials and the fiends of the Elemental Chaos.
From here, we emerge from myth into history. Many empires rise and fall, as the great heroes of the Prime Material tread thrones under their sandaled feet. The Unsleeping Elders, the Varaz, Bael Turath, Arkhosia, the Kingdom of the Chalice, the Huroc, the Veiled Empire, the Thunder Imperium - all of these are dead and gone.
The Prime Material has been subjugated time and again, but six great powers hold dominion now. They are:
The Empire of the Seasons, a grand alliance of elvish coronals, brought about by merging the Feywild with the Prime Material. Distance and reality are not the same within their lands.
The Empire of the White Hand, under the Wizard-God Asharkû, using the lore of slain empires to animate the dead and restore the vitality of its Mage-Lords.
The God-Eaters, the few remaining descendants of the Primordial Anak, willing to resort to anything to retain their power, their slaves, their kingdom.
The Jovians, fiercely independent hin-lords. When last they united, they stormed heaven and slew the god of storms, dividing his power amongst all of them.
The Men of Zarus, a mighty cult that has swept up many disaffected humans, promising a rebirth of the dead god Zarus and a revitalization of the old days of glory.
The Drow of Lolth, who have long gathered their strength, and have been forced to act in opposition to the aggression of Empire of Seasons.
The Prime Material is growing old. The prisons of the Primordials grow weak. The Dusk War is coming, the War of Unmaking. What Heroes will preside over the Last War?
☼ In the name of Lolth, I will punish you! ☼
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