Caitiff

World of Darkness and Honkai Star rail posting, Them/They

[cr4z1]

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The mind of the average hunter

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My reaction to the Hunter: the Reckoning game leaks after Vtm:B was shafted twice, and WtA doesn't even have any good games outside of visual novels

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HAHAHAHA

Well, it turns out Werewolf the Apocalypse; Rageborn is a pretty nice looking top down indie game currently in development.

And it's not a visual novel !!! (as much as i loved heart of the forest)

Hopefully, it goes well for our sakes.

But what it does mean is that VtM is the only WoD IP that's getting fucked like this 😭...

If you ignore wraith and mage and demon and changeling and promethean and mummy and gheist (yes, im counting them separately).

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HOLY SHIT

VTM CRPG

VTM CRPG

ITS ALL I EVER WANTED PLEASE

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

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Sunday needs to be in the G.O.A.T discussion

Nobody mentions that man was ascending to godhood, like ever.

Sunday inadvertenly created his own path, and was becoming an aeon for that very path all on his own, through sheer conviction.

we had to petition 1 current aeon and 1 dead aeon to stop his ascension, and i nobody talks about this.

i mean i feel kinda bad, we sorta robbed him of his shining acheivement all things considered. but on that note ruan mei has been trying to become an aeon for like her entire life and she had 0 clue how to acheive it, her best bet was to usurp an exsting path with an already dead aeon nobody even considered creating your own path but sunday did it (until we destroyed it, but is existed breifly).

But also we sicced the power of like 3 different paths, a stellaron, all the galaxy rangers on him and hit him with the express and he's not even all that injured.

everyone is stuck talking about washed up emenators when we have the goat sunday charmony bird sunday in the express smh.

also "the path of conquest" goes so hard, i weep because we will never see conquest pathstriders ever

this is tangentially related to planarcadia because people have been asking "what happens to Aha if they stop being an aeon" but like we have sunday as precedent

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Arlan finally powercrept?

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A few months ago, i decided to start making a ttrpg (a little out of spite, a little for a hidden second reason, mainly because i like world building).

I just started thinking about classes now. It took me a little bit to figure out how i would justify them and ended up doing more reading than i expected.

The general gist of the setting is that you are strengthening your soul as it's the only thing you can ever truly own, and through strengthening your soul, it strengthens your body as the container for that soul.

Coming up with the idea of soul classes is a little hard, not in the way that its difficult to think of them but more in the way that you're inadvertently saying something with each one.

In an attempt to stay away from some kind of bleak determinism of the soul, it was important to preface the idea of these classes with a different kind of philosophy.

Quoting French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, "we have no other continuities apart from those of our thousands of component habits, which forms within us so many superstitious and contemplative selves"

Rather than insinuate that the soul had any innate inclination, or on the opposite end, say that you just choose the inclination of your person like it's a job in some ritual, ive decided to take a fairly obvious path in saying you define your own soul over time and over a thousand little choices.

In text, at least. Mechanically, you are picking it like a job, unless of course i had thought of a good way to make it a journey without making it super annoying to create a character and not have a class until like the third session.

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Does anyone ever wonder if vampires (Tsmincze especially) need to live like that?

I kinda took it as a given, but i was thinking about it, and they have stronger senses of smell than mortals, and rotting corpses still smell unpleasant.

This is kinda based on andrei's house in VTMB:1, like going through it all and listening to the flies buzz around. i was thinking like damn, i know it smells crazy in here.

Also, the vampire sex with blood, my bed is so expensive, and i can't for the life of me get any blood out of my clothing, so i know that just ruined the mattress

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My reaction to the Hunter: the Reckoning game leaks after Vtm:B was shafted twice, and WtA doesn't even have any good games outside of visual novels

[beneath-the-masq]

HAHAHAHA

Well, it turns out Werewolf the Apocalypse; Rageborn is a pretty nice looking top down indie game currently in development.

And it's not a visual novel !!! (as much as i loved heart of the forest)

Hopefully, it goes well for our sakes.

But what it does mean is that VtM is the only WoD IP that's getting fucked like this 😭...

If you ignore wraith and mage and demon and changeling and promethean and mummy and gheist (yes, im counting them separately).

[kris29301]

thank you 5 mutuals who like every stupid post i make i love you

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I've been getting super into warframe lately, like maybe worryingly so, i blitzed through like 13 years of expansions in 2 weeks.

When i was in the academy, there was this girl in my classes whose legs were different sizes. It wasn't especially noticeable if you saw them, but she had the most distinct gait i know because of it.

Im saying this because I recently completed the grind for Xaku, who is one of the most unique looking frames DE has made.

Light spoilers ahead

When you think of warframes its better to think of them as people rather than robots, mainly because they are people and not robots.

Xaku is the only warframe referred to using They/Them pronouns because they are 3 people, but they are 3 people in the same way Frankensteins monster was 7+ people; Xaku is an amalgamation of warframes that had been lost, merged together and brought back so they still function, serving long past death.

The process of becoming a warframe is already horrifying to begin with, the body being twisted into something else entirely and all. But at least it's still your body.

The process behind the creation of Frankensteins monster was also horrifying but at least each piece of the monster was selected to compliment each other piece, the monster was stitched together but it was created with intent.

Xaku is neither of those things. Each part is already a twisted piece of an original person, but they were stitched together randomly. The pieces dont match each other. specifically for this post; Xakus legs don't match and not only do they not match they are not the same size.

One foot is permanently on tip toes; the musculature is entirely different. Actually, no bodypart matches another. A mans leg on one side and a womans on the other. Their torso is female, except the right pectoral and arm is a mans, and it seems like their single breast is stitched from 2 different women. Their head is almost whole, but the face was carved out and replaced with someone elses.

You can tell in the designs of other warframes that they are wearing clothes, Xaku is naked, completely naked, their chassis textured like you can see the veins in their skin, you can see the nipple in their singular breast (the male half is censored smh).

And there's still more because underneath all of that, they are a skeleton! They can take off their flesh and run around as a skeleton isnt that just delightful

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The Japanese VTM v5 book cover honestly makes it look like a totally different game

I love how all the kine are juxtaposed from the kindred in this, not just because all the kindred are bathed in red light but because they are all walking against the flow of the living

It's drawn in such a way that all the mortals are displayed as a faceless mob, with only vampires having the agency to walk against that flow. So even without the red light, you could probably figure out who's what.

It makes me wonder how a mage, a hunter, or a garaou would be depicted in this crowd. Would they be walking with the flow of regular mortals? Would they be stood still?

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Something that would get me is seeing overweight vamp OC's because for a long time, i genuinely didn't even consider the option.

Like i got into WoD through VTMB: 1, which was a product of its time in that it's that very white cocaine-chic early 2000's aesthetic, and that's been my frame of reference for what the world of darkness looks like for years.

I didn't exactly think they needed to have the tiniest waists ever, but it was all i knew, so i just didn't consider the alternatives

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I've been homebrewing this idea for a malk whose derangement is suped up emotional repression.

At random, for an indeterminate amount of time, this malk would feel nothing whatsoever, no urge to feed if hungry, complete silence from the madness network, not even any sense of self-preservation, etc.

Then, at the end of that period, everything the malk would have/should have felt will be felt all at once, and then some.

The idea of a guy who's been forced to repress his emotions for his whole life and upon being embraced doesn't feel anything until about it for days. He's introduced to his new "life," brought before a court that is trying to figure out what's wrong with him and if it could be leveraged against his sire or himself for anything worthwile and put under even harsher scrutiny when they cant find anything wrong.

Until one night, the entire emotional impact of everything hits at once;

He's dead, he cant talk to any of his friends or family, he's been turned into this abomination, there are others in his head, that hes been forced into the worst kind of heirarcical society, the fact hes at the rock bottom and the knowledge that being this creature is forever all hits immediately in one instant and he has to keep it together.

I think that's a super compelling character, but also one that im not sure i could even roleplay well.

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I think the funniest thing about VtM is that at some point you kinda forget that at a baseline your a morally reprehensible parasite.

Like sometimes i'll be really deep into a campaign and hunters will show up, and i'll be like "what the hell man,im not even hurting anyone" because my threshold for what counts as "hurting" has been elevated waaaaay past normal levels.

And like i'll take a step back and think about it for a second and be like, you know what im on like 6 humanity and ive been doing some shit this is fair.

This has kinda spilled outside of roleplay a little and i dont like playing hunters all that much now.

[idlethr]

mind of Malkav, soul of a diablerist

[hanasauria]

First drawing of the year! Last year was difficult but work doesn't wait, as a Lasombra Demian has a lot of work to do (apart from planning his chaotic schemes) He hopes to see you all at the next clan meeting

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They really upped the quality this patch

The way they frame dialouge, the new camera angles, the cutaways, everything being fully voiced and the new animations during text dialouge as well really improve how its recived.

Thank god they took the feedback from Amphoreus, if the story was told with this much charm people wouldnt complain about the story quests being 10 hours each.