I'm gonna share some random things that happened to me whilst playing mhs3 because I have nothing better to do :p
I think this was during one of my area-lock runs, I was playing through chapter 1 of Koras' side story, and I fought the Yian Kut-Ku that you encounter near the beginning and when I could finally continue progressing through if my nercella WAS FUCKING FLOATING! I'm being serious Champion said "screw it" and started levitating, and this has also happened a few other times as well.
ALL HAIL THE FLYING SPIDER!
Anyway- another thing that I encounter quite frequently is sometimes when I go onto land after swimming in mirror lake or somewhere else, Legend would just be halfway into the ground for some odd reason
Another time, when I went to the broadleaf basin camp, Chirpy was also partially in the ground slowly rising out of it, I knew he was weird, but not THAT weird 0_0
This next thing isn't a bug, but I swear to gog it happened, I'm not crazy
One time, I was swimming around mirror lake during the demo, and I went into one of the caves near the castle, and I swear I got jump scared by a green plesioth
I'M NOT CRAZY I SWEAR IT HAPPENED, I REMEMBER IT SO CLEARLY!
That's all I can remember for now. If I remember anything else, then I'll post it and let me know it this has happened to any of you as well!
I did a challenge for monster hunter stories 3 and imma tell y'all about my experience with it!
This post does contain some spoilers for MHS3
The challenge that I did was 'area-lock' and, by my own made-up rules, I had to 100% the area (as well as the previous area if there is one) as much as a I could before progressing to the next area, so that is every monster fought at least once, every monstie discovered (i personally got them all to S-rank), and all side quests, ecology notes are optional, I personally collected them all because I'm a perfectionist (unfortunately)
Area-lock took me FOUR ATTEMPTS, for attempt 1 I gave up on feral brachydios and espinas, attempt 2 I FINALLY beat feral brachydios and got espinas, this was also the run where Champion (nerscylla) was officially added to the main team, and attempt 3 was the same as the second one but I gave up on namielle after repelling it once, so I went back for attempt 4, the actual proper attempt, I beat feral brachydios and espinas, got Champion and Legend (as well as a couple extra monsties) and went into the unexplored cavern and started fighting the plesioth down there to grind for levels, I got WAY over-leveled and went to fight namielle and, thankfully, I nearly one-cycled it and when it finally took me down it only took a few more attempts to finally beat her, I feel like I need to mention that this took me DAYS to do, I've finally gotten to the end-game and I'm now a max-level from the previous level grinding and I have over 50 hours on in-game play time
So why have I made this post?
To tell y'all to NEVER DO AREA-LOCK, I laughed maniacally when I beat feral brachydios for the first time, I genuinely lost my mind because I get WAY too into games
Anyway, one thing that I will tell y'all for if you do decide to try area-lock is that tail stun, flash, and solar cry are your best friends and pray to the RNG gods (I genuinely think the game felt bad for me by that point) and monsties that I would personally recommend for this are nerscylla for feral brachydios and give a TON of thunder element attacks, I chose nerscylla specifically for the double dragon element resistance, ivory lagiacrus for namielle and make sure to give it solar cry and tail stun as well as a bunch of fire element attacks, you can also release ivory lagiacrus into sunpetal plains for the extra stab in your fire attacks (I personally didn't do this, but it is something that would have probably saved me in attempt 3)
I'm gonna put my own personal espinas strategy separate here: so for espinas, I decided my main monstie would be Legend (royal ludroth), and I didn't have solar cry at this point so I used heat shimmer and pet, so just replace heat shimmer with solar cry of your able to and I had Legend use heat shimmer whilst I kept using pet until the espinas woke up, once I was able to ride Legend that's when my main priority became staying on Legend for as long as I possibly could by using heat shimmer when I saw it was about to run out of dodge up, I brought Gaul as my ally due to Legia having strong attacks against espinas when it became enraged, I chose Gaul instead of Simon because of Murray multiplication giving debuffs to whatever monster you're against, you can also bring Kora instead because of her and Gravys high defence and when espinas is finally a low enough health throw a paintball at it, REMEMBER THE PAINTBALLS, if you did forget them the either run away from espinas and make some or set up a save for before you fight espinas so if you did forget paintballs you can go back to that save
The only reason why I did area-lock is because I'm trying to get AS MUCH AS I CAN out of this game because it seems like capcom is not planning on giving it a title update any time soon (unfortunately)
I will eventually make a random post at some point of things that I think could be cool to add to MHS3 (including ideas for potential new areas)
I may or may not have JUST realised that people couldn't comment on my posts. Like. At all.
Again, still new to posting on Tumbler, but that is VERY annoying because I have been saying that y'all can feel free to ask questions when I was, in fact, wrong
FUCK
But ye comments should be on now, so NOW y'all can ask questions and give opinions or just say random shit in the comments, do keep it somewhat polite tho and please be kind to others in the comments unless they themselves are being a dick
I have randomly decided to write about all of my named monsties from my many playthroughs of MHS3, and I'm also gonna include random things about them (just stuff that I made up for them, not anything game related) the reason why I'm doing this is for when I start writing fanfics for MHS3 because they will be included
This is part 1, I have many more monsties than the ones mentioned here, but these are my main monsties that I always go for (excluding Champion, she's a more recent monstie)
(And also from this you can kinda tell how much thought went into lore, I genuinely just can't think of any more lore for them tho)
I will also be using just the base prince and princess, Leo and Leia (twins), for these fics that I'm gonna write (eventually)
This does also include spoilers for monsties in areas 2-4 for those who haven't progressed that far yet, and it will also contain some story spoilers
Ratha: Skyscale Rathalos
As we know, Ratha was one of Leo and Leias' first monsties, and yes, they do share Ratha, but Leo rides him more often than Leia does
Ratha was the most normal out of all of Leos monsties... until he got reunited with his brother, then he became worse than Tarzan and Jane combined, but he is relatively normal when his brother is back home in Deaths Maw (thankfully)
Legend: Royal Ludroth with the fire element
The king had told his son, Leo, that he needed to have at least one leviathan monstie before he could go on proper expeditions, so with the help of Kora he was able to obtain a Royal Ludroth egg, he was only planning on using it for water travel and nothing else, but when Leo went on his first proper expedition into mirror lake he had gotten into a fight with a Plesioth and, unfortunately Ratha had been knocked out part way through the fight so he was left to fight on his own, but when the Plesioth had aimed for him and attacked the prince, Legend stepped in and fought the Plesioth off saving Leo and Ratha, when they got back to the castle after Ratha had woken up Leo told everyone, including his father, what had happened and how Legend had saved him, that's when the prince decided to make Legend a permanent member of the team, but surprisingly it was the king who insisted the the Royal Ludroth be known as Legend
In the morning, Legend will just be resting in the stables either until the prince gets to base or if someone needs his help with something, Legend is a bit more bulky than your average Royal Ludroth and he puts it to good use by helping the other rangers or just doing odd jobs around town like transporting things from point A to point B.
Legend is extremely friendly, but he's also cautious around new people, but if Leo trusts them, then he will trust them, kinda, if the new person does threaten the prince or just does or says something that he doesn't like then they'll see a side to Legend that can scare an Elder Dragon shitless. A good example of Legend going after someone he used to trust is Simon, after the battle with arkveld, when Simon revealed himself to be alive, Nowhere King and Jane had to hold Legend by his tail to prevent him from making sure Simon was in fact dead, Legend is really sweet normally, but when it comes to Leo there's no use in trying to talk him out of it, it's on sight, Legend wants blood.
Legend is also VERY good at dealing with invasive/feral monsters. He also somehow took down every Elder Dragon
Champion: Nerscylla with the fire element
After Legend had saved him, Leo had learned that even the lowest ranked monsties can be useful, so he went out to look for his third team member, he wanted a climbing monstie specifically and luckily he found a nerscylla den in the sunpetal plains, so he went in, grabbed an egg and was chased out by the resident nerscylla (thankfully he escaped), when Champion was hatched she immediately started to explore her new home, causing a little chaos in the process. Her original name was going to be Charlotte, but when Kora noticed that Gaul was terrified of this baby nerscylla, she recommended the name Champion to the prince just to mess Gaul (this is related to a future fic I have in mind, for now I'll just leave it to interpretation :3)
In the morning, Champion will more than likely be out on a morning walk outside the castle, no one knows how she gets outside, but no one questions it either
When Champion was finally officially added to Leo's team, she may or may not have immediately gone for the feral brachydios in blightstone woods, no one knows how she knew it was there, that was her first time going into the blightstone woods, that's when the prince learned that lower rank monsties can not only prove themselves as being useful, but terrifying, Champion is a sweetheart tho (when she's not hunting the local brachydios population)
She's also one of the most "normal" out of all of Leo's monsties, and I use the word "normal" very loosely (as you all know from the brachydios incident)
Tarzan: Bishaten with the fire element (I apparently really like the fire element)
Tarzans egg alongside Janes were found somewhere near the border, after taking care of them for a while, Leo decided to finally hatch the eggs, Jane came out without any issue, but Tarzan was a little more chaotic, he only managed to get his arms and legs out of the egg, and his first instinct wasn't to try and fully break out of the egg, but to explore, without being able to see and when he ran off Jane had to chase after him, which caused even more chaos (This foreshadowed what it would be like having Tarzan and Jane around Azuria)
Tarzan also has dwarfism and so far, it has only helped him with causing chaos, Leo, Leia, and Arken can't count on their hands combined how many times Tarzan has broken into the castle, he does also occasionally demand uppies
Jane: Blood Orange Bishaten with the dragon element
Jane is the only monstie that's able to keep Tarzan in check, mainly correcting him if he does go too far with one of his pranks, which Tarzan does immediately apologise if Jane tells him to.
I make Jane out to be the more calm one between herself and Tarzan, but she's not, when Tarzan and Jane were younger, Jane threw a flash fruit at the king and she still has no regrets, shes even stated to the other monsties that she'd do it again without hesitation, both of them are equally evil.
Both Tarzan and Jane can be found in the stables in the morning, having a lie in, and they'll only get up either on their own time or when Leo goes gets them both up
Burt Gummer: Rey Dau with the non element
Yes, I named a ray dau Burt, it is a reference to a character from a movie franchise (most of my monsties are named after characters)
Burts egg was just found floating around mirror lake by Leo, after bringing the egg back to Azuria and caring for it for a while Leo hatched it, but when he performed the rite of kinship nothing happened... at first, just as he was about to approach the egg to see if it was alright, he heard thunder even though it was completely clear out, not a cloud in the sky, a few seconds after the thunder was heard, lightning struck the egg, once the dust had cleared a baby rey dau was sat where the egg once was, Burt really knows how to make an entrance!
Burt is also scarily fast, a blink and you'll miss it kind of thing, and he's also (somehow) really quiet, sometimes Leo or one his other monsties will turn around and Burt will just be standing there, menacingly
Nowhere King: Magnamalo with the dragon element (I know I shouldn't have favourites, but I just LOVE magnamalos)
Nowhere King is probably the most unique out of all of Leo's monsties (I don't care if it doesn't make any sense i'm having fun writing non cannon stuff >:3)
Nowhere Kings egg was found in the middle of nowhere (literally). Nowhere King did, unfortunately, hatch a few weeks earlier than he was supposed to, and at first, everyone thought he wasn't going to make it, but he managed to pull through in the end and he's now around the same size as a wild Magnamalo.
Hatching early did also give him some disabilities, Nowhere King is Wobbly (cerebellar hypoplasia), is missing his front left leg, is unable to see out of his left eye, and his left horn is underdeveloped, due to this when people meet Nowhere King for the first time they think he's a Scorned Magnamalo, he's not tho, he acts more like a canyne than a Magnamalo.
Nowhere King also sees the world differently, in a literal sense, Nowhere King sees everything in grey-scale, and the only time he sees the colours we see is when he sees someone with either an illness, injury or disability, and he also doesn't know what the names of the colours are (due to not being able to see them) so he just calls them either good or bad colours
This drawing is kind of how he sees the world, imma be completely honest, the red part of the drawing was something I did last night because I had a really bad headache, but it's still a good example of how he sees the world (I'll do a better drawing at some point to show it better)
As we know, monsties are more in tune with their riders' emotions, and even though the rite of kinship wasn't performed on Nowhere Kings egg (he hatched on his own), he's still extremely in tune with everyones emotions including other monsters and monsties! He can always tell when something is wrong
Nowhere King is also a little spoiled, but this is against his will, Nowhere King would honestly rather go out into the field and fight an Elder Dragon than be given everyones attention, but there is one thing he never denies and that's bath time, bath time is sacred to Nowhere King, the only time he'll miss it is if he's dead or dying
And that's all of my main monsties, I will work on part 2 soon, and if y'all have any questions about my monsties, feel free to ask! :3
I've finally decided to fully redesign the light fury from httyd (because I just don't not like her design), and I've even included her hidden world glow :3
This is, in fact, related to my infection AU The Toxin, and this does also mean that the night lights will also get a redesign
I just walked out of my room, it's the middle of the night (like half past 1 in the morning), and my cat is sat on top of the tower of new settees that we have, his eyes were glowing and it looked really creepy and funny so I took a picture, but now I have a question...
WHY DID IT MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE HE BELONGS IN SOME KIND OF ANALOG HORROR?!
Do y'all ever have that moment when you're drawing when you've drawn something really detailed, and it takes you ages to do it, and then you zoom out, and you realise "fuck, that part was meant to be hidden by something"
Welp, I just did that, I'm working on an animation, and I'm currently drawing Fishlegs from httyd and I spent just a 'little' too much time on his tattoo only to realise that, that arm is hidden behind Astrid
I keep starting too many drawings, I need to slow down-
Anyway idk if any of y'all watch Anthomnia on YT, but if you do then you'll have most likely seen V2 of the gargantuan leviathan (if not it's in his most recent video) and idk why I decided to do this, you see my brain does this thing where if there's a new game that comes out related to the ocean (take subnautica 2 for example) my brain almost immediately turns the sea creatures into merfolk and the V2 garg wasn't spared from this
So this is what I'm spending my time doing now (I will also do this with the other sub 2 leviathans, just need to figure out the deepwing brooder :p)
And yes there will be a more gorey version of V2 garg, I shall name him Gregory (I don't fucking know anymore brain is gone)
Back on the infection AU grinds, and I'm tackling my least favourite infected to draw :')
This is my main infection AU for HTTYD called The Toxin and one of the infected is Hiccup (yes I had the main character be infected... and his dragon)
So, Hiccups' ability is mimicry, he can mimic voices (but not very well, it comes out as complete nonsense) and he can mimic the abilities of dragons, so when he first turns all be can really do is fly around, but over time he gains more abilities through observation
I feel like i should also mention that he's an ambush predator
Also if you see something he didn't have before, for example if he has the amber shot from a Death Song, don't expect to find many Death Songs in the future
I'm changing the classifications for the dragons and I'm bringing the Fear class back specifically to be put alongside the infected, but some individual dragons may be put in extra classifications whilst there species as a whole will just be put in only the classifications that fit the species, an example would be Deadly Nadders: Stormfly (in this AU) is one of few Deadly Nadders that can track things whilst other Death Nadders can't track things very well so she specifically is put into the tracker class!
Hiccup is in all classifications (due to the whole mimicry thing)
Extremely dangerous, will kill anything on sight
And he's also very fast (dw he does get nerfed in the first major fight, all I'm gonna say is infected fire go brrrr) oh and also the infected can only be killed by other infected
Anyway if y'all have any questions feel free to ask :3
Last night a giant moth landed on my window so I animated it, scared the fuck out of me and was just staring at me for the next 10 or so minutes
TW for giant moth for those who don't like them (I myself am terrified of them)
I was just doom scrolling and I look over at my window and this giant moth land on it, it looked bigger than my hand (that could've just been my fear making it look bigger tho 😅)
So I have an infection AU for HTTYD called The Toxin and I'm currently redesigning some of the infected and I'm currently trying to figure out a new infected form for the scauldron so I wanted to ask if y'all have any ideas for it!
I do have one form for the infected scauldron that doesn't really do much unless you go near it and I'm currently working on changing some details about it
But ye if y'all have any ideas let me know! And feel free to ask questions about the AU :3
TW: in these drawings there are crystals protruding out of the monster I drew, it doesn't have any gore, but I thought I'd put the TW anyway incase people don't want to see that kind of stuff
So yesterday I got my copy of monster hunter stories 3, and I have decided to create an infection AU for it
I've not beat the game yet, I'm currently in the second area, but I'm not gonna let that stop me
Why you may be wondering?
Because I'm crazy and have the urge to turn everything into an infection AU
Anyway, for this infection AU I took the crystal encroachment and the walking deads virus and merged them together to make this
I also don't have a story line in mind yet for this AU
I also may make a horror AU and a couple of what if's (this game may or may not have a choke hold on my life currently)
