Swooping is baaaad

Characters, stories, quests, getting to kill things, I just really love video games, okay? 100% certified Anders trash and mage rights activist also please ask me about my OCs previously everlickedalamppostinwinter

[straytheskies]

its 3 am and im tire d and someone posted this strategy board in ffxiv and im crying

[msgrime]

The Imperial City of Cyrodiil

[katmorart]

[entreri]

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

[edoro]

In the fan favorite expansion of critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, Shadowbringers, at one point you go to the DMV. Not a regular DMV either. It's a ghost DMV. It's the bittersweet memory of a long dead civilization's DMV crafted from the mind of the only surviving member of that civilization, who is apparently the kind of guy who takes great comfort in meticulously recreating the fucking DMV. And you have to wait in line, despite the fact that you and your companions are the only living beings there and everyone else is a ghost. At the ghost DMV. Because that's what you do at the DMV, obviously.

And the guy's dead wife is there. At the ghost DMV. The dead wife is a ghost and he's the ONLY ghost who knows he's a ghost. In the ghost DMV. You make friends with the guy's dead wife (while waiting in line) (at the ghost DMV) and he tells you that the lunatic immortal wizard who's making you defeat his seven evil bureaucratic processes while you die of magic cancer before you can even fight him directly is really just a silly sentimental fella.

Then in the next expansion you get to live through the dead wife flashbacks yourself. You get to meet the dead wife when he's alive in the past, outside of the DMV. And it turns out he works at the real DMV, in the past. And he has pink hair. And he and the past-self version of the insane immortal wizard (who sent you to the ghost DMV) pull off a sick prank to help you close the timeloop.

Later, you run into the dead wife's real ghost on the moon, which is actually a spaceship full of immortal bunnies.

[plothooksinc]

#and one of the best moments is when the insane immortal wizard in the past#says 'pshaw i will for sure not become an insane immortal wizard. i would never do that'#and then due to Fuckery ends up forgetting all about that until he dies#and then presumably has a beautiful moment of 'oh fuck i DID become an insane immortal wizard'#ffxiv is truly the game that keeps on giving via @kratosaurioned

[unseenphil]

My favorite is when you later meet the past self of a -different- insane immortal wizard and tell him about his future and he's just like "Yeah, that sounds like sort of shit I'd do, actually,"

[theninthlaw]

Pretend I totally didn't forget to post this here too instead of just my bsky ...

[lovebreakfast]

gurl

[cattnipt]

dreams about heroes and such

[cosmicseashanty]

Quick sticker design to give out at the FanFest NA FSH aquarium meet up

[kakushino]

I'm sorry for tag but @solwithart this reminds me of your art 🤣😭💀

[catwings213]

He is risen

[onewingedangels]

TOMB RAIDER: ANNIVERSARY (2007) / TOMB RAIDER: LEGACY OF ATLANTIS (2026)

[rosmaryne]

DISPATCH (dev. AdHoc Studio)

[catchymemes]

[sweet-soul-brotha]

[entropic-introspection]

By this point the WoL can just go “I know a guy” in about 98% of all situations, but like the guy in question is

Just some guy, kind of the weirdest thing is that they know the WoL

Just Some Guy, but like. There is something distinctly off about them, like maybe they have been living in the wilderness alone for 15 years, who knows, but like. They do the job!

An expert in the field. Makes sense, you probably run into those saving the world and whatnot.

A world-renown expert in the field. Still makes sense, but wow you were not expecting that for your silly problem.

A world-renown person. Like, everyone’s heard of Cid Garlond by this point, what do you mean you have him on speed dial.

A world leader. You thought the Elder Seedseer never left Gridania except in times of crisis, but ok!

A dragon, quite possibly of the first brood or otherwise quite old. This feels like overkill.

Something you weren’t even expecting to be sentient, like the plushy chocobo and its robotic friend. Extremely weird.

A literal cryptid or person you thought was entirely mythical. Sure, this might as well happen.

You never meet ‘the guy’, because apparently ‘the guy’ lives in a different world/dimension. Somehow still gives excellent and applicable advice.

The WoL, but this time in a different outfit (silly hat included)

[entropic-introspection]

Sometimes I just want more things that are the WoL passing by Sharlyans deep in theoretical discussions about the limits of magic and reality and just casually dropping the most insane bits of knowledge

Like, “Oh, time travel isn’t really the best option for like, anything. It takes so much aether as to be pretty unfeasible, it’s hard to control, and in my experience most of the time you make a stable loop with the present you started from, so it’s not really worth it.”

Or, “I mean, the void between worlds is just that- a void. There’s some kinda weird like, crystallized memories I guess? But yeah nothing much.”

“As far as I know, wave-kin can fly because of a really weird ancient in-joke, so trying to figure out the taxonomy there isn’t great.”

“Hey, I know some Nymian scholars, I could run that by them for a better translation- no, not scholars of Nymia, I mean literally Nymian scholars. Well, uh, they were cursed. Um. Have you heard of tonberries?”

“Yes, the black mage Shantoto really was like that. How do I-? I’ve talked to her? I am literally her student?? Yes I practice the forbidden art of black magic, I’ve also got permission from the Padjali to practice white magic and I learned red magic anyways- yes, I know that one is a nearly dead art, no I am not looking for students.”

[a-really-bad-decision]

Dragon age origins is like…. You’re nineteen, new in town, and it’s your second day at pizza hut. You don’t even know how to work the register yet and you just watched your manager get carted off by the paramedics. You have no contact info for him, his next of kin, or corporate. The only other employee is the guy who’s been here for two weeks and is a bit of a doofus, and neither of you really know what you’re supposed to do now. You both desperately need this job though, and the doofus at least has a drivers license and *kiiinda* knows how to use the oven so you just. Shrug, and start taking orders and making pizzas and praying to god that the bills are on autopay.

And weirdly enough you’re really good at this: making pizzas and dealing with shitty customers and breaking up fights in the parking lot and pretending to be Duncan’s cousin on the phone so the utility company doesn’t cut off the power. But running a store is a lot of work for two dumb kids, so slowly you start accumulating a bunch of competent weirdos to help out, like the nun who left her convent because god told her to help you make pizzas, and the elderly school teacher who just survived a mass shooting, and the guy the papa johns down the street hired to run you over. And really there’s no way any of this should be working as well as it is - you’re absolutely committing fraud of some kind here - but you’ve managed to dodge the landlord every time he’s stopped by, and the health inspector never shows up to tell you to stop letting your dog hang out behind the counter and you’re all still kinda looking at each other and asking ‘are we allowed to just do this?’ before shrugging again and continuing to make pizzas, until somehow, through a series of unlikely technicalities, your doofus coworker ends up on the ballot for governor.

And after like five months of this the regional manager wanders in out of nowhere and you’re sure he’s about to chew your ass out for this mess, but it turns out he’s pretty chill and honestly kind of impressed with how you managed to keep the place up and running all on your own. So now you’re all thinking ‘thank god, there’s someone here who actually knows how to run a Pizza Hut’ only for him to get hit by a car two days later on the night of the Super Bowl.

[a-really-bad-decision]

Sten is 100% unchanged in this scenario

[vyco]

worsties