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[beholdtheleaves]

Loop Breakers: An Evillious TTRPG

LOOP BREAKERS is a fanmade Evillious Chronicles ttrpg set in the period of the Original Sin Story. Here, you play as a character from Evillious canon who ventures into Court End to save Adam, Eve, Irina, and Gammon from their guilt and save them from the endless time loops. This module contains a mechanics system, sample character sheets, plot hooks, and setting notes that make for a playable tabletop campaign.

If you've always wanted to play in a ttrpg set in the Evillious universe, this might be for you!

[nosebleedclub]

What do you believe in now?

[moldpuppy]

self preservation through love

[sleepdopesmoker]

chupacapra

[guillotinedream]

Chupacabra as well

[escondidx]

[chaotic-archaeologist]

[outofcontextdiscord]

[fghjgkhljhcgghjvkb-deactivated2]

open rp

hey its me grimes!

[tamboochie]

[fghjgkhljhcgghjvkb-deactivated2]

on no! a gun!

[st4lker-deactivated20200823]

this is in the top ten tumblr posts of all time

[the-twelve-guardians]

Swellbloom Kids: A Philippine Mythology TTRPG Setting

At the beginning of time, the Bakunawa took two breaths. The first breath came out cold. This was the Monsoon. The second breath came out hot. This was the Heat Haze. The two breaths gained lives of their own, and started to quarrel. So began the endless battle between the Heat Haze Boy and the Monsoon Girl.

SWELLBLOOM KIDS is a tabletop setting built around Philippine beliefs and folklore. It features a colorful cast of reimagined mythical figures, from the moon-eating snake Bakunawa (here, a primordial force of chaos seeking to swallow all light in the universe) to the personified cold La Niña (here, a rain goddess also known as Diyan Masalanta).

The setting stars the eponymous swellbloom kids, individuals gifted with supernatural abilities due to being sensitive to the movements of the universe. On my part as a bipolar ttrpg designer, they're meant to be bipolar-coded - their mania due to cosmic El Niño, and their depression due to cosmic La Niña. Swellbloom Kids offers the framework of Husk, Breath, Appetite, and Light (inspired by coconuts!) as a way to build your characters, starting from their physical attributes and working inward until their deepest wish.

The kids have their powers to begin with thanks to The Twelve Guardians, who watch over the different parts of the year and form a zodiac of sorts. Those knowledgeable in Philippine myths might recognize some of the names - among them, the half-snake Bicolano demigod Oryol (here, the deity of love, beauty, and sensuality) and the mountain nymph of Mt. Lantoy Maria Cacao (here, the deity of chocolate, passion, and renewal).

The Twelve Guardians can also be used as Tarot cards, each having their own meaning and number as part of a progression. Tala is at 12, representing fullness and things coming full-circle, preceded by Magwayen at 11 (representing endings and death) and succeeded by Mayari at 1 (representing beginnings and setting out on a journey).

Antagonizing the swellbloom kids are the Sais Marias, demons created by the Bakunawa to act as its agents. They're loosely themed after the planets in retrograde, such as the tikbalang Huseng Kabayo (themed after Mercury retrograde) causing disarray and confusion.

Finally, for those itching to play, Swellbloom Kids also provides an adventure generator for an 1800s Philippines campaign, modeled after Noli Me Tangere and other stories set during the late Spanish colonial period. Be a Doña who can sing people into a deep slumber, or an ilustrado who can hear the whispers of the dead! The possibilities are endless.

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That's it for my hard-sell. Please consider downloading the setting, and if you'd like, comment some feedback on the page! Thanks for reading.

[insomniac-arrest]

I don’t put my mental disorders in my bio since as I writer I believe in the principle of SHOW don’t TELL. And boy do I go on this site every day and show.

[annabelle--cane]

evil victorian gentleman themed drag king called jack the stripper

[regicide1997]

Yeah I'll reblog that

[tevruden]

Dire catgirl.

[randomencounters]

Encounter: 1980s Sex & Violence Catgirl With Wild Frizzy Hair

[modismod]

What selective breeding took from us

[karekareo]

“Mothership” 🖖🖖

[gay-irl]

gay_irl

[kitsune-kaos]

[vilkalizer]

Consider: Hemborger.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

tape casette recorders are compatible with literally every. single. thing. im out here living in 2095.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

things you can record (audio only), simply by lying to your computer, telling it that the tape recorder is actually a set of headphones:

discord call

podcast

documentary

radio and internet radio

music, from any source. without having to download it at all.

music you make on virtual pianos/etc

noteworthy news items (fireside esque, interviews, huge events)

stand-up comedy

rented or borrowed media

any other sound your pc can produce

and with a VCR you could do all of this AND have the visuals as well… but an audio cassette recorder is a good place to start, since they’re small and simple. I would not recommend a boombox, because those are large and nowadays all very, very bad quality.

Now you may be saying “how is any of this helpful, I want a digital file…” here’s the fucking magic. You go into Audacity (free program), and lie to it that the tape recorder is really a microphone. Then you hit record on Audacity, and hit play on the tape, and let it play at regular speed. Trim and export the digital file, and you’re doing gangbusters. You’re cooking with gas. You’re thinking with portals. You’ve won the internet.

Congratulations, you can “pirate”* anything you want, and literally no one can catch you, because you’re not downloading in the traditional sense. You’re streaming to an external device, and that device is recording what it receives. It’s exactly like taping a live tv show to a VHS. This is a very low-key and non-strenuous task for the computer, since your tape recorder does all the work.

*Is this piracy? No. Well- it’s time shifting. Sort of. Tell it to my Steely Dan albums. Tell it to my The Sims: Hot Date VG Soundtrack album.

[browningtons]

[adaswordlace]

christ

[miyku]

Kojima…..please

[flavoracle]

Mental Crop Rotation

When farmers grow the same crop too many years in a row, it can leave their soil depleted of minerals and other nutrients that are vital to the health of their fields.

To avoid this, farmers will often alternate the crops that they grow because some plants will use up different minerals (such as nitrogen) while other plants replenish those minerals. This process is known as “crop rotation.”

So the next time you find that you need to step away from a project to work on something else for a while, don’t beat yourself up for “quitting” that project. Give yourself permission to practice “mental crop rotation” to maintain a healthy brain field.

Because I’ve found that when that unnecessary guilt and pressure are removed from the process, a good mental crop rotation can help you feel more energized and invigorated than ever once you’re ready to rotate back to that project.

[bomberqueen17]

: A crucial part of crop rotation is that the field is let fallow sometimes. You plant what’s called a “cover crop”, which is something you don’t expect to harvest– it’s there for its roots to hold the soil in place, and often it’ll be what’s called a nitrogen-fixer, i.e. a plant that can pull nitrogen out of the air and fix it into the soil with its roots (but sometimes it won’t, sometimes it’s really just there to shelter the soil surface), and then you’ll till in that cover crop, or let the frost kill it and the stalks lie as mulch, and then you’ll rotate productive crops back into that field the next season. 

It’s important, though, to understand that during the fallow period, no nutrients are removed from that ground, and nothing is expected of it. Whatever the land grows then, it keeps, and it gets tilled back in or decomposes in place, to return its energy to the earth.

We’re not allowed, in our current society, to just let our minds be fallow for a bit, to produce nothing for export, to make nothing that can be sold. But it’s part of good land stewardship, to give every field time when it doesn’t need to give you anything back. 

So yes, grow and produce different things from time to time, rotate them around your mind and exercise different mental muscles, take different things from your creative processes, yes– but also, give yourself a fallow spell now and again, and let the field of your mind grow things for itself to keep, to break down and save for later.