Background credit: @rroux Pronouns: He/Him, They/Them I'm kinda on/off with fic writing, I'll try to update soon with a legit schedule Disclaimer: Whatever I post on here are my own personal views and do not reflect that of my employer.
Been doing a lot of work on a big Mothership RPG project lately, and I had to kind of figure out a new mechanic that interacts with the rest of the module in a way that engages with both roleplay and the mechanics in such a way that they feed into each other. While Warped Beyond Recognition's psionic rules are the best example for what I want, I also don't want to straight up copy their structure. The possibility of creating a vestigial mechanic is not unwelcome, but I wonder how it'll play. Much to think about.
Bait for Hungry Hearts third and final of the romanceable monsters.
The Trickster. Real age unknown. Creature nature unknown, it's very close to technology and its body sparks with electricity.
The content of this game is for 18+ audiences due to its sensitive topics, fictional violence, and highly suggestive scenes and dialogue..
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El Trickster. Edad verdadera desconocida. La naturaleza de la creatura es desconocida, es muy cercana a la tecnologĂa y su cuerpo lanza chispas de electricidad.
Debido a los temas sensibles, violencia ficticia, diĂĄlogos y situaciones altamente sugestivas, el contenido de este juego es para mayores de 18+.
Clearing out this blog of old stuff, not sure if I wanna get rid of some stuff given a couple of things this dusty blog has been used for. I might want to do some stuff for Mothership going forward, but I might mix it up every so often.
Youâve never believed in monsters or the supernatural, but you do love a little adventure, and your best friend has asked for your help exploring the abandoned hotel deep in the forest outside of town.Â
Who could have thought that youâd end up catching the attention of 3 different residents who roam the empty rooms of the hotel?
Hungry for attention, fill their hearts before you end up filling their stomachs instead.
Important! The game does not contain explicit NSFW scenes, however, the content is intended for 18+ audiences due to its sensitive topics, fictional violence, and highly suggestive scenes and dialogue.
Follow to keep updated on the game progress!
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Nunca has sido de los que creen en monstruos ni en lo sobrenatural, pero amas la aventura y tu mejor amiga te ha pedido ayuda para explorar el hotel abandonado en las afueras de la ciudad, en lo profundo del bosque.
ÂżQuiĂŠn podrĂa haber imaginado que terminarĂas atrapando la atenciĂłn de 3 diferentes residentes que diambulan por las habitaciones vacĂas del hotel?
Hambrientos de atenciĂłn, llena sus corazones antes de que termines llenando sus estĂłmagos.
ÂĄImportante! El juego no contiene escenas NSFW explĂcitas, sin embargo, debido a los temas sensibles, violencia ficticia y diĂĄlogos y situaciones altamente sugestivos, el contenido de este juego es para mayores de 18+.
ÂĄSigue este blog para mantenerte actualizado en el progreso del juego!
I feel like you could potentially really enjoy cult of the lamb, if you don't know it it's a lil lamb who has to defeat a bunch of gods while they build up a strong cult following to unlock more things, I recently bout it and have been doing nothing else since(hardly an over exaduration)
Don't leave us hanging! What happened to Sparks in the last session? What's this about an augmented man???
Admittedly I have not been using this blog as proper campaign notes so there's quite a bit missing from the context of the things I talk about. I have much more notes in my Mothership app đ
HOWEVER I'm ready to yap at all times.
The Augmented Man was a source of conflict all the way back, over 2 in-game years ago, at the end of our first Shore Leave. Adolfo met with his ex-girlfriend at a diner to talk (about their possible future, which she did not seem to want to pursue. sad đ). After she had left, a man covered in military-grade exoskeleton and slickware came into the diner, and without warning, immediately impaled the cashier onto the ticket stabber. And then forced his way into the back to dunk one of the chefs' heads into the fryer.
Adolfo, ever vigilant, sprung into action to stop him; the Augmented Man would only reply by reciting advertisements, like walking commercials for Astroman (brand of cleaning fluid) or Clarion (phone-service provider).
The Augmented Man absolutely CURB-STOMPED Adolfo. He is our Marine. He's our strongest player, full stop. Adolfo could not stop him alone. Percival came in for back-up, and just barely distracted him long enough for the Station Security to detain him.
Just before he was dragged away, the Augmented Man spoke his first words that weren't some old product slogan, whispering to Percival.
"Who Is It That Drags This Corpse Around?"
And ever since, we've been hearing that phrase over and over and over again...
Sonia got a virus (right before our trip to Ukweli-4) that took over her command prompt and temporarily gave her a full black-out, which mentioned this phrase.
We eventually figured out that she picked up this virus from accessing the cameras in and around Avalon (the fantasy-themed Net Den Jonesy works at as an "artist", utilizing his Imagine Reality and Illusions). It just so happened that certain Avalon players haven't logged in for quite a while, three players in Jonesy's guild.
Jonesy also took off, asking his other friends to lie to Sparks about where he went. She got the information out of them eventually. Jonesy left to visit the Wattcolmbe Slickdev Office, looking for a glitched player that goes by Anzu, and perhaps to figure out where his friends went himself.
Sparks went to Wattcolmbe, along with Percival, Bob, and Rox (the Android Enkidu provided us while Adolfo is finishing the job on Ukweli-4). She had to get Jonesy, make sure he was safe.
The Augmented Man entered the building as well (either eventually released, or escaped), smashing his way through the first floor of the office.
And eventually, Sparks's skull.
We all made a big red-string corkboard to try and get our thoughts together (which I've redrawn, but is already a bit out of date, as we have more information now).
In the PokĂŠmon world, there is a wide variation of eye colors that can go from the common ones such as brown, blue, black, green, to colors like pink, red, purple, etc.
In old times it was rumored that encounters with Legendary PokĂŠmon would leave the person âmarkedâ, some saw this as a blessing and others as a bad omen.While there is no scientific proof, there are also some that suggest people with certain eye combos have affinities to specific PokĂŠmon types, are naturally good at finding evolutionary stones, or simply seem to attract trouble wherever they go.
The eye marks can be inherited like any other recessive physical trait, or appear seemingly at random. While there have been registered cases of, for example, trainers whose eyes took a rainbow shine after an unexplainable encounter or researchers who get an extra purple after repeated close encounters with ghost types, there is still no specific method that guarantees a change will happen. Â
The most common way these marks show is in a variation of color combinations, either constantly visible or a color pattern only visible when bright lights reflect on the eyes.
A more uncommon mark is shapes like beautymarks, but inside the iris. They tend to be simple shapes like stars, swirls, and dots, but there have been cases of more elaborate shapes, the oddest ones presenting with oddly shaped pupils.
None of the above aspects seems to influence the person's vision, positively or negatively.Â
The mythos have died down in modern days, but there are still some who strongly believe the marks have a special connection to the PokĂŠmon creatures.
The full drawing, absolutely love it, still can't believe how good this came out.
Amazing tutorials for drawing backgrounds by Derek Domnic Dsouza on youtube (cause I know that's all the comments will ask).Digital drawing of a dark, eerie, forest with blue tint. To the far left is what looks like a glowing, thin, figue.
This is my game submission for the RPG Maker Horror Game Jam #10: Theatre of the Grotesque and The Themed Horror Game Jam #21.Â
Unfortunately, just when the jam started I had a surprise moving , so I pretty much had to put this together between packing boxes and last week of June.Â
It's a very early demo! And does not portray the final quality I was aiming for.Â
Also I hope there are no game breaking bugs, I tested all I could but it is entirely possible bugs will pop up.Â
I have not tested the Web browser version nor the Mac, so if you can I highly recommend you download the Windows version.
If you like it a positive Rating and a Comment would be super cool of you đđ
Iâm making you all watch Hawkzombie play The Fool must Die, sorry there is no way out.
In all seriousness, very happy Hawkz played my game, you all should totally watch his streams, he is one of my fav game streamers and deserves all the support (and no, Iâm not saying that only because he plays my games, he is legit a cool, funny guy that is very supportive of smaller and indie devs).
General warnings for fictional death mentions, blood, killing, etc, your usual in the creepy pasta fandom.
I think the issue with Jeff along other classic pastas, is the want to approach them as ârealisticâ, because they are very far from it, that's why Jeff feels so flawed narratively, because through a real life lens he is admittedly ridiculous and hard to believe, especially if you add how he seems to be strong enough to fight Slenderman and other supernatural creatures, doesnât seems to age, etc.
My way of seeing it is, in the creepy pasta universe, there are moments where a human does something so horrifying that they lose their humanity and turn into a type of supernatural being. Think of it as how some people turn into ghosts after dying, but not everyone does, most move on, and there is no guarantee a person will remain as a ghost after dying.
The same applies to characters like Jeff, there was a high chance he would simply die after the incidents, but instead, he changed after checking all the unseen requirements to transform...
The moment Jeff burnt his eyelids and carved a smile on his face and got overtaken by his bloodlust, he stopped being a human teenager and morphed into Jeff the Killer. After the change he retained parts of his human characteristics, like aging, needing food, water and rest, he bleeds when wounded and his bones can break, but he gained physical strength, his aging slow down, he can lose amounts of blood that would kill a normal person, heals faster, and harder to break.
He can still die, but it will take a lot more.
Another way of thinking about it is with slashers like Michael Myers, in the first 2 movies the only explanation as to how or why was, he is evil, thatâs it, thatâs why he can take 10 bullets and keep going as if it was nothing, thatâs how nothing seems to harm him despite being just a guyTM.
If I had free control over Jeff the Killer, and how Iâd represent him in my art if I ever do, would be under this theory that there are times when after following specific steps, rids a person of its humanity and turns them into this other type of being closer to the supernatural.
The great part is this also helps excuse pieces of his appearance, how he ended up white like a sheet of paper, how he is not blind after getting rid of his eyelids, just why to his existence. Plus it makes it easy to modify other aspects that in my opinion make him feel weirder and more unsettling in a good way.
His skin did end up burned and scarred after being lit on fire, but it gradually turned white as time passed, the burnt hair turning black to resemble it previous chared color, growing burnt instead of healthy.
Perhaps Jeff canât sleep, he doesnât need to anymore, maybe he enters short periods of low energy and drowsiness and some sort of sleepwalking state, but he doesnât need sleep the way a normal human does. Maybe this is why he is so obsessed with making others sleep, because he canât anymore as payment for his transformation to whatever he is now.
Itâs so much easier for me to find him more speaking after modifying this details, because he is not human anymore, I donât think he should have been one from the start, he is an âurban legendâ that doesnât has to make sense, just like saying Bloody Mary in front of a mirror doesnât makes sense either, but usually people donât try to make it make sense.
I donât know if I wanna touch much on Jeff story, cause I never understood it and it feels like it doesnât has head or tails, the consequences to his actions donât add up, why is he obsessed with his new appearance to the point of carving a smile on his face when how he looked was never an important point of the story?
Why the out of nowhere âGo to sleepâ? Surely it is kind of iconic, but doesnât make sense with anything that happens. He never had any issues sleeping, it wasnât a relevant problem or characteristic of his life, like suffering from insomnia or maybe using sleep as a way of escaping the bullying and how no one cared for him.
I donât think Iâd take out the bullying because even if overused, it is a very relatable problem, but I would have changed it so at least one of the bullies survived the party, just to have Jeff kill them after snapping, sneaking out of his house after being released from the hospital and climbing into the bully bedroom at night to make him into his first victim. Then with the adrenaline rushing through his veins, getting caught by one of his family members as he got back home. Speaking of, I always found it weird Jeff killing Liu, he is the only one through the whole story that cares and protects Jeff, I can only find sense in him dying by his brother's hands because a) He rejects Jeff in this new found madness and so Jeff kills him out of rage. b) Jeff kills him because he thinks he is doing him a favor, Jeff seeing the action of sending Liu to sleep as a gift of sorts. c) Liu dies by the hands of the bullies and that is what sends Jeff over the edge.
I could keep going on but I donât really want to rewrite the whole thing afsgs.
But rounding everything up, I feel if the creepy pasta classics were tackled with a more supernatural point of view, and as unrealistic, exaggerated stories, which most of them are, then it would be more enjoyable instead or arguing âdoes it makes sense or notâ and âdoes this being unrealistic make it badâ, because let's be honest, there is a lot of unrealistic things in horror, but the point is not if it makes sense in reality, is more of a, can you convince me this makes sense in the world and story you are showing me.
Anyway if you read all that then thanks for listening and I hope I left you with some new ideas and ways of seeing ridiculous horror stories.
Might do Eyeless Jack next, I've always wanted to take a go at redesigning it, give me more monster and less human.
This year I decided to try beat the game jam curse and give it another go and hopefully shake off the creator dread.
So hey, third time is the charm đ¤
No name yet but I am putting together concepts so I have something solid once the jam starts, might go back to streaming the making of assets and such.
A game jam from 2025-05-22 to 2025-07-17 hosted by Beregon & BroodyGaming. Theme: Theatre of the Grotesque Bonus Challenges: Unlike the Them
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