Tomodachi Sins
"Would you like to have a chat... about equivalent exchange?"

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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noise dept.
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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trying on a metaphor
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Product Placement
occasionally subtle

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YOU ARE THE REASON
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RMH
Peter Solarz
i don't do bad sauce passes
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Tomodachi Sins
"Would you like to have a chat... about equivalent exchange?"
This is the whole game after a certain amount of runs.
What I wouldn't give to see Aabria, Erika, and Lou's reaction to the suggestion of a Christmas-themed interlude after what happened to Twelve Brooks.
Gonna be totally honest
Before today's fireside, I had totally forgotten about the scene in the Kasov Collection and fully thought Opalthinned was a new character during the stinger.
How do you even read this thing
Yet Another Half-Constructed Worlds Beyond Number Theory
So, this is inspired by a joke from the fireside about sucking the Man in Black into the center of a roundabout.
Some things we know think we know about the Man in Black:
He cannot leave the road. It doesn't have to be a traditional road, a river for example is fine, but he's (almost) always on a road.
His domain, whatever it is, incorporates multiple seemingly-unconnected concepts.
Grandma Wren somehow trapped him for an extended period on the road in front of the cottage, and he was only freed when Suvi stepped onto that road. And it does seem like it specifically had to be Suvi to set him free.
Note: I say almost because of his talk with Eursulon at the well. I don't really know how that fits in, but based on some things Brennan has said, I don't think it necessarily nullifies my point.
It's not entirely clear to me if the Man in Black has a specific location, or if he can just appear anywhere on the road. If he does have a specific location, then just like in the hypothetical roundabout, maybe it's possible to trap him on a section of road by disconnecting it from the rest of the network. Again, how that disconnection would be achieved is not super clear. You could probably physically destroy the road, but given it doesn't seem like Wren actually damaged the physical road, there might be some method of purifying road back into path. I'm not sure.
Let's assume for now that yes, Grandma Wren trapped the Man in Black by isolating her little bit of road from the wider world, and that she managed to maintain that separation for the rest of her life. Why does Suvi walking on the road, Suvi specifically, free him?
Somehow, Suvi is able to reconnect the Man in Black to the wider road network. Maybe Suvi is a road. Obviously, the connection would have to be more abstract than what we've seen ("a river is a road made of water" and all that), but I could definitely see a world where Suvi is linked through the MiB's wide domain to whatever thing keeps him on the road. For example, if the MiB is a spirit of human ambition, the road to power and ruin, then by touching the road, Suvi connects his prison to another valid path, and suddenly, he's free.
Or maybe it has something to do with Suvi's parents' connection to the Near Spirit. I don't know, I titled this post "Half-Constructed" for a reason.
I also haven't finished 53 yet, and while this seems like a big reveal for another book, it's possible that has relevant information.
The Coven of Elders
There's an interesting alchemy by which, for certain TTRPG fans, WotC's misbehavior makes it more moral to play D&D if you're broke.
The logic goes something like this: WotC is bad, and therefore it is good to steal from them. Indie creators are good, and therefore it is bad to steal from them. Therefore, if you don't have money to spend on games, it is moral to play D&D and immoral to play indie games.
For some reason, the fact that this unimpeachable logic only benefits WotC and only harms indie creators is not relevant.
Always conveniently forgetting the extremely high number of games, systems etc that are 100% free
Some Free Indie Games
Interested in solo games?
One Page Left, by M. Kirin, is a solo horror roleplaying game inspired by slasher movies. You survive as long as you can fit words on a single sheet of paper; run out of space and you die!
Want to play as a group?
Cryptid Creeks, by HatchlingDM, is inspired by Stranger Things and Gravity Falls; you are a group of kids trying to save their home from something terrible. It uses a generative mystery mechanic that is super light-prep for the GM and encourages collaborative storytelling.
Want fantasy instead?
Slay, by Trollish Delver Games, is a stat-less dungeon-crawler that cobbles characters together using descriptors, gear, and skills. High-danger, rules-lite.
Want something more light-hearted?
Havoc Brigade, by Grant Howitt, is a high-energy one-shot about orcs on a special undercover mission. The game is all about "stupid plans and wild distractions", according to the game designer.
Want space or sci-fi instead?
Monolith, by AdamHensley is a sci-fi hack of Cairn and Into the Odd, perfect for a galaxy full of aliens, adventure, and danger.
Want something more collaborative?
A Perfect Rock, by Deep Dark Games, is a world-building game where you explore planets using your own personal rock collection, inspired by Interstellar, Subnautica, and The Outer Wilds.
All of these games were found in the free section of Itch.io. If you want more, you can browse there.
You can also check out some of my recommendation posts below.
Free TTRPGS 1/2
Free TTRPGS 2/2
Free Solo Games for First-Timers
Affordable Vampire Shenanigans
Reblogging for Free Rpg Day
Mokarun Prompt week 2025, Day 2: Orpheus and Eurydice.
I like to think in this version, Okarun's curse is tied to his music. When he plays his lyre, the mouth at the bottom opens, his hair goes white, and he alters the speed of time around him. I think he loses control of this ability as soon as he loses Momo.
time will tell
Sometimes I just be drawing stuff and it makes sense in my head but take some dungeon meshi shrek(?)
🐲Dragon vs Wolves🐺
(Read right to left)
spoilers for whatever the hell steel did at the end of episode 47
Long moments pass, the western sky is hell itself. You see, glimmering for a moment, a point of green light appear. Concentric circles, lined with runes, stretching some hundred and twenty feet in all directions begin to spin in the manner of a gyroscope of light and figures, arithmetic and language arcane around the figure of the Wizard Slain, who appears in the sky.
Lowering a staff of the leader of the Citadel's war mages, he carves a line into the heart of one of the shahoran, destroying one of the sorcerers below. Raising up his staff, he begins to abjure, protecting the war mages around him as best he can.
And the sun rises in the west. A sorcerer, so radiant as to blind you even some miles away, hangs in the air and extends a finger towards the Wizard Slain, beckoning him towards the light. And the Wizard Slain is unmade.
You look, and see, crowned in light and gold, a robe and cloak some forty feet in length, twisting nobly in the wind behind him - first one set of arms, a second, and a third, as Harmas Raunza, leader of House Raunza, appears, in visage over the battlefield.
As he appears, points of light begin teleporting and some hundred nobles of the House of Raunza appear on the battlefield, from across the wide world of Umora.
He points forward, towards Twelve Brooks. The dreadnoughts converge, and as he raises his hand, he opens a door in space. Hundreds of spirits, bound to the House of Raunza. The Bashaal - the spirits of those of his house that failed the trial of their ordeal to enter into sorcerous covenant with their noble lineage, who now bear the heads and wings of white eagles made of blinding light, wielding broadswords, doublehanded, curved at the end, fly forward, gushing onto the battlefield. A cheer goes up from the forces of Gaothmai. "For the Cauntaranacht! For Raunza!"
As the lord of House Raunza holds his hands wide, "It is here we make an end to their tower!"
A white cape, streaking through the sky from the Epiphany. A flash of steel, a glint of a sword.
A bubble forms around the leader of House Raunza, and a white cloaked woman with auburn hair, who hangs in the air before him.
Time slows. She twists her wrist, turning her sword ninety degrees to the right. All of the world is mapped out, like a map of the stars. Your own body is simply lines, and the names of your joints and blood vessels. She twists to the left, raising the sword up in front of her in guard position, vertical, matching her straight spine. All the world is rendered in black and white, as though drawn in charcoal on fresh paper. She levels it.
Straight out, floating in air, written in the Lingua Arcana, is simply her namecloak - "The Wizard Steel". And before her, the symbol of House Raunza. With her offhand, she touches that symbol, undoing his true name in front of her. She points, draws her sword back. The image fades. It never happened, it was just a dream. How could she have changed the nature of the world itself?
The point of her sword, at his heart. "You shouldn't have brought so many of your grandchildren, old man." Pushes the sword through his heart. Blood bursts like a wave from his back, killing not only him but each and every one of his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren on this battlefield, who fall like rain from the sky, their light extinguished.
The Sword of the Citadel hangs in the air as the leader of a Great House falls before her blade. The cheer from Gaothmai dies, as quickly as it was born.
The Wizard, The Witch and the Wild One, episode 47
(Worlds Beyond Number podcast)
Finally listening to the most recent ep of wbn and I'm realising that this whole time I've been picturing the man in black as Zac Oyama from his 2023 4/20 tweet
Mr Police
We gave you all the clues
Join our fireside already
Lou works fast. That is impressive.
Thinking about Silver's Namecloak
So, inspired by the whole "silvering a mirror" thing, I was thinking more about Silver's namecloak. Specifically, the fact that silver quite famously tarnishes, and the thematic parallel between the loss of shine and the Suvi+Silver breakup. What's more, the process of silver tarnishing has been accelerated by the additional sulfur in the air post-Industrial Revolution, and wizardry/the Citadel seems to be pretty much the magical Industrial Revolution. So, there's this crazy parallel between sulfur pollution tarnishing silver and the Citadel driving a wedge between Suvi and Silver.
IDK it's not totally coherent yet, but it did set off the gears in my brain.