Susanah Grace

Illustrator for TTRPGs | Media & Marketing for Black Cats Gaming | Streamer

[cannibalhalflinggaming]

Solitaire Storytelling: CHVLR

DATE: 01/17/3728 Time: 1523 DESIGNATION: 09272024 UNIT: Paladin CHX-01 Today marks my first week in the CHVLR program, and is the day of my

"DATE: 01/17/3728 Time: 1523 DESIGNATION: 09272024 UNIT: Paladin CHX-01

Today marks my first week in the CHVLR program, and is the day of my first deployment to the field. My SCS was installed three days ago, and I’ve run a few training simulations, but it’s the first time I’ve even been in the cockpit.

The Colonel says there is no other choice. The enemy is here and I have to stop them.

Paladin initializing. Systems green. Forrest McCoy, signing off."

Solitaire Storytelling returns with CHVLR by @susanahgrace!

[gronzen]

CHVLR is also a great game.

So keeping up with my new apparent schtick of talking about story-focused games, let me tell you about CHVLR!

You're gonna die.

So, CHVLR is a solo-journaling game in the same overarching vein as Ronin, albeit in this world you are a mecha pilot fighting an enemy of your own imagination and of course for your own reasons. Where Ronin uses dice, CHVLR uses a standard deck of cards and a Jenga tower (or, if you're a normal person who doesn't randomly own a stacking block tower, an online d100 dice roller) to determine scenarios, moral questions, etc. via the deck while the block tower acts as a sort of "health bar." You slowly pull out blocks from the tower at certain prompts or add them back in until you either manage to somehow make it through the game alive, or more likely the tower crashes and you face your doom. You can of course play without the tower to make sure your character doesn't die, but I feel like that takes out some of the sting and glory out of it.

After all, how else are you supposed to die such a rabid monster that the enemy has to drop an entire space colony?

[susanahgrace]

CHVLR has been nominated for Best Solo TTRPG at the Crit Awards! Voting is now open, head on over to the link to vote!

[zegalba]

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[hachama]

This joyful person is Mark Kanemura! He hosted socially distant dance parties on Instagram during the early covid shut downs, and is a professional dancer.

[cromsferatu-deactivated20250915]

ladies

[changelingsandothernonsense]

New Ea-nāṣir lore just dropped and I don’t know how to feel about that. I hate the meme but the guy having thugs coming after him for bad copper sales is perfect.

[teal-deer]

Wait wait WAIT

As someone who hard agrees with all your tags re: tired of the meem

BUT who is also invested in antiquities

Is it possible for you to drop the new lore

[changelingsandothernonsense]

So the building in Ur where the infamous tablet was found (1 “Old Street” Ur Excavations VII) was actually full of similar tablets, all detailing how badly this guy’s deals went. All of these tablets were collected and put into storage at the British Museum. Typically this kind of thing gets forgotten about, many of these tablets have been sitting there for a century, untranslated or partially translated.

The Nu Tabletum

This was recently partially translated and it’s incredibly fragmentary, but it’s a letter from the man himself reassuring a customer in Larsa about a bad shipment (a lot of goods were missing). He is upset that the customer sent thugs to collect (which is located in a different tablet). In turn, he sends his own to the customer’s home. They are to make offerings at the temple of Šamaš together to symbolically “smooth things over”. They are taking an oath.

He later goes on to blame the customer for the missing ingots. He (Ea-nāṣir) decided to employ a third party to deliver said ingots to the customer (all the way in the next city-state in the Sumerian cultural sphere). It seems like the third party either stole or got into a fight with the customer over the goods.

Ea-nāṣir now has to haul his ass to Larsa to deal with this personally. There’s a lot of “Why don’t you believe me?” “They don’t listen to me!” “Please don’t send-” going on in the tablet. But from what I can gather it looks like this peace offering (making an oath at the temple of Šamaš) broke down too. Everyone is blaming each other for the missing copper ingots and now the man himself has to take the three-day journey to sort out this issue. We have a name for one of the thugs: Mr. Shorty (kurûm). He seems to be a bit scary. The man from Dilmun got kicked out of the Merchant’s Guild for a reason, he’s had this problem before with copper shipments from Elam. Either he’s the world’s worst judge of character or he’s embezzling, and badly. This is his side hustle stage where he’s selling everything from used clothing to speculating (badly) on real estate. He may have dabbled in money lending too. He’s your classic failed finance bro.

[jawsstone]

Give that Wolf a Banana

Subwoolfer

[jawsstone]

Now that Eurovision is coming around again, reminder that last year I drew the best thing Norway ever sent!

[chvlr-only-option]

I thought I was going to go to high school. It was time for Final Exams and I was a junior. It was time to fill out applications for scholarships to go to college.

I wasn't paying attention to the news... obviously. My dad opened the door and these guys with black vests and huge guns rushed in. One of them pushed dad against the wall. All I can say is "Oh my god!" Again and again.

I turned to run but they were already behind me.

They didn't say anything. They just pushed me out of the house after confirming my name. My dad said this was a mistake and he'd correct it. That everything would be OK.

But it wasn't a mistake.

A terrorist attack from the Southern Cross had managed to kill all of the graduating pilots of CHVLR. I didn't know it, but I was their second choice for pilot based on a simple blood test.

Now I was their only option.

5/4/2023 3:17 pm

Designation: Amb57.89

Unit: DRGN12

I'm supposed to talk into this thing.

(Silence)

I don't want to do to this...

Journal abruptly ends.

[susanahgrace]

Check out this amazing playthrough of CHVLR! Such beautifully written drama!!

[justsomeguypoll]

JUST SOME GUY: ROUND 1

Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100) vs. Miles O'Brien (Star Trek)

Reasons provided for Reigen Arataka:

he says things like "hey, children shouldnt be doing this" and "you know kidnapping is illegal right" in a shounen anime.

He’s really just A Guy surrounded by kids with fantastical powers. He keeps running into these weird supernatural situations because he’s involved with espers but he’ll respond to the supernatural problems with ideas like “let’s just leave” or “lets call the police.” Reigen is the epitome of a normal guy who was dropped into a world full of people with super powers and just has to deal with it the best he can.

Reasons provided for Miles O'Brien:

Miles' whole career is built on being your friendly neighborhood Starfleet engineer who just wants to be left alone with his wife and child, but despite his best efforts horrible things keep happening to him. He is an everyman who just wants to drink synthale and play darts with his more homoerotic friends, and we love that for him. He's the most Just Some Guy you could possibly get. 

Poor man is surrounded by the weirdest bunch of people in the quadrant including Literal Space Jesus, gelatinous shape shifting batman, infamous sex symbol trans worm, a former terrorist and a (secretly illegal) augmented human. Meanwhile O’Brien is just Some Bloke trying to fix replicators at 2 in the morning while there’s a literal space war happening outside

Which one of them is the most Just Some Guy?

Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100)

Miles O'Brien (Star Trek)

Voting ended onApr 6, 2023

[susanahgrace]

CHVLR: A Wretched & Alone Game by Susanah Grace

Just get in the robot.

Hey! I made a game!

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CHVLR is a journaling game about the terrible cost of war and the scars it leaves on those chosen to fight it. It is a game about violence. It is a game about fear.

But most of all, it is a game about hope. Its power and its absence.

Using the Wretched & Alone system, you play as the newest recruit to an experimental military program. You are a teenager, barely into your adolescence before you are chosen, or perhaps forced, to pilot a colossal bipedal robot known as a CHVLR(Chevalier, pronounced "shuh" + "VAL" + "ee" + "ay").

There has been little in the way of training. You are the only one that can pilot this machine - you are the only one with the ability to command its power. Now it is time for you to take to the field.

You will see and do terrible things. You will kill.

Few can truly prepare for the burden that such a responsibility places on your mind and your body. You are so young, and so much rests on your shoulders.

[dsnnatroy]

Donna in Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #8

[thecollectibles]

Art by Sofia Scogli

[cryptid-sighting]

[sennamaticart]

Joust ⚔

[cryptotheism]

In the 6th century, there was an evil whale named "The Purple One" who was famous for seemingly intentionally seeking out and destroying Byzantine ships

[prohaloplayer-deactivated202601]

i love that beaching wasn't enough for them those locals had fucking beef to settle

[cryptotheism]

Some mfers just started biting

[cheddar-baby]