#excrucian

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

[deceiver-a-day]

The Sludge of Heimsar Commana

• [x] clings

• [x] clogs

• [x] poisons

• [x] slowly absorbs what it touches

• [x] spreads

[dollynull]

Marcine Sarhild, Who Is Dying Of Play

[nichtschwertart]

Aaaaaaaaaa I just had an idea that I can't believe I didn't have sooner! Okay here goes:

People aren't usually surprised that Scarthas Gadhra always seems to have claw marks all over. After all, the mysterious hermit has all those cats in their mansion outside town. After all, whenever a new cat comes to prowl the island it's only a matter of time before Scarthas will attempt to capture it, usually bare-handed. The claw marks make sense.

Closer scrutiny, however will reveal this as a fundamental misunderstanding of the matter. If you watch closely, you will realize that a cat's attack never leaves a mark on Scarthas' skin. Any visible claw marks you can see were already there, somehow. But if a cat cannot leave a mark on Scarthas Gadhra, why are they always, always covered in scratches? The answer is in the Eide.

A Strategist's appearance is not simply a matter of their physical make. Rather, it is a reflection of what they dream themself to be, which is in turn informed by how others view them. The claw marks aren't there because cats often scratch Scarthas¹, they're there because among other things, Scarthas is 'that person that keeps getting scratched by cats'. They're there because Scarthas knows themself to be 'one who reaches out to help even though it often hurts'.

They're there because Scarthas has learned that to render aid is to make oneself vulnerable.

¹ Though they do. They do do that.

[jeeyonshim]

put a shirt on, corn man, god

[broeckchen]

Save your Tears for another Day~

I love how this one came out. @nichtschwertart 's player character Ildinia in Glitch, here pictured partying it up in the club with some probably very illegal stuff to unwind after a hard day of being a single Mom!

I love Ildinia, she's the worst. (Hint: It's Glitch, they're all the worst!)

[seraphicsmilodon]

Those Who Walk Away From Professor Lebereth

[X] — Walk away from Professor Lebereth.

[X] — Are removed from Professor Lebereth's surroundings.

[X] — Trip and fall through Creation, into the Not.

[X] — Cannot return.

[owlrageousjones]

I keep circling around the idea of Jonathan ‘Jarchivist’ Sims as an Excrucian Strategist, but also I have no idea what I’d even do with the concept beyond chewing on it like a literary dog.

But just... Jonathan Sims, whom Knowing kills.

Like, maybe when he slips through the Crack, he opens his eyes because he’s Jonathan Sims, the Archivist, and becoming was as much a choice made for him as it was made by him, and he knows he could never live without taking the chance to know what the space outside of Reality is like.

Except, in a cruel irony as Reality is wont to do, it turns out you can’t really live with knowing either. It’s hard to believe in a magic trick when you see how it’s done, and it’s hard to believe in things like Time when you see how it’s constructed.

And worst of all, it infects him. Now that he’s seen the ugly truth, Reality does what it always does, and tries to hide the evidence by killing him.

And so now he's plagued by knowing - cursed to die by knowing, always through knowing. When a beast calls in the night, he must seek it out to know it and die at its hands. When forbidden secrets abound, he must learn them even if it means being pursued by demons.

Jon being Jon, he'd probably abandon the Excrucian War on Creation.