#gtse

[doli-nemae]

the dinosaurs have come to dust

they died because we said they must

(lasombra deacon belongs to @voronyi !!!)

[awakenedsalamander]

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the dynamics between one of the Bound and their geist, the weird and terrifying intimacy of a body shared between its owner and a thing so changed by time and the essence of death it is nearly alien.

It’s the kind of relationship that is both incredibly distant and intensely personal. Two strangers occupying the same vessel, and getting glimpses of one another’s thoughts just by the sheer closeness of that.

From the Bound’s perspective, she is the specter always there, watching and judging him, replacing his conscience, since he can’t help but evaluate himself through her eyes rather than his own.

From the geist’s, he’s the still-beating heart that makes her remember the pain, the purpose, the potential— it was lost to her, but now he is what keeps her tied to this world that has changed so much over so many long, silent years.

Those perspectives blur, and while neither loses themselves, they do gain the other. It is horror, to never be alone; it is bliss, to never be abandoned again.

[redratt]

@pardy-dardy

dug up these sketches after our talk the other day! Geist 2e characters Frankie Delano (top) and Jordan Delouise (bottom) @ their moments of death/the reports about them

Frankie's Geist is Five-Star & Jordan's is The Saint Of Love

[kirkyardbones]

ori's ontological crisis. little sin eater problems!

[kitabasis]

Why does GTSE want the player characters to start a religion so bad??? Is it not enough for a krewe to be a group of traumatized people with ghost personas solving supernatural problems?

It seems like they slightly toned it down in 2E, thankfully (although I would prefer if they just had that be. An option rather than the default), but they’ve maintained the aspect of like….encouraging players to appropriate aspects from real-world practices? Which. Given that they seem to have had one (1) diversity consultant (Whitney “Strix” Beltrán), who has no connection I can tell to voudun (I believe that’s the correct term, please correct me if I’m wrong) or New Orleans Black culture in general, which GTSE 1E probably cribbed from the most (2E still does, but to a lesser extent)…I don’t actually remember where this sentence was going but I think you get the idea?

[red-shepherds]

A moodboard for my dear Asher. Sin Eater, man of many vices, and...not doing particularly well.

[lucislibari]

A final resting place for the Cog in the Machine

Man, Geist Underworld design is fun. This was a setting design for my game of Geist: The Sin-Eaters, based on the industrial and tobacco ravaged towns of Southern Virginia. The Machine Awakes within!

[xenadreamer]

One of my Geist players in my Hexvale campaign decided to take both the Key of Pyre Flame and the Key of Cold Wind, so we theorized what it would look like if she triggered BOTH of her dooms.

Geist 2e is real good y’all, give it a try!