#havocwords

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i dreamt about gw2 last night and now i want to play again. But what would i even do...

I have my one leggy that i wanted. More leggies are not a good idea to atart on if im not even sure how long the spell will last. Gearing up is nice i guess, could do that for fractals. Exploring and getting skill points on characters is also nice but it's sometimes somewhat repetitive. Maybe replay story... because I don't want to catch up on expansions yet (missing whatever came after EoD)

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plants photosynthesize chemical energy, right?

hc: sylvari photosynthesize magic.

1. they’re plants

2. elder dragons consume magic. it makes sense to produce minions that can produce magic For You

3. how do they glow??? bioluminescence is COOL as HECK don’t get me wrong but They Glow Because It’s Excess Magic Bleeding Out is Even Cooler to me personally in this instance

4. why does mordy’s mouth eat the ley energy islands. how did the ley energy islands get there? did it just always exist there and the mouth simply did not get around to its snack earlier (unlikely), does it exist there precisely as an Energy Booster Snack (i vibe with this one more tbh)? who put the islands there & what powers them? (i think. i think that there’s so much magic in that Particular Spot that it just Crystallizes into islands. it gets there through the Ley Lines. where does Ley Energy come from? many things INCLUDING OUR FAVOURITE LEAFY PLANT GUYS)

i don’t even care if these things are ingame canon anymore they’re now how things work For Me Personally. let magic just be an ambient force that science hasn’t advanced far enough to detect yet. let it be so goddamn intrinsic to the world of Tyria that it is genuinely hard for us non-tyrians to wrap our heads around. let it be alien and strange and beautiful and

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bf walks up to me w his noice canceling headset on & a chocolate for me, like 10 minutes after i finish a draft, so we have

1. must show off my Efforts to him 2. must communicate without verbal words

anyway i pulled this up on my desktop and mimed for him to look at it

and his face went O.O

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vague idea that i have yelled at horncleaver about but i want a record of it here as well because i think i am onto something significant and it’ll very likely make it into my own canon as soon as i get it out of the jungle, so

havoc airship. name tbd but it’s either something super on the nose like Havocbringer, something punny like the Flying Ascalonian, or if they let Sivris name it, Bolt (short for “one bolt away from being a giant hunk of scrap metal” she will tell anyone who cares to ask)

they salvage one from maguuma a short time after mordremoth. being on the airship (after the events leading Into the jungle) is scary but so was the feeling of being in the jungle and having so much Stuff surrounding them at all times, so the open air is pretty refreshing, actually.

i’ve been describing scenes with havoc as taking place inside of/in front of a large squad-size tent with small individual compartments, separated by curtains. i want more Scene Diversity dammit. an airship should be (slightly) bigger than their field tent. AND it can move by itself AND sivris would absolutely baby the thing. she would decorate it in her incredibly dubious style (spikes. it would involve spikes. and flags in weird places) and because no one else has the mechanic’s skills or sheer daring needed to rappel over the edge of the thing to remove the spikes, they stay. sivris is also temporarily patching up some of the vine-holes (just until they find large-enough scrap metal, she keeps saying) with suspiciously skull-patterned knitwork. (it’s ako’s)

they can take their airship places and they would use her instead of borrowing various other characters’ ships where the canonical Commander does in the story. they could (Temporarily) Adopt People depending on what i want the layout to be like and if they have spare room. 

this is an opportunity for me to come up with More Guys for the Crew bc we all do trust sivris but we also still want to hang out with her so we should hire someone to mechanic our ship full time. perhaps this mechanic also comes with a little crew themself. i’ve already halfway designed a romantic interest for tavryn amongst this crew and i am dreaming of this being the merging point of the vigil magic-user squad and the warband.

at some points they go back to the jungle and reclaim more ships, with their extended crew. the second ship they yoink will be the stable-ship, because that is Renfrac’s one and only condition for traveling with them this way and Scothin’s getting real glib with his asking about taking Elyra with them.

i am not at all planning out a whole airship village in my brain already, what do you mean, aha

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because lws1 hasn’t been available to (re)play for the majority of my time consistently playing gw2 again i pretty much entirely omitted scarlet’s entire shenanigan collection from the havocverse

but now i gotta.

and since the havocverse is basically my own found family wish fulfillment and no one is stopping me i think i will be adopting the scarlet plant and give her some therapy perhaps. maybe she can join sivris in tinkering with the airships once she’s recovered from her wounds and after mordy’s dead and out of her head for good.

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first drafts are for making your characters use perhaps slightly out of character language <3

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is it a coincidence that all the original Havoc members have a 'v' somewhere in their first name, or was it a thematic choice (by you or within the narrative)? - Weasel

they-

goes and checks

HUH.

no that was Not on purpose sjdfhgjh. i do have my own little name generator within my brain that i turn on for these and the names that it generate do have some kind of theme (i think it's a bad port of the fantasy name generator's various kinds of elf generators, with a sprinkle of half-orc) and apparently v's do feature in it a lot. i mean i can explain vikaros' v, that was originally an f, but the rest...

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i'm like five story steps into SotO so far but i already think it's neat

the character development of the Commander especially has me engaged like. isn't it a theory/rumour that the reason trahearne was killed off at the end of HoT was because he was above us in rank, and some people couldn't stand that/that wasn't the point? here we have the commander acknowledging that they're not used to not being hero-worshiped, not being in charge, not giving orders. it's weird, and when peitha pokes them right in that ego, the (lack of) response from the commander is SO TELLING

up until now i've never felt more like the commander was a character of their own, in their own right. sure i could make choices and sure they were always a helpful, heroic, powerful warrior, all of that. but this is a personality emerging through the quests.

idk i think it's neat