#pulmonary-poultry

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

About Eonera: what are some of the major factions in power and/or causing trouble?

Of the ones I can talk about:

The Mallean Society: A secret society bent on keeping the world stable. They tend to crop up whenever there’s a big threat to the world, either temporally, existentially, or magically. The organization is run by a Neutral aligned beholder.

The Narian Magocracy: This is quite possibly the most powerful nation in Eonera. This society has encouraged magic to flourish, which has its own dangers, but has overall enriched the lives of those living within. While they are not expansionist (any more) at all, they possess quite a lot of power.

The Five Nations: If these 5 nations that once belonged to a single empire could come together, they would have enough power to possibly rival the Magocracy. They can’t stop fighting each other, though. It’s a sibling rivalry thing.

The Order of the Crow: This faction, newly renamed under the head of the order Corby, is focused on monster hunting. While they really only have regional power, some of the biggest badasses in monster hunting (read: blood hunters) receive their training here.

[jakey-beefed-it]

What size ball bearings do you use for the Citadel paint pots?

I know basically fuckall about ball bearings, but according to the order they’re 3/16″ or grade 25. I feel like they’re a good size to use as agitators in dropper bottles, maybe slightly small to work optimally in citadel paint pots. So if you’re ordering for that specifically, maybe go one size larger? like 1/4″?

[twerkyvulture]

On all levels including physical, Danny DeVito is a macaroni penguin. Big thanks to @pulmonary-poultry for requesting him as an animal because I've been thinking about the resemblance for years.

[tyrantisterror]

pulmonary-poultry replied to your post: I tried to read Eragon way back when it was the...

I feel like the biggest flaw is that the author obviously has some skill with complex worldbuilding but plays it safe by making everything Standard Western Fantasy Setting

I’m not sure he did - most of his world building was just cobbled together from Tolkien, Star Wars, and a dash of Tales from Earthsea.  Which, y’know, is fine when you’re a teenager - I think most if not all writers begin by mixing pieces of different stories they like to make something new-ish, and most young writers’ stories are very obvious in that just as Eragon is.

If he had kept that world to himself and honed it for, like, seven more years, he probably would have fine tuned it to be less noticeable in its origin - to be a solid blend of those influences and his own voice instead of just, like, a stew made of the most obvious parts of each of those stories yet lacking the substance that held them together.

I feel like he didn’t get the time and assistance he needed to make Eragon his own vision, and as a result it’s mostly a hodge podge of things he liked divorced of their original and necessary context.  Which, again, is fine when you’re a young writer and are figuring your shit out.

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pulmonary-poultry replied to your post: fun: making a character that’s something of a...

I want to know more about Partially-Rehabilitated Garbage Boy

well im just plum flattered! heres a sparknotes

he’s a werewolf college professor named Herve [male, 42, bastard] who’s kinda a dick [primarily in that he sleeps with his students, but he prefers his dalliances to the 25-30s range it doesn’t excuse the power imbalance], afraid of commitment and refuses to go steady, and has two cats [Stay Puft and Megadeth].

His closest friend [who he pridefully refuses to call his best friend because he thinks having a best friend is lame] is the cafeteria worker [Calvin] at the college he’s employed at, and they hang out a lot. He tells all his secrets to Calvin because Calvin just never fucken talks. Whenever Calvin actually decides to say something, it’s only ever to Herve and only ever in sign language. Calvin himself admits Herve’s kind of a bastard, but he finds him entertaining and doesnt mind putting up with it and rebukes him from time to time

[titleknown]

Which of your OCs would try to seduce someone by singing Ding Dong, It's Me (The Big Weird Man) by Big Bopper, and which would actually be seduced by such a serenading?

Ooky-Spooky. No question, literally both of those are the exact kind of nonsense she’d pull.

There’s a reason I say if you want to get a good idea of her character, try to write her like Robin Williams’ Genie from Disney’s Aladdin…

[jakey-beefed-it]

pulmonary-poultry replied to your post: On like, Sunday, I ordered a pair of fancy...

Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but a lot of it is def from the push to make public services seem inferior to privately owned businesses so the public iptions can be made obsolete it can all be privitized for heaps more cash

Oh no, you're 100% spot on with that. Same way this country has been fighting drastically for a century to prevent mass transit from becoming a thing thanks to auto companies.

[fitey777]

Who is Knyass Ozinss??

First things first, I fucked up and typoed because remembering russian is hard lmao. I meant "Knyaz"!

Knyaz Ozinss is a prince of a moderately russian-inspired [thus knyaz, basically the russian equivalent of prince] kingdom that neighbors Ozzal's! He's also Ozzal's closest friend, lover, and confidante, and their kingdoms flourish alongside each other for it. His people are a very catlike race, three notches above Ron Perlman's Beast on the "catlike" scale, thick fur that thins towards their face, throats, chests, and under-forearms and palms. Wicked claws, tails, all there.

He's also the reason Ozzal became a paladin, and he also technically named Ozzal to boot- Ozzal is a name that, in Ozinss's language, means "my power is god". It's a fairly rare name and usually only seen in paladins that the royalty have deemed exceptional or foresee being exceptional!

As well, you can easily notice that the first syllable in both their names is the same root word- "oz", pronounced "ohz" which is an archaic form of saying "[owner's] power". Paired with an appropriate suffix as a /name/, it leads to it being "my power is [blank]". Ozinss' name means, roughly, "my power is love", a name he gave himself on realizing how important he was to Ozzal and vice versa.

"Inss", pronounced with a hissing "s", is a supremely ancient word that... can't really be succinctly translated? It's like. A deep, intense affection and loyalty so strong it's ethereal and supernatural and so powerful it's legitimately frightening. It's not even really just a concept but it's an action and actor in one, a realization that shakes you to your core and blinds you and leaves you on your knees with an epiphany.

GOOD GOD THAT'S A LOT OF MUMBO JUMBO