#reality's edge

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Reality's Edge - Network Node Attack by Thomas Elliot

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mmm fix it aus my beloved

(Context under the cut)

So for the last while Ive been working on this run of the mill P3 twins fix it au because I wanted to and decided about halfway through chapter three that I want to extend the story to P4 and P5 as well.

So without too much spoiler, the twins end up moving to Inaba and a few months into their stay they hear a small rumor floating around about a "suspicious dude in a scarf". They dont think much of it, but eventually actually spot the dude. And yes, its everyones favorite thought to be dead flirtatious goofball. I mean hes kind of hard to miss in that getup lol.

It takes them a hot minute and a half but they catch him eventually and force some answers out of him. Long story short, hes alive as long as the twins are alive and Aigis still doesnt trust him.

Damn that was a terrible explanation. Cant say much more without spoiling the plot so,,,,

:)

[art-of-thomas-elliott]

This is picture was done as the cover for Osprey Games' Cyper punk RPG, Reality's Edge, back when i used to freelance. 

It was alot of fun working on this picture and getting to reference some of my influences like 80's films and the art of Drew Struzen. It was also an opportunity to slip a sneaky self portrait onto the cover.

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I had a lot of people here say they liked his design, so I made more,,,,

Anyway random info about him under the cut because at this rate every post I make with this au is going to be like that for whatever reason

His scarf can shift between a scarf and wings, hence why his scarf seems to have four endings and why he wears it like that. If stuck as a scarf for a while, his wings get super stiff and bother him.

His skin fades to black so he usually wears gloves and other long sleeves to pass as a human

In the TV world/Metaverse, his appearance becomes a lot more like the Avatar version with his eyes going black and regaining certain skills

He gets along with Teddy

Very bird brained

Collects shiny things because as I said, bird brain

Has the ability to summon his big ass sword tm on will even in the real world.

Still flirts with anything with two legs (within reason)

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please talk about orphoeus and thanatos please :D

hgernigjrlkjywoijg you are all ENABLERS. THE LOT OF YOU. (affectionate)

In the story itself, it takes quite a hefty chunk of the plot (P3 - half of P4) for Orpheus to finally cave and start being nice to Thanatos. And once they do start to get along, they're just so cute oh my heart.

While he wont admit it, Orpheus kind of sees Thanatos as his little brother over time. He learns how to pick up on his non verbal cues and the differences between his chirps and general noises.

Orpheus is the founder of the Human Appreciation Club, in which they coo over humans and human culture because they think it's neat.

Thanny is the world's biggest over sized puppy and acts like it sometimes too.

They fall asleep on each other a lot, mostly Thanantos sleeping on Orpheus while he tries to practice his lyre or something.

Sometimes he just pretends to be asleep so he gets snuggles and pets tm.

Oprheus refuses to acknowledge the snoot pets Thanatos receives when hes asleep.

By the P5 segment, they're the embodiment of the "Get your fucking dog" vine.

Orpheus has been known to bully everyone's terrible English (except for Naoto, since they are half Canadian in this au and speak fluent English)

Sometimes Orpheus and Ryoji talk shit about people in Latin too. Like the world's worst middle school clique.

Since Thanatos and Ryoji arent related in any way in this au, they sometimes subconsciously feel like they have to be the superior god of death and rub it in the others face. Like "Haha I'm better than you" "*angry screech*"

They dont do it on purpose

All in all they're friends even if they dont act like it at first.

Also when I was typing this my auto correct thought I was typing Nathan instead of Thanatos.

[argandseaborne]

Small games, small miniatures

There are the big miniatures games that most people have heard of: Warhammer in all it’s variations, Warmachines and Hordes, even things like X-Wing, Star Wars Armada, and Star Wars Legion. And they have their own lines of miniatures to fit the universe and themes of the game.

But what about a game that has no concurrent line of miniatures?

They exist! And are pretty fun. Sometimes called “Miniatures Agnostic” since you can use any miniatures you already have from other games like many of the games mentioned above, but also from like D&D and such. It’s just a rule book with all the stats and scenarios you need to play. All you have to provide are dice and the miniatures you have.

And they have a range of genres. This list is far from all inclusive, just me bringing to the surface some games I know of (my general gaming group tends towards just like Warhammer and D&D/Pathfinder, so I haven’t had a chance to play them sadly).

There are fantasy ones like Frostgrave, Ghost Archipelago, and Rangers of Shadowdeep which are better for the people with a bunch of like D&D minis or just general fantasy miniatures. This is where your dragons and demons and adventurers fit in perfectly since that’s what these games are: romps in various high fantasy worlds for various things along with RPG like mechanics for leveling and getting new abilities and gear. Most of the ones that were mentioned here are a 1v1 event with an AI controlling the monsters. There are possibly ways to do multiplayer, but it’s not specifically built into the rules. What is built in though, is effectively a campaign. Some of the games have actual campaigns to run, others have more of a “match of the week” style where the players just make up their own goals and story to fill in the space connecting scenario to scenario. Which could be more fun than the pre-written ones.

Sci-fi/cyberpunk gets some love too, the one that springs to mind is Reality’s Edge. Players get to basically play Shadowrun with miniatures: Corrupt corporations, drones, cybernetic enhancements, and sticking it to the corrupt corporations. And the hilarious part: while the game intends you to use more sci-fi minis (robots, cyborgs, modern looking average people), you don’t have to. If you have a massive collection of D&D minis, you can use those as stand ins for whatever you need: Need a corporate guard? Use a skeleton. Need a scrappy fighter? Use that rogue mini that has been collecting dust on the shelf. Anything goes so long as the players agree and can remember what is what.

Which is fantastic.

And for the horror or post-apocalyptic/zombie fans, there are games that work there too. Last Days is a zombie game in much the same vein as like The Walking Dead and those kind of zombie survival. And it just had an expansion for weather, thirst, hunger, and such as well as more character types and scenarios. Zona Alfa is a very new game which is closer to games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Metro: Last Light/2033 and that breed of game. I don’t know of any specifically horror ones, which is not surprising since I’m not an expert but they probably exist in some degree. Horror is hard to do in miniatures. I might have to do some more digging in that regards and add some info later.

But for any of these games, even if you print off things almost paper doll style and use them, that will work. The games don’t care.

[umbrahighpriestofgiratina]

Good and Bad News On The Type Askmeme

First off, I'm super-pleased with how popular it's been and how fun it's been to do, so thanks, everyone who's dropped an ask!i Bad news is there's going to be a hopefully minor delay on answering new ones for two reasons: 1. My monthly contacts are out for the night and I'm not getting new ones untill the morning, then I promptly have a couple weekly therapy appointments. 2. After all that I really need to finish transcribing the 0.5 draft of Reality's Edge into the first draft (more on how that works once it's done) since the deadline for its contest is on the 16th and I wanna get that first draft knocked out by the end of the weekend so I can get the thing beta-read properly. Fortunately I'm already almost halfway through the latter, and only have a anon Poison ask and a Dark ask from @mezzopurrloin in the inbox right now, so feel free to send me more on any types not covered already and I'll get to them as soon as RE's ready!