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[six-improbable-things]

I know that usually using real-world customs in fantasy settings is kind of a lazy shortcut most of the time, but I’m currently thinking about the implications of diamond wedding / engagement rings in a D&D-based setting.

I mean, think about it. You vow to be together “‘til death does us part” and then you give them a way to escape death. You’re literally saying “even death could not keep me from you” or “I will never let you go”.

And of course the more expensive the ring, the more secure the promise. Splurging on a ring isn’t just vanity. It’s literally life insurance. (Or should I say life assurance.)

And even if you can’t afford a 300gp ring, diamonds are still the best choice for a stone. That “cheap” 100gp stone? Crush that up and you have a free casting of Greater Restoration. (If a larger diamond is life insurance/assurance, this is health insurance/assurance.)

Assuming that (as per my typical worldbuilding) a simple Lesser Restoration isn’t enough to cure more serious diseases, and given the common practice of making the client pay for the materials, a set-aside diamond could be the difference between life and death for someone who doesn’t have access to that kind of money.

Idk, I just think it’s a neat side-effect of gems as spell components that would be fun to play around with. The wealthy using veritable bouquets of mid-tier diamonds to ensure their partners will never die. Or a scandalous murder reveals that the victim’s wedding diamond was a fake. Did their spouse do that intentionally, and if so, does that mean they’re the murderer?

[machikane-evilhauser]

Couldn't find the deedee megadoodoo video so I found it on yt and am posting it here for archival purposes

[whereispearlescentmoon]

Pantheon Episode 1

This is a compilation from all POVs. As such, if you are someone who wants to keep information from a particular POV secret for yourself, do not read it.

Detailed in this post: Everyone's powers that they actually showed, what backstories I managed to glean, who seems to be allying with each other, who voted for who to fight, and who gave who a favor in the fight

MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW

Powers

Note: Multiple people did not use all of their cooldown powers, or used them and did not show what they did. Everyone has three cooldown abilities, one with a short cool down, one with a longer cooldown, and one ultimate that they can only use once per session. I only specified for most when they used an ability and didn't show what it did rather than specifying everyone who didn't use their ult, which was most people.

Abolish: Can stand on magma. Did not use any of his abilities.

Apo: Drops her feathers which heal people when they use them, can transform people into other people, can turn invisible

Cleo: Does not get attacked any mobs. Animals follow her. Has songs on her panflute for healing, resistance, swiftness, and slowness. Turns into a goat when she panics.

Drift: Can play a song that heals and applies the absorption, and resistances effects. Ability to make people experience the hunger effect when they look at her. Gets two extra hearts in the sunshine. Got a special bow. She can also inflict pain with her abilities, did not specify how but mentioned poison. Used her second ability at some point but didn't show the effects.

Legundo (Nikos Legundos): Can use his lighting bolt like an ender pearl, seems to shock people in the water with him, has a rage meter that may correlate to his first ability which he did not use.

Martyn (Nobody): Can summon a "boar", can shoot arrows that teleport him to them, arrow rain, if he shoots with his offhand it destroys blocks, passively spawns arrows into his inventory.

Owen: Slows down projectiles and creeper explosions, can rewind time for where blocks were placed or broken, furnaces stop when he's around, sees a vision of where he was and can take that version's place

Pearl: Creates a kind of darkness effect that also makes people hear whispers, turns invisible when she crouches during this effect, spreads pure darkness that slows and blinds the people on it, gets an extra heart at night, teleports to beds that she selects around the world

Pyro: Ability to send an owl out of him whose eyes he can see from, can throw a spear like a smoke bomb, helmet and shield. Can see how far everyone is, the cooldown timer on their abilities, their hearts, hunger, and armor. Used but did not show his ult.

Sausage: Can double jump, generally higher jumping, can rush/teleport to other people, temporary flight, special sword

Scott (Scott Antonas Mateos Pagona Pavolas III): Leap (jumps backwards from the direction he's looking in), smoke screen, passively gathers wind with kills and achievements that create wind charges in his inventory, can spend a wind charge to use his abilities even during their cooldown

Shelby: She can pick two "fates" from a list that give her and others different effects, then flip a coin to see which goes into effect. She can only choose each of them once a session. Has the ability to summon what looks like some kind of spirit guardians (when she used it three floating heads surrounded her and it was said she had garnered fortune)

Shelby's Fates:

Rising Tide: Everyone floats for 15 seconds

Fleet Footed: Speed II for 60 seconds

Blink: Teleport to a random player

Untouchable: Invulnerable but harmless for 60 seconds

Sleight of Hand: Shuffle nearby players' inventories

Wildflowers: Fill nearby players' empty slots with flowers

Golden Gift: Receive a golden apple

Mender: Repair everything in your hotbar

Keen Eyes: Night vision for 5 minutes

Vanish: Invisible for 1 minute

Spotlight: Everyone else glows for 2 minutes

Overclock: Haste II for 5 minutes

Full Restore: Fully heal yourself

Shrink: Shrink a random nearby player for 2 minutes

Backstories

Abolish: Gladiator who was backstabbed (literally)

Apo: Grew up poor in a city, started an uprising against the rich but her fellow revolutionaries turned on her after her friend made a deal with the people they were meant to fight

Drift: Some kind of herbal healer. Drift says that she was seen as a prophet "in some ways". Doesn't want to think about the day she died. There's a "she" in her backstory. Her video ended with mysterious text saying "nice to see you again drift"

Cleo: Satyr who may have been killed by a human(?)

Legundo: Some kind of fighter. Seems to have some trauma to do with the gods because of course.

Martyn: "A nobody who did nothing is from nowhere and was known by no one. "Dies 10 years and 6 months ago by his memory. Has a woman or girl named Selenis who he remembers with fondness. His mother may have been a hunter or a devotee of Artemis as well. Seems to have done some hand wood carving in life.

Owen: A blind beggar who was driven mad by being given the knowledge of the cosmos by Chronos

Pearl: She survived alone in the woods for a while before she died. Says the last thing she remembers is wandering around the woods "not feeling all that great". Says her death was complicated. She died in the middle of the night.

Pyro: A soldier from Athens who was in training at the frontier. Also a shop keep at some points

Sausage: Sausage was a poor man who vowed to protect his little brother, Nikki, after their parents died. He became a thief to provide for them. At some point, the people of the city rose up against their tyrannical king. He took advantage of the chaos to try and steal from the king's palace. His brother followed him and ended up being killed. Sausage was arrested and executed publicly as a warning against the rebellion. He told Hermes he would do anything if he found his brother and took him from the afterlife, which may have been why he was chosen.

Scott: Actor who died on stage when everyone thought he was acting because a prop weapon was swapped for a real one by his jealous understudy

Shelby: A privileged individual who died after her partner blindfolded her and was about to propose when lighting struck and she fell off the cliff.

Day 1 Alliances

Feather Holders: Apo, Pearl, Sausage, Owen, Pyro

Cleo, Shelby, Drift, Abolish have an agreement

Cleo and Abolish getting along

Shelby and Drift are really close.

Martyn and Scott might be allied

Pearl and Legundo seem somewhat aligned

Legundo is also somewhat aligned with everyone.

Scott and Abolish agreed not to vote for each other.

Votes

Abolish voted for Martyn and Pearl

Apo voted for Martyn and Legundo

Cleo voted for Legundo and Pearl

Drift voted for Martyn and Pearl

Legundo voted for Martyn and Pearl

Martyn voted for Pearl and Sausage

Owen voted for Martyn and Legundo

Pearl voted for Martyn and Scott

Pyro votes for Martyn and Legundo

Sausage voted for Martyn and Legundo

Scott voted for Martyn and Pearl

Shelby voted for Martyn and Pearl

Favors

Apo gave hers to Pearl

Legundo gave his to Pearl

Owen gave hers to Pearl

Sausage gave his to Pearl

Shelby gave hers to Martyn

Cleo, Scott, Pyro, and Abolish declined to give their favor

Drift didn't show but it seems to be Martyn from his pov

Lives

Cleo, Legundo, Sausage are weakened

Martyn is on 2 lives

Additional notes: I can't tell who Owen meant by "the man who will eventually reveal himself as Thekon", but I think it's Sausage?

[livelaughwriteit]

What happens when your character realizes they're in love...

Here are some things that may happen when your character realizes they are in love with someone. These can be totally obvious or be super subtle. I think that can depend on your character's mannerisms and personality! Have fun writing!

Notice everything. They start to notice things about the other person. Have freak outs when they notice they notice. They notice nervous ticks, small details no one else notices, patterns.

Hyperawareness. They become hyperaware of their own bodies and what they are doing as well as the other person’s body. They are unable to think about anything other than how close the person is. What they smell like.

They may change their behavior. They may become mean, guarded or distant. They may embrace it, try to see how the other person feels. All that matters is nothing is as natural as it had felt like before. They may realize they want to share everything with that person or notice that they have been sharing everything and stop. Inconsistencies may occur where they are normal one day and distant the next while they try to make it appear like everything is the same.

Self-sabotage. Not all characters will do this, sometimes they will. They might think that the relationship will never happen and that it is doomed before it starts. It may cause them to pull away even more, stop hanging out and “protect” themselves but ultimately push the other person away. Silence becomes deafening and everything is a sign of whether the other person feels the same.

[primordialsneeze]

Collecting images in this vein bc they make me feel some type of emotion

Submission by Batoidman ^^

[praline-elegy]

Compiling a list of ao3 tutorials for future reference:

The Fic Writer's Guide to Formatting (An AO3 Repository) by AnisaAnisa - This is the holy grail of how to format an ao3 fic using HTML and CSS

Inline Tooltip Translation by AstariaEverlasting - Hovertext made easy! Instead of constantly jumping to the author’s notes or google translate for every foreign phrase or word, all you’ll need to do now is tap or hover over the text in question and a translated speech bubble will appear! (Requires preplanned translation)

How to Make iOS Text Messages on AO3 by CodenameCarrot and La_Temperanza - If you like chat fics or inserting a little text message for the immersion (without having to use screenshots or images!), then this is the guide for you. You can also “text” images with this tutorial.

Whatsapp Work Skin Template /Revamped by etc e tal (pe_pe_peperoncinocandy) - If WhatsApp is your preferred messaging platform, this is the workskin for you. It even includes a scrollable template, as well! (Check it out, it’s really cool!)

How to Make a "Choose Your Own Adventure" Fic by La_Temperanza - The ever elusive Choose-Your-Own-Adventure format! It is possible to create with an ao3 workskin!

2020 Reddit Work Skin by timstokerlovebot (SchmokSchmok) - If you want to include a Reddit post for some immersive fun, this work skin is calling your name!

How to Make Linked Footnotes on AO3 by La_Temperanza - Very useful when you want to share the extensive research you’ve put into your story.

[kentucky-fried-thea]

you call them flop posts but I call them reaching my target demographic: whichever mutuals are active rn