#subventure

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he's just so dreamy — the perfect boyfriend, those eyes, those lips, it's like she's dancing on a cloud whenever misa looks at light, it's like a montage of a romantic movie the wedding bells ringing in her head, suddenly she's daydreaming — oh, should she pick lace details on her dress? should she do a ballgown? will light want to pick? the options overwhelm her, the light of her life shining through the room it's a rough crash to reality when L has to totally completely absolutely ruin it! @subventure 's voice carries the question : ❝  are you even listening to me ? ❞ obviously she wasn't. blah, blah, blah, kira this, something about handcuffs, her ears barely noticed whatever he was saying except for the few mentions of light anyway. misa huffs in annoyance, pouting as she turns to L with a frown. of course he thinks she's not listening! everyone thinks she's just stupid misa, but light doesn't think that. that's right! light thinks she's so brilliant — (that's why he trusts her, that's why she's going to be by his side when he builds his new world after all) ❝  uh — obviously! ❞ she stomps her feet before turning away. ❝ you were talking about some plan, about something with kira. kira this, kira that. aren't you guys getting a little bored? ❞ she tosses her head back, fixing her hair and staring at him with big golden eyes. ❝  i wanna do something fun! i have an idea — let's go to a concert! kira can wait for a night....come on L, me you & light can go on an adventure! ❞

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they say the games never leave you that you will always be the murderer they turned you into. it's been years, decades, & haymitch is a man half baked. when he closes his eyes, he's back there, in the arena. when he wakes up at night, his heart races as though he's being tracked. when he opens a bottle, the smell takes him back to the day he heard what happened to his family. ⠀⠀ they say the games never leave you, but haymitch wishes it ended at the games. (he lived, at what cost? to be a cautionary tale to the finnicks, the peetas. to be a reminder that even if you win, even if you've fought the hardest — you are nothing under them) & so he tells himself he's adjusted, that he's resigned. & as time passes, he wonders if he's starting to believe the lie. ⠀⠀ he starts to wonder if all everyone does is lie. as @subventure faces him, so effortlessly out of place in district 13, haymitch wonders what lies she tells herself, what adjustments she's made to the truth. as she whispers : ❝ why would i lie to you? ❞ haymitch almost chuckles. he bites down the retort, bites down the urge to tell her to color her face, & instead sees the sorrow. a girl like her never fought in the games. haymitch is sure if he were to throw something at effie, she would forget to duck, her nature too foreign for fighting. an almost childlike gentility, an almost endearing nature to him. while he fights the games every day in his mind, effie's little wars are but his distractions. her reality is his escape. he passes her a cup, pulling the bottle out from the cabinet (graciously thanking his mockingjay for putting in a proper request for something decent to drink...) ❝ i'm afraid everyone's been lying to us since we got here, ❞ haymitch raises his eyebrows, mindlessly blowing a strand of hair from his face in defeat. ❝ look — i know this isn't the capitol treatment you're used to, & i have no idea what coin is up to — but i promise you, having a bad attitude is only going to get you killed. ❞ ⠀⠀ in his mind, he edges closer to telling her that if effie died, haymitch is one step closer to death himself. the guilt is too heavy, this life is too lonely. HE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT HER. WITHOUT EFFIE — the mockingjay cannot shine. WITHOUT EFFIE — peeta will never be the same. WITHOUT EFFIE — haymitch will not survive. ❝ she needs you. look at her, without peeta she's lost. [he pours the wine slowly, in thought.] she won't be able to do it without you. ❞ and neither can i.

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Group of subventurers VS giant crocodile in the sewers — Subventure 4 months ago, I got beaten up in the street at 2 am. Pretty badly. I survived, I’m still here. But my computer was stolen, and with it, a huge part of my work on my project Subventure, a tabletop rpg I had been writing and play-testing for 2 years, the most important thing I had on it. And yeah, I was stupid, I didn’t save it anywhere else… This artwork was an unfinished piece I had started just before my agression. Finishing it today is a way to finally make peace with what I’ve lost, and start anew on what’s left. It’s a bit rough, a bit old and imperfect, but it’s a start. After all, this universe is not in a computer. It’s in my head, and they didn’t hit it enough to get it out… So… SUBVENTURE IS COMING BACK… slowly. It is a urban fantasy RPG with bits of eldritch horror, pulp adventure, epic and cheesy stuffs, and it’s gonna be old and new and awesome.

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Subventure — Knight of Aiguelombre Aiguelombre (“Shadowater“) is the biggest city in the Canals, the deep, forgotten sewers system of Subventure’s setting. This port is the spiritual capital of the Revenant, the entity of cycle, change, life and death. Knights of Aiguelombre are her paladins, her parangons, some fanatical cultists sporting diving-suit armors, rare weapons and unworldly powers. Technically, a player character can become one… but to face one is an equally big ordeal. Subventure is an upcoming RPG I have been working on for quite some times, refining it at my own lonely pace. Follow me for more on this urban fantasy universe!

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A new batch of player’s characters in Subventure, my urban fantasy rpg. Hal Kâlin is a Vodian, an amphibian humanoid from the sewers, and a smuggler with his friend Ped. Hal is also an obedient of the Kleptocrat, the Entity of Materialism, making him the negotiator of the group. But he is also the tank, as a vodian descending from the Polgoïd tribe, he can briefly regress to a more savage body, supernaturally buffing his muscles and skin. Ped Ru-K’dik is a Vestigian, a race of protohumans from the underground, with random mutations, his being a third arm and a face you won’t forget. Friend and smuggling partner of Hal, he is the brain of the group and the supportive fire, being a sharpshooter. Ped also has access to weird and mysterious powers over dreams and minds which doesn’t seem to come from any cult… The Old Clock is a mystery. Their race, age and gender are unknown. They are an original and somewhat crazy crypto-anthropologist, wearing a strange clock-helmet, stuck into a mechanical chair and gifted with telekinesis. A bizarre, flamboyant character of absurd background…

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THE NEW TEAMMATES FOR SUBVENTURE: CAMPAIGN 2 A wonderful RPG I have been creating.

I am so proud to present this new player characters for the new large-scale campaign of Subventure, named “the Face of the Frogs”. After the disappearance of a subway full of people, a bunch of subventurers is tasked to retrieve a mysterious object which disappeared with it… From left to right: - Abraham is the sole returning character from the first campaign. A young and naive beginner at occult investigations, he uses the telepathic powers of his late girlfriend via a phone, whose brain is in its backpack (this character…). He has recently discovered that he is also a psychic, one that can summon and manipulate ectoplasm, thus reuniting him with melinda… Also, he has a giant “otter-dragon” from the deep sewers as a semi-wild pet. - Zélie la Volte is a beggar and an assassin. Devoted to the Glow, the Entity of Hope and Promesses, she tracks and kills those who threaten the feeble lie that is hope. She uses illusion and low healing via her fireflies, and is very talented at throwing knives and carving people’s faces. - Samuel, who nicknamed himself Baron Samedi after the myth from the Surface, is a Troglodyte doctor, wandering the sewers to deliver its services to the ones that cannot pay for a hospital, coming to the surface at night to heal the beggars and the losts. Beside being a cultist of the Revenant, the Entity of Renewal and Cycles, making him the primary healer, he has a sword in its cane and its tentacles can manipulate his medicine tools to fight. - Naah Maah is a Vodian, an amphibian humanoid from the Depths of the sewers, plagued with a strong desire to be recognized as a strong member of the Troglodyte’s civilization. She is an archeologist and holds the Museum of Vodian’s History, and also a cultist of the Kleptocrat, the Entity of Materialism and Vanity. While physically weak, she has strong occult powers for manipulation and destruction, and a Vespal, a monstrous summoned wasp. - Badiane Longwander is another Troglodyte, and a hitwoman working for the Mother of Oblivion, the Entity of Nothingness and Emptiness, and guardian of the Secret. She protects the statu quo between occult and innocents by tracking those who abuse of their powers on the unknowing people. She is a ridiculously gifted sniper, with abilities to track those she remembers, negate gravity to walk on walls, or make her presence harder to be mentally perceived.

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Subventure — Player Character: Naah Maah This is the new character of one of my friends and a player of Subventure’s beta game. Naah Maah is a Vodian. This race of humanoid amphibians are descendants from the Russalkas, monsters from the Underground Swamps, a toxic region from the Deeper Sewers. As the curator of the Russalkan Museum, Naah Maah is obsessed by their ancestry, the clay sculpture, the stone tablets and its strange writing, the tales of horrors and the different clans. But she is also a perfect citizen of the Troglodyte society, adopting their customs and wishing to access high social recognition. She went as far as having surgery on her webbed feet, in order to wear shoes and look more “human”, losing her advantage in water. On the other hand, her obsession for glory, power and objects has made her a powerful cultist of the Kleptocrat, the Entity of Materialism. Her body is old, but one should be careful not to underestimate her…

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Subventure — the Russalka’s tribes (recap) Russalkas, the “Sewer’s Mermaids”, are a matriarcal race of proto-human amphibians from the underground. They have four tribe, each for one of the Frog-Mothers. From left to right [click on the names for a more detailed description]: - the poisonous Green-Teeth, sneaky and vicious. - the savage Polgoïdes, strong and powerful. - the agile Nymuans, with their aquatic pets. - the mysterious Bâabyâags and their psychic powers. Subventure is an upcoming tabletop rpg, based in an urban contemporary fantasy.