#the runners

[beatradical]

Starry Serenade 🌌

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Night time was spent finding new ways to coax their hyperactive daughter to sleep, even in the dreams.

Over time, those sleepless nights themselves became cherished moments of adventure.

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Exousia, Triché, Rina ©️ Fuyu

[the-esempee-merchant]

How did the Siege of the Capital happen?

It is time for

worldbuilding with Nare

or: Nare wrote a thing and then realized they’d forgotten to share the explanation for 90% of the things they’ve written.

So: What you need to know is that Eret takes the throne in a very chaotic time. After Eret’s father dies, multiple problems in the kingdom that were already brewing come to a head.

The Church, who has spent the last few centuries slowly attempting to grab more political power, sees their chance with a young, inexperienced ruler. Supported gets their power grab by many of the smaller villages on the borders who are trying to survive amidst an also long-running famine that’s ravaging the Esempee and steadily getting worse.

On the other side, there’s the hybrids, angry at their lack of protection by the law and – the farther out you go – the discrimination they experience. The whole thing is basically a powder keg waiting to explode. Enter: Dream.

Dream is immortal, a powerful necromancer, and very, very bored. So of course the logical thing is to start a rebellion against the king.

The metaphorical powder keg explodes. The hybrids rally around Dream as one of their own. The people of the borderlands don’t really care who leads them, they just want a way to get additional resources. The Church…well, the Church mostly wants the pesky current king gone. Eret is smart, politically oriented and keeps countering their plans to grab power either in the state or on a social level and they’re sick of it. If it takes enduring a practitioner of the highly loathed necromancy magic on the throne to be rid of Eret, they’re ready to take that deal.

Dream has the people.

Eret has an army.

So Dream, who is very old and has been bored for a long time, calls upon some of his old contacts. Namely, mercenaries.

Now there are a great many mercenaries in the Esempee and they’re very different from each other.

There’s the “classic” mercenaries, selling their fighting power to the hightest bidder with more or less questions asked depending on who you hire.

There’s the bounty hunters, hunting down escaped criminals, magic users who abuse their power and the like.

There’s the assassins, similar to the bounty hunters but different enough to count as their own class.

And then, there are the Speedrunners.

If you ask them themselves, they’d say they’re barely mercenaries. They’re adventurers, collectors, not selling their skills to anyone with money.

If you ask other mercenaries, they’ll say speedrunners are insane.

Both groups can agree on that they’re the most skilled people you’ll find in this country. They’re fast, deadly, courageous and able to both find rare artefacts and break into the guarded and highly dangerous dimension of the “Nether” and live to tell the tale. And all of that without many of the things normal people need to even survive the normal world itself.

They’re also barely ever visible in the public eye and whenever somebody manages to catch a glimpse of one of them, masks and helmets cover their faces. Considering speedrunning is the only mercenary branch that is officially banned by the law, it’s an understandable precaution.

All the more confusing it got for the residents of the Esempee when the speedrunners suddenly showed up in Dream’s army, managing to take down the remaining army and the Capital in only a few days.

After Dream’s ascension to the throne, many Speedrunners faded into the background again, though Dream’s new general is Illumina, the legendary speedrunner himself. Other groups that have helped Dream also seem dissatisfied with his rule with the exception of the Church who gladly takes the power Dream doesn’t seem to care for.

The seeds for former king Eret - who managed to escape the carnage of the Fall of the Capital with help from remaining members of their army – to take back the throne are already sown.

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From The Runners, Archie's TV Laugh-Out #58 (1978).

[nofatclips]

Look Ahead by Future from the album Honest (samples Dougou Badia by Amadou & Mariam featuring Santigold)

[kamabr]

some misc smau doodles from the past few weeks

alec & dom from turtle creek

costume party benverly and office makeouts from derry u

slow dancing in the kitchen from runners

[stellar-alley]

Guys it's 2:17 am and I'm finally getting into all those IT Au's on Twitter. Currently reading The Runners

IT'S SO FRICKEN GOOOOOD

🤘🎸🎤

[funtime-arts]

Warning: long explanation ahead, I am so sorry.

The Runners is a story about a group of people in the medical industry.

This group is made up, it takes place in a world where disease is very commen and every disease is probably three times more dangerous, offen the doctors and nurses are too busy to get things for the patients, or even themselves. So who do they call??? The Runners! A group of people with basic medical knowledge, speed and strength of an Olympic gold medalist or a black opps soldier, stamina as long as a cheata, and resilience of someone who just doesn't know the meaning of giving up.

They are all specially trained to take long falls, harsh tumbles, and sometimes even bashing into metal doors.

Their job is to take anyones request and get them what they want in record breaking time, sometimes even having to do professional parcour.

There are different levels of Runners.

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Daytime:

-strong

-"What the hell is a break?"

-parkour masters

-can probably crush your head with their legs.

-high respect for night Runners.

Night time:

-fairly muscular

-trained in self diffense.

-litteraly nocternal.

-"whats the sun?"

-layed back

-quiet

-high respect for daytime Runners.

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Of course, thoughs are the two main catagories, there are sub catagories, with sub catagories.

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Wards:

Kid Ward: gentle, quiet, good with kids, takes no crap from parents, can and will kill for the kids they help, "I swear to god Karen, for the last time, VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISUM!!!!"

Teen ward: high patience, are probably all young adults (easiest for the teens to talk to), takes no flak, are all trained in some form of basic therapy because of how dramatic teens can be, "I'm not going to give you your phone back untill you behave, and if you even try to throw a tantrum you can say goodbye to this phone for a week."

Adult ward: Don't piss them off, they know damn well how hard it is to be an adult, mostly former soldiers, can and will backhand you, "shut up, and take your godamn meds before I force feed you them"

Elderly ward: The ward technically doesn't exist, very few Runners are assigned there, if they are they mostly just listen to the fun stories the elderly have to give.

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Patient levels:

Low risk (little to no chance of death): the Runners mostly just grab small things, toys, jackets, shoes, books, things like that, offen they don't even need to run.

Medium risk (risk of death, just not commen): the Runners offen grab meds, maybe snacks and drinks, and do the same things the low risk Runners do, though its recommended they atleast jog or run.

High risk (high chance of death, though with enough meds and rest they can pull through): The Runners here do everything the lower two do except they grab full meals, will full on book it across the hospital for meds and come back in record time, will do parkour sometimes, but mostly just dodge passerbys.

Terminal (they will die without surgery): the Runners here are more extreme, considering the hospital is always busy, sometimes you just can't get through the hospital with a hospital bed, so what do the runners do to get a patient to surgery? They carry the patient while running top spead, sometimes even holding blood bags and IVs on their mouths. They are RIPPED. They are also very gentle, sometimes they have to help a patient eat or recover.

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Now, considering the Runners are on their feet all day, they need a bag of suppleis to keap them on their feet, and/or help entertain patients.

The bag may consist of:

-energy drinks

-energy bars

-candy (for kids)

- small medical kits

-a book on basic medicen or two.

-their medical records.

-gloves and masks.

-microwave foods.

-water

-depending on religion, religious items.

-Runners rules and regulations.

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The hospital this takes place in is the first hospital made to acomidate to the Runners.

-runner landing zones (they are offen jumping from high places, they need a clear landing spot)

-random bars and platforms.

-Runner only routs.

-sometimes, very rarely, roller skates.

Every thing that is "Runner only" is colored with an obnoxiously bright green.

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All the Runners live in a big house together, they have a pool, gym, obstical course, and all of comes out of their paychecks.

After shifts the Runners eat A LOT of calories (burgers, hotdogs, bacon, pretty much all fatty foods) because they burn calories faster than Salem could burn witches.

They all have an unspoken code, "patients before Runners" they will litteraly die for their patients. They will also die for eachother, but a lot of them refuse to admit it.

They have every monday off (mostly ment for the runners to get rest, exorcise, and physical and emotional check-ups.)

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Thats all i have for now, i plan to make mini comics, but i dont comit to one thing for long, so who knows, maybe this will be the only post I mak of The Runners.