In Golden Flame

[shell bison]

[brazen root]

Happy you like it!

I'm absolutely using this line to piss off the Karrakin noble pilot in the party, wonderful

[fallen geyser]

No I love them so much

I mean I will never object to people drawing fan art of my stupid gremlin boy

But holy shit that outfit is sharp

[brazen root]

ty ty! I've been steadily working on drawing all of the major NPCs in the campaign if possible so hearing that has given me more motivation to keep at it!

[shell bison]

Can we, if you have more, see any other NPC's we can see?

[balmy obsidian]

I remember seeing Jerry and Shelly, curious to see if there are more

[brazen root]

I do! I'll repost the other two I've finished so far with Jerry (our beloved) and a different take on Shelley I did which I chose to be Saber from Fate specifically because one of my pilots is planning on getting an Asura / Sherman and decided the NHP is gonna look like Saber. Fitting honestly, given the immumerous Sabers. And yeah, these are the two so far, I'm starting on working on a new NPC for the Dragon's Tooth pilot right now based off of my own main OC so whenever that's done I'll post it here.

Also everyone is absolutely free to use any of the NPC art I make for their own game, least I can do given just how active and life saving all the resources for IGF is already, it's crazy

[shell bison]

Hell, this reminds me I need to finish the last few npcs in my Calliope NPC Cards project 😭

[reef estuary]

this is all soooo cool looking

i love seeing that pathetic lil man (jerry masters)

[tiny tangle]

both of my groups react to jerry the way someone would react to a child falling off a swing

[brazen root]

One of the pilots simply calls him 'Tie Man' and she barely registers him as a leader beyond the badge on his coffee stained shirt. One of my other pilots has a daily ritual of giving Jerry a hug to stabilize him, which has caused rampant rumors of her and Jerry being together.

[reef estuary]

thats incredible honestly

@tiny tangle let me romance jerry

[shell bison]

[reef estuary]

NOOO

[shell bison]

I'm so happy to hear I'm not the only IGF player that gives Jerry hugs to help him calm down.

[clever cloud]

he would crumble

[shell bison]

Don't ask Charlotte how she humored dating Jerry. She'll go into a spanish blusterfest and proceed to hide

[balmy obsidian]

He would what

But crumbles are one of my favorite desserts! Now I have to

[reef estuary]

BASED!!!

@tiny tangle im walking out of the session tmrw with a suspiciously jerry masters shaped lump in my pocket

[tiny tangle]

by my interpretation of jerry (at least during chapter 1, which you all are currently still on), he has way way way too much on his plate to even think about a relationship

[shell bison]

Her team mates were bullying her to find a partner 😭

[tiny tangle]

one more responsibility would kill him a relationship would be even worse

[reef estuary]

nah nah i'd fix him

[tiny tangle]

also!! your character in that game is literally married!!!

unless youre talking about heracles

[reef estuary]

yeah yeah

OFC IM TALKING AB HERC EVIES A LESBIAN

[tiny tangle]

this now brings up the question of “how old is jerry masters” and I dont think I can speculate that with information available in chapter 1 only

[reef estuary]

my man heracles is a 29 year old minor

[balmy obsidian]

Ok so you know that thing where if you put a water bottle in the freezer and do it a specific way it doesn't freeze but if you disturb it it instantly starts to freeze

I think Jerry has enough stress in his body that if you poke him a little too much he could instantly turn 102

[reef estuary]

sooo true tho

[west phoenix]

Serenity is the biggest source of keeping Jerry calm and helping him out. Except for when the blink engine nearly caused multiple hull breaches when she was installing it

It's all a ploy for Jerry to transfer his stress and general wet-catness to serenity so she can become the next sad wet cat

[balmy obsidian]

There must always be a Lich king Station Director

[west phoenix]

The pipeline is actually real

Ace pilot to SRT commander to forced station director (once serenity kills Jerry, of course)

Each step giving a significant amount of stress

[balmy obsidian]

I wonder what other pipelines there are in the campaign

[west phoenix]

Yeah you would wonder wouldn't you

🥚

[balmy obsidian]

Well yeah, because we don't have any ace pilots

So it can't be that

[west phoenix]

Aren't lancers assumed to be ace pilots

[balmy obsidian]

Wait nevermind I know, it's sigdivers

[west phoenix]

Like otherwise you're just an NPC pilot

The grunt ace IGF playthrough

Everything is normal but you just play as a grunt ace

[balmy obsidian]

Sigdiver is a pipeline to having your brain to snapped in half by NHPs at least two times

[west phoenix]

Don't threaten me with a good time

[balmy obsidian]

No I assure you it's not an enjoyable experience

[clever cloud]

skissue

i would simply enjoy the horrors

[balmy obsidian]

I'm about to

(ch4) ||In about 24h Invader is going to inject CAUSTIC into his head which is fun for me and horrible for him but he'll survive maybe probably I hope||

[clever cloud]

Oh

oh honey

[noble ivy]

||If that doesn't crack your egg then i don't what will||

[balmy obsidian]

||WHAT||

[clever cloud]

my condolences

[balmy obsidian]

||No wait hold on wait is CAUSTIC a she a they a it, I need to know now||

||What about triple point||

[clever cloud]

||triple-point by virtue of being a legion, is simply plural||

[noble ivy]

(chapter 4 spoilers) ||The book does use It/Its for CAUSTIC||

[balmy obsidian]

Ok everything is ok everything is fine

[shell bison]

I got him a meal ;v;

[west phoenix]

Serenity made him go home, take a shower, and chill

[past agate]

you pinged me when I was doing something completely unimportant

short cycle lance

[keen sentinel]

sorry!!!

anyways

DRAMATIC RECREATION

[fallen geyser]

THE FUCKING MISSING TEXTURE TIES

[fallen geyser]

It's true I actually did say that

[brazen root]

Haha yes! The one thing I decided is that Shelley in a sign of solidarity and comradeship with Jerry always wears the exact same AWFUL tie. She refuses to elaborate and dares someone to complain about it.

Oh and speaking of which heres another NPC I just finished before work. My main OC, eponymously named after myself assuming the role as the Dragon's Tooth pilot, callsign Comet! Unlike other timelines that have Siren the no nonsense Marine Sergeant, Comet is instead is an adrenaline junkie squirrel of a speedfreak who only feels alive when Nearlight Bolting, as you can imagine she is absolutely dismayed at campaign start and how SLOOOW the Tooth is. ||She's also colorblind and always wears the most garish colors as she likes the shades of 'color'. Much to the dismay of everyone else with eyes.||

apologies for the formatting, it's mostly because she's tiny and i want a image file size for all the sprites

[last leaf]

unlike serentai

[west phoenix]

You have someone who has been overworked her whole life vs a neet who has been alive for a year

[fallen geyser]

Are you posting these on Tumblr or Bluesky? Because I want to reblog them

[brazen root]

No I probably should post these somewhere but i want to wait until I got the whole main cast finished. Feel free to send it however you want though, thank you!

[warm notch]

how do we support you for this epic work though

[west phoenix]

I'm really interested to see the rest of the cast in your style

[silver pumice]

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

||CAUSTIC my beloved CAUSTIC my beloved CAUSTIC my beloved||

if it's any consolation leonard, lynk ||H-NHP bridged with TRIPLE-POINT||. so i think leo will be fine

[balmy obsidian]

Surely

Surely

[wild flame]

godspeed

[dire shell]

... kpop....

.... karrakin pop

[prime terrace]

I AM YOINKING THIS JERRY AND IN RETURN I THROW MY TOKENS UPON THEE

ALSO THATS A FUCKING PIP BOY

[ebon hatch]

^

I don't know how to put a forward into a reply

[regal acorn]

Anybody perchance got a token for L-Kay?

[wild flame]

Ada's tokens in the gm resources spreadsheet (pinned) has one

[steady adder]

[tight pier]

Coward's Ideals skill trigger?

[balmy obsidian]

custom skill trigger of a cowardly man trying to make people understand that it doesn't have to be this way

I am now at 7 stress everything is fine

[noble ivy]

typical magus behavior

[balmy obsidian]

Thank fuck for Discipline

[wild flame]

No no no, you're not now at 7 stress. You're at 7 stress, for now!

[balmy obsidian]

You're right I'm gonna be a 0 very soon

[hearty whale]

Everything is fine :]

[balmy obsidian]

WOOOOOOOOO

[steady adder]

https://tenor.com/view/kittan-bachika-gurren-lagann-kittan-death-sacrifice-gif-26124267

[leaden cave]

ten million breacher grunts

[shell bison]

OH

[noble ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/turbine-spin-spinning-gif-10168626

[balmy obsidian]

IT TOOK THREE NAT 20S AND 2 HEART OF HEARTS
BUT (ch4) ||TRIPLE POINT AND CAUSTIC ARE SAFE||
||TOTAL VICTORYYYYY||

[warped ibex]

i really wish you could spoilertag stickers because i have such good stickers to use in reaction to this

[noble ivy]

take a screenshot of it and spoiler mark that?

[warped ibex]

okay just dmed them instead lmao. and alas if i screenshotted them res probably too small

wait i can just

there

[wild flame]

[prime terrace]

BE FUCKING AFRAID.

this was all in a single turn

spoilers for chapter 1

[tame tide]

Kid named assault rifle should shoot that hive

[west phoenix]

i did :)

[tame tide]

Did you miss the attack or hit?

Bonus points if you missed

[vast zealot]

the hive lived until the end of the combat and retreated

we never got round to dealing with it because there was a pesky ||assassin|| which kept avoiding being hit

[silver pumice]

my stickers :)

i have the original imgs hold on

anyways CONGRATULATIONS LEO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[autumn birch]

SAM OUT HERE PULLING OUT THE LEADERSHIP DIE LIKE A MFKER

We were rolling so hot.

||powered through 2 seperate heroic checks too but yeah, Caustic and Triple Point are alive and safe.|| Ch4 spoilers

[wild flame]

y'all are fucking heroes

[autumn birch]

Shit was insane, we had some amazing Roleplay that session

I had to put on my A game, that's for sure.

[silver pumice]

||still very happy y'all saved TRIPLE-POINT too despite everything. my beloved problematic fave||

(ch4)

[noble ivy]

||In Golden Flame true pacificist ending||

[silver pumice]

this truly was our in golden flame..............

[autumn birch]

||I don't mean to brag, but i think the rest of the team will back me in saying Sam is absolutely a leader/mender/empath and i Channeled the FUCK out of that. ||

It was absolutely a team effort

[silver pumice]

hell yeah indeed

[autumn birch]

but im really proud of how well i threw myself into it.

[silver pumice]

very proud of teams that came outta ch4 more cohesive because ch4 actually made wwnb team infighting more tense i think

[autumn birch]

we had a pizza party after we all made it back

:3

[silver pumice]

HELL YEAH

[autumn birch]

bonding

[silver pumice]

||oh also how's annabelle||

||is she doing alright. what happened to her||

[autumn birch]

||Shaken and alive. But a bit unsure about how to proceed from here.||

[wild flame]

also important question was my prediction from last night correct or did Leo manage to make it out clean

[autumn birch]

leo got robbed in the 11th hour and didn't burden out

quil did

[wild flame]

[autumn birch]

https://tenor.com/view/yugioh-punch-ground-punching-ground-it-shouldve-been-me-it-shouldve-been-me-not-him-gif-18069003738146878767

unironic ^

[wild flame]

incredible

[silver pumice]

get a burden anyways lynk got a burden despite never breaking because That Was A Goddamn Fuck

[autumn birch]

thats what i told them but nooooooo

[silver pumice]

oh also did ||annabelle|| look like this

[autumn birch]

||she was a lot better after some liquids and food was put inside her after god knows how long she was in [THE CRYSTAL™️], She's a bit fucked up given that everything she believes was a giant lie and she wants to help, but we told her to focus on recovering first, get her head on straight, and we'll figure out how to tackle the upcoming issues when she's not malnourished/dehydrated/recoiling from mental brainfuck asteroid.||

[autumn birch]

||didn't get a picture.||

[silver pumice]

rip

[silver pumice]

||annabelle my beloved...||

[autumn birch]

but hey, ||alive and recovering and managed to oust some hostile cultists from HG so far. So we're gunna count that as a win on all fronts.||

[wild flame]

put another point on the board for SRT Leviathan

[silver pumice]

GO ||ANNABELLE||!!!

[autumn birch]

||so yeah, all three survivors stabilized and recovered. Team is a buncha legends, Im so proud of them 😭 ||

[silver pumice]

after that we visited patalung's noodle shop (the first time for the ones who didn't originate from calliope! previously we just hang out in mikaela's coffee shop) though and it was nice

[shell bison]

Mama paralung

[west phoenix]

meanwhile our combat today where 4/6 characters couldn't roll to save their life (literally)

and the other 2 were killing it

[warped ibex]

nodding solemnly. SRT Leviathan and SRT WWNB are adjacent in the tree of timelines. at least as far as 'other game timelines' go, excluding. alt timeline instances of WWNB itself

[silver pumice]

LMAO

[hearty whale]

I did not escape that chapter mentally sound! :3

[silver pumice]

go karrakin boy go

[hearty whale]

In related news, became plural.

[silver pumice]

WHQT

[hearty whale]

In character.
||Timeline issues mean there's multiple Quil now in his head as they try to work out which one is 'real'. Or if that matters.||

[silver pumice]

HUH

[brazen root]

Finished the first real session one of my campaign and not any of the session 0 scenes! I somehow managed to convince them to take Switch for the first combat to stream it. What could possibly go wrong???

[balmy obsidian]

WWNB and Leviathan are adjacent enough that the "Put on the cat ears Laplace" became canon
Also (ch4) ||a Lynk was there during the spire fight.||

[silver pumice]

LMAO

[keen sentinel]

lapcat

[balmy obsidian]

nya

[warped ibex]

yeah, seraphs kept me updated lmao. i feel obligated to have something leviathan appear in wwnb now...

[balmy obsidian]

If you have any questions I'm sure anyone from the group would be very happy to answer

[autumn birch]

[silver pumice]

make the paracausal cat ears comic 100% unquestionably canon from our side totally

[warped ibex]

SO true

[silver pumice]

it's canon leviathan-side you have to give me this

[balmy obsidian]

Very important detail is that when Laplace goes Nya you need to picture this wretched thing in your head

[shell bison]

Leo

[balmy obsidian]

Hello

[shell bison]

Time for Huggies and hoisties

[balmy obsidian]

I have been character developed

[shell bison]

hoists the neko awww, who survived the ch4 character development?

[balmy obsidian]

-# meee

[shell bison]

Charlotte praising Leo for being so brave in his timeline

pat Pat pat

[shell bison]

I see your crew is being normal

[warped ibex]

the WWNB SRT is so so so very normal

[silver pumice]

extremely!

[shell bison]

I wonder what would happen if they got a mom friend like Charlotte

[silver pumice]

we got alice
it does not help

but alice does have her own problems

[balmy obsidian]

Notes done https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OMZzseOTf1y0el_DCIPAR4hjLt0kRK6mDnJcSo6Bn5E/edit?tab=t.kfht7aqijfjm
Leviathan has officially survived mission 4 and the downtime
Next time, mission 5
As a bonus, I haven't posted it here yet but have a commemorative drawing this time with pilot portraits alongside the mechs

@silver pumice @wild flame beep beep

Also :

[steady adder]

https://tenor.com/view/crab-rave-gif-27622028

[autumn birch]

[balmy obsidian]

[silver pumice]

YAHOO

[steady adder]

||This means Steele had to sell items from his personal collections to make up for the shortcomings, which lead to party being inspired to gather and restore them just to taunt the bastard. First one, if i recall was actually the monofilament rapier for Quil|| lol

[silver pumice]

GOD that sequence is so cool you didn't even get into combat !!!!!!!

[balmy obsidian]

It required a lot of very good rolls and stress and bonds

[shell bison]

oh that looks sick

[gusty rose]

I just got In Golden Flame, holy shit some of the banter has me dying of laughter

SharpestGirl: Today I discovered that certain chemical byproducts can set steel on fire!
Doppelbock: You mean “melt” steel, right?
SharpestGirl: I absolutely don’t!

---

*etherionRain: lmfao this whole system really said “vibes-based cycling schedule” and nobody stopped them *

---

*OddDirective: Complete genetic rejuvenation at a low, low price!
MEATGHOST: So they get to fuck around with my DNA, and in return I get to find out?
Sp0ttyl0g1c: They’re paying you in exposure!
Sp0ttyl0g1c: (to mutagenic radiation) *

I love this stuff

@fallen geyser You did amazing work with the station banter

💜

[shell bison]

There's a lot more available to the game and plenty of banter to expect

[clever cloud]

some of it would qualify as spoilers so be careful sharing it unspoilered here

[fallen geyser]

SharpestGirl is an old internet handle of one of my friends, Rhia

[gusty rose]

Aye, I picked the stuff that was discussing the place’s lore rather than the storyline for that reason

[fallen geyser]

Sp0ttyl0g1c was the backer name another of my friends Fynikz contributed (he's a hyena!)

[gusty rose]

Nice!

[gusty rose]

"Real culture is messy, complicated and beautiful."

Love this quote

"Calliope’s got no time for [discrimination]; everyone could be sucking vacuum tomorrow, and if you can stop that from happening, or at the very least make the hours between then and now happy ones, you’re welcome – and fuck anyone who says otherwise."

This also really nails just how rough a shape the place is in and its vibes as well.

[wild flame]

Cat ears so powerful they transported Laplace to the Full Color Dimension

[shell bison]

You have much bigger concerns to worry about

[autumn birch]

@balmy obsidian Cheesedream.

[keen sentinel]

https://tenor.com/view/limbus-company-don-quixote-confetti-gif-15890753718484231634

[balmy obsidian]

We do not talk about cheesedream

[autumn birch]

We do not talk about cheesedream.

[balmy obsidian]

do not let it speak, do not let it spread to other people's consciousness

[autumn birch]

Cr4bG0d tho

based.

[balmy obsidian]

There is a reason this is a thing

[autumn birch]

everyone in SRT leviathan's hells gate knows to not engage with cheesedream

they're like the candlejack of our ga

[clever cloud]

https://www.tumblr.com/jliciouslog/783841108802273280?source=share
Calamity doing her best to ignore your request to fix your mom's fridge

[west phoenix]

this is just serenity and calamity

she is somehow the one explaining the scrubs situation and the one sleeping

[balmy obsidian]

It's quantum superposition

[noble ivy]

its serentai that's eeping

[west phoenix]

serenity is sleepy only around her (girl)friends c:

their presence comforts her when she's normally too stressed to sleep

[clever cloud]

serenity has never been spotted sleeping

[west phoenix]

literally every single day while they shared the room on the icebreaker and on the dragons tooth

passing out multiple times during a movie or something and going "yeah, yeah, i'm still watching..."

[clever cloud]

correction: The GM is too stupid to spot when serenity is asleep

[noble ivy]

~~Loki and ~~Calamity?

[west phoenix]

and the rest of the squad, but yes

[balmy obsidian]

Wait the ENTIRE SQUAD is her girlfriends?

I have missed several Jerry's dream team updates

[noble ivy]

she grows more powerful by the day...

[west phoenix]

THE PARENTHESIS EXIST FOR A REASON, CHILL

[clever cloud]

she's only friends with girls

[balmy obsidian]

🏳️‍🌈 🤨

[west phoenix]

she's friends with august and primo :c

are you being transphobic again eleonor

[noble ivy]

[clever cloud]

well clearly something is wrong there

[balmy obsidian]

They're girls, and they're friends, but not girlfriends
Sure

Sorry i'll stop

[west phoenix]

its never been confirmed with those two, but literally everyone but her says they are

her response is usually: "nooooo, no no. no?"

[balmy obsidian]

BY THE WAY

[clever cloud]

chapter 4 for serenity is just a dating sim while everyone else is [REDACTED]

[balmy obsidian]

Nothing changed

[noble ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/undertale-frisk-despite-everything-its-still-you-mirror-buttercup-gif-27689925

[balmy obsidian]

Stuff happened to Quil, but Léo is unchanged

[west phoenix]

this is your doing btw, i have literally made advances

[balmy obsidian]

wait chapter 4?

[west phoenix]

granted i enjoy it and think its really fun for me and serenity specifically given my apprehension for any intimate (not sure if thats the right word) moments in ttrpgs and serenity specifically having issues building relationships like that

i haaaated that stuff until igf

[clever cloud]

platonically intimate

I gotta do more stuff with it

running a long campaign is hard

[west phoenix]

you don't, it's up to you

[clever cloud]

there's soooo much going on

[west phoenix]

i'm enjoying it a ton either way

[clever cloud]

no no, i want to

[west phoenix]

her and calamity do have to have 'the talk' soon and not the fun kind

[balmy obsidian]

the talk you say

[clever cloud]

the talk of "i considered letting you die" talk

[balmy obsidian]

ah

[clever cloud]

which as we all know is just foreplay

[balmy obsidian]

Jesus christ eleonor

[west phoenix]

classic yuri maneuver

[clever cloud]

I watched a anime before

[noble ivy]

Calliope's yuri is on a different level...

[west phoenix]

i mean as far as serenity and i know she could just decide she hates serenity after that. it'd be very fair and deserved

[shell bison]

What the heck did I miss

[balmy obsidian]

Girls

[west phoenix]

eleonor is being problematic

[balmy obsidian]

lesbiab

[noble ivy]

Wömen

[west phoenix]

https://youtu.be/JszKbqxb484?si=0reJ5LwGAZCh3e2M

[balmy obsidian]

"girls hot" thank you velma

[balmy obsidian]

someone's gotta pick up Leviathan's slack in the yuri department, obviously

[clever cloud]

Are you volunteering

[noble ivy]

be the change you want to see in this world

[balmy obsidian]

No you can have our share

[clever cloud]

oooh double yuri got it

Im also dealing with Elizabeth technically being the leader of the Hell Hounds :^)

[west phoenix]

serenity trying to get her hands on the comically large estrogen pill for.... reasons

yeah thats a much more immediate problem

[balmy obsidian]

Wait what who's Elizabeth

[west phoenix]

she fits right in!

[noble ivy]

human mega-evolution stone

[west phoenix]

also a member of the dream team, she's 2nd in charge and very murderous towards hell hounds specifically

[balmy obsidian]

ah

[clever cloud]

pirates in general

[balmy obsidian]

...how did she become the hell hounds leader?

[clever cloud]

we've only faced Hell Hounds

[clever cloud]

||By killing Andros||

[west phoenix]

but last session she decided to NOT murder someone who surrendered despite saying she was going to the entire session

[balmy obsidian]

ah

[west phoenix]

no she said moonlighters are fine

[clever cloud]

I'm playing it as a joke for know but... soon

[balmy obsidian]

Interesting. Very interesting. I won't say nothign but interesting.

[clever cloud]

ok yea but there's other pirate bands i mean

I think chapter 3 is gonna be fun

[west phoenix]

i can't wait for serenity to feel more anxiety than normal every combat

not for us, but for them

[balmy obsidian]

(no meow allowed) ||chapter 4 is going to be fun also, what with the circuit's involvment ||

[clever cloud]

oh Leo that's already causing issues. they just dont realize it yet

[balmy obsidian]

PLEASE tell me more I am very curious

[west phoenix]

my heart can't take this

[clever cloud]

ch4 ||the mining contract is something my players were REALLY keen on helping with. idk why! but they even tried to get Claryana to help with that!! So now, literally everyone who knows anything about pirates at all is looking into what the fuck is the Circuit doing||

||I just wanted to foreshadow the sale, but maaaan they are going ham to try to deal with this now||

[balmy obsidian]

||wait I thought they were on chapter 3 i'm very confused now||

[clever cloud]

YEAH

EXACTLY

[balmy obsidian]

what the FUCK

[clever cloud]

||I just dropped a hint of a thing from the mining guild union leader in hell's gate and my players are chomping at the bit trying to get this contract||

||So now, Elske, Claryana, Striga and the Truth, Hell Hounds and maybe even Horizon Collective is looking into what the fuck is happening with the Circuit and this Asteroid... Behind the scenes that is!!||

We're gonna see how this develops

[balmy obsidian]

Very juicy thank you

[west phoenix]

thank you for the torture you two

[balmy obsidian]

sorry

[west phoenix]

its okay lol i'm very excited

[shell bison]

I LOOK AWAY AGAIN

AND YOU ARE ALL YURI POSTING

[balmy obsidian]

No I swear we're not yuri posting this time we are just talking about things meow isn't allowed to know yet

[west phoenix]

yuri spoilers

[shell bison]

remind me to not share Char's yuri marriage since that happened last IGF session

well, technically, proposed but same thing

[noble ivy]

omg we have a step-mom now

[shell bison]

She survived all of act 1 and 2 and said, "I love this place. I love my team. I love my children. I love my gf. I'm staying here and protecting it forever."

[balmy obsidian]

:)

[shell bison]

HEY

[balmy obsidian]

I am but the messenger

[west phoenix]

god this. serenity has wanted to leave calliope her whole life until now

and we haven't even gotten to the crazy stuff

[clever cloud]

:))

[balmy obsidian]

-# I need to get Léo sleep deprived enough at one point that he'll start drunk rambling at the rest of the team...

Also:

[balmy obsidian]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1059603134504255528/1367568188510048407/cooltext481662575988022.gif

[west phoenix]

there's already been so much serenity character development i am so not ready

[balmy obsidian]

Don't worry you can always fit more

[west phoenix]

right now serenity is coming to the fact that's becoming an unholy mix of jerry and her parent she really doesn't like

[clever cloud]

Oh baby we haven't even gotten to [REDACTED] yet

[balmy obsidian]

|| 🪨 ||

[west phoenix]

do not put the JDT into an SCP article

[clever cloud]

i dont think you fully realized what campaign you're playing

[west phoenix]

that wasn't in the description...

[clever cloud]

have fun jen

[noble ivy]

everyones reaction to (CH1) ||the tachyon||

[clever cloud]

yall they were soooo nonchalant about (early ch3) ||the wrecked battlecruiser in Surprise, Surprise! "This isn't our first haunted ghost ship"||

[balmy obsidian]

Me at character creation, entirely clueless of the existence of (ch1) ||The tachyon|| and (ch4) ||the crypt of stars|| "I think I will play a character that has deep seated trauma about ||cascading and unshackled NHPs|| due to a previous event that ruined his entire life, that'll be a nice enough background with no wider ramifications in the future."

[clever cloud]

:^)))))))

[balmy obsidian]

I didn't get a burden and I was ROBBED

ROBBED I say

[clever cloud]

Hey Léo take 4 Stress

[balmy obsidian]

I am already at 4 stress after this downtime

Going into mission 5

It just keeps happening

[clever cloud]

8/8 no sweat

if it never reaches 9, it doesnt even matter

[balmy obsidian]

IIRC you break when you reach 8 not when you go over 8

[clever cloud]

over 8

[balmy obsidian]

wait really

[clever cloud]

just like heatcap

[noble ivy]

stress is a resource

[clever cloud]

Leviathan has been playing with a stress cap of 7

[balmy obsidian]

wait shit you're right

[clever cloud]

hard nerfed party

[balmy obsidian]

Then Quil never broke

BUT THE NARATIVE

[clever cloud]

no changing it now

[balmy obsidian]

I have not been stressign enough

[tame tide]

When you break you become exposed as you fucking shit yourself

This causes you to take double damage

[noble ivy]

I can't see Tokugawas the same ever again...

[tame tide]

As a protocol you may shit yourself

Your pants remain shat until the end of your next turn

[noble ivy]

a full action is needed to change your pants

[clever cloud]

as a protocol you may hand control over to your AI in order to shit yourself more effectively

[tame tide]

Ok so on comp/con the break option appears when you reach 8

No it says you're broken when ur at 8

So comp/con is wrong

[noble ivy]

brown black thumb and technophile combo...

[clever cloud]

On 8, not over 8?

am I wrong?

[tame tide]

No

Because I checked the book

[clever cloud]

I can't be wrong, im the GM™️

[tame tide]

And it says when you're at 8 and you take more stress you break

[clever cloud]

ah, so over 8

[tame tide]

Yeah comp/con is wrong

[clever cloud]

lets gooo suck it beeftime

[balmy obsidian]

Please don't say that I am playing technothumb

[hearty whale]

Forgot the Discipline stress, I overstressed legit sorry
You rolled too good and didn't need to take Discipline stress damage 😔

[clever cloud]

shit-yourself build

[noble ivy]

this bit is horrifically bad

[balmy obsidian]

I think I'm more mad that I wasn't actually robbed of a burden

And that I thought I was

[hearty whale]

You need to take Geist and really pump that stress up

[tame tide]

Look

[balmy obsidian]

👁️

[hearty whale]

👀

[balmy obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/but-heres-the-looker-cat-gif-26574266

[tame tide]

If I took lots of stress, I would simply not break

I would just takje the core bonus that helps you heal stress for repairs when you stabilise

[hearty whale]

Leo naturally having To The Brink

[tame tide]

It's that easy

[tame tide]

WTF

That's silly

[hearty whale]

Simply Do Not Break

[tame tide]

"Nah I'd win"

[balmy obsidian]

Nah, Léo has Unveil now

[hearty whale]

Edging My Aneurysm

[balmy obsidian]

He can save others from stress, but not himself

[palpatine jumpscare]

[hearty whale]

Meanwhile here's me just giving Quil fancy clothes with Immaculate for surviving the asteroid

[balmy obsidian]

Wait did you actually grab immaculate

[hearty whale]

I had to at some point

[balmy obsidian]

You absolute madman I love you

[hearty whale]

And I already grabbed Everyone's a Fan and Heart of Hearts

...also we know there's ||HA and the KTB enroute soon so I gotta look fancy in front of other Nobles||

[tame tide]

(Post act 1 spoilers)

[balmy obsidian]

Imagine. Imagine the ||ships arrive|| and there's ||quil's sister||

[clever cloud]

I know the consequences are narrative, but as a GM i would definitely have a secret clock on how much this stubborn independence is affecting your relationships. And one day the tab needs to close

[balmy obsidian]

(act 1 end again)

[west phoenix]

this post was made by HA gang

[shell bison]

As a HA mech abuser, ye

[west phoenix]

playing an SSC mech in the other campaign is gonna be so painful

[clever cloud]

Me hiding in a corner with my 4 heatcap

[west phoenix]

what do you mean i can't overcharge all the time

[noble ivy]

WE CLOWN IN THIS MUTHA

TAKE YO SENSITIVE ASS BACK TO GENERAL MASSIVE SYSTEMS

[west phoenix]

i'm genuinely considering the tagetes even though i know its not the right pick

[shell bison]

Sherman is a fine frame c:

[hearty whale]

Tagetes good

Efficient power, works well with friends, has the Sherman license gear..

[west phoenix]

the tagetes is insane

[hearty whale]

Also you can put a Siege Cannon on that thing and call it a rifle

[west phoenix]

want to run a tage- YUEAH

THAT WAS MY PLAN

[hearty whale]

https://tenor.com/view/arnold-handshake-arnold-handshake-grip-predator-handshake-gif-21782662

[west phoenix]

does it make sense for serenity? probably not, but it's MY turn and i'm gonna get the most of action economy

[sturdy jackal]

does anyone have a particular token they like for the space freighter players are escorting in Spitting Distance? I've been looking through the minis in the big ol' resource doc (which is incredible by the way) and haven't found one that really seems to fit yet

[shell bison]

I mean, I plan to Seige cannon sunzi >:)

[last leaf]

this is a callout post: you're going for a 6 heat cap SSC frame, what are you talking about

[shell bison]

LMAOI

[west phoenix]

thats why i said it!!! the deaths head is definitelty the best fit for serenity but i'm an HA girly 😭

however, nanocomposite railgun (in a billion years when we get to LL5) is very funny. no matter where you are, the line 20 seeking smart railgun will hit you

[gusty rose]

The Railgun shell knows it is because it knows where it isn't, and where it isn't is (yet) putting you 6 feet under

[warped ibex]

WWNB has yuri in spades

[balmy obsidian]

And y i

🙂‍↕️

[hearty whale]

Best part of my new License level is the opportunity to play with Rivalry 3

This smug little shit has been bullying me on my own omninet stream

[balmy obsidian]

smartestdemon: Don't worry, I'll fix that one, again, you're welcome.

[silver pumice]

is yaoi real in in golden flame

CLICK HERE to find out........

[hearty whale]

Take the custom Yaoi skill trigger, it's sure to pay dividends

[timber verge]

Im gonna have yaoi in act 2 it’s gonna be so peak

[clever cloud]

i keep clicking!!

[west phoenix]

that patch hasn't been added yet, probably next update

[normal root]

DON QUIXOTE WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE

[wild flame]

looking for Fixer merch

[balmy obsidian]

Fixer I barely-
shot

[timber verge]

https://tenor.com/view/sancho-sancho-limbus-sancho-canto-7-canto-7-canto-7-limbus-gif-14334152630275618064

[shell bison]

Rivalry and Underhanded are such fun talents

[keen sentinel]

spoiler for: mission 2 combat 2 (currently ongoing)
||https://i.imgur.com/FBOpmAT.png
DISCO INFERNOOOOOOOO||

the gang's karrakin pilot is currently aura farming at height 8

[shell bison]

karrakins, am I right?

[keen sentinel]

she's pretty cool :3

[chrome halo]

so the concept of "vent crab gumbo" came up in session today

[hybrid salmon]

Bad news: game was cancelled last night
Good news: we finally got together the async rp thing for the mission 2 investigation!!
This will be neat to do.

[west phoenix]

chat i have a weird question for the note takers, how far along in the story were you at 25 sessions?

[light mist]

nearing the end of chapter 2, apparently
...our party likes to roleplay a lot

[clever cloud]

me toooo

[west phoenix]

yeah i do too

we're at the start of chapter 3 ourselves, i was just checking to see a time estimate about what to expect from a campaign myself

[hushed pilot]

Side effect, Quil is now plural
or, as I like to say, "polycausal"

[hybrid salmon]

I'm not that far, but we're moving a lot more quickly. This is in part a consequence of our schedule: every other week, and also I'm depressed.

chapter 1 has been 5 sessions, #6 was downtime and ch2 setups, #7 was some icebreaker messing around, #8 was investigation, and #9 would have been more investigation if not for it being cancelled yesterday. So #9 is becoming a play by post thing.

I guess there may have been a loose pbp #0 because I wanted to get the lancers in combat quickly

[balmy obsidian]

I have no idea how many sessions deep we're at

Also they tend to last 6 hours so there's that

Sometimes more

[clever cloud]

holy hell what the fuck

I tap out at 3 and Jenny's sessions run 4!

most of my sessions were 2 hours!!

[keen sentinel]

chapter 2 combat 2 complete

Krakatoa Thermobaric Flamethrower fuel can in fact melt ||steel aeroframes||

[hybrid salmon]

I run 3-4 hours

[hushed pilot]

Our last one, from a European perspective, went from 7 PM to 2 AM. My brain usually gives out once it hits midnight and, at best, runs in standby mode there after

At around 1:50 AM, since it was just in character banter after a long day, I tried to give Fritz a narrative excuse to leave the scene

IRL me has his desk and PC right next to his bed and the longer the session went, the more tempting that bed looked.

[silver pumice]

second combat of ch5 done with……… admittedly a good amount of hitches

[silver pumice]

||making our final push soon. seki has said some vague things about being scared of this combat. we also know it got thoroughly remixed from base? i am Terrified||

[past agate]

chlorine trifloride not included

[teal mica]

One of my players has started to be visited by visions of their future mech that only other PCs can see

Is it truly a game made by a Homestuck if there's no I AM ALREADY HERE involved

[tiny tangle]

oh yeah, I ran session one of my second IGF group over the weekend. group two is only three players, and they progress so much faster than the other group

[shell bison]

oh?

[tiny tangle]

not a bad thing to go slow, I like taking my time. but the amount of time three players take to rp and do combat is drastically lower than 5

so much so I was running out of notes quick. Group 1 didnt get to the first combat until session 2, and immediately ended the session after that. Group 2 went through combat one and then spent like 30-40 minutes just shooting the shit on the freighter on the way back to the gate

theyll catch up to each other quick I can tell

currently, group 1 is about to do ch1 ||A Face to a Name||, group 2 is about to do ||Denial of Service||

oh yeah! nearly forgot. our iconoclast user had a cascade in the first combat

on the first structure

first time hes ever played lancer

instant cascade

[balmy obsidian]

Hilarious

[shell bison]

THE FIRST ONE???

[west phoenix]

They used to, I do 3 pretty much always now

[west phoenix]

i've found 3-3 and a half work really well for me to start a session, introduce the problem, deal with the problem, and then climax or resolution leading into next session

any more than that and i kind of feel like i'd be introducing things that can't exactly have their own lil narrative in a single session

i view it like a series; the season as a whole can have a good narrative, but you also want the episodes themselves to have their own self contained stories leading into it

[dire cloud]

||We fought that asshole yesterday. It was fun.||

[west phoenix]

it's entirely possible you can do this with a longer run time, and maybe I can, but if I go any longer than 3 and a half hours I really feel like I'm meandering and it helps my confidence a lot to have them be more punchy. I'm also playing with 4 players early on in a campaign so they're not super active yet, maybe my opinion will change once they begin to become more active and sink their teeth into the setting

[last leaf]

A lot of it depends on the speed of your players yeah. I generally try and go for a certain amount of content, looking for a natural stopping point, without worrying too much about the clock

[shell bison]

always give every beat some time to breathe

[west phoenix]

Sometimes I assume every player is like me and is super proactive

IGF campaign 1 has two of us like that, like there can be 0 content in a session and we will find a way to make it go to time

[last leaf]

for sure. Out of session rp can also help on this front, not that I'd ever require it from someone

[steady adder]

What is with Iconoclasts in IGF and cascading on the first chance they get
For context, this same thing happened to me the first chance after I had gotten Iconoclast myself lmaoo

[clever cloud]

babe wake up, new Calliopean Coincidence Field entry just dropped

[steady adder]

we are truly living upto that 'Unstable' quality

[tame tide]

It's fine, I have an outlier... Unless my technophile 3 iconoclast somehow cascades

[shell bison]

so real bestie

[west phoenix]

I do love it but half of my players do not engage with it lmao

Half of them are just along for the ride which is fine but it's the antithesis of myself, I am too obsessed it is unhealthy

[clever cloud]

at least we're not wargammers™️(derogatory)

[west phoenix]

Very derogatory

[shell bison]

stirker players

[ebon hatch]

you fool, real lancer players know that everyone is a striker sooner or later

[clever cloud]

you are so correct it hurts.. our IGF party is almost entirely controllers and our WF party (same people) is entirely DPS

[tame tide]

My pacifist swallowtail when I reach LL3 and Iconoclast starts talking

[ebon hatch]

you either deal damage or you die

the only stat we care about changing is the enemy's HP stat to zero

[tiny tangle]

can confirm, in the OSR game I play in I was reserved to tank-only, as my attack rolls are unusably bad. one single level in white witch + pankrati 1 and duelist 1, and I felt like I switched from playing a friendly shield bot into a mech sized grizzly bear

[ebon hatch]

just sitting there like

[tiny tangle]

the players in my games do not suffer this problem. both IGF groups are comprised entirely of strikers (how did I get EIGHT of these fuckers)

[ebon hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/your-mom-adventuretime-finn-gif-4759635

[tame tide]

Let me grab the numbers I ran for my game RQ

[ebon hatch]

because it is both the most optimal and the most fun way to play Lancer

everyone likes Big Number

[clever cloud]

woe, 6 witches be upon them

even woer, 18 hornet grunts

[tiny tangle]

cruel and unusual, I will keep that in mind

[clever cloud]

i've been having a lot of success with ronins

[tiny tangle]

the GM of my osr game has made us very very afraid of witches and hives

and I have personal beef with ronins now

[tame tide]

#1059603134504255528 message oh it was posted here, haha

[light mist]

have to disagree, you have not played lancer until you have set off a chain of 4 ability triggers culminating in the negation of the offending NPC's turn and forever instilling the fear of doing literally anything into your GM

[ebon hatch]

or you just play a Gorgon and look at someone funny

[tame tide]

The Barbarossa is now a Ghengis Mk 1 and the Goblin is now an Iconoclast Imp

[clever cloud]

Al, this scares me

[tame tide]

So I have more strikers now 😔

[light mist]

can't say I've had the opportunity to do that in particular but it does sound very silly :P

[ebon hatch]

if you aren't a striker, you're a controller doing your damndest to make sure the GM doesn't get to play

[tiny tangle]

something in the calliope ecosystem keeps pushing people to build scary deathbots

[tame tide]

It's fine, whenever I want to play a game. Everyone else decides they don't want to be a DPS

[clever cloud]

I know the book says otherwise, but (ch3) ||not telling my players that you get a full repair after surprise, surprise, was the best thing i could've done. The tension would have vaporized if i told them||

[tame tide]

huh...

[west phoenix]

I can't be a striker player because I don't roll well enough

I need to play support builds that don't roll

[tame tide]

Swallowtail embraces you with open arms

[west phoenix]

Sunzi with field analyst and leader :)

[ebon hatch]

swallowtail also embraces gunslinger

[west phoenix]

I never do hostile actions because they miss, so I make sure my teammates don't

[tame tide]

I'm playing swallowtail in another (not IGF 😭 ) game and I just play it as a pacifist

[west phoenix]

I'm actually pissed I've never played a tank in lancer, that's like my preferred role in any game

[tame tide]

I prefer it that way, field analyst, orator, leader, lock ons out the arse

[west phoenix]

And I don't mean a lil shield bot, I mean denying space by GETTIN IN THERE

[ebon hatch]

hilariously enough, a friend of mine attempted to make a balance change to all of Lancer's stuff that wasn't NPCs and he gave Swallowtail a Heavy Mount.

And got rid of Ordnance on AntiMat

[tiny tangle]

see again this was exactly how I am. stacking attack roll buffs goes nuts though

[ebon hatch]

in addition to some homebrew he created, I essentially played a hiding cannon build whose whole deal was just

[tiny tangle]

sending psionic messages to you telling u to play a white witch

[ebon hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/jojo-gun-jojos-josuke-meme-gif-18019715

[tiny tangle]

ignore the 4 base heatcap youll be fine

[west phoenix]

Trying to find a way to justify baby "don't talk to me" serenai piloting a swagarmatha and eventually a white witch

I LOVE THE WHITE WITCH

It's my favorite tank, next to a funny big sag Vlad build that's all about getting in there, grappling, and drilling

[tiny tangle]

heres the soon-to-be white witch (still LL1) my character pilots

[noble ivy]

one of my players tried being a tank and after taking like 3 structure damage in a single turn he was like "huh, i wonder what playing a sunzi is like?"

[west phoenix]

We have 3 CQB players in that campaign lol I don't think I can justify it

[west phoenix]

Our igf1 tank had the opposite experience. Got structured twice first combat and said "I will never take damage again"

[noble ivy]

btw i don't mean over one round

a single turn from an engineer and her turrets did that

[tiny tangle]

real and felt

[clever cloud]

oh damn

[tiny tangle]

I made it out of mission 1 with 1 structure and 3 health to my name

[clever cloud]

i dont think a T1 engi is meant to deal 45 damage per round

[tiny tangle]

exposed condition perhaps

[noble ivy]

tell that to my players who let her make an extended family of turrets for like 5 turns

and yeah, he was exposed too

[shell bison]

I am simply empath and orator maxing over here

[clever cloud]

me in WF

[tame tide]

We love using orator on mechs that cannot feasibly be distracted (mission 3) ||Someone used orator on ???||

[west phoenix]

Roland is not an empath; however, he does like to yell "KILL YOURSELF" over comms

And that transcends the language barrier

[tame tide]

How to impair anything

Even horros beyond imagination

Wallflower act 1 finale spoiler: ||Me yelling "KILL YOURSELF" at beggar one over and over again||

[clever cloud]

maaaaaaan this is the first spoiler in this channel i cant read

[tame tide]

L

[clever cloud]

it hurts

you dont know how close i was to clicking it too

[balmy obsidian]

Suffer as I have

[clever cloud]

(act 2) ||caught you red handed, buddy||

click it

i dare you

[balmy obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/disappear-gif-24972837

[dense crescent]

Wallflower spoiler ||there are walls||

[light mist]

but do they have ||flowers||??

[worthy root]

Running ACT 2 at the moment. No spoilers, but a Barricade hitting you with Tear down on a movement focused map is brutal.

But also, choices were made:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1259192476619509824/1373902738991349770/image.png?ex=682cc2e2&is=682b7162&hm=2a46aaeec23bc4720f0b56ab1c8a01192cdf37a581b4ea5d8f7dec40a5335988&

[west phoenix]

||meanwhile beggar burping from tummy full of yummy yummy patience||

[clever cloud]

oh

jen pls

[west phoenix]

No that's act 2

HOW DOES IT FEEL ELEONOR

[clever cloud]

Like im lost in a deep german forrest

[west phoenix]

Real talk I love this thread so much I really wish there was one for WF for players to discuss things

[light mist]

oh is there not one in the massif module forum?

[west phoenix]

The game has its own character development ||killrod|| asteroid

[clever cloud]

i think that's the GM one

[west phoenix]

Only super spoiler one yeah

[clever cloud]

igf having 2 threads is a fairly unique thing here

far field has 2

[light mist]

I thought that was just ||a tungsten rod||

[west phoenix]

They talk about shit I don't even really know about yet

[clever cloud]

some modules have playtest threads that stay as GM threads

[west phoenix]

Common igf W

Only in chapter 3 but if it continues with it's quality (I think it will) it's probably the best module I've ever been a part of

[clever cloud]

oh girl now it's when it gets good

[light mist]

entirely unrelated but every time i see these come up in a seminar I get thrown for a minor loop lol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin-like_growth_factor

[west phoenix]

It's been good!

[clever cloud]

nah nahnahnah

[west phoenix]

The characters are super well written and I loved chapter 2

I'm sure it gets better, but I've already been having a blast

[balmy obsidian]

Eleonor like:

https://tenor.com/view/evil-neco-neco-arc-devil-gif-4606139268538612190

[west phoenix]

Me every day thinking of how to torture the scrimblos

[clever cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/fly-insect-bug-evil-plot-gif-5650927

[noble ivy]

thats every GM

[west phoenix]

Yeah, but especially now

Eleonor keeps playing characters that just take the brunt of all of the emotional damage (it's mostly self inflicted)

Which, I mean, same. Chapter 2 I was at 4 stress from the start and everyone else has 0

Serenity is definitely gonna get the first burden

[light mist]

god the two week gaps between our sessions are killing me
I have so many PLANSSSS

[wild flame]

nah, no room

[west phoenix]

SPOILERS

[balmy obsidian]

🐑 🥁

[clever cloud]

lmao

[balmy obsidian]

IT'S IN THE TITLE

[west phoenix]

My weekend game is delayed 2 weeks (sorry I'm moving!) and I'm gonna explode

[west phoenix]

Okay well there's GOLDEN FLAME how does that make you all feel

Ban me now

[balmy obsidian]

[[ASTRAL STIGMATA]]

[ripe vault]

Ancestral Imager

Agenda: Security • (3/1)

Whenever the Runner jacks out, do 1 net damage.

Jinteki • SanSan • The Universe of Tomorrow (rotated) #112

[neat flume]

No card found for “ASTRAL STIGMATA”

[balmy obsidian]

No

[light mist]

one of our players basically handcrafted a PC just daring me to put them through the wringer
literally three secret identities
I need to see his reaction when I reveal ||their girlfriend who they are trying to avoid being recognized by is the chief electrical engineer trying to solve the mysterious blackouts they're also investigating|| (mild ch2 spoilers?)

[clever cloud]

is.. is this an igf spoiler or??

a wallflower one?

[light mist]

igf sorry

[west phoenix]

WF spoilers (to torture Eleonor) ||the blackouts in ch2 are most definitely not mysterious! 🔨||

[clever cloud]

ah fuck

me when the wallflowers have no room

[west phoenix]

Don't read the spoilers

Sorry I keep talking about it lol I like torturing Eleonor

[clever cloud]

the feeling is mutual

[west phoenix]

I deserve this for the pain she put me through AND THERE'S A LOT WORSE TO COME

[balmy obsidian]

(ch3) ||Don't worry Eleonor you will soon be able to hit Meow with the old woman jumpscare||

[clever cloud]

im extremely excited about that

[light mist]

wait so are you guys GMs but also in each others' games? 🤔

[clever cloud]

yeah!

[balmy obsidian]

I am waiting with baited breath to hear about it

[light mist]

dang that sounds fun

[clever cloud]

jen runs WF, i run IGF

[west phoenix]

Yes we have rivalry (it's one sided)

[light mist]

ohhh I see

[clever cloud]

the rest of the party is the same minus one person

[balmy obsidian]

When you both have rivarly and bonded

[light mist]

do you ever do funny cross-campaign references :P

[west phoenix]

Actually yes lmao

[clever cloud]

the day jen and I join on the battlefield, life will never be the same

[clever cloud]

not yet, WF is really new

[west phoenix]

I am convinced her character is from calliope

[light mist]

ah ok

[west phoenix]

Yeah we've only had 3 sessions

[tame tide]

Honestly as cool as this channel is, I am weary as people here do tend to have different definitions of what a spoiler is to what I do... Honestly it hasn't been as much as a problem as I remember previously but it's just in case

[balmy obsidian]

What do you mean

Have I fucked up

[clever cloud]

giving general guidance as to what chapter we're talking about is good enough for me

[west phoenix]

Yes. Die

[light mist]

one of my players was the GM for the wallflower campaign I was in
(actually he's the player with the triple identity PC whom I am scheming over hehe)

[clever cloud]

there's personal storylines that the players would not really know if they're spoilers to other players or just them

[light mist]

I'm hoping to get him back for all the insane lore and twists he added to my wf char's backstory

[west phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/fly-insect-bug-evil-plot-gif-5650927

[shell bison]

I just flavor all of Char's Orator stuff as her using witness to mess with the pilot phsycologically like any weaponized newtype

[tame tide]

I tell my players to AVOID this channel because of YOU!!!!

[clever cloud]

damn

[west phoenix]

Lmaaaoo

[balmy obsidian]

[tame tide]

For legal reasons this is a joke and now I feel bad

[balmy obsidian]

Oh thank god

[west phoenix]

Do not bully the Leo

[tame tide]

Imagine I am currently giving you a beverage that you like

As compensation

[balmy obsidian]

Thank you

[shell bison]

Leo

[tame tide]

Have some Goblin energy on the house

[clever cloud]

[shell bison]

I am hoisting you

[west phoenix]

Bunzi, we require uppies

LOL

Called it

[shell bison]

and petting you for emotional support

[balmy obsidian]

I'm curious what you meant though Al

[shell bison]

https://tenor.com/view/akira-blue-archive-akira-blue-archive-pat-pat-pat-gif-2523229383716691441

[noble ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/pat-garrys-mod-garrys-mod-physics-fast-intense-gif-26322619

[tame tide]

For example, people refer to mission 4 as "||Character development asteroid||", I personally would not want to even know people call it that until they reach the reason why people call it that mission. I'm just more paranoid and tight about things that could be spoilers

Even if they necessarily aren't

[worthy root]

I don't. All I have to do is place a box of scraps in a cave, and turn around for a second. And then I'll find a fully assembled blorbo wiggler full of Blorbos

[tame tide]

Even if a player looks into this channel and sees it tho, it isn't the end of the world

[balmy obsidian]

You say that

[shell bison]

I would like to see what characters your players make.

[balmy obsidian]

But you did go
-# "Plotting, plotting, plotting..."
During last downtime

[tame tide]

It's mostly paranoia, even then I only have 1 player who is active in Pilot net and she sometimes looks into this channel so in the end I don't mind

[tame tide]

Who was this directed towards?

[shell bison]

You, I would love to consider funny little scenarios with your players blorbos like making action figures doing cool stuff

[balmy obsidian]

Understandable 🙂‍↕️
Personally I'm not too bothered by spoilers as long as they aren't too incredibly major, they don't detract from my enjoyment of the game

For example (ch4) ||I was aware beforehand that Caustic could be saved because I tripped on that information a while back when we were still in chapter 2 I think, though I didn't have any context on who or when or how, and even if I didn't know about it, the second it was hinted at being possible I would have gone straight for it||

(You may now send me to jail for my crimes)

[shell bison]

hoisting leo onto a top shelf

[balmy obsidian]

You know I'm 6 feet tall right

[clever cloud]

that's actually a fun example because ||you couldn't always save Caustic. That's a recent thing Vex added like 6 months ago!||

[balmy obsidian]

||So I've heard when talking to seraph, funnily enough ||

[steady adder]

https://tenor.com/view/pear-wiggle-pear-wiggler-pear-wiggled-get-wiggled-gif-7225222458756406813

[steady adder]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-shake-gif-19831790

[balmy obsidian]

It's William Shakespear

[clever cloud]

die

[shell bison]

I've hoisted taller than you

[tame tide]

#1059603134504255528 message
(Spoilers only matter if you're in my party IG OR if I say a specific mission)

claps hands Aight... So we have:

• Dear Liza (She/It): An NHP who was ||abused af in Impact Dynamics before getting liberated and becoming a Knight of the Dark core||, she loves mech fighting and acts as always moving forwards and never sitting still
• I sat on the hillside the stars up above me (yes that's her full name) (She/her): A ||Karrakin Noble who had an even longer name at one point who was a master of Subterfuge within a minor house of the house of moments, but her dad like... Dead named her and such and she didn't have her houses respect so went to HA and worked for them. Then got set up, shit happened... Had an ultimatum, triple agent and backstab HA to earn fathers respect or back stab father... Chose the choice of neither and retreated to Calliope||, now is very secluded and backed off, disconnected and is 7 ft tall with massive digitigrade legs
• Kenzie (She/they): ||HA soldier who retreated from the DLS after realsing HA isn't all the glory it is...|| became a moonlighter until she got into debt with the HH's, her sister became a Sunlighter. Kenzie decided to cut contact and retreated from the HH's fleeing to hells gate. She believed she was a mechanic who understood how everything worked until experiencing (Mission 1) ||The Tachyon|| then event after event she realised she understood less and less of the world. So after mission 3 went with the ||weather witches|| and became a Magus (She found out Lancer isn't hard sci fi and instead is Soft sci fi so went from a Butch lesbian mechanic to a Butch cat girl lesbian witch). This mission she also found out her Sister had repaid her debt and became a member of a certain cult

• Harper (He/him): THE ONLY CIS MAN IN CALLIOPE, ||Also ex-Karrakin, minor house of the houst of stone. who had faults with his family. joined the Ungratefuls and faught against the KTB. Until one day where Caveliers cut down his entire unit, his sister offered to join back to the family but instead he fled to Calliope.|| Acts as the "sane" member of the group, babysitting Dear Liza and ISOTHSTSUAM to not buy 1% of the Gift Bronze Casino so they can get advertisement benefits for the Hellfire leagues. However now his hands are tangled as he has to manage 3 NHPs in one size half goblin. (His mech is no longer his mech, it's now Ozzy's)
• Hatch (He/they): Another NHP Who was a double agent for Circuit. until (Mission 1) ||The tachyon happened, after Capella died he got increasingly desperate calls from Caustic directly calling him back but it couldn't be done because the station was on lockdown|| during mission 2 (Mission 4 spoiler) ||TP beamed STRAIGHT INTO HIS MIND, and basically screaming random cascading bullshit along the lines of "RETURN for ASSIMILATION". calling Him Prodigy/Heretic and TP basically sees them as such after he was directly responsible for breaking TP's simulations... They just found out last session what would have happened to their PC if they returned when caustic said so||

Now I feel bad for Dear Liza after my descriptions got longer and longer 💀

[light mist]

hell of a party 👀

[tame tide]

Yeah

[balmy obsidian]

"the only cis man in calliope" wait but we have 4!

[shell bison]

I can see they need many a hug from bun mom

[tame tide]

They all need therapy

[clever cloud]

no you dont

[tame tide]

I sat on the hillside the stars up above me I think needs the most Therapy

[balmy obsidian]

Yes we do!

[tame tide]

There is going to be so much PvP this mission...

[light mist]

which mission are y'all at?

[tame tide]

4

[light mist]

ahh
fun :P

[noble ivy]

are we doing this bit again

[clever cloud]

i dont have the energy for a full bit. this is just a drive by

[tame tide]

I think I can't say much more about Dear Liza because most of what I have planned for her is act 2 :P

[noble ivy]

a quick egg toss

[balmy obsidian]

Thanks Danny Devito

https://tenor.com/view/egg-frank-can-i-offer-you-a-nice-egg-in-this-trying-time-gif-13802522

[shell bison]

To be fair, I could go for some eggs for lunch today.

[clever cloud]

I reaally dont like eggs

[tame tide]

Eg ❤️

Eggss my beloved

[tame tide]

Respectable

[balmy obsidian]

-# Transphobia

[shell bison]

If I had a dollor for everytime someone doesn't like eggs as a food and then leads to a big argument I'd have a few dollars.

[tame tide]

🫳 🥚

Me throwing a hard boiled egg at your head

[balmy obsidian]

(pretend the frisbee is an egg and I am a dog)

eggs by themselves I find are very meh

if you put ketchup on it though I will gobble up the whole thing

[tame tide]

<- Number 1 Ketchup hater

[balmy obsidian]

we need to have chickens on hell's gate

[tame tide]

Actually honestly probably in the thousands of Ketchup haters, maybe millions... I just find it kinda mid

IDK how many ketchup haters there are

But I also cook a lot so my eggs are SLATHERED in various spices

[balmy obsidian]

I can't be bothered to try that many spices to find out which ones I like so I just settle on the most basic stuff

I cook and eat like I'm still in college

<- never was in college

[tame tide]

I still am in Uni

I've been here too long

[balmy obsidian]

Please tell me you're not under 25

[tame tide]

I am under 25

[balmy obsidian]

[tame tide]

I am in my 20s though

JK I'm actually 12 (For legal reasons this is a joke)

[balmy obsidian]

If you hit me with "I am 12 in troll years" I will find you

[noble ivy]

-# how long is a troll year?

[balmy obsidian]

I don't remember it was two point something

[noble ivy]

-# also, what's wrong with being under 25...

[shell bison]

youngins, lot of you

[balmy obsidian]

It makes me feel OLD

[noble ivy]

don't worry, i'm doing my best to get older

[tame tide]

I'll be older in the next day

I'll get to be older than 25 in the next 1-24 years

[wild flame]

hey man guess what

[balmy obsidian]

No not you too please

[clever cloud]

the low res adds to the effect

[clever cloud]

dont worry leo, the entire dream team is older than 25

[tame tide]

Me at larp events when older players see i have functioning knees

I have a character who was born without knowing their name. But was named Swift after they revealed that they were in fact fast af, and now I'm thinking of it that gives real Calliope energy

[shell bison]

it do have calliopean energy

[trail flume]

Lastnight, Drag Down ground myself and our Speedster to a halt. I decided that HP was a nessecary sacrifice for the objective

Then took 48 damage in one turn

from one system

[light mist]

classic drag down moment

[trail flume]

IT ws spicy

I lose two stress and two structure in one turn

MOve, boost, overcharge, boost

[shell bison]

OOOF

[trail flume]

ROlled max on the 1d6+4 at the top of my 7 heat cap

Moved over half the map and left half my mech behind while doing it 😂

We legit couldn't belive it was uncapped in the base book. It is

That basion earned its pay

The thing that suprized me was that 48 AP only structed me twice

but 25 hp be like that

But yeah, that hurted

[tame tide]

What combat?

[balmy obsidian]

I believe they are somewhere in the first mission of act 2

[tiny tangle]

was like 70% sure you were younger than me, alas I am 24

I am shooting you with the feel old gun

[balmy obsidian]

I'm 27

[west phoenix]

Unfoxly behavior tbh

[west phoenix]

Serenity, someone with a full medical degree, is somehow my age or younger than me

what am I doing with my life

[tame tide]

Playing in ggolden flame and running wallflower

As it should be

[light mist]

wait is serenity a player? i thought they were a character 😅
clearly i need to pay more attention

[west phoenix]

No they are I just think it's funny

[light mist]

ah ok :P

[west phoenix]

That's my character, she is baby surgeon

A toddler with a scalpel

[clever cloud]

it's funny you think a Calliopean medical degree is:

1. A real degree
2. Takes longer than 18 months at best

[trail flume]

Act 2, Middle of the ||Famin King Arc. Malliope fight||

[west phoenix]

She's good enough with a knife, that's all she needs

She tells everyone she's a doctor despite not being qualified

[tame tide]

I feel like all medics in Calliope are either:

• Surprisingly good
• In Calliope for a reason

[balmy obsidian]

May I propose the following alignment chart

the trick is that they're all the same person I lied to you

[trail flume]

Callipe, 90% dubious medics and former pirates by volume

[wild flame]

The remaining 10% are streamers

[west phoenix]

• German
• Battle medic
• Does not have an official medical license
  Uh oh

[trail flume]

Is... is House a Battle Medic?

[steady adder]

i mean-

[steady adder]

cw: zombies and things related to it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdEh5XeqbE

[fast parrot]

i propose my own medic

not a medic
Just has disturbingly good knowledge of human physiology
when you know how to break it, you know how to fix it
look, someone has to sew them back up, why not hte guy who's hands are genetically modified not to shake
has definitely said "do no harm. unless you mean to harm. Then harm. Harm a lot. Harm until the point gets across how harmful you are."

[trail flume]

Well, I'll be damned. That rocked

[steady adder]

the fucking cane-shotgun was wild to see and implanted itself into my memory lmao

[trail flume]

... I have an idea for my next charater's signature

[trail flume]

(Ludwig is likly retiring, because I built the wrong character for this campaign)

[trail flume]

It's a great idea! Old guy leaning on a cane!

SUPRISE! ITS A DSAS

[noble ivy]

the masses yearn for a bloodborne sequel...

[trail flume]

I TRIED. But Ludwig isn't built for Calipee

Turns out horribly efficient murder isn't that good of a solution out here

T - T

[keen sentinel]

one extra note from last night's lancer:

we were continuing from midway through the second combat of ch2, that being the fight with ||Sunbird One||
for roughly the first half of the session (which was the second half of the overall fight) Bullet had the background music set to Franz Ferdinand's "This Fire" on loop

[west phoenix]

YEEESSSS

[shell bison]

Oh that's sick

[normal root]

the difference being how good their PR is /j

[tame tide]

Decided I want to draw my party NHPs, behold the first! (Spoilers only for my party) ||Iconoclast NHP, currently they/it but by the end of the mission they'll develop their own Manifest Ego and adopt He/they||

3 more to go

But one of them will just be the Horus Imp doing this pose

Because the Osiris class NHP's body just is the mech now

He refuses to leave

[wild flame]

Local Osiris-Class Claims Squatter's Rights On Mech - "I didn't even realize that was an option!", Says Pilot.

[tame tide]

Ozzy says beingg a god doesn't pay the bills

Once they're off from this Mission Ozzy is still goingg to be applying for more places

He already got turned down from being a Barista

[west phoenix]

damn, and they aren't even that picky...

[wispy quail]

finally started the redo of my group's Spitting Distance fight, after we had to swap out a player and then got slammed by scheduling issues and me having tons of coursework to do anyway

they've gotten pretty badly bogged down - the third round just ended and they're pinned to the south end of the field with one player mech completely destroyed and all of the enemies still up, though the Veteran is on 1HP (on its first structure, though)

i'm wondering if i made this a little too difficult? i used one of the maps from the resources google drive and prepared all the NPCs as written, but i think focus firing their tactician player might have taken them out a little too quick

they rolled a 1 on their second structure check, passed the same to become Stunned, then lost all their health again and rolled another 1 on their third structure check while still Stunned, destroying their mech

[clever cloud]

That might just be terrible luck :((

[wispy quail]

their gunslinger player unloaded three attacks on the Berserker in one turn, hit all three - rolled minimum damage on all three, which was absorbed by the berserker's 1 armor

since they were just using GMS pistols

they managed to get a turret drone reaction shot off but so far that berserker has done surprisingly well at running in, causing problems on purpose, and not getting killed back

the party Sagarmatha launched a howitzer shot at three enemies i had foolishly bunched up, but unlucky rolls led to it doing only 4 damage to 1 enemy (missed the assault, missed the squad, low rolled the archer)

[west phoenix]

oh man this sounds like my first combat for my 2nd igf game

only two characters hit anything

i had two accuracies on like half my attacks and still missed on easy targets

[wispy quail]

the tactician landed a huge hit on the Veteran Cataphract, blowing through almost an entire structure, and i had actually already rolled a crit fail on a structure check before i realized i had forgot to factor in both Lightning Reflexes and Point Defense Shield - i gave them the hit thru lightning reflexes for free, but the halving from PDS left it alive at like three health

the Berserker actually scored a no accuracy crit (19 on the dice + 1 from enemy to-hit bonus) on the gunslinger earlier, but since they're an Everest with no armor the Shredded did not actually matter

the sagarmatha was doing a great job of protecting the hacker (who was pushing the objective) by holding a crucial choke point (and grappling the berserker!) right up until the gravity rifle stole their ally out from under them

here's a GM call i might have made incorrectly: i ruled that you can't voluntarily walk through the escort objective since it's not your ally, but you can be pulled through it because it's not an obstruction - basically treating it like an enemy character

[prime terrace]

You're welcome :3

[silver pumice]

ch5 ||BEAT 25 IS SO FUCKING FUN. TRULY PEAK.....................||

[silver pumice]

FINAL COMBAT IS STARTING WISH US LUCK

[balmy obsidian]

fuck em up

[silver pumice]

(CH5 SPOILERS) is this anything
-# (originally wanted to redraw this template entirely but i am . tired

[shell bison]

HUH???

HOW

[balmy obsidian]

The worst thing about wwnb reaching chapter 5 is that I can't click the group's spoilers anymore

[last leaf]

on the bright side most of the hits were with a TCB.

But yeah the party hitrate was genuinely under 50% I swear

[balmy obsidian]

Sorry we took all the luck this week

[silver pumice]

how what

[silver pumice]

mine apolocheese... </3

you'll have fun with it soon i think this is so SO fucking fun

[shell bison]

As someone that is also seen ch5, it's cool and a very specific meme I can not share

[balmy obsidian]

[silver pumice]

seki remixed the last combat a """bit""" to spice things up btw: ||instead of just aurum and capella we're fighting THE REST OF THE ELECT too, and we're also bringing in plenty of npc reinforcements (and due to the text based nature of wwnb, some people decided to make additional pcs; we're letting them go all out in this one combat and "retiring" them after. to make this fair for people who only has 1 pc, such as me, we're allowed to bring in up to two npcs we like)
(also yes this is likely going to take us a lot of time but it's funny so)||

||also S1GN4L became an Elect (Liberated by the Flame), and a powerful one at that, which means we have an ultra mirage to worry about||

[shell bison]

Oh good heavens

[silver pumice]

indeed!

[warped ibex]

||<— deranged woman whose doing an 18v18 encounter in fucking lancer||

||the system isnt built for this, like at all, but we've had Months of mental prep time nd total group consent||

||and its funny. so we'll see~!||

||its worth noting that the Elect have always been a more consistent threat in WWNB than other IGF games — their first encounter was with Akram in chapter 2, and they've been having little scuffles and bumps into them ever since. so now they're here! for realsies!
i will not be taking questions on Elect S1GN4L.||

[silver pumice]

||elect s1gn4l is so so fucking devious both mechanically and narratively </3||

[silver pumice]

||i kidnapped akram into the tunnels with an army of robot rats btw||

[vast zealot]

We had a statistically unlikely number of nat 1s - 8 or 9 I think across 5 rounds of 6 players

[shell bison]

Here is my ch5 big spoiler meme.

[silver pumice]

incredible

[balmy obsidian]

Staring at the orange and yellow colors trying to decipher meaning through the spoiler blur filter

[silver pumice]

nods serenely

[balmy obsidian]

||Ignatius...||

[silver pumice]

sniles sneetly

[west phoenix]

Can't wait to pilot the deaths head to roll a one, and then reroll it into another one

[balmy obsidian]

1/400 btw

[west phoenix]

One attack I had two accuracies and both rolled a one

I think I rolled a nat 3 for the base attack

[clever cloud]

i will never forget you failing an agi save with like 5 accuracies

[west phoenix]

This is why I play support builds, less rolling or I make my enemy roll through saves

[west phoenix]

Like three times

[silver pumice]

WHAT THE FUCK

[west phoenix]

It was during ch2 ||the sunbird flight. I could not avoid the wolfhound missiles despite being the one most suited to do so. Meanwhile our slow ass big chungus characters were fine||

[clever cloud]

it was the ||Hades Missiles||

||Wolfhound missiles|| are the ones you can BCL

[balmy obsidian]

I love ||wolfhound missiles ||

[silver pumice]

I Love ||Wolhound Missiles||

[west phoenix]

Right I am still baby GM I get them confused

[clever cloud]

there's a lot of different missile names

in my giant robots shooting missiles tabletop rpg

[balmy obsidian]

||Puppet systems|| the ||wolfhound missiles|| directly into the ||sunbird||

[worthy root]

||I'm actually planning something similar for the Leviathans, but since I don't want to run an 80 hour combat, I'm swapping Andross Ultra Template out for the Chosen Template from Field Guide to Iridia, and am going to make the elect his souls shards||

[west phoenix]

So you're saying I'm a bad GM

[silver pumice]

OH MY GOOOODD