In Golden Flame

[noble ivy]

I still don't know why there*'s a belle* down there...

[ebon hatch]

why not?

[wild flame]

comedic juxtaposition

[noble ivy]

fair points

[clever cloud]

ch3 ||the introduction of Grandmistress Elske was a great success||

the party could decide if they loved or loathed her

[west phoenix]

yes to both

"are you dating calamity and is she no longer a threat to the station?"
"i hope so"

[opal canyon]

The squad Horus member also realized 1) I am in horizon and 2) the Cousins cell has a kill board and was horrified at both of these things

He also realized that Ipswich (who he is into) ||is Horizon collective as well and doesn’t know how to process it||

It’s great because this character has been loudly running around proclaiming themselves to be in Horus openly for the whole campaign and everyone’s just been sideeying them lol

[silver pumice]

OH MAN

[silver pumice]

throwback to when one of the many lesbians of wwnb decided to make out with her right on jerry's desk

[west phoenix]

it looked like she was about to with jerry tbh

her and serenity were certainly taking up the desk but it was because they both wanted to take charge of the situation. poor jerry

||when we rescued the pirates and jerry turned angry baby mode serenity locked tf in and oh my god every session we see more of how serenity and jerry are similar. normally she's just either a ball of anxiety or a silly little goose but she straight up had the demeaner of a commander once he entered. jerry was gonna do anything to get rid of them, and serenity was gonna do anything to ensure their safety, things were so tense and they both chose every single word they said so carefully||

she's certainly growing into her leadership shoes, though it's bringing its own set of problems that's for certain

[cobalt zealot]

wwnb?

[silver pumice]

We Will Not Burn is the unofficial motto of the SRT in the campaign i'm in

so we've nicknamed that strand of igf IGF-WWNB

[silver pumice]

motto and not name cause we really didn't see the necessity of coming up with a special name for the team. we're the only hg-srt

[cobalt zealot]

SRT...?

[silver pumice]

Hell's Gate Strategic Response Team, the name of the team that the party is

that igf parties are in

[cobalt zealot]

Ah right

Yeah I forgor the name

fuck i'm so tired

when's a good point to switch from the starting frame to something else?

like, thematically

[silver pumice]

i mean mechanically you can obtain a non-gms frame at ll2

unless you're talking about somethig else

[cobalt zealot]

more like

what's a good point in the narrative to obtain a new frame

because i'm planning on switching off a GMS frame to the Hecatoncheires

And I would like that to be an unplanned switch

[silver pumice]

uh . ll2 corresponds to chapter 3, but for Paracausal Funniness somewhere nearer to ch4 Might be funnier?

[shell bison]

That is true yeah, you start at ll0 and ch3 is when you are at ll2 to bring out the new frames

[cobalt zealot]

I think getting my Hecatoncheires after Ch4 makes sense

With the uh

Spookiness

Going on

By Ch4 I'll likely have an Enlightenment-class NHP as well

[shell bison]

Which frame would you be using until then?

[silver pumice]

gms frames are pretty damn nifty
if it weren't for the temptation of homebrew mechs with funnier scan effects lynk'd be a chomolungma pilot

[cobalt zealot]

The GMS Sierra from IMI

It's the one consisting of an entire squad of subalterns that I'm fluffing as a drone swarm

I shopped together some art for it, it's just Cel in an up-armoured high quality hardsuit and the necessary C3 kit to direct them (with help from her NHP)

But since the Sierra uses the XP202 software, which is apparently Orochi-derived paracode

I decided that was a good hook to play into

With the installation of it into her ADJUNCT comp/con, Apollo, resulting in it cracking the standard limitations of an enmeshed narrow intelligence matrix

So he's sapient now and neither of them realise it

He's had moments where he's shown he's not just a comp/con anymore, like asking introspective questions he shouldn't be doing (as comp/cons aren't self-aware enough to reflect on their own actions)

[prime terrace]

Finley (my pilot) has a little Tamagotchi-style device with Isabelle on it.

It's literally one of the only things giving him a purpose in his life currently. He takes care of his little critter more than himself most of the time.

He literally stays alive so he can keep his virtual pet alive

[shell bison]

I'm entirely familiar with that homebrew

[midnight forge]

got bored from jobhunting so I made everyone's favourite soggy man

[tiny tangle]

my first crew is going into the downtime of chapter 1 and I brought up whether or not they have a special group name beyond just “Hells Gate SRT”

first response

[midnight forge]

My fireteam have just kept the name of The Hells' Gate Militia

[tiny tangle]

its a solid designation

no need for anything else

[midnight forge]

Exactly

Then again most of my team are pretty no-nonsense

[balmy obsidian]

I could never have found a better name than the one our enemies gave us during chapter 2

[balmy obsidian]

Also you should definitely go for this

[west phoenix]

Both of my parties are all nonsense

We are straight clowning

[random mango]

I'm going to be going from dust grave to igf soon and the players are ll3.

I'm very tempted to keep them there but, for the first few missions to represent how hecked the printer situation is, put them in frame gatcha

They have to roll a random frame and core power each time they full repair

(They're also a Horus cell on the run from HA and on a murder blacklist from the constellar midnights so that might change some relationships.)

[noble ivy]

they just need to piss off IPS-N to complete the collection

[cobalt zealot]

...did you make it?

[shell bison]

Oh wait

I forgot to write the not

I am not familiar with the homebrew, lol, my b

[cobalt zealot]

It's a very solid homebrew but I'm most a fan of the GMS frame it introduces

Because a size 4 consisting of subalterns that functions like a squad is awesome

No other frame does anything like it

[shell bison]

Size 4 huh, interesting. I think the last time a saw a homebrew do that was Grim and Sons

[cobalt zealot]

One second

So it's huge but it does at least have the ability to halve the damage it takes 1/round

[shell bison]

huh, reminds me a lot of the really early sublatern squad from Kidd

[thorn hinge]

love this, there needs to be more yuri teams

My group is still arguing over a name (and we're starting act 2) but right now I think the most popular option is "Firewatch"

[fallow dagger]

Mine went with the "Hellions"

[shell bison]

Meanwhile,

[balmy obsidian]

The leviathans don't have a logo yet...

[clever cloud]

dark theme go brrr

[west phoenix]

Nor do we, we need to make one

[west phoenix]

I'm doing my part

[shell bison]

The void consumes

[clever cloud]

this is what blinkspace looks like

[shell bison]

All the sunzi pilots vibing in the blink

[west phoenix]

Blinkspace tea party

Mmmm yes char pass the sugar will you dear

[reef estuary]

YURI!!!!!!!!!

perfect name for a no man team imo

[shell bison]

"Say less, amiga"

[balmy obsidian]

less

sorry, "less amiga"

[west phoenix]

Amiga???

Not beating the allegations

[balmy obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/smug-maki-gif-5343311312738326082

[west phoenix]

How I look knowing that I'm piloting the most cutting edge technology while everyone else is fighting with sticks and rocks

[shell bison]

You fool, it's spanglish

You are being hoisted for your smugness

[balmy obsidian]

I know it is

https://tenor.com/view/come-here-kitty-kitten-cat-cat-meme-gif-9842965060322201652

[reef estuary]

some practice sketches ft everyones fav manfail

and shelly

[balmy obsidian]

Thanks Shelly very supportive as always

[clever cloud]

MY BABY!!

[cobalt zealot]

Doggirl?

[balmy obsidian]

Bnuuy

[cobalt zealot]

Of course

I'm stupid

[balmy obsidian]

I'm stupider

[shell bison]

Leo s fast with the correction. How'd he beat my Slip

[noble ivy]

Ladies, it not a competition
-# and if it was, I would bring home the gold

[balmy obsidian]

[balmy obsidian]

I once put my whole entire hand on a hotplate to check if it was running properly because my food was only mildly hot

[shell bison]

Okay, to be fair I rock Orator cause I like giving allies Advantage on attacks and turn off powers

[cobalt zealot]

I just woke up from a nap so my brain is like

Operating at 10%

[clever cloud]

I rock Orator because i wanna yell KYS over comms

[shell bison]

Eleonor, remind me to DM you how I used Orator to beat a boss in IGF

[cobalt zealot]

I rock orator because I like to think Skye's psychic presence is so menacing she can cause someone to panic

[shell bison]

You too?

Emapth Gang

[balmy obsidian]

I know telling people "kill yourself" is bad but also in the previously mentionned examples it's incredibly funny to me

Just look at Shelly she's hilarious

[cobalt zealot]

Yeah
Skye is a newtype!
Empath + Amber Phantom frame = "this is an Everest but I'm flexing my powers so hard"

[cobalt zealot]

It's always morally correct to do to fascists

[shell bison]

🤝

Fellow New type Enjoyer

[cobalt zealot]

Gundam good

[shell bison]

yeyeye

[cobalt zealot]

My characters are funny

• Raiden from MGS if he was a girl and a singer
• Firebat pilot
• Newtype
• C4-621 but puppygirl

[keen sentinel]

Holy shit it's beautiful

[tame tide]

OMG I LOVE IT

The fucking mug 😆

[keen sentinel]

my characters so far

• Spec Ops spook turned gun for hire (Solstice Rain)
• Traumatized daughter of a HORUS-adjacent cult leader (Dustgrave, before Bullet canceled the campaign halfway through for reasons)
• Space-Italian Union army veteran (IGF)

[reef estuary]

ik his normal mug is iconic but drawing him w diff slightly motivational mugs is silly to me

[tame tide]

I have a plain white mug that I draw in red pen over whenever I GM the session

It currently says (mission 4) ||It's mission 4, you know exactly what it says||

[reef estuary]

gah....i cannot yet read......

@tiny tangle read it for me

[balmy obsidian]

(ch4) ||WHAT WILL BE WILL ALWAYS BE||

||Or does it? (vsauce theme)||

[tame tide]

||Hey, Vsauce. Michael here||
||Your metavault security system is safe||
||Or is it?||

[heavy belfry]

Is it ok to run In Golden Flame starting at LL0 for complete newbies of the Lancer RPG?

[shell bison]

Absoltuely.

[heavy belfry]

Perfect 🙂

[shell bison]

The combats are never tuned to a point newbies couldnt handle it. there are some tougher fights of course but as long as you give some tips or give them a tutorial fight before the campaign to understand mechanics it should be fine

[heavy belfry]

Does it also have GM Tips for combats like Solstice Rain has? (i havent bought In Golden Flame yet)

[shell bison]

Yes in fact! Vex took great strides to include notes on certain NPCs in fights that should be highlights, how their mechanics work and what to do with them. How many players are you having on your board?

[heavy belfry]

Four. Maybe I'll recruit a 5th, we'll see. For now they're doing a poll for what rpg I should run a longer-term adventure path for. 😄 Lancer is runner up so far with 50% of the votes in. 😛

[shell bison]

Woo! I cross my fingers they pick lancer so you can run this. We're all very communicative and happy to help providing vital resources or tips on what to do for beats

[heavy belfry]

Thanks ^_^ They got a PF2e background and one of them has played Lancer before (but he didnt like the GM) so I think Lancer will be easy for them to adjust.

[shell bison]

Well, I wish you the best of luck and if they do choose IGF, tell about the party and the cast of characters they create!

[thorn hinge]

Yeah! The only problem with starting players on IGF is risking it setting an impossible standard for other campaigns in their minds

[heavy belfry]

What do you mean?

Ooh, for other Lancer campaigns you mean

[clever cloud]

IGF is good

like really good

[heavy belfry]

Because of this rumour mill, I want to run it

😄

[shell bison]

There is a lot of exploration, NPC's to meet, chances to weave their backgrounds into the narrative, etc.

[clever cloud]

like my friend is running wallflower and shes jealous i picked IGF first

[shell bison]

LMAO

[heavy belfry]

Only thing I'm concerned about is that lancer combats take like 3 hours; So I need to make clear to them its a wargame first and story second. (even tho the IGD story is said to be very good)

[shell bison]

Might I recommend you set sessions to be clearly marked as RP days and COMBAT days.

so all your narrative hijinks, learning what you are doing, character interactions, etc on those RP days and when it comes to combat you make it the focus of a session.

[heavy belfry]

yea; and I'll likely say we might break up combat in the end of a turn for next session

[cobalt zealot]

None of my characters have campaigns!

[thorn hinge]

Yeah IGF is more of an even mix for most groups, but it depends how hard you wanna go on the narrative. My game took 44 sessions to get through act 1 and we had 19 combats.

[cobalt zealot]

My firebat pilot is for OSR and the singer is for IGF though

[drowsy birch]

hello in golden flame has ensured my chakras are properly ventilated

[shell bison]

Live Ventcrab reaction

[tiny tangle]

it does, and theyre pretty good, great for getting a feel of especially the “star players” of a combat. that being said, depending on your group’s team composition and all that, mileage may vary. point is, dont be afraid to treat them as suggestions. I run two instances of IGF, one with 5 players and one with 3. The 5 player group has obliterated every combat so far and I am going to be modifying future ones to compensate. The 3 player group has been pretty evenly balanced with the enemies in a way that feels challenging but not too difficult, so I’ll probably run the combats closer to as written for that group. Both groups are lancer newbies but the 5 person group has some veterans of other tactical combat games, so it makes sense

[cobalt zealot]

Holy based

[shell bison]

I'd hope so, Ada I'm very excited for the you know what >:)

[heavy belfry]

Later this year, Act 2 should release right?

[balmy obsidian]

It will release eventually ™️

[noble ivy]

there are WIP drafts shared in #909574961931362365, so if you and your group finishes act 1 before the release of act 2 you'll at least have some guidance

[shell bison]

I will say, as someone that has seen a lot of Act 2, it's current state is pretty good and enough for you to know where to go. You might just have to fill in some gaps

[cobalt zealot]

(I desperately want to play IGF)

[clever cloud]

no fixed date. even if the writing was done, there's still layout and art, so it's a bit aways

[west phoenix]

Not my goofy ass wanting to run a module myself after igf 😭 my poor self esteem

[west phoenix]

Oh nvm she said it already

"my friend" you hate me don't lie

[balmy obsidian]

Surprise you're appreciated

[west phoenix]

Idk how to respond to this I will continue to assume the worst /jk

[main scaffold]

chapter 5 combat 2

i ate. so much fucking shit

i ate EVERYTHING

[balmy obsidian]

They aren't-

They're not-

They're not HAVANA GREAT TIME

[noble ivy]

gets short-cycled lanced

[main scaffold]

i swear to fucking god

[oblique berry]

A thousand bricks mailed to your doorstep.

[wild flame]

To build a monument in Leo's honor?

[balmy obsidian]

I deserve this.

(from here https://youtu.be/DxmkAoLC6_4?t=167)

[fast parrot]

yeah uh...

maybe i'm a bit of a bastard for doing

"Hey oh look, the sitrep is over there. Away from the gigathrongler npc. I'll go do that."

[noble ivy]

the giga-what??!?

[main scaffold]

the giga throngler

big threatening ultra

we were fine but jesus christ it was close

[random mango]

Mmm

Hate it when I got throngled

[main scaffold]

scylla manticore with the chapter 3 spoiler gun ||starquake|| is a fucking reckoning tho

every single time the gm declared an attack against me, the offending npc was in serious danger to take 5-7 kinetic

[noble ivy]

before i ran IGF, one of my players had named their mech "Throngler Ex Machina"

[cobalt zealot]

The throngler

[balmy obsidian]

||I barely knew her||

[fast parrot]

You were close lol

Rest of us are aok

Curse of dive striker ig

[upbeat hemlock]

My groups are

1. Critical Response Active Battle Squadron (CRABS)
2. Due to being named Cracker, Credit, Cavalier and Caltrop, variously known at The C-Team, Team Charlie, C4, or the Charlie Foxtrots

[opal canyon]

Wtf where I get this image

[cobalt zealot]

Do their initials spell VENT

[upbeat hemlock]

Sadly no

[cobalt zealot]

[upbeat hemlock]

that team is John "Longarm" Stapler, Osha "Worksafe", Maxwell "Sabre" Hammer, and Zebulon "Grandpa" von Aldenberg

[west phoenix]

grandpa gaming???

[upbeat hemlock]

in our timeline, this is Striga's GREAT grandfather, who spent the last 165 years elsewhere, travelling at nearlight

[cobalt zealot]

Oooh, how'd he get on with Striga?

[upbeat hemlock]

they haven't met yet

[shell bison]

Lmao, it's one of my players artist rendition of a vent crab

[upbeat hemlock]

or, rather, he saw her in a convenience store, recognised the name, and has been working up the courage to introduce himself

when they meet, there is a reasonable chance that Striga will conclude he's a time vampire and try to mace/garlic/ventcrab extract/hint of lemon him

[west phoenix]

honestly thats the one time that's a reasonable reaction

[keen sentinel]

I have a suggestion for your other party:

Your Adaptive Overwatch Initiative, or Y.A.O.I

[tiny tangle]

could

currently these three barely like each other enough to be coworkers

but all dysfunctional parties learn to be a team in (ch1) ||the tachyon||

[cobalt zealot]

I love how shameless the ||Tachyon|| is

Just straight up ||hey have you ever watched Event Horizon?||

[coarse marsh]

i love hearing about all the different names for other people’s SRTs

i’ve gotten so used to ours, i forget it’s not actually the default half the time lol

[west phoenix]

we're jerry's dream team (JDT)

[silver pumice]

we're just the SRT, but we also have a kickass unofficial official motto

[drowsy birch]

my squad is called the Girlies

A spectator who made a character to post ic in the SRT operational comms referred to us as "the girlies" and someone said "fuck me are people gonna start calling us that now" which, subjectively, was something like a mistake

This was post ch.4

[silver pumice]

LMAO

[silver pumice]

other nicknames include the sresties, which is more often used internally

[west phoenix]

we got our name because the annoying streamer character (compliment) kept saying it around others despite EVERYONE saying it was silly, now we just own it

[glacial tundra]

My PCs are also still called the SRT, but came up with the motto of "Just Don't" at the end of chapter 1 ||as they flew back to Hell's Gate after cutting Andros's mech in half||. It became the slogan of the recruitment poster they made for the Hell's gate militia and posted on the Omninet, and they use the phrase at the end of interviews to generally discourage piracy. more ch1 spoilers: ||https://www.tumblr.com/hellsitemoraleofficer/777256982578151424/my-comrade-mifune-killed-andros-capella-it-was?source=share||

[balmy obsidian]

Our team name comes from ch2 where ||during the fight towards the hangar right before Sunbird-1, one of the enemies called us something like the servants of Leviathan, which immediately made Laplace (the group's Technophile NHP) go "You know that's a great name actually". He then proceeded to bug everyone else about choosing a team name until somewhere during mission 3 where the team ended up settling on Leviathan unofficially officially. He did try to get the team named Noodles for a little bit before that though.||

[silver pumice]

(ch1 finale) We Will Not Burn came from ||a mantra our own ex-hound girl (who has a Lot of baggage about capella, having been sorta adopted by him and becoming part of his personal team until she eventually snapped after a particular operation and quit the hounds) said to calm her own nerves about facing capella ! and we all found it cool as fuck and started saying it too so it's our motto now||

[silver pumice]

||another reason the Tachyon was so scary for us and we had to hype each other for it is that one of us was an nhp scientist aboard it and its only survivor (feather spared her) and she was scared as fuck of feather||

keyword is was. she's now uh. Well.

[keen sentinel]

codekissing?

[silver pumice]

you know it

[keen sentinel]

:3

[silver pumice]

(commissioned from NoteFellow on th)

[cobalt zealot]

Someone just joined your game to yell encouragement at you from the gallery?

[drowsy birch]

yeah, a couple of people have a s.o. hangin out in the server. it's more than just our lancer group

[cobalt zealot]

cool! sounds like fun :3

[west phoenix]

oh man i am so excited about ch1 finale spoilers ||serenai being on the tachyon. she's been really questioning her own existence with lyra being very vague and quiet about where she came from and what was going on with her for the 15 YEARS SHE WAS OUT OF COMMISSION. i don't know if she was cascading or shackled correctly or what but serenai is a curious little devil who is constantly getting herself into trouble and i think this is gonna open a lot of bad decisions for her||

||kind of a mix of like "was this happening to me???" and "i need to know more about this NHP". she knows its dangerous to interact with cascading NHPs but she needs to know- she hates not knowing things especially things about her own past||

[balmy obsidian]

ch5 ||VACATION IS OVER EVERYTHING IS GOING TO SHIT AAAAA ||

[clever cloud]

:^)

[shell bison]

WELCOME TO THE CH5 BABY

[balmy obsidian]

ch5 ||THOSE FUCKERS KIDNAPPED OUR BOY LOKI IMMA KILL EM||

[shell bison]

https://tenor.com/view/welcome-hell-motherfucker-keith-david-tales-from-the-hood-gif-3909159289998613028

[balmy obsidian]

ch5 ||Arrived on the asteroid, immediately go into combat guns blazing, disable the bombard, Fritz and Aisaan immediately reach the backlines and blow up one of the enemies and cripples another, Sam and Quil are setup on one point we are fucking GAMING ||

ch5 ||Ace combat music is playing I am HYPED sadly we won't be able to do the entire encounter tonight but round 1 is looking very promising||

ch5 ||You FUCKERS are giving us our boy back||

[steady adder]

https://tenor.com/view/nitro-red-line-race-gif-14227593

[thorn hinge]

hell yea get they ass

[noble ivy]

||holy shit Ace Combat/Project Wingman music goes so goddamn hard and fits that mission perfectly||

||When my group finally reach that point i know i need to play at least one of these tracks https://youtu.be/3Bely0NX53w||

[silver pumice]

HAHAHAHAHAH

[hushed pilot]

Ch 5 ||Fritz, upon hearing what the hell the inner cult was doing on Cerberus, immediately sprang into the role of commander, barking orders at everyone who could hear him.

We got something the cult is not expecting: thanks to Legacy's efforts with the Interloper, we have a backdoor to the cult's entire network and Jerry approved Fritz's order to get Chief McArthur and whoever had knowledge in e-warfare down to the Interloper and work on a virus to cause as much chaos within the cult's lines as possible.

Fritz has been preparing for a day like this since he arrived in Calliope 6 years ago. All of that prep work is about to pay off. It's good to have friends in strange places, especially when they're a part of an intelligence organization with a military background!

So yeah, we got a special surprise waiting for them, one the cult and the system will never forget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1yfWJvrCdo||

https://tenor.com/view/cockpit-anime-ww2-gif-25510900

[silver pumice]

HUH

[hushed pilot]

||# Operation Trojan Horse is a go!||

It pays to be well prepared!

6 years of planning, forging alliances, gathering intel, blood, sweat, and tears, ||all for a chance to turn the tide of a war that has followed him to Calliope.||
Fritz was born ready!

Hehehe... I'm gonna enjoy this!

[steady adder]

Oh yeah Leo you forgot that ||Laplace kept playing chess with TriplePoint? for 5 hours straight and lost every time, leading to Lap declaring that chess is children's game anyways to which HEDRON responds by pointing out that Lap basically admitted to losing in a children's game||.

[silver pumice]

LMAOOOOOOOOO

LAPLACEEEEEEEEEE

[balmy obsidian]

he is 5 years old

[cobalt zealot]

I feel like having Technophile 3 by Ch4 is probably a good investment

[keen sentinel]

this particular track feels hell's-gate coded
https://youtu.be/j4RnjYwbtp4

[dire cloud]

I think if my character survives chapter 3, she wants to ask Loki on a date, or at least get to know him better.

[shell bison]

Let's gooooo

[west phoenix]

join the loki stan gang

[dire cloud]

My one regret is not making a boy character so I can date (Act 2 spoilers) ||MEGACORRODER||.

[ebon hatch]

listen

it's Pride Month

I'm telling you now that it's not too late

[clever cloud]

It's pride month, aka, 4-5 dating sim sessions in a row

[balmy obsidian]

do you want us to like
bring forth the gay flame
what

[clever cloud]

yes of course

legally required

[noble ivy]

its not the gay flame already?

[balmy obsidian]

I don't know I didn't ask

[clever cloud]

oh god spinoff arc where the party gets involuntarily enrolled in a reality tv romance gameshow

[balmy obsidian]

challenge accepted

actually no it'll hardly be a challenge
accepted

[clever cloud]

"we interrupt this terrorist attack to bring Ice Breaker! A speed dating game show aboard the Borealis!"

[west phoenix]

is this not what every igf game is anyways

[balmy obsidian]

Well

Leviathan persists

[clever cloud]

selection bias, everyone who types in this chat, yea sure

[noble ivy]

(Vague mission 2 spoilers) ||"finally! an exuse to run Getting Railroaded!"||

[clever cloud]

now that's a gameshow

[balmy obsidian]

-# gaymeshow

I am trying desperately to push Sam and Fritz in the same room alone together, sadly unsuccessful for now

[noble ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/kiss-now-kiss-no-way-cant-be-gif-7734844

[west phoenix]

the jdt with serenity and calamity tbh

even the gm

[shell bison]

GAMER

[balmy obsidian]

I wanna know about the rest of the team's romantic catastrophes

Is it solely Serenity or does it apply to the entire team

[cobalt zealot]

"we all lift together" is a specific influence for it iirc

[clever cloud]

Primo's really into Ipswich as of late. They've been very buddy-buddy for a while, but recent developments have caused the relationship to grow

Elizabeth is straight up dating Shelly

Honestly, the main plot is getting in the way of the party finding a date for Jerry

[cobalt zealot]

Is there a single IGF game where more than one person isn't romantically involved with an NPC or the rest of the polycule SRT?

[hushed pilot]

Since when?

[clever cloud]

lmaoooo

[hushed pilot]

Leo's stress levels rise every time Fritz is within close proximity to him.

[noble ivy]

Leo's a magus right?
his stress levels should be at 95% at all times anyways

[hushed pilot]

And Fritz is too goal oriented to take a hint. If you were to put "out of f**ks to give", "goal oriented", "incredibly scary", "neo-teutonic", "clinical", and "quiet rage" into a blender, you would have the basic components of Fritz

[balmy obsidian]

Since the end of chapter 2

I am working in the shadows...

Neforiously plotting...

Mispelling words...

I am inded a Magus

That's why everyone started chapter 5 at 1 stress except me who's at 4

[hushed pilot]

I'm sorry, but if that's the case, then you've been doing a poor job at it

[balmy obsidian]

You just don't realize how deep my influence goes

You can only see the surface

[clever cloud]

the trap will seize soon enough

[balmy obsidian]

I work in mysterious ways

[hushed pilot]

As deep as the hole in your reactor will be

Keep trying, kid. Keep trying...

[balmy obsidian]

Resorting to violence

Typical...

[hushed pilot]

As is Fritz's way

A lot of problems can be solved by surgical applications of extreme violence

I am a striker, after all

[clever cloud]

"Hey Jackass, I love you!!"
Uses Orator dice on you

[balmy obsidian]

Barely knew her

[hushed pilot]

"And I love staying alive. Keep your head on a swivel, comrade"

[west phoenix]

SINCE WHEN

man they really are a bioware gamer huh

[balmy obsidian]

Wait you didn't know?

[clever cloud]

ok my favorite part about running igf is feeding confidential information to each of you. The moment things intersect, everything feels a lot more genuine

[west phoenix]

NO SO MUCH IS HAPPENING IN DMS

[balmy obsidian]

oh

[west phoenix]

i feel like i'm the only one who is not getting that

[clever cloud]

ShellyXElizabeth has been going on for like 6 months

[west phoenix]

I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY TO CALAMITY IT'S BEEN ACTUAL MONTHS

[clever cloud]

irl months

[west phoenix]

WHAT

[balmy obsidian]

[hushed pilot]

Including accidentally locking into a romantic choice you didn't think you picked

[west phoenix]

oh my god i was making fun of them the whole time for being too pushy about it when it was a thing the whole time

this mfer is always "ooo shelly this shelly that" mid mission and i'm like SHE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE

[clever cloud]

yes! it's hillarious from my Pov

[west phoenix]

#1059603134504255528 message
tho i can see why they get along so well

[balmy obsidian]

I need to see Serenity witness them holding hands and being absolutely flabberghaste

[west phoenix]

the office vibes are rancid bro

[balmy obsidian]

"You were an actual thing the whole time??"

[west phoenix]

dating your superior is crazy ironic

wait is calamity a part of the srt

would that count

[balmy obsidian]

I don't think Calamity is part of the srt

[clever cloud]

Calamity is def part of the SRT; she's the dedicated mech engineer

[balmy obsidian]

oh

[west phoenix]

dating your superior is crazy

[clever cloud]

ok calamity wont date you

[west phoenix]

no she's going to kill her with her bare hands

[clever cloud]

did you read my session notes?!?

[west phoenix]

this is what serenity thinks will happen when she has to tell her 'the thing'

and she's like, yeah okay, that's fine go ahead

[balmy obsidian]

I don't know how bad the tension actually is I'm just fully assuming that one day Serenity will say "Sorry I considered letting you die" and Calamity will just

https://tenor.com/view/culihasa-dopa-jinja-elmascapito-rat-rata-gif-24915842

[clever cloud]

OK BUT ACTUALLY

[west phoenix]

HAHA

yeah that would be very fitting like she'd probably be like "okay? i would have torn you to shreds back then"
"... hot"

[clever cloud]

I, eleonor, completely forget about this point literally 4 mins after jenny reminds me

[west phoenix]

everyone but bella did

last session ||when jerry was getting ready to rip the heads off of everyone in the dragons tooth and serenity and him were scrapping like alley cats serenity was like "i don't want you to make the mistake i did" and eleonor paused for like a full 30 seconds before yelling "WHICH IS???"||

[clever cloud]

maaaaaaaaan

[balmy obsidian]

Meanwhile on Leviathan's side 10 to 15 minutes yesterday were spent with Léo asking Quil "Hey it's cool if I consider you my best friend right?"

[west phoenix]

serenity and elizabeth being best friends is hilarious

serenity thinks elizabeth is a blood thirsty maniac and elizabeth thinks serenity is a coward but they both think of each other as best friends

[clever cloud]

they're adorable

[west phoenix]

though tbh serenity is feeling like she's the monster after the start of ch3

[balmy obsidian]

Oh?

[clever cloud]

half wondering how they aren't dating but i know it's because Liz is exclusively a code fu-lover

[west phoenix]

striga???

[shell bison]

In one game I play in everyone is in a monagamous relationship aside for two players

[clever cloud]

They're not dating yet!!

[balmy obsidian]

yet

[clever cloud]

honestly im having a hard time with August and Kyle

they play out like supporting cast more than main ensamble

[west phoenix]

||elizabeth was really kind to the pirates and kind of broke that idea serenity had about her, and it just makes her feel more guilty about what she almost did to calamity||

trust me i do too

those two are just for the ride in both campaigns and its really hard to work with especially for WF

you have 3 players who are hyper involved i only have 2 😩

[balmy obsidian]

There's no time to be self conscious

[shell bison]

One of my players in another game is currently working on herself X calamity x Siren polycule and wingmaned for her best friend in ch3

[west phoenix]

YOOO

[balmy obsidian]

Hehe, Siren, wingmaning

Hehehehe

[west phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/bricks-gif-6525378798534810671

[balmy obsidian]

ow

[clever cloud]

i love that gif

also im really amazed by just how similar Serenity and Jerry really are

at first it was a joke, but damn

[west phoenix]

it keeps becoming more apparent every session

[clever cloud]

secret ending

Serenity becomes HG station director

[west phoenix]

and i mean he was the captain of the srt before yeah? or whatever the equivalent of it at the time was

[west phoenix]

yeah honestly i could see this, but i'd bet commander first

[clever cloud]

my canon is that the SRT is Jerry's initiative. Jerry used to squad lead in the general militia

essentially the same tho

[west phoenix]

lately serenity has been a LOT more assertive especially last session. ch3 ||which is a side i didn't know jerry had either||

||there was a bit we did where we would say "jerry feels like he's 6 feet tall right now" and whenever the vibes between those two changed we'd say like "serenity is now 7 feet tall"||

[clever cloud]

ch3 ||when Elske was in Jerry's office, he ended up being 6 inches tall||

[west phoenix]

that scene was great

i think that's the most commanding serenity has ever been

[clever cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/lift-off-take-off-hamster-cute-adorable-gif-12897433

[west phoenix]

she was having NONE OF IT

[shell bison]

It was pretty cute, she used the weather witches for a single afternoon of clear skies over Furnace city over post mission completion in ch3

[balmy obsidian]

[shell bison]

Siren and her just sat on a railing and watched a sunset talking. Meanwhile she left her best friend to try and rizz up her date at the bar during a celebration

[midnight forge]

My fireteam now finally has a proper name outside of just The Hell's Gate Militia SRT

Due to the fact half our fireteam has, at this point, turned multiple people into pulp and paste with the bare hands of their mechs, we've become affectionately known as the RedHands, and this name is traveling fast

[cobalt zealot]

Is Serenity a canon character or specific to your group?

[balmy obsidian]

She's now canon to every group you're welcome

[shell bison]

lmao

The inside joke is eveyr SRT is just a resident that lives in Hell's Gat at some point

[normal root]

one day I'll be able to add my party to that list...

[west phoenix]

if you ever need help with a medical emergency on hells gate, its serenity

[cobalt zealot]

This has the fascinating implication that everyone on the station is capable of mech combat

[cobalt zealot]

I would too but first I need a party

Though I am also praying the GM is lenient with 3rd party content because I really want to play the GMS Sierra

[shell bison]

They might be capable but it is a question on who Jerry signs up

[cobalt zealot]

Sure but like

The implication that there are over a million capable mech pilots in one place is funny

[dire cloud]

Hell's Gat is what the SRT shoots you with.

[shell bison]

Everyone is able to drive a car, just depends on how good each individual is

[west phoenix]

apparently anyone according to my two games

serenity and elizabeth, yeah, that makes sense
in wren's game char is the only one i'd trust in a mech lmao

[shell bison]

Jerry trusts her so much he is asking her to be a team lead and it made her feel nice ;v;

"He trusts me!"

[west phoenix]

okay but also, look at his other options for that team

serenai is NOT cut out for that like her fleshy AU variant

[cobalt zealot]

...What on earth would possess Jerry to conscript the twitchy as fuck ex-celebrity who got dumped on hell's gate by a bunch of assholes who took her manna and ran, who is responsible for at least one hospitalisation from someone making her jump and getting a light nexus bullet in the arm

[clever cloud]

part of the buy-in for IGF is that Jerry trusts you and you stepped up to defend Hell's Gate at some point

[balmy obsidian]

Invader only got the job because Laplace made him rehearse the interview hundreds of times

[west phoenix]

our 2nd party didn't get that memo

neither did august or atom tbh

serenai only got hired because lyra was like pleeeaaase i promise she's soooo normal and good at being a pilot
bothers jerry within the first 5 minutes and proceeds to miss every single shot as the team's designated sniper

[silver pumice]

oh fuck you're right it's pride month [SECOND IMAGE TECHNICALLY CONTAINS CH5 SPOILERS]

[cobalt zealot]

Ah right I have something else to add to her backstory then

[silver pumice]

spoiler removed i guess LMAO

anyways i remembered about this style of memes vex made of igf characters last year so i made one for lynk

[balmy obsidian]

Thank you i was waiting for you to post that

I can't participate on the flag memes because i don't know what flags invader has

[coarse marsh]

first image also contains spoilers

[tame tide]

^ That

[cobalt zealot]

Is this bunnygirl switch

[shell bison]

Are you asking orientation or...?

[dire cloud]

I'd need to get a commission for my bug girl that doesn't have borders in order to do the flag meme.

[cobalt zealot]

No I'm just short circuiting and I thought the art looked familiar from the igf book

Refreshing my memory of the main characters on Hell's Gate

[shell bison]

That's cause it is from the same artist that does the art for the portraits

[cobalt zealot]

Ohhhhhh

Haha

[west phoenix]

charlotte is in the book you just need to activate a cheat code

[cobalt zealot]

(I probably shouldn't be awake)

[shell bison]

Like damn, switch bunny mode or something 😭

[cobalt zealot]

Konami code?

[tame tide]

I would classify them all as spoilers ngl

[west phoenix]

it's ALL spoilers

[silver pumice]

right. ah well

[silver pumice]

blue hair and pronouns

[cobalt zealot]

Cel isn't LGBT (or at least I haven't thought about it either) so you're not alone!

[balmy obsidian]

But blue hair and pronouns isn't a flag

[west phoenix]

they have many flags for pronouns

thats like, most of them

[cobalt zealot]

If Cel has a flag it's probably

[west phoenix]

serenity was long bacon flag before she met loki

[silver pumice]

lynk's base design have their flags in them because i just really like my pride flags

[west phoenix]

i'm honestly tinkering with nb serenity recently

[silver pumice]

hell yeah

[west phoenix]

but i think that's just me making more connections to her parent which is not a good thing for her

[balmy obsidian]

Wait really

There's a he flag??

[west phoenix]

the rarest of all calliopeans
a cishet male

[cobalt zealot]

And then ?

[balmy obsidian]

We have 4 of those!

[clever cloud]

statistically, the most evil of calliopean genders

[cobalt zealot]

Statistically the most evil of calliopean genders

[balmy obsidian]

Invader is a good boy and will make the evil ratio plummet

[west phoenix]

scroll up sister

[balmy obsidian]

He will commit negative crimes and morally reprehensible things

[cobalt zealot]

Oh

[shell bison]

Charlotte would never commit a crime...

Trust

[west phoenix]

i know what you are

[balmy obsidian]

Except maybe deleting space elon Musk's bank account but that's always morally correct

[cobalt zealot]

Look. Being mean to fascists is always good.

[silver pumice]

and that's where you're wrong
https://www.tumblr.com/ur-fav-blue-hair-and-pronouns/671090860462637056/requests-are-closed-silly-little-sideblog-yes?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/xenomayhem/772488074761584640/bluehairandpronounsic?source=share

[balmy obsidian]

FUCK

no one told me

[west phoenix]

i'd say serenity would never commit a crime but she has committed grand theft mech

[cobalt zealot]

These are getting more esoteric by the day

[cobalt zealot]

Cel has technically committed multiple third degree homicide but admittedly that was self defence and your honour you can't fucking prove it

[balmy obsidian]

Ok i'm doing a stupid bit tomorrow

[cobalt zealot]

The building collapsed, there is no evidence

Also she got out by the skin of her teeth

They had to salvage the bone marrow in her arm and put it in her chest

[tame tide]

I am aware of 2 Cishet's in my game. One of them is Andros Capella and the other is a PC

Actually no... Cis males*

[cobalt zealot]

I was about to say

There are certainly cis women

[clever cloud]

||Ignatius???||

[tame tide]

Cis hets I have no clue... PC IDK, Shrodingers sexuality

Andros Capella probably sexually identifies as evil

Ah 3

||So Cis males have a 2/3 chance of being evil||

4

M3 ||Clip Magazine||

[west phoenix]

"whats in your pants?"
"a krakatoa"
"no like your gender"
"evil"

[cobalt zealot]

Are there any characters that are in the gamemaster only section which someone might reasonably have talked to?

[tame tide]

Literally the original

Doesn't need editing

[west phoenix]

i'm glad somebody knew what i was going for

[normal root]

O'Malley 💜

[worthy root]

y'all do the same thing

[balmy obsidian]

We do? I didn't realize

[hushed pilot]

Discussing something with your GM is always fun, especially if this then melts into the story and you reach these intersections. I know Koba and I have been handing ideas to Matsci and what then happens as a result has been pretty great Thank you, Matsci!

[balmy obsidian]

I have made the stupid bit
-# That's the cis flag right? Please tell me google didn't lie to me

[silver pumice]

i believe so

LOL

[upbeat hemlock]

New tie for tonight

[balmy obsidian]

So fashionable

[regal comet]

Hello burning people in my phone I did a funny ok bye I gotta go before bnuy catches me 🏃‍➡️
https://bsky.app/profile/selevan.bsky.social/post/3lqmiiakczs2r

Selevan (@selevan.bsky.social)

Moisturised, in her lane, hero of furnace city, outdrinking furnace city
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Bluesky · Jun 2, 2025, 9:44 AM

[teal mica]

Quick meme animated my one of our pilots, (callsign Powderkeg, which explains them well) who ABSOLUTELY broke the printer, and one of the other pilots who is extremely conflict averse and immediately took the blame for breaking the printer (everyone knows they didn't). Powderkeg has been using Mercy as a scapegoat pretty consistently. Maybe they DID break it

[cobalt zealot]

Hmmm

Managed to retool another OC so she's ended up suitable for IGF now

Purely by coincidence

[reef estuary]

god thats so funny. my pc in one of my games totally blames the printer breaking on another pc who ALSO blames my guy its rly funny

working on a pride piece for my other pilot and her nhp wife :3

(nhp wife daisy is based off my irl fiancée @ magesynth ilysm)

[thorn hinge]

Awww that's adorable!

[reef estuary]

thank uuuuu

[dire cloud]

My character definitely didn't break the printer (because she didn't join the SRT until Chapter 2).

[thorn hinge]

My character broke the printer. Or rather, the printer burned out just as it finished printing her mech. Yes, she's a spy for the baddies and yes she has done some small acts of sabotage on the station for practice but I swear the printer was an honest accident!

[balmy obsidian]

eto bleh

[shell bison]

Charlotte will say Rose has never done a wrong in her life before picking her up to present her like a cat

[thorn hinge]

Sure, she says that now...

just wait

[reef estuary]

ehehehe

my guy (||andros'|| stupid chud son) got frustrated trying to fix the printer so he smacked his tools into it until it worked again. temporarily

[shell bison]

God we got to find time to continue the doomed Rose x Char pipeline

[west phoenix]

https://youtu.be/TUTAL9LDHRc?si=m1_zU-d5gR8YpHrC
Every start of igf

[balmy obsidian]

If I ever get to play IGF again it's going to be me and it's going to be on purpose

[reef estuary]

good

[cobalt zealot]

I want to be the specific person who is not remotely responsible for the printer breaking

Just there because the militia made themselves scarce and Cel has a notable record of having fought off pirates singlehandedly with a bunch of drones

Also if she's not on the station that's fewer potential stray bullet injuries

[clever cloud]

Primo (he/they), co-host of Live from the Long Rim dropping extremely subtle hints

[thorn hinge]

this is so delightfully gay i love it

[west phoenix]

he must be talking about L-Kay

[clever cloud]

Ipswich crying in a corner thinking Primo is fawning over L-kay :(((

[west phoenix]

so they ARE into primo

[balmy obsidian]

Soon JDT will have in universe fanfictions written about them

[silver pumice]

ch5 finale ||iggy is hitting marthe with an egregious amount of abjures||

||worse still marthe has shed off all sense of self preservation here so she's gonna attack anyways and stress the hell out of herself||

[balmy obsidian]

-# wanna click...

[silver pumice]

||WHILE ENGAGING HER IN RELIGIOUS DEBATE (she started it, really, but)||

[silver pumice]

my condolences. you'll find out soon enough

[balmy obsidian]

Damn straight we're about to fuck around

[hushed pilot]

And they'll be the ones who will find out why you don't mess with the Leviathans

[shell bison]

Soon Leo will be the hero of calliope

Still gonna get hosited tho

I am also stuck on what to do at ll9 sunzi...

[cobalt zealot]

lifts u

[balmy obsidian]

We'll all be heroes

[cobalt zealot]

yes

like bnuuy held preciously...

[shell bison]

counter hoist

[cobalt zealot]

no!

i forbid this!

[balmy obsidian]

As they both hoist eachother they suddenly float off into outer space

[clever cloud]

insert troll physics meme from 2009

[balmy obsidian]

Blame ch1 ||S1GN4L||

[west phoenix]

Half life 2 physics

[clever cloud]

Places buoyant barrels underneath you

[balmy obsidian]

Hold the barrel and jump on it repeatedly

[shell bison]

Charlotte casually bunny hopping through the gate

[west phoenix]

Wahoo-wahoo-wa-wa-wa-wa

[keen sentinel]

bunny^2 hopping

[shell bison]

Live bunny hop footage

[west phoenix]

Fighting game character lookin ass

[keen sentinel]

Super Mario Bros. 2 lookin' move

[ebon hatch]

Tony Hawk Pro Skater trick sfx

https://tenor.com/view/erzika-bunny-hop-rabbit-happy-gif-1636002765404758190

[keen sentinel]

but can she rail grind like sonic the hedgehog?

[shell bison]

I feel like that is mandatory ability if you rock magboots

[west phoenix]

Can she cock an automatic machine gun like shadow tho

[shell bison]

...you mean the pump action mp5 reload?

[west phoenix]

I do. It's peak

[noble ivy]

-# not a bnuuy... but close enough

[balmy obsidian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So3D5JdnRk8

[shell bison]

Char on the treadmill be like

[noble ivy]

then who's the poor sap she's jumping over?

[shell bison]

More than likely a squad mate. More than likely to the sound track of Super Mario Sunshine

[cobalt zealot]

Christ I thought you meant Gundam's Char

Transfem char art has rotted my brain

[shell bison]

lmao

[noble ivy]

Bunzi, don't you have some Charlotte as Char art lying around?
I think i remember seeing it here once or twice

[cobalt zealot]

Or this honestly Charlotte Aznable makes me extremely gay

If this woman told me to bark I would

[shell bison]

As Aznabelle or as Quatra Bunjena

[tame tide]

I love the lesbian brick emoji

[noble ivy]

I don't know enough about gundam to know what the difference is...

[cobalt zealot]

I don't know what it means

[cobalt zealot]

Quattro Bajeena is the identity Char assumed during Zeta Gundam that did not at all protect his identity and everyone in the audience saw right through it immediately

[cobalt zealot]

HELP I'M BEING ATTACKED

[noble ivy]

-# personally, i wouldn't mind a bunch of lesbians tossing bricks at me...

[tame tide]

🫳

[cobalt zealot]

Just ask them to kiss you instead it'll be more enjoyable

[cobalt zealot]

WHAT DOES IT MEAN—

[tame tide]

I am throwing lesbian bricks at you

🫳

[cobalt zealot]

Whyyyyyy

[shell bison]

Thank you again @thorn hinge for this

[cobalt zealot]

Outstanding I love it

[last leaf]

[last leaf]

serenity protects jerry? Clear proof serenitai is evil serenity.

[last leaf]

hey Siegmar is trustworthy in a mech. He just requires payment. And I wouldn't trust him anywhere outside a mech but still.

[balmy obsidian]

Ok here's a question about the faith, do they have concepts of blasphemy, heresy, excommuncation or similar things? I've been cooking a character who's been thrown out of the faith for being too dangerous and unpredictable (not for lack of try mind you) but maybe I'm going somewhere that doesn't exist

[upbeat hemlock]

Are you the GM?

[balmy obsidian]

Nope

Making a hypothetical player character for meeee

[cobalt zealot]

They do from my quick skim. I dunno if it'll actually come up in the campaign.

Iirc (spoilers for the greater faith but I'll try to keep them unrelated to the current plot)

[balmy obsidian]

(I'm currently playing in chapter 5 if that helps with the spoilers)

[cobalt zealot]

||There are three branches of the Faith. Orthodox, Heterodox, and ones that ditch their scripture.||

[silver pumice]

should've interviewed (ch4) ||mckenzie|| after the ||character development asteroid||

[balmy obsidian]

We did!

But I don't think those concepts came up

[cobalt zealot]

I actually dunno if ||she|| elaborates on those details

[balmy obsidian]

It was just regular ||betrayal and falsehoods||

[cobalt zealot]

But yes I think your concept is valid

[balmy obsidian]

||The idea here is that basically everyone in the faith thinks she's either crazy because she keeps having visions, unhelpful because she claims to be actively trying to prevent the apocalypse, or dangerous because she tried to murder the speaker||

But mostly I'm unsure what words I can use to describe all that. Can I say she was excommunicated, or was she exiled, can it be called heresy or is that not a word that applies in this context

I'm awfully uneducated on religious matters in general

[cobalt zealot]

So ||actually having visions is not out of the question because followers of the faith do sometimes develop weird abilities like McKenzie did||

And yes ||trying to prevent the apocalypse would be heresy to them.||

[balmy obsidian]

||That's true but that's more for the "regular sunday" followers||

||Like, your regular joe going to church might think you're not entirely right in the head if you started screaming in the middle of the room about how you're seeing fire swallowing the room and leaving nothing left, is what I'd think||

||So the abandonners, I'd think||

[cobalt zealot]

||The anandoners aren't the ones in Calliope, tbc. The Faith there are orthodox.||

[balmy obsidian]

||shit really I was sure there were abandonners in calliope||

[cobalt zealot]

||There are those that have turned away from it but those are apostates.||

But yeah your concept is very workable

[balmy obsidian]

Well that's a relief at least

[cobalt zealot]

[silver pumice]

CH5 FINALE ||capella goned first turn of round 2 🎉 🎉 🎉 ||

||we still have the rest of the enemies to go but Thank Fuck He's Gone For Now||

[shell bison]

||I wouldn't say the abandoned aren't in Calliope. The cult is a very radical wing of the Perfect Hisari sect. Not every person of the faith you meet would be perfect Hisari. ||

[shell bison]

Yippie!

[silver pumice]

||our sniper's aimin to Deletify™️ the fire gate using Big Object Damage soon||

[last leaf]

||there probably are abandoners in Calliope but I doubt that congregations that the cult are present in would be anything other than perfect. As far as organised presences go, I just can't imagine the perfect and abandoners getting along||

[shell bison]

||Oh yeah, individual people could be another sect but can't cult members would probably infiltrate ||

[serene oasis]

Is this the place to ask about rules from IGF content?

[balmy obsidian]

I believe you can ask here yes

[serene oasis]

can we use underhanded while jockeying? or does it apply strictly to mech attacks?

[cobalt zealot]

"Look, no-one else in the militia responded to my calls and you have that whole... pirate incident thing? Apparently you did that by yourself so. Here you are."
"So I can just... walk out?"
"Please don't. You're trying to get off the station, right? We can pay you for the trouble."
"...Fine."```

How I imagine the conversation between Cel and Jerry goes

[balmy obsidian]

iirc Jockey aren't actually attacks so I believe not

[cobalt zealot]

What's underhanded?

[balmy obsidian]

Talent from IGF Act 2

[cobalt zealot]

👀

It's out???

[balmy obsidian]

I might not have the latest version though

It's not but there's an lcp out for testing

[cobalt zealot]

Where is it please show me

[balmy obsidian]

still in drafts

[serene oasis]

Cool, was thinking about jumping on mech with giant killer, black thumb and underhanded. if it didn't work I might have to find another talent to make it work

[cobalt zealot]

where thoughhhhh

[balmy obsidian]

Hold on I'll forward you the latest version I have

[cobalt zealot]

Are there other IGF channels?

I'd like to be in them

[balmy obsidian]

Ya there's the gm feedback thread somewhere in #gm-corner I believe but I don't go there because spoilers

[upbeat hemlock]

there is a channel that is intended for feedback on WIP drafts of act 2 and also tends to be where GMs ask each other for suggestions on IGF related stuff: https://discord.com/channels/426286410496999425/909574961931362365

it is FULL OF SPOILERS

to be clear

[balmy obsidian]

Sometimes I catch glimpses of it when our GM sends us memes that are posted in there with no context

[cobalt zealot]

Oh okay

I will avoid it then

I'll have it in my threads list though so I can give feedback while playing act 1

[upbeat hemlock]

...not really any point in doing that

Act 1 is published

providing feedback at this point is kind of... likely to be more irritating than helpful. Or at least, so I would imagine

[serene oasis]

It is very good I say. so far

I won't check the spoilers

[silver pumice]

im sometimes yoinked there like this gif (when the coast is clear of spoilers)
https://tenor.com/view/cat-animals-gif-17974584

(i then leave of course)

[balmy obsidian]

It is only polite

[serene oasis]

So how's everyone's experience in Act 1 and what characters did you play for it?

[silver pumice]

PEAK

[balmy obsidian]

PEAK

[silver pumice]

look at my scringlebingle. look at them. cherish them

[balmy obsidian]

I'm playing a Technothumb Chomolungma hacker controller originally from a core world

Currently on mission 5

[silver pumice]

they're a totally normal sigdiver from furnace city

i play them as a long range hacker who severely inconveniences the opfors

and doxxes them for all to see

[cobalt zealot]

Cute!

[cobalt zealot]

Who could have seen that choice of mech coming

[balmy obsidian]

Truly my motives are inscrutable

[silver pumice]

ch4 ||they're the only survivor of the circuit. TRIPLE-POINT deliberately spared them and hid the Incident from their eyes||

[cobalt zealot]

I wish I could say anything in answer to this

[silver pumice]

they were devastated when they found out

[silver pumice]

thank you! they're very cutes

[silver pumice]

(ch3) ||they also happen to apparently be besties with the crone||

[shell bison]

may want to ask your GM if it is allowed or not

[silver pumice]

the narrative loves me. (this is not a good thing)

[balmy obsidian]

Beware, the cuteness hides the freak-ness underneath (and the freak-ness in turn hides the trauma and the need for a hug)

[serene oasis]

no problem, just want to know how it works. the current guy I'm playing is far from that.

[balmy obsidian]

Also it took me entirely too long to notice that "Sou Spacious" was a pun I curse you a hundred times seraph

[silver pumice]

THEY'RE A CALLIOPEAN WHAT MORE CAN I SAY

[balmy obsidian]

LOOK I'M JUST STUPID I WAS BORN THIS WAY

But it's okay I have rectified the timeline by creating Morgan everything is fine now

[silver pumice]

the team hacker is named suspicious link. Peak

LMAO

[shell bison]

A character I got to experience IGF with in act 1 is Charlotte [GRAND] Montaigne. Former Espada bunny mother who's whole deal in the original game she felt she wasn't a good person but through becoming the team mom and found family she got better.

Pilots a "Sunzi" It's totally just a sunzi guys, not vol tech trust :D

[silver pumice]

bunzi

[balmy obsidian]

You can summon the bunzi anywhere by mentionning the word "Sunzi"

[silver pumice]

the silly

[balmy obsidian]

-# I KILLED YOU
-# I KILLED YOUUUUUU

[silver pumice]

you killed me <3

leonard and lynk but it's that one painting

[balmy obsidian]

"Ivan holding his dead son" painting?

[silver pumice]

ch4 ||also note the floating glass shards and the caustic. Heeeheee.||

[silver pumice]

yerp

[shell bison]

I see we mech posting now

[balmy obsidian]

Very well I shall mech post as well

[shell bison]

See, totally a sunzi guys! and not ||affected by the anomaly|| Act 2 spoiler >:)

[balmy obsidian]

Here is the mech

And here is the pilot as of now before I decided to change the clothes again for some reason

[silver pumice]

i kept mistaking the lower design as a skirt

[balmy obsidian]

Not beating the allegations

[silver pumice]

transfem or not he'd rock a skirt ngl

[balmy obsidian]

It's a water motif

[silver pumice]

yea

[balmy obsidian]

Maybe he could rock a skirt but I personally don't like skirts so eh

[shell bison]

And Charlotte hoist

[balmy obsidian]

I like cargo pants and shorts

[shell bison]

Hoisties and huggies

[balmy obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/thief-stealing-stole-cat-kidnapping-gif-13580660

Dare I try to make a new mech token for when we hit act 2...

[silver pumice]

might also do that
to make it look cooler and also reflect build evol and stuff

[balmy obsidian]

Yeah mostly for build evolution

Current LITD is very grounded (as in, touching the ground) but I'm going for Ace and flight stuff so uuuhhhh

[silver pumice]

iirc my group's gonna wait for act 2 full release
we'll do Other Stuff in the meantime (lots of plans. Lots.)
which also means that leviathan's prob gonna be ahead of wwnb soon

[balmy obsidian]

Wild

[silver pumice]

yeag

[balmy obsidian]

Man

[serene oasis]

your mechs all look pretty cool

[silver pumice]

HONSE

[serene oasis]

this looks so adorbs

[balmy obsidian]

Thank you
Your horse is stylish

[serene oasis]

pale trojan

[silver pumice]

is it supposed to be monochrome

[serene oasis]

yes

[serene oasis]

it's a lancaster with an integrated launcher (engineer weapon) for a head

[balmy obsidian]

second coolest lancaster i've seen

-# I am being held at gunpoint help

[serene oasis]

No worries, i'm still at LL2 I have more plans for this horse

but yeah I really wanna take backseat this time rather than be the guy who is somehow in the front

[shell bison]

God the Grabber arm is such a good exotic

Oh!

[balmy obsidian]

[shell bison]

that reminds me I need to update people on my forever sandwich crew

[serene oasis]

this is very cool

I like all your creations

[steady adder]

I cannot claim anything from this piece, @balmy obsidian stitched it together

[balmy obsidian]

You were the one who made the design in the first place

[serene oasis]

anyways let me take it off before my gm sees the horse around

[balmy obsidian]

Wait "Forever sandwich crew" what

[serene oasis]

anyways do people post what happen in their games here? need to spoiler it right?

[balmy obsidian]

Sometimes yes they do post stuff, and preferably mark it as spoilers

[shell bison]

Ch3 Spoilers
||The Forever Sandwich, Kat, Morgana and Lello, all began to prepare to fight the last corpro stooge Steele could send against them. The one and only
⭐ BAD STAR ⭐ plus some impact dynamics mercs, they aren't important.

Each player was rather low in their resources so they did a bunch of power at a costs to gain an edge.

Kat made a deal with a cult member (and sister to one Anastasia Shan) for extra repair caps for her lannie.

Morgana made a deal with her NHP's strange benefactor for Oversheild and for it to...change the numbers on her mimic gun rolls

AND

Lello, popped core and used the spines to intereact with the lighting storm weather affect the weather witches lost control over to literally TAKE THE LIGHTNING BOLT AND SEND IT BACK TOWARDS THE ENEMIES, BRO LITERALL BECAME A LIGHTNING BENDER ||

They beat them, got the civvies out, are in post party celebrations and big win. Happy day

[serene oasis]

yeah because ||My fellow player are very social avoidant, that they slipped away, I ended up in an interview all by myself||

Tbh I did tons of stupid things in the campaign.

||Being accidentally AI-phobic warning NHPs about a Horus terrorist cell.

Blatantly lying about a mech fight on Icebreaker to ya boi, except for the corvette fight and the concert fight. (Totally denied the fight in the wonderland)

Almost got squashed by mechs when accidentally uncover cause of the power disruptions. (The rest of them were on the kidnapping case, had to revisit that fight later.)||

We're still on mission 2

[silver pumice]

number typo

[serene oasis]

typo?

[balmy obsidian]

That's mission 2 of act 1 not act 2

yeah there we go

[serene oasis]

hahahaha

yeah

couldn't wait for what happens next

[shell bison]

lmao, If I had a manna for every AI phobe in calliope I'd have 2. Counting one NPC and that PC

[west phoenix]

One of our party members in Eleonor's game is an AI phobe 😔

Flesh serenity doesn't know enough about NHPs to have a particularly strong opinion on them tbh

[last leaf]

my character isn't NHP phobic in principle but they are literally afraid of both of their NHPs. Does that count?

[balmy obsidian]

My character isn't NHPphobic in fact he has NHP friends but

Very very afraid of cascades

[serene oasis]

He's working on being conscious to NHP struggles, give him a break. 🤣

[silver pumice]

im so normal about (ch4) ||triple-point and caustic||

[last leaf]

So valid tbh, I can't wait until ch4 so my party can react to my remixes there.

[shell bison]

Oh sweet neptune

[balmy obsidian]

[silver pumice]

HEHEHEHEH

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[balmy obsidian]

I realize I didn't make notes for last session...

But lazy...

[silver pumice]

oh when in ch5 are you now

[balmy obsidian]

First round of first combat

we finished round 1 before ending the session and next session will immediatey start round 2

[silver pumice]

ah right

[shell bison]

Meanwhile, one of my players is trying to convince an NPC best friend to make a Crow themed mech

[last leaf]

[really dont look if you're in my game] ||Let me just say that my circuit has a cascading mecha dragon roaming the halls that has really interfered with CAUSTIC and TRIPLE POINT's plans. Some of the PHASE//SHIFT workers are still alive even. For now...||

[shell bison]

I can't read that, I know what Leo feels like now

[hushed pilot]

And me and Aisaan immediately removed one problem from the equation. Striker go brrrr

They never even got a turn

[cobalt zealot]

I will always offer hugs

[cobalt zealot]

C-can I say "thicc" here?

[balmy obsidian]

oh man that's juicy

[shell bison]

You wouldn't b the first, go ahead

[cobalt zealot]

Fuck
I want something like thiiiis

[wild flame]

That's my boys! Another point on the board for SRT Leviathan!

[cobalt zealot]

Yeah she thicc then
Activates my gay

@balmy obsidian how did you do that reflection

[west phoenix]

So you hate serenity

[cobalt zealot]

I'M BEING BRICKED AGAIN HELP

[balmy obsidian]

Took the parts, flipped them blended them on the shadow, reduced opacity, and moved them so that they would roughly line up with the normal parts

[cobalt zealot]

That sounds a lot simpler than I expected

Though I also have no idea how you'd do that

So!

I will just keep finding cool art on the internet

And using that instead

:)

[west phoenix]

Oh yeah, this is one of my versions of serenity and her mech

[cobalt zealot]

-# ^ is in immense pain

[west phoenix]

I also took the bunzi idea but made it a wolpertinger :p

[cobalt zealot]

wolpertinger!!!!

i love him

[balmy obsidian]

[west phoenix]

And to be more confusing I am playing an AI version of serenity in another game (they are nothing alike). I plan on piloting a calendula or something similar later but her Everest is just an artillery platform because that's all she could get

[last leaf]

[still dont read if you're in my party] ||The SRT is actually going to get invited by the circuit under false pretenses to try and help with their dragon problem. In general my circuit, reflecting TRIPLE POINT's slightly improved state and stymied plans, hasn't gone dark yet.||

[last leaf]

she is horribly in debt

[balmy obsidian]

[silver pumice]

HUH

[balmy obsidian]

Good news for ||Lynk|| eh?

[last leaf]

[[you know the drill party members]] ||I'm replacing the L-Kay rescue with a fight against a Circuit mad scientist and his giant pet mecha crab because the L-Kay rescue doesn't quite work in my remix lorewise||

[neat flume]

No card found for “you know the drill party membe…”

[ripe vault]

AU Co.: The Gold Standard in Clones

Corp Identity: Division • (45/15)
As you would say the letters “A” and “U”, and the abbreviation “Co.” (of “company”)

Whenever you do damage or trash 1 or more cards from HQ, place 1 power counter on this identity.
When your turn begins, you may remove 2 hosted power counters to look at the top 3 cards of R&D. Trash 1 of those cards and add the rest to HQ.

Jinteki • Elevation #46

[last leaf]

oh lmao

[cobalt zealot]

Oh, ||why's that?||

[last leaf]

too much time on obsidian putting things in double brackets for me. That was muscle memory.

[shell bison]

I FINALLY GET TO DROP THIS MEME

[cobalt zealot]

Yooooooo

Understandable ma'am have a nice day

[shell bison]

Well, in one timeline

[balmy obsidian]

oh no I slipped

[shell bison]

in Wren's timeline she's just team mo- HEY

[balmy obsidian]

Tee hee

[shell bison]

HOW DARE YOU CALL HER OUT SO ACCURATELY

[cobalt zealot]

OH IS SHE BI

[balmy obsidian]

THE WAS YOUR POST BUNZI

I AM INNOCENT

[shell bison]

LMAO

[last leaf]

[good news party members, you can read this one] ||before the campaign started there was a famine and then revolution on Impact Plaza. My Steele actually has more troops with him but he's locked down hard on Asphodel with no way of getting offworld.||

[shell bison]

Yes, Charlotte is bi, and doing the classic SIngle mom with no clue

[last leaf]

god I love Char

[shell bison]

Atleast in the Wren timeline she's just, "I'm too focused on work and my family to notice my own personal needs"

[last leaf]

for now

[last leaf]

||hes got no money and his troops are with him because they know they'd be going on trial if they go anywhere else||

||can't hire mercs if you are broke||

[cobalt zealot]

Oh I adore her even more now

[shell bison]

She hasn't done anything of note yet 😭

[cobalt zealot]

Oh so you changed the starting scenario? How have you adapted the campaign from there?

With Missions 1 and 3?

[balmy obsidian]

YEAH FUCK ||HIM||

[last leaf]

half my party has read at least act 1 so yeah I'm going for pretty wild remix changes yeah

[cobalt zealot]

Please someone wine and dine this woman she's earned it

[cobalt zealot]

Ohhhh, I see!

[last leaf]

I have it planned (eventually)

[cobalt zealot]

I am the only person in my group that's read IGF act 1 and then only in like. Passing detail.

My "group"

we haven't even played a campaign yet

[shell bison]

to be fair, I've been through all of act 1 and a WIP act 2

[last leaf]

[cobalt zealot]

Is Charlotte also trans

I get that vibe vaguely

[cobalt zealot]

We're gonna do OSR at some point and I have a character lined up for that. The rest of the group are fresh out of the academy whereas I'm the only person in the group with any real live combat experience. I'm also a pyromaniac with too many explosives.

[last leaf]

[no look party] ||I'm changing the mission 3 dynamic so it's just, go canvassing for allies to beat Steele's dick in before the Forge air strike him with one of his own gold statues of himself.||

[cobalt zealot]

(I have 8. Grenades.)

[last leaf]

average iskander main

[shell bison]

What, no?

[cobalt zealot]

Worldkiller

:3

I have no Iskander License Levels planned at all

Just Gilg and Genghis

[shell bison]

No

[cobalt zealot]

Ah okay

Nvm then

[last leaf]

I do need to do mikaela meeting the parent rp too tho.

[balmy obsidian]

It's calliope it's a reasonable assumption to make

[cobalt zealot]

In my defence I think 75-90% of all fem characters here are trans

Sowwy

[last leaf]

(mikaela is dating Char's adopted daughter)

[cobalt zealot]

[balmy obsidian]

Which one

[shell bison]

OH SHE IS DATING. I FUCKING KNEW IT

[balmy obsidian]

Uh oh

Run Mikaela, run

[shell bison]

YOU HAD POPCORN ON A DATE, MIJA. THAT'S A DATE

Angry Latina mom noises

[last leaf]

the npc one.

[shell bison]

Let me get the mother daughter duo pic, one moment

[last leaf]

Also heck I just realised I could fill out a ship chart for them. I know what I'm doing after I make some food.

[shell bison]

LMAO

ARE YOU SHIPPING HER DAUGHTER WITH OTHER NPCS???

[last leaf]

I thought it was fairly implied by that latest rp

[shell bison]

IS SHEHAVING A HIGHSCHOOL DATING ARC?

[last leaf]

sorry chart might have been the wrong word

[shell bison]

Charlotte loves her daughter and wants the best for her

[balmy obsidian]

-# Shipping chart...

-# Homestuck is back to haunt me again...

[shell bison]

Also, behold the Montaigne Family

[clever cloud]

dream team absolutely has a shipping chart

[last leaf]

this thing

[shell bison]

Sadly, Great Uncle Eric Montaigne is no longer with us for the family photo 😔

[clever cloud]

and given that (ch3) we just met || Elske|| we need to update it again

[cobalt zealot]

-# i'm genuinely really sorry if i caused any offence

[balmy obsidian]

-# gay gay homosexual gay (positive)

[last leaf]

I had to make this meme for a reason you know.
[no spoilers here just a pic of charlie kirk]

[balmy obsidian]

I will never not find tiny faces hilarious

[cobalt zealot]

Is it "using" if you steal it

[last leaf]

meeting char over dinner is gonna be the hardest boss fight in her damn life.

[shell bison]

Stright up undertale boss

[balmy obsidian]

Is it bad I'm imagining Char like "Haha Mikaela you are banging my daughter"

[shell bison]

It's fine. Just odd that's happened a couple times and completely not the intent with the character

[cobalt zealot]

There is one noticeable hook for Cel I have that I'm sure would be spun into something neat

Well, a couple

[shell bison]

Oh, what hooks?

[cobalt zealot]

So the first and the most obvious one is that she's specifically on the run. She fled her home world wayyyy out beyond the Dawnline Shore in an attempt to escape the medical syndicate after her because she may have killed their primary successor that they had invested a lot of time and money into. Then she got dumped on Hell's Gate after the smugglers she paid to traffic her realised she was too hot to handle because of pirates attacking their ship specifically to get her and ransom her back to her pursuers.

The second is that all her fucking Licenses in Act 1 are HORUS.

This woman barely knows what a License is.

She stole a bunch of technically classified software off the omninet with the help of her comp/con and installed it, thus technically having a GMS Sierra license purely by uh. Corporate theft.

[last leaf]

fixed it

[balmy obsidian]

Thank you

[cobalt zealot]

So I am very interested to see what a prospective GM does with both of these. Especially the HORUS stuff because the idea that she keeps checking her accounts and finding that someone's uploaded a new HORUS license to them is hilarious.

[last leaf]

oh theres at least 3 ideas that come to mind to me immediately looking at that (player backstory-plot integration is my favourite part of gming)

[shell bison]

Oh come on, I can photoshop better than that!

[balmy obsidian]

No it's perfect don't change anything

[last leaf]

yes but I was using paint

[shell bison]

okay fair accurate

Also

[last leaf]

i can put effort into memes but its funnier when I dont

[cobalt zealot]

Oop-