Have you seen their video on the King in Yellow yet?
I saw the one where they summarized the book a while ago but I think they have done another about the King in Yellow specifically that I haven't seen yet. Is it good?
It's amazing. They give their own theories about the origin and meaning behind the King in Yellow, all based on the books that came even before Lovecraft took inspiration.
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Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
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Have you seen their video on the King in Yellow yet?
I saw the one where they summarized the book a while ago but I think they have done another about the King in Yellow specifically that I haven't seen yet. Is it good?
It's amazing. They give their own theories about the origin and meaning behind the King in Yellow, all based on the books that came even before Lovecraft took inspiration.
Sounds awesome. The Tale Foundry does a lot of stuff like that and it is always pretty cool.
I really like all of this, from both of you. I want to start a guild role play area at some point, so maybe you can intro some of these ideas then?
How exactly would it work? What differentiates it from the average tavern?
Have you ever seen the spider guilds lair? It was the previous rp thread for the guild, I was on it a ton and was the main reason (I think) why I was given the throne. The new one would be a lot like that, with a few changes.
I would love to RP with my fellow spiders on the spider guild lair 2.0
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Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
I really like all of this, from both of you. I want to start a guild role play area at some point, so maybe you can intro some of these ideas then?
How exactly would it work? What differentiates it from the average tavern?
Have you ever seen the spider guilds lair? It was the previous rp thread for the guild, I was on it a ton and was the main reason (I think) why I was given the throne. The new one would be a lot like that, with a few changes.
I would love to RP with my fellow spiders on the spider guild lair 2.0
Awesome, I'll see about creating it at some point
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Long live the dragon slayers, long live the spider guild, long live the forums.
I want you to know. You are going to lose. You are going to lose badly. You’re going to lose badly and it’s going to be awesome.
I have this character. It was originally made for the Universe Canvas, but it has grown so interesting I decided to use it wherever I needed it.
Its name is Podmorski. It is a living, demonic building. It thinks, breathes, hunts, and eats just like any animal, but it is far smarter. In essence, it is a giant, extremely patient mimic. Maybe closer to a balhanoth. But the point is, it is a sapient, malevolent hotel that will change shape and follow the players where it can. It can even climb and go underwater without issue.
The reason it would be so interested in the characters is that it feeds off of metaphysical traits. The more interesting you are, the more you will feed Podmorski. It can only feed very, very slowly or risk being discovered, so it tries its best to lure in large groups. It tries to provide them with whatever they want and makes sure to never trap them inside lest it be found out. But slowly, ever so slowly, it will drain their charisma. When it reaches zero, they become part of Podmorski, acting as a staff member, moving around the ever-changing halls unseen, night after night.
Podmorski acts this way because it is not just hungry, it is angry and jealous. It sees the humans, with their strong emotions and their wonderous crafts and their ability to move around easily and talk. Podmorski is just a building. A building left alone for hundreds of years. Abandoned. Left to starve, devoid of life and light. In time, it forgot what it meant to be a home. Maybe it never knew.
It regards humans with love, fear, and hate. It wants humans to live inside of it, have stories to tell, live, laugh, love... but its body cannot facilitate such things. Podmorski is cripplingly uncreative, so it steals the creativity of others in a desperate attempt to grasp what it lost.
It is a hotel in hell.
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this foggy gray potion is swirling with bubbles. The potion turns clear when it makes contact with water, but is still magical. A creature that drinks this potion has foggy gray eyes until it is activated. If a creature under the effects of this potion is reduced to zero hitpoints, they immediately teleport to the last place they slept, unconscious but stable. A creature can also activate this effect as a bonus action. After this effect activates, the magic wears off. Otherwise, a potion of recall lasts for one day, at the end of which, the effect activates.
Nice, I also made a spell that pretty much does the same thing
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I have this character. It was originally made for the Universe Canvas, but it has grown so interesting I decided to use it wherever I needed it.
Its name is Podmorski. It is a living, demonic building. It thinks, breathes, hunts, and eats just like any animal, but it is far smarter. In essence, it is a giant, extremely patient mimic. Maybe closer to a balhanoth. But the point is, it is a sapient, malevolent hotel that will change shape and follow the players where it can. It can even climb and go underwater without issue.
The reason it would be so interested in the characters is that it feeds off of metaphysical traits. The more interesting you are, the more you will feed Podmorski. It can only feed very, very slowly or risk being discovered, so it tries its best to lure in large groups. It tries to provide them with whatever they want and makes sure to never trap them inside lest it be found out. But slowly, ever so slowly, it will drain their charisma. When it reaches zero, they become part of Podmorski, acting as a staff member, moving around the ever-changing halls unseen, night after night.
Podmorski acts this way because it is not just hungry, it is angry and jealous. It sees the humans, with their strong emotions and their wonderous crafts and their ability to move around easily and talk. Podmorski is just a building. A building left alone for hundreds of years. Abandoned. Left to starve, devoid of life and light. In time, it forgot what it meant to be a home. Maybe it never knew.
It regards humans with love, fear, and hate. It wants humans to live inside of it, have stories to tell, live, laugh, love... but its body cannot facilitate such things. Podmorski is cripplingly uncreative, so it steals the creativity of others in a desperate attempt to grasp what it lost.
It is a hotel in hell.
Wow, I never rped with Podmorski but that sounds insanely cool
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I got a good response from LCW, so I'll post it again here to see if this nets me any points.
A long time ago, around 30 years back, there was an extremely popular show called Possum Street. It was very similar to Sesame Street but was known for being less episodic. It also had a significantly lower budget and was run mostly by a couple of very dedicated people who spent most of their meager paychecks on keeping the show running. The show shut down in 1983 for an unknown reason. It was strange that it was shut down, as there was no show to replace it yet, and it was undoubtedly the highest-grossing show on the network.
Many fans are now looking into the mysterious and abrupt shutdown. A studio executive recently leaked a photo onto the internet: a frame from the show, showing a character that never made an appearance. It seemed to be eating four orange, fuzzy fistfuls of stuffing and colorful felt. People began to scour the show for any reference to this character, and they found something odd: while never upfront or mentioned openly by the characters, there were always tufts of orange fur around all sorts of messes and mix-ups. This led many to believe that what was leaked was a hidden antagonist meant to be revealed in the canceled episodes.
Some people took a closer look at the stuffing that the orange muppet was eating. The felt closely resembled the colors of one of the main puppets, Jamson. People lost their minds. Were they really planning on having this antagonist kill and eat Jamson? Fortunately, the studio executive gave a plot synopsis shortly afterward, explaining that he was eating a stuffed animal. We also learned that the orange beast was not openly dangerous, just mischievous, but due to unspoken issues with the actor the show was shut down. Sounds cut-and-dry, right?
Then people found something odd: Possum Street was a real place. It was in a small town and was the actual street where they shot the show and where many of the actors lived. Nowadays, it's not very notable, but then the local Gronsom's (an American chain restaurant found all over the world) started having issues of unexplained nature. No one thought much of this until Gronsom's revealed its new mascot: The Cringe. It was completely identical to the character from the photo, and it behaved exactly as one would expect from that character.
The Cringe was a somewhat sinister character, appearing to steal milkshakes or disrupt employees, but it seemed mostly harmless. Then the Mascot Dying video got released.
Mascot Dying is a video steeped in urban legend. It starts off like a regular commercial, then cuts to a first-person view of a person dressed as Pete the Stork, a Gronsom's mascot. Pete walked into a house in the middle of the night and made his way to a child's bedroom, seemingly knowing exactly where it was. He set a rope, a roll of duct tape, and a knife on the floor outside the room. He walked in, revealing a sleeping child. After observing the child for six seconds without moving, Pete turned around to get his equipment. The camera catches something as Pete bends down to grab the rope. He freezes and grabs the knife instead as he looks up. Without warning, the camera falls to the ground as The sounds of rustling fabric can be heard, along with what sounds like a grown man screaming... and someone laughing. The video ended with the commercial outro Gronsom's usually used, but without music.
Pete the Stork never appeared in any advertisement of any kind after the video was leaked. No stuffed animals, no mascots, nothing.
Closer analysis revealed that the being shown for a brief moment as the camera panned down looked like the silhouette of The Cringe. People thought this was an elaborate joke... until they realized that the house shown was an actual house on Possum Street. And someone from the town went missing the day the video was uploaded.
The Cringe was real. Sure, that man was likely of the foulest intent, but The Cringe had followed him into a house and either kidnapped or murdered an armed adult male.
Sightings of The Cringe became common around Possum Street...
The Cringe is a local boogeyman and an embodiment of fear and paranoia. It resembles a man in a large, furry, four-armed mascot suit, but is far more deadly than that. It possesses a broad knowledge of the occult and of human fears, and is brutally powerful in hand-to-hand combat. It is usually friendly, although it will steal your milkshakes, but it is both mischievous and protective, making it a significant threat to those who wish to cause harm to others. Some say that it will appear when you say its name on Possum Street. Others say that it's just a normal serial killer turned vigilante. One thing is true, though: this monster is not just a figment of our imaginations. It is a living urban legend.
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Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
I got a good response from LCW, so I'll post it again here to see if this nets me any points.
A long time ago, around 30 years back, there was an extremely popular show called Possum Street. It was very similar to Sesame Street but was known for being less episodic. It also had a significantly lower budget and was run mostly by a couple of very dedicated people who spent most of their meager paychecks on keeping the show running. The show shut down in 1983 for an unknown reason. It was strange that it was shut down, as there was no show to replace it yet, and it was undoubtedly the highest-grossing show on the network.
Many fans are now looking into the mysterious and abrupt shutdown. A studio executive recently leaked a photo onto the internet: a frame from the show, showing a character that never made an appearance. It seemed to be eating four orange, fuzzy fistfuls of stuffing and colorful felt. People began to scour the show for any reference to this character, and they found something odd: while never upfront or mentioned openly by the characters, there were always tufts of orange fur around all sorts of messes and mix-ups. This led many to believe that what was leaked was a hidden antagonist meant to be revealed in the canceled episodes.
Some people took a closer look at the stuffing that the orange muppet was eating. The felt closely resembled the colors of one of the main puppets, Jamson. People lost their minds. Were they really planning on having this antagonist kill and eat Jamson? Fortunately, the studio executive gave a plot synopsis shortly afterward, explaining that he was eating a stuffed animal. We also learned that the orange beast was not openly dangerous, just mischievous, but due to unspoken issues with the actor the show was shut down. Sounds cut-and-dry, right?
Then people found something odd: Possum Street was a real place. It was in a small town and was the actual street where they shot the show and where many of the actors lived. Nowadays, it's not very notable, but then the local Gronsom's (an American chain restaurant found all over the world) started having issues of unexplained nature. No one thought much of this until Gronsom's revealed its new mascot: The Cringe. It was completely identical to the character from the photo, and it behaved exactly as one would expect from that character.
The Cringe was a somewhat sinister character, appearing to steal milkshakes or disrupt employees, but it seemed mostly harmless. Then the Mascot Dying video got released.
Mascot Dying is a video steeped in urban legend. It starts off like a regular commercial, then cuts to a first-person view of a person dressed as Pete the Stork, a Gronsom's mascot. Pete walked into a house in the middle of the night and made his way to a child's bedroom, seemingly knowing exactly where it was. He set a rope, a roll of duct tape, and a knife on the floor outside the room. He walked in, revealing a sleeping child. After observing the child for six seconds without moving, Pete turned around to get his equipment. The camera catches something as Pete bends down to grab the rope. He freezes and grabs the knife instead as he looks up. Without warning, the camera falls to the ground as The sounds of rustling fabric can be heard, along with what sounds like a grown man screaming... and someone laughing. The video ended with the commercial outro Gronsom's usually used, but without music.
Pete the Stork never appeared in any advertisement of any kind after the video was leaked. No stuffed animals, no mascots, nothing.
Closer analysis revealed that the being shown for a brief moment as the camera panned down looked like the silhouette of The Cringe. People thought this was an elaborate joke... until they realized that the house shown was an actual house on Possum Street. And someone from the town went missing the day the video was uploaded.
The Cringe was real. Sure, that man was likely of the foulest intent, but The Cringe had followed him into a house and either kidnapped or murdered an armed adult male.
Sightings of The Cringe became common around Possum Street...
The Cringe is a local boogeyman and an embodiment of fear and paranoia. It resembles a man in a large, furry, four-armed mascot suit, but is far more deadly than that. It possesses a broad knowledge of the occult and of human fears, and is brutally powerful in hand-to-hand combat. It is usually friendly, although it will steal your milkshakes, but it is both mischievous and protective, making it a significant threat to those who wish to cause harm to others. Some say that it will appear when you say its name on Possum Street. Others say that it's just a normal serial killer turned vigilante. One thing is true, though: this monster is not just a figment of our imaginations. It is a living urban legend.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this is amazing!
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Hello, I’m The mighty Dragon bard!
Music nerd, bookworm, dragon lover and avid shoe wearer. I also like drawing and playing guitar.
If there is a scary, and I mean REALLY scary moment in your campaign, play it’s just burning memory. It would absolutely horrify your players
Or play that in their safe zones, like say, the hub village, but switch to the more degraded versions later in the album as things get worse over time in the campaign, eventually playing the Hell's Sirens section when the place is no longer safe at all.
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Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
It's amazing. They give their own theories about the origin and meaning behind the King in Yellow, all based on the books that came even before Lovecraft took inspiration.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
Sounds awesome. The Tale Foundry does a lot of stuff like that and it is always pretty cool.
I would love to RP with my fellow spiders on the spider guild lair 2.0
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
Awesome, I'll see about creating it at some point
Long live the dragon slayers, long live the spider guild, long live the forums.
I want you to know. You are going to lose. You are going to lose badly. You’re going to lose badly and it’s going to be awesome.
I have this character. It was originally made for the Universe Canvas, but it has grown so interesting I decided to use it wherever I needed it.
Its name is Podmorski. It is a living, demonic building. It thinks, breathes, hunts, and eats just like any animal, but it is far smarter. In essence, it is a giant, extremely patient mimic. Maybe closer to a balhanoth. But the point is, it is a sapient, malevolent hotel that will change shape and follow the players where it can. It can even climb and go underwater without issue.
The reason it would be so interested in the characters is that it feeds off of metaphysical traits. The more interesting you are, the more you will feed Podmorski. It can only feed very, very slowly or risk being discovered, so it tries its best to lure in large groups. It tries to provide them with whatever they want and makes sure to never trap them inside lest it be found out. But slowly, ever so slowly, it will drain their charisma. When it reaches zero, they become part of Podmorski, acting as a staff member, moving around the ever-changing halls unseen, night after night.
Podmorski acts this way because it is not just hungry, it is angry and jealous. It sees the humans, with their strong emotions and their wonderous crafts and their ability to move around easily and talk. Podmorski is just a building. A building left alone for hundreds of years. Abandoned. Left to starve, devoid of life and light. In time, it forgot what it meant to be a home. Maybe it never knew.
It regards humans with love, fear, and hate. It wants humans to live inside of it, have stories to tell, live, laugh, love... but its body cannot facilitate such things. Podmorski is cripplingly uncreative, so it steals the creativity of others in a desperate attempt to grasp what it lost.
It is a hotel in hell.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
Hey, Drummer... could you fix the spelling of my name in the rankings? You seem to have made a mistake...
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
*Takes a second to laugh hysterically*
I will defo change that, made the biggest typo ever XD
Long live the dragon slayers, long live the spider guild, long live the forums.
I want you to know. You are going to lose. You are going to lose badly. You’re going to lose badly and it’s going to be awesome.
Nice, I also made a spell that pretty much does the same thing
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(I remember hearing this in a YouTube video, but I can’t remember what one)
Step 1. Tell your players that there is ONE mimic in your campaign.
Step 2. Refuse to elaborate.
Step 3. Watch as the players search every object in the campaign, unable to find the mimic.
Step 4. At the end of the campaign, reveal to the players that there is no mimic, and that you were just trolling them.
Hello, I’m The mighty Dragon bard!
Music nerd, bookworm, dragon lover and avid shoe wearer. I also like drawing and playing guitar.
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Wow, I never rped with Podmorski but that sounds insanely cool
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Thank you! Wanna RP?
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
I got a good response from LCW, so I'll post it again here to see if this nets me any points.
A long time ago, around 30 years back, there was an extremely popular show called Possum Street. It was very similar to Sesame Street but was known for being less episodic. It also had a significantly lower budget and was run mostly by a couple of very dedicated people who spent most of their meager paychecks on keeping the show running. The show shut down in 1983 for an unknown reason. It was strange that it was shut down, as there was no show to replace it yet, and it was undoubtedly the highest-grossing show on the network.
Many fans are now looking into the mysterious and abrupt shutdown. A studio executive recently leaked a photo onto the internet: a frame from the show, showing a character that never made an appearance. It seemed to be eating four orange, fuzzy fistfuls of stuffing and colorful felt. People began to scour the show for any reference to this character, and they found something odd: while never upfront or mentioned openly by the characters, there were always tufts of orange fur around all sorts of messes and mix-ups. This led many to believe that what was leaked was a hidden antagonist meant to be revealed in the canceled episodes.
Some people took a closer look at the stuffing that the orange muppet was eating. The felt closely resembled the colors of one of the main puppets, Jamson. People lost their minds. Were they really planning on having this antagonist kill and eat Jamson? Fortunately, the studio executive gave a plot synopsis shortly afterward, explaining that he was eating a stuffed animal. We also learned that the orange beast was not openly dangerous, just mischievous, but due to unspoken issues with the actor the show was shut down. Sounds cut-and-dry, right?
Then people found something odd: Possum Street was a real place. It was in a small town and was the actual street where they shot the show and where many of the actors lived. Nowadays, it's not very notable, but then the local Gronsom's (an American chain restaurant found all over the world) started having issues of unexplained nature. No one thought much of this until Gronsom's revealed its new mascot: The Cringe. It was completely identical to the character from the photo, and it behaved exactly as one would expect from that character.
The Cringe was a somewhat sinister character, appearing to steal milkshakes or disrupt employees, but it seemed mostly harmless. Then the Mascot Dying video got released.
Mascot Dying is a video steeped in urban legend. It starts off like a regular commercial, then cuts to a first-person view of a person dressed as Pete the Stork, a Gronsom's mascot. Pete walked into a house in the middle of the night and made his way to a child's bedroom, seemingly knowing exactly where it was. He set a rope, a roll of duct tape, and a knife on the floor outside the room. He walked in, revealing a sleeping child. After observing the child for six seconds without moving, Pete turned around to get his equipment. The camera catches something as Pete bends down to grab the rope. He freezes and grabs the knife instead as he looks up. Without warning, the camera falls to the ground as The sounds of rustling fabric can be heard, along with what sounds like a grown man screaming... and someone laughing. The video ended with the commercial outro Gronsom's usually used, but without music.
Pete the Stork never appeared in any advertisement of any kind after the video was leaked. No stuffed animals, no mascots, nothing.
Closer analysis revealed that the being shown for a brief moment as the camera panned down looked like the silhouette of The Cringe. People thought this was an elaborate joke... until they realized that the house shown was an actual house on Possum Street. And someone from the town went missing the day the video was uploaded.
The Cringe was real. Sure, that man was likely of the foulest intent, but The Cringe had followed him into a house and either kidnapped or murdered an armed adult male.
Sightings of The Cringe became common around Possum Street...
The Cringe is a local boogeyman and an embodiment of fear and paranoia. It resembles a man in a large, furry, four-armed mascot suit, but is far more deadly than that. It possesses a broad knowledge of the occult and of human fears, and is brutally powerful in hand-to-hand combat. It is usually friendly, although it will steal your milkshakes, but it is both mischievous and protective, making it a significant threat to those who wish to cause harm to others. Some say that it will appear when you say its name on Possum Street. Others say that it's just a normal serial killer turned vigilante. One thing is true, though: this monster is not just a figment of our imaginations. It is a living urban legend.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
I just thought of the most evil thing ever:
If there is a scary, and I mean REALLY scary moment in your campaign, play it’s just burning memory. It would absolutely horrify your players
Hello, I’m The mighty Dragon bard!
Music nerd, bookworm, dragon lover and avid shoe wearer. I also like drawing and playing guitar.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this is amazing!
Hello, I’m The mighty Dragon bard!
Music nerd, bookworm, dragon lover and avid shoe wearer. I also like drawing and playing guitar.
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Or play that in their safe zones, like say, the hub village, but switch to the more degraded versions later in the album as things get worse over time in the campaign, eventually playing the Hell's Sirens section when the place is no longer safe at all.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
A red Dragon but it has regeneration when it’s in Lava.
Hey, Archfey, my fellow Whip Spider!
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
How are you doing?
I'm a bit bored, but that's summer for ya. 'Bout to eat a lot of spinach ravioli. What about you?
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
I’m pretty sure me and my cousins are going to a zoo.