Tumgik
#Oath of the Courier
cerinslair · 9 months
Text
Oath of the Courier
A paladin subclass for 5e
Tumblr media
Liberty. Reason. Justice. Civility. Edification. Perfection.
MAIL.
Tenets of the Courier
The Tenets of the Courier embody a paladin's commitment to delivering the mail with utmost integrity and professionalism.
Handle with Care: Treat anything entrusted to you as preciously as you would your own possessions.
Discrete Delivery: When others confide in you, do not betray their trust. Let none but the intended recipient pry upon what you carry.
Swift Postage: Do your best to fulfill your promises as promptly as possible. Punctuality is a virtue.
To the Letter: Strive to fulfill your oaths exactly as you pledged them. Your word is your promise.
Oath Spells
You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.
3rd Level: Expeditious Retreat, Illusory Script 5th Level: Animal Messenger, Arcane Lock 9th Level: Sending, Tongues 13th Level: Legally Distinct Secret Chest, Freedom of Movement 17th Level: Dream, Teleportation Circle
Channel Divinity
When you choose this Oath at 3rd-level, you gain the following two Channel Divinity options:
Postage Stamp: As an action, you mark an object with a magical postage stamp. When creating this stamp, you choose a creature you or an adjacent ally are familiar with to be the object's recipient. This stamp persists for a number of hours equal to twice your paladin level, until the stamped object is delivered to its chosen recipient, or it is dismissed as a bonus action. While holding the stamped object, you can spend an action to magically detect what direction its recipient is in, and approximately how far away they are from you. If the recipient does not want to be located by you, it can make a Wisdom Saving Throw to elude this detection. If you are relying on an ally's familiarity, they get Advantage on this save. If they succeed, they are immune to this effect for 24 hours. You may only have one magical stamp at a time. If you place another, the previous one is immediately dismissed.
This Side Up: As an action, you can use your Channel Divinity to ward a creature or object against toppling. One creature or object within 10 feet becomes immune to the Prone condition. If the target is an object, it must be light enough for you to carry. If the target is an object, it gains Resistance to bludgeoning, force, and thunder damage. If the warded creature or object falls, it may ignore the first 10' of the fall when determining fall damage. These effects last for a number of minutes equal to your Charisma score, minimum 3.
Tumblr media
Aura of Determination
Neither rain nor sleet nor hail will stop your delivery of the mail. Starting at 7th level, you emit an Aura of Determination. You and allies within 10' cannot have their speed reduced to less than their base speed when walking, crawling, jumping, or flying. This includes anything that would halve movement, such as Difficult Terrain or Exhaustion; or impose any other fraction-based penalty to speed. You cannot grant any of these effects while you are unconscious.
At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.
Return to Sender
Starting at 15th level, if you are targeted by a spell that targets only you, you may use your Reaction to instead have the spell target its caster. Use the original caster's Spell Save DC, Spell Attack Bonus, and Spellcasting Ability where applicable. If the spell required a Spell Attack Roll, re-roll the attack versus the caster. Once you use this ability, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.
Pen Pal
At 20th level, you can assume the form of a celestial courier. Using your action, you undergo a transformation that grants you the following benefits for 1 hour:
Wings sprout from your back and grant you a flying speed of 60 feet.
Allies who begin their turn within 30' of you gain a 10' bonus to their speed that turn.
Add your Charisma bonus to your Initiative Rolls.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.
Tumblr media
Go forth, swift and trustworthy courier! You are the glue that holds society together!
3K notes · View notes
dykedvonte · 16 days
Text
If Ulysses has a million haters, then I'm one of them. If Ulysses has one hater, then I'm THAT ONE. If Ulysses has no haters, that means I'm dead. If the world is with Ulysses than I’m against the world.
#this is slightly joking but like also not but also like am mixed on Ulysses on many factors#infuriating because i sympathize with his pain but it���s like#he is a well written and fundamentally flawed character whose hypocrisy I found doubly in#black characters I can tell were designed by white people with a semblance of an understanding of activism and bipoc oppression#but not enough for the character to not feel like hand holding for the majority white audience#plus personal grips with the whole twisted hairs thing and reference to slave braiding patterns#Ulysses irks me as a black person on a weird personal level and I can go into debt on why him being black is a big detractor for him to me#like he continues this cycle of distancing himself from his roots before remembering over and over again through his actions#he leave so much in his wake that the courier ends up correcting or helping like in honest hearts and old world blues because he’s self#righteous in a subtle way even to himself that he believes he stand out of his one man rule when he does not play an active hand#saw a post talk about how you choose to continue moving through his story and can leave at any moment and this it is partially your fault#but what of the oath that is set before you and is forced to take that he set up#I do not have to walk it but when I do the steps are not my own but those taken for me#you have to go out of your way to change it which is not something he expects because he’s playing by a story he’s been perpetuating in his#head about you two and the effect one man has when he’s continually been that one man more so than you as many of his actions directly lead#to the one you go through also the irony in the flag he continues to bear being the real reason he has no home#like he reps it when the package is likely enclave and thus use the same symbol#also still can’t get over how anyone could have delivered the package and he tries so hard to act like it was the couriers destiny or fate#when this was the one case of chance and that once man was likely a enclave engineer and how it’s really is never one man#it the process and he’s so annoying about it like he’s a cool character but if you don’t believe in his philosophy or already went through#these ideas cause they are very common talking points in poc especially BIPOC spaces he’s just old hashings and stunted#fallout#fallout new vegas#Ulysses you upset me but I’m like I feel you could be better if you weren’t so incessant#I don’t think I ever want to make a serious post stating this about him just because I’d start yapping and it’d never get finished#ulysses fnv#fnv ulysses#lonesome road
8 notes · View notes
thedailycounternews · 2 years
Text
Family Court Judges Who Violate The Constitution
Family Court Judges Who Violate The Constitution
As we have reported before in past articles Family Court and its “actors” take a new meaning when it comes to violating their oaths of office and misuse of power.  Several Family Court Judges feel they are empowered to ignore and violate the U.S. Constitution when it comes to cases before them. A large number of Family Court Judges and Attorneys feel they have the power to prevent someone from…
Tumblr media
View On WordPress
1 note · View note
the-elusive-soleil · 5 months
Text
Silm AU with the Feanorian death order reversed
I apologize in advance, but:
Maglor regrets the Oath and kinslaying on the voyage over. He stays aboard the ships, meaning to stow away back, but falls asleep (it's been a long day) and wakes up on fire. His brothers and father become aware of the situation when they hear the screams. Maglor's cries become a permanent echo in that area, much like Morgoth's at Lammoth.
Maedhros does not have the clearest head in the ensuing battle. He gets separated from the others and is beaten into the dust by balrogs. His family isn't even able to retrieve a body.
Feanor is very shaken and very mad. He doesn't parlay with Morgoth, not even for the Silmarils. He and his remaining people spread out across Beleriand and establish fortresses.
Things are chilly at best when the Helcaraxe group arrives thirty years later. Feanor does not yield the crown. The two groups don't fight, because Morgoth's a bigger problem, but they're not working together. Partially because Fingon refuses to speak to the Feanorians after he hears what happened to Maedhros, and Finrod won't even be near them after what they did to Maglor.
Feanor is very careful with his remaining sons.
Time goes on, the Bragollach occurs on schedule, and so does the Silmaril quest, except that C&C aren't in Nargothrond because of the Finrod-hating-them thing, so Celegorm never meets Luthien. She doesn't get Huan, but still manages just fine.
We do still eventually get to the point of "Silmaril at Doriath" + "no Girdle" + "stubborn Dior" = Second Kinslaying. But this time Celegorm's not grudge-fueled and Curufin's not having to cover for Huan and watch his back, and... Amrod and Amras die instead.
Elwing escapes to the Havens. Elured and Elurin aren't left to die, but Feanor has no interest in keeping around Sindar reminders of his dead sons. He has them sent away. (They don't know where Elwing and the Silmaril are, so ransom isn't an option.)
Then they do learn where the Silmaril is, at Sirion. They attack. Caranthir dies.
Curufin has been doing increasingly badly since Celebrimbor forswore him right before Doriath. Celegorm decides the solution is to pick up Elwing's twin sons and get Curufin to help parent them.
Feanor isn't thrilled, but he can't say no when he sees how Curufin latches on.
Love grows after between them, as little might be thought.
War of Wrath happens. Feanor keeps his tattered family out of it, but contributes weapon designs via courier. The Host uses said designs, because even if he's problematic they need this stuff.
Afterward, the claiming and theft of the Silmarils proceeds. Curufin sends the twins to Celebrimbor to preempt another rejection.
He's hollow, disillusioned, attacking the camp. The guards don't have to work very hard to kill him.
Feanor and Celegorm escape. The Silmarils burn them. Celegorm starts laughing and laughing and can't stop, and backs away...right into a chasm of fire.
Feanor flings the Silmarils after him, hating the things he chased so long at the cost of his sons, and staggers to the shore as the sea encroaches.
No one knows what happens to him.
233 notes · View notes
reginaldqueribundus · 2 years
Text
The “If I Fought This Star Trek Discovery Character, Would I Win?” Post
Michael Burnham
End Fight Probability: There is a 1000% chance Michael knocks you out. 
Listen. Michael has seen some shit. She killed a Klingon in hand-to-hand combat, in an EVA suit, by accident. She’s been to prison, she’s been to the mirror universe where she had to win a surprise knife fight in an elevator, she spent a year as a courier getting chased by the Emerald Chain. Even if you best her in physical strength, she can outwit you with her razor-sharp mind honed by years of Sarek’s disapproving perfectionism. Also, she’s got main character powers. You don’t stand a chance. Do not fight Michael Burnham.
Saru
End Fight Probability: There is a 300% chance Saru knocks you out. 
No. Please no. You might think he’s a pushover and you can startle him into submission like one of those fainting goats, but the man can run like a gazelle and crush communicators with his bare hands, and that was BEFORE he went through double puberty and lost the ability to fear death. Don’t let his friendly exterior fool you. He’s 8 feet tall and can shoot spikes out of his face. If you even look at him he'll stomp you to death with his hooves. Please don’t fight Saru.
Sylvia Tilly
End Fight Probability: There is a 50% chance Tilly knocks you out. 
Sure, you could fight Tilly, but why would you want to? She's a ray of fucking sunshine, you heartless bastard! Plus when she gets cornered she will remind you why the Terrans call her Captain Killy. And you’re going to end up with Admiral Vance, the entire crew of Discovery, and a horde of pissed-off Starfleet cadets on your ass. Don’t bother trying to fight Tilly.
Paul Stamets
End Fight Probability: There is a 0% chance Paul knocks you out.
Yeah, you could absolutely beat Paul Stamets, but you really shouldn't. Paul doesn't want to fight anyone. He's so tired. He just wants to hang out in engineering with his tools and his mushrooms and his alien children. He's been shoved through the mycelial network and had his brain turned inside out so many times he probably doesn't even register pain anymore. Just don't.
Hugh Culber
End Fight Probability: There is a 100% chance Hugh knocks you out and a 150% chance Paul sends your ass to the mushroom dimension.
Not a good idea. This man is shredded. He was dead for half a season and spent the entire time doing crunches, then came back to life just so he could fistfight the fucker that killed him. He will kick your ass, Hippocratic Oath notwithstanding. Don't make him write you a prescription for those hands. Maybe schedule a therapy session with him instead, talk through whatever it is that's causing you to try to fight him and all of his friends. Otherwise his husband might smear your atoms across the multiverse.
(former) Emperor Philippa Georgiou
End Fight Probability: There is a 1000000% chance Georgiou straight up kills you.
HOLY SHIT ARE YOU CRAZY? GEORGIOU GREW UP DODGING 26 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS BEFORE BREAKFAST. SHE GOT SHOT POINT BLANK WITH A PAIN GUN AND GOT OFF ON IT. FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK DON'T TRY TO FIGHT HER!!! NOT ONLY WILL YOU DIE BUT IT WILL HURT THE WHOLE TIME YOU ARE DYING.
Ash Tyler
End Fight Probability: There is a 200% chance Ash snaps your neck.
Absolutely do not fight Ash. He's part Klingon, part Space CIA Agent, all crazy. He probably knows 87 different ways to kill you, and his Section 31 pals will make it like you never existed — and that's if his ex-girlfriend doesn't kill you and eat your face first. Please, do not fight Ash. The universe already beat the crap out of him way harder than you ever could.
Christopher Pike
End Fight Probability: There is a 1701% chance Pike knocks you out.
You might think Pike is a pushover but he walks into every fight with the brazen confidence of a man who has seen his own future. And on Talos IV he learned how to fight with spears and shit. Don't fight Pike, you won't even muss up his hair.
Cleveland Booker
End Fight Probability: There is a 250% chance Book knocks you out.
You really, really don't want to fight Book. He has Disney Princess powers. You try to fight him, you might get eaten by a giant space worm. He killed a dude for dissing his cat. Don't fuck with Book, man.
Keyla Detmer
End Fight Probability: There is a 100% chance Detmer knocks you out.
Absolutely under no circumstances should you fight Detmer. She flew a starship out of an explosion into a completely different universe. She flew through the Galactic Barrier and a toxic void in space. She has nerves of literal steel. Don't fight Detmer.
Joann Owosekun
End Fight Probability: There is a 500% chance Owo knocks you out.
Listen. You don't want to mess with people who live on Star Trek Future Earth and still choose to be Amish. Did you not see her punch out that huge guy in the casino episode? Hell no. Don't fight Owo.
Adira Tal
End Fight Probability: There is a 480% chance Paul and Hugh come and knock you out.
Sure, you could probably take Adira. They're small and awkward and a big nerd. But they've also got two dads who will absolutely annihilate you from this plane of existence if you lay a hand on their little nerd baby. Fight Adira at your own risk.
Gabriel Lorca
End Fight Probability: There is a 40% chance Lorca shoots you.
Yeah, he's tough and he's got a bunch of weapons on his wall, but you're morally compelled to fight him because he is The Worst™. He kidnapped Michael because he was her other self's creepy uncle and he tried to overthrow the genocidal space Emperor because he thought she wasn't racist enough. Please, please, fight his disgusting, skeevy, murderous, predatory ass.
(shamelessly copied off this brilliant post by @shevathegun)
236 notes · View notes
saaliyah · 1 month
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
⋆。°✩ Loren and Anis ⋆。°✩
My current guys on rotation - My partner and I made them for a baldurs gate themed epistolary and now they have take me over.
Anis (Portrait on the right) is the Tav - He’s a bastard of some haughty high elf and got thrown into the military to save face when he was young and dumb - but after half his troop got killed, the survivors got drunk and swore they would avenge them. He’s been left as an Oath of Vengeance paladin with this stupid mistake chasing him ever since.
Loren(Portrait to the left) is Anis’ partner who was not kidnapped on the nautiloid, but got left behind behind in Baldur’s Gate. They work at Sword Coast Couriers and the pigeons are so devout to them. They have an insatiable thirst for knowledge, especially arcane, but they’ve had too many other responsibilities to ever get to follow through. When Anis was taken, they worked out a search spell to find him and set up a letter system with one of the pidgeys.
These two have been in a loving but very stagnant relationship until the events of BG3 - their love is great and worthy of epics, but it takes being tested to get it there! While they write letters back and forth to each other, Anis tries to shield Loren from the grisly realities to keep them from worrying, while Loren can tell more is going on - It finally breaks when it’s revealed that they’ll be heading to the Shadowlands - Loren can’t stay away any longer.
Anyways, I love them, it’s been so fun to learn about them ahh!!!
(Psss I do portrait commissions if you have ocs you can’t stop thinking about)
8 notes · View notes
Text
Tumblr media
Rassam Cylinder, a ten-sided clay cylinder that was created in c. 643 BC, during the reign of King Ashurbanipal (c. 685 BC - 631 BC) who ruled the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669 - 631 BC.
It was discovered in the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, near Mosul, present-day Iraq, by Hormuzd Rassam (3 October 1826 - 16 September 1910) in 1854.
In over 1,300 lines of cuneiform text, the cylinder records nine military campaigns of Ashurbanipal, including his wars with Egypt, Elam and his brother, Shamash-shum-ukin.
It also records his accession to the throne and his restoration of the Palace of Sennacherib.
The cylinder is the most complete chronicle on the life of Ashurbanipal.
There are some extracts from the cylinder below:
"I am Ashurbanipal, offspring of Ashur and Bêlit, the oldest prince of the royal harem, whose name Ashur and Sin, the lord of the tiara, have named for the kingship from earliest (lit., distant) days, whom they formed in his mother's womb, for the rulership of Assyria; whom Shamash, Adad and Ishtar, by their unalterable (lit., established) decree, have ordered to exercise sovereignty.
Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, the father who begot me, respected the word of Ashur and Bêlit-ilê (the Lady of the Gods), his tutelary (divinities), when they gave the command that I should exercise sovereignty.
In the month of Airu, in the month of Ea, the lord of mankind, the twelfth day, an auspicious day, the feast day of Gula, at the sublime command which Ashur, Bêlit, Sin, Shamash, Adad, Bêl, Nabû, Ishtar of Nineveh, Queen of Kidmuri, Ishtar of Arbela, Urta, Nergal, Nusku, uttered, he gathered together the people of Assyria, great and small, from the upper to (lit., and) lower sea.
That they would accept (lit., guard) my crown princeship, and later my kingship, he made them take an oath by the great gods, and so he strengthened the bonds (between them and me)....
By the order of the great gods, whose names I called upon, extolling their glory, who commanded that I should exercise sovereignty, assigned me the task of adorning their sanctuaries, assailed my opponents on my behalf, slew my enemies, the valiant hero, beloved of Ashur and Ishtar, scion of royalty, am I.
Egyptian Campaign:
"In my first campaign I marched against Magan, Meluhha, Taharqa, king of Egypt and Ethiopia, whom Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, the father who begot me, had defeated, and whose land he brought under his sway.
This same Taharqa forgot the might of Ashur, Ishtar and the other great gods, my lords, and put his trust upon his own power.
He turned against the kings and regents whom my own father had appointed in Egypt.
He entered and took residence in Memphis, the city which my own father had conquered and incorporated into Assyrian territory.
A swift courier came to Nineveh and reported to me.
At these deeds, my heart became enraged, my soul cried out. I raised my hands in prayer to Ashur and the Assyrian Ishtar.
I mustered my mighty forces, which Ashur and Ishtar had placed into my hands. Against Egypt and Ethiopia, I directed the march."
Rassam Cylinder records the reign of Ashurbanipal until c. 645 BC.
The latter years of his reign are poorly recorded, probably due to the fact that the Neo-Assyrian Empire was plagued with troubles.
One of Ashurbanipal's last known inscription reads:
"I cannot do away with the strife in my country and the dissensions in my family; disturbing scandals oppress me always.
Illness of mind and flesh bow me down; with cries of woe I bring my days to an end.
On the day of the city god, the day of the festival, I am wretched; death is seizing hold upon me, and bears me down..."
Rassam Cylinder is currently on display in the British Museum.
A truly remarkable, yet biased, insight into the reign of Ashurbanipal and the world in which he lived.
📷: © Anthony Huan
3 notes · View notes
lavaeolus · 10 months
Text
Tumblr media
I beat New Vegas and its DLCs with 0 kills on Hardcore
Right, I feel like I owe you some details on this. Meet Michaela, courier and Wasteland doctor. Swearing something not entirely dissimilar to the Hippocratic Oath, she's a devout member of the Followers of the Apocalypse. And less devoutly the Brotherhood of Steel -- but she's a little concerned hijacking a robot army might've gotten her kicked out of the latter. Hasn't had the nerve to ask about it yet.
Strap yourselves in; this is going to be a long one. First, the core three rules to this playthrough:
No direct killing. Don't do anything that would increase People Killed, Creatures Killed or Total Things Killed.
No companion killing. Would make this a lot simpler if we brought one along! But I think that would be less a "no-kill" challenge and more a "companion commander" one.
No luring enemies to their death. It's hypothetically possible to just beat a guy to 1 HP and lead them to a radscorpion. But that's not very nice. Try to bypass them through means other than reducing their HP to 0 if possible.
Full disclosure that I did allow myself to use Robotics Expert and shut off machinery. I didn't really view this as destroying them, as they retain their HP and can theoretically be turned back on one day. In fact, deactivate Mobius's giant roboscorpion with the perk and he will, after a few moments, do just that.
Tackling the base game
Tumblr media
If you follow some of my other social media, you might know this isn't my first try at a 'no-kill run'! The main difference is that in the last one I didn't really do any DLC. I did Honest Hearts and called it a day. This run was also done on Very Hard / Hardcore, which doesn't change things too dramatically but does mean we can't be quite as cavalier about rushing in and running past people. We side with Yes Man in this go-through, unlike our first run which was NCR. They share a lot of ground, though, so again: not too big of a difference.
One fun fact about New Vegas is that being able to get through without killing anyone was one of Obsidian's initial design tenets. But... that comes with a bit of a proviso. You can get through to pretty much any ending without ever having to pull out a gun (or ballistic fist, as the case may be), although there will be clunky moments from the engine being designed with the idea you'd be clearing places of enemies. Hell, you can wipe out most of the factions without ever pulling out a gun, if you help Lanius come to power and side with the Legion.
Can you get through "as a pacifist"? Well. I mean, you don't have to kill House, exactly. You can just pull him out of his tub, expose him to bacteria, and then shove him back in -- disconnected from his systems until he inevitably dies in about a year. There are a few other questionable moments, like the fact that bringing law to Primm inexplicably causes all the people in the Bison Steve to suddenly drop dead. Heart attacks, I assume.
Still, side with the right faction and your hands can come out relatively clean, and I do a few extra things to keep in spirit to the run. I don't give the Legion the Boomer howitzer parts. Our favour from the King is spent ending the violence against NCR citizens, thereby avoiding conflict with Pacer. For the Omertas, I avoid having Cachino open fire on the bosses. Instead I blow up their weapons, blackmail Clanden, and then re-enter the casino. Whereupon they ask me to hand over my weapons and I tell them to shove it, rendering the Omertas irrevocably hostile to me. (This lets me progress the NCR path a bit further, although it's not strictly necessary on an Independent run.)
While there are a handful of quests you can't do, you can complete the majority of the game and most of its quests. The only companion you can't recruit without loosening the rules a bit is Boone. With Cass, you can avoid having to help Ranger Jackson if you take the Barter or higher Speech routes. I avoid having Old Lady Gibson put down her dog for Rex, but if you're not being as extreme fixing him's just a few caps or a Barter check away.
That doesn't necessarily mean you'll get the best ending for everyone, of course. There are some factions, like the Powder Gangers and Fiends, who probably should be dealt with -- but sticking to the pacifist ethos leaves these groups in play. This is only heightened by staying Independent rather than joining the NCR, who would ultimately deal with the Powder Gangers and limit the Fiends' influence once their hold is strong enough.
Tackling the DLC
Tumblr media
Does that ethos carry through to the DLC? Sort of. There are troublesome spots throughout, and obviously dealing with Father Elijah through stealth still involves locking him in a room without food, water or light. But I think the only direct violation of that earlier design tenet comes in Lonesome Road. Honest Hearts is actually where we get our main weapon of choice, the Compliance Regulator: a special laser pistol that does less damage but temporarily paralyses an enemy on crits. (A few similar fatigue weapons exist in the base game, but are usually trickier to take advantage of.)
But let's go through some issues:
Companions! Honest Hearts, Dead Money and Lonesome Road all have you escort companions around. If you go into Caution, companions can open fire on people. Sometimes we can just walk on and be sure they won't do much. By all means, ED-E, solo the three deathclaws while I scoot over to the next area. I'd recommend you bring a few Stealth Boys to the Divide just to help keep ED-E out of trouble. Other times we have to get creative. To complete "Prisoners of War" without anyone dying, I have to zap both a White Leg and Graham with the Compliance Regulator, paralysing them each for 10 seconds. I then have to paralyse Graham again to get to Salt-Upon-Wounds without Graham going Rambo on his minions. In all cases, you can abuse the Wait function once you're far away enough from enemies your companion might still be fighting.
Holograms. Dean doesn't want to do his part in the heist without some protection. Two options: threaten to break his legs, which is tempting, or you can activate some holograms to keep guard. Unfortunately the Ghost People have some special coding that says whenever one is permanently killed, for any reason, they should be added to your kill-count. The solution is simple but difficult to pull off. Activate the holograms, then leg it out of the area before they have the chance to murder any poor Ghost People. A gamey solution for a gamey problem.
Saving ED-E. Can't use the terminal until the robots are dead! So either nuke somewhere or trick a few robots into blowing themselves up. But this is technically optional.
Showdown with Ulysses. When I mentioned there being one violation, this is what I was referring to. The DLC ends with a big final showdown between you and the Marked Men, which doesn't progress until the Marked Men are dead. Strictly speaking, Ulysses is perfectly capable of soloing them all while you hide in a corner -- which we do. But that a high-Speech character is able to be carried by Ulysses doesn't really change that you're meant to be fighting off waves of enemies.
In the end, though, we're able to come out moreorless abiding our initial rules, some dodgy moments aside. Old World Blues is the best about it, having no real catches throughout. The enemies have pretty good Perception, so can be a little tricky to sneak past, but there's no mandatory killing. Honest Hearts is interesting in that it's clearly aware a pacifist approach is possible and actually addresses the possibility in some dialogue -- although, of course, Graham does add some complications if you're strict about it.
Dead Money and Lonesome Road? Tough stuff. If a non-combat character interests you, there's an extent I'd say go for it, but maybe just give yourself a mulligan for these two DLCs and the Graham-segment of Honest Hearts. From a roleplaying angle and outside the confines of the Pip-boy stats, it's not strictly your fault if some guy you're forced to travel with attacks someone, right? So long as you don't deliberately take advantage of it.
Video proof
Tumblr media
I didn't record this full playthrough, but I did record the final mission and the ending of each DLC. Just so I'd have a record of having done it. The full playlist is here, but if you'd like to watch any individual one:
Base game
Honest Hearts
Dead Money
Old World Blues
Lonesome Road
I realise this isn't, like, irrefutable evidence. But if you're curious about how the ending slides play out or if there's anything special, there they are.
14 notes · View notes
dungeonmemester · 7 months
Text
Reminder that I now have a separate blog for my TTRPG projects: @cerinslair
I'm still keeping this blog around as a personal blog, and will reblog everything I post to that blog here as well. If you'd like to follow both, you can blacklist the tag #lairposting which I'll use whenever I post/reblog the same post to both blogs (so it won't show up on your feed twice).
Or just follow me there if you only want the tabletop game stuff: Gamedev, project announcements, game design resources, gameplay resources, games from other designers that I like, and my own writing. Like my Oath of Courier Paladin Subclass for 5e or this d66 Table of Speech Quirks for folks who want their characters to sound unique but don't like "doing voices" at the table.
3 notes · View notes
cass-brews · 1 year
Text
Homebrew Content Masterlist
A tidy collection of links to all of my homebrew projects :)
Races/Subraces:
Goliath Overhaul: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlHmYicGs9D-Ek9dFR
Aasimar and Tiefling Additions: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlHWTuiB022vqICkzS
Subclasses:
Courier Conclave Ranger: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NJvhs1NbjuW2Afh2a7-
Fey Blessed Sorcerer: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlJ-blDT7AlSnNoY86
Oceanic Soul Sorcerer: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlIVmdfUX7eccb-dN8
Oath of the Sentinel Paladin: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlHufetARe8gcAEH30
Way of Arcane Abeyance Monk: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlIlimf_a_9p_V9PwK
The Accursed: Horror Themed and Cursed Subclasses: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlGlrvP3JWzXTcguH1
The Accursed, Volume Two: More Horror Themed Subclasses: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-Nh3cQXcwdHSk1_LLE_K
Oath of the Storm Paladin: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NNmnpeOugLzyxmy1SH_
Path of the Street Brawler Barbarian: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NPU8C0c1joRrSkORhVP
Battle Seer Fighter: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NQbGiUOmJEI0B7RNApQ
Hearth Domain Cleric: https://href.li/?https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NSOgN7diQuoSCmHTf2f
Greatwyrm Warlock: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NX7PclRNrhewre-3W8h
College of Percussion Bard: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NZXHtmmvDe8UDpuKghE
Divine Blade Rogue: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-N__qtK0fQJX-SXHufbV
Circle of Storms Druid: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NadB9sl7JKaPqcOkvFB
Grenadier Specialist Artificer: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NgevMfTVk6eexdCWQl8
Luck Domain Cleric: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NguDHe8gbsCTj2frGni
Class/Subclass Revisions/Overhauls:
Sorcerer: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlHdq1CI5eCL8N-M9J
Fighter: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlGZPs8ivYzT_Wb1QE
Barbarian Subclasses: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlIcNzvOaUn4U8ENVV
Original Ranger Subclasses: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlJ72-ZRi0BC2nBTrQ
Phoenix Sorcery: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlJOA_He00arA08z65  
The Undying Warlock: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlJUs9u3bdFk64uSVE
Circle of Twilight Druid: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NVm-MZ9uYBlJ1G_wNS2
The Great Old One Warlock: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NZ9AmSWTeUuSzbbgW1w
Sharpshooter Fighter: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-Nekb2Qdw5JYNkwd7quz
Raven Queen Warlock: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-Nenq3Z699CCkLWRVEOt
Stone Sorcery: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NepUs6jPift8YfGoX60
Rules Expansions and General Reworks:
Class and Subclass Feature Reworks: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlJDoj6kwmbuU8tGV1
Expanded Elemental Spells: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlINHZmZ0MWgGfpPC8
Necromancy Wizard and Necromancy Spells: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlHLx5QQHPNhpVH87I
Warlock Pact Boons, Invocations, and Spells: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NjfQO5KHN9wnGnrSaNG
New Classes:
Firearms and the Gunsmith Class: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NHlH86HaSaWCEZToV28
The Mageblade Class: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NXwNK_PMG9SZ2CZFZx7
The Oracle Class: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NfnnElNXkWQk_GV63W1
13 notes · View notes
Note
16 & 17 for the fanfic writer ask game, please.
16. where is your favorite place to write?: when i was in college it was my habit to go to the panera bread a few times a week to study/get as many iced tea refills as i could stand/hog a booth for a while. i really enjoy writing somewhere that isn’t home - since covid & everything that’s kind of fallen by the wayside, i’m still not comfortable doing it. so there’s probably a coffee shop somewhere out there that would feel perfect, but i’m not looking for it right now.
17. what is your favorite line you’ve ever written?: hooooooooo this is a toughie. this is hard. i’m a big rereader of my own stories - i couldn’t even tell you what my favorite published fic is, it changes any given day. and i'm greedy. here's five of my current favorites.
“Vaudeville trash, Mother says for the dozenth time, and Meg is exhausted coming off the fourth show, wishes she were sharing a cigarette with Diedre backstage before the fifth; it’s nearly enough for her to let the smile drop and say, Of course it is, we have a vaudeville act.” from The Most Self-Indulgent Fic Ever Written, looking lovely (burning bright) which was written in honor of my thirteen year old self who spent months obsessed with love never dies, a musical that 1) isn’t good and 2) hates women. what if the women in that kissed.
“And it is draped in green: her color, poison and rot and sick smoke, the lovely gleam of her scales in the dark.” from you are coming down with me, where raishan is one part cat playing with a wounded bird and one part possessive deity laying claim to an acolyte and a third, other part that’s just labeled ‘kinda horny about it all.’
“It’s a kind of luxury, Cass knows, that they can each eat two bowls of soup and have enough left for the morning meal. And the mattress is surprisingly soft, enough so that both she and the Courier roll to the dip in the middle of the bed.” from one more song about moving along the highway, which i wrote in a fit of spring sadness and love more and more as time goes on.
"Pike doesn’t love him the way he loves her. It’s impossible—because Pike is sure and real and true, and Scanlan is flashpaper and illusion. He thinks sometimes about the drive out of Westruun, watching her disappear in the rearview mirror. Three exits down the highway he pulled to the side of the road and sobbed until his throat was raw. And he didn’t call, because he knew it would hurt." from my current favorite wip which is just called WakingUpInVegas.mp3 right now. what if they woke up married. why not. modern au pikelan is built for angst
“You know I love you. It would take worse than this to make me stop—a fact which shames me to my very core. I, who cling so tightly to oaths and promises, abandon them at the first scrap of affection returned. I cannot call it anything but disgusting. How fickle I am, to turn my back on all of it for you.” which was part of an in-character letter from my old paladin to her knight boyfriend. Beatrice Pyre you will always be my girl.
5 notes · View notes
whatdoesshedotothem · 2 years
Text
Sunday 9 September 1832
6 20
12 5
stood an hour just after getting out of bed reading Biajolis’ Italian grammar – finish morning – F64° at 6 20 am – breakfast at 8 ½ with my father – finished reading last nights courier – came upstairs at 9 35 – read from p. 7 to 85 vol. 1 Jamesons’ mineralogy – then asleep half an hour downstairs at 11 55 – read the service and sermon 8 Mr. Knight in 50 minutes as usual and came upstairs again before 1 – my aunt not so well today as yesterday – from 1 20 to 6 10 at my desk - wrote 3 pages and ends and under the seal pretty small and close to V- ‘Shibden Hall Sunday 9 September 1832 - The Lady Vere Cameron - How well - how proper my direction will look! you will guess how delighted I am, and how very much and sincerely I congratulate you, and you both - all is now right - everything seems to go well with you - and I shall talk no more of anxiety about you, for fear of bordering on ingratitude to heaven for all kinds of blessings shewed so thickly on you. Indeed, indeed, my dearest Vere, I am quite happy for your sake, and know not that I have one wish concerning you unsatisfied - your letter from Brussels was all I wanted -  I longed to know what you were about and where - nor you, nor anybody had told me of your going to B- an excellent plan for saving the duty on your carriage, and bringing you direct to the Rhine - you would have Donald to take care of you at St Bavan, so no fear of priestly conversation - and you really let him go to Waterloo by himself! Excellent - I see, you are going to be your own very self and so habitual and great is my respect for your discretion, that I fell as if there was a certain necessity for your being right, and am rapidly progressing towards approving, and liking what the less proper grain of my own nature would otherwise have rebelled against up to this very moment – By the time you see me, I shall have lost all wish even to ‘corrupt Donald’ and I suppose one of the differences your marriage will have made, will be, that you lead 2 people by the nose instead of one - Surely you will be at Rome at Easter’ - mention my aunt’s being so much worse than usual lately that I could not leave her unless better - otherwise had intended being off the middle or end of January, going by the Corniche and being at Rome for the Carnival - Do not quite give up all hope yet and beg her to give me any travelling memoranda that might be of use - nice cheerful letter all things considered from Lady S- did not where to direct to her or should have answered V- by return of post – politics – bad prospect for the winter –expect the mill I have spent so much upon will hardly be allowed to stand over it – ‘a fearful no. of people have turned out for
SH:7/ML/E/15/0115
increase of wages – the different trades have their respective unions; and each member, on admission, binds himself by a solemn and dreadful oath to obey their ‘officers’ in everything, even in murdering  a bad master – they hold weekly meetings in large rooms which they allow no one to enter while they are there, and all that transpires is, that they make a noise as if they were at a military drill, and that 40 or 50 pistol shots and more are commonly fired off in one night – a pistol is fired over every mans’ head immediately on his taking the oath, so that the no. of shots tells the no. of new members – they vow vengeance against machinery’...... and I expect the mill will not be allowed to stand – reform bill hardly mentioned – tis now the national debt that is to be got rid of – wish we may get as quietly over the winter here as I trust they will in Italy – wrote to and nice letter from Breadalbane - ........ ‘I shall be glad to hear you have found your friends well, particularly the Fosters – Do pray give my compliments and congratulations to Lady Albinia – I am going to write a little more on the occasion to Lady Harriet – I am really delighted that this right thing is done at last – and by your means too – you did well to open your letter to give me Donalds’ love – you must give him mine in return, and manage this matter for us with your usual discretion – tell me have you seen your excellent friend Lady Northland? God bless you, my dearest Vere – may your happiness be, if possible, uninterrupted as it is great – my aunt is pleased by you remembering her, and bids me give her kind remembrances and congratulations – affectionately yours AL- your health is too good to be inquired after nowadays? I wish you said one word about it’ - wrote 3 pp. and under seal to ‘my dear Lady Harriet in spite of all you used to say in Paris of this and that being of no use in Denmark, I really cannot resist writing my congratulations – However careless you may be on the subject, the days are not yet come to us in England when the thing is of no value – it seems but a matter of right in this case; and, depended upon it, all your England friends are pleased with your new address – I think Monsieur de Hagemann will agree with me – at all rates, nothing which seems to me of any sort of good, can happen to you, without my being very sincerely glad of it – tho’ you have not seen me this summer, and may not the next, I may still call upon you one of these days for your promised potatoes’ – chitchat – mention of my aunts’ being so far from well as usual or hoped to be at Rome at Easter – a little of politics – the people not a bit more contented for the reform bill – now want to be rid of the national debt – ‘I know you almost abominate writing or I should say, do let me hear how you all are – my aunts and my love to the children and compliments to M. de H- ‘I thought Mrs. Camerons’ place on the banks of Lochiel one of the most beautiful situations in the Highlands – Vere will be the lairds’ wife, my lade of Lochiel, head of the Camerons, and quite a personage in Scotland – the people speak of him with something like adoration – many a bonfire or many a hill will greet Veres’ arrival; and I really do believe she will be happy – very truly yours AL’ – then wrote a full ½ sheet and 1 p. of envelope to Lady S- very kind letter anxious about her – hope the sea air will do her good etc. cannot bear to hear of her being ‘solitarily as possible’ – had it been possible for me to leave home should have offered to run up and pay her a visit of a little while at the Lodge on her return – but added to other things my aunt has lately been so unwell could not leave – very weak and suffers a great deal – but hope her illness is only temporary – but for this meant to be off as soon after Xmas as I could and be at Rome at Easter – as it is know not what I shall be able to do – Vere begs me to send my letters undercover to her, Lady S- have written also to Lady Harriet to congratulate her – delighted that the courtesy is got at last – hope Lady S- will not be angry at me for ordering the postage to be paid but so many letters for other people are quite ashamed – if I sent them in the ordinary way should have more to pay – she will really do me a great kindness by letting me go on this way when Lord Stuart is out of reach – afraid she did not get the 2 brace of moorgame sent on the 13th ultimo directed to Whitehall –‘it will really be a comfort to me to hear good accounts of you – ever my dear Lady Stuart affectionately and very truly yours A. Lister’ – Dinner at 6 ¼ - came to my room again at 6 40 and wrote all but the first 4 ½ lines of today and sent off at 8 5 my letter to ‘the Lady Vere Cameron’ and letter to ‘the Lady Harriet de Hagemann’ and letter to the ‘Honourable Lady Stuart at Miss Tates’ Langsdown, near Southampton, Hants’ – did not write post paid but desired John to pay the postage and take care it was marked paid at p.o. -  wrote 2 ½ pages to Dr HSB- in answer to his letter and prescription of the 28th ult. dated tonight - ‘a very pretty sort of a person I am to write and consult a physician and make out a story of complaint as long as today and tomorrow! I see it is so long since, my dearest Steph, as the 28th ult. that I received your very kind and healing letter; for I have thought myself best ever since  - I told you I had confidence enough for anything and the fact is, I was so satisfied to find what I had brooded over so moodily was no more than internal torpor, that I no longer cared about it, and being really very busy, put off the dosing till the Sunday, forgot it - have done the same today, and am  therefore now determined to wait till my out-of-doors jobs are done, and I have leisure enough to make myself ill enough by thinking about it - I am quite sure your prescription will set all rights - and I thank you very much for it as also for that most palatable, but pleasant,  impossible one, of spending a week with you - I should like nothing better; but neither for pleasure nor health, could I leave home now - my love to Harriet and thanks for all the part she has taken in it -  I have no thought of being in York again without paying my long thought of visit - but, when that will be, I have no idea’  - mention my last letter from M- and ‘the rainy miseries of her anniversary club day the wetting they all got, in consequence of which they turned short from the church door to Peakes’ for hot tea and bread and butter instead of cold prayers and sermon  and Charles, finding no religion in the way, ordered horses, and drove off bag and baggage, wife and all - she tho’ pretty well used to this carpe-diem, fugit-dum-loquimur-invida-aetas kind of going on, yet seemed to have been rather put out by it, left writing box, and all such menus plaisirs behind, and wrote as she could - Does not C- require a sedative? I will not write much more, because it is hard upon you to read it - you have done me what is called a world of good, and I am really very much obliged, and very faithfully A. Lister’ - wrote the last 20 ½ lines and went down into the little room at 9 25 - no! at the moment letter 3 pages and ends and under the seal from M- Brighton dated Friday the 7th going to Worthing yesterday for ten days - has met with the very person to suit
SH:7/ML/E/15/0116
me as a lady’s maid Mademoiselle Eugenie Pierre, aetatis 23, lived with Lady Herbert who will give her a character - left her because she reduced her establishment and makes one maid do for herself and her daughter - wages 23 guineas - her father has been in the commissariat department at Rouen for 15 years - does not associate with common servants but always civil and attention to them - not smart but always neat and clean, and very tidy and methodical - M- has seen her sister Mademoiselle Pierre teacher in a school at Brighton ‘is a very ladylike person’ - Eugenie in France but coming over - has friends in England with whom she can wait till I want her - will wait my answer from M-  Esther Dalton to marry Dr Travis and Bell said to be going to marry his younger brother William! Just added the following to my letter to Steph - ‘I have this moment had another letter from M- dated Brighton - they were to go to Worthing on Saturday (yesterday) for she supposed ten day s- and will probably give up Hastings - the very act of travelling knocks me up tho’ I seem to do little else than sleep all the way’ - ‘her earache gone long ago, and never deaf since then - but somehow I am uneasy about her - ‘I am tolerably well - bilious occasionally’ - my letter is to be directed Post Office Worthing - it seems the N-s and Mrs N- are not returned - Brighton very full and gay - but C- does not like it’ – note this morning before breakfast from Mr. Parker to say there would be a meeting of the trustees of the Leeds and Whitehall road on Wednesday at Birstall, but Washington will be at York and Mr. P- advises me to wait until there is a meeting at H-x – went downstairs at 9 40 – read over almost all the courier – came to my room at 10 ¾ - wrote the last 19 lines till 11 20 at which hour F67° - fine day – never once stirred out of doors –
2 notes · View notes
princetonarchives · 2 months
Text
"Whatever fault, if any, Dr. Charles Elbert Rhodes may have to find with Bennett High School, he certainly will not be found flaying its official colors--orange and dark blue. For as a proud son of Princeton, he is in ardent accord with, at least, the major hue in that scheme. You can take an oath on the whiskers of the sacred tiger, he is."
--Buffalo, New York's Courier and Express, October 31, 1926, on Charles Elbert Rhodes, Princeton University Class of 1891
The entire Tiger Tuesday series
0 notes
brookstonalmanac · 1 year
Text
Events 4.30
311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends. 1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois. 1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. He is named admiral of the ocean sea, viceroy and governor of any territory he discovers. 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII. 1557 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile. 1598 – Juan de Oñate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México. 1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. 1636 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege. 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first President of the United States. 1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation. 1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana. 1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation. 1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico. 1871 – The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory. 1885 – Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use. 1897 – J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London. 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor. 1905 – Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich. 1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity. 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States. 1937 – The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative. 1939 – The 1939–40 New York World's Fair opens. 1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address. 1943 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans. 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building. 1945 – World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9,000 American and British airmen. 1947 – In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam. 1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established. 1956 – Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. 1957 – Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force. 1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned. 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. 1973 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned. 1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh. 1980 – Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana. 1980 – The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London. 1982 – The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta, India. 1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free. 1993 – Tennis player Monica Seles – at this time the top-ranked player in women's tennis – is stabbed during a match at the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany. 1994 – Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy. 1999 – Neo-Nazi David Copeland carries out the last of his three nail bombings in London at the Admiral Duncan gay pub, killing three people and injuring 79 others. 2000 – Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide. 2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers committing war crimes against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks. 2009 – Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 2009 – Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix. 2012 – An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people. 2013 – Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix. 2014 – A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others. 2021 – Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
0 notes
serenefig · 1 year
Text
Quick and dirty OC List
D&D
Bradán Berongoy — Beastmaster Ranger Human
Edondor Shadyshade — Shadow Monk/Arcane Trickster Halfling (gestalt)
Nalkyr/Dûrion Fireforge — Assassin Rogue Dwarven-raised Half-Elf Drow
Nythis — Undead Warlock Tortle
Oblivion
Hidden-Amongst-the-Roots — Argonian, Hero of Kvatch, Grey Fox, egg sibling to Reek Neftus, the one history remembers
Reek Neftus — Argonian, egg sibling to Hidden-Amongst-the-Roots, Listener, the new Sheogorath (Shivering Isles DLC), the one history forgot
Skyrim
Caria Vettis — Breton, Dragonborn, Blades, Restoration Master
Do'zah — Khajiit, Dragonborn, Harbinger (Removed werewolf), Follower of Alkosh/Akatosh and S'rendarr/Stendar
Kjotvi — Nord, Dragonborn, Archmage, Companion, Follower of Talos and Kyne/Kynareth
Maenhendor — Green Pact Half Bosmer (Orc father), Follower of Namira and Malacath, Listener
Torsolf Oath-Mug — Courier, (reluctant) Dragonborn (as in "fine I'll do it but I'm going to complain the whole way")
Fable
Chaser — Hero of Oakvale
Sparrow — Hero of Bowerstone/ Bower Lake
This list will be updated as needed. Apparently I have more Skyrim than anything else, oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
0 notes
weariedwight · 1 year
Note
what if Faegalad was corrupted by the ring?
((okay so I was thinking about talking about Fae and the Ring in general, so I'm gonna go on a bit of a related tangent to your question as a fair warning, ahah
first and foremost, Fae would've been easily corrupted by the Ring had it fallen into her hands. If Men are considered to be the most easily corrupted by it, she's right there with them, because it's deeply personal. Now, this is something I definitely need to get into at some point, but it very much so ties into the oath she made in a fit of rage after seeing Celebrimbor's body. Fortunately, she swore she would see the death of Sauron, not that she would be the one to kill him, but... well, he's a Maia, fallen or not. Like Elves, they're immortal, something she knows, and promptly screwed herself over with, even though she does fulfill it come the War of the Ring and his final defeat with the destruction of the Ring. But, until then, his defeat in the War of the Last Alliance doesn't fulfill her oath despite her being there, because his spirit was with the Ring, and... therefore he was still alive in Middle-earth. She's therefore bound to an oath that she (as far as she believes) can never fulfill, and it leaves her vulnerable to Sauron's power - it's an easy weakness he can exploit should he ever get a hold of her, and the Ring knows this. It would promise her the capability of defeating Sauron once and for all if she should wield it, so, therefore, she would not only avenge her cousin, but also save all of Middle-earth from his destruction. It would promise she would become formidable if she became its new Bearer, and that there was no one else more fitting than she, who had been Bearer to the Elven Rings.
now, to answer your question, the Ring's corruption would lead to her becoming utterly ruthless. Fae would stop at nothing to see the defeat of Sauron at her own hands and fulfilling her oath, even if it means hurting/killing the ones she loves. And if it were taken from her, she would then stop at nothing to get it back. The bitter legacy of her father could become her own, as she would no longer just be the daughter of a Kinslayer, but could become a Kinslayer herself. But it would assure her that, unlike her kin, she is right in becoming such a thing, because she's doing it for the greater good, and not "just for some jewels". That her actions are justifiable. She would lose any sense of right and wrong, and would lead herself to her own destruction, as, ironically, the corruption would lead her to unwittingly become a courier for Sauron, when she became a courier to avoid going mad because of her oath to begin with.
0 notes