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chromodorid · 2 days
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goldstarknight · 3 days
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Book of Hours x Disco Elysium - Which one is your signature skill?
First time posting here. Have mercy on me. :)
Here are some portraits of the elements of the soul from BoH in the style of the skill portraits from Disco Elysium with a little character creation mockup. After posting this on the Discord server, I was encouraged to post it on r/weatherfactory. There I was encouraged to post it on Tumblr.
Here are the links for the hi-res versions of the skills, if you're interested. :)
Chor: https://ibb.co/PZbXGxW
Ereb: https://ibb.co/Rz66L3s
Fet: https://ibb.co/n1zg11Q
Health: https://ibb.co/1QjnpFP
Mettle: https://ibb.co/vdb82X9
Phost: https://ibb.co/sbrgKPN
Shapt: https://ibb.co/HXvnrfX
Trist: https://ibb.co/CVcBSQM
Wist: https://ibb.co/SNkFhH9
P.S.: I never use Tumblr. If you want to keep up with my art Twitter/X, Bluesky and Mastodon are the best places to do so.
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aeolianasio · 6 months
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reads like warning text in cultist simulator/book of hours that i would simply ignore
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assento-dele · 7 months
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The gameplay differences in CultSim and Book of Hours is so in line with who the cultist and the librarian are; the ludonarrative consistency is insane.
I always considered the game board from CS as a representation of the cultist's mind palace. There is no map because the physical world does not matter - they have gotten so far removed from caring that it does not ever register (the only exception being the Exile legacy, which again makes sense given who the exile is). In comparison, BoH has the Hush House and Brancrug Village at the forefront, the librarian feels very much part of our world. Locations/vaults in CS are, like everything else, just game pieces in the way to the cultist's goals. Rooms in BoH are given physicality, they're places to uncover and be lived in. All the little trinkets and tools you find matter in a way that it does not for the cultist.
The people in CS are also just game pieces, tools to be used and unceremoniously discarded when they're no longer useful. In BoH, they're people you talk to every day, maybe share tea, hear gossip. You teach them a few things and in turn they give you a little help cleaning up the house.
The cultist's mind strikes me as being so much more fragile than the librarian - you're so prone to bouts of dread and fascination. Again, the cultist's mind regards all of these in such a detatched and solely functional way, just cards to be fixed. And how does the cultist fix them? You're sad, go take some opium. You're fixating, go knock yourself down with some of that sadness. The only things the librarian has to deal with are the occassional infected books, sometimes hurting a small piece of their soul. And all it takes is a little bed rest and some tea.
And the gameplay loop - the cultists' days all blend together, so focused on keeping yourself from drowning in all the threats that you lose track. The librarian wakes up each day, checks the weather, sees what the best thing to do today is. Sometimes you wanted to work on that garden but I guess can't do that while the storm is raging outside, may as well enjoy the sounds and sit in bed reading books about the sky or try to figure out who that random statue you found in that new room is.
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Dumb Cultsim/Book of Hours memes I made for some reason
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nyctodromist · 9 months
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iraprince · 8 months
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artfight attack #29, revenge on @kovlinte! AF post here!
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tozettastone · 6 months
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Have I mentioned how much I like the "The Ecdysis Club/An Ecdysiast's Parable" pun in Cultist Simulator?
Ecdysis is the process of an arthropod shedding its exoskeleton as it grows. An ecdysiast is a professional stripper.
By switching the two words around, and naming the cabaret after shedding your skin but the moth lore after the strip tease, the writers conflate their meanings. So the dancers shed their skins in an act of transformation, empowered¹. And it is the adepts seeking power who invoke the arthropod in moth lore, which presumably strips itself bare for the consumption of outsiders².
You see this is literally the case, if you play the dancer route
As with all things in the Wood, it is unclear if this consumption would be metaphorical
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lemon-embalmer · 7 months
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cultist: mopping hospital floors. papers and the fizzing of electric lights. I am a lissom package of flesh and blood--
librarian: *slams open the pub door* HELLO BRANCRUG what shall we do today? repair fishing nets? write letters? read the newspaper?
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kaine719 · 13 days
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marzipan but in cultist simulator style👀
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toweringclam · 4 months
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It's really weird, but it also totally makes sense that Judaism exists in the Secret Histories canon. Like Christianity does not exist, and the word's still out on other major world religions, but Book of Hours confirms that Judaism is 100% A Thing in this world.
But like...Persians exist. Englishmen exist. Every other culture and ethnicity exists. So, of course Jews exist, and with that comes Judaism. It's a package deal. Even for non-practicing Jews. Even for Jews raised gentile. Religion, culture, and ethnicity are inextricably linked.
Meanwhile, Christianity doesn't really have that base. You can literally swap out Jesus for Dionysus or Mithras, and history turns out mostly the same. And that's what they did, making the Church based around Sol Invictus instead. The cathedral doesn't have crosses, it has sun wheels instead.
But in this one tower you find a menorah, because a Jewish doctor once lived here. And that really means something.
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orangemoustache · 1 year
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pov: you’re the scrawny fellow from the fourth floor who has been appointed supervisor of records (temporary) after mr alden stopped showing up to work. your colleague, who keeps coming to work even though his paper-thin skin is leaking a strange unnatural light, is very openly implying he had something to do with your predecessor suddenly going insane. you don’t make eye-contact -- you can’t, because the dizzying suns of knowledge resting in his skull terrify you -- and you quietly swear that unlike mr alden, you will never ever interfere with his work. you retreat back to the fourth floor. just another day at glover & glover
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cuddledemon · 6 months
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Found some principles in the wild (at a flea market)
Bought myself the Forge one
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laura-the-locust · 7 months
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The cultist, after reading a book: Aha! I've found this incantation hidden between the lines that will allow me to summon a violent creature of the Thunderskin! Then my rival will surely perish at its hand!
The librarian, after reading the same book: Alright, I know how to play drums now. I'm gonna play a fun tune for my midwife neighbor :) and then she'll help me clean up that one room :)
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assento-dele · 7 months
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Don't usually do text posts but I have to note that Book of Hours is one of the most in-role I've ever felt playing a game - surprisingly more than dedicated RPGs. A lot of people complain about the UI but I think it's a huge factor that adds to the immersiveness. There isn't an automated book indexing system because you are supposed to index it, you're the librarian and that's your job. The hush house is hard to navigate and scroll around because it's a goddamn large house and you're the only person living there. You need to keep track of where you leave your tools because they're not just gonna magically show up when you want to use them. Zooming out to go to town every single time is supposed to be a hassle, it takes a while to cross the bridge and you're really not supposed to make that journey multiple times a day.
Maybe this kind of game design is non traditional but once you start taking notes, remembering what all your workstations do, looking for where you left that cup of wine, spending a rainy day sorting the endless piles of books, started hoarding all that sea glass you found at the beach in your bedroom, you'll really start to feel like the librarian of Hush House.
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fisheatingowntail · 3 months
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bisexuality is being attracted to both of them
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