#d1: realisation | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

zalia · 4 months

Text

Experiencing Destiny 1 as a D2 player

I picked up Destiny 1 in a sale recently despite being told a lot about its problems, and honestly I'm really enjoying playing it! I feel a bit like a time traveller visiting important places and events from the past.

I also have friends who played Destiny nearly from the beginning and it's fun to go back and go 'ooooh that's what they were talking about!'. I am also very aware that if I had started playing it without already being invested, I would be having considerably less fun. (Also, being fair, much of the fun is doubtless novelty after playing *mumbletymumble* hours of D2 over the past couple of years).

But it's genuinely been really interesting from a design and narrative perspective going back to it and seeing where the story began and how things have changed and I wanted to ramble about it. Full disclosure, I have played up through the first couple of missions of The Taken King. There are also things I can't comment on such as Crucible (because getting enough players for a match has not happened yet), events (no longer happening) etc. Also haven't managed to run a raid yet but hopefully will eventually!

I will start with the bad, to get it over with. A lot of stuff here will be well known and honestly it's probably less interesting than the good/thinky stuff.

The Bad

Oh boy I have maligned D2's New Light introduction so badly since it is miles ahead of D1 just by merit of actually having one! D1 gives you the opening run through the Cosmodrome where they tell you what buttons to use and then refuses to explain anything ever again. (This very definitely ties into it being a game I enjoy now but would probably not have enjoyed if I wasn't already invested)

You don't realise how many QoL improvements D2 has until you have to go to orbit and select a new destination every single time. Also no fast travel points. And no you cannot just look at a map of the place you're traversing. Fashion is difficult too.

Up until Taken King, I am not sure why they bothered hiring voice actors for anyone except Ghost, Elsie Bray, and maybe the Speaker. And I have no idea why they hired Bill Nighy for that part (I mean I do, it's because they wanted to use Big Names for marketing but still...). The Vanguard could easily be replaced with cardboard cutouts because they are basically uninvolved in anything until Taken King begins. I know they aren't involved in every seasonal plot now, but they do appear and develop.

The story and writing is... well, it makes an attempt to exist. It does not succeed until The Taken King. I went in knowing what happens in the story and I'm still not actually sure what happens in the story because it is basically someone's pre-first draft bullet points of a narrative. The only reason I knew I was starting different storylines is because the mission popup tells you which storyline it is. 'I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain' is a meme for a reason, but another bit which I think illustrates the point well is from House of Wolves. Petra tells you that Skolas has entered the Vault of Glass and this is bad so you need to stop him. It is never explained before then what the Vault of Glass is, what it does, why it would be bad for Skolas to be in there, or... anything. While D2 can be obtuse, and sometimes leaves important info in easily overlooked lore tabs (or in vaulted content), it at least tries to tell you what the story is. I feel like D1 actively resents that players do not read the bullet points and fill in everything the writers had in their heads. Another example is the Devil's Lair strike. it's the first one you take on in D1, and after doing it in D2, I was expecting backstory and build up. Nope, you just get sent in with nothing to really explain what is going on, who the House of Devils are, what a Servitor is... I know it had troubled development and the story got torn apart and remade very close to launch, and it really shows in the early stuff. It's a series of missions that were made and then had to be strung together with the thinnest of threads. It gets better in Taken King, but at times is still not great. You first encounter the Taken on Phobos, I think Ghost asks about what they are. I was expecting more discussion about them and what they are and how horrifying it is. But nope, they just exist now and we're all fine with that.

So. Much. Grinding. The pinnacle grind was annoying in D2, the grind to just get your light up in D1 is so much worse. You will be doing bounties desperately to try to get your rep up with the various groups just so you can actually get fragments of story and quests. You will be grinding just to level up your subclass and it takes ages.

The places you visit are very expansive - even the Cosmodrome is significantly larger - which is great when they're used well, but a lot of the time they feel very empty, there to make you play for longer to get between areas than because there is anything to do.

The Good

The game is gorgeous! I'm loving getting to see Venus and Mars and the Dreadnaught. They're beautiful environments. Everything feels very expansive which can be very cool (as above, it can also be less good). When used well, it feels like there are so many mysteries and secrets hidden in this abandoned world. There are hidden bunkers and spaces, huge Vex structures and ruined cities, tunnels burrowed beneath the Cosmodrome and the Taken King's dreadnaught. It's genuinely fun to explore (up to a point).

It does an excellent job of making you genuinely feel like it's post-apocalyptic and the existence of humanity is precarious. And you, the Guardian, are brand new and everything is trying to kill you. You don't have multiple gods stored in your vault in the form of guns! Everything feels more dangerous. For example, I think if D2 is your intro, you look back at the Great Disaster and the first Crota fireteam and go 'but how did that happen when I go onto the moon and take out ogres with a single punch? The biggest threat in the Abyss in Crota's End is falling into a pit or getting hit by a pendulum! Yeah no I get it now. In D1 you are much less powerful and it makes swarming thralls and normal enemies much more of a threat. Things feel dangerous in a way that D2 rarely manages. I'll talk about this a bit more in depth later.

By making your supers and abilities less powerful, they have weirdly made them more useful. In D2 I usually save mine for bosses since it feels like a waste to use them on normal enemies. In D1, it makes absolute sense to use your abilities basically as soon as you have them. You should absolutely use your Golden Gun on a normal Hive Knight or Fallen Vandal!

There's some great atmospheric touches. I love hearing the snippets of distorted music when I'm near a Rasputin bunker. Going into some of the ruined buildings on Mars or Venus where it's dark and suddenly seeing so many red Vex eyes staring back at you is chilling.

The opening mission of Taken King is fantastic. Genuinely creepy and the Taken in general in D1 feel much scarier and threatening than in D2.

All the different enemy factions are different colours and designs! I love that!

Weapons still go brrrrr in a very pleasing way. And getting new gear feels genuinely satisfying in a way that it rarely does in D2. I junk 99% of the armour and guns I get in D2, in D1 I end up being much more considering of whether something is useful. Legendary weapons and armour feel precious!

I keep picking up random Warmind weapons to turn into Banshee that I know lead to an exotic quest and I am enjoying the feeling of that being another Secret Thing I am discovering.

Honestly, I really like Banshee's weapon bounties - you get given a prototype weapon to test out and gather data by doing certain things (killing X number of a certain enemy etc.) and that gains you rep. And you can then order a legendary version of the weapon from him to be delivered the next Wednesday.

Thoughts/Observations

Knowing that the 'original' story was seemingly going to focus more on Rasputin, and an exo version of him getting stolen by the Hive makes the appearance of some of the Hive areas on the Moon make more sense. There's some bits that are high tech in a way that feels very at-odds with what we see of the Dreadnaught and, other Hive locations which lean much more towards the organic and magical.

Similarly, Rise of Iron feels a lot more hard sci-fi than much of what Destiny has become, and has such a huge Rasputin focus. I believe it was partially developed by an outside studio, so I do wonder if it was based, at least in part, on the 'original' story of Destiny, and was either too far into development, or the other studio just never got the memo about the change in tone.

Vaguely related to the above, but way more speculative, I wonder if Banshee was originally meant to be a Rasputin exo, then that story got shifted to Felwinter, but the seeds were used for the story of Banshee having been Clovis Bray.

Honestly while it's fun to think about, in general I find the obsession parts of the Destiny community have with 'the original story' (of the 'maybe they're finally going back to the original story!' type where the unspoken idea is that this was the perfect undiluted pure story that was 100% planned and set in stone) to be fundamentally misunderstanding how creating stories work. I can guarantee that even if that first story had been used, after 10 years of multiple writers etc. it would still be in a very different place than where the people who came up with it initially thought it would go. It would have evolved and changed and shifted, even if it was following the same vague plan. That's just what stories do.

Oh wow, suddenly all the Nightmare Hunts in Shadowkeep make way more sense! I get it now!

Actually I get a lot of references now XD

Oh wow Shaxx sounds so depressed. I guess this was before he started therapy.

So many identical caves...

Thoughts on Power Creep

D1 leans much more into the post-apocalyptic setting and it does an excellent job of making the existence of the Last City, humanity, and Guardians feel precarious. Everything seems more dangerous, more of a threat. You really are part of the last bastion of humanity. And there's a few ways this is done.

First, you are much less powerful. Yes, you have supers and grenades, but they do much less damage (and are much less flashy) than in D1. There has been a huge amount of power creep! You won't be one-shotting bosses, even normal Vanguard Strike bosses with golden gun easily.

Legendary weapons feel rare and special, and I am still using Blue weapons at times because sometimes I have to just to get the higher light level. I have reached level 40 and have only just got my first exotic armour pieces which I bought from Xur! They are FR0ST-EE5, an exotic I have never bothered with in D2, but in D1 the recharge for abilities when sprinting is genuinely handy. I don't have any exotic weapons at all yet!

It leads to a very different playstyle - I play much more carefully because I cannot just charge in with something like Osteo Striga and wipe out a room with a few shots. In D2 we have killed multiple gods, taken down an Empire, and forged alliances. In D1, we're just some random Guardian and the gameplay reflects this.

And I hate to say this, but I also kind of get the YouTube/Stream BNFs who complain about things not being hard enough. It's just... they're completely wrong about the reasons and the solutions.

They seem to think that what is needed is more enemies with higher health, and nerf Divinity because it makes it too easy, and everything should be designed to stop normal players being able to do it. And it... it doesn't work? Ghosts of the Deep was fun, but holy fuck the health bars on the enemies make it feel grindy and dragged out. Legend Avalon was a slog because there's Too Much - too many elements at the same time so it's just overwhelming instead of fun. (Starcrossed on legend is tough, but feels more enjoyable and managable. I'm looking forward to doing it again instead of dreading it).

More difficulty isn't what makes D1 feel harder, being weaker is what does this. I have no doubt that if I could put my D2 stuff against D1 enemies I would decimate them. But in D1 I am a lone Guardian with scavenged gear and yes, I have the Light and can be resurrected, and it gives me an edge vs normal humans, but not a crazy amount.

In D2 I have so many exotics and weapons that I can just throw them away. I can have intricately crafted builds to take on any enemies! I am basically one of the most powerful entities in the solar system.

And that's not something you can really scale back. They did it with Red War at the start of D2. Maybe they could do it as a result of Final Shape and do smaller stories focused on Earth and recovery and what you even do after your purpose for fighting for so long is gone (and I think there is value in those stories! I would love it personally). But uh... I don't think most people would actually be happy having everything nerfed on such a scale. Give up your 999,999 Celestial Nighthawk boss damage, for a Golden Gun that with a bit of luck might one-shot a yellowbar?

Give up a lot of creativity in terms of what you use and how you play, in exchange for a tougher game with way less choice for builds, but one that is potentially more atmospheric and in-keeping with the post-apocalypse and the dangers of the solar system?

I don't have an answer for that! And it's not even the most important thing. Gamer BNFs gonna always want to prove that they're better than everyone at pressing buttons, and forget that the majority of players are casuals. But it's been interesting playing a different type of difficulty, rather than the forced difficulty of insanely high HP and Too Many Things.

Power creep is a real issue in a lot of long-running media (just look at superhero movies, or many many monster of the week TV shows). You're in a position of feeling like you need to one-up yourself every time. Every new villain has to be the biggest and baddest, and so you have to become more and more powerful to combat that, which means the next villain has to be even bigger and badder.

With Destiny we've gone from a scrappy underdog, to a god-killer.

I'm reminded of Osiris talking about Saint in The Sundial lore.

'I watched him grow from neophyte to demi-god'.

King of fitting for us to have done the same as Saint's inspiration.

#destiny 2 #destiny 1 #destiny the game #meta #gaming #video games #my thoughts

76 notes · View notes

theemporium · 5 months

Note

im in a frat!max mood 😔🙏🙏 like imagine reader has classes with some of the frat boys and she absolutely despises them because what if she’s going off the frat boy stereotype?? my girl is a d1 fratboy hater 💆🏻‍♀️💆🏻‍♀️ but anywayssss she’s in her geography class doing a test and all of the sudden she hears a faint mumble about her having the wrong place on her paper , she looks up and sees one of the frat boys looking at her and then at her paper and she’s like 🤨🤨 and max repeats it a bit softer for her just loud enough for her to hear and when she fixes it right after the class she asks max to tell her what mistake she made and he starts maxsplaining to her how she got the information wrong she’s surprised at how patient he is with her and caring with answering all her questions on the topic and after he goes off with his friends she’s like “maybe frat boys aren’t thatt bad” - 🐬

OKAY BUT THE POSSIBLE TWIST ON THE TUTOR TROPE????

reader is failing her geography class so max is her tutor🫠little does she realise this boy has been crushing on her since day one and is just so overwhelmed but giddy to spend some time with her and he’s SO PATIENT AND ENCOURAGING

and imagine his wee nervous smile when he asks her to come to one of his frat’s parties. and then the way his face lights up when she does come and he just clings onto her side🥹

#cece answers #frat!max #max.thots #🐬.anon

41 notes · View notes

itsalwaysforyou · 1 year

Text

actually what gets me about d1 is how hyper aware these kids are that their parents don’t love them. in the kitchen scene when they’re absolutely silent after lonnie’s ‘i thought even villains loved their kids’… like there’s no grand realisation. no enlightenment. they are So Aware of the fact their parents don’t love them. even the first line in evie’s rttc verse: ‘so i’ve got some mischief in my blood / can you blame me? i never got no love’.

and yet, we see them desperately trying to please their parents. jay with the lamp. carlos, for a moment, believing cruella wants him to stay bc she’ll miss him. evie with her mother. mal agreeing to go to auradon so she can steal the wand for maleficent.

all of this desperation, some blind belief, which is always going to be futile. their efforts were pointless from the beginning. villains don’t love their kids. and the kids are so, painfully aware of that.

#listening to the vk mashup & it got me thinking #like!!!!!! everything is pointless!!!!!! nothing they do will ever work!!!!!! it was dead from the beginning!!!!!#and yet-#and yet.#another example is the museum & the absolute Horror of seeing their parents & ofc mal’s?? hallucinated musical number??#i always forget that happens bc i removed that song from my descendants playlist #ANYWAY #yeah. these kids clamouring to please their parents. hoping that someday they’ll be enough #but also. part of them Knowing it’s not worth it. that villains don’t love their kids. they’re merely pawns in some crazed manic attempt+#at power.#descendants #descendants 1 #core four #shining pearls

199 notes · View notes

azure-cherie · 2 years

Text

Some astro observations pt:3 💙

Based on Vedic/ Sidereal

I am not a professional so take this with a grain of salt;)

🌙If your D1 atmakaraka becomes your D9 moon you will be successfully doing what your soul wants in future.

🌙 The placement which matters most after your moon sign in vedic is your Atmakaraka ( the planet which is at the highest degree and the nakshatra it resides in) .

🌙 People with Peacock bird Nakshatra i.e. Bharani , Uttara Phalguni, Anuradha, Shravana , Punarvasu , are lovers of Aesthetic things and are good dancers.

🌙Swati's are sometimes treated as god like by people and people tend to put them on a pedestal , sometimes they tend to look different, as if their face changes minutely and sometimes they undergo plastic surgery.

🌙 Shatabhisha's when young ignore their looks and self care only to realise later.

🌙 If your ketu and moon are in the same sign, there's some past life endeavour you have to fulfill in this life.

🌙 If your ketu and rising are in the same sign , you will be displaying some of your past life traits for the better, for eg : maybe fame .

🌙 Purva Bhadrapada Venus tend to have a lot of admirers and their admirers are afraid of them like " she is beautiful, but she a fire spitter" , they anyway tend to ignore everyone until they find their ideal match .

🌙 Revati Saturn get karma through spiritual leaders, they maybe scammed in spirituality but that's for the better so that they can pave their own way.

🌙 Purva Ashadha and Uttara Ashadha are topper placements, your peers fear you , admire you and look upto you .

🌙 Something I've observed about revati moons is that they tend to pick up the habits of people around them and when you ask them about it , they're proud , yes so what you're my friend but hey that doesn't mean you copy my personality😭.

🌙 But regardless of that revatis are one of my favs , they're the sweetest, very understanding and kind , they will comfort you so much , give hugs and help you when you're sad .

🌙 Punarvasu Saturn get continuous problems thrown at them from time to time so that they learn through them .

🌙Ardra's are legit geniuses.

🌙 Rahu placements are prone to addiction, probably: Ardra's substance addiction, Swati's video game addiction and Shatabhisha device addiction, just to hide their distress and problems.

🌙 Ketu moons are the ones own many fragranced body lotion's , essential oils and deodrant and perfumes , they love to smell good , bad aspects may lead them to ignore it as well.

🌙 Rahu placements have the ability of precognition.

🌙 Saturninan's really like wearing sleek dresses .

🌙 Mula's like keeping really long hairs.

🌙 Jupitar nakshatra placements tend to gain weight easily.

🌙The element of your Atmakaraka maybe your favourite element.

🌙 Mrigashira's are less interested in education and are likely to skip college.

🌙 Shravana's are very attracted to the number 666 and may have contacted demons.

🌙 Mercury and Rahu Atmakaraka are very calculative and observing.

🌙Krittika is the nakshatra of Adam and Rohini is the nakshtra of Eve , i love Lilith but i am a bit unsure about her , probably Bharani or Purva Bhadrapada.

🌙I associative Greek goddess:

Artemis with Krittika , Ashwini .

Hera with Rohini.

Aphrodite with Bharani, Purva Phalguni, Purva ashada.

Demeter with Mrigashira.

Athena with Bharani , Vishakha, shatabhisha.

Nemesis with Ardra , mula , Uttara Ashadha.

Eileithyia with Bharani , Ashlesha.

Hebe with Purva Phalguni.

Metis with Uttara Bhadrapada.

Nike with Purva Ashadha, Uttra Ashadha.

(their are so many more Goddesses but I'm a bit unsure)

🌙Anime themes :

Kimi no na wa : Magha , Punarvasu, Uttara Bhadrapada.

Jujutsu kaisen : Jyestha , Shravana , Purva Bhadrapada, Uttara Bhadrapada , Ardra .

Demon slayer: Krittika , Mula , Ashwini .

Princess mononoke : Mrigashira, Mula , Krittika, Swati , Ashwini , Bharani .

Angel's egg : Swan bird nkshatra's , Saturn nakshatras, Rohini , Punarvasu .

Thank you so much for reading, hope you liked this.

Do not plagiarize my work 🔪

Have a great day/night 💫✨

1K notes · View notes

thefirstknife · 3 days

Note

(This is a theory based on the previews shown for Prism and the most recent TWID, so there may be other recent official communications that I've missed and should consider, apologies if that's the case)

Prism looks really fun but also seems like a significant jump forward in terms of powercreep, and especially the exotic class items, seem like they'll be a long-term balancing nightmare. The impression I got from the showcase reveal was that previously, it was an idea that got shelved as being not great for the long-term balance of the game, but then was brought back online in response to underwhelmed backlash.

Similarly with the Brave Arsenal, it feels like they looked at the perk pools and said 'screw it, let's make them all obscenely juiced up' again a jump in powercreep, and they don't seem to be overly concerned about that right now.

Today's TWID said that legacy gear will be re-enabled for infusion, undoing the last current mechanical implementations of sunsetting, and that a lot of it will be re-introduced and rebuilt for the current sandbox.

We're on the way back to a sandbox where everything goes, in a game world that seems broader than it was when the DCV was introduced, with way more power than we had before with 3.0 classes and weapons with ability verbs. Looking just at the PvE side of things, it seems to me like the game is going to be in the same state it was when Luke Smith announced the huge changes in Beyond Light. (We also keep getting more vault space when they had told us not to expect more vault space)

I see this as a path with 2 branches on it. The first is they aren't worried about powercreep because the game is not 'bloated' the same way it was when they developed Beyond Light i.e. it's not a nightmare to keep a laundry list of activities balanced against guardians more powerful than we imagined we ever would be. Prism will have a rough patch but come in-line with everything else within 6-8 months. Gear will also get equalized again via consistent tweaking. Episodes will continue the story in cool ways, new gear will cycle between cool and less cool, more reprised raids/missions, maybe we get new permanent destinations, maybe another (or more) major expansion in the future, but right now I expect Episodes will probably be a lot like what we've seen from the beefier seasons with custom locations and activities that wont be permanent.

The other branch is that they aren't worried about powercreep because some amount of time after the first 3 episodes, destiny 2 will go into stasis; playable but with no major updates or expansions while they work on Destiny 3, which will have another hard reset for character progress/gear. Destiny 2 stays free to play with a huge library of campaigns, raids, dungeons, and exotic missions but the 'gear chase' and all the 'forever game' mechanics get moved to destiny 3 or whatever it'll end up being called. This game will be built based on all the hard design lessons and problems they have had to crack for D1 and D2 with the expectation that they won't need to do this again for a D4 (and maybe they'll even be right).

Thoughts?

Honestly that sums up my thoughts on it too.

I know there's been talk about them allegedly already working on D3. I generally don't have a strong opinion about it; my personal only issue is the loss of all cosmetics. But outside of just me, I think D3 will do the same as D2 did, which is split the fanbase and piss everyone off. People will need an exceptionally strong incentive to be okay with restarting their characters once again, years after TFS, and to re-grind everything and wait years for the game to have more than vanilla content.

A lot of people think that D3 will somehow drop and magically be better in every aspect, but what they fail to realise is that it will take years, again, to populate the game with content. Like, D3 will launch with 1 raid and will have 1 raid for a year. We're used to a selection of much more than that. I can't imagine a lot of people will have the patience to wait 4-5 years for the game to have the same amount of options to play with. It's a big risk overall. Not to mention the cost of keeping both D1 and D2 still alive.

Anything is possible! These things are still years away from us so genuinely who knows what they're planning long-term. I do think that eventually they will have to move away and update the engine and probably stop supporting old gen consoles, purely for technical reasons.

As for the possible powercreep, I don't think it will be too much of a problem. As it usually is with any new abilities/supers, things will be wild at first, but probably reigned in fast. Same with unsunsetting; a lot of the old weapons are simply not that good anymore given their lack of updated perks. I'm more interested in them saying that they will reissue most if not all of the old stuff and update it to modern standards, but even then, we already have a lot of weapons. There's only so many types of legendary hand cannons to make feel unique and useful. Most of the old stuff will just be for nostalgia's sake. Still, it will probably super wild at launch and until things settle, but powercreep can be dealt with over time with changes and content being made to account for new options.

We'll have to wait and see! I am not opposed to the game being refreshed with a full restart, though I do have personal gripes that are mostly based on the fact that I really don't want to wait years to have my characters look like I want them to rather than wearing gear that doesn't fit my aesthetic because there's only 4 armours in the game. A new game will simply not have enough options for years to come and I think that a lot of players will be incredibly put off by having to start again. I'm not sure if they would risk this again, given how vanilla D2 went. But also, it's been so long since then so with all of the experience, maybe things can go better this time. Third time's the charm?

#destiny 2 #long post #ask

11 notes · View notes

hiro-doodlez · 2 months

Text

Watch this

Stage 1 - Beaten frowns Stage Stage 1 - Beaten frowns after

Here we experience the first sigs of memory loss. This stage is most like a beautiful daydream. The glory of old age and recollection. The last of the great days.

TRACKLIST & SAMPLES:

A1 - It's just a burning memory | Heartaches - Albert Allick Bowlly . Isador Simon Phillips and His Melodians

A2 - We don't have many days | Say It Isn't So - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone

A3 - Late afternoon drifting | It All Depends On You - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone

A4 - Childishly fresh eyes | Moonlight and Shadows - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra

A5 - Slightly bewildered | Alabamy Bound - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone .. The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - John Turner Layton, Jr. and Clarence Johnstone

A6 - Things that are beautiful and transient | The Waltz You Saved For Me - Harold Wayne King and His Orchestra

B1 - All that follows is true | Medley: It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane - Ronnie O'Dell . Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra

B2 - An autumnal equinox | In A Little Second Hand Store - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone

B3 - Quiet internal rebellions | Water Lilies In The Moonlight - Hughie Diamond . Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra

B4 - The loves of my entire life | Willow Weep For Me - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone

B5 - Into each other's eyes | Smoke From A Chimney - Samuel Gabriel Costa . Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra

B6 - My heart will stop in joy | Room With A View - Mert Curtis . Russel Morgan and His Orchestra

Stage 2 - Pittor Pickgrown in Khatheinstersper

The second stage is the self realisation and awareness that something is wrong with a refusal to accept that. More effort is made to remember so memories can be more long form with a little more deterioration in quality. The overall personal mood is generally lower than the first stage and it a point before confusion starts setting in.

TRACKLIST & SAMPLES:

C1 - A losing battle is raging | Love's Old Sweet Song - Chester Gaylord

C2 - Misplaced in time | Lullaby Of The Leaves - George Edward Olsen Sr. and His Orchestra

C3 - What does it matter how my heart breaks | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis

C4 - Glimpses of hope in these trying times | Grand Canyon Suite: Painted Desert | Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Orchestra

C5 - Surrendering to despair | Sweet and Low - Chester Gaylord

D1 - I still feel as though I am me | Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise - Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Orchestra

D2 - Quiet dusk coming early | To Be Forgotten - David Rubinoff

D3 - Last moments of pure recall | Into My Heart - Harold Rodman Lambert . Roger Wolff Kahn and His Orchestra

D4 - Denial unravelling | Phillips Dewey . Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Orchestra

D5 - The way ahead feels lonely | Grand Canyon Suite: Sunset - Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Orchestra

Stage 3 - Hag

Here we are presented with some of the last coherent memories before confusion fully rolls in and the grey mists form and fade away. Finest moments have been remembered, the musical flow in places is more confused and tangled. As we progress some singular memories become more disturbed, isolated, broken and distant. These are the last embers of awareness before we enter the post awareness stages.

TRACKLIST & SAMPLES:

E1 - Back there Benjamin | Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra

E2 - And heart breaks | Heartaches - Albert Allick Bowlly . Isador Simon Phillips and His Melodians

E3 - Hidden sea buried deep | Birth Of The Blues - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone .. Piano Medley of Layton and Johnstone Successes: Intro - My Blue Heaven - John Turner Layton Jr.

E4 - Libet's all joyful camaraderie | Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra

E5 - To the minimal great hidden | Paddlin' Madelin' Home - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone

E6 - Sublime beyond loss | Stardust - Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra

E7 - Bewildered in other eyes | The Prettiest Little Song Of All - Albert Benzler

E8 - Long term dusk glimpses | Exactly Like You - Harold Rodman Lambert . Roger Wolff Kahn and His Orchestra

F1 - Gradations at arm's length | [Sample unknown]

F2 - Drifting time misplaced | Lullaby Of The Leaves - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone

F3 - Internal bewildered World | Il Trovatore - Ferruccio Giannini

F4 - Burning despair does ache | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis

F5 - Aching cavern without lucidity | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis

F6 - An empty bliss beyond this World | The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - Victor Salon Orchestra

F7 - Libet delay - Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra

F8 - Mournful cameraderie | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis

Stage 4 - Glitsholder

Post-Awareness Stage 4 is where serenity and the ability to recall singular memories gives way to confusions and horror. It's the beginning of an eventual process where all memories begin to become more fluid through entanglements, repetition and rupture.

SECTIONS & SAMPLES:

G1 - Post Awareness Confusions

Section A: [Sample unknown] | Grand Canyon Suite: Sunset - Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Orchestra | Lullaby Of The Leaves - George Edward Olsen Sr. and His Orchestra

---

Section B: Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis | Heartaches - Albert Allick Bowlly . Isador Simon Phillips and His Melodians

---

Section C: Ancient Court Whisperings - Albert Benzler | The Japanese Sandman - Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Ambassador Orchestra

---

Section D: Don't Put The Blame On Me - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown] | Belle Of the East - Albert Benzler

---

Section E: The Prettiest Little Song Of All - Albert Benzler | Heartaches - Gaetano Alberto Lombardo and His Royal Canadians | To You - Mert Curtis . Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown]

..............

H1 - Post Awareness Confusions:

Section A: Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra

---

Section B: Winterreise No. 05: Der Lindenbaum - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller | The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown] | [Sample unknown] | Any Time, Anywhere - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone

---

Section C: Russian Rose - Samuel Browne . Joshua Alexander Loss and His Orchestra | Melody: Bist du denn Gottes Sohn? - Guildford Cathedral Choir | [Sample unknown] | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis

---

Section D: [Sample unknown] | The Waltz You Saved For Me - Harold Wayne King and His Orchestra | Melody: Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung - Guildford Cathedral Choir | Paddlin' Madelin' Home - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Winterreise No. 20: Der Wegweiser - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller

---

Section E: Gradana - Mantovani and His Orchestra

---

Section F: Piano Medley of Layton and Johnstone Successes: Intro - My Blue Heaven - John Turner Layton Jr.

..............

I1 - Temporary Bliss State:

Section A: The Prettiest Little Song Of All - Albert Benzler

---

Section B: The Prettiest Little Song Of All - Albert Benzler

..............

J1 - Post Awareness Confusions:

Section A: [Sample unknown] | The Prettiest Little Song Of All - Albert Benzler | To You - Mert Curtis . Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | In The Mission By The Sea - Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown]

---

Section B-a: Into My Heart - Harold Rodman Lambert . Roger Wolff Kahn and His Orchestra | Grand Canyon Suite: Painted Desert | Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Orchestra

---

Section B-b: Say It Isn't So - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone

---

Section C: The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown] | Paddlin' Madelin' Home - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown]

---

Section D: Ancient Court Whisperings - Albert Benzler | The Japanese Sandman - Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Ambassador Orchestra

Stage 5 - Eptitranxisticemestionscers Desending

Post-Awareness Stage 5 confusions and horror. More extreme entanglements, repetition and rupture can give way to calmer moments. The unfamiliar may sound and feel familiar. Time is often spent only in the moment leading to isolation.

SECTIONS & SAMPLES:

K1 - Advanced Plaque Entanglements:

Section A-a: [Sample unknown] | Black And White Rag - Albert Benzler | The Mocking Bird - Harry Taft | Black And White Rag - Albert Benzler | [Sample unknown]

---

Section A-b: Laura - Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra

---

Section B: The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown]

---

Section C1-a: Was It A Dream? - Richard Ewing Powell

---

Section C1-b: Melody: Prière à Notre-Dame

---

Section C2-a: I'm Following You - Lawrence Gray

---

Section C2-b: Melody: Prière à Notre-Dame

---

Section D: [Sample unknown] | Il Trovatore - Ferruccio Giannini | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis | Winterresie No. 06: Wasserflut - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller | [Sample unknown]

---

Section E: [Sample unknown] | Alabamy Bound - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Reckless Night On Board An Ocean Liner - Sydney John Lipton and His Grosvenor House Orchestra

---

Section F-a: Ancient Court Whisperings - Albert Benzler | Black And White Rag - Albert Benzler | Heartaches - Albert Allick Bowlly . Isador Simon Phillips and His Melodians | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis | Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown]

---

Section F-b: [Sample unknown] | Belle Of The East - Albert Benzler | Heartaches - Gaetano Alberto Lombardo and His Royal Canadians | The Prettiest Little Song Of All - Albert Benzler

---

Section G: The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | Garden Of Weed - Louis Stone and His Band

---

Section H: Memory Street - Elsa Macfarlane and Stanley Augustus Holloway | Melody: Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung - Guildford Cathedral Choir | [Sample unknown] | [Sample unknown]

---

Section I-a: [Sample unknown] | Garden Of Weed - Louis Stone and His Band | Il Trovatore - Ferruccio Giannini | The Prettiest Little Song Of All - Albert Benzler | Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise - Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Orchestra

---

Section I-b: In The Mission By The Sea - Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown] | [Sample unknown] | Room With A View - Mert Curtis . Russel Morgan and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown]

---

Section I-c: Granada - Mantovani & His Orchestra

---

Section I-d: Water Lilies In The Moonlight - Hughie Diamond . Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra

---

Section J: Grand Fantasia - Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown] | In A Little Second Hand Store - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown]

---

Section K: Invincible Eagle March - James Fitzgerald | There's Too Many Eyes That Wanna Make Eyes At Two Pretty Eyes I Love - Arthur Jarrett . Wilfred Theodore Wemyes and His Orchestra | Don't Put The Blame On Me - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Alabamy Bound - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone

L1 - Advanced plaque entanglements

Section A: Don't Put The Blame On Me - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown] | [Sample unknown] | Il Trovatore - Ferruccio Giannini | Belle Of The East - Albert Benzler

---

Section B1: Russian Rose - Samuel Browne . Joshua Alexander Loss and His Orchestra | Melody: Bist du denn Gottes Sohn? - Guildford Cathedral Choir | [Sample unknown] | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis

---

Section B2: Russian Rose - Samuel Browne . Joshua Alexander Loss and His Orchestra | Melody: Bist du denn Gottes Sohn? - Guildford Cathedral Choir | [Sample unknown] | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis

---

Section C: The Prettiest Little Song Of All - Albert Benzler | Heartaches - Gaetano Alberto Lombardo and His Royal Canadians | [Sample unknown]

---

Section D-a: Black And White Rag - Albert Benzler

---

Section D-b: [Sample unknown] | [Sample unknown]

---

Section D-c: Garden Of Weed - Louis Stone

---

Section D-d: The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown] | [Sample unknown]

---

Section D-e: The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown] | Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | Russian Rose - Samuel Browne . Joshua Alexander Loss and His Orchestra | Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra

---

Section E: Il Trovatore - Ferruccio Giannini | [Sample unknown] | Stardust - Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra

---

Section F: Winterresie No. 06: Wasserflut - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller | Reckless Night On Board An Ocean Liner - Sydney John Lipton and His Grosvenor House Orchestra | [Sample unknown] | Medley: It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane - Ronnie O'Dell . Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra

---

Section G: [Sample unknown] | [Sample unknown] | [Sample unknown]

---

Section H: Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown]

---

Section I1: Memory Street - Elsa Macfarlane and Stanley Augustus Holloway | [Sample unknown] | The Prettiest Little Song Of All - Albert Benzler | Medley: It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane - Ronnie O'Dell . Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown]

---

Section J: Black And White Rag - Albert Benzler | Winterresie No. 06: Wasserflut - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller | [Sample unknown] | [Sample unknown]

---

Section K: Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | Winterreise No. 05: Der Lindenbaum - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller | The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - John Turner Layton, Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown] | Russian Rose - Samuel Browne . Joshua Alexander Loss and His Orchestra

---

Section I2: Memory Street - Elsa Macfarlane and Stanley Augustus Holloway | [Sample unknown] | The Prettiest Little Song Of All - Albert Benzler | Medley: It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane - Ronnie O'Dell . Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra

---

Section L: Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown] | Grand Fantasia - Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Orchestra | In A Little Second Hand Store - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown]

M1 - Synapse retrogenesis:

Section A1:

Memory Street - Elsa Macfarlane and Stanley Augustus Holloway | Il Trovatore - Ferruccio Giannini | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis | Meditation From "Thais" - Jesse Crawford

---

Section B1: Black And White Rag - Albert Benzler | [Sample unknown] | Winterresie No. 06: Wasserflut - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller

---

Section C-a: Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis | Ancient Court Whisperings - Albert Benzler | Lullaby Of The Leaves - George Edward Olsen Sr. and His Orchestra | Heartaches - Albert Allick Bowlly . Isador Simon Phillips and His Melodians | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis | Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra

---

Section C-b: Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown] | Russian Rose - Samuel Browne . Joshua Alexander Loss and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown] | Gradana - Mantovani and His Orchestra

---

Section C-c: [Sample unknown] | Don't Put The Blame On Me - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Belle Of The East - Albert Benzler | [Sample unknown] | Heartaches - Gaetano Alberto Lombardo and His Royal Canadians

---

Section A2: London Town (You Haunt Me) - Stanley Augustus Holloway | Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis | There's Too Many Eyes That Wanna Make Eyes At Two Pretty Eyes I Love - Arthur Jarrett . Wilfred Theodore Wemyes and His Orchestra | Il Trovatore - Ferruccio Giannini | Winterresie No. 06: Wasserflut - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller

---

Section B2: Black And White Rag - Albert Benzler | Winterresie No. 06: Wasserflut - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller

N1 - Sudden time regression into isolation

Section A1: [Sample unknown] | Lullaby Of The Leaves - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Stardust - Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra | Medley: It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane - Ronnie O'Dell . Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra | Memory Street - Elsa Macfarlane and Stanley Augustus Holloway

---

Section B1: Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | Winterreise No. 05: Der Lindenbaum - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller | The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - John Turner Layton, Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown] | Melody: Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung - Guildford Cathedral Choir

---

Section B2: Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | Winterreise No. 05: Der Lindenbaum - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller | The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - John Turner Layton, Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown] | Russian Rose - Samuel Browne . Joshua Alexander Loss and His Orchestra

---

Section B3: Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | Russian Rose - Samuel Browne . Joshua Alexander Loss and His Orchestra | Melody: Bist du denn Gottes Sohn? - Guildford Cathedral Choir | [Sample unknown]

---

Section C: Lullaby Of The Leaves - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Piano Medley Of Layton & Johnstone Successes (Ramona / My Ohio Home) - John Turner Layton Jr.

---

Section A2: Medley: It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane - Ronnie O'Dell . Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra | Memory Street - Elsa Macfarlane and Stanley Augustus Holloway | [Sample unknown] | Stardust - Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra

---

Section A3: [Sample unknown] | Melody: Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung - Guildford Cathedral Choir | Medley: It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane - Ronnie O'Dell . Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra | Memory Street - Elsa Macfarlane and Stanley Augustus Holloway

---

Section B4 (Hell Sirens 4): Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | Melody: Bist du denn Gottes Sohn? - Guildford Cathedral Choir | [Sample unknown] | Granada - Mantovani and His Orchestra

---

Section D: Winterresie No. 06: Wasserflut - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller | Melody: Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung - Guildford Cathedral Choir | [Sample unknown]

---

Section E1 (Last Of The Bliss): Hello Tucky - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Piano Medley Of Layton & Johnstone Successes (Ramona / My Ohio Home) - John Turner Layton Jr. | Lullaby Of The Leaves - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Winterresie No. 06: Wasserflut - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller | Melody: Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung - Guildford Cathedral Choir

---

Section E2: Hello Tucky - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Melody: Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung - Guildford Cathedral Choir

Stage 6 - Necrotonomigaud

Stage 6 is without description.

SECTIONS & SAMPLES:

O1 - A confusion so thick you forget forgetting:

Section A: The Waltz You Saved For Me - Harold Wayne King and His Orchestra | Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | Il Trovatore - Ferruccio Giannini | [Sample unknown]

---

Section B: The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - John Turner Layton, Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra

---

Section C: Heartaches - Seger Pillot Ellis | interresie No. 06: Wasserflut - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller | Meditation From "Thais" - Jesse Crawford

..............

P1 - A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat:

Section A1: Hello Tucky - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Melody: Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung - Guildford Cathedral Choir

---

Section B-a: Memory Street - Elsa Macfarlane and Stanley Augustus Holloway | [Sample unknown]

---

Section B-b: Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | [Sample unknown] | [Sample unknown]

---

Section B-c: There's Too Many Eyes That Wanna Make Eyes At Two Pretty Eyes I Love - Arthur Jarrett . Wilfred Theodore Wemyes and His Orchestra

---

Section B-d: [Sample unknown] | Alabamy Bound - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Goodnight, My Beautiful - Russell Morgan and His Orchestra | Russian Rose - Samuel Browne . Joshua Alexander Loss and His Orchestra | Granada - Mantovani and His Orchestra

---

Section A2: Hello Tucky - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Melody: Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung - Guildford Cathedral Choir | The Last Rose Of Summer - Jesse Crawford

---

Section C: Winterresie No. 06: Wasserflut - Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch and Hanns Udo Müller | London Town (You Haunt Me) - Stanley Augustus Holloway | Melody: The Haunted Ballroom

---

Section D: There's Too Many Eyes That Wanna Make Eyes At Two Pretty Eyes I Love - Arthur Jarrett . Wilfred Theodore Wemyes and His Orchestra

..............

Q1 - Long decline is over:

Section A-a: Il Trovatore - Ferruccio Giannini | Weary River - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | [Sample unknown] | The Wedding Of The Painted Doll - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise - Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Orchestra

---

Section A-b: Weary River - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone | Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise - Paul Samuel Whiteman and His Orchestra

..............

R1 - Place in the World fades away

---

Section A-b: Weary River - John Turner Layton Jr. and Clarence Johnstone

---

Section B: [Sample unknown] | Il Trovatore - Ferruccio Giannini

---

Section C (Last 5 minutes): Melody: Laßt mich ihn nur noch einmal küssen - Guildford Cathedral Choir

---

Section D: [No sample]

14 notes · View notes

eldritch-spouse · 2 years

Note

WAIT JESUS CHRIST PINNIE HAVE WE EVER HAD A FIC WITH FANK-E??

I mean- *COUGH*- I've searched high and low and I've come back from a fruitless voyage... Now all I really want is a little something where Fank-E just drills into their S/O's pussy/ass real nicely... Holy shit, vibrating intercourse combo tho 👀

Or just... Fank-E and his S/O vibing. S/O teaches him stuff he can't learn on the web, Fank-E watching in awe as his little squishy does something any normal human being does, showering his lil qt in praises, failing miserably at flirtation, whatever the fuck- I never realised it, but I'm starved of Fank-E content,,,, :c

[Ahahhh yeah, there's some characters I should write for more, tbh. Also, I want to apologize in advance, because Fank-e exclusively speaks in broken l33t and your reading experience will be most painful... Fem reader.]

TW: Starts as dub-con, becomes consensual.

" 4Nd D1S h3r3 1s t3H G4rD3N! "

You blink, still very much holding onto the rave stick you were gifted. It's quiet outside, foggy, but peaceful. This might be the best part of the tour yet.

The tour your captor is giving you of the place he intends to keep you in. Because that makes sense. That's totally not counter-productive. Maybe he's just that cocky that you won't make it. The nerve. Well, for now, you're just happy to not be inside anymore. Inside that horrific, reality-defying building, where everyone is committing the wildest atrocities you've ever seen and looking at you like you're a slab of meat or a fucktoy on legs. You know, deep in your heart, that the only reason no one laid a single hand on you throughout this "tour" is because Fank-e had a hand on you the entire time. A strong hand, in fact, the type of vise grip that would sooner dislocate your shoulder than allow someone else to pry you off his grasp. Much as it is depressing to think about the current situation, you're safe, for now.

And to think that, in the end, you survived thus far not because of your self-defense classes, not because you're fast or strong or witty, but in fact, because you were dressed for a rave party. That's right, you got abducted as you were leaving for a party, dressed to the nines in typical bright eyesore fashion... You remember the terror of being lumped into a truck with a bunch of other random humans, whose whereabouts are unknown to you currently, of being dragged and pushed inside this fantastical building, a myriad of strange monsters evaluating all of you like discount products.

Then this fucking sore thumb of a robot shows up, speech like a buzzing alarm, covered in swirls of color, making goo-goo eyes at everyone before he squeals like a dying animal at the sight of you. You were scooped out of the horrified crowd like a plushie plucked by a claw machine. And that's when you met Fank-e, who is essentially your savior. Is he aware of that? Debatable, but staying in his good graces might be a good bet, which is why you're not trying to dash out right now. You're sure he could catch up quickly anyway.

A large gray hand swipes before your face.

" KUuc00, AnY0N3 TH3R3?? "

You jump, naturally. " Ah? Yes, I'm just... Curious. This part seems much calm- "

SCREE-

As if the cosmos had heard you, before you could finish that sentence, an ear-piercing shriek cuts through the air. And, seemingly out of nowhere, a grayish monster creature collapses on a bed of flowers. Flowers which, for some unknown fucked up reason, run away from the impact. Yeah. Okay. Nonetheless, you've never seen a critter like that. It's made of stone? Horns? Holy shit, is that actually a gargoy-

Something else plummets on top of it. Another monster who just launched itself... From the roof? This one's like some sort of overgrown flower, with a long meaty neck and a fluffed tail. The gargoyle howls in what you assume is pain and the two start brawling, all teeth and claws and raw fury.

Nevermind, this entire fucking place is cursed.

A tiny flower with legs brushes past your ankle as it runs away and you scream, launching yourself at your captor. Oh God. Oh fuck. You hate this entire place. It's haunted. It's vile.

" H4H4, u R 5o S1LLY! :P "

Large servos clutch you harder against the robot's frame. The previously tiny blush lines on his visor have turned bright pink, increasing in size. You wonder if that's a conscious choice from him, to emote things that are normally involuntary in people. You don't know how that makes you feel.

The large... Machine? Appears to sense your discomfort, giving you a couple of mildly uncomfortable head pats while the two of you watch half-feral monsters attempt to gut each other.

" Fank-e? " You think that's his name.

" Y3s? "

" Is this... Normal? "

" Tot4LLY. " He says this with the most serene expression ever.

" Uhuh. "

A couple of minutes pass, both garden-variety abominations butting heads violently. You're not the only ones watching, at least one odd deer-thing and several other gargoyles are looming in the distance. Fank-e is cheering someone on, but his speech patterns are already so jumbled normally, you can't hope to make out what he's saying when the robot's excited. What the fuck is your life anymore.

At some point, a loud groan cuts through the air. It sounds exasperated, transmitting the burnt-out energy of a babysitter who really hates their job. You have no choice but to gawk when the bench, who you could swear was just that, unfurls into a gangly mess of gray limbs topped by a massive, tooth-filled chest. What in God's name is that one supposed to be? How can Fank-e be so calm?!

The creature, whatever the fuck it is, lumbers past you and the robot without a single glance, heading towards the wrestling pair. Just as you think it's about to eat the smaller ones, the thing lets out a raging snarl of a noise, long arms prying gargoyle and... "Plant" aside. The stone monster has several dents and something has been stabbed into the green one's leg. The chest-headed monster sighs, groans, then sets the winged one down, making a dismissive "shoo" motion. The gargoyle appears to huff, a glare spared towards the hissing thing wriggling in protest before it clumsily takes flight.

Oddly enough, he- Well, it has no breasts and wears a long loincloth, so you're assuming it's male- Doesn't release the long-necked menace, trudging back the way he came with the thrashing being at arm's length.

" g00d J0b, 5yB! " Fank-e offers a thumbs-up when the monster passes by, making it sigh and nod towards the robot. You can finally see his glowing yellow eyes, submerged in a sea of damp darkness. They're inside his mouth, ew. Regardless, he's staring quizzically at your figure and you don't like it.

What did he call this guy again? " ... Syb? "

" mhM! " The robot nods. " he'2 my K0w0rK3r! "

Coworker?! That fucking dude?! " Ah... "

" ... Her. " Syb grunts quietly, jolting the ever-loving Christ out of you. A shackled wrist rises to point at you. Honestly, you just want distance from the croaking, twisting thing in his other hand.

" R19hT! " You're pushed forward a bit, much to your displeasure. Syb glances at you with weighed ambivalence. Oh God, is he going to hand you to this massive, toothy creature? " Syb45t1AN, 7H1s 1S mY qt-π! "

Both you and the other blink. " Uh... I'm your what? "

Sybastian shakes his head, as if having decided that he's not going to waste more time trying to comprehend the situation, sparing you another look, a painful one this time. Probably because you're wearing very bright clothes and it's still dark outside. In fact, both you and Fank-e must be eyesores to literally everyone right now. The monster nods and drags the screaming critter in his arms out of sight. Ah... Well... That's that then.

You turn, glancing out of curiosity to try and see what'll happen next, but are swiftly halted by a pair of hands on your hips dragging you back towards a metal body. Fank-e's head curls into view upside-down, the crude green face on his visor twists to be at the right angle however.

" U'r3 T3H Kut3St 5ku1shY 3v3r! "

Squishy? Couldn't this jackass just... Well, you don't know, install Microsoft Sam as his voicebank or something?

" Thanks... "

He laughs, grabby hands quickly groping at several sections of your form. There's a bit of child-like wonder at first, but it quickly turns into a lascivious action the more he's allowed to knead at your tummy, run cold hands up your sides and play with your tits through the fabric. You're frozen, unsure if you should let this go on. Would he stop if you told him to? Is there a benefit to this? He's... Kind of cute, in a really quirky way. But you're not here of your own volition and he's ultimately part of the problem.

" i k4'Nt w4IT 2 5h0W U 2 4ddy! " The robot interrupts your internal dilemma. Who's "Addy"? You don't want to admit it, but being palmed so eagerly by this perverted idiot looking at you like he's starstruck is arousing you. Maybe it's the accumulated adrenaline of all you've gone through tonight, maybe it's loneliness, you did want to make friends at that party... Or it could just be you looking for some sort of escapism.

Eitherway, you stop squirming when Fank-e's digits poke at the edge of your black ripped shorts.

" my 5kU1Shy... " He murmurs, or at least that's what you think it was meant to be, he's still rather loud. His fingers drum pensively on your skin, the expression on his visor winks at you while the hem of your clothes is teasingly flirted with. You just met this dude, in the worst possible circumstances, and yet, you're seriously considering letting him do this. Amazing.

Reality snaps through the fog of hormones and you glance around, suddenly feeling very exposed in spite of still having your outfit fully on. " Wait- Hold on, someone'll see... " Maybe that strange chest monster will come back. Now that you think about it, people aren't subtle about what they're doing inside this establishment either. But it still feels risky, wrong-

Kinda hot. God damn it.

" LM40, wh0 c4r3S? " A static-filled cackle rings out, you're half-convinced he's being loud on purpose now. " 1'm N07 SH4R1n9. ;P "

That's not really the confirmation your logical side wanted to hear, but the hormonal one that always kind of wanted to show off is howling in approval. His hand suddenly zips into your shorts.

" Fank-e! "

" O0P513 d41sy~! "

Bastard.

With a burning face and an equally heated situation near his hand, you cave. " Fine! Make it fast. "

The figure on his visor turns into a heart. " 1S 7H@ 4 ch4lL3n93? "

No. No God, it is not.

Nonetheless, the robot appears to take it as one, because your panties are quickly shoved out of the way and he's tracing at your lips with fast, greedy little motions. The sudden stimulus makes you twitch, but when corralled against a comparatively hulking frame, there's not much space to squirm with. As soon as Fank-e makes the trip back to your clit, there's the faint sound of a click somewhere, then a jolt of sensation.

Holy shit, his fingers vibrate. Because of course they do. Why wouldn't they? This guy sounds like he wouldn't pass up the opportunity to have somet- " Ahn! Ohh fuh- "

Maybe it was a mistake to tell him to "make it fast", the pervy machine isn't sparing you any gentleness in terms of intensity. He doesn't even have to move his servos much, you're already clenching your legs and shaking lightly.

Robotic humming is heard from somewhere, you're not really too focused on that, until a phone is shoved in your face. It's sudden enough to make you peel back and bonk your head on a metal chest, to which Fank-e laughs.

" H3re! 1 w4n7 U 2 P1Ck 1. "

A muddled mind struggles to keep up, until you realize what it is that you're staring at. Dicks. More specifically, attachable, artificial genitals with a variety of designs. Several sizes, with gradients and textures and- Fucking Hell, could he stop fingering you for two seconds?! That's a lot of options though, you feel yourself getting wetter just thinking about some. All of them appear to have the same "port" so to speak, something you presume means they're compatible with him. He has a dick then. Huh. Good.

Wait, focus- He wants you to pick.

" Uuhhhn- " Did he just turn the intensity up again? Son of a bitch, you can't even think.

Fank-e frowns at your lack of answer, though the emote is wiped off as he seemingly gets an eureka moment and starts typing something furiously, albeit accurately, with his free hand. Lord, you just want to come already.

" 0h!! i Kn0, u wan7 1 0f 7h3S3 7H3N? :3 "

The phone is pushed back into your line of sight. Instead of cocks, you are now glancing at a sea of what you can only describe as "robussy". Just as colorful and weirdly customizable as the male set. But why- Oh, he thinks this is your preference. Honestly, who cares? If he can make you feel this good with basically no effort, you're sold no matter the set.

" I- A-Ah-! " You attempt to speak through the digits now gliding mercilessly against your g-spot, only succeeding in gasping and tearing up. " C-Can we pick mmf- Later? " You're going to browse all of those like a family dad does the morning paper.

" 5ure 7H1n9! "

His thumb joins the party, nudging at your clit in a position only someone incapable of cramping their wrist could ever achieve. Already dripping and moaning, it's only a matter of seconds before you buck your hips, clang against his upper body and probably make a very embarrassing expression while clipped moans and whimpers carry you through your very fast orgasm. Those fingers never cease, Fank-e appears to be silently studying the process.

In this dazed state, you could never hope to spot the tiny red dot at the corner of his visor, indicating that he's clearly recording the events unfolding.

The robot only stops when you start nearly hyperventilating from overstimulation. Holy shit. You've never come that hard that fast before.

A thankfully clean thumb smooths something on your cheek. Ah yes, another sticker, as if you weren't already half-covered in them. " L0L KuT3. <:] " He comments on the look of your disheveled face.

Before you can even try to start righting yourself, the robot's hand is off your shorts and he pushes your legs apart slightly, adjusting position so that something can wedge between them.

Is that...

It's quite literally a rainbow-colored cock. The size makes you gulp.

" 1 Be7 1 k4N d0 f45t3R TH4N th@. "

Oh boy.

#Fank-e oc #have you ever created a character solely to inflict pain on your readers? I have. <:]#literally incomprehensible speech

188 notes · View notes

dndhistory · 8 months

Text

56. Gary Gygax - D1: Descent into the Depths of the Earth (1978)

Coming out a few months after the G1-3 (aka "Against the Giants") series, Gygax came out with another trilogy that connects directly to the G series with D1-3. They all came out at the same time, so this and the next two posts will cover this series. D1 is exactly what the title says, a Descent deep into the earth as our party discovered a tunnel at the end of G3 that led down and through which a bunch of Drow escaped.

This module is not the most interesting of them but it does serve as an introduction to the underdark, not only as an environment that is hard to travel, with a labyrinth of passages and a bunch of monster around every corner, but also as a place with its own personality and power struggles going on. In this module, as they descend, players can figure out that the Drow are divided into different factions and that they really don't like Ilithid (Mindflayers).

The adventure has only three set pieces, with the rest of them supposed to be improvised by the DM. We get two encounters, one at a drow checkpoint right at the start and then a mindflayer lair/torture chamber which can lead players to realise the power dynamics of the underdark as well as, in case they defeat the mindflayer, fall into the good graces of the Drow. Finally there is a large cave area where the players get to meet all kinds of underground monsters, from troglodytes to bugbears and ghouls and even a purple work or a lich. This last zone is actually pretty dangerous. And there the adventure ends, basically a bridge from the world above to the underdark civilization in the next two modules, it's still pretty fun and moody.

#adnd #dnd #ttrpg #ad&d #d&d #dnd art #dungeons and dragons #dungeons & dragons #gary gygax

8 notes · View notes

mrmissense · 1 month

Text

Everywhere at the End of Time

(Überall am Ende der Zeit)

PHASE 1 Hier erfahren wir die ersten Zeichen von Gedächtnisverlust. Diese Phase ist wie ein schöner Tagtraum. Der Glanz alter Tage und ihrer Erinnerungen. Der letzte aller schönen Tage.

A1 - Nur eine brennende Erinnerung A2 - Uns bleiben nicht viele Tage A3 - Das Schweifen eines späten Nachmittags A4 - Kindlich frische Augen A5 - Leicht verwirrt A6 - Wunderschöne und vergängliche Dinge B1 - Alles Folgende ist wahr B2 - Eine herbstliche Tagundnachtgleiche B3 - Stille innere Rebellionen B4 - Die Lieben meines ganzen Lebens B5 - In unsere beider Augen B6 - Mein Herz wird in Freude verstummen

PHASE 2 Die zweite Phase besteht in der Realisation, dass etwas nicht stimmt zusammen mit der Weigerung, dies zu akzeptieren. Es fließt mehr Aufwand in den Erinnerungsprozess, was Erinnerungen länger werden lässt mit einer zunehmend schlechteren Qualität. Die Laune ist allgemein schlechter als in der ersten Phase und steht an dem Punkt kurz bevor die Verwirrung einsetzt.

C1 - Es wütet eine verlorene Schlacht C2 - In der Zeit deplatziert C3 - Was spielt es für eine Rolle, wie mein Herz bricht C4 - Hoffnungsschimmer in schwierigen Zeiten C5 - Sich der Verzweiflung ergeben D1 - Es fühlt sich noch immer so an als wäre ich ich D2 - Eine leise Dämmerung kommt früh D3 - Letzte Momente purer Erinnerung D4 - Entwirrende Leugnung D5 - Der Weg vor mir fühlt sich einsam an

PHASE 3 Hier präsentieren sich uns die letzten kohärenten Erinnerungen bevor die Verwirrung vollständig einsetzt und die grauen Schleier sich formen und wieder verschwinden. An die besten Momente kann sich noch erinnert werden, der musikalische Flow ist stellenweise verfälscht und wirr. Während wir fortschreiten werden einzelne Erinnerungen mehr und mehr gestört, isoliert, gebrochen und distanziert. Dies ist die letzte Glut des Bewusstseins, bevor wir in die Phasen eintreten, die jenseits des Bewusstseins liegen.

E1 - Dort hinten Benjamin E2 - Und Herz bricht E3 - Verstecktes Meer tief vergraben E4 - Libets fröhliche Bekanntschaft E5 - Zum minimal großem Versteckten E6 - Über den Verlust hinaus erhaben E7 - Verwundert in anderen Augen E8 - Langzeit Dämmerung Einblicke F1 - Abstufungen von Armes Länge F2 - Schweifende Zeit deplatziert F3 - Innere verblüffte Welt F4 - Brennende Verzweiflung tut weh F5 - Schmerzende Höhle ohne Klarheit F6 - Ein leeres Glück jenseits dieser Welt F7 - Libet Verzögerung F8 - Trauernde Bekanntschaft

PHASE 4 In der Post-Bewusstseins-Phase 4 weichen Gelassenheit und die Fähigkeit, einzelne Erinnerungen abzurufen der einsetzenden Verwirrung und Schrecken. Es ist der Beginn eines Prozesses, in dessen Verlauf alle Erinnerungen durch Verflechtung, Aufbrechen und Wiederholung irgendwann fließend und formlos werden.

G1 - Phase 4 Post-Bewusstseins-Verwirrungen H1 - Phase 4 Post-Bewusstseins-Verwirrungen I1 - Phase 4 Temporäre Glückseligkeitsphase J1 - Phase 4 Post-Bewusstseins-Verwirrungen

PHASE 5 Post-Bewusstseins-Phase 5 Verwirrung und Horror. Extreme Verflechtung, Wiederholung und Aufbrüche können ruhigeren Momenten weichen. Unbekanntes kann sich vertraut anhören und anfühlen. Zeit wird nur noch allein verbracht, was zu Isolation führt.

K1 - Phase 5 Fortgeschrittene Plague-Verflechtung L1 - Phase 5 Fortgeschrittene Plague-Verflechtung M1 - Synapsen-Retrogenese N1 - Phase 5 Plötzlicher Rückschritt in der Zeit, hinein in Isolation

PHASE 6 Post-Bewusstseins-Phase 6 ist ohne Beschreibung.

O1 - Phase 6 Eine Verwirrung so dicht, dass man vergisst, zu vergessen P1 - Phase 6 Eine brutale Glückseligkeit abseits dieser leeren Niederlage Q1 - Phase 6 Langanhaltende Verschlechterung ist vorüber R1 - Phase 6 Platz in der Welt verblasst

#german #translation #eateot #liminal #music #dreamcore #dementia #alzheimers #ambient #ambient music

2 notes · View notes

fire-eyed-raven · 1 year

Note

For the emotion challenge: D1 for Hashirama, B7 for Madara :)

I just realised that I have this still sitting in my drafts sorry :)

#hashirama #madara #emoji meme #i clearly spent more time on the hs here than on the md sorry #morita draws #hsmd

12 notes · View notes

jeonghoneyss · 4 months

Text

just rewatched d1 and realised i never made a post for this so. here is my carlos fic it is very dear to my heart even though i wrote the end while out of my mind with covid. long live evil etc

#descendants fic #jaylos #slightly

2 notes · View notes

maytheoddshq · 8 months

Text

Cyrene Meadowforge (she/her). Trainer. D1. Twenty-Five. Ayaka Miyoshi.

Cyrene Meadowforge was not born; she was made.

A hand picked charity case straight out of an orphanage in District One, her name was changed to fit a theme, her purpose in life redirected with artful intent. It was not easy to make a spare seem like the opposite, like their own person, but Fleur and Myron Meadowforge masterfully handled the difficult task. Their first born daughter Cressida would do best with a friend her own age - or much better yet, a practical twin.

So, they were raised together, played together, ate together and caused mischief together. Cressida with that air of bright lightness around her, blonde locks, rosy cheeks and lips. Cyrene with jet black hair and something more quiet, held back painting her aura with something decidedly heavier. Whatever the Meadowforges had hoped for came true, more so than just that. As children, even as young teenagers, the two of them were inseparable, even as a third joined their sisterhood, welcomed with open arms.

The Academy, finally, was where their rather different personalities began to crystallise.

Cyrene was no fan of the theatrics, the showmanship that some of the trainers funnelled into their classes. Her own style of fighting was elegant, though still almost clinical in its execution. A punch, kick, stab and slice all dealt calculated damage. Guns were professional, knives were personal. Blunt objects were good in a surprise attack, and no one brought a spear to a gunfight. Every single weapon and movement had its purpose, its strengths and weaknesses. Cyrene cared not for who she impressed, but what the results of her movements and decisions were.

Cressida, however, excelled at showmanship. The 120th Hunger Games had her sister’s name written all over it. The sparkling diamond from District One who did not only take the Capitol in storm, but also the Arena. Cyrene watched the girl she’d grown up beside bring people to their knees with a mere look, others with sweetened words and yet another with empty promises. Theatrics suited her sister, though as Cyrene kept watching - and she watched every free second she got, intently and running on far too little hours of sleep - she noticed that Cressida’s image on screen wasn’t the one she was used to. There was something off, something almost a little fuzzy around the edges.

She watched Cressida rise from the Arena victorious, but simultaneously realised that she wasn’t going to get the sister back that she’d sent off.

Cyrene had never hated being right until the very moment that Cressida turned into Cress, the Capitol socialite and starlet leaving her behind in District One with their parents and younger sister.

They didn’t not see one another, though from her victory onwards, what had once been a deep connection felt more shallow, drained of the joint experiences that had saturated their bond before. Cress and Cyrene lived wholly separate, wholly different lives now.

The Games had taken something from her, warped it and given it back as an unreachable, cruelly tempting version. Her sister was right there, almost close enough to touch, but far away at the same time. Cyrene saw Cress on TV. Cress saw a camera lens.

It was on her now, to find her own identity, no longer attached to someone at the hip. A spare set free, she found the world to be a different place than she’d been raised to believe. The Games weren’t glorious, the Capitol shiny and gleaming at the surface, but after a closer look the diamonds were made of glass, the golden jewellery nothing but gilded metal.

There wasn’t much to be done with Cyrene’s dislike of the Games. That was, until The Vox gained steadily in popularity. At first there were only whispers, barely intelligible, drifting by on a breeze, but she managed to follow the crumbs of information until there was finally something tangible right in front of her. Fighting in Eleven, printed rebellious words on paper, executions in the Capitol. Cyrene could put her finger on something and follow the trail until she was finally at a place where felt like she belonged, making use of that Academy education for nothing other than the purpose of tearing it all down.

And then, come 134, Callisto volunteered. Cyrene’s heart beat all the way up in her throat as she watched her youngest sister go up to that stage proudly, walk towards the other part of their trio that had never come back the same again. Knowing that she couldn’t let yet another loved one go to the Capitol and watch them change from afar, Cyrene begged her parents to get her a job in the Capitol, pleading and promising that no one was better fit to train the tributes from One than herself, if her grades in the Academy were anything to go by.

Short discussions and long numbers on cheques later, Cyrene found herself on a train to the Capitol.

Because money could buy many things - all in exchange for a soul.

Three strengths and three weaknesses?

( + ) perceptive, methodical, loyal

( – ) closed off, cynical, critical

#cyrene #oc rp #bio rp #lsrpg #lsrp #hunger games rpg #hunger games rp

5 notes · View notes