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tmae3114 · 14 hours

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hey, so, uh *gestures at the Core whose power and/or destruction is coveted for the ability to achieve a goal* *gestures at the isolated architecture of a civilisation with a connection to said Core who are not currently present* *gestures at the villain with genuine pain in his past who nonetheless CHOSE evil and did not have to be this way and this is very clear*

we have been here before

#Dragonfable #Dragonfable spoilers #the similarities struck me while I was playing the quest and have been swirling around ever since #please tell me I'm not the only one who sees it

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tmae3114 · 15 hours

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On the one hand, when the Aequilibria said "reset", it was with a lowercase r, and they seem to pretty clearly be talking about just. destroying the world as it currently exists and setting their cycle in motion again from scratch. which is a fundamentally different thing to the retrocausal rewriting of the nature of reality which was The Reset

On the other hand, they said the word "reset" and this is a setting where that is a very loaded word for the aforementioned retrocausal rewrite of reality reasons

#dragonfable #dragonfable spoilers #I don't think they're going to do an ENTIRE universe rewrite #(they said 'the shell' and they are in the core of the planet. this feels very planetary in scale)#and I don't think what they plan to do to Lore is at all similar to what The Reset actually was #BUT ALSO. THE WORD RESET WAS SAID. SO I AM YELLING

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tmae3114 · 18 hours

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Took my cube to the charity shop today

Me: hi I've got this for you

Volunteer: what is it?

Me: it's a donation

Volunteer: no what IS it

Me: it's just like a shelf?

Volunteer: can you turn it around so I can see how it works

[I rotate the cube so the top is upwards. This makes no different to the appearance of the cube]

Volunteer: did it come off a chest of drawers or something?

[the charity shop does not take stuff that's broken or missing pieces]

Me: no it came like this

Me: from Argos

Volunteer: what's it for?

Me: it's a shelf

Volunteer, visibly skeptical: ok. Put it over there I guess.

Me: it really did come like this

Volunteer: I don't doubt you

Volunteer: put it over there and we'll see if anyone wants to buy it

Me: ok

#'from argos' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in making the cube make sense

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tmae3114 · 19 hours

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I'm losing it a little over just how well they set the Aequilibria up as a threat and make the players feel it in just this one quest

They'd been setting up how dangerous that manatech bomb was for five years. The moment it first showed up on screen, we saw Warlic scared by it for reasons he couldn't articulate. When Akanthus took it to be modified, we saw Amadeus wary of it. We saw what it leaking even a little bit did to Yix. Even without the Mechquest context, the game has been blaring at us, for five years, that this thing is Bad News, as loudly as they possibly could

and then it goes off

it goes off in the worst possible circumstances it could, hits us with five years of built up dread, we failed, we were too late, and...

...nothing happens. The aftereffects of this deadly threat that could've wiped Swordhaven off the map just dissipate in a few seconds.

And we get that moment of relief, that joy that Akanthus was wrong, that realisation that the thing we thought was under threat is more resilient than we feared, that moment of oh, the mana core is stronger than that

And then the Aequilibria wake up

And we get hit with it again, but this time it's

oh

The mana core is stronger than that

#Dragonfable #Dragonfable spoilers #IT'S GOOD WRITING!!! IT'S VERY GOOD WRITING!!!

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tmae3114 · 20 hours

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#I voted put it outside but technically the answer is #''scream and get SOMEONE ELSE to put it outside'#arachnophobia means I have narrowly avoided panic attacks doing it myself before #XP

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tmae3114 · 21 hours

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I love AO3 notifications that are just, like, one person leaving kudos on all your work.

Like, thank you for binge-reading my silly little stories.

#I got a kudos email the other day that was so clearly just someone reading everything I've written with Cysero in it #and it made me grin SO widely

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tmae3114 · 21 hours

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The MechQuest girlies [gender neutral] are FEASTING

#dragonfable #WE ARE INDEED

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tmae3114 · 23 hours

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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tmae3114 · 23 hours

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OH DEFINITELY PRE-RESET DRAGON TECH THEN, YEAH

I wonder... given the symbols are the same and in the same positions, are they actually related pieces of tech? Or are they, perhaps, the same thing?

It wouldn't be the first time the Reset turned something into an orb. Or made something smaller than it used to be

*squints* and who's are you?

We know this is pre-Reset tech but it doesn't look Shadowscythe in design. It matches up to something we've seen before, I think, but I can't put my finger on it. Something about the design is familiar but "engraved ball" doesn't immediately register as a specific group's style... We know it has to be particularly powerful given what the Exalted used it for, so... Dragon tech, maybe?

#dragonfable #dragonfable spoilers #turning things into orbs: the dragonheart shards became the elemental orbs #making things smaller: we've seen this with a few things but immediately comes to mind is the exosuit in the calamity saga #has Akanthus been walking around with Jaania's House symbol in his chest this whole time.........

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tmae3114 · 23 hours

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I'm being so normal about this release you guys

#dragonfable #dragonfable spoilers #ALSO [points at the Hero getting called an anomaly directly] [points at the 'numerous errors and anomalies found' being over them]#[points at the manaphages glitching out when trying to analyse us]#THERE'S /SOMETHING/ HERE

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tmae3114 · 1 day

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*squints* and who's are you?

We know this is pre-Reset tech but it doesn't look Shadowscythe in design. It matches up to something we've seen before, I think, but I can't put my finger on it. Something about the design is familiar but "engraved ball" doesn't immediately register as a specific group's style... We know it has to be particularly powerful given what the Exalted used it for, so... Dragon tech, maybe?

#dragonfable #dragonfable spoilers #I'm gonna have to go have a dig in MQ and see if I can figure out what's so familiar about it

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tmae3114 · 1 day

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I do not currently have any coherent thoughts for The Rest Of That aside from "THEY TALK LIKE MACHINES" so. Further yelling to follow when processing has occurred

#dragonfable #dragonfable spoilers #that said I did accidentally type 'the reset of that' just now so. that's an idea of where my brain is

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tmae3114 · 1 day

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