Sleep
Okay listen - I know what you’re thinking. College students don’t sleep, though! And guess what? That’s absolutely true. I’ve had two cups of coffee today already and it’s only noon, but you need to learn how to sleep enough. Your body has limits and you need to learn what those are. I have had multiple friends who have fainted from not sleeping enough and guess what? They don’t perform better on tests that way. Figure out how many hours of sleep you need to get to function well. For me it’s about 5-7 hours per night during the week and about 7-8 hours per night on weekends (and I don’t have Friday class so Thursday nights count as weekends for me). This is probably the limit for keeping yourself healthy enough to function and I subsist off of coffee. If you don’t sleep you are going to get sick and your papers are going to be incoherent and you are going to gain weight from over eating. So just put down that paper, get your 6 hours and start up again in the morning. For majors that are reading based (i.e. English, History, Philosophy, Classics, etc) it is so important to get enough sleep so that you can actually comprehend your readings!
Plan
Your planner does not have to be beautiful, covered with script handwriting and cute small artist stickers to be worth putting time into (more power to you if yours is though — that’s a whole mood). I used Hobinichi Cousin planner to plan my day—chores, homework, and meals—but I also use iCal and an app called Things. My freshman year I thought that just having a paper planner would be fine but it did NOT work out for me. I was always late/forgetting meetings and running around like a chicken with her head cut off. Once I downloaded Things (for my assignments) and inputted work, social events, and when I’m really busy sleep/meals into iCal, I started getting better grades. Take 2 hours to plan. Seriously even if you have 372 things to get done by tomorrow, if you plan and make a linear list of the things you need to get done they will get done better and faster.
Things is a paid app. $10 for phone, $50 for Mac. It’s a bit of an investment for both but I have used it every single day for the past 2 years.
Socialize
Just me here with your local reminder that socialize does not mean you have to party. Let me tell you something, I haven’t gone to a party this entire year (it’s second semester) and I feel completely content about it. I am not saying that going to parties is bad. A lot of people have a ton of fun doing that, but let me tell you something—your social life cannot subsist off of parties alone. Invite people to brunch, make friends with the people in your classes by literally just talking to them (!!!), go on coffee dates with your friends as much as you can, take midnight ice cream runs, 1 am fried chicken runs, 9 pm boba study breaks, invite people over to make cookies, go to the cinema. Deep conversations and long talks will sometimes distract you from your work and guess what? That’s okay. That’s an important part of college too. Don’t shut yourself up in your room all day studying every day of the week. You are going to burn out. You need your friends and they need you!
Work smarter and harder
I cannot say this enough—utilize your resources! Go to office hours. It will literally save you to have a relationship with your professor. Not only are you going to get letters of recommendation, extensions when you really need them, and helpful tips—you can have amazing conversation and insight about grad school, research, and jobs. Go to the library. Not only are there a million books for your research project all grouped in the same section, but there are librarians who can help you find more resources with less effort. Use your databases, but also your own school’s archives. There is a reason we save so many books and newspapers. Also libraries are the absolute best place to study. This year I have tended to go to the most social floor because it keeps me awake and it reminds me that I have other people around me working late as well. Use apps. I’m saying this right now—DOWNLOAD ZOTERO. It will save you. It is an app and a google chrome extension which saves your sources in a database and then generates perfect citations/footnotes for your papers. It is the best thing of my life. Use google drive and keep your documents in organized folders. Organized virtual work is AS important as physical work. Also put some time into your LinkedIn ASAP—the sooner you do it, the easier it will be to keep it up to date.
Take care of yourself
Just be smart about your time and your mental health. Both of those I struggle with every day, but take solace in the fact that other people are going through it too. College is an amazing opportunity and even when it feels completely overwhelming it is still an extremely privileged position to be in. Do why you can to make yourself better, be there for the people who need you, grind on your papers and projects and research. At the end of the day your projects/papers are only going to be as good as your individual capacity allows them to be. Sometimes sleeping an extra hour is as beneficial as an extra hour of studying. Figure out what you need by making mistakes and forgive yourself! We are all just trying to make our way though.
Meet all of the ROs, investigate a crime scene, chase a murderer!
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I wanted to post the chapter, since it's been a while -- minor things may change as I'm still applying the feedback from my amazing beta testers.
also, here's explained how to turn off the music/noises, since I have not found a way to make that an option in twine
Me n the girls sitting upon the shattered corpse of a false god
✿ Why would I think it is easy to write recommendations is eluded me, but anyways, I made it! This list (inspired by the list made by @cealea) contains IF games both from Choice of Games and from Twine and Itchio, some of the CoG games are near the stage of submitting, whilst some are... not as active as the others.
✿ I personally adore the romance aspect of a IF game very much, so herein the list, you could find games with well written romance (though you don't necessarily have to pursue romance with anyone if you don't want to), this doesn't mean games aren't been included ain't have good romance, but they are defer to my preference, thus the title. It is also worth to note that this list would be updated further once I've read more games, and games submitted already would be moved to another category, which ain't exist at the moment.
✿ Dear authors, if you'd prefer to be untagged, or you find my blurb misleading and/or too spoilerish, please let me know.
The Passenger ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @the-passenger-if
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕
You are an eldritch abomination... that's about to be devoured by another unthinkable creature. In the wake of your fashionable escape, you found yourself being an uninvited permanent tenant inside a dumb human larva. Well, stuck on earth ain't sound that horrible, at least you're safe now... right?
Mind Blind ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @mindblindbard
✧𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 ✧𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚢 ✧𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚢 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚘
Hey, being a walking Achilles' heel isn't all that bad, your mind may be a 24/7 broadcast free for anyone with a modicum of telepathy, courtesy of your zero mental defense, at least you're special, even though it sucks. You still have the chance to prove yourself with the MIV Program, you'll show the world you're truly living up to the reputation of your famously superpowered family.
The Abyssal ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @theabyssal
✧𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛
Surprisingly, you are Death itself; and what's even more surprising than that, you've been betrayed and imprisoned by your lovely fellow gods. One thing is for certain, your well deserved revenge is long time in conceiving. But is revenge the only thing you are interested in forging?
Abyss ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @abyss-if
✧𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 ✧𝚌𝚢𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚞𝚗𝚔 ✧𝚐𝚊𝚢 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜
You never thought a job supposed to be simple would turn out to be something bigger and sinister, you had your suspicious but when you found out your brother is missing you could finally say the game's afoot, even though you don't know what it is yet.
Fell star ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @fell-star-if
✧𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
Death claims all. Even so, mortals look upon you with hatred and distaste, for you to fulfill your duty of bring forth death. And yet, their effort is not without applause, you welcome your eternal rest with open arms. Which, to your dismay, your rest is cut short when an unknown force thrusts you back to the realm of living. And the realm, so familiar and yet so different, and so are you. It seems that you won't retire from your role as Harbinger any time soon.
Ouroboros ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @honeypeabrain
✧𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
An unexpected letter shatters your self-proclaimed isolation, you've spent centuries in the comfort of your precious cabin to lick your wounds, your traumatic past comes to visit from time to time. Your hometown of Riven is calling out for you, the town you once helped build its defence, asking for your serving as a hedgehunter once again, venture further back into the beasts prowling infinite forest, where lies your torment and pain.
Honor Amongst Thieves ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @leoneliterary
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚎
The streets of Lower Cusmo was your home, the uglier side of a luxuriant capital city, you've grown accustomed to the ironic mixture of wealth and poverty in one single city. You're lucky your guild has taken you in, kept you well fed, provided you a haven. But the conspiracy brewing in the city has caught you in its middle, threaten you with your life, the fate of your guild and your honor, you better act smart, or you might face a checkmate.
Spellbound: A Ghost Story
✧𝚖𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
800 years fly by, you've been a silent observer for so long, an age-lost spirit drifting through a world that moved on without you. You remember you were leading a crusade, against the kingdom that left your family and village shredded and tattered, you remember your defeat, the rest is in the fog. You are just waiting for the day you finally fade away, until an explosion awashes you with a sensation you will never forget, catches you in a blast of dark energy that's so familiar. With your soul almost been torn to pieces, a mage binds you with a spell, saves you from a second death.
Myrk Mire ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @catt-nuevenor
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛
A traveller and a child, a pair of outsiders brought to this town by a promise of work, descover a half-drowned body among the marshland, where secrets and danger lurk beneath its slick and stinking mud. That's where you come in, to guide the pair navigate through muddy waters and crawling mists, to lead them a way home.
The Porthecrawl Witness ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @porthecrawl-witness
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
For two hundred and fifty years, the town of Little Porthecrawl has hold its secrets intact, its colonial ancestors have watched over their descendants in peace. But something, or someone, is threatening to unravel, your people face the danger of being the involuntary sacrifice for the cure of a sweeping plague.
Replica: between universes ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @replicabetweenblogs
✧𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
A few years into the future, diligent scientists have made it possible to travel between parallel universes. Countless visits were made with abandon, for people wanted to spend one more time with their fallen loved ones, or to live a life far better than their current one. But everything comes with a price, the wall between each parallel universes has become too thin, allowing virus called Replica to sneak into our crumbling universe. Caught in the crisis involuntarily, you know you must find the Replica before it is too late.
ᑕOᗰᗴ ᗷᗩᑕK ᗰY ᒪOᐯᗴ ❥
Freak: Amidst the Neon Lights
✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚘 ✧𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
Just like a fish out of water. Grown up in a lab ain't that far from live under a rock, at least you know you're special, your inhuman powers is the reason those people in white coats keep you company. But you're meant for something bigger, a charming stranger opened up your whole world, and so your adventure begins. You might be surprised how much you've changed, and how much of an impact you've left in the world.
SoS: The Mortal Coil ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @sosthemortalcoil
✧𝚖𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕
As an archangel, designated to serve the whims of your God, you never thought the God would keep a radio silence for centuries. When you finally received your call, you discovered that you are about to be a guardian angel, and most surprisingly, your ward, is related to none other than Satan himself.
The Graves of Heirs ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @gravesofheirscog
✧𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
Would you call being trapped in the position of the antagonist of your favourite series a dream come true? You've just an ordinary nobody living your boring human life, until something unfathomable arranged your death. Waking up to a proposition offered by the villainess of the story, you are given a chance to relive your life, albeit a fancier one in exchange for your help to rewrite her ending. You know how events are going to happen, that only left one question: what will you do?
From Ashes We Rise
✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚘
Nothing could be more promising than being the sidekick of the famous vigilante, Crow, as a little kid, you never thought your dream would one day come true. But life could be so cruel sometimes and all good things come to an end very soon, it all happened so suddenly, and you could never return to the way you once were. Who would you become then?
Model Citizens: Unmasked ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @thenickelportrust
✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚘
Ever wondering what's behind the mask of superheroes? Well, it's basically your job to unveil those super powered individuals, you are, after all, a model, everyday citizen, working for The Nickelport Rust, a controversial paper known for unmasking heroes.
Icarus Sun ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @thecityandthechild
✧𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚞𝚗𝚔
It is two stories in one book. The protagonist of the first story is one of a nameless City's children, who would've died at birth, but the rusted underground City saved you with pieces of its own, in exchange for your service until the day you die. As illiterateas you are, you obtained a book by accident, with the help of your mentor, you are about to uncover the story of a wingless individual, who lived in a city where everyone has wings, and their life changed when they met another wingless.
Burwick Destination ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @burwickdestination
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕 ✧𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛 ✧𝚊𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
It never said in the contract that being a detective would involve dealing with crazy demonic cultists, not that there's a contract for you to sign up to in the first place anyway, and let's just see what did it cost you. After that fateful night, you were never the same.
Honey and Fire ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @honeyandfiregame
✧𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚊𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
The only thing you remember is that you are a dragon, though a dragon never more, at least physically, you've been turned into a human. And now you're stuck with a group of mercenaries who claimed that they were your saviours, with no memory left whatsoever, you're not sure if you could believe them or not, not to mention that they all seem to have their own inner demons to deal with.
Seven days in Purgatory
✧𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛 ✧𝚊𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
They say ignorance is bliss, you have to agree with them somehow. You've lost your memories rather conveniently, and your spouse, determined to never leave your side, it's just the the two of you, taking an extended vacation in an isolated cabin, what ever could go wrong? When you take your time to recover, your memories begin to resurface piece by piece, would you prefer to turn a blind eye?
Familiar
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
There's not much to say to your fate, you are a familiar, fated to be bound to a single human. That doesn't mean you have to be happy about that, you've been a free spirit so far, until the fate pulled you toward your Magi, the one who owns you now.
God Forsaken
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛
The God has forsaken you, for you being too human, you are never meant to make stories. A little comfort being that, you are not alone. You aren't the only one trapped in this single finite universe, stuck with a bunch of humans, who are touched by the divine.
A Witch's Curse ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @a-witches-curse
✧𝚞𝚛𝚋𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕
Witches have become so rare and far between over the course of years, owing to the fact that magic is not facile to pander with. Not many people would buy the story of magic and witches nowadays, much to your mother's benefit, provide a better camouflage than ever. But hiding so far away from the orginal source of magic has taken its toll on your mother, the two of you travel all the way back to Winthrop, where you don't realise it was your home.
God of the Red Mountain ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @friendlybowlofsoup
✧𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
The Red Mountain was your home, until you were forced to run away. After all those years of wandering in the spirit world, you are surprised when the mountain god sent a messenger to seek you out. As a being caught between death and life, you have more than enough power to fend off yourself, but maybe some extra help won't hurt, considering your condition. A curse, that is, which will cost your sanity.
Abysm's Veil
✧𝚖𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚊𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
It is said that water is dangerous, when it may seems peaceful on the surface, but lurking underneath are vengeful mythical creatures called Rusalki, commonly known have once been women who died traumatic deaths near water, who were brought back to haunt waterways. You wake up in freezing water, find yourself being one of such creature. Have you been given a second chance, so that you can revenge?
The Sea Maiden
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
Out of desperation, a fisherman made a deal with a mermaid, promised his first born, in exchange for his net filled with fish. You have been living in blissful oblivion for so long, until the day you come of age, your father has confessed you his regret. Fear for what the mermaid might has in store for you, you leave your hometown behind, set forth an adventure may leads to fame and fortune.
Roots ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @roots-game
✧𝚖𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
Working at a diner in Hawaii may not be your dream job, and you can barely make ends meet, but it's a job nonetheless. Whether you like your job or not, when a mysterious pearl falls into your hands one rainy night, you are about to take a break from it, presumably forever.
Heaven's Dog ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @heavensdog
✧𝚖𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
The war between light and darkness will never end, Heaven's Manor and the Kingdom of Fear have fight against each other for all the eternity. You've fought so many battles ever since you became a magical knight serving the collection of angels, and yet there's more to come. Things take a sudden turn when one of your regular opponents meets gruesome demise before your very eye, and now you'll have to face your own fears.
Limitless
✧𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
Your existence is nothing but a conscious mind, tangled up in the subconscious of another, disturbingly quite parasite like. You're the voice inside the mind of a distinct being, you pull the strings and conjecture ideas, there's so much you can do now without the restriction of an actual body. Is it really limitless?
High School Revenge
✧𝚜𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 ✧𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
They've wronged you, you will never forget the humiliating and betrayal they put you through. They'd never thought you'd come back, and they won't recognize you. It's been 7 years since that damned school dance on Valentine's day, it's time to make them pay.
Hunter's Sacrifice ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @fullyfadingnight
✧𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚍𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚊
Humans have paid price for their foolishness, for they had wrecked devastation upon themselves, left the earth scarred with explosion and bathed in pollution, no longer inhabitable. The survivors, had shrunk drastically in size, retreated deep into the underground. To preserve humanity, harsh decisions had made, only model citizens sustained. To scavenge whatever resources still remain, teams after teams of hunters have been set out onto the surface, and you are among them.
Raven's Flight ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @fullyfadingnight
✧𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚍𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚊
Humans have paid price for their foolishness, for they had wrecked devastation upon themselves, left the earth scarred with explosion and bathed in pollution, no longer inhabitable. The survivors, had shrunk drastically in size, retreated deep into the underground. To preserve humanity, harsh decisions had made, only model citizens sustained. Being the youngest chancellor among the leaders, as the saying goes, with power comes responsibility, you must not falter under the weight of your people and your Homeland. Bear in mind, not everyone is worth your trust.
The Fox of Sunholt ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @foxofsunholt
✧𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚢
They called you monsters, for you don't belong, there's a story foretold the Fox will wreck havoc and destruction. But when the world is truly in danger, the princess of Sunholt finds a hero in you, for you being a Fey-fox, who would be a saviour of her island kingdom.
Forsaken ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @bathalafiction
✧𝚞𝚛𝚋𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕
How arrogant would one be to irk the ire of both Heaven and Hell? It is the cost you were willing to pay as a compensation for the knowledge and magic no one had manged to secure. But is it realy worth it? Everything went wrong after that, you've gained enemies from all side, including the ones you once called friends. And don't forget, Heaven and Hell won't let you go that easily.
The Exile ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @exilethegame
✧𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛
You were a legend, your people loved you, your enemies feard you, until you were no more, and your name, used to be cried out in battle by your people, is now only served as a scary bedtime story to keep naughty children quiet at night. After a year of been exiled from the capital you once vowed to protect, you've resigned to the fact that trouble always seems to find you, when a mysterious sorcerer hired you for protection from dangers unknown.
Remember, You Will Die ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @vapolis
✧𝚌𝚢𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚞𝚗𝚔 ✧𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
If only were things went according to plan, your cargo would be delivered safe and sound, and you would be swimming in money and be living happily ever after. If only were... The harsh reality is that you fucked up rather miserably, and you better do as your boss say, or head will roll. Oh, one more thing, you're quite popular lately, there's one certain mask wearing asshole who's hell-bent on rubbing you out.
Curious Cuisine ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @cornucopiagazette
✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 ✧𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛
Life has not been kind to you. You have lost too much, but you won't let life take your child away from you, it's the two of you against the world. One day you received a mysterious letter, summoning you to a city even mysterier, challenge you to bring an abandoned little cafe back to its old glory. And to add more drama on top of it, your kid has developed superpowers.
The Seven Heirs of Ophaesia ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @esfawkes
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚊𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
As the seventh heir of Ophaesia, a luxurious nation along the southern coast of Selanes, your childhood was not as carefree as some would assume. Your mother is the King's third wife, who's under the suspicion of murdering the previous queen, people's hatred towards her had left you in a delicate situation. You'd have to watch your every step as you grow up, in the eyes of the court and beyond. Where will your place be in the world — and your family?
Attollo ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @attollogame
✧𝚌𝚢𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚞𝚗𝚔 ✧𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 ✧𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛 ✧𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛
How long would it take to get to New Hampshire from your residence, if everything goes well, you would be home before the weekend. Courtesy of an urgent message from your younger sibling, you've been draggen into a walled city off the coast of the Atlantic, which has been a victim of a nuclear disaster.
Exiled from Court ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @beeanca-writing
✧𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 ✧𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚢
Court has exiled you, for you've done noting but minding your own business, but you know better than anyone, it is the result of your hedonistic nature finally got the better of you. It is the 19th century, after all. Is there a way back, mayhaps?
Zorlok ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @zorlok-if
✧𝚞𝚛𝚋𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛 ✧𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚢 ✧𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚢
What is cool? You learnt your lesson the hardest way for a demon: humans could be tricky. Who or what the hell is ZorloK? Never mind, no matter what a terrifying demon you once were, you are Zorlok now. Who would have thought a deal with a nerdy high schooler would cost all of your memories and identity, could you still call yourself a demon if you barely know nothing about demon anymore? As if things weren't complicated enough, how on earth did you get yourself involved in monster hunting?
The Bastard of Camelot ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @llamagirl28
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
At fools's eye, your fate is sealed when your prophecy is read. As the incestuous bastard of King Arthur and Morgana Le Fay, you were predicted to be the undoing of Camelot. Be ominous as it may, you have entire control over your own fate, shape it as you please, be the villain or the hero, set out your own path or be Morgana's willing tool.
Speaker ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @speakergame
✧𝚖𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕
Is it a blessing, being the second born of your cursed family? Your twin sister, only a few minutes older than you, carried your family's curse as a Seer, sees the future but unable to intervene. Not you, though. You are a Speaker, able to speak what she've been forbidden, for others could understand. It makes the two of you a rescue team, sneaking people away from death's clutch.
The Number's Game ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @thenumbersgameif
✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 ✧𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚎 ✧ 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚢 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎
Waking up in a dark cell, you soon realise that your memories are as clean as the hospital gown you are in, the only thing you remember is that you have powers too dangerous for even your own good. Teamed up by some higher ups, you and three others have been given a chance to redeem, for something terrible you've done. And to make things more complicated, how could you remember nothing about your colleagues, when it is clear that you've worked together for years?
Sinners and Saints ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @sinnersandsaints-linwrites
✧𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛 ✧𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚢 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕
Born in an old town forgotten by the world, you've heard many tales, for the town traps its residents for they don't leave in time, for the town consistently draw shady people in. It's not that long ago when you decided to take up the job as a detective, it may not be glorious, but you are the authority. As if your job isn't hard enough as it is, things seem to start to go out of hand.
The Nameless ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @parkerlyn
✧𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
The world is in the danger of being drained dry of its magic, more and more once lavish lands has been overtaken by desert, you know fully well it is the mortalis doing, the mortal races. It makes the deals you lure them into more satisfying, as they are the only way the sheevra, magical creatures like you, can restore the world to its former glory. As it is the common knowledge, names hold power. Mortalis were meant to be easy prey for you, but when an entire sheevra clan mysteriously dissappeared overnight, you're tasked to seek out the truth.
The Moonless ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @moonless-if
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛 ✧𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚢 ✧𝚊𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
Born without magical telents but the ability to walk the sleeping minds of the others, your people, a race of magicless giant called moonless, has once being outcasts of Spala's society, now served as the protectors of the minds of the Royal Family. But there's less and less of you left, with the disconcerting occurrence of an increasingly large amount of your people went missing, and the number continues to grow.
The King's Hound ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @the-kingshound
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
Arranged marriage has never been a surprise to you, being the seventh child of the Venegard House, as it is a handy method to achieve a political alliance. After your parents lost the rebellion against King Arthur, you have little to no choice but to marry the King, who defeated your family, to exchange a period of prolonged peace. You might be uncertain about the path ahead, but you're set out to change the course of Camelot.
Fallen Lights ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @fallenlightsif
✧𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢
Since your half-brother has been promoted to High General of Kesdon, the capital of Ebia, you've been lived there for the past twelve years. The country is under the shadow of war, and you are yet to uncover its forgotten secrets of the divine and arcane. All those years you've spent training and honing your skills, are you ready to forge a future of your own?
Cut the Lights ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @cutthelights-if
✧𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛 ✧𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚢
How hard would it be to fall from a promising actor to a despised nobody? You've been left to forgotten, and you'd prefer it that way, but in the aftermath of the sudden death of your mentor, you're loath to be dragged back into the limelight. May it be misfortune or fate, you find yourself been caught in the center of sinister intrigue and conspiracy. Careful, or you might not be able to trust even yourself.
Novaturient ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @kalorphic
✧𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚢 ✧𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 ✧𝚜𝚙𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛 ✧𝚊𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
Working your sorry ass off in the office may not as thrilling as in the field, but hey, you won't complain as long as the tidy paycheck keeps coming. As the talented handler hired by Mi6, you find your dulling routine broken when your the most formidable and trustworthy agent, X, goes missing from a mission go south. Being the most responsible person on the sole planet, of course you'd take it upon yourself to save ass of your missing agent, and hey, you are in the field!
Inner Demons ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @innerdemons-if
✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕 ✧𝚞𝚛𝚋𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛
At the cost of the only one cared about you in your family, you discover that you possess abilities that could either bring hope or doom to humanity, and a whole new world of demons and sorcerers alike unravel itself before you. As you learn to wield your powers, unexpected guests keep chasing after you, when your life and mind on the line, you are not sure who you can trust anymore.
Greenwarden ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @fiddles-ifs
✧𝚞𝚛𝚋𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 ✧𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛
There's a child goes missing deep in the Appalachians, no matter how reluctant you are, it is your job to solve this case, as it is, a case only people like you could manage. That's the bright side of being a monster hunter. Remember to play your cards right, or else something far beyond human comprehension might got you.
The Grand Heist ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @thegrandheist-if
✧𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛
While it might be normal for college students to be in debt, but the amount you've inherited from your brother after his mysterious disappearance certainly isn't. In order to pay off the ridiculous debt, you somehow end up in the position of a jewel thief, bossed around by the whims of the one who instructs your every heist. The sapphire heart being the target of your latest theft is your only hope to regain your freedom, but would it be that simple?
The Ballad of Devil’s Creek ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞ @devilscreekballad
✧𝚠𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗 ✧𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕 ✧𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛
A doomsday cult roaming around in the west could be interesting, but not so much when the said cult is, in fact, capable of bringing forth the end of days. Fortunately, you won't be alone on the expedition to the ghost town of Devil's Creek to hunt down the means to cease the hideous ambition of those cultists.
Did you know some of the brightest sources of light in the sky come from black holes in the centers of galaxies? It sounds a little contradictory, but it’s true! They may not look bright to our eyes, but satellites have spotted oodles of them across the universe.
One of those satellites is our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi has found thousands of these kinds of galaxies in the 10 years it’s been operating, and there are many more out there!
Black holes are regions of space that have so much gravity that nothing - not light, not particles, nada - can escape. Most galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centers - these are black holes that are hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of our sun - but active galactic nuclei (also called “AGN” for short, or just “active galaxies”) are surrounded by gas and dust that’s constantly falling into the black hole. As the gas and dust fall, they start to spin and form a disk. Because of the friction and other forces at work, the spinning disk starts to heat up.
The disk’s heat gets emitted as light - but not just wavelengths of it that we can see with our eyes. We see light from AGN across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from the more familiar radio and optical waves through to the more exotic X-rays and gamma rays, which we need special telescopes to spot.
About one in 10 AGN beam out jets of energetic particles, which are traveling almost as fast as light. Scientists are studying these jets to try to understand how black holes - which pull everything in with their huge amounts of gravity - somehow provide the energy needed to propel the particles in these jets.
Many of the ways we tell one type of AGN from another depend on how they’re oriented from our point of view. With radio galaxies, for example, we see the jets from the side as they’re beaming vast amounts of energy into space. Then there’s blazars, which are a type of AGN that have a jet that is pointed almost directly at Earth, which makes the AGN particularly bright.
Our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been searching the sky for gamma ray sources for 10 years. More than half (57%) of the sources it has found have been blazars. Gamma rays are useful because they can tell us a lot about how particles accelerate and how they interact with their environment.
So why do we care about AGN? We know that some AGN formed early in the history of the universe. With their enormous power, they almost certainly affected how the universe changed over time. By discovering how AGN work, we can understand better how the universe came to be the way it is now.
Fermi’s helped us learn a lot about the gamma-ray universe over the last 10 years. Learn more about Fermi and how we’re celebrating its accomplishments all year.
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The world went to shit long before you were born- what happened, nobody's sure. Whatever it was, it left a mess. The horrors of the blasted wasteland, the things that roam outside of city walls, the static that buzzes in your ear like an old TV... not to mention the violent fuckers out there who'd rather they have what you've got.
But a job with a caravan travelling across the wastes means you can finally start a new life in the neon-lit utopia of Signal Hill. That is, until you're ambushed outside the city, your cargo stolen and your guards dead. The bright lights and the ever-present hum of the radio are starting to feel like more of a nightmare than a dream...
Signal Hill is a post-apocalyptic narrative RPG/interactive fiction game set in the eponymous neon-lit utopia, Signal Hill. Players take on the role of a wanderer from the North, arriving in the city for the first time and become enthralled in its local intrigue. It also contains gratuitous violence and sexual themes, so the current demo is recommended for adults only.
Over 83,000 words of quests, conversations, and locations
A detailed text-based open world to explore
5 fully-realized authored quests to pursue
Choose your weapon, skills, and customize your character
140 clothing options, and dozens of other customization options
Fully customizable pronouns & gender (separate)
8 available identities to define who you are through your choices
Meet most of the main cast
PREACHER ABRAMS // WYATT ABRAMS // ROSE HOLLOWAY // JACOB NASH // CYRUS SOKOLOV // CELINA SOKOLOVA // DOMINIC SOKOLOV // HOLLIS // ACE ZHANG
Wow! This is a crazy number. Thank you all so much for giving this blog a follow ❤ To celebrate, I thought we could do a raffle!
The prizes:
A short story featuring your Romanus and a character of your choice — must be SFW, and if it’s romantic in nature it has to be with the official ROs only.
You pick one snippet in the Patreon tag, and I’ll send you the whole story!
You pick one snippet from the Ko-fi tag, and I’ll send you the entire commission!
The first winner gets the first pick of the three prizes, the second winner chooses between the two left, and the third gets the last.
Rules:
Must be following me.
Reblogs count as 2 entries — but only one reblog is valid, so please don’t spam your followers’ dashes with the post! 😄
Likes count as one entry.
On the 12th of May, I’ll put all entries in a random number generator and get the winners! Please have your messages open, so I can contact you :)
I hope this will be fun, I’ve never done anything like this. Thank you, again, for all the support, it only motivates me to work harder and pick up the pen even on days when it seems to weigh a ton.
I know I’ve been quiet regarding Book Two’s progress, but that’s only because I want to get to a specific part before I make any sort of announcements. But I hope you find comfort in knowing that I’m working on it almost every day — and the days I’m not, I’m thinking about it constantly. It won’t be very long before I invite you to step back into the world of the Rose.
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
And may you have an amazing Friday. 🌹
initially it’ll be funny but I guarantee u will all end up in tears missing the good times and thinking wow that was crazy I love u all
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CHAPTER 4: SYSBA'S ROUTE IS NOW AVAILABLE
I'm very pleased to announce that, after a brief bout of burnout, the demo has now been updated to include the first of the five routes!
This update includes:
Treating yourself to some new clothes, embracing nature (perhaps a bit too much), or getting in-tune with your artistic side.
Trying to figure out why terrible things keep happening (it's getting quite ridiculous)
Embracing the trials and tribulations of a fashion show
Dealing with an emotionally-unintelligent eldritch horror
Other house business:
Just the usual tidying up of code, bugs, and minor discrepancies!
The next route planned will be Operator; voting for the one after is available on patreon. The word-count now sits at 450, 647 with an additional 43k added in this route.
DEMO // PATREON // KO-FI