Eat The Gods

A while ago you brought up the students leaving mags for the other scrybes, I’d love to see/hear more about that, like why you think each student fits their respective new home, etc.

yea! i think goobert would enjoy becoming loyal to Grimora since she's a lot more openly affectionate towards her subordinates and would be able to give him the attention he craves. Since Magnificus is already on good terms with Grimora, I imagine he'd already have a positive association towards her and wouldn't find it difficult to be around her. I imagine she'd give him permission to paint on her crypt walls. If all goes well, maybe help him reconstruct a body for himself..?

Lonely Wizard already has an association with P03 because of act 3, if this situation is happening post-act-3, then its easy to imagine them just "imprinting" on P03 and sticking around. It's a busy noisy messy factory so its very stimulating, and I like the imagery of them lurking in the vents. But I think Lonely could have a good time on any island besides Mag's, I think realistically they'd be travelling around to find new experiences

In my head, Amber is the most developed because she's my fav lol.. I like the idea of her body being rebuilt to resemble a sphynx and just lurking around Leshy's woods. Unlike the other students she doesn't seek to form a relationship with the resident scrybe; it's more or less a journey of introspection and being allowed to form an identity with no rules or masters, since I believe her head was cut off very early in the beginning of her existence. I also headcanon her as an elf so she might just be drawn to nature, lol

heres another lil sketch of her i have

There is something to be said about the fact that Luke did end up replacing P03 at the end when the Scrybes enlist his help and treat him as an equal in the face of being deleted.

There is something to be said about the fact that Grimora, Scrybe of the Dead who celebrates the death of each card, asks you to spare her in Act 2 and yet she’s the one that enables their demise.

There is something to be said about the fact that Leshy locked the Scrybes away yet still considered the forms they took - the stink bug for the woman who reeks of death, a wolf for the man who looks like a living forest, and the lowly stoat for the Scrybe that hates him more than anything - and claims that being a beast is a noble thing.

There is something to be said about the fact that Magnificus treats his pupils terribly and yet still goes to shake Luke’s hand at the end of it all, missing the opportunity because of his own failings.

There is something to be said about the fact that P03 uses the word “beast” as an insult, proclaims loudly that he will not be Leshy’s stoat anymore, and yet the last time we see him, on Luke’s computer after surviving deletion, is the face of a stoat.

I used to hate the word faggot but now I realize that it's probably one of the only things that the gay community has left that isn't being sanitized, shined, and sold back to us at a premium by deceitful ass companies who claim to like us but then vote for policies that kill us. you're not gonna see a bank in a pride parade with banners that say "we love faggots" but you sure as hell will see a gay person saying "I love being a faggot" it feels so more real.

and I want it to stay controversial too because if a bank ever feels like they have the right to say "haha faggot right guys? 😏🏳️‍🌈" we should be able to publicly execute their ceo

YOU hates terfs

Never forget….. that one time Daniel posted bald Leshy,,,,,

The way Grandpa sits in this picture is literally the most thug-gangster ass-shit like holy hell it's so badass

Some thoughts for druid villains

So, dailyadventureprompts was asked recently about druid villains who aren’t just environmental extremists, and apparently I just have lots of thoughts on druids in general (which is odd, as they’re not really my favourite class, but apparently I really like the lore/themes behind them more than I want to play them), so I started musing about villainous druids.

I’ve had thoughts in this direction before, see Ylin Dos, my horrendous dustbowl extortionist of a druid, who likes to foul wells and blight crops and drop isolated villages into dire straits before showing up all innocent with goodberry and create/destroy water and purify food and drink and mold earth and asking how much would they pay for him to stay a while and help them through this hard time. Because I like the Pied Piper fairytale and the character of the snake-oil salesman in westerns and depression-era stories.

And I’ve had other thoughts in my urban druid musings above, about spymaster druids in cities, and slumlords/beggar lords/gang leader druids, who again leverage things like wildshape into urban animals and speak with animals to gather information in a city setting, as well as goodberry, again, to gain loyalty among the hungry of the city and either persuade or extort them into working for them. If you’re playing a city campaign or have a hub city, you could definitely turn that into a local villain, a slumlord who takes advantage of hungry urchins to be his eyes and ears, along with the rats and the starlings who watch from every gutter and eave. You could make a boogeyman doing that. The rats are watching! The rats are always watching. The Butcher Bird knows what you’re doing, sir. You’ve got to be careful, you know. He’ll get you. He knows where you sleep. But if you do what he says, if you bring him stuff, and don’t get in his way, sometimes he’ll make a berry in his hand, and he’ll let you have it, and it’ll feed you for a whole day.

And there’s a couple of historical characters/legends that could provide inspiration either. I was thinking about La Voisin, the famous 17th century French witch-slash-fortune teller who sold poisons and aphrodisiacs to the Parisian aristocracy. Possibly this is more of a herbalist than a druid, but I do feel like there’s potential there for an almost Rasputinian figure? The filthy hedge witch of a druid who, in flagrant defiance of her uncouth and distinctly uncharismatic manners, somehow has the ears (and wallets) of a court. Why? Because with the aid of a little plant growth and dedication, her poison garden in its little walled courtyard behind her townhouse blooms so beautifully.

And then, while I was thinking about French history and druids, I thought about the 18th century Beast of Gévaudan. Which was, in all likelihood, a pair or possibly pack of wolves who just developed a taste for human flesh, but was, unsurprisingly, the inspiration for a lot of theories about werewolves and also serial killers. And. If we’re thinking about werewolves and druids, obviously the place to go is moon druids. A circle. A circle of moon druids. Who believe in power and predation, and hunting the most dangerous game. So. Lets tie serial killers and werewolves and cannibals and cults in a bow, and say that the initiation ceremony for this particular moon druid circle, upon reaching second level and gaining wild shape, is to take the form of an animal and, while in that shape, murder someone and bring back some piece of their carcass to the circle as proof. And lets say they’ve been going for a while. So you have this … aura of fear around an area that’s been developing for years or maybe decades or centuries. An area that’s known for horrific animal attacks. Perhaps, like Gévaudan, people have been sent to try and figure out what’s happening here, to stop it, perhaps even royal agents, but the circle is smarter than that, established, and their bloody reign over the area continues unabated. Until, perhaps, the party.

And then. While I was thinking about werewolves and reigns of terror. I was looking at other signature elements of the druid class, and in particular one signature spell. Which is, of course, moonbeam. Because if you’re looking for horror in the druid spell list, ‘ghostly flames that cause searing pain’ does sort of fit the bill, just a little. And the thing I’ve always loved about moonbeam is this little extra effect: “A shapechanger makes its saving throw with disadvantage. If it fails, it also instantly reverts to its original form and can’t assume a different form until it leaves the spell’s light.”

Moonbeam targets shapeshifters specifically. It’s the spell for druid-on-druid violence. It’s also a great spell for werewolf hunters, and changeling hunters, and supernatural hunters in general. And if we’re setting a scene were moon druid shapeshifters terrorise a population, a close, claustrophobic, paranoid environment … then maybe we could also get our witchfinder general on. So. Let’s make a druid inquisition. Or at least a druid hunter organisation. A druid order or circle dedicated, perhaps fanatically so, to hunting other druids (though there’s room for ancients paladins to also be knocking around with this one). Think about Moonbeam as a witch trial. Questioning under the torture of ghostly flame. Beasts set alight to test if they are shapeshifters in disguise. People set alight to see if they are changelings in disguise. (While we’re talking about witch trials and the druid spell list, I might also mention heat metal as a … very evocative spell, here?)

If you wanted to have two mutually opposed villainous druid factions in a campaign, a little bit of law vs chaos on the evil end of the spectrum, and the moral dilemma of which is worse, or perhaps the need to champion a population desperately pinned between them, why not bring the Eyes of the Moon, the druid inquisition, to town to hunt down the brutal cannibalistic circle of serial killers who have terrorised the province for a decade?

The druid spell list, to be fair to it, is quite metal in places. And if you want to do folk horror, druids are a class of villains that gives you options. Heh.

I do like a villainous druid. And an urban druid. And just the worldbuilding inherent in the druid’s spell list and abilities. They are a fabulous class for lore and themes.

"go fish..."

some PS1-style fanart I did back in 2021 for Inscryption! great game, go check it out

posting some real shit w the op's permission

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