A Collection Of My Save File Names Highlights - Normally They're Pretty Technical And To The Point, So

Shoutout to characters that are both genuinely deeply kind and also genuinely terrifying and willing to spill buckets worth of blood to get something done. And neither of these are an act, they're just both very true.

need more “guish” words. anguish. extinguish. languish. great for when a character is bleeding out on the floor

Busy with comms, but I saw this video and I had to quickly project the mental image that appeared in my head of Wyll onto a sad little drawing, so here's a sad soggy man after a failed cantrip

“what’s your writing process” i put a pathetic guy in a blender and blend blend blend

"hey, have you ever heard of this porn novel? i found it in my dad's drawer 7+ years ago" -me when im normal and have regular amounts of socialization

"oh, defo. idk my own name but i can quote that directly" -me when im normal and can spot when others are also being normal

"came back wrong" what about Came Back Afraid. You used to be brave. Too brave maybe, defying the odds at every turn, a fighter, cocky, playing with fire, first to throw yourself at the enemy. Until one day it all caught up to you. You came back, somehow, but now you know all too intimately how it feels to lose, to die, to be destroyed. Now you flinch and freeze and cower at the slightest provocation. Who even are you now if you can't be brave? The grave may have let you go, but the mortal fear still grips you tighter than ever.

The current mood

Now, planning my own post-game narrative without the structure of the game as a guide may be tricky to make complete and satisfying but, honestly, I am just so glad to be out of realm of writing Act 3 that I barely even feel it.

Act 3 is definitely my least favourite in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to trying to make a narrative out of it. There's so much going on that it just feels impossible to cover it all, so I had to resort to time skips and just covering the bits that'll be relevant later for my own sanity, but then it felt like I was glossing over things and worrying that would make everything feel all disjointed and, ugh.

And act 3 is so loud as well, I got so overstimulated all the time, there's all these people endlessly milling about everywhere and everyone's talking constantly - and those bloody magicians outside Sorcerous Sundries, oh my god, don't even get me started. That's probably why I like Act 2 so much, come to think of it. It's nice and dark and quiet out there, there's no one around but you and your friends unless you intentionally go to a population centre like Last Light. I find it very soothing for an area that was definitely intended to be horrific.

So, yeah, glad to be out of there.

Anyway, back to planning.

fucked up hurt/comfort. the person who stabbed you tends to your wound. the person who killed your loved one helps you grieve.

Character Designs For Wings Outstretched - Part 3

First one here!

Second one here!

This (final!) part is for Priqrin, introduced in chapter 5.

No mods used this time, it's all base game stuff including dyes. I love love love the way dragonborns look in this game, I could spend the whole day just creating different dragonborns and then just staring at them. (Someone ask my about my other Tav, Eats Chairs, sometime - I want an excuse to show pictures of her she looks great.)

Priqrin -

We haven't been over his backstory much yet, but he's a draconic sorcerer (white) on top of being a dragonborn, so he's the most dragon someone can be without being an actual dragon. His main class is wizard though, because he preferred to learn magic through researching and understanding it rather than relying on instinct, like a total scholar nerd - though his wizard robes are still in black and white, to honor that draconic heritage.

I also gave him a tail, just to enhance that dragon connection. He's very proud of being so dragon-like, and having multiple types of dragon in his blood.

So his colouration is black, and then, uh, black again (the white ones didn't look right, so I used a black one that had a border of white - it counts as white, okay? I mean Rilice doesn't even use green for her scales, she's got a variation of silver because it looked better, it's fine, no-one's scales are actually using the colour they're meant to be, it's fine!) There's a hint of red there, too, around the back of his head flaps which I think looks nice and cute and sinister.

His surname he uses briefly was just from me getting the Draconic words for black and white from the fan wiki and then smooshing them together - but that's mostly because I don't think he actually has a surname in an official capacity either, he's just used to people expecting to hear them, so he throws that in now. (But then Wyll introduced him and Turmeric by first name only, because he's a sweet boy who realised she might feel awkward being the only one without, so Priqrin just had to be like, "oh, okay, I guess I'm the weird one here.")

Not that much else to say about him, because we haven't learned all that much about him yet. I'm sure I'll think of more to add when the story unfolds a little more, but, at the very least, there are no more people to introduce from now on! Our cast (the original characters at least) are all here now!

Slight delay on the next chapter, but should hopefully only be a one (maybe two) day delay like the last one, fingers crossed.