FrankenDaughter

The Technology Planet - Frixion Prime - Open

No worries. I've been knee deep in my own stuff so things between Rave and Akagalcia are in plot limbo for just a bit longer. Should be back on track by Wednesday.

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@Holy Soldier It will give all of us a bit of familiarity with one another who cross them. Feel free to play for Phinuphus.

Music Appreciation Thread

@KawaiiKyouko

THERE ARE NO BAD REVIEWS (There are mostly bad reviews, but you haven't been bad yet from what I've seen, so...)

@Aristo

Oh god, Finnish metal. We're doing this right now I guess.

That's part of why I prefer this thread actually. If something is challenging to listen to and I still want to post, I'm going to listen to the whole thing. And I'm glad, because that means I got to sit through this story.

I am reminded, sitting here, of a lot of the things I started listening to after I binged all of Rooks'n Kings' video content. There's even the possibility that I've heard this as the melody marches on. I'm taken back to my childhood, playing Hexxen. I'm transported to very old webcomics with dark thoughts in. There is something deeply nostalgic in the work being done here that speaks to my sensebilities as a storyteller. The distortions and grit of the sound speak to dream states and tapestries of violence. The harpy screech of the vocalist struggling to be heard over the din and at other times being given just enough reprieve to screech through clearly... there is such a large story in this that I've listened to it twice so far to see if I can nail anything down.

This is, if nothing else, too big for one narrative. I am impeded by my inability to understand Finnish, but I can't imagine that there's just one story being told. The audience is trampling through a gray canyon, the torrential weather of guitar riffs and droning snares driving them forth and the wretched shrieking of a banshee rooting them to the ground in moments of brief, paralyzing terror. The final calls send them on into the blasted badlands beyond, no less harsh, but free of the banshee that guards the deep crevasse they have braved.

It is metal as fuck, in short. Jesus. Gonna have to listen to more in the rare times I am want to listen to metal.

I'm dead for a bit.
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Most wholesome use of the word Fuck, bar none.

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inb4 the homoerotic ships.

Posting About Posting About Posting About Posting About Posting Abo-

The Breakfast Club 2017 arpee is dead before it even started and I am in mourning.

Music Appreciation Thread

@TheMadAsshatter Explosions In The Sky meets Transatlanticism era Death Cab, as far as instrumentation goes. This definitely transcends the comparison quickly though. It's easy to look to lyrical traits, but honestly this is just what happens when a singer uses diction as the instrument, ala Sound Garden, Pearl Jam and the like. The lyrics are telling a story, but you don't have to pay attention to feel things It just helps in the review. This is a lost and empty thing about a lot of situations I've walked away from where my codependency of the past has gotten the better of me. It's a lot to reflect on, none of it unwelcome in my current scene.

Not the first thing I've heard by Lonely The Brave. Another good sign that they've got something unique to say in a genre full of derivative work at the moment. It isn't my jam, but it was certainly good and not something I'd skip in a streaming feed. Good call.

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Presented without comment.

The 1st Magic Insurrection [NEW/ACCEPTING]

@codex Take your time. Life comes first. Well wishes to you.

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@Cube

Indeed, this is why I never refer to Phinuphus as a beastkin. Seems paramount to keep subspecies clear.

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Bestiary Entry: Flora

Name: Boneblack Mold

Appearance/lifespan: Boneblack is a flaky white mold that naturally grows in caves all across Allaria. Its spores are most often carried by bats and rodents, many of them resistant to infection. While Boneblack dies within seconds of being exposed to natural sunlight, the migratory habits of Boneblack's natural carriers can deposit Boneblack into the soil of dense forests where it can lie dormant for years. Many other animals have natural resistances to the fungus. Boneblack mold kills most land-bound birds within days of exposure, and can kill humans or elves inside of a month. No other humanoids have displayed vulnerability to the mold.

Symptoms in Humanoids: Human or elf, a sufferer of Boneblack typically finds that their feet grow numb over the course of two weeks, with sores appearing a couple of days after. Their feet will turn gangrenous or rot in queer ways depending on how the infection spreads. Even into the fourth week of infection an afflicted person will still be able to move, but once Boneblack mold can begin sporing from rotted areas, the results are always fatal.

Epidemic Concerns: Boneblack mold formed from human/elven tissue is far more aggressive, with drastically shorter times between symptoms. Effectively, each generation of Boneblack is far more invasive. A populos that doesn't catch the infection is in dire peril. Thankfully, once a Boneblack colony germinates in a human or avian host, it loses its aggressiveness to the other organism. A chicken coup lost to Boneblack is a minor inconvenience by comparison.

Cure: The reason that rampant Boneblack is so rarely seen is that its cures are often just a part of daily life in humanoids. Milk is a healthy preventative, as are several fruits such as apples, dates and plumbs. There are herbal remedies known to apothecaries where diets are less broad, but common wisdom is that the first way to prevent Boneblack is simply proper nutrition. It most commonly finds hosts in rural or otherwise isolated areas, and has taught its unique lesson enough times over generations of human/elven kind that one will rarely find an apothecary that doesn't know at least two ways to cure it.

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