cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23317143

Merry Christmas! It’s that time of year where we post cats with trees! Here’s Veronica and our tree ❤️. Later she ate the tree.

Luna was adopted from Angel's Wish along with her bonded partner and my lap cat Uecker (YOO-ker). She's a longhair and loves to play.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20025045

The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.

https://explainxkcd.com/3026/

Backdrop

• district built out of containers and neglected housing blocks. Container corridors, walls and floors, leaking pipes, gang laws

Context

• in order to be shown the way to the secret lab in the heart of container district characters have to infiltrate, they need to do something for one of three local gangs. I want this to be a kind of Mexican standoff where they have to choose which faction to support
• Their arcs/previous deeds are making spirit of that city to "wake up". They will need its help and I need a way to point them to something like that existing
• Since we are going to play sometime soon, Krampus is a nice idea

Background

• unrest in the city is making people start believing there has to exist some vengeful force of justice. Hence in container district a Krampus started to operate. It randomly appears to flail to death most naughty (adults). So far, mostly without credible witnesses nor survivors. Flees the scene on foot, but can cover impossible distances when not observed by anyone. I don't intend to fully define what this Krampus is
• few days ago a VTOL with shipment of MCT genetically un-modified chickens has been shot down and crashed somewhere in the disctrict. Everyone who knows how to get to the lab wants them
  • Anarchist commune wants them as food source (un-modified means those don't require patented seeds)
  • Wizgang wants them for signing their deals (un-modified means pure auras - mcguffin, just roll with it)
  • small-fry Yakuza officer wants them to return them to MCT for clout (MCT is one of our campaign villains)
  • not many chickens survived, they can't share
  • there was a fourth faction in the area but it got wiped by Krampus. Only a BTL hard user has seen something, but is half terrified, half not completely awake
• Wizgang and Yakuza sent their forces to retrieve the cargo. No-one returned. Unknown to the groups, both parties were wiped by Krampus. But they of course blame each other and maybe even the commune too? Commune doesn't really have strike-force, but definitely has clout in the neighborhood
• Area around the VTOL has become a two-sided conflict zone (Wiz and Yak)

Plan

My idea is that whatever my players decide to do, they will in some way observe the Krampus. Mostly killing both sides of conflict. I want them to later start asking around what could that have been to get to some know-it-all saying "well, maybe it's the spirit of the city"

Do you see some flaws in this idea? Some cool idea came to your mind?

Struggling…. I tried putting the content in their food and no luck either

Thanks for the tips :)

https://xkcd.com/3025/

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/25502061

Download: https://adeptus7.itch.io/lovecraftian-inspirations-from-real-life-and-beliefs

This free brochure (28 pages)contains inspiration drawn from the beliefs of peoples who actually inhabit the Earth now or in the past, or from facts taken straight from history or science. Each case includes the suggestion, how given beliefs or facts can be interpreted in the spirit of cosmic horror, emphasizing their appropriate elements or bending them slightly. Sometimes the descriptions are quite brief – a detailed discussion of each topic would take a lot of space and time. These are rather teasers intended to show why a specific thing may be interesting for fans of eldritch vibes and possibly encourage them to take a closer look at the topic.

The article is intended primarily for Game Masters who play games in systems inspired by Lovecraft’s works, such as Call of Cthulhu or Delta Green. However, I hope that other fans of cosmic horror will also find something for themselves here. The interesting facts presented here may also be interesting for people who are not familiar with the work of The Loner of Providence, but some of the references may be unclear to them.

Here are contents:

GREEK MYTHOLOGY

Typhon – a classic but forgotten abomination

Zeus – embodied energy

In his house underground, dead Hades waits in sleep

Apollo – beautiful, deadly light

Hermes is the gate, Hermes is the key

NORDIC MYTHOLOGY

A jotun is not the same as a giant, but it can be made into an abomination

Odyn = Nodens, Loki = Nyarlathotep

Or is Odin an abomination?

Einherjers and Odin the human

POLISH FOLKLORE AND LEGENDS

Jan Twardowski – the first man on the Moon

Silen night, starry night

Church in Trzęsacz – Deep ones do not leave their own, even after death

TRUE (OK, SLIGHTLY FAR-FETCHED) HISTORY

Invasion of the Sea Peoples

Greater Germanic Antarctica

The emperor out of the time

The Indus civilization

TRUE (SERIOUSLY) SCIENCE

Mad mathematicians

Humans like ants, ants like zombies

Halny and other foehn winds – the whisper of the wind brings madness

ABRAHAMIC BELIEFS

Covenant with God and Melchizedek

Succubi/incubi, aliens and a sorcerer-pope

Double faith

Stone from the sky, genies and angels Udostępnij:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/19734468

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/19734105