The Spire in the Rift

Be welcome, weary traveller, rest your sore feet for a while as I regale you with tales of my own and of those come before me! (Or just run down my dash as fast as you can, whatever floats your boat, mate.) Mayhaps you have joined me at my humble abode seeking something you have only heard in legends, or perchance a friend sent you this way, a wave of fate, a fortunate wind, and now you are oh so please try overwhelmed by the richness of stories in my house, but fear not, weary traveller, for here you have a helpful guide to all the treasures in my trove! (Most common tags, one might say. I won't, cause that's boring, but one might.)

Art tag: #flintsart

My art reblogs tag: #flintsreblog

Just my ramblings: #personal (used sporadically at this point tbh)

Ask and tag games: #asks and tags

Fandom tags are used as normal, except for D(ragon) A(ge) which was tagged #Drachen Alter

The array of star wars tags and AUs (current obsession):

Revan and Malak switch places AU: #Malak protagonist au

Clone Wars Revan AUs: #soresu monster au, #shadow revan au

Time travel Zayne Carrick AUs: #zaynes fix it, #zayne's done with this au

Revan/Malak (Queerplatonic): #revalek

And if all of this trove is not enough to sate your hunger for my thoughts, here's a few more links!

Ao3

Artfight

Alright, i didnt do one for last week in the attic still cause i was fucking dying then but i am home again! So, Pathfinder time. Summary of last week, we met a ghost? Time whimey? version of one of the twin's ancestors who told us where the gauntlets are that we're searching for. His tomb. Convenient. And then we just barely managed to kill that genie and almost all died. But oh well.

This session! We did some shopping so it's a bit shorter.

It is hex crawl time! Through a fey forest. Our first encounter is with a weird cursed bird who can only talk to people around the person he is adressing. He is also very annoying when we don't want to eat his fey food. After some negotiating, and the twins picking up the other two, it is determined that eating it will be fine, so we do. It was fine. However Siegfried gets roasted the entire rest of the session because i said he was party guy in wizard college and everyone else determined I am too lame for that. Moving on we encountered a one armed knight who told us none may pass. We walked past him. Third encounter is a hot orc witch! She gives us a side quest to go grab her some cactus flowers in echange for a map so we don't get lost and drown in the weird time swamp. She also has at least two pet gators called Broccoli and Aubergine.

Last time Aria was shot with lightning and blinded. Well fuck. Ilaras rushes over to her ex, Tay'haai makes sure none of us are dead. And Simo and Ikaros dig up Kris out of sand. Kris and Simo go to check up on his parents and there is a very confusing and concerning conversation for them since both of them are very fucked up and Kris is rambling about a little green man in a swamp.

Tay'Haai in the meantime goes to check up on Aria. While he can heal her broken nose and concussion, the eyes are beyond his skills. Which he tries to gently explain to Aria immediately followed with "please don't punch me". Aria stays quiet. And then says to just make sure everyone gets back safely. And uses her pike as a blind staff. We indeed make sure everyone got out safely, call in the rebels and ask them to pretty please get a safer place for these people, especially Kris's parents, which they pinky promise. Kris parents continue to be very concerned. They are thankful that Ilaras is also with him, not just "the one's with the little people". Aka the midichlorians. Because Kris continues to refer to those as "little people in his blood". Kraixan also joins us after handing out a bunch of Banthas to local farmers. They also bring a whole ass landspeeder. So we reconvene on our ship, traumatize Ellie with what happened and discuss what the fuck to do next. Aria leaves for her room. Ilaras follows and tries to express her concern, which Aria does not take this well considering their previous communcation issues and Ilaras leaves, pissed off. Simo, against everyone's advice, (and after Tay'Haai is once again racist and assumes he's wearing a helmet and that isn't just literally his face) and goes to Aria to just tell her that her opinion and well being matters, and if she doesn't want pity he is definitely the best one to talk to since he literally cannot see anyway and has no real sense of comparison for it. He then leaves for his room cause he will not deal with everyone else right now either.

Meanwhile the others realize that hey! We had Ellie rebuild Tuyen!! And Tay'Haai does the last bit and reslots his memory core. And Tuyen comes back alive!! Our extremely rage baity architect droid is back! We love him. He is affronted that it took us two years to fix him. He also then immediately decides that the thing to do is go talk to Aria. It involves a lot of "I hate you" "you made me miss you" and also "this doesn't have to make you invalid". Also he throws a blinding helmet and a shooty practice droid at her. Despite the rage baiting she agrees to follow and practice seeing without eyes. Everyone is gathered for practice, including Simo who Ilaras yells at, but he only comes out when Kris asks him with puppy dog eyes. Simo makes the reasonable comment that the whole blinding helmet thing doesn't really work on him. Lacking eyes. Tuyen then turns on a sound thing to blast out sound at the exact frequency of Simo's echo location, causing the absolute worst sensory experience in Simo's life. It sucks. So bad. He looks like a weird puffed up bee cat.

Tay'Haai basically gets a pass since he already has force sense. Ikaros goes next and is also pretty good already since he was trained at this for years, though force sense isn't his specialty. Simo goes next, and, for goddamn once, i roll max number and Simo gets to actually be competent, and he turns out to be a bit of a natural! Shit still sucks but he manages deflect bolts left and right even as Ilaras just starts rapid fire shooting him. Booya. Kris takes a few tries but eventually manages. And then we get to Aria. Who has some trouble at first. But eventually she starts getting the hang of it, but instead of Tuyen she hears her garbage mother taunting her. It's an experience. We do another round against melee weapons and, despite Aria still thinking she's being attacked by her mother we all learn the basic ability of force sense!! Aria's version has the slight hiccup that if used in any situation with conflict she will have to roll force die and if she rolls more dark side and than light side points her vision will be fucked up.

We then decide to go to Mandalore next to check out the Imperial presence there. On the way there Simo goes to Tuyen to ask for help in finally building his cool lightsaber setup. Tuyen again judges him and calls the plan inane but agrees. And finally. Finally. I roll. And I. Succeed. With one asterisk that makes my fancy new dual wilding shape changing lightchakram more difficult to repair and upgrade, which, yeah alright fair enough. I also get an upgrade that means I have to take strain when changing form, but if the enemy hasn't seen the form change yet I get to lower the difficulty of the first attack weee. More details on how exactly this whole setup will work later when my gm has caught me up on everything. Either way I am so happy, this is so cool, I do not care what people say, this is epic wweeeeeeeeeeee

Kris got some funky training weights form his parents that will give him more xp and he uses the time to practice. And get sad as Tuyen tells him about all the dead Jedi who also used to use weights.

Kraixan goes to meet Aria to talk about Mirial, their family, the goodness or badness of Jedi, how much the galaxy just kinda sucks in general. Bonding time.

We eventually arrive at Mandalore and are being hailed by Sundari, at which we transmit Tay'Haai's Mandalorian ID and they go "Uuuh A Viszla." We are welcomed by a group of Manalorians who inform us that while Viszla's aren't exacztly in high regard currently that doesn't have to be a problem. We will only get side quests from Bo-Katan though if Tay'Haai swears his fealty as a Mandalorian. Also we are informed of our current bounties which the Mandalorians are thankfully not intent on collecting. Currently Simo's is the highest as his mom spymaster is doing a bidding war with the Empire as an "alive only" bounty. It is one credit higher than the Empire's.