Light of the Night

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Table of Minor Curses

[randomitemdrop]

All effects are permanent until the curse is lifted. (Note: please don’t curse your players with real-world disabilities or medical problems that people get made fun of for having, that’s not cool.) A few of these might have gone all the way to Moderately Inconvenient, fight me

1. Gravity affects you at a slight angle
2. Nobody can remember your name
3. Everyone knows your name, identity, and backstory
4. There is a widespread belief that rubbing your belly is good luck
5. There is a widespread belief that you are high-level royalty slumming it in disguise
6. There is a widespread belief that you are an actor playing a role hired by the party
7. You believe you are an actor playing a role hired by the party
8. Resting Berserker face
9. Athlete’s foot
10. Acid reflux
11. Inability to tell the difference between Orcs and horses
12. Inability to tell the difference between rocks and bread
13. Inability to tell the difference between leaves and money
14. Inability to tell the difference between Undead and non-Undead
15. You sprout an extra finger on each hand and an extra toe on each foot
16. Every time you sneeze, a random object in your square or an adjacent square catches fire
17. (Non-Halflings only) under the light of a full moon you become a Halfling. If a Halfling character rolls this curse they become a Were-Human
18. Hiccups
19. Animals are scared of you
20. Aberrations are convinced you’re an old pal
21. Immune to potions
22. Orbs give you sinus discharge
23. Armor gives you hives
24. You compulsively narrate your every action
25. Voice is twice as loud
26. Voice is half as loud
27. Voice and mannerisms of (roll d12)
1. Christopher Walken
2. Betty Boop
3. Elmo
4. Homestar Runner
5. DM’s choice of Disney Classic characters or whatever you call the shared Mickey/Donald/Goofy/&c. series
6. DM’s choice of Looney Tunes
7. Grindcore vocalist
8. Bad 4Kidz anime dub protagonist
9. One of those steampunk rappers from the early 2010s
10. Hulk
11. Surly mid-century gangster
12. Macho Man Randy Savage
28. All music causes Irresistible Dance
29. DM chooses a word or phrase that now has the effect of Vicious Mockery on you every time you hear or read it
30. DM chooses a word or phrase that now has the effect of Hideous Laughter on you every time you hear or read it
31. DM chooses a smell or taste that now ignites Berserker Rage on you every time you smell or taste it
32. DM chooses a type of creature or object that Turns you every time you are near one
33. Perpetually under the effects of the spell Grease
34. You drop every item you attempt to hold
    
35. The curse conjures a single immortal (roll d10) whose only goal in life is to irritate and frustrate you (physical pain is incidental)
1. Horsefly
2. Rat
3. Crab
4. Disembodied voice
5. Gelatinous Cube, three inches across, Hastened
6. Fire Elemental, size class Tiny (all stats one-fourth of standard Fire Elemental)
7. Lurker
   
8. Mimic
9. Halfling Bard
10. Exact duplicate of you
36. You physically resemble a famous outlaw
37. You physically resemble a famous enemy general
38. You physically resemble a famous actor or musician
39. Unable to speak verbs
40. Face is upside down
41. Uncontrollable bioluminescence
42. Uncontrollable jazz hands
43. Feelings of antagonism cause you to compulsively snap your fingers like in West Side Story
44. The next non-living organic substance you touch will stick to you as if coated in Sovereign Glue
45. If viewed by magical means, you appear to contain vast magical power as if some powerful magical item is hidden inside you
46. Hair and fingernails grow at a hundred times the usual speed
47. Your body odor becomes significantly more powerful and smells like delicious meat
48. You leave clearly visible tracks wherever you go, regardless of terrain
49. You sweat ink
50. When making a list you are perpetually unable to think of the last item

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[ragabond]

this is a poem

[lord-of-wolves]

i couldn’t not draw this

[someonesfavoriteworstnightmare]

the rat poem is too powerful that’s why they don’t talk about it

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[shegos]

happy national coming out day! (oct. 11th, 2021)

santana lopez (glee)
patrick brewer (schitt’s creek)
nia nal (supergirl)
eric effiong (sex education)
clare devlin (derry girls)
sophie moore (batwoman)
rosa diaz (brooklyn nine-nine)
willow rosenberg (buffy the vampire slayer)
kat edison (the bold type)
elena alvarez (one day at a time)

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This Online Group Is Solely Dedicated To People Repairing Their Clothes In The Most Stunning Ways (50 Pics)

What can people do to minimize the amount of trash that fills landfills? One of the smart and sustainable ways is fixing your clothes instead of throwing them away.

[sartorialadventure]

^” Almost Exactly One Year Ago Today I Tried To Take My Own Life. The Emts Had To Cut Off My Pants But I Decided To Keep Them And Repaired Them With Bias Tape. I Call Them My Kintsugi Jeans “

^” My Child Requested “Flames In Space” For His Knee Mend.. “

^”Every Time This Dress Gets A Stain, I Fill It In With Fabric Markers”

^ “ First Time Mending, Hope It Holds Up! “

[mypopculturesummer]

This is beautiful!

[leydhawk]

@wastelesscrafts

[wastelesscrafts]

Thank you for tagging me!

This article is about r/Visiblemending, which is a great subreddit if you’re trying to get into mending.

If you’ve been following my blog, you may recognise some of the pictures I’ve posted as examples in this article. (Check out the article or my image sources to see the original Reddit posts.)

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[fugottron]

I’ve seen this on my dash so many times and I honestly can’t tell if this is a real animal or just a super realistic puppet

[salamencerobot]

Its a Pallas cat, it’s a real animal, and they really do look like that..I’m convinced they are the inspiration for Fuzzy’s

[thebiscuiteternal]

This cat just told a bad pun.

[tygermama]

I just realized there’s an entire nibble ring around that hole

[sarasa-cat]

Pallas’ Cats (Otocolobus manul) also known as Manul are an absolute treasure. 

Native Habitat:

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[wooteena]

are you telling me americans have stores that open up SPECIFICALLY for halloween and just. dont exist any other time of the year. you people are insane

[off-and-odd-again]

Imagine an empty storefront. Some business that closed years ago. The building stands empty, unused for literal months. And then boom. Fall comes around and there’s a Spirit Halloween. There’s no escape.

[wooteena]

what the fuck 😁

[enderenby404]

Yeah this is a thing

[krystal-prisms]

Are you serious

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yes and they are divine gifts of beauty and cheap plastic lawn decorations.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

… I honestly assumed that the existence of Halloween stores was just a running joke in American TV shows.

[what-even-is-thiss]

No they’re very real

[bisexual-redacted-energy]

Can confirm this phenomenon also occurs in Canada

[xxfanenbyanonymousxx]

It’s fun

[what-even-is-thiss]

Oh, it’s a blast.

[moonymango]

Wait, so during non-halloween they are just empty? Like, they don’t switch between seasonal decorations (like christmas, easter, etc), they just…close and wait for next year???

[strawberrydragon]

Yeah, it’s not a permanent store. A company will rent an empty building for the 2-3 months before halloween, sell halloween stuff, and then clean everything up and disappear until the following year. And they’ll usually set up in different buildings from year to year. They just find any good-sized empty store space that will give them a cheap, short-term lease.

It’s so temporary that the halloween stores don’t even have a real sign, they just hang up a banner outside:

[wheeled-jack]

So you’re telling me that every year for a month or two the Spirit of Halloween possesses a dead building then disappears?

[velvety-vixen]

that is exactly what we’re telling you

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[llupinremus]

#me when it’s finally october

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[shieldshredder]

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[kushielsmercy]

I’m no lore expert, but I do think that Witcher canons that leave out The Choice trial miss a critical piece of how the wolf boys view their lots.

For those unfamiliar, The Choice is said to be the first trial that trainees must pass through. As best I can tell, it only appears in book canon. It happens when the boys are around 9 or 10 and is the first, least deadly (relatively speaking), round of enhancements. The boys eat a special diet of mushrooms and herbs and start the really grueling physical training.

The key thing about The Choice is that it’s presented as just that, a choice. In theory, the boys can say no. They could head back down the mountain and seek their fortune elsewhere.

Now, there’s of course a million complications with that. They’re children. They’re unwanted. The world is cruel and they’re just as likely to end up dead if they’re sent out on their own. The Choice isn’t much of a choice at all.

But I think, as humans, we rely strongly on the illusion of choice. Did someone really choose to work a certain job when they applied to a hundred places, heard back from two, and one paid twice as much? In some ways, no. But in other important ways, you sent the applications and you made a selection. It might have been a choice where the alternative was not feasible, but it was a choice. And as a human having some level of agency, any level, is important.

So let’s apply that idea to our boys.

First there’s Geralt. By all accounts he’s been with the witcher’s the longest, to the point where he has barely any memory of the outside world. Kaer Morhen is his home, being a witcher is his destiny. Sure, that’s no choice, but in the same way we have no choice in the family we are born into. We may at times look at other families who seem to be happier, kinder, richer, and wish that ours were different, but there’s rarely a fundamental feeling that someone fucked us over. As Geralt would say, destiny is a bitch. But there’s no one on this mortal plane to direct that anger at, so most of the time we don’t bother.

And what’s more, Geralt has no comparison. Nothing to be angry that he doesn’t have, because being a witcher is all there is. And, other than the likely horrible death, it probably even sounds pretty cool. I’d bet you good money that the fully grown witcher’s wintering in the keep aren’t sharing horror stories while deep in their cups. Not in a culture that values toughness and traditional masculinity. Nope, they’re bragging about their heroics and the best kills of the season. It’s no wonder Geralt has such romantic notions about his own life.

So sure, Geralt was presented a choice. But he didn’t need it, because just like you’ve always been your mother’s child, he’s always been a witcher. Sometimes that sucks, especially later in life when you start to know other mothers, other options, and can compare. But some things are so fundamental to you as a person that if you made any other “choice” and you wouldn’t be you at all.

Next is Eskel. Steady and sure.

From what we can tell, Eskel came to the witcher’s at a normal age, probably around six or seven. Late enough that he knew his family, he knew his town, he knew a little of life outside the keep. We don’t know much about his background other than he was Hillfolk and presumably dirt poor. But he knew a before and he knew an after; he could compare.

So for Eskel, The Choice was, in an important sense, a choice. If he had said no we don’t know what he would be going back to - probably a short life on the streets begging for scraps. But he knew a little of the outside world, knew in a very tangible sense what it was to be human, and he said yes, okay, I’ll give that up.

And I think that a really important factor in why he’s so content with his lot. It might often be six metric tons of shit, and he might sometimes wonder what might have been, or what the hell he was thinking when he said yes. But he said yes, so who is there to blame really?

And then Lambert. My darling angry rat man Lambert.

He came to Kaer Morhen late. Much later than the other boys. He knew damn well that the outside world was shit, but it was his world. His to hate, but his. He never wanted to be a Witcher and he damn well didn’t choose this life.

And this is me stepping out on a limb, but I think it’s really likely he didn’t choose. Not just in a metaphorical sense, but also as in the trials. If The Choice happened around age 9 or 10, Lambert would have missed it entirely. I think it’s really likely that the instructors skipped it altogether, just started shoving mushrooms down his throat as quick as possible, because the older the boys have lower rates of survival and he needed to be put through The Grasses as soon as possible. So even at the most basic level, stripping away any philosophical discussion about what is choice, really, when all your options are shit? Lambert didn’t choose.

Lambert got dealt a shit hand in a game he never wanted to play. No wonder he’s pissed.

[janzoo]

Well-put, for both the lore and the character meta (even though the latter hurts so much ow). If I may add onto the lore part a bit, here’s a clip from the first Witcher game where Eskel talks about the whole process. Talk of the Trials runs from 0:53-2:35, if you watch the full video, warning for passing mention of sui.cide near the very end.

Through this we learn that there’s a third step, and this is when their eyes get their signature mutations, among other things. The Witcher Wiki here and here calls this the Trial of Dreams. (And if the “Selective Mutation” card from Gwent is anything to go by, it’s not pleasant. View the premium card animation here with a MAJOR WARNING for a nee.dle and heavily implied/impending medical/eye hor.or.) There’s even an optional fourth trial for candidates who are suspected of losing their memories of their witcher studies prior to the Trial of the Grasses.

So yeah, becoming a witcher involves more than just one trial, and all of them sound like they fucking suck. 🙃 Going by the above meta, the wolf bros had to choose between some crappy options either way. Maybe the idea of becoming a witcher (assuming they survive the trials) felt like becoming something more, something greater, like how kids dream of becoming superheroes. And they probably did get a better general education than they likely would’ve gotten otherwise; with Eskel originally growing up as a Hillfolk country bumpkin, would he have ever learned to read and write? But we all know how far from their reality that is, and that the trade-off for their advantages is heavy. How much do children really understand that, though?

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[crazyyfilmyfreak]

BASICALLY THAT'S THE SUMMARY OF FIRST 1-7 EPISODES OF WHAT IF 💀

Also Speaking about Today's episode there are so many Special and Best moments but i will mention a few of my personal favs which i really enjoyed Ep7 was a fucking Wild and Fun Ride and it was nice to see Barbie Thor being back onscreen After a very long time and i can't express how glad i am seeing him Happy ( yk after everything thor's been thru in mcu 😭 )

OH DARCY I MISSED YOU SM & THIS BITCH MARRIED HOWARD THE DUCK AND ELVIS WAS THE ONE WHO OFFICIATED IT 😭😭😭 I CAN'T ?

SURTUR SON OF A BITCH FLIRTING WITH STATUE OF LIBERTY 😭 💀

THIS SCENE MADE ME EMOTIONAL I DON'T THINK I NEED TO EXPLAIN WHY ?

even tho it was only for a very small brief moment of time i actually really Enjoyed Thor and Jane together , they were really cute and the way the chemistry was working bw them was INSANE unlike uhm uhm the mcu jane & thor

FINALLY THE WHOLE BATTLE BW CAROL AND THOR WAS REALLLY INCREDIBLE AND HILARIOUS AT TIMES 😭 AND I REALLY LOVED THEIR WHOLE Enemies to Friends thingy in the End .

Also I feel the title of today's Episode Should have been What if Odin was a Decent Father instead of What if Thor were an only child 😏