Elara was leaning against a pillar, completely mesmerized. Her face was flushed, her breath was shallow, and her thumb was nervously tracing the rim of her cup. As the minstrel hit a particularly soulful high note, Elara unconsciously bit her lower lip, her gaze fixed on the singer’s throat.

Nadya’s tail gave a slow, predatory twitch. She saw the "maths" of desire written all over the other woman.

"Careful, Little Bird," Nadya rasped, her voice cutting through the music like a serrated blade. "You bite that lip any harder, you will bleed into your wine. Is waste of good vintage."

Elara jumped, her face turning a shade of crimson that rivaled a sunset. "Nadya! I... I wasn't... the music is just very moving."

Nadya hopped down from the sill, landing with a silent, heavy grace. She leaned into Elara’s space. She looked at the minstrel, then back at Elara, a slow, mocking smirk pulling at her scarred lip.

"He has eyes like a kicked puppy and hands that have never seen a day of real work," Nadya whispered. ," Nadya whispered. "Pretty, yes. But if ghouls come? Pizdets. Total pizdets. He will be screaming like a girl while they chew his throat." Hr voice dropping into that dark, 'inappropriate' register she used when she wanted to rattle someone. "But the way he moves his hips when he hits the low notes? Da. Is very 'moving.' Makes the blood go to interesting places, yeah?"

Elara sputtered, "I—that is a very crude way of putting it!"

"Is honest way," Nadya countered. She leaned an inch closer, her gold eyes glinting with a mischievous, sharp light. "You want to take him behind the hay-wain and see if he sings as well when he is breathless? Or are you just going to stand here and melt like a candle in a furnace?"

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>>97255022
>Clergy in RPGs are usually Christian inspired
Look further back, to tribal societies with matrons as both communal and spiritual (though usually not military) leaders.
The pre-christian maiden-mother-crone trinity.
Seated Woman of Catalhoyuk as mistress of the beasts. Cybele and her clergy, or Circe as (depending on version of myth) high priestess or lesser deity.

>>97260623
Don't quit your day job.

>>97260623
Quit your day job

>>97260623
Don't quit your day job.

>>97259383
I know the dangers of vampires, they're no easy targets. I've been preparing her for a while, teaching her everything from firearms handling and homemade explosives to exorcism rituals and surveillance so I hope she'll manage it. I'm interested in seeing how she behaves or a real assignment, a pile of ash is a pile of ash (or a stiff), doesn't matter how she does it. Of course, I'll have someone really close, someone she has never seen before and won't have a reason to suspect. To answer your question - ghouls are slaves to the vampire, doing their master's dirty work. They consume the tainted blood of a vampire in return for a fraction of it's power. They don't die to sunlight or any other vampire-specific weakness, bullets and fire still work. I was considering them because they could be easier to capture (in theory) but they're still human, I don't know if she's ready for dealing with that yet.

>>97259391
A holy ward is never a bad idea but everyone who's capable of performing such miracles is either too far away or unable to help. I'm not really a specialist when it comes to hauntings, I know the basic methods of dealing with spooks but I'm not confident in sending her to deal with something I'm not that experienced with.
>she gets turned, all her family & friends get killed, & your cell get compromised.
I hope not, I'd be a shame to lose such a promising recruit. That's also the reason she's being kept in the dark for now.

>>97259438
Plenty of vampires in big cities. They're inhuman enough to justify killing, all these silly folk tales and legens do wonders. I've mad sure it's a weak one, been watching it for 2 weeks. Still following the same routine, trying to blend in with humans. They're great actors, pretending to care about their "family" and such, even when no one is looking. These ones are usually the weakes when it comes to my and my friends experience.

>>97255909
I don't know the demon in my book is pretty chill when he doesn't want out or is demanding my life essence. I'd be remiss to listen to his ramblings though, seems a tad unstable. Tells me to "watch out for the machines" whatever that means.

>>97243514
Funnily enough our invitation to the England gathering does have a crow on it. Apparently it'll be multiple day event, there'll be a costumed ball and everything. I'm not entirely comfortable with them asking me to bring the chair though.
>>97245407
Well I didn't mean to assume, I had just remembered from earlier Fed discussion. Perhaps they might be less careless employers, I don't know. Best of luck with your kraken hunt, the submersible looks useful but dangerous.

>>97260252
Oh that is definitely pointing to the Abbey. I hope you are well off, they get picky about their dues. Sounds like the chair and the party is, perchance, leading to an execution to top off the ball. That or a hunt involving the werewolf. One can never be too sure unless you know the host. I am going to be stricken with envy if it isn't an execution. Positively green with envy, I can feel it.
Also feel free to tell me if I overstep, but could you ask your little friend in the book if they know anything about a rituals of renewal that happen at the year's turn? Everything I found about this script circle translates it as such but I can feel things are a miss and it is driving me up the wall.

>>97259929
>To answer your question - ghouls are slaves to the vampire, doing their master's dirty work.
Shit man, I know about Renfields. Why call them ghouls though? They drink their master's blood, they don't eat flesh.

I still think you're playing this a bit risky anyway. So many things can go wrong and get a promising young hunter killed through no fault of their own.

>>97256957
Are they human? I don't think anything that evolved on that planet would need sleep, at least not in the way we do. How would plants grow with constant sunlight, would they still need have cycles of producing sugars if they can just get all their energy from a constant source? How do the people dissipate heat on the sun side?

>>97256935
In real world it was a fairly nebulous term (I don't think it actually was an official ship classification in the same way light cruiser or armored cruiser were) but primarily referred to a cruiser with battleship-scale guns.
In this case it's just a terminology difference. The humans refers to ships bigger and more heavily armed than cruisers as battleships, While the Seirans consider their biggest ships to be more heavily armed and armored versions of their standard cruisers, and so call them battlecruisers or heavy cruisers. Seiran battleships/battlecruisers also do perform more like big cruisers, since they're fast for their size and there's more overlap in armament size between them and cruisers.

>>97256935
Now you triggered my autism. Basically there's multiple flavors battlecruisers.
The one people think of is usually the british flavor. A battleship sized ship, with downstripped armor (enough to stand up to cruisers, but might as well be paper against proper battleships) standard battleship caliber guns but less of them (they usually lost a turret compared to a battleship of the same era) and more speed. They were designed to destroy cruisers and act as scouts, and since scouting groups were usually made of cruisers, to destroy enemy scouts and screens. They won't last long in the line of battle because no fucking armor as the bongs learned painfully when their battlecruisers started exploding during the battle of Jutland. Although there's more to it than that, the battlecruisers had dropped all ammo handeling safety to achieve higher firerates, so good hits were likely to blow the entire thing up.

The other is the Imperial German flavor. Also battleship sized, fast enough to keep up with cruisers, with better armor and the same number of guns but at the low end of what you'd consider battleship scale. These were meant to fill the same role as the british BCs, but were also intended to survive in the line of battle, hence the better armor compared to british BCs. They actuall held up okay during Jutland, although there were plenty of losses anyway.

Battlecruisers eventually became obsolete with technonlogical improvment. Once fast battleships became a thing (just before or during WW2), there was no longer a need for a ship that sacrificed armor and/or firepower for speed. You could have a proper battleship going fast, why build a battlecruiser? Things like ships carrying floatplanes for scouting also meant the role of destroying scouts could no longer be fully fulfilled by them.

>>97256935

Think of it as a Glass Cannon: Battleship Armament + Cruiser Armor. The problem is that they were rarely used this way and they just grouped them together with Battleships, wasting their speed advantage, and ending in battle roles for which they weren't designed for. Also Battleships eventually became just as fast as Battlecruisers making the later obsolete.

>>97238121
Sorry to insist, but has anyone here used World Anvil?
Should I just pull the plug on the lowest monthly tier and report back?

Imagine playing this SOCIAL activity alone.

lol. That's it, not even an lmao

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Man, I don't care what anyone says about AI. Being able to use it to create variants on the same image is so useful for creating aliens for my sci-fi game.
Life is too long to spend forever pissing around on pinterest.

>>97258664
Most of the people kvetching about AI images are furry/tranny artfags pissed off they aren't multimillionaires yet. I pay them no heed.

>>97258664
Do you print them out?

>>97260546
Nah, I use Obsidian to keep my notes and write up together and just throw them in there and Foundry VTT which I use to run the actual game/keep the mechanics in.

>>97260703
So tell us about your games of 3.0 then anon

>>97260731
Anon, no one of us in here actually plays the game remember.

>>97260460
> HH
> PEOPLE DESPISE MARINE PLAYERS
it's LITERALLY the marine game. If you don't like it 40keks is over there

>>97260206
Because sometimes you can't just destroy everything sometimes you want to capture stuff somewhat intact
Also the titans can't really board enemy ships (you know, that MARINE type action) or fight underground or in buildings, etc.
But yeah, generally if the titans check the marines out in open ground they are going to kill all of them

>>97260340
Yup. 7 minor explosion, 8 regular Explodes. But I'd insist on minor explosions still causing some vehicle damage. As in, it should be Vehicle Damage Plus.
Different vehicles could explode at different strengths (Str = Rear AV/2) because I think maybe a Rhino doesn't explode as hard as a Land Raider

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>>97260421
>-2 cards is the main issue
See I haven't gotten enough hands on experience with the game to know if these synergies will pay off, but the existance of them makes me want to build decks to figure them out. In theory a ramping effect can be good for a large monsters and or angels deck. The game is subtly different in how it evaluates drawing and cheating in cards, so it inherently looks useful but only if you can put that mana to use. Theoretically, a "void matters" deck doesn't want to spend too much time building up sites to get the max benefit of the remaining void spaces.

>>97256158
Post hating on the game were met with replies defending the game so poster grew more hostile towards the game.

>>97260556
Yeah I love the way the AI art looks so good, fuck the haters my dude

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Look, it's even using the same playbook for hating on FAB! They have nothing actually against Sorcery, yet they must seethe every time it's brought up. What's hilarious is this game is the furthest removed as possible from AI because it showcases traditional artwork only.

Just flag useless posts like that and move on. The trolls can't actually hurt you.

>>97260710
Do you like the artwork on the precon deck boxes?

Perchance's little persona generator can be hilarious sometimes. I've been called a cuck and a manlet in the past three days

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>>97253446
Pathetic. I don't know what's more pathetic: generating Slaangor or your attempt to humanise it (where are the pincers?)

>>97260558
why are you such a cunt all the time?

>>97260155
At first I thought you were schizoposting about something like AI requiring human sacrifice

>>97260643
that will probably be part of Mage: the Awakening 5th edition if it ever comes out

>>97260453
They have a ridiculous number of Galleons. They used to use them to beef up bug lances long before the Caps thought of the augmented lance.

>>97260631
>>97260462
we just NEED to invest a few more trillion at Elon. He will save us. have Faith Stay the Course Star Pioneers!!!

>>97260685
SpaceX has been doing more for space exploration and exploitation technology than NASA for over a decade, western government space programs are a joke.

>>97260722
>SpaceX has been doing more for space exploration and exploitation technology than NASA for over a decade
Because we gave a million times more money to Elon than NASA over the last decade!

>>97260722
Not him but the new Mars rover is pretty great. The issue is manned space travel. The bean counters at NASA have always wanted the more cost-effective probes and rovers. And after Van Braun died, so did the greatest advocate for manned space travel at NASA. I still love how SpaceX copied NASA's notes on the Saturn engines to make the Falcon engines, yet have so much better thrust control. Reminds me of somebody taking a classic muscle V8 big block and converting it to EFI.

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>>97249117
So, got som GW models over christmas, love how they look. Makes sense that the space marine is massive compared to my 28mm historical, but so is this steel rook. I thought Steel rooks were suppose to be normal human knights? is AoS range 32mm instead of 25mm?

>>97260681
>? it seems like bench lighting is good enough for almost everyone in this thread
They're using it as a light source for photography there, not as tool to plan the shading&highlights that the anon you replied to was talking about. Typical autistim context blindness on your part.

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>>97260697
GW scale creep is real and massive

>>97260697
>is AoS range 32mm instead of 25mm?
GW hasn't been 25mm for decades, they've spent most of their time being 28mm, and have gradually but unevenly shifted over to 32mm in the last few years. So AoS and modern 40k miniatures are both 32mm scale, by and alrge, but the space marine towers over the AoS knight because the marine is supposed to be somewhere around 7-8 feet tall.

>>97260681
Okay, lets take the 4th example. Would those blacks look the same if he just put gloss black on there? Would they look better?

>>97256593
I mostly jacked off to milf OF accounts

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If you play flying decks you're a fucking coward

Quit bumping the thread retard

>>97256593
I only sign in on odd numbered days, I play the absolute bare minimum I can to harvest as many daily rewards as possible.
I had no idea it was even down

>>97260636
Do you play paper magic or are you just forcing yourself to play MTG for punishment?

>>97255436
And six... is a blatant provocation*. Pardon, I'm somewhat distracted by Tats and plentiful threats of excessive violence she's making, mostly aimed at me, and five other things that are somewhat on fire.

>>97239284
'Exciting' is a way to phrase it, but, frankly, I'll take this over having to deal with that monstrosity you unfortunately are near, and every unsupervised Discipline-aided public nuisance trying to do something dangerous with it.

The Prince of Bridgeport thanks you for sharing reports on your situation; while that abomination is not quite something any of us can possibly deal with, were it to suddenly start moving towards Connecticut, being aware of it is comforting, in a way. There's got to be a finite number of giant under-lake beasts, and being able to account for one of them is nice.

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>>97253789
It is... Curious.
Multiple different stories from radically different sources echoing one another. Just enough matches. I cannot wholly trust any one of the dozen or so stories delivered but...

Perhaps this is hell.

Were it that I could go back to hiding in my hole a few weeks ago. Or gone with my gut instinct when all this kicked off and started walking Westward.

It is out of my hands. All I can do is offer my council once- if- the last of the invading war party is dealt with. More the fool I am to walk the path of compassion. Ironic.

Again though, my thanks blood.

>>97255571
The Catalogue of this little chronicle should prove useful to some. And hey. Suppose I lived up to that desire to be a very budget Nos. Like to think I look the part now with the Loup damage.

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Attention to everyone: Stay away from the Austin-Texas Area. A group of hunters have devised some sort of light-based weapon that has devastated a cohort of our Neonates and Ancillas and left nothing but ash in their wake.

>>97255436
The bastard we interrogated was more knowledgeable about the history of the NSDAP than a typical US neo-nazi. He believes The Protocols is a forgery - even though he agrees with it - the US didn't enter WW2 just to fight anti-semitism, the nazis admired Henry Ford who published anti-semitic shit and so on.
We immediately, correctly suspected he belonged to a more European flavor of organization.

Here's what we have:
A) "Bridgeport Citizens Volunteer Militia" (our nickname), typical US far right "rifle association" madmen
B) European-style far right social center. This is not your friendly neighborhood community center, this is some two dozen neo-nazi squatters in an abandoned, illegally occupied warehouse. In exchange for sleeping in that shithole they do "activism", i.e. protests, violence, theft, racketeering...
C) Your alley of drug dealers giving fentanyl zombies their fix

It's a triangular commerce, where:
- the militia trains, radicalizes and recruits the "best" from the social center
- the social center makes sure the money from the dealers arrives on time, they also bully citizens out of their money (THE ASSHOLES HOPED TO ROB OUR MANSION AND OTHERS ON XMAS)
- the dealers extract money from fentanyl zombies (and we speculate, get hostile kindred some bodies)
- the money goes to fund the militia's weapons and activities


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>>97260690
The neo-nazi seemed to be legitimately clueless about the existence of kindred. They probably don't know they're being used by them. I can imagine food and drinks contaminated with vitae as a way to ghoul them.
Militias are typically armed to the teeth and paranoid about being infiltrated, which is why we'd rather solve the issue the Brujah way than the Toreador way, this time.
To count some heads, House Venus is a coterie of 6 quasi-ancillae, plus one quasi-Elder with her fledgling. They can add drones, "land-drones" (robot dolls), and military grade-ordnance for example anti-materiel rifles, fully-automatic shotguns, LMGs, explosives, etc. as force multipliers.

>>97259939
Nope.

>>97260579
>My ignorance is clearly the fault of everyone else but me
Tragic

>>97260595
You lose.

I win

>>97259405
>Curious
No, it's not.
You're feeding one of the most basic trolls on the site.
Stop falling for baits of such low quality.

>>97252359
Good advice. For example, I have a nice crenellated guard tower I picked up at Michael's for $5, in the birdhouse isle. :)

bump

>>97213658
?????

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>>97252359
You inspired me to make this.

Needs more rivets and details on the doors etc but now I'm planning to make a whole FOB set for the guard based off a modular base container.

>>97258922
I love this

>>97260651
It specifies you can't take slightly happier and slightly more depressed together, but you also don't need to spend five points on permanent gender change if you have shapeshifting so it balances out.

>>97260676
Awesome, glad to hear everything works out in the end.

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>>97260651
>I'll do my duty to allow every anon to become whoever they want to be
Hello based department?

Post Dispatch

>>97260651
Can I change my build? Since anon is being a qtp2tie?

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>>97256313
The game has been officially out for like a month. Give it a little time to breathe. It has a large community for a game this new. People kitbashing, digibashing, painting, building terrain. Getting lots of people into the hobby. I don't understand why people doompost about it so much aside from chud drama.

>>97257675
>the smugness of the massive -D
I know why I'm giggling, and I'm alright with it.

>>97256669
>If it was truly edgy, I wouldn't be offended by it!
Sounds like it is edgy if you're getting all offended

>>97256750
Those look like garbage

>>97258422
There's no aside. There's a bunch of attention whoring little edgelords, and that's all there is to it.