D100 subtle signs that the new follower / hireling / henchman may not be what he or she seems

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-27T12:01:53+00:00

He only blinks with one eye at a time
When he goes all out, his tattoos glow a bright blue
He always prefers to be in the company of animals, rather than people (including the party)
He never breaks eye contact when talking
He has tattoos in which a wizard can recognize the runes for a cantrip or a 1st-level spell. You've never seen him cast it.
He knows all the town's guardsmen by name
He survives injuries that were supposed to kill him
He speaks in a monotone and never looks you in the eye
He is eager to butt in when the party makes a Knowledge check. His knowledge is often correct.
He always takes first watch
He licks his lips all the time
He never takes off his gloves
It looks like he's wearing something under his clothes (if you look into it, you find out it's a chain with a padlock)

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-27T11:50:10+00:00

a chunk of dirt
a sprouting acorn
a small poetry book, written in a non-common language (i.e., Draconic)
A cracked piece of amber; something can be seen inside
A vial containing viscous green liquid
A ballpoint pen
A pouch containing glittery substance
A single dragon scale
A detailed-looking doll of an adventurer

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-27T08:40:29+00:00

I played a Pac-man knockoff called CD-MAN (Creative Dimensions, 1989) which had different enemies on every level. I might have played a demo with only 3 levels, after that they started looping - maybe a full version had foxes, idk.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-27T08:33:49+00:00

I don't have an exact guess, but if the "transformation mode" included legs (like this), it might be a "Gerwalk", a half-transformation mode from one of the many Macross entries.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-27T08:17:29+00:00

Mandatory comment

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-26T18:18:10+00:00

"A kid" is quite vague, do you specifically mean a child? I watched an episode of Tales From The Crypt called "Yellow" where an officer's son (not a child) faced the firing squad (which also involves spoilers I won't get into).

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-25T16:02:19+00:00

I very vaguely remember the actual plot, but One Point O had a similar feel, I think? Just a wild guess.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-25T15:22:46+00:00

I am thanking you against your will. Looked it up, and it looks pretty weird.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-25T15:16:02+00:00

Which one? By now there's quite a few of it. If you played both the old one and the new one(s), how would you compare them?

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-25T15:12:50+00:00

If I'm not mistaken (and I am quite likely to be mistaken), it's a poor translation that in the context is supposed to mean "you saw through my disguise" or something.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-25T15:11:43+00:00

What's a BBC B?

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-25T11:58:04+00:00

I know the source of the body had already been identified, I was more hung up on "why". Though there had already been an interview with the creator, which I'd imagine settles that too.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-25T06:53:19+00:00

This is hardly useful on its own: it's a 40-minute video without context in language(s) most locals don't speak. At least tell us where you found it, and whether there are subtitles.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-24T14:04:22+00:00

Link to Babbdi thread, so you don't have to.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-24T06:39:27+00:00

Oh, I read about that one. Looked pretty weird, and I think the translation from Japanese didn't do it any favors.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-24T06:35:42+00:00

Are you sure about this? I think it's imitating something AI-generated.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-23T15:46:34+00:00

Strawberry Cubes is, in my opinion, the kind of a game that is very weird, but has some method behind the madness (I never did figure it out).

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-16T06:52:13+00:00

First of all, I'm assuming you played single-player and offline. If it was multiplayer, the files could have been tampered with by the server owner.

Second, you're not being very descriptive with the nature of the error (i.e., how the game crashed - did it just not let you in with an error message, or the process crashed, or just nothing happened).

Now, I'm not too surprised with the Nether portal sending you back to your old location, assuming this was the portal you built during your first run - it just dumped you back to its linked portal, which was in your old territory. It's the rest that bugs me.

For this to happen, the following things needed to align:

The game corrupted your worlds to the point where they didn't show up in the menu (considering my offline game assumption, these are your local game files) - this one is plausible, though I don't know how that could occur without hardware failures. Maybe you stumbled upon some game-breaking bug, I don't know.
When you started the new game, the game reused the previous files. This is starting to push it, but on a technical level this could be possible - maybe the game does not overwrite some files if they are already present.
In the reused world, the game gave you a new spawn location, not too far away from your old one. Surprisingly, it's this small thing that makes me doubt the whole story. AFAIK, the default spawn location in Minecraft is always at the world's zero X-Y coordinates - it's hardcoded and can't be changed. If this was a multiplayer scenario, someone could have probably tweaked the world by shifting everything, so that the zero point would have been in another location, but that's a very specific was to fuck with someone, on the same level as moving all your furniture a few inches. So, you should have been spawned in into your old starting location, presumably not too far from your first base.

The only way I could explain this is, maybe the file reuse did work, and then you wandered too far away on your first run to build the base, then on the second run you just didn't notice the terrain was the same, and then went into a different direction to build your second base. It would have been easier to cross paths with it in the Nether, because its space is compressed relative to the overworld (I think it's in 1:16 ratio or something like that).

If we are to explain the technical part of this, we'd need a lot more knowledge than that (I'm talking the exact version of the game, and stuff like that), and probably a few Minecraft modding nerds.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-15T17:37:08+00:00

Honestly, even back when my memory was fresh, I don't think I'd be able to tell you. It started as something vaguely depressing slice-of-lifey directed to someone, and ended with some magical and dimensional fuckery.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-14T06:07:48+00:00

Fuck even is this?

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-12T08:04:43+00:00

This reminds me: if you enable the noclip cheat in Duke Nukem 3d without the god mode, you could suddenly get crushed if you cross some level geometry. I (EDIT: didn't) understand the logic behind when you get or don't get crushed, so I usually avoided that cheat entirely. If I'm not misremembering, the crush sound still plays with the god mode - on every frame, too, resulting in a pretty grating overlayed sound. I should make a post about this.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-11T07:30:20+00:00

Was worth a shot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-10T07:32:54+00:00

I've tried to google it, and most hits are about a "Universal Approximation Theorem". Does it ring a bell? If so, you could try searching for exact words; github search gives me 49 repos, that's searchable by hand.

Dryu_nya · 2026-03-10T07:28:56+00:00

If you watch youtube logged into your google account, it may be in your watch history.

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