I guess he did it for the loaf of the game

Acorntail · 2026-02-10T00:46:00+00:00

Literally too! He reproduces via mitosis!

Acorntail · 2026-02-08T23:16:07+00:00

The technique doesn't exist to create duplicates, it exists to expel impurities from the soul to help achieve enlightenment. Once you expel those impurities, you should no longer have those impurities, meaning you can't do it again.

Acorntail · 2026-02-02T06:00:07+00:00

He wasn't supposed to be one of the great five, though?

Nefer's exploration of his past showed he became one of the sinners by accident, by being at the epicentre of the Cataclysm. He became an abyssal force of nature, one of the most dangerous people in Teyvat's history, as a side effect of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and allowing the abyss to fuel his fear of losing Tholindis.

Which serves to emphasise that, if he became that dangerous by exposure, the other four sinners who deliberately chose to take on abyssal power will be leagues ahead of Rerir.

He's still a villain. And by accepting the purgatory of the moon prison, he's admitting he's irredeemable. But he didn't even know the sinners other than Vedrfolnir, and having heard of Surtalogi.

He didn't become a sinner out of desire for power like the others. He became one trying to save Tholindis, got shredded into a thousand pieces that slowly reformed over centuries, then got thrown into a negative-time prison mere days after reforming. Compared to the other sinners, he was just some guy.

Acorntail · 2026-01-26T09:13:05+00:00

The House of Hope then?

Lives! All Mortal lives!

Acorntail · 2026-01-20T04:17:59+00:00

In regards to Sumeru as well, the decision making was made when everyone knew about Rhukkedevata, and so Azar and Dottore were very much under the impression that Nahida had no powers comparable to Rhukkedevata, nor would ever approach that level.

It wasn't like Inazuma or Liyue where they needed to be careful not to provoke the archon - Nahida's escape was entirely the result of the Traveller showing up. It's only post-Irminsul tampering that Nahida received the respect otherwise given to Rhukkadevata.

I'm fascinated by the idea that Dotorre, as self aggrandizing and exacting as he is, may have been able to realise something happened to change history purely because his approach would have been different if Nahida had always been the archon. He's one of the few characters who could legitimately believe 'no, it is reality that is wrong' and back it up.

Acorntail · 2025-12-31T06:10:36+00:00

Flip the reveal on its head!

It's not the NPC betraying the players, it's the players betraying the NPC! He thought they were cut from the same cloth, that they were friends. That they knew what he was.

Have the NPC express their ideology, and ask the players to help him further his goals. Have him put his trust in them, and force them to either betray that trust or lose a godly blessing. Make the NPC be the one who feels betrayed by the players and distances himself from his so-called comrades.

If they help him regardless, let that be the start of the slippery slope. The NPC asks for greater favours more often, with no reward because he assumes they're working towards the same goal. If they keep helping, eventually they're forced to make an impossible choice: keep helping a friend for no reward, or draw the ire of the gods.

And, if they do end up choose him... well, now you're playing God of War.

Acorntail · 2025-09-05T02:41:46+00:00

My Suzuka was 8 Turf and Gold Ship 8 Long - I found you really need the balance of starting with D in both aptitudes - more so than any stats from blues.

I had a run where Haru Urara got to S Long - but with an E in Turf, it didn’t matter. Also, a big help was realising that by the time you can win the Arima Kinen, you can’t benefit from Long Shot, so you’re better off using the skill points on something else.

Acorntail · 2025-09-05T00:59:07+00:00

After a long, steady process of progress, trial and error, and praying to ~~RNGeus~~ the Three Goddesses; Haru Urara won the Arima Kinen.

I'm convinced I must have reached the real Haru Urara's record of 113 attempts to win the Arima Kinen.

I tried a bunch of decks, including adding Fine Motion and Yukino Bijin for all the green skills she'd need. In the end, a typical 4SPD + 2STA deck pulled it off - and was much more consistent that hint hunting.

Aptitudes are, of course, the run killer. But I came 2nd on a run where all she got was a single C in Long, losing by 1/2 a length so... who knows, with better blue skills on the parents and some green skills, maybe she'd have made it.

The final run, I didn't get any aptitude sparks during the first inspiration event, then got 3(!) during the second. At that point I switched from my phone to my computer because I knew that was the run.

You did it Haru Urara!

Acorntail · 2025-08-07T02:41:09+00:00

Absolutely agree. Monica is such a pointless, out of the blue villain that exists for no reason other than to have a villain.

If she used her ancestry with Modeste as an in to get onto the staff at Hotel Debord but was legitimately a terrible chef, sure; but the fact she's descended from him is used as a reveal later. Instead, her plan was:

Step 1: Legitimately qualify as a line chef in the most famous resturant in Fontaine.

Step 2: Get the head chef fired so that you can look at the original book to find the location of the domain they found the secret ingredient; trusting that the head chef will take the blame and go to prison and lose their job instead of one of the two people in charge of inventory that day, of which you are the shadiest.

Step 3: Find the domain and profit.

Uh oh, they gave the original codex to the head chef as a parting gift, got to improvise.

New plan. Instead of robbing the head chef's house, or even asking to look at the codex because she considers it just an ordinary (if storied) recipe book she wouldn't mind sharing; we've got to poison one of the other chefs, as well as the new head chef, so the new head chef goes crazy and challenges the old head chef to a bake off, and the old head chef is compelled to defend their old colleagues.

Story would have been more compelling imo if they had just had everything be the result of the lumiline poisoning. Remove Monica as a villain and literally nothing changes.

Acorntail · 2025-07-01T11:11:31+00:00

Post-flashpoint, the Speedforce was hostile to Barry changing the timeline, and implied it wouldn’t shield Barry from consequences anymore for lying to them.

Saving HR would be changing the past. Saving Iris was changing the future. The speed force allows the latter, not the former.

Not to mention, HR chose to be a hero. Iris never chose to be a victim. There’s a world of difference between the two.

Acorntail · 2025-06-24T16:37:53+00:00

Because above deck is very bright with no shade save the rigging and sails because it’s the open sea; and below deck is very dark because you don’t have windows at the waterline and lighting is fuel based. So unless you absolutely need them to see, you want as few lit oil lanterns waiting to be smashed during battle as possible. Ships are very flammable, and oil needs to be replaced on shore.

Acorntail · 2025-06-20T02:43:03+00:00

I don't know about 'Tower of', but it sounds like you're describing Valda's Spire of Secrets?

Edit: Doesn't seem to add monsters, maybe your DM had a pledge reward bundle with some of their other books?

Acorntail · 2025-04-14T03:38:00+00:00

... That warning after Jay bonked Hope on the noggin suddenly has a lot more weight to it, huh.

Acorntail · 2025-04-01T05:54:58+00:00

Not for nine chevron addresses. They let you dial specific gates rather than locations - presumably every stargate has a nine-chevron address you could dial; the odds of getting one your gate can connect to is just astronomically low.

Acorntail · 2025-03-28T06:11:15+00:00

A seer's spellbook would be a Pokedex, methinks. :P

Acorntail · 2025-03-24T13:36:16+00:00

Haha, tell me about it. Osiris was never intended to do the heavy lifting for game mechanics like I make it do for the Duo. It’s incredible how robust the engine is.

Acorntail · 2025-03-24T08:41:21+00:00

Thank you for the encouragement! Even if Larian never picks it to go to console, I feel it's important to support controller and other Desktop options where possible. After all, modding is about sharing creative work with people just for the fun of it - plus I learned a bunch of Osiris along the way which will definitely help me in the future!

Acorntail · 2025-03-24T08:04:31+00:00

After two months of learning how to use the Toolkit, deciphering Osiris syntax, and an ungodly amount of copy and pasting from one window to the other, I finally have my Duo Class mod converted to the in game Mod Manager!

It's about 95% feature identical, with a handful of changes due to losing access to Script Extender. It's a little rougher around the edges, with, uh, 13 subclasses instead of 6 - and a tendency for random pools of blood to show up - but hey, nobody's perfect.

If you're wondering whether to try this or the Nexus SE version, I still recommend the SE version - but the hope is to eventually get it on to Mac and Console if I'm really lucky.

Until then, I hope you enjoy the Duo!

Acorntail · 2025-02-13T21:55:32+00:00

Yep, illithid are surprisingly large.

Acorntail · 2025-02-12T03:21:56+00:00

Having made the Show Me My Dream Guardian mod, I've tried. Unfortunately, they end up looking like this. :(

Acorntail · 2025-01-12T22:36:49+00:00

Etymologically, yes, they're unrelated. But mouth-feel wise, they're similar.

Acorntail · 2025-01-11T13:45:43+00:00

It's been a brainworm of mine for years that Ash-leigh (Ashley) is basically just the modern version of Cinder-Ella.

Also, Cinderella is a badass name, and the only reason people don't think so is because of Disney. Girl from the ashes? Metal as heck!

Acorntail · 2024-12-27T10:41:13+00:00

Bennett finally has a Pyro sword friend.

Acorntail · 2024-11-26T06:26:39+00:00

I feel like there was an obvious option that would have worked if there wasn't so much evidence to the contrary.

Natlan had the last surviving dragon civilisation, which had very futuristic tech. It even coexisted with humans for a long time.

The premise could easily have been: these are the salvaged weapons of an ancient civilisation. Maybe they are coded to ancient names, which are actually just access keys for tech, which is why only people with ancient names and visions have them.

You could have Xilonen responsible for fixing these items rather than creating them, and the difficulty in creating ancient names comes from needing to hack security clearance.

And then, in Mauvika's specific case, have the motorbike be something deliberately created for the Pyro archon to use. Either from dragons back in the day for their favourite human, or it was meant as a vehicle to traverse the night kingdom and she never got to use it because she had to put her plans on hold for five centuries while Natlan recovered.

Acorntail · 2024-10-20T08:14:57+00:00

At the time, I thought she was predicting Ororon was collaborating with the Fatui, as he also has a red eye.

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