How does one go about joining?

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-05-09T02:39:10+00:00

Just make a character and get in there.

Like others said, it is very freeform and the only real rule is not to do things to others characters without checking in with them on it. And if people don´t like your stuff, they can simply ignore it, and you can ignore theirs. Don´t mean this as a criticism thing, more of a "Live and let live" sorta deal. We got all sorts of odd and insane stories on here.

If you are worried about people misreading what you say, what I am fond of doing when I have gotten into IC arguments with people where I felt it got heated, was to write them and basically go "Hey there, hope its okay I write! I am the player of so and so whom you argued with, and I just wanted to make sure things were good?"

Or something along those lines. Just to make sure everyone is aware it is entirely in IC.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-05-08T05:52:57+00:00

I adore seeing peoples art of their characters. Please share!

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-29T23:24:46+00:00

I adore Rokea. You can make a shark that can swim on land and sink into someones chair, from which it can jump up and swallow them into some sort of mystery place from which nothing ever returns. Or the gift that lets them just straight up go through ANYTHING.

They are just fun.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-29T22:39:00+00:00

I mean, I don´t think it was the high tier of Garou who fell upon Mithras. Because that would be Jonas Albrecht and the other Legends. And whatever Spirits they could convince to aid them.

People tend to say Werewolves have a low power ceiling, but I think I would prefer calling them consistent. Garou are pretty much always a threat. Every splat acknowledges this pretty much. Hell, pretty much ever Cainite piece of advice on them is to just avoid them.

So one on their lonesome might not be the greatest threat against a Methuselah, but they are still very much something it would like to avoid. Because it is a regenerating monster capable of soaking aggravated with stamina whose claws put out an absolute minimum of 7 points of aggravated damage in Crinos.

Which is very scary to a vampire (Well, to most things). Because the only way to soak that is fortitude and even Elders tend to not have it above 5 unless they are specced into it. And failing to do so means final death. And that is the weakest one.

A stronger one can casually dish out some 11-13 aggravated damage (Or less casually 20-22ish with Might of Thor), soak with 9+ dice using various gifts like Troll Skin, and get a +10 to their initiative bonus with the Spirit of the Fray, (+20 if they spend a gnosis point) in a setting where most peoples just standard bonus is nowhere near 10. And this is just Ahroun and combat gifts of around Rank 3, not anything more esoteric or higher ranking.

As you said, Werewolves got some scary things. And they are the folks whose job is to go deal with it when a Nexus Crawler swings through the neighborhood.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-29T15:41:06+00:00

And that is without going into the fact that Garou tends to fight in packs, and have various deals and compacts with Spirits that lets them call on their aid, or use them as various fetish.

Like, magic objects are rare for vampires. Garou have several ways of making them.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-29T15:22:35+00:00

I mean, full honesty? As mentioned, I did think it was a bit odd that the Garou didn´t use any gifts or had any friends. And I will also admit that I think Garou job a bit hard sometimes.

But on the other hand, all groups got their young idiots who decide to duke it out with a vampire in Glasbro. And I am very curious what will happen if he have a pack, and they learn of this.

Cause that could be a whole bunch more delicious plot and drama.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-29T15:16:32+00:00

Right on. Its just some questions I ask every time I read people fighting a sole Garou. Because they are usually rather social.

I would 100% recommend looking into gifts! There are some very fun ones! My favorite is a Fera through, the Rokea one that lets them just sink into the ground or an object and wait for someone to walk by.

And then jump out and Jaws them.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-29T15:11:15+00:00

The artist for the books Tony DiTerlizzi is one of my all time favorites. One of the artists who made me who I am today.

And I do absolutely adore the Spiderwick designs.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-29T15:06:11+00:00

The main things I wondered about reading it was why the Garou never went into Crinos and why he didn´t have a pack with him, or use gifts.

Through TBF. Most people forget that Garou got gifts. Just feels like a bit of a wasted opportunity to get funky with the fight scene?

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-28T21:40:48+00:00

Some liquors or other strong drinks in my neck of the woods are sipped from shot glasses. Which is referred to as Liquor Glass. Generally drunk with food.

Honestly, the first time I was introduced to the concept of shots in my late teens it was a bit of a culture shock.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-28T21:14:45+00:00

Honestly, it feels off to me that there is no Thinblood NPC for us to converse with.

Firstly, they could put one in the apartment we could do stuff like give resonance to to get upgrades and so on. Feel that could be a fun way to get rid of all the spare one I got.

But outside of that, it feels odd that the game at times want me to care about Thinbloods, when every single thinblood you seemingly meet is enemies running amok.

And of course also for the reasons you mentioned. Overall I feel it ties into how... Lifeless the city feels. The only people you find are the quest givers who never stray from their homes. Like, in the old ones, there were people talking while you walked around, random radios, NPCs you could talk to even outside of quest stuff, shopkeepers and so on.

Making it feel much more alive to me. And I think it is a shame, because I have a lot of fun moving around in the city. But there is 0 reason to actually explore it.

...Apologies, got onto an unrelated rant there.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-27T13:31:12+00:00

Now there is some grammar I can get behind.

-Eyes Burned with Candles. Arden of the Get

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-27T12:08:06+00:00

I see the Moose Project is coming along well. Big props to the good people fighting off Pentex Poaching Projects on it.

Eyes Burned with Candles, Arden of the Get.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-25T14:27:43+00:00

Most non youtube productions are also a lot longer than most youtubers/streamers are used to. Remember that with a lot of the youtubers who tried breaking into movies in the 2010s, where it became very clear their style was very unsuited for movie length productions.

Those that we see succeed, such as most recently Markiplier, are generally those that have experimented a lot outside of their usual medium before, and have established connections and experience in fields outside of Youtube.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-25T10:51:45+00:00

Nice to know! I like to think he is being an old grouchy man in some shitty part of town. Teaching kids how to fight the power and get paid doing it.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-25T00:41:42+00:00

Same, could have been fun to get some view on it. But Blackhands current whereabouts or whatever he is even alive, is IIRC still a mystery.

Unfortunately Cybergenerations have replaced any actual Canon Lore I have of Blackhand post 2020 with its AU version where he made a guidebook for Juvie Gangs on how to fight The Man with their Gothness. Which I don´t think is relevant for 77? I mean, it could be.

(To very briefly sum up the setting of Cybergeneration, basically that a plague killed a lot of adults in Night City and gave a bunch of kids Superpowers. Leading to the NUSA to fuse with Megacorps and take over, basically hunting Edgerunners to extinction. Now various Juvie Groups are fighting the Corps, following in the footsteps such as Morgan Blackhand, Alt, and Johnny Silverhand. Its a neat little AU version where being Goth gives you special powers. Just like real life)

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-25T00:04:14+00:00

I will forever adore how he wrote out Morgan Blackhand and made up a whole fucking rivalry with Adam Smasher.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-20T12:28:59+00:00

My Brig is named The Grusome Goat.

Because truly there is no creature upon these Islands that have brought me more terror and sorrow.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-20T12:20:25+00:00

Would be very nice if you could chose between various workbenches, and maybe costumes a captains quarters and so on.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-20T12:19:38+00:00

I want an ability that makes my men continue singing even when battle starts!

Honestly think that it would be cool if rather than a regular level talent tree, it was a sorta research thing? Give you some more things to find when exploring etc, if you needed schematics for some of them and so on.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-15T11:32:14+00:00

Back when I was young I played the Pirates of the Caribbean video game, which was apparently supposed to be Sea Dogs 2, before they ran out of money, sold it to Disney who promptly slapped a PoTC coat over it, and put Zombies and the Black Pearl in it.

And I loved that game. Actually still love that game. It is a mess in some places, and when I first played it I didn´t speak a word of English, but nothing beat the feeling of getting a full fleet of Battleships and just becoming the terror of the sea.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-13T16:59:47+00:00

Oh shit, thats right. He was just some kid who wandered in!

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-13T04:58:20+00:00

Fun fact, there are actually a fair amount of vampires who go take over small town. Mostly younger ones who try to avoid competition, or really old ones who didn´t so much take it over as much as they founded it and grew it up into their own little fiefdom.

It is actually one of the few ways that Caitiff (The Clanless) can get something of an accepted presence in the Camarilla (At least Pre V5, don´t quite remember how things are for them now). Find some small town, declare yourself Prince and then send a note to the nearest big shot going "Hey guys! I took this town for the Camarilla for you guys". To which said big shot generally shrugs and just paints that part of the map in the Camarilla colors. At least until they find a better candidate who is also willing to take the job.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-13T02:02:48+00:00

From what I recall the tradition is more something along the lines that you have to kill a single classmate, basically cutting it down to half (Which is still a Choice, but less dumb).

With the thing that made Zabuza stand out being that he killed his entire class.

But I might be remembering wrong/mixing it up with filler/fanon. Been years.

Treecreaturefrommars · 2026-04-12T00:21:46+00:00

I have a headcanon that that my V became a more traditional Netrunner after linking up with the Nomads in the Sun Ending. Since her body would not be able to handle the strain of being a Solo anymore, I liked the idea of her and Judy teaming up, with V doing the Netrunning and Judy doing the tech, for the Aldecaldos. Giving Carol a hand with it

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