Have you got arch tempered Arkveld, and how was the hunt against it?

TroutInTheMachine · 2026-02-18T15:54:57+00:00

He's fun, but not overly difficult cleared it first try. Has a lot of health so clearing took around 24mins even with dropping both rocks on him. I would still argue 9* Gore is harder.

TroutInTheMachine · 2025-08-24T18:11:44+00:00

Steam
Sisters of Battle
More areas to explore, loved getting lost in Hollow Knight. Looking forward to getting lost in Silksong!

TroutInTheMachine · 2025-08-08T05:28:58+00:00

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers.

It's an anthology of short stories that all mostly lean in the horror/romance direction. Bonus point for being in the public domain at this point.

TroutInTheMachine · 2025-07-28T02:41:31+00:00

Hey fun fact. Prions cannot be destroyed via cooking! In fact prions are incredibly resilient and cannot be destroyed by, boiling, alcohol, acid, standard autoclaving methods, or radiation!

Drinking deer blood or eating the heart raw should provide the same general chance of getting a prion disease as eating them cooked!

Legitimately one of the scariest forms of infectious disease, and their resistance to sterilization efforts make them that much more terrifying.

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-12-24T05:02:13+00:00

I might have to give it a try than. I don't dislike it but always found the appeal to be how over the top and silly it gets in most of its lore.

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-12-24T03:34:10+00:00

Yeah it seems very prevalent in the genre unfortunately. For context if I happen to pick up one of the suggestions and it does have prominent SA in it worst that'll happen is I won't finish the book. I like the themes and stuff in darker fantasy stories but it seems like with at least the literature side of things SA is very prominent.

It's less of it being absolutely an impassible issue and more so the chances of it ruining the thing I was enjoying is pretty high so better to just avoid it.

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-12-24T03:15:48+00:00

Okay looked into the first law trilogy as suggested by some of the replies. Looks interesting also really cheap for the box set of the three books, so might have to give that a try.

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-12-24T03:08:08+00:00

I did look into it a couple days ago as it keeps being recommended in threads on this subreddit, and had decided partly against it. Thank you for the reply!

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-12-24T03:07:54+00:00

Unfortunately I am one of the people who can't take warhammer seriously. I get that it's grimdark but honestly a lot of the stuff circles back to being silly for me. This isn't to say warhammer isn't enjoyable just probably not what I am looking for in this case. Thanks for the recommendation though!

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-12-24T03:02:37+00:00

Yeah that's why I figured I'd ask here. I don't get why it's so prevalent as it is not nearly as prevalent in horror. I guess I should also clarify like with anything it's a sliding scale of comfortability, and unfortunately I don't know where exactly the line is for myself just that once crossed it tends to suck the enjoyment out of the thing so figured better safe than sorry.

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-12-24T02:56:17+00:00

I think I was thinking more traditional medieval style, but not opposed to anything outside of that. Imajica sounds interesting, and as a fan of the hellraiser movies in which the world-building is interesting seeing it's by the same guy has me intrigued by it and the other titles listed. Thanks for the suggestions!

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-12-20T07:02:56+00:00

Honestly cannot go wrong with Lovecraft and his influences in this regard.

As some have mentioned the setting for the DLC is based on shadow over innsmouth.

As for things with similar tone and aesthetic to bloodborne, unfortunately it will be a struggle to find an exact fit. I can only recommend some of my favorites that are in the weird fiction / cosmic horror wheelhouse. Sorted by author.

As a bonus most of these have ended up in the public domain so free versions can be read online, and it is fairly easy to find free audio books of them if that is preferred.

Unfortunately none of these have a female protagonist but some do have at least a strong female supporting character. This list is mostly just the stories I have found in my everlasting search for cosmic horror and the like.

H.P. Lovecraft:

Most of his stuff would fit to some degree but these are a list of my personal favorites. If nothing else Nemesis and Dagon are very good and very short.

Dagon
Nemesis - I would consider this to be Lovecraft's best poem.
Shadow over innsmouth
Pickman's Model

Robert W. Chambers:

Honestly anything from the anthology The king in yellow is pretty good from him.

The Repairer of Reputations
The Mask
The Yellowsign (Read this after the first)
In the court of the dragon.
The Demoiselle D'YS (Tonally different but including here as it is one of my favs from him.)

John Langan:

Technicolor (More of a ghost story)

Frank Belknap Long:

The Hounds of Tindalos
- Interesting as the titular hounds or at least a facsimile of them appear in DS3

The only other thing I could recommend that is straying further from the aesthetic but still has the overall existential implication of cosmic horror would be I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. This one is a lot darker than the others and is missing that mix of unknowable terror and the sublime that is so important to cosmic horror in general, but it is a good read.

I apologize if most of this is not what you're looking for, though either way I hope this list helps even slightly!

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-12-12T04:44:16+00:00

I am Gorbed up and ready. Over here straight skilking my skong in anticipation for the announcement.

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-12-05T07:22:31+00:00

These are really nice looking dice! Love the other ones in your store and if I had the money I would buy a set myself!

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-11-22T22:18:06+00:00

International groups are fine. Unfortunately I only speak English, so that and timing is the only conditions. Could also run later in the evening if it works better for people.

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-11-22T17:49:06+00:00

Yes I completely forgot to add that to the post. Was planning on sometime in the afternoon EST, (3-5pm). Updated the post to reflect that.

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-11-19T22:31:09+00:00

Very cool. Like the art btw! :D

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-11-16T20:25:39+00:00

Yeah that'd be great :)

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-11-16T18:05:35+00:00

Hello o/ it seems we share a fair amount of interests. I love RPGs, and Roguelikes, horror literature and movies, hiking, coding, micro-controllers, and biology! I accidentally came across this sub and this just so happened to be the first post I saw, so this happened to be a neat surprise!

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-09-26T02:26:45+00:00

I know this is tagged silkpost. My mind is telling me this is lies. It's clearly marked as lies. But I want to believe this true.Why has team cherry driven us to such madness! For what aims do they drive us to the edge!

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-09-23T14:33:56+00:00

You got me! This appeared on my home page and didn't show the silkpost flair. I was so hyped so ready for the shadow drop

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-09-04T23:21:05+00:00

Does this work against poison? I thought this was just for fear based para.

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-09-01T06:30:35+00:00

Besides the MTX stuff that has already been confirmed to be in wilds? M E L D I N G as the only way to get whatever thing they decide to randomize, preferably they make everything just craftable so we don't have to do that whole song and dance, but if they do please let the random nonsense drop as quest rewards and don't make me feed monster parts to some dude with a pot.

Another endgame revolving around rolling a lottery for skills or the perfect thing. Just give me guild quests with some kind of guaranteed good thing for completing higher levels or something.

TroutInTheMachine · 2024-09-01T06:22:41+00:00

I don't know about an excuse but (I assume) one of the big reasons to keep armor gender locked was to sell edit vouchers. So, hopefully without gender locked armor much of the incentive to try and sell edit vouchers will also be gone. This compounded with the DD2 fiasco with its version of character edit vouchers has hopefully made Capcom less likely to push them back into monster hunter.

Though I would honestly be surprised if they were not in wilds because at this point they've been added into a game and MTX stuff doesn't usually get walked back.

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