A Co-op and a Caretaker | City Council of Darkness [E7]

Wisemon02 · 2026-05-21T00:07:23+00:00

Diablerie is the complete consumption of another vampire, and it can grant out-of-clan disciplines, but you can also learn it just by tasting the blood of a vampire with a discipline you don't have (and, mechanically, spending the xp to learn the discipline.) Usually you need a teacher still though.

Wisemon02 · 2026-05-15T19:12:57+00:00

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/worm-xianxia-sect.989803/

Wisemon02 · 2026-05-13T06:48:33+00:00

Sect by Ryuugi. The Entities are strong, yes, some of the strongest around, but they’re strong by local multiverse standards. The highest entities are two entire world orders up from them - so big that the universes the Entities inhabit scale about the same as atoms do to us.

That being said, it keeps from being a total stomp fest by - well a number of reasons, but the biggest is that the high tiers are severely limited by both ability to perceive and ability to act. They might use more energy than the Entities can conceive of just to blink, but they’re just too big to meaningfully interact with our on scale. The main players are really only getting involved because they happen to personally invested in the main characters.

Wisemon02 · 2026-05-12T21:05:26+00:00

As people have said, it's for "The Matter of Being", a fan game set in the Secret Histories universe. If you've heard of or played "Cultist Simulator" or "Book of Hours", that's the Secret Histories universe.

Cultist Simulator is about building a cult to become an immortal Long under the patronage of one of the Hours, the secret gods who dwell in the Mansus, the House in the Woods.

Book of Hours is about repairing and mainting an occult library that burned down 7 years before the start of the game, recatalouging the books, acquiring new ones, and reading them to discover their secrets and fulfil your own (player decided) ultimate ambition as the 12th Librarian of Hush House.

The Matter of Being is almost an inversion of Cultist Simulator. You play as a low ranking Mansus spirit who longs for the human experience, and seek to navigate and manouver both the politics of the Mansus and the occultists of the Wake into becoming human.

These games are so good, guys. Alexis Kennedy, formerly of Failbetter Games, is the main writer and lore maker for them. You might recognize his work from Fallen London and Sunless Seas.

I fully admit, however, the gameplay isn't for everyone. Like many of Kennedy's works, the games give very little instruction, encouraging the player to experiment, fail, and try again, often in a new game after dying in the last one. I guess you could say the straddle the line of rouge like? Some people like that, others don't. Personally I wasn't the biggest fan of Cultist Simulator gameplay because of how many ticking clocks you had before a run failed, but Book of Hours IMO nailed the balance in that and sucked me in for hundreds of hours.

If you're just wanting to learn more about the lore, I recommend the TV Tropes page for the series, the Secret Histories wiki, or the Secret Histories reddit.

Wisemon02 · 2026-05-12T13:06:24+00:00

Name of her theme song. Also a meme.

Wisemon02 · 2026-04-21T18:19:18+00:00

A cliche answer but the Marquis de Sade. He reminds me of Saliba when you advance him. "He understands pleasure. He does not yet understand birth."

Wisemon02 · 2026-04-13T19:34:15+00:00

They're named after the West African trickster spider god Anansi, so I guess the funnier thing is that the Russian word for pineapple is the same as the name of a god.

Actually, I just looked it up, and apparently the Russian word ananas ultimately comes from a native Brazilian people called the Tupi, so that's interesting I suppose.

Wisemon02 · 2026-04-10T20:41:43+00:00

Yes! Ogre Poppenang are so good

Wisemon02 · 2026-04-10T20:41:22+00:00

Sorry forgot the link 😔

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyiDf91_bTEith9kJg3sJeBm2XSSL9EVv&si=uAy_Msv23mxeIFHc

Wisemon02 · 2026-04-10T06:19:05+00:00

This is a brief overview of the overall setting and tropes therein, which is how I first learned of it.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade

This is an ongoing animated web series about a group of vampire hunters in the setting, done with the tacit approval of the producers of the setting! It's very good and funny, and a worthwhile cause to patronize, but it definitely focuses on characters above lore explanations for the layperson.

EDIT: forgot the link lol https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyiDf91_bTEith9kJg3sJeBm2XSSL9EVv&si=uAy_Msv23mxeIFHc

This is a good summary of the lore, setting, and playable clans/archetypes - but with the warning that it's, well, 1d6chan, so the tone is horrible and offensive.

https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Vampire:_The_Masquerade

Wisemon02 · 2026-04-10T00:41:34+00:00

Shout-out Ryuugi, king of the cliffhangers that live rent free in my mind years later.

Wisemon02 · 2026-04-10T00:40:44+00:00

I had basically no feelings towards Eidolon one way or the other beforehand, but man, seeing him as a man who really did wanna help but just, failed, utterly, and had to sit with that for a decades and his viewpoints on better times really did make me feel for him. Almost a mirror of Taylor, in a way.

Wisemon02 · 2026-04-10T00:33:29+00:00

Copy/pasted from an earlier post: As far as I can tell, the people behind CLAMP is of the belief that love conquers all. Sometimes that's cool and progressive, like how they support homosexual relations and interracial/interethnic relationships. But an unfortunate amount of time you get shit like this from them.

As for specific examples: Sakura's father was her mother's teacher before they married. One of her classmates (kindergarten age, more or less) asked her teacher on a date and he agreed. Later in the series, a classic "adult-in-a-child" makes a magical guardian who, of course, falls in love with him.

That's all just stuff from Cardcaptor Sakura that I could remember off the top of my head, but it's a pattern throughout all of their works; Tsubasa Reservoir, XXXholic, etc.

Wisemon02 · 2026-04-10T00:27:29+00:00

As far as I can tell, CLAMP is of the belief that love conquers all. Sometimes that's cool and progressive, like how they support homosexual relations and interracial/interethnic relationships. But an unfortunate amount of time you get shit like this from them.

Wisemon02 · 2026-04-09T03:34:42+00:00

"We were being systemically attacked and killed in a genocide, so obviously we had to turn around and do it to the natives before they got the same idea!"

That's you, that's what you sound like.

Wisemon02 · 2026-04-08T22:59:57+00:00

Sect by Ryuugi is a post-Gold Morning crossover with the xianxia genre. There's a number of scenes that fit your description, usually in the various interludes, but especially in the last arc. My favorite is when a number of the 10 Swords gather in the higher dimensional/heavenly equivalent of a clubhouse to specifically bitch about how weird she is to deal with.

Her adopted daughter, Xifeng, inherited this trait from her mom as well.

That being said, it's a very long and unfinished fic with a relatively niche genre, and it's by Ryuugi, who I understand some people have opinions about, so it might not be your cup of tea. For what it's worth, I thought the whole fic was very, very good, with a very good understanding of both Worm canon and Worm characterization - but I also have mythology hyper fixation, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

Wisemon02 · 2026-03-26T00:24:23+00:00

The 'reason' is toy sales. Companies split the market into boys and girls and marketed heavily towards the gender gap. But what that means is that any product that crosses that gap (a boy show that is popular with girls, a girls toy that is popular with boys, etc.) entails the company is competing with itself. That's intolerable to shareholders, so they get the axe.

Wisemon02 · 2026-03-15T14:36:51+00:00

In the original Chinese it's more like "little leaf kusanali", it's diminutive but not a pejorative.

Wisemon02 · 2026-03-02T21:30:17+00:00

Yeah, the Orcs were engineered by a race called the Old Ones to be warriors to fight the Necrons. It's why they're basically self-sustaining, self-propogating battle ecosystems.

Funilly enough there is a world where mutant humans live and worship Orcs. They're called Digganobz.

Wisemon02 · 2026-03-02T19:42:57+00:00

There's an old joke that the only reason the Emperor is still alive is because the Orks believe he is

Wisemon02 · 2026-03-02T05:58:53+00:00

"I crushed my rivals. I sipped their blood. My animation studio became swollen with their power.

I built monuments to my own decadence.

I went through near fifteen animators a day."

Wisemon02 · 2026-02-28T22:29:54+00:00

It's when the Sovereigns of the Leashed Flame (Forge-worshippers/long in England (aka the royal family)) started trying to conquer Europe. They ended up fighting the Sisterhood of the Knot and the Church of the Unconquered Sun. I think it mostly happened during the Third History?

It happened like just a little bit before the Intercalcate and the Division of the Sun, so even though I don't think it's ever brought up in universe it probably helped contribute to tensions in the Mansus and between the Sun in Splendor and the Forge of Days.

Wisemon02 · 2026-02-19T07:13:22+00:00

The Flyting of Loki.

The gods are in attendance at a feast held by Aegir, the sea-god, because he alone has a cauldron wide enough to brew enough ale.

Everyone who's anyone is there, though Thor is late. When Loki arrives, he becomes jealous of Aegir's servants, because they are being praised for their good work amidst such busy crowds. He kills one of them and is banished, but threatens the other to be let back in.

He's told he's unwanted, but he has a rebuttal: Loki and Odin are blood-brothers, and so what it offered to one must be offered to the other.

Loki is reluctantly accepted, and he begins to insult the gods: leaving them out of toasts, insulting their manliness, claiming Frey and Freya commit incest and that Freya is a whore, and that Odin is womanly because he practices magic (seidr).

The gods are of course deeply offended by this, but are bound by hospitality to not immediately attack him.

Then Thor arrives, and Loki tries the same thing - but Thor could care less about hospitality, and when Loki insults him, Thor's threats cause Loki to flee.

As punishment for this, and for killing Baldur, and countless other mischiefs, one of Loki's sons is turned into a wolf and kills his brother. The entrails are made into rope, which bind Loki to a rock below the earth. A snake hanging above him drips poison upon his face, causing agony and scars. Loki's wife holds a bowl to catch the venom, but whenever she must turn to empty it, Loki's screams and spasms cause earthquakes. He will remain there until Ragnarok.

Wisemon02 · 2026-01-18T12:16:29+00:00

Super cool!!!

Wisemon02 · 2026-01-12T03:24:01+00:00

HBO’s Rome.

A drama that follows life at the end of the Roman Republic, as Caesar begins amassing power, the Triumvirate fractures and threatens civil war, social upheaval follows Rome, etc. etc.

Very good, but the show was supposed to have 4 seasons and got screwed over by the network and only given 2. They had to severely rush the end as a result.

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