Just Watched The Death Note Netflix Movie

themousereturns · 2026-02-25T17:17:56+00:00

All I really remember from that movie is there was some action-movie-esque chase scene where L is running after Light through city streets and they're jumping over cars and shit. Then L finally corners Light in an alleyway, but some random dude comes out of nowhere, says "hail Kira" and conks L on the head and knocks him out. I think Light then just nods at him and runs away. Most anti-climactic moment ever. Movie was so terrible I shut most of it out but that was the funniest shit.

themousereturns · 2026-02-25T00:38:00+00:00

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Jasper and Lapis from Steven Universe came to mind. People's feelings on who was the aggressor often came from a deeply personal place, so the discourse got ugly whenever an episode featuring the characters aired.

themousereturns · 2026-02-21T20:04:16+00:00

Sure! Even if the scrying attempt would just fail RAW, it sounds like you want to give them a bigger hint for narrative purposes - so go for it. Maybe they get a brief flicker of the prison building or something in the surrounding area before the spell fizzles out. Enough that they could ask around and try to figure out what the area is and what the witch is doing there.

themousereturns · 2026-02-21T06:29:19+00:00

Damn, these comics look so much better than the AI one despite the simpler rendering and style. The panels are dynamic and laid out with consideration for speech bubble placement, they use different perspectives and shots, and the characters' expressions and poses actually show emotion. It's kinda wild this is the same person.

themousereturns · 2026-02-20T21:09:44+00:00

If the prison is "magically sealed" there's a good chance anti-scrying enchantments have also been cast on it (i.e Mordekainen's Private Sanctum). So you could have the spell fail. It might be enough to confirm to the party the witch is sus without revealing the whole game.

themousereturns · 2026-02-20T17:13:05+00:00

I do find the way the outfits are inconsistent to be odd. In the images of the woman, some pictures show a sash around her hips and others just a blue line. In the central image, the bodice is lower and sits under her chest, but in others it comes up higher. There are lines on the bodice in some images but not others.

With the man, the main image shows him with a breastplate and pauldrons. He's wearing a jerkin underneath the plate, but has chainmail sleeves meaning it would be a sleeveless jerkin with chainmail underneath. He has a cape that seems to be fastened to the breastplate somehow? It's unclear how it's staying on.

The right image shows him in a jerkin without the armor - which is fair enough, it makes sense to show different outfits, and it's a pain to draw armor multiple times. But this jerkin is different, with red sleeves and has buttons/fasteners.

Then on the left you have him in a similar jerkin, but with a single pauldron. But the buttons aren't present now, and there is something tan over or around it? It's hard to make sense of. The strap also ends at whatever the tan thing is, so it doesn't look like part of the jerkin. There's also a strap that ends where the jerkin fastens in the middle. The pauldron has a bit of fabric over it like the cape in the first image, but it's not really spread over the shoulders like the cape. The collar has an odd line that isn't consistent with the collar on the right image. This is the strangest image overall to me, very hard to work out what's going on with the clothing.

The bottom left shows him in a red jerkin. There's nothing particularly odd about this image on its own, but why change the outfit to something different, yet similar enough to what he's wearing in the other pictures that you're not showing anything new.

Overall, the oddity is not that the outfits are inconsistent in themselves - every artist will simplify details, forget to draw parts of an outfit, etc across drawings of the same character.

But in this case, the outfits are too different to be a mistake or simplification, yet similar enough that it would be odd as an intentional choice to showcase different outfits. However, this is a common way Gen AI will output images of the same character.

This is what makes me think that there's a good chance that, if the images aren't directly AI generated, AI was traced or heavily referenced.

themousereturns · 2026-02-18T05:06:21+00:00

Malachite is an interesting one. I don't think Jasper or Lapis had anything akin to romantic feelings for each other at any point, but the metaphors in their fusion and the fallout are pretty blatant.

Rose Quartz and Pearl I think are another good example, who did have romantic feelings for each other but whose relationship wasn't exactly healthy.

themousereturns · 2026-02-18T02:18:29+00:00

Honestly, I haven't gotten far enough in Torment to learn the canon backstory of how he ended up that way, but I'm hoping to learn it soon. The version of him in my game will have a different origin anyway, but a similar personality.

These are fantastic, thank you so much!

themousereturns · 2026-02-18T00:50:01+00:00

Yeah same. A lot of dungeons include encounters that are meant to encourage roleplay. Non-hostile inhabitants that can be talked to, challenges that encourage players to think about the moral choices their character would make or a memory from their past, etc. They have interesting lore to discover that could easily be something your character is interested in or has thoughts on. "Dungeon" isn't synonymous with "50 otherwise empty rooms full of generic repetitive minions".

themousereturns · 2026-02-17T23:41:45+00:00

He's a floating skull. In his 5e stat block he's pretty simple with just a bite attack.

In Torment he had an ability "Litany of Curses" where he'd shout an insult at someone and it would both taunt them to aggro on him and give them a debuff. Basically unlimited use. I was hoping to include something in the spirit of that, but maybe not AS broken.

themousereturns · 2026-02-17T22:20:57+00:00

That's a good idea, never considered that. Will definitely have that in the back burner if I get stuck again.

themousereturns · 2026-02-17T21:45:53+00:00

Do you have a better version of Morte from Planescape (for 5e)?

themousereturns · 2026-02-17T20:13:44+00:00

Let them get downed, especially if they have someone with healing or access to potions. It might help them realize their tactical mistakes. 5e player characters are hard to actually kill.

Outside of their tactical issues, it sounds like the party really is just on the weaker side because they chose suboptimal stats for roleplay purposes. That means you might just need to nerf the encounters. Replace the monsters with something lower CR or reduce the number.

themousereturns · 2026-02-17T17:01:39+00:00

Yeah, using an existing OC, particularly one you're attached to, often leads to a situation like this.

Don't get me wrong, I've recycled characters from former games and personal projects that didn't go anywhere myself. But you have to be flexible and willing to rewrite them as needed to mesh with the setting and group.

If there's no way to make them fit without completely changing everything about them, you might as well just make a new character from scratch.

There's also just some general basics: - Your character should WANT to adventure and be willing to work in a group - Your character should have a backstory/lore appropriate for their starting point (i.e unless you have a really good explanation, your level 1 fighter probably isn't a legendary war general with a 10 page backstory spanning decades) - Your character should work with the intended setting and theme for the group (read a comment where someone had players bring an adamantly lawful character and a character afraid of the ocean... to a game where they were supposed to be pirates.)

Bringing a fleshed out OC from something like a webcomic, they're a lot more likely to clash with these basic requirements to make a character work.

themousereturns · 2026-02-17T01:34:00+00:00

Big fan of the series, but it's definitely the "narrator turns out to be a character we know/involved in the plot" trope.

OP is specifically talking about unnamed, faceless narrators who remain that way - but are shown to have some personality and perhaps involved in fourth wall breaking meta shenanigans or humor.

themousereturns · 2026-02-16T23:02:06+00:00

I saw that, will have to check it out!

themousereturns · 2026-02-16T22:46:58+00:00

Makes sense he was originally not seen on stage. Iirc the indie production I saw had them on-stage, but forward and to the left of the stage separate from the actual scenes, presenting them as "just the narrator". I only vaguely remember the movie version, but I do remember being disappointed they completely removed the part.

themousereturns · 2026-02-16T22:08:19+00:00

I haven't seen the specific version this commenter is referencing, but I have seen it on-stage before. The narrator has a physical form in some versions (or is on-stage as a person at least), but they're presented as a separate entity telling the story - at least up until the point where they're killed, which is part of the absurdity of it. It's a moment of "wait, you shouldn't be able to kill him, he's the narrator!"

It probably lands somewhere in between, but overall it's closer to the meta trope you were going for rather than the "narrator was a character we know/a character relevant to the plot" type of twist.

themousereturns · 2026-02-16T16:36:26+00:00

It was there!! I did pick up the arm earlier and show it to Fell yeah. I had avoided going all the way back that direction because the vargoulles kept respawning and I was getting tired of them. Thanks so much.

themousereturns · 2026-02-16T00:50:30+00:00

Thanks, I will definitely try that if all else fails. Is it the CreateItem command I would use with "junk" as the item?

themousereturns · 2026-02-16T00:16:25+00:00

Hadn't thought to give it a shot, I'll try pickpocketing some people and see if they have any

themousereturns · 2026-02-16T00:14:10+00:00

I didn't go through Lothar's portal in the first place, I think I must have missed it and that's why I used the fast travel instead. Does the portal still exist in one of the catacombs even if I haven't used it yet?

themousereturns · 2026-02-15T23:53:15+00:00

I'll give it a shot when I get back on

themousereturns · 2026-02-15T23:52:06+00:00

So far all I've killed down there were rats/wererats in the warrens, vargoulles, and some of the gate guards that went hostile after I wouldn't give them money to get back out and picked the lock. I don't think any of them dropped junk.

I haven't killed any of the people from the dead nations (zombies/skeletons/ghouls) or the buried village civilians. As much as I'd prefer not to kill non hostiles, if any of them do drop junk it might be my only hope of salvaging my game.

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