Cellular Smoke Signals

Nothing in particular to do with gaming in any way.. but I had a picture in mind I finally got out of my head.

wanted to share.

Laughter & Wind

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Character concept art for the Bloodlines Fantasy game Nolgroth has envisioned. Sometimes I just need to get a visualization out to help with the creation.

And... apparently the Gypsy weaponsmiths create Japanese style blades (Katana, Wakazashi, etc) because it looked really cool. No actual "Eastern" Influence (Especially not Japanese). And since this a fantasy world, I can bloody well co-opt whatever I want to create some unique styles that stand outside our everyday perception. ...

Nol hasn't posted his usual postmortem on the session yet. So I'll post some of Sam's perspective.

It has been long established that Sam's dislike of planets borders on psychosis.

By the opening sequence of the Episode they'd be on planet for quite some time (at least an hour, after that Sam stops counting and just grinds her teeth). Taking charge she essentially ordered everyone to leave.

After reading through some 40+ game sessions so far to get them ...

pondering off Nolgroth's fantasy world involving the idea of Bloodlines (I'm not big on magic unless it's the technical details of building it with Hero).

Gypsy type Bloodline. Already been brought up their Gifts lie along "second sight" - a slight bit cliche, but eh. Sometimes a little bit of familiar cliche helps with immersion into a made up world.

A favor for a favor.
The Gift in return for a Request. so the families settled, and some wandered, ...

Record Of A Yokohama Shopping Trip is the English translation if I remember right.

A very long running manga - 140 chapters plus numerous specials.

It's such a gorgeous piece of work. It follows Alpha, an android/AI, after some catastrophe has reduced much of the world to small populations with varying tech.

It's not post-apocalyptic. It's... serene. A rambling little bit of reflection on things, or sometimes on nothing.

It was made into ...