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@disasterlarper / disasterlarper.tumblr.com

Your friendly local Changeling & flesh ripper on the go! She/her/27/Bi/Jew/Western USA.

I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️

Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.

Like most old-school RPGs with unguided character creation, Disco Elysium makes it possible to softlock yourself very early by building a character who mathematically cannot survive the tutorial mission. However, unlike most old-school RPGs with unguided character creation, every way in which you can do this is objectively hilarious.

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krogoregon

come on, you can’t just say this without giving examples lol

Without giving too much away, there’s an NPC you must meet in their office who offers you a chair to sit down; refusing to sit in the chair requires passing a Volition skill check. If you do sit down, the chair proves to be so incredibly uncomfortable that you have to make a Pain Threshold saving throw or suffer a single point of damage.

It’s completely possible – albeit very unlikely – to put yourself in a position where your Volition is too low to refuse to sit down, your Pain Threshold is too low to avoid taking damage from doing so, you have only a single point of Health remaining, and you’ve already exhausted every source of healing that’s accessible to you at that point.

If all of those factors line up, you cannot proceed because you lack the confidence to refuse to sit in a chair that’s so uncomfortable it kills you.

Do individual vampires have favorite blood types? Does it vary across the different types of vampires?

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Some vampires will CLAIM they have a preferred blood type but bland taste tests reveal that no known strain of vampirism can cause the afflicted person to be able to taste the difference in blood types.

What many types of vampires CAN taste is:

  • Differences in acidity and dissolved oxygen. Most vampires have a marked preference for arterial blood because venous blood is loaded with cellular waste products, on their way to the liver.
  • The presence of lactic acid and cortisone. Turns out, fear makes blood taste AWFUL. Especially if someone was running right before they were tapped. Horniness, on the other hand, lowers stress levels and cuts the acidity significantly.
  • Dietary differences. Vegans humans and heribvorous animals tend to have the best-tasting blood. People and animals who eat a lot of red meat can have satisfyingly iron-rich but bitter blood, and for some reason people who consume a lot of dairy taste rancid. Diabetic people have notably sweet blood, but it's so sweet it tends to nauseate rather than entice.
  • Dissolved fat and cholesterol: Most vampires can taste cholesterol and agree that it tastes, well. like fat. They are sharply divided on whether that is a good thing, with some arguing that it makes blood 'smooth and buttery' and others saying it tastes like 'drinking whipping cream'

That said, there's huge differences between the strains of vampirism in regards to if they need human blood specifically, or if animal blood is fine, if they can contract infections from feeding, how often they need to feed, how much they need, if they have specific nutrition requirements that can be derived from non-blood sources, if theiy have fangs, what those fangs are shaped like and if it's safe for them to bite a partner at all (There is very much an upper limit on "Bigger is Better". You know, like dicks!), if they need to feed from a live host or if bagged blood will work, and of course, how contagious their strain of vampirism is.

Dr. Integra Van Hellsing is one of the world's foremost researchers into the causes and effects of Vampirism, and runs a free clinic in Los Osaka, the current outbreak hub of the devastating strain known as "Sunnydale Syndrome".

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ampervadasz

I know it’s on purpose but still every dead choreographer is spinning in their grave

this is so brilliant but how many times did they just crash and send each other ass over teakettle during rehearsal

The piece is “The Mistake Waltz” from Jerome Robbins’ The Concert, which is a comedic short ballet you can watch performed by the Paris Opera Ballet here :)

Paint me an absence, a silhouette of rain 

When others take shelter, I take on shape 

This invisible life in negative space 

Shortens the fall that water must make

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