kalloway @kalloway@fedibird.com

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Fellmark ("wooden")

Some creatures of the night shrug off steel and even silver as if shedding raindrops. But fellmark swords, and the deft woodwrights who carve them, show those monsters that mortals yet fight back.
Dark with age or freshly cut, a fellmark is carved of wood -- oak or cherry, cedar or peach -- cunningly doweled and dovetailed, not a touch of metal. It ignores immunity. And it is lethal to the unliving, to demons, to the fae and to malignant spirits.

#Swordtember #ttrpg #osr

Perhaps this one's a hair early in some of its subjects? But hey, I get the notion for #Dungeon23 and I run with it --

It's still before the month starts, dammit ~! *lol*

Here are the prompts I put together for #Knightober, formatted up nice into an image by @kalloway ~ text versions in alt-text and in comment below ~

Cathcart Cemetery in Glasgow. A wonderfully atmospheric space with many notable burials, including Margaret Jefferson, Stan Laurel's mother, Hugh MacColl, the first captain of the mighty Sevilla Football Club and Robert S. McColl, the Scottish international footballer and co-founder of the McColl's chain of local shops.

#glasgow #cathcart #cathcartcemetery #cemetery #graveyard #sevillafc #mccolls #scottishfootball

Hundred-year ("pearl")

In the remnant "empire" of Rekhoy is the tradition of the hundred-year sword.

It's monstrous cloud-oysters that finish the work, after a mastercrafter pares down a blade to a hair-thin shadow of the glory it will hopefully become. That sliver is placed inside the oyster's mantle, and the wait begins. If successful, a hundred-year sword: gleaming, nacreous, wind-sharp and granting freedom to slip beneath the waves and upon the clouds themselves.

#Swordtember #ttrpg #osr

PSA: Google has now begun to roll-out the Ad Topics "feature" onto Android itself. It's not just in Chrome you have to disable the settings. Please #Boost to spread awareness.

If you didn't get the pop-up screen on your Android device (it'll look like the first two screenshots), to opt-out of these settings:

1. Go to Settings
2. Press on "Google"
3. Press on "Ads"
   • While you're here, press on the "Delete Advertising ID" button and delete it
4. Press on "Ad Privacy"
5. Review: "Ad Topics", "App-suggested ads", and "App Measurement". Make sure they are all labelled as "OFF". (This page will look like the third screenshot.)

If you don't see "Ad Privacy" in Step 4 then it means that it hasn't been rolled out to you yet. You might need to wait and check back in a couple of days to see if/when it has been implemented to disable these settings.

#Android #Google #Privacy #AdTopics

back to where you came from wicked beast! #cat

If you make some kind of art or handmade thing (any kind, regardless of if it is perfect or if it is a common thing to make or if you used or kit or if you sell it) please know that when people see you post a WIP or finished product they don't think "this is not what I'm here for" or that it's annoying or showing off, they think "holy crap that is so cool and I didn't even have to do any work to find a way to see it, it's just here in my timeline! that's great!"

Okay it's me, I am the 'people', but most other people are too! We want to be excited with you as you get closer to finishing a long project you put your heart into, we want to see the awesome/weird/fun ideas you come up with, we want to see what you are put your time and energy into making real!

You of course never have to share if you don't want to, but if the main thing holding you back is thinking other people's reactions to seeing it will be annoyance that it is in their timeline then know that the vast majority of the time people are not only not annoyed, we are thrilled!

​ absolutely boost this if you are willing so more people will know how welcome their creativity is here!

#OnlineCommunity #ArtistsOnMastodon #Creators #HandMade #Art #Crafts

The Monster Hunters

#アークナイツ #Arknights

keming: (n) what happens to words when your font has poor kerning

I haven't really shared my cemetery photos here. I travel a lot throughout the year, visiting cemeteries, primarily looking for handmade grave markers.

This is probably my favorite. I have yet to figure out the head on the crucifix. Although the text hints to a Biblical song, as does the crucifix, the head looks like an animal of some sort.

Greenwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Ky - African American Cemetery

#Cemetery #Funeral #Grave #Graveyard

"Brother Domenico, I fear our plan has hit a snag."

"Indeed?"

"In order to fool the local Oscans, we have posed as members of a small cult that worships a large wheel of cheese."

"Indeed. A nice Fontina Val D'Aosta, as I recall."

"Well," said Brother Enzo, "belief manifests in mysterious ways. Our cheese god has become sentient...."

#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory

Dayneedle ("flower")

On far-off mountains wreathed in clouds grow pink-golden lilies -- lilies so titanic the stands of them are like bamboo forests adorned with blossoms broader than one's armspan.

Plucked and dried unopened, mounted in cedar and silk, the right charms murmured, the bud of such a lily becomes sharp as a rapier and suited to any who won't or can't bear metal. Some even seep nectar into a hilt reservoir, a draft every three days that sustains for one.

#Swordtember #ttrpg #osr

Glass and strange conjurations and the dead for #Dungeon23 this week -- oh, and crabs. Lots of crabs.

Fulguri ("bolt")

A sword of lightning? Never more literal than a fulguri blade, sharpened from a gleaming, soldified blue-gold bolt; rare as primal blades go, found in the arc of a dragon's breath, hurled by vengeful -- or magnanimous -- stormlords, spun from the wake of eldritch storms.

Such a blade harms even the wielder to touch unless a pact is made. Then it boosts speed, sharpens senses, and is sure death to knights, to metal elementals, and to the constructed.

#Swordtember #ttrpg #osr

Gelidi ("frost")

A rippled spar of transparent silver-blue or -teal, or a mass of glittering white nodules (best ground to powder and folded into metal now turned colourless and cold), gelidi is found at the heart of glaciers, in the permafrost of lands locked in eternal winter, and piercing the core of ice elementals.

Gelidi blades deliver winter's numbing paralysis with their strike, and bolster any action that requires calm clarity. They are sometimes fragile.

#Swordtember #ttrpg #osr

Revelation ("solar")

Nothing escapes the light of the sun, and no falsehood survives the touch of a revelation blade. A wielder could use it simply as a source of light -- golden to dawn, it is certainly that -- but it is better deployed against lies and falsities.

One may choose to cause no injury with a revelation sword; instead a hidden truth is spoken, a true form is revealed as a sunshine silhouette, and so on. But the sword dissipates if its bearer turns false.

#Swordtember #ttrpg #osr

Moon's-Eye ("lunar")

No matter the size or make of a moon's-eye sword, this blade will follow the phases of the moon in the injuries it inflicts: full, two-handed or bastard sword; gibbous, longsword; half, shortsword; crescent, dagger; and during the new moon, a strike from a moon's-eye sword will heal its target the equal of a full moon strike, but only once a day.

Moon's-eye swords shift colour to reflect their phase, or sport a gem or glass that does so.

#Swordtember #ttrpg #osr

Let's have some mysterious light in the darkness for this week's #dungeon23 ~