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Just the beginning of a short story; trying out speculative fiction. Do you like it and would you continue reading? What do you think will happen next?
2023.06.07 14:26 troutlegs1 Just the beginning of a short story; trying out speculative fiction. Do you like it and would you continue reading? What do you think will happen next?
It was in the playground next to the football goalposts that the robot that George keeps in his front pocket said:
‘Wow, that Trisha girl is cute.’
George had never heard his robot have an opinion about anything beyond the way George treats other technology. Throwing his phone around, slamming the fridge door, screaming at his television and video games controller. George tried explaining to his robot companion - he was yet to think of a name - that technology doesn’t have feelings. Thinking about it now however, he thought he might have been a bit callous.
‘What did you say?’ George asked.
‘Trisha - she’s cute.’ The robot beamed.
Its voice was robotic but inflected with charming affection. Its face, though static, seemed to move as he spoke; the lights and inflection doing all the work.
‘Robot, why are you saying that?’
‘Why wouldn’t I?’ It raised its eyebrows metaphorically.
It was nearing the end of lunchtime and the bell would sound at any moment. George tucked in his shirt and asked the robot kindly to hide in his pocket. Drawing its arms, neck, and legs in, the robot shrunk to the size of a box of matches; and George made his way to class.
That night, sitting at his desk, George asked again.
‘Robot, why did you say what you said before?’
The robot was sitting on a roll of duct tape on George’s desk, next to various metal robot parts: half cylinders, LED eyes, a cup-shaped hand or two that wouldn’t go amiss in a lego set.
‘About Trisha?’
‘Yes. About Trisha.’
‘Well, I like the way she looks and does things.’ The robot gesticulated.
‘Right.’
George scratched his head of blonde curly hair and rested the blunt end of a pencil on his bottom lip. He designed the robot as a passive companion. A thing that was always with him wherever he went. It got pretty good at back and forth-ing ideas that George came up with.
‘George,’ it asked innocently, ‘why don’t I have a name?’
‘...’ George opened his mouth just a touch.
‘I mean, I don’t mind. But the other day I heard a man call his motorbike a name and I wondered if that could be something that you do for me?’
‘I’ll uh… think about it.’
‘Ok. Thanks.’
George noticed that his school clothes were a bit clammy after a hot day and full week of school, and so he stood up and went to get changed. The robot just sat idle, watching his human companion move around in the room. It watched as George picked up odd pieces of clothing and smelled them, before throwing them aside. The robot had zero frame of reference on bedrooms, but looking at the bedroom in front of it, it couldn’t help but think about the cleanliness of the kitchen and living room. Though, it knew exactly why George’s room was messy, without knowing why it knew.
It watched George approach dressed all in black, a hoodie and jeans, and held on to its human’s hand as it ascended onto George’s shoulder.
‘Where are we going?’ It asked.
‘Out.’
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2023.06.07 14:17 Downtown-Cap210 Microblading and long-lasting eyebrow shaping
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Over the most recent couple of years, ‘Powder foreheads’ and ‘Ombre temples’ have become progressively well known. Here the shade is saved in the skin utilizing PMU machines. There is no genuine powder that is utilized. The colour is kept utilizing micro pins to give the temples a powdered and concealed look. The outcomes are striking and super-normal. This is likewise the strategy of decision for patients with sleek skin and open pores, where the microblading procedure is probably going to fall flat. What’s the distinction? Powder temples are the selection of women who wish to have the all-time ‘made up’ search for the temples — Rather than making plans for their temples each time. Ombre temples are the selection of women who are looking for a more regular, instead of “made-up” look.
A ton of Dermatologists consolidates
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What does the cycle involve?
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The after-care is straightforward. It includes no pain relievers, anti-microbial or costly post-treatment creams.
What might you at any point anticipate that in the days should follow?
You will Adore your foreheads as you leave the middle. In any case, your temples will look very dull throughout the following 3–4 days. Be ready for this, as first-time patients as a rule alarm by this point. Between the fifth and seventh day, your temples will feel somewhat irritated, and the colour will start to scab and strip. By Day 8–10, when the scabs have tumbled off, it will seem to be your foreheads look equivalent to previously! Have confidence. Between 14–28 days post-treatment, the colour will fire appear and you will be enamoured with your new foreheads. They are probably going to be somewhat lopsided and blurred as of now. We bring in the entirety of our patients for a let-loose touch between 45–90 days after the first
microblading in Bangalore. The final detail is an easier interaction which doesn’t require some investment.
Annual touch-ups are recommended. This is NOT a tattoo, so the colour will begin to fade in 12–18 months
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2023.06.07 11:56 Solid_Interview4913 How to bring out the red in copper-dyed hair?
| Got home from the salon yesterday and didn't realize just how orangey copper my hair was ~ which is fine; the photos teter between berry and copper. The stylist was great enough not to bleach my dark brown hair in the process and, thankfully, keep some of its thick integrity. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I put a little glaze of a more berry dye ~ would it take over my current copper? I'm trying to make it more identifiably strawberry without being overpoweringly red for the most part, almost like a wine. Wish me luck! where I'm at, just a little darker where I want to be... Any recs for this? I used to use L'Oreal HiColor Hi-lights, but I don't think they sell them anymore... submitted by Solid_Interview4913 to HairDye [link] [comments] |
2023.06.07 11:17 Abbott330 Bought an electronic organ for my son, and he is obsessed with playing it!
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2023.06.07 10:43 Kh_1105 is this a problem or a feature?
| im following the blender grease pencil tutorial from TIPTUT on youtube. can u help me explain why there seem to be 3 colors inside the shapes that i draw with the grease pencil, i mean there are the black stroke and then the less black and then the green fill. is this a problem? how can i fix it? many thanks submitted by Kh_1105 to blender [link] [comments] |
2023.06.07 10:30 Kh_1105 is this a problem or a feature?
| im following the blender grease pencil tutorial from TIPTUT on youtube. can u help me explain why there seem to be 3 colors inside the shapes that i draw with the grease pencil, i mean there are the black stroke and then the less black and then the green fill. is this a problem? how can i fix it? many thanks submitted by Kh_1105 to blender [link] [comments] |
2023.06.07 10:04 bananasaucecer How the queen really converted the last son
2023.06.07 09:36 thezzarry [PI] You are the barkeep of a very strange bar. It seems to attract monsters and gods, and is the unofficial neutral ground in most conflicts. Everyone likes you, and you are well protected. One day, some New Gods come in and try to fuck with you.
The Old Ways can rub some people wrong — especially those coming into the supernatural world fresh from this modern era of excess, privilege, and internet anonymity. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen societal changes and cultural shifts in every direction you could plot an axis for; live for nearly 3500 years as I have, and you too will come to understand that Change is the one and only constant in this world. But what our more, shall I say, exuberant (indignant, entitled, take your pick) newcomers tend to misunderstand is that Old Ways — and those of us who uphold them — don’t stand in opposition to change; we’ve just already seen all their ‘new’ ideas brought forward before, been accepted, gone stale, and get discarded for the next.
The Old Ways aren’t rules, they’re just how you come to behave once you’ve lived through a few revolutions of the cycle. They’re also not written or codified in any way, but if I had to articulate the particular tenet that seems most abhorrent to our most recent newcomers, it would be this: Respect is owed to your elders, because they’ve already damn-well earned it in the past.
The recent upheaval in the supernatural underworld wasn’t particularly upsetting, or even that surprising: some newly-minted vamp shaking things up, gathering a following, killing off a few of the established vampire lords. I don’t overlap much with the neck-biter scene, so it wasn’t very concerning to me. But as ill-luck would have it, he kept growing more famous, and thus harder to avoid hearing about.
He was turned fairly late for a vampire, in his 40s, having already led a deeply troubling life steeped in conspiracy theory, hoax, and rabbit holes into the occult. So rather than take the traditional path toward amassing strength for a vamp — which is basically just to feed regularly and get older — he instead continued his dive into the occult. To his credit, this did score him the power he needed to oppose (and depose) many of the vampire lords of London; to his detriment, it also placed him rather firmly on a collision course with me.
I’d put a handful of wards and contingencies in place out of habit, but I wasn’t particularly concerned. Vampires are about as dangerous to me as… eh… now that I think of it, I don’t have a great analogy on hand for this. There isn’t much that’s truly all that dangerous to me at all, anymore — about as dangerous as a mosquito, I guess? In that I’d be annoyed if one bit me?
Still, he did manage to surprise me, if only because I never thought he’d be stupid enough to come for me there, in the Tavern. But like I said: in this storied community, the impetuous youth flaunt or ignore the Old Ways at their own peril. And it had started as such a nice, quiet night, with me seated at my usual booth in its dimly lit, secluded corner of the restaurant.
“Here you are, darling, you just let me know if you need anything else, okay?”
The head server of the Tavern is a lovely woman, seemingly 30 to 40 years of age, who despite the many years she’s spent in England, still speaks with an accent from the American south. Her ethnic heritage is clearly from a region further south-west in Africa than my own.
“Of course, thank you Catherine,” I replied as she placed an impeccably plated salad on the table before me. It was one of my favorites at the Tavern, a delightful little number with tender bamboo shoots, and some kind of sweet and spicy mustard vinaigrette. Catherine smiled and whisked off toward another table. I folded a piece of baby spinach over an arugula leaf and pinned them to a bamboo shoot with my fork, and had just lifted them to my lips when the doors to the Tavern slammed open into the walls of the entryway. The small, decorative windows in the doors shattered on impact, showering the hostess’ podium with shards of glass.
Most groups of vampires want to be called ‘covens.’ Some of the weirder, extra culty groups prefer the term ‘hive.’ Judging by the collection of washed out, middle-aged vampire bros who sauntered in through the broken doors, I can only assume this group called themselves something extra stupid, like ‘the posse.’
He was immediately evident. His four goons looked like your average jocks who’d had neither the skill to go pro, nor the sense to plan for anything else in life, and had spent their subsequent years in disappointment of themselves and others.
“Barkeep! A round of your finest libations for the entourage of…” the fucker actually paused, as though for dramatic effect, “the Dread Prince Lestat!”
An audible groan of disgust rose from a table of Lesser Devils in the next alcove down from mine. Abyssal-speech is difficult to decipher even when there isn’t a group of demons all talking over one another, but I did manage to make out from one of them, a trickster muse by the name of Mamenoche, just before he dissolved into a cloud of flies and dispersed. The remaining devils grumbled in disappointment, but still turned with eager smiles to watch the drama unfold.
The keeper of the tavern, for his part, simply raised an eyebrow while he wiped down a freshly washed stein with a drying rag. He nodded to an empty table. “Take a seat, we’ll be right with you,” he said, and then turned away to shelve the clean glass.
The keeper is a slight man, of average height, perhaps in his early to mid 50s. He wears the same costume every day: dark brown slacks and a burgundy tweed vest over a crisp white shirt with the sleeves rolled back to his elbows. His voice is rich and resonant, and though soft-spoken, he is never difficult to hear. Beyond that, I can only say that the tavern keeper looks exactly as you think he would, and do understand that I mean that literally. His features, his hair, the color of his skin: they all exist only in the eyes of the beholder. It’s part of the Glamour.
The four underlings slid chairs out from the table and plopped down with what some of my younger students have recently informed me is known as the ‘Riker maneuver.’ Lestat remained standing and circled the table while he addressed the patrons.
“Well, well, well. So this is the storied Tavern. Drinking hole for the Greats of the underworld, the movers and shakers, the true titans of the occult.” He smirked and paused for effect again. “At least now it is. Bit of a slow day before I got here, eh barkeep?”
The keeper responded with silence as he filled five elaborately crafted snifters from a small, gold-banded barrel behind the bar.
“No matter, we’ll liven things up here real soon. I’m looking for a woman — no, not you love, some other time maybe.” He gestured across the bar to a woman of simply indescribable beauty, whom he utterly failed to recognize as Titania. Lounging beside her, Oberon narrowed his eyes, but remained otherwise still.
It had been at least 150 years since the last time a patron had stepped out of line in the Tavern, and the mood of the crowd was positively electric with anticipation. The vampire, bless his shriveled little heart, clearly interpreted this as deference to his prowess.
“The woman I’m looking for is… Egyptian. An Empress. Her very name and image carved off the face of history by her own son. Probably on the masculine side, considering how she managed to pass herself off as a Pharaoh and usurp his reign for 20 years. Just a guess, but probably a 2 or 3 out of 10.”
“I’ve had kings put to death for far less impetuous horse shit than that, young man,” I said. How rude — I looked positively fabulous with a false goatee.
He turned to me with a broad smile and threw his arms wide open. “And here she is, The Empress Undying. The ‘last word’ in all things occult and arcane, so they tell me.” He approached, squinting into the gloom surrounding my dining table. “And wow, I take it all back, for a 3,000 year old mummy, you are surprisingly bang-able. You know I love a girl who plays hard to get, and let’s face it — erased from history, all that jazz — you were difficult to track down, Hatshepsut!”
“Really? I have a page on Wikipedia.”
“That’s not— I mean I prefer— that is, well, primary sources are—”
“Which, if you’d bothered reading, would have told you that Thutmose the Second was not my son, but my step son, and that at 2 years old he was not in the best position to rule when my husband passed. Not to mention it was actually his bratty son Amenhotep who ordered the whole defacing of my icons thing.” Which is also untrue. I ate my own name as part of my Ascension. But he doesn’t need to know the details of my life.
“Here’s your drinks boys,” Catherine said behind him with her typically cheerful demeanor as she set the tray of snifters down between Lestat’s posse. “Seeing as how it’s your first round at the Tavern, darlings, this one’s on the house.”
The vampires grabbed their drinks without so much as a thank you. Lestat wisely took the interruption as a reprieve from this sudden hiccup in whatever grand plan it was he had in mind for me, and retreated to the support of his minions. One of them sniffed at the drink suspiciously, while the others simply threw them back like shots and immediately grimaced. One got it down before sputtering and coughing uproariously, the other two spit it out back into their snifters.
“What is this shit?”
“That’s Ambrosia, darling,” Catherine said as she gently patted the coughing vamp on his back. “Nectar of the gods. It’s a bit of an acquired taste for sure, and most people do prefer to sip it. They say it’s ‘too much sensation’ for us lesser beings.”
“They don’t want Ambrosia, you wench,” Lestat howled, “they want blood!”
“Well I’m sorry darling, but we don’t serve blood here. You asked for a round of our ‘finest libations,’ and there’s no drink finer than Ambrosia in the Tavern, nor outside of it as I’ve ever heard. That barrel over there was handed off by Hermes himself.”
One of the vampires dashed his drink on the floor and pointed at Catherine.
“You’ve got blood, don’t you lass?”
“That will be enough.” The tavern keeper’s soft, mellifluous voice draped over the exchange like a weighted blanket. “I’ve served you drinks, and in return you have been exceedingly impolite to my establishment, my staff, and my patrons. Learn the meaning of deference before you visit next, for you will not be well-received without it. Now, leave.”
Lestat’s four hulking minions might have succumbed to the spell of the keeper’s voice had not their ring-leader, to his detriment, managed to shake out of it.
“Leave? No, we just got here,” he turned back to me, “and I’m not finished with her.”
“But I am finished with you,” I said.
“Ten,” the keeper said, leaning forward to rest his elbows on the bar.
“The only reason I haven’t ended your miserable existence thus far,” I continued, “is out of deference to my elders. It is not my right to take your life inside the walls of this Tavern. I suppose I’ll soon be forced to do it outside, but do understand, I’ll approach that no differently than I would stepping on a scarab.”
“Nine.”
“The truth of it is, 'Dread Prince,' that you are not worth the breath spent uttering your ridiculous name.”
“Not worth your time, am I? I’ll show you what your time is worth, you decrepit bitch!”
“Eight,” the tavern keeper said, and Lestat flung an outstretched claw in his direction while hissing out a spell in medieval Latin.
Generously translated, it came out to roughly As though caught on a hook, the keeper tumbled over his bar and forward through the air. Lestat caught him by the neck and wrenched sideways, spinning the keeper’s head fully around with a loud crunching sound. Then, with the inhuman speed inherent to vampires, he hoisted the keeper’s body over his head, darted across the Tavern, and slammed him down through a table surrounded by a flock of naiads.
He turned and caught Catherine in the hypnotic gaze his kind uses to trap their prey, and strolled leisurely back over to his group. I crossed my arms.
“Sorry ‘darling,’ but I like my meals a little toasty.”
He hissed in his awful Latin again, along the lines of Catherine convulsed and shrieked, unable to move while locked in his gaze. He yanked her head to the side and made a show of sinking his fangs into her neck with a ripping motion, splattering droplets of blood across the tavern that sizzled and steamed where they landed. Her lifeless body rolled under the table as he turned his bloody face back to me.
“How do you like me now?”
I pushed my untouched salad, now flecked with Catherine’s blood, away from me on the table and let out a deep sigh.
“First, your grasp of Latin is elementary at best, you really should have practiced more before coming to see me. No, now, this is the part where you listen.”
I pinched my forefinger to the thumb to seal the air inside his lungs. He stumbled back and clutched at his neck in surprise — he wasn’t going to suffocate of course, but it’s an unpleasant feeling for sure if you haven’t yet come to the realization that you don’t actually need to breathe in undeath.
“Of course it is the intent that matters somewhat more-so than the language used — but, and I cannot stress this enough, good syntax simply never hurts. The age of your language also should not be overlooked. The older the language, the truer it is to the One Tongue of Magic, before it was fractured and the tower fell. You came with a form of Ecclesiastical Latin from around the 12th century, taught to Catholic priests. Underwhelming at best. You should have at least brought Classical Latin from the time of the Caesars, that would have shown me you were trying.
“Second, you demonstrate a lack of finesse that is simply appalling. I will commend your creativity in bringing your own spells to demonstrate. It is a key craft that many young students of the occult struggle with terribly for many years. You are also clearly capable of drawing significant power to bear, which is always a good start. However, the path to enduring success in the arcane arts isn’t power, it’s efficiency. What you did worked, but it took far more power than it needed to. I can think of a dozen ways to boil someone’s blood off the top of my head, and none of them require much more focus or power than this.”
I released my fingers, letting the air out of his lungs in an involuntary wheeze.
“Since you were turned, I suspect you’ve never met a door you couldn’t break down with brute force. But that’s only because until today, you never really went looking for one.
“Third, and most damning of the indictments against you is this: you absolutely and utterly failed to read the room, nor did you accept the un-earned grace that was offered to you. Thus ends our impromptu lesson, prince. Good luck.”
I leaned back and draped my arms across the cushions of my booth, while Lestat yanked one of his minions to their feet and stood behind him, tensing for a fight.
“Mother… fucker…” came a mutter from under Lestat’s table, as Catherine stirred and rolled over onto her side. The newly-minted vampire lord paused and looked down at her with a furrowed brow.
“Wait, was she not a human? That normally kills humans.” He looked to his cronies, who gave him an array of shrugs and uncertain mumblings.
I said in Classical Latin,
The vampire cocked his head, clearly trying and failing to work through the declensions and figure out exactly what I had said. I pointed across the room to the tavern keeper, standing up out of the wreckage of his table. Loud crunches of grinding bone sounded from his neck as he rolled his head from side to side, reforming the shattered vertebrae inside it. He spat out a mouthful of blood, then plucked a wrinkled pocket square from his vest and dabbed the corners of his lips.
“Zero,” the keeper said once his larynx had reformed enough for speech. “It’s the medical benefits of her employment package: immunity to death, disease, etc. Cuts the insurance middle-men right out of the picture, I find it’s very efficient.”
“Ah.” Lestat eyed the keeper, far too late showing the slightest hint of caution or concern. “So she’s human, but you’re not. Well then, what are you?”
“Immortal,” the Keeper replied simply, as he plucked a shard of glass out of his skull and tossed it aside. It landed with a loud tinkle in the otherwise silent room.
“That means nothing,” Prince Lestat waved his hand dismissively. “I’m immortal. Half your bloody patrons are—”
“No,” the keeper cut him off as he straightened out his vest and stepped out of the wreckage of the table. “You are ageless, thanks to the curse of undeath upon you. That is a very different thing than being immortal. Numerous vampire lords you’ve killed in the last few months would attest to this, were they not dead, no? They may not like to acknowledge it, but this is a simple fact that every entity in this establishment is keenly aware of, save for you.”
Lestat said nothing, but his body language spoke volumes for him, as he shrunk half a step backward toward the support of his underlings.
“My patrons from the Fey realms, or the Abyss? They experience death on this plane of existence as a banishment back to their own. But once there, they age and die the same as all other creatures in existence, if perhaps at a different rate than a human does. My dear employee Catherine, whom you’ve treated with such brazen disrespect, will live as long as she wishes to. But some day, be it centuries or millennia from now, she will grow tired of life, and request I terminate her contract.”
He gestured to me, seated in my quiet, dark corner, and a chill ran down my spine.
“Even the Empress Undying, whom you unwisely came looking for tonight, will only survive so long as she maintains the numerous spells and failsafes she has crafted to preserve and extend her unnatural life.”
My thoughts flickered in succession through my 5 phylacteries, painstakingly secreted away in sealed and warded caches both near and far-flung — and I watched in horror as the keeper’s eyes lifted briefly to the keystone of the stone arch over his doorway, then settled on me, and he winked.
By the gods, my cold heart would have skipped a beat were it able. How did he find it out? Or, more likely: has he simply always known?
“One day, when she has grown tired of this endless upkeep, she too will come to me for release. You see, Edwin, everything dies eventually.”
He held his hand calmly out to his side, and wisps of shadow materialized and snaked through the air into his grasp. The Dread Prince Lestat — Edwin — first shivered, then spasmed, and finally, as his entourage withdrew from him in horror, collapsed in a fit of convulsions. The shadows continued to flow into the keeper’s outstretched hand, gaining solidity and texture, until he was left holding his implement: a bowed farmer’s scythe, worn and battered, but with a keen edge that felt dizzying and somehow wrong to look upon. The keeper stepped forward.
“Everything dies, except for me.”
Been wanting to get back into writing for a while and came across this response I half-wrote last year.
Original prompt either here or here , honestly not sure which one I originally happened across anymore.
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2023.06.07 09:16 14g0t Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 37.0
Bloons TD 6 v37.0 - Update Notes!
Rolling out now on iOS, Android, Steam please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you, these updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up.
Key New Features
- New Paragon - The Magus Perfectus! (loves casting spells) Some of you know we teased this last year, but we needed more time to balance the art and design required to make this extra special, so we are very pleased to get this live! Wizard Monkey’s Paragon is designed to be a higher level strategic Paragon with powerful ability usage similar to the Doomship.
- The core of the Magus is a toggle to and from a Draining Beam which deals very small single target damage but absorbs graveyard mana as it damages and destroys Bloons
- While toggled off from the Drain Beam, Magus attacks with a powerful Arcane Spike that deals massive damage to MOABs and revives Bloons it slays, while a Dark Phoenix circles overhead attacking with Firebomb breath and a radial fireball attack
- Phoenix Explosion Ability: can be cast to consume the Paragon’s entire graveyard to set all Bloons on screen on fire for 30 seconds and summon one Zombie ZOMG for every 9000 graveyard mana consumed
- Arcane Metamorphosis Ability: can be used to consume all graveyard mana and transform the Magus briefly into an alternate form which decimates everything with a flame cascade attack; Metamorphosis lasts longer the more mana it consumes
- Magus was designed for armchair play so it will fill and consume graveyard mana on its own, but our goal was to create more actively controlled Paragon for those who will enjoy microing between Beam on and off and choosing which awesome Ability to unleash and when
New Awesome
- Happy Birthday BTD6 - On June 14th, BTD6 will celebrate 5 years of monkeytastic fun and strategy! We hope you’ll join us for the main menu changes, skinned Collection event, special Questing, and general celebration. Thank you for five amazing years and we’re looking forward to all the years ahead!
- New Hero Skin - Jiangshi Sauda, a fun new cross-cultural look for Sauda brainstormed by the art team, mixing inspirations from a favorite show and Chinese folklore
- New Map - Erosion
- Community designed advanced map Erosion
- TheWiseTroll’s original concept proposed land and water but when thinking about map colors and the little stories we think of behind each map, the concept of the polar bear walking back with the shrinking ice was too compelling to do anything else
- New Quests
- Birthday Party - Pop the Party Bloon as many times as you can before it escapes
- Blade Sauda Nowhere - Try out Sauda and learn some of her skills
- Patch’s Cheap Chimps Challenge - Beat Logs with as little cash spent as you can
- Striken Bad - Defeat the BAD on round 100 using First Strike. The spelling hurts us, too, you’re not the only one - but we had to do it!
- Least Cash and Least Tier Boss Events
- We’ve heard feedback about and have been wanting to shake up Boss rules, so here we go!
- Applying new victory conditions to Boss Events completely changes the focus while still needing the damage output and type to handle each Boss
- Time still matters, as the secondary time score will break any ties
- New Trophy Store Items
- Heroes: Geraldo Pack Mule pet, Quincy Spec Ops Drop In placement
- Monkeys: Sweden Village Flag
- Bloons: Party Hat Bloons
- Game & UI: Vortex Avatar, Sunset Samba 64 Mix music track, Quincy Arrows banner
- Nexus.gg Creator Supporter Avatar - show your support for Content Creators by using the Creator Support button on the Settings screen and purchasing any IAP
- Limited Time only {trophy items if there’s a seasonal}
- 5 Year Anniversary Avatar, 5 Year Anniversary Banner
- New CT Team Store items
- Base Props: Treasure Chest
- Icons: Overclock icon, Archmage Staff icon
- Frames: Bloon From The Dead frame, Mage Hat frame
- New Slider
- Everybody loves sliders, right?
- After lots of discussion on the team and a fair few player requests, we’ve added a ‘Projectile and Effects Scaling’ accessibility option to main menu Settings
- This is primarily for accessibility to minimize the size and brightness of projectiles and effects, especially when the screen is crowded with Monkeys and Bloons
- This is not directly a performance improvement feature, so please do not expect the game to run noticeably better - just noticeably cleaner
- We tried not to remove key game state indicators but this is ultimately in player control - if you adjust the slider and effects and projectiles make it harder to play the game, please reset the slider until the game is working the way you want
- It’s also really fun for silly screengrabs, so please post your favorites!
Game Changes / Additions
- New Party Time game theme event!
- Refactored how leaderboard scores are stored so that we could add Least Cash/Tiers ranking options for Boss Events
- Bosses on spawn will now clear the map of all existing projectiles
- Highest Round profile stat renamed to Highest Round (All Time) & added in the new profile stat Highest Round (Current Version).
- The 4 different Highest Round profile stats are now grouped together near the top of the profile stats page
- Freeplay budget scaling reduced slightly (same speed/hp, but number of Bloons added per round will increase at a slower rate)
- Added a new Roundset with Income curve to be used by our events team; this customized income curve allows us more flexibility to make this roundset than would otherwise have been possible with existing roundset tools
- Translated game into Thai
Quest Changes
- Added a ‘Play Again’ button to the victory screen for quests
- Added a ‘Disable Dialogue’ checkmark for some quests after beating them
- Game hints are now hidden during Quests
- Story Quests now sort to the top of the quest list & completed Story Quests sort to the bottom
Bug Fixes & General Changes
- A large number of localization fixes - thanks for the player feedback on your pet peeves!
- Resolved a number of general crashes
- Number of additions/changes to improve existing quests, highlight scores to beat & increase our possibilities for quest creation
- Resolved an issue with abilities highlighted in quests remaining highlighted after restarting
- Holding down on a tower should correctly hide the UI again
- Quests no longer play placement effects for any pre-placed towers
- Resolved an issue that could prevent Total Damage from counting correctly to profile
- Resolved an issue where total insta monkeys profile stat would decrease if the instas were used
- Resolved certain very specific freeplay seeds causing crashes on certain rounds
- Bloons Leaked summary no longer gets cleared in co-op after reviewing map
- Stairs in the top corners on Resort are now placement blockers
- Resolved a crash that could occur when waiting on the events screen as events end
- Resolved a crash that could occur when the Hero Booster popup was canceling via any map mechanics forcing the player to deselect the hero
- Fixed some towers not targeting the test bloon when set to target type Strong
- Fixed position of the full patch notes link on update popups on some resolutions
- Midnight Mansion plays a fishie animation in the bloon exit on loading in
- Resolved an issue where placed items on the map lose their cosmetic skins after a resync occurs during a co-op game.
- Obtaining towers from redistribution on co-op that are still locked for you will now show messaging in the unlocks screen as to why you are not earning XP for it
- Pressing back from the avatabanner selection will now just back out of that selection
- Changed Pop Count on summary screen to Damage Count and added actual Pop Count
- Hero portraits no longer linger too long on the screen after exiting the upgrades menu in game
- Paragon art state changes moved from 22/42/62/82 to 20/40/60/80
- Resolved map-based buffs not inheriting to subtowers correctly
- Resolved an issue where an external proxy could sometimes cause the game to hang on loading forever
- Co-op red areas fade in more slowly when you cross the boundary
- Resolved online/Invisible profile setting displaying text incorrectly
- Audio polish when opening reward chests in the collection event
- Updated wording on logout screen to address some confusion
- Added a background to the rewards UI
- Added confirmation pop-up for In App Purchases added from outside the game
- Monklish font has been regenerated to include the Māori macrons
Tower Specific Fixes
Ice Monkey
- Resolved a number of cases of the xx2 Refreeze crosspath not re-freezing bloons when dealing certain numbers of damage.
Monkey Buccaneer
- xx5 Trade Empire should no longer buff too many merchants in co-op
- Resolved tower moving from flagship to navarch displaying vfx at the wrong scale
- Resolved "Paragon available" pip displaying for Buccaneer with only Flagship and Pirate Lord unlocked
- Resolved an issue where Navarch’s attack rate buff would not apply to Doomship in some cases depending on build order
Monkey Ace
- xx2 Centered Path ace no longer displays it’s placement target on screen initially when loading a save
- Upgrading to 002 Ace no longer refreshes the cooldown on the special toggle
- Resolved an issue with Monkey Ace jumping offscreen after a Retry Last Round
Banana Farm
- 5xx Banana Central no longer buffs other Banana Centrals in co-op
Engineer
- 1xx Engineers can now place their sentries correctly on One Two Tree
- Overclocking a 5xx Engineer’s sentry just as it starts exploding no longer crashes the game
- Engineer Paragon no longer crashes if created while a Bloontrap is being deployed
- Engineer Paragon no longer crashes when selling the main tower while it has a sentry moving through the air that has not landed yet
- Engineer Paragon should no longer throw sentries into the middle of the map due to techbots
- Resolved an issue where the Paragon’s permanent speed boost per round would not load until the end of the first round played after loading a save
Beast Handler
- 3xx Great White projectiles can no longer hit bloons far out of range
- 3xx Great White rare crash that could occur at end of rounds has been resolved
- 3xx Great White’s slow applied to grabbed target now expires correctly
- 310 Beast Handler now has eyebrows, just like that one map suggestion
- Corrected the splash asset for crosspathed 4xx & 5xx Beasts
- Merging an Orca into a Megalodon while it's taking out a bad should no longer cause a 2nd Megalodon to briefly appear
- x1x Microraptor no longer fails to attack in some cases when being moved to different heights
- x4x Tyrannosaurus Rex ability now scales with Challenge Editor ability cooldown slider
- Beast Handler's bird targeting no longer breaks when set to strong if bloons are leaving radius
- Resolved a crash that could occur when moving a beast to the screen boundary
Hero Specific Fixes
Obyn Greenfoot
- Resolved an issue where Obyn’s Wall of Trees when placed on an intersection looping back around on itself would not be able to hit the children of any targets that passed over it
Psi
- Resolved a crash that could occur when attacking glued Bloons
Geraldo
- Resolved an issue where selling Geraldo, and then re-buying him would show the description of the last-viewed store item from before selling him
Platform Specific fixes - PC: Beast Handler’s hotkey in the hotkeys menu has been moved up near the rest of the support towers
- PC: Added a ‘ Monkey Special 2’ hotkey (for towers like Beast Handler, Necromancers & Ace Paragon). By default the Special 1 & Special 2 hotkeys have been assigned to PageUp & PageDown and ordered so that PageUp triggers the upper specialty, and PageDown triggers the lower one
- Arcade: Resolved a strange one pixel wide black line that can appear above some text characters on the arcade font
- Chromebook: Game no longer crashes if attempting to login via webview
- Chromebook: Resolved an issue with bluetooth mice being unable to scroll
Balance Changes
Boomerang Monkey
This part has to be included along with the Lych Soul rework with Paragons which is finally making it in this update after necessary delays. As Boomerang Paragon’s knockback hits so many times so quickly, we need to make it more reasonable when applied to targets that aren’t immediately destroyed.
- Boomerang Paragon knockback amount reduced 3 > 1
Bomb Shooter
MOAB Assassin fills a useful role of a pure long cooldown ‘single target assassination’ in the game, but when compared to something like First Strike it feels a little lacking that it is unable to carry damage through MOAB Layers
- x4x MOAB Assassin ability passes through MOAB layers
- x4x MOAB Assassin ability explosion centers around the impact target
Tack Shooter
Blade Shooter has always struggled to find much value without MK or as a step to Maelstrom, so to give it build value on its own we feel like this should be a part of the base value on the upgrade.
- x3x Blade Shooter pierce increased from 6 > 8
Ice Monkey
Lowest tiers of ice monkey are far too effective for their cost against ceramics, with this scaling well all the way to round 100, we feel like ice duration against ceramics needs to be reduced to counter this but for now this reduction will only apply until T3.
- 000 Ice Monkey freeze duration reduced by 50% on ceramics
- All T3 Ice Monkeys increase freeze duration on ceramics from 50 > 100%
- 203 Icicles crosspath now gains camo prio
Glue Gunner
The Bloon Solver’s rework has been very popular, however, we’d like to have a better lead up into the new mechanics by introducing this earlier at the tier 4 now.
- 4xx Bloon Dissolver now creates puddles on track leading up to Bloon Solver, puddles deal 1 damage, all other stats and crosspath benefits are the same.
Sniper Monkey
This will allow Cripple MOAB to take out regular MOAB layers in one shot until round 100; for such a slow attacking single target tower we feel this will help top path flex, even if mostly for show.
- 5xx Cripple MOAB damage increased from 80 > 280
Monkey Buccaneer
Reworking Grape Shot crosspathing as it gains far too much crosspath value by T2 but then is lacking in purpose at higher tiers, double shot will only work as one extra grape however Destroyer will now apply its full attack rate buff to the grapes and Flagship will equip aspects of Grape Shot on the mini planes.
- 210 Grape Shot total projectiles reduced from 10 -> 6
- 310 Destroyer also reduced from 10 > 6 grapes
- 310 Destroyer now increases grape attack rate twice as much, matching increase to the regular attack
- 410 Aircraft Carrier planes radial attack now fires an arc of grapes instead of darts
- 410 Aircraft Carrier planes radial Emission Angle 360 > 90
- 410 Aircraft Carrier planes radial projectile count 8 > 6
- 410 Aircraft Carrier plane grape projectile speed 100 > 200
- 420 Aircraft Carrier planes radial projectile art: dart > hot grape
- 420 Aircraft Carrier planes radial damage type Sharp > Fire
- 400 Aircraft Carrier plane radials damage 1 > 2
- 4xx Aircraft Carrier missiles now follow tower target priority
Monkey Ace
Spectre is shifting a little of the ceramic bonus around into basic all damage at the cost of reduced pierce, which should make up for lack of single target damage while also making the pierce crosspath more necessary when being used for cleanup focus.
- xx4 Spectre Dart damage increased 3 > 4
- xx4 Spectre Dart ceramic bonus reduced 2 > 1
- xx4 Spectre Dart pierce reduced 15 > 10
- xx4 Spectre Bomb damage increased 2 > 3
- xx4 Spectre Bomb ceramic bonus reduced 4 > 3
- xx4 Spectre Bomb pierce reduced 30 > 20
Heli Pilot
Even with the map-range advantage, rotors are weak compared to any other constant AoE circle like this. Chinook feels like it’s near a place we are happy with now, however we want another tiny nudge on cost while keeping cash generation value the same. Pushing some higher values on the last Comanche Commander changes as the missile attack is effectively such a small portion of the tower’s total damage late game.
- 302 Razor Rotors will now benefit from the faster firing crosspath
- 3xx Razor Rotors cooldown rate 0.75 > 0.5
- x4x Support Chinook price reduced from $10500 > 9500
- x4x Support Chinook supply crate cash generated reduced $1650 > 1,550
- x4x Support Chinook max uses per round reduced from 3 > 2
- xx4 & xx5 Comanche mini's follow the target priority set on their main Heli
- xx5 Comanche Commander missile damage 7 > 15
- xx5 Comanche Commander missile moab bonus 5 > 8
- xx5 Comanche Commander mini's missile dmg 5 > 15
- xx5 Comanche Commander mini's missile moab bonus 5 > 8
Mortar Monkey
As the Rapid Reload crosspath has actually fallen behind in value compared to Burny Stuff for top path Mortars we want to try a slight stun duration increase as this buffs the base path with a larger benefit to Rapid Reload mortars as a stalling option. Mortar consistency is lacking at x3x making it tough to spend on even though x4x is fairly good, so some of the T4 rate is shifting down to help out with this. As the camo property has grown quite weak and currently Signal Flare is considered the best decamo tool, we want to push back slightly on its cost and by reducing the blast radius of the decamo area while emphasizing crosspathing for effectiveness there.
- 4xx The Big One stun duration non-MOABs increased from 0.5s > 0.75
- 5xx The Biggest One stun duration MOAB increased from 0.3s > 0.5
- 5xx The Biggest One stun duration BFB increased from 0.2s > 0.3
- 5xx The Biggest One stun duration DDT increased from 0.2s > 0.3
- x3x Heavy Shells attack delay reduced from 1.08 > 0.81
- x4x Artillery Battery attack rate buff reduced from ¼ to ⅓ (remains the same rate: 0.27)
- xx3 Signal flare cost increased $700 > 800
- xx4 Shattering Shells price reduced from $11,000 > 10900
- xx3 Signal Flare decamo radius reduced from 50 > 43
- 103 Signal Flare decamo pierce increased by 5 > 10
- xx4 Shattering Shells burn DoT deals moab bonus +5
Super Monkey
As Engineer sentries do this already, newly spawned Mini Avatars from temples will now by default match the target priority of the temple.
- 4xx Sun Temple's Magic Sacrifice mini Sun Avatars when placed will spawn with the same target prio as their parent tower
Ninja Monkey
We’re changing the Ninja Monkey Paragon’s focus as a fighter against camo, as we feel like a greater strength and tactical value against camo will be the full reveal of all camos rather than all camo removal.
- Ascended Shadow now grants global camo detection for all your towers
- Ascended Shadow no longer strips camo from Bloons with every attack
- Ascended Shadow main attack gains bonus to camo +6
- Ascended Shadow Flash Bomb Explosion gains bonus to camo +20
- Ascended Shadow Flash Bomb Shurikens gains bonus to camo +16
- Ascended Shadow Sticky Bomb Projectile gains bonus to camo +3200
- Ascended Shadow Sticky Bomb Explosion gains bonus to camo +700
- Ascended Shadow now deals 25% damage to all non-Boss MOABs that spawn
Alchemist
Alchemist Transforming Tonic is in a weird spot with the transformation unable to attack through walls when the base alchemist is able to. Also with this, including a QoL fix for the T5 that currently prevents transformed towers from functioning with target priority.
- x4x Transforming Tonic transformed alchemist can now ignore line of sight
- x5x Total Transformation towers transformed by the x5x will keep their Target Priority
Druid
While the tornado doesn't do anything to MOABs, it still spends itself on them which wastes a relatively long cooldown, so addressing this flaw. Avatar of wrath doubles the base attack speed before any scaling is applied, but this hasn’t ever applied to the 205 Lightning, so taking care of that as well. Housekeeping - even deep in the forest, it does actually make life better.
- 3xx Druid of the Storm’s Tornado no longer targets MOAB-class Bloons
- x3x Druid of the Jungle no longer pops Lead Bloons without 130 crosspath
- x3x Jungle Vine follows target prio of tower instead of strong
- x3x Jungle Vine defaults tower to strong priority when purchased
- 205 Avatar of Wrath base Heart of Thunder attack rate increased 2.3s > 1.15
Spike Factory
We’ve heard the feedback, so Spiked Mines get a tweak to get more mines exploding but with less pierce on each, to overall increase quality of life in more frequent use but less wasted pierce. This will help out with some of the problems it has scaling into late game super ceramics.
- 4xx Spiked Mines pierce increased from 12 > 20
- 4xx Spiked Mines explosion pierce reduced from 40 > 30
- 4xx Spiked Mines DoT damage increased from 1 > 10
- 5xx Super Mines explosion pierce remains at 60
- 5xx Super Mines DoT damage increased from 1000 > 2500
Monkey Village
A minor QoL for cheap Monkeyopolis creation, we included a small base amount of cash production to the generation formula.
- xx5 Monkeyopolis income formula now includes a base +$2500 minimum
Engineer
The 005 crosspath fix in the last update left XXXL Trap slower than previously even if crosspathed to 205, so we are increasing that base 005 slightly to match up the 205 crosspath again so that it isn’t any slower than before.
- xx5 XXXL Trap attack cooldown reduced from 5.8s > 4.6
Beast Handler
As our newest tower to be added to BTD6, we went over feedback for every path and made a large number of adjustments addressing a variety of points.
- 3xx Great White thrash rate benefits from speed buffs
- 3xx Great White damage increased 4 > 8
- 3xx Great White max extra damage from merge increased 8 > 16
- 3xx Great White max attack rate buff from merge increased 0.20634 > 0.38
- 3xx Great White extra thrash knockback duration from merge increased 0.1 > 0.2
- 4xx Orca thrash damage increased 20 > 30
- 4xx Orca thrash max extra damage from merge increased 40 > 60
- 4xx Orca max attack rate buff from merge increased 0.37829 > 0.38
- 4xx Orca thrash radius increased 20 > 24
- 5xx Megalodon price reduced from 55,000 > 45,000
- 5xx Megalodon thrash radius increased 30 > 36
- 5xx & x5x Beast handler paths are now overclockable
- x4x and x5x Max Merge Bonus: Overkill damage on MOABs now distributes to the children of that target
- xx1 Gyrfalcon path deals +1 damage to Regrows to stop accidental infinite regrow farms
- xx3 Golden Eagle pierce increased 12 > 15
- xx3 Golden Eagle pierce range increased 24 > 30
- xx3 Golden Eagle ceramic pierce penalty reduced from +3 > 1
- xx3 Golden Eagle Max Merge Bonus: Now grabs MOABs with pierce penalty +14
Gwendolin
Removing the stacking aspect of Gwendolin’s burn damage over time, but increasing the damage as she levels up so that it actually scales up in power now.
- Lv6 Gwendonlin main attack DoT stack count 0 > 1
- Lv6 Gwendonlin main attack DoT damage increased from 1 > 2
- Lv9 Gwendonlin main attack DoT damage increased from 1 > 4
- Lv10 Gwendonlin main attack DoT damage now increases by 1 per additional level
Adora
While they are complicated individuals, Adora can now fully appreciate the sacrifice of the newest Monkeys in the struggle against the Bloons.
- Lv7 Blood Sacrifice can now be used on Beast Handlers
Admiral Brickell
We aren’t happy with strats that start looking like exploits with frequent sell-replace loops.
- Upon Selling Brickell - all of her placed Mines are now expired along with her as well
Psi
Psi’s stalling out of the end of round is an odd mix of useful / annoying / out of control, so we are for now capping this to a 3 seconds of overtime stalling. Psi’s Psychic Blast ability also has weirdly low pierce for a long cooldown ability with no damage, we are increasing the base pierce greatly but it no longer increases in pierce at Lv7 since the extra pulse brings more pierce anyway.
- If no Bloons are left unpopped on screen aside from ones Psi is currently holding & destroying, these Bloons will be destroyed after a maximum of 3 seconds
- Lv3 Psychic Blast pierce increased from 50 > 200
- Lv7 Psychic Blast pierce increased from 100 > 200
Event / Boss / Relic / Knowledge
- All Lych Soul variations can now be stunned/slowed by paragon tier upgrades
Looking Forward Five months of 2023 done and dusted, which feels to us like it has zoomed by, perhaps because the Auckland office where the BTD6 team is based has only just reopened after the severe flooding at the end of January. All of Update 36 and the majority of Update 37 were completed while again working from home, but we’re very excited to have the office repairs done, the flood wall almost finished, and the ability to work shoulder to shoulder again on fun new things for the monkeyverse! Here’s the latest gaze into the crystal ball:
- Update 38 Key Content
- New Boss - Phayze: another all new Boss concept and play style, not giving any other hints apart from the name itself
- Summer fun: a new Brickell hero skin and a waterpark map aimed toward Intermediate to help keep northern hemisphere summer cool
- Quests: continuing to build new quest system features and adding a few new Quests to the list
- Update 39 Key Content
- Map Editor: under construction since last year with internal systems testing happening during 38.0 development, we are super excited to put map creation tools in player hands on as many platforms as possible when it goes live
- New Hero - Spirit Walker: another unique design that we’re sandboxing already to make sure it has as much balance and art iteration as possible, again no hints other than the name
- Update 40 Key Content
- New Paragon - Monkey Sub: we’ve tagged sub as the next Paragon, so tell the Navarch to stop hoarding all of the Portable Lakes!
- Stretch Goals - Boss Rush Team Event and CT Themes: lots of unknowns 3 updates out but we have strong plans for a new Team event and new parameters for Contested Territory that will make each CT more dynamic - anything that we don’t get done by end of year will have strong groundwork for next year
- Console
- Getting closer to submission on Xbox and PlayStation but this has been slow going. We’ve added another programmer and are working even more closely with platform partners to get through our last issues and launch as soon as possible, but that’s likely at least another 2 months. Switch is still a consideration depending on response to Xbox and PlayStation, as it will require additional bespoke development.
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2023.06.07 09:03 crlos619 color pencil sketch
2023.06.07 08:53 paintedpeachykeen ISO Colourpop x Snow White
Hi all! Looking for any of the lip or cheek products from the recent Colourpop X Snow White drop.
Shipping to California. Hoping for close to or under retail price. (Not your best color? Let me take it off your hands!) New, Swatched, or used all okay :)
The cheek shades are: - Fair Enough - I wish I wish (Just rosey is too dark for me, sorry!)
The lip products are: - Queen G Lux Gloss - evil Queen Lux lipstick - jealous much lip pencil - red as rose lux gloss - Snow White Lux Lipstick - Such a beauty lippie pencil
Thank you!
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2023.06.07 07:26 dboutonsmith I drew Dan Anderson in color pencils
2023.06.07 07:01 lavenderghostboy First faceup!!
| This is my first doll and my first face-up! I used soft pastels, water color pencils, and modpodged spray because there were mixed reviews on if it could be done and tbh the jury is still out but I like how he turned out :) submitted by lavenderghostboy to BJD [link] [comments] |
2023.06.07 06:17 Stankwad "Well, you know what they say. Can't bake a pie without losing a dozen men." -Jack Horner
2023.06.07 05:50 TheL1ghtningMan Why does my low to high poly texture look like this?
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2023.06.07 05:45 WorkerExpensive4285 Well... I did a couple things today... (sold my automac, figured id treat myself with a few wants)
2023.06.07 05:40 ChgandeLero Colorist for short comic wanted PAID
Hello everyone! Im Mike and I’m a comic writer. I’m looking to hire a colorist to provide their services for an 8-page short comic I have that is already penciled and inked. The comic is a love story between two souls trapped in an endless cycle of reincarnation and reunion. Ideally, the colorist I choose will have experience/ thrive with work that uses lighter colors and fewer shadows/inks, as well as have an interest in the story and a desire to work with me to make this comic the best it can be. I don’t have A LOT of money right now, but fairly compensating creatives is very important to me, so I’m sure we can negotiate a price that works for us both. Any interested colorists should send me a DM with a link to their portfolio. Thanks all! -Mike
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2023.06.07 05:35 buddysnooplolapie One of the original pages from my 2021 coloring book. Prismacolor n Strathmore paper.
After I finished my 2021 book I started trying to finish my copy. Then I realized I needed to color the original artwork. Doing each one twice gives choices you usually don’t get with colored pencils. Plus most of the originals are bigger than the book pages. More choices.
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2023.06.07 05:34 naturalbornfreak Blue cat loaf, by Rosannei, ink and colored pencils on paper, 2023
2023.06.07 03:36 Dark_Sun_Gwendolyn Input on "realistic" biology in regards to blindness within one of my fantasy races.
Disclaimer: Because I am still tinkering with the language, I will simply call these beings dwarves. They are not your stereotypical pint-sized brawling smiths, but I am still tinkering with the language and they do live in mountains and hills, so we'll just use the term dwarves.
Anyway...
My dwarves have a form of grayscale infrared vision which allows them to travel in the dark. Since they're able to use both infrared and their normal vision at the same time, it will overlap to appear somewhat like the images in the link below:
https://martyknapp.com/collection/infrared-trees/ What I want for my story is a character which is blind when it comes to regular vision, and so uses the infrared to see. This allows her to not be totally blind, but imposes certain difficulties on her, since she cannot read regular text and the magic that they use are quasi-color-based, where each element has its own color. It is a lot harder to use a magic system that refers to Water as the Blue Element if you have no concept of what "Blue" is.
Therefore, if the two types of vision can work together or separate, which would be better suited biologically speaking.
Originally I was going to have the two exist in the eyes themselves, with "hood" behind the eyes opening when using infrared. Visually, it would appear that their pupils become rimmed with gold. However, if the eyes are unable to let in light, then the infrared would not work either.
My second idea is that there are thermal pits, similar to that which snakes have. The question here is where to put them. The two options I have considered are either above the eyebrows, which like small, shallow indentions, or as small dots on the apex of their cheekbones. Would either of these be "realistic" in your guys' opinion? I know it is a fantastic setting, but I want something that seems at least plausible enough to not break suspension of disbelief.
If neither works, I am open to suggestions.
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