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plurk let's do a blorbo exchange
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where you give a genuine shot into getting sucked into one of my blorbo hellpits
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and I do the same for one of yours
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hellpits available...
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Umineko is probably an unfair ask here
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Precure, Touhou, Last Command, Love Me For Who I Am...
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I'll think of more over time
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any of my valor campaign archives, although i know just reading tabletop logs is hard for a lot of people
lily!
i had to think a little bit about this one since we already share blorbo brainrot in a lot of cases, but: allow me to introduce you to angela from library of ruina 
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I know of library of ruina
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I actually know very little about how it plays, my general vibes were that it's sort of a basebuilding kind of thing? I might be way off base but it sounded iffy if i'd enjoy it
lily!
you're thinking about the first game in the series, lobotomy corporation!
lily!
library of ruina plays... ENTIRELY differently
bitchin camaro
most of my blorbos are gacha so i'll bow out due to not wanting to inflict gacha upon you but this is such a cute idea
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that was it
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LoR is a roguelike of some variety?
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does it work without lobcorp
lily!
no on roguelike, yes on working without lobcorp. (there's also a helpful and VERY GOOD lobcorp text lp from somethingawful that i read because i couldn't finish lobcorp myself)
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bitchin camaro
joke's on you I'm playing nirvana initiative already
bitchin camaro
oh fuck ze got me
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so how DOES lor play
lily!
so, the way that library of ruina's gameplay works is that each of your characters (fully customizable avatars that you can actually write the battle barks for to import your ocs into) has a "key page," which grants them a variety of different abilities. and into that page you slot in "combat pages," i.e., your deck of cards
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so, deckbuilder rpg/
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?
lily!
yep!
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I see
lily!
during combat, you spend action points/"light" to use your cards, and your cards roll dice
lily!
for example, a card might have a 1-8 evade die and a 2-4 blunt damage die
lily!
you can directly clash with an enemy, in which case your dice and the enemy's dice are rolled in the order in which they appear on their respective cards. for example, you might roll a 7 on your evade die while an enemy rolls a 5 on their damage die, which means you completely avoid the attack
lily!
or you might right a 5 on your damage die and your enemy rolls a 6 on their damage die, which means that your attack is canceled and the enemy deals damage to you
lily!
or you might roll a 4 on your block die while your enemy rolls a 7 on their damage die, in which case you only take 3 damage
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I get the general shape of it
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so
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...finish ciconia
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that's my price
lily!
YEAH ALRIGHT FAIR
lily!
i just got distracted, okay,
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the pact is sealed
Love Snake Kaja
I don't remember if you gave Heaven Will Be Mine a try
lily!
for real i think you'd enjoy lor on both the gameplay and story side of things. it's, like... you know what you said about your personal philosophy of deckbuilding games, where it should LET the player make broken, stupid builds? it does that starting around midgame where you get access to all of the archetypes and mechanics
lily!
but also the game is really challenging in response and i'd be happy to lend you a hand
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Love Snake Kaja
I did but i never got far
Love Snake Kaja
Yeah, that's fair. It's great but not everyone will vibe with it.
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I got through steamworld quest and 19 ascensions of STS I think I should be able to manage
lily!
o7 alright, i will Finish Ciconia it is a Pact
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I'll put LoR on my new laptop when it ships today
Love Snake Kaja
I don't know if it's cheating to suggest a story I'm writing, but you did mention your tabletop games.
Love Snake Kaja
...Though actually this works better with finished works so nevermind.
lily!
it's a sequel game but 1. it explains the events of the previous games in broad strokes when it becomes relevant and 2. i'd really love to hear the perspective of someone who hasn't played/read lobcorp on it, it'd be interesting
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I HAVE been meaning to attempt HWBM again
lily!
...it has been almost a year since i've played it and suddenly i'm rambling about it forever which is how you know it's good
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and a blood pact would help me get through it
✶ 天才的なIDOL様！
trembling with rage that for once, i cannot force someone to play 13 sentinels aegis rim because quinn has already played 13 sentinels aegis rim
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in exchange, Kaja...
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...how about totono
Love Snake Kaja
Okay!
✶ 天才的なIDOL様！
OOUUGHH
✶ 天才的なIDOL様！
please enjoy totono it's one of my fave vns ever written
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content warning there's one Very Bad subplot involving a cross-dressing incest ship but it's. backgroundy
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the story is not about it
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guide recommended after first playthrough to get the True Ending
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steam title is "YOU and ME and HER: A love story"
DehydratedWater
How do you feel about farming game combined with action JRPG? I haven't been plurking about it in much detail or about anyone who'd be my blorbo from it (it's Aria) because spoiler reasons, but if that genre combo doesn't immediately make you want to run away screaming you should play Harvestella.
Love Snake Kaja
Okay, I'll do totono!
lily!
anyways one last thought about lor before i olly: gebura. 
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DehydratedWater
My ability to get through JRPGs is limited, and my ability to get into farming games is nearly nonexistent, I'm afraid
DehydratedWater
dang
Love Snake Kaja
I'll pick up totono Friday when I get my weekly allowance from my conservator of estate.
☆ 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤 ☆
i have two words for you, revue starlight
☆ 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤 ☆
utena-style combat, incredible music, 12 episodes and a movie
☆ 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤 ☆
extremely gay
Quinnfernal
unfortunately I have already seen it twice and the movie once
☆ 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤 ☆
i will even give you my hidive login if you need it
Quinnfernal
I have already absorbed the revue blorbos
☆ 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤 ☆
They’re good blorbos
Echo
Unfortunately you're already in all of my really obscure fandoms except for the one I agreed you wouldn't like, so.