USERNAME: [MINTY_FRESH]
REGISTERED: 4-7-314
PRONOUNS: She/Her
MOOD: Jolly!!
STATUS: Offline 
ABOUT: Not big on computers, won't be here much but hi

Scritter Lover

Hey! So I’m a bit of a sucker for a lot of old media, spend a lot of time each week going to local pawn shops, swap meets, old video and record shops, the works.

And I decided I wanted to start talking more about some of the neat finds? Specifically, a rare original script version of a game that a online friend of mine managed to recommend and I got lucky enough to pick up from a tent selling import films and games.

Introducing, “Swordking’s Fold!”



Based loosely on the events of a historical period in Paradiso, you might’ve grown up with a romanticized take on the story generally known in most parts as “The Starmen Affair.”

It’s actually a pretty common thing for it to be mandatory reading in schools. Lots to say on that but a little known fact is that it’s actually the sequel to another novel, “The King’s Hand”, a classic tragedy that takes place in the formative years of Paradiso, one that really goes perfectly hand in hand with its companion novel.

You play “The King”, a self proclaimed “Champion of the Meek” who sets out on an adventure to form an army to reclaim what they dub “The god’s capital” after being banished.

You’re allowed and encouraged to name “The King” and the various party members you encounter, but for the sake of ease we’ll just use the default name.

The game is a mix of dungeon crawling and tactical rpg gameplay, something that I never really knew I wanted til now? It’s a bit of an influential one in freeware crowds too…

What really sets it apart is how heavy it puts emphasis on narrative, to the point that the mechanics of the game are actively willing to sabotage you to get the story across.

I think it’s a bold move to make a game less “fun” for the sake of immersion. Party members at on their own most of the time. You can make suggestions and if your bond is close or things are tight, they will just outright let you make shots in encounters but..

A lot of the time you just drop because you haven’t managed enough food to keep people from squabbling..

There’s management as a big element, trying to keep a good pace and well supplied between quests.



Also,these primitive but ambitious cutscenes do a lot for me.. hits different with the music..

It’s a brutal game, incredibly feast or famine on the “Criticalist” Difficulty.

There’s also branching paths too? Ones that really let you explore elements from the source material in a way that play into the nature of the actual historical events being pretty disputed in nature.

Weird to think how much is lost to time.

Recruiting party members is a mix of folks you meet in town, some mandatory story ones, and even one you meet as a boss?



Mission is my favorite for that, they’re really fast at felling your party members when you first meet them, playfully taunting you early on and then as things get desperate, makes a point by leaving you for last.

You can kill them of course, but the “canon” route wants you to recruit them, and why wouldn’t you?

Love them. Kind of a bastard, a little silly and a bit hard to understand.

Them joins you because they like the idea of living in a king’s castle. And honestly? Love that energy. Such a bastard… Want to cosplay them some day…

Needless to say, I picked them as the main romance for my run. You can actually develop weirdly complicated relationships with most of the party!

Despite everything, she’s pretty loyal to the end.

And uh.. I guess this is where I get into spoiler thoughts and localization weirdness?

There’s a lot of script edits based on region. The Spells “Holy Fire” and “Heaven’s Door” being replaced with “Pearl Flame” and “Sky Highway.” is a pretty notable one in a more popular distribution.

The nature of the red and green cavaliers? I mean in any script their closeness is apparent, and while it’s not outright said it’s clear their feelings for each other are more just platonic foils. But in some versions they seem to just loathe each other! Apparently it was a homage to a tv show in a certain continent where the lead couple is just always at each other’s throats about the milk?

The pronouns of Lucifer, the pretty bard of the party, are apparently different across scripts because even historians are still disputing it, so it’s based on the local translations of the book this game is inspired by. Wild honestly.. In my version Lucifer is she/her.

Gotta wonder if maybe they’re all right?

Non-Fat vs low fat is a pretty real discussion. A friend of mine said that if you can’t figure that out when you move in together, you shouldn’t get married. Kind of extreme but… I get it?

Also I cried when Mission gives up their form to become a sword in the route where you recruit them. They wants to live forever so they can be there for you in every life..



I want something like that maybe, but also that’s kind of sad.

I wanna cosplay them and a few other characters but I can’t find consistent examples of full body art. Seems like official illustrations are all over and inconsistent. Maybe I should go into those in a different post.

Overall the story had me engaged, the tragedy of knowing that any efforts toward a kind rule fell apart pretty much as soon as the king passed really hurt. In the novel, they only last 9 years after they become ruler, the strain of it all doing them in.

The royal family was apparently slain centuries later in a big revolution, many of the game’s real life inspirations for the “Ultima” weapons are said to be in the castle still, but it’s pretty forbidden.

The developers have several spiritual successors to this game including“True King’s Gauntlet” which is still active and popular among rpg crowds to this day. It’s neat stuff.

Overall I think it’s worth a try. It’s brutally difficult and has a lot of the roughness you expect from RPGs of the era, but if you’re into a bit of historical drama and an example of a super narrative driven game from way back when? Give it a crack, obtain it legally if you can since copies can go for up to 300 bucks in our local currency.

Credits to: @Cabinetspider and the DreamwavePreservation forum for helping me learn about and get access to this game.

kaleidoclub fundraiser has been working out Exceedingly well so here we go with funding for smaller scale, free to read oneshots for the forums. think of this as a way to get community ideas for writing commissions funded. these funds will help us out significantly, especially while our system cannot commit to doing as much art as we usually do- and everyone in the community gets to benefit!

for every 10 USD you donate, you get to add another prompt to the pool beyond your initial five.
for every 25 USD donated overall, a raffle prompt gets pulled- this is the same price as a writing commission.
donating 50 USD means you get to directly pick a prompt from the pile, or suggest your own. this counts past donations, so if you donated 25, you just have to donate 25 more to get this.
raffle pulls will not begin until there are at least 10 suggestions up for picking.

anyone can suggest up to five prompts for the raffle pool for free, both SFW + NSFW allowed. we have some limitations on what's allowed and what isn't, but any characters are allowed, no matter how small or unfeatured. even stuff mentioned just on the forums or discord goes- including kaleidoclub characters, if you'd just like to get some oneshots made for the forums. you are encouraged to discuss ideas on our Discord or even develop them as a group, just as long as everyone respects the amount of stuff they can add to the raffle.

if your idea gets pulled, you can add a new idea to the pool, even if it's a free slot!

this system may be modified over time based on what works and what doesn't!

any characters are allowed, including morbit, plaything, and even supercyber.

to suggest:

say your prompts in a post, single sentences or phrases only! each new line is a new suggestion. you can also just suggest something thematic, or discuss things with us on Discord to figure out a prompt. worldbuilding stuff is also welcome!

to donate:

say you're donating either in private via Discord or in the thread, and we'll contact you on Discord to arrange payment.

example prompts:

Maes and Charon explore a new part of town.
Something involving the ethics of TCP treatment by complexes.
Scout discovers monster lore.
Food type dynamics and rituals.

by donating/suggesting you are accepting that this shit may take a while to get to and that these are long term goals being worked on by disabled people. prompts may also be modified as needed to work for the story, and while you will be shown the story you prompted as a little preview/thank you, these will be under our artistic vision overall! we also reserve the right to reject any prompt that wouldn't fit our ideas or is too specific- we may comment on that in the thread itself or on discord! thank you for understanding.

Absolutely Not Allowed
-Nonconsent or incest in a pornographic context (even if roleplayed. there are characters with this as a part of their backstories and you are allowed to request things taking that on.)
-Public Play (we have some plans for exploring this in kink specific settings, but for now we're not opening it for requests)
-Ageplay
-Scat/Watersports (no moral standing on this we just don't have an interest)
-Extreme Humiliation/Insults in a pornographic context (same as the noncon shit)
-Feral characters in a pornographic context
-Fetishization/Glorification of characters you should fucking know better than to suggest

Finished
Tcp pet shelter (bug shelter?): how about an advertisement for it like one of those business filmed commercials that are a little shaky but sweet  
A wizit gets an interview on TV or a podcast to talk about their "make clowns fun" movement
Lover and Primus go on a date after not seeing eachother for a bit (post Void)

Current Plans
Wretch takes Voidsy to a club (I just wanna see how Voidsy would handle it. I dont think well but Im Curious)
a semi part 2 to the shelter fic, where a cat is taking their new adopted friend (Or foster) home and the two of them adjusting to eachother
Maes and Charon deal with building renovations (feel like noise would bug Maes a lot)
Food type dynamics and rituals
- Places to go series: Assisted Living Facility
- Maes reads about scrap due to an increase in patients with scrap related issues.
- Escaped Snugglin seeking medical help removing their plastic heart
- Aftermath of a devastating horror attack (maybe scientists collecting samples from an abandoned town?)
    - Haven Overview
    - Playmates forum talks about the popular mods, pros and cons
    - An avid playmates player debates downloading soulmates after a friend recommended it
    - Contract negotiations in supercyber with... database? This is also open to any of the other characters if the authors feel they are ready for that character-wise.
    Flexin summoning ritual. (Science fair if you want specific)
    - Teaching yourself to heal with scrap (Sent you this scrap)
    - Places To Go Series: Paint pottery/art studio
    A weapon type dealing with the doctor
Maes and Synna talk about the stories they used to write (maybe laugh about how edgy they were, or try to see how they thought they were good)
- This scrap is in the wrong hands (sent this scrap to you, Friver)
Charon and Maes write secret messages in touch script while someone is talking in a meeting (Maes and Charon talk shit quietly)
- Styx has to herd all of charon's system members and it's more taxing than suspected. (headspace shenanigans interacting with the castle pocket?)
- Vet visits Woes Wigglers to look over some sick/healing pets.
- Family drama becomes a magic problem (sent this scrap prompt to you as well, Joco)
- Erica and Ali spar (pick any time period)
- Opera flirts with Faint
- Haywire and Geezer(Wally?) date
- Dotty gay doodling, hiding it from Jam and/or Lex
Lex and the hot pocket
Knight Guild Lore
Arabis and Zinna date
Snugco internal propaganda
Zinna got injured on a job and someone is handling the injury (I forget who was/if there was a medic in the old group)
Targe is cold and sleepy and trying to get Spice to cuddle
Bucket and Chelsea on a "business meeting, not a date"
Maurice zap interviews Woe (set back a few years? Maybe the rescue really needs funds/donations/volunteers? Maybe they're trying to set up another rescue out of the city?)
Old Story about pirates meeting "dangerous sea people" (Gummi Catfish?)
Saturn meets cats who don't trust Weiss
Spice, Targe, Jam/Lex, Dotty hangout. Movie night?
Erica and Ali talking about their childhood
Someone visiting Woe's Wigglers looking for animals that might make good therapy animals or service animals
Coral meets a normal sea life tcp
  Buddy has a nightmare about the session and doesn't let Hark comfort them in the moment, Hark tries to figure out what to do when they do come to them (direct chosen by rime in DMs)
    Tauntamounts fishing together
    -Voidsy goes to therapy.
    Someone downloaded friendzoo and is dealing with a genuinely angry pet
    Maurice zap talks to a cat from a game (maybe with kills?)
Charon and/or Geezer (kids) trying to sneak a "pet" into the house
    Some campers Don't take camp safety seriously
    - Places To Go Series: Aquarium
    Arguing with a child over DDR game
    Places To Go Series: Tailor
    Opera talking to someone about her childhood
    Morbit trash TV (honestly could be collab but putting in this section)
    Bryce and Primus are new demons, meeting other gods demons.
Places To Go Series: Bakery

Up For Raffle
- Someone from the supercyber crew wants to move out of district and is reviewing their options.
- Proxy hangouts, emphasizing any that people want to see, including Motley's folks if that is not spoilers.
TCP moving to a company that's actually accommodating to them, trying to get over previous treatment
Buddy has a nightmare about the session and doesn't let Hark comfort them in the moment, Hark tries to figure out what to do when they do come to them
 Creature type support group (more for like, monster types and scary cats. Maybe body types also? "Scary Cat Support Group"??)
Tcp signing up for Field factor forums and struggling to pick a name
Tcp dealing with the earlier stage if ravenous
- Places To Go Series: Greenhouse/Garden
- Dating game show for tcp
- Kevin tells her old team/friends about her name change
- Tcp booked a session to take some risky photos to help build their confidence
- Places To Go Series: Greenhouse/Garden
- Maes (Or Maes and Synna) Tell Charon about their old stories and he has thoughts
- Dotty, Jam, and Lex flirting, see who's the best
- Needle and Manzana hooking up? (Are they dating? I'm not sure.)
- Arabis and Zinna date
-Lover gets an order for some masks for a local theaters show
- Primus tries modeling for Lover (Bryce is there for support maybe?)
- Sabbath attempts to bake a pie
Erica talks to Charon and Geezer about her ex('s?)
Ali brings a gift for Charon, Erica is mad
Faint trying not to vent to Opera about problems in their paranormal "friend group" (failing)
Dotty going through old drawings they have
Scout discovers monster lore
Primus gets in an argument with or about Voidsy
Faint trying not to vent to Opera about problems in their paranormal "friend group" (failing)
Dotty going through old drawings they have
Scrap witch training video?
People talking about the angel horror show
Spit and Rein interaction
Charon getting Maes to try some new food
Someone telling Shriek about their book (complementing or complaining), doesn't know Shriek is the author
Maurice Zap interviews a cat with horror exposure
Primus and Lover at the club (date pt 2)
Charon getting Maes to try some new food
Spit and Rein interaction
Scrap witch training video?
Some campers Don't take camp safety seriously
Kinds of things that are traded between zones.
Old morbit fairytales?
Arabis writing a letter to Zinnia, not to be sent (maybe Zinnia is "dead" maybe they're fighting... yeah)
Arabis or Zinnia being frustrated that Ali is dismissive of Pitcher/old judgements
Someone from Spitkiller session trying to say hi to Jasper, who is pretending to not be That Jasper.
Places to go series: A farm
Places to go series: Cafe
Maurice Zap genuinely debates dating a clown
Woe's Wigglers adoption event
Maurice Zap talking about past relationship problems
Saturn asks Weiss is he should learn how to cut off his own antlers, since if he goes to space there won't be a surgeon
Saturn learns about Space Media (Spacies? I think a star trek and twilight zone thing were mentioned? Give him an Invaderz? Just space media)
Coral becomes uncooperative due to hunger
Coral and Saturn debate: Space vs the Ocean
Epoch goes on a picnic
Epoch vs crop stealing critters (lil mouse thing?)
Epoch making plants for other cats trials.
Kinds of things that are traded between zones.
Old morbit fairytales?
Arabis writing a letter to Zinnia, not to be sent (maybe Zinnia is "dead" maybe they're fighting... yeah)
Arabis or Zinnia being frustrated that Ali is dismissive of Pitcher/old judgements
Places to go series: A farm
Places to go series: Cafe
Someone from Spitkiller session trying to say hi to Jasper, who is pretending to not be That Jasper.
Saturn learns about Space Media (Spacies? I think a star trek and twilight zone thing were mentioned? Give him an Invaderz? Just space media)
 Epoch goes on a picnic


 

[SNOW_BLOSSOM]

hello! my name is cherry! i'm not a super tech savvy person, but a while back i wanted to give friendzoo a try. admittedly, i've avoided the forums for a while since social media isn't really my thing, but i finally caved since thought it would be a nice opportunity to meet other folks who love their rasters and, as indicated by the title of this thread, document some of our adventures together!

before we get into the real meat of it, i wanted to start by introducing my rasters! i currently have six living cozily in my computer system. though all of them agreed to being a part of this log, some of them are a bit more shy than others, so i won't force them to sit in the spotlight any more than they want to.

my first three rasters are slimer, velvet, and bai. when i first installed friendzoo, i waited to see if any lost or wandering rasters would happen by my system. interestingly, this group of three showed up together!

USERNAME: [CANDIED_MEATS]
REGISTERED: 12-4-316
PRONOUNS: he/she
MOOD: desolate
STATUS: Online
ABOUT: i like food and taking pictures

USERNAME: [SNOW_BLOSSOM]
REGISTERED: 12-4-316
PRONOUNS: she/they
MOOD: warm and cozy <3
STATUS: Online
ABOUT: hello! my name is cherry! i'm always open to making new friends, so don't be shy!

[TCP]

name: cherry
species: tcp
type: husky/kitsune hybrid
pronouns: she/they
username: [SNOW_BLOSSOM]
occupation: chef
when cherry first spawned, they didn't know they were any different than a regular husky type -- until they learned how to cook, their life passion, and gained a second tail. they love the snow and flowers, and love cooking savory meat dishes. this hobby attracted the attention of roman, a fellow tcp harboring a nocturnal ravenous condition. the two became very close and live together, with cherry helping keep roman's condition in check. cherry hopes to one day open a restaurant of her own, but for now she has her hands full.
(designed by ringor mortis)



name: roman
species: tcp
type: cat/werewolf hybrid
conditions: ravenous
pronouns: he/she
username: [CANDIED_MEATS]
occupation: photographer
roman is unique in that his ravenous condition manifests in part with his werewolf typing -- every night, as he's exposed to moonlight, he changes from small and unassuming to a hulking wolf-like beast with a fierce appetite. roman has little to no control of herself during these times, hunting nonstop until her hunger is sated. the first time she transformed, she killed and devoured another tcp -- an incident that left a mark under her eye and lots of regret in her heart. she sought out someone who could help her, and came across cherry, a chef with a passion for meat dishes. the two became very close, with cherry making sure that roman is well-fed each night so that he can revert back to normal. roman has a strong love of nature photography, but she only works during the day...
(designed by ringor mortis)
 

[RASTERS]

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