Job Opening: Unsettling Presence (field agent)
Responsibilities:
- board the last trains of the day, projecting an aura of discomfort
- follow citizens on their daily business for suspicious amounts of time, then turn off and disappear, never to be seen again
- mumble meaningless yet alarming phrases under your breath
- spend ridiculous amounts of time in places of liminality like public transport stops, parking lots or hovering around queues, then leave without giving an obvious explanation for your behavior
- ask for directions to places you are dressed in entirely the wrong outfits for, like the United Nations or the OPEC while in areas people who have business with those entities would rarely enter
- mime phone conversations with grand implications
Requirements:
- nowhere better to be
- nothing better to do
- suspicious scars from injuries are a plus
- ability to blend into crowds at first glance while being weirdly out of place if you think about it
- dresscode: slightly off-kilter
You will be paid according to the Collective Agreement for Cryptids (classed as Minor Physical Anomaly)
If you think you are fit for the job, simply start performing your duties. Payment will make its way to you.
update: I created my own DSL for expressing Trickster spells in a more familiar Lisp-like syntax with some syntactic sugar for abstracting the complexity, and it looks like this:
($mine-tree; $self $block-type $coords) =
(run-same-args;
(switch;
(!=; block-type (get-block-type; $coords)) '()
'(void;
(break-block; $coords)
(sleep)
($self; $self (+; $coords (vec; 0 1 0)) block-type))))
($mine-tree;
$mine-tree
(get-block-type; (get-look-pos; (get-player))))
(get-look-pos; (get-player))
@Undead_Zeratul oohh that sounds so good. I love shooters with a slow burn, survival-oriented gameplay loop. it sounds like your addons would be perfect for me
also I had no idea you made HDest addons too! which of the ones in the google doc are yours?
@pharmafemboy I am ngl that is exactly the kind of being that I aspire to be. so glad you like the idea~ 💙
@liese omg I looked her up and it extremely seems like it. so she gives people cursed-looking artifacts that I assume seem helpful on the surface but also have dangerous downsides? I’m ngl I really like her vibe lol
@fargate oohhh. it sounds like this character captures exactly what I love about fae. so he’s able to create automata to serve him?
also I’m guessing that there are four courts in this world instead of (what I assume is) the usual two? I’m curious how they differ from each other. is the winter court still more overtly cruel/malicious than the summer court?
@Undead_Zeratul woahh thank you for the modlist! that is actually amazing to have. I’ve already really enjoyed Ugly as Sin’s survival mechanics (especially the food. I find it so grounding to make an area safe then take some time to eat and drink) but Spicy Air sounds amazing too
I’m currently using an older version of HDest with an older set of addons so I’m missing a lot of whatever has been added lately (I’m too lazy to update lol) but if/when I do update I am definitely checking this modlist out - thank you!
Ugly as Sin adds some nice scavenger style mechanics like scarce spawns, looting off corpses, etc.
Spicy Air makes it so that things can be flagged to emit or consume toxicity in the air around them, and being in that space causes you to breathe in and increase toxicity in yourself, dealing various types of damage to you over time. You can find gas masks and whatnot too which help.
Merchants can break the vibe/aesthetic a bit, but if configured well enough, they can provide a nice bit of benefit for finding secrets.
Personally, I run with quite a lot of addons myself, but I'm also refining and tweaking my entire setup to just be more of a slow-paced, spooky survival feel rather than a fast-paced tactical shooter.
It's taken me the last few years of curation and now the last year or two of helping maintain/upgrade these community addons, but I'm finally starting to make meaningful progress.
Its #FreeCupHolderFriday 🥤
Share if you want a free cup holder! LOL
@esheep I think I know a lot about video games. they’re my special interest and I even know about really obscure ones like Spirits of Xanadu or extremely niche mods for niche games like Clean Up Hell for ZDoom
but then I find a post like this and realize just how big the video game world is and how much I have yet to understand, because I have no idea what either of these are
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@Undead_Zeratul also, which HDest addons are you thinking of? they sound interesting
@Undead_Zeratul I would definitely count Voices of the Void! and also thank you for reminding me of that game. when I played it a few years ago it was in too much of a rough state but I really want to give it another try because IMO it had so much potential
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