A game that is marketed as your standard fishing game and for the first 20 minutes or so you catch normal fish like bluegill and bass and what have you. But the further you go into the lake you start to catch fish with mutations and it gets more and more intense until you’re pulling in Eldritch horror monsters and sometimes severed human limbs. You realize you don’t recall how you got to this lake in the first place and the objective becomes to find your way back to shore. You have no real weapons but you can throw the creatures you’ve caught far away from the boat as a means to distract whatever is underneath you, bumping into the boat sometimes.
Additional items for the game.
A fishing pole with a radar that starts out with just beeps but later includes noises with hidden messages.
A GPS that displays texts and story elements.
You meet other boaters, all from various backgrounds, countries, and time periods. Some are friendly, others want to sacrifice you to the lake monsters.
You can also take the route of sacrificing others to the lake monster.
Or you can assemble a party and work to keep them safe.
The more fucked up looking the fish you catch, the closer you’re getting to a boss fight, which is usually running from something you can only see part of in the water.
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And that’s my game idea.
More details.
It never stops being a fishing game. You are always fishing and searching for new areas where there is more activity in order to progress the story.
Depending on the choices you make and the amount of mutant fish you consume, you may start to mutate yourself. The fishing pole is part of your arm, you don’t notice it until later. If you consume mostly non-mutated fish and don’t sacrifice to the monsters you can keep the mutations to a minimum.
You can go full mutant and the boat becomes part of your body as well. This makes the monsters pay less attention to you, but you can no longer befriend or trade items with humans. You can still catch human remains and most of them are carrying items.
If you stay mostly human you can work to gather as many surviving humans as you find and assemble a fleet. The possibility of one of them turning on you always stands.
If you’re mutant you gain the ability to capsize yourself and view things under water. This is how you find ultimate monster.
If you’re human you can explore small abandoned docks and islands. These are where you find portals leading to different time periods and countries. You deliver members of your party to these. Only the person who originally belongs there can go through it.
Possible end game situations.
You find the portal leading back to your world, where you wake up on the river bank. You can catch normal fish before going home, making sure they are all free of mutations (they might not be.)
You join the monster, eventually overtaking it. You gain the ability to open time portals near water. You use lures to draw in humans.
I can’t think of anymore endings right now, I may have ruined the game with these new details so feel free to just enjoy the first part.
Terrible concept art. Mini game idea. Compete with members of your party to catch the most fucked up fish. Points awarded based on how many extra body parts it has and if it communicates telepathically with you.
Added my No-Romo posts to this because I feel they are the most important additions. (I am not a writer or game designer or really capable of making anything so this idea is just wishful thinking at best.)
Concept art if it was a more stylized, cute game. You would be able to customize your character and your boat. Sorry this became so big I’m tagging it with it’s working title “Lure” for now. I legit expect nothing at all to come from this, I just like to design and concept out things a bit.
The ultimate ending to the game would be to ignore all plot points and just keep fishing. Meet a person? Tell them you’re not interested in working with them. Feel like you’re getting close to a boss monster? Turn the boat a different direction. Just
keep catching and cataloging the fish until you run out of room in your
journal. After that the sky opens up and sucks you into it. You wake up exactly where the game started but the first page of your journal now says “YOU DID A REEL GOOD JOB!” And that’s the ending I would shoot for.
More shitty concept art! I’m done now. Anything else pertaining to this will have it’s own post. (I ruined it after the first post, I know I did.)
I WOULD PLAY THE SHIT OUT OF THIS THOUGH! I want to romance the Elderich Horror lol
When I first started taking sleep meds, I had some really trippy dreams (after not having had ANY dreams for quite a few years). The dreams lowered in frequency, so I dont have a lot anymore, but last night I had one that I still remember. Wasn’t trippy or anything…
I dreamed I was just going house to house, breaking in… to feed and pet peoples cats. And I would say I was the “Cat Health Inspector” if people caught me. And then give them tips on improving their cats health/happiness…
I wish camping weren’t so expensive. I think if more people had the luxury to enjoy the outdoors, there’d be greater motivation to preserve wilderness, biodiversity, and natural splendor.
If I were wealthy, I think it’d be cool to make a program that helps introduce people to the outdoors. My camp does that, but mostly for children – teaching whole families how to enjoy nature would be really cool. It’s not only about resources, but also about becoming comfortable interacting with nature in a careful but enjoyable way.
You can loan someone a tent and drive them to a national park, but you can’t (easily) teach them to become comfortable with the risks and inconveniences of nature.
People should check out their local Community Colleges for programs!
I know mine has a whole department on doing nature classes, hikes, and camp outs. And its not something you have to be a college student for, they’re open to the public AND have special classes just for children, and they’re really cheap, and super easy to sign up for. (I dont think they provide the gear though, for camping…)
did anyone actually ever read those animorph books
just stared at the covers for a concerningly long amount of time before putting it back where i found it
me too
Same
Here are some of the spoilers you missed out on by not reading Animorphs:
Five children are forced to engage in guerilla warfare, espionage and repeated murder to protect their loved ones from alien parasites as they wait for the other, heroic aliens to finally arrive. When they do, the “good” aliens turn out to not give a shit about humans, caused the whole intergalactic war through their own shittiness and are willing to exterminate whole planets themselves to get at their hated enemies.
A child repeatedly experiences his intestines hanging out of his body while in various animal forms
A child is mentally tortured until broken and never gets better
A child in the form of a fly experiences getting splattered and smeared against a ceiling until his friends who are also flies at the time can peel his body off and take him somewhere he can transform back into a whole human before his insect mind fades completely
A child is shrunken and experiences having her eyeballs digested out of her head inside her friend’s stomach while she’s in the form of a tiny elephant
The heroes are forced to permanently imprison another child in the body of a rat because he knows too much and they abandon him on a tiny island with only other rats and garbage for company. Rumors circulate that the island is haunted but it’s actually his psychic screams reaching distant boaters.
A race of devastatingly powerful, violent aliens turn out to be mental toddlers who don’t know what they’re doing and are just bred to think they’re playing one big game before they’re killed at age three so they don’t learn the truth
An alien spends a few centuries hanging from the parasitic tentacle of a much bigger alien, surrounded by millions of rotting corpses attached to its other moon-spanning tendrils. They engage in mental warfare until one finally absorbs the other completely.
It turns out another seemingly “evil” alien race is simply driven to kill and eat everything in sight because it was separated from its original world where food was continuous and the entire specie’s life is the torture of perpetual starvation
A peaceful robot willingly removes its inhibition against violence to help in the war, only to slaughter a huge number of alien-controlled humans so gruesomely that nobody dares think about or speak of it again and it is the only thing left undescribed in a book series that already describes entrails getting torn out and skulls getting smashed
A child stays too long in the form of a flea and instead of turning back into a human, accidentally turns momentarily into one big, giant flea that can only writhe and moan because it shouldn’t exist and can’t live at that scale.
The kids discover Atlantis, then discover that Atlanteans are inbred mutants who paralyze any humans they find, dissect them alive to figure out how their organs work, then stuff the corpses as kitschy museum displays for their children.
An ordinary ant gets transformed into a human child. It has no idea what’s happening and is so overwhelmed by its huge new brain and sensory input that it can only scream until it dies
What the fuck
@animorphsdaily can you fact check this because some of it seems familiar and makes me want to go back and read and be like “how the fuck was I so chill with this!?”
Yup, it is all true. I could list book numbers for every single bullet point, but since some of those things happen in multiple books, I won’t.
On a minor note: the book where the ant thing happens (last bullet point) is just very nonsensical, so if you ever wanna read the books again just skip that one (it’s book 39).
I read a good amount in middle school, because the thrift store had them cheap, but dont think I got even a quarter into the series…
the funniest thing in the entire pirates of the caribbean series is definitely that one scene in At World’s End where they have parlay but davy jones is part of it, and rather than have him stand in the shallows or something they get a big bucket of water and have in stand on it on shore
who thought of that idea? who thought “put davy jones in a bucket of water” and had the guts to suggest it aloud? and then who went “hey that sounds like a great idea!”
at some point someone told davy jones their idea was for him to stand in a bucket of water and he agreed to it
*stands majestically in a bucket*
ok but notice the trail of buckets behind him meaning he walked from the ocean through three other buckets of water before he got into the one hes standing in
It’s even funnier when you consider how he must have figured all this out in the first place.
Some folks are asking “well, if he can avoid the no-dry-land curse simply by standing in a bucket, doesn’t that ruin his whole motivation?”, but he’s not on dry land here.
The parley takes place on a sandbar – which, for the unfamiliar, is a temporary “island” of sand deposited by breaking waves, unconnected with the shore, that spends most of its time submerged, being exposed only at low tide.
What Jones is doing here is rules-lawyering his curse. Can you imagine the trial and error he must have gone through in order to determine that this would actually work?
“Okay, do islands count as dry land? How about parts of the shore below the high tide mark? Reefs? Shoals? What if I stand in a pool of water on a shoal? Does it have to be seawater, or will any water do? Does it have to be a natural tidepool, or can it be something artificial, like a bucket?”
What I am saying is that there must have been a process.
Pretty sure that this implies that the reverse – a bucket of sand, floating on the water (big bucket with just a bit of sand), would qualify as dry land. That’s absurd, so I’m pretty sure that his lawyer pulled a fast one over the curse governor.
It may be absurd, but the text of the film bears it out. Davy Jones can sense the presence of his heart while it’s at sea, but not while it’s on land (indeed, that’s why he buried it on land in the first place: to break his connection with it) – yet placing the heart in a simple jar of dirt conceals it from Jones’ awareness just as surely as burial on land does, even if the jar is on a boat at the time. Suitably prepared vessels filled with dirt absolutely count as dry land for the purpose of Jones’ curse.
Then the reverse should also be true. If he buried it in a jar of water, no matter how far inland it is, he would be able to sense it. So by this logic, any container of seawater counts as not dry land, ergo, the bucket is a perfectly viable loophole.
Not necessarily. It’s traditionally a lot easier to accidentally get whammied by a curse than it is to weasel around it – I figure that’s why he’s using multiple layers of indirection here. He’s forbidden to set foot on dry land, but it’s technically not dry land (it’s a sandbar, a non-permanent landform exposed only at low tide) and he technically didn’t set foot on it (he’s standing in a bucket of water). It’s entirely possible that either one of those things alone wouldn’t make the grade.
okay but this all raises one further, very important question: if it’s specifically “dry land” he’s forbidden from, what about wetlands.
can Davy Jones fight you in salt marshes? can he throw down in a peat bog?Swamp Battle?
This is the quality content I come to Tumblr for.
could he step on land if his shoes are wet?
No matter how ridiculous PotC gets I will love it. Especially when it results in conversations like this
What if he crawls around on his hands and knees, with his feet raised slightly into the air? Can he walk on his hands? Can he ride around in a litter or a wheelchair?
can he be in a wheelbarrow?
I’m assuming no, to the above questions, or he would have taken advantage of it.
Wet shoes would have been easier than buckets, so that likely is not allowed. Crawling, he could have taken advantage of to get to the big bucket… or to search for his heart in the past. So that is likely not allowed either. I would suspect he would have experimented with using transport of some kind to travel on land as well, so that’s likely not allowed either.
The curse is likely more specific than merely not setting a ‘foot’ on land. It likely means he cannot travel over dry land in any way. Or, it may be that he can only travel over saltwater/seawater. Like that myth that Vampires cant cross running water, he cannot travel over ‘dry land’.
If a sandbar doesn’t count as dry land, but is still ‘land’, the curse may not be nearly as strict, and he can travel over it as long as he is standing in seawater, making the curse think he is still in the sea. Since the sandbar is sometimes submerged, he is likely tricking the curse with use of the buckets, since he is still in seawater… but he cant touch the land in any way, or the trick will be revealed, thus why he cant crawl to the bucket. Theoretically, if this is true, he could be carried in a wheelbarrow over to the bucket, if the wheelbarrow was also filled with sea water, to trick the curse.
If my hypothesis about the curse is true, he likely could not go to wetlands unless he could get there without crossing over dry land, and they were saltwater. But if he could get to a saltwater marsh without crossing over ‘dry land’, he probably would be fine there as long as he didn’t touch any of the un-submerged land.
I tried this in the past and failed pretty spectacularly (I literally raised $1 overall attempting this twice), but I saw other way better and more famous than me people have success with donation streams and thought that I might be able to at least raise like $50 because then at least I’m doing something instead of being useless because I’m too poor to donate myself lol
Anyways, there’s this charity organization called Extra Life that has gamers raise money for Children’s Hospitals by doing gaming marathons. You raise donations, and marathon game over 24 hours on a stream.
Here’s my donation page. I’m going to do my marathon stream from 6pm on Thursday, December 29th, to 6pm on Friday, December 30th.
If you cant donate, please at least repost this. The main way to succeed for these sorts of things is networking, so reposts will help more people see this.
ALL donations go directly to the charity, I get none of this money. The hospital I’m supporting is the Los Angeles Children’s Hospital.
I really want to try to raise at least $50. The minimum Extra Life allows you to put as your goal is $100, but… I tried doing gaming Extra Life marathons twice before and literally only raised $1 total, which felt pretty pathetic… so I want to at least feel like I’m making a tiny bit of difference, but I dont think $100 if possible for me since I dont really have a large following and Im not popular or anything… But the more reposts this gets, the more likely it is that I can at least reach $50.
Edit: Had to change start time, forgot I had an appointment lol
drop whatever you’re doing right now and climb a tree
its pitch black outside, and freezing cold. I think ill climb a tree tomorrow
you climb that fuckin tree right now
I’ve literally never seen this post on my dash when it is not after dark and cold as balls. I’m beginning to think this is a conspiracy to get us eaten by some nocturnal tree demon.
I laughed, but then realized it’s cold as balls and dark outside…
Its 3pm, sunny, and 60F (so pretty warm for me).
But I am at work. Cannot go climb any trees. Itll be dark and probably cold by the time Im off.
I think the ratio of people seeing this on dark cold nights has to do with the fact that this likely is more relevant in winter, thus gets more reblogs, and a lot of tumblr users browse the site later afternoon/night.
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