It’s pretty much the same as the old forums but without a filter. Not sure what you mean by culture. Hope you like it here.

Hey Prank! I'm Galaxian from the SAMB. The nickname's short for Galaxian Explosion; username was scarletdragon3016. I was on the forums from June of 2018 to their closure. I do believe I remember your skits and look forward to seeing them again. It's always nice to read something by a fellow writer, anyhow! I also feel like the maroon is characteristic, but I honestly forgot who it belonged to. I hope I'm remembering correctly. (Your username seems familiar too??? I guess that helps add validation.)
Dude, your pfp brings back so much nostalgia lol, anyone who's not a forumer probably wouldn't believe it.
For your questions, it's kinda like Zura said, but I'll add some specification if needed, not that I'll do a good job since I'm bad at explaining and there isn't much to explain, I think. For homethreads, it's just forumers' own places to chill. They can post whatever as long as it abides with forum rules. As for the writing subforums, I guess just refer to the names and post writing where it's applicable. If it's inapplicable in the other categories, it'll be in the remaining one. For instance, Story Signups is quite straightforward as a name--it's where you post signup threads for stories so that others can make forms for them. As such, threads you post on there contain synopses as well as form formats, and contains form acceptance. Then, Share Your Writing is also quite straightforward. It's where you post said stories. Notably, however, you need not have a corresponding thread in Story Signups to post in Share Your Writing. Plenty of writing is made of one's own characters, for instance, which would negate the need for a signup thread. Finally, I think of Writing Discussions as the miscellaneous category--if what you're posting is neither a signup thread or the actual writing but related to the writing you have posted/will post, then it goes there. Personally, I use the place for my writing thread (though not my ideas one, as that one is much more personal).
If you need more clarification, let me know. I hope that helped.

-Galaxian-

I can't clearly recall a specific instance where we interacted one-on-one, oof, but iirc, you might've offered to include me in one of the skits once along with some other forumers. I could entirely be wrong, however.
Personally, I feel like what you're saying depends on your level of comfort, then. Typically, I see Share Your Writing as a final draft sharing place, but I can totally see it being in the forum if you're comfortable with it. The only thing I can think of in addition to this is that if the writing isn't connected and is scattered, then maybe you don't want it on Share Your Writing for that reason. Your homethread is somewhat similar in that it's your place, so you can post it here if you want/are comfortable with it, but I gotta say, I'm not sure if feedback would be as easily provided here as they would on a Writing subforum (as homethreads are more general than writing threads, and so it could be hard to commentate after new posts have been made on the homethread before someone is able to comment on the writing). Overall, from my own experience, I definitely recommend posting on the Writing section at least, both for personal and organizational purposes. If you're comfortable with it being on Share Your Writing, then that's okay; but if you're not sure about that, I would recommend Writing Discussions. I don't see input being much of an issue on either Writing subforum, but that also depends on whether you plan to use your homethread for other types of posts.
But the above is what I think. I might be a mod, but I'm not entirely sure. What Zura says likely takes higher tier than what I say.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

I can't clearly recall a specific instance where we interacted one-on-one, oof, but iirc, you might've offered to include me in one of the skits once along with some other forumers. I could entirely be wrong, however.
Personally, I feel like what you're saying depends on your level of comfort, then. Typically, I see Share Your Writing as a final draft sharing place, but I can totally see it being in the forum if you're comfortable with it. The only thing I can think of in addition to this is that if the writing isn't connected and is scattered, then maybe you don't want it on Share Your Writing for that reason. Your homethread is somewhat similar in that it's your place, so you can post it here if you want/are comfortable with it, but I gotta say, I'm not sure if feedback would be as easily provided here as they would on a Writing subforum (as homethreads are more general than writing threads, and so it could be hard to commentate after new posts have been made on the homethread before someone is able to comment on the writing). Overall, from my own experience, I definitely recommend posting on the Writing section at least, both for personal and organizational purposes. If you're comfortable with it being on Share Your Writing, then that's okay; but if you're not sure about that, I would recommend Writing Discussions. I don't see input being much of an issue on either Writing subforum, but that also depends on whether you plan to use your homethread for other types of posts.
But the above is what I think. I might be a mod, but I'm not entirely sure. What Zura says likely takes higher tier than what I say.

-Galaxian-

^^^Galaxian finding the words I can't haha

Writing Discussions is typically for WIPs and talking about your writing. You might have a brainstorming thread there or ramble about your projects at 3 a.m.

Share Your Writing is for finished pieces. Maybe you post the text in full or share a link to it.

You can use the forums for whatever, though. It doesn't really matter. And we have the ability to move topics, so if something belongs in another category, it's no big deal.
 

@General Zura
Ah thanks!

@Time
The opportunities are endless here, it's almost overwhelming. But an exciting type of overwhelming! There's a lot lil old tween Prank could only dream of doing back at the SAMB.
 

what a descriptive passage

never knew crows had no upper teeth

Dude I used to be an Arcadum fan.

I even bought the endgame hoodie for the previous Violet arc. I used to watch as many of his games as possible and find all the connections and loved all the character crossovers and everything.

But ever sense around the prologue of the Glies arc I've definitely fell out with his stuff

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I think I might become in danger of getting addicted to writing drabbles. I made a double drabble after pulling Sayu on Genshin about scenarios between her and Mamizou from Touhou (because y'know, tanuki/mujina), and now I have a whole list of future Touhou x Genshin drabbles to do. And I just got an idea a few minutes ago about a drabble collection for the main OMORI characters...

I'm never gonna finish a WIP ever again, am I? I'm just stuck with new ideas and drabbles now, aren't I?

-Prank
 

Time wrote:

I was a big fan of the Kalkatesh stuff before that. But now, not really.

Tbh the best way to watch is to watch in chronological order of release, so if anything that creates a ripple effect in any of the campaigns makes more sense.

Have there been any like, crossovers yet? Any old character appearances or something? In the series you'ved watch? Or heard about?

In Glies? Not yet much that I'm aware. Still sticking to Ink and Blood for the time being. There were some mentions in Ink and Blood of an PC from another ongoing campaign that caused Twitch chat to flip out - and because of shenanigans within Episode 5 (aka the best and most entertaining of Ink and Blood yet), there is a possibility of Jerry appearing in I think The Divine Wind. But if he does he'll risk the wrath of the Time Goddess and Babylon due to an oath he made to the resident Time Paladin.

As for old character appearances, besides some followers of Crowley among the PCs, there was a servant of the last cyclops that made an appearance in Ink and Blood Episode 4 who dropped some lore bombs about stuff from the previous arc.
 

Time wrote:

Raquel? Yeah I kinda like her. She got time powers. That's cool.

Sucks that if I would have ever had a lw character he'd probably be opposed with her (not that I would have one by this point, bc you know, not interested anymore. Plus it probably costs much more than being subbed now).

Tbh I preferred the traditional dnd deity system that Kalkatesh had compared to what I saw/heard of the deity system in Glies through games and concept/glies development streams. Even if what I saw wasn't too much... has anything interesting happened with them? The yokai or anything or like sorts?

Oh also, was that servant a three eyed minotaur?

I'm probably not the best person to ask rn, since I'm still only on Ink and Blood and didn't watch any of the development streams besides Ink and Blood's session 0. We do have some yozai PCs (human-youkai hybrids), like Ral in I&B. Currently I&B is focused on world-building the Onmyoji and the Black Library - basically the containment of akuma that can't be destroyed. There was some namedropping of the main akuma who appears to be the main big bad of the current arc - Otikata - after Kouki accidentally peered into a cursed book about him and Tiri and Jerry locked eyes with him when using a fate-seeing loom and seeing all the potential bad endings of each current campaign.

But so far in I&B the only deity-worshipping PCs are Tiri the Time Paladin, Kouki as an unwilling follower of Crowley, and Elliot as a follower of a god-I-can't-remember-the-name-of who opposes the undead (pretty sure that one isn't a Glies deity).

I also dunno what lw character means or what you're costs you're talking 'bout. I'm that much of a newbie to this.

And the servant appeared to be a new character based off of the discussions I saw in the chat and subreddit. She was a human/humanoid who got turned into a spider yokai after coming to Glies and was gifted the fate-seeing ability and loom to keep the art alive since - if I remember the lore drop correctly - it was confirmed in that last conversation that the last of the cyclops are dead following the big war that keeps getting referenced.
 

BrownWolf123 wrote:

the big war that keeps getting referenced.
 

Oh, also the big war being referenced, was the previous arc/story. I forgot the name it has been given, but I'll call it "The War of the Seven" It lasted from essentially the very beginning of when Arcadum started to DM to before the Glies arc (which I believe is about 17 years?). However, we were only able to see like, the last 2 years of games before the ending, as that is when he started to stream. As you probably already know, the war came to an end 50 in-game years ago by now (a few months in real-time).

Note that whenever you hear a female voice doing some opera singing about hope or something, that means it's important. It's also a direct reference to the "War of the Seven", however, what it is referencing might've not been on stream or anything, and possibly new content to viewers.

Woah I wrote a lot, sorry about that... 

Do you require a TL;DR?