Ya forgot one love your earth *points her herself as she is an earth dragon*

*brow knits* Love, I think you misunderstand this notion- which is fine. I suppose I didn't offer much in the way of explanation or whatnot.... My fault. Poor Ahriman did as well. He seemed to think I was drawing up Tarot cards. So, I had to give him the background as well, though he did say it looked nice. That gave me a warm fuzzy...

This image was designed around a specific bit of gaming trivia which has been stuck in my head-pan for centuries and I won't give away here just in case anyone is still wanting to play along. There were four points to it, "Love, Sun, Death and Moon". The other night at work while I was just gushing with inspiration, I had the idea of doodling out this image with members of my family. The notion of who went where came up next in mind and that's when it really began to take shape. As I'd established previously the way I see things, Ahriman and Krissie seemed naturally fit to be both Moon and Sun again, respectively. *head tilts* However, I know Ahriman is a druid of The Morrigan, so "Death" also seemed to fit him well. And how would Dratis fit in...? He is established as my Earth after all, my grounding force. "Love seemed a bit awkward a fit for him and "Death" was out of the question.

It didn't take but a few seconds to figure out how it would work. I would utilize those closest to me romantically, my husband, my wife and the mother of my child, as, although "love" might seem appropriate, Sanita's morbid proclivities made her the perfect representative of "Death". All of this worked out well as it boiled us down to more of our socially expressed essence, really.

Ah ha forgive for that love as I myself thought it was tarot like as well and I know the ones in the cards are your hearts and souls (congrats on the child love!) and they part of yours (I hope we can be that someday as your the only lover I've ever had that asked for my phone number to chat to me) *rubs the back of her head shyly* But ya forgive this nitwit love my brain went in places I should have kept my nose outa.

Hrm, I heard The Order wasn't that great a game. :P

Knowing you, this has probably something to do with something very old, some RPG where "Place four markes upon ye four altares" but the ones I can remember do not have this particular symbols.

PS this is beautiful, and so is the idea behind it.

You know, I've never played "The Order". Dratis has an Xbone but noone in our household has a PS4 or much inclination to get one, so far as I know. I've not heard much good of the game either, though I've learned to take most internet 'critics' with a tablespoon of salt, if at all.

Okay- *smirks* This response is so perfectly worded and I know you to be a clever sot, I'm not sure if you're just being playful or you're just guessing that closely. You're right, you know. It was on the NES and I did spend... oh damnation and devilry... I have no idea how many solid weeks of my life on playing that game. There were indeed four emblems, assuming you figured out that they existed in the world and where to get them and that they were of that important a significance, and if you placed them in the wrong order it insta-killed your party, forcing you to replay from last save. *chuckles* Thus, the Order has been burned in my memory all these years.

Thank you, love. I'm very glad to see you appreciate this one as it ended up being a bit more significant to me than I'd first planned...

Oh, both!

My problem is the games I DO have are probably not the one... buuut before naming names, if I can remember internet comments outside the internet, I'd like to double-check if one family member's party is at a high level end-of-the-game state, it might just be listed. It's easier than googling walkthroughs, anyway.

Don't get me started on critics. I don't care anymore how popular or unpopular something is. Lately I go by amount, quality and persistence of fanart, it seems to be a better metric. I also play things I "don't" like, I've discovered that anything fanboys and fangirls say is the finest example of a genre I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole is often much better than 10 games in a genre I "normally" like.

It is!

"A vision of the Time Lord appears before you."
"He tells you the one way is Love, Sun, Moons, Death."
"All else fails.

I could never remember the damn order, and always had to make a pilgrimage to the bottom top left corner of the dungeon you can only reach by moon gates, every time. I remember that better than the actual order. The order was never burned in my brain. The route to reach the guy who tells you the order was. XD

Lately I've been wondering if that was a Doctor Who reference snuck in there. It would be just like The Doctor to appear in a strange location where he doesn't belong and tell the people the exact specific thing to do to stop the strange alien robot that doesn't belong there either, no further explanation. I just noticed now even on the map he is in a small box-shaped room with a pillar in the middle. XD

It's a shame you couldn't be in the room with me.

Didn't even remember the name of the game, just "ok, where's the purple one???" It's old, it's dusty, it's battery is probably about to give up the ghost, so it better boot correctly. Blows on it. Carefully makes sure it's seated on the connectors. The music plays, first try, no problems.

Weirdly, the First Save is already empty, so it seems there was partial data loss. (!) The Second and Third Saves survived. Me and my brother's. I continue without checking what party members are selected. Oops.

This wasn't my usual made-to-win party.

Who can cast descent? (They all can!!) Ok, we should be alright with a buttload of food.

Lady in the grocery store says "Welcome to the pub!" "Ok, THIS is what happens when you work two jobs, and show up at the second job drunk from the first one!"

Looking over my stats, spells, gear... this was my experimental party, using the characters we considered "duds" to see if they could beat the game. I had gotten bored with them because a solution existed, but it was time-burning.

I'd given them personalities and then forgotten all about it.
Tippit the bobbit ranger. Walking barefoot in the woods.
Zircon the dwarf cleric.
Peony the elf lark. The one with the harp, probably singing and gathering flowers in the meadows. (fucking elves)
Wolf the fuzzy druid, based on my own magic-using fursona.
2 had blowguns, and everybody wore simple cloth. This is not a party you can make mistakes with.

In the middle of the woods halfway to the one moon gate site I still remember, "Waaait! How many gems do we have??" (because I am NOT going to remember the way to walk on Level 8 of "the dungeon you can only reach by moon gates" 25 years later) Looks at tools. "Damn I wasn't fucking around!"

Dodging monsters with an "Oh shit!!"
Positioning of the party was forgotten and had to be reinvented in the heat of battle.
Strong spells were cast with a "FUCK YOU!!"

The timing of moon gates to follow was also forgotten, but we never could figure them out, and it was always a crapshoot, hence the buttload of food to wait in the mountain valleys for the right moon for the gate to appear.

I burned a shitton of gems getting lost until I remembered that, unlike Final Fantasy, the SAME SPELL could be used to ascend all the way out of the dungeon, and I didn't need a special Exit spell. D'oh!

I made it back with a Trans(port) Spell to an island with a Pirate Ship. Strong headwinds got me ambushed by Sea Serpents. Sosaria was never a world you could just go press a button on the map, even with teleportation magic, it wasn't a sure thing.

Resting in Lord British's garden to regain MP to cast heal. Ah, nostalgia.

I should tell you, Back in the day, there wasn't different genres of games. There wasn't "gamers" "nerds" and normal people. There was just "Nintendo" and we all played it. "All of us" being me, my brother, and our mom. These games were a source of shared experience, we would take turns, sometimes watch each other play, sometimes tell each other tales of our adventures, battles, and discoveries. It wasn't uncommon to wake up in the morning to news of a strange new town my Mom had visited in the night, or some almost indescribable wonder in a corner of a certain dungeon. We put our heads together and solved all the puzzles together, and we all beat the games.

And yes,
this means,
I am NOT just talking shit if I say "My Mom can play this game better than you."

She killed Ganon, after all.

This one came out so lovely, beloved. Sanita looks so badass with all the skulls and stuff, Ahriman looks really cool and handsome, You look super pretty as always. I love all the cute decorations you gave me, and the little prinny friends *wags her tail*

*smiles broadly*

Thank you, angel-butt. I'm glad you like your representation in this. Seemed appropriate to hand over the sunshine, butterflies and bee-ees and chainsaw to you, for many reasons...

Egads but you're adorable you bouncy-booty bag of foxy-fun. *gloms onto and drags onto the couch for snuggle-hugs*

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I bloody LOVE that outfit, and I love you too my beautiful earth bound goddess. *smooch*