wizardbeard
Blumenkranz hell yeah.
Great old ones can be very friendly. I always understood them as having motivations largely beyond human understanding.
"INSTRUMENT OF MY WILL, YOU MUST SWITCH THE HEALING POTION ON THE SHELF WITH A POISON."
Like a week later the governor's butler gets injured, dies from poison instead of being healed, the store closes and the owner is arrested, the stock goes on clearance sending ripples through the potion economy, and the new butler influences the governor's choices through subtle changes around the mansion.
Actual end result goal: Topiary in the mansion garden gets cut in such a way that it slowly dies, serving as a false portent to some other cult.
The rest is just setting up other potential threads that could be pulled by the old one.
"GO STARTLE THAT BIRD"
"BUY A BOQUET OF TULIPS FROM THE FLORIST"
"PET THE DOG"
Just small, subtle pushes to events, at leaat until things reach "endgame". Shift a few pieces of reality and cause and effect here and there, as everything aligns. Not worth rushing things when you don't necessarily experience time in a linear fashion.
I hold out a lot of hope that a group will start decompiling them. There's so many versions out there that it could even be a multi-pronged approach.
Man, the seriousness of "The flesh is weak" has me rolling!
That's awful. Sounds like it's time to move.
Both with my daughter, but never going quite as far as swinging her around by one limb. Just flopping her over my shoulder like she's a sack of potatoes, then holding her ankles and dangling her upside down against my back. She loves it, and will actively try to climb up my chest when I'm sitting to flop over my shoulder herself sometimes.
It's more secure to come up with a set of nonsense answers to those questions and save them in the notes in a password manager, or just memorize them.
You don't want someone who knows those details about you to be able to just hijack your accounts.
Succulents are really hard to kill. I still find ways somehow.
Unfortunately, both this community and the shitposts community allow people to post whatever, per the community rules. This one has no rule about what a meme is, and shitposting explicitly allows whatever.
I used to care too, but it's just wasted effort.