Let's Sperg Randall Reads a Terrible RPG: Wraeththu - aka Bishonen: The Mary Sueing

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Anyway, back to
Randall Reads a Terrible RPG
Part 4 (Fucking Magic, How Does It Work?)

After the hilariously horrible acid jizz section, we get to another boring as fuck part. Magic!
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We learn that there's a caste system in Uberhar society based around mastery of magic. This would be interesting if this was a race/setting we actually gave a shit about. As it is, it's boring, unnecessary information that takes up more pages then it should.
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So, in this setting all magic comes from Agmara, which is the True and Honest term for the thing that the inferior humans called "chi", "chakra", or "life energy". This can be channeled through the bodies, ancient artifacts, or crystals. So, apparently the magic healing crystal bullshit works in this universe. As for why woo woo energy can be channeled through crystals, it's because the older an object is and the more effort has been put into making it causes it to hold more Woo Woo Juice. "For example, a simple rock took little effort on the behalf of nature, but the formation of a crystal required a vast amount of time and natural energies to create".
Except that rocks and most metals are just collections of microscopic crystals. Hell, salt is a crystal, so by this logic setting out a pan of salt water in the sun takes more time and energy to create than rock.
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We learn that the Enlightened Ancient People knew about Magic Woo Woo, but then humans developed and became obsessed with understanding everything. Those bastards, searching for underlying truths to existence! They made the evil new magic of science, but couldn't explain everything because "what's a theory other than just clever guesswork?"
[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory']Wikipedia[/URL] said:
A scientific theory is an explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can, in accordance with the scientific method, be repeatedly tested, using a predefined protocol of observations and experiments.Established scientific theories have withstood rigorous scrutiny and are a comprehensive form of scientific knowledge.
Eventually people realized that science = magic, and started working on it in secret. However, people started claiming that they were "more powerful than the gods", and discredited the system. I can't image why.
If only those foolish humans had woken up to the hippie woo woo of the world and hadn't used science! They tampered in god's domain.

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I'm going to end this part with something that could work in a better setting, namely the idea that magical effects require some kind of semi-possible cause to not backfire horribly. The example the book gives is destroying a table by snapping your fingers and commanding it to blow up would be highly likely to cause a horrible bending of reality. However, setting off some kind of chain event by influencing probability, like causing a drunk to fall into the table and break it, is less likely to fuck with reality because there's an actual cause for the table's destruction. This could actually be interesting in a better setting, with magic being less "I cast Magic Missile" and more of a Rube Goldberg influencing of probability to achieve an effect. Sadly, this doesn't get elaborated on more.


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We learn all about the world of Wraethlu. Despite spending the last chapter learning about it.
 
I'm going to end this part with something that could work in a better setting, namely the idea that magical effects require some kind of semi-possible cause to not backfire horribly. The example the book gives is destroying a table by snapping your fingers and commanding it to blow up would be highly likely to cause a horrible bending of reality. However, setting off some kind of chain event by influencing probability, like causing a drunk to fall into the table and break it, is less likely to fuck with reality because there's an actual cause for the table's destruction. This could actually be interesting in a better setting, with magic being less "I cast Magic Missile" and more of a Rube Goldberg influencing of probability to achieve an effect. Sadly, this doesn't get elaborated on more.

Yeah, it does work in a better setting, Mage the goddamn Awakening. The book explains that a Mage can do some groundwork to make the unbelievable more believable. This only really works when covert spells (which are normally not Paradox making) would become less covert (the example they give is a sturdy boardwalk suddenly collapsing with magic, people wouldn't believe it).
 
Yeah, it does work in a better setting, Mage the goddamn Awakening. The book explains that a Mage can do some groundwork to make the unbelievable more believable. This only really works when covert spells (which are normally not Paradox making) would become less covert (the example they give is a sturdy boardwalk suddenly collapsing with magic, people wouldn't believe it).
They literally ripped off one of the few potentially interesting things from a World of Darkness game :story:

Well, time to prepare your anuses folks, because this is
Randall Reads a Terrible RPG
Part 5 (Race Relations)

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  • Everything has been shit forever. Diseases popped out of nowhere, and fertility rates dropped.
  • Computer viruses can magically appear from nowhere and cut down the internet.
  • THE CHEMICAL IN THE WATER TURNED THE FRIGGEN FROGS GAY lowered the birth rate.
  • Da evil government of warmongers were more concerned with fighting all the wars rather than the fact that literally the food supply was running out. Either the pre-apocalypse government were completely retarded, or communists. I mean, that's just stupid evil levels of incompetence. You need a population to recruit from and raise taxes for a war effort from, not to mention serving as a labor base for building weaponry. It's almost like just needed all the pre-apocalypse humans to be chaotic stupid evil in order to make it so her Mary Sue race of David Bowie clones could rise up.
  • Apparently nukes were flung around so much that entire countries were glassed. And yet civilization was still somehow limping along, instead of, you know, completely being wiped out in a nuclear winter.
  • The planet decided to holocaust the chaotic evil humans making the nuclear wars and shit. A bunch of natural disasters happened and shit.
  • This didn't stop the crazed humans from warring, because of course it didn't.
  • The cities all turned into Detroit, with crazed gangs of juggalos raping and murdering everything outside the gated communities. So, basically modern day Brazil. This is also when the Raythlu first showed up, as one of the juggalo street gangs.
  • The Uberhar overrun "Carmine", and slaughtered everyone there, civilian and soldier alike. Huzzah for the good guys.
  • After bombing Iraq for the 14th time, the government finally realized that major cities were being overtaken by street gangs. Think about that for a moment. Imagine if, say, a gang of juggalos took over, say, Flagstaff. They overrun the police department, drive out the national guard, and burn the city to the ground. How the fuck would a government not notice something like that happening? Even the most ass-backwards modern nations would have some idea if an armed militia overtook one of their cities. That's not exactly something you can ignore until actual cites are being swamped by Bishie Zombies. Is everyone except the author's Mary Sues just retarded in this world?
  • The Wraeththu form Road Warrior style gangs and overrun the continent of Megalithica (which is the faggot name for North America).
  • Humans now use the Uberhar terms for places (you'd think that they'd try to retain their heritage and culture instead of assimilating to the language of the invaders)
  • The remaining humans are now crazy survivalists holed up with guns, or fragmented city states struggling to survive.
  • The humans view the Uberhar as an evil virus, bent on exterminating them (gee, I wonder why they would think that?)
  • The foolish humans believe that Wraeththluhu are mindless animals, and they shall eventually rise up and retake the planet. Foolish humans, for they trifle with something far worse than demons or angels. The author's Mary Sue race.
  • "BURN AND FLAY" sounds like a line from the Doom Comic.
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  • The Master Race started as violent street gangs running around killing random people for no real reason other than lols.
  • Eventually they fanned out into roving packs of rape bikers, burning towns and villages that lay before them, harvesting the worthy humans and slaughtering the rest. (OUR HEROS EVERYONE)
  • "Being human had been such a drag. It had been bred into us to conform to some greater good, and to fear what would happen if we did not" :story: says the murderous rape biker who brags about killing 14 Untermensch with his bare hands. Yes, conformity is bad, especially when it prevents you from being a psychotic murderer. But that's okay, humans are the inferior race after all.
  • Manticker, the Rape Bandits leader, is literally just Toecutter from the first Mad Max film. He's the leader of a group of bikers ravaging the blighted countryside of a dystopian world, rampaging through the wastes for shits and giggles.
  • The Rape Bandits slaughter a town of human resistance, Narrator gets a mancrush on an unconverted human, and NotToecutter gets upset over the death of the human resistance leader. See, King Rape Bandit is a Nice Guy!
  • The Rape Bandits Booze Van breaks down :( Afterwards many human children were slaughtered to quench the thirst of the rape bandits.
  • The Rape Bandits eventually take Seattle and set up camp in the Space Needle.
  • California falls into the Pacific. Rest In Spaghetti, Never Forgetti!
Next Time on Randall Reads a Terrible RPG:
We Play Guess the Country.
 
They literally ripped off one of the few potentially interesting things from a World of Darkness game :story:

Well, time to prepare your anuses folks, because this is
Randall Reads a Terrible RPG
Part 5 (Race Relations)

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  • Everything has been shit forever. Diseases popped out of nowhere, and fertility rates dropped.
  • Computer viruses can magically appear from nowhere and cut down the internet.
  • THE CHEMICAL IN THE WATER TURNED THE FRIGGEN FROGS GAY lowered the birth rate.
  • Da evil government of warmongers were more concerned with fighting all the wars rather than the fact that literally the food supply was running out. Either the pre-apocalypse government were completely exceptional, or communists. I mean, that's just stupid evil levels of incompetence. You need a population to recruit from and raise taxes for a war effort from, not to mention serving as a labor base for building weaponry. It's almost like just needed all the pre-apocalypse humans to be chaotic stupid evil in order to make it so her Mary Sue race of David Bowie clones could rise up.
  • Apparently nukes were flung around so much that entire countries were glassed. And yet civilization was still somehow limping along, instead of, you know, completely being wiped out in a nuclear winter.
  • The planet decided to holocaust the chaotic evil humans making the nuclear wars and shit. A bunch of natural disasters happened and shit.
  • This didn't stop the crazed humans from warring, because of course it didn't.
  • The cities all turned into Detroit, with crazed gangs of juggalos raping and murdering everything outside the gated communities. So, basically modern day Brazil. This is also when the Raythlu first showed up, as one of the juggalo street gangs.
  • The Uberhar overrun "Carmine", and slaughtered everyone there, civilian and soldier alike. Huzzah for the good guys.
  • After bombing Iraq for the 14th time, the government finally realized that major cities were being overtaken by street gangs. Think about that for a moment. Imagine if, say, a gang of juggalos took over, say, Flagstaff. They overrun the police department, drive out the national guard, and burn the city to the ground. How the fuck would a government not notice something like that happening? Even the most ass-backwards modern nations would have some idea if an armed militia overtook one of their cities. That's not exactly something you can ignore until actual cites are being swamped by Bishie Zombies. Is everyone except the author's Mary Sues just exceptional in this world?
  • The Wraeththu form Road Warrior style gangs and overrun the continent of Megalithica (which is the faggot name for North America).
  • Humans now use the Uberhar terms for places (you'd think that they'd try to retain their heritage and culture instead of assimilating to the language of the invaders)
  • The remaining humans are now crazy survivalists holed up with guns, or fragmented city states struggling to survive.
  • The humans view the Uberhar as an evil virus, bent on exterminating them (gee, I wonder why they would think that?)
  • The foolish humans believe that Wraeththluhu are mindless animals, and they shall eventually rise up and retake the planet. Foolish humans, for they trifle with something far worse than demons or angels. The author's Mary Sue race.
  • "BURN AND FLAY" sounds like a line from the Doom Comic.
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  • The Master Race started as violent street gangs running around killing random people for no real reason other than lols.
  • Eventually they fanned out into roving packs of rape bikers, burning towns and villages that lay before them, harvesting the worthy humans and slaughtering the rest. (OUR HEROS EVERYONE)
  • "Being human had been such a drag. It had been bred into us to conform to some greater good, and to fear what would happen if we did not" :story: says the murderous rape biker who brags about killing 14 Untermensch with his bare hands. Yes, conformity is bad, especially when it prevents you from being a psychotic murderer. But that's okay, humans are the inferior race after all.
  • Manticker, the Rape Bandits leader, is literally just Toecutter from the first Mad Max film. He's the leader of a group of bikers ravaging the blighted countryside of a dystopian world, rampaging through the wastes for shits and giggles.
  • The Rape Bandits slaughter a town of human resistance, Narrator gets a mancrush on an unconverted human, and NotToecutter gets upset over the death of the human resistance leader. See, King Rape Bandit is a Nice Guy!
  • The Rape Bandits Booze Van breaks down :( Afterwards many human children were slaughtered to quench the thirst of the rape bandits.
  • The Rape Bandits eventually take Seattle and set up camp in the Space Needle.
  • California falls into the Pacific. Rest In Spaghetti, Never Forgetti!
Next Time on Randall Reads a Terrible RPG:
We Play Guess the Country.

Inspired by Toecutter, and about six times as gay.
 
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Man, so everything interesting was stolen from Fallout, Mad Max, and motherfucking Deadlands. If you've never played, it's a wonderful Wild West RPG with Lovecraftian horror elements, and as part of a major upheaval called "The Reckoning", California mostly fell into the sea, creating a region known as "The Maze", which is full of pirates, mines, and sea monsters including the dreaded "Maze Dragons", which are basically sea serpents.

Speaking of Deadlands, the major villains are born out of the imaginations of regular people-as is every supernatural element. So if we wanted, we could so throw a Raythulu into a Deadlands game and make 'em swiss cheese...
 
Alright folks, I'm slightly intoxicated and I'm ready to yell at a shitty RPG
Randall Reads a Terrible RPG
Part 6 (Intoxicated edition)
We get a bunch of boring as fuck info about places nobody cares about. Like Almagabra
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Man, this shit is too boring to riff on, I'm skipping a head a bit. Fuck u Gleaming faggots, all of you are gay. (oh god we're only 13% through the book how the fuck is this this long)

Okay, now we learn about what a settlement of FUCKING FAGGOTS looks like.
They live in fucking tents, don't have schools, and have no kind of medical knowledge other than magic.
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They also like getting drunk as fuck (but don't get hangovers cause may sues). Also, some Elliot Rogers fuck talks about his Day of Retribution.
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They also have no sort of industry besides basic metalsmithing, and "All power is provided by small generators in the towns". But said generators need gasoline to function, and they don't produce any gasoline, so how the fuck do they get their fuel? Ah, fuck it, magic mary due magic or some dumb shit.
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After this we get information on a bunch of boring shit nobody but the author cares about. Fuck this, skipping ahead.
Okay, here, major tribes of the wraeththuhiudehuwhatever
Starting with a bunch of cave dwelling hippies with long hair.
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Mary Sue Magic Nazis who want to conquer the world as a police action.
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Two tribes of Bishonen Bedouin
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And the Mad Max tribe of crazed barbarians, an offshoot of faggy traders, and the Lawful Evil nation of conquerors who imitate the Unterhar.
BONUS: honestly, if someone was yelling that "war chant" at be, I'd probably die of laughter
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We also get a bunch of minor tribes, but who the fuck cares about them?

Next time on Randall Reads a Terrible RPG:
Oh fuck how much more of this fluff bullshit is there?
 
So wait, are players humans trying to drive out the eldritch abominations?

'cause any other situation is stupid in this situation.
 
Randall Reads a Terrible RPG
Part 7 (Deja Vu)
So, after that long bit about society and tribes we get...another fucking section on society and tribes. I'm not fucking joking, it's literally repeating shit we already know because we read it 10 pages back.
After another 20 pages of boring shit we get some shitty fluff on the origins of the wrathlu, beginning with some overwrought writing
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TL;DR basically some autistic kid got born with mutant powers, and ran away from home to molest random people in the slums. One day a cannibal rape-hobo stumbled across him and tried to eat him. This must have taken place in Florida or something.
Anyway, Cannibal-Hobo gets the Superaids from Alphaboy and turns into a raytulu. The end.
Anyway, there's some in character speculation about where Alphaboy came from, and whether he was a random mutation or some sort of rouge genetic experiment. Or the whole thing was made up by the wraethulhu to hide their origins.

We then get a few alternate theories about where the fuck the Glitter Brigade came from. One, embraced by the religious sheeple of the humans :neckbeard: is that Raythulu are destroying angels or demons, or agents of mother Gaia for "polluting and raping the earth", and that "Wraeththu would spill the blood of humanity to replenish the earth's natural resources". I'm pretty sure that you can't make oil reappear through blood sacrifice.
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Although, Wraeththu being soul-devouring demons makes a lot of sense. More than "next step in evolution".

The next theory is probably the only one that sounds interesting, mostly because it explains why everyone in this setting is so fucking stupid.
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Waythtpo being secretive masterminds behind all the conspiracies, slowly influencing human events so they could rise from the shadows and take over the world is probably the only good origin story. Wraeththu are basically really femmey Jews.

And of course, we have "next sage of human evolution u guies"
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Next up, we learn of the insidious threat that those evil humans pose to our Mary Sues
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Gee, it's almost like humans are desperately attempting to survive despite the author's Mary Sues attempting to kill them off.
Obviously the shit about the DNA toxin is an attempt to set up a campaign where the Mary Sues need to stop those evil humans from destroying the magical faggot race. But of course, a better campaign would come from a colony of humans attempting to get one working against all odds so the human race can survive against the onslaught of Bishie Demons.

Anyway, other threats are Nihlism
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Gee, maybe killing off all the untermensch was a bad idea, because now the master race has no way of reproducing. Oh well, I'm sure the author will pull some bullshit out of her ass to make everything better.
Also, how the fuck have these people not figured out agriculture/sanitary systems? What are they, Indians?

We also get a section on myths and conspiracies, where I want to point out two things
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The super snowflake Wraeththu being in league with aliens and trying to take over the planet with a thrall species makes a much more interesting story than anything presented here. Also, Wraeththu don't know what helicopters are, despite most of them coming from pre-apocalypse humans. How the fuck does someone in the modern world go back to calling helicopters flying horses?

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So, wait.
  • Inception is basically forced conversion of other humans into special snowflakes
  • It is pretty much explicitly linked to sex (come on dude, the homoerotic subtext is just plain text here), and is basically a forced sexual act
  • Failed inceptions die.
  • All fucking raytulu have attempted to incept women at some point, despite knowing that it doesn't work
  • Not only are wrathuithulusdji literally born out of rape, they fucking vampire rape people to death. Dude, what the fuck? I think Elliot Rogers did write this.
Anyway, after that we get an entire fucking chapter on the fucking tribes we already heard about. Fucking hell, I'm skipping this bullshit.

Next time on Randall Reads a Terrible RPG:
We actually get to the game mechanics (and good god are they bad)
 
Randall Reads A Terrible RPG
Part 8 (how to actually run the thing)
So, after 159 pages of sperging, we actually begin to learn the mechanics.
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  • The basic statistics in this system are Strength, Dexterity, Stamina, Perception, Willpower, and Intelligence (aka the bog standard D&D loadout), which run through 1 to 20. If you're a filthy human that is, because Raytothu aren't bound by that human limit of 20. Because of fucking course.
  • There's a collection of secondary stats that the game helpfully doesn't talk about right now. Only Wreathtoo can access them.
  • There's also Skills and shit, again bog standard.
  • Only Raythutho get magic and psionics.
  • Physical flaws are rare in Hara, but getting Vampire Raped can cause serious mental trauma. Of course, these can be healed away with Woo Woo Bullshit. Can't have our Mary Sues have actual flaws
  • Having Flaws as a human character "can even give your character a driving force to become Wraeththu" :story:
Next we get a section detailing the typical "make a background for your character" and how to do that, because if you're playing this game unironically, you probably do need help creating a character who isn't just an idealized self-insert.
(lol, just kidding, that's the only thing someone who would play this unironically would make)


I will say that at least the authors realized that playing a human battling against the Uberhar in this setting would be a much more compelling game, and flat out say that characters like that are already doomed.
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Lol, fuck you for not wanting to play a Glam Nazi.

And now, we get to the part where it becomes overwhelmingly apparent this is some kind of fetish thing
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  • Women are unable to be incepted because that would make the author's homoerotic transformation fetish gay, and that's weird.
  • The GM can bullshit some exceptional individual bullshit and let a player be a female inceptee. Which means effectively nothing because they're still a generic prettyboi clone.
  • Said character will be hounded out by their tribe for being a fucking freak of nature
Of course, the better option (the one that the author wanks to) is for any female characters to stay human and have the Raythytoo be their gay best friend.
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  • "One character option could be a woman who has lost her family to the Wraeththu, and is learning to accept that some may not be the demons she believes them to be" :story: yeah they killed your entire family, but they're really just misunderstood.
  • After the Wraeththu apocalypse, lesbian communes will spring up, free from the tyranny of the Brute Males. These communes will engage in trade with the Homo Nations.
  • "For all their beauty, the Wraeththu are truly terrifying. People the character once knew who have been converted might tell how great it is to be Hara, but of course they would, their minds have been twisted. Plenty of people would rather die than live as a twisted and brainwashed version of themselves, so it would not be unusual for humans to fight the Wraeththu menace". The writers come so close to realizing that this setting works so much better as a "horror and grim determination fighting against the extermination of the human race" type game than a "lets play a bunch of faggy hippies with flowerdicks" type game. That creates conflict with high, tangible stakes. The PCs are the last hope of all of humanity, struggling to beat back a wave of darkness which seems overwhelming. The stakes are the survival of humanity. What conflict is there in the hippie flowerdick world? There's some generic evil empire trying to take over North America, and a bunch of tribes of hippies sitting around with their thumbs up their asses. The conflict is long term, philosophical things like "can we avoid the mistakes of the past" and "does our race have a future if we can't breed?". While conflict and drama can come from this, it's overshadowed by the much more interesting thing happening with humanity. And that's the problem with this whole fucking book. The waytrooons are much less interesting than the remnants of humanity who are supposed to be there so the players can indulge their misanthropic fantasies. It's like a D&D setting having the random Orcs that you kill have much more interesting and compelling motives and stories than everything else.
  • "Women are the weaker sex, and when the apocalypse comes they shall be forced back into the kitchen for the strong men to breed with. Rape gangs shall roam the cities, making sure all women are barefoot and pregnant". Holy shit I think Elliot Rogers did write this.
  • Women shall escape from the rape gangs of Brute Males and find sanctuary in the Tranny Utopias of the wraeththu, who have female souls and thus are superior to the uncouth jerks of old.
  • Literally starts talking about female human adventures having crushes on their Bishie JoyBoy companions, even though "she knows that love can never be returned".
  • In the future, all women will be fag hags.
  • "In today's society many women find close friendships with gay men, so why not with the Wraeththu?" Because Wrethtlu are demonic hellspawn with flowerdicks and acid cum.
  • This whole thing is blatantly some kind of fetish for the author. Wait, you know what this is? This is like if a male author wrote a setting where all the women turned into hot lesbian vampires who had hawt sex with other hot lesbian vampires. It's the same goddamn thing, but with the genders reversed and a bunch of plausible deniability thrown over it. Jesus fucking Christ.
Next time on Randall Reads a Terrible RPG:
Traits, Attributes, and Stats (and they're all different things)
 
Holy Christ, I've been mentally pronouncing it "Ray-Thu-lu" this whole time, and only just now realized how it's actually spelled.

Also Jesus Fuck, what the fucking hell is wrong with this author's brain that they went this far with this gay glam rocker sex bullshit instead of just jerking it to yaoi like any sensible fag hag?
 
So who'd win in a fight: The Wraeththu, or the Gayniggers from Outer Space?
 
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