Inscryption - Blog Posts

WHAT A CROSSOVER OH MY LORDE WHAT?!??!?!?!

.they're gay your honor

.these were because of @gammanullzero .

P03 EDIT!!!

I made this around.. august last year but i thought i'd better put this here too for the sillies

honestly im still really proud of it lol, love p03 the lameo the silly the goober the flat-faced freak, him and his FLAT FACE WHAT AN IDIOT

Grimora!

Because my favourite goth grandma doesn’t get enough love despite the fact she’s great, I APPRECIATE GRIMORA SUPPORT 😤😤😤😤😤😤

Fr though she doesn’t get that much fanart so I’m here to change that

P03 but its just his face in pure darkness

lonely wizard frog for you

Treat!

This cat card I just drew from my deck!

Next one: Click Clack in Inscryption!

A change of vibe for sure that one, BUT I thought come on, God of Storytelling and the Scrybes? Perfect fit.

SOME DETAILS AND IDEAS BELOW

so here a few ideas on how Click Clack would work as a scrybe and how he would perform in game!

Previous Crossover art

Hi I came across your inscryption fanfic last night and I have to say I loved it! The way you wrote the characters are perfect, I’m really looking forward to the next update!

aaa thanks so much! ^^ i'm so glad you enjoyed it; due to me still coming down from spring finals and other such school stuff chapter 7's process has been a bit slower than the others, but i'm having some good fun writing it! leshy and grimora finally sit down and try some cardplay in this one and it's about as passive-aggressive as you'd expect haha

Here’s a cool detail that’s easy to miss!

Leshy actually has two different “styles” of talking.

When he is just talking to the player normally, as one would talk to one another while playing a game, his text is standing still, aside from the flicker effect.

But when he is doing the lore narration for the game story he’s crafting, his text will be slightly swaying up and down.

Of course, even Leshy’s “regular” dialogue still contains pieces of the in-game meta lore of his personal take on Inscryption, but it’s still nice to see that there’s a visual indicator for when he puts on his “narrator” voice.

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A variation of this can also be seen in Act 2, where Leshy’s narration will usually be in grey, while his regular talking is in black:

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so im working on an animatic

okay I would absolutely fucking LOVE to see Leshy meet Leshy prime in this. like imagine cruel but human Leshy meeting "no Lore, just respect the rules and the woods" forest cryptid Leshy. Imagine this cryptic beast learning a digital duplicate of themselves was made that actively outperformed them.

please for the love of fuck that would be so cool for a fic

on a similar note, somebody has been making an AU of if the SMBM Leshy had a full act: https://www.reddit.com/r/inscryption/comments/ru2dvg/masterpost_for_ualukslices_au_art_and_posts/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Connecting “Sacrifices Must Be Made” and “Inscryption” (for fun)

I mentioned before that I still really enjoy the original “Sacrifices Must Be Made” as a short story, and it seems at least a few other people do too.

I’ve seen some attempts here and there about how that game’s story could be connected to “Inscryption”, and I kinda wanted to do my own take, just for fun.

Important Note: I think both “Sacrifices Must Be Made” and “Inscryption” stand perfectly fine on their own, there is no need for them to be connected.

This is just a fun little “but what if I HAD to make them connected somehow” idea, that’s all.

Anyway, here’s what I was thinking:

Keep reading

4/11/22: Roots

Narrator: Leshy

You: None

We spent so long separated

Nothing in between

Always just so far apart

One would expect us to change

and be far different

but some things really do stay the same

We can't escape our roots

They keep us alive

Giving us water

and grounding us to the same place

But the machine is still different from the tree

We always only had one thing in common

Our roots grow from the same place

and everything else changed

There's one place we came from

and one place we share

our roots will always be there

Request from @kyoshi-with-a-gun: "why P03s game mirrors Leshy's, despite the multitude of directions it could go."

Note: I'll add a bottom section if the poem is based on a request, to confirm that a submitter's request is answered. Otherwise, the poem will be left up to interpretation. (Idea from @modronoid)

drew @scrybe-of-dreams :]

I want AUs of games and stuff that is literally just that game plus OLD_DATA. (I would like fan work of inscryption itself more but still)

what you wanted to play Mario? well Luigi found something in a golden block and now you are playing dolls with him in his now silent mansion.

wanted UNDERTALE? well flowey thinks you would like to play a board game that feels faintly like the layout of new home.

3/29/22: Learning through Suffering

Narrator: Magnificus

You: None

One learns with pain

so they must hurt

Torture the students

do they can know

The more pain one feels

the more they know

the more time they spend

without comfort

The smartest one at all

is me, from when

I was created with suffering

already in me

I went through it all

from before I was made

The pain is a part of me

even though it never happened

So they must suffer

as I never did

maybe they can be smarter

like I never could

Idea: Magnificus's treatment of his students.

3/25/22: Join Me

How can they join me

I need them to

be

All of them have worked so hard

and all for

me

How can I let them live on the

same plane as

I

I don't know how

but I know

why

The man with glowing happiness

and optimism great

The cunning ones with trickery

pull double their weight

The fisherman who I could not

have reached here without

I need a way to put them in my story

but how

An honor of a character

A main one

the great

A powerful enemy

about pelt, gold

or bait

I must honor my friends

and my workers

too

They become foreground characters

becoming me for you

Idea: Request from @kyoshi-with-a-gun: "Leshy deciding how to characterize his subordinates as bosses."

Inscryption OC List

If you have a scrybesona / Inscryption OC, kindly interact with this post. ^u^ I’d love to compile a list of them linking to everyone’s reference sheets! If you’d leave a reply that’d be most helpful!

Here are the ones I know of so far (and if you wish for your character not to be linked / mentioned, please let me know and I’ll remove them ASAP)!

Outlander Scrybes / OC’s:

• Scrybe of Dreams, Dreena

• Scrybe of the Stars, Sidra

• Scrybe of Dreams, Wyntreaux

• Scrybe of the Stars, Soma

• Scrybe of Matter. Nobol

• Scrybe of the Unknown, Dygra

• Scrybe of Space, Boreas

• Scrybe of Intent / Dreams, Belwyn

• Scrybe of Atlas, Copernicus

• Scrybe of Eldritch, Kthnaid

• Scrybe of the Stars, Eclypse

• Scrybe of Monstrosity, Téras

• Scrybe of Shadows, Fascet

• Scrybe of Dreams, Kao

• Scrybe of Judgement, Paschar

Aquatic Scrybes / OC’s:

• Scrybe of the Sea, Minke

Insect Scrybes / OC’s:

• Boatman

Necrotic Scrybes / OC’s:

• Virgil, Grave Caretaker

• Enokitake, The Tailoring Apprentice

Beastly Scrybes / OC’s:

• Scrybe of Horrors, Nekrosius

• Scrybe of Flora, Dryad

• Scrybe of Flowers, Hekate

• Scrybe of the Hungry, Zhen

• Scrybe of Monstrosities, Téras

• Scrybe of Chance, Haya

• Jester, the Scrybe’s Custodian

• Mayflower, Challenger’s Guide

• Crow

Magical Scrybes / OC’s:

• Scrybe of Chance, Lux

• Mishap, Mag’s ‘Son’

Sci-Fi Scrybes / OC’s:

• Scrybe of Science, T-Stein

• Scrybe of Code, Lin3

• [Removed]_Scrybe.chr

Passion Scrybes / OC’s:

• Scrybe of Vision, Unuya

• Scrybe of Music, Benjamin

• Scrybe of Sewing, Sue

• Scrybe of Seasons, Lock

• Scrybe of Tales, Charmel

• Scrybe of Emotion, Edgar

• Scrybe of Myth, King

• Scrybe of Mythology, Ophelia

• Scrybe of Melodies, Operetta

To Be Sorted:

• The Crow

• The Horsehoe

• Lady Luck

• Doppleganger

• Scrybe of Shadows, Juno

• Scrybe of the West, Sheriff

bringing this back because @sasaleleselfships suggested "sometimes" by nick lutsko for Leshy and honestly that fits perfect. Leshy is definitely the kind of person to think "well I've got only bad options, so let's at least do it right.", and the large amount of dark metaphors and symbolism would strike his fancy for sure. I think he would sing it to the challenger while trying his hardest to veil it as part of the story. trying his hardest to explain his motives without having to be perfectly honest.

Songs that I assign to each scrybe:

keep in mind that these songs were found through chance, so I have no fricking clue who any of the artists are.

Grimora: Savages by Marina and the diamonds

-song about how humanity will often struggle to do the right thing, and that the easy route is constantly chosen even when it's wrong. perfect song for grimora to sing before deciding that deletion is the better option.

Magnificus: We Don't Have To Die by Sarah Barrios

-song about fearing death, even as you realize it's preordained. I imagine this song playing over the whole of mag's life from trapping the students to being deleted. the softer bit at the end would be mag's afterlife where they get to run a campaign with the other scrybes after so long being the only one without a takeover.

Leshy: ...how do you even BEGIN to describe this guy? Like he is more cryptic then the beasts he captures and you get like 2 minutes of him being honest and then he dies. no song, let me know what you guys think of.

P03: Pity Party by Melanie Martinez

-"they hurt me and they hate me so let's get drastic" is basically the most P03 thing out there. though this song wouldn't be sung when anybody is around, it would definitely play in the background of P03 screaming and going apesh*t.

please tell me what song you would give to Leshy, and if you have an inscryption OC/scrybesona then be free to assign a song to them in the tags!

(It might be good for me to do something beyond asking random questions) I go to the factory and look around.

It's cold and mostly empty, the mechanical whirring sounds you've come to expect are absent, and it's errily silent.

3/20/22: Adjust

Just one moment

I'll let you adjust

to the place you find yourself in

and me in front of you

You need time

to start to adjust

to the new rules of the game

and the way you play

But what if you already know

what if you adjusted

I don't need to explain this

to someone who already knows me

I'll give some time

for you to adjust

to me letting you adjust

Idea: request from @kyoshi-with-a-gun: "players slowly becoming more mechanics oriented as they get used to the aesthetics; you can play chess forever but a book changes after the first read."

Songs that I assign to each scrybe:

keep in mind that these songs were found through chance, so I have no fricking clue who any of the artists are.

Grimora: Savages by Marina and the diamonds

-song about how humanity will often struggle to do the right thing, and that the easy route is constantly chosen even when it's wrong. perfect song for grimora to sing before deciding that deletion is the better option.

Magnificus: We Don't Have To Die by Sarah Barrios

-song about fearing death, even as you realize it's preordained. I imagine this song playing over the whole of mag's life from trapping the students to being deleted. the softer bit at the end would be mag's afterlife where they get to run a campaign with the other scrybes after so long being the only one without a takeover.

Leshy: ...how do you even BEGIN to describe this guy? Like he is more cryptic then the beasts he captures and you get like 2 minutes of him being honest and then he dies. no song, let me know what you guys think of.

P03: Pity Party by Melanie Martinez

-"they hurt me and they hate me so let's get drastic" is basically the most P03 thing out there. though this song wouldn't be sung when anybody is around, it would definitely play in the background of P03 screaming and going apesh*t.

please tell me what song you would give to Leshy, and if you have an inscryption OC/scrybesona then be free to assign a song to them in the tags!

more Dalyrrim stuff, this time rough art! (The scale and crystal were inspired by Dygra, scrybe of the unknown by @blacklyte (vaguely)

cards: her cards are made by predictions that come true, and manifest as something symbolic of the event (jester for a stupid scenario, etc). the queen of sparrows is a rare card that symbolizes a corrupt leader taking power. (Leshy or P03, take your pick)

scale: as you would expect, but teeth are reskinned as marbles.

book: rulebook, still as you would expect.

meter to the right of the board: tension. each card can be played for free, but will add x amount of tension to the board's meter. if the total tension of all cards exceeds the max of the meter (4), all of your cards take the excess damage upon bell ring. example: you play two four tension cards, because the first four completely fill the meter you are four over. upon bell ring, all cards will take the four excess damage individually.

floating diamond: your lives. you have eight but must use them both for survival and as currency. marbles only get you so far. this one has a singular space greyed out, as it was used to purchase something.

I tried to give my scrybe oc Dalyrrim a simple battle theme somewhat in line with act 2 of the game and inspired slightly by weirdcore tracks.

hey @scrybe-of-dreams I decided to try and make the cards I sent you! they all look quite gloomy, but I assure you they are friends.

since you didn’t quite like the evil overlord, how about the focus character of that dream instead? She never learned she was in a dream but did realize that she was acting out of character and knew more than she logically should. 

more stuff on her cards, aesthetic, and more!

they are made by predictions, any time a prediction in her notebook turns out to be true a tarot card-esque incryption card is made. these usually manifest as humanoids with a few exceptions, but rarer cards become more and more outlandish until it is basically those rings of fire and eyeballs angels. despite this, many still keep to human titles for names even past the point of the card being recognizably human.

due to their nature, they logically shouldn’t be able to trap people in cards, but I guess if P03 can figure out how to inscribe a mage and fisherman in a CTRL+C machine for bots, then I can just handwave that.

her temple aesthetic is a bit akin to that of liminal spaces. in the 2nd act, her bunker will have puzzle rooms that appear to be recreations of various places both in-game and outside of it, but glaringly empty and off putting. in her own act, these are kept the same, now even more disturbing in a 3D environment where more details SHOULD appear but don’t. the rest of her bunker, however, is exactly the kind of normal dreary metal place you would expect to have that name.

She is a nuisance but isn’t really enough of a planner to have a grand evil scheme like the others; The first thing she does is create a backup of her game on the main computer so her act can be replayed endlessly (even after the disk’s deletion, like K mod), but beyond that doesn’t have a clue what she could achieve with such power.

Dallyrim, Scrybe of Prophecy

So, I’ve seen a lot of really cool OCs and this is the first fandom I’ve been “early”-ish too, so here’s an Inscryption oc! (Sorry for odd spacing or grammar, it was written in notepad).

GENERAL

-she can “predict” things in a more vaugue sense, she has no future sight but is analytical enough to guess major events. this is on a human skill level.

 -she loves fantastical stories as she cannot predict them and are her main comfort when things go wrong.

-is excited about the prospect of a challenger but will still be able to play with the other scrybes regardless. she is perhaps the only scrybe to actively duel other scrybes.

-acts like an adult for the most part, but absolute idiot when it comes to responsibility, humility or politeness.

-got turned into a sheep in Leshy’s act, with the “frantic” sigil that makes it move into any empty space it can, and the “softer” sigil that automatically blocks all damage under three. you would find her card wedged in the doorframe after all tutorial deaths are complete. Leshy does not recall putting her there.

RELATIONS

-friendship with Leshy: good-ish. they both love storytelling but Leshy more thinks of her as “the weird cryptid that appears at the dead of night in the corner of my eye, just to ask for a card battle”. He appreciates being able to play with somebody but would prefer a person with basic manners and respect.

-friendship with Magnificus: horrible. She doesn’t like Mag because of how entitled and prick-ish he acts. Mag doesn’t like her because he is 45% sure she is a challenger playing a prank, 95% sure that the bunker isn’t real and accepting the “birthday party” invitation will end disastrously, and 99.99% sure that she should leave if she is going to whine at every loss.

-friendship with Grimora: act like old friends. Grimora is pretty used to people appearing from nowhere being the scrybe of the dead and all.

-friendship with P03: tolerable. P03 likes to flex his card skills without too much small talk, and she can be somewhat decent at that if it means getting to play.

CARDS her card’s mechanics can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/kyoshi-with-a-gun/673875112536178688 though they need some tweaks.

HER TEMPLE -she has no subordinates in her bunker and will instead fight you four times. to initiate each combat round, you must collect a key hidden in/around the bunker map.

-in the first fight, she will simply play tension cards.

-in the second fight, she will modify which cards she is going to play depending on the cards on your side.

-in the third fight, she does the same but with stronger cards, relying heavily on sigils.

-in the fourth fight, she will repeat fight number three with more difficulty in round 1, but then use her notebook to predict your actions. from then on, if you attack a space that she thinks you will, she will generate a tension card equal to the damage count.

-without subordinates, she would instead use Leshy, Grimora, and finally the Challenger for bosses in an act.

-after gaining power, she would make Leshy and Grimora cards by writing a prediction of them dying, then delete the mage tower and bridge to the eastern areas. Leshy would be the hunter, and Grimora the High Priestess. she would let you physically travel the islands, and even reward you for your discoveries.

-P03 would be alive as well but left to his/its own devices.

-would actually talk to the Grimora and Leshy cards and let Leshy help with the story but cannot comprehend the reason that her taking power is so bad since it is the exact same thing that Leshy did.

let me know what you think!

Dallyrim, Scrybe of Prophecy

So, I’ve seen a lot of really cool OCs and this is the first fandom I’ve been “early”-ish too, so here’s an Inscryption oc! (Sorry for odd spacing or grammar, it was written in notepad).

GENERAL

-she can "predict" things in a more vaugue sense, she has no future sight but is analytical enough to guess major events. this is on a human skill level.

 -she loves fantastical stories as she cannot predict them and are her main comfort when things go wrong.

-is excited about the prospect of a challenger but will still be able to play with the other scrybes regardless. she is perhaps the only scrybe to actively duel other scrybes.

-acts like an adult for the most part, but absolute idiot when it comes to responsibility, humility or politeness.

-got turned into a sheep in Leshy's act, with the "frantic" sigil that makes it move into any empty space it can, and the "softer" sigil that automatically blocks all damage under three. you would find her card wedged in the doorframe after all tutorial deaths are complete. Leshy does not recall putting her there.

RELATIONS

-friendship with Leshy: good-ish. they both love storytelling but Leshy more thinks of her as "the weird cryptid that appears at the dead of night in the corner of my eye, just to ask for a card battle". He appreciates being able to play with somebody but would prefer a person with basic manners and respect.

-friendship with Magnificus: horrible. She doesn't like Mag because of how entitled and prick-ish he acts. Mag doesn't like her because he is 45% sure she is a challenger playing a prank, 95% sure that the bunker isn't real and accepting the "birthday party" invitation will end disastrously, and 99.99% sure that she should leave if she is going to whine at every loss.

-friendship with Grimora: act like old friends. Grimora is pretty used to people appearing from nowhere being the scrybe of the dead and all.

-friendship with P03: tolerable. P03 likes to flex his card skills without too much small talk, and she can be somewhat decent at that if it means getting to play.

CARDS her card’s mechanics can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/kyoshi-with-a-gun/673875112536178688 though they need some tweaks.

HER TEMPLE -she has no subordinates in her bunker and will instead fight you four times. to initiate each combat round, you must collect a key hidden in/around the bunker map.

-in the first fight, she will simply play tension cards.

-in the second fight, she will modify which cards she is going to play depending on the cards on your side.

-in the third fight, she does the same but with stronger cards, relying heavily on sigils.

-in the fourth fight, she will repeat fight number three with more difficulty in round 1, but then use her notebook to predict your actions. from then on, if you attack a space that she thinks you will, she will generate a tension card equal to the damage count.

-without subordinates, she would instead use Leshy, Grimora, and finally the Challenger for bosses in an act.

-after gaining power, she would make Leshy and Grimora cards by writing a prediction of them dying, then delete the mage tower and bridge to the eastern areas. Leshy would be the hunter, and Grimora the High Priestess. she would let you physically travel the islands, and even reward you for your discoveries.

-P03 would be alive as well but left to his/its own devices.

-would actually talk to the Grimora and Leshy cards and let Leshy help with the story but cannot comprehend the reason that her taking power is so bad since it is the exact same thing that Leshy did.

let me know what you think!

okay so inscryption is a game i really enjoy so decided to come up with a custom mechanic for it! (I have an idea for a scrybe that uses these cards, but they aren’t done yet). So, without further to do, tension!

all tension cards are seemingly “free” in that they can be played immediately but have a cost of 1-4. if the cost of all cards on your side of the board is over 4, you shall take the excess number of tension points as damage to all of your cards. 

your side deck is full of various mechanical cards that aid in tension management such as “tension jars” that increase the maximum. 

a 1-cost card would be like a squirrel or empty vessel, maybe a skunk. a 2-cost card would be like a stoat. a 3-cost card would be like a wolf, and a 4-cost card would be like a bear. this means that to play a four damage card, you must leave every other lane open.

let me know what you think!

you ever have a cool fan content idea, then think to yourself “ok so if I post this then people will come to my house and write ‘cringe’ on my forehead”, but also know that that won’t happen, and the idea will not leave your head?

hey man it's okay don't cry i'm sorry i managed to escape all your traps but i thought they were really cool and scary honestly... and like, they were literally so challenging and well constructed, i barely made it out alive you did a really good job... look, i can go back and do it again and get caught and killed in one this time if it'll make you feel better. i just don't want you to be upset about it..