yourplayersaidwhat:

Me: My Dragonborn pulls out her symbol and tells the party that she’s a cleric. 

Unknowing to the party, her deity is Tiamat. Her symbol looks like a 3 pointed star with some dragon heads designed on each extension. It represents this diety as there’s a flat painting of a white and a black dragon. Their heads and necks chase each around the circle in a clockwise direction much like a yin and yang illustration in the middle of the amulet while 3 other different colored dragon heads protrude on their own facing the same direction clockwise. The outer heads are embossed and sculpted with fine detail rendering three different dragons about 100 degrees apart as their necks meet at the center circle with the two black and white dragons. This strange object glistens as it’s being shown to the party while they pander about it’s significance. 

The party seems to be understanding what I’m explaining as I add one more horrific detail to make it painfully clear.

My cleric holds the middle of the symbol between her thumb and pointer finger, flicks the symbol with her other hand and the 3 dragon heads spin for a very long time. And then almost at the same time the players realize the shocking truth.

Party: IS YOUR CLERICS’ SYMBOL A FIDGET SPINNER?!

Me: Yes

sevlikesallart:

nhyworks:

yiffmaster:

liache:

i love that we and cats share pareidolia (seeing patterns where they dont exist), but instead of seeing faces in everyday objects like us, they see snakes

that computer cord? snake. string? small snake. cucumber? short fat straight snake

snake pareidolia is one of the strongest things in human minds too! people report freezing mid-stride before being consciously aware of a snake in front of them, and the same happens with coiled rope, etc. in humans and other primates. it’s even been proposed that the need to detect snakes was a factor in the development of primates’ insanely good color eyesight

It’s because snakes are wonderful and we must stop and admire them at any cost

yes and we must do our best not to step on them