u/Cyan_Lotus

Life cleric player who's looking for options to use my bonus action. Spiritual Weapon is the obvious thing, but I'm looking to get more creative with it.

I'm also trying to learn magic items since we're getting to the level where those start being meaningful, and I've not looked at magic items in depth before.

Any thoughts for bonus action magic items? Prayer beads seem my best go-to I can find.

I've had a habit of billowing my cloak of billowing to be included in the fun BA things lol

Recently switched my guys onto Roudybush which was a very smooth transition! Thing is that my guys really enjoy the CRUNCH of more solid pellets. They enjoy round bush but very quickly most of the pellets (natural, mini size) is turned to dust that they’re uninterested in eating. This means the majority of the food is being tossed away.

Anyone know any harder foods that I could mix into the roundybush bag too give them more of a challenge?

Really hard pellets! I’m trying to have the food last more then a few hours before it’s a pile of mostly uneaten dust lol

Recently switched my guys onto Roudybush which was a very smooth transition! Thing is that my guys really enjoy the CRUNCH of more solid pellets. They enjoy round yush but very quickly most of the pellets (maintenance, mini size) is turned to dust that they’re uninterested in eating. This means the majority of the food is being tossed away.

Anyone know any harder foods that I could mix into the roundybush bag too give them more of a challenge?

Really hard pellets! I’m trying to have the food last more then a few hours before it’s a pile of mostly uneaten dust lol

I've had a lot of mixed sucess with buying perches so far, with some really wonderful natural wood ones, and even more less then ideal ones. I'm looking to hvae a few set online stores to look at though for the future.

Natural wood, a variety of shapes and sizes, and solid stainless steel connections! plastic connections stand no chance against them lol.

Little staircases would be wonderful (cockatiel bumbles around and needs easy ways up sometimes lol), small platforms (mostly to cover things we dont want them shitting on), and something to sharpen the beak on!

Peeps (lovebird) is very meticulous about her beak care. We need our bath, we need our in depth preening, and we need our beak to gleam in the light with just how pollished and pristine our weaponry is. She'd absolutely love a perch that shes able to rub her beak against!!! Unsure whats safest though!

Reccomendations? Something she's able to sharpen her beek with, and a perch that helps with long nails as well. thanks!

Any website or sellers anyone can reccomend would be wonderful!

hey yall, I've had a semi-cheap (I think it was around $50?) air quality moniter for my birds for the last two years, and the amount of stress it's false alarms have caused has me wanting to look for a better one.

Few things that are important!

1. able to send alerts to two different phones
2. able to differentiate between things beyond just "VOT"
3. temp reading, particulate matter readings as well (tiels make a lot of dust lol)
4. reasonably able to be transported via car

thanks yall! the big thing for me is how often the VOT reading skyrockets without any indication of why. A big differnce when certain airborne things are way more dangerous then others! I try to ensure everyone I share a building with is aware of bird safety, but family and neighbors can be unpredicatble, so I'd like to be able to tell the difference between a neighbor making soup, and fumigating or smth extreme like that.

I can moniter what I put into the air, but theres only so much I can moniter what my rotating cast of neighbors do, so I wanna be able to react quickly if something dangerous appears on the moniter. I've had a glass of wine in the room for a few minutes before and it was reacting the same way (VOT reading maxed out) as it would if it was bleach.

Thanks!!! Any recommendations or past experiences with air quality moniters would be nice! My price range is flexible.

I've had a lot of mixed sucess with buying perches so far, with some really wonderful natural wood ones, and even more less then ideal ones. I'm looking to hvae a few set online stores to look at though for the future.

Natural wood, a variety of shapes and sizes, and solid stainless steel connections! plastic connections stand no chance against them lol.

Little staircases would be wonderful (cockatiel bumbles around and needs easy ways up sometimes lol), small platforms (mostly to cover things we dont want them shitting on), and something to sharpen the beak on!

Peeps (lovebird) is very meticulous about her beak care. We need our bath, we need our in depth preening, and we need our beak to gleam in the light with just how pollished and pristine our weaponry is. She'd absolutely love a perch that shes able to rub her beak against!!! Unsure whats safest though!

Reccomendations? Something she's able to sharpen her beek with, and a perch that helps with long nails as well. thanks!

Any website or sellers anyone can reccomend would be wonderful!

I'm trying to understand the vauge cnnections between negative energy, darkness, shadowstuff, and alllll that jazz. I get it that by the nature of dnd this stuff is written by a bunch of conflicting authors, however I feel there is some connective tissue here that I'm missing.

Mostly my confusion comes down to the seeming lack of connection between Shar and the Raven Queen, despite them both being fairly powerful. I'd figure the major diety of darkness, night, etc, would kind of want a claim of the shadowfell but from what I can tell she's kind of cool with the Raven Queen just chilling there doing her own thing getting squatters rigths on souls and trinkets of the past, which also seem to overlap with Shar? (secrets of the past forgotten by time)

Eshowdow and Ibrandul are rather blatenly absorbed as aspects of Shar in the modern day, but I still oddly can't find much connection between Shar and the Negative Energy plane? Negative energy in general is very vauge and thats by design I feel, but not even the Shadowfell? Really?

tldr; very intrested in the shadowfell, negative energy stuffs, and what the deities behind it are like. also clawing for anything on Eshowdow.

Both at the least are tied to the Shadow Plane (shadowfell?) and negative energy plane. Also despite being fey-born creatures apparently, they are classiifed as Giants and can speak giant. oversights for simplicity maybe, or is there something I'm missing?

I want to write of a black dragon from the Aldani Basin, who to stoke fear and dreadful worship from it's enslaved servents, relentlessly speak of the shadow of Ubtao, their beloved god, and all the evidence and doings of the shadow giant that had been born from their own great god's mind. That dragon to prove it's point wants to include remnants of Eshowdow's influence in it's minions ranks to drive in that despair of them being forced to submerge themselves in the evil shadow of the Great Mazemakers divinity.

In short, I want to include a shadow giant or two in the black dragons ranks as it's trump card; their own spirits being broken in already which makes them easy for the dragon to control with threats of further torment. Seems perfect! While yes I can just homebrew it, I'd like to know if this has any biases in actual FR lore?

Let me know any insights or thoughts!

Anybody have a better idea on the ties and connections between Jaculi, flying snakes, couatl, and other flighted serpents? I'm trying to discern which of them to tie my Chultan girlies aestehics too (long story there, I'm mostly trying to gauge if there are any in-universe cultural ties between all these distinct creatures).

Bassically, my confusion is mostly coming from Jaculi being tied to one of the Nine Chultan Trickster Dieties, while Couatl seem seperate celestial more upper-plane flavored, and winged snakes just seem like mundane beasts used by various groups and peoples, and not really ever revered.

Then of course there are the yuan-ti, which add a whole other dynamic of snake divinity into the mix lol. Any insights are appreciated!

Hi all!! For the last year or so I've been using a biiiiiig batch of mixed up pellets from Zupreem (3 parts their natural pellets, 1 part their fruit pellets, 1 part their nut pellets) however.... apparently some of those have been discontinued womp womp.

Anyone have reccomodataions for their food?? They really like pellets since it works well. I have a lovebird and a cockateil and the lovie loves CRUSHING the pellets and then the teil vaccums up the leftover dust she leaves behind lol.

Thoughts on reccomended pellets? I like to buy a huge batch of pelelts, mix them up for variety, then freeze a BUNCH of them longterm to just pull from when I need a new batch.

They get plenty of veggie chop, and their seed treats when playing, this is just their main diet. Since I need to make a new method anyhow, I'd love to hear reccomendations!!

Let me know any pellet foods you reccomend!

Hi all!! For the last year or so I've been using a biiiiiig batch of mixed up pellets from Zupreem (3 parts their natural pellets, 1 part their fruit pellets, 1 part their nut pellets) however.... apparently some of those have been discontinued womp womp.

Anyone have reccomodataions for their food?? They really like pellets since it works well. I have a lovebird and a cockateil and the lovie loves CRUSHING the pellets and then the teil vaccums up the leftover dust she leaves behind lol.

Thoughts on reccomended pellets? I like to buy a huge batch of pelelts, mix them up for variety, then freeze a BUNCH of them longterm to just pull from when I need a new batch.

They get plenty of veggie chop, and their seed treats when playing, this is just their main diet. Since I need to make a new method anyhow, I'd love to hear reccomendations!!

Let me know any pellet foods you reccomend!

Genuinely upon reflection I have no idea why these guys are here. Caelid? Yeha that’s their last battle sight and they’ve mostly succumbed to the rot. Haligtree? Duh that’s where their homegirl is. Shaded Castle????? The hell would they associate with some weird simp of their goddess for? Made a replica of her arm, worships her and the rot, yeah cool but what reason would cleanrots have to serve him rather then keep going back to the Haligtree?? If they can’t find it or access it for some reason that still begs the question of why they’re HERE of all places.

Especially after Elmer took over. Guys what are you doing serving him???

Moving abroad (US to Ireland) within a year or two. Sounds like theres really no way around having to get the birds some form of permanent ID, but all of the options don't sound great.

The three options I can find are: microchip, leg ring, detailed feather documentation

They are both bonded, 4~ years old, rescues. male Cockatiel and a female Fischer's lovebird.

Cockatiel I'm thinking can with proper planning, be microchipped. Lovebird is way too small for that to be done safetly from what I can tell, and I expect the out of pocket to find anyone specialized enough to attempt that without tragedy occuring isn't feesible.

Neither have ever had a legring. When they were surrendered to the rescue I adopted them from at around 2years old, their wings were clipped. Both have been fully flighted now for about 1.5 years.

Currently I'm leaning microchip for the tiel, leg band for the lovie? I'd feel real bad though about a leg band being put on a bird that's lived without one her whole life! Inputs or thoughts?? I have lots of feathers from them both stored up, but I'm not sure how to go about that feather indexing, or if theres even enough consistency or whatnot to even consider that option.

Gotta get through US export, Irish imports, and for the lovie CITES stuff for appendix II species. So a lot of places would have to approve the feather stuff. I'm no feather expert either, thoughts???

It’s struck me how many rewritten and contradictory afterlives/fates are in canon forgotten realms stuff. Outside of exceptions where something else controls the direction of a soul for some other purpose, what are the “default(s)” for the journey a soul of most people go about after they die? For simplicity Im assuming humanoids from/on the prime, but feel free to let me know if it changes based on plane, species, power, etc.

Off the top of my head there’s the astral plane all souls travel through, but also the Raven Queen’s domain they all pass through as well? Not to mention all the various afterlife realms of various flavors.

I figure the astral plane is the sort of planar highway for conveying souls to the afterlives, but is there a default for what happens to souls with only exceptions being pulled aside to certain afterlives, or is it a case by case basis where each soul is individually placed in a specific afterlife?

also what’s up with the Raven Queen’s supposed “all the dead travel through my domain” shtick? correct me if i’m wrong and just misremembering that though. I know she’s intended to be inscrutable and impossible to know her goals and motives, but the claim all dead are witnessed by her feels a bit too grandiose to be a prominent belief without SOMETHING to back it up.