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RQG 135 Science!

Hamid decides to fireball the jelly cube much to the shrill dismay of Zolf Ben - so loud!

48 damage plus all the windows, blob manages to partly reform… Cel throws four bombs, all hit, high damage (4 d6+7) - jelly chunks fly all over

[ooze was going to cast fireball… “good” says Ben]

Zolf chastises Hamid, Hamid justifies, they continue going up, past an old dormitory, 2 1/2 more floors to a locked door. Hamid casts acid splash, lock falls off. Stairs go up but lift stops here. Huge storage space stuffed full, most atticky of attic spaces

Medical equipment, painting of Shoin, locked trap door, a trapped trap door.

Zolf pokes it and it explodes - Zolf takes 7, Hamid takes 0 - storm ⛈️

Lightning illuminates towers, walkways, huge and bright lighthouse. Courtyards below, a few people moving around.

What happened to the school & students?

Locked hatch at end of walkway - sliding window with paper “go away” (that’s weird)

Room seems like the control room of the lighthouse, spiral staircase leading up and down, power and comm cables

People in room above… party plans attack (for once) (whispers)

Hamid and Cel sneak up, peek in to see kobolds in little lab coats doing something with controls and arguing with each other - Hamid casts rainbow pattern to mesmerize, gets three & grabs the other

Cel asks what they’re doing, kobold buddy grins and says Science!

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RQG 134 Onions and Jelly

[somehow I forget what fun this part is, how much game and RP and worldbuilding]

The party keeps going up, in the dark, leaving behind the onions and little kobold buddy. Walls go from unworked to worked stone, with retrofitted metal stairs. Cel (via AJN) shares history - old military installation, then a lighthouse, then refurbished by Shoin.

Looks like a Victorian sanatorium for rich people.

Prismatic mold! 🌈 an old dried out body with a lab coat, and a family photo

“Cel goes through the door…”

Giant Gelly Jelly! 🧊

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remember back in the day spending hours trying to get the perfect theme for ur blog having it reflect ur whole identity. nowadays its like. i havent looked at my blog on desktop in 4 years and neither has anyone else

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Definitely! Love this picture of dapper Jon.

In the back of a drawer is an old black turtleneck, stretched out and washed almost to grey. Jon pulls it out, still, sometimes, pulls it over his head and finds snug comfort with the sleeves dangling over his hands, his face half-hidden.

I’m going back and forth over whether I want to relisten to tma or relisten to malevolent. In the meantime have a slight Jon redesign. I think the man wears black turtlenecks. I think he has black turtleneck energy.

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I've never loved @the-haiku-botbot more than now, when it considers irl a word of one syllable and - thanks to my mind's ear - gifts us with a new phrase.

"This will Never Matter, Earl."

shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply

"how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post

"_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior

"woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares

"and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.

"and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all

".. but its about a witch in the alps finding her lost cat" for someone trying to sanitize something to the point of absurdity

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

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Thus begins the Great Facial Hair Experiment.

Wilde grows a goatee. Barnes grows out his sideburns. Zolf shaves his head. Cel poofs their hair to hitherto-for unseen heights.

Domestic bliss was blissing too much and Carter needed to do something reckless okay

Image ID: Two light blue canvases create a short comic featuring Carter, a white human man with white hair, and Barnes, a half Filipino half white man with long curly brown hair in a bun.

Carter looks in the mirror, shocked at the state of his overgrown facial hair. In the next frame, he is depicted admiring his reflection as he runs his hand over his mustache. "Oh gods," he says, "Yeah, this has to go."

Underneath, there are four different frames overlapping each other. One, the frame is made of wooden planks and Carter points finger guns at the viewer. His mustache has been pet into a handlebar mustache and he wears a miraculously appearing cowboy hat. "Pardner," he says. There is another frame of geometric lines that look vaguely Greek, and Carter has covered his face in bubbles to look like a white beard. "Grr, I'm an angry dwarf," he says, making an exaggerated stoic expression. There is a wobbly yellow frame in which Carter looks at the viewer through sunglasses, his hair gelled back and his mustache combed to replicate something along the lines of Freddy Mercury. "Groovy," he says. The final frame depicts him in a Victorian mirror with a posh expression and a teeny, swirled mustache. "Monsieur," he says.

On the next back, Carter is depicted shaving his face entirely. He is frozen in shock as a speech bubble reaches over from a speaker off screen. "M'rning love, sleep alright--?"

Barnes stands frozen in the door, his hand gripping the doorknob as he stares at Carter in shock. He rushes into the bathroom, pointing at Carter, who holds up his hands defensively and drops his razor. "What--" Barnes begins. "I got carried away!" Cries Carter. "You look so wee," taunts Barnes, and Carter says "alright, rude."

Grabbing Carter by the face, Barnes is shown holding him still and investigating his new look. "I can't kiss you like this," and, ignoring Carter's screech of "what!?", he continues on to say "put it back!!!"

End ID.

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The desire to not waste food and the reluctance to take the last of the food are mutually exclusive.

(My explanation for the four bags of chips containing one serving each. The solution is to make a casserole.)

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Fabulous! I couldn’t have even said Wilde and Doyle were contemporaries.

I dare say the Wilde of RQG has a bit of Sherlock Holmes about him.

And there’s probably a narrative branch in which the party meets Doyle.

sorry

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Daniel Craig x Actors on Actors

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I find the fact that the closest mountain point on earth to the moon, the highest mountain and the tallest mountain are 3 different mountains to be a tiny bit disturbing

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Rocks. Liquids. Shiny rocks. Stinky liquids. Small syringe spear?! Zolf likes rocks.

Ach, whatever, just chuck it in this bag of holding. (Azu and Hamid give Zolf and Cel each a bag of holding.)

Oh, here come footsteps, small footsteps. Azu battle hugs the small creatures, Zolf puts a hand over its mouth (which has a lot of fangs).

It’s a kobold 🥺 (basically dragon goblins 😈

Hamid casts Detect Thoughts - the kobold thinks in Draconic, which Hamid speaks

Thoughts seem wrong, not as adult/clever as expected - punctures back of the neck, must be drugged to be compliant

Fetch. Help. Big people.

Poor little guy.

Quite comfy. Trouble.

[this is the set of episodes with the outro recorded when AJN had a cold, and the subtle squeaky voice is almost as adorable as our little buddy the kobold]

RQG 133 Sneaks and Cuddles

Getting from the pontoon dock to the building, through the door, and up the stairs.

Super game play and some lucky rolls, much appreciated since only Zolf and Azu can see in the pitch dark.

At some point Azu picks up Hamid; a little later, Hamid casts fly on Azu. The smallest & the biggest are quite the team.

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when she says she doesn’t send nudes

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RQG 133 Sneaks and Cuddles

Getting from the pontoon dock to the building, through the door, and up the stairs.

Super game play and some lucky rolls, much appreciated since only Zolf and Azu can see in the pitch dark.

At some point Azu picks up Hamid; a little later, Hamid casts fly on Azu. The smallest & the biggest are quite the team.

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saw someone say "an 11-year-old isn't even supposed to know what sex is and if you do something horrible must be happening to you and you need to get out of there" like can we be for real for a moment. have some people honest to god never heard 11-year-olds making sex jokes in their life