#HTR Spoilers

[jsdhwdmax56]

Lin, slowly integrating into Banba's life.

[catofthebarricades]

me the second hilltop road is mentioned

[dravencroft]

Okay I'm REALLY excited about Sunday because I'm going to be a GM for the first time ever!!! I'm going to be the Storyteller for a Vampire: the Masquerade one-shot with my two best friends as players :D I'm super excited and also terrified so you're getting a preview of two Hunters they're going to meet soon...

Edit: unfortunately Matt (the soldier on the left) didn't survive the clash with my players' characters, but his sacrifice allowed his two Hunter colleagues to escape unharmed. Maybe they'll seek revenge?

[mekanikaltrifle]

“See Them”

Juniper’s Imbuing wasn’t pretty. None are, though hers came in private, while she was alone. Somehow an unidentified skull had gotten into her planter box, sitting in her boxy little apartment window in a less nice bit of Dallas...

and it told her the Truth of the world; It made a Judge.

At age 19, barely out of her parents’ home and completely unemployed, Juniper was never to have the life she’d run away to seize. Within 6 weeks she’d lose her home, her pet, her girlfriend and her sense that the world could ever be good or just.

[nightingaletrash]

reference for the Hunter the Reckoning COG game in WTABOHN :D

[lesbiancarat]

EP. 10 A Time To Face Myself | SEVENTEEN : HIT THE ROAD

Content Warnings (contains spoilers)

[5:04-6:26] The8 talks about drawing as an outlet for mental exhaustion and emotional instability.

[t4tmetalsonic]

Can’t help but notice that the Place At Hill Top Road was marked by all the entities in a similar fashion to Jon... and all the fears adding up and clashing together is what gradually widened the crack in reality. And now Jon, an archive of all fear has arrived there, probably thinking that he’ll never escape opening a web door. But it wasn’t the Guest For Mr. Spider door, it’s not gonna be the physical Hill Top Road door, it’s the damn gateway to other dimensions. 

And I'm wondering if the Web was using Jonah the whole time to get themselves a person marked by all the entities, because that’s what’s needed to open the crack fully. Mark some unsuspecting kid and send them on a path to the institute where Jonah will find them the perfect choice for the Watcher’s Crown, when actually, it was never about that. It was always the Place At Hill Top Road.

[cuttoothed]

TMA 147

TMA 195

Jeez Annabelle, getting a bit predictable, aren’t we?

(This is a joke but I also think it might be meaningful? Annabelle is playing the same trick she already used at Hill Top Road, and maybe it points to her being trapped in her own pattern of manipulation, which isn’t actually all that subtle. The Web is unknown to the Archivist because it has so many strands, but a single strand can be followed, and known, and maybe that’s the weakness of the Web: letting itself be seen through the “single strand” of an avatar rather than staying mysterious.)

I’ll add image IDs in a reblog.

[ghostbustermelanieking]

i have a new georgie and melanie theory which is this: while i'm fairly certain they won't be intersecting with the plot at hill top road (although i could be wrong), i don't think they're not going to play any part in the finale. specifically, i think maybe their decision to stay back will play into what i consider to be a loose end: what happens to jonah magnus? cause i seriously doubt he's just going to. survive. could georgie and melanie hanging back be the key to melanie finally killing jonah elias? maybe. time will tell

[charrators]

sometimes i see people’s takes on l and/or near and this image projects itself into every corner of my brain

[jsdhwdmax56]

I feel so happy for him, he's now doing whatever he wants, like crossdressing, he can just crossdress not for his sister, not to remember someone else, but just because he likes it.

[catofthebarricades]

[ID: Screencap of Legolas in The Two Towers. The subtitle reads: They are taking Martin to Hill Top Road! /end ID]

[mag200]

HILLTOP ROAD TRUTHERS UNITE

we were RIGHT

the VINDICATION

ITS ALL HILLTOP ROAD BABEY ITS ALL HTR

[mekanikaltrifle]

More Butterfly County NPCs!

These two were introduced in the first season, but never got any illustrations. Up top we’ve got:

Detective Blackwood, once an antagonist to the new Imbued, but now an ally behind the scenes. Like many fictional detectives, he’s tired and hates his job, but he hates the (vampiric) system more. Previously a vampire hunter, he changed tracks for over a decade until his part in imprisoning the Imbued, and now does what he can to identify enemies and stay on the trail of stuff the players can’t when they’re locked up in the Administration’s compound.

and below, his new sidekick and Chase’s friend Danielle. She was slated to be Imbued like the others, but froze at the sight of the vampire in the coffee shop they all responded to. When it killed her boss, and then the Administration sent a ghoul ‘agent’ to kill her for knowing too much, the Imbued saved her in season 1. Now, she tails the Detective with the hope of freeing the crew, and especially Chase. Sure, she’s a Bystander with no powers, but she’s a stubborn little fucker and more nuts than you’d think. At least she’s cute.

Secret bonus character, new to season 2 below:

Valerie’s mysterious phone contact from the end of season 1 turned out to be the wandering mystic, Halley. They realised he was a vampire fairly quickly but so far it’s all going smoothly as he tries to decipher the wards and magics used on the Admin compound, and in Chase’s blood. Just what did the vampires dose Chase with to save him from the edge of death? What magics are they using? Halley’s a practical little guy who prefers when elder vampires don’t have a creepy commune in the middle of the werewolf-filled woods, plotting the invention of true immortality.

He claims not to get anything from this other than the stability of the area, and that’s it. Plus he gets to talk to some fun hunters.

Check in soon when I post the villains of the game so far!

[annihilatus]

Since HTR is the... hot topic right now, I revisited a section of Desecrated Host that I thought might have a connection to 196. 

When Burroughs goes to HTR, he eventually gets overwhelmed and runs a few streets away before pulling out his bible to read for comfort: 

I don’t have much to say about the bible quote because... I am not at all nuanced in anything to do with religion nor have i read the bible, but it is interesting the phrase “I shall be hid” appears, considering that’s what Annabelle is doing with the Camera while walking towards HTR. (Another quote from Luke I got from a cursory search is “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?” and if that isn’t concerning...)

Seeing as Annabelle and Martin are Walking thru Oxford to get to HTR, Martin could be very close in proximity to fr Burroughs at that other point in time (and space?)

We see in 196:

Apparently Martin’s book breaks were at least partially to give comfort to the “lost souls” they passed, which sounds a lot like Burroughs during his HTR jaunt. 

I’m also noting the inverse of Burroughs is happening too, in terms of Annabelle finding comfort in Martin’s actions while Burroughs could find no comfort of his own. I wonder what Martin was reading!!! If he took the Rime of the Ancient Mariner with him, that could have some juicy implications. 

Not sure how to end this drawn comparison, just that I think there might be something there and I’m not clever enough to find it. 

[lesbiancarat]

EP. 11 Come To Me | SEVENTEEN : HIT THE ROAD

Content Warnings (contains spoilers)

[3:25-5:50] Jeonghan talks about being sick on tour interspersed with footage of him looking queasy backstage.