#codexjinora

[utilitycaster]

Your last answered ask gave me so many Thoughts.

I haven't watched C3 for a while now, just been following the recaps, because quite honestly I couldn't force myself to sit through the episodes anymore. It got SO BORING. The outside circumstances may have changed, but in essence it feels like they're at the exact same point as they were 50 episodes ago:

"Do we let the gods the gods die or not?"

No one has an answer yet, and it just feels like I'm watching 9 people twiddle their thumbs going "Idk, do you? No, do you? No you pick first, I'm indifferent." over and over and over again.

The party banter is fun I guess, but I can't get myself to care about the overarching plot anymore. At least not until a decision is made. And this is not on Ludinus! He's such an interesting villain! But I will say, if it weren't for plot armor, he would have (and should have) succeeded ages ago. His opposition is not exactly a unified front.

So I agree on most of this. I am still watching, because, as some other people have put it, it's an interesting group of people doing the most uninteresting things/episodes are frequently fun on an individual level while failing to contribute to a strong overarching story, eg, the Arch Heart scene would have been great had it come 30-40 episodes prior, which I get violates causality re: Downfall but that kind of brings me back to the point I just made in the previous ask. I think the idea of everything coming together across multiple campaigns to a culmination is very cool. I think that having different DMs play in the world and contribute to your story as it is playing out is also very cool. However, given that the former idea is very much one of convergence - everything coming together across 10 years of streaming and more of home games - and the latter is very much a diverging one - you're trying to hit a target by fanning out. And this is actual play, too, so it's a moving target too.

The one thing I disagree with is about Ludinus, because the thing is, at this point, the opposition is pretty unified. It's really like. If Bells Hells doesn't see the plan from the Accord through, at that point it's like well, they're the main characters of the story because they happen to be the characters who the cast picked (given very little direction) to be their PCs in this story, but probably Vox Machina and the Mighty Nein and the various mercenary group NPCs and the Air Ashari etc etc should handle this and this group of terminally indecisive people should just sit it out, regardless of how invested and close to the issue they might be. Again: pick a direction - any direction - and stick to it. It's a story. Magic isn't real and isn't actually going to break, and real people aren't going to die, but a lot of real people are going to stop watching (or watch and be like yeah this was the weakest campaign and it's not close.)

[sequesteredbhaalspawn]

Hey you seem to know a LOT about faerun lore and I know you've been on BG3 a lot, but I was wondering if you had any interesting thoughts on the Dark Powers, the Dark Lords and their little pocket dimensions (I.E. Strahd & Ravenloft)

@codexjinora // Sorry, but I don't. I am very much more just general Faerun/Forgotten Realms lore, and random things I find interesting. The Pocket dimensions are neat (the other things as well) but it's just not something I ever looked into all too much to answer this with anything other than "yeah, those are things that exists" again, sorry for not being able to give a more satisfying answer. Guess I'll have to look into these things a bit more at some point.

[technicallycleverdetective]

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Sunny Side of London by Joker Out. I wouldn’t have remembered that if my phone didn’t keep a record of the most recently played song, just in case I’m the sort of person who likes to replay a lot. I guessed it would be JO, but I would have expected something from Umazane Misli. I love that album.

Favourite colour?

My constant and unchanging favourite colour is blue, but of late I have developed a fondness for green and pink.

Currently watching?

Ghosts is of course a series I greatly enjoy, and the only other…I say fiction, it’s not fiction, but written series I’m watching is The Long Shadow.

Last movie?

I haven’t watched a movie in ages! Oh, I remember now, it was Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

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Sweet all the way.

Relationship status?

I’m Mr Lonely, I have nobody, all on my own.

Current obsessions?

Well…I appear to be turning into a Joker Out girl.

Last thing you googled?

Joker Out Katrina lyrics. Again, I do not remember this, but thank you phone for keeping a record I guess.

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[sequesteredbhaalspawn]

Hi! I have a question and you seem to have the most knowledge on the topic. My Durge has a bit of a different backstory, in that he is partially a child of Bhaal and partially a Devil not unlike Raphael. In my hc it makes sense, but in canon D&D lore... Would it be reasonable to accept that Bhaal would strike a deal with Asmodeus? to ensure one of his spawn would be the end-all, be-all of spawns & to ensure his victory?

@codexjinora // Bhaal wouldn't have to make a duel with Asmodeus. He could just produce a child with a devil the old fashion way and all would be fine (if you are completely deviating from the Durge was created by Bhaal solo). For example, Bane's own son Iyachtu Xvim was born to Bane by a demon. He didn't need to do anything to special about it.

Bhaal also frequently makes use of devils as minions. His own butler shown in BG2, Cespenar, was an Imp. So him having connections to the hells wouldn't be completely out of the question.

If making a deal with Asmodeus is important to your Duege's story then there isn't really a reason why that couldn't be the case, but if it isn't than Bhaal can repeat what Bane did and just invest a lot of his own divinity into one child (the opposite of what he did when making all of the other Bhaalspawn, spreading his divinity thin throughout many children). The creation or birth of a being like Durge would cost Bhaal some of his divinity anyways, like the creation of all Bhaalspawn before them did.

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[hurgablurg]

One, I didn't watch campaign one OR two because they aired before I was really interested in the franchise, and I didn't go back and watch recordings of them because I have a life that I don't want to interrupt with 300+ hour marathons of roleplaying epic quests and interpersonal drama in a game system ill-suited for anything but tactical dungeon delving. I'm keeping up with Campaign 3 because it's current and doesn't require me to waste my life "binging" "content" (what happened to just watching shows?).

Two, I was not upset that I was wrong, because I couldn't be wrong because when I wrote this I didn't know anything about the Downfall miniseries, because I hadn't started watching it yet, and was writing about my initial, pre-viewing assumptions (y'know, that thing people do so they can better examine a work by revisiting their assumptions after watching it?) made by reading the commentaries on it by people like YOU before I started my actual watch-through. I can't lie (fucking excuse you??) about something I haven't watched!

Re-read what I wrote, if you even can read, to pick up extremely subtle clues like "I'm just starting to watch the aeor episodes", "Downfall is gearing up to not work", and "based off of what tumblr users have said".

And this is all a moot fucking point because I've already elected not to continue watching it! I stopped watching so I could catch the live broadcast and decided then that "I do not need the full context to enjoy this, I was more interested in how the principle characters would react, and I do not have a continued interest in recording my thoughts on it.". I felt (do you see these two words? golly!) that the miniseries started off weak, it failed to enrapture me, and I have no obligation to watch things I don't have a further interest in just for "completion's sake" of something I do have a further interest in, as if saying I've watched all of an online series is somehow a point of pride. I'll never know if I would've liked it or not, but that's fine by me. I'll never know if the audience on tumblr is stupid and missed some incredibly obvious point or not (though after you, I have to assume they have), but that's fine by me.

I'm hesitant to even tag you at all because it will just fall on deaf ears anyways, but if I don't you'll make a way to spin that into a personal attack. @codexjinora Fuck off! The nerve of yourself.

im just starting to watch the aeor episodes, but based on all the spoilers and thinkpieces ive seen here, I have to say that humanizing the gods was not just a poor decision, but poorly done.

the conflict in the main campaign at least had some complexity to it when the gods were abstract overlords:

they were not responsible for making the world, there are powers older than them and are potentially far more responsible and kind

the gods are imperfect AND omniscient and WERE omnipotent, which is an abominable combination that lends itself to degradation and cruelty, at minimum through inaction, and at maximum through intentional action, and arguments could be made that they very well deserve to die for those cruelties

while defeating ludinus and stopping him from ascending (we all see where its going) was never in question, allowing predathos to consume the gods (and some of the PCs have motivation to do so) was a crapshoot on whether or not it would turn it's attention to mortaldom afterwards, or if it really will just purify the world of parasite-gods as a failsafe for something beyond comprehension.

However, now that the gods are imperfect individuals who are NOT all-powerful or all-knowing, and are just Some Aliens who are NOT responsible for their own cruel inactions because they are not ALL-powerful, it becomes unconscionable to let them be murdered.

HOWEVER, because they ARE conscious people and not forces of nature, and ARE still responsible for their own cruel actions, it becomes unconscionable to allow them to live because while they are not ALL-powerful, they are still more powerful than anything else in existence but have unchallenged reign, stymied only by the big-ass wall between them and their toys! With such power, they lose their humanity, they lose the right to be given the benefit of the doubt

This is because it seems to be really poorly done - every player character is a "good" god and every "bad" god is played by the DM. Just right out of the gate saying that "we aren't going to force/allow any of our players to play the really icky people we don't like and who are evil so they are going to play wispy, boho-ass conventionally attractive people while the bad gods are evil and spiky or look like a paedophile priest" and "they have to stop these evil mortals and also their victory is assured. They will have some character drama, but it won't be too important because they are known characters and this is a prequel and they all have places and ways they need to be to remain canon".

Calamity worked because it was people dealing with the consequences of their backstories and actions. Downfall is gearing up to not work because these aren't people. These are powerful idiots playing dolls like the mean kid from Toy Story.

And mind, this is based off of what tumblr users have said. So either they're stupid and missed some grander point, or this assumption of mine is correct and this is just a bad story.