#cus riptide;pd;bitb;mythborne;convergence everyone already knew eachother

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Ranking JRWI PC meetups (not listing campaigns where the characters already knew each other so sorry Riptide):

Apotheosis: Everything about their meet up is spectacular and great characterisation and sets up conflicts between the characters.. It's easy in other situations for the meetup of PCs to feel forced, but here it's that unnatural pull that is weaponised to make Rumi's character SO much more interesting. Like the whole idea of Rumi being willing to drag Peter into their world, to recruit Thanatos despite being so clearly immoral, to be dismissive of Exandroth in favour of Peter.. The absolute brilliance of this cannot be understated.

Wonderlust: Also REALLY good and future context might make this intro even better once we get into the series- honestly would not blame people if they rank this over Apotheosis because it's amazing. Blink has such good characterisation through backstory and actions, it 100% makes sense that Blink would help Troy, it feels very very natural. And the fact that through Runt's backstory we get a REALLY good reason for Runt to join up with the group too?? There's such a coherent world here, all the characters are believably being pulled together, truly amazing.

Prime Defenders (Prequel): I'm honestly not sure where to rank this because I think while the meetup was really effective and funny, it's also a very simple premise. I'm ranking it third because I did enjoy it but I did consider ranking it fourth because the Suckening did have more on its plate than what the Prime Force did, you know? But at the end of the day, I would rather rewatch this instead because I found it funnier that all the caretakers on a school trip got turned into superheroes than some random vampires happen to stumble into each other and struggle to find a reason to hang out.

Suckening: The Suckening isn't my fav in terms of meetups but, I've said it before and will say it again, these characters seem like they were gonna be tough to bring together regardless of how you spun it. I think Arthur is the main issue since Arthur just clearly didn't want to be responsible for the other two, he was doing his own thing?? Shilo was trying his best, but characters don't gel well together when one of them wants to clearly not be there. It's in character but doesn't necessarily flow that well.. But aside from that, they still find a reason to all come together in a way that makes sense, so it's not the worst.

Fated: I'm sorry but Fated has such a BAD meetup I swear. It doesn't feel like the characters are naturally drawn together, it feels like they interact with each other because they're in a video game lobby and know everybody else in the world are NPCs who aren't worth talking to. Their introductions are FUNNY, but I don't immediately get a sense there's any reason for them to be hanging out the way they are. Do you get what I mean when I say it's like they were all put into a Gmod map and Br'aad has walked up to Taxi trying to start Gmod roleplay. Fucking hilarious but not that immersive.

And if you disagree w/ me that okay.