#interim emergency backup principal grix

[remidyal]

FHJY New Names over-analysis post

We're a few days past an episode that introduced a lot of new npcs and ideas and all, and I figured I'd dig into some of the names and references and all that I noticed to see if any hints might have been snuck in there for the rest of the season.

Interim Emergency Backup Principal Arcturus Grix: A couple of different things in here, but I'll just get what I think is the most likely one out of the way: Arcturus is a star that is part of the constellation Bootes (a herdsman in various myths), and the name translates to 'guardian of the bear'.

Or, perhaps, guardian of the owlbears.

Brennan absolutely seems like someone who would have at some point been way into constellations and their stories so I'd put money on this being an intentional stealth-ish pun.

I think Grix is just supposed to sound machine-y but I might be missing it.

Terpsichore Skullcleaver: Back on the Greek mythology theme, Terpsichore is one of the Greek Muses, and specifically is the Muse of Dance. Obviously a wildly appropriate name for a dance teacher who is hopefully going to actually inspire Fabian.

Skullcleaver presumably means she is of some relation to Katja, of course.

Lucillia Lullaby: I mean, this one is pretty obvious; a Lullaby is a type of song, and from what she saw she seems to be a pretty calming presence to suit attempting to get a toddler to sleep as that song type does. This name was actually, unlike the two above, on the payroll list from freshman year so it's a lot more directly on the nose (because, frankly, Brennan was coming up with like 30 npcs who would probably never appear).

Tiberia Runestaff: Runestaff similarly is just kind of obvious and also was on the freshman year list; Tiberia as a name literally just means born near the river Tiber, and so I think was chosen mostly because it sounds kind of severe and wizard-y.

Yolanda Badgood: Also from the freshman year list, and I suppose it would take someone both bad and good to teach students of both 'good' and 'evil' divinities. Brennan's gotten better at his NPC names over the years, or just it's hard to do a freaking list. I sympathize, as someone who keeps a random name generator tab open while GMing. Also, on a random note, the freshman year list has a driver's ed teacher (one Alphonse Doublefist) and I NEED a scene of Fig having to take driver's ed because she's been driving without a license for two years.

Mazey Phaedra: Mazey is such a groanworthy name for a minotaur-adjacent person that I'm surprised they didn't throw things at him for it; Phaedra is another Greek myth name, this one of the daughter of Minos (of building-the-maze fame) and also a whole other thing we don't have time to get into because it might start Discourse and that probably isn't relevant because it's really just another Minotaur reference.

CUS Dabus: One of the universities Riz looks at, I mostly want to call it out because of being a reference to my personal favorite official DnD setting. It's mentioned as being in the City of Doors, which is the nickname of course of the extra-planar city of Sigil. The Dabus are a race that are the entourage of the mysterious Lady of Pain, the very-definitely-not-a-god who loosely rules over that city. I doubt we ever really visit Sigil, but who knows, we've been to the Nine Hells and the cosmological stuff seems to largely conform to traditional DnD.

[cxlandine]

arthur created grix to be a perfectly lawful, responsible principal should aguefort be under investigation. arthur had a legal failsafe in case the feds came around. and he fucking shoots kids with nets and awakens sex robots to attack them-

[rqg179]

very funny to me that this is the second time a principal of the aguefort adventuring academy has died because of the bad kids

[emiko-matsui]

why did emergency backup interim principal grix take over the school when aguefort went on vacation, but not when he killed himself? easy, goldenhoard killed him with a hammer

[everythingelseisspokenfor]

Wait wait wait! Onnnneee second

Interim backup emergency principal Grix was attacking the Frosty fairfolk festival, specifically Reuben, BECAUSE HE WAS ACTUALLY AN ACTIVE DANGER TO THE SCHOOL WITH THE RITUAL HE WAS PERFORMING?!!!

(Identify spell: these parts contain the information and programming put in place by Arthur Auegfort...)

[travelingsprinkle]

Anyone else being a little Riz, trying to figure out if Interim emergency backup principal Arcturus Grix is an anagram or clue that can be used to figure out what's up with him. No, just me? So far I have GAPBEI and IEBPAG which mean nothing

[embraceweird]

Interim Emergency Backup Principal Grix has the potential to be the 6th faculty/staff member of Augefort to die in connection with the Bad Kids

[blackcrystalball]

Collyflower Coppermetal and Emergency Interim Backup Principal Grix are making me paranoid.

It's the first day of school and she already found the Rogue professor?

Perfect order??

I'm not loving the vibe of all of this.

And how does it all connect back to the quangle?

[atlitudes]

Aguefort pretty much making Literal GLaDOS to run his school while he’s gone is so funny to me. which poor soul did he put into this robot? does Grix have a slow clap processor? Aguefort would put a slow clap processor in his backup robot principal. is there a smaller idiot one he deliberately designed to be so fucking stupid it counteracts the main one’s totalitarianism?

Like. I know this won’t happen but I like to imagine next episode brennan just goes

heyyyyyyy guys. sorry uh— new interim emergency backup principal just dropped. this time with 150% more sphere. aguefort made a shittier dumber circle in the event that someone [cough] the bad kids [cough] uhhhhh… tore apart the old one.

…no, the adventuring academy is NOT going to explode why would you think that.

[starful-emporium]

currently the bad kids track record for being the direct cause of school administrator's deaths:

Principal Arthur Aguefort: once (revived)

Vice Principal Goldenrod: once (revived and killed again)

Vice Principal Gilear Faeth: four (!!) times, revived each time

Emergency Backup Interim Principal Grix: once

[adhdaugust]

I’m having a real life Night Yorb moment because I just went “what if the reason they keep calling him Interim Emergency Backup Principal Grix is because it’s acronym means something” and upon realizing IEBPG means nothing went “what if it’s an anagram”

[jeweled-dragon]

Musings after the most recent episode:

Rage as a theme:

Gorgug coming to terms w such, realizing it's okay to be mad

Various students experiencing rage (Gertie yelling at Fabian when he insulted the honey, Molman yelling at Riz about the soil samples)

Lydia Barkrock's rage keeping the fiend trapped

Cassandra's red shattered star crystal fragments being used to perform a miracle

Shatter-stars also playing into inducing rage and making people buff - and how this could play into the death of both Lucy and Yolanda (it's easy to assume someone who's already strong in terms of Yolanda's death, but remembering how the Wizard Synod wizards got all buff, it doesn't necessarily have to be?)

Interim Emergency Backup Principal Grix:

identify spell noted that "this model has recently been destroyed" - are there other models that have NOT been destroyed?

Directive: "keep things kosher while the superintendent's office might be looking into the school" -- I don't remember enough about the superintendent's deal from The Seven but this seems like it could be something

Directive: engage in extracurricular activities should there be a direct threat to the existence of the school itself -- is doing drugs the threat to the school? Grix went after the kids who did drugs at the party in school that Monday, and then after Ruben at the FolkFestival....(and since Molman snorted the dirt and got angry, can the RageDirt and/or crystals be turned into a drug that can be snorted/smoked etc?)

I also wondered if perhaps Buddy might fill in as a substitute Cleric teacher (there have been a lot of new teachers this year already)

But then I realized that if Buddy is the RatGrinders cleric and he's not in school, then the Rat Grinders party isn't affected by the entire cleric class becoming Pass/Fail -- but the Bad Kids/Kristen are

[haven-gum-rockrose]

Is nobody considering that Emergency Backup Interim Principal Grix might just be totally fine and Aguefort just thought it would be fun to make a robot arch nemesis to face when he gets back?

[emiko-matsui]

brennan had to ship gilear hundreds of miles away bc emergency backup interim principal arcturus grix would have short-circuited after one (1) interaction with him

[fallen-goldfishcracker]

Wouldn't it be crazy if the Bad Kids ended up saving everyone and killing Grix, only to get in trouble with administration for killing the only Emergency Interim Backup Principal they had?

[applebees4prez]

interim emergency backup principal grix can suck my ass fuck that motherfucker