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jeaneybean · 2 years ago

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In tonight’s session:

-The group heads to a town there were pointed out to that Vera’;s childhood pastor is in, to go murder the shit out of him in a legal way

-Before they leave their current city, Vera goes into a church of Mal and sits for service and is very werided out on how very normal it is. The lesson she learns? She grew up in a cult. -’Yeah, I thought every congregation of Mal had to change houses every week because outsiders would persecute them, and my one uncle had a worship room behind a sliding book case and- oh my god I grew up in a cult.’

-'Hey Vera, you were in the middle of your cult rant. Is this halberd nice?’ ‘oh that’s really nice.’ Oz has again used the party’s gold to fabricate an item for Vera to sell to people for way too much money. It’s fine. We like gold

-Bip gets a letter from his pen friend, Count Von Rothrine. They have nice talkies. Vera gets a letter from Coot, the brass progenetor. Coot is like ‘hey I don’t know who made that ring, also, my post office is not dealing with any more mail for anton bellek. So his runin didn’t go well.

-We travel across Duermond so that Irving’s magic items can get done and so that Havilah can do a tour across the country and earn more money, stopping in the town where Seigfried is. We head up to the house and Isskol smells undead, for sure. So back to the caravan we go.

-we come back to make an apointment to meet Seigfried and Bip already is. So he gets a slot before hte party, vera makes one (And gets the butler to agree to let their ‘horse’ come in the house) and bip makes a second apointment after.

-Vera asks Volya if he wants to come along to watch the party murder their old cult leader, he agrees that sounds great. We work out when we’re going to go, and Bip has a response from Count Von V about his letter agian, where Count Von V tells Bip he likely knew the shadow of cruelty. The party talks for a while about who the shadow could be, and eventually the talk turns to an old party member from bafck in the early days of hte party, Jilly Jimbo, a hafling bard. But he disapeared after a certian point.

-A point that Vera has a very different recolection than the other early party members. She remembers him being there when they got Oz, he was the one who bent down so that Jake could trip Oz’s master down the stairs. And he was with Oz and Vera making fun of Havilah when Havilah brought the donkey into the Inn and the Inkeepers though he was gonna fuck it. He was there when Havilah was bitten by the werewolf, trying to pry it off him. He was there helping with the perform check to aid Havilah into beating lycanthropy.

-But she also remembers at the same time: No he wasn’t there when Jake pushed the man down the stairs. There was nothing there. It was just her and Oz making fun of Havilah in that wagon. She was the one desperatly trying to shove her hands into the werewolves mouth to save Havilah. She’s got two sets of memories jumbling in her head. Bip uses detect thoughts to look at her memories, and then over to Havilah to compare. The man in Vera’s memories is the same one that Bip remembers, the Shadow of Cruelty. But he’s not in Havilah’s memories.

-”It was the chair” A few weeks ago, Vera, Bip, and Irving destroyed a chair made up of modify memory arrows that Bip had made and were made into a mind altring chair. However, they destroyed it by breaking the chair when Bip temporarily dispelled the magic on it. When the dispel magic wore off, the chair exploded, hitting Vera and Bip and Irving (But magic doesn’t effect him he’s fine) with arrows. But they were fine. Their memories were fine.

-(You dispell modify memory by a second casting of it)

-Oz meanwhile is using a weird spell to use a spell he doesn’t know, modify memory. And he remembers Jilly too. So now Oz is P I S S E D and uses the spell again to use sending, and after a moment of thought he sends it to Lady Angathel. The highest level Bard we know, a level 20+ character we met very early in our adventures. He sends her a very simple message. “You helped us once. Convince me to be kind.” Her response is equally short, basically: “I had to stop you from chasing shadows.” Oz is not convinced and is now planning some awful stuff for Lady Angathel that Vera will likely convince him not to do.

-Oz once more does his weird spell and returns Havilah’s memories. The party continues to freak out for a while more, with Volya inside his wagon like ‘bruhhhh’ before Vera’s like WELL AT LEAST WE GET TO GO KILL MY CULT LEADER TONIGHT

-head over. Greet the butler. Get let in, no problem. Vera and Volya get brought into another room to meet with Seigfried. The party’s offered booze, but Vera advises against it because if it’s anything like what her father liked, it’ll be rancid.

-(Seiger kept the body of his first wife in a whisky cask int he basment and he fucking served that liquor to people he didn’t like)

-There’s blood in the whisky. Iskoll likes it.

-Meanwhile Vera and Volya vibe and wait in the room. But it isn’t Seigfried that walks in. It’s Seiger Medvedev, their dad. A man Vera was positive that had died a year ago- But she hadn’t stayed around to make sure he had, had she? She’d left the courthouse with Allahandra to walk her back because Allahandra Fell, and Vera felt it would’ve been better to walk back with a Sister than to stay and watch the man she hated (and so desperately loved and wanted to be loved by) puff into dust.

-Brightly, delighted: “Oh, time for round two?”

#The idiots do a adventure

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ripemsystem · 6 years ago

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The Disgruntled's Real World Heavyweight Champion

Here's hoping that my new employer only looks at the web history when the dung hits the fan. Perhaps it is too early in my tenure with my new employer to be bringing back my Saturday/Sunday blog, but if they do not seem to mind other(s) doing their junior college stuff on it, why should I worry? Why should I care?

And why aren't the "The Oliver and Company" characters featured in "Kingdom Hearts"? Can a game have too many Cheech Marin-voiced characters? Am I the only one who appreciates the 80's animated films between the ones that they gave sequels to? Where is "The Great Mouse Detective 2: Basil Boogaloo"?

Speaking of appreciation, that is something I do not have much of for in regards to WWE. This is something that I really do not need to delve into right now, except for the championships. Do we really want to call Roman Reigns THE champion?

Even if we can all be satisfied with The Phenomenal One at the top of the game, there have definitely been times where the WWE offers us no one worthy to hold the top belts in their company (Randy Orton and Brock Lesnar after Wrestlemania 33). During the Monday Night Wars we could have the argument of who was the best in the business based on waist wear. The fun of going to the magazine aisle of a pharmacy was to see how Bill Apter ranked grapplers based on hardware.

Working night audit on week nights at a hotel that was overstaffed and to scrutinizing about bettering oneself (the owner at the I Hotel "allegedly" fired a kid for doing Big Ten schoolwork on the clock), jotting down notes in regards to the concept of which championship was the championship helped keep me sane for a few weeks. In other words, I tried to also determine which title was the one to claim in the tag team and women's divisions.

This brings me to my biggest issue with working for a biker for Trump (no allegedly on that) or some asset a conglomerate is trying to sell while leaving everyone with unrelenting repetitive tasks with no encouragement or benefits. You can be creative with those moments that allow you to breathe, but how are you going to find the strength to regurgitate those moments on to the keyboard?

On top of all those questions, I have to determine how to address the title history I developed in the most reader friendly way. Do I start back at Starrcade 1983 or work backward from me cancelling the incredibly sexist Network (it was not NJPW World)? The easy thing to do would be to start at Royal Rumble 1992 when the recently fired NWA champion won the WWF title, but that throws away all my effort to tell the story of the real world champion.

If I am going to do that, I might as well find somebody to podcast about it with. Hey Jake Lloyd (@liquidjake), you may need another podcast on Dragon Wagon Radio if listeners get sick of the WWE-centric podcast you have right now. You can find me @maineventzombie on Twitter and Instagram.

Ground rules probably need to be laid out, and they will not make much sense if I do not start at the beginning. This is the time when the 10 Pounds of Gold was the only gold that mattered.

There Was Only the 10 Pounds of Gold:

Verne Gagne is the first booker to try and put himself on TOP. This was pretty blatant, so the American Wrestling Association's heavyweight championship cannot be called the world's belt. The National Wrestling Alliance still maintained authority over everything outside the Midwest, so his claim could obviously be disputed.

Vince McMahon Sr. may have disagreed with Lou Thesz's single-fall title victory over Buddy Rogers, hence Rogers becoming the World Wide Wrestling Federation Champion seemed reasonable. Except, Rogers was only given the belt to drop it to Bruno Sammartino, someone who only represented the world because of the attitude that New York City was the WORLD. After Trump's win, I do not like to give the flyover states much credit, but the NWA represented the greater masses and it is common knowledge that Bruno could not do a 60-minute broadway. This means the WWWF title would never be the world title.

Once Hulkamania was born, the national and international credibility to the World Wrestling Federation was undeniable, but Hulk Hogan defeated the Iron Sheik. Ric Flair was the NWA champ at the time of Hogan's victory, so the WWF title still was not the title. Once Flair started swapping the title with Harley Race and the Kerry Von Erich, the unbeatable Hulk could claim the title.

1st Real World Heavyweight Champion - NWA's Ric Flair (3) - 11/24/1983 - 3/20/84

2nd World Champion - WWF's Hulk Hogan - 3/20/84 - 2/5/88

3rd World Champion - WWF's Andre the Giant - 2/5/88

4th World Champion - NWA's Ric Flair (4) - 2/5/88 - 2/20/89

Andre the Giant treated the WWF championship like it a bed in a Japanese hotel room. We cannot have a vacancy in this championship lineage. The NWA never had a vacated world championship to this point, so it is only fitting to return it to them. Sorry Randy Savage.

5th World Champion - NWA's Ricky Steamboat - 2/20/89 - 5/7/89

6th World Champion - NWA's Ric Flair (5) - 5/7/89 - 7/7/90

7th World Champion - NWA's Sting - 7/7/90 - 1/11/91

I know this has totally ignored the Ultimate Warrior's sole reign on top. But, he lost it to a propaganda angle in Sgt. Slaughter. Sting lost it back to Flair after a lengthy reign. To paraphrase The Nature Boy, "To be the man, you got to beat the man...not the gimmick."

8th World Champion - NWA's Ric Flair (6) - 1/11/91 - 3/21/91

9th World Champion - NWA's Tatsumi Fujinami - 3/21/91 - 5/19/91

10th World Champ - NWA's and WWF's Ric Flair (7) - 5/19/91 - 4/5/1992

This title reign was when Flair left NWA as champion, claimed he was the REAL World Champion, and he didn't want to say he "told us so," but he "told us so."

The Seeds of War:

With Flair's departure from the World Championship Wrestling, they wasted no time in determining their own champion. If the NWA would have surrendered the concept of integrity, they may have kept the territories alive a little longer. They soon set the precedent for how to bury a concept in wrestling.

11th World Champ - WWF's Randy Savage - 4/5/1992 - 9/1/92

12th World Champ - WWF's Ric Flair (8) - 9/1/92 - 10/12/92

13th World Champ - WWF's Bret Hart - 10/12/92 - 4/4/93

14th World Champ - WCW's Big Van Vader - 4/4/93 - 12/27/93

Yokozuna was wasted on Vince McMahon wanting to tell a tale of patriotism. He could move very well for a big man, but not nearly as well as Vader. To make matters worse for WWF, they were thinking Lex Luger was the way to go. Ric Flair told WCW that was a mistake, and he may have a better idea on who is best suited for the title.

15th World Champ - WCW's Ric Flair (9) - 12/27/93 - 7/17/94

16th World Champ - WWF's Bret Hart (2) - 7/17/94 - 11/23/94

Bret Hart was constantly being denied the championship by Hogan, and that was well known. If anyone is going to take a title from Flair, it will be Hart before Hogan. Also, the Owen/Bret feud needs greater documentation than the Hulkster on Baywatch.

17th World Champ - WCW's Hulk Hogan (2) - 11/23/94 - 10/29/95

But, Hogan's reign bringing eyes on WCW is more important than Bob Backlund's last run as Champion and his loss of the belt in 17 seconds at Madison Square Garden. Did Vince McMahon think Diesel was the second coming of Bruno?

18th World Champ - WWF's Diesel - 10/25/95 - 11/19/95

Diesel's WWF reign was the longest since Hogan's first, so it deserves more recognition than Paul Wight's in ring debut. This is also when Eric Bischoff determined the title did not matter, which Vince Russo would seem to further embrace under Bischoff's watch.

19th World Champ - WWF's Bret Hart (3) - 11/19/95 - 3/31/96

20th World Champ - WWF's Shawn Michaels - 3/31/96 - 11/17/96

21st World Champ - WCW/nWo's Hollywood Hogan (3) - 11/17/96 - 8/4/97

Sid in WWF was usually a disaster, so putting him over the greatest faction in American wrestling is not going to happen. If you want to argue nWo versus DX, when did DX share the title of a video game with WWF/WWE?

22nd World Champ - WWF's Bret Hart (4) - 8/4/97 - 11/9/97

Lex Luger is just not cut out to be a world champ.

23rd World Champ - WCW/nWo's Hollywood Hogan (4) - 11/9/97 - 12/28/97

The screw job obviously disqualifies Shawn Michaels from a second reign.

24th World Champ - ECW's Shane Douglas - 12/28/97 to 1/10/99

Michaels (unless it was a work) was an illegitimate champion. Sting would have to vacate the title because Bischoff tried to pay homage to Hart's title loss. Shane Douglas had to beat two legends (Sabu and Terry Funk [a former Real World Champ]) in one night to earn the title. It seems fitting that a man who the NWA thought would turn their business around was prepared to be a real world champion.

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jeaneybean · 6 years ago

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The group zones in as they left it two or three weeks ago: Six wolves around the caravan, and three werewolves in the woods around them. They catcall to the group, Vera catcalls right back with a 'Oh, from the way you guys were talking to me last night I knew you wanted a taste, but not this way." The werewolf, Jack, snipes back, Vera calls him a puppy, werewolf 2, Russel, is like 'oh ffs can we not do this.'

So we roll for intitave, with Oz leaning over to tap Vera and give her an inititive boost. Before they can take their first turns, the necklace glows and out pops Magnolia, Jake, and Anya- with a baby. Jake hits a wolf with magic missile and it goes scurriyng into the woods. Wolves attack, get a bite in on Jake. Three wolves don't hit, Jack goes for Nitahn, Russel goes for Oz on top of the caravan. Both miss, and Nitahn climbs across the wagon to rage out and protect the baby. Vera slips into his spot and screams while bodily throwing herself at the werewolf after going on a rant about how she tried to play things nice and all these monsters. Whatever the werewolf was expecting was not Vera snarling and going for him.

Magnolia, our golden girl, casts calm animal and three of the four wolves at the front of the cart calm the fuck down and sit down. Oz gets wolf #4 with color explosion that stuns him for four rounds. Wolf 4 at the head of the cart goes for Vera to flank her after turning into it's hybrid form. Nitahn, with his silver rings, punches the werewolf to the back and crits. Magnolia smashes the werewolf in the face with her silver staff and crits, smashing out some of his teeth. Werewolf 3 (Terry) yells to his friends 'The fuckers got silver weapons.' He doesn't get out much more than that, because Anya sneak attacks him for enough damage to put the arrow through his eye, damage resist or not. He falls forward and Bramble the donkey is like 'Man fuck ths, I seen worse this week.'

Jake strikes at Russel and misses, while Jack tries chomp Vera and Russel goes after Jake. He misses with his bite and one claw, but catches him with the second. Vera breaks her pin to get her silver sword out and smashed him with a smite evil. Oz tries to hit Russel with a glitter spell but fails leaving that side of the cart fabulous. Anya climbed into the cart with her baby.

Jack bites Vera's ankle and tries to trip her but fails, and Vera hits him again. Magnolia goes around the cart to head for Jack. Nitahn starts heading the other way. Oz tells Russel 'What was the first thing the werewolf ate after going to the dentist? The dentist.' And cast hideous laughter on him, causing him to fall to the ground. Jake moves to coup de grax him. Jack decides to go defensive and heads under the cart, provoking an attack of opportunity from Vera who crits and almost chops him in twain but breaks his back for sure.

A wolf runs out from the woods and goes into Nitahn, who gets a bite and Nitahn bites him the fuck back bringing the wolf to zero HP because it was the same wolf that Jake hit earlier. Magnolia and Vera both head towards the back of the wagon in time for Jake to coup de grax Russel. He also goes to take care of the wolf that Oz stunned.

From the woods another wolf comes out and slams into Nitahn, who gets bitten and passes his first fortitude saving throw. Vera goes around the corner and tries to get between Nitahn and the wolf to protect him from any other bites. The wolf doesn't go for it and goes for Nitahn, biting him again and this one he does not pass the saving throw. Nitahn dogpiles on him, with Vera joining the grapple. Magnolia tries to hit into the dogpile, hitting Vera but not doing any damage.

Oz on the top of the wagon can hear, and later see, a group of werewolves just waiting in the distance. Like, a lot of them. He warns the group, and jake joins the dogpile. Vera rolls to pin, pins, and Jake and Nitahn break grapple to grab onto the wolf's upper and lower jaws (that have Vera's arm in between them) and rip it's head in half.

Vera looks at Nitahn's bloody throat and yells as loud as she can 'FUCK', because she was right there. She was right there and she's immune to lycanthropy and she couldn't protect him. So when Oz remakarks that the werewolves are getting closer and Vera starts walking towards them while screaming insults at them. Magnolia and Vera have the most pathetic strength check (vera's 2 vs Magnolia's 5) to keep her from running at them. Nitahn calmly starts walking towards the werewolves.

The lead werewolf calls out to them that they've earned their pathway and Vera screams back at them. Wolves are starting to get pissed and try to intimidate both Vera and Nitahn, who are not at all intimidated.

Anya casts darkness between the wolves and the party, cutting them off. Vera gets one last shriek out, something to the like of 'If the bloodline of the Tel Mortev's is so weak the Von Rothrines will roll over the north!' The werewolf replies something that I don't remember, but Vera yells back 'You're welcome!' Magnolia ask Vera if she'll set the bodies on fire, and as soon as the cart moves on she sets the bodies on fire. Nitahn picks up the wolf he knocked to ZeroHp and puts it on the wagon with him. This kicks Vera out of shotgun, so she heads to the back to sit with Magnolia where she has a little breakdown, a tiny little one, because she'd been right there.

They head forward and eventually cross out of Tel Mortev territory into Carneithel territory and go to the one village and it's weird. The people are curious, but there's none of the hostility, none of the 'oh what are these assholes bringing to our village' feel. Nitahn gets them to the inn and they stop, securing beds and baths for the night. Vera goes up to Nitahn and lays on hands and apologizes to him for not being better. Jake goes into the bar to get milk for the baby and Anya locks herself in the cart.

They head into the bar, talking to the innkeper who tells them about the lady in the castle. After a bit of talking a runner is sent to ask for an audience, from Vera Medvedeva and party. Vera also gives Nitahn her flask to drink because he's had a day. She takes time to go over Oz's contract, which for being from Spee it's very simple and broken by either the sorcerer's death or his mistretment of Oz. It's also very simple for him being sent over all the way from spee.

After Magnolia takes her bath Vera takes one, and Jake gets Anya caught up on what's happened since she left, with Oz hanging around for exposition since he was around for none of this.

After bathtime Vera runs past Anya in the hall and is like 'oh, you have a child.' 'Yes.' 'Hnnn goodbye.' Because Vera doesn't like children. Vera tells the party she'sgoing to the chapel and heads to the chapel with Magnolia to pray, because with how angry she was she felt the need for more prayers of forgiveness. The chapel is unstaffed but well kept, no shrine to the more violent gods (Though there was one to Mal).

The next day they get up and are informed that the Lady wants to meet with them. So they wake everyone up and head up to the castle which is straight up some cinderella castle bullshit. It's staffed by the people from the villiage who do their best, but it's clear that they don't do this often; the lady doesn't get guests.

This whole time like, everyone is expecting the worst. All of our insight checks have came up clean, no one is evil, everything seems cool and so obviously we are expecting the worst. The castle, while beautiful, is a bit cobwebby. Near the entrance is a large mirror that reflects the party and all the staff as they enter (Which they all look to make sure there are reflections).

There's some guff about bags and handing them over, Vera glossing thins over with the staff while like, everyone else is being super suspicious. Nitahn is extra suspicious because no one is polite to travelers, no one grants them room like this and no one is respectful.

There's more guff about handing over their weapons to which Vera does without question because obviously a poweful vampire isn't going to want them armed (She'd also warned Nitahn that if she goes silent for six seconds after the vampire comes down not to let her fall on her ass. As the other party members argue, the Lady of the house calls down that it's fine.

She's super tall, super beautiful, super grey elf. She walks down through the sunlight beaming in the windows and walks to the mirror where she casts a reflection. As she walks down, she says something to the like of 'I could not beleive that after all these years, Vera Medvedeva comes back to call.'

Vera: -i done fucked up face-

The Lady is like 'You look just like her, you have her eyes. She must be your... Grandmother?' 'Great-Grandmother, actually.' Vera says, still very much like 'o i fucked uuuup' They make a bit of small talk with the Lady asking if she likes tea and saying that they'll have to talk.

She goes down the party and talks with each one, being kind and generous with everyone. She tries to make everyone relax and is just super good, so obviously everyone is suspicious (except Vera who is very much like 'i done fucked uuuuup')

They're taken to their rooms (boys and girls separated) and Anya finds a secret door in her room. She goes to magnolia's, finds another. They head out to find the boys and tell them.

Oz is in the library where the Lady also is, and he gets real embarrassed because she's beautiful. Jake and Nitahn find him there because he's a nerd and tell him about the hidden doors, to which Oz is like 'well yeah castles typically do' -cue 20 minute rant on artecture- (And Vera's response to Anya telling her was 'Rich people don't like to see servants')

The gong goes off for dinner and they're told to dress for dinner. Magnolia gets a pantsuit since nothing will fit her. Nitahn wears his nice peformer's outfit, Anya has a lovely elven dress, as does Jake. Oz has fine shirt and pants but wears his coat since Mommy made it. Vera has a lovely black silk dress that fits her very well, suspiciuosly well. (Grandmama left it behind apparently) (this means grandmama also was titless as hell)

The scene ends with the entering the great hall that's been set out for them, the table lavishly decorated with food and bowls of grapes.

Next epiode: A new years specialwhere Vera's probably going ot tell everyone in the party her backstory because she's going to be like 'I am not lying to this terrifying beautiful woman'

#The idiots do a adventure

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