#rolling with it

[neo--queen--serenity]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes 🎲📱

[brettanomycroft]

Alice is so relatable if Samama Khalid asked me to dive headfirst into Hell with a sheepish little shrug and I would do it right away, no questions asked

[dyslexicpolishdude]

POV: you literally are becoming a death avatar but you think you are becoming a stranger

When they described him I immediately thought about costumes from the greatest showman

[vampyre-inc]

I’m relistening to episode 9 and I just realized yet ANOTHER layer of complexity. Towards the beginning of the story, the statement-giver says they weren’t into dungeons and dragons because, quote, “you just sat around saying stuff that’s not real. Where’s the game in that?”

I think that added an extra layer of appeal to the dice. These dice make something REAL happen, not like those DND dice. And that makes it a true game. That’s why they can’t stop playing.

[autismprotocol]

Guys I made a discovery!! (Spoilers for EP 4 and EP 9 of Protocol)

I’ve been re-listening to all the current protocol episodes with my grandma over spring break (me and her have been listening to tma together for 2 years) and I think I noticed something that I haven’t seen anywhere else. In episode 4 when Augustus is reading the statement about the hunger violin, the statement mentions a few things the stranger has in is sack along with said violin

When I heard gamblers dice be read my jaw dropped to the floor!! there is no doubt this stranger was carrying around the dice from episode 9: Rolling with it. Because of this tie-in I think this strange trinket man will be a recurring avatar. My guess is he will take a similar rolls as Salesa, dealing in cursed artifacts that were gifted power by the entities.

Just in case it comes back here’s a list of all the stuff mentioned to be in the Trinket man’s sack

Battered knives

Chipped porcelain

Fine jewelry (this one is kind of vague tbh )

Ivory figures

I’m guessing because the dice are mentioned with extra emphasis, we won’t see anymore of the for mentioned items but you never know

I think we all need to be on the watch for The Trinket Man

[imgonnagetkilledbynutstink]

That gay fucker with the dice is the TMAGP equivalent of Oliver Banks

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

Do you regret that?

[24601st]

"if the dice roll poorly right now then that means the next rolls will be good i swear i swear"

[gravedigg]

:-3c

[jomiedraws]

How I imagined the cursed dice statement giver

[amelie-isnt-french]

episode 9 or also: jonny is being a ttrpg nerd on main again, and BY GOD, he will show everyone what the dread of rolling awfully feels like, even if that means sneaking it into the spooky podcast

(a double Nat 1 >does< feel like getting run over by a truck, thank you for asking)

[updatebug]

I've seen the theories about how Chester and Norris aren't actually Jon and Martin following the most recent episode (or are and are evil / controlled by the web) and I'm not ruling it out but IDK.

To me, this could still be another case of Jon trying to warn Sam away (albeit one that goes horribly, horribly wrong). Like the statement starting immediately after Celia sort of convinces Sam to give up looking into the Magnus Institute is kinda damning and I can see why people are seeing it as a lure. But on the other side of things, Sam is still doing the same stuff that Alice keeps warning him is going to get him into trouble, he's engaging with the weird shit in the office. He's filling out the deeply cursed paper work and answering the deeply concerning questions.

So a statement about someone doing something seemingly innocuous (rolling a pair of dice) and being met with costly rewards and horrible misfortune doesn't exactly seem out of place. (we can all see the parallels between 'I refuse to give it the satisfaction of giving up', 'It's kind of compelling at this point.' and 'I still don't really know if they made me roll them' and 'I don't think I ever felt them calling me' right?)

Also insert small domino to big domino meme here but the first step to Jon destroying the world and possibly dooming the multiverse was literally him signing a contract (and the contract itself does have some supernatural significance based on the way daisy joined). I also think - given we don't know how much control Jon and Martin have over their statements (but there are thematic parallels) the Magnus Institute link might be at least in part Jon's own trauma - (please for the love of god this place is deeply cursed and the worse nothing good can come from this it only has eye mutilation and cursed dice) and part hey Sam remember your horrible hidden trauma about this place, it is so much worse than you think pls stop poking around while you still can.

Like I think the first statement, the 'canaries should stay above ground' was just a general warning. Look at this horrible thing that happened but don't look to hard, let's just move on, we're not even going to tell you what happened just allude to the horrors. Only Sam didn't take that warning. And Jon's been here before, in this exact position in fact, being kept ignorant never did him any favours it just meant he made things worse in his search for answers. So I think this is his way of saying look, this is the kind of thing the Magnus institute dealt with. This is how horrible it was, and how terrible it could be for you. STOP.

(I actually kind of think that the Gerry thing was another attempt to do this that backfired. Gerry was the one who properly clued Jon in about the world and if we assume that Jon has access to the supernatural files but only the supernatural files then he knows that Gerry was involved with the MI but not what happened to him after. So he might have been hoping that Gerry would give Sam this universe's version of colour theory only for Gerry to turn out to be a happy, friendly painter - better for Gerry but not as helpful as a haunted encyclopaedia)

[matches-is-meow]

the horrors. Noooooo.

I loved ep 9!! Thought it was very intriguing and the deadpan opening made my day. Idk how I feel about this drawing but what the heck

[shoggoth-the-bitch]

Rolling With It

Okay, so I had surgery on one of my hands yesterday morning, my dominant hand no less, so typing is gonna be tricky but I am in fact stubborn enough to continue live blogging. Mostly because I have a garbage memory and if I don't put my thoughts down, I will totally forget everything I listened to.

I will start putting cuts though, since the episode came out literally today.

Heck yeah, the music!

Sam is still getting the paper work? And he's stubbornly still doing it? Dude, you should really ask your boss about this paperwork?

Oh, hello Jon? Just started on his own? Oh, statement from the Institute?

Bro, don't insult D&D!

Does this man have a set of cursed dice? Ah, gambler's dice maybe?

So this dude went around spreading bad luck so that he could take all the good luck the dice had. Definitely an interesting concept.

Oh? Wait, is this like a set of death's dice?

OH! Snake eyes. Well sucks to suck, my guy. I wonder if he was named Gary after Gary Gygax?

Dude, no! Mayhaps you should have appreciated the supernatural gift you were given instead of being a fool!

So what fear even is that? The End? Maybe the Corruption? Are there totally new fears in this world or maybe they're merging to become something new and not quite so defined?

Oh, we're getting Gwen?

I am also confused... Are you some sort of angel of death with this?

Alice! Who is this? Oh, he's the dude that left the first episode. Good choice not to go back, actually.

Interesting... so is the idea that Alice is still into Sam or is she actually into Celia? Like, I like Sam and Alice's friendship but I do want to know how they broke up before I say I want to see them get back together. And I'm also really on the fence still about if Sam and Celia are even into each other? Like, they made fast friends but it's had to really tell if it's actual attraction I should be reading into there.

Wow, Sam?! You really gonna just assume that Alice and Teddy have a thing just because they were hanging out? I'm starting to think none of you weirdos can read a room!

"Look mate, Bigfoots a good lay." Alice is my kind of people!

I'm sorry? Sam, you are gonna get Alice hurt!

Manchester? Wasn't the Institute in Chelsea? I just paused and looked it up and those two places are very far from each other. That's a four hour drive apparently.

And Alice is agreeing to this?! Oh, girly really does have it bad!

[mad-scientist-clown]

BREAKING NEWS: MAGNUS INSTITUTE FUCKING OBLITERATED BY FREAKY DICE!!!!!!