#rqg 126

[eleanor-is-fine]

RQG 126 Interesting Times

“Notable absences”

Einstein in full tactical gear, the place has been furnished and fortified

A year and a half !! A Time Gap !!

Cut to, the same place, different time - Sasha and Grizzop escape from an (ancient Roman) orgy

Back to the “current” time

Australasia fell, east Asia seems ok, everything north is occupied

“People have been taken over by something”

Go to Cairo, then to Curie

Distant past

Hiding Grizzop in the cloak - a hideous, ailing child. Trying to find a safe place.

End Of Season Three. Gods.

[cosmictap]

oh. my. fucking. god.

idk if i respect his craft anymore :(

[darcydoescosplay]

Ben Meredith. What the fuck.

[burningdisarm]

rqg 126 interesting times like okay sadness now!

[youaremysunshine-court]

A YEAR AND A HALF WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE- NO THAT'S FUCKING EVIL

[radiantmists]

A YEAR AND A FUCKING HALF???

[sizablelad]

i kind of stopped live-blogging because i didn’t have too much to say in terms of ideas or thoughts that weren’t various outputs of eeeEEEEEEEEEE (excited) and *internal shrieking* and laughing alone in my room much too loud, but that was a VERY good/fun/sad/intense/every emotion run of episodes at the end of s3. i have been punched in the gut. due to my own foolishness, i do have a general sense of character plots in terms of deaths and stuffs, so i’m psyching myself up for beginning of s4, but meanwhile i’m giggling myself silly because lydia was ON the past 10 episodes and honestly the whole party was just infected with the Great Podcaster juice. it was really really fun to listen to. yeah. not much to say beyond that that was probably my favorite small arc so far, or one of them.

[allthatdivides]

ALEXANDER J NEWALL IM GONNA KICK YOUR FUCKING ASS

[morphokal]

Grizzop is now Sasha’s weird child.

[residentqueercryptid]

A YEAR AND A HALF??!

[shy-magpie]

RQG 126

We lost two people in the literal sense, and the remaining team are out numbered 2 to 1 by former hostages who need to be seen to.

Wow poor Bryn sounds down, and Helen doesn't sound much better. I think that was fake crying but I don't think I ever heard him so low energy Alex! Neither deserved it Bryn: "You monster! I don't respect your craft" Einstein set up the room properly to receive them? Really impressively well. Did he have help? Azu jumps in with the sensible questions Alex shouldn't have set himself up, if he wanted sympathy today of all days Oh Veseek and Bi Ming looking for Sasha and Grizzop Helen yells at Alex for us Hamid is hugging Veseek and trying to reassure him Year and a half?! !WHAT!! -both Hamid & Azu Hamid is having an attack, which is a fair reaction Well that goes pretty far to explain how he got things set up Hamid is jumping right into how we fix this, Einstein is trying to gently tell him its not fixable Everyone is underground? What happened in the rest of the world? There's Azu to get things on track Einstein is trying to calm things down ~ Oh thank Artemis he isn't making us wait to find out what happened with Sasha and Grizzop. I saw the all too short cast list and thought we would have to wait until the side quest to find out! Alex barely has his scene description out before Bryn calls him "the worst, the actual worst" Helen is once again speaking for all of us Same room different time? Oh I have never been happier to hear Grizzop's voice! They are alive to take damage so I really don't care Ben don't remind him he needs to be creative in punishing you Yeah Sasha's gutter french is not going to cut it So did anyone notice them dropping into the room and will that cause problems? Ah too crowded for people to notice? "Only a 19" Sasha takes her skills for granted Grizzop would notch an arrow first thing even before getting off the floor OK Alex has gone 3rd person again so I will cut him a little slack since it shows he is only pretending to be a bond villain If we had to have 2 of the team in Ancient Rome, then there are no two I trust to adapt, survive, and cover each other's backs. Also my issues are showing but it sounds like Eldarian was left in the stone circle rather than showing up with them, which is frankly a relief even if she did have some useful skills. OK so they did see Sasha and are alarmed at Grizzop Racist Romans, this is why they get smote Good Grizzop checks with Sasha on how they want to play this Fair Grizzop, (anyone grabs him, he'll shoot) That's how you make sure the enemy stays down So they barely set foot in town before making an enemy of the rich, very in character Human only town, very quickly seeing the dragon's point in destroying the place Please can I have Sasha wrapping Grizzop in her cloak and passing him off as her child? Maybe carrying him like a tired toddler? Thank you, Alex ~ Einstein better talk over this meal. Oh he is, spill! Yeah yeah riots, possible possession, Thank you Azu, foreign occupation by who? OK whatever is possessing people is now in charge Down a(nother) Meritocrat and the rest are dithering. Does that make the possessed 9/10ths of the law? I could really learn to hate the Acast bells Ok so the weather thing isn't under their control Good questions Is Alex drawing to explain something on the audio only medium? Einstein had 18 months with nothing to do but prepare and worry, of course he has everything Why did I doubt Alex, of course this is really helpful Blue Veins, aren't curable, aren't obvious until later stages, paladins are vulnerable I refuse to be grateful to the Mars lot, even if they are helping for now Cairo is safe, Hamid's family is okay Poor Bi Ming is babbling worried, but answers are scarce So the main plot has been entirely abandoned or what? That doesn't feel like an Alex thing Wilde went off grid I am so proud of Einstein, he did such a great job Azu has to fill Hamid and the rest in on how we lost the other 3, my heart ~ Sasha is trying to wrap her mind around this So Artemis is here? They predate the Roman gods, after all Sasha to Grizzop: you'll just have to be my weird child Wow that's some complicated feelings as Grizzop explains about Eldarian Sasha is reduced to staring at the wall OK its canon, they beat Hades Grizzop would think that balances the new set of emotional baggage Sasha bounces back a little as she mentions the locals are easy to rob Oh Grizzop "I'll kill every single one of them" Sasha, honey you'll be ok,  they'll be ok ~ Charming are we going to have the Salahs on our hands again or can we just leave them in jail? Yeah Veseek is close enough to Grizzop to be a hostage, so it tracks he would be game for vengeance Ed sweety, you don't have to fix it all, but are so welcome to join Poor Ishak, kid is holding up but that is in many ways more worrying than if he broke down. Not touching the twin part So what would Einstein consider a survival pack? Nice, our professor has hidden depths Hamid re:The mobile stones "they rock" We have a plan! ~ So does the paladin thing outweigh the goblin thing? Or is my boy about to get shot? Love it, you can spot the temple of Artemis by the arrow slits Cicero? Is a wanted man? Sasha uses her sign language to play charades with the Artemis guy. Lydia makes her case for it well. Of course the episode ends with an explosion and screaming Lydia sounds betrayed that this is the end of the recording session so she doesn't get to know what it was either. Thank you for that ending speech, Bryn. Might be more effective if you didn't sound so fond. Guess who stabs Cesar? I adore Lydia PS: Grizzop was right to tell Sasha what Eldarian did as soon as possible; letting her draw her own conclusions only to yank the rug out from under her latter would be worse. This does not change who Eldarian was. People like Eldarian often think that even their worst abuses are acts of love, even after being shown the harm it does their charges. Saying "this is for your own good" before you kick a puppy doesn't make you less of a puppy kicker. A grand act of self sacrifice appeals to the need to control the narrative.

[plasticcyborg]

started the next ep

alex i’m going to fly to london specifically to punch you in the face

just finished rqg 66

[sasha-whos-askin-racket]

Thinking about Sasha saying that Brock is the only person in the world that would ever miss her versus everyone’s reactions after Rome.

[youaremysunshine-court]

I literally can't breathe right now THEY'RE ALIVE THEY'RE ALIVE OH THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU OH MY I WAS SO WORRIED I CAN BREATHE AGAIN

[radiantmists]

I had actually forgotten about the time travel.

[of-void-and-stars]

After over six months it is finally done, my Rusty Quill Gaming quotes crochet blanket! >:D

This blanket is part of the book Look Out! Lots of Magnificent Gifts! by The Ones Who Got Away. A fan project as a love letter and thank you to the actual play podcast Rusty Quill Gaming and the people who made it possible. Link in the reblog! (As y’know, tumblr tends to eat posts with links)

ID: A solid granny square crochet blanket representing the entire main campaign of Rusty Quill Gaming, including Ancient Rome. The blanket consists of 20 x 23 squares in various colours. Each episode is represented by a coloured square with, for about half of the episodes, a quote from that episode embroidered on it. There are more quotes near the top than near the bottom. The RQG logo is in the center, and there are blue veins starting lightly at the top middle, branching across the blanket, and spreading out and crossing over one another towards the bottom, getting densest at the bottom right. End ID

Detailed description below the cut!

ID: A solid granny square crochet blanket representing the entire main campaign of Rusty Quill Gaming, including Ancient Rome. The blanket consists of 20 x 23 squares in various colours, forming a rectangle of roughly 160cm wide and 180cm tall, or approximately 5ft by 6ft. Each episode is represented, from left to right, top to bottom, by a square coloured after events from that episode and, for about half of the episodes, with a quote from that episode embroidered on it. There are more quotes near the top than near the bottom. Next to each episode, both horizontally and vertically, is a filler square. Filler squares are either white, light grey, or black, and form diagonals from top left to bottom right of that filler colour. In the center of the blanket is the RQG logo embroidered on a larger square consisting of 4 x 4 black squares. The logo consists of a gear, banner, microphone, quill, and twenty sided die with the text Rusty Quill Gaming over various parts of it. Between each of the squares is a small white border. The exceptions are the squares forming the logo, which are attached with black, and episode 50 (the Mr. Ceiling simulation) which has an aqua border. Deep blue veins run across the blanket through plot significant episodes. They start on episode 7, when the party retrieves the simulacrum from the sewer, moves on to episode 40, when they first hear about the riots. From there it splits into two strands running down towards episode 120 but stopping at it’s border, this is where Grizzop starts getting the Hephaestus lot to build the killswitch, and running towards 108, when they get news the riots have spread. From 108 one branch spreads to 126, the other two spread into season four. From episode 126, when the 18 months have past and the veins are everywhere, it spreads to the rest of season four, passing through every episode square aside from the Ancient Rome episodes, and the first of two brainy pink Shoin episodes. The second brainy pink Shoin episode however, is covered in copious amounts of blue veins. One strand of blue veins enters the square, therein multiplying to fill it almost entirely, none of the strands leave the square. Episode 181, when the party reaches the Garden of Yerlik, is also a super spreader, with veins spreading from it in every direction. Towards the finale episodes, the bottom right of the blanket, the veins increase in number and start crossing one another, filling up more of the available space until finally they form an almost solid blue edge around episode 218 and the bottom right filler square, which they can’t seem to enter. Most episodes are a solid colour, and most quotes are either black or white, but there are a few exceptions. There are three multi coloured squares in the second airship arc, representing the Aurora Borealis, Azu!Hamid’s purple and pink suit dress, and the colour changes to all mundane items as a result of passing through the Aurora Borealis a second time. The quote for episode 174, the airship crash, is red on white, representing blood in snow. The quote for 178 contains a colour switch in the quote to indicate a different speaker, and 179 contains three overlapping quotes in different colours. End ID