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eleanor-is-fine · 2 months ago
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RQG 149 The Machinery of Evil
Shoin’s diary. His journey from sanity, transcendence to expanded consciousness, to brorb
There’s a cave network. Labor problem solved (kobolds)
“Why have a meat body at all? Pain is so distracting!” Hashtag relatable
Diary talks about Shoin running his dungeon. One of the party members was infected - the cleric.* Shoin caught it - fearful - finds a way to stop it (separating his brain hemispheres)
End of diary devolves into drawings and nonsense
*Cleric of Hephaestus… connect to Grizzop in Damascus, connect to simulacrum
…maybe the Hephaestus refusal was because they were in cahoots with Shoin? Or they hid it to keep it away from Shoin?
Kraken lore.
Skraak has fixed the lift under the table but is nowhere to be seen. They go down.
Skraak stops talking, much less singing his cheery Skraak ditty. Azu puts him around her shoulders - a Skaarf !
They enter a giant cavern… so many eyes (Cel wonders if the eyes are attached to faces, much to everyone’s horror). Prison cells. Kobolds with glowing green eyes. So many. Same green as monster fluid. The ones walking around are blank, may as well be unconscious.
Through a door/metal hatch into a corridor. “Close the door on the nightmare cavern.”
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loverboybrightsideghost · 11 months ago
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i forgot quite how many avengers references there are in rqg
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rustyelias · 1 year ago
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runs in here I am urhshdhzudn
THIS MOTHER FUCKING SONG IS SO RQG WILDE!!! it's literally him!!! I cant explain it it just is!!!
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ghostbiie · 1 year ago
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eleanor-is-fine · 1 year ago
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This is the scene where I fell for Carter. It also fanned my “what if Barnes & Carter?” flames
I want sadness, give me the angstiest doodle you can think of (if u want to, thank u and I love ur art!!) anyone you want, just break my heart
this might not be what you were going for but do you ever think about that time carter played solitaire in the corner by himself and then slept on the stairs and then also got stepped on and how not one of the people around him like him very much and how nobody has ever been happy to see him?
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just-an-enby-lemon · 2 months ago
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I'm obcessed with the idea of Wilde writing the RQG version of his fairytales for the party.
Of a quiet day in Japan where there is just nothing to do. It is the worst rain yet and they can't do a thing. Zolf is stress baking, Barnes is pretending to read and Carter is stir crazy. No one knows what to do about it because Carter is more bored than usual and Wilde goes "if you are behaving like a kid" but instead of berrating him as usual he just decides to make up a story to distract Carter. And what once would be a version of the Happy Prince starts. At first Carter is very annoying but they are all sadly listening by the end.
Of Hamid getting into a some personal question Wilde does not want to answer - maybe about Zolf, more likely about magic or the scar - and Wilde trying to invent an unrelated story to change the subject. Hamid does not like the prototype of The Devoted Friend but he is happy Wilde is having fun.
Of Wilde and Zolf', after all is done, going to visit Azu's childrem. Of Zolf unthinkingly offering to babysit. Of the early panick of being suddently alone and responsable for the babies fading away as Zolf watches amused and deeply amazed as Wilde distracts them with The Selfish Giant (sans christianity).
Of Wilde having absolutly no idea how to confort Cel after finding them alone in the guest room morning Barnes and deciding to just distract them with something silly and having mixed sucess with The Nightingale and the Rose.
Of Azu mentioning how well the baby-sitting went to Skraak and Wilde and Zolf panicking as Skraak drops a group of kobold kids that were touring in the UK and only speak in draconic (a language neither of them speak) and japonese (a language that only Wilde is fluent). And Wilde doing his only funcional trick and telling them The Remarkable Rocket. Wilde keeps making a Bertie imitation when doing the Rocket wich makes the experience very enjoyable for Zolf. (The kids like the voices).
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incorrect-rqg · 1 year ago
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Okay my intent here is not to start drama in the rqg fandom in 2024 because I love this community and frankly it's not that deep, but there's something I just wanna talk about for a sec.
I've seen the sentiment around lately that the party is unnecessarily cruel to Wilde - from the Prague arc all the way up to Damascus or even Japan - and that this specifically contributes to Wilde's guardedness and unwillingness to be emotionally open with the party throughout the show. That he goes "oh, you want me to be the snarky punching bag with no feelings? Then that's what I'll be."
While this is a sentiment I generally agree with, I take some issue with the idea that the party - Grizzop specifically - is mean to Wilde for "no reason".
Grizzop has a very good reason to dislike being around Wilde, which he expresses on numerous occasions - Wilde's lack of respect for Grizzop's personhood and his use of condescending and demeaning language.
While Wilde never actually calls Grizzop "It" like he'd later claim (just a result of long gaps between sessions and Ben being a human being with imperfect memory), he does call him "this one" and generally treat him in a dismissive and condescending way, even after being told to stop numerous times.
Now, I've seen the argument that this is kind of just how Wilde talks to everyone. That's just who he is, especially in earlier arcs. This isn't entirely untrue, but that doesn't change the fact that like... Grizzop is a goblin (in the RQGverse a minority race with a history of oppression), who has been the target of this kind of language and attitude from humans his entire life. He's entirely warranted in being upset at being treated this way. Wilde doesn't ever really give Grizzop any reason to like him, and frankly Grizzop doesn't owe Wilde jack shit.
Another scenario is the iconic moment where Grizzop punches Wilde in the dick. I made a post about this a couple days ago while Very High and then forgot to delete it in the morning so it's just up now. But I've seen a couple comments (on the post and elsewhere) being like "poor Wilde :(" or "he didn't deserve that" and like... He kinda did? He was being antagonistic and negging Sasha, deliberately trying to make her feel worse about her upcoming Risky Medical Procedure. Even if it was just him being silly that's still a pretty shitty thing to do. You can argue that Grizzop went overboard with the physical violence, but arguing that it wasn't at all warranted doesn't make sense to me.
I love Wilde as much as the next rqg fan. He's probably my favourite character, maybe behind Sasha. But in order to appreciate the extent of his character growth it's important to recognize situations where yeah, he was being shitty and antagonistic.
And, even in a scenario as silly and fantastical as this, I still think it's important to not brush off the experiences of a marginalized person who says they're a target of discriminatory language, even if the perpetrator is someone you like. Wilde is white, and charming, and wealthy, and in a position of power over Grizzop as his handler and as a government representative. He is not the victim in this situation.
Again, very much not looking to start shit here, especially because "aw, poor Wilde :(" is definitely a thought I've had while listening to early RQG. This is just something I've been thinking about a lot during my current relisten and wanted to share with you guys.
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crustaceousfaggot · 11 months ago
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Relistening to the RQG Cairo arc right now and I have never thought about it from this angle before but holy shit Saira is going through so much??
Like imagine this. You're just going about your business when suddenly, communication, technology and transport all over the world stop working. Less than two weeks later, you hear that your sister has been killed by a wizard. It's all over the news, and apparently your brother was there too? And the wizard cursed him? You don't know if he's okay, and you can't even contact him because all the modern communication systems are down. But like two days later, he just shows up in Cairo with no announcement and doesn't even explain how he got there. He has some friends with him who immediately get drunk and damage the magical mural on the ceiling. Within the span of the next two days, you find out that he got kicked out of university, that your other brother broke into your family's bank and killed someone, that your father is taking the fall for him, that your brother didn't actually kill someone but did break into the bank and is now turning himself in to the police. Oh, and also there's an ancient tomb underneath the bank and it's full of traps. But you have no time to process this, because two of your family members have been arrested and another one has died while you have to basically run the entire family business while also still doing your normal job as a dragon's assistant. And that's not all! Apparently, you are actually descended from the dragon that you work for. Your brother and his friends want to talk to him because one of them is undead?? And your brother has inherited magical powers from the dragon. And so have your even younger brothers, apparently.
Eventually, your brother leaves again, as suddenly as he came. You think you can finally get a moment to breathe and get used to the new situation, but then, your other little brother is kidnapped. And your adventuring brother disappears as well. And then an old German guy shows up and tells you they're in a temporal rift in Rome?? You don't even have much time to worry about them, because suddenly, people are becoming infected with blue veins and betraying their loved ones. Your former home is now the headquarters for the rebellion, who you think also want to bring down the dragons you once worked for? Your brothers show up again after 18 months, but they haven't aged at all, and they've picked up a gnome, a goblin, and a paladin along the way. The older brother disappears pretty much as soon as he arrived - he's off to Japan now. A few weeks later, the abnormal storms that have been sweeping through Egypt suddenly stop. And then, a month or so later, it all stops. The blue veins. Magic. The Meritocracy. And your little brother was at the centre of all of this from the beginning.
What the actual fuck?
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utilitycaster · 11 months ago
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Sorry to keep asking you about RQG but I like your meta and it's been a while since it's finished, so there's not as much going on with it.
What did you think about the characters and the party dynamics through the different parties? They had a fair bit of inter-party conflict that I think resolved in ways of "we are just not going to get along so let's move on" and I think that's interestingly something we don't see a lot (more recent ex: BH's continually coming into conflict about if the Vanguard was maybe right when Imogen is/was deciding if she could trust her mom even after half the party had been killed by them and orym's previous history with them not really resolving).
I remember even less, tbh, of RQG than NADDPod but I agree. I think this is partially just because Ben Meredith is a player who had ZERO fear of conflict and Zolf was a grumpy and often harsh guy but also an insightful one; and Grizzop was similarly somewhat unyielding as a paladin but necessarily charismatic and dedicated to working together. There was also Sasha, who was very standoffish for valid reasons but hard to bring into a fold; and Bertie, who was an asshole. This is great, and more parties should be like this. I think it's important to have people like Hamid and Azu who are super warm and dedicated to creating a found family but I think, as someone who is quite sensitive to overfamiliar gestures it's actually really enjoyable to have D&D parties that are more like coworkers. I enjoy a good tightly bound family-like party like the Nein, but not every dynamic needs to be like that! (And RQG did ultimately end up with very familial relationships because saving the world together will do it, but man it was coworkers until like, Japan, honestly). I think Bells Hells is obviously somewhere in between these two positions and I also think this works better with smaller parties to be fair but yeah, I think it would be healthier if they were a little bit more willing to say "we will never agree on this but we agree on our larger goal so let's do this". Don't force a friendship! it strips the threading of the metaphorical screws and it never quite hangs right.
For another dynamic a little like this, also in PF1e, I recommend Burnt Cookbook Party. The players are friends but the characters are like well we are stuck together but there's some mistrust.
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eleanor-is-fine · 7 months ago
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RQG 121 Contact
Setup for Japan arc in this episode, including the Shoin Institute and local geography, plus the device that “the Hephaestus lot” is working on… gosh, if only I’d been taking notes the first time through.
Wilde’s ankle cuffs 😢
What, Harlequins here?
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saveandreset · 11 months ago
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I'm trying to do an RQG relisten, I'm on ep 26 I predict a riot, but I keep jumping to the post-japan times, this is fine.
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ssunfl-wers · 4 months ago
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thanks for the tag!!
Last song: Quiver by Lonas (I was organising my playlist of music recommendations from other people)(thanks Anna)
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hellichk · 3 years ago
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The backgrounds i did for @raspberryhell 's RQG anime OP parody, Trust Me!!!
This was a blast to do, so so happy I got to work with them!!
You can watch it on their tumblr and also on youtube!
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hikariposts · 3 years ago
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4/4 The endgame party is here! Don't get me wrong, I adore and love Zolf and Cel, but removing Sasha and Grizzop from the picture in one go was OH SO PAINFUL
Stay tuned for the video of the complete party’s evolution! (including another version of the endgame party I added just because I wanted an excuse to draw Hamid with wings)
Party’s evolution: [1] [2] [3] [4] [complete evolution video] (tap on the pic for high quality and please do not repost without permission)
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just-an-enby-lemon · 8 months ago
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RQG Characthers and If They Comit Tax Evasion
*PCs*
Hamid -> he thinks he doesn't but he actually does (he trusts his family to do his taxes for him and they just don't cause they are Al Tahains and don't need to)
Sasha -> does not know what taxes are/ still doesn't pay them after learning
Zolf -> people that are part of the cults don't need to pay taxes, that being said after he lefts the Poseidon lot he still does not pay his taxes
Bertie -> hajahahahahahahahaha wait are you serius? Yes! He totally comits tax evasion, he also thinks poor people should pay HIM taxes actually, if pressed will defend feudalism
Grizzop -> No. He doesn't pay taxes but is because the sweet paladin fiscal benefits and still pays a fee to the Artemis lot.
Azu -> No. She doesn't need to pay taxes as a paladin but she comits tax fraud so she can keep paying them.
Cel -> No. They did it for a long time but they don't feel the need to in Japan.
*Some NPCs*
Harlequinns -> Since the taxes are for the Meritocracy no Harlequinn pays them. The Prague ones are in a more complicated spot where they do pay some taxes to keep their position and mostly just commit tax fraud. Einstein likes finding fun ways to do it.
Wilde -> No. He really can't when working that close to the Meritocracy. He also does his coworkers taxes part of it is his workaholic will accept any work tendendices but mostly is so he can spy on people's financial information and collect favors. He did more than once used his position to make someone comitt tax fraud and than gets them in trouble for it (an ex, an enemy, someone he wanted out of the office).
Carter -> Absolutly. 100%
Barnes -> No. He is a good boi.
The Al Tahans -> yup, they also have a lot of financial benefits both because they are bank owners and just for Apophis nepotism style of things.
Kiko -> Yes but not always she sees not getting caught by "dragon IDF" a challenge and Earhart fully incentivizes it.
The Kobolds -> They are all together here because I don't think Kobold society belives in money at all. When they stabelish a goverment they share a part of their inventions and all their resources but it's not really taxes.
Barret -> Yes. Not only that but is very likely that Barret was in fact being paid with people's tax money because of Meritocratic corruption.
Eddie -> also doesn't know what taxes are but for a very different reason, would pay them if he learned. Is tecnically not a crime cause he has paladin imunity and his parents pay his Apollo's fee.
Tjelvar -> No. He is always in his best behavior so he can gather the most financial support for his research and most of meritocratic programs say you have to have a clean criminal record.
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