#rqg prague

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Bertie in RQG 64

[eleanor-is-fine]

RQG 68 Funky to Funk

Back to the action in Prague!

The idea is born for a campaign with just Ben’s characters - spoiler, it happens

Paladin Grizzop 💚

[indigospyder]

Gonna be so real: I adore the RQG characters so much BECAUSE they are flawed to hell and back. And I don’t mean “oh they’re all murderers!” No, I mean Zolf is a hardass. Hamid started out as a coward. Grizzop is utilitarian to a fault. Sasha can’t trust farther than she can throw for a good long while. Honestly I started the podcast obsessed with Hamid and by the time we got to Egypt I realized I would have HATED him IRL. But that’s why I LOVE them so much; they’ve GROWN. Hamid is taking charge and pushing past what he grew up learning. Sasha learns to open up and trust her friends without hesitation. I’ve currently just got to the part where Azu gives Zolf a bit of a dressing down. And I LOVE it. I love characters who grow and are ALLOWED to grow. I love seeing the people around them help them grow, and the people from their past either struggle with or embrace the change. It’s SO GOOD.

Also hot take but Lillian gets way too much hate, as a Hamid lover I think he deserved that slap.

[angryducktimemachine]

Hey guess who listened to their favourite three Episodes again ✨

[ID: a digital, fully coloured drawing of Hamid in his baby dragon form from Rusty Quill Gaming.

He is a dragon like creature, without wings but with a dragon tail. His scales are brass and there's a spiral scar running around his left arm. He's also wearing green underpants with a lace rim.

His eyes are glowing yellow and he's making an arch with his back like a cat.

He's standing on a grey rooftop with a railing in the background and rain falling. /End ID]

[ducessaeva]

cool guys don’t look at expl-GUYS LOOK AT THAT IT’S REALLY COOL

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Sasha: Hey, Hamid, mate, you seem to know a lot 'bout magic stuff, so... uh... why isn't the statue smirking at me?

Hamid: Oh! You see, it isn't smirking at annyone, Sash, they are just imagining it.

Grizzop: Ey, three people saw it! Me included! How do you explain that?

Hamid, pointing at Wilde: Sleep derivation.

Hamid, poiting at Grizzop: Paranoia.

Hamid, poiting at Bertie: Delusional Personality Disorder.

[loverboybrightsideghost]

is earhart canonically she/they...

[miscreantahead]

The funny thing about Wilde is that he isn't really THAT bad until late season 2/season 3 when it feels like Alex went "everyone hates this guy I'm gonna validate that" and then even I want to kill him. From a narrative standpoint it looks like he had some time to think back on everything that happened in Paris and went 'oh gross I think Hamid and Sasha actually might have started to like me better double down on being annoying and rude as fuck.'

[utilitycaster]

Saw your answer to the TAZ arcs; would love to know your thought on the RQG arcs?

I truly do not know the RQG arc divisions. Basically I found everything pre-Paris to be a little slow though there was some good stuff in Dover; Paris was extremely upsetting (Mr. Ceiling happens to hit a number of things I Don't Like); Prague was good but sad and frustrating in parts; things started to take off in Cairo/Damascus and got awesome in Rome. Everything post-Rome was great until the last half of the last episode, roughly, though iirc Svalbard did get a little bit like "ok we did Shoin, I love a dungeon but like, wrap it up" and then the epilogues made me a little less annoyed at the ending.

[shejustcalledmeafish]

what have you done wrong? lets see - still hasn't finished warehouse 13, hasn't written the horrendous crack fix about john hart meeting david 7, hasnt heard the bifrost incident, cancelled coming to my city at the last minute, is still on the prague arc of RQG, wont admit that i'm a genius and the smartest prettiest greatest boy of all tim-*gunshot*

Dhdhdhd taking these accusations in turn

1. Yeah fair shhhh I’m incapable of finishing shows

2. I Started it but I am also incapable of finishing fics

3. Okay yeah fair

4. THAT WAS NOT MY FAULT

5. I’m on the last episode 😤

6. You are <3

Drink some fucking water vince

[shy-magpie]

RQG 162

Never tire of that theme tune. Wow they'll tease Alex over anything. Alex teases em right back though.

Nice, what was that night like? Potion of Grizzop!?! Okay that does sound cathartic, maybe this counts as her "pop" and she won't explode from not expressing her emotions.

Cel is so great, putting Azu in a good position and tucking her in.

Been hanging around the fic writers too long, is the rocking chair canon? Did Azu take it with her to Cairo? Did she have to leave it behind to join the party?

It was a good move by Bryn, and frankly what's the point of spelling out Hamid is that damn rich if he isn't going to cheerfully cover a few expenses. Yes I know mechanically he probably only had his starting 3 gold after the casino and what he earned as a party member, vs access to family money. His attitude towards coming into that kind of money and spending it after, will however, be largely down to having been raised that rich.

Perks ears up for Zolf & Earhardt talking.

Ben can be so Ben sometimes! Yes its in character for Zolf, but don't preemptively turn down backstory!

Oh Zolf is talking about working for the meritocrats with Earhardt

And need to stop at minute 13 because apparently I can't correctly guess when I'll have an uninterrupted couple of hours* for love or money.

Eh low charisma or not, clearing the air as directly as possible makes sense.

"I don't scream, I shoot people ..." great line

Zolf is a good firstmate: a bad one would cross his fingers that everyone would behave like adults, he is handling it proactively.

Oh dice time. Skraak can assist on the engineering and alchemy. Hamid assists with the arcana. Fly as the final customization.

Oh time to find out if they are going there or not with the elementals

And another break for me. Ever get suddenly hit by how much you like a character because they clear a bar which would be on the ground, in a better world? Zolf doesn't a trace of the usual macho bull re: deferring to the expertise of someone he out ranks. even listening to Cel over Earhardt should be simple logic; with Cel being a new subordinate and Earhardt out ranking him its good to hear. Too many characters seem to take it as a threat to their leadership when one of their team, especially of another gender, can do something better than them, even if the only reason they are on the team is as a specialist.

Bryn in with the science trivia.

Cel votes for 3, because 1 is risky if anything happens to it and 5 is scary in the explosion odds sense.

Zolf remembered Cel likes electricity and summoned 2 electric elementals & 1 air. Cel is thrilled.

They are deliberately not making the Avengers reference.

Earhardt wants a spiky ship? Did the dragon grapple?

Zolf spends his free time healing and spreading hope; either Azu, Helen, or both are inspired by this and do the same.

Hamid finished making cold weather gear for everyone. Wow everyone laughs him out of the room when he tries to find an alternate captain. 3 crew are easily hired.

Oh ouch Alex just rubbing in how every crew member trusts her reputation as a good & caring captain and how that is probably no longer true. Gosh I hope getting her deck under her feet helps bring her back to herself. Its how I would expect her to break after what we saw of her on the way to Prague, but that doesn't make it pretty or pleasant. Would pay to know when Alex decided she would be attacked by a dragon; if this was fated at the first meeting than he could have designed her to break like this rather than based how she'd break on who she was then.

Uncommunicative lot, because Alex keeps spawning NPCs we keep longer than expected.

Hamid uses Zolf's money to pay for the crew not his own or Earhardt's in an elegant power move. He might argue with Zolf but he never did undermine him. Flipside to Zolf always arguing the actual subject and occasionally pulling rank rather than "how dare a subordinate not be a yes man".

Azu pays for her own mess after all.

Official break time

I am having trouble imagining anyone who would trade this much character time for getting to the plot faster, especially if they've seen the crime that is Bab's official timeline. Having Cel get to actually get to know the team instead of trauma bonding is a treat. **

Ship reveal! Beautiful

So the whole 18 month crew is joining us

Hamid made Wilde's famous fur coat

Air ship is now a battleship

Aw Hamid starts clapping and Azu & Zolf join in

The ship is called "the vengeance"

After toying with us again re: refusing to actually make the Avengers joke, Ben name drops "End Game".

Zolf tells Barnes to be prepared to take over if Earhardt loses it

Oh dear, the Cohort has better reflexes than Skraak, Hamid and Cel.

Cel questions Earhardt's flying as she puts the ship through its paces.

Zolf is keeping his feet well considering how poor he flew last time

Zolf tells Earhardt to knock it off.

Cel questions Earhardt to her face.

Twice the speed of Earhardt's old ship.

Azu finds it very pretty

Cel is right and they should say it. Zolf backs them

Zolf reassures Cel they'll mutany if Earhardt pulls this again. Just me or dark echo of scaring Sasha?

The dice will decide how hot the new crew is. Bryn knows the fandom also needs race & gender

Alex is delegating

Oh Siggif the human isn't worth typing about (tabaco isn't a personality) but Fredrick the dwarf with a short beard and magically large arms has potential. Kiko is a tall good looking human woman in armor, 20ish.

Bryn made the Hamid can't listen to opera joke fandom has been criming since Prague. Also remembered to specify European opera, good man.

The GM givith the GM taketh away. Alex gives us a glorious shot but follows it up with being ominous

Huh James Barnes but if its an out take I don't think its canon canon.

Thank you to everyone having fun with their patreon shout outs.

*I pause to type a lot now. Used to listen without pause and leave enough of the thought to turn it into a sentence later. Between my inability to get a guaranteed 0 interuption hour and my concentration being shot seemed like the best way to avoid missing things. Fortunately it turns out these live blogs count as doing something else for ADHD purposes so I'm not having coming back from what was supposed to be a little side task to find out I missed huge chunks of the episode like I do with other shows. And don't tell me not to have a side task I can do the same thing pondering the implications of something I heard in show. To the tune of "The call is coming from inside the house" the distraction is coming from with in the brain. Fortunately getting enough of my other issues under control to start posting these things again.

**not that it was out of character or that I think they weren't as close as they appeared. Poor Sasha impressioned on Zolf like a duckling for being her first boss she could trust. Between his father and toxic friendships in school Hamid was only "better" because he learned the hard way not to let anyone direct him against his conscience. Grizzop always did move to fast and Azu tried to marry them within 24 hours. Aphrodite did not teach her to keep those she likes at arms length.

[incorrect-rqg]

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.

[indigospyder]

Me, early into Rusty Quill Gaming, playing around with the idea of a self insert character: oh haha yeah they’d get along really well with the gang!

Me 100 episodes in:

[iwannarunawayandbeapirate]

thank you so much! i probably don't have anything particularly interesting to say but here we go...

Last Song: sound and vision by david bowie

Currently Watching: the witcher season 3 (i'm at episode 4 atm

Currently Reading: i haven't had many books to read recently because i haven't been to the library in a while unfortunately. i read a bit of Die Känguru-Chroniken today if that counts? but it's a book i've read before so idk... other than that i've mainly been reading taz fanfic.

Current Obsession: i am once again listening to rqg (for the third time). just finished season 1 and i am very excited for prague (grizzop shows up! bertie dies! little dragon create hamid!!!). one of the pros of having a long way to school is that i get to listen to 2 episodes a day in a period of time where i'd otherwise do nothing.

ok so. who would i like to get to know better? well, anyone who wants to is welcome to do this, but i'm gonna tag @shutupeiffel @the-endless-void-of-space and @sirdoctoroftardis (i wanna know what you've been up to recently)

thanks again for tagging me! last time time this happened i was still on wattpad lmao

Tag nine (9) people you’d like to know better

Tagged by

@teddy-after-all whom I think of with tremendous fondness always

Last Song: The Worst Person Alive by nb icon G Flip, whom my bf introduced me to and I love!!!

Currently Watching: 7/10 episodes of The Terror (2018). Frankie and I are alternating between S2 of The Bear and S1 of Boardwalk Empire for when The Bear hits too close (he’s an ex line cook and it’s Too Real sometimes lol ;_; )

Currently Reading: On kindle (checked out of the library through Libby!!): The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur, which is about a Korean girl during the early Joseon period investigating the presumed murder of her father and the mysterious disappearance of 13 girls from her hometown. Audiobook: The Crown Tower by Michael J Sullivan about two thieves teaming up to do a job and finding themselves in over their heads.

Current Obsession: ummmm I’m sorry @septembriseur for reblogging the entirety of your Terror tag but I cant stop thinking about it

tagging @perditious @redrockbutch @somanyofthekids @captainkaltar @bluemoonrabbit @cremblr @skarabrae-stone @allotmententhusiast @septembriseur

[hellichk]

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!