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@quiddie so⌠they murdered that cauldron to take her magic didnât they?
#the SENTIENT cauldron#the second b2 was like yall still have your wands?#i turned around and said to my partner they stealing all their shit#this is a andes situation they are cannibalizing magic#and for once i was RIGHT#the fucking horror of it aabria i love you#dimension 20#misfits and magic#maybe shouldnt be bothering before i watch the adventuring party#i apologize im very behind
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I will say the one thing I did not expect when the vod released on Monday was for the Ashton takes to swing in the OPPOSITE direction.
And while I definitely agree that some of the initial reactions after ep 77 & 78 ranged from concerning to just plain bad (harsh but some of them were genuinely bonkers; sending hate to Tal, painting characters as straight up abusive and manipulative, referencing one of the playerâs irl trauma), the new wave of âAshton did nothing wrongâ isnât exactly much better.
By their own admission, they fucked up. BIG TIME. They disregarded all the warnings and made a big decision without the rest of the groupâs knowledge. And not only that, but he actively hides it from them. They have every right to be upset. And when youâve just experienced a minute of watching helplessly as your friend rapidly loses and regains consciousness, has his arm fall off, and literally bursts into a million pieces right in front of you, it makes sense that youâd react pretty negatively. And while many of the things the Hells told Ashton were harsh, they werenât completely unfounded.
Has Ashton shown to care about FCG and their well-being multiple times over the course of the campaign? Yes, absolutely. So when you look at their conversation from Ashtonâs perspective, of course FCG accusing him of caring about no one would hurt. Of course, because, when asked to name at least one person, there was no hesitation when he said âyou [FCG]â.
But when you look at it from FCGâs perspective, itâs a different story:
He was there when they were all given the warnings about the shard. He was there when, over and over and over again, they were told putting two shards within the same body, especially Ashtonâs body which already holds two beings (the empress and the half-beacon), would sunder that body. And he was also there when it was decided the shard would go to Fearne, not Ashton.
So, with only that information and having no way of knowing any conversations between Fearne and Ashton (where she says she doesnât want it, where Ashton says he does, and they decide Ashton will receive it instead), when they walk up the steps of the ziggurat and see Ashton, their friend, glowing and falling apart in immense agony, of course the only things they would feel in the moment are horror and confusion.
And after a minute of desperately trying to keep them alive, of burning his hands on their sweltering skin just to pump in enough health points to keep them standing, because, if he doesnât, if he fails, Ashton will die with no way of bringing them back, of course FCG would feel hurt.
And not just hurt, but betrayed, because who does that?!
Who puts everyone who cares about them through that? Who looks at every warning and completely disregards them, and then LAUGHS after theyâve just forced their friends to watch as they nearly killed themselves?
The answer, at least to FCG, is no one; no one who cares about their friends would do that to them, so the only conclusion he can come to in a moment wrought with such intense emotion and turmoil is that Ashton clearly doesnât care.
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Basically what Iâm trying to say is, the Hells are allowed to be upset. They are allowed to express that they are upset. And Ashton, for as much as I love his character and understand the events that led to this major fuck up moment, is just gonna have to take it.
They shouldnât be punished by any means because they are still a deeply hurt and sad person, but they shouldnât be completely excused either. What they did was extremely stupid, and the ONLY thing that kept them alive and kept the Hells from losing him, was the love from their friends and probably the luckiest ring trade ever made (long live Aabria).
And yes, the Hells are being hypocrites, theyâre all either on similar paths of self-destruction or enabling them, but almost losing Ashton has clearly started to open their eyes. Hopefully the retreat allows them all to process and decompress in order to address that hypocrisy with clearer heads! But for now, itâs just gonna be the initial anger.
#ashton greymoore#critical role#critical role spoilers#fcg#this was way longer than intended#but hopefully makes sense??#maybe??#i dont want to step on toes but MAN was i seeing some bad takes#love Ashton very dearly but hes a dummy#and thats okay!#love them regardless
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CR3 92 -- A list. Spoilers? I guess.
So I normally watch the first hour or so of CR and then go to bed, because time zone and work in the morning, but of course, I had to watch ALL of it last week and by the end, I was so sleepy that I vowed to rewatch it on Friday. Then my dog got into a fight with a raccoon, and we ended up at the emergency vet at 2am (he's fine now). I realized I hadn't finished watching Kymal, so I had to go watch that, and I didn't get back to rewatching the ep until yesterday/today.
1. The growth of Aimee fucking Carrero as a player. Love it so much.
2. Aabria Iyengar is perfect. No notes needed.
3. Itâs so fun to watch Matt be one part tactician 2 parts himbo.
4. Robbie is absolutely coming back to the main table. He said Dorian feels like he needs a purpose, but heâs the only Crownkeeper who isnât favored by a god.
5. Betrayed God Champion one shot. Go go. They could be Exandria's Suicide Squad.
6. I need someone, not me, I've got shit to do, to chart out the timelines for the last IDK two months game time?
7. WHAT IF BH GOES TO AEOR AND POPS A BUBBLE AND THAT IS SAM'S NEW CHARACTER????? That's just a thought I had.
8. M9 one shot in Aeor please or just have half the table play M9 and half the table play BH. I want Caleb and Beau involved in taking down Luddy.
9. Alternately, BH could go meet HotBoi!Essek.
10. ALSO WHAT IS THIS LUXEN BULLSHIT THAT YOU JUST DROPPED AABRIA? Please elaborate.
11. Did Opal's mom know Vex and Vax?
12. Is Opal Ruidus born?
13. Are all of the PCs on the excult/exfundie side of Tiktok or what?
14. How many cults are we up to now? We've got the 420 Hive Mind in Bassuras, Ruidian stuff, Assholes who thought it would be a good idea to put a piece of a primordial entity into a child, and now Third Secret Option Luxon.
15. Ash, Imogene, and Opal need to form the "Children of Deadbeat Parents who went and got involved in a cult and caused their children a lot of heartache" support group.
I love me some comic horror, but is it next Thursday yet?
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Are you still doing d20 hot takes? These are admittedly lukewarm (some salsa that everyone at the table can enjoy).
1) I watch for the character arcs/development, not the story, so I really enjoyed Neverafter.
2) Both campaigns set in Calorum have been really hard to get into, even though theyâre really good. But I also donât like GoT so maybe thatâs on me.
3) Hard agree with everyone who said they donât really want sequel campaigns. I would, however, be down for the odd one shot a la holiday MisMag or Boysâ Night.
4) Coffin Run is so slept on, itâs not even funny. Jasmineâs props, the letters, the Dracula wings lighting, gorgeous sets & minis, incredible RP all around, great bits, all the campy horror movie references⌠Truly one of my faves.
5) I really wanna see Aabria or another guest DM do a full length/over 10 eps season. I feel like Aabriaâs DM style would do well with a few more eps so she can explore more. And it would just be nice to hang out with a guest DM a bit more.
6) Confession: Never finished UC2 or Pirates =< UC2 was hard to pick up with less likeable characters (to me) + feeling like Chap 1 wrapped up so nicely + Iâm bad with interpersonal conflict. And then I never got past the start of ep 1 of Pirates cause bad British accents is my pet peeve and B Daveâs character was first introduced đ
oh i'm ALWAYS here for d20 hot takes. (god i love sam says that was so fucking funny, especially because what lou then gave was the most mild gossip i've ever heard)
1- completely valid. and to a large extent, i do too- i did ultimately enjoy the season, primarily because i love the characters so much.
2- skill issue. calorum campaigns slay absolute penis. (for real though totally fair, they're not for everyone. but i do think it's interesting in conjunction with watching for character arcs/development, bc i think acoc in particular is one of the best with that)
3- ooh yes one-shots are a different thing entirely, always a fun time.
4- coffin run FUCKS. my favorite non-intrepid heroes campaign, and it's only acofaf that comes sort of close. everyone needs to watch it, and if they've already watched it and don't appreciate it, they should try again. i could talk forever about it and how great it is.
5- yes. a million times yes please give us 20 episodes with aabria gming i'm begging. and in general yeah i'd love to see a guest dm have more time and space to flex. (except mercer please no more mercer in the dome)
6- i feel you. it took me a long time to get through tuc 2, this is a cody walsh hate account (half joking). and it took 3 attempts to get through pirates as well. honestly what got me through it was myrtle, cheese, and the little bit of garthy that we got. i found the other characters kinda annoying, big same on that accent, bob's was grating, too.
#dimension 20#neverafter#coffin run#aabria iyengar#tuc 2#pirates of leviathan#a crown of candy#the ravening war
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holy fuck, burrows end episode 2 was fantastic and also aabria? rick? can i have a word???
SO good. the mind-blowing battle map, the character interactions, the everything?????? holy shit. holy shit.
(heads up: if you haven't heard, they were not kidding about the body horror/gore. i really loved it, but it is very VERY extreme.)
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What season of Dimension 20 should a noob start with I want to understand what the FUCK you're talking about
oooooooo yes, welcome, come on in, were all fucking weird here!
get ready to have Extreme Feelings about one (1) loud, white man
but also, you can kinda start wherever you want? i haven't even watch every single season, anyway. here's the seasons, out of airing order, probably
fantasy high - the original, the og. teens in fantasy high school, having hijinks and saving the world. honestly, if there's like an established place to start, this is it. there's a second season, and a couple of live shows that are so fucking fun. griffin mcelroy's live ep is fucking WILD, i love ficus
pirates of leviathan - fantasy high adjacent, post fh season 2. i didn't actually finish this one. i dont remember why. i dont super have a strong attachment to fh season 2, so the setting for this one just didn't interest me, but it's pirates having hijinks on a floating pirate city
unsleeping city 1 & 2 - urban fantasy weirdness, urban fantasy fun times. the magical world that lives beneath and alongside the new york we all know. like fables, maybe, but more fantasy archetypes than folklore. really fun, really enjoyable, i have no memory of season two but i know i watched it
the seven - another fh spinoff, but a little more tied into the first season. a fantasy party of all the people they spent season one trying to save. it is SO FUCKING FUNNY, and SO FUCKING GAMEPLAY CRUNCHY, and I CRIED SO FUCKING HARD. need some emotional healing? exquisite. i miiiight suggest watching fh first, just to understand who they are, but also you don't *need* to
tiny heist - borrowers and fairies and thug bugs and living toys, trying to run a heist. so goddamn fun. highly, highly recommend. i love a fuckin heist. its the mcelroy family season, so if you like them you can look forward to that. just mcelroy is just. he's fucking batshit.
a crown of candy - game of thrones ass campaign, but the characters and kingdoms are all based on the different food groups. for real and honest, this season didn't hit me and i didn't finish it. but i do enjoy compilations of it on youtube
the ravening war - crown of candy spin off. i also didn't watch this at all, but it has cr's matt mercer as the guest gm, and im sure he's a great guy and all, but i just don't vibe with his dm style. deffo the least amount of levity of all the seasons, i think
mice & murder - a sherlock holmes, agatha christie ass murder mystery where everyone is in the house trying to solve the murder. also everyone is woodland creatures. another highly recommend if you're into murder mysteries like that
escape from the bloodkeep - what if lotr was told from the baddies pov. it's so stupid, so silly, so much fun. highly recommend
shriek week - monsters on their final week of college. despite my love of guest gm, gabe hicks, this season just Did Not Hit Me. not even ify nwadiwe could hold me
misfits and magic - hogwarts ass magic school for little wizards, but without the transphobia and racism. need some kids upsetting an unjust society based on classism? this for you. so, so good! guest gm aabria iyengar, she fucking knocks it out of the park. there's also a christmas episodes and a live show with a different cast
a starstruck odyssey - did you know that brennan lee mulligans mom elaine wrote the comic starstruck? this season is based on the comic and its very fucking fun! scifi shenanigans out the ass
neverafter - horror themed season, about macabre fairytale characters and the enduring nature of stories. it took me a bit to get into this season, but it's so good! you gotta like horror, tho. that's important to remember. it's a dark season
coffin run - draculas followers try to get an injured dracula back to the castle before his enemies catch up. sooooooo so so fucking funny, one of my favorite seasons. guest gm jasmine bhullar kills it. absolutely unfuckinghinged season
a court of fey and flowers - EASILY my favorite, second favorite season. aabria is back, the fey are having a party, someone is trying to do something terrible, they need to navigate jane austen era ass court politics to figure it out. so, so fucking stupid and fun
dungeons & drag queens - i havent finished this season, cuz i got Depressed As Shit earlier this year and just couldn't, but im about to jump back in. honestly, the plot doesn't matter, it's monet x change, alaska thunderfuck, jujubee and bob the drag queen. do you need to know anything else? no, you don't
mentopolis - the current season. a good place to start it you don't want to binge anything, as only one episode is out. it's a noir detective mystery taking place within the brain of a scientist and is already climbing the ranks of my favorite seasons
godspeed, you little nerd. go forth and have fun
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Fantasy High- the og campaign with the og cast. Many of them do not really know how to play dnd well, so its good for learning abt the game with pretty low stakes. Its like your classic high school funny sitcom, except its magic and in dnd. Extremely fun, very relatable, great mixture of story elements and mystery elements and combat.
Bloodkeep: fun little villainous sidequest. Much shorter than FH. Very funny with more CH members. Ive never really gotten too into its story personally but its still good.
FH sophomore year: WATCH THE FIRST FH FIRST. YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING IF YOU DONT
The Unsleeping City: a fucking masterpiece. Goes a lot more into dnd mechanics so it is a bit less beginner friendly. OG cast. Amazing characters, story, combat, and lore. Its set in NYC but theres magic. Very funny but also very emotional.
Tiny Heist: sidequest with a new cast (special guests the Mcelroys). Very short, very funny, less lore based but still very good story, its kinda toy story esque but much cooler.
A crown of candy: FUCKING WILD. Back to the OGs. Very long, EXTREMELY lore heavy and extremely angsty. Just be aware. Insane world building and really cool use of dnd mechanics in a setting where everything is food. Only watch this when youre mentally and emotionally prepared for it. Still funny tho
Pirates of Leviathan: dont watch before you finish FH sophomore year. Its a sidequest in the FH universe with some spoilers and lore that you wont rly understand til you watch it
Mice and murder: another one that i actually havent finished cuz i couldnt get into it but chill lil sidequest w a lot of mystery
Misfits and Magic: i love this one. Its the first campaign that Aabria DMs and i adore her. Also you get Brennan as a PC. Its the first campaign to have ab adventuring party talkback show after each episode so you gotta watch that too. Only like 4 episodes and its really funny and rly cool (its based on harry potter but its mostly just making fun of it. Also its not traditional dnd 5e mechanics)
The Seven: hear me when i say its truly my fave campaign. YOU MUST WATCH FANTASY HIGH SEASON 1 BEFORE IT. Set in the FH universe, all women except for brennan, definitely the funniest and horniest campaign ever.
Shriek Week: short lil campaign with non traditional dnd mechanics. Very funny, great if youre a horror nut but also like college stories
Starstruck: up there in terms of favorite seasons. Back w the OGs. Set in space and the villain is so flagrantly capitalism. Incredible sci fi vibes but also like 80s vibes. Incredible characters, really cool added mechanics, hilarious.
Coffin Run: another incredible campaign with altered mechanics. Perfect if you like horror, also IZZY ROLAND IS MY FAVORITE DND PLAYER EVER
ACOFAF: another brilliant Aabria campaign. Its beautiful. Its regency so if ur not into that maybe skip it. Its so hilarious tho and every character is so fucking incredible
Neverafter: a masterpiece. Back w the ogs. Prolly dont watch this one first because the mystery elements are SO hardcore and the interwoven lore is kinda hard to follow if youre not used to brennans storytelling
The ravening war: guest dm whoopieeee also dont watch this till after ACOC
Dungeons and Drag Queens: great standalone series but i just couldnt get into it personally
Mentopolis: love it but again, brennans insane storytelling so you have to fet used to it. Also HANK GREEN
Burrows end: holy fuck. Aabria. This one is also a lot but its so good. But dont watch it first or else your stabdards will be way too high
FH jr year and unsleeping city 2- you know the drill
I'm recovering from an ear infection so I'm gonna try and relax by playing balatro and watching dimension 20 where should I start
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The Report Card â Fantasy High: The Seven Ep 8
Fight for Your Right to PartyÂ
Welcome back to this fight, already in progress where TK just DIED. So, you know, we have to deal with that. This is largely a battle episode as was last ep but more plot relevant stuff happens so Iâm gonna hit all of the important story beats.Â
Yelle drinks the fly potion she got earlier and grabs TKâs body to fly her to Ost. Jana (Katjaâs absentee mother who just landed the finishing blow on TK) grabs a palimpsest and swings at Yelle but Yelle shrugs it off and keeps going.Â
Zelda (at Pennyâs behest) stuffs Lysander (her shoe-shining makeout partner) into a suit of armor while Katja squares off with her mother.
âJana, nice to meet you I guess,â Katja says, full of teenage sarcasm.
âIâm at work,â Jana replies, absolutely setting Kat off.Â
She rolls her attacks, one of them being a Nat 20, uses her new axe to shatter the palimpsest in her hand and doing a whopping 99 points of damage. That doesnât kill her BUT her last attack is a shove attack, dropping her from the balcony and forcing her to take 10d6 falling damage. That makes it 130 total points of damage meaning Katja killed her mom IN ONE ROUND.
Handshake Meme: Adaine Abernant, Katja Cleaver, Fucking obliterating your shitty parent.Â
While fighting is happening, Antiope suspects the Jester of being Charity so she says Charityâs name. The Jester reacts a bit and Antiope finally nails their last mirror image.Â
Sam (who was briefly a giant swan which I neglected to mention because in the grand scheme of things? Frankly, a footnote) gets an Eldritch Blast off on the Jester then uses Thunderstep to help get Ost out of one of the goo monsters.
Also, speaking of Charity from two paragraphs back, she pops up behind Antiope and STABS HER, fully dropping her. OR, she WOULD have dropped her if she didnât have the Alert feat, negating her sneak attack damage and leaving her up with EIGHT HP. You simply love to see it.
(Also, oh no, who could have guessed that the big government organization in a story written by Brennan Lee Mulligan would actually turn out to be shady and not good aligned? Shock. Horror.)
Ost Revivifies TK and, as she does, she hears an unfamiliar male voice say, âThere are no things in this world that are so broken they cannot be mended.â Hmmm. Maybe not an entirely absentee god after all.Â
This isnât plot relevant but I simply have to quote Aabria who has the funniest line in the whole episode when TK wakes up. âOut here looking like a Dora fucking Milaje. Yibambe! Do something!â
Do something she does, trapping the Jester in a wall of force with an assist from Sam who counters the jesterâs Counterspell.Â
One of Yelleâs pixies then polymorphs Ant into something with more HP than her meager 8 HP, an event that was frankly inevitable in hindsight. Ant turns into a dragon. Yelle also casts Blight on Charity for 44 points of damage because sheâs a beast in the less literal sense.Â
Ant, making the best use of her new form even as she has mixed feelings about it, suplexes Charity off the balcony for 34 points of damage but lets her go to try for a tail attack which she doesnât land. Charity gets up and says, âI always hoped to kill a Jones. And maybe my day will come soon.â Then, sheâs beamed out. As she beams out, Antiope realizes that Charity stole the Legendarium off of her before she was turned into a dragon and she failed the check to notice.Â
Penny gets TK to drop the barrier around the Jester and she stabs him in the back with her rapier, for 27 points of damage. The Jester super fails to keep concentration on the spell animating the monsters and they all dissolve.Â
The Jester still has some fight left and tries to get a Disintegrate spell off on TK but TK counters it and then hits him with a Disintegrate of her own. As it hits and his clothes dissolves, a tattoo of horses pulling a chariot is briefly seen. Itâs Preston.
(âWho could have known the cop was a cop,â says Aabria.)
Fight over, TK hails the Maidens and gets the party started again. The pixies go to strap bombs on this billionaire ship because, of course.Â
Theyâve lost the Legendarium but, luckily, Yelle thought to make them copies and those are still functional. On a 23, Ant realizes something is happening in the Necrinomikron which is an area of Spyre associated with death. They decide to get the party ship to sail that way so they can get their party on but still stay on mission. Then, having learned that her potential employers are evil, Ant texts her, âIâm inâ to the group.
âAre you really in?â Sam asks, achingly hopeful.
âYeah,â Ant says, and Sam gives her a big hug.Â
Sam jokes (or half-jokes), âNow all we need is Penny,â and Ant stops her in her tracks. She CANâT do this again. Even as a joke. âI love you,â she says, but she absolutely cannot. Ant hugs her again but Sam doesnât return the hug.Â
Yelle gives everyone the hearts she made for them a bit back and Ost is inspired to call her dad. She tells her dad she loves him and they have a genuinely touching moment (âWhatâs wrong with you?â/âNothing anymore.â) that she abruptly ends when he mentions that he and her mom are thinking about selling the house. Letâs not get crazy Mr. Wallace. Your daughter can only handle so much Real Talk at a time.
Penny emails her family to fill them in on what sheâs doing then pulls Lysander into a closet to tastefully fade to black. Likewise, Antiope is feeling not so cold to dragons as she once was and finds the nearest dragonborn to get over her crush on Preston (rolling a very dirty 20 on per Persuasion check).
(She gets to roll w/ advantage btw because dragons are her favored enemy and the implication that picking up boys and hunting dragons are equivalent activities had me dying.)
Kat calls her dad to tell him that she killed her mom and then, hilariously, Jana appears literally behind him because heâs in hell and sheâs a shitty person so of course her soul ended up there. Her dad reveals that part of the reason he stopped being with Jana is that TK informed him that the Ministry of Adventure sometimes matchmade their agents with adventurers to kind of keep an eye on them and Jana was that for him. The internship Antiope was offered was a pipeline to that kind of work. When Jana left them it was because her cover was blown and she was âtaken off his detail.â Brutal.
But hey! Good news. Her dad has been thinking a lot about his absentee parent thing and has talked it over with his party. He wants Kat to join up with them! Ost breaks the crystal upon hearing that. Then gives Kat her crystal to continue the call. Brennan makes Kat roll to remember her dadâs number and Sam just uses her mirror to get the info for her.Â
Kat says she canât just leave her party. Theyâre like her sisters. Or her horses. Her dad seems a little taken aback but says theyâll discuss it later.Â
Meanwhile, Sam has gone onto the balcony to brood as she is wont to do and is joined by TK who seems to know what sheâs thinking about and asks if she's noticed things are a bit strange, even by Spyre standards. Sam does. They talk a bit about death and change and Sam says she feels a kinship with Talura but doesnât want to end up like her. TK says thereâs no magic more potent than simply doing something new and Sam, who is a bit exhausted by TKâs riddle speak, says that she reminds her of Arthur Aguefort (which TK doesnât take a s an insult).
And with the girls alternatively partying, making romantic connections, or brooding, we end the episode. Â
Superlatives
Katja: Most Like to Finish What She Starts
One round Katja???? One round of damage??? You killed your mom in one round of damage????? GIRL.
Random Thoughts
The episode gets its title because Kat has like a million mic drop lines she wants to use on her mom and, instead of picking just one, she just tries to say them all. My favorite being before she shoves her, âSee you next fall. Actually, see you next Tuesday.âÂ
Antiope has had a whole-ass arc re: dragons huh? Shot a dragon, became a dragon, and hooked up with a dragon(born) all in the same day. Lmao, exposure therapy.
I think Kat re: Jana âCan you reincarnate her into a good mom?â
Ant at Ost re: Sean, a guard who she thinks is maybe kinda cute doing minimal damage during the fight âThatâs like zero fucking damage! Donât get with Sean!â
Sigh, and Preston joins Grissini in the D20 pool of boys who *could* have been hot love interests if they werenât government stooges.Â
So the trigger for the curse that turned the people into monsters was in Prestonâs shirt, right? Why would it be there? Iâm guessing it was supposed to be in the sweatshirt Ant refused so Brennan just had it be on the item of clothing she accepted. But logistically, how? I doubt everyone just has little devices on all their articles of clothing on the off chance you need to plant something on a girl who arrived at an interview in a sportâs bra. Maybe Charity sleight of handed it onto the shirt as a rogue?
âCinnamon stop making it clap.â
Yâall, this is up a bit late and the last two recaps will be as well but Iâm still getting them up because Iâve found that people often check out the backlog of these post-season, sometimes way after the fact so theyâre still helpful. Thanks to everyone who checks these out, regardless of when!Â
In this ep, Kat rolled one nat 20 and one nat 1. Various non-Zelda NPCs rolled two nat 1s.
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exandria unlimited episode 7: how many I Do Not Enjoy Eye-Based Horror Tropes titles can I come up with (not enough, apparently)
what is in front of aabria. it gives me anxiety.
A Bun!
oh no the twist
Fucking Fanged Violence is my metal thrash group
I love him
the observer ships it
aimee
fearne is the living embodiment of "looks like a cinnamon roll but would actually kill you"
aabria: have you ever experienced sleep paralysis? robbie: >:(
I like 0 parts of this
is. is someone breaking in. what's happening.
aabria: "too real. try again, something fantasy and not my life, thank you."
nope nope nope nope
me: tma is over, I have escaped creepy spider body horror aabria iyengar: [laughs in lolth]
brother??
I cannot describe the thing aabria does with her voice when she's doing creepy intense mental mind games shit but I love it
that, that thing on "I'm in here with you, you can't outwalk me". love that.
I caught up on owl house today so I'm very emotional about lutes right now
TUT TUT, IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN
The Ring of OshKosh B'gosh
oh no I want an orc named b'gosh
"why did I go straight to steal" welcome to d&d
"daD!"
poor mister
I love him
wow, aimee's mascara lasted about six seconds, huh
liam: no me: SAME
mala: once again Liam is wingmanning for lesbians
"I am very bad at outside" same
I HEARD THAT ASHLEY
MAP
that is ENORMOUS
and it MOVES
and there are LIGHTS
matt gets to be on the other side of this for once!!
magic must defeat magiiiic
"a weird terrible yo-yo" twitter name
"life is giving you disadvantage" mood
this cube thing is so fucking cool
I missed everything since the break for diabetes reasons
"when she dies, let it be known that this was the moment I decided to kill her character"
"there is a shard of residuum sticking out of your shoulder" liam: [kill bill sirens]
"that sounds like some 3.5 bullshit"
jump!
"I'm trying to HURT THIS BAD MAN"
wait my eyes unfocused did somemone say "roll that beautiful bean damage"
Mauve: It's Pink For Goths
it brings me joy to hear liam call him mattholomew
bc MATTHOLOMEW BURN YOUR DICE
oh I hate that
residuum acupuncture
"opal is a lot of things, a homewrecker she is not" "that can't POSSIBLY be true"
Aimee I Will Bitch When It's Not My Turn Carrero
"Excuse Me, The Fuck?"
ha-HA, ballet puns
"thank god he's pretty"
oh christ, it's this asshole again
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there's also this interesting comparison to World Beyond Number recently, where the very aggressive and very defensive wizard Suvi (played by Aabria Iyengar) gets very cold and guarded whenever her long-dead parents are brought up. And Aabria herself said after one ep that this is largely because for Suvi, people invoke the names and lives of her parents -- beloved people who she lost traumatically as a small child, and so did not know -- to corral her, to steer her, to influence her.
Orym recently had a vision from a God who told him a few things:
Fight Predathos -- here's a Vestige 2.0 sword, blessed by me, to fight with.
Predathos is a horror the likes of which will haunt your soul -- here [because you failed your save] is a vision of that howling void, that all-consuming maw of oblivion, just in case you start to forget what's at stake.
My realm is balance, not peace nor passivity, so if you are about balance, we're aligned for now -- Bonus: here's a brief visit from your beloved dead husband, who because of his love of nature and the world and balance ended up in my eternal care. [Cf. Suvi.]
Now, the ep previous, Dorian had pointed out the terror of being without a stable, sufficient moral compass when the stakes are this high. He underscored how scary and desolate and immobilizing it is to not know what will have been the right answer until after it's done.
For me, the meeting with the Arch Heart was -- as Liam said! -- such a gut-punch that fucks Orym over and sets him back so many steps is because of how these threads converge. Suvi, Wildmother, Dorian.
To wit: Orym had one brief glittering moment of feeling empowered to make a right choice, a choice based on a renewed intuitive sense of what "right" means so that the fewest people are hurt and the fewest decisions have to be in their hands (balance). And ~ten seconds~ later, he has to reframe that whole interaction as yet another way that Will's death is a source of ongoing pain and loss. Loss this time not just of Will himself and the love and the life they shared, but loss now also of that same certainty of how to know, deep down, what right even means anymore. On the one side, the howling void of Predathos; on the other, the desolation of separation from love, from certainty, from inner self.
So when Orym said, hollowly, "I don't have a God," I don't think he was lying or rolling back disingenuously. I think he was underscoring why this continues to be so brutally, cruelly painful for him. Because he came into this as an Ashari fighter with a lil touch of druid, not a paladin or a cleric. He didn't start with a God, he didn't become devoted or have a change of heart -- he was looking for the God that spoke to his heart and matched his goals. A God he could -- however briefly! -- trust. And now it seems like that's all gone, all over again.
ORYM IS NOT PRO-GOD.
ORYM IS NOT FIGHTING FOR THE GODS, HE'S FIGHTING FOR THE PEOPLE.
ORYM IS FIGHTING SO THAT THERE CAN A TOMORROW.
ORYM DOES NOT WANT TO FOLLOW THE WILDMOTHER, HE WANTS TO WORK ALONGSIDE HER.
ORYM IS NOT ON A REVENGE QUEST.
ORYM IS FIGHTING TO HONOUR WILL AND DERRIG BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT THEY WOULD BE FIGHTING ALONGSIDE HIM IF THEY WERE ALIVE.
ORYM IS TRYING TO BE A SHIELD FOR EXANDRIA
#anyway I think the campaign is in a difficult place#the fact that we have to keep rehashing this one question for 70 episodes is wild#also I loved EVERYONE's performances in#c3e107#cr spoilers#critical role#I just don't know how either Orym or Imogen or both survive this#and I think Abu SMASHED IT#but I also think narratively speaking#it's a difficult thing to encourage the audience to now reconsider the WM's gifts#weirdly I think Deanna would be a good friend to Orym right now#also Caduceus but he's my guy#orym#orym of the air ashari#campaign 3#it's gonna get worse before it gets better#even if in the end the best solution IS to say that as good and right and loving and true as the WM was to encourage balance#that balance may already be gone#and her clinging to that former status quo is the last thing that needs to change for the necessary new order to emerge#idk#challenging!#imperfect!#ouch!#also I guess#wbn spoilers#suvirin kedberiket#SUVI#dorian storm#spoilers
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