#trw things

[wardensantoineandevka]

[wardensantoineandevka]

There's a twist here in that Pamela and her daughters were against one another and the very work here described also undoes all of Pamela's work too. The Rocks sisters disagreed with Pamela's stance on Candia's position during the war, and Pamela was an ally of Tomaté, implying that she preferred his claim to the throne. Lazuli backed Uvano to overthrow her mother's ally.

In the same way that the Rocks sisters work against this group, undoing the plans and ambitions of the people who killed their mother, they are at the same time undoing their mother's political work and destroying her allies. In a twist of irony, the two are one and the same. In a twist of irony, this group was tasked with killing the woman who was the last thing between their ambitions and their failures, because once she is gone, her daughters are free to work against them—and, honestly, against her.

Pamela at the time of her death was as allied with Tomaté as much as Amangeaux was trying to be, and her death only hastened the end of his claim for the throne supported by both her and her killers.

Destiny does not remember those who kill the righteous well, but it's interesting that Pamela was not actually necessarily opposed to the interests of her killers. If the process of indirectly avenging your death smothers the seeds you have sown and wished to see bear fruit, are you yourself actually righteous?

Is anyone truly righteous here?

This is likely just a coincidence, and definitely not trying to make the Scrumptious Scoundrels’ story all about the Rocks, but I was thinking about how we know that the political goals expressed so far by the Scrumptious Scoundrels will not succeed - the Meatlands will not unify under Deli as warlord but rather Basha Myaso, and Jacque Tomaté will not become King of Vegetania with Amangeaux as his queen and Karna on his council.  Then I realized that these outcomes were, in some significant part, due to the Rocks siblings, especially Sapphria and Lazuli.  They all fought in the Ravening War and helped to end it, but in particular, Sapphria was helping raise Basha Myaso to power in the Meatlands when she was killed, and Lazuli not only backed a young Gustavo Uvano explicitly against Tomaté but sacrificed herself to ensure his victory.  And I know the Scrumptious Scoundrels left no survivors in the ambush, no one would have known who exactly killed Queen Pamela, but there’s something very symmetrical and fitting about her children going on to directly foil the goals and ambitions of her killers without knowing it.  Destiny does not remember those who kill the righteous well indeed.

[supergraphicultramoderngirl]

wwaid (what would aabria iyengar do)

[sluttycinderella]

what the fuck brennan.

[sea-buns]

Brennan's uncanny ability to be the shadiest bitch in the room is actually the most terrifying thing

[magicwithered]

AND ANOTHER THING: I think it’s incredibly interesting how Karna never viewed herself as special. Meaning all these people are fighting for status and place and symbols and she just doesn’t care. She has known hunger and ache and pain and there is nothing that would make her think she’s anything above all better than the people. Everything she’s gotten, everything she has she’s fought and killed and consumed for.

And isn’t that so fucking interesting. How Lady Amangeaux says to her “because we all thought we were special.” But the gag of it all is that Karna had never thought herself special. Just another person in a hungry and ravenous world trying to survive.

[wolfziedraws]

haha what if I animated the whole campaign one scene at a time haha

TRW ep 5

[cyberkombucha]

her kind heart and impractical fashion choices have bewitched me body and soul

(shoulder idea from @emptyjunior !!!)

[wardensantoineandevka]

In case you missed the stat cards. This post will be updated as The Ravening War goes on, if there are updates to be had, so this post is not spoiler free.

In episode three, Amangeaux's stat card shows her as Rogue 5, instead of Rogue 4 as in the first two episodes, but her stats on the rest of the card are otherwise identical. Hers is the only card that changes; everyone else's stats remain the same in episodes two and three to what they were in episode one.

In episode four, after the five year timeskip, the party gained another four levels and were now level nine. For specifics as to what changed in the stats, see this other post. The cards themselves follow:

[generallyjl]

our scrumptious scoundrels!!

[sittinginsunflowers]

okay, I’m going full red string over the last episode. mainly because if queen amangeaux (put some goddamn respect on her name) had a child with her husband, wouldn’t that have solved all her problems? Sure, it would make her a target but the bishop was already warning her to lay low at the festival, and at least this would’ve secured her place on the throne until her child came of age. Unless she knew she was pregnant and then she decided not to say anything in trying to follow the bishop’s advice? Or she didn’t know at the time and then everything popped off. But that makes the baby at least a year and 3/4 months (if we use human pregnancy as the timeline??) and the baby read more as a newborn to me? Also in the adventuring party when they discussed the bishop’s secret, Anjali pointed out that he could’ve been poisoning her or her husband with the tea leaves to stop her from producing an heir. which could be a red herring, or could mean that the baby belongs to someone other than her husband, hence why she’s hidden him away. which would make sense since the coloring is a little different. So either the baby isn’t hers biologically and is just in her care, she had an affair while her husband was still alive, the baby is the true heir, or she got pregnant in the two year time jump.

how the fuck am I losing my mind over a mango’s sex life how did I get here

[tubes-and-dice]

Listen. Listen no listen- listen. Listen to me hang on-

[sea-buns]

obsessed with zac’s propensity for creating characters that are capable of great violence but often choose kindness instead

In all definitions of a trickster spirit Pib should have been a complete selfish asshole. But instead it was like yeah he lies and steals and cheats to get what he wants but what he wants is to help.

Gorgug giant half-orc barbarian who just wants to make friends and cries when his rage wears off.

Colin Provolone fully made us think he was down for killing whoever he needed to and then It Happened. Turns out he’s actually a sweetheart who spent days tracking down the family of the random dude he killed to just give them something. ANYTHING that might help ease the burden.

May be a bit of a reach but Skip kinda falls into this as well. In the sense that he actually had zero interest in using his host for anything beyond just having a good time. Dude just wanted to chill. Not use the bodies of thousands to destroy an entire planet in a cosmic slug orgy. His kindness is passive and incidental but I’ll still take it lmao.

Do I even need to go over Lapin? Dude died for Candia. I think we’re all familiar with the asshole to martyr pipeline.

[crunchycrystals]

light critique of the new nsbu episode bc i just finished it and think its important to be critical of things i like sometimes rather than blindly loving it i think being critical can make you like it more but under the cut if you dont wanna see something like this

anyways hi i don't think ally should've done that wits check on g13. it felt meta gamey to me and like since theres not a ton of metagaming on d20 im fine with a slip up but then they brought usha back and i love usha but i just think its sad that we're gonna miss the conflict that could've come in the next episode or even the last episode when they realize g13 took over usha. likely not the last episode but i think it could've made some really interesting conflict later on and now we don't have that :( also no g13 interacting with anyone aside from kingskin man. imagine incel g13 with russell after what jessica told him

however i did scream and jump on my couch when alex hit that 12 to save usha and i am very grateful for that moment i am high on adrenaline rn

[th3b4dk1dzz]

So Amangeux's baby is a purple wine grape ...

Gustavo Uvano, you sly dog

[thepringlesofblood]

GUYS I FIGURED IT OUT I FIGURED IT OUT

one of the Archbishop’s titles from her very beginning intro card:

AVATAR OF DEUS-PA’ZUUL

*MEGA SPOILERS UNDER CUT*

DISPOSAL

DEUS-PA’ZUUL = DISPOSAL

LIKE GARBAGE DISPOSAL

THAT’S WHERE THE STEEL BLADES COME FROM