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[leasdoodles]

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(ARC 9 FINALE SPOILERS)

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#5

Okay I'm like obsessed with the concept of adventuring license and I have so many question

can anyone get an adventuring license? Is this like a first aid situation were there's multiple different places to get one or is the Arcane Academy the only place that offers it?

Are wizards the only class able to get their license? Or are there like clinics for each class?

What are the benefits of getting your adventuring license? Are there health benefits? Support groups? Does it help when you eventually get put in jail?

could a melee fighter take a level in wizard in order to obtain their license?

Does this ever expire? Do you have to do recertification every 3 years or something?

Were any of the others PCs in arc 3 certified or was Annie just traveling with an uncertified party?

48 notes - Posted May 9, 2022

#4

Thinking about how the Lovejoy-Hatebad feud started because the Lovejoys caused the death of Beryl's family

Thinking about how Penny's whole goal for the death ceremony was to get her mom home by any means necessary

Thinking about how this feud started because of love and is going to keep going because of love

50 notes - Posted July 11, 2022

#3

Dnd character Idea

a pair of oathbreaker paladins. What was the oath they broke you ask? Marriage vows

89 notes - Posted January 31, 2022

#2

Okay so, I've been listening to Lilli Furfaro's song about Vax'ildan since it came out (side note, go listening to Tethering it's so good) and I have thoughts

So one thing Lilli's really good at with her songs is matching not just the lyrics, but also the style to the character. Tethering has such a solid rhythmic scheme, ABCB basically the whole way, so it has this feeling of content motion, with is so true to how Vax functioned as a character. And then at the end, the last verse is missing a line and you're just left sitting there for the last 20 seconds or so just absorbing it all, just sitting with it and coming somewhat to terms with the idea of that being the end.

Another thing I'm also thinking about is how different this is from Molly's song. Both of these songs are about a character who dies, and I love the way Lilli illustrates how different though two deaths were.

Vax's song ends missing a line of lyrics, but she still finished the verse with her guitar. It's not the ending we want but you still get some closure to it. Molly's song just ends, with little warning, which is so true to how his death in the campaign was.

Anyway, Lilli Furfaro is very good at what she does and you should go listen to her music. That's all

93 notes - Posted February 26, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

So one thing I was noticing during this batch of episodes was Scanlan's facial expressions. Specifically whenever the others write him off. He just looks so sad but also angry at the same time.

It's so subtle but it's there and it just makes me sad because what I know what's coming and it hurts.

Be nice to your gnome Vox Machina!

182 notes - Posted February 3, 2022

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[endless-nightshift]

Goodnight to Boys who are the Sun, warlocks with mismatched wings, Tiefling vampires and their malewives, ex-crime boss donkey ranchers, and Trans Bunnies with cool cowboy hats and a matching leather jackets

[silly-goofy-mood]

"I would've liked to have had you as a mom" RIOT 😭😭😭

Okay I'm still suspicious of them but I'm becoming a bit more sympathetic

Like now i feel like maybe she actually has good reasons to keep secrets

[uc-beepboop]

Great point.

My thing is: like how much can denial last?

Cuz juniper met up with Julian when she was NINETEEN INSANE SO YOUNG and now she’s like… early 20’s if memory serves right?

Not saying you’re wrong, I think you have the most realistic interpretation yet! But at this point… They are really good at denial then. Like really good.

I’ll have to say tho, it makes sense because they’re both entrenched in crime crime crime… so it’d make sense for them not to dig in deep or be vulnerable too each other.

Hey you know what I’m probably going to have that mentality walking into my arc 9 fic about them two. Walls up, emotions off. But still being able to connect. Oh boy what a challenge

Hi more brainrot lots of words feel free to read or nah. You can do whatever I just wanted somewhere to dump my thoughts and, perhaps, someone else wanted to ask and give me their two cents. Cuz I kinda throw shade at my beloved D&D podcast, but not with the intention of actual criticism, just of what occurred during arc 9.

I had this idea of writing this fanfic one shot of (Arc 9 of UC incoming) Juniper Erydis and Julian Crimeboy meeting but now I’m faced with this problem.

As mentioned in the verbal component, Gus mentioned that when he played Julian and Grace played Juniper they ran up against this issue that ultimately the two characters just were NOT compatible with each other.

Essentially: Julian wants autonomy, to be seen as someone who is capable, NOT a babied 11 year old child. Juniper wants to have a child that she can act as a protector, even as she recognizes that she’s not a good mother, she desperately wants to be a mother for Julian. That means she enjoys Julian for his cute 11 year old appearance and his child-like attitude. Well, Julian hated that.

During the arc, there were a couple of clashes between the two characters due to the reasons I typed up.

Now how does that relate to my brainrot?

I literally don’t know how to write these characters pre-arc. I don’t know their dynamic, and even as I listens to the pre- arc 9 one shot, it was still hard to piece together this happy Julian and Juniper dynamic.

Right now my way of dealing with this is to write an extremely traumatized Julian and a less confident (in regards to dealing with Julian) Juniper. But dang, that’s not the dynamic that these two characters should have held for like 5 years. I wanted to go explore something that occurred on the side like a little one shot, but I never can find a way to resolve it well enough so that it fits into that episode 1 interaction between the two characters.

Anyways yeah after I’m done with my like 4k long fic of arc 6 I’ll get to something else eventually! Highlight on eventually!

[sumersprkl]

Now that Unprepared Casters Arc 8 is over, I’m planning on speedrunning the whole arc before Arc 9 starts airing. I just finished Episode 1, and I’ve had spoilers blocked for this entire time, so I’m going in completely blind. Y’all can feel free to point and laugh at my bad theories as long as you don’t put spoilers in the comments or tags on this post.

Here’s my definitive ranking of characters who are, at the end of Episode 1, in the best position for achieving their goals.

1.

Penny Lovejoy.

She could play all of the sides of this whole thing so easily.

She’s got a blank check signed by Sybilla in the form of the Illusory Script contract.

Sir Up Ton seems to like her, and I don’t think she’d be particularly bothered by a murderous despot on the throne so long as he leaves Glaceria alone.

If the guy from Hasmo makes it onto the throne, he’ll give more power to the cities, and thus more power to Glaceria.

If the whole monarchy gets fully overthrown, the people who already have a lot of power and influence in their areas are likely to be able to grab the best scraps of the broken country, so the Lovejoys might come out of a full-on revolution with even more power over Glaceria.

Unless the entire situation changes SIGNIFICANTLY (which it of course will, this is a game), she’s set up perfectly to come out on top.

2.

Sir Up Ton.

Sir Up would have a lot of work to do to come out of this as the king, and there are a LOT of things that could go wrong along the way, BUT. The way I see it, he has a pretty clear path to his goal.

So far the most immediate problem for him is NOT keeping Sybilla from winning the vote, because she will be banking on having Sir Up’s vote, and she would have a lot of work to do to secure at least two out of three of Helga, Penny, and Nephila.

The main obstacle in front of him at this point is the fact that even if she loses the vote, there’s still another popular candidate. If he can take out the Hasmo guy while keeping his image clean, he can present himself as a pretty good option for the throne.

How can he take him out without being implicated? There’s another person on the minor council whose biggest problem is also Hasmo Guy (whose name I can’t look up on the wiki for fear of spoilers). Nephila, who we already know is down for violent revolution, cannot get support for her full-on anti-monarchy position while Hasmo Guy is hanging around convincing everyone that a bunch of violent city-states would be better than either the current system or total anarchy.

If Sir Up can convince Nephila he’s on their side for long enough to conspire with her to off Hasmo Guy (Very possible, he has forty years of practice successfully convincing people he’s on their side), then he can fairly easily frame them for the whole thing. There’s probably a lot of witness accounts out there about Nephila and Laz openly discussing revolution, and Sir Up is EXACTLY the guy who would be expected to root that kind of shit out. He’s the head of the guard and has been for FORTY YEARS, most people would probably just take his word on it even WITHOUT all of the evidence that ACTUALLY EXISTS implicating Nephila. On top of that, Nephila already has a criminal record for shit-stirring. People would take Sir Up’s word over Nephila’s, 100%.

3.

Helga Hatebad.

Helga has, at this moment, no skin in this game. Sure, it would be annoying to her if the Lovejoy family got out of this with significantly more power. But Helga’s life would only be materially changed if the Lovejoy family got full control of Glaceria, which would only happen if Sybilla got on the throne, which I’ve gotta say is not looking super likely. If she doesn’t get involved (which she of course will, because she’s a player character in a game), then she’s got nothing ventured and nothing lost.

4.

Sybilla Eirik.

Sybilla’s position right now is shaky as FUCK and she doesn’t even know how bad it is. Everybody seems pretty fully convinced that Sir Up Ton is on her side, and I don’t think she’s the exception to that rule.

To get on the throne, she’d need two votes out of three of Nephila, Helga, and Penny. She’s already secured Penny’s vote (at great cost), BUT. It would be very hard to sway Nephila away from her anti-monarchy stance, AND it would be very hard to convince Helga Hatebad to vote for the same thing that Penny Lovejoy wants, ESPECIALLY if Helga found out about the secret contract.

Things would be fine for Sybilla if she did somehow manage get the throne, but if she didn’t, she’d lose everything she worked for her whole life. Even worse, if Sir Up got the throne or Nephila’s revolution succeeded, she would be too much of a threat to the new government for them to let her roam free. Nephila, at least, would make her jail cell as comfortable and not-prison-like as possible, but I feel like Sir Up might just have her secretly killed. Her best bet for living through his rule would be to grab her family, flee to Malum, live as a commoner, and hope that the prince she snubbed by marrying a commoner instead of him doesn’t figure out who she is.

5.

Most fucked of all? Nephila Mori.

It’s rough that Nephila, the one person who seems to be doing this out of genuine care for the people, is at the bottom of this list. But I genuinely do not see a way out of this where Nephila gets what they want. And even if she did get it, I haven’t seen much evidence so far of a plan for after the overthrow of the government.

If Sybilla gets the throne, there are only incremental changes for the better, within the constraints of a terrible system of government.

If Hasmo Guy gets the throne, there’s nearly the same amount of chaos as an overthrow of the government, without most of the governing power actually changing hands: all the city barons will continue to be city barons. Nephila can’t fight a revolution against a bunch of little governments, so they would lose their chance to do anything to effect real change.

If Sir Up gets the throne, it’s almost certain that he’d have already stepped all over Nephila to get it, and even if he didn’t, there would be a worse monarch on the throne while she and Laz tried to scrape up a revolution. There’s like a 80% chance that both Nephila and Laz would end up dead, if Nephila wasn’t dead already.

If they succeed and no one gets the throne, it will be a long, bloody path to get there, with pretty significant chances of the whole cycle repeating without any significant changes, because building a government that won’t collapse under the weight of people with too much power is REALLY DIFFICULT. Unlike Sybilla, there is no real chance of winning for Nephila. Regardless of the outcome of this arc, they would have to keep fighting for the rest of their life.

[leasdoodles]

Enjoy another Vampire! Juniper

Inspired by @yarn-dragon's arc 9 vampire series

[yarn-dragon]

I have a wired and wild theory that will mostly likely turn out to be incorrect BUT I'm gonna tell it to you anyway

Potential spoilers for arc 9 ahead

Riot is a vampire

I know I know, wild. Here me out though

Roit asks The Spider about immortality. Vampires are immortal

James said blood is a weird question to ask with this character. What do vampires drink? Blood

Riot says she doesn't plan to do it alone. Prehaps they plan to turn their husband or have family that's also vampires. Either way, what other kind of immortal creature can reproduce and thus ensure they won't be alone forever

Everything about Riot's aesthetic screams vampire

That's all, I will leave you with that

[silly-goofy-mood]

A lantern?

With h a n d s ???

I swear I'm not trying to do this on purpose but 🥺👻🕯️😭

I miss my lil ghost baby okay

[yarn-dragon]

I have a wired and wild theory that will mostly likely turn out to be incorrect BUT I'm gonna tell it to you anyway

Potential spoilers for arc 9 ahead

Riot is a vampire

I know I know, wild. Here me out though

Roit asks The Spider about immortality. Vampires are immortal

James said blood is a weird question to ask with this character. What do vampires drink? Blood

Riot says she doesn't plan to do it alone. Prehaps they plan to turn their husband or have family that's also vampires. Either way, what other kind of immortal creature can reproduce and thus ensure they won't be alone forever

Everything about Riot's aesthetic screams vampire

That's all, I will leave you with that

[yarn-dragon]

I have a wired and wild theory that will mostly likely turn out to be incorrect BUT I'm gonna tell it to you anyway

Potential spoilers for arc 9 ahead

Riot is a vampire

I know I know, wild. Here me out though

Roit asks The Spider about immortality. Vampires are immortal

James said blood is a weird question to ask with this character. What do vampires drink? Blood

Riot says she doesn't plan to do it alone. Prehaps they plan to turn their husband or have family that's also vampires. Either way, what other kind of immortal creature can reproduce and thus ensure they won't be alone forever

Everything about Riot's aesthetic screams vampire

That's all, I will leave you with that

[uc-beepboop]

For Julian though:

“Now you’re just Sun-body that I used to know.”

The crime family if Serenity left:

"now you're just some bunny that I used to know"

[silly-goofy-mood]

Unprepared Casters Arc 9 episode 7 out of context spoilers!