Post by cosmignon on Jan 16, 2017 2:41:38 GMT -6
ok damn i loved this episode, i think i love every episode though so thats a given for me at this point. live reactions under the cut and then some more composed thoughts after that
{livebloggin}
oki doki finally time to listen to this shit hope vinnie doesnt die
i also hope something gets to maaayybe a compromise with welch bc shes required for the Zavala ending i think which i am honestly the most interested in narrative wise
its been a week and im still sad ziggy whhhyyyy
im very worried abt the drow and the bullywugs
fuckin...welch, dude
ok actually past the intro part lmao time for the actual god damn episode
i love team violence, this isnt in reaction to anything i just love them
elf mom elf mom elf mom
be as honest as possible motherfucker
violet, spider eater
alias is such a fragile boy like, jesus, hes part of team smol for his hp
hes also such a smart little boy and i love absolutely every conversation he has with cyldiel shes really good for bringing his like, motives/emotions out
an ARMY of SPIIIIIDERS
finally context for spider jail...
bullywugs...... sad.......... BULLYWUGS............ SAD!! THE TADPOLES!!!
VIOLET DONT STARTLE THE CHILDREN!!!
i love the weird intonation alias always calls for professor chance in like "Professor ChAnce?"
Kalopsia - greek word (i wrote this down just as reference for myself id been spelling it as Calypsia)
big political talk here abt the bullywug society
"sometimes its a surprise" drop sometimes doesnt say much in episodes but hes still a good good boy my favorite boy
sad evil frogs... a funeral for a Brave Frog Boy
violet no!
vinnie will make friends with Zavala itself and ends their entire shabang
i wonder if hunter is afraid
man welch even in this situation u are... very entertaining and i love you
10 years! what! im confused too vinnie
im Just as confused as u vinnie
welch jesus
the drow: show up in hole in the earth
hole in the earth: lights on fucking fire and everyone dies
"that was a startling series of words" same welch
new death plus ++
monologue?
i love when leon has like, a BIG good laugh, its good
welch is like, so fun... shes Fun
"the arm guy"
a real plane? ah ok welch is just bein a pretentious Bitch also still love her
ah man the arch mage stuff sounds guh
ah ok ive been wondering abt the feywild/material plane time difference
oh dang welch thats Extreme maybe dont.... tear a whole city down
man i love vinnie's reasoning abt confronting zavala
vinnie... i fucking love you
i dont want duress
"i help" hunter, i love this sad fish
"weeks"
"im very persuasive" 23 FUCK!! FUCK!!!! VINNIE GOD DAMN YOU ARE THE MOST CHARISMATIC PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!
ok now violet dont ruin this, i feel like you will
Welch is... so great...
violet and vinnie, the confusion squad
bullywug hag idioms!
tension in the whole scene and i fuckign love all these conflicts of interest
jesus welch that was, brutal, not very good negotiations
oh god damn it
RUN DROP MY BEAUTIFUL PERFECT BOY! DONT DIE BUT ALSO RUN SO FAST!!
paper??? oh its a boss fight im guessing god damn
what could POSSIBLY GO WRONG
vinnie save that Chance
oh fucking damn alias your magic is so fucking good, mvp
this paper golemn just didnt really stand a chance against this good magic boy
i love this dimensional stuff
oooooooh time stuff!!
oohhh fuck can we... please not loose our drow connection
TEAM VIOLENCE!! TEAM VIOLENCE!! TEAM VIOLENCE!! TEAM VIOLENCE!!!
thank god for the fuckin, gob light magic shit god magic is So Useful
drrrrrooooppppppp
botch nooooooooooo
russian voice! russian voice!
drop goodwood! say ur Good Name Boy
"some non specific amount of death"
oooohhhh.... drop.... drop are you doing what i think ur dOING
please let this work
fuck
i hope that this new thing works.... i need those gnomes tho
oooohhhh black amber no....
violet the diplomat
my heart is beating, very fast
vinnie you are so good at charisma!! the bullywugs arent gonna get murdered aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
and now i, desperately hope that the fetish doesnt fuckin EXPLODE PLEASE DEAR GOD WE'RE SO CLOSE?!
oki doki finally time to listen to this shit hope vinnie doesnt die
i also hope something gets to maaayybe a compromise with welch bc shes required for the Zavala ending i think which i am honestly the most interested in narrative wise
its been a week and im still sad ziggy whhhyyyy
im very worried abt the drow and the bullywugs
fuckin...welch, dude
ok actually past the intro part lmao time for the actual god damn episode
i love team violence, this isnt in reaction to anything i just love them
elf mom elf mom elf mom
be as honest as possible motherfucker
violet, spider eater
alias is such a fragile boy like, jesus, hes part of team smol for his hp
hes also such a smart little boy and i love absolutely every conversation he has with cyldiel shes really good for bringing his like, motives/emotions out
an ARMY of SPIIIIIDERS
finally context for spider jail...
bullywugs...... sad.......... BULLYWUGS............ SAD!! THE TADPOLES!!!
VIOLET DONT STARTLE THE CHILDREN!!!
i love the weird intonation alias always calls for professor chance in like "Professor ChAnce?"
Kalopsia - greek word (i wrote this down just as reference for myself id been spelling it as Calypsia)
big political talk here abt the bullywug society
"sometimes its a surprise" drop sometimes doesnt say much in episodes but hes still a good good boy my favorite boy
sad evil frogs... a funeral for a Brave Frog Boy
violet no!
vinnie will make friends with Zavala itself and ends their entire shabang
i wonder if hunter is afraid
man welch even in this situation u are... very entertaining and i love you
10 years! what! im confused too vinnie
im Just as confused as u vinnie
welch jesus
the drow: show up in hole in the earth
hole in the earth: lights on fucking fire and everyone dies
"that was a startling series of words" same welch
new death plus ++
monologue?
i love when leon has like, a BIG good laugh, its good
welch is like, so fun... shes Fun
"the arm guy"
a real plane? ah ok welch is just bein a pretentious Bitch also still love her
ah man the arch mage stuff sounds guh
ah ok ive been wondering abt the feywild/material plane time difference
oh dang welch thats Extreme maybe dont.... tear a whole city down
man i love vinnie's reasoning abt confronting zavala
vinnie... i fucking love you
i dont want duress
"i help" hunter, i love this sad fish
"weeks"
"im very persuasive" 23 FUCK!! FUCK!!!! VINNIE GOD DAMN YOU ARE THE MOST CHARISMATIC PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!
ok now violet dont ruin this, i feel like you will
Welch is... so great...
violet and vinnie, the confusion squad
tension in the whole scene and i fuckign love all these conflicts of interest
jesus welch that was, brutal, not very good negotiations
oh god damn it
RUN DROP MY BEAUTIFUL PERFECT BOY! DONT DIE BUT ALSO RUN SO FAST!!
paper??? oh its a boss fight im guessing god damn
what could POSSIBLY GO WRONG
vinnie save that Chance
oh fucking damn alias your magic is so fucking good, mvp
this paper golemn just didnt really stand a chance against this good magic boy
i love this dimensional stuff
oooooooh time stuff!!
oohhh fuck can we... please not loose our drow connection
TEAM VIOLENCE!! TEAM VIOLENCE!! TEAM VIOLENCE!! TEAM VIOLENCE!!!
thank god for the fuckin, gob light magic shit god magic is So Useful
drrrrrooooppppppp
botch nooooooooooo
russian voice! russian voice!
drop goodwood! say ur Good Name Boy
"some non specific amount of death"
oooohhhh.... drop.... drop are you doing what i think ur dOING
please let this work
fuck
i hope that this new thing works.... i need those gnomes tho
oooohhhh black amber no....
violet the diplomat
my heart is beating, very fast
vinnie you are so good at charisma!! the bullywugs arent gonna get murdered aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
and now i, desperately hope that the fetish doesnt fuckin EXPLODE PLEASE DEAR GOD WE'RE SO CLOSE?!
{more coherent thoughts}
I'm glad that the time difference between the feywild and the PMP was elaborated on because ever since Cyldiel said "[Alias has] only been gone for a couple days and hes already famous!" I was wondering if that was a weird throw away line from Austin or if that was something established about the feywild. I recently got the 5e dungeon master's guide for good ol xmas and there was a passage abt the timeshift in the feywild but I was still gonna ask about it during the post-mortem, so now I'm glad I don't have to. Personal Mystery Solved Folks!
I Absolutely Adore how charismatic Vinnie is and my personal headcanon about it is ever since K gave her pointers and tips on how to be a stronger leader/talker during the boat ride to the Tiger Mountains (I forget which episode that specifically happened in but I believe its the one where Vinnie painted The Violet One on the side of the boat) Vinnie has been practicing on that advice, and probably getting more advice from K on the other boat rides to Mykonos and the Cascades respectively. Maybe also advice from Joan, it's never really specified exactly how much time those two have interacted but Joan was apart of a respected family that would've had to deal with persuasion/deception/charisma related affairs. Basically what I'm saying is Vinnie is just kicking ass at charisma she lives up to her backstory folk hero status And her in-campaign status as the typical voice of reason/distraught mom friend.
Related to that thought, did Vinnie like... become the bullywug leader with that amazing end-episode Crit? That was my first assumption for some reason, Like... Welch is gone. I know Crusher survived though even if the player characters didn't check on him again, and Ziggy is dead may his little froggo heart rest in peace wherever the fuck evil creatures go. (I'd assume Ziggy is probably more powerful than Crusher because he was Welch's star pupil so that's why he'd be "next in command" in my mind). I guess we'll have to hear the next episode to find out, and I would doubt Vinnie would want to actually stick around in Hole in the Earth when she's obviously very concerned about her family/home in Spira, but it's still an idea to entertain.
I really, really, really hope that the party manages to get a hold of those gnomes and make a fraction of progress in outfitting that god damn ship to fly, they've got basically less than 1 Week to even, travel to the places they need to get shit... I'd hope if they do get the gnomes that they'd head to the Ragged Woods first since they do really need those materials to even start. Then maybe Vinnie could check in on her family again that would be nice... If anything I don't want Moreno to be left out of the entire loop concerning the gang's plan, I'm sure that................................*
I have lost my train of thought because
I just realized. Is the ship crew back beyond the barrier gonna listen to Welch's message that they sail away without the crew??? Fuck? Will They Even Have A Fucking Ship To Outfit?! I'm so worried about that now like, I'm sure the crew probably wouldn't just straight up abandon them but like what if Welch's message was "sup your guys all died" or "your guys are just gonna stick around here and abandon you so fuckin Laters Bros". My hope is that they'd stick around, or even that they'd all start running to find a way into the barrier but that would just cause a whole different set of problems. She said she sent a message to the captain so that's Issac, he'd probably be the one to set sail away the fastest because he doesn't really have too many emotional stakes in this and was pretty chill on going to Meadowlark Island anyways. But like I said I'm sure everyone else would at least take pause and ask Issac that the Fuck he's doing. Unless the "message" wasn't the spell sending? And it was a magical monster/attack, like the paper monster that attacked Prof Chance. Did Welch just attack the Violet One with a fucking monster?
God I'm gonna be super curious about that complication All Week Now I hope someone else caught that and I also hope I'm not misinterpreting what Welch meant by that.
My last thought for the night is: Kalopsia is defined as "a condition, state or delusion in which things appear more beautiful than they really are"
Which is probably a clue/reference to either Drow society being in a bad state, geas as a whole, or (in my interpretation) specifically the geas that Joan and the Blackhearts made and their perception of the gift Zavala gave them as being a good thing until the realization dawns that their deepest desire was either compromised by another geas, or that their deepest desire upset something fundamental about the plane and it was a mistake to allow a mysterious being grant their wish for them.
I'm glad that the time difference between the feywild and the PMP was elaborated on because ever since Cyldiel said "[Alias has] only been gone for a couple days and hes already famous!" I was wondering if that was a weird throw away line from Austin or if that was something established about the feywild. I recently got the 5e dungeon master's guide for good ol xmas and there was a passage abt the timeshift in the feywild but I was still gonna ask about it during the post-mortem, so now I'm glad I don't have to. Personal Mystery Solved Folks!
I Absolutely Adore how charismatic Vinnie is and my personal headcanon about it is ever since K gave her pointers and tips on how to be a stronger leader/talker during the boat ride to the Tiger Mountains (I forget which episode that specifically happened in but I believe its the one where Vinnie painted The Violet One on the side of the boat) Vinnie has been practicing on that advice, and probably getting more advice from K on the other boat rides to Mykonos and the Cascades respectively. Maybe also advice from Joan, it's never really specified exactly how much time those two have interacted but Joan was apart of a respected family that would've had to deal with persuasion/deception/charisma related affairs. Basically what I'm saying is Vinnie is just kicking ass at charisma she lives up to her backstory folk hero status And her in-campaign status as the typical voice of reason/distraught mom friend.
Related to that thought, did Vinnie like... become the bullywug leader with that amazing end-episode Crit? That was my first assumption for some reason, Like... Welch is gone. I know Crusher survived though even if the player characters didn't check on him again, and Ziggy is dead may his little froggo heart rest in peace wherever the fuck evil creatures go. (I'd assume Ziggy is probably more powerful than Crusher because he was Welch's star pupil so that's why he'd be "next in command" in my mind). I guess we'll have to hear the next episode to find out, and I would doubt Vinnie would want to actually stick around in Hole in the Earth when she's obviously very concerned about her family/home in Spira, but it's still an idea to entertain.
I really, really, really hope that the party manages to get a hold of those gnomes and make a fraction of progress in outfitting that god damn ship to fly, they've got basically less than 1 Week to even, travel to the places they need to get shit... I'd hope if they do get the gnomes that they'd head to the Ragged Woods first since they do really need those materials to even start. Then maybe Vinnie could check in on her family again that would be nice... If anything I don't want Moreno to be left out of the entire loop concerning the gang's plan, I'm sure that................................*
{*}
ok editing in my train of thought before bed: I want Moreno to at least know Vinnie is heading to the fae wild because like... if time moves differently there then they could get really disconnected from Lorelei if they stay too long and I wouldn't want Vinnie to head in there and come back to find her village/family/home has been attack/flooded/drastically changed in some way... I also am worried bc npcs like the blackhearts and sheithayne bc what would happen to them if the gang left for any length of time? All these ideas I hope gte brought up at least.
Also, since I'm not sure there's any "make sure we survive" point to returning to the cascades and maaaybe mykonos I'd figure they could go to the ragged woods, round up a chunk of Vinnie's village on the boat, bring those ppl to the feywild so that at the very least they could be safe whether or not the gang accomplishes their goal to find welch & confront zavala...
ok editing in my train of thought before bed: I want Moreno to at least know Vinnie is heading to the fae wild because like... if time moves differently there then they could get really disconnected from Lorelei if they stay too long and I wouldn't want Vinnie to head in there and come back to find her village/family/home has been attack/flooded/drastically changed in some way... I also am worried bc npcs like the blackhearts and sheithayne bc what would happen to them if the gang left for any length of time? All these ideas I hope gte brought up at least.
Also, since I'm not sure there's any "make sure we survive" point to returning to the cascades and maaaybe mykonos I'd figure they could go to the ragged woods, round up a chunk of Vinnie's village on the boat, bring those ppl to the feywild so that at the very least they could be safe whether or not the gang accomplishes their goal to find welch & confront zavala...
I have lost my train of thought because
I just realized. Is the ship crew back beyond the barrier gonna listen to Welch's message that they sail away without the crew??? Fuck? Will They Even Have A Fucking Ship To Outfit?! I'm so worried about that now like, I'm sure the crew probably wouldn't just straight up abandon them but like what if Welch's message was "sup your guys all died" or "your guys are just gonna stick around here and abandon you so fuckin Laters Bros". My hope is that they'd stick around, or even that they'd all start running to find a way into the barrier but that would just cause a whole different set of problems. She said she sent a message to the captain so that's Issac, he'd probably be the one to set sail away the fastest because he doesn't really have too many emotional stakes in this and was pretty chill on going to Meadowlark Island anyways. But like I said I'm sure everyone else would at least take pause and ask Issac that the Fuck he's doing. Unless the "message" wasn't the spell sending? And it was a magical monster/attack, like the paper monster that attacked Prof Chance. Did Welch just attack the Violet One with a fucking monster?
God I'm gonna be super curious about that complication All Week Now I hope someone else caught that and I also hope I'm not misinterpreting what Welch meant by that.
My last thought for the night is: Kalopsia is defined as "a condition, state or delusion in which things appear more beautiful than they really are"
Which is probably a clue/reference to either Drow society being in a bad state, geas as a whole, or (in my interpretation) specifically the geas that Joan and the Blackhearts made and their perception of the gift Zavala gave them as being a good thing until the realization dawns that their deepest desire was either compromised by another geas, or that their deepest desire upset something fundamental about the plane and it was a mistake to allow a mysterious being grant their wish for them.