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Yeah Bells Hells are punk. In that theyre politically uneducated, wildly socially volatile, and fundamentally reactionary.

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The rehabilitative, pro-cultural exchange anti-war Mighty Nein vs the neoconservative Bells Hells

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losing my mind over this

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it’s so awesome when there’s a character who isn’t canonically bisexual but is undeniably haunted by the specter of bisexuality

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pov you are an ice cube

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oooooo you want to play Outer Wilds and its DLC so bad oooooooo don't look anything up about it, just pick it up and play it ooooooooo

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Nein Again music for Episode 16: A Favor in Kind under the cut! They finally turned up the music, so there's a much better list this time.

Right at the start of the episode, the Exodar Walk 3 theme was playing behind the welcome and ad bit. The Exodar is a crashed ship (now city) in World of Warcraft, and there are 4 themes that replay in the background. The link below is timestamped to #3, but #2 is also very similar.

I had a heck of a time trying to ID the initial battle music with dramatic vocals. I think some of them may be unnamed tracks from Witcher 2 or Witcher III.

I'm fairly confident the one playing at about 40:00 is Conjunction of the Spheres or an extended version of it. The song immediately before it has similar motifs, so I'm still hunting around for it. This is one of the suite for the final questline of the game, so it wouldn't surprise me if there are numerous unnamed tracks meant to bridge the main themes. The song repeats around 1:01:00, so I think Matt had the group on repeat.

I'm fairly confident the song that follows is Tedd Deireadh, the Final Age, which is an instrumental version (without vocals).

At about 1:14:20, Matt replays the Exodar music (from the beginning of the episode) as Nott discovers the second book.

At 1:20:09 or so, Emhyr Var Emreis begins while Jester mends Caleb's new spellbook.

At 1:24:28, Forest Day 2 from World of Warcraft plays while the Nein split up loot. The timestamps in the description note other similar songs.

Immediately afterwards, one of the Zangarmarsh themes plays, though I had difficulty ID'ing the exact one. The link has a timestamp to a typical song for that region.

At 1:35:55, Matt plays Family Matters while the Nein discuss how to avoid handing the Magician's Judge over to the Gentleman. (Was that a hint about Jester...?)

I'm 90% sure the music playing during Fjord's dream is World of Warcraft music, but I was not able to ID the exact tracks. However, the theme that plays at 2:04:55 is the music when a WoW player has died and must return to their body from the Graveyard. It's been in the game since the beginning, and it shares some motifs with several Haunted, Cursed, and similar background tracks, though the chanting is unique to this one.

I heard Geralt's motif play at 2:24:55, but couldn't ID the song. It's very similar to the sound from A Nearly Peaceful Place, but that song used a woodwind, and the one in the stream had strings. It might have been from Witcher III, so I'll update if I locate it.

At 2:40:25, when the Gentleman joins the Nein, the Scarlet Raven tavern music plays. It's timestamped in the compilation below.

Right afterwards, at 2:42:55, Matt switches back to Witcher III for Another Round for Everyone. This normally plays during Gwent games in Witcher.

The next few songs are from the WoW Tavern compilation. First is Lion's Pride. I couldn't ID the second one because of the constant conversation, but Gallow's End begins at 2:49:17, then Pig and Whistle, then Stonefire.

At 3:01:38, Aen Seidhe begins. I had initially mistaken it for A Magic Cave because I couldn't hear the strumming strings, but then the vocals kicked in about a minute into the song.

I can't embed any additional videos, but there's a few more songs!

While Fjord is checking out the medical clinic, Beauclair at Night begins around 3:04:30. It's another unreleased Witcher III track, but this time from the Blood and Wine DLC.

Dwarven Stone Upon Dwarven Stone from the Witcher 2 soundtrack begins around 3:18:05, when Beau and Molly come down from their high on Skein. This is one of the few Witcher songs with a melody from an acoustic guitar. It's a long song, so it plays through that conversation, Yasha trying to learn about the conflicts at the border, checking the map, then Nott's day out as a "normal" halfling and sending post to Felderwin.

Immediately afterwards is Vergen by Night, another song from Witcher 2. It's nearly as long as the prior song, lasting through Caleb's awkward attempt to inspect the Beacon, his conversation with Nott, and Yasha's attempts to barter with Pumat.

At 3:33:00, one of the Forest Day themes from WoW (linked above in the Redridge Mountains compilation) plays as Beau goes to the Cobalt Soul and meets Zeenoth.

At 3:38:09, when Beau tells Dairon about the Xhorhasian spies, Matt switches to The Vagabond from Witcher III.

I'm pretty sure the choral music playing during the Beacon scene is from WoW, but I wasn't able to find it. There's very similar pieces for holy places (Moon Glade, Mount Hyjal, etc.), so I'm going through the zone music to see if I can track it down.

Emhyr Var Emreis replays at about 3:49:15, once Matt declines to tell the rest of the table what the Fragment of Possibility does.

Next is one of the background songs from the Blood and Wine DLC, but I couldn't get an exact ID. The motifs from The Slopes of the Blessure are present intermittently as the players discuss the mechanics of the Fragment, but I couldn't find the right song.

That's all I could manage this week. I ended up spending 8 hours watching the episode because I kept pausing to search. Hopefully the audio is this good every week!

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You know what, I think enough time has passed and the fandom has calmed down enough, I can finally give my genuine thoughts and feelings about Imogen and Laudna as a ship.

I put it below a keep reading because it got kind of long, and also I'm not super confident about writing meta

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for xen: what's your favorite weird sound effect you haven't had a chance to tell us about yet?

🎷: A fun one for Unend is has been the musical tonal sound of the ship in motion (arriving, departing, flying through the scene, etc). I wanted to evoke a crystalline ringing and shy away from conventional starship “engine” sounds since the ship is basically magic and has no normal propulsion. The main voice of that effect is microphone feedback re-recorded through tubes of various lengths, so I can sorta perform tonal feedback like a trombone — increasing or decreasing the pitch of the feedback by changing the resonant length of a tube I record the feedback through. It’s halfway between music and sound effect, and it creates a nice, organic magical singing that I think communicates the otherworldly magic of the crystal ship in motion. 

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M o o n a s h a r i

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REAL IS FRIDA ACTUALLY A WEREBOT?

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A pox on everyone who claimed that Deanna hated the Dawnfather

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As a self proclaimed vax lover and vaxleth shipper, im unsure what really to make of this. Its very obviously a narrative set up for Vax being given eternal life on Exandria like Keyleth effectively has been and they can be together now for thousands of years or whatever. But like.... the appeal of their narrative was that they were truly starcrossed, wasnt it?

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Imogen really like: sorry kid :P

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Brother we're just only NOW asking about possible other worlds beyond exandria that might be destroyed by Predathos 😭

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Oh yeah predathos is still in there lmfao

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Anyone got any extra dunamis juice? 😏