#trw things

[wardensantoineandevka]

I wrote part of a reversal of attainder to explore this post-campagin fic about Colin, and now all I want to do is write a fic about the Fontina family that's entirely in historical documents and objects.

[supergraphicultramoderngirl]

wwaid (what would aabria iyengar do)

[reineyday]

thinking about colindeli again. like, the way lou says deli is gutted when colin calls raphaniel his best friend, the way deli picks up colin's abandoned dagger and keeps it on him even as he names a new skáld. the way colin said he would kill anyone for deli and promised deli's mother to stay, couldnt abide by the way deli's ambition was betraying his morals and had to leave, but down in those caves, running for their lives, colin still turns back, risks his life for the chance at saving deli's even after--perhaps especially after--the eldritch horror they witnessed that day, that killed the people that helped them become something else and left them with each other, the way it began. they are occupied with each other in a way they were not occupied by anyone else, even after their relationship fell apart. absolutely wild.

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

Sophie Oliveira-Shepard Alenko-Oliveira and Kaidan Alenko-Oliveira - ME3 (3/?) "What would I do without you?" "You'll never have to find out." Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

[crunchycrystals]

lacramor mention. brennan im begging you i just want one thing i just want one thing in this situation please bring colin provolone please i dont care if its not intrepid heroes i miss my cheese man

[tenderhoof]

Been taking short breaks from my final project of the semester to work on the next chapter for TRW. I'm 5k in and very very excited.

[sea-buns]

Love how we were all looking at Deli totally discarding his life-long best friend to focus all his attention on Colin "you know em and you love em" Provolone like it was the craziest thing we'd ever seen

And then Colin and Raphaniel had the ultimate enemies to nursing home arc but we'd become so jaded by this party's bizarre choices that the vibe went from a "WHAT is HAPPENING" to a mother going "ok sweetie, thats nice" as she snoozes her alarm for the 20th time

[sunblazes]

ravening war.Could’ve been all my hopes and dreams

[dimension20stuff]

I feel like I am completely alone when saying I get stressed when things get revived 😭

[lunylune]

"His mom worked with determination though, grip on his hair staying gentle despite the cursing. The variety of words made Deli chuckle. Ma had tried to teach her how to do the style of braiding Deli still wore now… but mom had never been good at it."

From my fanfic "Like mother, like son".

I called Deli's ma Dinora. I figured that if Cleva looks like that and Deli looks like he does, Deli's other mom HAS TO BE fully humanoid, right!? I based her on a garlic bread pasta :D

[seeminglyseph]

……. I feel like I’m about to go watch A Crown of Candy so I cand get better context on a Ravening War rewatch.

I feel like. I have had to like. Fully take this time to recover from The Ravening War.

Like at all times I am in some small way thinking about Karna.

I’m working on my diet and getting healthier to spite the people who don’t know the value of the food on their plate, girl. I love you. I wish you could’ve had a chance to heal but at the least I hope the state of puréed and moulded is a peaceful afterlife.

[wardensantoineandevka]

🎷, Colin Provolone

send me a 🎷 and a character for a song off a playlist I have for them or, if I don't have a playlist, a song I think is fitting — don't have to be PCs, btw

I don't have any Colin playlists, and he's a little hard to pin down sound-wise in my head, but I'm gonna pitch "Your Father's Son" by Shayfer James.

[ritzcrackee]

hi no context for this yet bcus the stimboard hasn't been posted but here are the colin provolone wood carving thoughts (WARNING: not edited, not proofread, written in one sitting. this is bad. it is not good.)

I learned woodcarving from my dad. It's one of the few good memories I have of him. Us sitting down on some bench in a tavern as he explained how to hold the knife. His hands shook the whole time, a side effect of his drinking, and he very quickly got frustrated with it. He stood up and threw the knife down at my feet.

"I'm no good at this. You've got nimble hands, figure it out." He spat at me before walking over to order another ale.

Maybe not such a great memory. I don't have many at all. I did pick up that knife. I did figure it out eventually.

I carved a lot as a sailor. There wasn't much else to do. The dagger fit much better in my hands at that point. I carved just to carve, whittling sticks down into sawdust at my feet. Feeling my blade get duller and duller until it felt like I was carving through stone. Letting my hands cramp up, waiting for the next task.

I carved a lot less as a bodyguard. My hands stayed on my blades, my mind occupied with strategy. The dagger became less of a tool and more of a weapon. Carving flesh instead of wood. I didn't have much downtime, and when I did I was... preoccupied. There was a lot on my mind.

I started carving again after I left Delissandro. With a different knife this time, one the Bishop gave me as a gift. A congratulations after my knighting. It was much smaller, made specifically for wood. It had a short, slightly curved blade. Scratched into the green handle was the symbol of the Bulb.

I thought it was kind of ugly. I still think it's kind of ugly, but it's served me well. I’ve carved hundreds of little trinkets with it. Flowers, animals, dolls, utensils. I like to hand them out to the people I visit. Lady Amangeux keeps hers locked in a box under her bed. Delissandro never takes them, he only gives me more wood to carve.

u h idk i'm bored of this and idk how to end things. gimme a lil kith and maybe i'll come back and make this better

[reineyday]

colin: what possible favour do you think they will ask us?

deli: i don't know. i mean, probably nothing crazier than what you offer to do for me every fifteen seconds.

colin: i think that i offer that in a very specific time and place of my choosing, and i don't like (not) having the choice.

karna: is this your secret?

just realized karna absolutely thought they were fucking based on this exchange and deli's follow-up of admitting that his secret is a romance he's involved with that he shouldn't be. i imagine she spends a second puzzling out why the hell he wouldnt be allowed to romance colin before realizing she misinterpreted something haha.

[dropoutconfessions]

This is a SUPER spoilery confession so here is your warning to scroll if you want to avoid nsbu, neverafter, acoc, and trw spoilers.

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So I don’t know if this is the case with all of Brennan's campaigns since I've only seen and finished the forementioned ones, but one thing I've really disliked about all of them are the endings. Not like the final episodes, but the last ten minutes or so, where everything is wrapped up in a neat little bow. Which is what I don’t like.

Brennan has a trend of making the endings really sweet and sugary. I know it’s comedic, but c'mon, the characters get their happy ending immideatley.

For acoc and neverafter, which are the darkest and grittiest Brennan-led campaigns so far, the cartoonishly happy endings feel especially jarring. He and his players like to explore deep and complex themes and conflicts with his players during the game, but as soon as we hit the epilouge they speedrun the last remaining chunks of character development and everyone lives happily ever after, very literally. It’s a little bit easier to buy with nsbu since the whole campaign is a crackshow but the pattern continues nonetheless.

Which. I get that that’s the point. They’re comedians at the end of the day, and they can wrap up their stories how they want. But... would it hurt to have just a liiittle bit of bitter with the sweet? Like, does everything have to wrap up neatly? Brennan goes out of his way to make sure everything is absolutley prefect in the end, which is probably really nice for the players, but imo flattens the story to the ground.

I think acoc is the worst offender, for a couple of different reasons, one being the amounts of unresolved trauma that was within the group at the end. Just a line like "it takes time and a lot of trial and error, but the Rocks does stay together as a family and get a little better at loving eachother each day" would have gone such a long way instead of: yup everything is fixed and they’re all happy now. Also revivification is suddenly possible, tf is that about. And also! The campaign started after a "happy ending" and showed how everything didn’t automatically fix itself after the war was won. Why stop there? Why not carry that over a little bit to the end?

Ok this became a bit more of a rant post than I intended. The endings don’t have to be tragic, I just think it’s good to leave a story on the '...', whether it will continue or not.

And, personally, i do like a little tragedy. Shoutout to The Ravening War

As a fellow tragedy girlie, I completely get that, fucked up ending me beloved. I do think D20 has a couple things blocking it from doing it right every season

Seasons with heavy themes of tragedy are emotionally tough on the cast. By the end of Neverafter and A Crown of Candy (especially ACOC), the whole cast was fucking tired and stressed out of their minds. In Adventuring Parties for ACOC, Lou straight up admitted that he picked up smoking cause of that season, and Siobhan and Emily were in tears on camera. By the end of it, it's likely that's all they wanted.

The themes of Neverafter lent themselves to a non-tragic ending given the pcs won. The whole culmination of the story was the pcs getting free will, which means their victory meant they all got their wish. They literally gave everyone the ability to give themselves a better story, it's hard to make that tragic without cheapening their victory.

And the same goes for A Crown of Candy. The campaign ended with Liam basically casting Wish. Generally, a DM does Wish fuckery when there's more campaign, if you're pulling that shit where it goes wrong at the end of a campaign during the wrap up when you have no plans for a sequel? You're an asshole.

And speaking of sequels, tragic endings make people smell sequels in the water. If a campaign's epilogue has a bit of tragedy in it, it typically lights the fandom up for a sequel. And it definitely happens with d20 shows, given how much speculation there is for a Fantasy High Senior Year. Generally (probably to avoid rabid fandom) they avoid sequel bait, especially with A Crown of Candy. Ravening War is immune to a lot of these factors given it's a shorter season so there's less emotional wear and tear, the story was designed to possibly end poorly, it's a prequel so sequel bait isn't an issue, and the players honestly remained pretty fucking powerless on a world scale the whole time because they were never supposed to deal with the largest problems of the world.

But yeah no, in general, I'm not super big on the epilogues either, the last one Intrepid Heroes one that I really liked was like, Starstruck or Unsleeping City II.

[sea-buns]

I've reached a point where I am two eps behind on Burrow's End and it's starting to feel like the point of no return. If I'm not faced with deadline pressure to watch something, I am well and truly fucked. All because I forgot what week the first ep was airing :( and I'd been so hyped :((