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Goddess of Fate and the Raven Queen

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slowly realizing years late that The Crystal Kingdom was about our three surly boys meeting a series of undead spirits, who would sometimes literally show them visions and consistently try to get them to change their ways, whether that meant remembering their true pasts, uprooting the present order of life and death, or simply not dying quite so often in the future... and that it was all fucking set on Candlenights. they literally met the Ghosts of Candlenights Past, Candlenights Present, and Candlenights Yet to Come. like did Griffin do that even remotely on purpose because if so, I'm absolutely fuming

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You ever think about Lup and Taako’s dynamic and just like ... cry

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The candlenights liveshow saved my life

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Angus McDonald would love Among Us

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LMAO

You have the patience of a trilobite.

why me

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You have the patience of a trilobite.

why me

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I absolutely love listening to the other boy's reactions to Griffin's storytelling during The Adventure Zone and all of their reactions to the improvisation by the others. When Justin goes "Who?" And Clint does that little gasp and Griffin tells Travis that Magnus has the chance to save Julia with the chalice and he lets out an audible gasp. After Griffin says "Sturdy, denim, and blue." And Clint starts clapping and laughing, it's all so pure and joyous and you can tell they are very proud of their brother and son for his amazing story.

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Amnesty sadness is tired eyes, late-night hot drinks, misty breath, clouded minds, empty streets lit by the orange glow of streetlamps.

Balance sadness is empty photo albums, lost trinkets, empty rooms, days-old water, musty smelling boxes containing faded memories of your youth.

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ok. here is my pitch. whenever tres horny boiz seem like they’re breaking the rules of d&d by doing things that they shouldn’t be able to do at their level, it’s actually just that they don’t remember how powerful they are. thanks to the voidfish. but their bodies remember. their MAGIC remembers. and so sometimes they do impossible things!!! 

examples:

the fact that taako could transmute food for his show even though at that point he’d have to assume he’s less than level one, just barely startin’ out with wizardry at its most basic level

klarg is charmed on and off for the duration of the campaign even though taako thought he was casting at charm person at level one

in the graphic novel magnus almost dies but then merle casts spare the dying even though it’s a spell he shouldn’t know yet

probably more but i just read the graphic novel and now i’m relistening to petals to the metal so these parts are the most fresh in my mind???

ANYWAYS i just like the idea that they don’t know their own strength. literally. but then in the heat of the moment when they aren’t really thinking about it they “””somehow””” manage to pull off some insane batshit tomfoolery. it’s like muscle memory!!! but for magic. similar to how they can resist the thrall of the relics “because they’re stupid” or just “for no reason.” 

there is a reason!!! they just don’t know it yet ;o)

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It’s funnier when it does not take 7 minutes to get to punchline

Audio from Episode 6

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i can explain

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it’s balanced party comp babey!

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u know. actually. if u think about it. even a little bit. 57 deaths out of a possible 99… is SO MANY DEATHS. that’s more than half of the stolen century! that means merle was out of commission ~60% of the time!!! that’s so much time for the crew to be down their only cleric and very good friend!!!

do u think sometimes he’d go into parley and right when he thought he was finally getting somewhere, john would kill him??? so then as a new cycle starts, merle is still fresh off the conversation, he’s frustrated as hell, so he just… jumps right back in. no delay. and then he’s gone for the rest of the year because (of course!) john kills him again! 

do u think there was a period of like five or six years where he died just, super fuckin’ early b/c he kept trying to get through to john. and for him it feels like it’s only been a couple hours but for the rest of the crew it’s been literally half a decade! since they’ve seen him last!!! that’s so fucked up!!! 

they have to sit him down intervention-style and be like, merle. unfortunately we DO know that you think the physical embodiment of nihilism is a dilf, but merle. he’s not good for u, merle. we think you two should spend some time apart. also you’re literally the only medical professional on this ship and we kind of need you around so that we do not also perish.

this took a weird direction at the end there LOL but i’m just saying that FIFTY-SEVEN DEATHS!!! IS SO MANY DEATHS!!! it wasn’t even a stolen century for merle!!! it was like, forty years at BEST. it was the stolen handful of decades. it was the stolen labor day weekend

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Siblings tho…. ……. >>>>

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must I always “heal” my party? is it not enough to simply own dice and be adorable

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fitzroy, as he stands right now, is too much of an asshole to be a himbo. i would much sooner call him a, and this is gonna be a hard pill for some of you to swallow, a chad.