#and also fuckin AVANTICA??

[zethdoesart]

Long may he reign indeed.

[calebsbian]

puts on my tin hat...Here’s the essay i drunkenly sent to my friend who asked why I think Molly’s body may walk back into CR2

Spoilers for the most recent episodes lmao here we go:

essentially, as a character without any memories, Molly’s backstory was free to be woven throughout the lore of the campaign, and it seems it was: eye tattoos, the number nine, back of the neck power areas, themes of rebirth and iterations/continuations of the self, etc are pretty prominent this campaign. Nonagon/Lucien/Mollymauk REALLY reads to me as the natural momentum of a pact with something powerful, and 🅱️erhaps also evil. Can’t die, forced to keep climbing out of graves without any memories, etc. I’m just thinking: if I need to do something that requires immense secrecy, deception and obfuscation, (Tharizdun’s whole deal, Yasha adjacencies, etc.) I need to make it so that not even I can ruin it. I need to assure the loss of the autonomous self.

so, whether I’m a big powerful god or a weird-ass tiefling with a plan, I’m gonna do this shit in stages. And once each stage is done, I have to make sure the parts stay unconnected, at least to the casual observer or adventurer on the lookout for evil or whatever. No one should be able to come looking for whoever carries out the plan. So they’ve gotta die. Not in any meaningful way (contract’s not done 🅱️erhaps?) but the people they’ve hired should bury them, and not hear from them once they inevitably crawl out of the grave. So they shouldn’t be able to remember anything about their past, and maybe should even develop a drastically different personality for this iteration. But, dammit, even with all this, they still remembered that they crawled out of a grave. That could ring the alarm bell for the old crew if they’re still in the area. How bout a grace period of sorts: for a week after, they can’t really talk or develop clear new memories.

AND here’s a mysterious magic user woman from Rexxentrum with whom he’s working on this ritual who disappeared after (and there’s a mysterious magic user woman from Rexxentrum who healed Caleb’s madness and disappeared after, and there’s a mysterious magic user woman who told Beau’s dad what would make him successful and disappeared after, etc.) ANYWAY. Re:Yasha adjacencies, if the ritual is in a specific area, and Obann/the Chained Oblivion pseudo-own Yasha and track her, it can guarantee the body’s left in her path. No fuckin clue what that could mean but it’s true and it could be related.

we also have barely scratched the SURFACE of the Molly Lore. As @mollyglock once posted, “molly's death is so funny to me. all his lore was in shady creek run. lucien was buried by shady creek run. gustav is from shady creek run. according to cree one of lucien's pals is in shady creek run. and he died RIGHT before they reached it! and by funny i mean infuriating.” And Shady Creek Run is being mentioned time and time AGAIN....as they say...the lorecuckery IS real. What in fuck was Gustav up to? He ended up with TWO AMNESIACS with POWER AREAS ON THE BACK OF THEIR NECKS and then TRIED TO GO TO—and FOUGHT TO STAY IN—JAIL. And then the Jagentoths are tied in with ALL THE FUCK SHIT HAPPENING...they’re rivals of the Marduns/the Gentleman (who work with Cree and the Tomb Takers) and they employee The Iron Shepards AND Avantica, and then Reani said they’re fucking with UTHODURN...Imagine me gesturing wildly at my Pepe Silvia board.

final thing that has rung some bells in my head was those 3 bigass murals they found in the temple during the piracy arc. One of them had a giant purple and red bird, with multiple eyes on it, and its feathers were burning and reforming like a phoenix. (Tal also signs stuff with “A bird thought to be extinct, but isn’t. -Molly.” I don’t really factor that into my consideration at all, but it IS interesting.)

i could be super wrong and I’m open to that, but even before his death, I figured that, what with bloodhunters’ whole purpose being to sacrifice their own vitality to destroy enemies, Molly’s arc is so closely tied to death that dying doesn’t really end his momentum with regards to story. (Not to mention Bloodhunters, especially older orders, like Ghostslayer, have direct ties to the Raven Queen. Not saying Molly is part of the Claret Order or anything but it’s something to keep in mind, and also I just love some delicious bloodhunter lore.) I don’t know if Mollymauk as we know him is alive, but his body probably is, and whoever made him probably isn’t done with him yet. Re:Nonagon, the nines of the tarot mean a completion and fulfillment of the suit’s meaning, and Molly got cut off early. Doubt that’ll just end it all.

that’s basically it. Ik it’s very much a conspiracy—Fellow Molly Truthers Rise Up—but Matt’s storytelling has ways of weaving back around on itself, and, as he’s said, just because Molly died doesn’t mean his story is over.

[calebsbian]

ep 40 liveblog

yall know how this works. spoilers below the cut

HALLOWEEN COSTUMES “i am ketchup” Spiritually? We are all ketchup. Side note if anyone here calls ketchup catsup, unfollow me immediately

LISA FRANK CASTLE. Marisha is fully a genius

Jamedi get your fuckin head in the game (you gotta getcha getcha getcha getcha)

This is such an excellent dungeon setup...wig......literally big pink wig

THREE CREATURES? THREE? THR

Three dudes..Hm

“Shit balls”

Oh those pillars are definitely trapping something in here. On god if they have to battle a tapeworm

When Avantica’s enthusiasm isn’t tipping over into fanaticism it’s super cute

OH SHIT. ONE OF THEM IS GOING TO ACTIVATE BOY

BOY HAS BEEN ACTIVATED

I love how Matt’s Jester is like restrained and timid while Laura’s Jester consistently channels this video 

Every so often i remember that Caleb and Nott remain schmacked out of their minds

Just #zooted to all fuck

And I lose it

water level water level

TALL CADUCEUS

SMALL CADUCEUS

Oh, some snake motherfuckers! Just what this situation needed! A couple of snake motherfuckers

Malisons.....Mal Alisons...Alisons but they’re bad

Sam might make a great Jester if he goes the fuck in

Although when it comes to playing as Jester, no one will top Liam

Consciously does not make joke

I JUST NOTICED SAM’S FLASK ART. GOD HAS REALLY FORSAKEN US HUH

Marisha’s embracing the traditional Nov 1 halloween candy feast..Queen

HER SHIRT IS SO GOOD

Nott has literally got eem

JESTER NO

OHHHHHHHHH MY GOD

#ROMANCE............

IM SO FUCKIN SAD THAT LAURA ISNT HERE FOR THIS

(Also: first intra-party smooch of the campaign! Confetti emoji)

On god my uwus. On god

I rescind my judgment of Jamedi!!! Thx for helping save Cad

“This is how the ending of the first Poseidon movie SHOULD have happened” while dressed as Dante lmfao. Should Nerds Have Rights Be Honest

I’m kidding he’s correct

Just a fountain of dudes!

“If this is an island” o fuq

Where’s all this water coming from though. Wh

Sam’s Jester IS really good

Let’s hope these dope rolls keep up for this chase

(Heart eyes motherfucker voice) Roll dice motherfucker

Yasha weedwhacks angrily

The ball bearings are BACK baby

Nevermind. They are not back

(my eyes go completely black) F L U F F E R N U T T E R

Out of nowhere fuckin lizardmen. Fuckin LIZARDMEN

this is just like the government all over again

TWO HOURS OF RUNNING?

As a sprinter: fuck no baby

JESTERS EYES GO COMPLETELY BLACK TOO APPARENTLY

Yasha be like: hoists

TH R E E HOURS O F  R U NNIN G?

Boat safety.

PLEASE LET THERE BE CLUB OF MISFITS ART DURING THE BREAK. PLEATHE

We back...Avantica get bandages on that hand challenge

OH GOD OH GOD SHE CAN CONTROL THE OCEAN NOW OH GOD OH G

Liam having only the shawl and makeup left renders him extremely goth

Jeremiah is excellent . Chef kiss. Literally

We love group communication...this goal navigation...Love that for them

Me eating up this monster lore: snack snack snack snack. Delicious

(Nott voice) ᴛʜɪs ᴡᴀs ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀsᴛ ᴅᴀʏ ᴏғ ᴍʏ ʟɪғᴇ

Avantica’s French accent. I need to be less gay now

Sike

Hmm

VANDRAN?

Avantica voice: 𝐹𝑜𝓊𝑜𝓁𝑒𝑒𝓈𝒽 𝒸𝑜𝓌𝒶𝓊𝒾𝑒𝓇𝒹

OH WORM?

“Powerful woman” so she’s a top

THE SHADE.

Matt found dead

In summary: My wig