Matt: It started with a phone call weeks ago... [...] And so I called him, and we talked on the phone for like an hour and a half. I got charged way too much international because I didn't realize-- totally worth it.
Marisha: [...] If I can jump in.
Sam: Did you see the phone bill?
Marisha: Yes, I did, because it goes onto my-- my-- I'm in charge of the phone bill. And so I was like:
Marisha: "What the fuck? Why-- Why do I have a $200 charge?"
things matt has canonized for shadowgast (that i can remember):
essek and caleb have been living together since they got together (so roughly 7 years) and essek hasn't been back to the dynasty since before the mighty nein ended
caleb is cluttered and messy but essek tolerates it for him
essek bakes sweets (because i can't picture caleb being the one to do it)
essek wears caleb's clothes because they smell like him
essek and caleb have a portrait of the two of them together in their shared lab
essek has learned enough zemnian to curse in zemnian (and actively chooses to speak it)
essek and caleb have sat for couples portraits together
essek regularly sends messages to caleb when they're apart
essek has picked up some therapist habits (likely from caduceus) and has talked caleb down from a ledge during bad mental health problems
essek now wears bits of orange and caleb wears bits of purple
beau and yasha regularly come over and spend time at the shadowgast household
there's enough space in their house for guests (and jester has been by enough times to draw dicks everywhere)
matt ruling that the technical damage from the explosion was irrelevant due to the power and weight of fcg’s sacrifice is what really got me. even if sam rolled the max possible number on the dice, it wouldn’t have even brought otohan to below where she was before she took the health potion. mechanically speaking, she should have survived that blast by a LOT of hit points. but this was a player willingly killing their own character, beyond reviving and even potentially beyond resurrection, to give the rest of the party any advantage they could, and he rewarded that with the death of an antagonist that has haunted this campaign from the very beginning. unreal fucking plays by both matt and sam tonight.