#d20 burrow's end

[toobadthatsob]

[audible301]

Aabria in MisMag: YOUR WAND WILL REACH FINAL FORM NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TRY TO STOP IT

Aabria in Burrows End: YOU CANT AVOID LEARNING TO READ FOREVER

[workingwhileidream]

[digitalwizard01]

People talk a lot about Adaine and Riva when it comes to their favorite Siobhan D20 characters but me? I'm here, and I'm Jaysohn. I love Riva and Adaine but she embodies Jaysohns chaotic "Karate Boy" energy so well and his banter with Lila lends to some of my favorite rp moments in D20 like "THATS CHEATING" and him becoming the coolest kid in class, recruiting a sidekick, emasculating his teacher and then leaving in like 2 minutes

[rainebownerd]

Erika just reached into almost every daughter's nightmares and pulled this line out and Brennan knew exactly how to respond to that

[metaphoricallyrose]

Oh wait they’re stoated

[introvertedsocialworker]

I’ve never met Brennan Lee Mulligan, I likely will never meeting Brennan Lee Mulligan but if there’s anything that bottomless snack man with an imagination beyond comprehension has taught me which I’ll be grateful for as the earth blows up it is the following:

1. Never ever give up on the magic that is inherent all of us

2. Do no harm but take no shit

3. Almonds are the best snack

4. Don’t apologize for loving something with abandon

5. Find your people, kiss dice, and even when you think there is no hope there is always a good reason to fight.

What has Brennan taught you? Or any of the cast over at Dropout?

[god-tier-bastard]

sometimes you play a game of dnd where a bunch of Normal People get isekai'd into the dnd world. and you play a medical doctor. and you name him robert wenabocker bc even though he isnt a medical doctor you simply cannot stop thinking about burrow's end.

[chimeofthecomet]

THIS SPOOKED ME !! So so attached to these stoats who nothing bad will ever happen to surely

[ph0enixart]

[audible301]

I love Lukas Burrows End! He’s furry and he’s allergic to dander! He’s a ride or die! He loves his mommy! He’s the only one appropriately reacting to dying! He’s just a little guy and it’s his birthday!

[thenerdyindividual]

Anyone who is interested in Eldritch Horror as a genre needs to watch Burrow’s End. Aabria is giving us a master class in what makes Eldritch Horror so scary. It’s not just that there’s a big scary monster that has the wrong number of limbs or eyes (although we are getting that in the form of the hazmat suits), nor is it the wrongness of the effects of the creatures (which we get in the parasitic chipmunks), it’s how much bigger everything is than the stoats.

It’s the concept of witnessing something so much above and beyond your comprehension that you can’t describe it. It’s trying to explain what that thing is when you don’t have the vocabulary, and how strange things become when you have to dumb down what you saw so others can understand. Having to say things like “non-bear” and “blue sun”. It’s trying to explain what reading is when there’s no concept of a written language with letters. How unsettling things are when you can’t understand.

We even get the root of Eldritch Madness in Thorn. He seems strange, sketchy, and even unstable to his family, not because he’s actually “mad” but because he witnessed something incomprehensible. He understands something fundamental about the world that no one else can grasp unless they’ve also witnessed it.

Everything about this, even the pieces of the puzzle that the audience can put together with their own experiences, is made unsettling and strange.

[meraarts]

The finale sent me into a euphoria induced fugue state and I woke up with this in my camera roll

[rainebownerd]

He's truly just a single mom that works two jobs

[recycledraccoon]

Burrows End is SO SO good and Aabria is such a master of story telling. This season, despite being genuine DnD vs other systems Aabria has used, hasn't actually seen all that much full blown combat. Like, of course they've fought things throughout, but it's been so much more information hunting and puzzling together all the lore. But this obviously means those scenes we do have such full blown COMBAT with sets so much more important, which was obvious in the reactor....but the bear....so obviously it's been focused on in reference to Tula's reveal, or as a show of how fucked up biology wise this world they live in is and how dangerous it is in the forest.

But it's also Aabria laying such incredibly subtle groundwork. It's showing us "this is possible in this world. This happens. They can get inside of you, burrow into you, and you will be their walking warren. Parasite and host intertwined."

And then we move on...we focus on the secrets of the first stoats and learning of all these human things, and the chipmunks and bear are just fun tidbits to throwback to about how scary and fucked up things are, but no longer relevant.

Last week we heard those tapes, and I thought "that voice change there...the 'they're so sneaky'...was that a first stoat, who we only heard as squeaks, instead speaking through Dr. Wenabocker as he died?"

And I forgot about the bear too.

But the SECOND it was revealed that Wenabocker left, that his body was gone and that Phoebe left too? It all clicked.

The Bear wasn't just a fun, really cool fucked up battle set for an episode, it was incredibly important foreshadowing. The foundation, the trap, the big bad all at once hidden behind a cool, fucked up bear in the second goddamn episode of the season.

[hyphen-8-it]

my mood since episode 4 honestly