Further 'Steve plays D&D' shenanigans.
He plays in what the party call 'baby's first campaign', the off tangent, more chaotic and lighter campaign that Eddie's running.
He doesn't play properly, because he has zero interest in D&D at all. Eddie lets him get away with it, which everyone else finds unfair, but 'tough shit kiddies, DM's word is law'.
Steve's only character requirement is that he always has 'the bag thing' (aka the bag of holding) and mostly uses it as a weapon. Annoying NPCs, enemies or fellow party members? In the bag they go, and in the bag they suffocate. Only worthy enemies get to be killed by his sword.
He doesn't remember character names or races, instead giving them a nickname and number. (ie frog guy 1, frog dude 2). Jeff and Lucas pick up on this immediately and join in.
At first he doesn't know which of his dice to use and when. Eddie gets used to just handing him the right one...so now Steve automatically holds his hand out whenever he needs to roll. (It's much quicker.)
Once everyone knows that he and Eddie are dating, he openly and blatantly tries to negotiate re-rolls for kisses during their smoke/snack breaks (and sometimes things written down on scrap paper that makes Eddie's eyes go wide). It works most of the time, and the kids hate it, even though it works in their favour.
Steve and Eddie clash only once, when Steve's first character dies early on. Eddie hands him another character sheet, very similar, and Steve immediately names him the same name. Eddie tells him no. Steve argues for a while before looking him right in the eye and changes just the first letter of his name instead (ie Rob instead of Bob).
Steve has zero connection to his character. It's just a fun game to him, but the others take it way, way more seriously. Open the booby trapped chest? Sure, Steve will do it. Drink the potential poison? Why not! Eddie will just give him a new character if it goes wrong. There's no actual consequences, unlike the Upside Down stuff.
Everything is a NAT roll to Steve, not just 20 and 1. Nat 4, Nat 8, the whole lot. Dustin hates it so damn much.
He tries to get as many NPCs to join their party as he can, mainly so Eddie can be 'part of their team' too, instead of 'just playing the bad guys'. Eddie tells him that's not how it works, but Steve's insistent.
In combat Steve WILL waste his potions of healing if one of the party annoyed him recently. Gareth was once rolling death saves, and Steve ignored him to heal a non fatal wound on NPC #24 instead. Gareth nearly walked out, but Will took pity on him and healed him on his turn.
It's a completely different atmosphere to the 'serious' campaign, but that's what makes it more fun. Even though Steve's main goal is to annoy the rest of Hellfire and prove that their nerdy game is supposed to be fun, they don't seem to actually mind.
In fact, they love it when Steve argues back with Eddie. None of them will do it, but the DM threats just don't work on Steve. He had to roll disadvantage all night? He rolls shit anyway. Threats to kill his character off? Steve doesn't care.
And on the other hand, flattery, flirting and outright bribery works so well on Eddie that it's kind of pathetic. Steve knows that Eddie wants him there and takes full advantage to get what the party wants.
Eddie refuses to let him join the main campaign because of it.
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me, on the mic at the NYCC OFMD panel: Hi all! Lovely to see you, but this question is actually just for Nathan…
Nathan: [flounces in a “that’s right bitches” sort of way] Yeah no they’re fine, go on.
Me: So, Nathan. Speaking as the only person who has kissed 3 people on this stage [pauses briefly for audience reaction then barrels on] who is the best kisser and why is it Con O’Neill?
Nathan: [immediately regretting everything]
Vico: [clapping & dying of laughter]
Matt: [blushing & chuckling]
Con: [leaning back with a cocky smirk] Answer it, Nath
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nostalgia
i thought it was weird.
my mind reaches for a time
(i once wanted to escape)
i reread the stories
i replay the songs
i thought it was weird.
...
that i could be in love
with the feeling of falling
with the nights
i couldn't breathe
with the days
i didn't want
but that's not it.
i'm in love with the tethers
with the anchors,
with the maybe
with delicate ribbons;
they wound themself around
that
hollow
space,
(where?)
my heart was meant to beat
papier-mâché dreams
surround a chasm
it nearly
devoured me
i squeezed my eyes shut
so i could see today
...
i thought it was weird.
(but.)
i'm in love with everything
that pulled me out
songs i clung to
stories that found me
the puzzle pieces of now
(they were there all along.)
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I know this isn't anything that hasn't been said before, but I just cannot get over the way there was so much hand-wringing on the show about Jess "getting Rory into trouble" and "being a bad influence" on her, and he ended up actively influencing her behavior (in a negative way) the LEAST of any of her boyfriends? 😆 Like, yeah, there were things about their relationship that were hard, and Rory DID end up hurt and heartbroken because of some of Jess's "issues" (as Lorelai called them), but absolutely NONE of that had ANYTHING to to with Jess talking her into doing anything, which was the main focus of all the worrying! It's just so funny to me! Like, let's look at the list of things that Jess tried to "peer pressure" Rory into doing: he coaxed her into going to get ice cream cones when he was supposed to be studying? (Which Lorelai did herself in Season 1) And it didn't end well, but literally because an animal ran into the road. Let's see... He encouraged her to buy a record for her mom as a graduation present? THAT'S pretty nefarious... He tried to convince her to stay out longer and make out some more while they were dating? She said no! And dutifully went home! He asked to leave the party early? She said no! He asked her to run away with him! She said No! The ONLY things he "influenced" her to do were: to go back to Yale and make up with her mom, and to write a book about her relationship with her mom. What a "bad influence," huh? Like, I'm not trying to paint him as faultless AT ALL, but he ended up being the LEAST likely to "convince Rory to do stuff she wouldn't otherwise have done." Like, he wasn't the one convincing Rory that it's totally ok to sleep with him because his wife is totally on-board with getting divorced, or convincing Rory to "do something bad for you" and jump off something, or helping her commit a literal felony! It's just, kind of hilarious to me!
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