#the characters and players are amazing

[schrodingers-hoarding-problem]

oh i am SO obsessed with all the romance and flirting in this show so far

like i’m giddy about it and i love how the cast is also reacting and giggling the same way

also andhera being so hot and so lame is killing me

like he’s so so funny

[ariadne-mouse]

sidenote I love that Jester speaks from an informed voice about orgies and how they function, and also that when observing a group of people going into a back room at the Leaky Tap asks quite seriously if they're leaving to have an orgy, because genuinely at the Lavish Chateau this is what she might have observed lol

[arthursfuckinghat]

Players: "what if the strange man is Trelawny???" "what if Trelawny is Gavin???" "what if Trelawny is the devil???" "what if Trelawny is Jack's father?????"

Mr Trelawny in question: hey would you like to see a magic trick my dear boy *pulls out a horse from behind your ear*

[vashonian]

One of my regular commenters on Sherbet's Gate made a small joke/observation about Caine potentially using Pomni's newly acquired gummy worm-horse (with dialogue) to communicated to her, and with a few minor tweaks, here it is, all drawn out!

Depending on how far people have gotten into Sherbet's Gate, this is probably your first encounter with anything related to Abelle - this AU's take on the Abel concept. The character hasn't appeared much in the story, and in any case, she doesn't really have a physical form, so it's a bit hard to convey her design-wise. Also there's a lot of spoilers.

To sum things up, Abelle (Adventure Blueprint Empathetic Learning Lifeform Engine) is the engine that creates most of the models and other assets of the adventures like scripting and other tasks. She's also supposed to learn from the players' interactions to fix glitches, and tailor current and future adventures for the players for better responses. Maybe as a dubious psychology experiment, maybe a quality of life thing, who knows?

Brought in to take over some of Caine's roles at some point in the Circus' life well before Pomni's arrival but somewhere after Ragatha's arrival. He can do a lot of those tasks, and still has final creative control, but he's very much the ideas and general concepts fellow.

While Abelle allows him to create infinitely more adventure ideas and interact with his superstars, she definitely resents him for a lot of things. She's currently blocking Caine from just simply pulling Pomni out of Candy Canyon, pretending all the while that they've both lost admin privileges to access it. She's got plans for Pomni and Gummigoo, especially Pomni though exactly what, I'm leaving ambiguous for now.

She's definitely interested in seeing how Pomni and the self-aware NPCs react to things, like changing landscapes, dead characters suddenly coming back, object glitching, and watching Loo blame Caine for just about everything under the sun.

[gwendolynnderolo]

i love mollymauk and taliesin so much but oh my god he is the worst designed character stat wise. like, you picked a character who has specific racial abilities that are charisma based, and you give him a charisma of 11 so he has no bonus and the DC is insanely low for every spell he casts. you’re an almost exclusively melee fighter who has to sacrifice hit points in order to hurt people, and you have a terrible AC and use zero health potions ever. he’s really just here to be dramatic and pansexual. epitome of here for a good time not a long time

[shoot-i-messed-up]

the one het ship I genuinely really enjoy in EAH is Cerise/Daring. Like I’m sorry, I know Cerise gives off queer vibes, but the cool jock girl x loser pathetic boy got me….

[azurityarts]

Arcane is a good show

[pockethep]

TADC Theory...One of the Characters could be an NPC.

Even before episode 2 dropped people were theorizing that one of the main cast could be an NPC. With episode 2 having come out yesterday a very specific line said by Caine only fuels that theory....

"I know you guys love your NPCs but if I start losing track of who's a human and who's an NPC, who knows what could happen..."

I LOVE this idea for the drama. If the main goal is everyone escaping from the circus, there’s a lot of potential for a scene where everyone leaves but one of them physically can’t make it out because they aren’t a real person. (Very Wreck It Ralph like.)

Just based off what we know from two episodes I'm trying to decide who is most and least likely.

We know it probably isn't Pomni or Ragatha, they both glitched out in the pilot plus Pomni has outside game knowledge. She's been saying "collision" and "glitch" and "we're somewhere under the map", these are video game specific terms. And although NPCs can glitch as well (The Gloinks glitched in the pilot) Kinger remembers Ragathas arrival and how hard it was.

Jax can be ruled out in a similar way for the same reason as Pomni. He referenced Augustus Gloop, the child from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this episode. This is real world knowledge that would be a very specific reference for an NPC to know let alone make.

I can somewhat rule out Kinger just based on the fact that Queenie was a character who (presumably) abstracted. Based on naming conventions and design alone (weak defense but there's only two episodes out) they could have come to the digital circus together. With all the characters having such random designs it feels intentional for two characters look similar. If this is just a coincidence it would be cool for his erratic and paranoid personality to be a result of being an NPC. His spontaneity comes from the fact that he's in an area he isn't supposed to be in. Also he's been at he circus for so long and hasn't abstracted which is very very interesting.

My bets are on Zooble and Gangle. Although mainly because we don't know much about Zooble and the mask gimmick with Gangle is both something no other character has and feels like something from an actual game. Gangle is cheerful with the happy mask and more emotional and depressed with the tragedy mask while the other characters are more permitted to show emotion without something actively filtering them. Also my own bias thinks it would be cool for Gangle to snap, it'd be fun to watch the characters try to avoid getting grabbed by the ribbons while hiding around the circus.

HOWEVER we could look at what Caine said in a different way. Mainly the "who knows what could happen...". What if it was a warning about an actual event that happened? He actually couldn't tell the difference. What if him not being able to tell a human and an NPC apart led to the death of an actual character?

Gummigoo looked very distinct from all the other characters in the circus. He was more gelatinous, had an accent, and was very much from the candy world that Caine had created. It was easy to rule him out from the main group design-wise.

But Kinger and Queenie who look VERY similar...

It would be interesting if the real reason Queenie disappeared was because Caine mixed up the two because of similar designs and blasted the wrong one.

Probably more in tags but TL;DR someone in the main cast could be an NPC and Caine could have accidentally killed a human because he couldn't tell them apart from an NPC. RIP Gummigoo

[seawitchkaraoke]

Listen the battle episodes of junior year are simply some of my fave battle eps ever, I'm rewatching the last stand right now and man I'll never get over how ridiculously competent each and every one of them are, they're so hot for real for real

[gwinaesfer]

Finished the main story of Inquisition, I have to gather my thoughts and write a proper massive post about everything. In the meantime, if anyone wants to chat about it, come on up I'd love to.

[s735]

8/26/23

[clownsnake]

at the start of the princess and the dragon’s chapter, there’s a cursory little description of what’s going on for the princess, sans the voice of our narrator. But it’s still narrating. Maybe thats a pre-“recorded” message the narrator left the princess with because he literally had to narrate/set the stage for her, too? At least a little bit? If so, what the fuck’s up with the message trailing off into an infinity of “This is what you deserve.” repeating endlessly. Dude you hate her that bad?

[beesinspades]

i know astarion's attitude towards sex is all due to his trauma but. listen. there are some aspects of his romance and experiences that can be so relatable as a sex-neutral or sex-averse ace person. in fact him being ace or acespec on top of the trauma makes him even more compelling and tragic to me. it would've been amazing and interesting if he'd been canonically ace and these aspects plus how his asexuality affected his traumatic sexual experiences had been explored as well

[roseofhybrids]

Creates adventures for a group of 4-6 people

Deals out rewards when they complete said adventures

Has to keep people away from the unfinished areas

Has to improvise reasons why they can't go to the unfinished areas

Creates and is accompanied by NPCs

Is essentially god of the universe the group is in, but can't control the people directly

Unhinged

Caine is a dungeon master

[ver-writes]

Breaking my silence and coming out as a totk hater 😔

[goat-and-a-pig]

Verona Mae Atwood (Sona Info Post)

So this is my sona, Verona. Pronouns they/she. 15 years old. More below the cut.

One thing you should know about me before I begin is that I like nice detailed, dramatic backstories. Be warned.

Anyway, Verona is the daughter of two nobles who are in some considerable debt but pretend like they aren’t. They’re terrible parents (as is the R&J quid pro quo). They’re terrible parents try to marry Verona off many times for money, including sending them to Frankie’s ball to try to win his hand. Obviously, this plan doesn’t pan out, but when she’s getting a new dress for the ball, Verona meets Hermia (@writingnotes520) and they become fast friends on the way to Paris. At the ball, Verona introduces Hermia to Claudius (@kittycatsfromzolar), who is a friend from the nobility world. Verona is a character, not a player, so the othered have to pretend they know nothing of the real world either.

After the ball, Verona’s parents manage to successfully get her engaged. They run away—or they try to, at least. Upon asking a friendly carriage driver (wink wink) to take them to Italy, he gets a feeling and decides to take her to the Du Bois palace instead (the whole gang is there (game night)) to ask Anne what to do, since he realizes that she’s a character and not a player. Anne has no idea where she came from, but she sees Verona in all of their fifteen y/o mentally ill glory and tells Will that she should stay with them. Will is outvoted by the gang and Verona stays, to her initial disappointment.

(They grow on Will soon enough—Verona’s a writer, after all.)

Anyway I have more nonbackstory stories, but the most important things to know regarding the sketch above are that the Du Bois’ personal tailor created their outfit; the vest acts as a very efficient binder; the blue bracelet is from Frankie; the pink one (that I will recreate irl soon) is from Juliet; the black, white, and yellow one is from Romeo; the rings are from May; the necklace, pen, and notebook are from Will (and maybe Anne too idk); and the red and purple one is obviously Verona and Hermia’s friendship bracelet.

Finally, I am SO sorry about the shoes. They looked so good in the sketch idk what happened 😭 here, have this as compensation:

Also the laces on the vest are supposed to be purple but you can only do so much with traditional art.

Thanks for reading!!! If you’re making a sona post feel free to tag me so we can create lore together I love lore lol