#the unsleeping city chapter 2

[hollyevolving]

Okay so I do actually want to see the side quest campaign set in the bicycle universe with the penny-farthing professor, the vespa villains, and the god-figure horses.

[chungledown-bimothy]

"I think the most impressive d4 roll I've ever seen was in this episode."

Brennan, I'd like to remind you of Pete's Bend Luck on Kingston's Divine Intervention in the last episode of The Unsleeping City Chapter II. The one where a d4 made the difference on a d100 roll.

[dieantik]

🌙 what, if anything, stays? 🐉

[for @d20megazine]

[poppysplace-edits]

dream team blinkies! made with blinkie cafe (had to shorten your on cody’s so it would fit haha)

[amore-vincit-omnia]

The Unsleeping City II is so heartbreaking because its just Brennan making up a magical explanation as to why his city (and the world tbh, but most importantly New York, which he loves so deeply) is in the state its in: homelessness, isolation, erasure, depression, consumerism, egoism, forgetting our roots our history, etc etc im sure im missing a lot of points here.

He's actually not making up a magical explanation, he's just telling us, he's laying it out, he's warning us and its heartbreaking because we have all seen it, we have all experienced it, we are all probably aware of it. Idk i find this really sad.

The moral of the story is not capitalism is bad (tho true), its 'we should be kind to each other', the moral of the story is 'the other vox phantasma didn't have a vox populi, they didn't have a Sofia or a Kugrash or a Ricky, etc, they didn't have community', the moral is 'capitalism is a cause but also a symptom', the moral is 'when people dont have other people they stop believing, they stop living, they become so numb they'd rather stop dreaming altogether', the moral is idk the moral is that i have too much free time and can't stop thinking about this and i have no clue why its making me sad so I'm rambling

[keirashark]

I have acquired a new meme format:

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

this joke is just always going to be funny no matter what

also raphaniel and cody would 100% be best friends in the worst way possible imo

[kermit-coded]

[operationslipperypuppet]

comparing any turn to cody’s legendarily bad turn in tuc2 is so rude every single time

[cloudcowboy]

we’re going to be a family!

the dale and sofia reunion is something that can be so personal.

[aloekat]

giving pokemon teams to d20 characters!

The Unsleeping City S1 & S2

pt 2/?

part 1 || part 2

second verse same as the first, check out part one for my guidelines on how i made the teams! short version is only 4 pokemon per team, no repeats, and little to no shinies or legendaries

fun fact the unsleeping city was actually the first season i thought of pokemon for, and why i started to make teams in the first place!

i also like unsleeping city a uhhh a lot less than fantasy high so my fantasy high picks (part 1) are a lot more thought out and maybe cooler than these picks but hey i'm still happy with these!

oh also unsleeping ch. 1 and 2 spoilers ahead of course :]

Sophia

Purugly - symbolizing La Gran Gata! also it just feels like Sophia would have this pokemon it fits her Vibe

Furfrou (Heart Trim) - she is a hair stylist!! of course she would have the hair stylized dog!!! she mainly keeps her as the heart trim but it doesnt 100 percent always stay that way

Mienshao - cool and cute monk pokemon for obvious reasons lol

Raticate - represents kugrash after he dies(?). shockingly the raticate and purugly get along well, and are actually pretty nice with each other

Ricky

Boltund - there’s no dalmatian pokemon (which there should be maybe) so this is the closest i got to representing Ox! boltunds are VERY fast though so it still works lol

Blastoise - what better pokemon to have as a fireman than a giant water tank? probably got a squirtle when he was young and it evolved as he grew up :]

Kleavor - represents the fireman ax he carried

Machamp - Ricky is all about exercise so naturally i gave him the super buff pokemon. they probably train together and like do pushups or whatever fit people do

Kingston

Dachsbun - representing both the dog he gets in season 2 along with bagels in general, which seems to be a symbol for him (see the vox populi pin)

Drampa - similar to how i imagine the dragon of bleaker’s street would look, it also just feels like an old man of a pokemon (which kingston is)

Blissey - i like to imagine doctors/nurses get blisseys once they like are hired in healthcare to help their trainers with the patients (and also blisseys are absolute TANKS in terms of defense)

Magnezone - Kingston did that cool tech shutdown/takeover thing in one of the season one battles at the stock market and i thought that was cool. and also it fits because Vibes

Misty / Rowan

Gardevoir - a beautiful pokemon that always looks youthful, just like Rowan

Primarina - a singing pokemon that wouldve helped Misty practice her singing for plays

Meloetta - same reason, a singing pokemon lol

Scream Tail - rather than a standard Jigglypuff i would like to imagine an ancient thousand year old one was much more interesting! it also ties to Rowan's reincarnation thing she has goin' on

Iga

Goodra - a dragon to represent the storybook dragon inside of the chest she has! i didn’t do charizard because i saved that one for a future season team (take a guess who)

Gimmighoul - a chest pokemon because. she. she has a chest thats very important to her. yeah!!!

Perrserker - pure vibes i just feel she would have this pokemon lol

Hatterene - also mostly vibes, she Is a psychic so it works but yeah she gets a hatterene because i say so

Kugrash

Rapidash (Galarian) - unicorn totem

Unfezant (Male) - spicy pigeon totem

Ladyba - juicy cockroach totem (i didn’t do kricketune because i want to use it for a later team. can you again guess who)

Arceus - our first true legendary! kugrash literally becomes omnipotent so you know what he can have pokemon god on his team

Cody

Aegislash (Shiny) - it’s literally The sword pokemon of course Cody would have one. it’s shiny because if he spent a long time growing his real sword collection he can spend a long time finding a shiny. also it’s black and red like Thirsting Blade Dark Excalibur Mega Genesis

Grimmsnarl - the most emo pokemon ive ever seen so of course Cody gets it. as a treat

Houndoom - “but aloe why didn’t you give this to Fig?!” shshhhshshhhh. listen my sweet child. houndoom is for the emo boys. which Cody is. and also also it parallels the other paladin on the team, Ricky, and his dog pokemon, Boltund. does that make sense….

Corviknight - emo pokemon #3 on the team. also knight means sword so in a roundabout way it’s another sword related pokemon

Pete

Polteageist - Pete has a teapot in his official art and while yes. it is blue and so is the non-shiny form i think purple in general fits Pete a LOT more than blue so here we are lol

Musharna - literally the dream pokemon this was an easy peasy pick and very obvious

Hypno - another dream-like pokemon but much more scary to maybe represent a sort of nightmare compared to the sweeter dreams from Musharna

Vivillion (Garden Pattern) - representing Luna his green butterfly familiar! i feel like everyone (including the PCs) forget Luna exists and it makes me a little sad :(

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that's all for this new york team! i plan on doing a crown of candy next :]

have any suggestions or changes you would make? let me know i would love to hear your takes on the teams :D!

[hollyevolving]

AAAA more foreshadowing!

Same episode. Adventuring Party episode 3 for A Crown of Candy.

Three seasons later, in Unsleeping City Chapter 2, what does JJ Jacobs study at Columbia which leads him to discovering magic?

The New York fucking Minute.

[sylvansleuth]

Well, here's the thing that you don't know, Brennan. That's that nothing bad is ever gonna happen to me, okay.

[dieantik]

🌵 pete conlan, vox phantasma, cowboy of dreams 🌙🔮🤠 [for @d20zinejam]

[say hi, courageous cowboys! ✨ zine jam bundle]

[janchovies]

Hot nyc tip: Don’t talk shit if u within Spider-Man kissin distance 😤

[chungledown-bimothy]

brennan claiming that jesus christ would be a union worker displays a better understanding of the new testament than every single fundamentalist/evangelical christian

i thought fantasy high was the campaign for unpacking religious trauma