#worlds beyond number

[embraceweird]

In ep 24 "Knock Knock" I found this interaction between Kalaya and Eursulon so fascinating

Kalaya: You're a true friend of a wizard of the citadel?

Eursulon: Yes.

[...]

Kalaya: Is she kind?

Eursulon: She can be.

It felt like such a big sister thing to be cautious of this wizard and have concern for her little brother. A spirit in a world that can be unkind to wild ones such as themselves.

But more interesting than that was Eursulon's answer. "She can be." It could be interpreted as, sometimes she is kind and other times not. Which we have seen both from Suvi (wielding the power, prestige, and station of a wizard vs loving and cherishing her friends).

But it could also be interpreted in a future connotation. Like she COULD be kind but we have yet to see. Will the citadel justification machine take over or will she retain the lessons learned from grandmother wren and hold on to a respect for the world of spirits

Last Eursulon saw Suvi she was caught between her friends and the citadel. And while wizardry is not innately unkind the systems put in place by the citadel can be concerning. Suvi has the potential to go down an alarming path with the brass of the citadel pushing her along. She has the capacity to be "unkind". But the gut reactions we see from her. The Suvi reactions, not Sky or the citadel, but SUVI are always kind. With her friends in her life Suvi can be kind and would continue to be kind. But her friends keep pulling away and the fall out from the last goodbye may be very influential into who Suvi will be.

Eursulon may not have meant much by his response but it feels very ominous in that we are yet to see the type of legacy this interation of the wizard Sky is going to leave.

[hoarding-stories]

Steel: Brilliant people, when they are following a compulsion, tend to invent an innocent reason for doing so. (...) Brilliant minds find justifications for things

Brennan behind the 4th wall, at the top of his lungs:

[juha-art]

Something about living by the sword

inspired by this post by @genderbinaryisforlosers because it fucked me up

[utilitycaster]

I always think about, in long campaigns, the fact that characters have to change. You can't do a character that has one problem that resolves over ten and twenty episodes, right? It's like they have to be so dynamic that they can have character flaws, work on them, achieve growth and catharsis, discover a new problem, start over again, like, that kind of thing." - Brennan Lee Mulligan (Fireside Chat for WWW ep 24)

[worldsbeyondpod]

📢 BEING SMART WILL NOT SAVE YOU!!!! 📢

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[islandoforder]

the irony of aabria of all people saying “oh no consequences” when brennan imposes disadvantage on lou after aabria has been talking absolute nonsense

[raguonmynieceandnephew]

Got rid of my stupid Motorola and got my self a real phone with a real notes app. To celebrate, here's the updated version of the WBN: WWW - On Sight List, as per after episode 23.

I AM NOT JOKING, WHAT HAPPENED TO FLICKER, BRENNAN?

[akafred32092]

Sometimes, you're casually making breakfast while listening to the fireside for Worlds Beyond Number & you suddenly hear Erika read a question you submitted about the episode.

I'm being *super normal* about it

[lovecolibri]

"Knights left this world long ago. But a knight is someone who chooses danger for themselves over the thought of danger for another. If you do that, are knights truly gone?"

*chills*

[brainrockets]

May Worlds Beyond Number be remembered for all of its glorious story and world building...

But also the just epic number of bits it has already generated.

Everyone is COMMITTED to the 7 point scale that drives Brennan up a wall, for instance.

[sexybedhead]

“you feel like you’re giving very chill vibes for like the beginning of the war” is a sentence I will be thinking abt often

[josephkeller]

Steel thinks that the witches have underestimated wizards and the Citadel.

And honestly, I kind of want the witches to have estimated them perfectly.

[yeehawpim]

a comic about different types of storytellers

[chungledown-bimothy]

reblog to tell a 14 year old that these are the very, very hard years and they're not wrong to feel the way they do.

[7lizardsinacoat]

SAY HI, PACK OF PIXIES!

Every time I rewatch A Court of Fey and Flowers (or let's be real, any campaign Aabria Iyengar is in or runs), I had more and more wanted to paint her. So I did. Truly one of my favorite and most inspirational DMs, and a fashion icon to boot.

[catknifetime]

“Brennan Lee Mulligan drops the fact that he’s now a father on the Worlds Beyond Number fireside chat while doing a bit about escaping the Panamanian jungle” was not on my 2024 bingo card tbh