ran off the rails 2 hyperfixations ago

i never tag spoilers and i am so sorry | my names Rey and I definitely do not adore podcasts so I definitely did not make this blog. This blog is not real. (banner by @tomorrowisstillempty and icon by @grim-anatomist) my main is do-rey-me

[miss-holloways]

Rip laerryn coramar-seelie you would've loved the phrase "skill issue"

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Lou Wilson. Exandria Unlimited: Calamity Episode 4: "Fire and Ruin". 2022. // René Magritte. The Giant (Paul Nougé) (cropped). 1937.

[paper-wounds]

[obibail]

Azune & Thaisha, Overture to Convergence

[zeeimpalaangel]

Dimension 20 | Misfits & Magic S2 | Ep 2

Evan wants to make a good impression. Jammer wants these lizards DEAD

[skullcleaver-elementary]

Here’s my really rough Intrepid Heroes character predictions for the upcoming season of Dimension 20 (this is with the assumption it’s a regular set up with Brennan DMing)

Lou - Wyon: a stuffed lion toy that’s name was mispronounced by a child. (I saw someone say this in a comment section and I immediately knew it to be true) 

Emily - Constance: a haunted doll who just wants to be loved 

Siobhan - Calypso: a classic teddy bear who is/was the favourite toy

Murph - Avery: a green army man that’s the last one of his unit 

Zac - Clyde: a rocking “war” horse with trauma (Clydesdale)

Ally - Tiddly Winks: a terribly creepy clown marionette doll

[dimension20memes]

She'll squee over a nutpug and then punch you into next week.

[brennan-lee-mother]

I am endlessly charmed by the fact that Murph as Maxwell opts to help (use the help action) instead of making his own check whenever there’s a Wisdom or Intelligence check to be made. It’s the optimal thing to do of course, from a meta perspective, but I love it as a character beat.

Maybe this is why the crew calls it a tone issue and not a personality issue, because they know Max is humble enough to defer to the experts, to help quietly, and that he does it readily and eagerly. He recognises when he needs to let others take the lead and in that he takes after his grandfather, nothing like his father at all.

[greenestonions]

i obviouslyyyy want a fuil s2 of cloudward ho as much as the next b*tch and we can all dream about the torsewellitude of it all but tbh at this point i genuinely think the most perfect way for it to become canon would be for murph and brennan, in a cloho-based live show, to just already have max and torse referring to each other as Dating or Partners or mentioning moments of their shared life or whatever with zero explanation as though their getting together had occurred between the end of s1 and whatever the timeline of the live show is. and to not tell anyone else and just act like this was totally normal common knowledge

[bermudarhombus1]

how do I explain to people that I genuinely and with 100% sincerity think that the greatest love story in all of fiction is a 6.5 minute dnd podcast monologue about a character named barry bluejeans and his hot elf girlfriend playing music and holding hands

[luobingmeis]

“here there be gerblins” is like what if you couldn’t save everyone. “petals to the metal” is like what if the love was there and it couldn’t save everyone but the love was still there. “crystal kingdom” is like what if the love was there and it couldn’t save everyone and it actually made things worse but the love was there. “the eleventh hour” is like what if love started all of this but you couldn’t save everyone (you couldn’t save everyone (you couldn’t save everyone (you couldn’t save everyone (you couldn’t save everyone (you could save everyone))))). “stolen century” is like what if you could try again (what if there was love) (what if you could try again).

[jetaircraft]

SO excited to watch the new game changer tomorrow cause its one of the first episodes where I skimmed the tag and still have absolutely NO IDEA what's happening. like ifys entering some distinct layer of grant-o'brien themed hell. sam is wenis-ing alone despite the fact there is more than twice as many contestants as usual. every post I've seen is calling it a more intense version of escape the green room, the episode where they trapped three people in an escape room against their will. the episode's called count the rice. what could they possibly be trying to accomplish.

[twilanore]

also can we talk about the game design of count the rice?? brilliant

the only challenges that require multiple people are at the beginning and end - at the beginning to allow the players to bounce around there for a bit before they realize they need to go down, and also at the end to ensure that a runaway player has to wait for another to catch up

count the rice itself, of course, can only be played with one player, so that players never actually have to count rice (if you had to wait for a second player at the end, then whoever got closest would win) (this is ofc not accounting for hannah pilkes)

the middle rooms are great too, because they are easy to intentionally fail, and hard to win. the spot the difference rooms are especially good, because you think you understand what it is (spot the difference between the two halves of the room), and this is seemingly confirmed when you successfully loose, but once you come back to try to win, you realize you did not actually fully understand the game. the placement of these is important, too - only players who were intentionally trying to lose got to those rooms. any higher in the sequence, and they might have had a player trying to win reach the rooms first, and then they'd realize the twist

and also the decision to split the rooms up? 2 and 3 in a separate space from 4-8, so players would assume there are only 3 until someone loses enough, subtly hiding the majority of the game from them

ugh just so many little details in the game design here are so perfect and well thought out, game changer is clearly such a labor of love

[patronsaint-ofmystery]

catherine is hopefully going to become the new demi (dropout’s up-and-coming superstar), which works because demi is on his way to becoming the new brennan (in everything yet still can’t win one damn time, sam has him on speed dial), and that also works because brennan is somewhere out there playing ten games of dungeons and dragons at once

[asphor]

I really loved this bit

[star-h0pper]

i'm finally getting caught up on cr4 e31 and man. the clear influences of the player's real life culture in their characters (and in the worldbuilding in brennan's case) is amazing and adds such a richness. like thaisha is so clearly influenced by like. black american folk culture Especially with the orcish revolutionaries. idk if liam is irish but he's at least running with a lot of the irish american working class stuff brennan injected into the world in terms of the hal and the culture of the round. and azune's whole bit about not having anyone to speak his native language to and his disconnect to his own identity (diaspora narrative). i Love when real world cultures are reflected in fiction it's so good.

[star-h0pper]

#and what Robbie is doing with Katt seems to be very much exploring the unchecked violence against native women and children in the USA

oh fuck you're right. you're totally right that's exactly the allegory.

[quinn-of-aebradore]

@hemisphaericas hope it’s okay to save your tags, Rose, they’re very very good!!!

[nat1vibe]

Aramán’s little soldier boy