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[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

© _ADwills

be kind to yourself and your creations ♡

[drawwithouttalent]

if Sir Julien Davinos called my name like that i would spend the night thinking "what are we"

[wastelanderscribeknight-raz]

On a Team Staying in Dol-Makjar Post-Convergence

I don't think there will be a Dol-Makjar team. I think too many people have blown their cover, will blow their cover, or have already stated goals that pertain to outside the city. The one exception might be Azune but I think he will have to leave for another reason. Let's go over everyone.

Color key:

Red: High Risk

Orange: Medium Risk

Violet: Low Risk

Pink: Risk Existing Depends on What They Do But Otherwise Has No Reason to Leave Currently

Green: Could Leave or Stay

Blue: Has No Reason to Leave Currently

Azune: He needs a big break. He has had too many breakdowns scheming. Scheming is too stressful for him. I feel like he is going to be convinced to leave by his friends. He might also need to blow his cover to rescue Kattigan. He does have alter self but it is concentration so it may drop if he gets hit and it will if he has to cast a spell. More on that...

Murray: To start, there is the matter of Murray being in the room at the Gala before she was supposed to. Maybe Yanessa or Filoneus didn't catch thay. Anyways... she hasn't definitively blown her cover yet but Tyranny and maybe also Bolaire will probably need to call for help using their magpies to get help from some of Team Theater to rescue Kattigan. They are probably going to send two or three. I can see them sending Murray and Azune or just one of those two. The one who would definitely go would be...

Thaisha: Thaisha already has leverage against the demons, or at least she thinks she does. She also has wild shape and horses are pretty fast, so she can probably get there the quickest if she wanted to. Kattigan's reaction to "Thaisha" and "Hal" also confirmed that it wasn't surprising that Thaisha knew Hal (if the demons caught that. They are dumb.) On top of all that, Wick knows that Yanessa is suspicious of Thaisha and I'm sure others are too since she was confirmed to be fraternizing with Julien by Otto. Thaisha also has to meet with her grandma and she kind of already committed to doing that next.

Hal: He openly defied House Halovar. He's done. Also, small point but reiterating that Kattigan confirmed that Hal knows Teor. Let's just hope they didn't catch that.

Tyranny: It may look really bad for her if there is a rescue attempt from other people or even if she does it with only Bolaire. She might to look like a leak if more people come to rescue Kattigan. It will also be really bad if she comes home and is the only survivor with news that Kattigan was rescued. Maybe Tyranny can pretend to fight back and maybe a sister or multiple will escape with her. We will see. She was also still going with the kidnapped story even though Wick dropped that but it does seem like her sisters didn't catch it (Again they are dumb).

Kattigan: He is done. Yanessa already wants his shadows snipped.

Wicander: Technically there is some risk with Tyranny's slip. A greater reason though is that Armas probably isn't in the city and he wants to find her. His sister just told him that the Creed dosen't have her.

Julien: He is already in hiding mode and now all of the Sundered Houses have reasons to suspect that he might have a grudge. He also committed to going to the Golden Orchard (not that they are definitely going to do that).

Teor: He is as wanted as Kattigan is. Also, he has committed to sticking with Thimble and Cyd wants to take him to Houndsport (not that those aren't contradictory).

Occtis: Primus wants Occtis and he was in hiding mode anyways.

Thimble: There is no threat to her but she has been building a team to go to the Golden Orchard. It also looks like Faerie might reopen after the ritual and I imagine that she would feel it like how she felt when it closed. She would want to go visit and it would be great for making allies and evacuating the fey in Dol-Makjar there since they are in danger in the city.

Vaelus: She wants to go back home. It seems like the Sea Door might be close to her homeland.

Bolaire: He has a museum to run and Termina is in town. I think Termina could leave though to build a god. She might go to quarry that the Cormorays are involved with. Saying this because on a meta level Termina definitely will leave to give Bolaire a hook if there aren't enough pcs to have a schemer team stay in Dol-Makjar.

Note: This is somewhat speculatory and I didn't want to include it in the analysis because of that but I think Team Bird Watching will run into Segundus on their mission and if they escape or are captured but escape eventually then that will give all of them a greater reason to leave. They are all in a bad way and I feel like any variation of dying, being captured, and running is possible. Petra and Ryah sent a letter to him saying to meet them in Dol-Makjar so that they can go north together for the Sea Door. Petra and Ryah being in Dol-Makjar indicates that they did not go through the Sea Door yet because that is quite the trip. Where is Segundus?

[theflyingsealion]

The continued glaring absence of Lady Tachonis is leading me down the perilous theory path that she and Marienna are the same person.

[elieowlsclownery]

My shot in the dark theory for why Primus targeted Kattigan’s children and not even recognizing him is that his wife was a sorcerer and/or noble who chose to run from her old life some time before joining the rebellion and then starting a family. Primus killed her and her child as either retribution for turning against their House (even more dramatic even she was a Tachonis) and/or to recruit her into their undead army. It was a recruitment drive.

My second shot in the dark is that maybe Primus didn’t kill both the wife and daughter. There was blood on his face but no evidence of what occurred in the cabin. If the wife was a sorceress maybe his daughter was too, and it’d be a waste of recourses to kill her right after. He’d have ways to spiriting one or both of them out of their cabin before Kattigan shows up.

[wastelanderscribeknight-raz]

Uncle, we hope this letter finds you well and that Castle Torch's garrison proved sufficient to handle this last-minute improvisation. We must make all haste to Dol-Makjar, and from there, we head north to board the Moray and see forthwith beyond the Sea Door.

The Sea Door is likely quite the trip. Petra and Ryah bring at the meeting likely means that they haven't done it yet which would mean that after this is the heading north phase. Which leads me to one question. Where is Segundus? He wasn't at the meeting that we know of.

I think Team Bird watch will run into him while he is questioning Mara. If that is true Team Bird Watch is in trouble. They are already depleted some what and they didn't bring as many people as they should have. I really think that next episode has a high chance of a pc death.

[ginawankenobi]

Actual photo of Agony, Cruelty, and Enmity capturing Kattigan

[baltrale]

Someone else pointed out the whole, sure, his words may be true in a "letter of the law" sort of way ("the deva was not intended to kill anyone here," yeah, but you could have them killed other ways/if it destroys a city you happen be in and you happen to die, *whoopsie*), but I think there's another angle to this too. He wants to be emperor, but keep the people he's been rivals with for generations as his vassals instead of wiping them out?

I think it goes back to his argument for unity against the commoners. He wants the other houses to be meat shields between himself and the people. Maybe I'm wrong, but historically aren't the people at the most accessible level of power the ones who get attacked first? King too powerful and scary and far away, but this local lord is right here!

[screechfoxes]

We said 'flower-doll' not because that's how we saw you, but because it's what we knew she saw you as. An eternity, to have all of your complexity, all of your possibility, all of your dreams folded into an idyllic paradise where you would be punished for the most minor infraction?

CRITICAL ROLE 4.28 Chasing Shadows

[screechfoxes]

CRITICAL ROLE 4.29 Opening Night

[onyxbird]

You know, I'm starting to think part of the reason for Julien being such a jerk to people is because if he has non-hostile interactions with anyone for a too long, they get automatically added to his mental list of people he needs to protect. 😂 He's just one non-magical knight in a dangerous world--he cannot let this list get out of hand; he's already overextended as it is.

(The Barrowguard is the exception where he can be friendly to people, because they are collaboratively protecting the rest of Araman against the threats of the Barrowdell via methods he understands, so Barrowguard friends are perceived as sharing the protection burden rather than being part of an expanding list of responsibilities.)

Recent evidence including:

In general, immediately becoming much more collaborative in combat even if still bickering with the same people outside combat.

Joined Team Knife & Palette specifically because Tyranny and Wick requested protection.

Had to justify to himself (either inner monologue or literally talking to himself) why he wasn't going to risk his neck going to help Cyd, a guy he barely knows, whose immediate reaction to Julien when he was unpetrified was hostility, and who is surrounded by shadows.

Insisted on not fleeing without getting Occtis out first, to the point of tossing Occtis over his shoulder to get him out, on the grounds that Occtis was hurt, despite Occtis being 1) less injured than Julien (and entirely with self-inflicted wounds), 2) resistant to some of the threats of this fight, and 3) in a location where his family connection and magical expertise given him advantages none of the rest of them have.

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

Wick: I'll hold Lioran's hand as we walk down the hall. 

Brennan: He holds your hand. As you touch his hand though, he doesn't notice it, you see a little outline—just a trace, almost like someone writing in a little couple motes of light—of translucent wings, spread behind his back as you touch him, and he skips down the hallway with you.

(Cr4e29)

[undead-knick-knack]

Gonna have to be more specific when confronting Primus

[undead-knick-knack]

[madonnamadeofasphalt]

Primus Tachonis: Listen to me. Remember, you have all the time you need, alright? We can save our empire. Remember, my Lords and Lady. The greatest magic of all. Do you remember?

Otto Einfasen: ...is friendship?

Primus Tachonis: What the fuck is wrong with you? Friendship? Friends die all of the time! What an insane...

Yanessa Halovar: The greatest magic of all is the Devil making us believe he doesn't exist.

Primus Tachonis: No, that's a saying. Listen to me! Friendship? Fuck! All this: “Love is the greatest magic of all.” So, in a war, a mother and her children get fucking iced in an alleyway outside of their home, was the problem that they didn't love each other enough? That's crazy, my Lords and Lady! That's crazy! Love is not magic! Magic is magic, love is love!

Atakani Cormoray: Okay, what's the answer, cokehead?

Primus Tachonis: Class solidarity between the ruling elites!

[madonnamadeofasphalt]

Not gonna lie, I'm gonna find it extremely fucking funny if they're unlucky with the dice while trying to rescue Kattigan so he simply gets eaten by the tailor demons two scenes into the next episode. What a character arc it would be. Accidentally finds out the identity of the killer he's been chasing for years, cut into pieces an hour of runtime later, his whole shit left completely unresolved. Shaggy-dog story meets a Bad Luck Brian meme.

[vaticvibes]

Crackpot theory that Marienna is Occtis’ mom whose been conspicuously absent this whole campaign (because she ran away to marry someone who wasn’t an insane asshole) and that’s why Primus went after her and her daughter specifically