The Adventure Zone... Zone Sideblog

TAZ Balance sideblog, also mod of the TAZZ discord. Fic and drabble writer who has too many feelings about the Starblaster crew. Member of the Lucretia Needs a Hug club.

[oozegod]

ive been re-listening to the balance arc of the adventure zone and like hey im crying?? im crying. i love Lucretia with my entire being 

[balance-and-bonds]

always love seeing a Lucretia fanart that I haven’t seen before.

And a HAPPY Lucretia?? Good <3

[luobingmeis]

lucretia is still the most character of all time like yes it’s been years since i’ve listened to balance yes i would still do anything in a heartbeat for lucretia

[balance-and-bonds]

Yes

[supertaliart]

Is it an inside joke if only half of you remembers that it’s being repeated?

[balance-and-bonds]

I love them...

[bogleech]

I want more villains who care about their henchmen. I wanna see the bad guy fly into a rage because the hero hurt their very favorite bungling goon and it was nearly his birthday.

[bogleech]

"how dare you fail me you miserable oafs!!" should be retired. "How DARE they bully my adorable oafs!!!" should be industry standard.

Underlings having to hold back their dark lord like an overprotective parent because they don't really want a famous hero to get outright murdered just on their behalf.

[cellarspider]

I can’t think of anything precisely like this off the top of my head, but it did remind me of the lovely Dark Lord of Derkholm books, by DIanna Wynne Jones.

The premise is that a magical world has fallen under the malign control of a packaged tour company from Earth. They’re forced to regularly stage an Epic Quest for the tourists, which of course must include a Dark Lord to defeat. This time, a small-time wizard and family man named Derk drew the short straw. He, his enchantress wife, and their seven kids--two human, five griffon--have to put on a convincing show at running an evil empire, avoid getting murdered by holiday makers, and maybe save the world from the true evil of Mr. Chesney's Pilgrim Parties.

I haven’t read it in years so please excuse me if I’ve forgotten anything, but to my memory it’s a delightful book, and managed to skewer the antecedents of the isekai genre back in 1998.

[balance-and-bonds]

This is very much Klaarg ‘YOU THREW MY WOLF IN THE FIRE’ and I’m here for it

[larndraws]

“I saw seven bird”. Oh boy, I’m done, and pretty happy with how they all turned out! I’m guessing on a few of the names and relics, so here’s hoping I’m not to far off! 

[lyrelyrepantsonfiree]

The Lonely Journal Keeper

[balance-and-bonds]

This was some sly, sly foreshadowing, Griffin, what the fuck

[balance-and-bonds]

I have gone from ‘Lucretia isn’t a villain and she never meant to hurt anyone’ and have now shifted to:

Lucretia is a goddamn HERO and deserves nothing but peace and happiness.

[balance-and-bonds]

Seven Nights (a TAZ Balance fic)

Chapter 3: Magnus’s Night (part 1)

Story Summary: Cycle 1. As far as they know, they’re the only ones left. Perhaps it was inevitable that they’d consider… re-population. Lucretia writes up a weekly schedule to try and address that. Absolutely no one is happy with this.

Chapter 3: Magnus has a Plan.

~~

Preview:

Tonight is his night with Lucretia. He’s looking forward to it, if nothing else because it has otherwise been a miserable day for Magnus Burnsides.

Breakfast was awful. Lup was beginning to actually terrify him, and he’s kinda glad the food wasn’t poisoned. Just to be safe, he declined the plate of rose apple slices placed in front of him. Lunch he avoided by grabbing a half-assed sandwich and heading outside, only coming back in when it began to downpour in the afternoon. The captain caught him on the way in for a private lecture, both warning and vaguely threatening him, and he had nodded and mumbled vague answers, unable to meet his eyes. He realized pretty quick it was best to avoid everyone, because, well, reasons, and so tried to make himself scarce on a ship that seemed smaller than when it was just him and Lucretia in the prior months. Speaking of, he hasn’t seen her all day, which sucks.

Dinner was equally awful, with Lucretia still notably absent and everyone else sullen and tense, with more than a few harsh glares sent his way. He can deal with it, though, as he excuses himself early and goes to the kitchen, taking the opportunity to steal more provisions: beans, salt, dried brown things that taste a bit like jerky, and the like. Taking extra food isn’t exactly against the rules, but it’s awfully close and everyone is already on a short fuse with him, so this is gonna get real ugly if he gets caught.

Read the rest Here

[balance-and-bonds]

Lucretia and Magnus friendship during Stolen Century is good shit.

They seem so different, you got your wallflower bookworm who sits back and writes everything, and then you have Magnus Rushes In who wants to go pet every dog and punch things.

But they’re the two youngest of the crew, they’re Babies, and I can see them realizing after a point that they actually have a fair bit in common.

The moment Magnus realizes that Lucretia has a dirty, dry sense of humor is the moment he goes: oh shit that’s friend material

(also he is the Protector and he looks at her, all of like a hundred pounds soaking wet, and is extra protective, that good brother/sister energy)

[prim-moth]

Hey guess who’s losing their mind over taz b

[balance-and-bonds]

I’m weak for that Lucretia. Also poor Merle

[667-darkavenue]

Magnus and Lucretia, secret handshakes [5/7]

[balance-and-bonds]

Lucretia is HILARIOUS and I cannot do her justice because she’s got such a weird dry sense of humor that kills me

[raineydaywrites]

Lucretia, Magnus, and Barry are part of the Faerun Killed My Wife Club

[balance-and-bonds]

For real.

If you go with the headcanon that Lucretia and Maureen were a couple (or headed that way, before her death) then fucking ow...

Imagine Lucretia having no one to talk to, no one to share her grief with and it’s just one more horrible thing, one more guilt to put on her shoulders, and then at last, once things are over and beginning to heal, she might finally be able to open up about what she lost. Magnus especially would be able to relate, both of them sharing their grief with the family they have left.

[ctrldsay]

Friendly sparring

I’ve got this headcanon that Lucretia and Magnus (being the two young human members of the Starblaster crew) were best friends in a lawful good Yzma and Kronk sorta way.

[jastard]

Now that she’s not the youngest anymore she has the high ground

[newt-kazoot]

Merle said something about holding hands while the worm rocked their shit and it made me cry cuz ;-; yeah they prolly did that with the other birds too (bonus istus with a quote that will also never fail to make me tear up)

[balance-and-bonds]

God these are making me feel emotions... Magnus as the protector and just the idea of all of them thrown into this horrific situation and having to rely and depend on each other.

[blueoceanarts]

[ID: Several sketches of Lup from the Adventure Zone. Lup is a thin elven woman with brown skin and curly blonde hair with dark roots. In the first sketch, she is standing with a hand on her hip and there is a wand in her pocket. The second sketch is in profile, and Lup is smiling cheekily. In the third sketch Lup is leaned back where she sits, laughing. End ID.]

idc if flowy clothes are a fire hazard I think she looks good in them