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occtis’ fate, place your bets.
he’ll be saved just in time and will be Fine (..not mentally)
he’s becoming a psychopomp / deity of the dead
he’ll die, but we’ll get him back as an undead
we’re losing him. he ain’t making it
last chance. i’m not nervous.
episode 4, end of the overture — last chance, place your bets: who’s making it out alive?
ugh an upcoming exam is killing me rn so i unfortunately won’t be able to watch tonight’s episode for a few days. massively devastating </3
this is also why i have been and will be a bit inactive for a few days — it’s Very Easy And Alluring to consume posts about cr4 instead of the 700 pages of required reading that i’ve got.
hope no one dies tonight, good luck!
I’m back and inspired babbbyy
Been a while since I’ve had a new screencap, but Campaign 4 got me back on my bullshit.
Had fun doing a little art for THAT scene in episode 3. WTF /pos
Obviously we don't know where Matt is headed with Sir Julien (tbh Matt may not entirely know either, that's the beauty of actual play), but something that I'm picking up on already is that in a similar way that C4 is in conversation with C3 about the gods, Sir Julien seems very much in conversation with Essek as a character. And I'm not just saying this cause of the accent.
Like. Essek had all these beliefs, and all this baggage, because he was stifled by his family and stifled by the culture in which his family is enveloped, and he had ambitions. He steals the beacon, he does this horrible, treasonous thing, because he thinks his family and his culture is misguided--the Luxon needs to be studied as a tool, not worshiped. And the only way he can make this happen is by betraying his nation in a literal sense, but also figuratively. He isn't consecuted. He doesn't believe in their state religion. After C2 he's on the run, perhaps permanently ousted from the Krynn Dynasty, despite being a figure of authority within it. Essek is considered a traitor by everyone but those closest to him, which I'll consider the m9 and Verin, maybe? I gotta remember what their relationship is like by c3 lol.
Julien also has all this baggage related to his family and those close to him, and how his beliefs are at odds with theirs. He thinks Thjazi sucks! He's insulted by his rebellion! In the Battle of Maharlian Falls, he thinks he's doing a noble thing--the right thing--because Thjazi is the slimy revolutionary, not him. Yet, the people he cares about most still do not see him as honorable, because their conception of honor is by now so divorced from his. Julien is considered a hero by everyone but his father and Aranessa. He isn't excommunicated from his family, but he's a disappointment his father. He and Aranessa are friends, but he can never be as close to her as he once was (or, for that matter, as Thjazi was).
They're both such cool examples of sacrifice and betrayal and struggling against the weight of a culture's expectations, whether that be a noble house or an entire dynasty, and it's setting up some really cool stuff. By now in CR lore, we understand that Essek was in the wrong, in the sense that he teamed up with some super slimy people, started a war, and screwed over his country. But Essek atones. He realizes what he did was wrong--in fact, he seems to realize it quite early, even before he meets the Mighty Nein, though at that point he's obviously still acting on his initial plans to keep his ass alive and protect his cognitive dissonance. Sir Julien...I can't get a read on if he regrets what he did, honestly. Maybe he will, some day. Maybe he'll have a similar emotional arc to Essek, where he teams up with a bunch of miscreants and realizes the error of his ways, because he was putting all this angst on Thjazi instead of realizing besting Thjazi wouldn't automatically make his dad actually like him, but I'm not sure.
One of the biggest reasons I like Sir Julien, and why I like Wick for that matter, is that in the face of enormous scrutiny, enormous criticism, and the literal censure of the people closest to them, they stick to their guns. In a party of people who seemed to like Thjazi, even if they understand he wasn't a Perfect Dude, it's interesting to have someone make what they see to be a huge mistake but be like no. I'm not fucking sorry. Essek was. I'm interested to see if Matt goes a different direction with Julien.
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man what's house cormoray up to. einfasen taking over the police. halovar milking the creature in a recreation of the 2010s mormon multi-level marketing scheme boom while simultaneously running a murder abercrombie & fitch and serving as a new and exciting incubator for shrimp colors of sibling rivalry. tachonis re-enacting every ghost the band song simultaneously on their unfortunate youngest while also taking a scythe to public education. royce and davinos in the process of getting their shit absolutely rocked in tachonis's zombie jamboree. and cormoray, apparently, is out here making wine that sir julien davinos has judged, in the presence of his fellow louche bisexuals, to be "mid".
[WIP] ooohhhhhh I love them. I love them so much.
okay, it’s time, let’s buckle up for the Royce gala. i’m sure nothing bad will happen :)
so… no gala?
i am utterly obsessed with everything that’s wrong with the halovar family, like, psychologically
It’s crazy how the Halovars could have just had a hitman. Or even a you know. A normal torture dungeon. Instead they have an evil satanic tailor’s shop run by creepy soulless demon twins who probably do vivisections on each other and wear other people’s skin on the daily.
I love that Vaelus just has a passive aura of truth. People just tell her stuff. No one wants to lie to her. Julien straight up just walked up to her and showed real vulnerability for the first time so far, unprompted. Its so funny to me. People just see this tall scary elf woman and go "yeah, let me have a lil chit chat with her, tell her all my business"
man. that last half hour. vaelus sensing thaisha's approach. thaisha and vaelus recognizing something deep and indefinable within each other. she feels her heart beat again for the first time. julien not talking to his father and going to flirt aggressively to cope instead. aranessa and occtis conversation. each of our families has a castle. the fear and honesty and connection between them both. julien and vaelus conversation at the gate. I don't know why but I trust you. I have a bad feeling about tonight. his shadow is cursed. hundreds of dead souls in the garden. sir raimond davinos's skull removed in real time. he was about to say something to julien. julien will never know what it could have been. occtis's brother. giving the orders. put occtis on the table. open him up. let's put the stone where it belongs. the tachonises, taking bones from flesh, putting stones in their place. all of this, and I have to wait another week -
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we got so much character from azune across just a few small moments this ep, i’m BUZZING. he’s overly literal. both flirtatious teasing and overt sexual innuendo go completely over his head. if he doesn’t understand something, he asks clarifying questions until he does. he’s blunt. he patrols the city he calls home and he watches the people in it be happy and love each other and considers it the most important aspect of his position to hold these moments in a well in his chest so he can live them vicariously. he puffs up and quietly preens when the man who knew him as a child soldier calls him boy (that sought after affection) and says he looks like he’s grown since they waged war together. he’s naive. he remembers the name of every soldier they lost in the falconer’s rebellion. azune nayar you are tickling my BRAIN
So
Wait
The realm of death is overflowing with souls that can’t go anywhere since the gods died and all of their celestials, psychopomps included, went feral.
Occtis is the eighth son, way down in the succession line. No innate sorcerous magic. Not super important… But he’s been able to make Pin.
And they’re opening him up to put the elven death-rock inside of him that was supposed to help elves skip the underworld and move on to the afterlife.
Is house Tachonis trying to make Occtis into a psychopomp? One that they control? So that they have control over the flow of death itself?
