I Guess This Is A Taz Blog

Hollis is nonbinary and they give me life. (Also sweet flips but that’s slightly less relevant) Come for the image descriptions stay for the McElroy adjacent memes. (Icon by @phantom-thieves-official)

[yardsards]

thinking abt how lup is one of those characters that haunts the narrative. but in this case you don't even realize the narrative is haunted til later on when you learn. and you look back and see that it always *has* been haunted and the hole where she should be has always been there

[umbraastaff]

More TAZ Balance speedrun exploits:

With the new glitch to get the Light at the start of any cycle, you can now technically enact Lucretia's Shield on the Hunger anywhere before Faerûn for any%. However, this hinges on the given world being able to defeat the Hunger in the final battle. The earliest success so far is at Legato, if you get the arts students to tap into their rage.

You can use RNG manipulation to get the Slicer of Tapir-Weir Isles to appear on your first Costco run, though this is only useful if you're doing the Garfield Ending (why) or on NG+.

Barry can use a multiclassing slot to learn Lup's double jump ability in Cycle 23. Then on Faerûn, you can use the Infinite Jump glitch to get Barry to the Moon (bypassing the lich barrier by being alive), which causes the game to skip to Reunion Tour. However, the number of perfect inputs this requires in a row means this is considered impossible outside of TAS.

You can do a Reunion Tour skip as early as Phandalin, however. A few years before Gerblins, you can glitch lich!Barry into the Dryad Tree area of Goldcliff. You're not meant to get there until the end of Petals to the Metal, so everything's there, including the Love buff you can get standing near the tree. Barry can then get a second stack of Love (normally impossible) by going to Magnus' wedding. Then you immediately have him resurrect in his body, which freezes all buffs he has in lich form. If you then keep him alive until Phandalin, when the fire kills him, he'll have both stacks of Love plus his own innate bonus. The game won't let Barry possess party members, but since the Gauntlet isn't technically equipped by anyone, he can possess that. The OP Love buff slows the Relic Corruption debuff to a crawl, which keeps him there long enough to pass through the Moon barrier and, again, trigger Reunion Tour.

Taakitz% players figured out that Barry can do a mass zombie-raising at the Glamour Springs graveyard the night before the show, which gets Kravitz on the scene and causes him to meet Taako. Like all crime scenes, this also has a 5% chance to spawn Angus and jumpstart the Magic Mentor quest.

[nightlilly0110]

Reminder that Lucretia had to pretend she hadn’t been eating Taako’s cooking for a solid century in Crystal Kingdom and the best response she could come up with was “hot diggity shit that’s a baller cookie.”

[lostsometime]

Relistening to taz balance and I had a revelation:

the first time the voidfish sings? The first time we hear the notes that will become ‘egg babe’? Is immediately after Lucas was making a fuss about, like “Well what if the voidfish dies!? What if it reproduces asexually and pops out a baby voidfish?!”

They all thought Lucas was upsetting it, but actually it was trying to agree with him! He said “baby voidfish” and Fisher was trying to say “YES, THAT!”

[novaiisk]

🌌The Voidfish’s Plea🌌

I threw this together pretty quickly awhile back because I loved the scene when magnus first gets in the voidfish’s tank. Everything in that scene truly rocked my world and the sheet music reveal really drove it home.

This podcast is really just masterfully crafted and I only have 6 episodes left, I don’t know what I’ll do when it’s finished

[taz-ids]

[ID: Digital drawing featuring the Voidfish and Magnus. The image is divided into three diagonally. At the top, there’s a square hatch and a ladder leading to pink-purple liquid down below. In the middle, Magnus floats underwater in front of a huge, glowing, pink and purple jellyfish. He is silhouetted by its light. Music notes play in front of them. At the bottom, Magnus’s wide eyes are seen close up. They’re brown; he has pale skin. Bubbles float by his face. /ID]

[herbgerblin]

First image is of Lup, an elven woman dressed in a very comical, clown attire. She has tan skin, curly blonde hair, and a slight build. She is sitting cross legged and eyeing Barry, a human man wearing glasses, a denim jacket, grey t-shirt, and jeans. He has pale skin, short, brown hair, and a chubby build. Lup asks, "Is that a comically large clown shoe in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" Barry replies, "I'm sorry, what?" There is an awkward moment of silence. Second images show. an even more awkward moment of silence. In the bottom panel, Lup breaks the silence by speeding off with tears in her eyes. She shouts back, "Golly! Look at the time! Anyway! Enjoy the show! Bye!!" Barry, completely taken aback, shouts, "Wha--wait, I!" Third image shows him looking a little crestfallen, before noticing something down by his hand. On the seat beside him, where Lup had been, is business card that reads, "The amazing Taako Twins, B.O.B. Bigtop," as well as a phone number, "666-420-6969." Barry picks up the card and stares at it.

Fourth image shows Lup sitting beside Lucretia, a human woman in a leotard. Lup has her arms slumped forward on a table, her clown makeup smeared by tears. In the background, through open tent flaps is Taako, an elven man juggling bowling pins. Lucretia says to Lup, "Well I've heard worse one-liners. Bold move to leave him your number like that." Lup forlorn, asks, "Is there a sliver of hope that it worked?" Lucretia starts to reply, "Can't say chances are high but-" The ping of a cellphone near Lup interrupts her. One the home page is a message from an unknown sender. It reads, "Hi, Is this Lup? This is Barry from earlier..." Lup immediately perks up, phone in hand. She exclaims, "Oh shit, it worked!" Lucretia finishes her statement with," -they're never zero." End ID

this is super late but clown flirting :0)

[glockmonkey]

WHAT DID TRAVIS MCELROY EVER DO TO YOU, DEAR GOOGLE

[mangoisee]

happy candlenights!!! here is my gift for @holdmecloser-gandydancer for the 2021 candlenights exchange! i love stolen century and blupjeans and was super excited to see them in your prompts! (beach year supremacyyyyy)

i imagine taako got pretty tired after decades of pining hehe

@thecandlenightszone thank you for organizing this event!! it’s been super fun!!! 💛

(also thanks tumblr for killing the quality, click for better resolution)

[taz-ids]

[ID: Comic featuring Lup, Barry, and Taako. First panel: Lup and Barry seen in profile from the shoulders up. Lup grins and holds up Barry’s glasses and says “Dropped these, dingus.” They’re both blushing. Second: They both look surprised and blush harder as Lup passes him the glasses and their hands touch. Third: Barry smiles and says “Thanks, Lup.” One of his hands is behind his head. Lup looks away, blushes, and says “Don’t mention it.” Fourth: Taako from the waist up, expression blank. Last: Taako’s face, close up, brows furrowed. “I have dealt with this for twenty years,” he says. /ID]

[socialc1imb]

I haven’t posted on here in a while but here, a comic!!

The IPRE didn’t let just ANYONE on the starblaster. Nah. They had to be scientists!

[clambuoyance]

[DC] this vine but it’s Tim and Damian

[lilyannifer]

Dusting all the dust off my tumblr because whatever I’m a fan art nerd now, and this feels like the place to be? I’ve been making The Adventure Zone tarot designs, here’s Tres Horny Boys and my fave, Angus McDonald.

[adventuresloane]

WIP!!! I'm redrawing an old (2018-ish?) comic and not to toot my own horn but toot toot, I've improved a lot

[ID: A page of a comic with 4 panels, rendered in a somewhat sketchy style. It is mostly in grayscale with red elements. The first panel shows a skeleton in a red robe with a red umbrella held in its hand. White text reads, "Let's go in the garden." The next panel, which is alongside the first, is nearly identical, except that a hand is now reaching out to grasp the umbrella handle. Text reads, "you'll find something waiting." Below is a horizontal panel showing Taako, a thin elf with dark skin, freckles, and lighter, wavy hair partially in a side braid. He wears a wizard hat with a glowing star hanging from the tip. He is holding up the umbrella and looking at it in surprise. Text reads, "right there, where you left it." Finally, in the fourth panel, Taako's expression has turned to confusion. Across from him is the white silhouette of another elf with long, blowing hair and a similar facial structure. Text reads, "lying upside-down." End ID.]

[writing-prompt-s]

There’s a serial killer in your town. Unfortunately for them you are a necromancer and you have fun driving that maniac insane.

[mayhemandmoonlight]

@townofcan Why would leave this masterpiece in the notes

[the-book-reaper]

[ID: tags that say:

oh fuck yes

*ressurects some guy* okay listen i need you to do me a favor

so the guy who killed you has actually killed a lot of people in town- why has no one noticed? im glad you asked-

its because every time i bring them back

now listen. dying had to suck right. but i fixer it and i will continue fixing it

so please dont tell the cops about the serial killer

no i- no i get it listen i understand you dont want them to hurt more people

but listen i will keep fixing it right. just

listen when they see you again tomorrow wouldnt it be so funny if you acted like nothing happened just to fuck with them

right? right? its driving them NUTS

it is great youre right. now listen ive gotta go but I made a discord for all the people who got murdered as like a support group thing

so heres the link if you need to talk about it with someone i know its kind of a lot to keep to yourself

but please its so much funnier if you dont mention it or act like anything happened everywhere else

End ID]

[herbgerblin]

the wizards pondering their orb or whatever i didn't watch the adventure zone

ID: First image is digital art of the IPRE crew gathered around the Light of Creation, a pale blue ball of light, currently resting on a table. They are all dressed in red robes and appear to be having an intense discussion. On the far left is Lucretia, a human woman with short, curly hair. She is holding a book in one hand and pointing at the light with a pencil. On her right is Davenport, a gnomish man with neat looking hair and mustache. He is leaning one elbow on the table and resting his other hand on his hip. On Lucretia's left is Lup, an elven woman with shoulder-length curly hair, slight build, and freckles. She in angrily thowing her hands up in the air. To Lup's left is Magnus, a human man with short hair, muscular build, and thick sideburns. He is leaning on the back of a chair and is starin at the light of creation with the only bored expression in the group. Next to Magnus is Barry, another human man with a chubby build, short hair, and glasses. He is vaguely gesturing with open palms. Next to him is Taako, an elven man with long, curly hair, a slight build, and freckls. He is rubbing his forehead with a hand. Next to Taako is Merle, an older dwarvish man with a beard and a receding hairline. He is gesturing one hand at the light. The second image is a close up of Magnus with everyone around him blurred out. A caption pointing to him reads, "zoned out 20 minutes ago." End ID

[terezis]

thinking about it. and lucretia rly did say

gaslight (convince the world that they DIDN’T spend several years engaged in a brief but violent international struggle for the grand relics; assure society at large that there have ALWAYS been two moons in the sky; insist to your friends that the red robes are evil [your friends are the red robes])

gatekeep (only members of your secret moon society are allowed to drink the voidfish piss and remember the last twelve years unencumbered by static; only you are allowed to drink the second, more secret voidfish piss and remember the last century as it truly was)

girlboss (save reality by casting a barrier around the hunger with what was originally a first level spell)

[asofteradventurezone]

love will keep us together

[taz-ids]

[ID: Three panel comic. The first depicts the planet Earth being overtaken by tendrils of darkness, which creep down from the top of the screen. Wisps of white curl out of the first panel and into the second; the last panel shows a small white ship with a ring around the back. The background is blue and purple, and filled with stars. In the first panel the text reads “if at first you don’t succeed,” and the third panel says “run.” /ID]

[rosenkranz-does-things]

I'm pretty sure something like this has been done before, but reader, I could not resist