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@leon-the-artificer
you see a shape walking past your window at 3am. you haven’t been able to sleep. you grab your shotgun and lean just against the doorframe. who is it? who is outside your house?
it’s me, jumpboy-rembrandt/emma. i’m relistening to taz and using this blog again. bet you forgot you followed me, huh? sorry for changing my avatar and url at the same time.
Choose Joy.
I can’t stop fucking thinking about how good the character development of merle highchurch is. like I’m talking cool character in dnd terms, see cuz it’s all
the THB are literally prerolled characters. they’d DESIGNED to be stereotypical, so that’s how they start, and then by the fucking end, you have a cleric who only became one because he came from a religious background but doesn’t have any actual faith in it until that faith is earned over the course of a whole campaign. a cleric who was a shitty father and husband, who resists being the moral compass he’s supposed to be at every turn, who treats religion, the literal basis of his class, like a necessary inconvenience. and then by the end of balance, we’re rewarded with a better father, a kinder man, and someone who has the personal love and favor of his god cuz he fucking. earned it. THAT’S dope character shit, THAT’S unique, Clint is a goddamn master.
also, beach dwarf? fucking slay me
some lup and some lucretia
Lucretia is the most fun character in the world because she is set up exactly like the guy who has been a villain all along, but instead the big reveal is that she's your best friend. And she loves you and thinks you're hilarious.
do you remember that pttm live show where they fought planes. that was an objectively mean thing to do to a melee fighter but for travis it was enrichment. griffin putting toys in his brother’s enclosure.
griffin: the first things these planes do is shoot a ballista at the melee fighter
travis: well adding up all my boosts i have an ac of 24 against it and a magic item that lets me catch a missile if it misses me so–
The Protector
do you remember that pttm live show where they fought planes. that was an objectively mean thing to do to a melee fighter but for travis it was enrichment. griffin putting toys in his brother’s enclosure.
can i just say the most jarring thing abt posting on here again is that i get notes from people i follow and remember oh right they follow me. blorbo from my dash is in my notes. hi there.
one thing i appreciate about the switch over to amnesty now that im listening to it immediately after balance is how good they did at switching characters and what it tells us about the players
like there are elements that are the same, right. duck and taako are both very reluctant to get involved in some bullshit. magnus and aubrey are both impulsive. ned and merle are both avoiding their pasts.
however…ned is actually really good at lying? like everybody goofed on merle “apparently has an internal zone of truth that’s always sort of just going for the gusto” highchurch for being shitty at it and i kind of assumed that was just clint, but no, he quickly and seamlessly comes up with pretty good goddamn lies. i’m sorry for doubting your improv skills theater dad clint mcelroy.
aubrey i’d say is the most similar to travis’s balance character, but does a really good job of adjusting to spellcaster. like, all those “go with me here” attacks magnus did? they work sooo much better and more concisely with magic. this is more of a “travis suits playing a spellcaster more than a fighter” point, but i digress.
and duck is like. really fucking involved in the world that they built. no more “everyone else is just dust”, it’s “yeah me and the retired woman who lives in my building like to check up on each other, i went to high school with your dad, you vicky’s girl?” which i think is justin really leaning into the setting. for obvious reasons.
I think about this moment a lot
okay if you’re like “what is TAZ” this is UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH this is good
yeah man the amnesty pilot was great. i mean, there was one point near the end where duck mounted the monster and ned made it deepthroat his stick? but besides that,
i mean these were back to back too
yeah man the amnesty pilot was great. i mean, there was one point near the end where duck mounted the monster and ned made it deepthroat his stick? but besides that,
not that this is anything new, but I keep thinking about the Starblaster takeoff. I mean, like, to be a person who volunteers for that sort of mission, you do need to be at least a little bit ready to die, you know? Whether or not you admit that to yourself. And we see that Magnus will throw himself into the line of fire for anything, we see Davenport so dedicated to the mission that of course he'd readily put his life on the line, we see Merle already old and looking for a new adventure, we see the researchers and writer so curious and driven (perhaps in part by the Light) that they simply needed to be here, no matter the cost.
and what a delicious irony it is. to board your ship, ready to die for the world, and instead watch the entire world die while you survive.
Something about taako's famous monologue including "i have a beating heart!" and lup's speech on the best day ever having "taako, you Are my heart. You know that right?" Is making me fully ugly sob. We know it goes both ways, is the thing. He's her heart, and she's his, and this sad empty version of taako that has forgotten is declaring that he has a beating heart while she is simultaneously missing and dead and also Right There at his side, so he's completely right and completely wrong and he doesn't KNOW
in eleventh hour, when they go to the cave behind the temple and travis asks if the skeleton is alive? and his older brother rags on him about it, bringing it up again a few minutes later to tease him some more? and then justin himself discovers that the skeleton IS alive? every day i long that i may one day experience that kind of vindication
relistening to the rest and relaxation lunar interlude and. god. carey and magnus’s friendship is so fucking good.
