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TAZ side blog. Here there be spoilers!

[pichirobi]

the pine guard! 🌲

[knitbitt]

put them in the olympics NOW!!!

[d0d0-b0i]

keep on meeting these guys on my runs, what’s their deal??

[very-small-giant]

it’s the parley room…the parlor room? the parley parlor.

[fioblah]

blupjeans :]

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[orykorioart]

Something is missing, but you don’t know what.

[Image Description:

Digital illustration featuring Taako and Lup from The Adventure Zone. On the right side are Taako and Lup during the Stolen Century, with their red cloaks. The edge of the picture is taken over by a glitch effect, almost erasing Lup, only leaving behind parts of her cloak and hair. There is also a small glitch on Taako’s chest, where the IPRE patch would be. This part of the picture is also somewhat desaturated.

Stolen Century Lup is depicted with her hair in a messy bun, her dark brown hair dyed with light-pink highlights. Stolen Century Taako is depicted with his long hair in a braid, his dark brown hair dyed with lavender-purple.

The left-side of the image is post-Voidfish Taako, who is fidgeting with his hair with a look of sadness on his face. He is clutching onto the Umbrastaff at his hip.

Post-Voidfish Taako is depicted with messy shoulder-length hair, his naturally dark-brown hair is streaked with some lavender-purple and light-pink. He is wearing a deep-purple cloak and hat, which is themed with stars on the inside.

End Description.]

[foxy-alien]

A redraw of one of my most popular lups from last september!

[keplercryptids]

[image: a drawing of Lup, an elf with brown skin and long brown hair that’s orange at the tips. She’s wearing a red gown with side cutouts. Her eyes are closed and she looks very serene with both hands near her face.]

[troznaberius-remade]

some Boys

[anistarrose]

[Image description: digital drawings of Taako and Angus from The Adventure Zone. Taako’s a skinny elf with light brown skin, freckles, and curly blond hair with brown roots. The first drawing shows him in his red null suit with a fishbowl helmet, which has a wizard hat on top of it. His hair is filling the helmet and he has his arms crossed, eyes closed and frowning.

Second, Taako’s hair is in pigtails and he wears a fancy blue button-up jacket with a lacy ascot. He’s holding the Umbra Staff and looking to the side, smiling and winking.

Angus is a human boy with dark brown skin, curly dark hair, and red-rimmed glasses. He wears a cap, blue plaid cape, and red bow tie as he reads from a book, biting his tongue in concentration.

The second Angus drawing shows him holding a small, glowing blue object, smiling at it with starry eyes. A dialogue bubble overhead reads: “Ango”. End description.]

[julcreates]

Taako! (From TV)

Every once in a while I’m in a TAZ phase again….

[very-small-giant]

finally got around to listening to the adventure zone and OH MY GOD i have been missing out

[fioblah]

aubrey :]

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[chaos-lioness]

[ID: Digital art of Aubrey from TAZ Amnesty from the waist up. She is a woman with dark brown skin, a tightly curled undercut dyed red orange and yellow, one brown eye and one orange eye. She has a number of gold piercings and an amber necklace on a black ribbon. She is wearing a black crop top over black netting and a denim vest. The vest has patches including the Pine Guard crest and a bi flag. END ID]

[bassdraws]

the ipre after losing magnus on cycle 1, following this set

i like to be sad i guess

[keplercryptids]

[image: a series of drawings of the IPRE crew aboard the Starblaster. First is of Taako and Lup, twin elves with brown skin. One twin has blonde hair and the other has short brown hair. They look extremely worried and one is pressing their hand against glass as if looking out a window. Barry and Davenport are next to each other. Davenport, a gnome with light skin and short brown hair with a mustache, is sitting behind a steering wheel. Barry, a pale-skinned man with short brown hair and glasses, has a hand on his head and looks very concerned. Lucretia and Merle are sitting on the floor, hands together in prayer. Merle has dark brown skin and dark gray hair. Lucretia has dark brown skin and curly white hair in a bun, and her head is bowed.]

[vainvaihe]

uuhhh,,, magnus in a romper

i,,,,,, fuck this was such a great idea 

[elftwink]

[image description: digital art of magnus burnsides from the adventure zone. magnus is a human man with light brown skin, short brown hair with bushy sideburns, and a scar across his right eye. he’s wearing a white floral patterned romper, and is looking to his left and smiling, one arm raised to wave. /end id]

[nd43taags]

We were talking in the Discord about this the other day, figured I would share.

Magnus Burnsides was never supposed to be on the IPRE mission.

He’s not a scientist or a magic user.  He’s strong sure, but he’s also like 20 years old and not nearly tempered enough to be the Security Officer on a mission like this.  Compared to the rest of the crew he seems like the odd man out, the only fighter on a ship of magic users.  No major accomplishments to his name, no reason to take him on this historic mission.

Imagine Captain Davenport, testing and screening applicants for his mission.  It’s important that they be talented and multifaceted, able to handle a variety of tasks.  The crew will be small, and everyone will have to pull their weight. 

But they’re also tested for compatibility with each other.

The Starblaster’s revolutionary Bond Engine is powered by relationships.  Having a crew that gets along, that gels together perfectly and supports and, frankly, loves each other.  It’s no easy task, especially as the pool starts to narrow down.  The Twins alone are a hassle, and it’s difficult to find people that get along with them.  Merle is a bit of a wise-ass, and Barry can be a little overwhelming when he gets into one of his scientific rants.  Lucretia is pretty neutral, but that’s only because she chooses to observe most days.

They get along well enough, but they’re missing something.

Enter Magnus Burnsides.

He’s probably not even supposed to be there.  Maybe he’s making a delivery to the Institute from the farm he works at.  Davenport watches as this young man walks onto campus, completely out of his league, and immediately begins to make friends with everyone he comes across.  He banters with the janitorial staff, he jokes with the freshman coeds walking to class, he kindly offers to help an elderly professor carry their bags to class.  This kid is so friendly, so hospitable even when he’s in an unfamiliar place, that Davenport snatches him up and takes him to meet the mission team.

And they all click with him immediately.

“It’s not enough that we get along,” Davenport explains to the board later that day, “Simply getting along won’t be enough to reach the engine’s full potential.  We need to be like a family, and this kid immediately took to everyone like he had known them his whole life.”

“You want to send an untrained civilian on a dangerous and historic mission into Gods know where?” the board asks.

“He got along with Taako.  Within ten minutes of meeting him they were friends.”

Magnus Burnsides is admitted to the Institute that day, and taken under Davenport’s wing for special training to catch him up with the rest of the crew.  It’s not an easy task.  Magnus has no formal education, and no magical ability.  Davenport works with what the kid does know, which is fighting and friendship.  They train hard to make him into a suitable Security Officer, still a little green around the edges but ready to fight for the people he cares about.

Davenport knows that Magnus’ kind nature will be the most important asset he brings to this mission, and as the years pass he is proven right again and again. 

Magnus Burnsides’ heart is the only weapon they need.

[entguarde]

Something about the inherent anger in optimism.

[Id: A fully rendered digital drawing of Merle Highchurch from The Adventure Zone.

He is a fat, Black dwarf man with long, wavy gray hair and a full beard. He has a nicked ear and a small scar on his shoulder as well as otter-like whiskers and a protruding fang.

He is sitting in an office chair, his elbows resting on a table. He is glaring at an off-screen character (John), pointing down at the table as if to emphasize a point. A text queue underneath him says: “- You can apologize to me and tell me you were wrong”. End description.]

[simarie]

a very saturated wizard boy

[keplercryptids]

[image description: a colorful drawing of Taako from the chest up against a hot pink background. He’s a dark-complexioned elf with freckles and curly black hair that falls past his shoulders. He’s wearing a purple wizard’s hat and green shirt. He’s squinting slightly as he looks off into the distance.]

[kipperloo]

93% Stardust, Nikita Gill

i really wanted to do so much more with this, so there may be a follow up comic later if i feel up for it. i love the ipre crew. 

[keplercryptids]

[ID: a grayscale comic showing each member of the IPRE crew alongside lines of a poem. “We have calcium in our bones”–Magnus is looking upwards with a small smile. “Iron in our veins”–Lucretia is looking over her shoulder with a neutral expression. There’s a table stacked high with books behind her. “Carbon in our souls”–Merle is glancing to the side, smiling, shelves with books and lots of potted plants behind him. “And nitrogen in our brains”–Davenport is behind the controls of the Starblaster, smiling contentedly. “Ninety-three percent stardust”–Taako is leaning on the railing of the ship, looking into the distance with a smile. A starry night sky is behind him. “With souls made of flames”–Barry and Lup are standing in tall grass at nighttime, holding hands and smiling at each other. “We are all just stars”–a photograph of the whole crew, posing and smiling, amid papers and a feather quill strewn on a desk. The only person not smiling is Lucretia. 

The voidfish, a large jelly fish with spots inside its bell and along its tendrils, takes up a whole frame. Then we cut to Lucretia, her hair shorter now, as she sits at a desk, facing away from the viewer. A portrait of herself is hanging above the desk. We cut again, this time to Lucretia standing in the foreground, only her torso visible within the frame, as Davenport, wearing a tux, stands in the background looking concerned. The last frames zoom in on Lucretia’s sad face as she closes her eyes, and then, written on a plain white background, it reads: “…that have people names.”]