#c3 e119

[mayapapaya33]

Dorian just got a "How do you want to do this?" and I call bullshit Matthew! Predathos Phase 2 starts now! Bring out the new mini!!!!

[mayapapaya33]

Damn, Vordo (And I assume Ethedok) have been trapped in Predathos' stomach being slowly digested for millennia or even eons? And Bells Hells wanted to risk condemning the rest of the Gods to this fate? Cuz reasons? What the fuck guys?!

(Not to mention this does count as attempted Genocide, the Gods are a species, they (were) ?Born? ?Created? ?Always Existed? ?Sprung into being? like this, so it is a bit discriminatory to be like; No! Bad! Kill them all! Just putting that out there...)

Yes, they are more powerful than mortals. Someone is always going to be more powerful than you, it's unfair, that's life. With all the Gods gone, someone will still be more powerful than you. OR you'll be more powerful than them. Something WILL fill the power vacuum and to pretend it won't is foolish. (Everything will be sunshine and roses comparatively until the eldritch abominations from the astral plane or wherever find Exandria and decide to make a new home with all the tasty snacks on it now that BH has (potentially) driven away the planet's most powerful defenders). And let's be real, the power structure set up Exandria has (had?) going with the Divine Gate and divine and arcane magic is about as good as it's ever going to get with a species and power difference that vast imho.

This hatred of the Gods I've seen both in the campaign and from some fans is the exact same sort of hatred Lex Luther has for Superman if we're being real. He hates Superman because he's stronger and faster and could do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted and almost no one could stop him. And I get that feeling, it's understandable. No one likes feeling small or powerless. But Superman doesn't WANT to do any of that, and it's not his fault he has superpowers.

The light of our yellow sun grants Superman's powers, like the collision with Reality granted the God's domains of power to them. And the only times there is terrible damage and trauma and strife is when Luthor picks a fight and then there are city blocks leveled. Meanwhile Superman is like, hey, would you please chill, I really don't want to be a dictator or anything I swear, I just want to rescue kittens from trees and stop bank robbers and prevent the occasional alien invasion. The only difference as far as I can tell, is that Superman is the main character of his story, and The Exandrian Pantheon aren't the main characters of this one.

And before anyone says anything, Yes, the Calamity was the Gods fighting each other, but I just want to remind everyone once again, that mortals are the ones that kicked that event off in style. The Betrayer Gods were in jail, they were dealt with. Vespin Chloras and The Ring of Brass majorly fucked the world over. (The Ring of Brass also helped save the world, but they helped almost destroy it first so it kind of evens out a bit I guess lol. Is that how that math works? That doesn't feel right.)

As for everyone chanting that the Primes should have just killed the Betrayers... for starters, are you also this pro death penalty in real life? I highly doubt it just based on CR's core demographics lmfao. And second, they already explained that there were some threats in the universe that required the combined might of all of them to face. And I am NOT convinced that they only meant Predathos. That is one hell of a gamble to assume that! (Not to mention they're family and the sole survivors of a terrible cataclysm and refugees in a strange land and they love/hate each other).

Long spiel short, yikes! BH might be the bad guys. Uh Oh!

(I know they were talking about controlling it, but like, how? And to do what? Chase the Gods away? And for how long? Forever? Seems like a somewhat ill-conceived plan lol).

[mayapapaya33]

THE HUBRIS DID IT'S HUBRISING AND NOW IMOGEN IS A KAIJU HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH FUCK!

[mayapapaya33]

(2:51:25) I really need to see a picture of Ashley's dice because wtf kind of font can look like a 10, an 8 and a 3 simultaneously? Ashley explain! I've never heard Sam laugh like that, he almost sounded like Taliesin.

[mayapapaya33]

I'm at (1:05:05) in C3 E119: They are so lucky this fucker is sleepwalking hahahahaha. Obviously, Matt had to scale it so that he wouldn't INSTANTLY tpk them and it does make perfect sense that Predathos would need a minute to get back into it's full form after eons of starvation and slumber. It's cool to see an encounter this pants shitting yet still have it be balanced. It's like in C1 with Proto God Vecna. He wasn't a full God YET, but he was still Terrifying and Horrific. Once this thing has enough time and energy (and maybe a snack) It's going to be absolutely monstrous. And it TOTALLY absorbed the powers of the two Gods it ate! 100%

It is already using Vordo's powers of Fate Shaping! I haven't seen it use Ethedok's Shadow and Winter powers yet but I assume it will soon!

[mayapapaya33]

From a storytelling perspective, this is awesome, and I can't wait to think about all the implications. From an in-character perspective, Bells Hells are all morons. I love them but holy shit this "plan" is so fucking dumb hahahahaha. You're going to force the Gods to shed aspects of themselves and become mortal, or be eaten, thereby technically qualifying it as a choice, and then everything is cool? I mean, I get it. On the face of it, the logic checks out if Exandria were an isolated environment, everyone would be on a relatively even-ish playing field kept in check by a roving god eater. Unfortunately, then you remember that there are other things out in the universe than the Gods and some of those things will totally see a Godless, or Gods in mortal form having Exandria as a free buffet. AAAAAHHH!

Also, nothing they're actually mad about is going to change!!! People are still going to be people and now there's going to be a power vacuum. Someone is going to fill it, and I doubt the new set up will be as fair as the divine gate set up. C4 is going to be insane, I can't wait.

[mayapapaya33]

I'm procrastinating finishing C3 E119 because I know it's going to be insane, and I am not mentally or emotionally prepared lol. I'm two hours in and I can just feel the episode rearing back to kick me in the face!