#ratgrinders

[loserlesbiansblog]

i absolutely cant imagine what it must have been like to be kipperlily when kristen signed up to run for president. you have been watching the bad kids for years and SEETHING. you know all their names, all their classes, and every adventure they have ever been on. you have been planning for years and its finally time to kick off your candidacy. then it happens. you see kristen fucking applebees in a yellow tracksuit with a garbage bag full of sandwiches in one hand an application to run for president in the other. you approach and she has no idea who you are. not even in a ‘classmate i see in the halls but never talk to’ way. kristen applebees is sure she has never laid eyes on you in her life. before you know whats happening, you are mid-conversation with the bad kids (even your mortal enemy riz gukgak) and you arent even sure what you have said because your ears are ringing with rage. then kristens voice cuts through the noise and you hear it.

“what are you? like four different dogs?”

[apollo-justice-irl]

riz being mad about the rat grinders' name and how they go against the spirit of adventuring is so fucking real but also like.

him and the other bad kids have saved the world 3 times to get to where they are. they brought a god back to life, faced their worst fears, went to jail at the age of 14, gave up their entire summer break and have gotten practically no thanks. aguefort doesn't give them preferential treatment (at least compared to the seven). he has every right to be mad. how fucking dare little miss four dogs suggest that. she doesn't know shit about the bad kids. she doesn't even know shit about adventuring. she's probably a similar level they are and she's only killed three fucking kinds of enemies in the newbie zone.

I'd be pissed, too.

[emptyjunior]

take a walk with me. come with me. Ratgrinders side campaign? Ratgrinders full side campaign tonight perhaps?

[ornitharts]

“Average Aguefort student kills 3 rats a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. Average Aguefort student kills 0 rats per year. The Rat Grinders, who grind and kill over 10,000 each day, are an outlier adn should not have been counted

[latentorogeny]

Wennan Wee Wulligan is the Ratgrinder’s DM btw

[patronsaint-ofmystery]

it doesn’t seem like the ratgrinders are very good friends. none of them were there to support ruben during the show and it doesn’t seem like they hang out at school. especially considering how much part the bad kids have in kristen’s campaign in comparison to the ratgrinders in kipperlilly’s. i think they’re just a bunch of powerful kids who got stuck together and are making the most of it but probably hate each other. that’s my theory at least.

[amysky21]

I am terrified of the Rat Grinders cleric. A cleric of Helio. That Kristen’s parents love. I can already imagine a goody two shoes. The absolute antithesis of Kristen. Everything she could have been if she were good and straight and obedient. Someone successful and happy. And she’ll have to meet them with all the shit she’s got going on, and look them in the eye and see a reflection of what she could have been…

and it will be

d e v a s t a t i n g

[xerxesmon]

Ok, so, someone pointed out that the Ratgrinders are all examples of problematic players:

Kipperlily is a rules lawyer

Ruben is an edgelord

Marianne (?) doesn't role play.

This got me thinking about Oisin, who can sink every shot when no one is looking, but starts failing as soon as Adaine pays attention to him. People think he's flustered at the thought of flirting with Adaine (a fair assumption), but what if he's actually the player that lies about their rolls until another player watches them?

This could also explain how he got buff over the summer: he rerolled his character stats, and lied about the results.