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I finished sewing a t-shirt using jaycana ‘s wonderful imp print. Thank you, Jaycana! This was a challenge because I’m stupid and decided to draft my own pattern, but it turned out to be something I can definitely wear out of the house, and that makes me very happy because IMPS!!!

(It’s too bad I’m covering up my wall of fanart, but you can see Sparkle Ashe there if you look.)

#thrilling intent #ticaraseil #jaycana

Oooh, I loved Ashe's color palette on Inien! Could you do the same thing, but Inien's color palette on Ashe? That'd be interesting to see

#thrilling intent #ticaraseil #recolor

Inien with Ashe’s colors, requested by Raven.

#thrilling intent #ticaraseil #recolor

Krista: “They say that the creatures here are deadly and wanna kill us.”

Vachon: Hearing Krista’s comment about things being deadly with intent to kill here, I turn to the pigbat, and then turn back to Krista.

GM: The pigbat is leaning as casually against the counter as possible. It slips occasionally.

I am slightly concerned about what goes into Dont’s pies now.

#thrilling intent #dont #ticaraseil #drew with fangs this time and not tusks

Transcript for TI Episode 75

Sir Impington, Gregor’s mumbling, and the motherfuckin’ Bowelripper, man.

#thrilling intent #transcript #ticaraseil

Outriders Cult Theory

There’s been some fan theory floating around since the revelation of Gregor’s brand that The Outriders were a cult. I’ve collected my thoughts on the subject and have written out some of the darker possibilities. Have fun and don’t take any of this too seriously.

The Raid

There is something sketchy about the way Gregor’s village was raided. The town was burning, which suggests that the raid was orchestrated by humans, yet Gregor’s family was devoured by owlbears, which are of animal intelligence. What kind of bandits release monsters on a town as a method of attack? It isn’t efficient. Either you’d have to train the owlbears to identify and not kill your fellow bandits, which seems both difficult and quite a time investment - and you’d have to take into account owlbears that will die to villagers and have to be replaced - or you’d have to capture and kill the monsters after the town has been cleaned up; in which case, you might as well have done the raiding yourself.

You’d need a good reason to employ monsters. Such as, say… creating orphans. Think about it. If you want to gather children to indoctrinate into your cult, you could kidnap them, but that leaves pissed off families and communities that will try to get them back. But if you create orphans, you’ve got a child that has just been through a great deal of trauma and will latch on to a “new family” and be ready to dedicate their lives to the cause of monster slaying, just as Gregor did.

Did The Outriders just happen to be in the area the moment the raiders attacked? That’s either a convenient coincidence or, if you want to believe The Outriders were there because they’d been chasing the raiders and had only just caught up, an unfortunate failure.

Training

Gregor was eight years old when he joined The Outriders. 3W has stated that he was among other children from similar circumstances. What kind of organization trains children for combat?

The Brand

And who the fuck brands a kid? 3W has said they are reluctant to pin down an exact age for the cast, but that Gregor is "still on his way to being a grown ass man. He’ll get there one day.” This is vague and likely applies to maturity as well as age, but it suggests that Gregor is under twenty and in any case very young. There’s no telling when he received the brand, but if he was younger than he is now then he was too young.

A brand has different symbolic significance than a tattoo. Historically, brands are for animals, escaped slaves, criminals, and gangs. They mark ownership. They imply suffering. To burn a symbol onto one’s chest is a statement of a lifelong commitment. Gregor was too young to properly consent to being thrown into combat and likely too young to be making the decision to dedicate his life to The Outriders.

Indoctrination

Gregor is a little... weird. There’s something off about him. “Smile more, make a friend. If they’re weirded out, stare blankly,” as his song says. He makes odd associations. He interprets things strangely in ways that leave his friends shaking their heads. He’s just kind of different.

3W have said that some of his behaviors are holdovers from his Outriders training. Given the creepy mantra at the Lily Clan trial, we can assume that his abstinence from alcohol and meat are among those. (I’m reluctant to go into the possibility of celibacy in regards to the “body pure” line, since we just don’t know, but let’s be honest, that theory is out there.) His expressed disinterest in burying the dead could be another. We all know how he feels about monsters.

The mantra, at the least, is evidence that the children were being indoctrinated with unusual ideology. It’s possible that Gregor’s rigid black-and-white thinking and out-of-touch behavior is the result of brainwashing. And should we mention his naive, easily led nature and unquestioning trust in authority figures?

Torture

Gregor’s said a few things that suggest he’s been held prisoner and faced torture before. Namely, his flashback-like statement that he’s used to sleeping on boards while men yell and make comments above him, and his mention of a sensory-deprivation “punishment hole” in which he saw others lose their mind, but that he was good or clever enough to avoid. Until now, I thought the most likely explanation was that this happened when The Outriders were captured. I still hope it is, because I’d hate to think these were methods of coercion The Outriders were using on their own members.

What Happened?

Whoever took down The Outriders must have felt they had a good reason, because it couldn’t have been easy to kill and capture a famous group of hardcore monster hunters. We can see destroyed buildings in the background of a fiery battle, which suggests it took place at an established setting, possibly a headquarters and not just a camp. If true, that would have made the battle against The Outriders all the more difficult and calculated.

Who would want to destroy the “most famous band of monster slayers in the world” and why? They were good guys, right? Definitely not a cult of crazy people that placed more importance on wiping out monsters than the people they should have been protecting and were willing to do anything, even hurt people, to do it?

Execution

The Outriders weren’t just killed: they were executed. Hung, specifically. Hanging is a public method of execution used when meting out justice to make a statement and warn others. Look at the bodies: they’re missing their shoes. They spent some time waiting for their execution. Those Outriders weren’t just pulled off the battlefield and lined up for a coup de grace. Whatever happened to them had a deliberateness to it.

Whatever the truth is behind The Outriders, I think they must have had too much influence on his young mind to be entirely healthy. I don’t know what the future has in store for Gregor, but I’m looking forward to seeing his character continue to grow, and I’m hopeful that he can shake off some of the black-and-white thinking that has probably been keeping his mind glued together, learn some things about himself, and be more than the leader he was apprenticed to be.

#thrilling intent #gregor hartway #ticaraseil

Subtitles: Adventure Begins

Here are subtitle files for the first arc of Thrilling Intent. (Episodes 1 - 4) These are just the subtitles, so you’ll need the videos and VLC Media Player to play them.

They’re available in two different formats: the Aegisub Advanced Subtitles fit more text on the screen at once and use yellow and italics to help differentiate between dialogue and narration.

http://www.adilegian.com/AB_aegisub.7z

The SRT files are unformatted (only white text, no italics) and fit less dialogue on the screen at once. VLC will let you change the font type and size displayed of .srt files in its options.

http://www.adilegian.com/AB_SRTs.7z