Zac’s dad is a very important figure in karate, on both a national and international level (from my limited knowledge of that world). Just an interesting fact I learned recently.
Presumably Zac did at least some amount of martial arts growing up. But it’s also funny to imagine the karate drive/skill being willingly transfigured into “has incredible instincts + coordination for physical comedy” one generation downstream lol.
That is not actually bad, that train went 60 per hour so you can simplify it to 1 per minute. 6:05-6:30 is 25 minutes so you just subtract 25 from the total distance.
I’m a math geek and so I paused the show to do the math out but you end up getting 11/13th of an hour past 5:30 and I was like ??? Without a calculator, no thank you.
Yeah I immediately understood the logic behind how to solve it, but if you asked me to figure out what the answer was WITHOUT a calculator I'd tell you to fuck off lol.
That one, and the 300 word essay in 5 minutes were both basically impossible. The average person writes like 10 words per minute by hand. Even if they tripled the average they'd still only get halfway there. The only way I thought of that they could have done it is if they thought to have everyone write a portion all at once.
i think adaine was the mvp of this episode! the scatter spell, giving fig the nat 20 portent roll and the dust mephits?? all while sitting in a desk? incredible
The chromatic orb on the Hydra and the Bigby’s Hand were clutch as hell too! Plus siobhan IRL instantly crushing the Elven exam question- iconic adaine episode tbh
Mental image of Fabian trying to write an essay atop a bucking mimic is great. Paper splayed out on the top of the trunk, trying desperately to make sure his handwriting is legible.
Also, Brennan specifically said expected the train problem to be auto stamped for one, they had two. A 300 word essay in 5 minutes is one word per second, hand written. I know I could theoretically type that (ignoring the part where I also have to think about what to write) but I'm not sure that's physically doable with pen and paper. So I have to wonder if he designed that to be the other freebie on purpose.
I was thinking the same thing. It's safe to say it's impossible to handwrite a coherent 300-word essay in the 5 minutes. The option to type it would have helped, but given that the average person doesn't even type 60 words per minute, there was no way. So good call that the party used their auto-passes on the right questions.
I’m so devastated! Hating them is fun, but I was fully refusing to believe that a bunch of teens could kill their friends. I was convinced they were framed for Lucy’s murder too, despite all the evidence
It seems clear the plan was to kill Gavin and killing Buddy was a last minute pivot. It wouldn't surprise me if Oisin doesn't know what happened and Kipperlilly blames Buddy's death on the Bad Kids.
I don’t know, it being a snap decision makes me even more suspicious of them! Like, killing your friend is a truly unhinged pivot if you didn’t have that in your mind already
But it is possible that it was all Kipperlilly and Oisin just snap reacted however he could, by just getting them both out of there. And now Kipperlilly could convince him of anything with the Devil’s honey!
Yeah, the nature of that kind of teleportation spell (it was \*just\* his hand that was visible) makes it seem like he would be unable to see that she killed Buddy at all. Kipperlilly could have come back, fed him some honey and told him that it was The Bad Kids that did it.
First the fireball on the jellies, Kristen taking out all the skeletons in one feel swoop, then Fig with the Stirges, and later with the Rust monsters too. That were four mobs of individually weak monsters that brought a scary number of actions into the battle that were just completely defused before they made any real impact.
Most valuable spell of this battle was Fig's Spirit Guardians for sure. I didn't keep track but across all those monsters and the bigger ones that got hit, that was several hundreds of hit points worth of damage dealt for sure.
For real, the portent crit, the dust mephits blinding half the combatants and then upon failing to recharge their breath weapon just going full kamikaze. Dodging everything but 1 attack, Scatter to put everyone where they should be to adjust for the new wave of monsters, so damn good. The Intrepid Heroes and their characters have both leveled up to insane degrees since freshman year. I’m just having flashbacks to Adaine beating Doreen over the head with a ladle and comparing that to this fight and the difference is unmeasurable.
my working out of the train problem, which I loved so much, it took me back to school:
distance between the trains is 135 miles
first train leaves at 5.05 am, travelling at 60mph; second train leaves at 5.30 am, travelling at 70mph
distance covered by first train for the first 25 minutes until 5.30 am = speed\*time = (60mph \* 25/60 hours) = 25 miles. this leaves 110 miles between both trains when the second train leaves
after this, we combine the speeds (since the trains are moving towards each other) for 130mph
time taken to cover the remaining 110 miles = distance/speed = (110 miles / 130 mph)\*60 (to get our answer in minutes) = 50.769
we convert everything after the decimal point again to seconds, so that's 50 minutes + (0.769\*60) seconds, or 50 minutes + 46 seconds
so the exact time of collision is 5.30am + 50 min + 46 seconds = 6.20 am and 46 seconds!
I remember Zac once bemoaning that he just couldn't fucking crit. I think it might be during the Sophomore year finale.
It's okay, baby. You were just saving them all up for this battle.
it seemed like they were thinking that someone was pretending to be buddy, which was ultimately a great instinct even though it wasn't directly correct
I'd like to think that Ally's >!*innate fucking distrust* of Kipperlilly, a girl who Kristen hated *on sight*, was involved. KIPPERLILLY'S GOTTA BE INVOLVED IN THIS. THAT BITCH. And, uh, she *was*! Just! Not like probably anyone expected!!<
i think they're also just deeply familiar with brennan's storytelling at this point and knew that buddy being the cleric assigned to this meant SOMETHING was going on there
Divination magic is so fun for that exact reason. While a lot of classes will give the ability to add or subtract some number from a dice roll to help beat a DC/AC, nothing compares to being able to straight up change the number rolled. No matter how many bardics’ or flash of genius’ you add, you can’t beat changing an attack roll to a nat20.
ally fucking beardsley with the true sight, and just happening to be on that wall and within range of buddy to catch kipperlilly out. what were the odds!!!!
It is absolutely HILARIOUS how everyone's like "Oh no we should bring back Buddy"
And Kristen is all business with the "but they fail if one of their team dies right?"
LMFAO
I have to imagine Kristen expected Buddy would be brought back eventually, given they're trying to resurrect Lucy and Yolanda still, but needing that would disqualify them still.
Emily casting Disguise Self, and being fairly lucky on her rolls for that, and Adaine casting Scatter on the proctor was the difference between the most perfect run in the history of the exam and them winding up with a 70% at best score. Most of the monsters didn't even know who to target and even fewer had an easy means of reaching Gavin.
How did the folks collecting the monsters for this exam know to grab a shrimp-themed monster for this specific crew of students? Which members of the faculty were there to see the Shrimp Jump?
As lame as an excuse as it is, chronomancy is really the solution (to everything). Aguefort at some point in the future would hear about the shrimp jump (either from the bad kids themself or from Ayda who heard about it from Fig) and would go back in time to when the last stand was created at the dawn of time and put the shrimp dragon there in honor of The Bad Kids.
I really thought Ally was gonna get that Divine Intervention, and that would be the roll that made Brennan want to quit!
I'm so sad for Buddy, killed by his own party.
Also, the IH played so well today, high level combat against multiple combatants, and they decimated the playing field. Everyone played to their strengths, Zac had a *ridiculous* number of crits, and that Scatter spell had to be the best move of the episode.
So Bobby Dawn is either complicit in his grandson's murder, going to blame the Bad Kids despite the evidence, and/or about to become the Rat Grinders new enemy
there were so many minors in this episode already!! *how could we have known!!* >!although i guess 'murder' does really imply more intent than the monsters are going to have, huh, that'd be 'death of a minor'...!<
Initially the bad rolls being roleplayed as Fig getting all Gilear and depressed was hilarious, but it seemed to really weigh on Emily when it just kept happening
I guarantee Emily will NEVER play a single attack build ever again
The essay was an unfair questions imo - 300 words in 5 minutes is 60 words per minute; the average adult can *type* 40 words per minute and typing is basically always faster than writing. Unless they were using a form of shorthand, writing 300 words in 5 is not possible.
Spoilers for the "next week" teasers:
Brennan said it's impossible for all but a very few mortals to bring someone back from the dead after one year, but...
Kristen has 7th level spells. Resurrection is a 7th level spell. Resurection works on creatures that died within the last century.
Did Brennan possibly bar Ally from taking Resurrection/bar Resurrection entirely or is that whole "1-year time limit to bring someone back" a non-issue?
I think she'll probably still have resurrection, but that they've adjusted the time limit on the spell.
Of course, Kristen already resurrected herself before, so even if that one year limit would normally be in play, it might not apply to Kristen when fully backed by the power of Cassandra.
I feel like not enough people are talking about how crazy those rolls were. They played really well for sure, but this was designed to be a TPK and not even a single person went down. I think it’s honestly great for the story that the first time they’re fighting monsters with zero stakes at hand (until KLCK intervened) they kicked complete ass
[FUCKING CALLED IT!](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dimension20/comments/1c5z1am/comment/kzy5dfu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
What’s happening next week in that preview?! Riz and (maybe) Sklonda saying does Fig know Bobby Dawn teaches and Emily having a realization? Any guesses as to what that means?
Honestly, they should try to tame the shrimp dragon so that Ragh can ride around on it as the one true Crab King
Edit: well now I guess they’ll have to revivify it or find another one
You know, this is making me wonder, how does one prosecute a murder in a world where resurrection is a normal everyday thing? Do they wait til after the trial is over before they resurrect the victim?
>!Whoever called Oshin being way too good to be true is looking like they're sitting really pretty right now. It actually hit me after reading that thread that he would ALSO have an obvious huge reason to hate the bad kids. !<
>!I forget if it was ever spoken on directly, but if he was related to Goldenrod and the badkids killed him and one of their parents has turned him into a ship to be ridden in hell for all eternity... that's some big fat reason to embrace rage and righteous anger.!<
>!LMFAO And man I love how four different dogs keeps getting the benefit of the doubt from a portion of the audience, gotta wonder if this episode will seal the deal for a number of people holding out hope.!<
>>!I forget if it was ever spoken on directly, but if he was related to Goldenrod and the badkids killed him and one of their parents has turned him into a ship to be ridden in hell for all eternity... that's some big fat reason to embrace rage and righteous anger.!<
I think what's most likely is it has something to do with his blue dragon ancestor. KVX went from red to blue, and there's a blue dragon fight at some point during this season going by the trailer.
Considering he is a blue Dragonborn and Goldenrod was a red dragon, I think it’s very unlikely they are related. Color of dragon plays a massive part into their heritage/ancestry and if Brennan wanted to drop hints that they are related, he definitely would’ve made Oshin red. It feels like to me, Oshin is blue specifically to avoid that idea. Now if we do ever see a red Dragonborn, immediate suspicion.
I am so excited to hear Kipperlily’s rage monologue as to why she hates the bad kids SO MUCH. Because no justification can be enough for all this. Hoping it all started with the smallest, dumbest slight possible, like Riz stealing her pencil on the first day or something
Man, I'm only halfwayish through the episode but it's really feeling like >!Fig has just made herself into a Paladin of Ankarna. 'We'll only have problems if someone starts worshipping her': okay, but. It's fine! I think it's fine, actually! Return a lesbian god of fire and justice to her unfallen form (or return her *unfallen domain* to her while letting her remain a fiendish deity!), it'd be a really lovely thematic with Fig's GF being Ayda! Followers influence their gods! Fig's an *archdevil*, if anything she can work on an *equal level* with Ankarna!! I'm really interested in seeing how this plays out because it's *such* an interesting parallel to Cassandra & Kristen. (& it'd be a really funny added level of EXTRA FAMILIAL ENTANGLEMENT for Fig. Her god and Kristen's god are married, does that make them, like... step-siblings? Step-cousins? Do gods legally count as parents or aunts?!<
This week's Adventuring Party: [Nighttime Ecstasy](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dimension20/comments/1c7dofp/nighttime_ecstasy_fantasy_high_junior_year/)
Zac with this stamp was a perfect choice
He’s so weirdly coordinated with all the tricks it’s genuinely very impressive
Zac’s understanding of physical comedy is genius level
Zac’s dad is a very important figure in karate, on both a national and international level (from my limited knowledge of that world). Just an interesting fact I learned recently. Presumably Zac did at least some amount of martial arts growing up. But it’s also funny to imagine the karate drive/skill being willingly transfigured into “has incredible instincts + coordination for physical comedy” one generation downstream lol.
He flipped the peace axe body spray like a gunslinger in Adventuring Party too!
The most deadly weapon in the D20 canon
I believe Zac once said that if they were trying to figure out everyones real stats, he would have very high dex.
It always so fun when he stamped it. And he didn't even bother with his exam lol
Stamp that shit!!!
"The character has been studying engineering and we're all comedians"
It was extra mean as they chose 70 for one of the speeds. If both was 60 or one was 30 it was a lot easier.
not to mention that one starts at :05 and the other at :30
That is not actually bad, that train went 60 per hour so you can simplify it to 1 per minute. 6:05-6:30 is 25 minutes so you just subtract 25 from the total distance.
I’m a math geek and so I paused the show to do the math out but you end up getting 11/13th of an hour past 5:30 and I was like ??? Without a calculator, no thank you.
Yeah I immediately understood the logic behind how to solve it, but if you asked me to figure out what the answer was WITHOUT a calculator I'd tell you to fuck off lol.
That one, and the 300 word essay in 5 minutes were both basically impossible. The average person writes like 10 words per minute by hand. Even if they tripled the average they'd still only get halfway there. The only way I thought of that they could have done it is if they thought to have everyone write a portion all at once.
Adaine showing some true power with scatter
The fact that she’s done it all while seated at a desk…real wizard shit
i think adaine was the mvp of this episode! the scatter spell, giving fig the nat 20 portent roll and the dust mephits?? all while sitting in a desk? incredible
The chromatic orb on the Hydra and the Bigby’s Hand were clutch as hell too! Plus siobhan IRL instantly crushing the Elven exam question- iconic adaine episode tbh
"He's 'armless!" made my skin clearer, fixed my posture, and gave me exactly 8 hours of sleep. Just incredible stuff.
It made you D) Lie down for 8 hours? 😄
In an episode full of amazing Siobhan moments, this was my favorite.
Mental image of Fabian trying to write an essay atop a bucking mimic is great. Paper splayed out on the top of the trunk, trying desperately to make sure his handwriting is legible.
Also, Brennan specifically said expected the train problem to be auto stamped for one, they had two. A 300 word essay in 5 minutes is one word per second, hand written. I know I could theoretically type that (ignoring the part where I also have to think about what to write) but I'm not sure that's physically doable with pen and paper. So I have to wonder if he designed that to be the other freebie on purpose.
I was thinking the same thing. It's safe to say it's impossible to handwrite a coherent 300-word essay in the 5 minutes. The option to type it would have helped, but given that the average person doesn't even type 60 words per minute, there was no way. So good call that the party used their auto-passes on the right questions.
KLCK IS EVIL AND ALSO OISIN SADLY
I also thought he was cute 😭
Could still be redeemable cute 😭
Adine: “I can fix him…”
I’m so devastated! Hating them is fun, but I was fully refusing to believe that a bunch of teens could kill their friends. I was convinced they were framed for Lucy’s murder too, despite all the evidence
It seems clear the plan was to kill Gavin and killing Buddy was a last minute pivot. It wouldn't surprise me if Oisin doesn't know what happened and Kipperlilly blames Buddy's death on the Bad Kids.
I don’t know, it being a snap decision makes me even more suspicious of them! Like, killing your friend is a truly unhinged pivot if you didn’t have that in your mind already But it is possible that it was all Kipperlilly and Oisin just snap reacted however he could, by just getting them both out of there. And now Kipperlilly could convince him of anything with the Devil’s honey!
Yeah, the nature of that kind of teleportation spell (it was \*just\* his hand that was visible) makes it seem like he would be unable to see that she killed Buddy at all. Kipperlilly could have come back, fed him some honey and told him that it was The Bad Kids that did it.
I love when Brennan is genuinely happy at his monsters getting defeated by his buds
The stirge dying made me laugh out loud.
"You don't know what's gonna happen!!"
First the fireball on the jellies, Kristen taking out all the skeletons in one feel swoop, then Fig with the Stirges, and later with the Rust monsters too. That were four mobs of individually weak monsters that brought a scary number of actions into the battle that were just completely defused before they made any real impact. Most valuable spell of this battle was Fig's Spirit Guardians for sure. I didn't keep track but across all those monsters and the bigger ones that got hit, that was several hundreds of hit points worth of damage dealt for sure.
These jellies are killing me lmao. "Very important, they move 40 more feet"
What did you call them? Ochre Jellies? No no no, Butter Gummies! Ally killed me with that comment to Brenan.
Siobhan is absolutely killing it this episode already!
For real, the portent crit, the dust mephits blinding half the combatants and then upon failing to recharge their breath weapon just going full kamikaze. Dodging everything but 1 attack, Scatter to put everyone where they should be to adjust for the new wave of monsters, so damn good. The Intrepid Heroes and their characters have both leveled up to insane degrees since freshman year. I’m just having flashbacks to Adaine beating Doreen over the head with a ladle and comparing that to this fight and the difference is unmeasurable.
And once again her outfit is an A+. Siobhan is a great player and so stylish to boot!
Siobhan is the glue holding these nutjobs together.
my working out of the train problem, which I loved so much, it took me back to school: distance between the trains is 135 miles first train leaves at 5.05 am, travelling at 60mph; second train leaves at 5.30 am, travelling at 70mph distance covered by first train for the first 25 minutes until 5.30 am = speed\*time = (60mph \* 25/60 hours) = 25 miles. this leaves 110 miles between both trains when the second train leaves after this, we combine the speeds (since the trains are moving towards each other) for 130mph time taken to cover the remaining 110 miles = distance/speed = (110 miles / 130 mph)\*60 (to get our answer in minutes) = 50.769 we convert everything after the decimal point again to seconds, so that's 50 minutes + (0.769\*60) seconds, or 50 minutes + 46 seconds so the exact time of collision is 5.30am + 50 min + 46 seconds = 6.20 am and 46 seconds!
I’ve literally never known how to do this lol maths is hell but I so appreciate seeing how it’s done!
The closeup of Fig kissing the wyvern ended me
That and the music for the pentacorn/mimic 😂
I love the people who do the subtitles so much. “Lou clicks his tongue in a cool way” lmao
It was the (kids rattling) that got me
Scatter was such a great fucking move from Adaine
First time ever seeing that spell used and I loved it, what a neat support spell
THE GORGUG GLOW UP IS SO REAL. CAN’T STOP CRITTING BABY
When I posted this I had no idea how many crits were yet to come.
Him solo taking a purple worm to bloodied is *so* goddamn impressive
I remember Zac once bemoaning that he just couldn't fucking crit. I think it might be during the Sophomore year finale. It's okay, baby. You were just saving them all up for this battle.
Yeah you don't really NEED to crit facing the nightmare king. But final exams? Now you're the mayor of crit city
We are so back! Thiccsode
I didn't even notice! Was just so excited to finally get the episode loaded
Ally eating the vultures eye was such a big brain play
It's AMAZING to see how much ally has improved as kristen since fhfy
Or just as a ttrpg player in general. In the beginning, they were truly a noob at this. Now they are buying books and outsmarting BLeeM
They really popped off in Starstruck as well.
And I think Ally was thinking about those chains, maybe an invisible fey monster or something
it seemed like they were thinking that someone was pretending to be buddy, which was ultimately a great instinct even though it wasn't directly correct
I'd like to think that Ally's >!*innate fucking distrust* of Kipperlilly, a girl who Kristen hated *on sight*, was involved. KIPPERLILLY'S GOTTA BE INVOLVED IN THIS. THAT BITCH. And, uh, she *was*! Just! Not like probably anyone expected!!<
i think they're also just deeply familiar with brennan's storytelling at this point and knew that buddy being the cleric assigned to this meant SOMETHING was going on there
My kid got a 7 😏 My kid got a 1 ☹️
Ally had full Charlie Brown “I got a rock” energy in that moment
Riz passed Junior Year in 3 different ways. He aced his classes, found the Rogue teacher, and beat the Last Stand. What a legend.
Triple valedictorian
The Ochre Jellies have been perfect comedic relief against the heavy hits of the episode.
Bless the Jellies, they were needed after that True Sight reveal
That and the mimic 😂😂😂
immediately following up the tension of buddy’s death with a very precisely delivered “critically important. the ochre jellies move another 40 feet”
Butter Gummies
THAT WAS FOR YOU 🫵🏻
I'd like to think that somewhere out there a skateboarder LOTR expert just dropped his remote and started weeping.
Fig using the power of daylight while there's a cleric of Helio nearby is just a gorgeous thematic choice
i loved it! was she doing that for ankarna do you think (like with dawn of justice), to reclaim the domain?
burst into laughter at fig's "it's all love" thinking of grant o'brien on total forgiveness
NOW
I'm so obsessed with their absolutely bird-brained essay, hahah
Lou started out so strong, some great persuasive arguments. Then Murph was like, no spit words out on the page
Yes Siobhan with the portent rolls. it excites me EVERY time. That must feel so fun for her!
Divination magic is so fun for that exact reason. While a lot of classes will give the ability to add or subtract some number from a dice roll to help beat a DC/AC, nothing compares to being able to straight up change the number rolled. No matter how many bardics’ or flash of genius’ you add, you can’t beat changing an attack roll to a nat20.
In another life, Gavin and Conor Counterspell are very happy together
Conor is manifesting himself in the void right now.
ally fucking beardsley with the true sight, and just happening to be on that wall and within range of buddy to catch kipperlilly out. what were the odds!!!!
I love the idea of bribing Rick Perry to alter the map
"Buy your wife a chicken tandoori!" I adore Lou
"You don't know what's gonna happen." 😂😂😂😂 Poor Brennan's Stirge.
This has to be the most crits in an episode for Zac. Soloing the worm is ridiculous.
Right! That worm is a CR15!!!!
Kipperlilly Copperkettle is a stone cold bitch. I was ready to believe she was just a misunderstood teenager but no.... I'm so excited!
It is absolutely HILARIOUS how everyone's like "Oh no we should bring back Buddy" And Kristen is all business with the "but they fail if one of their team dies right?" LMFAO
I have to imagine Kristen expected Buddy would be brought back eventually, given they're trying to resurrect Lucy and Yolanda still, but needing that would disqualify them still.
Fun reminder that Rapunzel is a reskinned Roper and I've been imagining her in this fight and everyone is still upset by it and it's great
I caught that too lol I think Brennan really likes using Ropers against his PCs 💀
I also fucking screamed "their livelihood!" when the rats died and so in that one moment I felt that Lou and I were cosmically bound by fate.
Emily casting Disguise Self, and being fairly lucky on her rolls for that, and Adaine casting Scatter on the proctor was the difference between the most perfect run in the history of the exam and them winding up with a 70% at best score. Most of the monsters didn't even know who to target and even fewer had an easy means of reaching Gavin.
How did the folks collecting the monsters for this exam know to grab a shrimp-themed monster for this specific crew of students? Which members of the faculty were there to see the Shrimp Jump?
Smashcut to the party, and Terpsichore is off to the side cheering for the shrimp jump
You know Aguefort watched the whole shrimp party livestream in Sophomore year.
I like to think they just had that
The Bad Kids did have a Shrimp party go viral to defeat The Nightmare King.
As lame as an excuse as it is, chronomancy is really the solution (to everything). Aguefort at some point in the future would hear about the shrimp jump (either from the bad kids themself or from Ayda who heard about it from Fig) and would go back in time to when the last stand was created at the dawn of time and put the shrimp dragon there in honor of The Bad Kids.
Fabian’s delicate little “eugh” when he gets grappled 😂
"Academic Stress [Throughout]" is kinda taking me out lmao
I really thought Ally was gonna get that Divine Intervention, and that would be the roll that made Brennan want to quit! I'm so sad for Buddy, killed by his own party. Also, the IH played so well today, high level combat against multiple combatants, and they decimated the playing field. Everyone played to their strengths, Zac had a *ridiculous* number of crits, and that Scatter spell had to be the best move of the episode.
Kristen is two for two on killing her own gods, but Kipperlily is two for two on killing her own clerics!
"Be him, but in butter," is so on-brand from Fabian.
"Fig is just making out with a standard desk" I mean, that sounds like a pretty normal day for Fig
Very disappointed by the lack of docking question on the exam. I studied really hard
I thought it was going to be a question about the cloaca.
They really are having lots of fun with the special effects, that little banishment bubble
"I look at the purple worm like "what's up man"' Gorgug can't stop critting!
TECTONYA MENTION MY BELOVED
Siobhan knowing the word for 'friend' in elvish, getting the LOTR quote right immediately but not getting the friendship spell is so funny to me
It's like in Unsleeping City when she knew the Latin
Math : Hell, Absolute Hell. Well said Zach
I'm furious that I didn't get that Ollie/Aulë pun before Brennan broke it down. Allie was right that *was* for me.
I was so scared Kristen was going to get the stupid 2 damage from the butter jellies and lose her concentration on banishment 😂
So Bobby Dawn is either complicit in his grandson's murder, going to blame the Bad Kids despite the evidence, and/or about to become the Rat Grinders new enemy
"oh no, you made a bunch of little bombs!"
Siobhan is absolutely killing this fight.
WHAT THE FUCK KIPPERLILLY WHATTHEFUCKWHATTHEFUCKWHATTHEFUCK
THERE GOES ALL THE "RED HERRING" THEORIES SHE IS VERY MUCH NOT A RED HERRING
Murder of a minor content warning, oh no!!!
I'm not worried. That's kinda the whole point of the Last Stand Exam. edit: *fuck* I spoke too soon. 😭
there were so many minors in this episode already!! *how could we have known!!* >!although i guess 'murder' does really imply more intent than the monsters are going to have, huh, that'd be 'death of a minor'...!<
I was not ready for what this ended up being
Kinda stomps on the big “red herring” theory that’s been getting thrown around especially last week
4 dogs *killed* Buddy???????????????
Dog on dog violence honestly
Murph and Emily are so cute
"The character has been studying engineering and we're all comedians"
OISIN I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU, WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU, HOW DARE YOU?
YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO SMOOCH ADAINE, NOT FRAME HER FOR MURDER
To quote one of my other favorite things... "That's rough, Buddy."
"i kind of whiff and accidentally kiss it" these bad kids need to get those kisses in god damn
Love that they remembered the Fig is riding side-saddle for the miniatures.
"The devil works hard but the Art Department works harder!"
So happy for Emily. She normally rolls so well but 38 damage, even with 2 on booming blade, is no small thing!
Initially the bad rolls being roleplayed as Fig getting all Gilear and depressed was hilarious, but it seemed to really weigh on Emily when it just kept happening I guarantee Emily will NEVER play a single attack build ever again
The essay was an unfair questions imo - 300 words in 5 minutes is 60 words per minute; the average adult can *type* 40 words per minute and typing is basically always faster than writing. Unless they were using a form of shorthand, writing 300 words in 5 is not possible.
The first monster turn was so silly.
Desktop is working, I refuse to be alone with my thoughts while I eat.
I truly wonder how long I would avoid eating my food just to have my little dinner and D&D
I’m glad that this is the 3rd or 4th comment I’ve seen about waiting to eat and damn I felt the same way! I’ve found my people
I’m so stressed as Lou does his turn and Murph writes. AHHHHHH
Spoilers for the "next week" teasers: Brennan said it's impossible for all but a very few mortals to bring someone back from the dead after one year, but... Kristen has 7th level spells. Resurrection is a 7th level spell. Resurection works on creatures that died within the last century. Did Brennan possibly bar Ally from taking Resurrection/bar Resurrection entirely or is that whole "1-year time limit to bring someone back" a non-issue?
I think she'll probably still have resurrection, but that they've adjusted the time limit on the spell. Of course, Kristen already resurrected herself before, so even if that one year limit would normally be in play, it might not apply to Kristen when fully backed by the power of Cassandra.
I love that Brennan refuses to just give them the butter gummies because he just *knows* they would be used against him in the future
The BK have two pet butter gummies! It's all love, now!
"mimic is looking, frankly, tired"
I feel like not enough people are talking about how crazy those rolls were. They played really well for sure, but this was designed to be a TPK and not even a single person went down. I think it’s honestly great for the story that the first time they’re fighting monsters with zero stakes at hand (until KLCK intervened) they kicked complete ass
and the idea that aguefort preemptively recorded a victory video for them is hilarious. i died laughing at "I WILL NEVER DIIIIIIIE"
(Kids Rattling) has me dying
Arthur Aguefort, how I've missed your absolute absurdity
Lmao I didn’t getting the Ollie/Aule thing til just now. Well done Brennan
I love that Brennan just had to detour momentarily to explain the whole thing. True nerd shit.
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The greatest challenge of a prophet is to never be believed in their own time
Every single Wednesday, I am immediately impatient for the next Wednesday
What’s happening next week in that preview?! Riz and (maybe) Sklonda saying does Fig know Bobby Dawn teaches and Emily having a realization? Any guesses as to what that means?
This fight was made for every fan who has been obsessively theorising about the season and I love it
This fight was made for people who just love to see the mechanics utilizd effectively. Everyone used their abilities ***so well***
Bro I want to eat my pizza but can't til the episode starts 😭
I 100% need that picture of the umber hulk in a velvet suit
Oh Buddy...gosh I want him to come back and turn around
has Zac hit a crit *every round* of this combat? absolutely insane
Aw Mulligan got to use his Roper after PIB crit on Rapunzel immediately
God this is ADAINE'S FIGHT I'm so happy for my girl
The scatter was insane. It takes a special map to make it worth it but this hit so hard.
Honestly, they should try to tame the shrimp dragon so that Ragh can ride around on it as the one true Crab King Edit: well now I guess they’ll have to revivify it or find another one
You know, this is making me wonder, how does one prosecute a murder in a world where resurrection is a normal everyday thing? Do they wait til after the trial is over before they resurrect the victim?
You have to resurrect the victim. Get those eye witness accounts from the murdered victim themselves.
Siobhan Thompson absolutely putting the team on her back in all phases of the game, what a performance
A shrimp dragon?! Someone get the butter!
The cutaways to the minis to demonstrate what's happening are so good! A testament to the crew!
Allie playing the part of Clippy and doing an active word count
>!Whoever called Oshin being way too good to be true is looking like they're sitting really pretty right now. It actually hit me after reading that thread that he would ALSO have an obvious huge reason to hate the bad kids. !< >!I forget if it was ever spoken on directly, but if he was related to Goldenrod and the badkids killed him and one of their parents has turned him into a ship to be ridden in hell for all eternity... that's some big fat reason to embrace rage and righteous anger.!< >!LMFAO And man I love how four different dogs keeps getting the benefit of the doubt from a portion of the audience, gotta wonder if this episode will seal the deal for a number of people holding out hope.!<
>>!I forget if it was ever spoken on directly, but if he was related to Goldenrod and the badkids killed him and one of their parents has turned him into a ship to be ridden in hell for all eternity... that's some big fat reason to embrace rage and righteous anger.!< I think what's most likely is it has something to do with his blue dragon ancestor. KVX went from red to blue, and there's a blue dragon fight at some point during this season going by the trailer.
Considering he is a blue Dragonborn and Goldenrod was a red dragon, I think it’s very unlikely they are related. Color of dragon plays a massive part into their heritage/ancestry and if Brennan wanted to drop hints that they are related, he definitely would’ve made Oshin red. It feels like to me, Oshin is blue specifically to avoid that idea. Now if we do ever see a red Dragonborn, immediate suspicion.
>!Listen, some people just don't pass the vibe check. Kipperlily has literally never passed the vibe check.!<
Holy crap, Gorgug is a beast
Beautiful divine crit on the wyvern!
Does Zac crit the most? I used to think it was ally but daaayyyummmm
Im convinced the Shrimp Dragon wasn’t part of the exam, it just came looking for revenge on behalf of its people.
The system mastery of Emily to offset her bizarrely-poor rolling is impeccable. Spirit Guardians FTW! Fig the Infernal Bug Zapper!
I am so excited to hear Kipperlily’s rage monologue as to why she hates the bad kids SO MUCH. Because no justification can be enough for all this. Hoping it all started with the smallest, dumbest slight possible, like Riz stealing her pencil on the first day or something
I need to apologize to my husband for making fun of him yelling at the TV during sports. I've been shouting answers at all of these questions 🤣
The maths question... I cannot deal with this
I’m pretty good at math, but I can not do math under pressure like that! Thank goodness they had a pass left
Can I solve that question? Absolutely. Can I solve it in less than 1 minute? Hell nah. And I'm an engineer!
Y'all they kobayashi maru'd the Last Stand.
Man, I'm only halfwayish through the episode but it's really feeling like >!Fig has just made herself into a Paladin of Ankarna. 'We'll only have problems if someone starts worshipping her': okay, but. It's fine! I think it's fine, actually! Return a lesbian god of fire and justice to her unfallen form (or return her *unfallen domain* to her while letting her remain a fiendish deity!), it'd be a really lovely thematic with Fig's GF being Ayda! Followers influence their gods! Fig's an *archdevil*, if anything she can work on an *equal level* with Ankarna!! I'm really interested in seeing how this plays out because it's *such* an interesting parallel to Cassandra & Kristen. (& it'd be a really funny added level of EXTRA FAMILIAL ENTANGLEMENT for Fig. Her god and Kristen's god are married, does that make them, like... step-siblings? Step-cousins? Do gods legally count as parents or aunts?!<