Part 1

Rocky may have been alone on his ship for 46 years but Adrian was grieving for 49 years so they get to be a little unhinged too as a treat.

god I watched the attempted King Gus assassination again and it’s such an excellent combat, the set up and pay off of the player choices is insane,, Hal choosing to stay separate letting him break the other spell caster’s concentration just in time to put Gus’s druid back in play,, Bolaire and Azune both putting up See Invisibility as soon as they arrive on the scene letting them later take out the mage keeping the doors closed,, Azune carefully setting up the Magpie’s presence so they can be on the scene as soon as those doors open to immediately turn the numbers in their favour,, Hal disguising himself at the beginning so he could later try to help handle Filoneus without blowing up his spot with the Creed

and fucking every single thing Marisha did just a sick combat for her, by the end of the first round Murray was the only functioning ally in that room and completely outnumbered and she carefully held that invisibility like a champ,, helping Gus get his weapon, stopping 4 attacks with that shield glyph, only revealing herself once Gus and the druid were back in action, using her other portent roll to keep up the crown of madness Bolaire had cast,, plus the dastardly diabolical move of trying to use a portent on Yanessa’s death save revealing the whole plot in the only way Brennan hadn’t anticipated,,, this might be recency bias but it’s gotta be up there as one of the great crit role combats if only for Marisha, it’s a barn burner

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Finally got back to campaign 3 and I will finish it before summer ends. Have some Essek in the meantime

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Coffee Bean Gang - The Ultracheese (Arctic Monkeys)

once earth finds out grace is alive they regularly (every 5 years?) send a new beefy hard drive to erid with all the latest media produced globally, the first one from the time he left to the present, and each subsequent from the last five years. this is a known and agreed upon thing worldwide. this does create a significant problem of there being a massive crunch in every creative industry ever every five years because everyone wants to get their movie/book/album/whatever out in time to be sent to space. however it does also create a new meme where if something comes out that's really ass you say "i don't think dr. grace needs to see this" which is always a critical hit

also everything written or directed by or starring one of his students gets put in a special folder that goes to the top of the list. many of these are theses and academic papers, but he cherishes all of them, video games and paintings and experimental noise albums (rocky is quite fond of xavier's work, actually).

earth keeps doing it long after they believe grace to have passed, because it's tradition, and like hey maybe the eridians will be into it. grace, approximately age 142 and looking exactly the same, finally sends home his and rocky's reviews of a selection of favorites. he does not address his appearance or alive-ness at all whatsoever.

I’m ready to be transformed by the ibuprofen . I’m ready to be born again in its purifying light.

I love it when a classicist has clearly gotten so lost in the BCE sauce that their perception of time has become deeply warped. Case in point: the article I’m currently reading just described the Byzantine era as “a period relatively modern.”

sometimes i let morbid curiosity carry me to old torchwood fan content from the 2000s and good god these people hate women so much. there's the obvious gwenbashing stuff but even innocuous content will be infused with this bizarre hatred of gwen and a complete dumbing down of every other woman. not to say the men are in character but at least that's done lovingly. any mention of gwen has to be like Gwen woke up in the morning evilly. she kicked rhys in the face and put on a revealing outfit. she ate a huge breakfast cause she's a bitch