of COURSE this is zerxus' first breach, help, i'm cackling
shobogan
of COURSE this is zerxus' first breach, help, i'm cackling
of COURSE this is zerxus' first breach, help, i'm cackling
shobogan
plotting comment here, will bump this when it's not two in the morning
shobogan
rewatching various bits and pieces and i feel like - okay i'm trying to do a youtube clip for the first time in my life
shobogan
THIS is gonna be fantasyland zerxus's whole vibe. and probably also regular zerxus once he settles into the barge and has recovered a little
shobogan
✂️ Oookay
shobogan
well i can do clips now. this is too much power
shobogan
Becky
just because i feel like most of your characters would feel that reaction in their bones
Becky
Absolutely correct
Becky
...hell probably ll of them. I gotta go get someone in there I like you anx this guy too much not to be playing with you lol
shobogan
sjkldas awww <3 I MEAN we should def keep pinging him and bruce off each other in PSL land because Damn
Becky
yes please because exactly
shobogan
✂️ Pity
shobogan
this is so much better than gifs. this is dangerous
shobogan
(it is very important to note that just before saying this he has died, horrifically, twice)
ⲱⲓⲧⲥⲏⲩ ⲱⲟⲙⲁⲛ
I offer Reid for a paladin bro!
shobogan
omg yes
ⲱⲓⲧⲥⲏⲩ ⲱⲟⲙⲁⲛ
...he is legit a Champion in his own canon charged by a god and chosen to do a thing
shobogan
oooh man
ⲱⲓⲧⲥⲏⲩ ⲱⲟⲙⲁⲛ
..that thing is avert a Disaster by fighting a goddess until she needs a nap
shobogan
hah
shobogan
he uh. he hopes that actually works
shobogan
in his professional opinion every god needs a nap
shobogan
(except you, sarenrae, you're perfect and we're lucky to have you)
ⲱⲓⲧⲥⲏⲩ ⲱⲟⲙⲁⲛ
it did!
shobogan
he is both very happy and Very Jealous
Mouth Powers
sage I need you to know that I just spent the whole bus ride home figuring out Hell!Jedao One's Vibe and Build and Whole Deal
Mouth Powers
he finds Fresh Meat Fellow Paladin Zerxus and just immediately is like. 'you're with me now' a la Janis befriending Cady in Mean Girls
Mouth Powers
"lemme explain the cliques at all the lunch tables"
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come hang out in Fierna where it's warm, Himself is sulking and isn't gonna talk to you again for like five years anyway
Mouth Powers
"buddy that's. that's so much magma. that's a little more than 'warm'. "
shobogan
oh my god
shobogan
zerxus, waking up burning and mourning and assuming he will never make another friend: ......?
Mouth Powers
Jedao just. absolute steam roller of amiable manic cheer
shobogan
none of this makes any!! sense!!!
Mouth Powers
now you're getting it. good man. /big camaraderie clap on the back
Mouth Powers
meanwhile of course he's actually plots within plots within plots within plots. but it's important to be cheerful most of the time so that when you do scream whichever archdevil is on your ass feels like they've accomplished something and you can use your High Prestige Rarely Acquired pain as bait for whatever
Mouth Powers
but also. loves making friends!
shobogan
and the thing is. that was zerxus' entire friend group
Mouth Powers
it's a vibe!!
shobogan
well most of it. cerrit is over there trying to solve a murder
shobogan
zerxus like "i hated avalir's politics and now i'm hERE" meanwhile asmodeus chuckling to himself somewhere, like a bitch
Mouth Powers
weirdly i suspect in some ways hell's politics are more straightforward
shobogan
and presumably being Asmodeus' Champion puts a big old target on your back like wow. okay. this random mortal is the champion now cool
Mouth Powers
because everybody just wants power and is a sadist about it, the biggest variable is risk tolerance
Mouth Powers
humans have so much more diverse motives
shobogan
oh yeah, it's much easier to see the why and how of everything, just harder to Ignore It
shobogan
he was in a position of privilege before but it was a bit isolated from Everything Else
Mouth Powers
gonna try and marathon the rest of the series this weekend, we will see
Mouth Powers
do you discord these days btw
shobogan
GOOD LUCK it's easy to binge and also devastating to binge
GOOD LUCK it's easy to binge and also devastating to binge
Mouth Powers
im very bad at bing
Mouth Powers
I'm halfway through about three times as many D20 shows as I've finished
shobogan
lmao i ALSO keep pinging around
shobogan
but calamity grabbed me by the throat. i think it helps that my brain processes Four Episodes as digestible even though one of those episodes is like six hours
Mouth Powers
i'm picturing Jedao with horns (that MIGHT be fox ears??? hard to say!) that are fully Made of Fire
shobogan
oh my god yes
Mouth Powers
and Zerxus, used to the nonsense magic fashion of avalir is blithely assuming that's cosmetic until one time he burns his fingers
Mouth Powers
"what that doesn't burn YOU tho"
Mouth Powers
"of course it does! hurts all the time." 
shobogan
yeah he is entirely too used to Aesthetic Mage Bullshit
Mouth Powers
NO PLURK NOT THE GLASSES
shobogan
ksadls;adas
Mouth Powers
shobogan
nerd demon
Mouth Powers
that's the vibe
shobogan
fuck he can get jedao to fence with him
Mouth Powers
with a little bit of 
Mouth Powers
yes absolutely
shobogan
he's gotta use the mace as his primary weapon for Whatever Shit Asmodeus Wants Him To Do Today but he MISSES HIS SWORD
Mouth Powers
because canon Jedao is Gun I think it's very funny if he does a ton of shit with eldritch blast to suggest Fierna is his patron when he got it through eldritch initiate and is not even a fucking warlock
Mouth Powers
also extremely funny: Jedao who is SO Bad At Singing as technically more levels in bard than paladin
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BUT he's an eloquence bard.
Mouth Powers
what are his weapons? he can talk to you
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it all fits
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and nobody knows because he uses all his spell slots on smites, and zerxus is gonna be the first recipient of bardic inspiration or song of rest in a few thousand years
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(thinking of that bit where Jedao forces Cheris to watch cheesy moves as a Song of Rest buff. my heart ;
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NO GODDAMNIT
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;_; close paren)
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NOT WINK
shobogan
the winky smileys out here ruining everything, up there with PLURK NOT NOTIFYING ME OF THINGS
shobogan
but fuck. zerxus viscerally reminded of two of his dead bffs in one swoop
shobogan
(....how excited is jedao gonna be in a thousand years when percy invents guns)
Mouth Powers
"would give him a warlock level for free probably" levels of excited
shobogan
zerxus with his face in his hands: oh this is bad
shobogan
percy: I KNOW, ALL RIGHT, I KN
shobogan
also obsessed with the image of jedao looking at percy's smoke demon and going "meet me in the pit"
Mouth Powers
Jedao rolls up with the smoke demon in a headlock under one arm like one of those emails you get saying your student loans have been purchased by another company
Mouth Powers
We're Excited To Here From You :>
shobogan
percy like "well i trust this not at all but you're definitely prettier"
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Mouth Powers
where there's smoke there's FIRE BAYBEE
shobogan
you can hear zerxus' groan from here
shobogan
(it should be noted that when vox machina literally went to hell percy told everyone not to sign any contracts with devils and then immediately signed a contract with a devil)
Mouth Powers
sounds about right
shobogan
his reasoning: now his soul is claimed twice over and watching them fight would be funny
Mouth Powers
(I watched like. a couple eps of the netflix show)
shobogan
the show is Very Good at distilling the characters and themes/story beats (especially in season two where more of them get focus) but it's so funny watching and knowing that all of these characters were Worse
shobogan
which makes sense because there was a Lot More Time for messiness and nuance and etc i just can't help but play the more fucked up versions who make worse choices
Mouth Powers
honestly I didn't enjoy the show, I felt like it kind...it was the simplified low hanging fruit version of the raunchy insanity of an actual DnD table, and like. that's FINE for people who like Cheap Jokes Cartoons but it wasnt to my taste AND even though I haven't watched the actual play I know what that kind of table feels like
shobogan
no yeah, i totally get that
shobogan
i do think the first season suffered from condensing in a way that made the raunchy chaos more -
shobogan
idk i definitely remember it feeling less In Your Face in the original campaign even before they started ramping up more into intense storytelling
Mouth Powers
i believe it
shobogan
i'd say season two strikes a much better balance, in part because even in the campaign this is when scanlan gets to have more of a character arc
shobogan
and there's very much a big threat to stay focused on. (....also we get some sparkly calamity flashbacks)
shobogan
(just snippets of clashing armies and gods, but man it was pretty)
Mouth Powers
OKAY this is actually breach related
Mouth Powers
is Zerxus gonna have a toplevel on the CR meme or should I make a starter for Jedao stumbling into his yard three years ago
shobogan
were are Very Focused in this here plurk. BUT YEAH i can go toss up a cr meme comment i've been. meaning to do that
shobogan
there we go