VINES TRIED TO EAT MY DICK (The MacElroys Play D&D)

Well, now my heart's racing and I don't even know what's going to happen!

 

Spoiler

yeah i think if lucretia went in with a party, or even a comrade, and then traded their lives to get out, she could. the three horny boys are trying to say they won, which the liches aren't about to allow, whereas lucretia after a certain point only wanted to escape. i think they'd let one member of a team escape if she paid enough.

 

Spoiler: sazed grumblings

yeah im STILL baffled as to how so many people concluded that sazed was a sexual and domestic abuser instead of maybe just a shitty coward who tried to murder his awful boss? the one conversation we got between taako and sazed showed that taako had all the power and control and dismissed sazed's requests pretty much entirely. but somehow taako is some innocent damsel who.... was so starved for love... he let some horrible rape machine dominate his life for years? what? this is taako. he's the bully! him! i love him but he's callous, aggressive, manipulative, and almost entirely self-interested. he's absolutely determind not to be a helpless, neglected orphan kid ever again. he's definitely not a weepy damsel that lets anyone give him shit.

eta: i don't remember if i've already complaind about this. sorry if so!

 

NEW EP TIME

Spoiler: IN INCREASINGLY HIGH TONES: GRIFFIN I SWEAR TO GOD

IM SUPER SUPER PANICKED OVER THAT EP DESCRIPTION

IM SO CHARMED BY THIS RED ROBE BEING A COOL DUDE

STOP, SNAPPING YOU FUCKERS.

oh god theyre actually fighting FUCKING LICHES

MANNEQUIN??? FUCK IM LAUGHING "they all shake their head no" "cool! cool."

griffin: are you gonna break the game
justin: naaah
narrator: but he was lying

IM SCREAMING HOLY GOD DAMN SHIT

TAAKO IM. TAAKO.... HOW DID YOU GET SO GODDAMN COOL

DEATH SAVE TIME.....AND IT IS....... A SAVE! SO FAR!!

THE RED ROBE IS SUCH A FUCKING BRO.

oh god oh god

OH MY! GOD!!!!

HOLY SHIT???? THATS SO FUCKING SICK

I HOPE THE LICHES ARE DEEPLY, DEEPLY REGRETTING THIS FIGHT

HOLY SHIT. MAGNUS IS REY??????

I HATE IT WHEN GRIFFIN GETS LIKE THIS!!!! SMUG ASSHOLE.

STARTS SCREAMING. IT ALL COMES BACK TO ARMS

ummmm
UMMMMMMMM
UHHHHHHH WHERE IS THIS GOING

WHAT??? WHAT. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!

OH! OH MY GOD. OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS CAM!!!!
CAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOURE SO GOOD AND PURE AND I LVOE YOU

OH MY FUCKING GOD.

o no taako
OH NO TAAKO

YEAAAAAH TAAKOS UMBRELLA!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!

LYDIA: WHAT THE FUCK
EDWARD: UHHHHHH HH H H HHHHHHH

OH??? OH NO OH FUCK. LYDIA YOU JACKASS.

UHHHHH. HOW THE FUCK CAN THIS POSSIBLE GET WORSE?!

pinches the bridge of my nose. fucking........liches get stitches....

starts crying over magnus

starts clapping my hands in utter fucking delight

starts giggling at antonia and taako

OH FUCK. OH FUCK!!!!!!!!!! MAGNUS!!!!!!!!

ummmmmm what the fuck is hapening?

i cant believe theyre making goofs after all of THIS.

WAHTS GNK THRYEH WHAT???? WHAT!!!! WHAT!!!!!!!

 

SCREAMS

Spoiler: Suffering Games Ep 7

GODDAMMIT GRIFFIN
BARRY FUCKING BLUEJEANS??

 

I hate this pattern of everything I follow updating while I'm at work, including threads about things I follow updating about the things I follow that update while I'm at work. >:c

 

Spoiler: Suffering Game Ep 7

So the red robes are a... space uniform? Plane-travelling spaceship uniform? Is Magnus from the Enterprise?

 

Spoiler: TSG 7

I think my favorite part of that last revelation was Clint laughing his ass off. <3 <3 <3

I loved the character sheet. Bonds: to other mannequins. Language: English and mannequin. Traits: it's a FUCKING mannequin!!!

Also I love that Griffin is so resigned to Taako breaking the game at this point, and Justin is like, "naw, just a simple spell! (breaks game again)" A++ brother trolling.

 

me texting my friend who's already heard it while listening to this like


edit: is the redaction enough or should i put it in a spoiler also?

 

I think you're good. I don't think there was enough build-up to the reveal that people are likely to guess.

 

a convo between my friend and i about the new ep (57), wherein we flip out and speculate wildly

Spoiler: spoiled for spoilers

hyracula: HO SHIT
hyracula: THE BOYS
Pr0gram: HOLY FUCKING SHIT INDEED!
Pr0gram: THAT WAS FUCKING WILD!
hyracula: THE BOYS ARE GODDAMN ALIENS OR SOMETHING??
hyracula: MAGNUS LOST HIS BODY, AND IS FULLMETAL ALCHEMISTING AROUND IN A 1-ARMED MANNEQUIN
Pr0gram: Man, I don't even know what's going on at this point.
Pr0gram: I think they might be extraplanar?
Pr0gram: Or, at least, Magnus definitely is.
Pr0gram: And I guess these past battles between the Red Robes and the BoB explain why they've run up a tab in the Astral Plane?
hyracula: what i’ve put together from Magnus’ recovered memories: Magnus at least is from another planet, maybe another plane. they were part of the same organization as the Redrobes, and they created the Grand Relics. their original planet was destroyed by the Grand Relics. so they hid them on the planet d&d takes place in.
Pr0gram: I think so, yes.
hyracula: i mean, maybe the destruction wrought by the Relics is part of why their death tab is so high
Pr0gram: Could be.
Pr0gram: Wait.
Pr0gram: Fuck.
Pr0gram: That body doober that Barry used!
Pr0gram: That's why they don't remember!
hyracula: FUCK
Pr0gram: They keep going back to whatever slate they had at the time!
hyracula: i was assuming the voidfish, but you’re probably right
Pr0gram: So they HAVE died eighty kajigger times, but they literally can not remember. And then after the war, they maybe got disconnected from their attempts and tried to live normal lives in Faerune?
Pr0gram: Plus... like, if the Beaureu are the bad guys, A.) How is that gonna rattle out, who is gonna side where, cause you KNOW some of those BoB folks are gonna side with the boys. And B.) Is there something sinister going on in the BoB, or is it a misunderstanding?
Pr0gram: Cause if they ARE extraplanar, then it's entirely possible the Director is just shooting those objects back into the shadow plane or whatever, and is just causing a bigger mess without meaning to.
hyracula: yeah, i DEFINITELY don’t think the relics are being truly destroyed
Pr0gram: I don't either.
hyracula: i think the BoB is up to some shady shit, for sure, but how much they actually know? i’m not sure about that
Pr0gram: I just really hope she doesn't wind up being the big bad? At least, not... maliciously? If that makes sense?
Pr0gram: Then again, Griffin actually writes women pretty well, so I can imagine Griffin making the Director evil pretty well.
hyracula: yeah, i can see her being “i’m just the person who does what needs to be done” antagonistic, but not like. evil.
hyracula: but you’re right about Griffin doing well with female characters.
Pr0gram: Yeah, I really don't see her being malicious, Mostly because, it feels like Griffin would have dropped SOME hint.
hyracula: yeah
Pr0gram: That being said, it's entirely possible that if she DOES have some bigger thing brewing, I could see the grand relics turning her.
Pr0gram: Especially because if they haven't been destroyed or flung into space, she has five of them.
Pr0gram: That's a lot of the Thrall floating around in one space.
hyracula: hoo yeah
Pr0gram: I do wonder if like.
Pr0gram: ...
Pr0gram: Man... god I wonder so much.
hyracula: i know
hyracula: every hint we get just opens up more questions
Pr0gram: And Magnus... like. Fuck.
Pr0gram: I WILL SAY.
Pr0gram: I kinda wish Griffin had just given Travis that thrall check. Instead of making him roll for it, just straight up, "Do you want to live forever?" "NOPE SHUT THE FUCK UP."
hyracula: i know
hyracula: i wanted more out of that interaction
hyracula: but i loved that Magnus was just immediately like “no, fuck off, next question.”
hyracula: because… his greatest dream is to be with his wife again… just punch me in the feels why don’t you
Pr0gram: GOD.
hyracula: my NEXT NEXT question is
hyracula: is Julia from Magnus’s home planet/plane/dimension too?
Pr0gram: I'm... pretty sure not.
Pr0gram: I think she's from Faerune, after they wound up forgetting everything.
hyracula: hmm!
hyracula: i’m inclined to think she’s from Elsewhere, because Magnus’s early memory was from there
hyracula: because he remembered saving those dogs, even if he didn’t remember the color of the sky

 

aaaaAAAAAAHHHHH HOW BOUT THAT EPISODE 57

Spoiler: 57

i am so SO INTO all the redrobe Magnus shit, i am so so invested in magnus's story, I CANT BELIEVE BARRY BLUEJEANS IS AN IMMORTAL LICH AND SO IS MAGNUS I GUESS???

I'M SO!! PUMPED!!!!

lich fight was kind of anticlimactic but honestly i could care less, I'm SO SO INTO where this is going, and i guess Magnus is getting memories back because he's technically undead now?? neato

oh also. i'm a little sad that the suffering game is over because the music for this arc has been super super rad

 

Five whole minutes of The Suffering Game animatic right here:

 

Spoiler: tsg 7

I love that the conversation Taako had with Rowan about trust/forsake was basically "Rowan used guilt trip. It was super ineffective!"

 

Spoiler

Hey, maybe it'll work later after the guilt has a chance to nag at him for a bit. That's how it went with ango, with him being pretty unrepentant in the moment but then trying to make up for it later.

...probably we'll just never see her again tho

 

Listening to today's one and kinda low-key screaming all of the time.

ETA

Kinda liveblogging it? All posts from me after this one are spoilers

 

Spoiler

Oh my god Umbra Staff for MVP REST IN FUCKING PIECES EDWARD YOU FASHIONABLE SON OF A BITCH

 

Spoiler

So Magnus is disembodied in so many ways right now, hoo boy. I look forward to the adventures of Taako and his companions Merle the Wooden Handed and Magnus the Wooden Man.

 

I'm still not over that reveal. HOLY SHIT.

Spoiler

I was completely convinced Barry was just like, a joke character who was never coming back.

Also, I've now started two campaigns with friends because of this podcast, and I'm going to DM for the first time soon! I'm really excited even though I'm not entirely sure what I'm gonna do with the campaign yet!

 

Holy shiiiit that was intense

Spoiler

everything about magnus in that ep makes me cry omg