Diabolical Mutterings
Dec. 31st, 2018 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkI was so nervous about last night's D&D session – as much as I enjoy DMing, I really look forward to being a player again, prep is so stressful every time. Fortunately one of our group is already planning the next campaign. I might cut out an entire sidequest from mine, not sure yet, I'll see how I feel in January. Or after the next session...
I was so nervous about preparing the interior of the temple and then they didn't even enter the temple, the druid just turned into a Giant Raven and kidnapped a cultist from the courtyard. Tactics! Then they interrogated him and almost missed all the relevant information, if I hadn't given them a hint after one of them made an Int check. But all is well that ends well. (Memory being fallible is a problem. For example they were told that the cult is responsible for the kidnapping, but they remembered being told that the kidnapper is a member of the cult, which is different, but when I remind them it's a hint.)
Anyway, now they know that it's most likely ex-cultists behind the kidnapping, because they were unsatisfied that the cult is just passively worshipping and awaiting the apocalypse instead of trying to expedite its arrival. "Weirdest hippie death cult" was my players' final judgment but they liked it xD
The past few Critical Role episodes were fun :)
E43
0:21 oh man, Liam's counterspell and all of their reactions :D
(0:45 how did Caleb only have 9 HP left?? Did he already take damage that fight?)
0:57 Fjord summoning a demon! :D And everyone's reactions, again. Yess. (of course Matt was prepared.)
1:00 "make a persuasion check. With disadvantage, because you just summoned a fucking demon" heh
1:05 Marisha and Liam fanning Liam ^^
1:14 Yess Beau. Travis' face xD
1:16 Beau deciding to wait! Character development :D
1:17 Liam is having a wonderful time xD
1:40 yeah Fjord knows about Avantika's sex toys ;)
2:09 Better the enemy you know, or, as the Plank King says, those you have mistrusted for years ^^
2:20 Nott and Caduceus' faces when Beau says she is from the Cobalt Soul ^^
2:25 luck :D to persuade the Plank King to let Beau use her knuckles of truth. And then the interrogation was so fucking tense, great. (And great faces.)
(btw the "look me in the eye, woman" was kind of – uncomfortably sexist? Normally it wouldn't even register but Exandria usually has so little of it that I noticed here, because that "woman" instead of her name or rank etc. is not something you would do to a man in the same way.)
2:35 Yeah no surprise if they one day met Vera again…
2:46 aww, Caleb awkwardly complimenting Beau ^^
2:45 for someone looking for the guidance of the Wildmother, having Divination as a connection to her must feel really good for Caduceus
2:53 Caleb and Beau are the assholes, Nott is asshole-adjacent, sounds right ^^ Caleb concerned about it being hard for Fjord, he's come a long way… And "what are friends for" not completely sarcastically ^^
2:55 Nott thinks Beau is a secret agent :D
2:59 "Do you think if we find him you'll stop talking like him?" Marisha's face xD Nice character bit. And aww, Jester keeps up contact with Kiri.
3:08 "Buttonbeard the pirate?" ^^
3:20 aww, Caleb loves Frumpkin :)
3:28 good thing Jester remembered the ferret ^^
3:35 M9 underwater with the whale swimming by, cool image :)
E44
0:20 Caleb just using octopus!Frumpkin's eyes with octopus!Frumpkin on his head :D
1:26 Caleb using octopus!Frumpkin as goggles again ^^
1:44 Beau reminding Fjord not to be a dick :)
2:22 Nott pacifies the floor ^^
2:27 poor Travis is not a fan of ghost stories ^^
2:40 Ghostly possession of Beau! Caduceus: "Fuck off, ghost" heh. Makes sense that ghosts tried to take over a graveyard keeper before. (Though I think in Talks Machina Taliesin said that the "fuck off" was not in character, heh.)
2:44 seaweed autofails saving throws ^^
2:55 Dashila!
3:01 Glowing spiritual sea horses :)
3:42 angry Jester with Hellish Rebuke, cool
3:53 Fjord absorbing another orb…
4:00 Beau is gonna go fuck, er, punch a ghost xD
4:04 Fjord and Caleb plotting, and Marisha and Taliesin make the best faces ^^
4:06 and Jester is watching, uh-oh…
4:10 jetting out of the water, heh
4:13 they almost sunk their ship, love the realization
E45
0:20 Nott to Beau "you and I are the calm and steady ones" :)
0:28 Nott and Jester, bad cop good cop ^^
0:30 "I'm really nice, and I don't always make the best decisions…" Beau: "I can relate. I'm so nice." xD
1:01 Beau asking Fjord to be trained as his first mate :) and both of them not trusting Twiggy because she is too cute, heh
1:02 Yeah name the ship the Ball-Eater ^^
1:20 Jester parading around in Avantika's clothes is even dark for Taliesin, heh
2:07 "I wanna be by the corpses" Grave cleric
2:25 Nott and Jester wondering if Twiggy is replacing them xD and then just matter-of-factly agreeing to kill her when the moment is right, heh
2:49 a mimic! :D
3:17 Beau: "oh shit, my actions affect other people" xD
3:17 Nott: I'm staying with Caleb until the bitter end, aww ^^
3:23 blue dragon! Everybody's faces :D
3:55 Jester casting Polymorph on the dragon! yesss
4:06 Beau did not want to go yet but now she left her friends with a blue dragon...
4:15 Caduceus: don't leave a man behind :)
4:26 Nott and Caleb arrive and don't see anyone ^^
4:27 "We're running. It's bad." xD
4:40 the Traveler helping Jester out :) such a cool moment by Matt
4:43 Nott taking the AoO from the dragon so it won't attack Jester <3 and surviving with 1 HP, puh
4:46 nat20 on Twiggy's final attack on the dragon! Script-writers couldn't have done it better. And she fucking killed the dragon!!
4:51 Jester&Nott hug <3
4:54 Aww, Caduceus making Twiggy a lunch packet
4:59 Aww, Caduceus and Beau drinking tea and talking about building up their teammates
E46
0:21 aww, Beau apologizing to Jester for accidentally leaving the fight
0:34 everyone being surprised that Caduceus has been cooking vegetarian ^^
0:46 uh… Fjord, that is your patron you're talking about, somehow I don't think it'll be that easy… "yeah let's give him one orb so I get superpowers but not all of them don't worry", yeah
0:58 aww, Caduceus hugging people
1:15 Beau: "Hey, Cad, I have a thought" Caduceus: "Cool" xD Aww, Beau taking her first mate position seriously and worrying about neglecting the crew. Sure, selfish, yeah ^^ And as Taliesin remarked, she made Caduceus laugh, heh.
1:20 Caduceus and Yasha bonding about rain ^^ and Caduceus is over 25 and his sister is a piece of work (just collecting info here, jic)
1:26 Aww, Beau opening up about her backstory to Jester
1:59 Travis reminding Ashley to rage via pantomime :D (I would have missed this moment if I hadn't seen it before in Tumblr gifs.)
2:17 Travis to the rescue again ^^
2:30 Jester to Fjord "why don't you stop being a dick" ^^
2:39 sad Yasha backstory
2:54 aww, Jester&Nott friendship :) And Fjord with his "Button Wonka factory", heh
3:08 Nott&Caleb plotting, jic Fjord goes evil ^^ and Nott calling him "puny and weak" heh
3:40 everyone's reactions to Fjord raising a Cursed Specter are fun but especially Caduceus. VERY skeptical.
3:45 sure, the specter is a friend to Frumpkin, sure ^^
Guten Rutsch!
I was so nervous about preparing the interior of the temple and then they didn't even enter the temple, the druid just turned into a Giant Raven and kidnapped a cultist from the courtyard. Tactics! Then they interrogated him and almost missed all the relevant information, if I hadn't given them a hint after one of them made an Int check. But all is well that ends well. (Memory being fallible is a problem. For example they were told that the cult is responsible for the kidnapping, but they remembered being told that the kidnapper is a member of the cult, which is different, but when I remind them it's a hint.)
Anyway, now they know that it's most likely ex-cultists behind the kidnapping, because they were unsatisfied that the cult is just passively worshipping and awaiting the apocalypse instead of trying to expedite its arrival. "Weirdest hippie death cult" was my players' final judgment but they liked it xD
The past few Critical Role episodes were fun :)
E43
0:21 oh man, Liam's counterspell and all of their reactions :D
(0:45 how did Caleb only have 9 HP left?? Did he already take damage that fight?)
0:57 Fjord summoning a demon! :D And everyone's reactions, again. Yess. (of course Matt was prepared.)
1:00 "make a persuasion check. With disadvantage, because you just summoned a fucking demon" heh
1:05 Marisha and Liam fanning Liam ^^
1:14 Yess Beau. Travis' face xD
1:16 Beau deciding to wait! Character development :D
1:17 Liam is having a wonderful time xD
1:40 yeah Fjord knows about Avantika's sex toys ;)
2:09 Better the enemy you know, or, as the Plank King says, those you have mistrusted for years ^^
2:20 Nott and Caduceus' faces when Beau says she is from the Cobalt Soul ^^
2:25 luck :D to persuade the Plank King to let Beau use her knuckles of truth. And then the interrogation was so fucking tense, great. (And great faces.)
(btw the "look me in the eye, woman" was kind of – uncomfortably sexist? Normally it wouldn't even register but Exandria usually has so little of it that I noticed here, because that "woman" instead of her name or rank etc. is not something you would do to a man in the same way.)
2:35 Yeah no surprise if they one day met Vera again…
2:46 aww, Caleb awkwardly complimenting Beau ^^
2:45 for someone looking for the guidance of the Wildmother, having Divination as a connection to her must feel really good for Caduceus
2:53 Caleb and Beau are the assholes, Nott is asshole-adjacent, sounds right ^^ Caleb concerned about it being hard for Fjord, he's come a long way… And "what are friends for" not completely sarcastically ^^
2:55 Nott thinks Beau is a secret agent :D
2:59 "Do you think if we find him you'll stop talking like him?" Marisha's face xD Nice character bit. And aww, Jester keeps up contact with Kiri.
3:08 "Buttonbeard the pirate?" ^^
3:20 aww, Caleb loves Frumpkin :)
3:28 good thing Jester remembered the ferret ^^
3:35 M9 underwater with the whale swimming by, cool image :)
E44
0:20 Caleb just using octopus!Frumpkin's eyes with octopus!Frumpkin on his head :D
1:26 Caleb using octopus!Frumpkin as goggles again ^^
1:44 Beau reminding Fjord not to be a dick :)
2:22 Nott pacifies the floor ^^
2:27 poor Travis is not a fan of ghost stories ^^
2:40 Ghostly possession of Beau! Caduceus: "Fuck off, ghost" heh. Makes sense that ghosts tried to take over a graveyard keeper before. (Though I think in Talks Machina Taliesin said that the "fuck off" was not in character, heh.)
2:44 seaweed autofails saving throws ^^
2:55 Dashila!
3:01 Glowing spiritual sea horses :)
3:42 angry Jester with Hellish Rebuke, cool
3:53 Fjord absorbing another orb…
4:00 Beau is gonna go fuck, er, punch a ghost xD
4:04 Fjord and Caleb plotting, and Marisha and Taliesin make the best faces ^^
4:06 and Jester is watching, uh-oh…
4:10 jetting out of the water, heh
4:13 they almost sunk their ship, love the realization
E45
0:20 Nott to Beau "you and I are the calm and steady ones" :)
0:28 Nott and Jester, bad cop good cop ^^
0:30 "I'm really nice, and I don't always make the best decisions…" Beau: "I can relate. I'm so nice." xD
1:01 Beau asking Fjord to be trained as his first mate :) and both of them not trusting Twiggy because she is too cute, heh
1:02 Yeah name the ship the Ball-Eater ^^
1:20 Jester parading around in Avantika's clothes is even dark for Taliesin, heh
2:07 "I wanna be by the corpses" Grave cleric
2:25 Nott and Jester wondering if Twiggy is replacing them xD and then just matter-of-factly agreeing to kill her when the moment is right, heh
2:49 a mimic! :D
3:17 Beau: "oh shit, my actions affect other people" xD
3:17 Nott: I'm staying with Caleb until the bitter end, aww ^^
3:23 blue dragon! Everybody's faces :D
3:55 Jester casting Polymorph on the dragon! yesss
4:06 Beau did not want to go yet but now she left her friends with a blue dragon...
4:15 Caduceus: don't leave a man behind :)
4:26 Nott and Caleb arrive and don't see anyone ^^
4:27 "We're running. It's bad." xD
4:40 the Traveler helping Jester out :) such a cool moment by Matt
4:43 Nott taking the AoO from the dragon so it won't attack Jester <3 and surviving with 1 HP, puh
4:46 nat20 on Twiggy's final attack on the dragon! Script-writers couldn't have done it better. And she fucking killed the dragon!!
4:51 Jester&Nott hug <3
4:54 Aww, Caduceus making Twiggy a lunch packet
4:59 Aww, Caduceus and Beau drinking tea and talking about building up their teammates
E46
0:21 aww, Beau apologizing to Jester for accidentally leaving the fight
0:34 everyone being surprised that Caduceus has been cooking vegetarian ^^
0:46 uh… Fjord, that is your patron you're talking about, somehow I don't think it'll be that easy… "yeah let's give him one orb so I get superpowers but not all of them don't worry", yeah
0:58 aww, Caduceus hugging people
1:15 Beau: "Hey, Cad, I have a thought" Caduceus: "Cool" xD Aww, Beau taking her first mate position seriously and worrying about neglecting the crew. Sure, selfish, yeah ^^ And as Taliesin remarked, she made Caduceus laugh, heh.
1:20 Caduceus and Yasha bonding about rain ^^ and Caduceus is over 25 and his sister is a piece of work (just collecting info here, jic)
1:26 Aww, Beau opening up about her backstory to Jester
1:59 Travis reminding Ashley to rage via pantomime :D (I would have missed this moment if I hadn't seen it before in Tumblr gifs.)
2:17 Travis to the rescue again ^^
2:30 Jester to Fjord "why don't you stop being a dick" ^^
2:39 sad Yasha backstory
2:54 aww, Jester&Nott friendship :) And Fjord with his "Button Wonka factory", heh
3:08 Nott&Caleb plotting, jic Fjord goes evil ^^ and Nott calling him "puny and weak" heh
3:40 everyone's reactions to Fjord raising a Cursed Specter are fun but especially Caduceus. VERY skeptical.
3:45 sure, the specter is a friend to Frumpkin, sure ^^
Guten Rutsch!
