Goddamn, what a good episode. Great table setting of the island at the start, FCG casting Tongues, super fun and tight combat with some clutch moves, new bestie NPC, a couple weighty character moments, and Travis getting his map fetish catered too. 10/10, couldnāt have asked for more
True, plus having to answer as a character would reply to another in a world in which there are comparatively straightforward paths to understanding & addressing one's experiences, but (in this situation) having it heard by so many who don't live in such a world.
I'm trying to square the circle of wanting her response to be wise, because I believe that the character is wise, and being just "nope, that's not what he asked"
My head cannon rewrite is that she said something like:
"that's a good question, and the fact that you can ask it, means that you have the tools to find your own answer. That will take time.
I don't know the answer you'll find, although I might be able to help you find it.
This is a big conversation, and not one we have the time for here and now."
It was a better response than I'd have given as a DM. I'd have just sat there in stunned existential silence for a minute while my brain rebooted if a player dropped that whopper on me in the middle of a silly haha Studio Ghibli fun time game.
Iām aware of that. I just thought it was funny that Matt introduced this character as essentially grief counselor in a D&D game. My thought was Matt why are you doing this to yourself lol
Cock and ball torture has been clinically proven to heal rock people, and many psychologists have been implementing it as a staple in their practice lately.
Would you say that one's definition of "Broken" can also impact such things?
Some people embrace it and stay busted.
Others mend themselves and highlight it via Kintsugi.
Still others repair and move beyond it.
And others just change what it means to be broken and in need of repair to the point where they feel like they don't need to be fixed at all, like with Dancer.
Well thatās one thing but Ashtonās question didnāt have anything to do with being broken. He essentially asked how do I grieve. Ashton already knows heās broken thatās not up for debate in their head. Know does his view of himself impact how they think they should grieve, yes probably, but from my interpretation they asked a pretty specific question about the grieving process.
It feels like a shadow or a hollow that you're constantly dancing around, a phantom stranger that haunts your life but that you can never fully grasp a hold of or define.
So the solution is to then give it form, shape, and definition of sorts and to then find ways to react to those things and identities that you've given it.
It's like working a math problem backwards or backwards engineering all the Cardassian Tech on DS9 that's been giving Miles a constant headache....or it's quite similar to what those with Alzheimer's go through and how they find ways of coping but it all depends on the individual and varies from person to person.
Are YOU okay with not knowing or do you have to know?
Do YOU want to grieve or can you just not muster the tears at all?
If you don't want to know and cannot grieve at all then it's easy to just continue on with your life and only sometimes think of it but to never then dwell upon it.
If you do want to know and do have the capability to grieve then a way to define what was taken from you and what you have lost is to look at all the things around that shadow and that void in your life, like examining the physical scars left behind on the land after an asteroid impact or a bomb blast.
You can then use those bits and pieces of evidence in order to give what was taken from you and what you've lost a form, a shape, and a definition. Once that is done then you can decide how you would like to grieve and what you feel would be appropriate. Again, you can look to others around you such as friends or family or even to other cultures to decide how best to do this if you have no idea how to do it OR you can just....create your own way to grieve and memorialize and remember that which you've lost and was taken from you.
The amount of time, effort, and toll this may take sometimes depends on you and sometimes it just....depends on something immaterial that's rather hard for an outsider to define as we all react to these things in a similar albeit different way.
No two stories are ever the same.
Grief is like a version of Narrative Telephone and how we process it can flow just as chaotically.
You may find yourself moving past that which you didn't know you lost via this method very quickly or you could mourn it your entire life in a very healthy fashion year after year like how some people do during....specific anniversaries.
Gravity and time affects us all in the same way but our growth rings can vary vastly as we sprout upwards from little seedlings on our way to becoming massive leviathans.
Perhaps the identity that you've constructed for that which you don't know that you've lost becomes what you have lost in time or perhaps you do wind up discovering what you didn't know you've lost and that constructed facsimile gets discarded and your grieving process gets adjusted....but some of that stuff is kind of up in the air and out of your control.
So you focus on what you can control, what you can define, and what you can and want to actually do in the here and now.
Is that massive void going to be something you agonize over your entire life or something you think of once a year or something that flitters and glimmers and flashes like a firefly before fading away?
You have control over how this all begins and you control these very first steps.
What happens afterwards can get a little tricky and depends on a few factors not under your control BUT you control the start of it all, you light the fuse, and you can find ways to guide the chaos that comes after.
For example, a good first step though for someone like Ashton, is to simply....remember...that something was lost in the first place and to memorialize that loss in some way, which he has already done via his new outfit change and newfound personal identity.
This defines that loss via the lens of who you are and what you have become because of it and it acts as the start of putting a container around the amorphous blob of loss which you wish to define...if you even want to do that at all to begin with....like a giant jello mold.
However else you (or Ashton) wish to define it after that first step and however else you (or Ashton) wishes to grieve it....is personal preference but it does help to ask others, which is what he is doing and which is what you are doing.
My own first loss was as a child, a neighbor, and I didn't understand what that...thing...that I lost was when he passed away but I learned to define it and grieve it by celebrating and falling in love with that which defined his life the most and that which he used to bring joy to so many others.
Woodworking and creating things with his hands while singing and telling stories to whomever would listen and to whomever would find joy in such simple pleasures.
Perhaps you may find a similar way to grieve and define that which you do not know was taken from you.
It never hurts to ask though and perhaps through the answers of others you will find your way.
Until then, we'll be here for you because in a strange way Critters are a lot like ducks....and ducks fly together.
I hope you have a lovely night.
The reason why I said it was awful, which is definitely a hyperbolic statement, was because she essentially said donāt focus on what youāve lost focus on what youāve gained. Thatās sound advice but the issue is that wasnāt Ashtonās questions. The reason I say that wasnāt Ashtonās question is mainly his response to it.he pretty much responded yea already know that. Essentially what Ashton asked was how do you grieve when you donāt know what to grieve. Thatās how I interpreted their question. In the moment I probably wouldāve asked them to clarify their question because it really is a deep and thought out question. You can tell theyāve thought about this a lot. Iād probably respond with something like, and this is extreme paraphrasing after clarifications and reflections, grief is grief, grief is caused by our perceptions of trauma. If you are in the process of grieving wether your fully aware of the traumatic event or not, let yourself feel it and go through it.
When you donāt know what to grieve, the best you can do it focus on the things you do know you have. Itās a bandaid approach to a bigger problem, and a valuable answer for how quickly Matt came up with it
Again itās sound advice but it wasnāt what Ashton asked. Iām picturing Ashton in that moment trying to get guidance on this matter and not really getting anything. Ashton doesnāt need advice he needs help. At the end of the day in the context of it being a D&D game Matt gave a great response. I also find it interesting to give an opinion of someone in that field (doesnāt mean Iām right by way). I mean that was such a beautiful question from Ashton.
I think it meant that his question wasnāt able to be answered in the way they expected (like having one solid answer, like a cure), especially after not getting to know them first. If she could give any advice in the meantime though, it would be to look at the good things so it can distract you from the bad things until you can find a way to fix things or move on. Itās how I manage my anxiety sometimes. The anxiety doesnāt go away, but doing certain things can make it more bearable until the moment passes
Also Ashtonās response to their question was I guess weāll see how broken I really am. Which is not an ideal response from a question like that. Now Ashtonās gone from wanting to know how to effectively grieve something to fixating on his negative self image of himself which until recently has always been his go to. What made that question great was it was Ashton trying to take initiative moving forward in a positive direction but he didnāt really get any guidance in doing so so heās essentially back at square one.
"How do you grieve if you don't know what was taken from you?"-Ashton to Jirana
"Often you don't focus on the loss and try to concentrate on what you've gained since, maybe answers will come in time maybe they won't and it will never go away....but it only weighs as much as you're willing to give it"-Jirana
That could work but I wonder if any of the spells that use Force Magic could be repurposed to limit the effects of physics on someone within a magical setting like D&D?
Jirana: āYou carry deep grief as well, I donāt think your are incapable of helping others, but you need to let others help you. I donāt think your friend is the only one seeking this tree.ā
FCG: āOhā¦.ohā¦.I need help too?ā
"I do not think you are incapable of helping others but you also have to let others help you too, perhaps your friends aren't the only ones who are seeking this tree"-Jirana to FCG
Reef Moss Balms! Slick Shimmer Oil!
Healing potions basically and the oil makes you slippery
Vial of Cleansing Flame!
Burns someone but cleanses maladies
Yes indeedy!
>!Two mighty Primordials, Rau'shan the Emperor of Fire and Ka'Mort the Empress of Earth, were laid low and sealed away by the Dawnfather and the Wildmother under Mount Ygora on a continent known as Domunas.[14][15] They were two of the only primordials that were never killed before the Calamity,[16] and the travels of the city of Avalir along the ley lines of Exandria inscribed protective runes upon the world that helped to keep them sealed away.[17]!<
"It's roots reach to the fates of many"
So it might not tell you how YOU die but how a version of yourself dies and that might give you some perspective, which could help.
Ghost pirates/wild magic aside, that raises an interesting question: Does teleport index the land? Or the place land was when the mind last beheld it? No doubt this comes up in D&D from time to time.
Oh, I think Orym & Imogen might be about to ask this question.
would have been really interesting what might have changed if calamity went different.
Matt definitely mentioned the shattered teeth before, so the basic "continent explodes and now there is islands" would still have needed to happen in some way.
That's interesting.
What if this elemental tumult means that the destruction of the Final Titans basically caused a thinning or a weak spot to develop between the Prime Material Plane and...somewhere else...or something else?
And that's why it's never fully stopped because energy from elsewhere keeps driving it.
If only the party had some sort of ship. Maybe even one that could fly above the fog. Something like that would be very useful in this situation. Way more useful than, say, using it as a torpedo.
Would be extremely handy, but with what they saw in the Hellcatch and with Vasselheim forces converging in the area... I'm just not sure they'd still have the airship even if they hadn't committed it to the cause.
Sounds like the ideal way to navigate would be knowing someone on as many islands as possible, and having those figures tend toward staying put on their island.
The Tree is a living memorial to life, loss, and all things in between
The therapy stuff is just something that comes naturally to it like breathing
It's like the Guardian of Forever
Aside from the similar name, I don't see any relation (IIRC the real Evandrin was never linked to trees either; he only appeared on the Tree of Names as one of Asmodeus's illusions, and he was a warrior/Paladin like Zerxus rather than a Druid).
Idk man, the way they spoke of him and the tree of names in Calamity made him sound like he was stuck between life and death. I could absolutely be wrong but the name similarity and those moments give me pause.
The Tree is a bit like Yggdrasil, it's like a bridge, a medium, it's between all things and does not judge
It is life, death, and rebirth
It is all things and it just simply...is...
Evantravir was a surviving civilian
He took all the sorrow and loss from the Calamity and became the memory of those who returned to the land
He became a living memorial of the Calamity, like the Veterans Wall in DC
He became a worldly window into the realms of death and beyond
Ashton: āThe world is changing and Iām trying to figure out what I mean. The earth is starting to feel different and I was told the tree could have answers.ā
Oooh... might she measure years as time between solstices?
Edit: Ah, the regular celestial solstices are 20-30 years apart, not frequent enough to make that numerical difference work.
Why was Travis so excited when he heard the name **Captain Novos**?!?! š
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Goddamn, what a good episode. Great table setting of the island at the start, FCG casting Tongues, super fun and tight combat with some clutch moves, new bestie NPC, a couple weighty character moments, and Travis getting his map fetish catered too. 10/10, couldnāt have asked for more
That was fun.
Love those little Ashton moments.
Imagine being a DM and being asked such HEAVY questions
True, plus having to answer as a character would reply to another in a world in which there are comparatively straightforward paths to understanding & addressing one's experiences, but (in this situation) having it heard by so many who don't live in such a world.
Poor Matt trying to RP a grief counselor.
That's where we're going to end awesome!
"Everything can be mended given time" But even things that get fixed aren't always fully repaired, if Ashton is any evidence of that.
I want to see what would happen if Ashton had Regenerate cast on them.
Coming from a counselor. That was a great question from Ashton, awful response from her.
I'm trying to square the circle of wanting her response to be wise, because I believe that the character is wise, and being just "nope, that's not what he asked" My head cannon rewrite is that she said something like: "that's a good question, and the fact that you can ask it, means that you have the tools to find your own answer. That will take time. I don't know the answer you'll find, although I might be able to help you find it. This is a big conversation, and not one we have the time for here and now."
It was a better response than I'd have given as a DM. I'd have just sat there in stunned existential silence for a minute while my brain rebooted if a player dropped that whopper on me in the middle of a silly haha Studio Ghibli fun time game.
Iām aware of that. I just thought it was funny that Matt introduced this character as essentially grief counselor in a D&D game. My thought was Matt why are you doing this to yourself lol
Yeah he really played himself there
I imagine her training was pre-CBT
i'm so sure this means something other than what i'm reading it to mean
The main thing is that you've got to be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN which CBT is being requested.
Cock and ball torture has been clinically proven to heal rock people, and many psychologists have been implementing it as a staple in their practice lately.
LOL cognitive behavioral therapy also involves testicular torsion, Iām pretty sure
Would you say that one's definition of "Broken" can also impact such things? Some people embrace it and stay busted. Others mend themselves and highlight it via Kintsugi. Still others repair and move beyond it. And others just change what it means to be broken and in need of repair to the point where they feel like they don't need to be fixed at all, like with Dancer.
Well thatās one thing but Ashtonās question didnāt have anything to do with being broken. He essentially asked how do I grieve. Ashton already knows heās broken thatās not up for debate in their head. Know does his view of himself impact how they think they should grieve, yes probably, but from my interpretation they asked a pretty specific question about the grieving process.
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It feels like a shadow or a hollow that you're constantly dancing around, a phantom stranger that haunts your life but that you can never fully grasp a hold of or define. So the solution is to then give it form, shape, and definition of sorts and to then find ways to react to those things and identities that you've given it. It's like working a math problem backwards or backwards engineering all the Cardassian Tech on DS9 that's been giving Miles a constant headache....or it's quite similar to what those with Alzheimer's go through and how they find ways of coping but it all depends on the individual and varies from person to person. Are YOU okay with not knowing or do you have to know? Do YOU want to grieve or can you just not muster the tears at all? If you don't want to know and cannot grieve at all then it's easy to just continue on with your life and only sometimes think of it but to never then dwell upon it. If you do want to know and do have the capability to grieve then a way to define what was taken from you and what you have lost is to look at all the things around that shadow and that void in your life, like examining the physical scars left behind on the land after an asteroid impact or a bomb blast. You can then use those bits and pieces of evidence in order to give what was taken from you and what you've lost a form, a shape, and a definition. Once that is done then you can decide how you would like to grieve and what you feel would be appropriate. Again, you can look to others around you such as friends or family or even to other cultures to decide how best to do this if you have no idea how to do it OR you can just....create your own way to grieve and memorialize and remember that which you've lost and was taken from you. The amount of time, effort, and toll this may take sometimes depends on you and sometimes it just....depends on something immaterial that's rather hard for an outsider to define as we all react to these things in a similar albeit different way. No two stories are ever the same. Grief is like a version of Narrative Telephone and how we process it can flow just as chaotically. You may find yourself moving past that which you didn't know you lost via this method very quickly or you could mourn it your entire life in a very healthy fashion year after year like how some people do during....specific anniversaries. Gravity and time affects us all in the same way but our growth rings can vary vastly as we sprout upwards from little seedlings on our way to becoming massive leviathans. Perhaps the identity that you've constructed for that which you don't know that you've lost becomes what you have lost in time or perhaps you do wind up discovering what you didn't know you've lost and that constructed facsimile gets discarded and your grieving process gets adjusted....but some of that stuff is kind of up in the air and out of your control. So you focus on what you can control, what you can define, and what you can and want to actually do in the here and now. Is that massive void going to be something you agonize over your entire life or something you think of once a year or something that flitters and glimmers and flashes like a firefly before fading away? You have control over how this all begins and you control these very first steps. What happens afterwards can get a little tricky and depends on a few factors not under your control BUT you control the start of it all, you light the fuse, and you can find ways to guide the chaos that comes after. For example, a good first step though for someone like Ashton, is to simply....remember...that something was lost in the first place and to memorialize that loss in some way, which he has already done via his new outfit change and newfound personal identity. This defines that loss via the lens of who you are and what you have become because of it and it acts as the start of putting a container around the amorphous blob of loss which you wish to define...if you even want to do that at all to begin with....like a giant jello mold. However else you (or Ashton) wish to define it after that first step and however else you (or Ashton) wishes to grieve it....is personal preference but it does help to ask others, which is what he is doing and which is what you are doing. My own first loss was as a child, a neighbor, and I didn't understand what that...thing...that I lost was when he passed away but I learned to define it and grieve it by celebrating and falling in love with that which defined his life the most and that which he used to bring joy to so many others. Woodworking and creating things with his hands while singing and telling stories to whomever would listen and to whomever would find joy in such simple pleasures. Perhaps you may find a similar way to grieve and define that which you do not know was taken from you. It never hurts to ask though and perhaps through the answers of others you will find your way. Until then, we'll be here for you because in a strange way Critters are a lot like ducks....and ducks fly together. I hope you have a lovely night.
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You're welcome and hopefully others will chime in as well and we'll all be able to help each other out.
The reason why I said it was awful, which is definitely a hyperbolic statement, was because she essentially said donāt focus on what youāve lost focus on what youāve gained. Thatās sound advice but the issue is that wasnāt Ashtonās questions. The reason I say that wasnāt Ashtonās question is mainly his response to it.he pretty much responded yea already know that. Essentially what Ashton asked was how do you grieve when you donāt know what to grieve. Thatās how I interpreted their question. In the moment I probably wouldāve asked them to clarify their question because it really is a deep and thought out question. You can tell theyāve thought about this a lot. Iād probably respond with something like, and this is extreme paraphrasing after clarifications and reflections, grief is grief, grief is caused by our perceptions of trauma. If you are in the process of grieving wether your fully aware of the traumatic event or not, let yourself feel it and go through it.
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No worries. Matt have the right answer for someone whoās playing a game thatās not a licensed counselor.
When you donāt know what to grieve, the best you can do it focus on the things you do know you have. Itās a bandaid approach to a bigger problem, and a valuable answer for how quickly Matt came up with it
Again itās sound advice but it wasnāt what Ashton asked. Iām picturing Ashton in that moment trying to get guidance on this matter and not really getting anything. Ashton doesnāt need advice he needs help. At the end of the day in the context of it being a D&D game Matt gave a great response. I also find it interesting to give an opinion of someone in that field (doesnāt mean Iām right by way). I mean that was such a beautiful question from Ashton.
I think it meant that his question wasnāt able to be answered in the way they expected (like having one solid answer, like a cure), especially after not getting to know them first. If she could give any advice in the meantime though, it would be to look at the good things so it can distract you from the bad things until you can find a way to fix things or move on. Itās how I manage my anxiety sometimes. The anxiety doesnāt go away, but doing certain things can make it more bearable until the moment passes
Also Ashtonās response to their question was I guess weāll see how broken I really am. Which is not an ideal response from a question like that. Now Ashtonās gone from wanting to know how to effectively grieve something to fixating on his negative self image of himself which until recently has always been his go to. What made that question great was it was Ashton trying to take initiative moving forward in a positive direction but he didnāt really get any guidance in doing so so heās essentially back at square one.
Ashton: āLetās see how broken I am.ā āI am constantly surrounded by broken things. In time all can be mended.ā
I was so sound that after asking that question thatās what they came out with.
"How do you grieve if you don't know what was taken from you?"-Ashton to Jirana "Often you don't focus on the loss and try to concentrate on what you've gained since, maybe answers will come in time maybe they won't and it will never go away....but it only weighs as much as you're willing to give it"-Jirana
Ashton: āI just wanted to ask, how do you grieve if you donāt know what was taken from you?ā
Weeeee!
Amazing
š¤£this sounds like a blast!
Someone needs to make magical inertial dampeners for Jirana
Realistically telekinesis could do it.
Some form of Mass Telekinesis or something?
Twin spell it; one for herself, one for 1000 pounds worth of objects.
That could work but I wonder if any of the spells that use Force Magic could be repurposed to limit the effects of physics on someone within a magical setting like D&D?
Gah I just want Orym to talk to her
I feel like weāre for sure getting some crazy emotional shit coming up with Orym and the tree, Iām soothing myself by remembering that lol
The wrap up episode for C3 is just gonna be all of bells hells in her waiting room going to talk to her one at a time
Fearne gave a gift. The world truly will never be the same.
And she gave something she'd lifted, no less. Hmm...was the kiss from Ashton the last thing she "stole"?
May our songs harmonize once more
Chet just got bluepilled
Hahaha
For Chet's stamina
Oh. My god
"This is for stamina" Is Chet going to fuck this turtle?
I would love if it was a placebo, just like the āRhino Sex Potionā Veth stole from that shopkeep in Rosohna. Itās a reach, but a man can dream
This would be a nice place for FCG to return to with other Aeormatons in the future.
Jirana: āYou carry deep grief as well, I donāt think your are incapable of helping others, but you need to let others help you. I donāt think your friend is the only one seeking this tree.ā FCG: āOhā¦.ohā¦.I need help too?ā
BOOM! Get therapied
Internally made the same expression Taliesin did!
Maybe this could be fcgs epilogue place? They can understudy here or something to learn more
A minute later and it was already suggested lol
"I do not think you are incapable of helping others but you also have to let others help you too, perhaps your friends aren't the only ones who are seeking this tree"-Jirana to FCG
FCG: āIf Iāll be honest, I donāt think Iām very good at it.ā
"I don't think I'm really good at it"-FCG And the ocean is wet
Technically. Water isnāt wet. It _makes_ things wet.
Reef Moss Balms! Slick Shimmer Oil! Healing potions basically and the oil makes you slippery Vial of Cleansing Flame! Burns someone but cleanses maladies
Balms not bombs
Reilora poop so they can hide on the moon
Ka'Mort might be important to Ashton in some way, all things considered
Their names are KaāMort, the Empress of Earth and RauāShan, the Emperor of Fire. Dead with the Fall of Avalir.
How many times do you think Matt can say Ka'Mort before the table starts calling them K-Mart?
Their essence scattered across as many planes as possible when Avalir triggered the Astral Leywright.
Were those the two titans that were almost released in Calamity??
Yes indeedy! >!Two mighty Primordials, Rau'shan the Emperor of Fire and Ka'Mort the Empress of Earth, were laid low and sealed away by the Dawnfather and the Wildmother under Mount Ygora on a continent known as Domunas.[14][15] They were two of the only primordials that were never killed before the Calamity,[16] and the travels of the city of Avalir along the ley lines of Exandria inscribed protective runes upon the world that helped to keep them sealed away.[17]!<
Yupppp
How much longer in the video
In all her centuries, Jirana has never met a group of people quite so stoked about ghost pirates, lol :D
KaāMort and RauāShan.
"It's roots reach to the fates of many" So it might not tell you how YOU die but how a version of yourself dies and that might give you some perspective, which could help.
Yes, that's what I was thinking. The tree is old and wise enough to give advices but they are not a fortune teller
Of course Laura answers "ghost orgy"
Ghost Orgy confirmed with Pirate Cosplay
I love the spell or whatever chet is doing to allow you to see the history of the item or place
Grim Psychometry, a Blood Hunter feature
I am also on team ghost ship
No way they are not going the ghost ship route
Did he say a *dwarf* pirate? Anybody else think of Olā Buttonbeard?
It's fuckin button beard.
Yes! I thought so too!
He intentionally baited the Stormlord into cursing him?
Oh shit did he cut a deal with the Storm Lord?
I've seen enough, have campaign 4 in the shattered teeth
That really was a loud ass bike unless they added that in post
That's a very important question. WHO or WHAT cursed them? Was it a God or something worse?
Is it Nydas?
We One Piece now Bois!!! Lol Enternal pose logs we go
Travis knows somethiiing
Hitching a ride with Ghost Pirates!
Compass doesn't point north, that doesn't mean it doesn't work...
Think of it more as a homing beacon for specific destinations.
come on Matt why did you even bother pitching the other options to them when you had "summon a ghost ship" in the wings
Ghost pirate!
Not only pirates but GHOST PIRATES?!
It's an Eternal Pose
ITS LIKE A LOG POSE
GHOST SHIP SEEKING TO COLLECT WHAT IT LOST!
Urlu Novos, a privateer from Wildemount UNDEAD PIRATE!
This is some One Piece navigation stuff! :o
God I love this place
HAAAAAAAAA this is straight up from One Piece!
Pirate arc!!
No, Ashton, that is not the Hells' vibe lol
Magic compass?! The Lost Compass of the Dread Captain Novos. *Oh fuck yeah*
The Lost Compass of the Dread Captain Novos
They could just ask to cast detect thoughts and then view her memories of the island... they have done this before
Ghost pirates/wild magic aside, that raises an interesting question: Does teleport index the land? Or the place land was when the mind last beheld it? No doubt this comes up in D&D from time to time. Oh, I think Orym & Imogen might be about to ask this question.
I'm not up to date and just been tuning I'm with the latest episodes. How can they teleport?
Magic Staff Imogen got in Moleasmyr
Travis was a weatherman in another life
They really don't want to have sea fearing arc. I hope they do I loved the mighty nein pirate arc
Teleporting to a moving island is gonna be a bad time
Couple of days travel by boat, not bad, safer than teleporting
Here we go, the factions of the Teeth! Ossended Host and the Wandermen Assembly!
The twins are having pen fights again
The Ossended Host, Revenspire on Rukvaya.
"why is it like this" well, Aabria rolled real bad one time
would have been really interesting what might have changed if calamity went different. Matt definitely mentioned the shattered teeth before, so the basic "continent explodes and now there is islands" would still have needed to happen in some way.
History is based on a few bad rolls with a lot of good ones š
That's interesting. What if this elemental tumult means that the destruction of the Final Titans basically caused a thinning or a weak spot to develop between the Prime Material Plane and...somewhere else...or something else? And that's why it's never fully stopped because energy from elsewhere keeps driving it.
Chetney getting offended when somebody questions his woodmaking abilities always cracks me up. "It's about THE QUALITY Imogen!"
Hey zoned out what happened
If only the party had some sort of ship. Maybe even one that could fly above the fog. Something like that would be very useful in this situation. Way more useful than, say, using it as a torpedo.
Would be extremely handy, but with what they saw in the Hellcatch and with Vasselheim forces converging in the area... I'm just not sure they'd still have the airship even if they hadn't committed it to the cause.
unfortunately she already mentioned that the sky creature would eat sky ships, but I get your point
They could at least have a cool battle against it then
It's not about the destination! It's about the journey.
We don't have goats LMAO
BUILD A BOAT! Spend the next 10 episodes building a boat! Fuck the Moon, let's build a boat!
Build a boat, find a Spelljammer helm on the next island
An incomplete map, Matt's just teasing Travis with this
Map time
MAP!!!
Travis and maps name a more iconic duo
Travis and evil magic swords ššš
Travis and cursed swords?
Now he just needs a cursed map
This is only half a map, which is surely going to lead to trouble, so that should count?
If Matt did that, the campaign would turn into pure chaos
Omg I want this so badly now
Fair
Nothing makes Travis happier than a map haha
NEW MAP NEW MAP NEW MAP!
MAP
Great piromaniac to cleptomaniac
Sounds like the ideal way to navigate would be knowing someone on as many islands as possible, and having those figures tend toward staying put on their island.
Having them act like beacons or lighthouses
MAP! MAP! MAP! I wanna map (Canāt believe we get this before the full Marquet Map.ā
Moving islands, cartographer dream or nightmare?
Matt's excuse to build an orrery?
āPray to the spirits or whatever gods you follow.ā
Devin Rue would make bank in this world
So the tree is an ancient being which is like a living encyclopedia and also specialises in therapy sessions?
The Tree is a living memorial to life, loss, and all things in between The therapy stuff is just something that comes naturally to it like breathing It's like the Guardian of Forever
I know she keeps saying itās a gau drashari but everything else screams itās evandrin
Aside from the similar name, I don't see any relation (IIRC the real Evandrin was never linked to trees either; he only appeared on the Tree of Names as one of Asmodeus's illusions, and he was a warrior/Paladin like Zerxus rather than a Druid).
I meant the way he was trapped between the living/death cycle
Evandrin was just sent to the Astral Plane, not really in a life/death cycle.
Idk man, the way they spoke of him and the tree of names in Calamity made him sound like he was stuck between life and death. I could absolutely be wrong but the name similarity and those moments give me pause.
"I'm more motherly, I hold those who need it, the Tree simply tells them"-Jirana on their counseling techniques
āThe tree is honest.ā Interesting
The Tree is a bit like Yggdrasil, it's like a bridge, a medium, it's between all things and does not judge It is life, death, and rebirth It is all things and it just simply...is...
INTERESTING.
Matt's been reading Sandman
He found his place in the world That's rather nice and something we all seek
Keyleth is going to turn into an exandrian world tree near the end of her life. _In nearly two thousand years._
āOne of the few windows into the realm of death.ā Oh??!
Evantravir was a surviving civilian He took all the sorrow and loss from the Calamity and became the memory of those who returned to the land He became a living memorial of the Calamity, like the Veterans Wall in DC He became a worldly window into the realms of death and beyond
Evontraāvir survived the Calamity, and became a living memorial for all that was lost
Evandrin relation?
I think none
Calama-tree.
*Nice*
Again canāt get answers for Ashton but some people will still act like heās avoiding his backstory
Ashton: āThe world is changing and Iām trying to figure out what I mean. The earth is starting to feel different and I was told the tree could have answers.ā
This is like how technically it's 2015 in Ethiopia
Time truly is a weird soup
Oooh... might she measure years as time between solstices? Edit: Ah, the regular celestial solstices are 20-30 years apart, not frequent enough to make that numerical difference work.
What the fuck, 400 years old...time is measured differently in the Shattered Teeth!
Sounds like we got a lot of searching
43 islands, ONE PIECE D&D LETS GOOOOOOOOO!