Tag: taz balance

sturdydenimblue:

sturdydenimblue:

spicy take

#oh heck #op what the fuck this is too spicy (via @umbrellaxey)

I will gladly continue! 😀 because it gets sadder! 

“Whoever had it squirreled it away nicely and it never really circulated so we don’t have much information on the Animus Bell.”

I really think the implication is that Barry straight up gave Edward and Lydia the Bell or left it on their doorstep. It didn’t circulate, after all. And E&L aren’t really getting out of Wonderland to go hunting for it. It’s a pretty calculating move, but as I’ve said before: Barry is pretty gotdamn calculating. 

Wars aren’t fought for it, its damage is ultimately contained and he knows where it is for later. 

OH and Edward’s reaction to Barry uncloaking during Round 3 is pretty…ambiguous? He doesn’t seem particularly surprised to see Barry there. 

Other fun thing I’ll never shut up about because it’s one of my favorite spooky TAZ details? After Magnus beats the thrall, the Animus Bell has Barry’s voice.

So like…something’s up with that damn bell! 

elliewilliams:

why was taz balance so good. it didnt have to be it was literally a comedy dnd podcast between 3 brothers and their dad. the trios nickname was the boner squad. why did i cry three times during the finale that griffin specifically chose to be episode 69. one of them took their date out to a pottery and wine combo establishment called “the chug and squeeze” which, after later episodes, was scenes that contained shit thatd were so plot-twisty i stared at my wall for a good minute thinking about it. a character that was named garfield and was never given a physical description – which resulted in everyone just picturing the cat – had a clone of one of them stored away in the back room for reasons that were never given. griffin ended this series purposely on episode 69

oor-bellamyspace:

I love John so much cause we have this typical idea of what a bard looks like, playing their lute with a funny hat and what have you but this dude. This DUDE just got up on his god damn soap box and was so charismatic that he turned his whole planner system into a fucking eldritch entity. All while in a suit.

lostsometime:

Is it possible that affecting an exaggerated voice of some kind is just Elf Culture in the world of the adventure zone?  because it seems like it’s not just taako. when the boys meet elves, talking in a natural register is the exception, not the rule.

with lup, it could just be “oh that’s a family trait,” but Magic Brian, Edward, and Lydia all have very similar vocal patterns. And Jenkins, who I almost forgot was also an elf until I relistened, has a different but equally ridiculous voice.

all i’m saying is, maybe taako wasn’t goofing when he said he was glad to hear magic brian “talk normally”

tres-corny-boys:

What she says: I’m fine

What she means: Merle is one of the most forgiving and unashamed characters to exist ever. He makes friends with the enity that is chasing him throughout 100 lives in 100 universes and had killed him many times. He faces the hunger and humbles himself by bringing his enemy into the parley space. He dies over 50 times making friends with a nihilistic monster who kills him at the end of every interaction. He had the chance to get his arm back with the chalice but he bared his mistakes and learned from them. He said ‘I like that guy’ about the grim reaper who tricked him into loosing his hand in the first place. He stayed with the people he gave faith to on the mushroom planet where he gave an honest speech about his own insecurities about life and death but still gave hope to the people. He gave 40 of his hit points to heal Taako for 20 in Wonderland. Merle didn’t rush in but he always followed his friends into danger anyway. He asks the leader of the hunger if he’s his friend and waits 30 years for John to realise they were friends all along.

birdiethebibliophile:

This is a bit out there, and I absolutely don’t think it’s canon, but hear me out: Lucretia was under the thrall of the Bulwark Staff.

It’s clear that the IPRE aren’t completely immune to the effects of the thrall – they just are the ones who have the chance to overcome it, while everyone else to a person is overcome and gives in. Taako almost gave into the thrall of the Gaia Sash. Magnus was tempted by the Temporal Chalice. Even Davenport seems at one point to be drawn by the Philosopher’s Stone.

Lucretia had possession of the Bulwark Staff almost since she instituted her plan – she said it was easy to recover. The Bulwark Staff does not ever seem to tempt anyone else in the Bureau, as there’s never a hint that it’s a Relic. It would’ve had nearly ten years to draw her in, cement her ideas.

Secondly: the Bulwark Staff is abjuration magic. Abjuration is all about shielding and protecting, and that’s what all of Lucretia’s plan was about. She wanted to shield Faerun from the Hunger, she wanted to shield her friends (her family) from the pain of their decisions, she wanted to shield herself from their dissent against her plan.

Now, the Bulwark Staff didn’t cause Lucretia to institute her plan. That was all her. But why didn’t she turn back when she saw what it did to Davenport, or when Glamour Springs happened, or when she lost twenty years of her life in Wonderland? What made her so stubborn that she would continue for ten years, alone, turning further and further from her family and deeper into a plan conceived of hopelessness?

Well, having a Relic whispering in her ear every moment of that decade that she was doing the right thing, that together they would save everything, that they could protect everyone who needed protecting – in other words, a thrall that just needed to confirm what Lucretia already thought on her own – would probably go a long way towards steering her down that path and keeping her from ever looking back until Taako, through Paloma’s crystal prophesy, showed her a third way and broke through that thrall in the same way that Hurley dying broke through the Gaia Sash’s thrall on Sloane.