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Seal the Deal

Here's my latest comic, Seal the Deal! Based on this post.

If Kleo and Aisling sparked joy I could be convinced to make more parts if they get enough love, I have a lot of little adventures as they navigate being suddenly married bopping around in my head.

Tips welcome on my Kofi!

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everybody go home. this is my magnum opus

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how to get your father to apologize for years of mistreatment: get your toddler to yell at him

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wild few days to be a casual watcher fan

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the right way to wear a coat

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Matt said “he gives you a kiss” and frankly, I lost my mind

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eepy

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Dunno how to feel abt this but spidey stelle💪

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on the Astral Express, we have (1) dad, and we can’t lose him

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here's the scene i've mentioned before where nemesis and melinoë talk about hypnos, for those who wanted to see it!

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Something I just noticed and really enjoy about Campaign 1 is how often their story involves becoming incredibly powerful and accomplishing so much and yet still not being able to do what's truly important to them. It's not only the gutpunch of the final episode, it's a thematic underpinning throughout the campaign.

Way back in their prestream adventures, the party was strong enough to defeat the Dread Emperor and save all the kidnapped children from Tal'Dorei—except one, a child Keyleth killed by accident, an act which haunts her through at least much of the early campaign. The party defeats the Briarwoods and reclaims Whitestone, but Ripley still escapes and 19 still misses, and the Chroma Conclave raze half the continent. Percy has great intellect and access to a powerful magical amplifier and forced out a demon through sheer force of will, but his carelessness still killed Vex and he only rolls a 6 to try to save her. The party has slain a dragon and is armed with four Vestiges of Divergence, but they couldn't save Tiberius and can't even give him the proper burial they want to. They brutally slaughter Ripley, but not before she gets the revenge she wants; she kills Percy, sending him to Orthax, and spreads guns throughout Exandria. The Conclave is slain, the whole party made it out alive, but Scanlan is forever scarred by the experience and leaves, tearing the party down as he goes. Even Vilya, prior to the campaign's beginning, was at the very end of her Aramente, likely a level 16-17 druid like Keyleth was, and still failed the trial of the Water Plane and was gone for almost 40 years.

And of course, Vox Machina become some of the most powerful people in the world, slayers of a god, legends to be immortalized for centuries...and none of their power could save their brother.

Percy points out to Bell's Hells, thirty years later, that fate isn't always kind and not everyone gets a second chance, and to me that's underscored by what we don't see. Elaina is still dead. Juniper is still dead. Percy's parents and five siblings are all still dead.

I mean, if any or all of their bodies are intact, it wouldn't even require True Resurrection to bring them back—not that Keyleth or Percy are averse to a little heresy, but hey, conserve your resources. If there are bodies, all they'd need is 7th-level Resurrection; none of those people have been dead for over a century, and if they need to find the bodies, well, Vex has Locate Object and Pike gets a Divine Intervention freebie once a week, right? Even if they did need True Resurrection, it's a heftier cost but probably not something too difficult to pay over time for one of the wealthiest families in the world.

But none of them have ever done that, nor do we get an indication that they've pursued it. Vox Machina is, probably more than any other CR party, defined by grief—how individual PCs respond to their own profound losses; how they succeed and fail to shoulder each others' burdens; and at the end of their story, how they deal with one of the most painful losses imaginable, and how they move forward and find peace in spite of it. Campaign 1 is just as much about how to deal with what you couldn't do as it is about what you now can do.

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So I guess I have a type!

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I just made a whole twt thread about this to my audience of no one so I want this on the record HERE:

IIIII THINK THAT the only option that makes sense abt where Zag is is that Chronos has him under some type of possession, and that he’s going to be a boss battle 💞

not only was it proven one game ago he’s un-imprisonable it’s just narratively lame to stick him offscreen in jail. in fact it’s my belief that it LITERALLY ONLY makes sense for Zag to be the final boss (or the just-before-final-boss if the final is Chronos???) imagine the loop of gettin one step closer to snapping Zag out of it before dying & starting from scratch w him a little more lucid every time?? It fits too well into the game mechanic??? Maybe he doesn’t remember previously fighting Mel until he does, a little bit more, the more you die and return!?? Every round more of his actual self and personality reappearing???

maybe I’m just thinking about ✨the angst of it all✨ but like. LOGISTICALLY. I feel like it’s the only thing that makes sense. bc otherwise how has Zag not broken out of [wherever he might be otherwise]. Again just did a whole game about how he can break out of anywhere!! and NARRATIVELY - the TT already made it very clear that the characters from the first game are very present here & now it’s not like they’re in the distant past!! The plot is, the characters we know & love previously need to be saved!! Why would they waste THE PREV MAIN CHARACTER quietly offscreeN SITTING IN CHAINS WITH HADES AND PERSEPHONE ITS,, like come on that wouldn’t make ANY sense.

think of the twist of it all!! the way the reveal would shock everyone!!! the gut punch of it all!! THE PANIC OF HAVING TO FIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ZAG’S BLITZ FIGHT STYLE THAT EVERYONE GOT SUPER FAMILIAR WITH A GAME AGO!!!

listen. listen. I’m right. I’M RIGHT. mark it down now I’m RIGHT. …that or I saw someone say that chronos probably ate the three of them which. well. ok that would be very funny so maybe

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Ryoko Kui please return my calls