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rubysparx · 4 months

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Honestly I don't think I'm qualified to make this post, I just don't know if I can make coherent enough words man. But the thoughts are in there and I will try to articulate them. This is probably going to be mostly images though. anyway yeah KABRU POST.

A couple nights ago (at approximately 2:30am, lasting a little over half an hour) I had a bit of a moment about Kabru. That, too, was mostly images- most of what you see in this more concise post were presented then as well. I think my main points of the "moment" were about Kabru's trauma + self hatred, his autism and/or general otherness, and also a little labru if you'd like..

I think something easy to start with is I wanna point out Kabru's constant back and forth and conflicting opinions of demihumans and how, I believe, thats a reflection of how he goes back and forth on what he believes his purpose of living is- and the general worth of his own life. I've said it before and i've just kinda shown it in images; Kabru is "i think im a monster and it disgusts me" where Laios is "I know im a human and it disgusts me" (i could go more into the latter on another post)

the above are both from the world bible, with the left being from the section on kobolds and the right being from the section on Kuro specifically. Utaya was very near to the desert where most of the kobold population is, this is likely why Kabru is able to speak Kuro's language- he grew up around demihumans. (chapter 48 cover, kobold chapter in the world bible) I won't try to speak for how his mother or the rest of utaya felt about the kobolds but I can say that Kabru was very much othered as a child, as was his mother, purely for the way her son's (kabru) eyes looked.

I feel like its fair enough to say that both kabru and the kobolds were othered, and possibly for similar reasons (villager's seeing them as nonhuman, as monsters) and the fact that Kabru learned their language probably didn't help his case. I think his perception of kobolds (and all demihumans, subsequently himself, as he probably still views himself as nonhuman or not human enough.. deep down) was damaged by the Utaya incident. at 2:30am when I first started this ramble my main comment was that "had the utaya incident not happened kabru would have little reason to feel ashamed for his connection to monsters. and may have ended up similar to laios in that he couldve had otherkin swag" which is just a sort of silly way of saying Kabru could've learned to love the thought that he is possibly nonhuman or at least not hated himself so much for it.

in the original ramble I said, and quote, "he has been STALKING laios. laios is his hyperfixation to learn how he can ever be loved. he keeps going back and forth so harshly on wether or not he wants to kill Laios and he clearly sees his survival from utaya not as an unfortunate trauma [*] but as a necessary, deserved fate. a punishment for his mother's witchy sins, and for his sin of being non-human. to atone for it all, to apologize for being alive, he tries to better the lives of all humanity. He was set on his way to dethrone the governor of the island . do you understand? im going insane" *i also said somethings about the way he processes other people's traumas and not his own. He's able to understand and even help some people, but he struggles to process his own issues and see himself as worthy of love and life.

^some examples of Kabru being understanding of or helping others who have suffered greatly. I think its also worth mentioning that with Rin (called "Lynn" in that translation) he says "I wish there was a way to get her out of this" though he's insisted and pushed for himself to go into a dungeon;

In chapter 94, Mithrun says "The desire I had left wasn't revenge. All I wanted.. was for it to finish devouring me." and I don't feel like it's a stretch to say Kabru was in a similar situation. Mithrun sought out the demon with no plan on how to kill something like that because deep down he wanted it to end his (Mithrun's) own life, to finish the trauma it caused and kill him. I think Kabru went into the dungeon in part with the hopes that it'd kill him. That the same thing that destroyed Utaya and caused him so much trauma would just.. finish him.

I just think Kabru is a beautifully complex character, I have a lotta thoughts on him and I don't see nearly as many analysis posts for him than I do Laios (despite labru being such a popular ship)

there is no tldr for this post idk how to summarize it. do what you will with this collection of images. have fun. go crazy

fun fact the woman in the bottom left corner is his mother, she is labeled here as "witch"

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #kabru #kabru dungeon meshi #kabios #labru #yeah its a long post i dont care. read it #also i only mentioned it briefly but i do think kabru is autistic .#yk that post thats like 'no im not autistic i know all the social cues etc etc etc. hey wait a minute' yeah. that #ok whatever. starts making another laios post

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littlelightfish · 24 days

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I've been thinking about Mickbell since last chapter came out.

Have you noticed how everyone refers to him as Mick? He's a hafling, they shouldn't call him that since its his first name.

But here's the thing.

We know Mickbell didn't have something to call a family the majority of his life. He was all alone against the word for quite some time. He, as I said before, didn't have a proper family, didn't have any friends. He was alone. No one to care about him, no one to love even in a friendly way.

He can seem to be quite unfair towards Kuro, but truth is he doesn't know any better. He does what he can the best he can, the best he knows, because he loves Kuro so much, he doesn't want to loose his first friend, his first glimpse of a family, the only one that cared for him after so long the first one to recognize him as someone rather than something.

Kuro doesn't understand common language well, we know for a fact that he struggles with it and that he's still learning to communicate. When Mickbell found him, it was his sense of "I'm in great debt to him because he saved me" what made him attack the one that attacked Mick. "How dares he tuch my savior?" Kind of behaviour. And also revenge I guess. But, hear me out. He hears Mickbell telling something to him in a language he doesn't understand, but he sticks to his side from then on, because he saw a savior in him. Because he feels in debt with him, because he sees that this guy enjoys his company and also feeds him. He is like a stray dog after being adopted, loyal. He loves and cares for Mickbell, he wants to be able to truly understand him and to make himself known to him by talking. He's learning how to speak common, not because it might be useful, but because he wants to be able to fully communicate with his dearest friend, with the one he considers family.

Going back to Mickbell, he saw someone caring for him enough to take revenge and protect him. This aren't little things to do for someone you just met. He knows this, because he probably wouldn't have done that, he 100% would've runned away because he has sense of self-preservation and knows damn well he doesn't stand a chance and he wants to continue living. He makes sure to keep this kobold to himself, at first because of his "if it can be made use of, then use it" principle.

He freed the kobold, not because he was a good person, but because he wanted to take revenge in his own terms. He wanted this man to suffer, he can't pick a fight because he doesn't stand a chance, so he steels his merch, or in this case, frees it. He freed Kuro because he wanted the man to suffer the loss of his merch. Not because he feels sorry for a kobold that could easily chomp his head off (they're usually agressive). Now, after freeing him, he noticed that this kobold would die if he didn't take off the thing he had in his mouth, so he helped him a bit there. This seems a bit out of character. Why did he freed the starved kobold from what could've saved him of being eaten himself? Because he is a good person. He doesn't want this creature to starve to death after freeing him, it would be cruel, and he isn't cruel. He doesn't want nothing to do with the kobold at first, he just doesnt want him to die because he didnt properly freed him, but after seeing how far is this someone willing to go for him? He has no room for doubt, he makes himself his boss.

As I said, Mickbell didn't had a real family before. He lacks of proper social interactions and bonds due to his past. But he loves so deeply. He doesn't want to loose Kuro. He sees him as the closest thing he'll ever have to a family, but he doesn't know how to treat him properly. He tries his best. He feeds him, and cares about him a lot, but he doesn't know how to talk to him. He wants to have him close at all times, he wants to pet him, to be carried around by him and only him, to tease him, to help him. He's always worrying about his well-being. And above all, he doesn't want to be alone. Never again. This is why he does everything he can think of to hold Kuro closer to him. This is why he's saving money, why he pays Kuro so poorly for his job. This is why he doesn't spent much money on himself either. He wants to live a life with kuro by his side because he loves him. He loves him deeply, and cares about him deeply too. He's his family. And he is terrified of the sole thought of Kuro leaving his side. Because that wouldn't just mean being alone again. It would mean Kuro left.

Now, this is what the party sees. A hafling that treats his kobold employee quite unfairly. He doesn't pay him almost anything, he leaves him alone as soon as battle starts, he is possessive about him, and he's terrified of someone snatching him away. The kobold doesn't seem to either mind or notice how unfair his owner is being towards him, and doesn't seem to understand him very well either. They see that they both care for each other more than they first thought as time passes by, but the unfairness of it all is still there. They don't get it. Why would the hafling, if he cares so much, reward him so badly? Why is he taking advantage of the kobold he loves so much? Why wouldn't he let him express himself in his mother language? They don't fully get it.

Time passes and they become closer to each other, just as Laios's party does. They start opening up, bonding, and before they knew it, they're something like a small family, rather than just a group of friends adventuring together. It's clear as day something in Mickbell wasn't quite right just by the way he behaves. He is childish, but it doesn't seem to be intentional. He behaves like a kid, but he is quite mature at the same time. He is like this because he didn't had a proper childhood? He only now can allow himself to behave lightly as he does? To cry at minor inconveniences? To want to be hold on someone's arms? They don't know, but they don't prey about it either.

And without realizing it, they call him just "Mick". Some of them, if not them all, know what it means to call a hafling by his first name. They maybe did it to tease him, maybe because they wanted him to know they consider him family, but he didn't even noticed. He hadn't a proper social interaction with haflings that ever got to the personal level of teaching him something he should already know. Haflings call him Mickbell, he doesn't mind, it's his name. His party calls him Mick, he doesn't mind, it's his name. He doesn't even know hee should care. The party picks up he doesn't mind being called that and gets surprised. Is he letting them know he sees them aa family too? They at first are really surprised, but it losses importance over time. They just use it as a nickname now, but they started using it because they wanted Mickbell to know they're family too, that they don't want to hurt him nor Kuro.

Mickbell it's just a good hearted guy who doesn't know how to do good. He saves up money so he can, one day, live with Kuro. So he doesn't pays him well even if he works hard. So he starves himself (he is underweight too, but it could be for the same reason Chilchuck is, he is 5 cms taller than the common hafling after all). So he allows himself to steal from corpses. He needs money. He has a dream. He wants to have a family.

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officialspec · 2 months

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Alice Springs mention!!!!!! Love that you put Kuro being from my home town lmao, I haven't read past the first few manga chapters but I do like the snippets of Kuro we got so far in the anime :D

SMILE my reasoning is 1. kobolds are mostly concentrated in the desert so it made sense and 2. my mum lived in alice springs for a while so i actually have heard a little bit about it LOL

#familiarity bias etc etc. but mostly the desert bit #ask

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sleepiercreature · 7 days

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>Wait Anon I need to know why you think that about Mickbell's sister, let me inside of your mind!!!!!!

I mean, knowing that Mickbell grew up in the slums of Kahka Brud it would stand to reason that his family lived there too, in a state of poverty, until an unspecified point in time.

Now that I think of it she is probably somewhere out there, given that all the characters in the relationship chart who do appear in the series proper are alive, but I did have some doubts given that half-foots have been (among other things) tricked into serving as bait and given Mickbell's intense fear of Kuro being kidnapped.

(Though obviously he would still have reasons to be afraid even if his sister was in fact alive, just somewhere outside Kahka Brud)

I don't think we'll ever know about the state of their families for sure sadly :( ! Part of me thinks that Mickbell's sister is still in Kahka Brud and Kuro's family is probably still out there, but neither Kuro nor Mickbell likely have any interest in contacting their families at least in the foreseeable future (plus I doubt Mickbell would ever want to return to the slums even if he did return to Kahka Brud and Kuro would rather travel the world with Mickbell instead, so their own interests don't align with "going back to where they once were" and long distance communication doesn't seem to be very common among the short lived races...)

I think Mickbell's fear of Kuro being kidnapped is justified in a setting where kobolds are routinely captured by other races and Mickbell's first encounter with Kuro was literally when he was in a cage. But that added onto Mickbell's issues.... auugghough.......... my heart.....

#creature posting #asks

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recentanimenews · 4 years

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Manga the Week of 4/22/20

SEAN: Yes, there’s still manga. May is the apocalypse, April is packed.

Ghost Ship gives us a 2nd Saki the Succubus Hungers Tonight and the 10th Yokai Girls.

No debuts, for once, for J-Novel Club, but we do get Ascendance of a Bookworm 6, The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress 5, Isekai Rebuilding Project 2, Kobold King 2, and Der Werwolf 7.

Kodansha’s print debut is Perfect World, which had a digital release a while back. I enjoyed the first volume, but never did follow up on it. I should do that.

MICHELLE: Same here. It’s a tough series to marathon. Keeping pace with the print release should be easier than catching up on all the extant digital volumes.

ASH: I’ve been waiting for this one to come out in print!

SEAN: Also in print: Cardcaptor Sakura Collector’s Edition 4, Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card 7, Fire Force 18, and Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 8.

ASH: The collector’s edition of Cardcaptor Sakura is pretty.

MELINDA: I haven’t been picking up the new edition, but it’s sooooo tempting. It’s such a pretty manga. And Dark Horse’s mid-release shift in trim sizes damaged the prettiness of the last edition for me. (Yes, I still have not forgiven them for that.)

SEAN: The digital debut is Dolly Kill Kill, which ran on the Mangabox App back in the day. A young man’s life is destroyed by monsters that look like mascot costumes. Can he get back what he lost? For fans of weird horror.

There’s also GE: Good Ending 4, I’ll Win You Over Sempai! 3, Kakushigoto 2, The Quintessential Quintuplets 12, Saint Young Men 5, and Shojo FIGHT! 10.

MICHELLE: I have no idea how I got four volumes behind on Shojo FIGHT!, but it has somehow happened! Not that I mind having a decent chunk to devout at once.

SEAN: Seven Seas has the 2nd Bloom Into You light novel (digitally), The Ideal Sponger Life 5, If It’s for My Daughter I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord 5 (manga version), My Monster Secret 20, and Shomin Sample 12.

Vertical has an 8th Flying Witch, a highly underrated series.

Viz has two debuts. The Art of Junji Ito is what it sounds like, and will probably not give TOO many nightmares.

ASH: Always glad to see more of Ito’s work released!

MELINDA: Same!

SEAN: The other debut is Blue Flag, a title with SO much buzz and hype I worry it can’t live up to it. A Shonen Jump + series, it is apparently about sweet, painful and heartrending days.

MICHELLE: I am soooooo excited for this.

ASH: Same!

ANNA: Me too!

SEAN: Also from Viz: Golden Kamuy 15, Tokyo Ghoul: re 16, and Ultraman 13.

ASH: Here for Golden Kamuy (though I’ve enjoyed some of the earlier volumes more than some of the later ones).

ANNA: Golden Kamuy is one of those series I keep meaning to read but there is so much manga!

SEAN: Yen On split its main April release schedule across two weeks: this is the first. We get Accel World 21, Baccano! 13, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki 3, Combatants Will Be Dispatched! 3, and Sword Art Online 19.

The manga debut has a light novel coming out in June. I’m a Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl’s Pet (S-Rank Monster no Behemoth Dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Erufu Musume no Kishi (Pet) Toshite Kurashitemasu) is one of THOSE series. A reincarnated as a powerful beast series, with added elf, this runs in Hakusensha’s Young Animal, so expect boobs.

MELINDA: I know every publisher has a niche, but Yen Press… I’m begging for more stuff like Silver Spoon. With a few exceptions, I’ll admit they’ve kind of lost me as a reader. Our tastes just don’t line up anymore.

MICHELLE: I’m still in it for Nozaki-kun and Yowamushi Pedal, but I’m close to being in the same boat. I’m boat-adjacent. I also miss manhwa.

MELINDA: Me too, Michelle, ME TOO.

SEAN: I have good news for you about the week after next, then, Melinda…

MELINDA: YESSSSSSSS.

SEAN: The rest? A Certain Magical Index’s 21st manga volume, Chio’s School Road 8, Gabriel Dropout 8, Kaiju Girl Caramelize 3, Plunderer 4, Reborn as a Polar Bear 3, Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro Side Story (yay!), Teasing Master Takagi-san 8 (also yay!), Val x Love 8, and A Witch’s Printing Office 2.

ASH: I finally picked up the first volume of A Witch’s Printing Office… I should probably get around to actually reading it.

SEAN: What manga cries out… for JUSTICE?

By: Sean Gaffney

#Anime #News #Manga Bookshelf

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wyrevar · 6 years

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Welcome to Paeranthia: Session Four

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The town guards take Percy and Spyro to town hall, the rest of group following. Kuro fails to convince the guards to let them be part of the meeting as a lawyer. They wait several hours until two Dawn Knights arrive, a wizard named Tanith and a monk named Adria. Take Spyro and Percy to the back room.

In the waiting room, Rosa hides her journal in a way it looks lost and Helja/Kuro play rock paper scissors.

Tanith tells them Swift Solutions let the Dawn Knights know about a cult of kobods and the Green One Spyro and Percy found outside the city. Spyro and Percy are interrogated, some of which with mind-reading magic. Percy informs Spyro of this via telepathy, and she becomes upset. Tanith decides to believe their account of the cult and sends Adria to fetch the others.

After the others are called back, the knights speak to them about going to take care of the cult outside the city, saying this could be related to the Calamity. The Calamity occurred when the destroyed pieces of a Duskworn (evil gods) vessel began falling through the atmostphere, creating destructive meteorites as well as fragments of Duskworn power.

The Duskworn may have created their own race in the under, which the Knights believe the kobolds are worshipping as the Green One.

Kuro objects due to wanting to leave town right away and wants more money and protection to stay. Spyro objects on the grounds that she doesn’t want to help them. After some discussion, Spyro reveals that the knights read their minds. Tanith makes the room scry-proof as the group has stated they’re in danger.

Rosa attempts to persuade Tanith magically to go get her journal. This fails, but Tanith agrees to go try and find the journal anyway and read the last few entries.

While he is gone the group confers. Rosa agrees that what the Dawn Knights did was wrong, but a connection to them could be advantageous, especially dealing with the group that manipulated them earlier. Spyro objects, but will do the job with the group only if Adria, whose services were offered, is not along. Helja agrees the knights are terrible but thinks they shouldn’t forfeit their ability to work with them. Percy would like to help protect the people in town from the kobolds, while Kuro worries that the third party will be alarmed that the group has started working with the Dawn Knights.

In the end, the group comes to the conclusion that they will need to work with the Knights because there are no other good options, provided the Knights put in the official request to deal with the kobolds to give them an alibi. The group is frustrated at their lack of knowledge on what the third party knows or expects. Helja, Kuro, and Rosa offer to take the lead on negotiations for the job so Spyro and Percy can leave the uncomfortable situation and not have to deal with the Dawn Knights again.

Adria interrupts to let them know she was eavesdropping/lip-reading, and tries to advocate for the group working with her against the kobolds. She defends Tanith to the group, causing Spyro to become angry and to leave with Percy. Adria advocates to the three remaining to be taken along, but the others decide that final say is up to Percy and Spyro, despite her probable usefulness.

Tanith comes back and states that the cultist symbol they found in the house, despite being in the one sealed room of the mansion, was a planted fake. Rosa gets them back on track to talking about protection from the third party that had manipulated them into the mansion in the first place. Tanith increases the amount he’s willing to pay, offering to increase the amount by 100 if the party takes Adria. The party resolves to consider it.

Kuro relates what happened with the interaction from the previous night with the third party to Tanith and Adria. Tanith takes notes, then returns Rosa’s journal. After reaffirming the Knights’ agreement to look into the third party, Kuro asks about the dwarf they and Helja had been tasked to apprehend, but the Knights reveal he was able to get off clean.

During this conversation, Percy and Spyro talk more about what happened, Percy apologizing if his telepathy startled her and Spyro fine with it after understanding he’s not reading her thoughts also.

During this time they speak about Percy’s imp companion, and Spyro’s mistaken assumption that he was fiend pacted. Percy relates that he thought it wasn’t odd on the surface to be a warlock, and Spyro explains that imps make people uncomfortable, and she’s most used to fiend-pacted warlocks. Discovering he is not fiend-pacted seems to put a further damper on Spyro’s mood.

Spyro changes the subject and asks Percy if he will teach the group sign language. Percy agrees to teach them the Undercommon version of sign language, and begins teaching Spyro rude sign language. The rest of the group comes back in the middle of learning rude signs, and the group agrees it’s a good idea for all of them to learn to sign.

Kuro broaches the topic of bringing Adria along, to Spyro’s dismay. Despite the promise of extra money, Spyro remains obstinate. Rosa appeals to her, referencing the power of the wizard knight and the inferred power of the monk, making for an easier fight with more money. Spyro questions if this is what the rest of the group wants. Helja, Kuro and Percy announce their discomfort but “more money, less work.” Spyro lays down two conditions: she will be unhappy the whole time, and she’ll never have to speak with Tanith again.

The group decides to go in the morning after Rosa announces she’s used a high level spell, and Kuro needs to pick up armor in the morning. When Kuro is questioned about the armor, they become uncomfortable, though no one can determine why. Rosa leaves to go meet with the Knights, Kuro and Helja go to the tavern part of the bar to look for a date for Kuro, Percy goes to the stables with Malka, and Spyro doodles in her journal, later joined by Rosa, who smokes in the room.

Spyro questions Rosa about what she puts in her journal, unsure if she’s using hers correctly. She shows Rosa her drawings, and Rosa confirms that though she uses hers for a record of events, there’s nothing saying Spyro can’t use hers how she wants. They talk briefly about the Dawn Knights and how Rosa, who is private with her journal, let them read it. Spyro is still unsatisfied with the situation, but is fine with going forward for the good of the group. They talk briefly about thanks for performing jobs and how it is unnecessary--Spyro’s assumptions that everyone was in it for themselves was why she was pleasantly surprised that Rosa healed her.

Helja and Kuro are down in the tavern; Helja is looking immediately for a ‘honey’ for Kuro, asking Ryan at the bar. Ryan does not know anyone who is single and looking for love. She strikes out with the barmaid. Kuro is busy singing/performing for the bar, but takes a break to chat warmly, and drunkenly, with Helja about their battle synergy. Kuro reveals they’ve been learning how to use armor, but asks Helja to keep it quiet they didn’t know how to use it prior.

Helja agrees and immediately segues into asking Kuro for their ‘type.’ Helja really wants to pair someone up and states she thinks Kuro is sad. Kuro is surprised by this and says, honestly, this experience has been awesome as a whole. It’s not what they expected, but they’re enjoying helping people. Kuro mentions they like the group, though they can’t get a good read on Percy which Helja confirms. Helja goes for a jumping high-five and in an attempt to catch her by Kuro, they both crash to the ground drunkenly.

Percy goes to read his books in the stable on his own. When he’s finished, and because he’s alone and Kenickie will not talk to him, he cries for a bit. Rosa goes to look for him, but Kuro intercepts her to ask how she’s doing and apologizes, drunkenly, to her about how disappointing it is the Knights were ‘shitty.’ They split, and Rosa continues to the stables to look for Percy.

Percy manages to conceal his previous crying before speaking with Rosa. Percy sits with a grumpy Kenickie in Malka’s stall with an ancient book and some new books. Rosa and Percy write in notes. They speak about pact magic and its place, and the implications of imps, and differing perceptions of fey patrons while Rosa attempts to determine what type of pact Percy has engaged in without success besides ruling out fiend and fey.

Percy shows Rosa the book he has to find the final chapter of. They transition to speaking through Detect Thoughts and telepathy. Percy says his patron gave him the book and has tasked him with a first test to find the last chapter of the book. Rosa offers to help look through libraries in Foxhurst and use their contacts, including her papa, to assist Percy, if they head in that direction. They converse about ruins, which no one is allowed in, that Percy believes are connected to the story.

Percy and Rosa move on to speaking about the events of the day, and Percy assures her he will be fine. Percy asks about Rosa’s eye and how it is different from the rest of the clergy, but the Detect Thoughts spell runs out in the middle of the question. Rosa explains that she has theories about how divine magic works and this could be altering the appearance of her magic itself as she applies it. She then spends a little time explaining some theories to Percy, which Rosa requests Percy keeps to himself.

The next morning, Kuro picks up their armor and the group convenes with Adria to head to the Kobold nest. Kuro asks Adria how she will fight, and Adria explains she’s melee. Spyro interrupts to ask how they’re entering the kobold nest. After a brief side conversation about the Green One, the debate leads them to enter in the tunnel within the silo by the factory. Spyro and Percy stealth ahead, and finds the sanctum completely empty, and one of the five tunnels heading out has disappeared.

Interested in further adventures? We’ll be broadcasting the next session on Sunday, October 7th at 5pm Pacific on Twitch! Follow for notifications of when we go live.

#welcome to paeranthia #wtp session synopsis #long post

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