#balance spoilers

[eliias-bouchard]

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[karidley]

Feeling completely normal about The Adventure Zone tonight

#taz balance #balance spoilers #barry bluejeans #sketchbook

[noodyl-blasstal]

AU - Blupjeans Week day 4

My @blupjeansweek prompts are part of a story find the others here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | or on Ao3 -

Barry stood in the shower, grateful for the water pounding his shoulder blades. He let the steam curl around him and had to suds himself twice before he no longer felt gritty from getting wind blasted with sand on various roadsides. Finally clean, he changed into his pyjama bottoms and a soft tshirt, then opened the bathroom door.

Lup sat cross legged in the middle of the huge heart shaped bed, still damp from her own shower. She had drawn the canopies back to fully show off the ruffled red silk pillows and fluffy red throw. “Hey Bear! You can be super angry with me in a minute, but look what I found!” Lup brandished a remote dramatically and jabbed a button with a flourish. “Tadah!” The lights immediately dimmed and a lopsided disco ball lowered creakily from a hidden panel in the ceiling. Red tinged motes of light were sent spinning across the walls of the room and there was no way this was real. Surely Lup had just taken him to a nice normal motel, they had two shitty rooms with two shitty beds and Barry was going to wake up from his post-drive nap any minute. When tinny slap bass started piping out of speakers hidden somewhere in the wall Barry started laughing and wasn’t sure he was ever going to stop.

Lup scrambled towards the edge of the bed. “Oh fuck, did I break you?”

Barry stumbled across the room and just about managed to perch on the edge of the bed beside her. The music looped horribly, cutting itself off mid beat, and Barry’s giggles renewed themselves. He leaned his elbows on his knees and fought to stay upright. This was spectacular. Lup was a genius. “No… it’s… it’s perfect.” Barry managed to choke. “10/10, excellent.”

“Really sets the mood, doesn’t it?” Lup smirked. “I guess it did get you into bed with me.” She wiggled her eyebrows at him.

Barry was definitely going to need his inhaler if he kept laughing like this. “Stop… Lup… you’re going to kill me. I’m going to die in this stupid big bed and I won’t even get to find out if it vibrates or not.” Barry wheezed and coughed.

Lup immediately grabbed the remote again. “Barry, you genius! I didn’t even think to check for that. It’d be great for your back.”

“Always looking out for my old man bones.” Barry regretted it as soon as he said it. Lup looked positively gleeful and opened her mouth to make what was no doubt a horrifying double entendre. “No, absolutely not, you criminal! I’m not old enough to hear whatever you were about to say.” He couldn’t get distracted or run back to the bathroom for safety. When the owner had finally left them alone in the room Barry had insisted they both shower before Lup explained. Thankfully she had understood that he needed a bit of time to absorb, adjust, and scrub off a layer of skin before he tried to comprehend their apparent marriage. It had definitely given him time to think, and the more he had, the more he wasn’t actually bothered by it. Nothing had to be different. “I think we should just go with it.”

“I’m really sorry Barry, it was…” Lup stopped. “Wait, what?”

“It’ll be a good story.” Barry shrugged. “How was your trip home, Barry? Oh, well Lup and I accidentally got married, don’t worry about it, sorry we didn’t invite you!” Lup continued to stare. Oh no, was this creepy? He thought she’d find it funny. “Oh, oh no, I’m so sorry Lup, I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable. I can go and explain? I mean, you’ll have to explain to me first, but then I can explain!”

Lup shook her head slightly and replied. “No no, cha’girl’s good. I just thought you’d be upset.”

“At the thought of being married to you? Never!” Barry winked. He could be normal about this, he could be calm and cool and joke about it as if the thought had never even crossed his mind before.

Lup blushed violently. “Charmer, I knew there was a reason I married you.” She knocked her head gently against his shoulder and stood up. “As long as you don’t mind I don’t mind. Sure you’re good?” Barry nodded. “Shall we go grab something to eat then, husband of mine?”

Barry swallowed drily and felt his face flame in response. He hadn’t considered how nice that would sound. Maybe Lup wouldn’t notice? He could style this out. “I’ll just get… clothes… dressed.” He grabbed his bag and fled back to the bathroom, naturally, calm and cool, Lup probably didn’t notice anything. A few quick breathing exercises, a change of clothes, and he’d be fine. It didn’t have to be weird. His phone buzzed loudly on the sink.

Taako [20:03] Married to my sister are we Barold? [20:03] Can’t believe you didn’t invite me. [20:03] I’m your brother in law, Barold, your own flesh and blood. [20:04] Why aren’t you answering? Did you finally tell Lup? [20:05] You’d better not be boning down. [20:05] WHY DID YOU MAKE ME THINK ABOUT THAT BAROLD? [20:05] You’re my least favourite brother in law.

Barry grimaced, Lup had definitely messaged Taako, which meant she either felt bad or uncomfortable and needed advice about how to get out of it, either way it was bad.

Barry [20:05] I’m your only brother in law, Taako. [20:05] Is Lup okay?

Taako [20:06] Wait, did you idiots actually get married?

Barry [20:06] Is Lup okay?

Taako [20:07] Answer mine first. If someone else made the cake I’m never speaking to either of you again.

Barry [20:07] No Taako, I didn’t secretly marry your sister, why would she agree to that? Is Lup okay?

Taako [20:08] She’s fine, my guy, worrying about you. [20:08] You could just tell her you know?

Barry [20:09] Goodnight Taako.

Okay, so Lup wasn’t grossed out. Barry didn’t have to tell her anything and everything was going to be fine.

– “So how did we meet?” Lup asked as they walked arm in arm down the corridor towards the restaurant.

“Orientation? I can’t believe you forgot. You yelled ‘nerd alert!’ super loudly, everyone laughed at me and I still carry the trauma to this very day.” Barry fell easily into their old joke, placing his free hand dramatically on his forehead.

Lup elbowed him gently. “No, we’re not doing the greatest hits, Barold, we’re thinking outside the box. How did we meet? World’s our oyster!”

“Tinder? That’s how most people do it now right?” Barry asked tentatively. Even the thought of Lup swiping… whichever direction the good way was on him was ridiculous.

Lup snorted. “Absolutely not. We’re better than that, Barold. What have you got, throw me some piping hot spaghetti? Think big! Think funky!”

“Bank heist gone wrong?”

“Now we’re talking, I was the robber, right?”

“Obviously.”

“What else? Cha’girl likes options.”

“Ballroom dance class enemies.”

“Intriguing, I like it, sexy energy. We had to dance together to save the community centre and sparks flew. We tried to fight it, but it was impossible. Keep going.”

“Astronaut training. I failed out, you’ve been to the moon twice.”

“Which one?”

“You’re contractually not allowed to talk about the second moon, you know that NASA’ll get you if you do.”

“Fine, I’ll avoid space jail, just for you.”

“You know I couldn’t bear to be without you, and it’d be hard to visit after I failed my space exams and all.”

“Good point. I was heartbroken when you got the double F-2. Okay, how about we ran away from the circus together?”

Barry considered it. “I think you can do better, but we can keep it as long as I was a tightrope guy.”

“Rude.” Lup huffed, then added, “...but thanks for always pushing me to be my best self. You’re right… Okay, serious business, you developed the flamethrower for my combustion based magic show… I kidnapped you and your family wouldn’t pay up but I decided to keep you in a super non-creepy way? Yeah. Okay. Not that. Errrrm… dog agility? No wait… fuck. Catalogue models? Race car drivers… dinosaur animatronic operators?”

“Why don’t we just take it in turns if anyone asks? No one knows us here.”

–

Once they arrived at the CryptoNOMicon they were promptly settled in a mothman backed booth with glasses full of slushy sweetness and assured that a complimentary appetiser tower was on the way.

“I put that we were celebrating a special occasion on the form.” Said Lup.

It was a few moments before Barry worked out what she was talking about. “Oh! The booking form? Well, we are.”

“... and I said we’d had a title change.”

“We did, you weren’t wrong.”

“... and that it was a surprise for you, and then I might have written a few paragraphs about how great you were and how much I wanted you to have the best time and how excited I was to meet your Mum in person finally… but I booked two rooms! He said he thought it was a mistake and that he’d already issued the refund.” Barry snorted. Lup glared at him. “Shut up, it could have happened to anyone.”

“Definitely, easy mistake to make! Happens all the time I’m sure.”

“I should have told him… he just got so excited talking about the special suite and our honeymoon and I didn’t know how to stop him…”

“Hey, Lup, look at that appet-ower and tell me this was a mistake?” Barry pointed to a monstrosity of fried things that mostly obscured the server wobbling towards them. Lup’s eyes widened in delight. “Exactly, I’m glad you didn’t tell them because there’s no way we’d have sprung for this.” The server stopped to light the sparkler shoved in the top layer of the serving tower and Barry took a happy sip of his drink as sparkles exploded. “Being married to you is amazing.”

#blupjeansweek2023 #Noodyl Writes #Blupjeans #Barry Bluejeans #Lup Tacco #Lup #Taz Fic #Balance spoilers

[autisticangus]

remember when griffin said he had an entire alternate campaign ending for if magnus had used the chalice... man itd be cool if they actually released that as a graphic novel spin off i wanna KNOW

#angus.txt #balance spoilers #i guess?

[irojewne]

thinking about if magnus had reacted to the information post eleventh hour the way he does reacts to things early game , vis a vis " rushing in " . thinking about if he had gone in headfirst instead of keeping it to himself and plotting , if he had just walked straight into lucretia ' s office demanding answers . how would lucretia have reacted ? she would have no clue how he found out , only suspicions ( the red robe in particular ) , but the other boys never mentioned the red robe saying anything like the information that magnus has . would she have panicked ? done the same thing she ' d done over ten years ago , feeding everything she could to a voidfish and running ? what would she have done if he had rushed in then ? magnus doesn ' t know what she knows , and if he saw an injustice or funny business happening , he would have tried to stop it himself . would he have threatened her ? attacked her ? would lucretia be staring down this man who was her family not so long ago in the span of things , axe in hand , and unable to tell him the things she knows ? she wouldn ' t kill him , no , but would he kill her ?

#i dunno thinking about dramatic irony lately and also just thinking about magnus and #im thinking about a lot of things #taz balance #taz:b #the adventure zone balance #the adventure zone #the zone cast #magnus burnsides #magnus burnsides taz #lucretia taz #the director taz #madame director taz #mcelroys #the mcelroys #taz balance spoilers #taz:b spoilers #balance spoilers

[pep-rambles]

Blupjeans is all you need!

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#Blupjeans #Huevember #huevember 2022 #The adventure zone #The adventure zone balance #balance spoilers

[pigeon3gg]

griffin mcelroy is so funny because youll see clips of him talking and its always either something like "my names sprite pepsi and im abstinence until i DIE" or its something like "that was the last conversation you ever had with your sister. when someone leaves your life those exits are not made equal. some are beautiful and poetic and satisfying, others are abrupt and unfair, but most are just unremarkable." and theres no in between

#not an art #taz #the adventure zone #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #mcelroys #griffin mcelroy #egg talks

[herbgerblin]

Garfield the deals warlock: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “voidfish ichor” 😳💊 you’ll be knowing what they don’t want you to know 💯👨‍💻

Tres horny boys: yeah whatever. i don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude we gotta stop the hunger from eating the universe

The red robe hovering ominously in the corner: Lucretia is lying to you

#had this already been done? #taz balance #the adventure zone #taz spoilers #taz balance spoilers

[terezis]

THEY'RE GONNA KILL AMERICA'S FAVORITE WIZARD

#the cover has been uploaded to macmillan's website and sites like barnes and noble etc so i feel cool posting this LOL #taz #taz balance #taz graphic novel #the adventure zone #the suffering game #taz spoilers #taz gn spoilers #HELP IT'S SO GOOD #1k #5k

[lithiumseven]

#taz #taz gn #taz graphic novel #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #the adventure zone spoilers #taz spoilers #tis i #incorrect quotes #taako taaco #merle highchurch #magnus burnsides #angus mcdonald #kravitz taz #lucretia #lucretia adventure zone #lucretia taz #taakitz #thb

[felicitywilds]

don't mind me, just thinking about how in every other graphic novel cover, the d20 is in the air, bouncing away from them, just out of reach, almost mocking them as it determines their fates. but for the suffering game, taako is on his knees, front and center, pinning it to the ground, umbra staff at the ready. has he got a fuckin' idea for you.

#taz #taz gn #the adventure zone #taz balance #taako #taz gn spoilers #by me #time to FUCKING saute my dudes #i think its fair now to tag this as #top

[acadieum]

[holds them gently] i offer.. blupjeans....

#adrien rambles #adrien doodles #in love w their love fr... #the adventure zone #the zone cast #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #lup #barry bluejeans #taz lup #blupjeans

[its-your-mind]

ALWAYS rotating TAZ: Balance around in my brain like microwave but ESPECIALLY with the announcement of The Suffering Game graphic novel

The dope thing they can do (and are doing) with the graphic novel series is sprinkle in moments of foreshadowing and hints to the reader about what REALLY might be going on here, which is so cool and I’m a huge fan of it, especially when you’re telling a story in this form.

But what is REALLY FUCKING TASTY about Balance as a story is that none of the motherfuckers telling it had any clue what they were doing when they started

Gerblins is dick jokes and not knowing how dice work and making fun of each other for voices. LICHRALLY the scene where Taako grabs the Umbrastaff is immediately proceeded by Clint trying different voices for Merle while Justin begs him to stop, as Taako. Merle gets launched across the room cuz he failed his save, and now Taako has an umbrella. The scene moves on.

Griffin brought them up to the BOB, introduced them to the Director, and gave them memories of a war fought over nameless, lost, powerful but mysterious artifacts. The memory that Taako takes from it is the idea of soured cream (ya know, for his taco quest).

And then they’re off, on different adventures, making friends, saving lives, making more dick jokes, and Griffin is in the background, slowly building in the meta-plot, as all DMs do.

But this meta-plot was HUGE. It was ALL-CONSUMING. It completely changes everything we know about this world and these characters. It takes the moments of dick jokes, and arguments about character voices, and flirting with death, and adds a layer of tragedy and complexity that just wasn’t present the first time they told that story.

AND THAT’S WHY THIS STORY KICKS ASS. The vibe of the story changed as Tres Horny Boys grew closer and closer to remembering the lives they had lost, as Griffin upped the stakes, as people started dying. They still don’t know shit for most of The Suffering Game, but you absolutely could not have predicted the tone of that arc after just listening to Gerblins. It sounds like a completely different story. And so when the other shoe drops, when shit breaks bad, when it’s the end of the world… again, and they have to reclaim their Stolen Century…

It makes sense. The tone has shifted enough to accommodate that kind of change. The characters have grown (back) into themselves enough to make this work.

Because TAZ: Balance is a tragedy. But the tragedy happened before the podcast even started, and had been erased. So of course it started off with goofs and dildo jokes. Of course the three of them started being standoff-ish with each other and making light of every situation that should have had a lot more weight. They didn’t know what they had lost, and we, the audience, didn’t either. So it was easy to laugh and joke… until slowly, it wasn’t so much anymore.

Plenty of people have praised Griffin’s storytelling abilities, but I think the thing that was most impressive to me was how he took the disparate threads laid out behind the Boys on their adventures, and followed them backwards, into the story they had lost, and forwards, into the ending they earned. I fucking love that he settled on Istus as the deity to interact with them, because I don’t think there’s a better representation of the story Griffin was weaving behind the scenes of the arcs.

Story and Song wasn’t really an arc driven by dice rolls and role playing - but it wasn’t railroading either. Griffin took every story they had told, every happy ending they had fought for, and twined them around and through each other. The world was saved not because of a lucky nat 20 roll, but because every person they had helped through the story came out in force to fight beside them to save their world.

And so in the end, the Stolen Century was a tragedy. But The Adventure Zone: Balance was a story of hope, of family, of the power that just a few loveable doofuses can have when they move through the world, making friends and saving lives. So when the world was ending and they needed help, there were dozens of people waiting to hear the Story and the Song that would give them the push they needed to fight, and the hope they needed to win.

#taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #taako adventurezone #merle highchurch #magnus burnsides #McElroys #griffin mcelroy #the adventure zone

[entguarde]

Something about the inherent anger in optimism.

[Id: A fully rendered digital drawing of Merle Highchurch from The Adventure Zone.

He is a fat, Black dwarf man with long, wavy gray hair and a full beard. He has a nicked ear and a small scar on his shoulder as well as otter-like whiskers and a protruding fang.

He is sitting in an office chair, his elbows resting on a table. He is glaring at an off-screen character (John), pointing down at the table as if to emphasize a point. A text queue underneath him says: “- You can apologize to me and tell me you were wrong”. End description.]

#ent’s art #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #stolen century #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #merle highchurch #taz merle

[anistarrose]

to me, the most fascinating (and utterly unintentional) feature of TAZ Balance's narrative structure is the way that on the first listen, Tres Horny Boys are the audience surrogates because they, much like us, have no idea what the fuck is going on, but on all subsequent relistens, then Lucretia, and sometimes Barry, and arguably especially Lup in the umbrella become the new audience stand-ins, because just like us, they are, in fact, painfully aware of what the fuck is going on :)

#taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #lup taaco #barry bluejeans #lucretia taz #and i really cannot say *especially* lup enough times #like lucretia and barry have their own meta roles in the story within the story #the meta-narrator and the meta-narrator's chosen meta-villain #but lup is the meta-audience #whenever thb wear red or joke about bringing barry back and we as the savvy audience get incredibly sad about it #lup is right there with us #she knows the twists and she knows the backstory and she is an observer who cannot tell anyone or save anyone #until she finally *can* #i love stories about stories and i love lup!

[voidfishing]

LOVE.

#IM SO. NORMAL #taz #taz balance #taz gn spoilers #taz spoilers #taz balance spoilers #toon talking #the macmillan listing has preview pages if ur wondering where this is from lol #& btw my main spoiler tag will be ‘taz gn spoilers’