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The Report Card – Fantasy High: The Seven Ep 8

Fight for Your Right to Party

Welcome back to this fight, already in progress where TK just DIED. So, you know, we have to deal with that. This is largely a battle episode as was last ep but more plot relevant stuff happens so I’m gonna hit all of the important story beats.

Yelle drinks the fly potion she got earlier and grabs TK’s body to fly her to Ost. Jana (Katja’s absentee mother who just landed the finishing blow on TK) grabs a palimpsest and swings at Yelle but Yelle shrugs it off and keeps going.

Zelda (at Penny’s behest) stuffs Lysander (her shoe-shining makeout partner) into a suit of armor while Katja squares off with her mother.

“Jana, nice to meet you I guess,” Katja says, full of teenage sarcasm.

“I’m at work,” Jana replies, absolutely setting Kat off.

She rolls her attacks, one of them being a Nat 20, uses her new axe to shatter the palimpsest in her hand and doing a whopping 99 points of damage. That doesn’t kill her BUT her last attack is a shove attack, dropping her from the balcony and forcing her to take 10d6 falling damage. That makes it 130 total points of damage meaning Katja killed her mom IN ONE ROUND.

Handshake Meme: Adaine Abernant, Katja Cleaver, Fucking obliterating your shitty parent.

While fighting is happening, Antiope suspects the Jester of being Charity so she says Charity’s name. The Jester reacts a bit and Antiope finally nails their last mirror image.

Sam (who was briefly a giant swan which I neglected to mention because in the grand scheme of things? Frankly, a footnote) gets an Eldritch Blast off on the Jester then uses Thunderstep to help get Ost out of one of the goo monsters.

Also, speaking of Charity from two paragraphs back, she pops up behind Antiope and STABS HER, fully dropping her. OR, she WOULD have dropped her if she didn’t have the Alert feat, negating her sneak attack damage and leaving her up with EIGHT HP. You simply love to see it.

(Also, oh no, who could have guessed that the big government organization in a story written by Brennan Lee Mulligan would actually turn out to be shady and not good aligned? Shock. Horror.)

Ost Revivifies TK and, as she does, she hears an unfamiliar male voice say, “There are no things in this world that are so broken they cannot be mended.” Hmmm. Maybe not an entirely absentee god after all.

This isn’t plot relevant but I simply have to quote Aabria who has the funniest line in the whole episode when TK wakes up. “Out here looking like a Dora fucking Milaje. Yibambe! Do something!”

Do something she does, trapping the Jester in a wall of force with an assist from Sam who counters the jester’s Counterspell.

One of Yelle’s pixies then polymorphs Ant into something with more HP than her meager 8 HP, an event that was frankly inevitable in hindsight. Ant turns into a dragon. Yelle also casts Blight on Charity for 44 points of damage because she’s a beast in the less literal sense.

Ant, making the best use of her new form even as she has mixed feelings about it, suplexes Charity off the balcony for 34 points of damage but lets her go to try for a tail attack which she doesn’t land. Charity gets up and says, “I always hoped to kill a Jones. And maybe my day will come soon.” Then, she’s beamed out. As she beams out, Antiope realizes that Charity stole the Legendarium off of her before she was turned into a dragon and she failed the check to notice.

Penny gets TK to drop the barrier around the Jester and she stabs him in the back with her rapier, for 27 points of damage. The Jester super fails to keep concentration on the spell animating the monsters and they all dissolve.

The Jester still has some fight left and tries to get a Disintegrate spell off on TK but TK counters it and then hits him with a Disintegrate of her own. As it hits and his clothes dissolves, a tattoo of horses pulling a chariot is briefly seen. It’s Preston.

(“Who could have known the cop was a cop,” says Aabria.)

Fight over, TK hails the Maidens and gets the party started again. The pixies go to strap bombs on this billionaire ship because, of course.

They’ve lost the Legendarium but, luckily, Yelle thought to make them copies and those are still functional. On a 23, Ant realizes something is happening in the Necrinomikron which is an area of Spyre associated with death. They decide to get the party ship to sail that way so they can get their party on but still stay on mission. Then, having learned that her potential employers are evil, Ant texts her, “I’m in” to the group.

“Are you really in?” Sam asks, achingly hopeful.

“Yeah,” Ant says, and Sam gives her a big hug.

Sam jokes (or half-jokes), “Now all we need is Penny,” and Ant stops her in her tracks. She CAN’T do this again. Even as a joke. “I love you,” she says, but she absolutely cannot. Ant hugs her again but Sam doesn’t return the hug.

Yelle gives everyone the hearts she made for them a bit back and Ost is inspired to call her dad. She tells her dad she loves him and they have a genuinely touching moment (“What’s wrong with you?”/”Nothing anymore.”) that she abruptly ends when he mentions that he and her mom are thinking about selling the house. Let’s not get crazy Mr. Wallace. Your daughter can only handle so much Real Talk at a time.

Penny emails her family to fill them in on what she’s doing then pulls Lysander into a closet to tastefully fade to black. Likewise, Antiope is feeling not so cold to dragons as she once was and finds the nearest dragonborn to get over her crush on Preston (rolling a very dirty 20 on per Persuasion check).

(She gets to roll w/ advantage btw because dragons are her favored enemy and the implication that picking up boys and hunting dragons are equivalent activities had me dying.)

Kat calls her dad to tell him that she killed her mom and then, hilariously, Jana appears literally behind him because he’s in hell and she’s a shitty person so of course her soul ended up there. Her dad reveals that part of the reason he stopped being with Jana is that TK informed him that the Ministry of Adventure sometimes matchmade their agents with adventurers to kind of keep an eye on them and Jana was that for him. The internship Antiope was offered was a pipeline to that kind of work. When Jana left them it was because her cover was blown and she was “taken off his detail.” Brutal.

But hey! Good news. Her dad has been thinking a lot about his absentee parent thing and has talked it over with his party. He wants Kat to join up with them! Ost breaks the crystal upon hearing that. Then gives Kat her crystal to continue the call. Brennan makes Kat roll to remember her dad’s number and Sam just uses her mirror to get the info for her.

Kat says she can’t just leave her party. They’re like her sisters. Or her horses. Her dad seems a little taken aback but says they’ll discuss it later.

Meanwhile, Sam has gone onto the balcony to brood as she is wont to do and is joined by TK who seems to know what she’s thinking about and asks if she's noticed things are a bit strange, even by Spyre standards. Sam does. They talk a bit about death and change and Sam says she feels a kinship with Talura but doesn’t want to end up like her. TK says there’s no magic more potent than simply doing something new and Sam, who is a bit exhausted by TK’s riddle speak, says that she reminds her of Arthur Aguefort (which TK doesn’t take a s an insult).

And with the girls alternatively partying, making romantic connections, or brooding, we end the episode.

Superlatives

Katja: Most Like to Finish What She Starts

One round Katja???? One round of damage??? You killed your mom in one round of damage????? GIRL.

Random Thoughts

The episode gets its title because Kat has like a million mic drop lines she wants to use on her mom and, instead of picking just one, she just tries to say them all. My favorite being before she shoves her, “See you next fall. Actually, see you next Tuesday.”

Antiope has had a whole-ass arc re: dragons huh? Shot a dragon, became a dragon, and hooked up with a dragon(born) all in the same day. Lmao, exposure therapy.

I think Kat re: Jana “Can you reincarnate her into a good mom?”

Ant at Ost re: Sean, a guard who she thinks is maybe kinda cute doing minimal damage during the fight “That’s like zero fucking damage! Don’t get with Sean!”

Sigh, and Preston joins Grissini in the D20 pool of boys who *could* have been hot love interests if they weren’t government stooges.

So the trigger for the curse that turned the people into monsters was in Preston’s shirt, right? Why would it be there? I’m guessing it was supposed to be in the sweatshirt Ant refused so Brennan just had it be on the item of clothing she accepted. But logistically, how? I doubt everyone just has little devices on all their articles of clothing on the off chance you need to plant something on a girl who arrived at an interview in a sport’s bra. Maybe Charity sleight of handed it onto the shirt as a rogue?

“Cinnamon stop making it clap.”

Y’all, this is up a bit late and the last two recaps will be as well but I’m still getting them up because I’ve found that people often check out the backlog of these post-season, sometimes way after the fact so they’re still helpful. Thanks to everyone who checks these out, regardless of when!

In this ep, Kat rolled one nat 20 and one nat 1. Various non-Zelda NPCs rolled two nat 1s.

#dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #the seven #the seven spoilers

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lovevalley45 · 3 years

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untitled ficlet #201

Katja had never considered herself an angry person. Then again, it wasn't like the barbarians she knew in her life were particularly angry.

The fighter classes she'd taken at Aguefort focused on strategy and tactics. It had been her dad's way, her grandpa's way, the Skullcleaver way. She didn't want to take them back - becoming a battlemaster wasn't something she'd ever regretted.

Though, sometimes she wondered.

Zelda was a barbarian, though she was taking fighter classes on the side. She had explained it to the group, and her fellow fighters in particular, that sometimes her rages weren't all that great. Katja had observed enough of her rages to know why she thought that.

But she still wondered.

The barbarian classes at Aguefort had a higher half-orc percentage than perhaps any other class. It made sense in a way, just like how elves seemed to fill the wizard classes. There was a natural-born talent for rage there. She had went in knowing what she wanted, and had barely glanced at the barbarian courses. Zelda didn't take them either, not in the same way as everyone else, but her boyfriend had good things to say about it.

She asked her sometimes, after she told them she was taking fighter classes, if it felt good to rage.

"It's nice to get it out sometimes," Zelda had told her. "Just, uh, better than keeping it all in all the time."

Katja merely wondered and sometimes asked, barely giving the idea any thought until they were on the Rombosa for that masquerade. She already felt hurt from her father's call just a few days ago, still constantly reeling from the abandonment of her mother, but Jana formerly-Cleaver had the gall to show her face. Well, her masked face. But it was enough, to see her again and be remembered of all that had happened to bring back the anger she tried to not let define her.

And she didn't have to wonder anymore.

#alli writes shit #the seven #d20 spoilers #katja cleaver #zelda donovan #simply i have many feelings and i am always in love with rekha’s character choices

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