#stolen century

[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

[nillial]

could not stop imagining this post as magnus n fisher . thats his neurodivergent voidfish

[Image description: uncolored digital art of characters from The Adventure Zone, based off a Reddit thread. Magnus is a broad-shouldered human in an IPRE hoodie, while Davenport is a skinny mustached gnome in a fancy jacket, and Lucretia is a skinny human wearing glasses and a robe.

In the first panel, Magnus holds a baby Fisher up to his cheek, squishing them against his face lovingly. Magnus says: "my pet jellyfish, Mike, who is neurodivergent. he is 1 year old today."

With an incredulous expression, Davenport asks: "Where did you get that?" and Magnus, smiling, replies: "ocean." Lucretia pokes Fisher with a pencil and asks: "I have to ask, out of genuine curiosity, how is it determined that a jellyfish is neurodivergent?" Magnus replies: "I filled out an online quiz using his answers." End description.]

#taz #taz balance #magnus burnsides #voidfish #the adventure zone #lucretia taz #davenport taz #voidfish taz #magnus taz #lucretia #davenport #ipre #stolen century #taz balance spoilers #my art #also i have like 8 episodes of ethersea leftim gonna AAAAAAAAAAGHGHGHGHHHHHHHHHH

[mspainttaz]

stolen century blupjeans beloved

[i.d. a drawing of lup and barry. lup has short choppy hair and is wearing pajamas. she is happily reading from the papers in her hand while sitting at a table. barry is wearing a sweater, jeans, and a sappy smile. he is cutely laying on top of the table to pay attention to lup. on his back someone taped a paper that reads "simp". end i.d.]

#taz #stolen century #blupjeans #my art #m #image description

[umbraastaff]

in a newly discovered speedrun exploit by a couple of real wizards in the community, it turns out your party members don't actually switch to "voidfished" (the condition where they ignore all your instructions and advice) until almost the end of the static cutscene. so you can actually use some frame-perfect inputs while a certain scene is loading to instruct a party member to attack you, and if you make sure your HP is low enough going in, this will kill you. the death sequence gets prioritized and it cancels the memory wipe, but it still counts the scene as "completed" and you start the next part with all your abilities and memory logs still accessible.

unfortunately even with this exploit nobody's figured out how to make the next bit take any less than ten years, so we're still trying to figure out how to make this useful. but it's pretty cool nonetheless!

#the adventure zone #taz balance #stolen century #barry bluejeans #taako #unreality cw #speedrun strats #taz gameverse

[acornsandcarnelian]

Relistening to stolen century hurts every time. Idk what kind of magic griffin weaved into it, but no matter how many times I relisten it still hits just as hard. Like, huh, it's all about love, isn't it? It's about trying your best, about trying to protect your family, about fucking up and trying to fix it. It's about "I love you" and "I'm sorry" and "it'll be harder if you remember me" and "you die, but it's okay because you know they made it". It's about starting again and again, about questioning your morals, about doing your best, about learning to lean on people, about having that taken away from you. Its about feeling love and trust and pain without knowing their target. That's life, isn't it? I need to lie down.

#stolen century #taz #taz balance #the adventure zone

[theheadcanonzone]

The reason why Merle kept trying to cast higher-level spells he didn't know is because he did know them during the Stolen Century. He kept forgetting that he had forgotten them, if that makes sense, he's more used to being able to cast them than he is not being able to.

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Submitted by @dullahandyke

#taz #taz headcanon #headcanon time #submission #taz balance #merle highchurch #stolen century #mod lulu

[lithiumseven]

Some people out here pretending Blupjeans was one sided Bluejeans Pining™️ until Legato but Griffin said Lup’s moment of realization was SOON AFTER HIS, coming to her in CYCLE 17!!!! MY GIRL IS 30 YEARS DEEP in this fantastic and beautiful love by the time they walk up on that stage

IT REACHED INEVITABILITY

#blupjeans #lup #lup taaco #taz #the adventure zone #taz spoilers #the adventure zone spoilers #stolen century #the stolen century #ace don’t look #taz balance #the adventure zone balance #taz balance spoilers #the adventure zone balance spoilers #tis i

[vivitalks]

i'm relistening to stolen century and it's a little trippy only listening to that arc when i haven't listened to balance in a hot minute because chronologically it is the beginning of the story and like. i forgot that it's not the narrative beginning of the story

like at one point merle says to lucretia something like "you got some good leadership instincts" and she's like "oh no i wouldn't say that" and i was like hon hon hon oh clintmerle you don't even know what you're foreshadowing! and then i was like. Wait

#stuff #taz balance #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #stolen century #pfffft

[cryptidk]

Taako when asked why he's in this career, Episode 50: "Because I'm worried no one else will have me"."

Griffin, Episode 66: "What home is good enough for Taako? The answer was: there isn't one. Everyone in the world deserved to be around you, Taako, to see what you do, what you're capable of. And you deserve it too, Taako, to be recognized, to be admired by every living person you ever encounter. "

#taz balance spoilers #taz #taz balance #stolen century #mcelroys #taako

[basilplane]

The Protector and The Lonely Journal-Keeper

#the zone cast #taz balance #stolen century #magnus burnsides #lucretia #just two people who both think they have to save everyone all by themselves 😔 #they both just need to learn to ask for help 😔 #maybe they could help each other #you know? 🥺 #the adventure zone

[mewpercat]

My stolen century lucy design ! ovo

#lucretia #lucretia taz #stolen century #taz #taz balance #the zone cast

[entguarde]

I CAN STILL HEAR YOU SAYING

YOU WOULD NEVER BREAK THE CHAIN

[Image ID: Two sketches of Merle Highchurch and John from the Adventure Zone, respectively.

In the first image, Merle, a fat dwarven man with a full beard, a partial bun, wavy hair and a protruding fang. He is angrily staring ahead while toppling a black chess piece.

In the latter image is John, a slim, well-tailored human man with short hair. He is wearing a suit and tie. He is looking down with an expression that lacks much emotion. His eyes have shines of red, blue, yellow and white.

In Merle’s image, the lyrics shown are “IF YOU DON’T LOVE ME NOW,” , and in John’s they are “YOU WILL NEVER LOVE ME AGAIN”. End description]

#Ent’s art #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #john hunger #taz john #merle highchurch #taz merle #stolen century #johnchurch #technically. maybe #is this yuri kinda thing

[davlucies]

i know it don't make a difference to you but oh, it sure made a difference to me you'll see me off in the distance, i hope at the other end at the other end of the telescope

- 'til tuesday

#lucretia #taz balance #stolen century #relic wars #the adventure zone

[taakosleftshoe]

Look I know they described the Starblaster in all its glory and I know it's cool as fuck but. In my head, it will always just be

#sierra speaks #taz balance #stolen century #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #taz balance spoilers

[umbraastaff]

the light of creation is such a fascinating and fucked up macguffin. an object that plants ideas in your mind and pushes them further than you ever would on your own. the brush that painted reality. a brush that, dropped in the wrong place, kept painting more and more over the top of a finished work.

this thing doesn't solve your problems. it alerts you to problems you would've never known you had, and then it solves those problems. the IPRE home planet's first ever spaceship was made for inter-system travel. they hadn't even been to the moon! the moon!

it gave a man an existential crisis of incomprehensible proportion, and then it led him to solve it like a math problem. there is no acceptance, no peace. only improvement and growth, the next thing, the next universe.

it's introduced as evil relics to be destroyed, then fused into the great shield to save everyone. it's the hunger's fuel and the starblaster's flight. it is an entirely neutral force. your reasons are nothing. your desires are everything.

#i think a lot about rigour from counter/weight when i think about the light #the adventure zone #taz balance #stolen century #light of creation #taz john #taz hunger #grand relics #mine #text #balance #light #relics

[jessamakesart]

When you were away on missions, she worried. When you came home, she rejoiced. She tried her hardest not to show it, not to give herself away. With each meal, each Candlenights gift exchanged, the nights spent walking the Bureau’s campus, the trips to the spa— she fought back a smile that you came to treasure during your one hundred year journey. A radiant smile, full of joy and relief.

It’s the same smile you just saw, moments ago, when Magnus burst into the dome, alive again, a mannequin no longer. Her friends were here again. In her hour of greatest need. But that smile is gone now. The Hunger’s here, again. You’ve escaped it a hundred times, but no more. This is it.

This is it!

#the adventure zone #the adventure zone: balance #spoilers #stolen century #lucretia #your honor im care her