How popular is exy supposed to be?
It’s a fairly young sport and is pretty similar to lacrosse, a sport that notoriously no one cares about
But Kevin is like a full-on celebrity???
And it’s profitable enough to be a front for the yakuza?? Do pro-exy players get paid like NFL-level salaries?
Also fascinated by Neil saying that no one cares about pro-exy, but they DO care about collegiate & olympic exy
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Here's kind of an esoteric one for you:
What five rolls in D20 do you wish had gone another way, up to and including wishing for a miracle nat 20 for Lapin or whatever else? (My own list, perversely, is mostly made of wishing successes had been failures)
oh damn that's one hell of a question. god there have been so many rolls i'm SURE i'm leaving out great options. (i'd love to see your list, as well)
1- Lapin miracle 20 in the cathedral, specifically on his last possible roll. so many levels of narrative satisfaction, in addition to, of course, i just want him to have lived. i almost left it off the list as too easy an option, but no, it really is the single roll in the entirety of d20 i wish had gone differently the most. i also could have said keradin rolling 3 less damage, for lapin to survive on 1 hp and thunderstep out, but no i want him to have gone down and been brought back up (brennan would have flavored the SHIT out of it and it would have been so cool)
2- Jasper's Thorn Whip last night. Maybe it's only so high because of recency bias, but I want blood. I want to see how Tula, a redemption paladin who ripped out the stoat's throat without a moment's thought or hesitation for hurting Viola, would react to Jaysohn dying there. How much would she punish herself for saving Lila, even though it was really the only choice she had, she couldn't have gotten to Jaysohn in time. Or if she'd blame Thorn for failing to save him, when he'd pushed back against her and said the kids can't be sheltered all the time.
3- Brennan's 9 in the Great Hart Hunt. "high roll is wild, low roll is honorable" So many of ruehob's issues were what the dice established here- being unable to challenge the rules of propriety and honor and duty they both were ruled by. I want to know what would have happened if that had happened earlier. Maybe them getting together would have been healthier? Probably not though lol
4- Murph's 19 deception in acoc ep 1. WHAT WAS THE DECEPTION FOR? I have my guesses- the context was Ruby getting Lazuli's bow, so it was likely something to do with Theo's feelings about that and Laz, but we don't know and that still kills me.
5- Rowan catching Ricky in the TUC finale. If she'd failed by 5 or more, they'd both be going into the storm, and from what I recall, the party absolutely did not have the time or resources to save both of them, maybe not even either.
honorable mention: Gorgug getting a nat 20, not a nat 1, to figure out how to give the Hangman a butt hole to shit in Chungledown Bim's mouth. That would have just been hilarious.
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Y’all remember how Hob is writing kinda sorta love letters to a mystery person in the first few episodes of acofaf? DID WE EVER FIND OUT WHO OR WHAT THAT WAS ABOUT?!? PLS HELP ITS DRIVING ME NUTS
EDIT: OH MY GOD I HAVE TO REWATCH THE START!! APPARENTLY ITS HIS HORSE (Wrackingspelt) ?!?!?!
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Honestly, at this point, I have an AU of the story and characters in my mind that has replaced canon entirely.
Some things are the same, but some things got a good and proper overhaul when I took mental custody of ACOTAR for my personal AU
That said, there are some truly talented writers [on here and ao3] who have really taken that untapped potential to the next level. Especially when it comes to Illyrian lore, character nuance, and expanding secondary characters. I hope you writer folks know how deeply appreciated you are ❤️
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You know, with the fact that Ryn went and got herself petrified within a day of finding out just how willing the Ruby Vanguard are to fuck a wizard up, I do think that, while the bar is very low, Essek (as he is during the course of the campaign) really does deserve some credit for never ending up in such a self-imposed pickle that he needed his allied party to show up and save him from himself. In fact, the only time the Nein directly felt the need to worry about him was when Caleb put him in danger without thinking through certain connections that would be made, and even then, that was more of Caleb feeling guilt-ridden about it than actual worrying.
And to be very clear, Essek absolutely was and still to this day in canon is in a massive, self-imposed pickle, but when it actually comes down to it, the Nein were pretty tangential and superfluous to navigating that, and he's predominantly doing the work himself.
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