Being completely honest, I would've missed the announcement entirely except GeForce Now broke with BG3's latest patch and I just happened to refresh Facebook while GLARING at it and was like "oh right, that's a thing."
I legit thought for half a second that they'd decided to eschew cinematics in favor of getting a live actor to play Anduin for half a second, so idk how much the cinematics team is getting paid right now, but I'm petitioning for them to get a raise because goddamn.
I'm very glad they chose Thrall to come and give Anduin the news that his manpain is the new expansion. My boy is all grown up :,)
(I literally don't care if it's called The War Within, it's an egg)
If there isn't already Alleria/Xalatath fic out there, there needs to be.
I am so glad more than just my dragon mounts will now be able to do WHEE flying things.
I've been at this long enough that Delves is just Dark Elves to me, idk.
Lore seems fine or whatever. Apo is sort of sitting here like 'WHY. WHY HAVE YOU COME TO ME NOW WHEN I AM THIS.'
(meaning the full time job professional he is now and not the guild leader he was 10 years ago)
I'll play, because it's just sort of what I do, but so far I feel somewhat detached. Now if WoW 2 ends up happening at the end of the Egg saga, like if Azeroth hatches into "Azeroth, but with better graphics" then we'll talk with more excitement.
i love when people on facebook groups are like "fowl will kick bad eggs out of the nest" any time someone else says an egg escaped a nest. Like, no they do not know that. We have watched birds sit on rocks, and lightbulbs, and golf balls, and ball pit balls. The really broody ones will sit on sterile eggs until they die unless you break them of their brood. You can swap a broody's dud eggs for fertile ones and they don't care or notice. Stores literally sell wooden and ceramic eggs to trick them because they can't tell the difference. People make posts about bad eggs exploding under their hens. They have no psychic ability to see the interior of the eggs. their brains are like the size of a lima bean and when they're broody they're so hormone addled they aren't even using it. there's 1 thought in their entire body and it's "hatch eggy"
this is the face of a bird that knows nothing, but in particular has no idea if an egg is bad
she would fight me for free if I touched that ball pit ball she trying to hatch. birds are stupid. if yours kicks an egg out just warm it back up and give it back
in order to take egg on as his squire maekar wants to name dunk a knight of summerhall…..and dunk refuses because egg deserves to wander the country he will rule someday because this will help him avoid the fate of his doomed family…and he does and they have lots of adventures and he is a better king for it but you cannot outrun doom forever and when dunk finally all those years takes egg back to summerhall…oh….
Yes we all know about Visenyacore and the Visenyalings (namely Maegor Rhaena Daemon Rhaenyra Aemond and Stannis among others) now lets do Rhaenyscore. Who are the Rhaenyslings
Having the code impersonate Chayanne and Tallulah was absolutely perfect.
Nobody else would have called out the egg's weird mannerisms. They'd have noticed, but they would just assume their eggs were being played by someone else and made a mistake with their models.
When Phil told Forever, his immediate assumption was that the admins had made a mistake with their models. Fit was hesitant to believe it.
And even if Phil didn't know something was wrong, he would still know that Chayanne and Tallulah weren't themselves. 02 was the chef. He knew that wasn't Tallulah immediately, it took a little while before he realised that was bad. Even then, it wasn't that long. Tallulah didn't respond to him and he knew immediately.
And as soon as he knew, he was on edge. He knew something was going to happen and he was ready to react. If 'Chayanne' hit him, he hit back. He knew that wasn't his kid. He knew and he wasn't going to pretend,
I think this is something very unique to Phil but also, the code has definitely been targeting him and this confirms it. The code has it out for Phil and always has.
I think this also means that Phil will start to be more paranoid if the eggs are played by different admins. I can't imagine this not being one of those events. Phil will see any shift in behavior and be on edge until its confirmed everything is okay.
also kind of unrelated but Phil crashing the moment the eggs changed is absolutely amazing. Q!Phil passing out just as the fakes reveal themselves jsbdjsbsjsnjs