I just finished listening to The Adventure Zone: Balance for the first time and I’m ugly sobbing and laughing so hard at the same time that I’m choking and coughing. Making a cacophony over here by myself as the cat stares at me upset I’m bothering her nap.
This is such a perfectly beautiful collaborative story. I love them all so much.
In The The Adventure Zone Zone episode following Balance - Magnus mentions how he was feeling pulled in different directions during the 11th Hour time loop, specifically that he didn’t like having to make choices that would hurt people just to move the plot along because he’s so focused on being a protector, but needing to end the time loop to reach the greater goal.
And I really truly love the emotional parallel between that and the Stolen Century - everyone on the ship knowing they’d come back to life despite whatever happened to the new world they visited. Making choices knowing they’d restart, but trying to maintain ethical choices along the way.
