There is an older joke that I've seen a lot on Friends at the Table tumblr about how it's not a real season of F@tT unless someone loses a hand. I've always liked the alternate 'joke', it's not a real season of Friends at the Table unless a PC shoots themself in the foot (sacrificing themself in way that has major consequences for their epilogue... often by dying) at/near the end of the season.
I've seen a lot of people thinking about this lately (particularly in regards to an emerging pattern from Dre's PC's... looking at you Valence and Chine...) and it got me thinking because some players are much more prone to this than others.
So I made a table. Then I realized that you cannot put an excel table in Tumblr so I wrote it all out in a list. Then I just attached a screenshot of the table anyway. Spoilers under the read more for all 7 main seasons. (I didn't include Bluff City, Road to PARTIZAN or other live games, but if you can think of examples that should be included from those or anything I missed from the main seasons please let me know!)
x - Character Dies
o - other sacrifice that fits the loose description of "shooting oneself in the foot".
*I was unsure how to mark these, but decided to include them anyway
By Season:
Autumn in Hieron: 1 major break down by Ali as Hella. Calhoun :(
Counter/Weight: 3 deaths to defeat Rigour by Art, Dre, and Silvia. I really struggled with how to count this one because everyone makes very big sacrifices in the finale, that’s like the whole point… so in the end I decided to just count the deaths. Audi wasn’t a PC at the time, but I’m still counting them as a point for Jack. Then I debated whether and how to count Kobus/Loyalty’s other candidate whom I cannot remember the name of and Jillian Red but decided to just give one death point each to Dre and Silvi.
Winter in Hieron: Nothing. There were a few things I considered putting here put none of them felt on the same level as other things I am marking.
Twilight Mirage: 2 people leaving, 1 death, and Grand Mag (need I say more?) Once again, I debated for a long time how to mark Fourteen because the dying was just their class from the beginning, but I gave this one to them. Ali as Tender and Janine as [Signet] get points for leaving the Mirage because it makes me sad personally.
Spring in Hieron: 3 members of the Understanding. Unsubtle plug to go read my fic An Understanding if you want to feel sad about this with me.
PARTIZAN: 2 (pointless) deaths. I expect to make several enemies by calling these pointless, but I’m very much on team if Valence were here things would be better, and for that matter the same goes for SI. Powerful, but pointless. I went back and forth on whether to give Jack any points for Clem and eventually decided to leave her off entirely because she didn't actually die and just came back as a powerful NPC.
In summary, as I expected, Art and Dre are leading the pack on character shooting themselves in the foot, with Dre leading on actual deaths.
Surprisingly, Ali also ties both of them overall with a total of three which I was not expecting.
Jack, Janine, and Silvia each have two points, and between 0-2 deaths which was about what I expected, although I was surprised that Jack is technically tied with Art for second place on deaths.
The most surprising thing - and I'm not sure why this surprised me per say but it was an outlier - is that I could come up with no examples of Keith's characters shooting themselves in the foot.
Anywho, that was a lot of charting and thinking just to have evidence that this happens all the time. Once again, if you can think of examples of anything I missed that should be added to these scores please let me know.
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Minor spoilers for Friends at the Table's new mini arc on the Patreon: Eyes of A Killer.
I can't believe the table friends joked about doing Marielda again in their Slow Knife game... and then didnt even realize they re-invented Marielda by way of Lava-Punk Volca-nobles...
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In the weeks after the September incident the Pelagios siblings have dinner, have a debate, and reminisce on their childhood. Cass re-learns how to be a younger sibling.
My SecSam gift for Faerie Pirate! I love writing about Cassander and Sokrates and Euanthe more than almost anything so I had a great time with this. <3
Not to be that person but... the Brnine/Thisbe conversation in PSD 34 is making me feel so valid in my characterization of Brnine in Death by Water. That fish sure does have complicated feelings about home wrt Apostalos and the Blue Channel...
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“I’ve been thinking,” they started. Broun was visiting Millie alone today and they had run out of new things to fill her in on within the first five minutes after they arrived. They were sitting in a chair next to the bed that Millie was still stuck in, although she insisted that she was well enough to leave every time they visited. “My name is too out there. I know you haven’t gotten out much since … everything, but it’s not good to be publicly associated with Millenium Break right now. Terrorists and all, you know?”
That earned them an eyeroll and a scoff from their bedridden friend. But she didn’t interrupt.
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Kal’mera Broun and Ver’million Blue in the years between PARTIZAN and PALISADE.
I've been working on this since even before PALISADE started so I'm very glad to finally be able to share it. This is the biggest piece in my Apostolosian collection so far and also one of my biggest pieces over all that has actually been completed. A lot of thought and love went into this so I hope y'all like the finished product as much as I liked making it. <3
After listening to PALISADE 33 - I do find myself relating to Keith characters a lot - I have never related to a podcast character harder than Eclectic running through in his brain all the ways he could have done a previous encounter better and all the ways things could still go horribly wrong... AND THEN IT HELPS SOMEHOW.
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“I’ve been thinking,” they started. Broun was visiting Millie alone today and they had run out of new things to fill her in on within the first five minutes after they arrived. They were sitting in a chair next to the bed that Millie was still stuck in, although she insisted that she was well enough to leave every time they visited. “My name is too out there. I know you haven’t gotten out much since … everything, but it’s not good to be publicly associated with Millenium Break right now. Terrorists and all, you know?”
That earned them an eyeroll and a scoff from their bedridden friend. But she didn’t interrupt.
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Kal’mera Broun and Ver’million Blue in the years between PARTIZAN and PALISADE.
I've been working on this since even before PALISADE started so I'm very glad to finally be able to share it. This is the biggest piece in my Apostolosian collection so far and also one of my biggest pieces over all that has actually been completed. A lot of thought and love went into this so I hope y'all like the finished product as much as I liked making it. <3
I made myself a deal that I would only sign up for Secret Samol if I finished 1 of the 3 other projects I'm working on currently by the time sign up ends, because I don't want to overcommit myself. Earlier this week I convinced myself that it was going to be very unlikely that I'd make it because I have a lot left to do on all three pieces and for some reason I thought secsam sign ups ended on the 10th.
HOWEVER! It has just come to my attention that a.) I have tomorrow off from work and b.) Sign ups actually end on the 12th!
Everyone please send good vibes that I will finish something in time to sign up and also be on the look out for the first new work from me in like...8 months coming soon!
It is done. Death by Water is in the final editing stages now and should be ready to post by this time next week, depending on how busy I am the rest of this week. I'm counting that as close enough.
I made myself a deal that I would only sign up for Secret Samol if I finished 1 of the 3 other projects I'm working on currently by the time sign up ends, because I don't want to overcommit myself. Earlier this week I convinced myself that it was going to be very unlikely that I'd make it because I have a lot left to do on all three pieces and for some reason I thought secsam sign ups ended on the 10th.
HOWEVER! It has just come to my attention that a.) I have tomorrow off from work and b.) Sign ups actually end on the 12th!
Everyone please send good vibes that I will finish something in time to sign up and also be on the look out for the first new work from me in like...8 months coming soon!
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Finally got around to listening to PSD29... when Austin says "Gb gur sna bs Vagrtevgl, gurl ner tbvat evtug abj, 'Ohg Vagrtevgl, gung jnf gur tbbq bar.'" That's me. Disappointed but not surprised. 🤣😭💀
(Also I think this must be the universe punishing me for not finishing any of the THREE (3) WIP meta/fics I have been working on for years about Apostalos/Apostolisians in this era, all of which have been effectively joshed by the last 4-ish episodes lmao)
imagine if you were a mechanic and one day some no-name aristocrat is like "hey... i heard you're like... pretty tight-lipped, right?" and you're like "sure, I need money to pay for my space taxi off of this rock" so you do tune-ups for this aristocrat's kinda mid revolutionary group and you flirt with them a little so they'll ignore the fact you're charging them 300% up the ass until one day a space gas furry shows up at your door and changes your life, worldview, and relationship to politics and maybe you got a romance thing going on but you never clarify it and you wind up in a revolutionary cell with them and who is also here but your mid aristocrat but you're like "hey, just one more step on the road to getting out of here :/" and then the space gas furry buys you a spaceship so you can leave but you kinda wanna see where this space gas furry relationship goes until one day the space gas furry explodes themselves at a funeral to kill a CIA director and then its just you, your other buddies, and your mid aristocrat for five years until the mid aristocrat starts quoting some MCR lyrics at you over the phone while blushing like a closeted fifteen year old and you're like 30 now but it kinda hits anyway and then you decide that because of the space gas furry you're a better person and therefore have to overthrow the government and then the government threatens to blow up the sun and your mid aristocrat accuses you of wanting to blow yourself up to be a martyr and how romantic they thought it would be to live without the threat of an explosion tearing you apart and then you get onto a little bullet spaceship and one of several thousand space gods asks you straight up what you feel the most guilty about and you say "can't worry about that now, I have to stop this explosion" like you couldn't stop that explosion then so that maybe you can go back to that mid aristocrat and your name is Kalvin Brnine and you're canonically the most awkward person alive
and what if before all of this you bought a blender at a yard sale but that blender turned out to be alive and you still treated it like a blender because you were kinda a piece of shit back then but then the blender gradually turned into one of your most cherished friends but they could not overcome the fact that they were treated as an object early in your relationship so they will always hold you at a distance and then a very old man who opposed the space gas furry but you found endearing got himself shot trying to stop Real God from being harvested by a zombie god and the hot fish lady who you met in the revolutionary cell who you went on excursions with retired because she saw Real God and a pile of spaghetti became your best friend after you negged it while stealing copper and now you really help people because you genuinely believe in the righteousness of your work
and the spaghetti was the one who got milked. what then?
F@tT PSD 21 spoilers(?) below the cut, regarding The Call.
Oh my god... I cannot believe the brnine/gucci people were right. Someday I will learn how to pick up on this before we get to the point where Ali does The Laugh (you know the one).
And then Austin (through Gucci) compares them to Primary and Satellite!?!?!
I'm dead. This killed me. I feel insane. (But like... in a good way)
Hey wait a minute... spoilers for PALISADE 08 The Canvas of Dreams pt.3 below the cut.
In theory, that party Brnine and Phrygian are at is supposed to be a masquerade, as in know one knows exactly who you are and what group you work for. Like, this was a whole thing with Phrygian trying not to give too much away these last few eps.
BUT during general Mourning's speech that Brnine and Phrygian weren't really listening to she directly referenced Brnine and the Blue Channel by name AND THEN EVERYONE LOOKED RIGHT AT BRNINE... AND THEN BRNINE WAVED!?!
Maybe it's not a big deal at all and I'm way overreacting but... especially considering Gucci's ominous text (that we never got follow up on) that was supposed to complicate things for Brnine. I'm getting really bad vibes.
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hector and heard is like what if we were secret agents working for the same shadowy agency and i taught you everything you knew. what if i betrayed that agency without involving you. what if you kept working for them under constant suspicion because of your association with me but managed to rise through the ranks anyway. what if you were being considered for a huge promotion on the condition that you complete a mission in which you capture or kill me. what if we reunited at a crucial moment in that very mission. what if i knew you were still working for them and likely had orders to kill me. what if i let you catch me despite that. what if you put a hand on my shoulder. what if i told you everything i’ve discovered and asked you to run away with me. what if you said yes without any reservations, like it was already a forgone conclusion. what if we escaped to a new world and built our own private investigation business from the ground up, together. and it makes me completely fucking insane.
