Eneath

More seriously though, "only human on muppet island" jokes aside, I truly genuinely love the suggestion that the Revelry's disaster of a fight is in part because the Plank King massively overstretched his organization and resources trying to take over Nicodranas. Like yeah, that's what happens to organizations when they have scope creep, overtaxed bandwidth and limited budget, constant turnover (such as via defenestration...) reducing deep organizational memory, and hostile leadership keeping everything and everyone on edge. Even when they do have talent or assets (mage assassins, dragon turtle under contract) their gross inefficiencies become indistinguishable from incompetence, and these advantages are squandered. And it can happen fast! A year and a half ago the Plank King totally may have had competent aides. His second in command could probably better interpret his communication. But everyone is stressed and burned out and disorganized and there are no employee assistance programs in Darktow. And in the face of a single massive high-stress event - such an attack by the hypercompetent M9 - all of the assorted weaknesses give out and everything absolutely collapses at the seams. Sadly you were just bad at business, Plank King.

Fjord got defjenestrated

It really is extremely funny how the Mighty Nein experienced nominative determinism for their fighting style. Two of them have evasion and maxed out dexterity. Two of them halve fire damage. Three of them are unaffected by difficult terrain. Two add +5 or +6 to literally all saving throws. Two of them have counterspell. The closest they have to a blaster caster is one of the two clerics. Their entire style is "I didn't fail that, you can't hit me, you can't move, I don't have to save against this in the first place, and even if you're immune to stun you're not immune to swords."

While we’re on the subject, let’s please also remember that historically disenfranchised communities who had to worry about frequently being run out of town often bought expensive jewelry with their limited funds not because they were greedy or tacky or classless, but rather because you can’t sew a real estate investment into the lining of your coat, and the powers that be can’t freeze a diamond necklace the way that they can freeze a bank account.

I’m sorry but the Live Throne Roost Reactions are one of the best parts of the Darktow show.

I agree with all these things!