I'll sing silence

Hey do you guys remember when a lucky minority of us were able to see one of the most beautiful and reclusive bands in the world perform live and in person?

And those of use who were in attendance, we decided individually and simultaneously to clap along to one of their most beloved songs the first opportunity we had?

And in response that band smiled and laughed along with us, like they were in awe of our presence and not the other way around???

Yeah, me too.

Anywayyy, after months (sorry) I have finally found the time and motivation to compile my photos, videos and audio recordings of the Amazing Devil performance at the Hay Festival back in May. I also included audio of the Its Not a Cult interview that Joey and Madeleine did at the start. Yay! 😄 Here is the link to my Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IQ2fvJM-q5rdHocVmrinU0kcS1s_rj83?usp=drive_link

Please let me know if you have any issues accessing it (or if I messed something up)! The previews of the videos on Drive are super compressed, but if you download them they should be much better quality.

I know other fans have already posted their audio and videos of the event so I am not sure if this is really desired by anyone anymore, but I wanted to do it for myself and the few others who might still enjoy it. Plus, I wanted to keep my promise! ☺️

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try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.

Only high temperatures will kill cyclospora. It resides in what is like a shell, which is highly resistant to water and most cleaning chemicals. The substance it uses to cling to food is so strong we don't even fully know what its limits are. It may be best to avoid fruits and veggies you can't cook. Scrubbing only works if done hard enough and on foods with no hiding places (Like cucumbers and grapes). Peeling the skin off is your best bet at avoiding it however, scrubbing is not guaranteed.

I, however, love the REAL Claudia. The girl who joyfully killed with Lestat at Lovers Lane. The serial killer who kept her victims body parts and threw them in the river. The girl who wasn't afraid to call Lestat "Massa" or to call herself and Louis his slaves to get her point across. The girl who gasped in awe and clapped "bravo!" after watching a poor defenseless woman get killed on stage to an unknowing audience, the grown woman trapped in a little girl's body who joyfully murdered an entire mansion of people with the theatre des vampires. Claudia, who is manipulative, driven, cunning, vicious, monstrous, and will say and do whatever she needs to get what she wants. The Claudia who fell in love with a woman who sympathized with monsters just like her and was prepared to leave Louis the second she found someone worthy of her. (In fact, if Madeline hadn't insisted that they visit Louis, they would probably still be alive or at the very least lived a bit longer)

I love Claudia for who she actually is, not the version that Louis the capitalist vampire tried to sell us.

This season was an experiment. This is the IH first time playing a game that is ENTIRELY improvised. There is no battle sets (i.e. no direct plot threads the IH KNOW that have to follow), there was no set BBEG, there was probably no set idea of what the finale would even look like.

The results of said experiment was that to have a cohesive story, you need to have some structure. I think the people arguing for a more cohesive through line remember that a lot of our favorite bits/side charas were improvised in prior seasons, but with this season basically the ENTIRE plot is cobbled together based on the characters actions. We all laugh and have good fun, but behind the scenes of prior seasons is Brennan and the rest of the team doing a lot of work to keep things on track. And the IH did as well, because they knew there were story beats their wonderful team and fellow creatives had set out for them! This season there was way less pressure to stay on track because there was no set story points, only a million different options in this sandbox for them to explore and have fun with. So of course this group of improv comedians, having fun with their friends and basically NO limitations, are gonna go off the rails.

All in all, I think everyone needs a reminder that this is not a typical season that 'went off the rails'; this was a season that was intentionally a hands off story, and consequently you're gonna get wilder misadventures and less time/ability to tie every single one of them together. This is not the death of powerful, thoughtful and wacky d20 seasons. Its just a small snippet in the large d20 catalogue, literally meant as a tester to see if it would work at all. It was never going to be wrapped up in a tight little bow, because it was never designed to be that way. You can say "meh I don't think I like this style" and be content with that!

I wanted a plesiosaur on the battlefield like we were promised. It's not "lack of whimsy" that makes me mad we got rectonned clown necrophilia instead of Nessie - who was built up as a big advantage to the team because Bigfoot crossed an ocean to bring her in - splonking around the battlfield with all the inherent ridiculousness of putting an aquatic animal on land.

I am not angry because I don't have whimsy.

I enjoy whimsy. I do not like incoherent to the point of the previous thirteen episodes of plot having been pointless.

Like yeah, the finale was chaotic and they abandoned some plot lines because they forgot or just didn't care for it. You go and try playing a sandbox game like that with a group of comedians and keep things on track.

Like I get your frustrations, don't necessarily agree with it being a big thing but I get it, however this shit happens with improv and if you watch an actual play you need to go into it with the understanding that sometimes you have to take things on the chin and just accept that the players and GM will prioritize having fun at the table instead of making sure every action they take is narratively sound.