All Kinds of Random

The Long Dark: Wintermute

WHATEVER IT IS, IT CAN HAPPEN! ⬜ ✨

It's Darktow day! I may have forgotten to post bingo for Projekt Funball, which I may still do for the Beacon release in two days, but I did not forget it this time. The VOD for Darktow does not hit Beacon until July 21, but I am posting this now for the benefit of those attending the show. I've also printed out a number of physical cards, to give out just like I did for the Jester and Fjord wedding.

This bingo set has 40 squares on them, listed below the cut. These are locked and will remain as they are for the VOD release, even if they turn out to be bad squares, so do not worry about spoilers. These cards are also spoiler free for Projekt Funball. You can get a digital card here at BingoBaker.

I ask that anyone who is at the liveshow today to be careful and mindful of spoilers should you choose to post or discuss your card: use all spoiler tags and use a read more for the sake of everyone who cannot attend the show. Also to not litter.

"Wasn't Thjazi called Shadow?"

Tossing the Iron nail to Julien.

Quickly cutting through all the noise to reveal the truth.

While playing Thaisha, Aabria is so conscious of the world and Thaisha's worldview. As a woman whose religious culture has been persecuted nearly to extinction. As a person from a race that every other race of Aramán was happy to leave in subjugation; the suffering of the Runjani was a fair price for their comfort.

You can viscerally feel this in her gentle but clear acknowledgement of Bolaire, her tone when she asked him why he was so angry.

"What exactly do you find to be foolishness, Bolaire?"

The calm, despite the fact that, when it comes down to it, he is angry that the actions Thjazi set in motion blew up his comfortable life. The same actions that liberated the Runjani afterlife. He doesn't think "a couple hundred" Runjani souls are worth it.

"So you're not angry, you're afraid."

It reminded me of when Aranessa was breaking down and overwhelmed because her life was blown up and she has to make hard decisions to move forward. Thaisha used the same gentle, but firm tone then.

"You always had to make a choice and the world was always chaos. It's just touching you now."

Rewatching episode 3, where Hal and Shadia show Thaisha around the Hallowed Round, and had some feelings about this. Like, this has clearly been a long, long conversation between these two. They must have had discussions and arguments about it for many years. Hell, I‘d bet Thaisha was the first person Hal ever told about this dream of his.

And now, after all those talks, they made it to opening night and their daughter is up on stage performing as a revolutionary. Their daughter, who they‘ve raised to honour her people and her history, to follow the Old Path and respect the Fair Folk. Thaisha - who Brennan refers to as high priestess of this ritual - is here to guide the dead down the Path. The play is the ritual and the paints built the bridge, but without a druid of the Old Path, the spirits would have nowhere to go. Thaisha is talking to and calming down the spirits while Hal does the same with his actors. Hal tricked the Creed to make this possible, and Thaisha heads up to confront the luxes to protect the ritual. All the time Hal put in researching, writing, rehearsing, building this space and his theatre company. All the time Thaisha spent travelling, fighting to heal barrowdells, giving rites to the dead and offering blessings to the living. All the time they both spent raising and teaching Shadia, who now works her own magic on the world. They spent so much of their lives apart, doing what they believe in. Sometimes it may have felt like they were on entirely different paths, but all of that helped bring them to this moment. Because they have the exact same calling in life.