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So here it is!  I gave an already creepy song an even creepier mood by turning Crystal Kingdom into something nice and terrifying.  This is what plays as god lies to you, moments before chaos reigns and you lose an arm.  Good luck, folks.

“See, there’s magic in a bard’s song. They call it inspiration, and it tells the listener what they need to hear, right when they need to hear it. Right now YOU hear it too , the message in the music heard around the world! You hear Johann’s voice telling you…” “You’re going to have to fight and..You’re gonna WIN!”

“What you have given, will not be forgotten. “

Howdy hey it’s me again, I finished this a while back and posted t to my insta but completely forgot about posting it here. Johann quickly became a favorite NPC of mine throughout TAZ (though I don’t have one specific moment or character as a favorite)this line stuck out to me. When I first heard it I had chills and NGL I bawled my eyes out more through The Adventure Zone than I have anything in my life tbh. Griffin has such amazing stories and NPC’s. Everyone was so amazing.

[image description: A drawing of Johann the Bard from The Adventure Zone. Johann has dark skin and tight curled hair and gauged ears. His chin is resting on the top bottom of the Violin as he plays the voidfish’s song. He is dressed in a tan long sleeved undershirt with dark pink puffy shoulder sleeves. A Bureau of Balance Bracer is on his left arm, a hat with two feathers beatly on his head. Behind Johann is the voidfish, Full of multiple colors and bright pastels with the words “What you have given will not be forgotten. “ as music notes accompany the background. ]

junebug

“I’m gonna kill you now”

the first time the crinkle tinkles start and we get the first part of crystal kingdom

bad luck

the urgency in the narrators voice at the beginning of ep. 64 when they say “We’re almost caught up now. Do you understand yet?”

“don’t let them erase me. don’t let them make the world forget.”

line in the ground

the “this is it” monologue, underscored with farewell by reeder

“hear that, babe? we’re legends.”

*Magic Brian voice* I’m so proud of zem!!!

Decided to put all the very good adventure boys together. :,,,,,,) I had to squeeze these out before the finale. I’m not ready for the Balance arc to end—it’s been a very rocky year and a half for me, but the show has been such a fun and safe mindspace to been in, and listening to it definitely made things easier to cope with. But the boys do deserve a happy ending, so I’ll just hang onto that for now.

Today’s Davenport helps his grandson pull a con as requested by @capriciouscellist. [image description under readmore]

Bdg as Indrid Cold? It’s more likely than you think.

inspired by @sun-s0n

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like logically i get that griffin was trying to build suspense for what would eventually lead to magnus losing his body, 

but in-game i don’t really think there’s a good reason why she’d have lied to them about that part specifically? why wouldn’t she tell them, if she knew? so she must have been telling the truth, right? she just… genuinely didn’t know what it did???

did barry just roll up to the starblaster one day after creating his relic like “hey guys. what’s up. check this out. it’s a bell. sick, right,” and when someone asked him what it did he was just like

I think that Barry made the bell to preserve the lives of the mortal crew and straight up told no one. Like, when the crew lands in their forever home this is the future he and Lup have to look forward: outliving their family, turning into monsters as their bonds decay and/or eternal punishment in the stockade. That’s HORRIBLE.

So what does Barry do? He makes a thing that can fix that problem for good. Can’t go insane because all your anchors are dead if your anchors can’t die.

You know what the OTHER weird thing about the Bell is? The fact that Edward and Lydia have it in the first place. They’re reclusive and in hiding from the Reapers. They aren’t going out for much except to advertise. (And it’s questionable whether they could reliably do that before they had the bell in the first place)

So…yeah. I think Barry ultimately gave them the bell willingly, to keep it’s damage relatively contained and keep it in a place where he could come back for it later. Once he’s explained the situation to everyone and has convinced them to stick around. Everything will be fine! 

….I think Lucretia probably tried to ask him about the bell when she was redacting everything, getting ready for the big wipe. And Barry was just. Vague. Necromancy things. You know, necromancy, Luce. The thing I do? Yeah. 

HM 🤔 my original thinking was that if the Bell can do wild shit like erase memories, skills and age Mags and Lucretia (if we assume that’s part of the Bell’s abilities) it can reverse aging as well? Or just hold someone’s age in permanent stasis. so body growing and hopping might have never been necessary to begin with in his original plan? 

but the bell would absolutely be useful for transfering the crew’s souls into fresh bodies too 🤔

i guess it wouldn’t be that far a reach to assume that the animus bell’s power is to manipulate souls, though? it’s just that they give that whole spiel about how word-of-mouth is the best kind of advertising, possess magnus, and then edward-as-magnus says that he’s going to head down to neverwinter to tell everyone about all the riches he found in wonderland - i always thought that the implication was that they’ve been doing wonderland for ages, but this is how they’ve started bringing in business since getting the bell. 

and then if all of that were true, barry’s relic was just a way to help him grab his friends’ souls before they could go the astral plane when (if?) they died.

Context: I’m playing a Skeleton Bard who wants to make friends with a cloud lady, so I’m playing a song for her

Me, Bard: I’m playing Despacito to the cloud

DM: Roll to see if Despacito exists

Me: *rolls a 21 with modifiers* Me: Despacito exists and I invented it. I am Daddy Yankee reincarnate