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I’m Ellie!
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• this is a Dropout tv blog and also my main blog, I’ll post about a lot but everything is within the dropout sphere.
• I mainly talk about: D20 (im currently watching ccod and listening to naddpod, I’ve seen Fantasy High freshman and sophomore but not junior (next on my list) and Cloudward ho (my favorite campaign I’ve seen).
• the other shows I talk about are Game Changer, VIP, Smartypants, and Parlor room
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• I’m not new to the dropout fandom, just relearning tumblr lol. It’s been a while since I’ve been on this platform. I’ve been watching dropout since 2022 and just wanted to actually have a way to talk about it and with the fandom.
• my weird little niche in this fandom is the ARGS lol, I was apart of the season 7 one and solved the kickstarter phone challenge the same day it came out + helped put together the google sheets cheat sheet. I will be very annoying if they gift us with another, dropout let me be apart of the game PLEASEEEEEW
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love that for this season of game changer they're taking full advantage of all the building's installations like they have the budget of a lifetime. i am so happy to see all the good stuff the art team has to offer
Okay let’s get this going, here is a large deep dive into the new d20 trailer: Playtime is Over.
Made a cut for length
First things first, what we for sure know
• 6 episodes
• Intrepid heroes
• there is an honest likelihood it’s not Brennan dm cause of critical role. Murph also didn’t dm for naddpod in 2025. ALL IM SAYING. I know he’s said he doesn’t want to dm a visual campaign but pretty please
• I watched back every single other trailer, this is the first to not at least show us the players or the dm so they have to be announcing something? RIGHT???
• Based on Sam’s words in the q&a it is not a side quest to another campaign. So we’re looking at new short story.
• it could be another sandbox style season?
Moving on… the poem
The full poem is by William Butler Yeats in 1889 (through written in 1886)
It’s called “the stolen child” the trailer featured the first verse which I’ll attach below:
Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water-rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berries
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Immediately we can gather it’s about a malevolent faerie convincing a child to leave their home for the faeries kingdom. Looking at the full poem (which I’ll put at the very bottom) this is definitely true. The last verse in the poem actually talks about all the things this child will now never see again from the human world.
Looking into W.B. Yeats he has a lot of love poems, a play about a bishop, a monk, and a woman accused of paganism, etc…
He primarily wrote about Irish folklore and mythology.
William Blake and Oscar Wilde were his two biggest influences.
And finally! He was a fierce opponent of individualism. An elitist who saw democracy as a threat! So…
Okay now the actual video, I went scene by scene and broke it down:
00:00: “Dimension 20” in wooden block, 4 jacks, a d20 on I believe 14, and a board game w/ 3 wooden trees. The words “Toylight Arcade” are on the box/board. The room has wooden flooring and seems like an attic, there is light coming from a window off frame.
00:02: a hand turns the left knob on a radio it then switches to a soldier communicating via telegraph in the trenches. I think this is probably a stock video BUT in case it’s not I looked into it
00:03: both hands turning radio knobs, back to d20 logo, back to trench
00:04: static chirps, we go to black and white and zoom out on the trench. The soldier is wearing an aviator hat/flying helmet. Cote cuir? The flickers between the three scenes.
00:05 very briefly a telegraph key is used. I am almost 100% sure it’s a vail lever correspondent. J-37 or J-38?
00:08: music starts (melancholy) + explosions. A teddy bear for 3 seconds
00:11: a doll w/ bangs and curled hair
00:12: a rocking horse, wooden.
00:13: a toy car traveling a drawn out road
00:15: an Opel Blitz in the woods. I found the exact clip
00:16: flashing between the real and toy car
00:17: another doll, different. 2 plaits in her hair. Porcelain. French? Okay I think she’s a bisque doll from France or Germany.
00:17: a rag doll with sewn button eyes, I found the clip again
00:18: I think a kewpie soldier doll??? Not this but it’s similar
00:19: 8 toy army men in the dirt
00:21: flashes to 3 real soldiers. 1 pointing a gun while smoking a cigarette. 1 pointing gun, 1 watching the side.
00:22: soldier reloading a rifle
00:22: a second rifle? Or a different camera angle
00:23: a single toy army man with a bazooka
00:24: a stuffed ?lion? Falls over
00:26: WW2 field gun being shot (this is my first big confirmation this is a ww2 season. More specifically in London during the blitz.)
00:27: buttons fall. A thimble, string, and scissors in the background
00:28: smoke or water? + a soldier running? Jumping into a trench?
00:29: a stuffed animal falls into the snow
00:30: A Maxim gun (field gun). I think a Russian PM M1910
00:31: shooting the gun/flashing to the toy soldier
00:32: the toy army men on fire
00:33: teddy bear + stuffed rabbit watching fire
00:34: a German air assault over England. The plan is falling and releasing black smoke rapidly. (The blitz)
00:36: explosion in the toy army mens trench
00:37: soldier pointing a gun to the camera
00:38: more modern rocking horse in front of a couch.
00:40: marionette clown doll
00:41: soldiers pushing forward
00:42: toy soldiers
00:43: toy soldiers melting + more fire
00:44: teddy bear falling into rubble
00:45: a dead soldier + a stuffed elephant + a very burnt doll. All 3 scenes flashing
00:46: New teddy bear w/ a patch on its head covering its eyes
00:47: black screen till
00:50: the screen flickers back to color as we go back to the attack. Same wooden flooring from beginning, a candle in the center, and more wooden blocks:
1. Constance - red
2. Tiddlywinks - orange
3. Avery - blue
4. Clyde - green
5. Calypso - yellow
6. Wyon - purple
OKAY! Thats the trailer! Now the names:
Constance: French origin. Means steadiness. Highest popularity during 1940s-1950s
Tiddlywinks: this one confused me lol 😭 is this a name? I’m guessing so (Emily Axford is that you?) anyway tiddlywinks is an old parlour room game from Victorian England. A cup is put on a felt mat and players flick small discs called winks into the cup. They also came out with a series off to war with 2 games in the 1940s.
Avery: British origin. Means ruler of elves. Big popularity in WW2 but only in boys.
Clyde: Scottish origin. Means cleansing. Highest popularity in the 1940s
Calypso: Greek origin. Means hidden, to cover, conceal. No popularity in the 1940s, most popular right now.
Wyon: This one also confused me. This could be the kid??? Wyon is a family name/last name. I can’t find any history of it being used as a first name. It has French origins and the first Wyons can be dated in England in like 1060
Okay looking further I found 1 website about it as a first name. Roots to old English and Welsh tracing back to the medieval period.
WOW OKAY NOW MY ACTUAL THOUGHTS YIPPPEEE
Okay I’m just gonna write my physical notes here first cause I don’t have a lot:
Zimmerman telegram?
WW1? WW2?
Winnie the Pooh? It’s now public domain
Child during war bombings???
Yeah definitely
We’re in WW2.
Some other random notes on the poem:
Keith Donohue’s book The Stolen Child is based on the poem and about a 7 year old trapped in time and an adult trying to remember his childhood
Spoilers for the book just in case anyone cares:
The kid was led away by fae at 7 years old and is trapped there forever while a changeling is turned into the child put in his home and lives his life.
I haven’t read it sorry if any of that is wrong
Okay! Now my full on theories:
(This is gonna be so unorganized just putting down my thoughts)
Narnia, Alice by Heart style story?
A kid being led away by toys or changelings or other folklore during WW2.
What if they pull a the kids been dead the whole time at the end lol?
OKAY if this is the case and one of them is playing a kid while the rest toys I need Siobhan to play the kid.
Also I’m guessing it’s set in London, if it’s the blitz it has to be. Or south England. (It doesn’t have to be, but I’m almost certain it will.)
Possibly a rich kid
Looking at the names I’d guess probably Constance or Wyon if that’s the family name.
Maybe a hospital setting with an orphaned child
Damn only 6 episodes
What if it’s 2 campaigns going on at the same time and the kids a changeling and that not happening BUT LIKE MURPH AND AABRIA DM HEY HEY it’s not happening
I’m trying to take the clips as just aesthetic but like it has to be the blitz I am fully convinced
Anyway I’m probably gonna come back to this and add more. But I’m out 🫡
Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water-rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berries
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim grey sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal-chest.
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand.
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Catherine Mccafferty has her own show called the Pretty Gay show!! Everyone should know and go check it out cause it’s amazing, so many dropout stars have been on it!! It’s on patreon and YouTube!
catherine is hopefully going to become the new demi (dropout’s up-and-coming superstar), which works because demi is on his way to becoming the new brennan (in everything yet still can’t win one damn time, sam has him on speed dial), and that also works because brennan is somewhere out there playing ten games of dungeons and dragons at once
We need Catherine back on game changer because she figured out the game FAST. Unfortunately she told everyone her theory and she was also very bad at describing pictures
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I love episodes of Game Changer where the only way to win is by learning & the only way to learn is by playing. With some episodes, like Don't Wake Standards & Practices, the overall flow of the game becomes pretty apparent pretty quickly, & also there's some surprises along the way. But then there's episodes like Count the Rice, Deja Vu, or Bingo, where the basic conceit of what the game even is is an ongoing mystery. I love that stuff.
Count the Rice is already close enough I think Dropout should just commit and make a horror Game Changer episode. Sam’s voice welcomes you to game changer and you walk out and suddenly the whole building is dark and empty except for you, a couple cast members in scary as shit costumes, and Sam’s friend Tao Yang who is standing about ten seconds away…
also can we talk about the game design of count the rice?? brilliant
the only challenges that require multiple people are at the beginning and end - at the beginning to allow the players to bounce around there for a bit before they realize they need to go down, and also at the end to ensure that a runaway player has to wait for another to catch up
count the rice itself, of course, can only be played with one player, so that players never actually have to count rice (if you had to wait for a second player at the end, then whoever got closest would win) (this is ofc not accounting for hannah pilkes)
the middle rooms are great too, because they are easy to intentionally fail, and hard to win. the spot the difference rooms are especially good, because you think you understand what it is (spot the difference between the two halves of the room), and this is seemingly confirmed when you successfully loose, but once you come back to try to win, you realize you did not actually fully understand the game. the placement of these is important, too - only players who were intentionally trying to lose got to those rooms. any higher in the sequence, and they might have had a player trying to win reach the rooms first, and then they'd realize the twist
and also the decision to split the rooms up? 2 and 3 in a separate space from 4-8, so players would assume there are only 3 until someone loses enough, subtly hiding the majority of the game from them
ugh just so many little details in the game design here are so perfect and well thought out, game changer is clearly such a labor of love
first half of count the rice is funny because everyone’s threatening violence to sam or living their best lives in losers island while ify and catherine look like this
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immediate top 5 game changer episode btw there’s just so much to love. the slow reveal of the rooms. ify being the first to lose in room 1. catherine mccafferty being the episode’s main character and breakout star. the set design for all of the rooms but ESPECIALLY the spot the difference ones. 25 grants. the friendship(?) between hannah and the bouncer for room 2. demi accidentally plotting his own downfall by saying pop goes the weasel at the same time as hannah. sam trying to fill time while waiting for a player to win their way back up. the pic pong got him. a true fucking delight all the way down and back up again
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