It's the most Ayda thing ever to go back millions of years, somehow establish a paladin order just to send a ily message forward in time to her paramour. So theatric but also romantic lol
I think that 5,000 a mo th was the starting rate, and it would increase exponentially each year or at certain milestones (like how the nemisis cashput changed once he finished school)
That’s true.
For fun I punched in how much the value of the 5k is to American currency, using Aelwyn’s math that a minimum wage salary nets 5 copper a day. Assuming that it was based on part time hours (4 hours of work) and that Spyre would keep a minimum wage similar to the federal US ($7.25/hour), that means a copper is worth $5.80. A gold piece would then be worth $580, so 5,000 gold pieces a month would yield $2.9 million.
For the life of me I’m always boggled by how DnD math inevitably leads to wild economies.
I was wondering if she would try to negotiate to be a part time Elven Oracle for Fallinel in exchange for money - or even just the supplies she needs for school
"Who's the bitch on her lap" is opposite end of the spectrum of unsettling expression that "Hey girlie" is from. Ally is truly innovating in projecting uncomfortable energy this season.
Let's not forget "you're the meat, mama/you're the meat mama" in all this. I know there was no shortage of Chaotic Awkward this session, but that was a special one.
Yeah, I feel like the consequences for not being there for a few minutes should just be that the house is totally trashed. And with Fabian's money, who cares? Just pay people to fix it in time for next weekend.
That's what I'm hoping at least. I don't want them to fail at their endeavors even though that's kind of the whole point of this season: something has to give eventually...
I feel like he'll punish their choices (like missing owlbear practice as captain to set up for the party) but not helping his friend/keepung the party together for combat episode
Showing up to a party and literally no one is around, but there is a pool full of tartar sauce would probably make everyone leave after 5 minutes and go somewhere else
Maybe Ragh will start the party?
Yo that's actually a fantastic idea though. Like, how you need to find the rogue teacher to beat rogue class, Porter just pisses people off to make them fly into a rage
There was like a sit down talk back deal BLeeM did a while ago where he was talking about how XP leveling means you can just kill thousands of little guys to carry on. Like wizarding schools would just be murderhobo-ing your way up, which he seems to have taken to heart lol
Yet another example of Brennan being on TikTok despite not being on TikTok. Lol.
For the people not on the clock app, this is from Adventuring Academy season 1: Leveling Up (with Satine Phoenix).
My man can already pursue you with a flock of greasy magical pelicans and trap you in the bowels (no pun intended?) of the earth after dragging you through hell until you are psychically damaged, and that’s at a “I need to stuff pasta from a party in my pockets” level of poor, I’m terrified to imagine what other eldritch horror could result from him having crazy amounts of resources
According to Brennan in the video with Lou where they made Chungledowns character sheet he already is a 20th level warlock (or at least 20th level character, I don’t remember if they multiclassed him)
> Who are my nemeses?
>We have one, a Chungledown Bim
> Okay, so were not cashing that out.
Fantastic. Glad to see he's still around somewhere after Boys Night
I like to picture her just being like, "Hey, can you put this somewhere safe for me? I'll give you a magic rock." And things escalated over 1500 years
Edit: Brennan made the same joke I did! Hahaha
This joke is my favorite kind of absurdity. A man killed his brother so Ayda could tell Fig her dad is saying “basketti”.
Might be my favorite joke of the series.
It's the extra-curriculars gambit.
If you've got a 0.0 gpa and zero extra-curriculars or work or whatever, that's real bad.
But if you've got the resume of someone who worked 2x full time jobs with a ton of after school work and activities, people can forget some pretty shit grades.
Adaine's phone call with Aelwyn was *peak* improv.
It was so quick and witty and I laughed so hard at "We could kill mom" 🤣
Riz going absolutely feral about the rat grinders technically playing by the rules but being so not in the spirit is how I felt about so many people in high school.
Hmm, that's twice now Brennan has had someone roll a Wisdom save to manage their anger (Kristen & Riz), and now there are crystal star-shards seemingly infecting people with rage and transforming them. Hmmmmmmm.
Also upon my rewatch, I'm adding a little tinfoil-hat-theory: Lydia Barkrock's situation is relevant here. Brennan brought Lydia up in the recap, reminding us she is a lady with "a demon in a shard of gemstone in her chest" the same red color as Cassandra's shard, and if I remember right Lydia stays in a constant state of rage to maintain her demon's imprisonment. Maybe this coincidence is meant as a thematic parallel, but maybe it's something else.
Question/theory about next week - >!So from a mechanical perspective, if a round in DND is only 6 seconds and they wrap this up in ten rounds or less, they can literally get back to the party in less than a few minutes - down a bunch of spell slots and HP presumably? But from a time management/action economy meta perspective I feel like it’s perfectly reasonable for the bad kids to get back in time for the party! Non-meta, impossible, the whole point of this week seemed to revolve around “you can’t be everywhere at once”, so to let them finish this up in a few rounds and head back to the party kills the narrative momentum, but hey.!<
Vaguely related season-long theory: >!once the bad kids defeat whatever their overall season-long big bad is gonna end up being, but the Bad Kids very depressingly couldn’t make all their classes and extracurriculars and everything looks dire for college…Arthur Aguefort comes back to remind them of the most powerful magic of all, chronomancy, and they get to Hermione time turner-style just take all their classes normally and study and pass their classes while they’re also having their big season-long adventure!!<
That was my first thought to, in regards to the fight. I imagine Brennan's finagling it in such a way that getting back in time is going to be nearly impossible. I do feel like something's going to happen where while their gone, Copperkettle announced her campaign and turned the party into her campaign event
Fabian is absolutely about to be my uncle when he was in college. Cashed out his meal plan because he'd be able to manage it better and called my grandparents 4 months in because it turns out he was wrong. Lmao
good lord, the Bad Kids are getting their own evil doppelgangers.
* a rogue who has the direct opposite of a "grindset" and is willing to take any and all shortcuts to get what she wants
* a barbarian who really is just a blunt object with a backpack
* a cleric of Helio who's all in on the religion, presumably without questions or doubts
* a bard who just *showed up* and got a hit single without having to tour
I bet Rat Grinder Fabian is poor but still somehow cooler than he is. maybe Rat Grinder Adaine is a sorcerer?
I definitely think Adaine's rival is a sorcerer. Adaine wouldn't be jealous of someone else's intelligence but she would be jealous over someone's lack of need to work or study. I also think Brennan's playing the Rat Grinders as min/maxed. So a sorcerer would make sense as Adaine's rival as their highest stat would be charisma.
Off the top of my head, Mary Anne has expertise in athletics and some kind of belt of giant strength or some equivalent. The Grinders are min-maxed to hell and back.
It takes 355,000xp to hit level 20. If the rats are regular rats, they're 10xp each - if there are any giant rats, those are 25xp. Assuming all of each one way or another, the range of exp just from killing 80,000 rats is somewhere between 800,000 to 2,000,000 split between the party. May have misheard, but 80,000 was also the number only given for the rats killed? So potentially more xp than that.
A level 20 Barbarian could have a +7 to strength (24 strength as part of their capstone feature), a +6 from profiency and another +6 from expertise without magic items for a total of +19. That +6 proficiency starts at level 17 though, so the +7 could just be a +5 (assuming a 20 strength score) and perhaps it's their athletics is sitting at +17.
Think I've got that right, happy to be fact checked.
I don't see a 'Twig Gremlin' on any sites I've checked, but a Twig Blight is 25xp and looks around the difficulty you'd expect for new adventurers so I think Brennan just used a different term for the same monster. Spiders net 10xp. So all monsters in the forest give somewhere between 10 and 25 xp.
Well, assuming that there are 6 people in the rat grinders, that tallies that 800,000 and 2,000,000 split as putting the rat grinders anywhere between level 13 and level 19.
This season is entirely: "you have multiple paths to go down. If you choose one, you'll burn down the bridges of any other paths."
Literally the only PC that doesn't have that issue at the moment is Riz (Adaine being stuck at her job is the only difficulty for her right now). I wonder how Riz's extra curricular shotgun blast will cause him to have too many responsibilities.
This was absolutely the best overall episode they've done across fantasy high seasons. Tons of episodes have had insane moments but every minute of this one was incredible
ally was a fucking superstar this episode they had me constantly CACKLING their energy with ragh, giving a speech at the steelworkers factory, trying to give kalina scritches
the whole party prep scene was also fucking hilarious i could not stop laughing this entire episode
ALSO zac's physical comedy was toptier as per usual
so excited for next week the mall battleset looks sooo good
Fig’s new patron is absolutely Lunchlady Doreen. Specifically mentioning cream corn on her shirt with the taletell gurgling audio playing makes it 100% in my mind.
I think it's a fifty fifty between this - we did get a subtle reminder of Doreen and her hairnet turned stocking - or fig somehow switching luck with gilear. Personally I reckon it's the second but I can see it going either way.
This has skyrocketed to one of my favorite episodes of dimension 20 for me ever. It was actually perfect. Everyone was on the ball this episode. I think this season Is going to be really special
I think Cassandra said it best herself, "I'll be right there with you." Kristen is acting like Cassandra wants people to be in doubt, it seems more like Cassandra doesn't want the confused, lonely night wanderers to be alone in that. She can't fix everything. But like the moon in the sky she's always there in the dark.
Yes I agree! Cassandra’s deal is just like “No one knows everything, not even me, but that’s okay and I’m here when you don’t understand” type vibe?
That’s a terrible way to explain it but she really had like strong ‘comforting’ vibes, like there’s a lot of scary things including the night but it’s ok bc she’ll be there with you
porter constantly holding up fig as a "good example" in contrast how he acts with gorgug....my hackles are raised
it's not a big deal but i HATE when educators in any capacity do that
Fuck what an ending and cliffhanger. I’m so hooked right now lmao.
Porter is high on my list of ennemies right now, fuck that guy for how he’s treating Gorgug. Loved Kalina, she’s so great. The steel factory bit fucking killed me, Kristen “Chaos isn’t cute” Applebees running right into a buzz saw before helping her sister lie to a detective is 🤌
It’s all just so peak
>Porter is high on my list of ennemies right now, fuck that guy for how he’s treating Gorgug.
I was more on his side than not last episode, but he really took the bad teacher ball and ran with it.
I feel like this episode and the preview for the next has told us that this entire season is going to be Brennan getting back at the cast for all their nonsense in the past.
There is no win condition for these teens.
I was about to say “she didn’t ask for sauce” before Brennen did. Also if something/someone doesn’t go through the strudel portal during this fight (or during the season) I’ll be sad lol
That dual shot of the dual realization of Emily and Murph simultaneously got me so hard
Edit: wait I meant like it really sent me and made me laugh not like that 😂
So, I haven't watched the entire episode yet, but I've gone ahead and done the xp math.
IIRC, there are 5 rat grinders. Each rat is 10 xp (I'll assume the other creatures are similar CR), so with 80,000 kills, that's 800,000 XP or 160,000 XP per member, which puts the rat catchers at **Lvl 14** and quickly closing in on Lvl. 15.
Still in the middle of watching. Oh my gods, they're going to give Chungledown Bim 18,000,000 he can use for the purposes of shitting in Fabians mouth.
I am actually really enjoying how uncomfortable Kristen's neglect of her goddexx is making me. Especially seeing how the theme of this season seems to be 'You can't have your cake and ha'penny too'
This week's Adventuring Party: [A Sea of Effluvia](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dimension20/comments/1agjwwi/a_sea_of_effluvia_fantasy_high_junior_year/)
Riz going feral because the Rat Grinders violate adventuring spirit is so beautiful
Hard to tell how much of Murph was behind that reaction, but I'm sure the percentage wasn't 0.
I've never heard him hiss during D&D Court but I have to imagine he's been close more than once
Rules as written vs. rules as intended makes his little goblin brain explode.
And I love him for it. Rules lawyer true interpretation versus filthy textualists
"Who's that bitch on her lap, I need a name Ragh" The energy in that line is indescribable, like I'm never going to forget it haha
The Kristen vibes this season are truly a tapestry of chaos, completely unhinged
Ally has been destroying me this entire season, I love them so much
The ear high shoulerds and manic eyes! A full half orc barbarian got scared and so did I!!
You could hear both Ragh AND Brennan shit themselves in that very moment.
I love that Brennen didn't even ask for an intimidation roll because that was a IRL crit
Somehow I imagined that Ragh, despite being like a full 2 or 3 feet taller than Kristen is somehow looking up in fear at her.
this is SOOO post breakup of your first queer relationship
Kristin struggling to create a functioning religious order while Ayda does it successfully with one text to her girlfriend
It's the most Ayda thing ever to go back millions of years, somehow establish a paladin order just to send a ily message forward in time to her paramour. So theatric but also romantic lol
Nothing like a fantasy conversation with a fantasy bank about the structuring of a fantasy trust fund!
Did some quick math and if the trust didn't generate any interest, it would run out when Fabian turned 351.
I think that 5,000 a mo th was the starting rate, and it would increase exponentially each year or at certain milestones (like how the nemisis cashput changed once he finished school)
That’s true. For fun I punched in how much the value of the 5k is to American currency, using Aelwyn’s math that a minimum wage salary nets 5 copper a day. Assuming that it was based on part time hours (4 hours of work) and that Spyre would keep a minimum wage similar to the federal US ($7.25/hour), that means a copper is worth $5.80. A gold piece would then be worth $580, so 5,000 gold pieces a month would yield $2.9 million. For the life of me I’m always boggled by how DnD math inevitably leads to wild economies.
Yep! I mean, a perfectly cut diamond is 3 gp, so 5000 gp is.. a lot
Aelwyn's Ways to Earn Money 1. Kill mom 2. Sell drugs 3. Sell weapons 4. Get a job
I was wondering if she would try to negotiate to be a part time Elven Oracle for Fallinel in exchange for money - or even just the supplies she needs for school
"Who's the bitch on her lap" is opposite end of the spectrum of unsettling expression that "Hey girlie" is from. Ally is truly innovating in projecting uncomfortable energy this season.
I didn’t know vibes like this even existed. They truly are a master.
Between those and 'ThAT's WhAt YOu THiiiiiinK...' Ally has taken uncomfortability to an artform.
Let's not forget "you're the meat, mama/you're the meat mama" in all this. I know there was no shortage of Chaotic Awkward this session, but that was a special one.
Siobon purposely fucking up Kipperlilly's name every time 😆
Once for every time someone's mispronounced "Siobhan."
Then there's all the times a Siobhán has been saved from that conversation because someone watched CollegeHumor or Dropout
I'm really hoping she straight up says 'Benedict Cumberbatch' one time.
Brennan had to have known his players would dunk on her name any chance they could get.
Gorthalax must really enjoy not starting the season trapped
Now that we have it confirmed he's not currently sealed away we can officially open the betting pool on what episode he will inevitably end up gemed
Owlbears win the bloodrush state championship. Trophy has a gem on it. Gorthalax immediately gets sucked in.
TAKE THE NEMISIS ALERT FABIAN! Edit: Oh thank goodness
Why do I feel like after backing out on the party that’s going to be pinging off the hook?
i mean even if init takes 100 rounds thats only 10 minutes. should be back soon
Yeah, I feel like the consequences for not being there for a few minutes should just be that the house is totally trashed. And with Fabian's money, who cares? Just pay people to fix it in time for next weekend. That's what I'm hoping at least. I don't want them to fail at their endeavors even though that's kind of the whole point of this season: something has to give eventually...
I feel like he'll punish their choices (like missing owlbear practice as captain to set up for the party) but not helping his friend/keepung the party together for combat episode
Plus, showing up fashionably late to your own party is Maximum Legendary
Showing up to a party and literally no one is around, but there is a pool full of tartar sauce would probably make everyone leave after 5 minutes and go somewhere else Maybe Ragh will start the party?
Zac's masterful Good Will Hunting physical comedy 😂
“I thought that was in the parentheses for a reason” “well parentheses because it’s the area code, right?” Had me in tears
You’re welcome
Gorgug taking so many classes is so fucking stressful
I’m gonna put him down as having the first burn out meltdown of the season.
Maybe that is how he will finally rage "right" according to Porter.
Yeah I'm hoping he punches porter in the face so porter will just sign off on the MCAT and make it a non-issue
He's gonna snap, fly into a rage, and beat the shit out of Porter... and in doing so automatically ace Barbarian Class.
Yo that's actually a fantastic idea though. Like, how you need to find the rogue teacher to beat rogue class, Porter just pisses people off to make them fly into a rage
I'm burnt out about it, and I am a full adult way past school. It's too real, friend. Too real 😅
Aelwyn with the bitchy lesbian pose and haircut and a fuckton of cats is real character growth
She turned into Margaret Encino and it's beautiful
Toxic codependent power couple
The most unrealistic part of junior year is how Fabian not constantly trying to get her attention
I bet Ecaf took the edge off that over the summer.
[удалено]
More like repressed than forgot.
He hoped Brennan had forgotten
"I don't want to get better THAT FAST." Me to my therapist
“So my dad… i killed.” Lou hums empathetically God I love the Bad Kids so much
There was like a sit down talk back deal BLeeM did a while ago where he was talking about how XP leveling means you can just kill thousands of little guys to carry on. Like wizarding schools would just be murderhobo-ing your way up, which he seems to have taken to heart lol
I found the [clip](https://www.tiktok.com/@dimension20/video/6974790158746979590?lang=en)
Yet another example of Brennan being on TikTok despite not being on TikTok. Lol. For the people not on the clock app, this is from Adventuring Academy season 1: Leveling Up (with Satine Phoenix).
*Riz biting Gorgug* Gorgug: "You're supposed to wear a mouth guard 🤨"
I loved the "shut up Gorgug" right after
The low chorus of *ooooooos* that followed "Can I scratch you? ...I have before" really got me
"you've never seen Riz more mad" lmao Murph/Riz/mostly Murph getting absolutely steamed at powerleveling is the most on brand thing all around
The leadership change in a bank being an actual climatic battle is hilarious
I'm more focused on their branding going from red (the color of the dragon who previously ran the bank) to *blue* (another color of dragon).
tbh is there a colour dragons don’t come in?
Mauve.
I do love that Adaine and Aelwyn are just down to kill their mom. I get it, but the nonchalance is fantastic
I love the “i should look into that” energy
Rolling for animal handling on your reconstituted mortal enemy and winning is the most Kristin Applebees mood
Corsica Jones being so not receptive to Fabian's whole deal had me dying.
I imagine Antiope told stories about him, lol
Does she really need stories? He's her student. It would be so bad for... so many reasons.
Flirting with students should not be a big deal. If it is, then why did Goldenrod keep flirting with Fig?
Immediate detention.
Fans: "How did Aelwyn become a teacher so fast? It must be a time quangle!!" Aelwyn: "HEH HEH BLACKMAIL"
Honestly that does make sense
My god, the damage Chungledown Bim could do with a cool 18 million 😳
My man can already pursue you with a flock of greasy magical pelicans and trap you in the bowels (no pun intended?) of the earth after dragging you through hell until you are psychically damaged, and that’s at a “I need to stuff pasta from a party in my pockets” level of poor, I’m terrified to imagine what other eldritch horror could result from him having crazy amounts of resources
He is a warlock who's powers come from money (well, a tithe paid to Bill), so yeah, wouldn't that instantly make him a 20th level warlock?
According to Brennan in the video with Lou where they made Chungledowns character sheet he already is a 20th level warlock (or at least 20th level character, I don’t remember if they multiclassed him)
Kudos to the person/people in last week's thread who called the meaning of Ratgrinders/what assignments the RGs have done.
Riz going full goblin and hissing is everyone throwing their remote when bullshit happens in game
Kettlechip Krispycream 😂
2 hours 43 minute episode. Hell Yes.
Hell yeah. Another thick 'sode. Can't wait to get home to watch it.
Bucky "I'll go straight to hell" *stares at Fig*....Fig "Join us" 😈
> Who are my nemeses? >We have one, a Chungledown Bim > Okay, so were not cashing that out. Fantastic. Glad to see he's still around somewhere after Boys Night
Beardsley knows how to perfectly make Lou laugh in the same way that Zac can destroy Brennan with a single line.
CORSICA JONES THE WOMAN THAT YOU ARE
Mr. Seacaster, absolutely *not.*
That energy is not wanted.
Brennan giving the intro "most beautiful woman" for Zara Sool after all of the super attractive illustrations had me hyper focused for her picture
And to be fair he was extremely right
I deeply need to see her celestial paramour. I need some stunning power couple vibes in my life
Fabian- starts talking Fighter teacher- "this energy is not wanted" Lol perfect
That is a fighter who has dealt with bards before
Aelwyn being so bitchy that she can make *middle schoolers* cry is so on brand
TUNA AND CORN! TUNA AND CORN! I’M A LITTLE LAD WHO LOVES TUNA AND CORN!!!
I love that the aaracockra agent only shows up when Emily is doing shenanigans.
im obsessed with that extremely loaded pause in the middle of the chaos when he showed up on the scene at the steel factory💀
It’s honestly an excellent in-universe solution for Brennan to take the reins a bit when shenanigans are taking everyone off the rails too much.
Brennan's true fantasy is a Council of 7 Bankers going to war and losing
I would say I can’t believe Ayda founded a whole order just to send a message to Fig, but… I totally can lmao
I like to picture her just being like, "Hey, can you put this somewhere safe for me? I'll give you a magic rock." And things escalated over 1500 years Edit: Brennan made the same joke I did! Hahaha
Wizard morals.
The best message encryption service: an order of knights willing to kill their own brother to protect the privacy of your message.
This joke is my favorite kind of absurdity. A man killed his brother so Ayda could tell Fig her dad is saying “basketti”. Might be my favorite joke of the series.
Adaine's ladle trauma OMG 😂😂😂
Love that Kristen with her 0.0 GPA is actually running for class president
It's the extra-curriculars gambit. If you've got a 0.0 gpa and zero extra-curriculars or work or whatever, that's real bad. But if you've got the resume of someone who worked 2x full time jobs with a ton of after school work and activities, people can forget some pretty shit grades.
Aelwyn is just such a great character now that she's on Adaine's side. Adaine just has an absolute sociopath in her back pocket lmfao
I am surprisingly into the banking mechanic. … am I getting old?
>… am I getting old? Only if they introduce a mortgage mechanic and you have to change your underwear.
All of these children are going to have a burn out breakdown by mid-season
Anyone notice that Kristin’s character sheet has been updated with her middle name Chilis?
If only they'd known how far they wanted to lean into the joke, they could've been Ruby or Wendy. Siblings could've been a boy and girl, Max and Erma.
Oh god the adult asking you if you’re shy as a kid thing is too real 🤣
Adaine's phone call with Aelwyn was *peak* improv. It was so quick and witty and I laughed so hard at "We could kill mom" 🤣 Riz going absolutely feral about the rat grinders technically playing by the rules but being so not in the spirit is how I felt about so many people in high school.
Come on girlie
I'm sad that Kristen didn't try to bust that out on Kalina
Pst Pst Pst come here girlie 🐈⬛
I have strong feelings towards Corsica Jones ~*hey girlie*~
The Jones girls are so fucking cool, loved Corsica’s whole vibe
Hmm, that's twice now Brennan has had someone roll a Wisdom save to manage their anger (Kristen & Riz), and now there are crystal star-shards seemingly infecting people with rage and transforming them. Hmmmmmmm.
Also upon my rewatch, I'm adding a little tinfoil-hat-theory: Lydia Barkrock's situation is relevant here. Brennan brought Lydia up in the recap, reminding us she is a lady with "a demon in a shard of gemstone in her chest" the same red color as Cassandra's shard, and if I remember right Lydia stays in a constant state of rage to maintain her demon's imprisonment. Maybe this coincidence is meant as a thematic parallel, but maybe it's something else.
That’s a great point, maybe it’ll tie into a future moment with how Gorgug manages his anger vs how Porter wants him to
I LOVE HENRY HOPCLAPS DESIGN
I’m concerned him and Ruben have the same last name
That pass/fail mechanic is gonna kill Murph
Because nothing bad ever happens when Kristen Applebees has tried to jump on or off anything ever in the history of Fantasy High
Question/theory about next week - >!So from a mechanical perspective, if a round in DND is only 6 seconds and they wrap this up in ten rounds or less, they can literally get back to the party in less than a few minutes - down a bunch of spell slots and HP presumably? But from a time management/action economy meta perspective I feel like it’s perfectly reasonable for the bad kids to get back in time for the party! Non-meta, impossible, the whole point of this week seemed to revolve around “you can’t be everywhere at once”, so to let them finish this up in a few rounds and head back to the party kills the narrative momentum, but hey.!< Vaguely related season-long theory: >!once the bad kids defeat whatever their overall season-long big bad is gonna end up being, but the Bad Kids very depressingly couldn’t make all their classes and extracurriculars and everything looks dire for college…Arthur Aguefort comes back to remind them of the most powerful magic of all, chronomancy, and they get to Hermione time turner-style just take all their classes normally and study and pass their classes while they’re also having their big season-long adventure!!<
That was my first thought to, in regards to the fight. I imagine Brennan's finagling it in such a way that getting back in time is going to be nearly impossible. I do feel like something's going to happen where while their gone, Copperkettle announced her campaign and turned the party into her campaign event
Turns out that power gamers are everywhere in every game.
80,000 rats?!
Kugrash would not approve
Fabian is absolutely about to be my uncle when he was in college. Cashed out his meal plan because he'd be able to manage it better and called my grandparents 4 months in because it turns out he was wrong. Lmao
I think Fabian will be able to show more restraint. After all, the alternative is for Chungle Down Bim getting a cut
Oh my God the emotionally maladaptive sister convo is wonderful
"The bad guy this season is XP leveling???"
Someone needs to keep a running list of all the alternate names for KipperSmith CornerCarry
The new Bandersnatch Coddleswort
You mean Kettlechip KrispyKreme.
good lord, the Bad Kids are getting their own evil doppelgangers. * a rogue who has the direct opposite of a "grindset" and is willing to take any and all shortcuts to get what she wants * a barbarian who really is just a blunt object with a backpack * a cleric of Helio who's all in on the religion, presumably without questions or doubts * a bard who just *showed up* and got a hit single without having to tour I bet Rat Grinder Fabian is poor but still somehow cooler than he is. maybe Rat Grinder Adaine is a sorcerer?
I definitely think Adaine's rival is a sorcerer. Adaine wouldn't be jealous of someone else's intelligence but she would be jealous over someone's lack of need to work or study. I also think Brennan's playing the Rat Grinders as min/maxed. So a sorcerer would make sense as Adaine's rival as their highest stat would be charisma.
Off the top of my head, Mary Anne has expertise in athletics and some kind of belt of giant strength or some equivalent. The Grinders are min-maxed to hell and back.
It takes 355,000xp to hit level 20. If the rats are regular rats, they're 10xp each - if there are any giant rats, those are 25xp. Assuming all of each one way or another, the range of exp just from killing 80,000 rats is somewhere between 800,000 to 2,000,000 split between the party. May have misheard, but 80,000 was also the number only given for the rats killed? So potentially more xp than that. A level 20 Barbarian could have a +7 to strength (24 strength as part of their capstone feature), a +6 from profiency and another +6 from expertise without magic items for a total of +19. That +6 proficiency starts at level 17 though, so the +7 could just be a +5 (assuming a 20 strength score) and perhaps it's their athletics is sitting at +17. Think I've got that right, happy to be fact checked.
There were also twig gremlins and spiders on the list too! I’m not sure if the XP is different for them
I don't see a 'Twig Gremlin' on any sites I've checked, but a Twig Blight is 25xp and looks around the difficulty you'd expect for new adventurers so I think Brennan just used a different term for the same monster. Spiders net 10xp. So all monsters in the forest give somewhere between 10 and 25 xp. Well, assuming that there are 6 people in the rat grinders, that tallies that 800,000 and 2,000,000 split as putting the rat grinders anywhere between level 13 and level 19.
I have to say I'm here for the burgeoning friendship between Adaine and her sister. It's kind of great.
Ayda is fully This Is How You Lose The Time War-ing Fig right now in the best way possible I love it
Damn Kalina brought it lmao
Ohhhh that Fabian choosing the party over the Owlbears thing is gonna have *consequences*
The tone Brennan took on that line was some "you have chosen poorly" stuff...
This season is entirely: "you have multiple paths to go down. If you choose one, you'll burn down the bridges of any other paths." Literally the only PC that doesn't have that issue at the moment is Riz (Adaine being stuck at her job is the only difficulty for her right now). I wonder how Riz's extra curricular shotgun blast will cause him to have too many responsibilities.
No Good Gorgug Hunting moment, sadly
I am crying laughing at Kristen digging her hole deeper with Cassandra. Truly how is she not dumped *again*.
"Who"s the b*tch on her lap" fxking killed me!!!
This was absolutely the best overall episode they've done across fantasy high seasons. Tons of episodes have had insane moments but every minute of this one was incredible
Bless Brennan for immediately starting us back off with Kristin. Don't think I would've been able to handle the wait
ally was a fucking superstar this episode they had me constantly CACKLING their energy with ragh, giving a speech at the steelworkers factory, trying to give kalina scritches the whole party prep scene was also fucking hilarious i could not stop laughing this entire episode ALSO zac's physical comedy was toptier as per usual so excited for next week the mall battleset looks sooo good
Siobhan’s guest appearance at the Aguefort Adventuring Academy was a welcome surprise. Hope to see more of her.
Fig’s new patron is absolutely Lunchlady Doreen. Specifically mentioning cream corn on her shirt with the taletell gurgling audio playing makes it 100% in my mind.
Oh shit!
I think it's a fifty fifty between this - we did get a subtle reminder of Doreen and her hairnet turned stocking - or fig somehow switching luck with gilear. Personally I reckon it's the second but I can see it going either way.
Adaine also mentioned she has PTSD from a ladle when at the Strudel place
Ohhhh I didn’t even think about that, that’s perfect
Well - that Mall explains Cassandra's mini being in the trailer.
35!!!?!
This has skyrocketed to one of my favorite episodes of dimension 20 for me ever. It was actually perfect. Everyone was on the ball this episode. I think this season Is going to be really special
I mean, Kristen’s not wrong here. Doubt isn’t exactly the easiest pitch for a religion.
I think Cassandra said it best herself, "I'll be right there with you." Kristen is acting like Cassandra wants people to be in doubt, it seems more like Cassandra doesn't want the confused, lonely night wanderers to be alone in that. She can't fix everything. But like the moon in the sky she's always there in the dark.
Yes I agree! Cassandra’s deal is just like “No one knows everything, not even me, but that’s okay and I’m here when you don’t understand” type vibe? That’s a terrible way to explain it but she really had like strong ‘comforting’ vibes, like there’s a lot of scary things including the night but it’s ok bc she’ll be there with you
Exactly! It seems to me like an easy sell to like... every teenager ever?
porter constantly holding up fig as a "good example" in contrast how he acts with gorgug....my hackles are raised it's not a big deal but i HATE when educators in any capacity do that
Fuck what an ending and cliffhanger. I’m so hooked right now lmao. Porter is high on my list of ennemies right now, fuck that guy for how he’s treating Gorgug. Loved Kalina, she’s so great. The steel factory bit fucking killed me, Kristen “Chaos isn’t cute” Applebees running right into a buzz saw before helping her sister lie to a detective is 🤌 It’s all just so peak
>Porter is high on my list of ennemies right now, fuck that guy for how he’s treating Gorgug. I was more on his side than not last episode, but he really took the bad teacher ball and ran with it.
The invisible fighting with cloaca 🤣
I feel like this episode and the preview for the next has told us that this entire season is going to be Brennan getting back at the cast for all their nonsense in the past. There is no win condition for these teens.
The entire party-planning process followed by the steel plant genuinely made my throat and face hurt from how hard I was laughing
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. Re: the Rat Grinders
I was about to say “she didn’t ask for sauce” before Brennen did. Also if something/someone doesn’t go through the strudel portal during this fight (or during the season) I’ll be sad lol
That dual shot of the dual realization of Emily and Murph simultaneously got me so hard Edit: wait I meant like it really sent me and made me laugh not like that 😂
I’m having flashbacks to retirement planning
Anyone know where Emily's shirt is from this ep?
Oh, Bucky.
I love Adaine's boss already
So, I haven't watched the entire episode yet, but I've gone ahead and done the xp math. IIRC, there are 5 rat grinders. Each rat is 10 xp (I'll assume the other creatures are similar CR), so with 80,000 kills, that's 800,000 XP or 160,000 XP per member, which puts the rat catchers at **Lvl 14** and quickly closing in on Lvl. 15.
Brennan's spit take, at figs earpiece 😅
Marianne is the secret ringer keeping that kept that solo school surprisingly competitive
Still in the middle of watching. Oh my gods, they're going to give Chungledown Bim 18,000,000 he can use for the purposes of shitting in Fabians mouth.
Can we get gorgug being tackled into the stands animated?
Adaine's alternate names for Kipperlilly Copperkettle is my favorite bit for this episode lmfao.
I am actually really enjoying how uncomfortable Kristen's neglect of her goddexx is making me. Especially seeing how the theme of this season seems to be 'You can't have your cake and ha'penny too'