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look out clerics theyre not lettin anyone get resurrected a normal way again if they can help it

go rat grinders go

kipperlilly is standing on a box just know that

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So how do yall think the Rat Grinders are prioritizing their tracks?

I think Ruben is rolling Popularity twice, and then whatever he's doing for the Conspiracy. (They have Conspiracy instead of Mystery.) Then his Academics for Bard. (If he's in sorc class, he doesn't have to roll for that, because of how fun and easy magic is, and because Jace said so.)

#conspiracy track fghsdjhfgksdfghsdghksdg #kipperlilly doesnt need academics so 1. conspiracy 2. popularity (for student president) 3. maybe extracurriculars? since shes also in all #4 is money for all the money shes embezzling from the bank shhhhhhhh

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Sacrificial Lamb

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everyone talking about how zelda and gorgug's break up fucks up the timeline but that ignores the very devestating and real possibility she just never told the rest of the seven that she and gorgug were no longer together

#: ((((

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"You believe me like a god, I'll destroy you like I am "

'Ivan the terrible, And his son Ivan' - But make it Kipperlily Copperkettle x Lucy Frostblade....

Something about Kipperlily's fondness for Lucy especially just gets me and the alternative idea of what if her murder in the woods was a mercy.

The Original painting is a spotlight of regret a figure having lashed out in anger and caused the death of someone they love. Having No way to undo what has been done and that moment of just deep deep regret and remorse.

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Oh my gosh, yes, this is perfect. Kristen met Helio with doubt in her heart and she turned away towards the goddess of doubt. Buddy met Helio with conviction in his heart and turned away towards the goddess of conviction. *chef's kiss* love that.

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Court of Wrath

Distortion: Kipperlilly Copperkettle, Aguefort Adventuring Academy, Kangaroo Court

Treasure: A copper kettle (link for the inspiration : ))

Shadow: A prosecutor, putting forth evidence to convict a clearly guilty party, despite the court’s bias in favor of them. The defendants? The Bad Kids.

Madame Kipperlilly Copperkettle, the great sinner of wrath. Your faulty idea of justice has festered into a murderous rage, leaving your fellow students victimized in your wake. Thus, we have decided to make you confess your crimes with your own mouth. From, the Phantom Thieves Bad Kids

today's kipperlilly is about to have her heart stolen!

#YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS #YES YES YES YES #THIS SLAPS SO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK U FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! #truly the target audience is us and like 3 other ppl and i am VIBING!!!!!!!!!! #this is my fave im framing this #original post

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feeling insane about kipperlily copperkettle and lucy frostblade. brennan what do you MEAN she was kipperlily's best friend. what do you mean she was "the only one who 'got it'". what do you mean she was the only one on kipperlily's side about keeping the high five heroes as the party name. brennan when i catch you brennan.

#prev prev #g od

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the only thing i want to add about ratgrinder discourse right now is that ruben's the actual most sympathetic one right now.

him talking about lucy very positively 'stuck to her guns' his type being 'anyone who thinks he's cool' have already been mentioned

but when fig messed with his dreams, she only added klck to it iirc? like he was already having nightmares about the forest and lucy

something about the chain of events deeply fucked with him

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Damn how much would it piss Gorgug off that these girls would be such good friends

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I can come back yours, but I can't come back Lucy

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pour one out for your local unhinged teenage girl 🍷

#YOOOOOOOO #THERE SHE IS

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Commission for @levonleviathan ! I also "hate" Riz Gukgak

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Mutuals' favorite moments in Game Changer 3/? requested by @greenieflor

GAME CHANGER

4x03 - Noise Boys

#cfdsfjhgbsdfgbsdjg #i LOVE the editing on this

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Ruben has (wild magic?) sorc levels: the post

Ruben has fewer bard levels than Oisin has wizard levels.

Ruben's bardic during the fight with Grix was a d8. This limits him to a maximum of 9 bard levels. (Level 10 Bards get a d10 bardic). Whereas, the tattoos that Oisin talked about at the party have effects that match Focused Conjuration, which Conjuration wizards get at level 10.

There's other points I have about this, like "the RGs shouldn't be underleveled compared to the BKs, otherwise uhh what's the point." I believe people have also mapped out how Mary Ann could get the modifier that she needed to wipe the field with Gorgug so hard and she would also probably be higher level than 9.

I think Oisin is the most clear proof of a discrepancy though. So, either Ruben is underleveled compared to other members of his party, not even just the BKs, or he's a multiclasser.

But which other class?

I am going to assume for a second that he's an official multiclasser who actually attends classes.

In that case it's probably not any of the classes where the BKs have had actual scenes this year. And thanks to Fig they've covered a few. There's only Druid, Ranger, Monk, and Sorc that the BKs haven't covered at all. (I think technically he could be attending Fighter classes and it's justified that Brennan shouldn't have mentioned it because Fabian wasn't really focusing on that. )

But honestly looking at the list, and looking at Ruben, I feel like I don't even have to justify why I think it's probably Sorcerer.

The situation with Jace also makes somewhat more sense (though still sinister sense) if that's actually supposed to be his mentor. "Veteran educators" A vice principal is an administrator. Now yes that whole convo was very "digging at a way, any way, to shut Henry up" . And yes, it was phrased in a very. "We're monitoring everything." Educators, plural. Speaking on behalf of the school, kind of thing. But also Ruben's Bard teacher is on sabbatical? (Which might've been a concern in the letter lol.) I dunno, there's a lot going on here. Also it does make sense to go to Jace with concerns anyway, bc every other adult Henry could talk to has vanished. Including Ruben's Bard teacher, thanks to Fig.

But like. The fuck? He's getting that riled on someone else's behalf? I think the scene reads cleaner if Jace is Ruben's teacher. However he's obviously getting unreasonably aggro either way, so he might just be that much more unreasonably aggro that this is in defense of Lucilla Lullaby. But say that he is a sorc. Which subclass? There's a couple that would be cool. But Wild Magic has one edge on the others. It would give Ruben a reason not to have used any spell slots against Grix. He probably had to use his Action to rock every turn. But he used a bonus action to give a bardic, so he should still be able to cast bonus action spells. Except if he's a wild magic sorcerer, then if he uses a spell slot he could end up casting Fireball on the stage or necromantically draining his whole band, etc. Counterpoint: he used some kind of illusion earlier. Probably true! So maybe he's not a wild magic subclass, or maybe he has a magic item. Or maybe he just had everyone stand far enough away from him to probably be safe when he cast that.

I won't be hugely shocked if this turns out not to be true. But in the meantime I've realized that I have just sort of accepted that it is (at least the sorc part), and I assume that it's true when I think about the scene with Henry etc.

#WAIT YEAH THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE #it would explain why jace is so up in his grill compared to the other rat grinders #i should look more into the wild magic class #like i think its possible jace is a divine soul sorcerer who gets his divine power from ankarna; i wonder how that transfers

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imagining that Henry did suspect that Gorgug heard some of the convo w Jace (because of the way that Gorgug started banging two rods together to look busy directly after)

but he's actually totally innocent so he's just like ah damn I'm sorry this student (who I assume innocently showed up to class early) had to hear that conversation which was so deeply uncomfortable and unsettling and I am not really sure if I was in the wrong or not because it was specifically calculated to destabilize my confidence in what I should do to protect my nephew.

let's bang some rods and calm down together

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I wonder what's up with Ruben's other band members. I mean, if Ruben only started shifting to emo music after spring break of last year, then that means My Clerical Gnomance could only be like a couple months old by the time of Frosty Faire. Not only that, one of their FIRST SONGS was a breakout hit and became the song of the summer.

Did Ruben know these guys beforehand and when Ruben had his sudden change in aesthetic were like "ok, guess we're doing this now". Or are these relative strangers brought in by Lola Embers to aid a rising star? Are they even friends?

And how did they get so popular in the first place?? Fig only got popular in sophomore year I think, meanwhile Ruben changes his whole style and becomes an instant success?

#what is UP with that #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #original post #ruben hopclap