#and brennan lee mulligan

[rowanyx]

There is something so deep about Laerryn's choice in the finale, and Brennan's phrasing of the decision to be made.

To clarify, this scene (copied and pasted from the CR wiki transcripts):

BRENNAN: On a 16, you must make a tough decision. Do you want to further limit the release of energy and make the release of energy safer for the physical environs of Avalir and Cathmoíra, or do you want to ensure that Rau'shan and Ka'Mort will be permanently banished from Exandria?

TRAVIS: Impossible.

AABRIA: Laerryn's little joke to herself was always that the Heart of Avalir was the thing she inherited, but it was too small. She made it bigger, she improved it. She improved the Etheric Net and built this and that she was the Heart of Avalir, and she gave everything to this city. But I know what people are fighting to protect and I remember what Quay said about going down with the ship. So we will ensure it. This will work. Avalir be damned.

or this timestamp of the episode (in case the link doesn't work for the timestamp, the first comment's list has it labelled Laerryn's Tough Decision):

As we were first introduced to her, Laerryn Coramar-Seelie is the Architect Arcane. As Aabria herself even put, her whole life, all her work, is about taking the city and making it better. Building more. Expansion is the name of the game. So when Brennan specifies that the limiting of energy output will save the physical environs rather than the people, that holds weight.

Just, in a mechanics aspect, there is the fact she is an Abjurer. The whole point of her magic is exactly this choice. To stop things from being destroyed. Her wards that take the damage so that she or others will not. She is not built to bring destruction, leave the fight to others. She will be there to soften the blows that come her allies' ways. She is the one one deciding this, and it feels right, because she's spent her studies dedicated to figuring out how she will prevent the destruction that comes her way.

But that isn't all.

Because any other hero, any other party member, every other soul faced with this question could so easily think that it is a useless decision. A city can be rebuilt, but only if the Betrayer Gods are stopped before they kill all the people that can do so.

But Laerryn, who has dedicated her years to this, the position of Architect Arcane, knows this city and her structures far more intimately. She has been there, step by step, as she forged them. Designed them. Watched over their construction. It is by her hand it was built.

Asking her, specifically, is asking her to choose between everything she's done, or let it all burn. Asking her to make this decision is asking her to decide her legacy. Will she live on as the maker of the land that survived such devastation, but not the people, or will she go down as the one who helped stop the Calamity?

Her choice boiled down to this: Limiting the energy, their work, the libraries and churches, the colleges, grand towers and hallowed halls, stone and mortar, it all can go on unshattered. Or, stopping the Betrayers, the people may continue on.

Was her work more important than the lives she was surrounded by?

Aabria mentions Laerryn was given the Heart of Avalir, jokes how she improved it. But the Heart of Avalir, while magical, is only an engine. It was made, and can be again. So in this moment, I think Laerryn maybe realizes that the true heart of a city comes from the people. Always thinking, thoughts speed by her, whether or not she ever had time to really process the revelations before her demise.

Evandrin is already gone due her hubris. Who else would she lose? Would it have felt like home, without Loqautious there by her side? Would it truly feel like her city, without Patia keeping up with her? What would she cause, without Nydas to hold her back? What is Avalir, without her Brass Ring?

Her assistant, probably still waiting for her, in their offices, and the choice of which will see tomorrow?

How many will feel the heat of Rau'shan's flames as they die? How many will fall to Ka'Mort's earth?

None, she decides. Her friends and neighbors, the kinsmen of her home, will not feel these pains.

I think it is also a moment that beautifully showcases her accepting her death. She will not be here to heal her city. She's going down with the ship. Maybe her blueprints will be found and used, and Avalir will be as it once was. Maybe they won't, and they'll construct it all anew. But she won't see it, so it is their turn to take what was given and build on.

Of course, Rau'shan and Ka'Mort were not the only assets of the Calamity, and damage and destruction was still wrought across Exandria. But there are enough hands to clear the ruins and make their own stories. And that is because of the greatest Architect of them all.

She gave them a chance indeed.

#exu calamity #exu laerryn #laerryn coramar seelie #architect arcane #aabria iyengar #these thoughts refused to leave my head so long they owe rent #but they couldn't pay up so now i'm kicking them out #aka posting it so other people can deal with it #lowkey teared up the entire time i was writing this #which is better than when i'm trying to sleep and it shows up as a late night thought #and then i go to sleep fucking sobbing #because it's so beautiful #this is the shit #that i love #i don't even know like anything else about exandria #i watched calamity for #aabria my beloved #and brennan lee mulligan #was surprised when i saw lou wilson was part of it #Youtube

[pyxiscowboy]

sam’s reveal at the end makes this a thousand times funnier

#brennan lee mulligan samfrodo truther #make some noise #dropout #lotr #pyx.txt

[mistbornthief]

in fucking tears rn

#LITTLE TOMATO AHHHHHHH #lotr #make some noise #dropout tv #the lord of the rings #brennan lee mulligan #i paused the episode to upload this bc again. in TEARS

[darrenpillowscriss]

#brennan lee mulligan #sam reich #game changer #grade A content indeed

[catboywizard]

the sickness at the core of america, according to brennan

#dropout #game changer #brennan lee mulligan #sam reich #ally beardsley #oscar montoya #op

[dumpster-druid]

neurodivergent and queer people how are we feeling?

#dimension 20 hitting me deep in the chest again #d20 #dimension 20 #neverafter #brennan lee mulligan #the beast #d20 the beast #la bete #neurodivergent #adhd #autism #queer #lgbt #my fucking parents fr fr

[littleevil0ne1]

✨️Joana Indi and the Queen of Egypt ✨️

#um actually #brennan lee mulligan #dropout #indiana jones #repatriation #nefertiti #it belongs in a museum! #but not this one #reverse #artists on tumblr #digital art #art #littleevil0ne #digital painting #painting #illustrators on tumblr #illustration #fanart #the last crusade #raiders of the lost ark #temple of doom

[confetticutey]

new Make Some Noise off to a good start

#make some noise #dropout tv #dropout #brennan lee mulligan #noise boys #confetti.txt

[thisisworsethanitlookslike]

I’d watch that

#dropout #game changer #Sam Reich #brennan lee mulligan #found this on a lovely YouTube video #a compilation of Sam psychologically torturing the contestants #<3

[audible301]

How the night changes or whatever One Direction said

#dimension 20 #brennan lee mulligan #d20 #dropout #dropout tv #fantasy high #gauntlet at the garden #the unsleeping city #bleem

[andi-o-geyser]

a full SAGA of chaos choices at the diner in the centre of your mind

#so in summary: #coffee grounds; room temp vodka; the feeling of first having root beer; coffee and bacon; maple syrup; grenadine; and a calzone #they are all so insane and i love them for it #and also its such a perfect representation of a brain #bc like! yeah! that IS what my thoughts are bouncing between when i'm asked what i want for a meal! i am that fucking bonkers sometimes!! #dimension 20 #dimension 20 mentopolis #mentopolis #mentopolis spoilers #d20 #dnd #brennan lee mulligan #hunch curio #anastasia tension #conrad schintz #the fix #imedla pulse #dan fucks #alex song xia #hank green #danielle radford #freddy wong #siobhan thompson #mike trapp #d20 cast #long post #andis thought geyser

[rrat-king]

truly no greater description of this show for me than this

#dropout tv #dropout #game changer #brennan lee mulligan #sam reich #game changer bingo

[counterspellthisyoucasual]

Imagine you’re friends with someone who hosts a really popular internet game show, and he invites you on a couple of times and you gain a reputation for winning that gameshow. Then, he sets up a show where the whole point of it is that you cannot win the game, just to break your streak of the whole thing. Your trust breaks just a little bit.

Next time, he asks you to put on a mic pack for another episode of the game show, turns out it’s a heart rate monitor for another episode where you have to sit there and be almost tortured as you attempt to keep yourself calm. Your trust is devolving.

Next time, you come on the show, he tells you to go and wait in the green room and locks you in there, he’s a recording on the screen because he’s locked in the bathroom, he’s been there the whole time, you’re forced to do an escape room to go to work. You don’t know if you can trust him anymore.

Next time, you go on the show, you play bingo, you don’t trust him, something’s wrong, he’s been manipulating players to manipulate players into manipulating players. There was no way for you to win this one, not really.

You are a mouse trapped in a maze

You are a performing monkey at the circus

You are the most popular person on TikTok despite not having a tiktok

You are Brennan Lee Mulligan and this is your life. Sam is your boss, your chief scientist and ringmaster. You will never escape.

#brennan lee mulligan #sam reich #game changer #game changer spoilers

[alltears]

the intrepid heroes reached new levels of Accurate Teenage Friendship tonight

#my post #fantasy high #fhjy #junior year #fantasy high junior year #spoilers #sorta #not plot related #gorgug thistlespring #adaine abernant #kristen applebees #riz gukgak #fig faeth #fabian not in the bit because he has the notifs muted rip #meme #text #funny #the bad kids #dimension 20 #d20 #dropout #brennan lee mulligan #siobhan thompson #brian murphy #emily axford #intrepid heroes #zac oyama #ally beardsley #lou wilson

[catboywizard]

this is such a specific intersection of 3 of my favorite things, i’m kinda obsessed

#dropout #make some noise #gbbo #the great british baking show #brennan lee mulligan #op

[hails-bop]

I think Sam Reich needs to do just one regular, normal, vanilla version of Game Changer randomly so that when it ends Brennan never feels safe.

#game changer #sam reich #brennan lee mulligan #dropout