#ep 1 of ethersea

[yardsards]

reading the things you post/rb while not knowing what the adventure zone is is kinda funny. I'll be scrolling my dash and see "NAH 'CAUSE BEANIEMAN GOT SO SCHLORPED WHEN THE PIANO FLAVORED STICK OF DEODERANT GOT SCAMMED" and I'm so tempted to get context, but it feels like life would be funnier without it

okay so like. the adventure zone is an actual-play ttrpg podcast (aka they record themselves playing dungeons and dragons and similar games and then edit down the recording so it's fun to listen to)

and it's kind of like 5+ different podcasts in a trenchcoat. cuz there's 5 completely separate games (well, 5 plus a couple way shorter games, but 5 main ones). and since each game is already pretty wild on its own, the fact that there are FIVE OF THEM definitely makes it sound extra bizarre to outsiders lol

there's:

1: balance: a standard fantasy world with some minor sci-fi elements. it's about heroes tracking down and neutralizing dangerous magical items and uncovering secrets about their own pasts. by far the most popular season and imo the best, but it gets off to a slow start

2: amnesty: a story about cryptids and magic in a modern day appalachian setting. been a while since i listened to this one tbh and i don't talk about it as much

3: graduation: young adults going to magic college and getting wrapped up in a demon war. this is the least popular one but not actually bad imo

4: ethersea: freelance adventurers from an undersea city exploring the world in a magical post-apocalyptic setting. my fav behind balance

5: steeplechase: like a defunctland video meets a heist movie, secret crime rings operating within a theme park. very fun, still in progress

they're released kind of like different seasons of a show, one after the other, but each "season" doesn't actually need to be listened to in order (ie you can listen to steeplechase before balance, but you'd have to start at ep 1 of steeplechase and not just skip to steeplechase ep 32 or else you'd be really confused)

honestly i've been halfway considering getting different tags for each game but i'm too lazy to change now

ANYWAY

the thing about the adventure zone is that it's a *comedy* podcast first and foremost. so most of the weird bizarre funny bits are just as funny and batshit insane even WITH context. hell, i'd say a lot of it is even MORE funny if you know what's going on.

though there is also some buckwild shit that you just get desensitized to. like one of the 3 protagonists of balance is named *taco* (but spelled taako) because it was originally just gonna be a silly one-off episode, so the player was like "haha i'm gonna be XD random and annoy my dm with this zany noun name", not knowing that there were gonna be 68 more episodes and it would eventually grow into a deeply emotionally moving story. so by the end you're fucking sobbing over this character's love and loss and you forget that "taco" is not a normal thing for an elf/wizard to be called

it's absolutely delightful

#eliot posts #taz #the adventure zone #i get if you don't wanna listen bc the actual play genre isn't for everyone #but god it is so good and i love the sense of humour in it #the guys who made taz also made a lot of other comedy content and were VERY famous on tumblr in the mid-late 2010s #(honestly to an excessive degree where they were placed on pedestals. as tumblr is know to do to whatever famous ppl they latch onto) #and their comedy strongly influenced the meme culture and even vernacular of the site (and kinda the internet at large to a lesser degree) #there is a very high chance you have seen a meme with at least one of them (most likely griffin) in it

[cobalt-knave]

TAZ Steeplechase ep 35

Hey, uh, hey Krystak with a K?? How you doing, bud???

“Hey, Dad, this makes up for the 1 you rolled in Ethersea”

Montrose is such a strange little dude. What a guy.

“Hm. A nice metaphor, but if a saw came out and cut up my friend Charles, I would probably chuck it out.”

“I object, your honor.” “To what?” “To being boiled down to my basic components?”

“InnerJew”

“EnerGoo: The Energy Goo”

“Beef removes his shirt.” “Oh wow.” “Yeah, it’s pretty nice. Like, ka-chow.”

BEEF THINKS OF THEM AS FRIENDS AND CARES ABOUT THEM

“Beautiful and touching! But are the elders swayed!”

“I flex a little bit too” “Excellent! They’re loving it!”

“Demonstrate altruism!”

“We have two wigs between the three of us, so we just stack the wigs on top of Emerich.”

“An ardvarcoyote squattles over to you.”

I love this show so much

I see Greg the emperor puma is a real guys guy. You know? Guys who are more guys than him.

I love Emerich XD

Emerich is officially equally as persuasive as Montrose

“Mask man!” “Yes?” “What do you have to say for yourself?”

MONTROSE LORE THAT MIGHT BE LIES???

Las Vegas, Nevada. In a middle school social studies class.

Montrose is such a liar, no way any of this is true.

I need Montrose too fail his sway roll on this

“Stop moving the woodimal.” “It’s listening.”

The Montrose lore is that Montrose is a liar who likes movies :thumbs up: Love him for it.

“That same hunger and boredom exists within all of us.”

“I instead appeal to your wrath.”

This show is WILD and I LOVE it

“All of them joining together. Not all. That would be wild.”

loving this music

“Let’s call him.......uhhhhh Fred. What was the other one?” “Meanie.” “Let’s call this one Jerky.”

Montrose comes to Emerich’s defense!

“Fast like a falcon. Spiky like a pangolin. It’s the perfect weapon.”

“The biggest baddest one. In fact, he’s named Worstie.”

“Yeah, you’re doing judo at this robot is the problem.”

Is that permanent??? The two-tusks for a hand??

I feel very strongly that that was an Emerich hardlight

YEAH BAYBEEE

YEAH BAYBEEEEEE EMERIL’S SPECIAL PROJECT CALLED IT

GOD I love this show so much

#Taz steeplechase #taz spoilers

[lesbianmontrosepretty]

Silly little ethersea doodles: week 4!

will be dropping the past couple of weeks of eps in the next few days- i am so behind on making these lmao how do you art people do it??? how do you draw so quickly??

Episode 1: The crew! all of these designs are works in progress augh

Episode 2: Guthrie<3 I forgot what a dipshit he was i want him to die 15 different horrible deaths<3

full edit below the cut because i swear sometimes i think i'm SO funny smh (subjected this man to The Horrors [being poorly digitized in my old shitty wacom intuos])

#The Adventure Zone #the adventure zone ethersea #taz ethersea #taz fanart #again i am learning to draw in my 20s please be kind<3 #i just cannot for the life of me get amber or devo just right. devo is closer to what he kind of looks like in my head though. #zoox has been a journey also but we're slowly getting there #blink shark discord saw devo get the yumnut like a month ago and just now did i get my shit together enough to draw all of them together #don't look at the armor too hard #id in alt text #ethersea.jpg #lex relistens to ethersea

[thepringlesofblood]

so when i listened to taz ethersea, i listened to the first 17 episodes, fell off the wagon for a while, and then listened to the rest all at once over like a week.

this means, that in the finale when *SPOILERS* devo says his real name is damien cern, my immediate reaction was “fuck, i really should know who that is.”

so i went back. and I looked. and I was still confused. and i looked harder. and i took notes. and i am less confused, but now i have a true pepe sylvia conspiracy theory board. which i will share.

here is a timeline of What We Know About The Cerns, complete with all my various conspiracy theories. spoilers, obvs, for the whole series

Timeline

Hominine traveling performance troupe comes to beach

Benevolence comes to beach

Declan’s eldest son, Tolliver (98% certain that it’s him), goes missing. (prologue V: The Weight of History)

He has two other sons. If Amber’s account of Tolliver being “Declan Cern’s little boy” is taken literally, Tolliver can’t be older than 12 or so, and is likely under 10 (little).

We have no indication of another parent in the picture, and no indication of whether the kids are adopted (from the traveling troupe) or not.

The Storm - we go under the sea. (prologue V: The Weight of History)

2 years later - Devo is born!

Was supposedly raised “with” the Church and his mom, who was a member of the traveling performance troupe (TTAZZ Ethersea Wrap-up)

important, Declan Cern is never mentioned when discussing Devo’s backstory. The implication is that he is/was uninvolved in Devo’s life, and judging by his 0 voiced lines in the podcast it is possible that he doesn’t know Devo is his son OR does not recognize him as his son (legally or just by face)

Some Point before age 6 or 7 - name is changed from Damien to Devotion, this is when the ‘fulfill your destiny’ stuff starts (Episode 25, Cambria’s Call pt 4)

age 7 - mom “disappears”, the Church and more specifically the Hand of Guidance takes over his care (TTAZZ Ethersea Wrap-up)

So the scene with the lights + the hand of guidance in ep. 25 (Travis says Devo was “6 or 7″) would’ve been right around the time his fucking mom disappeared, Christ, guidance.

Some point (unknown, could’ve been before now) Brother Seldom leaves the church

Some point (slightly more known- 7-22) Devo hears Brother Seldom’s broadcast and is inspired to leave the parish

23 - he leaves!

Beginning of true podcast time

When Devo asks Felix for a line of credit (Episode 6, interlude 1), this happens:

Devo: And along with this, if I die, before I am able to pay you back, you can take this—

Travis: And Devo writes out a note.

Devo: To the Cern family. And they will pay my debt, no questions asked.

I HAVE MANY QUESTIONS TO ASK TRAVIS

The ONLY direct interaction I can find with Declan Cern is when they go before the Ballasters in the interlude when the Sallow comes (Episode 22)

He doesn’t say a fuckin word. He just sits in his Ballaster of Transit chair and watches. Travis recognizes him and asks about him - we don’t know if Devo recognizes him. Devo doesn’t act particularly out of character in the trial, at least as far as I can tell so maybe no?

We’re assuming when Hermine gets up and leads them all off, Declan goes back to whatever he was doing, as none of the other Ballasters follow them. He literally sits there and says nothing, even as Kodeira vouches for them and looks to Guidance and Aloyicius Supreme for confirmation, but not Declan

Doylist explanation - Griffin forgot he was there after describing him bc he’s #irrelevant

Watsonian explanation - this man is sinking into the floor. Or Kodeira has no reason to think that Declan knows anyone in the party, which is also VERY INTERESTING

He’s “in his 70s” so he was 47-57 when Devo was born, 45-55 on the beach. Either he aged real bad or Travis has a galaxy brain take on what “charismatic young man” (how he’s described in a quiet year V) can mean.

In the Menagerie, Devo meets a spectral, hologram-ish being that confirms themselves to be the Auctioneer and says he can call them Tolliver. They mostly discuss ethics and environmentalism and how to not be an asshole. (Ep. 24-25, The Menagerie parts 4-5)

Tolliver uses he/him pronouns from this point forward - the Auctioneer used they/them.

He is described as young man in his early 30s with three scars on his face, one of which goes over his eye which no longer works.

This age lines up with Devo’s if Tolliver is the eldest

At the end of the Menagerie mission Amber recalls that Tolliver was the name of “Declan Cern’s little boy” (Ep 25, The Menagerie Pt 5)

After Devo splits the timeline (Ep. 44 “Finale”), Tolliver shows up and basically says “hey what the fuck??? What the fuck did you do?? Even I don’t know what you did and I’m magic”

He also claims himself to be the “embodiment of the will of magic”

Devo reveals both his “real name”- Damien Cern - and his plan to kill Benevolence.

The former (Devo = Damien Cern) Tolliver scoffs at

Devo: Or I could just go by my real name, if you would prefer. And I could just be Damien Cern.

Tolliver: [scoffs]

Griffin: He smiles when you say that, and he says...

Tolliver: You’ve really got layers, don’t you?”

The latter (killing Benevolence) really freaks him out

Griffin: Tolliver, even in this moment where he has admitted that he doesn’t know as much as he’s letting on, still seems pretty uh... cocky. When you say that, he... is taken aback. And then he just kind of like looks around the room in a panic, like he’s trying to think his way through it. And he says...

Tolliver: [shaken] Wow, you’ve... You’ve really got layers, um... Hm. Okay. I can help you with that. And in exchange, maybe you can help me too. Because... I... I am pretty powerful, but I am only doing what I am called to do. I’m acting on instinct, doing what I’m supposed to do, and you were not supposed to call out to the family of Benefactor Orlene, but you did.

Devo: Mm-hmm.

Tolliver: And in doing so, you defied fate itself, and that makes you very, very interesting! 

So. That’s the timeline.

OBSERVATIONS:

We know that Devo is a Cern.

We know that his mother was in his life until he was 7, and that she raised him “with” the Church, until she disappeared and the Church took over completely. 

We know that he is the child of one of the traveling performers from Hominine, and he was “adopted by the Church” (TTAZZ)

We know that the only Cern mentioned on the show is Declan Cern, and his three sons, the eldest of which went missing.

The simplest answer is that his mother was one of the traveling performers, and his father was Declan Cern. These are the assumptions we will be operating under.

My nitpicky autistic ass absolutely has to point out several technicalities that probably do not matter

We don’t know for certain that his mother was one of the traveling performers. The two facts are mentioned separately.

Declan Cern could’ve been one of the traveling performers who retired and became a council member. He isn’t mentioned by name until Prologue V. It’s definitely not the most likely thing, but it is possible.

the performer, his mother, and Declan Cern could’ve all been separate people, with his mother being a church member related to Declan Cern in some way who adopted him from the performer/troupe

We don’t know for certain that Devo is Declan Cern’s son. We just know that he is a member of the Cern family - he could be a nephew, a cousin, etc.

We don’t know for certain that Devo’s mother and Declan Cern were romantically/sexually involved in any way. Again, she could’ve just been a church member that adopted him, or she could be a sister/relative of Declan Cern’s.

When Devo talks about his break with the church, he does not mention Declan - his focus is on Guidance, Orlean, and other current church members. So I don’t think the rift b/w him and Declan was caused by Devo’s break with the parish

Important to remember: when talking about his upbringing, Devo NEVER mentions having friends his own age. He emphasizes over and over how isolated and alone he felt. Would this have been the case if his brothers were there? Were any of the other Cerns present in Devo’s life at all?

potential answer - Devo emphasizes the isolation because that’s how he felt but there might have been other kids or his brothers around just not easily accessible to him as friends or family.

Devo was isolated by Guidance early on to be groomed into taking her place - nothing the Cerns could’ve done, assuming they’d want to do anything, would have stopped The Hand Of Guidance from getting what she wants - she’s consistently described as Incredibly Powerful. This is the mostly likely answer I think.

QUESTIONS

Why was Declan Cern not a prominent figure in Devo’s upbringing?

What happened to the other sons? Were they ever in Devo’s life?

To what degree do the Cerns know that Devo is a Cern? To what degree does the Church know?

How big is the Cern family? Is it just Declan and his sons?

Why was the Church raising Devo with his mother rather than Declan? What was The Church’s role in Devo’s upbringing before his mom died compared to after?

What happened that made the Church adopt him when his mother disappeared, instead of his next of kin? Would his mother have approved of it?

Why were his mother and father separated? Were they? To what extent? For what reason?

Did the other two sons have a parent figure other than Declan before he met Devo’s mom? What happened to them?

Why did his mother disappear? Was it intentional on her part? Did the Church or Guidance have something to do with it? Is she dead? If not, where did she go?? It’s not like it’s a big city, or like there’s anywhere else to go

Maybe she took a ship and just went for it. Idk. Maybe she went looking for the Ark Fleet - if the Hominine traveling theater troupe picked up members as it traveled she could’ve conceivably joined it from somewhere other than Hominine. Perhaps……..France? (my crack theory is that Devo got his accent from his mother)

Maybe Guidance took her out of the picture some other way. Maybe she was scared of something/someone. We’ll probably never know, but doesn’t hurt to theorize. She also could’ve fallen off a cliff or something.

THEORIES

My initial thought was that Declan could’ve cheated on his existing partner who he had the initial three sons with, by sleeping with one of the performing troupe members, so when they get pregnant it has to be kept quiet bc he’s a Public Figure, and he’s had enough of the public eye after Tolliver went missing, right?

So they’re separated and decide that she will raise Devo at the Church and he’ll send child support (notice Devo saying ‘the Cern family will pay it [the debt] no questions asked’ - this corroborates that!) but something mysteriously happens to her, leaving the way clear and unimpeded for the Hand of Guidance to groom Devo into the perfect successor.

His mother could’ve told him he was a Cern before her disappearance, and the child support kept coming in. I imagine the Hand of Guidance would’ve wanted to use the lux herself, maybe she framed it as funding his education, so of course it would go to her, she was his education.

I do feel like Guidance would try to steer Devo away from checking on his Cern family though for cult reasons.

It is physically impossible for his other sons to also be children of this traveling performance troupe member unless he adopted a whole bunch of orphans they conveniently had around.

Unless (unless)

Both the performing troupe and Declan are Hominine. What if the Cern family was living in Hominine, and Declan heard the call, but the mom didn’t? They could’ve had a big blowout fight about it, ending with her joining the performance troupe and him taking the kids to the beach.

Then, when the rest of the troupe realized hey fuck there’s nowhere to go they come to the beach, Declan and the mom reunite and go under together, then 2 years later have Devo

It also lays the groundwork for why Devo might have been raised on his own - if they had marital problems and separated again, the older kids might choose to go with their dad, while baby Devo stays with mom.

Also, Declan’s kinda old and this is a hard world. Maybe he was too caught up in work (canonically he’s a “nose to the grindstone” kind of guy) to take care of a baby so that fell to Devos mom, who also needed to parent two other kids so she enlisted the church to help.

That might also explain why Devo didn’t see much of his brothers! If the Church was doing childcare, it could’ve been separated by age group, so the older kids might be off with Brother Seldom or whatever other group they have while Devo stayed at the Church with the other little kids.

Also if they’re staying in a bathysphere…three kids two parents is a big family is all. Maybe the mom stayed at the Church with Devo some nights when it got too crowded, and that’s how it started. Then more and more often, the Hand of Guidance helps out, seemingly taking on more responsibility out of the goodness of her heart, while actually taking over more and more of his upbringing, grooming him to be her successor because she’s noticed his gifts at this point.

Alternately, polyamory is always an option. Maybe Declan Cern has (or had) multiple partners who aren’t really involved in each other’s lives.

Alternately, Declan Cern could’ve been a single dad before they even set foot on that beach.

Alternately, Declan wasn’t involved in the pregnancy - he just adopted the son of a traveling performer.

Where the mom fits in here is...tricky. Maybe she had a kid she wasn’t able to take care of, and Declan offered to adopt him, then had him grow up in the church, where Guidance got her greedy little hands on him, and the mom could be semi-involved.

Or whatever partner Declan had his other kids with died/divorced him and he fell in love Devo’s mom. Or again, polyamory, or single dad.

If Devo’s age is real, Declan either adopted Devo post-Storm, or fathered him post-Storm.

or. We know Devo is a Cern - it is not explicit that Declan is his father. Does Declan have any other family in Founder’s Wake? Lord only knows.

If this wasn’t a long enough post for you, I put all the transcripts i cited below (thank u tazscripts they do have official transcripts at maximum fun but some episodes don’t and they always wind up being the ones I need)

TTAZZ Ethersea Wrap Up

https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/adventure-zone/transcript-the-the-adventure-zone-zone-ethersea-wrap-up/

the main thing from this one is:

“Travis:...I don’t know if it was ever clear, Devo’s mom was with him for like seven years at the Church, and then one day disappeared, and the rest of the time raised by the Church alone.” (TTAZZ Ethersea Wrap-up)

ily travis but this is in fact not particularly clear

Episode 44 - finale

https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/adventure-zone/transcript-the-adventure-zone-ethersea-episode-44/

Episode 34, The Menagerie pt 4

https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/adventure-zone/transcript-the-adventure-zone-ethersea-episode-34/

Episode 35, The Menagerie pt 5

https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/adventure-zone/transcript-the-adventure-zone-ethersea-episode-35/

Episode 36, The Menagerie pt 6

there isn’t. a transcript. for this. on maxfun or tazscripts. i had to go in and write it down myself. this is the podcast link, what it said and the approx. timestamp

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/adventure-zone/the-adventure-zone-ethersea-episode-36/

(1:18:58- 1:19:40)

Devo: “…It was pretty shitty, there was a dude there named Tolliver, I don’t know if that’s his real name, who was the Auctioneer that we dealt with before, he fucking sucked Griffin: Hey Amber? Roll uh, Roll a history check. Justin: Alright…22 Griffin: That name rings a bell for you, because you have only known one Tolliver in your, in your long life, it’s a name you’ve not heard in a long time, but…it hits you, all of a sudden, that the only Tolliver you’ve ever known, the only person that ever had that name, was Declan Cern’s little boy.”

Episode 25 Cambria’s Call pt 4 (thank u tazscripts)

https://href.li/?https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/e/2PACX-1vSqE8hk7nt9dpISprv8L6WkxWnZ-H2By3XaOeXqRxDSLzExGhtwa6k0QhFgiYFQUzmoG9DNlHBEE3aC/pub

Episode 22 (interlude 3 (b/w Abyssal Auction and Cambria’s Call))

https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/adventure-zone/transcript-the-adventure-zone-ethersea-episode-22/

Ep. 6 (interlude 1 (b/w The Gallery Job and The Infinite Clam))

https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/adventure-zone/transcript-the-adventure-zone-ethersea-episode-6/

prologue V: The Weight of History

https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/adventure-zone/transcript-the-adventure-zone-ethersea-prologue-v-the-weight-of-history/

#taz #taz spoilers #taz ethersea spoilers #taz e spoilers #taz ethersea #taz e #original post #i need to sleep

[organchordsandlightning]

ok ok ok i will be normal after this but i’ve got two ethersea theories/predictions under the cut [ep 39 spoilers]

(1) i know they said they didn’t worry much about backstory with the PCs, but i am again thinking of the throwaway comment in the first episode about how the Cern family will pay off Devo’s debt if necessary. i also noticed that he said he was in the cloister for seventeen years, not twenty-three, so this may not have been something he was born into.

and just ... what if Declan Cern is his biological father? Declan Cern was the leader from Hominine during the Prologues, who withdrew from leadership when his oldest son (Tolliver) went missing. there are two younger sons confirmed in that episode, so ... mayhaps Devo was admitted to the Benevolence Parish at a young age? i do need to relisten to the menagerie ep, because I genuinely cannot recall if Devo and Tolliver meet or not.

[it could also be a whole ‘the cern family helps fund the church’, but ... y’know. i am never not rotating potential prologue connections in my mind.]

(2) this isn’t so much a theory as ‘oh god oh god oh god’, but the bit in Guidance’s letter about ‘Hominine is gone’ is terrifying. Like, the city? The city of Hominine? The Citadel? The floating city that disappeared right before everyone left for Founders’ Wake (and depending on your POV, may have caused a giant tidal wave right onto the settlement)? That Hominine? WDYM IT’S GONE

#ethersea #taz ethersea #ethersea spoilers #taz spoilers #the adventure zone

[barry-j-blupjeans]

still not up to date on all the ethersea eps but im at the moment where 1) amber is being hunted for sport (????), 2) devo charmed someone so good that he can't actually get by bc the dude keeps talking about bubble tea, and 3) zoox has Stolen the Dreams of Debrah again.

#i am speaking #taz ethersea spoilers #they're such goofballs i love them

[siriwesen]

Ethersea EP 37 theories

Okay so here are my current thoughts on ep37 and the mysteryyyy Spoilers under the cut!

as for Guidance’s murder. We have currently three prime suspects. Orlean - the suspect with the abilities, a maybe motive and he will probably have a fool-proof alibi for his whereabouts for when the murder took place Seldom - was last seen with Guidance. Could have slipped poison into her office... we don’t know if Seldom can do magic and how powerful he is. Maybe motive because of shared history things / resentment towards church etc The Orb - Some Magic shit went down. Theories: 1)

The Suspect gave Guidance reason to call them / or they call her. Guidance had reason to be in contact with the suspect. The suspect dominated Guidance through the shellphone and made her commit suicide, after they solved the whisp/orb. The Orb contained a message and deactivated/deleted all information after the initial reading. Basic decryption stuff. Things that speak against this: We have had it established in a recent episode, that Devo can not cast magic through the shell phone. Magic is not transmitted via shell phone signal (or Devo is not powerful enough to do so).  However, with the way magic works in DnD, usually spells and casters usually can only operate within a certain proximity and are bound to certain distances. 2)

I suspect Guidance got her shell phone to call Orlean (or somebody else) in order to ask them about the whisp and help decipher the orb. Or she HAD already deciphered it and wanted to call Orlean (or somebody else e.g. Seldom) to let them know that she had cracked the code!! However - The orb itself is probably shit fuck magic. It could be, that the data within the orb was either encrypted incorrectly or that the information within the orb also contained a sort of self-destruct spell // curse. So the magic within that device is powerful enough to dominate Guidance, after Guidance deciphering the information / or part of it. Guidance gets dominated to write down the (possibly false) information of Hominine being gone. Either she has had the poison already within her office for some reason, the parish has a stash of poison OR the poison vial was STORED WITHIN the ORB!

So whoever reads out the information on illegitimate terms gets mind controlled into passing on false information about its contents and to kill themselves. The information then gets deleted from the device. Why do I doubt the information that Hominine is gone?  a) false information in those types of letters are narratively cool  b) you might want people to believe that your civilisation/people do not pose a threat to anyone, especially when that person possibly decrypts the device without authorisation / is not the receipeant of the actual information those two are the main theories for me, 1 is more what the players have possibly put together by now. 2 is my personal spin on it. 

#ethersea spoilers #the adventure zone #ethersea #taz ethersea #taz #thezonecast

[shy-sapphic-ace]

These are some doodles I drew while listening to Ethersea. The first two were my first character ideas for ep 1, and the other doodles were someplace in-between the beginning and the end I guess.

#I think this counts as fanart #doodles #taz ethersea #the adventure zone #devo la main #amber gris #zoox anthellae #these are just rough sketches though

[barrymccaulkinem]

im at ep 1 of ethersea again... i not only want griffin to have said "try again bud" to travis' chosen voice, I think it was his duty to the listeners to do so....

I kinda think that must have happened behind the scenes, they must have told him nobody wants to hear you do an on-purpose shitty french accent for ~40 hours but this was after some internet losers started inflating travis' already massive ego so he couldnt be stopped

#idk anything about travis internet fans other than that they helped make him less tolerable and for that they are losers #okay they did try but not nearly hard enough. I would stop recording. i will hire another brother I would say

[sassycc8]

Griffin, reading instructions for The Quiet Year: “A week should take about 2 to 3 minutes to complete.”

Griffin, under his breath: We’ll see about that-

#taz ethersea #taz #taz ethersea spoilers #taz spoilers #the adventure zone #we love self aware Griffin #sass post #ep 1 of ethersea

[furtherjpg]

Amber “yea i try to keep it pretty surface level” Gris

#ep 10 doodle dump part 1 #i'm getting better at her hair!!!! #taz #taz ethersea #amber gris #taz e spoilers

[its-your-mind]

Founders Wake:

Fish Sticks

and

Goulash

#the zone cast #taz ethersea #ethersea ep 1 #mcelroy #founders wake

[lichlover]

griffin really said why undergo the mortifying ordeal of being known when you can incite war to obtain the rewards of being loved

#i’m listening to ep 1 and this WORLDBUILDING #OH GRIFFIN YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE #taz spoilers #taz blogging #taz ethersea

[lesbianmontrosepretty]

silly little ethersea doodles<3

guess who wants to get good at drawing and also happens to be relistening to taz ethersea (along w/ a bunch of lovely folks over on the blink shark discord) :)

so i've decided! to try (big emphasis on try) to do a little drawing for every episode I listen to! most definitely nothing fancy.

i would like to ask anyone looking at these to please be kind, since i am a beginner at art and am mainly doing this for my own enjoyment, as well as to share my silly little brain thoughts with the internet, but don't expect them to be like. amazing ahahah. we're just here to rotate our sea blorbos like a microwave<3 (if you want content where i actually know what i'm doing you can always check out my writing blog or my ao3 wink wink nudge nudge)

thinking about tagging them with #ethersea.jpg but idk? might do #lex relistens to ethersea. might do both. either way, i'm looking forward to it! should be posting the first ones (prologue 1 through ep. 2) in the next few days! ahh exciting!

#the adventure zone #taz ethersea #taz fanart #it is. SO scary to use that tag. as like someone who is still learning #blink shark discord #lex relistens to ethersea #ethersea.jpg

[solid-no-on-that-one]

listen I LOVED grad but,,,,,,,,,the temptation of spooky apocalypse ocean is too sweet to ignore

#the vast (TMA) calls to me #trav did such a good job last season and I love love loved grad!!!! #this campaign is also gonna be excellent #listened to the end of episode 1 and 👀 #all the mcelroys creatively building something together my beloved #end of ep 1 was SPOOKY #like I’m freaked rn #taz #the adventure zone #taz ethersea #taz graduation

[organchordsandlightning]

i’m just. very hyped for ethersea. the boys trying to think of the term Jacuzzi. the entire section where they bought the boat, the godawful color combination. ganging up on the little brother to try and petition for littlest baby. when are they gonna stuff a ping pong table in there and what posters are they putting on their walls. 

#i might have relistened to eps 1-5 #i feel like today has just been 'jack gets very excited as she listens to various podcasts' #taz ethersea #taz