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So here it is!  I gave an already creepy song an even creepier mood by turning Crystal Kingdom into something nice and terrifying.  This is what plays as god lies to you, moments before chaos reigns and you lose an arm.  Good luck, folks.

Credit for the original melody of course goes to Griffin McElroy, this is much more of a test for myself - I wanted to see if I could recreate it entirely by ear.  How did we do?

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“See, there’s magic in a bard’s song. They call it inspiration, and it tells the listener what they need to hear, right when they need to hear it. Right now YOU hear it too , the message in the music heard around the world! You hear Johann’s voice telling you…” “You’re going to have to fight and..You’re gonna WIN!”

“What you have given, will not be forgotten. “

Howdy hey it’s me again, I finished this a while back and posted t to my insta but completely forgot about posting it here. Johann quickly became a favorite NPC of mine throughout TAZ (though I don’t have one specific moment or character as a favorite)this line stuck out to me. When I first heard it I had chills and NGL I bawled my eyes out more through The Adventure Zone than I have anything in my life tbh. Griffin has such amazing stories and NPC’s. Everyone was so amazing.

[image description: A drawing of Johann the Bard from The Adventure Zone. Johann has dark skin and tight curled hair and gauged ears. His chin is resting on the top bottom of the Violin as he plays the voidfish’s song. He is dressed in a tan long sleeved undershirt with dark pink puffy shoulder sleeves. A Bureau of Balance Bracer is on his left arm, a hat with two feathers beatly on his head. Behind Johann is the voidfish, Full of multiple colors and bright pastels with the words “What you have given will not be forgotten. “ as music notes accompany the background. ]

The entirety of this drawing took maybe a week tops. I sketched it in my book then snapped a photo with my phone and used IBIS paint and used my fingers to pretty much zoom and color everything 👌🏻

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted some art, so here’s an old ink drawing with Taako and Lup in their casino heist outfits

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moments from balance that still give me chills

junebug

“I’m gonna kill you now”

the first time the crinkle tinkles start and we get the first part of crystal kingdom

bad luck

the urgency in the narrators voice at the beginning of ep. 64 when they say “We’re almost caught up now. Do you understand yet?”

IT THRIVES

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doodles of the kids™  

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*Magic Brian voice* I’m so proud of zem!!!

Decided to put all the very good adventure boys together. :,,,,,,) I had to squeeze these out before the finale. I’m not ready for the Balance arc to end—it’s been a very rocky year and a half for me, but the show has been such a fun and safe mindspace to been in, and listening to it definitely made things easier to cope with. But the boys do deserve a happy ending, so I’ll just hang onto that for now.

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Today’s Davenport helps his grandson pull a con as requested by @capriciouscellist. [image description under readmore]

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I need an episode with their schools going against one another. If not, I will draw some myself…

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Bdg as Indrid Cold? It’s more likely than you think.

inspired by @sun-s0n

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can you draw the raven queen? or kravitz. love those death birds

Two in one combo

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I know its been a while since i posted much taz balance doodles but i just havent been satisfied with any- that is until today so have a doggy dad magnus

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 whats better than this? girls being wives???

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taz au where the birds are all fighters except for magnus whos a wizard

“here are our final candidates for the mission.”“this is six fighters and one wizard.”“we anticipate a lot of punching in space.”

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i’m re-listening to the suffering game, as you do, and in the first episode lucretia goes “oh yeah i have no fucking idea what the animus bell does” which just seems WILD to me 

like logically i get that griffin was trying to build suspense for what would eventually lead to magnus losing his body, 

but in-game i don’t really think there’s a good reason why she’d have lied to them about that part specifically? why wouldn’t she tell them, if she knew? so she must have been telling the truth, right? she just… genuinely didn’t know what it did???

did barry just roll up to the starblaster one day after creating his relic like “hey guys. what’s up. check this out. it’s a bell. sick, right,” and when someone asked him what it did he was just like

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Buys some magnets.  Support your local cryptozoologist.  

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Kindness cards with characters from The Adventure Zone. Hey tumblr, what’s up. I finally made an account here.

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Original Composition

Context: I’m playing a Skeleton Bard who wants to make friends with a cloud lady, so I’m playing a song for her

Me, Bard: I’m playing Despacito to the cloud

DM: Roll to see if Despacito exists

Me: *rolls a 21 with modifiers* Me: Despacito exists and I invented it. I am Daddy Yankee reincarnate

I proceeded to become pen pals with the cloud lady, who was wildly impressed by my original composition Despacito