but we respect his craft

[kindkit]

I'm partway through the Ancient Rome Sidequest of the Rusty Quill Gaming podcast, and I find myself picturing Alex saying to himself "What this fun and pulpy storyline needs is more moral ambiguity!!" And cackling. (ETA: Alex is--in my imagination--cackling. Not me.)

Further ETA: Having listened to the rest of the sidequest, I'm definitely not cackling. Ouch.

I do wonder what might have happened if it hadn't been for a combination of bad rolls and poor judgment. Might Grizzop and Sasha have changed history? And might they have found a way back to their own time?

Also, I choose to believe that Sasha did not in any way marry Cicero and have a bunch of kids with him. Cicero is her assistant and they're running a school for acrobats and/or thieves.

(And to be fair to Alex, despite his obvious fondness for playing the sadistic god, he seemed pretty upset at having killed off a--mostly--good and likeable character.)

Comments

[cyprinella]

Yeah, the whole argument he had with Hamid that basically boiled down to prison abolition and restorative justice was REALLY frustrating. But I loved him and Sasha so much both as characters and interacting together.

[kindkit]

Yeah, the Grizzop and Sasha vs. Hamid argument was just painful. Fundamentally good characters whom I really like being furious with each other, and they're all partially right and partially wrong and not listening to each other at all.

Grizzop and Sasha did have a really great dynamic with each other.

Happy to have Zolf back, though, even though he and Hamid argue constantly. Their dynamic is so weird:

Zolf: I think we should do A.
Hamid: Well, I think we should do B, because of X, Y, and Z.
Zolf: Okay, fine, we'll do B.
Hamid: No, really, we should do B. My reasons are good reasons! Let me tell you all about them, at length!
Everyone else in the party: Um, we're going to start doing B now.
Hamid, 5 minutes later: And in conclusion, this is why B is definitely the right choice. Don't you agree, Zolf? Zolf? Zolf, were you not listening?

(I may ship them. Kind of a lot.)