I don’t think I figured out that the Sepia heroes had worked out to be “another five” until I got to the part of the script where Carol reasonably asks, “How MANY other people?” and I was like, “Oh, hey.” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I appreciate the poetic paradox that Chrissie’s breaking out in panel 3, enough to say to her, “Yeah, that sounds like it can’t possibly be true, AND YET…” But Xan, while more paranoid than I am, is strangely also chiller […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the big themes of Guilded Age is “adventurers have financial struggles because heroism doesn’t pay,” although it’s sometimes scaled up to “even high-profile adventurers are often catspaws for the wealthy.” So as the Sepia-World band of five start […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
[MCU-ish music kicks in, builds to feel-good crescendo] I think the energy in the room here could’ve easily gone the other way. Before Kaye’s death, Chrissie was the only one of the gamers really advocating involvement. Now part of her feels […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
But if there’s a death-defying hope for Kur’Ik, no such hope remains for Kaye. The only things Chrissie’s accomplished as this scene begins were to make it a little hot for JJ as he left and to make sure that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
