This makes so much sense why Kipperlilly was asking about how Kristen made Yes! And specifically Where she made Yes! at.
Kristen made a whole new Deity through Arthur Augfort's office and school. As a powerful cleric she reached into the Astral Plane and made life out of her questioning and worship. She temporarily had access to the realm of dead gods to make something from nothing. This was all set in the making from day one.
Jace was working with Kalina and Arianwen to revive The Nightmare King and The Rage Goddess. That's what Ragh saw in front of the office after Prompocolypse. They used Kalvaxis wanting to regain his power as a bigger play to bring back their corrupted and dead deities. A chess piece in a series of steps.
While Kalina was going to bring back The Nightmare King, Jace would work on bringing back The Rage Goddess through Elmville. Kristen already proved that Augefort Academy has access to the Astral Plane. He found and targeted students susceptible to rage, took them to the Mountains of Chaos where the Divine Wedding took place and force the students to make a choice: live for Rage or stay dead.
The Rat Grinders made that choice except for Lucy. Which is a problem because the Need a Cleric. The people the Rat Grinders killed from the school have been Clerics, because with Kristen's method you need a powerful connection to a Deity and Worship to bring life to one.
Lucy worshiped a Giant Goddess, she would have been perfect but she refused.
Yolanda gave up any affiliation to a specific deity, neutral but powerful in worship. She would be a worthy vessel but she refused.
Buddy was brought to always be killed. A follower of Helio, the son of Sol who had corrupted the Goddesses in the first place. He is the grandson of a powerful Cleric, and has that same connection and power within himself. Kipperlilly didn't kill Buddy in panic, that was the plan all along: bypass Obliviti Mori by killing a cleric to meet the Rage Goddess in the Astral Plane, then revive them to spread the word and start the ritual. Buddy was just the first one to accept.
Like in Sylvaire, they are seeding Rage to make their own version of the Nightmare Forest to bring back The Rage Goddess. It's going to bloom and spread, rake over Elmville and the Augefort Academy where the Astral Connection is.
These plans have been started since Freshman Year, and have been defeated all because on goblin was just trying to find his babysitter and another halfling just couldn't handle that.
honestly looking at the posts on here I'm really surprised people don't have more sympathy for kipperlily. who among us hasn't wanted to be a cool, innately special hero? isn't that part of why we play ttrpgs? the only difference is that we get to roll five dice and take the three highest and kipperlily can't. she's an NPC in a world built for PCs and there's nothing she can do about it
I find it so damn funny that all of us has theories like, Lunch Lady Doreen was KippersPlease CathildaCeili’s Mom, or that she had a massive crush on Roz, or numerous other theories.
But nah she was just some fanfic and legends obsessed bitch that wished she had drama in her life, and angry that other people got that
I am thinking that the reason Ivy thought Fig was Lucy and wanted to talk was because she thought that Lucy had taken it back and accepted Ankarna as her god.
O my gosh. O my gosh. Ohhhh my gosh. The ratgrinders are sacrificing clerics to bring back a dead god. They killed Lucy. They killed Yolanda. They're probably gonna kill Buddy. Kristen get AWAY please I'm so worried. O my gosh.
I do think there is something particularly heartbreaking about Jawbone coming to Adaine only after she's managed to fix her problems herself. Like—Jawbone so clearly wants to be her father, and Adaine (out of love for him!) refuses to let him be one.
Children are meant to be burdens to their parents, and Jawbone knows that. But Adaine doesn't. So by trying to avoid being a burden, she's keeping him from being able to love her the way he so badly wants to.
The funniest thing about Mazey’s “They famously hate you guys” is the fact that Riz has a minimum 23 investigation roll. Somehow this vital piece of common knowledge slipped by. There is nothing more high school than investigating everything except whether or not your friend group is bothering anyone.