“Brennan Lee Mulligan drops the fact that he’s now a father on the Worlds Beyond Number fireside chat while doing a bit about escaping the Panamanian jungle” was not on my 2024 bingo card tbh

I drew @quiddie yesterday and then turned it into Suvi from the Worlds Beyond Number podcast

for the amount of time i spend thinking about erika ishii, i do not post about them NEARLY enough

everything i've ever seen them in, they have been fully dialed in. they understand the genre, they understand the character they're playing, and they NEVER. FUCKING. MISS

my current dnd character is actually based on multiple characters of erika's that i enjoy. my character is a witch (like ame of worlds beyond number fame [thank you to the witch class playtest]) but she is also a brewer who grows weed and shrooms, and deals them, and does them (and her personality is very much modeled off of danielle barkstock in dimension 20's the seven)

i feel that many of my favorite moments from erika are often focused on other characters. but many of those character moments would not have been possible without erika's incredible roleplay and sense for storytelling

and when the moment IS focused on erika's character? spellbinding. groundbreaking. from ame talking to orima in the overgrown shrine to danielle getting a nat 20 at the masquerade ball, i always fall into the scene and feel it so deeply due to erika's skill and poise and commitment to the story being told

tldr i think erika ishii is incredibly talented and wonderful

Erika: If Brennan does fae time bullshit to me, I will LOSE MY MIND.

Brennan: I have one hundred generations of Irish ancestors going,

“Do it to ‘em lad! Fuck with time stuff! We love it!”

The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One

Children’s Adventure Episode 3

How dare you wonderful people almost make me cry while listening to this episode at work! Why are you all so wonderful!

But fr I literally love all of these characters so much!!!

okay, that's it, i am thoroughly obsessed with this episode. existensial crisises with mr. callum. suvi making a choice that is effectively a betrayal of her friends for the values of the citadel. the fox's sheer utter chaos. ame blowing up the system to make it out of the citadel on time. eursulon's mastery of the dimension door fire. you are magic, and it is you. the reappearance of the stranger, the man in black. kalaya's burrow at the base of a fire tree. that brutal cliffhanger of an ending. IT'S SO GOOD.

Worlds Beyond Number is wild because Brennan Lee Mulligan uses every ounce of his philosophic and empathetic learnings to create the most heartrending situations and scenes

Then, like an emotional devastation katamari, this fucker picks up THREE whole ass other people like him. Lou Wilson, who will make you cry while you’re in the middle of laughing. Aabria Iyengar, who is a fucking genius and dives full ass into her character’s flaws because your heart will die of a thousand cuts when it all hits. And Erika Ishii. At first blush, a bit of a clown, albeit a sultry one when they want to be. More than happy to play the fool. Lets you underestimate them, so you let them get close, and when you realize how deep you’re in it’s too late

So these FOUR chucklefucks, these four geniuses of humor and tragedy, hire a fucking Maestro of Sound Design in Taylor Moore to produce their home game. And everything is tighter. And even more immersive. And heartwrenching and hilarious and cozy and creepy.

Anyway, this team of FIVE people decide that they’re going to make one of the best podcasts currently airing and it’s only nine episodes in.

announcing that you had a baby BEHIND A PAYWALL is an insane choice i’m obsessed

And so it was that every adventurer in the land from that day forward was bestowed 50 ft of rope, the primary industrial output of Port Talon.

In ep 24 "Knock Knock" I found this interaction between Kalaya and Eursulon so fascinating

Kalaya: You're a true friend of a wizard of the citadel?

Eursulon: Yes.

[...]

Kalaya: Is she kind?

Eursulon: She can be.

It felt like such a big sister thing to be cautious of this wizard and have concern for her little brother. A spirit in a world that can be unkind to wild ones such as themselves.

But more interesting than that was Eursulon's answer. "She can be." It could be interpreted as, sometimes she is kind and other times not. Which we have seen both from Suvi (wielding the power, prestige, and station of a wizard vs loving and cherishing her friends).

But it could also be interpreted in a future connotation. Like she COULD be kind but we have yet to see. Will the citadel justification machine take over or will she retain the lessons learned from grandmother wren and hold on to a respect for the world of spirits

Last Eursulon saw Suvi she was caught between her friends and the citadel. And while wizardry is not innately unkind the systems put in place by the citadel can be concerning. Suvi has the potential to go down an alarming path with the brass of the citadel pushing her along. She has the capacity to be "unkind". But the gut reactions we see from her. The Suvi reactions, not Sky or the citadel, but SUVI are always kind. With her friends in her life Suvi can be kind and would continue to be kind. But her friends keep pulling away and the fall out from the last goodbye may be very influential into who Suvi will be.

Eursulon may not have meant much by his response but it feels very ominous in that we are yet to see the type of legacy this interation of the wizard Sky is going to leave.

Suvirin “Suvi” Kedberiket

babygorl Suvi

God Dammit Aabria and Brennan!

suvi and adaine if youre reading this i love you

Forgot to share this lmao

I am on episode 21 btw. Also, remind me of some of the names i missed.

Some sketches I made while listening to the World's Beyond Number worldbuilding chat and reminiscing about cute Citadel things.

Ame: “Magic is, like, yeah it just happens but it’s also a big responsibility, you know? It’s not something you can always really control.”

Suvi: “That’s not true. Magic is super controllable. That’s the whole thing about it.”

The Wizard, The Witch, and the Wild One

Children’s Adventure Episode 2