haleyusesherwords:

Hunch Curio regularly failing his checks and liberally using his Moxie is the dice being perfectly in character

Of course he tries a lot and fails. Curiosity jumps head fist into things without much planning or expertise.

Of course that unfailing willingness to try and learn helps later on because curious people pick up things and you never know when they’ll be useful

cutekittenlady:

animentality:

This is yet another thing I thought Pratchett had made up but turned out to be totally real.

roundaboutnow:

junk-thunder:

I dont remember why I made hmmboob.png but I’m thankful for it every single day

i showed this to my brother and he said ‘curiostitties’

vicks-vaporwave:

I love that because the player (I forget his name 😬) said “spelled however you want it’s all right” every time they show Danny Fucks’s character sheet they spell it differently

paeshsh:

So I’ve figured out a lot of the pun names and reference thus far but there was one I just could not figure out. The Avericci (?) family was just not clicking in my head. Like is it some kind of fancy neuron science thing I don’t know?

It’s Avarice. Greed. Extreme greed. He wants Elias Hodge’s conscience dead so they can keep making money - that’s all he cares about.

andincorporated:

(thoroughly impacted “okay”)

sneakerdoodle:

what i expected more people to talk about with Mentopolis is how it represents trauma. how Conrad hangs onto a core, defining memory that dwells in the depth of the subconscious (he lives in the Red District!), how that traumatic experience became internalized in a way that is very directly implied to have affected Elias’ behaviour and personal choices throughout his entire adult life; how Elias himself literally does not have the memory of it, and the part of his consciousness that holds it is singled out and sectioned off and isolated, and forever stunted in its development. how Conrad holds the memory, and that’s why the voice of conscience is so rarely accessed - because to come into contact with it would be to come into contact with the memory, and that would be excruciating, and so Conrad is neglected and forgotten because Elias cannot have one without the other. something so deeply poignant about a profound experience unconsciously influencing the way Elias moves through life, without him even being consciously aware of it, and without the option to safely reflect back on it

and then the lose-lose of a traumatic response, how the severing of his conscience was an expression of a self-protective instinct: get rid of this, don’t act like this and you will be safe from experiencing such pain again. and holding the memory is part of hurting, and so repressing it is part of the self-preserving urge - but this unconscious choice, made by Elias as a hurt, scared child, led him to shut out an entire function of his conscious. how, in a way, his very employment choice could be considered reckless. how our responses to trauma, in a desperate attempt to keep us safe after a harrowing, incomprehensible event, often only expose us to more danger, with no option to escape it as we are unable to process the root of it

and we’re only 2 freakin episodes in

effable-as-f:

Dude this has taken a hard swing from “Fun campy noir murder mystery romp with an Inside Out, Sanders Sides-style twist” to “these are the frenzied, panicked final thoughts of a man fighting for consciousness while he is actively dying and try as he might to piece together how he got himself into this mess we may already be past the point where there is anything he can do to save himself”

brionbroadway:

brionbroadway:

hank just dropping this in the adventuring party. the numbers this would’ve done as a text post.