Taako: “Someone went through the house and stole every lightbulb in the house. The owner was passed out at this point. The person was dedicated, even took the bulb from the fridge”
Lup: “A guy kept feeding the bathtub fire until the tv ten feet away melted”
Barry: “My friend has a recording of me sulking over a girl years ago and I said, ‘I’m gonna kill myself in half’”
Merle: “We found our friend (who we had lost earlier) at Denny’s, at 4 in the morning, in a prayer circle with some random family”
Magnus: “A friend of mine was extremely drunk and saw this guy walking his dog. My friend started petting the dog and when the owner asked him to stop he started petting the man instead.”
Davenport: “The host got belligerently drunk, forgot who he’d shook hands with/talked to, and spent the rest of the night making rounds shaking everyone’s hand at least half a dozen times before passing out.”
Lucretia: “After last call, she asked if we were still open. When I told her no, she thanked me for my service and my kindness. When I turned my back, she grabbed a half empty bottle of champagne an earlier customer had left and poured herself a large to-go cup of champagne and walked out. ”
Carey: “Someone stole my friends front door, just ripped if off the hinges and ran down the street”
Killian: “I broke 3 glasses within an hour of each other. Kind of wasn’t my fault but still got forced to drink of a plastic cup for the rest of the night.”
It takes Taako approximately two days to start designing his outfits around the umbrastaff, because honestly, it’s not just an arcane focus, it’s an accessory and he’s got an image to maintain. It’s not quite his usual aesthetic, but he makes it work.
This absolutely kills Lucretia, because of course in the process he unwittingly keeps recreating choice Lup Looks.
“Merle: I’ll buckle him in both seats. Taako: Why is this a thing? Can we just get in the fucking cannon or what? Put him in a seat and- I want out! Of this place!“
“You enter into the artificer’s chambers, and it is a pretty strange looking room. There’s a gnome with a long, long, long white beard, sitting behind a desk, and the desk has on it a book that is bigger than the gnome is. It’s a very, –it’s an enormous tome. Um, and behind him, is a large machine, with a huge glass tank on the top of it, containing a lot of smaller, spherical capsules inside.”
I want to give The Inventure Zone a proper shoutout because every time I see a piece they’ve made it feels like I’m in an alternate universe where TAZ was a children’s fantasy book series from the 1940s and somehow several paperbacks ended up in my childhood home from a time my parents picked them up in a thrift store and I pored over the illustrations even though I didn’t/couldn’t read the story and now I’m reliving the nostalgia. You know?