LUCRETIA, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. THOSE WEREN'T YOUR MEMORIES TO TAKE

It just so doesn't sit right with me that she basically took everyone's lives from them. Especially Davenport; she completely obliterated his mind

She took Lup from Taako, oh god

She took Lup from /Barry/

All without consulting any of them

All without talking to any of them

She just stole it all.

once you get to it, the the the adventure zone zone segment on this is really good

but yeah, it's not supposed to be a good decision

I didn't figure it was; I know Lucretia's particularly the type to take matters into her own hands

She feels like she can make the hard decisions, and take all the suffering onto herself

don't get me wrong I'm not mad at the podcast; it's damn good storytelling

no, I get you

But god, those weren't her decisions to make.

And they're all going to have to have a serious talk about this once they've saved the world, man

yyyyyyyyyyep

Ok, Stolen Century over

I'm honestly worried that putting the Grand Relics all in one place is what drew the Hunger in the first place

man you really did just blast through it

Yeah I did; a lot of the work I do leaves plenty of bandwith for just Podcasting

plus commutes, lunch breaks, and listening to an ep before bed; it's just that good

they don't actually address that, but it's kind of yes and no, that the hunger was going to find them anyway and already mostly had, and the accumulation of it kind of sped up the process

it was kind of a race on both ends, where the relics needed to be back together before the hunger arrived because the hunger was arriving anyway

Yeah, as soon as I said that I remembered that the Hunger usually took a year anyways; it takes time, and wasn't it by act 4 that its scouts started appearing in the Etherial Plane?

pedal to the metal is the first appearance iirc

wait

no

whatever lunar interlude had the eclipse festival

the first appearance of the eyes of the scouts

it Crystal Kingdom- Oh right!

I remember now

So yeah; it took a year from then, almost exactly

and then in the bank in the beginning of petal to the metal when taako blinks

and especially thanks to Merle's conversations with John, the Hunger must recognize them

or at the very least, him.

So even if the Hunger couldn't sense the Light/relics, I bet seeing Merle gave it a good hint as to where to go

(This is all just speculation on my part, anyways)

yeah, I'd agree

the three of them coming into contact with the phoenixfire gauntlet definitely triggered a start

But man. I haven't started the Finale yet but I wonder how everyone is going to reconcile putting their old lives on top of their new ones. That's some heavy stuff, smashing two lifetimes together.

I also hope Lup's okay, wherever she is. I know she's in play; I think Lich Barry was talking to her way back when when he asked the three of them if they trusted him

I'm also real curious about what the Umbra Staff has been up to. Especially in regards to writing Lup's name on the wall, but more especially in regards to trying to glass Kravitz and everyone's favorite boy detective

I don't believe it's working as an extention of Lup because she doesn't strike me as the indiscriminate murder type

I really need to re-listen to the finale as a whole, since the first pass was just a lot of reacting to what was happening

I'm listening now and there's sure as heck a good amount of reacting going on

hoo boy

but yeah, after listening to the ending and letting it all sit, I'm a lot less furious with Lucretia. I totally get why she did what she did, and why she felt there were no good alternatives

Honestly all seven of them had to get to that point to figure out that defeating the Hunger even was an option

yeah, it was one of those situations where there were no good options

and in the end, it did keep them alive, even if she had no idea that everything would actually work out in the end and everyone would come back/get memories back/be alright

It did! And honestly putting an end to the Relic Wars was worth the price. She was definitely right that bloodshed on that scale wasn't justified by just averting the apocalypse

And it sounded like most everyone else (Lup nonwithstanding) was totally chill with just letting it play out as it was going, despite it obviously emotionally draining them