Media References and Puns of 2-131 Into the Eye

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Media References and Puns of 2-131 Into the Eye

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One night only in the ThunderDome: Yasha, The Undying Angel Reborn, Chainbreaker, Punisher, and Reedemer! Versus, the Spirits of the Storm Lord: Windy! Tempest Cloudburst! Low Barometric Pressure AKA Barry! Cyclone! Shock Hudson! Taliesin!

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Mighty Nein Character Levels Pages

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As planned in our 2021 Roadmap, we are finally ready to present our first major side project of the year: Our Mighty Nein Level Up pages!

While our Level Up articles have presented what new features all party members have gained as they all level up together, these new pages feature each individual character’s progression, including the episode it occurred and all features, spell levels, and title of feats gained. Next to each level, we’ve also included the character cards, which link directly to our character sheets for each corresponding character and level where you can read the full details.

You can access the Mighty Nein Level Update page from here, the Mighty Nein Character Stats page, or the Mighty Nein Campaign Stats page. If this is something that proves beneficial, we’ll consider adding Vox Machina in the distant future after addressing our other most requested projects. Enjoy!

Media References and Puns of 2-130 The Calm Before the Storm

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Media References and Puns of 2-130 The Calm Before the Storm

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Note: The list below is only half of the media references used in the ad, let alone those used in the rest of the episode.

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Stats of Narrative Telephone: Familiar Feywild Fables

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Stats of Narrative Telephone: Familiar Feywild Fables

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Some call him Wizard’s Hat. Some call him Arrow Magnet. Others call him Weasel Bait.
To the FFFPP, he’s know as Agent 1-11.
His real name is Frumpkin. And to him, nine lives is just part of the job.

Want a reminder how past stories went? We maintain our Narrative Telephone page here, where you can check out graphs overlooking the entire series as well as consult our index for past individual tales.

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Monster Analysis: Sanctum Flame Guardian

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Monster Analysis: Sanctum Flame Guardian

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  • First Appearance: 2-129 Between a Ball and a Hot Place

  • Armor Class 17

    • Lesser Guardian Armor Class 14

  • Speed 50 ft

  • Resistant to nonmagical weapon damage

  • Immune to fire and poison damage

  • Immune to exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, and sleep

  • Total Damage Taken 319

    • Great Guardian: 132 damage taken before splitting

    • Lesser Guardian 1: 52 damage taken, 52 killing blow by Veth

    • Lesser Guardian 2: 78 damage taken, 37 killing blow by Veth

    • Lesser Guardian 3: 57 damage taken, 15 HDYWTDT by Caduceus

The phrase “out of the frying pan and into the fire” entered many viewers’ minds as the Mighty Nein fled the pursuing Cerberus Assembly with the only means they had at hand, with a much more literal interpretation of that phrase than they probably would have liked. The scroll used was a gift to Yussa from fellow Arcana Pansophical member Planerider Ryn (an expert in what her title boasts) to take the user directly to her lab on the Elemental Plane of Fire.

It’s not uncommon for archmages to summon or bind elementals to locations as protectors, especially since the don’t need sleep The sanctum guardian shared many attributes of a common, summoned fire elemental, including its speed, basic multi-attacks, and commitment to its directive. Its size, intelligence, fluent Common, and enhanced offensive capabilities, however, speak to the skill of the planerider who bound it.

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Media References and Puns of 2-129 Between a Ball and a Hot Place

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Media References and Puns of 2-129 Between a Ball and a Hot Place

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Media References

  • (0:50:12) Matt: The graphic novel features writing by the amazing Cecil Castellucci, art by William Kirkby, and lettering by Ariana Maher…

  • (0:12:15) Various: *singing* It’s been awhile… (by Staind)

  • (0:16:00) Travis: *singing* Drop it like it’s hot. (by Snoop Dog ft. ft. Pharrell Williams)

  • (0:53:53) Sam: *singing* It’s snaking its way. (“A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carleton)

  • (1:07:02) Laura: Did you ever see The Descent…

  • (1:09:00) Sam: Hey, have you ever seen The Descent.

  • (1:14:13) Liam: *singing* Makin’ my way! (“A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carleton)

  • (1:18:34) Jester: Grand Theft… Veth: Carriage.

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What Does the Mighty Nein Have Left: Plane Shift Party Split Edition

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What Does the Mighty Nein Have Left: Plane Shift Party Split Edition

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Episode 128 left off with the Mighty Nein making their biggest party split yet, with neither team even residing on the Prime Material Plane. So for the second week in a row, we present what we know of what the party has available to them (or lack thereof).

You’ll notice we have some of their hit point totals listed as “Unknown.” This is because the team took a short rest in Nicodranas, and we don’t know to what extent any of the injured Nein healed. As always, these stats are based solely on what we tracked. If something is presented otherwise in-game, what happens in-game is canon. We always defer to the players.

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Media References and Puns of 2-128 Cat and Mouse

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Media References and Puns of 2-128 Cat and Mouse

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Just a nice, calm, soothing beach episode.

Media References

(0:00:12) Matt: Like Daffy Duck over there.

  • (0:02:48) Ashley: I grab a six pack of R.C., pop a box of Runts, and laugh my butt off at the movie, Amadeus.

  • (0:23:10) Marisha: Very Lara Croft.

  • (0:23:18) Matt: As I call them, poodle ‘palers. [...] *motion of something getting impaled on a spike a la Eddie Izzard)

  • (0:29:29) Liam: We’re on a mission from God. (The Blues Brothers)

  • (0:32:12) Veth: And Yeza had some warm Pabst.

  • (0:36:59) Various: *singing* Makin’ my way! (“A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carleton)

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