I put eleventy billion chapters into this one because so many little things happened. I am proud of myself for my predictions! I am proud of the Hades writer for giving me all the bread crumbs to put things together! I am delighted by this cast because they all make sense to me! I am super excited to see Pat and Achilles reunite! I am willing to accept that Zagreus is canonically poly with both Thanatos and Meg even if I don’t like Meg or his relationship with her! I am absolutely thrilled that they included Lucifer as a mythological figure. Also, next week, remind me to talk about my thoughts about the characters they chose for the Hidden Aspects overall, because I have Thoughts.
I’m pretty sure we’re going to beat the game next week, for good this time. Just hoping we can get Pat and Achilles reunited first (so I might do a little YOLO running first – I mean, I’ve got to at least look at Extreme Measures 4, don’t I?) but then I guess I will stay up as long as it takes to finish the dinner party and, presumably, close this chapter of my stream. So tune in live next week if you want to be part of that!
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0:00 This game has layers
6:39 Fiddling with weapons
10:43 RUN 1 (handing out invitations)
13:34 Chaos, run 1: shield waking phrase
17:41 Back to the run
19:46 Inviting Ares
21:52 Sisyphus, run 1 (bond forged)
25:58 Bouldy’s boon
28:25 Fighting Charon!
30:09 Back to House of Hades
32:34 Asking Achilles for advice on being poly
34:50 Persephone wants to be a good mom
42:41 Asking Nyx for permission to invite Chaos
44:56 Trying to guess the shield aspect
47:18 Unlocking the shield aspect!! (talk re: epic heroes)
53:29 Testing it out!
55:37 RUN 2 – wait, Persephone, is this a puzzle?
57:09 Inviting Aphrodite
59:03 INVITING CHAOS
1:02:58 Inviting Artemis
1:09:28 Alecto and Meg
1:11:53 Codex entries for Chaos and Asphodel
1:15:00 Eurydice teases Zagreus
1:20:53 Resuming the run
1:25:33 Lernie (Churnie?)
1:28:58 Elysium, run 2
1:29:59 Inviting Hermes
1:32:50 Asterius, run 2
1:38:30 Patroclus makes a request!!
1:43:01 Champions (sowing seeds of dissent)
1:47:47 Styx, run 2
1:53:49 Inviting Athena
1:58:49 Fighting Hades, run 2
2:03:40 Is that … a compliment?
2:06:36 Sharing Patroclus’ message with Achilles
2:08:29 Checking in with mom
2:13:02 Hades unlocks beanie baby use
2:15:45 Buying a bunch of things, unlocking “themes”
2:18:59 Asking Nyx about Meg
2:19:38 FINE, IT’S CANON, I GET IT (Meg)
2:31:11 Run 3 with Eris gun
2:32:50 WAKING PHRASE FOR EXAGRYPH
2:33:27 Lauren’s tangent about mythology and religion
2:46:18 Back to shooting things
2:53:03 Chaos, run 3 (fishing!)
2:55:01 Inviting Poseidon
2:57:06 Tisiphone and Meg, run 3
2:59:30 Asphodel, run 3
3:06:30 Thanatos!
3:08:22 New fish
3:10:18 Lernie (I don’t remember what this one is called)
3:13:50 Elysium, run 3
3:17:28 Hermes is adorable
3:18:18 Asterius, run 3 (is he taking longer to time out now?)
3:22:18 Patroclus, run 3
3:25:53 Champions, run 3 – DISSENT IS SOWN
3:30:11 Styx, run 3
3:35:32 Getting to Hades – that IS a compliment!
3:39:18 COMPLIMENT FROM DAD, ish
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It's wild how virtually every culture has dragons or some form of dragon in its mythology. Canadian indigenous tribes have dragons too! There's a Seneca myth about a dragon that lives in Lake Ontario called Gaasyendietha which could breathe fire and shape shift.
I find it incredibly amusing that you ended up inviting your least favourite of the Olympians first. It's very… Poetic?
Edit: Aww, but seeing Artemis's reaction makes me sad. I'm sure it'll be addressed, but I do feel bad about them being confronted with something they don't like.
Edit edit: I am very glad that ghost cassette provided the relevant quote with the waking phrase for the Exagryph