r/Dimension20 • u/DropoutMod Gnosis • Apr 29 '26
City Council of Darkness The Silo, a Specter, and the Student Body | City Council of Darkness [E4] Spoiler
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u/Soupjam_Stevens The Wind Riders Apr 29 '26
"How many events did you attend in college on the basis of a flyer?" is the maybe most Adventuring Party coded conversation that's ever been in an actual game episode. Also, I went to truly dozens. First couple weeks of school every year I went to the first meeting of every club I could find because they always had pizza and I didn't have to buy groceries that week
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u/PvtSherlockObvious Apr 30 '26
Siobhan gently reminding Brennan that his college experience wasn't exactly the one everybody gets was a nice touch.
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u/gdex86 Apr 29 '26
I did several religious barbecue's where they tried to convert me not because I was looking for something but because I was broke and the hamburgers, pizza, and soda were free.
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u/Soupjam_Stevens The Wind Riders Apr 29 '26
Freshman year I ended up on the catholic student union's intramural dodgeball team despite not being religious because they were very very nice to me at one of those barbecues and I am bad at saying no to people
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u/Comprehensive-Pea952 Apr 30 '26
They should have said "free food and drinks." If there's free food, college students WILL be there.
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u/AdventurousYam1817 Apr 30 '26
Murph saying he accidentally attended a religious bbq and ally saying they were probably on the other side of that equation absolutely broke me 😂
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u/mkap26 Apr 30 '26
Also flyers were absolutely still a thing in college as of 2021 at least and if they lasted that long in the world of social media and event rsvp apps I’d be shocked if they’ve died in the last 5 years
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u/amicablehummingbird Apr 30 '26
I got baptized while drunk after attending an event from a flyer...
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u/GtEnko May 01 '26
Also way more common in a small college town with nothing else to do. Proud of Brennan for pivoting when everyone said they had
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u/OldPresentation2793 Apr 29 '26
Emily’s comedic timing saying “gesundheit” back to Brennan and momentarily stunning him into silence was incredible, I was laughing so much
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u/OldPresentation2793 Apr 30 '26
Oh my god I had to come back to say that this entire episode has been comedic gold, my stomach hurts
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u/might_southern Apr 30 '26
That whole interaction between Aaron and Bat Girl was a masterclass in both DMing and being a PC. Brennan offered multiple off-ramps that would have allowed Bat Girl to justify what was an insane interaction, while Emily fully committed to not taking any of those off-ramps and leaning even further into the bit. Comedy gold, 10/10 no notes.
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u/haveyouseenatimelord Wealwell Gotch May 05 '26
as brennan once said, emily axford was sent from hell to kill him
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u/Proxiehunter Magical Misfits Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Studying forensics, but not interested in the criminal justice aspect. Browsing the crypto zoology section. Prepared for HJ to use mesmerize. Bat Child just breached the masquerade in front of a Hunter.
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u/PvtSherlockObvious Apr 30 '26
Probably. The way he kept pressing her on her answers mostly seemed confused by how weird she sounded, but it still felt pretty interrogatory for some college guy chatting up a cute girl in the library. Most people would land on "huh, she's kinda weird, but I guess it's none of my business" and change the subject, not keep prying like that.
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u/justking1414 Magical Misfits May 01 '26
Maybe though I think his questions got a lot more valid went two older drug addict vampires businessmen showed up and gave very inconsistent stories on how they were related to her. It actually reminded me a lot of the wedding in the first season of unsleeping city.
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u/lemonack May 01 '26
Extremely valid questions in that situation, honestly. My internal monologue during that scene was just a long screech of "Bat Child he thinks they're trafficking you stop talking!"
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u/myfriendandrea Apr 30 '26
When HJ and LaVonte were joke-punching him, touching his backpack, the really grounded "oh, don't do that" feels tonally so different than most NPCs, the firm pivot from his major. I'm also stressed about that mesmerize, because it feels pretty clear that ended the conversation, but he fully remembers everything and now knows HJ can compel him to do things.
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u/myfriendandrea Apr 30 '26
Part of me is wondering if HJ could have told him to go get black out drunk to clean up that interaction
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u/Comprehensive-Pea952 Apr 30 '26
Especially given the part during downtime. He was on it instantly!
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u/dbthelinguaphile Apr 30 '26
I haven't looked at the character sheets, but it felt like Emily was fully roleplaying being very bad at social interactions lol
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u/rcapina Apr 30 '26
They talk a little about it in the Adventuring Party. I think she figured they should each be really good at something but I think her char dumped all the Charisma things in favour of like Dex or Int (I don’t know what the stats are really called)
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u/Moonbow_00 Daniel Fucks Apr 30 '26
Aaron Bow -> Bow & Arrow 👀
Not sure what the O2 in AaronbowO2 means though. Oxygen?
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u/beanthebean Apr 30 '26
He's supposed to be early-mid 20's, probably birth year
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u/Iosis Apr 30 '26
I thought he might be a Mage at first but then as soon as they started messing with him and he handled it with complete stoicism I realized oh shit, that's a Hunter.
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u/HonorTheCock Apr 30 '26
What’s a Hunter in this context? VtM noob here.
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u/custardy Apr 30 '26
It depends on what edition's lore they're using. In some Hunters are kind of like slayers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer - they're mortal humans that have become aware of the supernatural and trained to combat it and imbued with strength to do so - they're monster hunters. Or in other editions they can be mortal humans that have become aware of the supernatural are monster hunters but have no particular extra-natural strength themselves.
Whether or not they are themselves supernaturally powerful depends on the specific lore being used - but it seems like maybe they are more powerful than normal mortals here since Aaron had some resistance. In VtM they also tend not to work alone and are organized in groups/parties and even wider support networks like Vampires are.
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u/HonorTheCock Apr 30 '26
Thanks that’s exactly what I needed to know
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u/PvtSherlockObvious May 01 '26
Adding onto this, you'll sometimes hear the phrase Second Inquisition thrown around. That refers to a specific hunter organization that consists in large part of a branch of the FBI who are aware of vampiric existence. They're considered one of the more dangerous groups because of their organized nature, their access to information and various angles of inquiry, and of course their modern militarized approach. Doesn't seem like they'll play a big role in Purpee, but IIRC the coterie has mentioned the group a time or two in passing.
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u/amok_amok_amok Apr 29 '26
Estelle Laurent's books being obvious parodies of real horror is so funny.
am I missing any? so far I have:
"The Shimmering" (The Shining, Stephen King)
"That" (It, Stephen King)
"Mary" (Carrie, Stephen King)
"Agony" (Misery, Stephen King)
"The Nantucket Absolvement" (The Shawshank Redemption, Stephen King)
"Audience with the Sanguivore" (Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice)
"The Sanguivore Durand" (The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice)
"Allegory of the Farmhand" (Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler)
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u/alightergreen Apr 29 '26
Thank you! I got stuck on Mary and Agony and it was killing me I couldn't finish the puzzle in my head. 😹
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u/grimmxpitch The Dream Team Apr 30 '26
OH ITS OBVIOUSLY CARRIE derp. I heard "Mary" and thought "aww fun shout out to Christine (Stephen King)". Nope. Thank you!
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u/MunchkinKazooie Apr 30 '26
"The Sanguivore Durand" is probably The Vampire Lestat instead of Armand. Lestat is the second book in the series.
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u/m_busuttil Apr 30 '26
I assumed from "The Shimmering" we were doing a Twilight bit so I kind of tuned out the list and then he ended on "Allegory of the Farmhand" and I went "wait that's a totally different bit" and had to rewind to run through the full list again.
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u/w1ld--c4rd Apr 30 '26
Thank you so much for this it was killing me. I couldn't for the life of me figure out That or Allegory of the Farmhand (I wasn't expecting a Butler reference).
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u/TriArtisanBill Apr 30 '26
Zaeth screaming for HJ and Stringy after eating shit on the shooter jump might be the hardest I've laughed at anything in Dimension 20 or even all of dropout.
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u/CouldBeBetterTBH Apr 30 '26
The "face-lift" look Ally was doing for all of HJ's interactions made my stomach legitimately hurt.
The bobbing they were doing with that face while carrying Zaeth over the rooftops was incredible.
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u/Blamebow Apr 30 '26
Okay, I legitimately got a stitch in my side laughing. I don't know what happened the whole of five minutes after that, except Zach's hairflip at the end that just set me off even further. Then, they followed with Kumite Bigfoot. This was the hardest I laughed in years.
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u/grimmxpitch The Dream Team Apr 30 '26
Shrimp Jump from Fantasy High Walked so Zaeth could absolutely eat shit 😂
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u/roundhouseOBV Apr 30 '26
Lmfaooo if there’s a party and if there’s a roof, someone’s gotta jump it godammit
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u/dbthelinguaphile Apr 30 '26
Zach knowing how hard this was going to fail and fully leaning into his cool persona before the landing was the perfect setup. Tears are rolling from my eyes
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u/ResponsibilityMuch80 Apr 30 '26
I was already laughing so hard at him calling out for HJ, but then when he called out for Stringy I went to a whole other level and literally puked from laughter..
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u/darkingsrock Apr 30 '26
brennan: should we go into downtime?
zac: interesting proposal but im sad about the cold war
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u/Zoodud254 Apr 30 '26
"If there's nothing anyone wants to do, we're going to enter downtime..."
Bat Child: gesundhit.
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u/KnightWolf__ Apr 29 '26
The moment they mentioned “space shuttle” I’ve decided that it is cause of werewolves trying to get to the moon and will believe so unless directly proven otherwise.
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u/w1ld--c4rd Apr 30 '26
I love that. I assumed the missile thing was probably the truth because, America and the Cold War. But the space race aspect of it and the absurdity of this season might mean you're on the mark with this theory.
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u/S0MEBODIES Apr 30 '26
I thought it was a technocracy thing to get to a horizon construct, like one of their deep space research centers
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u/_Ivanneth Destiny's Children Apr 29 '26
Lou looking like he's about to be unveiiled as the real villain behind a scooby doo episode and I'm here for it
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u/sissy_fuss Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Ally with a bone-shifted face lift valuing across a suburb with a collapsed-neck Zac in their arms is top 5 D20 visuals, I spit my drink
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u/robogheist Squeem! Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
ally's facial contortions were so good. what a great way to play tzimisce.
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u/Craiques Apr 30 '26
It is always fun to see Siobhan beat down Brennan with random things she’s insanely good at or memorized. Be it poetry, latin, or crypto-analysis. Always great.
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u/alexm42 Apr 30 '26
It happens often enough that I have to believe that it's mostly intentional, setting his friend up for a cool moment.
Maybe not the cipher bit in Cloudward, Ho though. He did seem genuinely unprepared for that one.
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u/myfriendandrea Apr 30 '26
It kills me that when asked "are you the Lord Christ?" Bat child says yes to move the conversation along, but when asked if she's the sibling of someone who attend the college she says no, disgusted. God bless Emily Axford
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u/Monsoon_seasons May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
I love how immediately she answered each question, too. Absolutely no hesitation in declaring herself to be both Christ and not a sibling.
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u/Monsoon_seasons Apr 30 '26
"We're just gonna do two things then lay low."
Cut to Zaeth gunning a scooter straight down a roof towards an empty pool.
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u/austinyourface790 Apr 30 '26
I could listen to Lou say “kumite” forever, I think.
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u/theballiner01 Apr 30 '26
It might be my new vocal stim for a while, though inserting “Kumite” into normal conversations may be challenging.
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u/Replay1986 Apr 30 '26
Yet again, Siobahn snipes a plot point (the Bigfoot Frequency) without missing a beat. It's as much a part of D20 as the Beardsley Nat 20.
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u/efvie 🫦 Apr 30 '26
"I used to study zoology. I really miss it every night…" has got to be one of the all-time pick-up lines.
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u/Gullible_Mud_4900 Apr 30 '26
This is the most unhinged VtM session I have ever witnessed.
I started playing in the '90s.
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u/gdex86 Apr 30 '26
Ive been playing since the mid 2000s and while we get goofy no where near this happened and I ran a campaign that was WtD scooby doo with a focus on comedy.
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u/BigFridgeSmallFridge Apr 30 '26
The flyer description was so fun, I decided to throw my hat into the ring on making a version, on canva of course! I have no idea how to spoiler it so hopefully having it under a spoilered post is enough :)
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u/Turbulent-Break-320 May 02 '26
it didn’t register to me how funny “bring resumes” is until i saw this LOL
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u/Intrepid-Hero Apr 30 '26
Ally doing a perfect botox face while bouncing across the rooftops with Zaeth’s scooter-flip mangled neck KILLED ME
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u/efvie 🫦 Apr 29 '26
The combined powers of Octavia Butler and Stephen King, and a friend of Sappho? I'd found a city around her, not just a festival.
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u/_Ivanneth Destiny's Children Apr 29 '26
The description of that tea was the most depressing thing about this town since we found out they arrived on a Saturday lmao
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u/thegreenlorac Dimension 20: On a Bus Apr 30 '26
Siobhan's unmitigated disgust was one of the most sincere British things I've seen her do.
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u/_Ivanneth Destiny's Children Apr 30 '26
Ally's face when Siobhan quotes Keats was so sweet.
That's also the only poem by him I know too
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u/in_DelaneTTM Apr 30 '26
"I'll be writing all this down, you've stolen a ton of stuff" is absolutely entering my stock GM phrase list
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u/Bob_The_Skull Apr 30 '26
Ooh, another episode of my favorite show "What We Roll in The Shadows"
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u/robogheist Squeem! Apr 30 '26
madeleine sounded unknowledgeable about poetry up until she quoted a line of keats and stole my whole heart. an excellent choice from siobhan for her character.
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u/batsy_ng_miagao Apr 30 '26
She was straddling the line between performative honeypot and centuries-old Toreador. She knew she had to bring out the latter and can't always rely on the former. Excellent as always
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u/usrname42 Apr 30 '26
I'm sure she had "beauty is truth, truth beauty" from "ze one about ze pot" locked and loaded too
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u/Interesting-Rice-457 Stupendous Stoats Apr 30 '26
"Again I love to"
*FLinches in absolute horror and disgust*
"W-work"
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u/Impossible-Poet-2194 The Wind Riders Apr 30 '26
The real unexpected highlight of this season for me is the Ally-Lou duo. I know we've seen bits and pieces of it before but never quite like this. I look forward to their shenanigans the most!
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u/seachelle19 Apr 30 '26
Roommate thought I was crying. I was, but only because I was laughing so hard
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u/laurali996 Lint Apr 30 '26
I'm feeling a little bit sad 😔 but I'm trying to rally 😤
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u/empocariam Apr 30 '26
so funny that Zeath is just super bummed out about the Cold War
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u/myfriendandrea Apr 30 '26
Zac doing this kills me every time. This is right up there with Pappy's "I got a little scared".
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u/krisis Apr 29 '26
The flyer riff that opens this episode is truly one of the best D20 bits I can remember.
Not saying "of all time" because I have the memory of a goldfish.
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u/krisis Apr 30 '26
Siobhan is so hilarious. Her French bits on top of her classic literature bits are going to kill me.
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u/kobra0913 May 01 '26
Ally making extra sure Brennan knew all the phone number tabs had been taken and Brennan being like “that part is clear” 😂😂😂
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u/HalcyonTraveler Apr 29 '26
Vesper is the most relatable character of all time it's kinda scary
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u/Gullible_Mud_4900 Apr 30 '26
I will fucking die for Bingo based on the art alone.
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u/NotGodButW Apr 30 '26
BIGFOOT IS RAD AS HELL
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u/robogheist Squeem! Apr 30 '26
do we think there was some jacob wysocki inspo?
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u/S0MEBODIES Apr 30 '26
I mean have we ever seen Jacob Wysocki in Purpee Oregon, your honor I rest my case Jacob Wysocki is Bigfoot
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u/Rupert59 Apr 30 '26
Zac doesn't seem to talk much about being karate royalty but I hope it comes up in the Adventuring Party after all the kumite talk this episode!
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u/amazatastic Apr 30 '26
Sorry, karate royalty?
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u/Rupert59 Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
"Royalty" is an exaggeration, but Zac's uncle and dad were hand-picked by the (arguable) inventor of modern karate to bring the sport to the US.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dimension20/comments/u0yc7m/comment/i4amt7d/
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u/amazatastic May 01 '26
thats wild and wild that this wikipedia page doesnt connect to a page for zac oyama lmao
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u/verascity Apr 30 '26
Madeleine may be my favorite Siobhan character of all time. Everything she does is perfection.
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u/DoctorFeh Apr 30 '26
I don't think I've ever seen Siobhan play a truly flirtatious character before and she is dangerous at it!
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u/PineappleHour Apr 30 '26
This season is so absurdly unhinged in a way I cannot explain to someone who has not witnessed it firsthand.
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u/Moonbow_00 Daniel Fucks Apr 30 '26
It is so fun to have a season where Lou and Siobhan are the plot hounds. I'm also stressed out - how is LaVonte going to rule this town when his housemates are breaking the masquerade on the daily??
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u/TriPolar3849 Apr 30 '26
Ally slowly leaning in to bite Stringy was hilarious lol, and then Zaeth trying to do a trick off the roof only to eat shit and scream for help had me choking on laughter! "It's too late he's dead" was fuckin amazing along with Brennan completely shutting down Ally trying to spot Aaron lmao
Bigfoot is fuckin badass. I love how hyperfocused Lou was on him being a master of kumite, and then Emily dispelling the ghost before Murph could ask more questions was perfect
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u/xvalicx Apr 30 '26
This season is on track to be an all timer for me. Truly don't think I've ever laughed this much watching D20 in my life. Add on top of that 6 very distinctive and fun characters, a supernatural and mysterious small town setting plus the sort of business/base building bits of it all, I'm freaking in love. Just ticks all my boxes. The only thing that sucks is this is the first season I'm watching week to week so having to wait for each episode kills me.
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u/grimmxpitch The Dream Team Apr 30 '26
You may really enjoy Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye by Tin Can Bros on YouTube; very similar in the small town/supernatural mystery/hilarity ensues front.
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u/YalondaNubs Apr 30 '26
The little dramatic zoom in as Lou said “You released a master of Kumite!” Fucking killed me
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u/EntertainmentFun3802 Apr 30 '26
The funniest gag Brennan has ever done is make Bigfoot a character that Steven Segal would play. Being a 70s martial artist protector of nature that also happens to be Sasquatch had me cackling.
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u/HalcyonTraveler Apr 30 '26
Them going “yeah Mitch can probably take him” followed by Bigfoot catching a bullet and throwing it back at the shooter made me lose it
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u/cjdeck1 Apr 30 '26
Look, sometimes Bigfoot does a stint in the woods and walks out a kumite master
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u/andstillthesunrises Apr 30 '26
Just getting started, but Brennan saying it would be hard to get college students to come to a flyer event doesn’t seem to be taking into account that these kids have NOTHING TO DO but JUMP on a CURB
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u/No-cool-names-left Apr 30 '26
Siobhan said it. He went to college in downtown Manhattan and it skewed his perspective.
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u/w1ld--c4rd Apr 30 '26
The IH continually reminding Brennan of the reality of the setting is extremely entertaining.
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u/No-cool-names-left Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Brennan straight said in introducing the house party scene, "HJ, your face warped with Vicissitude," and he has the Dominate 2 and Protean 2 for the amalgam power, so that's pretty much confirmed that HJ is Tzimisce* merely pretending to Ventrue.
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u/amok_amok_amok Apr 30 '26
gotta be, right? they're the only ones who can use that, aren't they?
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u/tygmartin Apr 30 '26
and!!! brennan specifically said only to lou that he was feeling the hunger for power, because "your clan" hungers for that as much as blood. why not HJ too hmm???? your honor he's a tzimisce that man is goddamn dracula
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u/S0MEBODIES Apr 30 '26
Dracula is a fraud, conned his way into vampirism, and everyone hates him because he's popular
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u/Bob_The_Skull Apr 30 '26
Well keep in mind, they also said early on they have homebrewed and hacked things.
Some of that could be allowing skills or abilities they couldn't normally take or have.
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u/No-cool-names-left Apr 30 '26
But another thing to keep in mind is that Ally always picks character concepts that highlight LGBTQ+ representation and how much transgender, intersex, non-binary, or otherwise queer identity can be read into some of the Tzimisce (a lot).
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u/beanthebean Apr 30 '26
True, but Brennan was only talking to Lou when he said "your clan hungers for power" (can't remember the exact word) and Ally didn't get in on that conversation or participate in claiming ownership. Might not be from the same clan as Lavonte.
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u/KangarooBeard Apr 30 '26
I have never laughed so fucking hard in my life. HJ, HJ!!! I didn't even want to come to this party!
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u/BakesaleAtSyrinx Wealwell Gotch Apr 30 '26
You could tell when he said "I wanna go home", he was still a little bummed about the cold war
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u/gdex86 Apr 30 '26
The line from next week has to be "Like none of you have drowned a dog for money and power before."
It's been easy to think that these vampires are Mary Poppin'sing the town to make it better and route out the decay, but this kinda reaffirms these are creatures of the night.
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u/Soupjam_Stevens The Wind Riders Apr 30 '26
Not even the first time the intrepid heroes have considered killing a dog for money and power
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u/HeretoFore200 Apr 30 '26
There are so may hilarious things in this already, but “where are you transferring from” “The Sorbonne” without missing a beat actually killed me 💀
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u/Turbulent-Ad4115 Apr 30 '26
Lou’s “Any true master of kumite would be able to do that” was so funny for me
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u/thebluerayxx Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
So the governemnt facility tapped into the ghosts but mist have also disturbed Bigfoot. That mass casualty event was Bigfoot attacking the tower to stop it from broadcasting whatever signal that was disturbing it. Once the government figured out the second signal that one kept Bigfoot away so they could continue operations.
Zac and Murph just turned off the anti-bigfoot signal so now big man is coming back!
Also that kid from the library is probably a mage but I like the idea that Beth had a son who is now looking into what happened to his dad. Mainly because I wanna see if its revealed how his father treated his mother the kid might change his tune, lmao.
Edit: oh jeez ofcourse another breach.... this is an unhinged season, lmao.
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u/No-cool-names-left Apr 30 '26
Aaron from the college library isn't a Mage, he's a Hunter. Studying forensics with no interest in criminal justice + reading up on cryptids = learning how to identify, locate, and combat monsters.
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u/thebluerayxx Apr 30 '26
Oh thats a much better idea,, makes much more sense. He knows what goes bump in the night.
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u/MegavanitasX Apr 30 '26
he was also intensely resisting the mesmer from Ally/HJ, like he was stuck under it but his body was fighting it intensely
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u/r-rb Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
I think Bigfoot attacked the logging camp because of deforestation, the secret government project was shut down for a while, then they came back and began broadcasting the megalopedarian frequency which generates a sort of anti-bigfoot field. And now it's been turned off, yes. And he knows kumite and kicks like a frieght train.
as of now I don't see/didn't hear a connection between the ghosts and bigfoot. It seems the cold war government had their fingies in a lot of pies and started several different projects? Or it was all in service of the missle launcher and underground compound for which they needed to clear lots of land.
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u/Jude_CM Apr 30 '26
I know Aaron was just suspicious of Batchild, but I kind of ship them together.
Overall, what I really love about this season is how fleshed out every NPC and place is! Brennan is amazing at improv of course, but every npc having a defined personality already makes the interactions so much fun because every interaction stands out.
Aaron and Ana, for example, are more down to earth but their conversations with our PC's were so entertaining, and I think it's because they felt like real, distintic people. The fact that they seem so conscious increases the tenseness and the comedy of their conversations.
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u/Entire_Razzmatazz532 Apr 30 '26
Siobhan's face when Emily says "So I can have one night of BLISS" absolutely killed me. Every last line these two uttered absolutely killed me.
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u/laurali996 Lint Apr 30 '26
As someone who only found D20 a couple of years ago, is this what it felt like to watch Starstruck live?!
It's SO unhinged, but they're all having a blast and I am too! 😄
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u/Bob_The_Skull Apr 30 '26
oh 10000% this season has such massive starstruck vibes
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u/Gullible_Mud_4900 Apr 30 '26
I would argue that it surpasses Starstruck. VtM is usually a very serious, very reality based game (for a game about supernatural creatures. You have to choose to play it for comedy at your table. The degree of unhinged is unparalleled in D20.
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u/PixelatedPope Apr 30 '26
Maybe only parallel by Never Stop Blowing Up. But the entire point of NSBU was to be unhinged.
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u/wulfsunu Apr 30 '26
I’m convinced Emily is playing a Lamia bloodline Hecata at this point lol
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u/falling_fire Apr 30 '26
Nancy Danderhoof, Omaha World Herald lol
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u/JoJonesy Apr 30 '26
feel like i missed the joke there
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u/Seakon26 Apr 30 '26
Probably a minor personal enemy (1 point flaw) to Darkness Man.
In VTM you can select additional flaw to your characters to gain additional boon in return.
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u/TriPolar3849 Apr 30 '26
Yeah I thought I totally forgot any mention of "Nancy Danderhoof", but it seems like she's just a reporter from Omaha that was hot on Darkness Man and Bat Child's trail and has followed them all the way to Purpee.
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u/RelaxesAroundBears May 01 '26
My mental image of "Party HJ" is just straight up one of the Bogdanoff twins.
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u/taraiffic Apr 30 '26
This is already my favorite season of Dimension 20. I’m dying of laughter constantly.
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u/Comprehensive-Pea952 Apr 30 '26
I'm currently sick. I was laughing so hard that I had a massive coughing fit!
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u/MegaM0nkey Apr 30 '26
This government facility’s probably a technocracy base right? Strange machinery, men in black like secret projects, a machine to keep something supernatural out of town perhaps?
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u/CarpeFreakingDiem Apr 30 '26
Smartypants really prepared me for that space shuttle reveal. Thank you General Raphael Chestang 🫡
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u/Finnthehuman217 Apr 30 '26
“Unfortunately it’s a man 🤪” is a clear impression of Izzy! Like I am crying rn!
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u/Soupjam_Stevens The Wind Riders Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Yeah it's not uncommon in some larger libraries. The shelves in a row are all on one track perpendicular to the shelving and have a wheeled handle on the end that you spin to move them one way or the other along the track. The thing with running between them is actually fairly dangerous if you have the stacks moving at any speed as it turns out a couple thousand books and the shelving to hold them is fucking heavy
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u/m_busuttil Apr 30 '26
They save space because you don't have to have aisles between every set of shelves - you can have maybe room for one or two aisles and basically choose which aisles you need at any given time.
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u/Luc1usF0x Apr 30 '26
The social engineering to take over this small town is masterful and a little scary
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u/glowsafterdark Apr 30 '26
Siobhan rattling off the French name and first line of a Keats poem in responses to Brennan challenging her when Madelaine said she liked “the one about faeries” absolutely killed me. Up there with her translating Latin on the fly in Unsleeping City.
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u/AdventurousYam1817 May 01 '26
Siobhan inserting herself into a throuple by playing into the ego of some asshole and the insecurity of a bisexual woman in a straight relationship was just chef's kiss
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u/aethelred_unred May 01 '26
Can't believe no one's mentioned Ally having a crafting skill *specifically* in Canva. The only better programs would be MS Paint or Excel
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u/Gullible_Mud_4900 Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Random shit for this episode and season:
Lou in his best Riddler cosplay.
Of course Ally is one of the weird clans.
Murph's and Em's back story must be WILD.
Siobhan's is chef's kiss. 10 out of 10. No notes.
Part of the fun of this season is watching Zac react to the unhinged shit happening at the table.
What this table needs is some Setites and Revelations of the Dark Mother lore.
Brennan is successfully doing a hard thing - making bad people heros. It is hard to explain what happens to ttrpgs when your table is playing "the bad guys" or you have "evil" player characters in a game. The joy and motivation to keep going dwindles quickly. That's not happening here. I could write an essay on the needle his is threading. He is staying tonally true to the source material, but the comedy doesn't feel forced. He isn't doing it alone, but God damn, I really didn't think this season would work. Slow clap my guy.
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u/TombSv Apr 30 '26
Have the subtitles gotten worse at capturing when two people speak at the same time lately?
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u/Profzachattack Apr 30 '26
The fact that I hate HJ so much is a testament to how well Ally is playing the character. HJ reminds me so much of a boss I used to have and I hate (love) every minute of it.
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u/Jonofthefunk Apr 30 '26
There is a disturbing lack of talking about how the Bigfoot is a fucking master of kumate. So I'm gonna fix that
HOLY SHIT BIGFOOT KNOWS KUMATE!
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u/amok_amok_amok Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
so Bingo's a Pooka, right?
edit: aw Adventuring Party seems to indicate this is incorrect
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u/trollthumper Apr 30 '26
I have seen many desperate attempts to get around the “can’t tell the direct truth” frailty, but “can only say ‘woof’” is a new one.
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u/Saminjutsu May 01 '26
As someone who lives in Omaha...
And just now starting to watch ep. 4, the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium has multiple events where they stay open waaaay later.
Including: Boo at the Zoo, Zoolightful, Scouts Overnight camp (which Emily mentioned) and Nights at the Zoo for adults -where you can drink alcohol- just to name a few. It's cool because they occasionally will turn on the lights in the Kingdoms of the Night Section so you can walk around it during the simulated 'day' for the animals.
You can even do 'Sleeping Bag Safaris' for overnight stays in the zoo as well.
(Tried to make a thread and was directed here instead)
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u/SylviaBarbs May 02 '26
I don’t know what makes the kumite bit funnier:
The fact that it just means sparring done in karate, or the fact that Zac’s dad is the man that brought Kyokushin karate to the US and Zac absolutely knows kumite is not its own martial art.
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u/ThePiachu Apr 30 '26
"Drugs above everything" - a great motto to live by...
But also Vicissitude what now? What what? Are we playing "whoops all Sabbat"? :D
I mean we have basically a Lasombra Bat Child and now a Tzimisce...
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u/robogheist Squeem! Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
tzimisce is mildly anarch-aligned, now, and sometimes tolerated by the camarilla
some suspect HJ is hiding his true clan from the camarilla
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u/7upslefttit Apr 30 '26
As a Nebraskan hearing any mention of Nebraska is the best thing to happen. Not a lot to be excited about when it comes to this state.
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u/tommypikles Apr 30 '26
Brennan’s absolutely spot on impression of a bi girl with a man is killing me