worldsbeyondnumber / Fireside Chat for WWW ep36 "Sending"

It's just you! Her emotions and relationship to Silver play a part in her decision-making but she was also uniquely situated to make a complex strategic move that may or may not pay off, but could save a lot of people! She is a flawed character, as are ALL of the characters in this world because they are well-written, interesting characters worth telling a story about. Would you prefer a character was perfect from the start of a story, learn no lessons, not change in any way as the story progresses and not have the story relate to their backstory and who they are as a character?

Bryn

2025-06-19 10:37:08 +0000 UTC

Is it just me, or is Suvi getting people killed. In a quest, against orders, just to rescue her boyfriend? She is so arrogant and self righteous

Doug

2025-05-28 11:21:38 +0000 UTC

Laughing my ass off in public all the time while listening to these, I love it

Yara

2025-05-04 13:20:56 +0000 UTC

Ran to the comments right when she said that

Dr. Eggman

2025-01-30 01:22:02 +0000 UTC

Christ on a bike! Ever since the description of the Shroud Mountains, with that insane music and sound Taylor does, I knew they would be terrifying. I'll never go anywhere near anything called Shroud whatever

The Pompous Peasant

2024-11-11 17:15:10 +0000 UTC

"The hottest thing a man can be is medium ugly" HELLLLPPPP

Xaj

2024-11-10 12:34:56 +0000 UTC

gosh. aabria is SO smart, and lou’s emotional IQ is off the charts; he understands his character SO well.

rrrrumpunch

2024-11-09 14:37:59 +0000 UTC

The first thought I had when I heard "finding the oldest tree in the forest" was Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I wish we could've heard what the inspiration for Lou's roleplay was in that moment

Nick Fraker

2024-11-07 18:46:20 +0000 UTC

You truly did Roc up to that war

Lacey

2024-11-05 17:22:49 +0000 UTC

There's a pinned "FAQ me? FAQ You!" in Posts tab. The 10th q&a has the link👍

Anneli Villa

2024-11-05 09:28:49 +0000 UTC

Hey so how can I submit questions for next time?

Chris

2024-11-04 07:44:28 +0000 UTC

I started listening on October 5th and have now listened/watched to EVERYTHING. I think I'm going to feel hung over for days. This podcast has taken over my life, I love it so much. This episode had so many emotions and audible reactions from me.

Elizabeth Wright

2024-11-04 06:41:12 +0000 UTC

Does make me think I would totally listen to an un-edited version I want that uncut gooddnessss

Jonathon carr

2024-11-03 23:15:15 +0000 UTC

I got your third space for Sworn right here!

Conor Steinke

2024-11-03 19:51:20 +0000 UTC

As soon as ame promised the roc everything would be ok I called that it would not survive

Crake

2024-11-03 14:31:33 +0000 UTC

can we have the Horner Corner do like a "build your ideal masc golem" segment next fireside? it can be picking one option from a couple of categories to construct your perfect hotness, something like: - Body: Skinny, Muscular, or Kinda Athletic Dad Bod - Skill: Competent/Decisive (like Sworn), Handy, or a Great Cook - Trait: Hilarious, In Touch w/ Emotions, or Brilliantly Smart it's the content we all need!

I’m so jaded that my Bardic Inspiration ends up sounding like Vicious Mockery

2024-11-01 18:29:40 +0000 UTC

My local super inclusive game/ nerd shop where I DM for the youth club is called The Fourth Place :D <3

Myrelliah Valcyn

2024-11-01 12:54:19 +0000 UTC

I was specifically thinking about this sort of idea. For myself I have a Captain Suvi "here's the goal" decision mode, and then I will go Sworn mode and it is all about what is the most optimal way to reach the goal? There have been situations where I've gotten a few questions on my implementation where my answer was "I did not optimize for that" in response to whatever the criticism is. Mostly from my unreasonable ex-wife, but still.

Dominic Corbin

2024-11-01 04:52:33 +0000 UTC

Jumping aboard the Hot, Competent Wizard Sworn train! Personally, I instantly headcanoned him as a lot like Kim Kitsuragi - not conventionally hot, perhaps, but DEFINITELY hot. Real ones will understand.

Kael McDonald

2024-10-31 20:53:52 +0000 UTC

(Not that we were ever Not Here, but just,.,.,. Iconic 🙏)

Luke Hampshire

2024-10-31 12:48:35 +0000 UTC

"A jangled nerve is the price of coming to Suvi's Ghibli movie" we are SOOOO BACK‼️‼️🗣🗣🗣

Luke Hampshire

2024-10-31 12:48:09 +0000 UTC

I never realized how badly I've been undervalued what Talor brings until "Sending". The score as the sorceror blazes through the sky like some hellenistic god gave me chills. I imagine how it might feel to these low level characters: like Myceneans soldiers watching Apollo fly in and perform some act of cosmic terror.

null

2024-10-31 02:59:21 +0000 UTC

Princess Mononoke is cutesy anime horror. Grave of the Fireflies is ... moral horror? It's an awful exercise is cognitive dissonance that frankly everyone should have to experience.

null

2024-10-31 02:38:58 +0000 UTC

Wait — Princess Mononoke was the HAPPY story in that comparison?!?

Cackle Cackle

2024-10-30 21:04:59 +0000 UTC

Hey does the citadel have a law against it?

Cackle Cackle

2024-10-30 19:31:07 +0000 UTC

Ultimate Partner vibes. Am I saying this mostly because he executes everything Suvi wants without argument? Maybe. What does that say about me? Who knows. But give me a collected man any day.

Cackle Cackle

2024-10-30 19:28:37 +0000 UTC

going to use "competence kink" in all future dating endeavors this is going to absolutely change the game thank you Fireside

lxwles

2024-10-30 17:54:39 +0000 UTC

they didn't say much about specifics but what WAS said makes me feel correct that Fifi is okay and just got towed to a spirit holding place they will be able to find later 😭

lxwles

2024-10-30 17:53:38 +0000 UTC

OOOOOOOH

lxwles

2024-10-30 17:46:31 +0000 UTC

oh noooo. Níf is Kelmp's.. opposite of a power fantasy?? like my only job is to do everything you tell me to and that is lovely :) lmao

lxwles

2024-10-30 17:44:48 +0000 UTC

Also Suvi assumed way too much about the capabilities of the crew she was given, plus the geas(?) only made her forget about planting the music box, not the entire conclave.

Agiddysea

2024-10-30 17:38:42 +0000 UTC

It's not forgotten, it's just funnier to say Suvi is risking people's lives for her boo.

Agiddysea

2024-10-30 17:32:15 +0000 UTC

they are trying to save an entire crew of POWs and her superiors made it so she doesn’t actually know the real reason she got an entire crew and airship🤷‍♀️theres some math there. i think its a little forgotten that Suvi’s impromptu mission is not just to pick up Silver, but his entire crew.

irisilmaril

2024-10-30 17:28:20 +0000 UTC

Suvi/Skye epitomizes a certain type of military officer in that on paper she checks all the boxes and knows all the right people. But then it comes time to lead soldiers on a battlefield and suddenly it becomes clear they may not be meant for this.

Agiddysea

2024-10-30 17:26:57 +0000 UTC

Hard same!

Domtext

2024-10-30 15:52:03 +0000 UTC

Not to go full Um Actually but it’s third places, not third spaces. The good news is Mr Pressurewood did invent third spaces as a concept! Which seems to be a thing like third places but only when they’re beaches or cabins

Domtext

2024-10-30 15:40:16 +0000 UTC

110% with aabria and erika, sworn is hot!!

Megg

2024-10-30 15:33:50 +0000 UTC

That just seemed like Lou's 3rd Space... I'm interested in that Pressurewood

Tommy Deibel

2024-10-30 15:32:39 +0000 UTC

The link is in the show notes above.

Worlds Beyond Number

2024-10-30 15:12:55 +0000 UTC

When I was listening I thought I heard a "green beam" hit our boy which is how my table has always described the spell disintegrate and I was cryin'

Tyler Chapman

2024-10-30 14:49:01 +0000 UTC

I cant un-see this now

Tyler Chapman

2024-10-30 14:46:48 +0000 UTC

The crazy thing about the Sworn Kelmp comparison is that I see it and yet also I see a lot of Kelmp in Níf

Esther Bee

2024-10-30 14:14:38 +0000 UTC

I love the idea of Aabria being like “Man, the wizard Sully is going to be such an interesting character, and— hmm? To pieces, you say. Welp…”

Jack Barlow

2024-10-30 13:18:09 +0000 UTC

I'm curious to see how that battle affects Sky and the party with her, specifically her choice to sacrifice Sully. He had one one hp, no jaw, and was likely going to die. It was a LOGICAL decision, but friendly fire is friendly fire. How do her her comrades that have to follow her into the next fight feel about that? I might be overthunking it. R.I.P. the wizard Sully.

Quinton lee

2024-10-30 12:43:04 +0000 UTC

Grave of the fireflies. Extremely sad movie to put it lightly

Nick Penner

2024-10-30 12:32:22 +0000 UTC

I think it would be if Suvi hadn't gone after Silver, got stranded and two people hadn't died. Kinda takes the covert outta covert ops. Then again Suvi doesn't remember the mission and the fallout would be a liability for Steel, so Suvi will probably be fine.

Agiddysea

2024-10-30 11:24:22 +0000 UTC

That sorcerer hit Firebringer with a banish, right? He just went home... right? 😅 Also, grats to Erika with the launch of Dragon Age!

Leah S.

2024-10-30 05:00:30 +0000 UTC

(I’m never getting out of horny jail I was one of the reasons it was made)

The Wizard “Slut”

2024-10-30 02:21:40 +0000 UTC

Sworn has the same hotness level of a man who is good with kids. A man who’s energy makes you say: I don’t need a kid but if your raising them we can try making one later. He is not daddy he is father.

The Wizard “Slut”

2024-10-30 02:20:36 +0000 UTC

I want Erika to know that the Ghibli movies she chose as examples of the tonal shift between Ame/Eursulon's stories and Suvi's story made my husband, who has not started listening to this show but had been interested, begin to reconsider his interest in listening. I, having never actually watched a Ghibli movie, thought his reaction when I said 'and I can't remember the title but it had something to do with fireflies' was HILARIOUS. Then he told me what that movie is about. YIKES 😬

Cortney Cline

2024-10-30 01:46:39 +0000 UTC

Mr. Pressurewood, I'd love to subscribe. Is it 3rdspaces.com or thirdspaces.com?

Tommy Deibel

2024-10-30 01:33:12 +0000 UTC

We're gonna pretend that Chicago isn't Grit City? Okay, that's fine. Enjoy being wrong. We will be Forget Chicago. But I used to work in L. A. and it's not nearly as fun.

Gabby Kreszchuk

2024-10-30 01:24:28 +0000 UTC

Wait, I need to know! Is FiFi’s disappearance the reason that K asked for the hoopty to have a security lock in Misfits and Magic 2???

Micah Ballard

2024-10-30 01:14:44 +0000 UTC

“Suvi’s Ghibli world” 😂😭

Micah Ballard

2024-10-30 01:12:20 +0000 UTC

Til my decision making style is Sworn-esque. It makes too much sense looking back 😂😂😂

Heather Fleming

2024-10-30 00:34:30 +0000 UTC

Yo cop city. We’re so fucked. Olayemi Olurin tried to warn us. For Erika!! If you have time, take the MNR Hudson line up north and get off where it’s pretty. Dobbs Ferry is 30 mins out the city. Get some east coast oysters at a waterfront spot over the river! Tibbets Park is autumning so hard there’s some nature and some good sunsets here 😂 I hope the rescue Fi Fi quest is coming

Ren Dara

2024-10-30 00:02:28 +0000 UTC

"It's MY emergency help party and I get to choose the Ghibli movie!" — Suvirin Kedberiket, as her friends watch their castle-sized Catbus get towed

Izer

2024-10-29 22:54:56 +0000 UTC

Okay, re: Sworn’s hotness, I think it’s also important to note that a man who can follow a woman’s orders with the utmost respect and sincerity: very fucking hot.

Micah Ballard

2024-10-29 22:21:04 +0000 UTC

Sworn has big Gurney Halleck energy, am I right?

Connor

2024-10-29 22:07:50 +0000 UTC

“We like it because it’s Suvi” is actually the creed I live by

Abigail W

2024-10-29 22:01:50 +0000 UTC

There is nothing hotter than being intelligent/competent and not condescending. Can you communicate or teach the thing you know without being a dick? And Sworn is now canonically medium ugly? Hot.

Abigail W

2024-10-29 21:24:17 +0000 UTC

I have a massive competence kink. Sworn is :::swoon:: Swoorn?

Elizabeth Boskey

2024-10-29 20:27:27 +0000 UTC

I was wondering about this. Can they do that? I thought there may be a loophole because her secret mission was 100% secret and unofficial

Lojaan

2024-10-29 20:25:02 +0000 UTC

No shot disintegrate kills a creature the size of a castle instantly though. My dude probably had like 300+ hp. A 9th level Disintegrate does a max of 154 damage.

Vaelyhn

2024-10-29 19:53:11 +0000 UTC

I think I laughed more at the Chateau du Brennan exchange than any part of any other Fireside. Keep it up, y'all. "Come bite this fry, motherfuckers!" 💜

GC

2024-10-29 19:30:58 +0000 UTC

Just had a thought about a funny homebrew spell for the gang: power word wax

Sean Manning

2024-10-29 19:10:53 +0000 UTC

I love Brennans use of world building with the spirits, and how it still ties back to ghibli when you think about spirited away and Haku WAS the kohaku river. A big thing can just be one guy that likes soup or a whole dragon

Caia Hull

2024-10-29 18:59:27 +0000 UTC

Loved finding out that Sully's True Name behind the name cloak was "John Doe"

rio

2024-10-29 18:51:27 +0000 UTC

Yes I too am hoping that was Banishment. But Sorcerers also have access to Disintegrate.

Bob Grannan

2024-10-29 18:49:53 +0000 UTC

At eight In the morning I had a panic attack because the fireside hadn't posted yet. Turns out I needed to put more money in my account 😔

Yaseen abdul-malik

2024-10-29 18:46:31 +0000 UTC

I knew someone in a fairly high civilian position in the Department of Defense. I asked him how he navigated the changing goals and policies of different administrations. He said, "You spend a lot of time implementing policies you don't agree with, because you are not the one with the authority to decide policy. But you had better know where you draw the line. If leadership crosses that line, you quit."

Carrie Mook Bridgman

2024-10-29 18:41:23 +0000 UTC

I’d like to file some age-gap exemption paperwork on Suvi’s behalf. It’s hard in these streets and I think she deserves a competent lil treat 🥺

Aabria Iyengar

2024-10-29 18:34:58 +0000 UTC

YES! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought Sworn is so hot?? Cuz he's so cool and capable AND caring; bros got it

Carla D.

2024-10-29 18:34:20 +0000 UTC

Hope so.

Carrie Mook Bridgman

2024-10-29 18:26:52 +0000 UTC

Y'all didn't LoJack the BIRD, c'mon now

Emily C

2024-10-29 18:07:09 +0000 UTC

I am SO GLAD I listened in the car, I haven't laughed that loud in a while. Solar sorcerors & their coffee.

mguin

2024-10-29 17:58:35 +0000 UTC

'Sworn is someone who avoids Analysis Paralysis without sacrificing their executive function." Damn, Brennan.

Carrie Mook Bridgman

2024-10-29 17:24:05 +0000 UTC

I don't know about other podcast apps, and I know Spotify isn't the best, but there is a running (I assume AI based) transcript when played using Spotify for what that's worth. It gets some stuff wrong, but it's there.

Cleverest Wombat

2024-10-29 17:23:38 +0000 UTC

"Sworn is adult Evan Kelmp." YES! I wouldn't have thought it until Aabria said it, but yes.

Carrie Mook Bridgman

2024-10-29 17:19:10 +0000 UTC

With Eursulon doing Pom Poko, they really have the Ghibli gamut covered

Jessica

2024-10-29 17:16:35 +0000 UTC

Sworn is hot not just because he's competent and decisive but because he is also Not An Asshole. I still think Sworn is too old for Suvi, but Aabria and Erika can be thirsty. He's probably too young for me, drat it.

Carrie Mook Bridgman

2024-10-29 17:16:21 +0000 UTC

Fifi sings: I AM A ROC! I AM A FI-I-I-I-I-IREBIRD!!!!

Erik Hanson

2024-10-29 17:15:00 +0000 UTC

I live in New England and come alive with the cool, dark, gloomy part of the year and suffer in the heat.

The Silversmith

2024-10-29 17:02:53 +0000 UTC

As soon as firebringer disappeared I was horrified then my DND knowledge kicked in and I was like "oh... actually that's great, happy for him"

Alex

2024-10-29 16:56:26 +0000 UTC

THANK YOU.

Worlds Beyond Number

2024-10-29 16:39:20 +0000 UTC

I had to rewind to listen to the solar sorcerer seeing the rok like five times

James

2024-10-29 16:36:42 +0000 UTC

I was not prepared for Brennan's NYC defense or Wizard Sully voice toward the end of the chat. Nor was I disappointed!

Alex W.

2024-10-29 16:36:02 +0000 UTC

Aabria: "Thanks, Felix!" me, in a midwest walmart: "You're welcome Aabria." :)

Felix

2024-10-29 16:04:46 +0000 UTC

After a week of binging MisMag, the mention of Evan Kelmp made me jump

Jub64

2024-10-29 15:41:24 +0000 UTC

Tbh Suvi should be court martialed when this is all done.

Agiddysea

2024-10-29 15:33:49 +0000 UTC

pretty sure Fifi got banished (that's a sorcerer spell right?) but excited to find out if that's true!

puss-in-kinky-boots

2024-10-29 15:33:27 +0000 UTC

The problem is Lou is never around enough to host more Nacho Sins segments and I don't know if the guests are ready to take on that responsibility

Jasmine A Golphin

2024-10-29 15:26:03 +0000 UTC

Yus

The Pompous Peasant

2024-10-29 15:21:24 +0000 UTC

FELIX!! Talk about the public library and my life is YOURS!

Jordanne Stahl

2024-10-29 15:12:55 +0000 UTC

We did it, jailbirds!

lunarsummer

2024-10-29 14:55:12 +0000 UTC

^^^^^^^^^

fayfrantic

2024-10-29 14:55:12 +0000 UTC

I needed some Nacho Sins

Kevin Goodwin

2024-10-29 14:54:44 +0000 UTC

thank god brennan is here to defend us proud new yorkers who don't need sun (i am experiencing seasonal affective disorder)

puss-in-kinky-boots

2024-10-29 14:53:07 +0000 UTC

there's a link in the faq edit: this link https://forms.gle/S8paSygMkh3P4SZJ6

fayfrantic

2024-10-29 14:52:07 +0000 UTC

so excited by that teaser of what could have been (Schrödinger's canon) if Sworn had failed Indri's saving throw and dedicated himself to her cause

fayfrantic

2024-10-29 14:50:42 +0000 UTC

LOVE the playlist Third Spaces Monthly just put out, glad to see them sponsoring the pod

Toe

2024-10-29 14:49:43 +0000 UTC

and mine too :) crackle crackle ahoohoo

fayfrantic

2024-10-29 14:48:01 +0000 UTC

Aabria

Allison Bransford

2024-10-29 14:45:22 +0000 UTC

This made my day. Ahhoohoo and crackle crackle.

Daniel B

2024-10-29 14:35:54 +0000 UTC

Thank you for answering my question! 🙇🏾‍♀️

Udoka

2024-10-29 14:29:04 +0000 UTC

Never heard anything as real as “The hottest thing a man can do is be medium ugly and competent”

The Wizard Smudge

2024-10-29 14:22:04 +0000 UTC

New York averages 234 sunny days. Los Angeles averages 263 sunny days.

Alyssia Karl

2024-10-29 14:21:40 +0000 UTC

sheds a tear in Scottish a radiant 1380h in Edinburgh

Charlotte

2024-10-29 14:18:26 +0000 UTC

I would like a Gathmai one shot of the absolute worst platoon (think gomer Pyle combined with red vs blue) when they meet the Roc or another Wild one

FooldiverDX

2024-10-29 14:18:06 +0000 UTC

Loved: Aabria: “A jangled nerve is the price of coming to Suvi’s Ghibli movie.”

Stephen Bannasch

2024-10-29 14:12:51 +0000 UTC

Wow, they got through so many questions this fireside!! I love that

CommodoreBlue

2024-10-29 14:03:24 +0000 UTC

sworn IS a beautiful man and i refuse to hear anything to the contrary

Nathan Asher

2024-10-29 13:57:48 +0000 UTC

Nononono, soothe those jangles, what happened to the bird 😭 (i hoped it was a banishment)

João Padinha

2024-10-29 13:52:55 +0000 UTC

Ayyy another dane! I'm sat in Aarhus and for sure not getting my hours of sun today either

Just a Fox

2024-10-29 13:49:12 +0000 UTC

The way Brennan described Sworn there are some very cute similarities between Sworn and Fox. Both have a deep loyalty to their “Boss” and are very capable helpers.

Stephen Bannasch

2024-10-29 13:42:12 +0000 UTC

Always grateful for horner corner and the understanding of competency and medium "ugliness"🫡

Jasmine A Golphin

2024-10-29 13:27:53 +0000 UTC

I clicked the link before listening to the EP and have spent the last forty five minutes before my commute very confused

Rosalie Louis

2024-10-29 13:24:40 +0000 UTC

I thirst for the worlds beyond number... Mr. Pressurewood is an expert in his field of third spaces

Porter Clement

2024-10-29 13:24:01 +0000 UTC

Brennans NYC defense went so hard lmao. I could feel the crown of Lady Liberty start pressing through my scalp and my blood became apples and subway steam for a second

lunarsummer

2024-10-29 13:16:23 +0000 UTC

My head headcannon puts Sully's real name as Sullivan. He was a jokester

Brendan Randall

2024-10-29 13:14:28 +0000 UTC

not the tandoori chicken lmaoooo

KamasiFitzgerald

2024-10-29 13:03:05 +0000 UTC

Where can we ask questions? I have questions but but I'm on this episode so need to go but on chapter 3? I'm ahooooooooho excited, in other words lolol;lol

The Pompous Peasant

2024-10-29 13:02:57 +0000 UTC

That roasted chicken is just salt in the wound XD

Shadarous

2024-10-29 13:02:56 +0000 UTC

The panicking early morning wizard SENT me 🤣

Brandon Brewer

2024-10-29 12:42:11 +0000 UTC

Yes OMG that fiiight. Brutal and quick. Amazing edit.

Grace

2024-10-29 12:21:15 +0000 UTC

Crackle, crackle to Those Beyond Number.

Whyse Wytch

2024-10-29 12:16:54 +0000 UTC

Horny jail broke confinement again

SvenTS

2024-10-29 11:54:36 +0000 UTC

Ahoohoo Crackle Crackle!

Katherine Rose

2024-10-29 11:52:55 +0000 UTC

Do we know, when we might get new transcripts for the episodes? As a non native speaker they help me a lot!

Lina

2024-10-29 11:51:18 +0000 UTC

Same I timed it perfectly because I just finished listening to the latest episode minutes after they posted this

The wizard Sentinel

2024-10-29 11:48:21 +0000 UTC

Great listen on a very overcast day in Denmark 😂 Yearly hours of sun in NYC: 2650. Copenhagen: 1600.

Bo Schwartz Madsen

2024-10-29 11:47:16 +0000 UTC

I'm at the last part of my doctorate of social work, finishing my cpastone/disseration. These fireside chats have been my treat. You've all helped keep me sane through this. And I am so glad that Felix joined... what an amazing guest.

Grant Pike

2024-10-29 11:46:54 +0000 UTC

The firesides are the best part of my early morning shift

The wizard, S'more

2024-10-29 11:45:17 +0000 UTC

Ahoohoo! Crackle Crackle y'al!

Kalunyx

2024-10-29 11:43:54 +0000 UTC

Damn, the only thing I love more than Lou Wilson is Lou Wilson with 808s

Bill Posters

2024-10-29 11:43:02 +0000 UTC

A hoo hoo!

Mike Ferris

2024-10-29 11:42:29 +0000 UTC

crackle crackle!! i can always count on brennan to defend and speak truth on new york thank you brennan

joanie

2024-10-29 11:41:46 +0000 UTC

Crackle crackle my fellow firesiders🤍

Nicholas Savage AKA Eursulon’s knight in training

2024-10-29 11:39:19 +0000 UTC

Crackle crackle!

SvenTS

2024-10-29 11:35:46 +0000 UTC

Fireside Chat for WWW ep36 "Sending"

Comments

Is it just me, or is Suvi getting people killed. In a quest, against orders, just to rescue her boyfriend? She is so arrogant and self righteous

Laughing my ass off in public all the time while listening to these, I love it

Ran to the comments right when she said that

Christ on a bike! Ever since the description of the Shroud Mountains, with that insane music and sound Taylor does, I knew they would be terrifying. I'll never go anywhere near anything called Shroud whatever

"The hottest thing a man can be is medium ugly" HELLLLPPPP

gosh. aabria is SO smart, and lou’s emotional IQ is off the charts; he understands his character SO well.

The first thought I had when I heard "finding the oldest tree in the forest" was Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I wish we could've heard what the inspiration for Lou's roleplay was in that moment

You truly did Roc up to that war

There's a pinned "FAQ me? FAQ You!" in Posts tab. The 10th q&a has the link👍

Hey so how can I submit questions for next time?

I started listening on October 5th and have now listened/watched to EVERYTHING. I think I'm going to feel hung over for days. This podcast has taken over my life, I love it so much. This episode had so many emotions and audible reactions from me.

Does make me think I would totally listen to an un-edited version I want that uncut gooddnessss

I got your third space for Sworn right here!

As soon as ame promised the roc everything would be ok I called that it would not survive

My local super inclusive game/ nerd shop where I DM for the youth club is called The Fourth Place :D <3

Jumping aboard the Hot, Competent Wizard Sworn train! Personally, I instantly headcanoned him as a lot like Kim Kitsuragi - not conventionally hot, perhaps, but DEFINITELY hot. Real ones will understand.

(Not that we were ever Not Here, but just,.,.,. Iconic 🙏)

"A jangled nerve is the price of coming to Suvi's Ghibli movie" we are SOOOO BACK‼️‼️🗣🗣🗣

Princess Mononoke is cutesy anime horror. Grave of the Fireflies is ... moral horror? It's an awful exercise is cognitive dissonance that frankly everyone should have to experience.

Wait — Princess Mononoke was the HAPPY story in that comparison?!?

Hey does the citadel have a law against it?

Ultimate Partner vibes. Am I saying this mostly because he executes everything Suvi wants without argument? Maybe. What does that say about me? Who knows. But give me a collected man any day.

going to use "competence kink" in all future dating endeavors this is going to absolutely change the game thank you Fireside

they didn't say much about specifics but what WAS said makes me feel correct that Fifi is okay and just got towed to a spirit holding place they will be able to find later 😭

OOOOOOOH

oh noooo. Níf is Kelmp's.. opposite of a power fantasy?? like my only job is to do everything you tell me to and that is lovely :) lmao

Also Suvi assumed way too much about the capabilities of the crew she was given, plus the geas(?) only made her forget about planting the music box, not the entire conclave.

It's not forgotten, it's just funnier to say Suvi is risking people's lives for her boo.

Suvi/Skye epitomizes a certain type of military officer in that on paper she checks all the boxes and knows all the right people. But then it comes time to lead soldiers on a battlefield and suddenly it becomes clear they may not be meant for this.

Hard same!

Not to go full Um Actually but it’s third places, not third spaces. The good news is Mr Pressurewood did invent third spaces as a concept! Which seems to be a thing like third places but only when they’re beaches or cabins

110% with aabria and erika, sworn is hot!!

That just seemed like Lou's 3rd Space... I'm interested in that Pressurewood

The link is in the show notes above.

When I was listening I *thought* I heard a "green beam" hit our boy which is how my table has always described the spell disintegrate and I was cryin'

I cant un-see this now

The crazy thing about the Sworn Kelmp comparison is that I see it and yet also I see a lot of Kelmp in Níf

I love the idea of Aabria being like “Man, the wizard Sully is going to be such an interesting character, and— hmm? To pieces, you say. Welp…”

Grave of the fireflies. Extremely sad movie to put it lightly

I think it would be if Suvi hadn't gone after Silver, got stranded and two people hadn't died. Kinda takes the covert outta covert ops. Then again Suvi doesn't remember the mission and the fallout would be a liability for Steel, so Suvi will probably be fine.

That sorcerer hit Firebringer with a banish, right? He just went home... right? 😅 Also, grats to Erika with the launch of Dragon Age!

(I’m never getting out of horny jail I was one of the reasons it was made)

Sworn has the same hotness level of a man who is good with kids. A man who’s energy makes you say: I don’t need a kid but if your raising them we can try making one later. He is not daddy he is father.

Mr. Pressurewood, I'd love to subscribe. Is it 3rdspaces.com or thirdspaces.com?

We're gonna pretend that Chicago isn't Grit City? Okay, that's fine. Enjoy being wrong. We will be Forget Chicago. But I used to work in L. A. and it's not nearly as fun.

Wait, I need to know! Is FiFi’s disappearance the reason that K asked for the hoopty to have a security lock in Misfits and Magic 2???

“Suvi’s Ghibli world” 😂😭

Til my decision making style is Sworn-esque. It makes too much sense looking back 😂😂😂

"It's MY emergency help party and I get to choose the Ghibli movie!" — Suvirin Kedberiket, as her friends watch their castle-sized Catbus get towed

Okay, re: Sworn’s hotness, I think it’s also important to note that a man who can follow a woman’s orders with the utmost respect and sincerity: very fucking hot.

Sworn has big Gurney Halleck energy, am I right?

“We like it because it’s Suvi” is actually the creed I live by

There is nothing hotter than being intelligent/competent and not condescending. Can you communicate or teach the thing you know without being a dick? And Sworn is now canonically medium ugly? Hot.

I have a massive competence kink. Sworn is :::swoon:: Swoorn?

I was wondering about this. Can they do that? I thought there may be a loophole because her secret mission was 100% secret and unofficial

No shot disintegrate kills a creature the size of a castle instantly though. My dude probably had like 300+ hp. A 9th level Disintegrate does a max of 154 damage.

I think I laughed more at the *Chateau du Brennan* exchange than any part of any other Fireside. Keep it up, y'all. "Come bite this fry, motherfuckers!" 💜

Just had a thought about a funny homebrew spell for the gang: power word wax

I love Brennans use of world building with the spirits, and how it still ties back to ghibli when you think about spirited away and Haku WAS the kohaku river. A big thing can just be one guy that likes soup or a whole dragon

Loved finding out that Sully's True Name behind the name cloak was "John Doe"

Yes I too am hoping that was Banishment. But Sorcerers also have access to Disintegrate.

At eight In the morning I had a panic attack because the fireside hadn't posted yet. Turns out I needed to put more money in my account 😔

I’d like to file some age-gap exemption paperwork on Suvi’s behalf. It’s hard in these streets and I think she deserves a competent lil treat 🥺

YES! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought Sworn is so hot?? Cuz he's so cool and capable AND caring; bros got it

Hope so.

Y'all didn't LoJack the BIRD, c'mon now

I am SO GLAD I listened in the car, I haven't laughed that loud in a while. Solar sorcerors & their coffee.

'Sworn is someone who avoids Analysis Paralysis without sacrificing their executive function." Damn, Brennan.

I don't know about other podcast apps, and I know Spotify isn't the best, but there is a running (I assume AI based) transcript when played using Spotify for what that's worth. It gets some stuff wrong, but it's there.

"Sworn is adult Evan Kelmp." YES! I wouldn't have thought it until Aabria said it, but yes.

With Eursulon doing Pom Poko, they really have the Ghibli gamut covered

Sworn is hot *not* just because he's competent and decisive but because he is *also* Not An Asshole. I still think Sworn is too old for Suvi, but Aabria and Erika can be thirsty. He's probably too young for me, drat it.

Fifi sings: I AM A ROC! I AM A FI-I-I-I-I-IREBIRD!!!!

I live in New England and come alive with the cool, dark, gloomy part of the year and suffer in the heat.

As soon as firebringer disappeared I was horrified then my DND knowledge kicked in and I was like "oh... actually that's great, happy for him"

THANK YOU.

I had to rewind to listen to the solar sorcerer seeing the rok like five times

I was not prepared for Brennan's NYC defense or Wizard Sully voice toward the end of the chat. Nor was I disappointed!

When I was listening I thought I heard a "green beam" hit our boy which is how my table has always described the spell disintegrate and I was cryin'

I think I laughed more at the Chateau du Brennan exchange than any part of any other Fireside. Keep it up, y'all. "Come bite this fry, motherfuckers!" 💜

Sworn is hot not just because he's competent and decisive but because he is also Not An Asshole. I still think Sworn is too old for Suvi, but Aabria and Erika can be thirsty. He's probably too young for me, drat it.

sheds a tear in Scottish a radiant 1380h in Edinburgh