Dismas: "You're on our side. Why?" Vulf: "I could raid and pillage everything I see, I could get all the coin in the kindgom, and it would all be worthless." "For I would have nowhere to spend it." "Unfortunately, not all of the brigands share this view." "There is no honor among thieves, after all." Dismas: "There is a little. We are proof of that." Vulf: "That's true."

Damn Wilbur has hit the gym since the last encounter. From a little runt to a huge brute

Is the discord still up?

Ya gotta make an updated video once he is out in DD2! :D

Just imagining the heir looking at the duchess and thinking something like, “she may be a vampire creature mosquito but hot dang do i want to put those child bearing hips to use.”

Wow, that was hot.

From now on I will always think of the Ancestor as “Crazy Uncle Wayne”. 😆

I’m so glad I listened to the end! Amazing job! ❤️ My concern with just abandoning the hamlet is all of the poor people who have to live there. Unless the Heir was able to move them all to another, untainted town, it’s their duty to at least make the hamlet as safe and habitable as possible, meaning killing all the nasties.

Man, I wonder if the discord server will come back soon

Actually it was founded 2 weeks after January 1, 1994. The February 10 thing was the first operation.

9:30 The one time where the villain explaining his evil plan trope actually works.

Back when War of the Chosen came out, there were theories that Annette was not only the one that caused the successful base assault mission, she was also the Assassin Chosen or even the Warlock due to her psionic power

Sadly.. Zhang died midgame.

"All manner of indecencies." Muahahahahahaaa!

Can’t hear you over the music

WHO IS BIKER'S VA

So I have a theory that the Black Beast isn't really the Thing beneath the Manor, but rather the Shambler. Or perhaps I should say, A Shambler. For starters, the Thing isn't actually black, but Shambler is. Second, his story in DD2, as well as one of his personal Trinkets, seems to support my belief. Lastly, the tentacles seen from some of his attacks.

Field Hospitals: manage to cure other party members of Leprosy. Baldwin, who for some reason can't be cured unless he has double leprosy: "Excuse me what the actual fu"

Fun fact, her War Paint is the same as what her mother wore. Just a touch of world building from her Inn Item in DD2.

So did anyone else initially think that the confessions/Acts were going to be named after the five stages of grief?

The one thing I never understood, when you meet Zhang, he pulls a pistol and tracks and kills a Sectoid with ease, yet when you recruit him he's a Heavy. Why? I just feel he'd be better suited as a sniper or assault at the very least, making him a Heavy just seems so weird.

Since they’re part human, can they have babies?

When one story ends, another can start, for while there are many stories, no person can tell them simultaneously, otherwise it would reduce the stories to meaningless babel. The question is then, what is the new story to be spoken? You have already dipped into other stories in the past with the Gods of Plenty, or the tales of the extraterrestrial combat unit, so who is to say that this will be the last story you will express.

In my experience temping aroma isn’t that bad, it’s mouthwatering aroma that you need to watch out for

XCOM Legends was a bad game, but it did have a bunch of characters, some tying back to XCOM 2 and even EXALT of 1, too bad they didn't explore characters like Zhang and Annette.

The Combine (half-life) : less then two months? thats way to slow to conquer earth.

i been playing xcom since the early 90s lol these new games are fun but imiss the world base building the OGs had, the mechanics are better for sure tho, i still like the oddball bureau allot for its mechanics

Dd2 sucked and had no narrative

Honestly, i found sad that there isn't special soldier "Zhang" like happen with Van Doorn or the guy from the Bureau or even the devs, you can change the name of the soldier and automatically everything change like a "hidden cheat". The only good side is some modders make a Zhang Voice pack mod, and the rest yo can fill in with the ingame customizations so you can match a closer appearance of Zhang in game. I made my own as a recruitable version of Zhang among the character pool (or one you can have right at the start of the game in Gatecrasher), much older with the same scars, hair and voice (thanks to the voice pack), only difference is he is sporting some round sunglasses because they looks cool on him.

I like how the reach makes a little face with it's habds on the second phase

Honestly, what was so bad about Advent in the first place? Im talking particularly in xcom 2, sure they did a few experiments to try and cure the elders and they used humans in that cure. But didnt xcom itself kind of overreact?

Listening to this makes me cry wtf.

Zhang is in X com 2 He's the Mysterious Stranger.

I feel like some of these can’t be fully called “survivor” stories, still great nonetheless.

I always wondered what became of the unfortunate little waif.

Ur a good stori teller

This is such a banger video that i've come back a year later to rewatch it.

I personally prefer to believe that the creature in the darkest dungeon is lying, there is just too many holes in it's story (Not implying that your work is wrong at all, I have been replaying the videos quite a lot, that's wonderful work !). No matter how you look at it, stress, the mind, insanity, these are it's main weapons. It's easier to manipulate people into hurting themselves or each others than actually handling the situation yourself. The iron crown and it's counter part (the light / flame crown you get when your character gains virtue) are omnipresent, almost always located around the head. It manipulates the heir into feeding it and accelerating it's return, perhaps out of fear ? Even in it"'s dying (?) moment it keeps telling the party / the heir that it was all useless, that it would always come back (insert purple man joke I guess) The ancestor was a puppet (a surprisingly efficient one ._.' how much chaos can a single man create ?) perhaps it was trying to turn the heir into a new one, hence the "revelation" at the end ? When you look at it from the physical perspective, the "heroes" can decimate hundreds of monsters without dying with good preparations and equipment, but with time stress will always manage to break through and probably get them and others killed.

They think before they ham.

I like how you asked "so why invite us here?" Only, in a way, for the ancestor to answer your question.

Awesome vid man, love your content, and to refresh my lore re: the Abomination as we wait for Inhuman Bondage! 💚🐐💀

Bigby soon being added to DD2 is like a dream come true, can't wait to see what they do with him :)

Just rewatched this in light of his soon to be release in DD2. You were right, on the steam page for the inhuman bandage dlc he is described as an alchemist.

I like to imagine that calling upon the Sleeper has granted the ancestor assurance for his, and the heart’s grand plan; but inadvertently, created its own prison, trapping itself in time to live, and live again, yet never able to fully gestate.

I feel like it actually makes more sense that he did it earlier in his life as you need dead bodies to raise undead armies. So easier to just let the army grow...naturally...as it were. Let the toll of years provide the bodies neccessary so that project isn't too obvious while he is doing other things he needs to spend more resources hiding.

There's lot of parallels between this church and the IRL Church. In the christianism, the fire represents the purification and the flame is a representation of the Holy spirit. There's a metaphor used to understand the Holy trinity: the Father is the sun, the source. The light is the Holy spirit, the media. The warmth and reflected light is the Son, the effect and interraction with us.