Tonight in chat while I was streaming art/Crystal Kingdom we were discussing who gave the IPRE patches to Tres Horny Boys (gotta be Barry) and how he could have done it.
Presumably, he didn’t have them on him when he got yeeted off the Starblaster, so he probably got them from Lucretia’s office while he was doing recon as Pringles, right? Smuggling out the patches is a little bit iffy but doable. But how did he get them under the Candlenights bush wrapped and addressed for the boys to find?
This was a couple months or so after Pringles is jailed so the anti-lich wards are already installed and they must be on high alert for folks getting possessed. He wouldn’t have been able to get back in to place the patches. Except.
You guys: Santa exists canonically in the TAZ Balance universe.
Barry visited Santa Claus in his lich form and asked him to deliver presents to his dear friends for Candlenights on the moon and That’s Canon Baby.
This is a great rebuttal to this theory, God bless
Making the delivery is Santa’s gift to Barry, the only lich to ever achieve Nice List status
Protagonist now remembers key facts about important people. He no longer develops convenient amnesia between cutscenes.
Protagonist now has a cooldown on certain adverbs. Adverbs have been buffed by 30% to compensate.
Developer note: Adverbs are important to writing but they are sometimes overused. This change keeps adverbs relevant while encouraging the use of adjectives and verbs.
The horse now has a name.
Deuteragonist snark power has been increased to 150, up from 75.
Instead of a human who shapeshifts into animals, they’re, like, an owlbear that shapeshifts into a human.
They’re mystically attuned to cities, which their powers treat as a sort of exotic but naturally occurring terrain.
Rather than seeking intuitive oneness with untamed nature, they carry out hilariously reductive scholarly analysis of humanoid society, all writing up thesis papers like “On the nesting habits of the Common Halfling”.
(They can still call down a lightning strike on your ass, though, because some things don’t change.)