the word economy on this guy...

kill all your friends

Gorgug was so important in this battle but not bc he did a shit ton of damage but just bc he did not stay down, Porter wasted soooo many attacks on putting him down again and again but guess what oh he's down? Relentless endurance. Oh down again? Kristen will heal him. Down again? Healing word from squeem. Down again? Nat 20 on a death save

And Porter hates him so much, he absolutely cannot take this student having been right about his stupid multiclass, he just really really wants to kill him when like. Mechanically? Maybe should've focused some more on Adaine and her brain worm

And then when Adaine does use the brain worm it only works because Gorgug is conscious, Porter spends the entire time trying to kill Gorgug and the moment where it matters, the moment Gorgug does have a crucial reaction that he couldn't do if he was down, he's in fact awake and can throw a flashbang in Porter's face

Porter tried to do one thing this entire battle and he couldn't even do that right

Loser says what?

gorgug fucking up porter with the one thing porter hated?? going out of rage to prove a point?? zac oyama the icon you are

Is this justice? Is this a new dawn?

everybody got mad

i fully believe that the Rat Grinders will be revived after all is said and done and that their deaths aren't permanent, which is why I personally LOVE how fucking brutal the Bad Kids were with them this ep. it really drives home just how one-sided the Rat Grinders' obsession with them has always been—they go into this ready for epic, cinematic, toe-to-toe combat, but the Bad Kids categorically Do Not have the time or the energy to get into their whole deal right now and drop them in like two rounds. fuck non-lethal damage, they need these assholes out of their way YESTERDAY. there's truly something so fitting to me about the battle-hardened Bad Kids having no patience for coddling the Rat Grinders when the world is actively ending. like yeah yeah, we can figure out who's actually evil later and bring you back to life, but everyone currently trying to resurrect a dead god is going in interplanar timeout right now while the grown up adventurers clean up your mess, sorry

the rat grinders getting whomped because they don't know how actual combat works is exactly what I've been waiting for all season. fabian taking down ivy in one turn bc they have no hp, them grouping up bc they don't know they're not supposed to and getting immediately shit on by adaine, riz's attack of opportunity doing more damage to kipperlilly than her actual attack did to him, gorgug taking down oisin by the end of round 1 bc they didn't protect their wizard, kristen and k2 both bringing all their friends up while keeping themselves strategically hidden bc they know better, riz diving into the lava like it's nothing bc he's a badass, adaine slapping jace's counterspell out of the air, fig tanking that hit from porter and casting that clutch fireball. just. beautiful. iconic. poetic. exactly what the rat grinders deserve after xp grinding for three years instead of actually adventuring. you fucking suck at this game kipperlilly!! you might be high level but you're shit at pvp!!!!!

the emo kids

SAY IT DONT SPRAY IT MOTHERFUCKER

there's something so poetic about kipperlilly copperkettle—who hated one of her classmates for daring to be better than her and having a dead dad, who refused to improve herself and instead chose to be bitter and entitled, who was so obsessed with being Special and Important like she felt she deserved that she willingly worked with a rage god, betrayed her party, and killed her friend—getting killed by fucking. Hold Person. her fancy optimal build IMMEDIATELY folding in the face of riz's cleverness and experience and applied knowledge. she spends years fixated solely on racking up EXP and getting the Best Abilities, and then when she dies, she's killed not in glorious combat but by a clever, practical application of a 2nd level spell that she NEVER would have ever thought of using because she has no creativity or adventurers' spirit, cast by the same classmate she always hated with a watch his dead dad gave him.

icy distain vs blazing wrath, FIGHT

the bad kids just refusing to engage with porter's stupid fucking egomaniac villain speeches like. "you're a bad teacher" "you don't even know me. what's my name?" and the fact that it has put him on his back foot every time. we're not playing your game. this is a fight and we're gonna win. you're a bad teacher. you're an asshole. you're manipulating children. you're plagiarizing godhood. you suck and you're gonna die. fuck you. taking over, teenage rebellion.

this dealt more fire damage than the lava

Loser says what?

No grave can hold my body down, I'll crawl home to her.

What if I cried?