Strong "D***sucker Mike" energy

Fr they hate to see a guyboss winnin

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Nobody cares about old Avanesh’s bones, but as soon as THEIRS are on the line, suddenly everyone is all for finding ways to keep bones in their respective bodies. No empathy I tell ya.

wouldn't you be too, though? You got to be careful with what you agree to, just in case of the off chance, edge case scenario that he DOES lose his bones, then guess who's on the hook to give them new bones. It's a world of magic, it's not too far off that magic or something could take his bones, and it could have been a magically binding agreement for all they know. Always check the fine print of all agreements in a fantasy world of magic :P

@@jeezuhskriste5759 I mean, they're villains

because there’s still a possibility however slim something will happen

@@jeezuhskriste5759 I mean really you lock a guy in a river in a box in a cage in a stone cave and then you ask him to build you a demon crown and when he VERY REASONABLY asks for protection for his bones FROM THE FUCKING RIVER suddenly you’re crazy? Like really who do these guys think they are a river??? Hahaha don’t take my bones hahah

I found Avanash's logic easier to follow than Maggies, if I'm totally honest. XD

I also love how Brennan starts to crack as soon as he says “let me be very clear” because he knows he’s not going to be clear about it at all.

Followed by Mike Trapp's sarcastic, "Please!! Don't mince any words!!" (5:10)

I don't know what the confusion is. That explanation was entirely direct and clear and one of the most understandable bone-related things he said. Not even joking...I think he was being very clear there.

it was very clear he didnt know how bad the worst outcome could be. basically the worst thing i could think of might not be the worst thing that could happen.

Yes! Definitely keeping that in mind for when I play a crazy person. Maybe something that wouldn't come up in conversation often so it's not immediately obvious.

Yep. Crazy people don't know they're crazy. People with delusions think their delusions are reasonable. As soon as they start to think they're being unreasonable, they wouldn't believe those things anymore. On the other hand, sometimes "crazy" is just an unfair judgment placed upon someone by society. For instance, I ask you, what is crazy about wanting your bones? 😁

Candlewick in Neverafter is legitimately terrifying. Brennan’s good at the effects of longterm isolation

What is crazy about wanting your bones???

It's also something that's quasi-rational. We all wish to protect our bones at some level, none of us have a fanatically been driven insane by trying to keep our bones from a river for thousands of years. It's a deep set kind of insanity, one that's only hilariously grim because we understand how it happened.

Also she is literally half spider.

Totally checks out with the ending too. He maintained total control of the fate of those bones from the moment the promise was given.

HEEELP!!!

The nervous chuckle really sells it

“I poke him, are there bones in him?” Is also very good

This was the moment I realized Avanash is just Gob from _Arrested Development._

At least once a day I boot up this video to hear that line. I love it.

@@Zecarius Yeah, I'm like "You may be full crazy, but THAT I can get on board with."

i agree but i always took that context of “what is crazy about wanting your bones if i lose mine?”

@@liamross340 I took it as him wanting to keep his own bones.

I read this as it happened

Now I’m wondering what it would have been like if the insight check was a low roll

@@DeathnoteBB “he is surprisingly sane and capable. You trust him implicitly.”

They're all to happy to call him crazy for being concerned about his bones, but the moment he asks them to put theirs at risk, they all get really cagey and concerned. Sounds to me like he's a perfectly sane and rational guy who just wants to keep his bones.

@@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong “Why would a river take your bones? Your bones will be fine!” “So if something happened to MY bones, I get yours?” “Now hold on-“

Yeah, Trapp said it _just_ before the clip starts.

Very late but I'm so sorry. Yeah crazy people can definitely hold a conversation, I think everyone has a story of the guy at the bar who seemed nice until they mention something fucking batshit. Usually about Jewish people or aliens.

No but this tracks for like, elven burial lore. They’re immortals and their dead probably go into sacred tombs or specific grounds, and the idea that Avenash’s bones would become soggy and rotten enough to fall into the river and remain lost and unburied forever if he died in there is potentially uniquely horrifying for these elves

Him, looking at another person: Are you my bones?

yeah no one talks about him truly thinking that Maggie IS his bones for a second

His random screaming "HELP!!!!!" in the middle of an otherwise normal sentence is fantastic.

Oh my god that’s amazing 😂

Oh god I’d love to see the mounting confusion morph into disturbed horror and perturbed glee at the realization.

How do you know he was improvised?

@@mii5159 He either mentioned it in a video afterwards, or it's a rumor going around the comments section.

@@mii5159 When the party first decides to teleport to the keep through Lilith's web, Brennan makes a throwaway comment about not having expected them to get over there. He's good at compensating for shenanigans (looking at Emily Axford over there), but I think he expected them to try a smith from the blood keep before moving further afield if they needed. So while he knew he wanted to have an NPC named Avanash exist in the world, the personality/quirks were certainly off the cuff

@@mii5159 in one of the talk back shows (Adventuring Party, I think) was when he revealed Avanash was completely improvised

@@mii5159 Adventure Academy, Season 1 Episodes 13 & 14: Reunion with the cast of Escape from the Bloodkeep Pt1 & 2. It's kinda like a proto-adventure party recap. He explicitly states in both that he generated Avanash completely on the fly. In fact, the entire encounter was unplanned, as the requirement to go to the castle was generated to get them onto the siren for a planned encounter. He did not expect them to circumvent the encounter through teleportation, and instead of just stonewalling the action he improvised the entire encounter on the fly and made it work. Avanash wasn't supposed to exist in any capacity...yet here he is, and the world is better for it.

Just… it’s Efink. It’s Knife backwards.

​@@washyrose5904murderdeth !

⁠@@washyrose5904you don’t spell it Knihpe?

"Please. PLEASE. Don't mince any words!"

🥰

For whatever it's worth, as a non-schizophrenic I totally understood and could follow his thought processes as well and am not really sure what everyone's confusion was. ...I'm not quite sure what that says about me, but at least I can say there are some non-zero number of people who understand what you're talking about despite not sharing in that particular day-to-day challenge.

To quote Adventuring Academy... "You can take Mike Trapp out of the straight-man role, but you can't take the straight-man out of Mike Trapp."

The interesting thing was that Sokhbarr was a lot more intelligent than he reasonably should have been, because Mike Trapp is a lot more intelligent so he played him that way. As an animal keeper the character would have had close to zero interpersonal skills but the way Mike played him he was very emotionally intelligent.

@@cogitoergosum7891 Sokhbarr had above average INT (13) and high WIS (17). I'd say that matches up to what Trapp was playing. Also animal handler poor interpersonal skills. Yes, there are people who get into it because they can't talk to other people, but there are also people like Steve Irwin.

@@stuarthutzler6670 after reading that quote, so many of my in game decisions now make sense.

@@romxxii Yeah that's a fair point. I stand corrected. Thank you.

That and, "They're further from water, so good", are my two favorite lines from Avanash.

Especially this guy. He’s so calm about it

Well not his bones he's an elf they don't die like that but the constant paranoia and time has consumed him.

@@N1korasu as another person explained it somewhere, he probably watched other people die and river taking their bones, so it messed him up

I love it when the players figure stuff out on their own!

Well Trapp is a writer and improv actor by trade, it only makes sense that he’d be the one to foresee these kinds of twists

He rolled a nat 20 before which is why he knows that guy is full crazy.

@@darrienjones8917 that was way, way, way earlier; the whole party knew avanash was crazy by this point. he didn't have to roll at all to figure out what had happened to the crown

No no, this insight that he was full crazy was from the nat 20 FROM trap which is why everyone acted like they didn’t know

could possibly be that he saw other people die of old age, decay and have their bones pulled away by the river and his crazed mind making him believe that the water wanted to take his bones. since hes an elf he wouldnt die of old age in there.

@@rubylovesbooks amazing explanation!!!

Oh my gods, this is perfect! It's like Dark Derek vibes!

He's up there with the pirate dad. "When I die, ill jump into hell and kill the devil himself."

And john feathers. "Not gonna lie....I. Look. Good."

Mine will always be Baby, because YIKES.

I’ve seen other people mention this. Is this his “I’m trying to think on my feet” tell, or something?

@@corsaircaruso471He’s mentioned in the EFTBK reunion adventuring academy episode, it’s a nervous tic

Is he also scared of losing his bones?

love that for you

Does he talk like bob ross too?

He is mad?

checks out

And how are your bones doing?

No I know when something is far beyond my capabilities.

Oh you've got so much gold in store!!! Definitely worth the Dropout sub if you haven't yet

@@kayleyhodson7079 You were right.

No. I refuse. Stop. Please.

Well they have the insane Librarian

Well I mean he did make it, he just wants his bones :( Let him have his bones

@@destrious8133 Yeah and then gave it to Hamhead >:(

@@DeathnoteBB but did they tell him NOT to give it to hamhead? he’s a crown guy not a detective. he just wants his bones. justice for avanash

Assuming this isn't rhetorical and you haven't already figured it out. Basically: You snap with one hand, snap with the other hand then bring them together. Detailed: I usually snap with my left hand first so I position my left hand slightly above my right. Snap with your left hand then immediately open your hand, palm down. Kinda like you're trying to hi-5 the ground. Snap with your right hand, and as you snap, turn your hand into a fist. (It doesn't have to be a full fist but close enough that when your fist hits the palm it makes a slapping-like noise.) Finally bring them together. Open palm to the top of your fist. (Where your thumb and pointer finger are that would make an L if they were fully extended). As you get more comfortable, add speed. Experiment with your snaps or the way your palm/fist connects to find where it sounds best.

rekha's gravity hijinks were great, and every last second save by teleportation was wild

In fact, they might have done the worst possible job of keeping his bones safe

✨Villains!✨

I don’t want to hurt the fake peoples’ feelings okay Dylan

@@SamGlaze Excuse me for not wanting to go to fake prison for fake killing fake people.

What's the point of playing an immersive story-telling, world-building, role-playing game if you're not going to immerse yourself in it and act like your character actually exists in the world?

​@@IceMetalPunkright and in the world you don't usually kill people without a reason

Considering they're talking about a man concerned with losing his bone(s)

Mistborn represent

Where else would the find him?