I’m glad the Fake Walker question was featured. I was pretty proud of that one.
Although, the letter actually had 2 questions in it, and they only covered 1 of them. I don’t even remember what the other one was, now.
I honestly didn't think much of Apostate before this episode, but he's probably one of my favorite villains now by virtue of his devotion to showmanship and skullduggery for the sole purpose of getting on Fanatic's nerves.
I'm going to join in the chorus and declare that I loved this week's episode.
I loved Fanatic's episode, in that it was cool to learn a lot about the character and have some great/cool conversations as a result. But it was also a relatively weightier episode, and I feared that the Apostate one would be similar but dark because it's about a villain. Instead, I got "wake up Helena!" which, in addition to making me laugh out loud, might have propelled Apostate to the top of my favorite villain list. I was suprising pleased by the levity this week.
Yeah, Apostate is basically a pure Card Carrying Villain Troll, and it's pretty glorious. (He's even a deliberately fabulously fanservicey villain on top of it.)
It belatedly occurred to me to wonder if Lazer Ryderz Apostate is what Tactics Apostate looks like.
The name Hellion appeared in the Oblivaeon Demos. She is one side of the mission reward card which features Seraph, so we'll see her once the mission deck is out.
The coma one is great, but I love the talk about being siblings and wanting to work together as he keeps raising corpse to try and stab her to death. In fact, my only problem with that graveyard fight is that Apostate suufered from the law of inverse ninjutsu to make it possible. Fighthing someone just as good as you that many times would be one of the hardest fights Helena has ever had. And Apostate does not miss a beat with his speech the entire time.
I'll also say there is a huge missed opportunity with Apostate in the Block. Sure, he was a "lowly patrol guard" but man, he was in the Block for years with potential access to tons of things, I really hope he left tons of messes and "time bombs" for the heroes and FILTER to clean up for years to come.
Also, Tactics Apostate sounds pretty dang awesome looking, and terrifying in the extreme. He made a new sword (an unamed sword, curse you Christopher!!) out of an Oblivaeon shard. That has all sorts of badness comning off of it.
As for the RPG, I wonder about broken artifacts retaining large chunks of the Spirit of Deception. A few unlucky souls find a few things, maybe someone robs Condemnation from the Freedom Five (they have it in Tactics at least) and we could have a minor cult movement for putting Apostate back together again. That could be super cool.
Edit: Oh yeah, on the topic of lies.
Apostate never wears shirts.
He was a Guard in the Block and the advisor to a totalitarian leader... while shirtless... yeah, that's too much
At the very least I wouldn’t be surprised if he had influence on why FILTER went from a mostly neutral group to one with more villainous intent.
I have to admit that I had no idea what musical group they were referring to with the flavor text.
Yeah I had to look them up from Walking Targets recap ,apparently it's Dio, who were a Black Sabbath spin off band, never heard of them but music is not really my thing
Apostate's time in the block was spent setting up a long con that ended with several guards ending a long awaited and much anticipated vacation with disappointment in the size and abundance of local fish.
It was one of his most successful deceptions.
I think I heard a little Mistborn reference in there today, when they referred to Host spirits “rioting” emotions. Also, Seraph’s sword being named Preservation might be a little bit of a nod, eh?
> Apostate never wears shirts
What, never?
Apostate and Ra should form a shirt haters club
People can't properly appreciate what a heavenly being you are if you're covering it up with a shirt! It's Being A God/Dark Angel 101 stuff.
I hope so.
Oh! I remember now to mention how I love how fabulous the art for Apostate's show notes is.
It's totally him just vamping and being like "look at how amazingly hot and evil I am" and it's hilariously awesome.
Hardly ever.
Most men's shirts don't work with wings. Women just have more options in that regard (string tank tops, tube tops, backless dresses, etc).
I’m away from my cards now, but isn’t Hellion visible on Quando Ahora?
There isn’t any version of Fanatic or Apostate on that card.
Does anyone else not like the art on the videogame/shownotes art much compared to the original artwork? I'm starting to like the new art though…