The end has come
http://theletterspage.libsyn.com/episode-84-oblivaeon-part-2
Well, now that everything’s officially out there...
...One of us is gonna have to update the TV Tropes page.
What a fun finale. I have to admit, I slipped into a bit of “pacing around haughtily” because Voss’ ego was so enjoyable. Just makes you wanna move.
I loved the Bloodsworn victory theme at the end, too. Really did feel like a great climactic moment.
Okay I’m dropping the podcast now bye /s
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Super epic finale to the OblivAeon story! Some of the scenes were super awesome to imagine, and it felt like I was reading a comic.
I'm still waiting for my copy of OblivAeon, and this makes it even harder to wait for.
Also, nice to see my favorite character, Baron Blade/Luminary have a big part in the finale, and had some epic scenes all to himself.
So I re-listened to the GTG origin story episode last week (like one does).
C&A recorded this episode in the middle of the night.
They came up with the idea for the card game while waiting for a plane, in the middle of the night.
Sentinels of The Multiverse is basically ending like it started (with two sleep deprived guys talking about super heroe stuff).
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I sad we didnt get Promos for oblivaeon shard tempest and Focused/Scholar Guise. They sound suuuuuper awesome.
I definitely had at least 10, if not 15, questions for this episode, which was trimmed down to 4.
Hopefully some of those will make a reappearance during the OblivAeon Editor's Note...
We did get the Guise transformation as a reward at least. As for Tempest you could give him the OblivAeon Shard reward to have that impact. In both cases their OP versions are temporary at best.
I had questions between this episode and the Scions which I thought they’d hit but did not. Though I could say that about a lot of episodes where I have multiple questions trimmed off. All it means is I’m sending a bigger follow up letter that I hope they go through.
*nods* I can only imagine how many your questions get cut, Powerhound, if it's proportional to how many actually made it ON the show.
That first question I asked, though, wasn't quite answered the way I expected: I was hoping to find out if the heroes had Failed to achieve any of the objectives that were Mission Cards in the game, and if there were any repercussions for such. From context, it sounds like the only one that really wasn't achieved was "Orchestrate the Void", but I don't have the list in front of me...and that's an awfully good success to failure ratio.
I'd also hoped to get a definitive list of "Which Environments are actually destroyed over the course of the OblivAeon event?", but that was only answered obliquely...
Pretty sure they got all of them, Orchestrate the Void included. Although some of them are described only obliquely, and some don't have the objectives and rewards match up (e.g. Meager Winnings actually happened before The Last Wager).
Orchestrate the Void was succeeded but would have caused the universe to be destroyed if La Commadora hadn’t intervened at the last minute in the other universe.
I must have misheard, then. I was under the impression that completing Orchestrate the Void would have made the two timelines too close, and that it was abandoned to avoid that very circumstance.
It would have, if La Comodora hadn't gone to that other reality and convinced its Argent Adept to return the virtuoso spirits to the void, so they wouldn't be manifested in both universes at once.
Or rather, Commodora convinced the other-universe Voidforms to go unsummon themselves, if I understood correctly.
But that aside, quick question: I know the Incap side of Luminary shows the funeral, with a shadowy figure lurking in the trees up on the hillside above the grave site. But I strongly recall seeing that same scene from the other side, with Baron Blade smiling wickedly as he slips away while the heroes mourn him in the distance. Where did I see that second piece of art?
The close up of Luminary is the incap of the hero from the version in the box. The version with the Shadow in the background watching a funeral is from the Hero Foil Pack.
Cool, that sounds close enough. I haven’t received my copy yet so I haven’t seen any of the content.
Funny enough, that’s also what I remembered, but I went back to check, and no, she convinced that world’s sole living Virtuoso to unsummon them.
This episode biggest surprise: I actually liked seeing Guise and I'm interested in what happens to the character. I'm glad they are toning down the wackiness and doing away with the meta gimmick.
I’m happier with the outcome here than with Mist Storm. We do have a slight preview of his RPG version on the Sentinels of a Freedom KS here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/underbite/sentinels-of-freedom/posts/2179440
Seems his main difference is more actively being a hero rather than losing much of his other qualities which I’m glad for.
These two OblivAeon episodes were some of the better podcast episodes! I liked how deeply Christopher and Adam got into storytelling mode, and how they kept things moving dramatically. I sometimes get annoyed when they say, “oh, this thing is like a full-page spread of whatever, IT’S SO COOL” just because those comics and images…don’t…exist…but in these OblivAeon episodes I thought they did a great job verbally describing for the radio audience the drama of what was happening. The whole drama with Voss and Luminary was very well done. Honestly, the thing I found most surprising about Luminary was that he plotted his triple-cross with the heroes the whole time!
They definitely shot themselves in the foot a little with the recording schedule as far as questions go… We didn’t play OblivAeon until shortly before the Scion episode and I submitted a bunch of questions based on our games and what we learned about the Scions, but I think maybe the submissions came too late for the recording of OblivAeon 1 and 2. I’m glad they realize they’re going to have to devote a whole Editor’s Note to OblivAeon questions. Any bets on that episode’s length? Put me down for 2.5 hours!
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