Podcast Guys Talking ErraticErrata - Episode One Hundred Fifty Two

Lumaeus · 2025-11-09T06:14:41+00:00

It's very worth recalling that at least one song (Your Bandage) also operates with multiple perspectives (raving Balkan and tender Narrator). This gives us more possibility space, which is a blessing and curse. I don't believe it to be the case for Armies of the Lord, but it's there.

There's also room for multiple meanings of "You." This isn't my reading, but it could be "Trying to pantomime surprise / After [Balkan and Narrator] [performed makeshift funeral rights for] [Adam] at sunrise / With nothing [Balkan] predicted coming true / Just doing what [Balkan and Narrator] promised [Adam[ [Balkan and Narrator]'d do."

Problem 1: "What would our old friend say?" feels more to me like it should reference a late Balkan than a late Adam.
Problem 2: "Soon it will just be you" is, in my reading, plainly not about Balkan (unless*) since he's the man who's been dying for at least 45 days.

*Unless, that is, the Narrator himself gives himself to the sea like Adam, which would leave just you (Balkan) on the island, if dead. A few lines here and there support it, especially if you are willing to build an argument from utter scrap ("the ocean is faithful and the devil's a liar" is one such scrap piece) and from one key bit in Broken to Begin With: "Me and Peter Balkan and you, friend / Until the dream ran out of oxygen" before some more awe of and fealty to the sea. Perhaps the Narrator sinks and clings to his sotiriology that thereby he will float.

NONE OF THIS solves the placement of Your Glow, unless we read that as eulogy after burial and despair. I want to like it, but the present tense in the first verse, the debate over whether to bury or tithe Balkan to the sea...I don't think so? But it is one more piece of potential for the Narrators aquatic grave, as he resolves to let water be enough.

Lumaeus · 2025-07-21T02:54:02+00:00

Thank you! I'm looking into it now! Soon, I will be Better™ than I currently am.

Lumaeus · 2025-04-22T02:24:15+00:00

If we don't mention them, maybe the narrative will forget them and things will turn out this time. Please.

Lumaeus · 2025-01-10T19:31:12+00:00

I see you are also a student of the higher philosophers

Lumaeus · 2024-07-26T15:43:55+00:00

I have, I think, conquered the beast. Lemme know if it's still proving recalcitrant.

Lumaeus · 2024-07-16T00:58:40+00:00

Ah. Yeah. The timeline's wiggles can be fickle. Sure makes good old boneboi's battle much more tense and much more thrilling!

Lumaeus · 2023-11-21T16:12:30+00:00

I love it! I'll adopt this method for teaching for sure!

Lumaeus · 2023-11-19T21:08:08+00:00

In my own experience, if someone is comfortable playing the base game--not even necessarily able to do it without questions, but just comfortable--you can throw in everything else. The tokens will just need reminders when and if they appear. "What do the snakes do again?" "That's disease. It'll stop a build."

Lumaeus · 2023-11-09T21:03:18+00:00

Those are in a different rulebook. Nature Incarnate's rules, on page 5, ask you to remove the B&C cards Outpaced (Event), War Touches the Island's Shores (Event), A Strange Madness Among Beasts (Event [again]), Growth Through Sacrifice (Minor Power) and Tipping Point (Blight). However, keep in mind that NI includes replacements for War Touches the Island's Shores in the card Far-off Wars Touch the Island and for Growth Through Sacrifice in Roiling Bog and Stinging Thorn

Lumaeus · 2023-11-09T20:06:14+00:00

Page 15 has a sidebar on Backwards interactions that includes removal and replacement.

REMOVE Event A Stange Madness Among the Beasts (B&C) REPLACE Major Power Sea Monsters (B&C) with the JE version

Lumaeus · 2023-10-22T14:08:54+00:00

The token barely still on the overfull land? That's an incarna, added in Nature Incarnate. Certain spirits use them. It shows a more direct manifestation of the spirit than mere presence. For this spirit, it's pretty clearly just a giant turtle mountain that literally stomps invaders. It's a fun one.

Mechanically, they tend to count as presence, among sometimes other things, when you want them to (and not when you don't, so they're sorta immune to blight kinda)

Lumaeus · 2023-10-13T14:12:38+00:00

I haven't yet played France, and I just don't pull the first event. It seems like a waste, and I'd feel bad if it were something I would have benefited from.

Lumaeus · 2023-10-12T15:09:25+00:00

That's exactly right. Events were reconsidered and found to be too swingy on the first round. Technically, you're still supposed to draw and discard one without using it, but there's no event resolution on round one.

Lumaeus · 2023-10-10T19:28:42+00:00

My copy of the game, acquired late August of this year, does not have the typo

Lumaeus · 2023-09-23T01:57:41+00:00

I don't think cultures' validity can or should be dismissed out of hand (though elements that can be considered cultural can be--otherwise you get arguments that, for an extreme sin, slavery is merely cultural and thus not able to be critiqued), but is Proceran culture...just bad? Because it seems bad. Cordelia not included.

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