Enjoyed this a lot. Pleasantly surprised to hear that BP Jack is staying on for at least a little while longer, Cap’s fop voice is always fun to hear and probably a nice change of pace for him from Jamela. Glad to know that Barty isn’t automatically doomed to a hairy fate, although what is in store for him we have to wait and see. Super excited by the implication that Gladriel still has her machinations in the works for our heroes if I’m reading between the lines correctly in that last scene. If there’s one thing I wish for it would be inclusion of the B Team in their plans, since we know that Deen was supposed to go find Ryllatrix and Izzy as backup, but then again one can’t expect plans involving other PCs to go the way you’d hope, especially not ones with Deen at the helm. I do hope they’ll be making another appearance before the end of the book though.

This was quite the episode. There are so many awesome things this episode I don’t even know were to start. Jemala’s instant and automatic claiming “Your Worshipfulness” as her title was beautiful and I had all but given her Causual Badass award for how she dealt with the guardsmen when Lefty stepped in and brought it to a tie. Lefty rubbing Jack’s nose in it was just fun and Shovel Guy added so much to his scenes. Hex’s use of telepathy was also a really nice solution to his problems. It not often that you get to see helpless and barely able to move turn into a significant party advantage.

I also like how Reul rewarded his players without undermining the tone. It never stopped feeling like recovering from a defeat/damage control, but the group received some not insignificant resources with which to do that.