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RQG Epilogue - Part 1 (Patreon)

Published:
2021-12-07 16:01:02
Edited:
2025-02-17 11:19:16
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Join Alex, Helen, Bryn, Lydia, and Ben as LOLOMG reunites five years after the events of the finale in a particular Dover eatery.

This week Hamid can't complain, Cel plans for the future, Azu is delighted by a gift, and Zolf asks some important questions.

Content Notes:

Depression & social anxiety

Food & alcohol

Smoking

Brief innuendo

Discussions of: societal collapse & reconstruction

Mentions of: undead, ableism, mind control, death, small spaces, quarantine

SFX: wind & rushing air, rain & ocean, background chatter, clicking, echoing voices

Editing this week by Lowri Ann Davies, Tessa Vroom & Cathy Rinella.

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Khes

Two years too late but I also get them.

Sesharan

Bah. Alex bringing Prague University down slowly is honestly annoying to me. It feels like a cop-out of the single biggest and most obvious consequence of the magic going away. If Alex was going to throw that in right at the end with no warning or way of stopping it, he should have accepted all the consequences, no matter how bad.

NoyneKehmaya

Maybe it's just the people of Prague, you know?! That they MIGHT build up some mechanical backup stuff to "catch" the university island if something goes VERY wrong! So that they could get a chance to evacuate the citizens and THEN let it collapse on the city itself ... I can see that happening ... You can't set up a thing like a floating university thingy without safety measures just in case something went really wrong with the magical nonsense ...

Jack Bird

Einstein having a toy shop just makes me think of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.

sAZAndorable

i'm throwing ALL of the showers of confettis. this is WONDERFUL, so creative, so loving, so heartwrenching, and so cleverly and emotionally already answering or exploring questions I had about this Weird New World -- technology! religion! how each character feels about life without magic! Cel and Azu being so well-adjusted and adorable, and Hamiiiiiid... So full of admiration for everyone for all these thoughts. I know there's 2 more epilogues coming, but thank you so much already for the lovely closure AND fertile new ground for fanworks :DD Also that was the fastest I've ever gone from "bENEDITH MEREDITH WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS IM GOING TO SHAKE ZOLF AND THROW HIM INTO THE OCEAN" to "oh thank you this is so much more lovely than I ever imagined and i adore zolf beyond words". Not the first time by far, but incredibly fast.

Sesharan

What kind of mechanism could they possibly have set up to catch an entire city? Parachutes on every building? By far the most realistic failsafe would be an emergency Featherfall enchantment set to catch anything that falls, and that would have failed with everything else.

spiderbeetlebee

I'm so happy we got to hear this!!! I love this world building and getting to know what is going on,,, also give hamid a hug challenge

NoyneKehmaya

"bENEDITH MEREDITH WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS IM GOING TO SHAKE ZOLF AND THROW HIM INTO THE OCEAN" to "oh thank you this is so much more lovely than I ever imagined and i adore zolf beyond words". ... you need to explain this for me, please O_o I mean, I think I get you, but ... huh ... maybe I'm a little bit more "shaken" than I thought I would be O_o

NoyneKehmaya

I thought more about some large and huge chains or something ... I don't know, really ... Was just an idea Oo

Dr Lou

Centuries ago, in Prague: Wizard 1: So...what happens if the magic fails, or some enemy curses the University to fall? Wizard 2: That couldn't possibly happen. Wizard 1: Ok, but what if... Wizard 2: Enormous gliding wings?

Iggs

This was lovely. Can I just say, Einstein is wonderful. Thank you 💫

Anthony&

Zolf continues to be my absolute FAVORITE depiction of trauma and mental health issues that people don’t like to talk about. Thank you Ben<3 and it was lovely to hear everyone sounding so jazzed to be back together. I’m going to miss RQG so much, but I’m really glad everyone involved was invested to the very end. You guys rock. I cannot wait to see where else this goes.

Emily Palomo

Literally crying rn ❤❤❤

sAZAndorable

[episode content spoiler] In this case, I'm specifically talking about how I thought he'd be incapable of admitting he's doing badly again and of talking things out with Wilde and asking for help, and then when he finally does... welp, actually that was instantaneous and extremely straightforward and open. The frustrated yelling was humorous, I love Zolf and how Ben plays him so much <3

Wil Holmes-Roys

Oof, Hamid 😭 I cannot handle this sadness. Get on the dang boat with Azu for #$@& sake! 😭😭

AJ Codling-Martinez

Didn't cry during 218, but now I am!! The pain!! Good episode, everyone. Thank you for this.

Ashra

Gosh that was so lovely and in character. *sniff*. I need to watch some kitten videos to recover though.

Ollie of the Beholder

I am not going to survive these epilogues, am I? Also: Damn you, Ben Meredith, for putting the image of Chippendale Zolf into my head. 🤣 I know too many IRL burlesque dancers and my mind helpfully suggested several outfits for that!

Pip Walker

So much this! I wanted to shake him. Poor Hamid

Pip Walker

I loved this so much, Zolf admitting he needed help, be still my beating heart! Hamid deserves to be happy too, just get on the ship!

Marie

No spoilers but I just want to say that I really appreciate that Ben didn't just take the easy path and give us what I assume he knows we want. He was very true to the fact that Zolf is a character who's always struggled with his mental health and connecting to people, and I like that he's been consistent with that. This episode left me with a feeling of hope for him, though, and I'm eager to see where the other epilogue episodes take him (and Wilde).

Obsessed

Hum I'm getting super weird sound bugs at the beginning that make it almost impossible to understand what everyone is saying? Am I the only one?

Cat Thompson

Unable to find work in the area he studied due to a drastic change in the economy? Feeling kind of sad and listless? Having no luck turning his passion into a paying job? I think Hamid is a millennial.

ontologicallyunjust

Yeah, it's so rare and precious to see a portrayal like this, re: the mental health stuff (and also the stuff that's just Zolf's personality -- of COURSE he's gone out and beaten himself up trying to single-handedly fix everything wrong in the world, because Zolf has to make life difficult for himself). He's doing badly again, but he's not lost the openness (by Zolf standards!) that he’s worked so hard for; he’s not back at square one. And god, Wilde being able to be home and safety for him in turn, and absolutely the only person on the planet Zolf could accept that from.

sAZAndorable

Yeah!!!!! tHe PeRsoN He ASKED tHaT FrOm *emoji crying but emitting hearts*

NoyneKehmaya

Uuuuuh, yeah, I DID get you!! Feel the absolute same way!! You can't imagine the moment Zolf talked about himself and I got the hardest "Mr. Ceiling" vibes at first and I was like: "Ouh, no, please dooon't 😫" ... but he didn't!! He grew!! And he kept that strength!! You're absolutely right!! And I'm really doing "the Zolf" and hope that him and Wilde finally work things out 🥰

sAZAndorable

millenials killed the magic industry

NoyneKehmaya

Can I just say that I hope to hear another "I'm a lonesome drunken dwarven sailor ... I am on the sea ... I can take to the sea whenever I do please ... I like to be on the sea, I like it when I float ... I want this boat to not sink, please don't sink, please don't sink, boat" ☺🙏🏻

moth

i probably should have taken previous comments as a sign not to listen to this in public, but what's a little crying in the middle of the street over your favourite sad dwarf admitting he needs help? seriously, this was amazing

JJ Hunter

I really hope that Hamid takes Oscar up on the suggestion to go see some theatre...and then realizes that some of the most popular plays currently playing are 'new' Wilde plays that we never got to see in our version of reality (because in RQGverse, Wilde lives, having been freed from his chains). Relistening this morning, my brain kept rewriting 'Soggy Cabin Boy' to 'Soggy Dragon Boy' for Hamid's opening appearance, help. (Oh Hamid - your current feelings of stuck and ashamed are deeply relatable; please follow Zolf's example and actually accept Azu's invitation for at least a trip, it's okay to take a break and get help from your friends when you don't know what to do.) Cel's dedication to rebuilding social infrastructures as much as technological ones are such a delight. I really appreciate the accessible boat refit, and the accumulating crew of old friends setting their hands to new purposes. It would be so much fun to have a collection of short adventures of their travels together. Azu has my entire heart and then some. I am so glad she's growing into herself - I think she's already becoming the leader she aspired to be when she joined LOLOMG. I will need to come back with better words for Zolf's little arc here, but gosh that hit hard and I have a lot of feels about it and I am SO GLAD he's finally ready to try out living with Oscar outside of mortal peril times.

Lizzy_belle

I was really hoping the lack of magic would be a sort of buffing of the planes. As if Myriad hasn't finished clearing out from the rest of existence. So once the magical/divine planes are clear of them magic will come back.

ontologicallyunjust

Also have we commented on Hamid only drinking water (when that was not his preference before)? Oh poor kid, did you discover that alcohol is a hazard for you? I can see him having a bad patch and then realizing that it'd be dangerously easy for him to follow in Saleh Jr's footstep's.

Lark

You two just made me laugh so hard! I can't even tell you.

ontologicallyunjust

Also I feel someone's got to say it: BRYN IS A MONSTER, BUT WE RESPECT HIS CRAFT.

NoyneKehmaya

I think, he really suffers the most because the magic was literally in his blood. He knew magic almost his entire life long. So it does make sense that he would suffer a lot now that it's gone because he is not whole anymore ... I really hope, he and Zolf are talking to each other again. They have more in common than they ever had before ... Bryn does an amazing job tbh 🥰

ontologicallyunjust

Also, really enjoying that they're not defaulting to Zolf and Wilde instantly being "A Couple" in a normative way post-finale, while in no way downplaying how much they mean to each other — that’s a super-interesting choice. It’s a profoundly important relationship for both of them, but they've got to figure out the shape of it, and they've got no roadmap or script for what it is. You can love someone deeply and exchange erratic letters across the world and not see each other for years and then fall into the same easy intimacy as soon as you do (speaking from personal experience). So, do they want to live together, for example — actually yeah, maybe that’s a thing Zolf needs, temporarily or permanently, and Wilde will always keep the door open for him, but we’re watching them figure it out.

ontologicallyunjust

I can see university being one good option for Hamid. He’s smart but we know from Bryn that he did badly at university the first time round because he didn’t work (plus hanging out with some really terrible people). His arc has all been about inheriting vast power, stuff you didn't earn or deserve but just GET for free, and the responsibility and guilt of working out what to do with that. Now he doesn’t have that Instant Destiny any more, but he’s also got the possibility of finding out what he personally wants enough to work at it, even when it doesn’t result in instant success. Even if it takes a lot of trial and error to find that thing. I wonder what mundane subject Hamid might like to study?

JJ Hunter

Yesssssssssssss. I feel like the twins are giving Hamid a preview of what he thinks are his branching options from here: join the family business or return to studying to retrain for a different path. That is such an excellent point about Hamid's inherent arc. Both magic and familial/financial privilege came to Hamid in ways disconnected from his actual effort, he made poor initial choices in 'friends' and enabled a terrible tragedy, and he's been trying ever since to substitute 'achieving' great things for the benefit of others (but also to repair his own sense of worth) as proof he's changed and is becoming worthy of these privileges he can't opt out of without also rejecting his own family. No wonder a period where half of that has been suddenly amputated away and he hasn't yet invested real time in retraining for another career has been so difficult!

ontologicallyunjust

And it might not be university per se -- like, he was working very closely with Cel on magitech by the end of the campaign, maybe he could get into the non-magical side of engineering and help work out how to rebuild tech without magic. Maybe he could go live with the kobolds for a bit and work out his relationship with them! Maybe he’ll fall in love with theatre! But for the first time, it's going to have to be about about his personal goals and efforts and interests, not who his ancestors were. Which will be a really good thing for him — if and when he finds it.

ontologicallyunjust

This ep is further evidence for my theory that you can track Zolf’s psychological growth through how he NOPE-es out of situations. Prague, he flat-out leaves (and I’m not saying it’s the wrong decision given where his head is at then). After the kobolds arrive at the inn and he blows up at Hamid, he initially threatens to go to the coast and break the quarantine completely, and has to be talked into retreating to his room instead, but does do that and emerges eventually. At Barrett’s, he leaves but only as far as the steps outside, and manages some minimal communication (telling Wilde he needs to be left alone and for everyone else to have the discussions without him). This time, he can actually say that stuff’s gotten overwhelming and he needs to go have a “scoot about” on his own, *and* make it clear that he really is coming back soon, this is not him leaving again. Sometimes that’s what it looks like, you know? You don’t get to stop being chronically depressed or having bad patches, but you get better and better coping skills around it.

ontologicallyunjust

Very belatedly, my brain produced: THIS IS PEAK AROMANCE.