For a show that often loudly professed to hate continuity, canon, and backstory Rick and Morty caps off the first season with an episode that both references characters from earlier in the season and sets up a bunch of characters for future multi-season arcs. Jerry and Beth go off to a Titanic re-enactment experience while Rick and Summer decide to enact the classic Wild Teen Party with much of the humor coming from Morty being the straight man trying in vain to keep the house from being trashed. References to earlier in the season include some stair goblins, the flu hating rapper, and some Ricks from the Citadel of Ricks (a parody of John Hickman’s Council of Reeds). Seemingly throwaway characters that become important characters throughout future seasons include Birdman, Tammy, Squanchy, Gearhead, and Slow Mobius.

I have not been doing this calendar in the way it was meant to be played. I keep forgetting for long stretches at a time. Still, we’re only done with the first quarter of the year. Perhaps after this entry I can do a better job at playing daily even if I don’t post to the blog daily. It will probably help the story resonate better for me.

Story

19 Feb

I continue into the swamp, keeping my eyes open for webs or other creatures that will say I have arrived at Silkrend.

It’s time once again for my annual podcast list. The formatting continues with the changes I added last year: Podcast Republic (the podcatcher I use) no longer provides the podcast’s official description. In lieu of that, I have the “My Thoughts” section which is part description and part opinion. If you click on the podcast’s title - that is the link for the podcast’s feed. If you click on the link for the Podcast website, that should take you to whatever website the podcast lists as their official website. This year I added an “Ended” subheading for podcasts that have ended, but I’m not removing them just yet from the podcatcher in case I want to check out old episodes.

The Story

Time elapsed so far in campaign at start of this adventure: 77 days

Summary

After their recent adventures, the team decides to go on a vacation. They travel to a remove in called The Inn of the Last Repast. Soon after arriving, some people in robes come looking for a lost member of their group. It turns out to be a Satarre and some cultists. The group fights them off and the innkeeper reveals that the person they were looking for was in last night talking about the end of the world, but the innkeeper dismissed it as the ravings of a drunk man.

The Story

Time elapsed so far in campaign at start of this adventure: 63 days

Summary

Stuff still to sell:

• Mosquito in Amber - 100 GP
• Crab meat - 5 GP
• Ashes of Corrupted Pixie - 10 GP

The team reads newspaper articles about the kobolds that fell off the boat when they were working for Little Timmy. They also read an article about how they helped the Concordians. They also get a letter from Valery’s father letting her know that with the money she’s been sending home, he has hired an apprentice at his smithy.