(Reposted for reposterity)
in light of last sessions (the Trimaldis are overprotective and not great on identifying humans), here’s a list of future Mizzle plots
Forced to wear a dress to get into the all-women city
Trimaldis build a second smaller clank for Miz to wear as extra armor, it’s adorable but totally unusable
Cute toy ship with half-elf princess of Rozinande
(To the Trimaldis and Sara) “Are you this child’s parents?”
Miz is forced into strength and manliness training by some ultra-masculine hero, fails completely. Miz helps the hero confess to his love interest in return
Trimaldis and Sara frantically search three kingdoms when Miz disappears, turns out he fell asleep in the Merchant Princes’ book-sellers’ alley
Other party members bribe Neko Monarch into being Miz’s babysitter
Trimaldis take Miz on the ritual of manhood from Trishenko: your first dumpster dive
Sara tries teaching Miz self-defense, overwhelms him with strength of her battle aura, Miz flees combat from then on
As a minor child wandering the continent with no responsible supervision, Miz is assigned to catch every Poke’mon
Sara: those three look identical. How do we tell them apart?
Miz: I got this covered
Sara: how
Miz: while they were sleeping, I dyed their fur unique colors
Trimaldis: we don’t like people telling us apart
Sara: but don’t you want to be recognized as individuals, with your own tastes, feelings, opinions, wants, needs, lives?
Trimaldis: if nobody can tell which is which, we can avoid blame for anything one of us does
Actually this either works really well, or not at all, as raccoons are (probably) color-blind (or nearly so). So they might not know they have been “tagged” …
Miz: enemies ahead! Do we fight, or run?
Trimaldis: how many are there?
Sara: as many as there are colors of the rainbow!
Trimaldis: (thinking) so like 1?
Trimaldis: oh yeah, we got this
Sara: you’re leading Mizzle into a life of vice and dissolution with your emphasis on gambling
Neko Monarch: my meowgic nyambers are helping him in battle!
Sara: what about the 4000 zenit debt from your nightly card game?
Neko Monarch: I’ve vowed to never again do that
Sara: really?
Neko Monarch: oh yeah we’re switching to dice
Shiny: okay, crew, why did we lose to a bunch of overhyped lizards?
Tiny: we need more lightning guns
Whiny: we need more power to the drivetrain running the armor
Sara: you need to suck less
Miz: what happens if your clank breaks in a way you can’t repair?
Shiny: we carry on regardless, as heroes should!
Tiny: we try to find another clank and fix it up
Whiny: we open a restaurant and stop doing this nonsense
Miz: so there’s dragons, drakes, wyrms, wyverns, serpents, salamanders…
Sara: what’s the difference?
Miz: in the fantastical literature, largely the number of limbs the beast possesses
Sara: so if we cut some limbs off, does it change the classification?
Miz: (sweating) I don’t think anyone thought of that before
SARA: So you just walked the clank out into the sea and didn’t stop until you reached Harmony Island? How did you survive the trip?
SHINY: Strong, inspiring leadership!
TINY: Brilliant engineering support!
WHINY: I’d brought a big bag of walnuts along for snacks.
Miz: did it take a long time to walk under the ocean?
Tiny: quite a long time!
Miz: with nothing but this cramped suit to hold the essentials of life
Whiny: pretty much
Miz: so like, did you ever have to go to the bathroom–
Shiny: we do not speak of it
Trimaldis: we aren’t helpless victims constantly in need of saving
Sara: I can close the lid of this trash can again if you want—
Trimaldis: nonono your generosity is greatly appreciated
Miz: don’t you three get all hot and stuffy in the mech suit all day?
Tiny: among my many inventions is advanced roll-on anti-perspirant
Sara: don’t you get tired of being bossed around? You should put your foot down
Whiny: I do put a foot down, and then they yell at me to put the other foot down, that’s how the suit walks forward
Shiny: (thinking) the duty of command is a heavy weight to bear
Sara: Whiny, Tiny, stop sitting on Shiny’s head, he can’t breathe
Miz: I noticed that you always rush in to study something and ask questions
Sara: I’m naturally curious!
Miz: well, I was thinking. Do you want to borrow the Arcanum of the Grimoire?
Miz: does your home town have social classes, like upper- or lower-class people?
Trimaldis: oh yeah. There’s the dumpster owners and the dumpster divers.
Miz: so bandits attacked us
Trimaldis: yep
Miz: and we beat them up and their boss dropped an item and they ran away
Sara: correct
Miz: and we kept the item we got from beating them up
Trimaldis: right
Miz: and we’re not bandits?
Sara: … they attacked us first