![]() ![]() ![]() Siobhan Thompson did an outstanding job showing the mix of grief and angry determination a young woman in a magical society might feel in that situation. Some of the reactions were heartbreaking, like Ruby begging the Sugar Plum Fairy to bring her sister back. Obviously the other characters were going to have trouble accepting this. ![]() (Art by ACOC character artist Samir Barrett) The Sugar Plum Fairy has murder in her heart, y’all. It felt unfair because it was unfair, in keeping with the overall theme of this season. She literally died because she had a low initiative roll, then had to make her death saves with disadvantage due to being poisoned. She didn’t die after a long battle with plenty of bad rolls. I’m not saying people were flippant about Lapin or Preston dying, because we’ve seen the effect of those losses in past episodes. What I really appreciate about the beginning of ‘Blood and Bread’ is the care taken with the subject of Jet’s death last episode. The characters had two main goals: retrieve Jet’s body and get away from Castle Candy before the Calroy the Lying Cake Traitor and his villainous baked good army could kill them. ‘Blood and Bread’ is an extended chase scene. It isn’t really a combat episode, though most of it takes place in combat rounds. This episode is a lot different than- well, in truth it’s different than any other episode of Dimension 20 we’ve seen so far. It’s a desperate flight to freedom punctuated with brief flashes of combat and some really heart-wrenching emotional beats. ‘Blood and Bread’ is the second time we’ve seen the A Crown of Candy characters on the run from overwhelming odds, down one character and badly injured. ![]()
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