MIDST | Coda | Season 1 Episode 12 

"It didn't escalate that quickly" "Okay, well, it essentially a little quickly"

I mean, it went from blackmail to murder witth Mr. Weep's own blood. Definitely felt quick.

Understatement of the century

Well, Concord was warned he would be killed if he tries screwing him over...

Oh snap!

Dude committed the number one sin in blackmailing: Never, *ever* make it clear that *your beating heart* is the only thing that can spread the information. He basically said 'pay up or kill me' to what he thought was a CRIME LORD!! Great investigator, terrible blackmailer.

Can confirm, it was the best worse idea ever

Yeah I was going to eat soup after this episode, but I am not now.

Ooh, yes, I hope that as well! Even if it's a paid-subscriber only thing.

The effect reminds me strongly of a Blinding, that... liquification.

I think I missed something, what is he actually doing when singing?

@@Ropeyandboaty What he's actually doing as in his plans for Saskia and the cabaret, not what he's actually doing specifically while singing.

@@kathyclifford8914 got it thank you!

@@kathyclifford8914 for me Weepe's line in the song "Hollow her out; make of her an empty shell" was incredible foreshadowing, right after the Narrators saying "he almost reconsiders his plan"

FOR REALLLLLLL

Part of me thinks he did have something, after all Weepe did threaten him in the 2nd episode anyways. Perhaps he just hadent gotten to it yet.

He wasn't from MIDST, I don't think he was familiar with the fold, a never thought someone would weaponize it.

@@kingofroses302 The narrators in the 2nd episode make a point of clarifying that the two parties are both fully aware that they are talking about shady dealings despite the innocent banter. Moc's power moves were warning Concord that he'd better not be planning anything.

@@jlokison Hm. Your comment led me down a train of thought that led to: Are the tearror-marked immune to further effects? I mean, I wouldn't expect anyone to weaponize the Fold because it's an indiscriminate weapon. The Fold already really messed Moc up, so why would he risk more damage? Unless he's immune. When we meet Lark, she's hiding in the Fold with no lights inside her house, but there's no tearrors. Hmmmm.

​@@kathyclifford8914 wow that's an astute observation with serious implications. I asked myself the same thing but unlike you I didn't realize that Lark was in the fold in ep1. That seems like a direct confirmation of the hypothesis

What sucks is that everything Concord had only nails down Saskia. Weepe was already planning on selling all this info the to Trust anyway. Depends a lot on if Concord let his backup know exactly what he planned to do - and if someone can identify those patent leather shoes. According to the site he's a very practiced and successful blackmailer. Putting all his eggs in one basket would be a pretty rookie mistake, but regardless, it's going to be really hard to pin this on Weepe.

I have a strange, sinking feeling that we haven't actually seen the last of Atticus Concord...

Yeah, the little ship was probably there to smuggle out Ginsberg... but why the heck did he bring the Fleit kid?! That was absolutely guaranteed to bring the Consectors after him. Phineas is not just too sympathetic, his devotion to the Trust is in question. When Ginsberg pressed him on his belief, he wavered. Phineas WANTS to believe, but he's having trouble.

The situation before Ginsberg and Fleit Jr ended up on that crashed cruise liner must have been interesting. Probably the only way he could escape was to take the kid hostage. How did they even get to that crashed ship in the first place?

That turn was *chef's kiss* 😊❤

@@starblaiz1986 it really was 😘👌

Shift in tone? Hardly.

Fair, in retrospect the tone of the episode was set pretty early on, at the time of the OP I was just in awe of the suddenness of how Weepe acted, and couldn't find the correct way to express that.

@@captaincanada8510 I'm just being extra critical, because I'm assessing what I think they could do better.

@chirpbirds924 also fair! Any insight so far? No judgment (at least not from me) purely curiosity

​@@captaincanada8510 Yes, I don't like how they sometimes contradict themselves. Like how they started of this episode saying he didn't stop at the bar, but then changed it to that he did stop at the bar but only for a moment. Most people sit there and imagine what's happening, and it ruined my immersion having them tell me something, and then imagining it, and then having to go and rewind and change it. They sometimes make jokes that are not necessary, as though reading Midst to close friends who they are trying to make laugh, I didn't notice that in this episode, but in earlier episodes they did that sometimes. They're not reading this to close friends hoping someone gets the joke, they're reading it to a large variety of different people and thus being more simple is better and more effective, rather than trying to add their own fun and spice into the telling. Sometimes they structure sentences wrong, there was a few in this episode. They make a point, at the end of a sentence, instead of at the start, and so what happens is you have to sit there for a moment and process what was said. But if they restructure it so that the main point is at the start of the sentence, then you're already understanding the main focus, and those additional details are to help entertain your immersion. So they talk too fast sometimes, and you're still trying to process what they had just said before. But this can be overcome with better sentence structure. This error is likely because the story is written, and when read, it doesn't matter all that much because you can pause and think about what happened. So it's written without really properly considering that it's going to be read out In a few episodes I noticed they pronounced words wrong, or stuttered or made mistakes, and yet they just keep going, as though they just sit there and do one take and read the whole episode through. It's that kind of laziness that can then display how their show could be far better, and yet they are really only putting in half effort, imagine full effort. The sound effects are sometimes too loud. What they should do, is have someone listen to the show after each episode, and give genuine feedback. I feel like that either isn't done or is done by a friend who doesn't want to run the risk of upsetting them by being honest. If the sound effects are to try and push a certain emotion, then why also don't they themselves talk that way, but instead they will just talk with the same neutral emotion regardless of the emotions of the event at hand, two very contradictory intentions. Just things like that.

I think the big difference is that Concord got liquid fold injected

@@wasganzandreas6108 you know what? You’re absolutely right. I got caught up on the effects of the fold, I forgot about being injected with what appears to be a liquid form of the fold.

It's Stationary Hill, not Sanctuary Hill. There's some lore that explains the name if you sub.

@@kathyclifford8914 Sorry, my bad. Brain totally goofed that one.

​@Kathy Clifford I'm not a paid sub (yet), but if I had to hazard a guess: it's because Stationary Hill has stayed, well, stationary for long enough to establish the town, right? Given how the Fold makes things distort and change form?

@@WitchLunaEstrella You're not the only one who's called it that, but I thought I should mention it because you were drawing inferences off it. Heck I had to go back and make sure :)

@@Landis963 Not a bad guess. I hesitate to say, because I consider the sub well worth just for encouraging the storytellers (with the lore just a sweet perk). I'll say this: the islet Midst is mostly or fully unique, and Stationary Hill as a name was based on a misconception.

My brain felt hot fear fuzz. Jesus Christ this was morbid to listen to 10/10

Same, listened to this one earlier and came specifically for the end of this ep

I dunno which one is the "fan favorite" but they're both very, very good in very different ways.

@@kathyclifford8914 I seem to recall a comment 2 or 3 episodes ago saying that the one in two episodes time was extremely popular. I just wish I could remember which one it was.

This wasn't Concord's first rodeo and I'm sure he'd heard it all before.

@@kathyclifford8914 Well, it was certainly his last, that's for sure.

Concord was a practiced and successful blackmailer. I'm betting his influence on the story doesn't end with his death. We shall see.

@@kathyclifford8914 It'll be interesting to see if he had something set up in case of his death.

Some people are mad that CR hosts the non-TTRPG content on a channel. They regularly complain here.

@@evetobe well those people are rather silly then aren't they