Interiors of
the home of tile dealer and collector Dominique Desimpel in Damme, Belgium (via).
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the road to el dorado when in the context of a d&d game is the most astounding and hellish streak of 1′s and 20′s
“The people think that you’re gods, what do you do?”
“…we go along with it.”
“Roll performance.”
“…I got a one.”
“Your foot gets caught in the stirrup while you try to dismount from the horse. You look ridiculous.”
“Well I rolled a twenty.”
“…somehow, a volcano stops erupting on your cue. Everyone falls to their knees in awe.”
“I roll to come up with an escape plan”
“Alright roll”
“…I got a one”
“I try to convince the horse to break us out”
“Roll…animal handling?”
“I got a twenty”
“You have been caught playing ball with the locals. What do you do?”
“I roll for persuasion…one.”
“You and your fellow player are roped into playing a game against a rival team of the biggest, buffest people imaginable while the entire city watches.”
“We decide to try cheating.”
“Okay, roll.”
“Twenty.”
“You use a physics-defying armadillo as a ball and he helps propel you to the win.”
Leverage episodes I wish we saw:
- the everyone meets hardison’s nana job
- the accidental acquisition of a baby job
- the canon OT3 we’re not being coy like in the Rundown Job job
- the one-off not quite canon within the story supernatural/fantasy elements job
- the fake a cryptid (either bigfoot or el chupacabra) job
- the circus job (I really want to see Parker the acrobat)
- the explain how their clients even find them job. Like seriously do they advertise??? How does this work???
Hardison’s Nana comes to them because some fake debt-collection agency is hounding her for bills she already paid (or rather, that Hardison paid, via the Bank of Iceland). She is played by Nichelle Nichols. There is at least one Star Trek reference.
YES I need this like breathing. Nichelle Nichols is Nana now. Nobody can convince me otherwise.
And the circus job! No one can tell me that the entire crew wouldn’t get in on the circus job and be really into it.
Parker as an acrobat trying to get used to the idea that people are supposed to see her when she’s performing, and then getting into it and loving the applause when she does something extra fancy and death-defying with her ropes.
Eliot randomly is an expert at fire-juggling, because of course he is. He performs shirtless. The crowd goes wild. Never has there been so much thirst in a single room.
Sophie as the fortune teller. Sophie as the fortune teller who’s way too good at her job and has to tone it down a little bit because she’s freaking people out. She also does the knife-throwing act with Eliot, posing beautifully while he throws knives around her. She knows he’ll never miss.
Nate, of course, is the barker. “Step right up, step right up. See the beautiful, the death-defying…”
Meanwhile Hardison is behind the scenes bringing the technology into the 21st century. The light show to go along with the choreography has never been more beautiful, the sound system has never been so good, and the rigging has never been more safe. Also there are bugs everywhere so he can listen in and catch the bad guy, but that’s almost secondary.
In the end Eliot gets to fight the circus strong man, Sophi out-cons the bad guy, and the plan comes together like puzzle pieces falling into place right at the end so you can hardly believe it worked. Just like a good performance should.
They give the circus back to its tearfully grateful original owner and drive off into the sunset–ready to con another day.
Parker keeps her sparkly spandex costume.
#yesss amazing#though also i think in true leverage style#they /practice/ with sophie being eliot’s assistant for knife-throwing#but at the last moment there’s a Snag in the plan#and hardison has to step in and he is not nearly as confident as she was that eliot won’t horribly injure him#(or at least he pretends not to be confident to wind eliot up)#also probably something else goes slightly wrong and eliot barely misses him on the last throw#probably hardison joshes him a bit for the last one being way too close like ‘are you losing your touch’#and eliot’s like ‘haha yeah i was aiming for the other side of your head and got jostled… lucky i didn’t kill you huh!’#and hardison’s FACE in response… oh boy (via kelasparmak)
i feel like they could easily make a leverage movie that was all of these.
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