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I know what I am. **NOT SPOILER SAFE** Critical Role sideblog. Shipping is frequent and remorseless. Formerly WidojestTrash, now blatantly multishipping

[qvert]

[pocketgalaxies]

it is funny to me that 66 episodes in they still haven't decided on a clear way to get caleb out of frumpkin vision when something's happening. beau just kinda wildly slaps him and grabs his shoulders and shakes him around until he comes back

[genderbinaryisforlosers]

i’m actually obsessed with cerrit. he’s the odd one out. he’s the only member of the brass ring without magic. he’s the only one not hiding anything. he’s the sole survivor.

he is always watching but he does not press his friends about the secrets they keep until it’s too late. he is the anchor that counterbalances their hubris. the ring of brass is destroying itself each other in pvp ten minutes after he leaves because the sightwarden of the eyes of avalir is their sense of fucking perspective.

thinking about how the hoarding of magic itself became hostile as the age of arcanum came crashing down. trying to keep the magic from the calix results in disaster. everybody’s magical items explode. if they don’t spend their highest spell slots quick they’re going to be weaponised against them.

thinking about the sole survivor of the ring of brass being the one without magic. all he has are his own two wings and a promise to keep.

[oddthesungod]

at the end of an era

raise ur hand if you felt personally victimized by Travis playing a character with KIDS in an adventure that was going to ultimately culminate into an apocalypse event 😭👋

[agarthanguide]

A fun fact about EXU Calamity-

Working on these had me stressed and overwrought, mostly because I was worried that I wasn’t gonna pull of the Look, and the aesthetic would be shakier because of me.

To deal with that, I made up a character to be the in-universe mosaicist who was designing and crafting these panels of the Ring of Brass. Every time I messed up or my hand slipped and I had to go back a step, I imagined him dropping a tile, muttering a curse, and trying again. His name was Florent, he was a journeyman artist and craftsperson in Avalir, and he was my coworker for about a month.

[artsystargazer]

Bell's Hells as Major Arcana.

[quasieli]

[Image description: Eight illustrations of the members of Bell's Hells in a card from the Major Arcana of a tarot card deck.

1: Fearne as The Fool. She is stood on the edge of a cliff with her wildfire spirit familiar, Little Mister, at her side. She smiling brightly as she looks out over the edge, appearing as though she may walk over the edge.

2: Dorian as The Hierophant. He is sat upon a throne, holding his lute in his lap. A sun and a moon emblem sit above him on either sides of his head, his right (viewer's left) hand pointing up at the sun emblem.

3: Laudna as The Hermit. She is outside in a field, the sun high in the sky. In one hand, she holds aloft a lit lantern, smiling as she walks forward. In the other hand, she holds the strings of Pâté, puppeting the dead rat.

4: Orym as Justice. He is sat upon a throne, looking forward seriously. In one hand, he holds aloft his sword. In the other hand, he is balancing the scales of Justice.

5: Chetney as Death. He is stood beside the Pale Rider, an armor clad skeletal figure sat atop a white horse and holding a black flag with a white flower on it. He is holding up his hands in deference to Death.

6: Ashton as The Tower. He is falling out of the window of a tall, brick laid tower, fire erupting from the window while his body shatters in the descent.

7: Imogen as The Moon. She is viewed from behind as she watches her red dream unfold, a lightning storm unfurling upon her home, a full moon peaking out from behind the storm cloud.

8: FCG as The Sun. They are outside on a sunny day in a field of bright yellow sunflowers, excitedly rolling along through the field.

End description.]

[wistfulwatcher]

A new age is upon you. The rule of the Chroma Conclave.

[shadydruid]

Yasha's here!

[beauregardlionett]

the commitment to this bit is incredible

[stardustedknuckles]

Matt is getting more and more complex and big with his plot ideas with every campaign at the same time and pace as the players are getting more and more "fuck it we ball" with their characters and I have to say, that's a very fun pair of trajectories to watch ricochet off of each other.

[stardustedknuckles]

Vox Machina's solutions often went haywire but there was usually a plan. Often discussed extensively and only thrown to the wind when things went truly wrong.

The Mighty Nein just figured they were tough enough to either kick or befriend the shit out of anything and they were usually right.

Bells hells is just. Orgy? Anyone? Are we doing this? Have you heard we are in fact a polycule?

Meanwhile, Matt has gone from relatively insular political intrigue and big dragon bosses to seeds of god fuckery to full-on, cross-continent potential calamity 2.0. It's beautiful. You couldn't script this inversion.

[tieflinged]

TLOVM Season 2 Cast Update

IMDB has some more cast information for season 2! Some might have been added before but I figured I’d add any new for the upcoming season.

Matt Mercer as Craven Edge, Umbrasyl, Purvan Suul, Victor

Liam O’brien as Vorugal

Kestrel Riegel as Young Keyleth

Aimee Carrero as Ashari Girl

Troy Baker as Syldor

Ralph Ineson as Kevdak

Alanna Ubach as Osysa

Lance Reddick as Thordak

Ike Amadi as Groon

Tony Plana as Kamaljiori

Abubakar Salim as Zanror (Zanroar)

Robbie Daymond as Cerkonos

Parvesh Cheena as Young Dignitary 

Janet Varney as Vilja

Sumalee Montano as Highbearer Vord

Fred Tatasciore as Korrin

Will Friedle as Kashaw

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Zahra

[feral-renaissance-cat]

Got all these Critters excited for guest PCs and the Killbox and the sphinxes and all that. Meanwhile I’m over here like

[blurrycriticalroleposts]

Eyes peeled for Larkin, always.

[foxqueen-katarian]

I think the most plausible way for Caleb to become Headmaster of the Soltryce is to move into the office.

Just posting up in Margolin’s office one day, matter of factly telling him his services were no longer needed on a day-to-day basis and to kindly remove his personal affects from the room. With the poorly veiled threat that if he does not the Assembly might find themselves short another Archmage before the day is done.

[britcision]

And let’s be honest, the scariest part of this threat isn’t Caleb specifically

Every member of the Assembly is sooooo used to threats from powerful wizards

Bitches got counterspell

You know what Caleb has that no one else in the Assembly can handle?

Friends

And yeah those friends ~could~ come kill you (they didn’t kill Trent, so that part’s got a question mark on it)

Because the worst they can do isn’t just kill you

The worst they can do is Expositor Beau makes it her personal business to follow you around, and not even investigate you; just follow you and be passive aggressive

(She needs practice, usually she’s just regular aggressive)

Her wife Yasha can just show up at your house and rearrange your garden to say “fuck you” every day

Bring her big ol’ Magician’s Judge just to polish it and watch you recognize the blade

There’s this crazy little halfling who knows both magic and alchemy and can add all kinds of crazy shit to your drink WHILE YOU ARE HOLDING IT

And you’ll never know

There’s a big soft cow man who may be the most fearsome of all because he’ll look at you for 30 seconds then dissect your personality and flaws

Just as cool and calm as you please

Doesn’t even raise his voice but the other person who always listens to him is the fucking Wildmother

Or maybe it’s the other cleric, the tiefling who’s the scariest, because all she has to do is see your face once

Or just a real good description

And she can just talk to you in your head every night for the rest of your life

And that doesn’t sound scary because they’re used to threats, implicit and explicit, but Jester doesn’t fucking threaten them

She’ll tell bad jokes, sing about squirrels, make fart noises, you’ll know she had spare spell slots when you see Ludinus twitching throughout the day

To be fair you will also see Caleb Himself twitching too as she messages him all kinds of nonsense so no one is safe from her

Oh and Fjord is there I guess with his dainty wrists

(And that divine fucking smite if you get too uppity)

Caleb Widogast is just another mage

The Assembly is made SOLELY of extremely powerful mages who are all used to maneuvering around each other

But Caleb Widogast of the Mighty fucking Nein? He’s learned the one thing none of the others ever did: other classes are useful too

[stardustedknuckles]

Beau and Nott's race up the tree is honest to god one of my favorite bits in the entire campaign.

"I'm going to try and trip Nott."

"Mage hand, I'm gonna pull her hair."

"I throw an unlit firecracker and hit her in the face." (natural 20)

"I shoot her with my gun. In the ass."

[stardustedknuckles]

"Not my crossbow, my gun."

"The gun that has one bullet?"

"It's worth it."

And then Nott: "It was a fair race."

And Beau shakes her hand and throws her out of the tree to feather fall down.

And then she beefs her hard-won perception check. Truly, top ten m9 moments for me.

[stardustedknuckles]

Caleb being completely undeterred by Beau shutting the door in his face and threatening to speak loudly through it where everyone can hear, only to politely ask if he can come in when she opens it again. How two only children fell so naturally into the sibling dynamic is truly impressive and I love them so much.

[stardustedknuckles]

Only bested by Beau asking him if he's in love with Nott just to get him the fuck out of her room so she can go back to sleep. Who's doing it like them.

(literally anyone with siblings, that's why it's so great)

[mollywauk]

Caduceus: With any luck

Caduceus: All of you will end up in my cemetery one day

Caduceus: That would be lovely

Fjord: I'm sure you meant that to be sweet

[myceliaes]

expression practice w/ essek :3c