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[electromagnetic-moss]

RUMBLECUSP!

I imagine when the mighty nein finally had some time off of adventuring that Beau had to sit Yudala and Dairon down with some archivists for a full day just to download all of the chaos that happened on Rumblecusp, like what i wrote is just the bare bone basics and I didn't even begin to write about traveler con

There's a full version of the island without text on Instagram

A few zoom-ins and notes (so many notes) under the cut

It's finally done after so so long (at least this version; I might try to make a non-square version) because i was rewatching the Rumblecusp arc as i was drawing, and every episode I watched meant I had to change things. Initially, the island is described with no caldera, but for traveler con they all travelled up to the caldera... so l kept the no caldera and made a fissure instead because I kinda hc that the volcano wasn't a volcano until vokodo arrived and the fieryness from him sort of messed up and broke the mountain a bit.

I decided to make it like a little excerpt from some random cobalt soul book or map section as a little infographic for potential researchers. The original plan was to make it ike a destination flyer with some links to traveler con and pop con, but i don't have the imagination or graphic design skills or style to do that.

Might think about doing Kalutha or Urukayxl in this sort of style one day. Maybe Darktow or Eiselcross eventually, but they both have their challenges that I'm not sure I want to attempt just yet, but they're definitely in my mind.

I might make some physical copies of it one day because it always feels so much nicer to have a physical version of something rather than just digital but thats a ways down the road but it's definitely something l want to do

Some lil tidbits and notes as promised:

Whether Vokodo literally crashed into Rumblecusp from above or just planar shifted violently into the island, I made the giant heated pool at the base of the volcano his point of entry OR at least a place where the rocks crashed and fell down a bit, hence the steam from the torchblooms

You can see the pool entrance that Vilya would use just above that pool on a small clearing. The big pool isn't used because it's in the poisoned section of the forest, and I've made up in my head that the pool bottom is just caved-in rocks rather than actual tunnels

Because of the Winding Core's proximity to the volcano, I tried to make it seem a bit heated up by maybe some magma flow or residual torchblooms

Heaven falls, and the pools were fun to do. I sort of imagined them like oyster mushrooms to help figure them out, and it somehow worked.

The village is beneath those pools, visible only from those fires because ijust couldn't get huts to look alright at this scale.

The ruins were odd because they were always described as kind of dark and monochrome, so I had no clue how to show the ruin whilst also portraying that... hence, the purple fog. I tried to make it look like the spikes were coming out of the fog, but I'm not sure if it worked very well

Technically, north is the top left, but i forgot the compass. My uni professors would be so mad woops.

D Turts obviously had to make an appearance

The bottom half of the island literally was not explored in game (or at least not explicitly described), so it has been dubbed jurassic park bc in my head, and that's where I hc most of the dinosaurs live.

Also, before I forget, I did this by using @devenrue's original map she made for the campaign as a guide, which was super helpful for getting the perspective and features roughly correct.

edit: messed up the abyss and the astral sea whoops

[electromagnetic-moss]

An updated and corrected version

[romint-drake]

How it started

How it's going

[stargazing-zani]

In universe Project Hail Mary memes upon ye

[what-even-is-thiss]

A lot of people still don’t understand me when I say that reversing desertification is a good thing. They think I hate deserts

Let me put it this way. I really like the ocean. However I don’t think it’s a good thing for the ocean to flood inland destroying ecosystems and villages because some of the natural hills that kept it at bay have been mined away. Me building a dam to keep the ocean away to bring back some of the natural barrier that was lost isn’t me trying to destroy the ocean. It’s me keeping the ocean out of my goddamned ecosystem where it isn’t meant to be anyways.

People planting new trees and grasslands on the edge of the Sahara desert aren’t trying to get rid of the entire desert. They’re replacing the natural root systems that kept the soil from blowing away that have been eaten away by overgrazing. They’re replacing the natural barrier that keeps the desert in its goddamned place.

[loveridden1999]

[lookielucie]

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[electromagnetic-moss]

came into 2026 expecting it to follow the trend of the 2020s

3 months in and I think its the best year I've had in a long time. Just got some real good news

*immediately touches wood and literally any superstitious thing to avoid it all going to shit*

GOD DAMN ITS BEEN A GOOD MONTH

ahhhh

I mean the world in general is going to shit, but you gotta appreciate the smaller stuff when it happens

[dailycatsblog]

[electromagnetic-moss]

Starting to get details about the live shows!

London, England | Echoes of Exandria | 2026 Live Show Tour | Critical Role

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[teaboot]

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

[electromagnetic-moss]

Wasn't aware excel's been around for 400years

[lookielucie]

Another ACEO! this one was on a really fun kind of sparkly refective card, ( one from gmund, a german paper company)

🏷️This "no stopping" traffic cone drawing is still currently available on my ebay! 🌼

[jaubaius]

🔥 A giant curious moose inspecting a wildlife photographer 🔥

[mornington-the-crescent]

Never forget: Moose are legit Ice Age megafauna that never died out.

[dr-falcon-fox-and-coyote]

He just….just….pet the wild moose…the bravery, the hutzpah

[thegreenmeridian]

The forbidden snoot!

[vaspider]

If I could pet a moose

I would be very happy

[freekbugg]

[headspace-hotel]

Normally I would say you shouldn’t pet a wild animal, but the moose is already right there. If you’re that close to a moose’s snout you might as well pet it. If the moose wants to kill you, you’re going to die, so you might as well.

[northern-moose-deactivated20221]

@paran0rmaltexas

[go-drink-the-kool-aid-deactivat]

A giant moose, OP says when that is just a normal size moose

[toskarin]

thanks google

[rollerska8er]

there's 👏 still 👏 time 👏

[sosuperawesome]

Griffins // ArtAlenkaSense

[electromagnetic-moss]

a warning to all those who've never had to get/take a train to the southwest of the uk

dont

its hell

walk

its quicker

a flight would be cheaper

a sneeze could cause an hour long delay

the train managers are way too cheery telling you that we've got to wait another 10mins

just dont

[electromagnetic-moss]

when the train gets diverted and you end up in an entirely different country and have work in less than 12hrs...

ah the joys of the British railways