Jexstir

a place to keep the CR stuff I am working on. aka @crittercanons

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It's been a while but I ain't totally dead yet!

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You thought I was dead?

Not yet. Just working on a side project...

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I've had some extremely lovely people help me plot out the At What Cost AU and really it's just a matter of getting my ass in gear to write it out properly.

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Nonagon but with a twist.

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The Heartless Mage

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MOLLY!

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I am having thoughts as I write and draw my brain-rot.

Cree buying 'the mage' a magic primer and a blank journal to inscribe their spells into. He has to recollect his skills again somehow.

Mage having some troubles following the spell book. Is it an after-effect of having been dead? Is he defective somehow? Did Cree bet on the wrong dead body?

Mage starting to keep a journal because, well... maybe he can't read all that easily anymore but he can still write in simple sentences and draw little pictures.

Cree doesn't know he keeps a journal. She just thinks he's very diligently studying as best as his slow, recovering brain will allow.

It ends up filled with what he's learned, the strange dreams he has at night, how he's feeling and, steadily over time, some of the spells he *does* pick up...

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I am feeling a very deep need to draw Cree and Mage later.

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I'm chipping away at writing something coherent for the At What Cost AU.

So a little point on how Molly will/does feel about Empty!Caleb/mage!

He is seeing how somebody might recognise him as Lucien and how he knows he is a very different person from the man who died before.

This means he sees this 'Caleb' and knows that whoever this is, they are *not* the same man. Gone, beyond any shadow of a doubt in Molly's mind, is their traumatised, shaky companion who he was slowly starting to thaw out before Lorenzo took that from him.

Admitting the possibility of this even being ever so slightly Caleb also means confronting a reality he doesn't want to face.

That potentially he might possibly still be Lucien. That he might not actually be Mollymauk, just some 'aspect' of a man who tried some shady magic once upon a time and ended up dead for the effort.

Plus, if none of his friends are going to be worrid of their dead wizard coming back, he sure as hell will be.

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Not everybody deals with reunions well.

(.. I'll give this a proper write-out someday but this is what my hands decided to do today.)

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While on the run from powerful enemies, the Nein hide among their old friends of the “New & Improved Fletching and Moondrop Traveling Carnival of Curiousities”.

Which also means the Nein get put to work to earn their keep!

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Coffee break!

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So ALL my online research tells me is y'all like things that are 'soft', monks where there should be no monks, tragedy and... dancing?

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If everybody had to trade classes with everybody else, who would be what?

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If Molly was just one part of Lucien, how many other parts do you think there possibly could have been?

Could there have been multiple different facets of his personality?

Asking for reasons...