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[mechanus-fieldtrip]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Grin thinks he could sit here all night and just feel Ryld watch him.

[khaytiefari]

Jarlaxle sweeping in to the meeting of Matrons to report on the chaos their financing has helped sew

By @gabisart 💜

[khaytiefari]

The face card 👏👏👏😮‍💨

[mechanus-fieldtrip]

I feel like I barely remember what happened in seige of darkness. the structure didn’t feel as tight as the rest of the series, more like two shorter books spliced together, but so many scenes were so fun. also I know a bunch of wizards died in the battle but none of them got names so they don’t make the tally.

superlatives for siege of darkness!

mvp: stumpet rakingclaw. my kingdom for a standalone stumpet adventure. love her.

most improved: I dunno man, what did we learn here? I guess berginyon. get out of there man.

one-trick pony: every room with more than three named drow (or methil) turning into a mexican standoff

best standalone scene: way too many good ones. catti-brie vs berkthgar diplomacy. the destruction of house oblodra. harkle’s eyes. puddlejumper! bidderdoo, pwent, and the gutbusters team-up. the arrival of the gnomes! glabrezu betrayal!

seven seconds of fame: lady alustriel living comet.

best fake-out: harkle and bella don delroy polymorphing their brains into their asses so they can fight mindflayers in melee.

dragons per book: 4/9

evil wizards down (series total): 6

RIP akar kessel, dendybar the mottled, sydney, alton devir, masoj hun’ett, and brister fendlestick

[medievalsquire]

watched the royal alchemist accidentally invent another kind of explosion. this appears to be most of alchemy

[khaytiefari]

Jarlaxle sweeping in to the meeting of Matrons to report on the chaos their financing has helped sew

By @gabisart 💜

[soulren]

One single spider has been descending from a very long thread all the way from the moon and will very soon, we hope, carefully touch down on earth.

[mechanus-fieldtrip]

I’m gonna be honest the more time I spend thinking about it the more down with the artemis/calihye relationship in sellswords I become.

[mechanus-fieldtrip]

back at it again! drizzt you need your friends you idiot.

superlatives for starless night:

mvp: catti-brie, woman of action and supreme courage.

most improved: commander regis, a man gifted with managerial skills far beyond his career aspirations.

one-trick pony: dantrag baenre’s unoriginal obsession with dueling drizzt. get in line my dude.

best standalone scene: artemis and catti-brie’s prison break. very fun to see them work together.

seven seconds of fame: khareesa h’kar. shoot your shot ma’am!

best fake out: catti-brie disguised as a drow despite speaking no drow and just hissing at people. honorable mention to drizzt pretending to be a stalagmite mound.

dragons per book: 4/8

evil wizards down (series total): 6

RIP akar kessel, dendybar the mottled, sydney, alton devir, masoj hun’ett, and brister fendlestick

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[evilbatmanisagatewaydrug]

should i have sex (evil tone indicator)

Yes but make sure it’s perverted and wet and pisses someone off

[aldanil]

Re-draw of that scene in Starless Night where Drizzt met a unicorn. Now Drizzt look more accurate to my vision of him.

[mechanus-fieldtrip]

after hunter’s blades and sellswords round 2, I should read

continue with RAS’s drizzt books in publication order (transitions, neverwinter)

continue drow books in chronological order (war of the spider queen)

jarlaxle is bald/nuance/vanilla extract

Voting ended onMay 25

[mechanus-fieldtrip]

votes are in!

I’ve ordered the cleric quintet, paths of darkness trilogy, hunter’s blades trilogy, and the war of the spider queen.

I plan to read them in chronological order, with the exception of most likely reading passage to dawn before the cleric quintet since I doubt the new books will arrive before I finish seige of darkness.

@krawlspace-kobold looking forward to the squirrel 🫡

[mechanus-fieldtrip]

they cancelled my bank card for this

[mechanus-fieldtrip]

I can already tell reading war of the spider queen is going to be a trip because I didn’t know much lore when I picked “ryld” from a list of drow names for my oc, and now I am going to be reminded repeatedly that that’s a named character in a major series.

[mechanus-fieldtrip]

I will say I am a fan of both drizzt and artemis having the “moved to a new city but I don’t really speak the language so I can’t convince people to stop trying to kill me” experience. like if everyone was trying to beat me up in the streets when I was in the first three chapters of genki one.

[mechanus-fieldtrip]

after hunter’s blades and sellswords round 2, I should read

continue with RAS’s drizzt books in publication order (transitions, neverwinter)

continue drow books in chronological order (war of the spider queen)

jarlaxle is bald/nuance/vanilla extract

Voting ended onMay 25

[mechanus-fieldtrip]

votes are in!

I’ve ordered the cleric quintet, paths of darkness trilogy, hunter’s blades trilogy, and the war of the spider queen.

I plan to read them in chronological order, with the exception of most likely reading passage to dawn before the cleric quintet since I doubt the new books will arrive before I finish seige of darkness.

@krawlspace-kobold looking forward to the squirrel 🫡

[mechanus-fieldtrip]

is the mass market paperback of resurrection like… rare??? why is it 8,500 yen used on amazon…

[mechanus-fieldtrip]

I’m gonna be honest, I felt this was a step backwards from the dark elf trilogy in terms of character writing. I had a hard time picking some of these. and we are falling behind on dragons and evil wizards!

superlatives for the legacy:

mvp: uhhhh thibbledorf pwent, living frag grenade.

most improved: I’m tempted to give it to vierna for speed-running like, four or five level ups in cleric. shame it didn’t work out.

one-trick pony: artemis trying to get a satisfying duel out of drizzt. keep trying babe!

best standalone scene: the battle with the goblins. I liked the world building for mithral hall :)

seven seconds of fame: drider dinin. weird we didn’t see more fallout from that with drizzt.

best fake out: artemis acting as catti-brie and wulfgar’s wedding planner for two weeks. I wonder what menu he picked. honorable mention to all of the other bizarre lies artemis told for no reason (lost use of an arm and eye, oh no I’m falling to my death, etc.)

dragons per book: 4/7

evil wizards down (series total): 6

RIP akar kessel, dendybar the mottled, sydney, alton devir, masoj hun’ett, and brister fendlestick