#eeeeeeeeeeek

[anglaised]

i forgot about my peel my nose skin is already coming off 😭

[sugashook]

PSYCHIC

[puppy-prophet]

gotta stay loyal to caleb gotta stay loyal to caleb gotta stay loyal to caleb gotta stay loyal to caleb gotta stay loyal to caleb gotta stay loyal to caleb gotta stay loyal to caleb gotta stay loyal to caleb gotta stay loyal to caleb

[dreamgirlfriendevil]

critical role campaign 2, episode 115 ‘fetching fables and frosty friends’ - in which the gang gets nailed by a nasty necromantic trap and goes back for round two, beau experiences a category 5 lesbian event (YASHA’S LETTER), and the party makes friends with a bunch of yeti.

SAM’S HAIR IS DYED BISEXUAL FLAG COLOURS. that cannot be an accident or coincidence - that is a choice of putting 3 colours on your head. sam bi???

dagen leads the gang into the snowy wilderness. they travel for a while, and eventually he shows them how to make camp in the snow. they pester him for a bit with questions about if he has ever fallen in love with someone he’s travelled with 😂😂😂 incredible. i need to see yasha and beau spooning for warmth NOW. they realise too late that caleb already used the mansion/tower spell, so they have to camp the proper way. YIKES. everyone is trying to be chipper, but it is fucking COLD.

shit. fjord is taking first watch, and he uses his ‘see invisibility’ ability and SEES A SCRYING EYE WATCHING THEM. he wakes caleb, and threatens it, but caleb reminds him that he has the pendant that protects from scrying magic, so it probably didn’t even hear him agakshaksh (i can’t remember if i even added it to my notes, but caleb gave fjord the necklace after the second uk’otoa incident). definitely lucien watching them. THAT BITCH.

jester snuggles up under caduceus’s arm for warmth 🥰🥰😭😭

the next day fjord tells them what he saw, and everyone is understandably uneasy. jester checks the vials of their blood she has (given to her by the gentleman), and they seem fairly empty. maybe cree has some of their fucking blood….. oh man, i bet she does.

they trek for a bit, and find a random pillar sticking out of the ground. cad senses a necromancy aura on it, which is a TERRIBLE sign. oh cool! they find a necromancy gem on it and caleb begins to pull it out with telekinesis AND IT SENDS OUT A NECROMANTIC SHOCK WAVE. these idiots! these dummies!! have they learned nothing from the vex incident???????

thankfully none of them DIE but it wasn’t fucking FUN. AND THEN CALEB DECIDES HE NEEDS TO TRY AGAIN. HE GETS FURTHER AWAY, BUT NOT FAR ENOUGH! thank god cad healed him before he made attempt number 2, because he takes another wallop. god dammit! cad notices MANY bones, and they decide it is simply not worth it. FINALLY. they discuss leaving a sign so people know not to touch the pillar, but instead jester writes ‘big emerald here’ with an arrow 😭😂

they leave the gem, with caleb distinctly irritated lmao, and after a bit, decide to make camp. caleb makes the tower - all their magic seems to have worked as intended, so they are going to risk it, but he sends frumpkin in to check. dagen is very bemused by this whole thing lmao. they invite him in, and get the cats to prepare a feast, and he is like WHAAAAAAAAA??????

holy fuck. okay. beau runs a bath, has some wine, and pulls out the poem yasha wrote her. AHHHHHHHHHH!! ashley: “at the top of it is a whole paragraph that is crossed out and scrapped, and you see some words like ‘beau’ and ‘abs’ and ‘shorn’ and ‘envelop’ and things like that, and it’s just crossed out.” OHHHHH YASHA!! MY BELOVED GIRL. ahhh shit, she decided to scrap the poem altogether and just write a letter… i am SWOONING ALREADY.

OH YASHA… IT IS SO FUCKING CUTE. “the thing that really gets me about you is that you love so fiercely. and i know that you feel like an asshole most days, but i kinda like that you’re an asshole. you stick up for the people you love, and you make me feel stronger. i can hold my own - i know that you know that - but you make me feel safe.” 😭😭😭 A CATEGORY 5 LESBIAN EVENT IS OCCURING. beau is literally speechless. fair. she cries!!!! BABYYYY.

LIAM ACTUALLY WROTE THE CAT PRINCE BOOK?! holy shit, dude!! caleb reads it to jester. 🥹🥹🥹 LIAM WROTE IT THAT DAY??? JESUS!! TALENT!

the next morning, they sadly say goodbye to their warm tower and continue their trek. this time, cad and beau spot movement in the snow on the mountain above them. they pause, and notice movement on the other side too. they are being flanked!! and suddenly a NET IS THROWN OVER THEM. FUCK.

it’s fucking yeti… welp. most of the party rolls SUPER well to dodge the net, somehow! jester, fjord, and dagen get caught, unfortunately. they begin to fight these fuckers, and yasha manages to free jester and fjord. one of the yeti tries to do some paralysis brain effect on caleb, but caduceus WHISTLES TO GET ITS ATTENTION AND IT GETS HIM INSTEAD. 😭 it then hits him a few times, does NASTY damage because he is paralysed. caleb is super pissed that they just did that to his friend, and turns him into a mammoth lmao. heaps of hp! clever! it also has a great con save, better than cad’s, which allows him to shake off the paralysis. GREAT MOVE! MAMMOTH CADUCEUS IS HERE, FUCKERS!

the big yeti says “stop!” ?????? and all the smaller yeti seem VERY worried?? ohhh, what if they are just starving? 🥺 beau puts the big one in a headlock, and most of the rest just stop, in a stalemate. super tense… and then caduceus, currently a SUPER low intelligence mammoth, gores one and knocks it unconscious. 😂

dagen seems to realise something, and wheels out with his hands in the air, asking if they are ‘allowak folk’... aww shit, uh oh. yasha, my darling dearest beloved, uses ‘healing hands’ on the unconscious one, and then yells “are we fucking done here??” 😂😂😂

the big yeti tells them that most people they see through here are poachers, so they tend to go for an aggressive approach rather than risk it. fair, i guess, but damn! caleb gives them some of his (i can’t fucking remember what they are called because liam always calls them boba lmao but they are like beads of nourishment or something, which fill you up like a meal would). beau tells them they will not kill them, as they are not their quarry, and when the yeti asks who their quarry is, they say they are seeking people like them, with a purple tiefling in the group. AND THE YETI SAW THEM! they passed through a day ago, but the yeti kept their distance because of ‘strange magic’ about the group. WELL, FUCK.

there were five total, and they told the yeti to stay away, from a distance, before showcasing some very strange magic. what the fuck does that mean…

the yeti are part of some kind of sanctuary that appears to be not hostile to humanoids, and they agree to help the party with the rest of the day’s travel in exchange for them keeping the sanctuary a secret. jester is VERY excited about this lmao.

cad and jester begin healing the yeti, and it is all suddenly very wholesome. one of the little ones pulls out a book and begins writing in it 🥺 IT’S A DIARY. OH, MY GOD. beau tries REAL hard to get the yeti to let her read the diary sgakdhaksh but fails big time.

caduceus gives the yeti he almost killed when he was a mammoth a celebone (light up stick thingy) as an apology 😂 and WOW the other yeti are MEGA JEALOUS. 😂

the yeti travel with them and help them!! and caleb invites them into the tower for the night!! 😭😭😭 this is incredible. who’dve thought??? they have yeti friends now!!!! they all have a feast, and caleb makes them a big tent in the common area and READS THEM TO SLEEP. I LOVE THESE FUCKING YETI SO MUCH. OH MY GOD.

the yeti walk them around the base of the mountain for the next day, and when they say goodbye, jester hugs the big one (gestaf)’s shin. 😭🥹🥰

they walk for a bit, and seem to be approaching the point on their map marked a5, when jester suddenly hears two voices in her head, speaking in unison. cree and lucien, welcoming them, and saying they were worried lucien had scared them off. YIKES YIKES YIKES. how are they talking in her head at the same time?? fjord uses ‘see invisibility’ again, and sure enough, scrying orb right above jester. the last one was above jester too - maybe because lucien saw her through her scry to begin with, she is the focus he has within the group? I DON’T LIKE THAT.

the area is a bunch of ice jutting up, with weird pitted areas like sinkholes. dagen leads them through, but it feels dangerous as hell. just as it begins to get dark, dagen points out an ice cave as the excavation site they have been seeking. eeeeeee!!! this is sooo scary. they find recent tracks heading into the cave, and a bunch of long-dead bodies frozen in the ice, who all appear to have been gashed to death. 🙃

ough. heartbreaking. jester sends a message, uncharacteristically somber, and says: “why are you doing this? what do you even want from us? we just miss you. i thought you were our friend. anyway, we’re here.” 🥺 lucien replies: “i don’t mean you any harm. i’m just pursuing my interests, and if you have similar interests… well, i’m inviting you to come along. you don’t have to.” HMMMMMMMMMM. IS HE FULL OF SHIT????

there is a bit of a tense moment where everyone is discussing what to do next. obviously they are going in, but beau suggests they just listen first, and don’t try to fight. caleb is worried this means they will join or be complicit in whatever the fuck is going on, and beau gets very frustrated, saying that lucien and co currently hold all the cards. the party are definitely at their mercy right now, given the fact that they have very limited information, so i agree that going in cautiously, but openly, is probably the best plan they have. lucien has the ability to see where they are at any given time, so they have no element of surprise, even. i think caleb is just stressed and panicking, because there is no clever move here. they just have to take the plunge and hope lucien doesn't kill them instantly. 😬

travis literally exploded his stress ball 😂😂😂 if that ain’t a sign….

[bugofmanynames]

giggling kicking my feet and twirling my hair

[cementcornfield]

ohhhhhh this isn't goooooood

[pippersmcgee]

stop everything. does this mean volo's getting new voiced lines? i don't know... i don't know if i can survive that. i'm frail and weak after continued exposure to him. i don't knowwwwww

[rahleeyah]

So the craziest thing happened yesterday...