#c1e63

[loudestlibrarianongodsgreenearth]

“Hi, Grumpy” part 2

[twinklestarss]

Vax'ildan + Calling Vex'ahlia “Stubby”

C1E22 | C1E36 | C1E42 | C1E56 | C1E58 | C1E63 | C1E106 | C1E111

[unsteadygalaxy]

c1e63 the echo tree

sondur essentially offering vex’ahlia the opportunity to be to him what vax’ildan is to the raven queen??? DAMN

matt getting salty that the poison cloud didn’t work is sending me

KEYLETH RIPPING UP THE TREE-ENT FROM THE INSIDE WITH FIRE IS SO CLUTCH

Sam’s Shakespeare insult generator has me ROLLING

“Girl power healed me” DEAD

grog getting the killing blow after getting tossed around all game is HILARIOUS

god i love this show so fucking much

[sparklegemstone-cr]

Perc'ahlia Week Day 6: Yours / Later

Yay @percahliaweek! Also on AO3.

Forever At My Heart

Summary: Percy's missing. Vex says she doesn't know where he is. (a brief snapshot of dark!Vex'ahlia) This contains minor spoilers / hints of what transpires in C1E63 of the stream and S2E8 of TLOVM.

Keyleth gently knocked on Vex’s door.  It was the room Vex stayed in whenever they were in Whitestone, so Keyleth knew where to find her.

“Come in.”

Keyleth opened the door and stepped up to the threshold.  “Hey, Vex.  I’ve been looking for Percy, have you seen him by any chance?”  She reached out a hand to pet Trinket’s head when he walked over to smell her.

Vex sat on the bed with the contents of per traveling pack spread out before her.  “I can’t say that I have.”

Keyleth stepped fully into the room and grasped her staff with both hands slightly off to the side, disappointment on her face.  “Yeah I—I was hoping, but—no one else has seen him either.  I’m starting to get worried.  It seems like the last time anyone remembers seeing him was the night after we got back from the Feywild.  That was two days ago.”

“I wouldn’t worry about it,” Vex reassured her.  “You know how lost in his projects he gets sometimes.  He’s probably tinkering away in his workshop without the slightest notion of the time.”

“That was my first thought as well, but I’ve checked multiple times.  No Percy.”

“Then perhaps he’s taking an extended stroll of the grounds while dreaming up his next dragon-killing contraption.”  Vex stepped from the bed and in one graceful motion placed a hand on Keyleth’s back and turned them both around to start walking towards the door.

Keyleth turned her head into Vex.  “Are you sure you’re okay?  After everything with Saundor?  That was pretty intense.  I just thought you’d be more concerned—”

“I’m fine.  I’m sure he’s fine.  Honestly, you worry too much Keyleth."

For just a speck of a moment, Keyleth thought that Vex's expression hitched, got stuck in a position that suggested something sewn on and artificial.  It unnerved Keyleth, but it was gone so quickly and Vex was back to her smiling, charismatic self that she wondered if she was just imagining things.

"Percy can take care of himself.  Good luck finding him, though,” Vex bid her as she guided her out the door.

“Thanks—” Keyleth turned around to say, but the door had already shut in front of her.

Vex paused her trek back to the bed, happily waylaid by a bear-sized detour.  She bent down to scritch behind Trinket’s ears.  “Hey buddy.”  She paused, in thought.  “We’re going to have to find you a new way to get around when the terrain gets too difficult, won’t we?”  She switched to scratching under his chin, but he gave a low, unhappy, uncertain rumble and backed out of her reach.

Ignoring the bear's uncharacteristic behavior, Vex straightened to her feet.  “I bet Percy will devise something.  He comes up with the most wonderful things for us.”  She brushed her hand against her collarbone, feeling the almost woody, tendril-like growths decorating the surface of her skin under her tunic, and caressed the amulet hanging prettily just above her heart.  A thin whisp of smoke arose from it at her touch.

Mine.

[jenjar178]

Critical Role C1E63

Thus concludes the feywild. This episode is kinda marred by the audio issues but the fight in the tree is really fun.

[revvlovv]

„Sweet, broken Vex'ahlia. Unwanted daughter, unproven ally, selfish and cruel (…) you never left that bloodied girl, dagger in hand, body at your feet. You are a killer, run as you may.”

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[ravendruid]

"A tree is just a door that hasn't been made yet."

- Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III

[lheautontimoroumenos]

ok so I might be drawing parallels where there are none but I'm rewatching c1 because of tlovm so.

when they're in the Feywild looking for Fenthras they find a hag's house in a giant tree that has a bit of a glow to it (in ep 62 Uninviting Waters). Pike and Scanlan go investigate on Vex's broom, and they roll shit, so we don't get much, but I'm thinking it might be Nana's house?

the episode transcript for the description is this :

MATT Okay. You don't pick up a lot of detail, but as you come up over the top, looking on the inside, it looks to be rather comfortable, surprisingly. It's a small home. There's a table, and there's a small hearth. There appears to be what looks to be a shelf of some kind, ramshackle, maybe, but still functional, with books pressed into it. You can see a number of small baskets hanging from the ceiling, containing various roots and other pieces of plant matter that are gathered and bundled together. You can see there is a fireplace by the hearth. There is also a series of drying animal carcasses hung in the corner that are all stripped, and they're being aired out in that space. You also see what looks to be a large chair that is facing the hearth, slightly away from you, and a small end table next to it that contains a little teacup and a little tea set.

TALIESIN What size person is the chair for?

MATT Actually, the chair is pretty large. It's tall. The tea set is small. And as you're making a look, you see one large crooked hand reach out from behind the chair with impossibly long fingers with hooked nails reach over. You can see what looks like dried wrappings hanging from parts of its wrist and elbow as it reaches over and wraps its gnarled fingers around this tiny teacup and pull it back behind the chair.

so I'm thinking either the hag/Morri just has a small tea set, or it's for a young Fearne or even for her second mouth on her stomach.

also the description loosely fits the one Matt gives of Nana's house in C3E45

MATT There, you're greeted by a low-lit, cozy entryway, a flat expanse at the base of where the split is. You can see it's decorated in knitted dolls, placed on little naturally warped tables. You can see animal skeletons that have been posed in dancing positions with each other that are placed up on little shelves and along the sides of the entryway. You can see alien-looking potted plants that seem to be taking root on their side of the room and guarding it fiercely. More of the staircases and rope bridges you can see begin to splinter off from here and lead higher and higher up through the tree.

[...]

The wide shoulders are thin. They come out like pointed, skeletal shoulders, the sleeves extending these long, thin arms. You see, around the top of the dress from where these shoulders are, they're obscured by a bunch of dark linen and chiffon that creates a mantle around it.

The tree's description isn't quite the same, but that part of the Feywild was weird(er than usual) because of Saundor, so it could have changed a lot between Vox Machina and Fearne bringing Bell's Hells to visit.

so we have this in C1E62 for the tree

MATT You see the tree, while it is thicker, it is not as high as the other trees. In fact, where there would be a top of a tree, it looks to be instead a tangled mass of branches that have been matted over and tied down to the top of where this tree ends.

and this in C3E45

MATT You step within the tree, and you can see the actual trunk of this structure, and you can see the actual trunk of this structure. This is probably the largest tree you've seen aside from the Sun Tree. It's comparable in its thickness. You can tell, about 30 feet up, it splits into two separate trunks that then wrap around each other in a corkscrew upward.

Now, none of those are 100% like the others, and I'm very likely reaching, but! I think it would be funny because it would make Nana Morri Artagan's ex :)

(as per C1E63: "She's many things, but she's not a hag. She's an ex.")

TLDR: I think Nana Morri might be the hag Vox Machina crossed paths with in the Feywild when they were looking for Fenthras which would make her Artagan's ex

[marvelousbelladonna]

Old Vox Machina memories

Keyleth tree strides into treants, like a badass

[starrazorr]

taliesin: life needs things to live

sam:

[molliehaswords]

I LOVE YOU, ARTAGAN!!!

“Nothing happens for a reason; it's absolute fucking chaos."

(Yes, I’m aware that that quote isn’t from Campaign 1, I just love it.)

[aquariusdeanw]

grog: should we visit the ex?

(*the party: just walked for hours through a seemly endless field, unknowingly used a god as a baseball, stole a stupid hat from the high warden, lost precious time exploring an empty cavern, didn’t ignore ominous music that got them enchanted by a deadly trap, almost got eaten by werewolves, almost got killed by pixies, almost got discovered by a hag, just killed a powerful entity in a tremendous battle*)

the rest of vox machina in unison: NO.

[ithinkthiswasabadidea]

Keyleth casting tree stride and then turning into a fire elemental and walking inside the tree to ignite it from the inside???

That's so fucking sick, what an insane combo move

[vethbrenatto]

Artagan vs. Boredom

Bonus:

[annemarieyeretzian]

vex asking saundor “what would you ask in return?” and saundor answering “your heart.” and that’s what does it,,, vex’s face changing as she comes back to herself,,, vex leaning forward, arching an eyebrow, and saying “my heart is someone else’s.” before bracing her bow,,, LET’S GO VEX’AHLIA LET’S GO

[icouldbeherpocketbacon]

My heart is someone else’s.

And I pull my bow.