#jester and the hag

[peachtreebones]

Jester & the Hag 🧁✨

did this for one of my illustration class :) the assignment was to create a narrative illustration of any story of our choosing, so of course I had to go with my all time favorite moment from campaign 2. also fun fact, this piece literally destroyed my old ipad and I had to finally get a new one.... there is still more work I wanna do on this ngl, and I especially want to play around with the background some before I call it super finished and get prints made, but I've already spent 30+ hours on this over the past few days, so I'm taking a well deserved break from it for now :]

[flurry-of-beaus-pop-pop]

Honestly, I like to think that Isharnai has never come after Jester for modifying her memory because when all was said and done, she was actually impressed by Jester and therefore, did enjoy her company and therefore, let her have one

[omishu]

oooohhhhhh mmmyyyyyyy ggggoooddddd

I know I don't post much besides reblogs, but I just really needed to get this out of my system and have no irl friends into Critical Role to the extent that I am.

LAURA. FUCKING. BAILEY!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAjatualjfoys75sphctsutspid64soudluAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAjat qkgzkys64akys

For context, I've been trying to catch up on all the episodes since I started watching at the start of Campaign 3. I'm all the way through Campaign 1, and just finished episode 93 of Campaign 2, Misery Loves Company.

And HOOOLLLLYYYYY SHHIIITTTTTTTTT THat was the most in-character, absolutely CLUTCH role play exchange I have ever fucking witnessed in any trrpg stream or podcast Wwwoooooooowwwwwwwww omfg jfc wow ... legendary

[wintershades]

Jester mood board for Seen Through the Deadlight  (AO3)

[dreorcaul]

concept art for the sequel of cold sweat a lil rat queen

[garr9988]

Fanfic idea where Fjord and Jester's child/children get turned into Hexbloods by Isharnai or smth? According to Matt in the Campaign 2 Wrap-Up, she's no longer under the Modify Memory spell and has some amount of respect for and intrigue in Jester for being outplayed.

Maybe she kidnaps their kid(s) and turns them into a Hexblood out of vengeance, or she does it out of respect, as a sort of "gift". Or maybe even by imbuing them with hag magic while Jester's still pregnant.

[burymeinblack2022]

ahhhh...another beautiful morning...<3 <3 (mcr is playing a show)  

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Angela Lansbury (The Harvey Girls, The Court Jester, The Manchurian Candidate)—The babe, the myth, the legend. In her own words her early hollywood roles were "a series of venal bitches" and they were all glorious. Half of them wanted to kill you and you probably would have thanked them. She even goes toe to toe with Judy Garland in The Harvey Girls! That said, she was chronically underused and misused during this era - she was just 36 when she was cast as Elvis Presley's mother in Blue Hawaii and a few years later commented that she'd played so many 'old hags' that most people thought she was in her 60s. She thought she was "all talent, no looks" but she was the full package! Post-1970 I hope we all know what an incredibly talented and compassionate badass she was, but I feel like not enough people know her early roles as a hot (often villainous) young thing.

Angie Dickinson (Rio Bravo, Point Blank, Ocean's Eleven)—Though it could be argued that overall her career leans more to TV, during this time period she was splitting movie title credits with the very top names in the business.

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Propaganda for Angie Dickinson:

Propaganda for Angela Lansbury:

"Angela Lansbury might not be where your mind goes first when you think of hot leading women, because she had a later career revival. But she began acting in the early 1940s after leaving London due to the Blitz. In the first couple decades of her film career she has an openness about her. She said she never really fit in with the Hollywood crowd and to me she gives off a friendly, untarnished vibe."

"Most of us know Angela Lansbury as old lady sleuth Jessica Fletcher, but it's important to know that she was smoking hot in her younger days as well as a damned fine actress. Although she didn't get lead roles until her early 40s, at 17 she was a supporting actress in films such as Gaslight (1944), National Velvet (1944), and The Picture of Dorian Grey, for which she won the Golden Globe for best supporting actress and was nominated for the Oscar. Even in her memorable performance as the manipulative mother in The Manchurian Candidate, she is listed as a supporting actress as she does not play the love interest. She was successful both on stage and screen, and won the Tony for her lead role in the musical Mame on Broadway in 1966. TL;DR While Angela Lansbury mostly played supporting roles in films before 1970, she had what it takes to be a leading actress, which we know from her success on stage and tv from the mid 60s onward"

"She looked like a princess but bit like a viper"

"Is there anything this woman couldn't do? Act in comedy and drama, sing, dance, be a wonderful human being - quite simply a true and wonderful lady."

"god she had such an incredible career all throughout her life really but as a young lady she was just as incredible as she was in her later years. enchanting voice, amazing personality, and absolutely GORGEOUS. she lamented not having the looks to play leads in romance but that idea is so batshit because look at her??? she's one of the most terrific women of all time. also she's my grandmother's favorite actress and i truly get it"

"she is the fairytale princess of my dreams in court jester"

[lucylyonhound]

C2 spoilers: watching the cupcake moment again with jester crying bc like marisha said the way jester modified the hag's memory was in the sweetest most empathetic way like it couldve been anything at all but jester chose to make a friend. and the thing jester says "she hasnt had good company in a very long time" means so much to me BECAUSE THATS HER. SHE KNOWS WHAT ITS LIKE NOT TO HAVE GOOD COMPANY IN A VERY LONG TIME :((

[peachtreebones]

Jester & the Hag (v2)

Okay, it's finally done (I think) !! I cannot begin to thank y'all enough for all the love and support on my earlier version of this, it means the world to me and that was my first post to ever do that good on here so im really excited and happy abt that :D Hope yall like the final? version with the updated colors and shading just as much, if not more :] And if you are interested, I have prints n more avaliable on my Redbubble and Inprnt <33

[utilitycaster]

I do wonder if the nature of Vax's deal with the Raven Queen has made people imagine the gods as more transactional than they are, because I don't think that's the case, and specifically I think Orym went to Morri specifically because he knows this and knows she will make a concrete deal whereas the gods are unlikely to make a similar guarantee. Vax is actually a weird edge case exception, borne of the specific resurrection rules and the drama and details of the scene (in the Raven Queen's sunken temple, by the body of her former champion, a specific offer to the goddess of death of a life for a life) - and even then, she didn't take his offer the way he expected it, asking for a life of service instead of simply ending his life then and there.

When we look at the player characters who have received favors from the gods, this has largely happened in-game through player choices but not necessarily as part of a deal (the favors in Campaign 1; Fjord's relationship with the Wildmother though that does involve a paladin oath as, well, paladins do; FCG's worship of the Changebringer) or it's been part of the backstory as dictated by the player (Pike, Jester, Caduceus, Yasha). The only example where it simply happened, that I can think of, is Orym's sword, and that was a relatively minor boon (and he'd spoken to Melora before during EXU Prime as well).

Meanwhile, the messages characters have received from the gods this campaign have only come with either deities they already had fostered a relationship with (Deanna and the Dawnfather/FCG and the Changebringer) or have come from the players specifically opening that line of communication by going to the temple - Kord communicating with Imogen is the first instance of a god talking to someone who didn't speak first, and he does not actually ask anything of her so much as say he respects the storm vibe and if she betrays his worshipers he'll take action. The only people who have actually explicitly asked for action (do not let Predathos wake) are gods speaking to clerics who worship them; the Raven Queen has only offered broad visions and has not actually asked anything specific of the party, and has even provided answers to them unrelated to the current situation. Fearne's received portents from both the Raven Queen and the Wildmother for personal questions she's asked.

The gods can provide power - that is a fundamental aspect of D&D, just as one's bloodline or specific knack for music can provide power - but they rarely make specific deals. Even paladin oaths are nebulous and indeed don't even require a deity; cleric relationships have conditions but they are usually a very broad "do not actively go against the principles I, as an embodiment of concepts, embody." The transactional power? That's warlocks. There's a pact. You do what I say or I take the powers away. (Obviously we've seen a god serve as a patron, but the pact and paladin oath blur in that case - there's never been the punishment/reward system in Melora's patronage.)

With all that in mind, Orym's deal with Morri does not feel like a rejection of the gods, but rather a good understanding of how they operate vs. how a hag does.

[wordswineandwhimsy]

Just some thoughts on Ashton's choices tonight...

That was a lot, and I'm seeing ppl feeling a lot of different ways about it (and all of those are definitely valid feelings after this roller coaster)...but what else were they gonna do?

Everyone agreed that the shard was either going to Ashton or Fearne and Fearne had just told him she.didn't.want.it. Plus, in 4 sided dive this week, Ashley explained exactly why she/Fearne was afraid to have the shard. Yes, they 100% should've told the group what was happening and planned better. HOWEVEVR the last time everyone was talking about the shard, most of the group was kinda pushing Fearne to take it so she and Ashton could be emperor and empress.

I think Ashton had the wrong motivations for the most part, and it was risky as shit, but with Fearne adamantly not wanting the shard, I get it. Also, it's a very in-character choice whether you like that character trait or not. I personally loved the big move that even Matt wasn't expecting.

It was a HUGE swing, just like Vax running after a dragon alone, Grog pulling from the deck of many things in the last moments of a campaign, Jester trying to pull one over on a powerful hag using a cupcake and some magic dust everyone else had forgotten about, or Caleb pulling out the beacon for the Bright Queen. It's not like Tal is the first one to take a big dangerous swing that could've ended badly for everyone. He's not even the first one to make a big swing like that with no real plan after step 1: do the thing.

All of those moments go down as memorable and sometimes even amazing once they worked out/the stress level was down, and I think this one will too.

Side shout out: That druid-cleric healing tag team work from Ashley and Sam was some of the smartest/most resourceful DnD I've seen at their table. They really pulled it out and did the impossible with a huge assist from Aabria.

I also haven't been this stressed over a DnD game in years, and never for one that I wasn't playing in. I can't WAIT for next week!

[throwmethatcello]

During campaign 1 Scanlan left the campaign. Just stood up and left the table, the rest of the cast was shook and furious, but it ended up working into a great storyline and introducing a new beloved character.

Keyleth fucking yeeted herself off a cliff because she though she was, and I quote, "basicaly a god". Instantly died what to this day one may consider the stupidiest death in critical role history, puting Vex (and Laura Bailey) in an awful situation that she must have hated but at the end of the day it was extremely funny and a moment to remember.

The campaign was over, Matt was preparing to close it all and have them live happily ever after, and Grog decides to pull a card from the fucking DECK OF MANY THINGS, JUST FOR FUNSIES!! Because it made sense to his character and also bc he was curious. Died in the act. All the characters had to press pause on their grief for Vax and their relief of it all being over to address the situation and a whole ass one-shot was made to bring him back. It was great.

Campaign 2, Jester went an pulled the fuckery of the century by attempting to modify the memory of an old, extremely powerful hag. The probability of that going south was real and for all we know, if the hag had succeded that wisdom save characters could have ended up dead. But it worked and I don't need to remind you how epic that was.

Also a lot of Mighty Nein shenanigans that were reckless and irresponsible and ended up turning out great, I'm just writting the ones at the top of my head.

What I'm trying to say is that maybe D&D is a game and maybe taking awfuly calculated risks pays off sometimes and others they don't, but maybe players have the right to be messy and reckless and even selfish sometimes, especially if it makes sense to their character. Yeah, what Ashton did was dumb and inconsiderate to the rest, especially Fearne. That happens. They are humans playing humans (or other races but you get where i'm going), it's bound to get messy and complicated and even ugly sometimes, that's what creates great storytelling, so be mad all you want but insulting Taliesin, calling him stuff and just attacking the cast in any way the moment they make a choice you don't like is dumb and unfair. I haven't forgotten the treatment Marisha got from the fandom during the entirety of Campaign 1 and I wont stand for any more of that shit. Learn to fucking behave yourselves.

[wintershades]

Fjord mood board for Seen Through the Deadlight (AO3)

[princessamericachavez]

Fjorester wedding. Officiated by Artagan. Except Ishanari, the hag, shows up to exact vengeance on Jester by kidnapping Fjord.

Except turns out mid evil plan she realizes Artagan is her ex. Change of plans: kidnap Artagan. Two for one!!!

So Jester (and the M9) go to the Feywild to rescue Artagan. Shit happens.

By the time they find them, turns out Artagan has managed to seduce the hag all over again. Everything good!

But when they go back to their plane, turns out Lord Sharpe was waiting for them. He has been waiting for HIS chance at vengeance.

Sharpe has been conspiring with a woman from the staff who, unbeknownst to him, is actually Gelidon (the Nightmare in Ivory wasn’t about to pass the chance to ruin Jester’s wedding to make them all suffer like her) and Sabían who has been tracking Fjord to avenge Uk’otoa.

A big fight ensues.

By the end, after a very dramatic and angsty fight, most enemies are defeated.

Artagan performs the ceremony (the hag offered but it was decided not to be the best plan for the future couple’s happiness). Jester remarks it was very sweet that so many people (enemies) they met in their travels showed up to their wedding.

[storytheanimist]

Now that my Critter has recieved and opened their gift, I can FINALLY share this piece that I've been wanting to sculpt for TWO YEARS. Easily one of the most clutch moments in Tabletop Entertainment history, this piece, titled "Modify Memory" is based on the LEGENDARY Laura Bailey (playing Jester) casting said spell on a hag to convince her to remove the pre-campaign curse placed on Nott, The Brave (played by Sam Riegel).

This was a labor of love and so much fun to sculpt. Stay tuned for progress reels on my Instagram coming in the next few weeks once I get my sh*t together! 😅

Characters and incredible moment property of Critical Role

Clay is Cosclay

Paint is folkartcrafts, culturehustle and michaelsstores

Special thanks to crittergifting and my wonderful critter for the opportunity to make this piece!