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ofsvnlightt · 3 years

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ok, with the news that cr’s final episode (141) is SEVEN hours long (compared to the normal 4ish), i’m just going to update jester now and have a small (hopefully lol) addendum after the ep airs.

so memory update for jes! episodes 137-140 tw: body horror not that you wouldn’t but please take this tw seriously. matt is a genius and his mind is something else. but the shit he came up with for these 4 episodes is messed up...amazing if you’re into that kinda stuff or it doesn’t bother you, but still pretty messed up. crazy.

once again, bolded numbers in parentheses are the episode numbers. rather than somewhat short bullet points, this one has a lot of paragraphs...just an fyi. this is mostly because i’m copying and pasting from crit recaps, which are much easier to skim through than trying to decipher my live tweets or watching a whole 4 hour episode again. i tried to shorten things as best i could though. (even if it doesn’t look like it lol)

floating in the astral sea, the mighty nein figure out that they can just move using their mind (137)

in the distance they see lucien and cree, and further yet the city- the cognoza ward of aeor.

lucien and cree split off and go to opposite ends of the city, to place the final threshold crests so the city can be teleported to the material plane. the nein can only follow one, so they take the left. they are too far away to be able to tell which one they’re following.

as they approach the city, patterns can be seen..like the city is repeating itself. they can see people walking around, but not interacting, like they’re just going through the motions.

TW STARTS HERE

the city seems to be made of flesh

[this is kind of unimportant in the sense of jester, but important for what overall happened in these eps] caleb attempts to talk to a citizen but only gets a terrifying scream in response. this is followed by someone telepathically telling him they must talk. the citizen’s eye swells and the voice starts talking to him. they introduce themselves and timorei, one of the somnovem -- the Somnovem must destroy oblivion in order to endure. Elatis and Luctus plot to end their march to bring darkness and nothing. They embrace the unknown and must be stopped. Timorei asks the Nein to find them in the Aether Crux, where their essence resides

The eye dissolves and the man liquefies into the street.

fjord flies down and lands on the street. it looks like flesh but feels and sounds like stone. a woman approaches him, an eye appears from her mouth - ira - asking who they were just talking to. mirimus? gaudius? caleb lies and says gaudius, ira believes him and says not to trust gaudius. the eye pops and the woman turns into a fleshy horror, along with six other people. they’re made of eyes and teeth and muscle and tentacles. a battle ensues.

every time one of these things is defeated, a sigh of relief comes from it. when caleb kills the final one, it sighs and thanks him.

the Nein discuss trying to pit the Somnovem against each other. Finding one whose goals align with theirs, like Gaudius, who seems to want oblivion.

whoever the somnovem were, they seem to have devolved into base emotions

the nein split up momentarily into groups of two and investigate some of the nearby houses. Each one contains a lazy recreation of the interior of a building, as though the memory of what it should look like is hazy. Half-formed furniture and unfinished interiors. Fjord and Jester find a room that’s very drippy and the floor is the same texture as a tongue. jester collects some of the saliva or whatever’s dripping in a vial for veth. (she sneakily drops it and jes doesn’t notice) rip

Caleb investigates the gazebo area, where there are featureless statues that copy each other. Where the stairs meet the ground, there’s a folding dip. Caleb touches the dip and it opens into another mouth, showing stairs that continue down. The Nein go down the stairs, to warmer temperatures and metallic walls that remind them of Aeorian tunnels. Cad casts decompose – it takes a moment but the wall does begin to grey. Cad thinks this is a stronger memory that knows what it’s supposed to be.The corridor splits off into three different directions. To the right is the ‘Presidius Junction’. The middle, where the hall corkscrews, is the ‘Crest Vault’. To the left…it simply says ‘help’, over and over.

they decide to go to the crest vault since that seems like where one would go to place a threshold crest

They hear footsteps coming down the hall from the direction they’re traveling, and try to hide themselves in crevasses of the wall. The footsteps stop and red light fills the hallway as the eyes on Beau and Caleb begin to glow. Cree: “i was wondering when you would catch up.”

battle begins jester immediately takes caleb and dimension doors 500 feet, behind cree, towards a faint blue light they could see behind her. they are now in a chamber, familiar and similar to one they’ve seen before in the ruins of aeor. and up near the ceiling, is a threshold crest, set in place and glowing. caleb casts disintegrate on the prongs holding it and it begins to fall, but doesn’t get far before fleshy tendrils from the ceiling catch it and begin pulling it back up. jester polymorphs into a giant ape and tries to pull it down, but the tendrils are too strong. she lifts caleb up so he can be closer to it and he casts immovable object on the crest. it’s now suspended in the air, the tendrils unable to pull it anymore. (138)

during all this, the other six are fighting cree. she goes down surprisingly fast (rip for having a low initiative), her dying breath asking the nonagon for help. he says (which only beau can hear) he needs her to hold them off a little longer, and she turns into a monstrosity of flesh, teeth, and eyes. (similar but bigger than the ira one)

they fight her for a little longer and with the help of caduceus’s path to the grave spell, veth gets the killing blow on it.

the monstrosity is called a vessel of the pattern, and because fjord, veth, cad, and essek could see the patterns within it/cree, they all got an eye. jester and yasha are now the only ones without eyes.

The others join Caleb and Jester in the threshold vault. Caduceus casts blight on the flesh tendrils, releasing the crest and allowing Caleb to move it. After a conversation about their options, the Nein decide to plane shift the crest away to the Plane of Fire, which Caduceus does. Now Lucien can no longer bring Cognouza to Exandria, but they still have to deal with the Nonagon himself. They need to rest, but they’re out of time.

essek brings up the gem that they had found in the rejuvenation room (ep 135) and suggests destroying it, thus giving them the rest they need. it’s risky, but possible, if it works. caleb pulls it out and the two of them use their remaining magic to do so. the stone shatters and reality briefly cracks, surrounding them in darkness and stillness. But then their vision returns, and they each feel as if they have received the best night’s sleep of their lives. only seconds have passed, instead of 8 hours.

Beau meditates and senses something notice her, so she disconnects and informs the others. However, an eye begins to give chase, so the Nein race back to the surface of the city. But the voice tells them to wait, asking where they are going.This is Gaudius, who can sense the love that has brought them here. While everyone else searches for the Nonagon, Gaudius seeks the Nein. Gaudius wants to bring their love to everyone, to have them all come together, but Fastidan and Culpasi allow their shame and disgust to rule them, seeking to maintain the separation of life in the cosmos. Gaudius asks the Nein to find Fastidan and Culpasi in the Aether Crux and separate them from reality. The Aether Crux is where the Somnovem join together. Fjord convinces Gaudius that the Nein will carry out this request and Gaudius leaves, pleased.

heading to the aether crux, the nein see a red pulsing light. the tunnel gives way to a massive, aorta-like chamber made of errant rock and towers and buildings. In the middle sits a tall column, which holds a bulbous nest of nine faintly glowing orbs, stretched like tendons across the column.

they hear Lucien’s voice from the other side of the chamber. He’s glad they came and thanks the Nein for distracting the Somnovem for him. he has ten glowing intuit charges, pooled into a floating, pulsing pile. He summons a flesh throne for himself to sit upon.

[enter villain monologue] “i invite you to stay for the show, but i think you’d prefer to run”

The intuit charges glow and Jester casts earthquake as the Nein run. The city begins to come down around Lucien, who laughs maniacally. The flashes go off behind the Nein, who are out of range. They can feel the city flex as the Somnovem are bombarded by psychic energy until all is quiet.

The Mighty Nein assess the situation: Lucien’s attack on the Somnovem has critically injured them, but Jester’s attack appears to have slowed him down a bit. Lucien and the nine faintly glowing orbs of the Somnovem float up and out of the Aether Crux, heading topside, so the Nein decide to take the time for a short rest and a heroes feast. jester’s been anxious about getting another one in so she’s relieved that it’s finally happening. all of the nein are now immune to poison and being frightened. (and have advantage on wisdom saving throws as well as 2d10 additional hit points- laura rolled 17) (139)

willing a tunnel into existence, the nein float through it to the surface of the city, where they see a red pulsing cocoon. It peels open and Lucien emerges, with nine stalks protruding from his back – each ending in a red eye. He lifts himself into the sky as the people of Cognouza stare up at him. He speaks to the Nein and beckons them to join him, which they do, flying up above the city.

An intense aerial battle ensues between the Nein and the Nonagon. Jester throws out the arcane field generator to illuminate the anti-magic field, which is emitted by the ninth Somnovem eye, Vigilan.

Even as they fight, the Nein continue to try to reach out to the Molly part of Lucien, with quotes and memories and nicknames. Successes result in Lucien losing Legendary actions and physically twitching, but his anger leads him to taunt the Nein, telling them that Molly is dead and never really existed. Despite charms and slow spells, necrotic damage and fireballs, the Nein continue to whittle away at Lucien and keep each other alive.

Eventually, Lucien decides that he has had enough of fighting this battle alone. He wants to use the city’s full power. He dives down into a hole in the ground, which opens up to accept him. The Nein quickly follow him down, getting healed by Jester and Caduceus. They return to the Aether Crux and see another pulsing cocoon. As they descend, the cocoon breaks open – Lucien appears, but his lower half is now twisted and connected to Cognouza. The red eye stalks are gone and three sets of giant, muscular wings now sprout from his back.

A chaotic battle breaks out immediately. Lucien is able to send the Somnovem’s eye stalks around the room, and even control parts of the city itself; he is now more dangerous than ever. Some of the Somnovem eyes are able to bestow a red eye upon their target as part of their attack, eventually leading to each member of the Nein having at least one eye. (140)

Due to the nature of Cognouza and the Astral Sea, the Nein begin using their imagination to will things into existence to both hurt Lucien and remind him of Molly, summoning glaives, circus tents, and more. they discover that destroying Somnovem eyes hurts Lucien as well.

during this fight, jester is killed. her last words calling out to artagan, hoping he’ll help. pinned under a building, caleb is pulled free by essek. he stands up, seeing jester’s corpse. crying out her name, he uses the influence of the city to will her closer to caduceus. it works and she appears close to him. he revives her and pulls her into the cover of fjord’s marine layer.

a few rounds later, lucien teleports closer to where everyone is and uses his wing attacks against caleb, killing him.

Finally it is Jester’s turn, and with Caduceus having hit Lucien with path to the grave, she sends out a guiding bolt, telling Molly that she knows he is in there, that he is loved, and that Lucien doesn’t deserve him. As the magic burns him, Lucien physically tears himself in twain. The Neo-Somnovem is defeated.

As the Nein reel from the battle’s end, they begin to hear voices in their minds, thousands of voices all saying the same thing – thank you. They see motes of light floating up and out of the city, lives now able to rest after a thousand years of suffering. Jester and Caduceus race to Caleb’s side. Jester (aided by a finally present Artagan) is able to revive Caleb.

focus is then set on the now dead lucien and the city. caduceus casts decompose, and it take hold..he knows in time the city will rot away to nothing.

there is trepidation, but the nein decide they should at least try to bring molly back. yasha, with help from beau, begin tearing and cutting the body free of the fleshy city. a resurrection ritual begins. yasha, jester, and beau partake.

with an unfortunate natural 1 roll from matt, lucien, or in this case molly, is not brought back.

caduceus decides to try divine intervention. taliesin somehow rolls a 2% and thus it works!! (you have to roll a d100 and get your level or lower for it to work.) “whoever it was, just put it back. i think they deserve it. just put it back.”

and for the first time in 114 episodes, molly - truly molly - is back. he opens his eyes and bolts, confused and with no memory. he repeats “empty” over and over again, just like when yasha first met him at the circus (pre-stream)

yasha tells him that his name is mollymauk tealeaf. he looks at her. “love?” this is in reference to the tarot deck molly always carried with him. he’d made a card for every member of the mighty nein, yasha’s being love. he then looks around the group, not knowing who they are or their names, but knowing the cards he’d assigned to each of them.

Magician (caleb)

Tinkerer (veth)

Joy (jester)

Sea (fjord)

Rumor (beau)

with some magical paint, jester draws some clothes for molly to wear. yasha gives him his ostentatious coat that she’s kept with her since veth decided to take it from his grave in ep 111.

and with that, the mighty nein, finally NINE, plane shift back to the material plane, to the blooming grove.

and that’s it!! again sorry for the paragraphs. 140 was an insane episode and very emotional. and i’ll be thinking about it for a long time. until 141 tomorrow! rip me for staying up to watch a 7 hour stream, which i definitely wouldn’t do if it weren’t the finale. i promise jester’s 141 update won’t be this long, but depending on what happens in 7 hours of rp, i have a feeling it’ll still be a decent length.

anyways, shoutout to you if you read all of this. ily

#🍭 little sapphire :: jester #body horror tw #long post tw #death tw

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tfctest · 7 years

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