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the breath before the phrase by KmacKatie (kmackatie)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Sep 2022
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The ringing note of a concert A is played by the oboe, echoing on its own in the space. It’s picked up by the wind section, followed rapidly by the brass, and the familiar feeling of an orchestra calibrating takes over Caleb. The tonal adjustments as each person brings their instrument into alignment sinks into him and something inside Caleb shifts in recognition as Essek leads the strings into their own tuning.
It’s like something is waking up, like something unfurling and firing across long-unused paths of memory. His hands shake slightly, as he raises his bow and joins them, fingers fumbling against the pegs and fine tuners that give him control over his instrument.
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Essek Thelyss is a leading violinist, his spot as Shadowhand of the Rosohna Philharmonic Orchestra has been uncontested for over a decade. Caleb Widogast is a recent arrival to the city, convinced by his friends to audition for one of the vacant violinist positions.
After starting off on the wrong foot, Caleb and Essek get to slowly know each other, discover what brings them joy, create while defying expectations, and find out that what they can produce together may just be better than anything they can do separately.
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22 May 2022
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The story goes: Caleb, a fresh-faced farm boy from Igrathad, moved to Rosohna ten years previously to achieve his dream of owning a bookstore. With a little family money from his parents’ untimely deaths and the sale of their farm, he rented a storefront and set up shop here in the Gallimaufry district.
Of course, he shouldn’t have let himself get so comfortable.
It’s mid-afternoon on a mild Conthsen and Caleb is reading behind the counter when the bell chimes above the door and an altogether too familiar face walks in: Essek Thelyss.
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As one of the Empire’s deep undercover Volstrucker, Caleb Widogast warms the beds of Taskhands, Lens secretaries, and wives of government officials to get any advantage over the Dynasty he can. But when he needs more information than the scientist informant Essek Thelyss is giving him, he finds his usual charms don’t cut it. A chance meeting in a bookstore offers him a different way in.
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12 Apr 2022
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“Well,” he croons, “The fun doesn’t have to be entirely one-sided. Our time could very well be limited. You help me with my condition…and I could help you with yours.”
“My condition?” she asks, her eyebrows now arched to maximum height.
Astarion tilts his head. “Darling, it’s bad enough that we might burst into tentacles any day now. I would hate to see you die a virgin.”
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Neve already had her hands full, what with trying to keep her companions from killing each other and pushing forward in the face of an uncertain fate. Then the vampire had to go and decide she was sweet enough to want to sink his teeth into.
Another take on how things unfold post-bite.
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- Part 1 of Mercurial World
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12 Apr 2022
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They’re surrounded on all sides; Da’leth to the west, Pinkertons northwards, the roads crawling with lawmen and bounty hunters. There’s no space for their way of life anymore, no empathy for the wild men and women who live life outside of law. Essek is right that they live on borrowed time, but Caleb decided a long time ago that he’ll go down fighting or he won’t go down at all.
Nothing has changed. The goal here, always and forever, is survival.
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04 Apr 2022
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“My father explained my delusion. ‘This fox is dead’, he told me, ‘it may not seem so, but once the frost melts it will rot like anything else.’ I found this untenable at the time. But now I wonder, if nature is capable of suspending a creature between life and death, how will humans inevitably attempt the same?”
Relentlessly, thinks Caleb. And without any thought for the soul.
“Curious,” murmurs Thelyss. “Have you witnessed any practical experiments upon this theory?”
“No,” he lies.
Caleb hears word of a scholar, one who lives alone. It is unwise to knock on the door of a man known to be a cold host, but Caleb is desperate and has little to lose. He enters thinking there cannot be anything more monstrous inside but himself. However, he soon sees and experiences what he believed was found only on the pages of folktales.Series
- Part 2 of the glory of hell and the virtue of sin