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copperhawkthoughts · 2 years
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Beau: Essek if you fuck this up I swear to god…my essence will haunt you
Essek: and I will deserve it, like I deserve all the things that haunt me
Beau, visibly flashing back to mid-campaign Caleb: aw for fucks sake
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sunshinekeyleth · 1 year
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yasha stepping on cree's cloak 🤝🏽 yasha holding onto uk'otoa's tail
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insane that crees holy symbol was a vial of lucien’s blood
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foldybikes · 11 months
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separate somnovem voices: wavering and snarling and chittering
somnovem omega voice: (¬‿¬) sup (bass boosted)
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personalityisnice · 3 years
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It just occurred to me that Lucien is probably an incredibly lonely man.
And by that, I'm not referring to the fact that the dude has no real friends because he exclusively gathered together cultists and scavengers. Or the fact that he was obviously happy to leave any and all of them to rot at a moment's notice. Not exactly, or directly, anyway.
I'm talking about the fact that he wanted to take over Cognouza at all.
Once he became disillusioned with the Somnovem, he could've just walked away from the whole thing, the way Molly walked away from the things he couldn't remember. Take the abilities they'd given him and put them to work on the Material Plane. He probably could've used them to great advantage there; they were skills that few others could match or counter, save other Nonagons.
But he didn't. He came for Cognouza. Why? Why was this place worth it to him?
Because at this point, it's become obvious that basically every man, woman and child of Cognouza does not want to be there. All of them would rather have died ages ago. But as long as the Somnovem, the rulers of Cognouza, say their Ward continues as it is, it does. No one gets to leave. No one gets to die. Because as the Omega said, it'd be wrong to hoard this...gift.
This might be why it appeals to Lucien. Lucien, who dead ass said that he "-doesn't like being abandoned." This might be a man who wants to be able to abandon anyone he cares to at any time, but will not stand for anyone trying to leave him.
Quite possibly he couldn't let go of the idea of a place that would allow him to gather anyone he wanted to his side, and would ensure he'd never have to be afraid that anyone would abandon him ever again. Because no one would be able to.
Imagine how desperately lonely you'd have to be for that idea to appeal to you. I don't say this to try to justify his behavior, but to highlight how massively dysfunctional this guy's inner world must be. That he wanted this, this so badly that he went through everything he did to get to this point. That he's convinced himself he can make it better.
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Can you imagine how that encounter was for Yussah, though? Like, you’re just chillin, being mentally tortured for weeks on end in the ancient stain on reality of a city you’ve astrally projected to, and then??? The people you originally thought of as incompetent morons physically show up there, out of nowhere, and just free you from your psychic prison after like 30 seconds of trying when you’ve been struggling for weeks??? You had no idea they knew where you were. YOU have no idea where you were. How did they get there? When? How did they find you????
So you sheepishly chalk it up to them swooping in to be your hero, y’know. Again. Your first meeting where you called them fools for dealing in matters they knew not gets more embarrassing every day.
And then you find out they weren’t even there for you. They were already just. There. In the SCREAMING FLESH CITY. And they were literally like “well, while we’re HERE, we should prob swing by Yussah’s torture hallway lol.” 
You’re a respected wizard who’s hundreds of years old. You’ve been saved from something you don’t understand as a side quest by the group YOU think of as local dumbasses.
This isn’t the first time it’s happened.
How do you recover from that.
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sivsii · 3 years
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bro stop ppl are gonna think we’re narrative foils or something lol
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ariadne-mouse · 3 years
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Essek: if I had a nickle for every time I'd been asked to strip by one of the Mighty Nein, I'd have 2 nickles, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice
Essek, nervously glancing at Caleb: I wouldn't mind having 3 nickles
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vethbrenatto · 3 years
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New Eyes.
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smartbrained · 3 years
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“Did you order a wizard, sir?”
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jinxknight · 3 years
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Essek breaks reality for a long rest.
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tarydarrington · 3 years
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the fact that they talked so much about using time magic to go back and fix their mistakes, the fact that this goal has always been framed as something that really shouldn’t be done and would be extremely unsafe, the fact that caleb and essek are both having to learn the lesson that instead of going back and fixing their mistakes they have to learn to move on and live with them and do better in the future, the fact that their first use of actual experimental time travel magic, together, was to travel forward
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nothingwithdignity · 3 years
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You know, they never set out to save the world. From the very beginning, they chose not to be the heroes. They walked away from power and glory and acclaim time and time again without hesitation.
Their choices have always been about doing the most they could, in this particular moment, for the individuals they care most about. Doing just enough good to be able to walk away unscathed, preferring the freedom of relative anonymity to the resources of notoriety.
They lean on each other as the only allies they really need and it’s gotten them this far. It’s also put them in the situation they’re in now, virtually alone against a madman in the Astral Sea.
They will never be the epic heroes with armies and kings at their backs and they never wanted to be. Each of them set out to help a friend or a stranger make their life a little better, and that has been enough ever since. Sure, they’ve gotten tangled in the affairs of empires and gods, but even then the choices they made have been about friends and family, about protecting their little world within a world.
Veth pointed out that it’s the only choice that they’ve consistently made since the very beginning. This is who the Mighty Nein is. They care for their friends first and if they happen to save the world or stop a war in the process, even better, but that was never the goal.
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foldybikes · 11 months
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yeah cree down! bye ms deeproots. get body horrored.
didn't realize until after the nein shunted one threshold crest to another plane and the time pressure suddenly vanished how tense this shit had me. just a real exhale. man what a story, what great body horror, what cool narrative beats.
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personalityisnice · 3 years
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Hey, Cree's ultimate fate was hideous, but I think some of y'all are showing her too much sympathy too fast. Having the man's blood in a vial around her neck (very likely without his knowledge or consent) was not sweet, it was obsessive stalker behavior.
And lest we forget who resurrected him? And what memories were missing once he was resurrected?
There is a very big chance Cree found a way to magically lobotomize Lucien and thus ensured her own death at his hands. If you make a monster, you shouldn't be surprised when it kills you.
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