#critical role research

[triaelf9]

Aeor date-sploration memories XD

[nellasbookplanet]

Mentioning Tusk Love and the potential of other independent stories set in Exandria reminded me of an old discord conversation about how they could Fix the courting of the crick for publishing (seeing as it's canonically a Bad Book due to being super dry and also racist towards drow) without breaking canon:

Rename it 'The Courting of the Kryn - a Reimagining of the Classic Story, by Jester Lavorre'

Present it as an in-universe fanfic-ish rewrite. There's a foreword where 'Jester' elaborates on the inaccuracies of the original, the impact the story had on her, and the importance of Dynasty-Empire relations. There's an acknowledgement section where she thanks Caleb and Beau as 'consultants on Empire culture', as well as an unnamed/under fake name/clearly Essek as an 'expert on the Luxon, dunamancy and Dynasty culture'. All his information on spy networks is eerily accurate and has his former co-workers scrambling. (He makes her keep all the dry historical accounts, but now it's accurate (with added dick-related puns)). She mentions that she reached out to the Bright Queen who reluctantly (after 5 messages in a row) gave some pointers. In her frantic research she possibly made some breakthroughs on the nature on the Luxon that has Essek reeling (there's a 'further reading' section where she lists the academic paper he wrote building on her discoveries and an entire list of the sources her consultants used).

For extra fun and meta-ness, include footnotes where she comments on things she changed/removed from the original and why, how various scenes may have been inspired by a real life couple or events, etc. Some of the footnotes are written by her consultants. Caleb and Essek get into arguments on dunamancy theory which is actually thinly veiled flirting. There's anatomically accurate drow sex (it's unclear whether the consultant was Essek or Caleb or possibly a certain brother, who was also consulted on Dynasty military practices).

[essektheylyss]

gotta think like a wizard to catch a wizard babey

[hello-eeveev]

what’s so funny to me is that it seems like literally everything in Aeor terrifies Essek, but he has gone there several times with Caleb for research (aka wizard fun). They would have gone again if not for the Cerberus Assembly becoming too much of a presence there. Aeor is their established date spot.

He was basically doing the thing where you go to a scary movie or a haunted house with your crush so you have an excuse to hold hands lol

[arden-wings]

guys... surely he wouldn't...

[kagooleo]

aside from my rice here’s a doodle dump of my timeskip johto kiddos all scribbled during classes! forgot to upload this some time ago but it's a mix of silly doodles, profile studies and outfit ideations 📝

[viiriidiian]

caleb page to ignore the empire siblings’ unknown status post-apogee solstice... anyways! everyone say big stretch to frumpkin.

i made a matching beau page here for all you lesbians out there

[bones-of-rabbit]

let him be annoying

[ignatiusteto]

i think sacred music in the kryn dynasty would be very cyclical and repetitive in form to symbolize the idea that life is a continuous thing (at least those who are consecuted right right) and is a cycle across lifetimes and yeah

[drthrvn]

i've watched TLoVM with my bestie (season one so far) and she absolutely loves it 😭 and since we're both trying to get into DnD, we're going to our very first session this week and we've decided that if we really get into it, we'll order ourselves Vox Machina dice sets from the CR store (i'd get Vax's and she - Scanlan's) 😭😭 guys i'm so happy

[essekthelysssideblog]

So before the finale happened and we got a conclusive ending I had this idea of how I wanted Caleb and Essek's epilogue to go-- and instead of Caleb going back to work at Soltryce, he created his own academy for wizards. And then when he died, Essek could take over as the headmaster (maybe in disguise, but with an established identity).

[shironezuninja]

Smiling that there are Strings Quartet versions of 2 Scanlan songs. Reminds me of how I loved listening to Strings Quartet versions of 2 anime songs from Inuyasha and Ouran High School Host Club.

[owltattoo]

oh PLEASE essek be the key to separating them

[essektheylyss]

Absolutely OBSESSED with the progression of cataloguing in Critical Role, like:

Campaign 1: the Slayer's Take, religious institutions containing dangerous threats that must be hidden away. utilitarian, standard fantasy fare.

Campaign 2: the Cobalt Soul, extensive global networks of knowledge collection, collation, and dissemination. commentary on the importance of knowledge keepers and its relationship to corruption.

Campaign 3: the absolute most BUCKWILD personal collections you've ever seen in your life. hoarder territory. if there's a cataloguing system it is HIGHLY specific to its creator. what is real and and what is fake. opens up to metanarrative commentary on organization of knowledge and archival that I WILL be writing a dissertation on in five years, research funding be fucking damned.

[hello-eeveev]

Rated G, 1331 words

“You didn’t like any of the performers, Essek?�� “Dislike is a strong word, but they were… not my preference, no.” “What is your preference, then?” Imogen asked.

In which pestering Essek becomes stress relief for yet another adventuring party.

[meadowsofmay]

the way 'the legend of vox machina' held me in the sheer fear that someone might actually, irreversibly, ultimately die. not sure if i have any words as of now but — i was scared to breathe on the last ep in case i'll miss the clue. that was one hell of a damn ride and i am pulled deep under with the desire to see, watch and find out more because i am absolutely in love.