sdjkadsdja remember when liam said he was excited to play his new character to get away from the angst of vax bc i think about that constantly how does that man’s brain work
nc Vax is a guy who is, at the end of his journey, inevitably going to die and he can’t avoid it so his whole story is him squeezing as much time out of his loved ones as he can before he loses them.
Caleb is a guy who already lost everything and his story is how he makes a family and builds himself back up.
Looking at it stagnant as a whole Caleb is a bigger angsty mess than Vax but if you factor in the forward momentum of the story the worst of Caleb is behind him. There’s a totally different feel from the countdown-to-tragedy Vax is in and Caleb learning to care about people and heal.
Arcane Familiar: a spell that allows the caster to send out his mind beyond the boundaries of the material plane to make contact with an alien being from the far reaches of the netherscape, communicate with them, and enter into a dark pact offering their life-force, in exchange for the being to come to this world in the form of an amorphous, immortal, magical trickster being who will obey the caster’s every dark and dire whim
I can’t get over how these blockheads with a joke name like the Mighty Nein can roll into the harshest areas filled to the brim with dangerous scum and cruelly evil bastards, introduce themselves with obviously fake names, then openly call each other by their real names in earshot of everyone, shit in alleys, get wasted, disregard half the things they were told, and stumble into unwinnable situations then pull out walls of fire, summoned demons, stunning truth fists, teleportation, and illusory magic with the final tally ending up overwhelmingly in their favor as they leave town with their enemies feeding the worms. These guys are fucking terrifying. Like, how many top-tier assholes have grossly underestimated what must seem like a crew of clowns to them just to be buried by how powerful they really are? Avantika was flush on her successes and thought they were jokes, and they made her sit in silence as she lost everything. Lorenzo considered them worthless and unworthy of his attention, then had his criminal enterprise torn down on his head. And then I can’t stop thinking about a little bird girl in Hupperdook who’s still alive and has a family again because of them, or the town of Allfield who calls them their heroes, or a blind priest who spreads tales of these folks who constantly delve into the dark to rescue people who need it, and I can’t stop getting misty-eyed. They’re doing it in the craziest and most chaotic way they know how, but the world’s jumped a few notches closer to better because of them.
This last arc is hilarious when you look at the m9′s tactics from an outside perspective, like they literally rolled up to Avantika in Her boat, after killing Her crew, and become pirates out of sheer audacity.
They go on 1 (one) shore mission where fjord actively tries to drown Avantika but plays it off as nothing, seduces and sleeps with her a couple times. They roll up into port for 1 (one) day, steal her evidence, start a fight, and get her killed by pirate king.
Fjord is the only one with ANY experience on a ship
I would ABSOLUTELY believe beau when she says that this was an infiltration mission specifically against Avantika by an order of batman monks, because they pulled it off so well and with almost no casualties, while getting pretty much all the info they needed about the cloven orbs and stuff
But then you the viewer know that these events are the result of accidentally getting spotted trying to SPEAK to a messenger in a port city with no intentions at all, and they’ve been sailing by the seat of their pants the whole fucking time I love dnd
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