15 Works in Residuum (Critical Role)
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What do you do when you can't do anything?
When a sabotaged lesson plan infects Caleb, his colleagues, and their students with a rare and deadly disease, there is little to do but wait for a team of researchers to try and find a cure. But then, each moment seems an insurmountable task--avoid panic, take care of one another, manage their worsening symptoms, figure out who or what may have caused it, and stay alive long enough for medicine to be created.
There is something all too familiar about being locked in a Soltryce tower, trusting people who can't be trusted, and hoping death won't find you before morning.
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To protect is to possess by Yellowmiki98
Fandoms: The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon), Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Aug 2025
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Cassandra deserves a crash out I have decided.
In which she fears possibly loosing her only living family member that matters to her and decides to take matters into her own hands. It matter not if all of Vox Machina, Heroes of the Realm are against her. Nothing will stop her from ensuring she is never left alone again. -
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Caduceus had known the potential consequences of returning home empty-handed, and he's always been one to take his lessons to heart.
[Day 12 of Whumptember 2023]
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- Part 10 of Bad Things Happen Bingo (Critical Role)
- Part 7 of Whumptember 2023
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It's been two years since the downfall of Master Trent Ikithon, and two years since Astrid Becke has taken up the mantle of Archmage of Civic Influence. However, some mysteries still remain. How will she reinstate the Volstrucker Program? How will she protect the future of the Empire? And how will she piece together the trail her predecessor left behind?
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- Part 1 of Critical Role Collection
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Bren is fifteen when he hears rumors of someone who has been following behind Master Kithon.He never sees him face-to-face, but the rumors say he’s some special student or that he might be a ghost haunting Master Ikithon. He doubts that last one.
Bren is nearly sixteen when he finally meets the new student.
(word count: 1600.)
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Febuwhump Day 17: Self-Inflicted Wound by I Write Fix-Its Not Tragedies (Jan3693)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
27 Feb 2022
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Nott reached his side and delicately took hold of the arm Caleb was holding close. Rivulets of blood ran down toward his elbow where his shirtsleeve had been pulled up. Something was sticking out of his forearm, something Caduceus recognized well.
“Oh, Caleb, what have you done?” Nott asked. Her voice quavered and her free hand fluttered about, not quite daring to touch the blood-slicked green crystal. Caleb didn’t reply. His head was still bowed, eyes shut. He was shuddering from head to toe, like pain was rolling through his entire body in waves.
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- Part 17 of Febuwhump 2022
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Febuwhump Day 16: "Does That Hurt?" by I Write Fix-Its Not Tragedies (Jan3693)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Feb 2022
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A continuation of sorts from Day 11: Chronic Pain.
Yasha nodded, but continued to stare down at Caleb’s scars. They almost looked ornamental. Her own tribe hadn’t practiced scarification, but she’d known others that had. Their warriors had proudly marked their flesh with both simple and intricate scars that told stories of their lineage and deeds. Yasha had thought them beautiful. Caleb’s scars were different though. These were the marks of things that had been done to him. They were battle scars, even if the struggle he’d acquired them in hadn’t looked like a traditional fight.
“Do they hurt?” Yasha asked.
The question seemed to surprise Caleb, and embarrass him, though she didn’t understand why. Yasha had her own battle scars, and some of them kept hurting long after the wounds themselves had healed. That was the nature of some injuries. There was nothing shameful about it. Nevertheless, Caleb yanked his sleeves back down.
“It’s fine,” Caleb told her.
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- Part 16 of Febuwhump 2022
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Febuwhump Day 11: Chronic Pain by I Write Fix-Its Not Tragedies (Jan3693)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
13 Feb 2022
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Before he’d been born, Caleb’s father had taken an arrow to the knee in a skirmish against Kryn raiders. Caleb could remember his father sitting in his chair next to the hearth, rubbing the scar across his knee and disparaging “We’ll need to get the rest of the wheat in early; it’s going to rain,” or “Best put an extra log on the fire; we’ll be waking up to snow tomorrow.” To a young child, that had seemed like magic. A scar that could predict the weather!
As an adult, Caleb knew the scarred tissue of his father’s old war wound had merely been reacting to changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure. There had been nothing magical about his pain.
Caleb’s own scars didn’t start to ache when the weather turned, but that didn’t mean they never reacted to conditions around him.
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- Part 11 of Febuwhump 2022
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you might make it boy (by the skin of your teeth) by QueenWithABeeThrone for EssayOfThoughts
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Sep 2021
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They’ve had to split from the rest of the party in this castle dungeon, clearing out ghosts for some new family to move in. Vex and Vax obviously went together, with Pike tagging along with them. Grog and Scanlan, last Keyleth checked, have trooped down another path, in search of a rumored crypt of some famed bard belonging to the family who used to own this castle, now long since died out. That just leaves Percy, so Keyleth comes with him.
And a good thing she did, because now he is very badly hurt, eyes glowing dimly in the darkness. She knows humans shouldn’t be able to do that, shouldn’t have eyes that can see in the dark, but Percy is—strange, for a human. She sometimes wonders what happened to him, before Vex found him in that prison cell, because whatever it was, it did something to his body and to his mind.
Broke, she thinks, the word you’re looking for is broke.
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Reason for Study:
Testing for effects of direct application of residuum within magically-adept subjects for the purpose of enhancing natural arcane ability.or
Excerpts from Ikithon's research notes on residuum usage with the blumentrio.
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- Part 13 of Where Light Fears to Tread
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an angsty gunslinger and wizard sit down at a table, stop me if you have heard this joke before.
remember how parlay worked between John and Merle in The Adventure Zone? its like that but two smart people working out some traumas.
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While searching for the Dynasty’s missing Beacon, the Mighty Nein come across a surprisingly young runaway Scourger trainee.
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- Part 5 of Where Light Fears to Tread
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Caleb and Fjord have a much needed conversation after Fjord's decision at the Kiln. Self indulgent and unbeta'd.
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Bren is surprisingly the quietest of the three as Trent makes the preparatory incisions on his arms.
Astrid had asked an endless stream of questions, curious, intent, honed in on the task and what he was doing. Eodwulf had asked why, asked what it would benefit, asked how long it would take, and if the crystals had to stay. They both screamed in the end anyways.
But Bren just watches him work.