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    At the end of their journey many mysteries still linger in the minds of the young cats. Secrets from the Clan’s resent and accent history hidden in a shroud of darkness and half truths.
    Fogpaw is trying to settle into his new life in Sky Clan when he feels his heart is pulling him across the Shadow Clan border.
    Ravenpaw and Jaypaw are doing their best to live under their father’s paw.
    Trickpaw is searching for answers with Strongpaw at her side.
    Rowanpaw wants answers about what happened to her mother.
    And Shorthalt is watching across the lake to Sky Clan territory.

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    The De Rolo family are protective of what they deem as theirs, be that an object, place or even a person…when a De Rolo asks something of you you don’t refuse, you don’t say no. They will always get what they want no matter how hard you fight.

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    Ashton is stuck on a ship for two weeks with the other Nein Hellz on the way to the Shattered Teeth, which means that he's forced (partly by some agents of chaos and mischief on board) to confront his feelings for a certain halfling that have been bubbling under the surface for a while now. And because Ashton is Ashton, what better way to communicate that attraction than brawling about it first?

    [Critical Role Summer Wildflowers Exchange 2025 Treat]

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    It's only been a few months since Kingsley's "birth," and he can already tell that something is off with his… soul? Head? His something. Since no one on the Nein Heroez ship would likely be able to figure out exactly what’s wrong with him, he decides to return to the first place that he remembers as a place of healing and self-discovery—the Blooming Grove.

    [Critical Role Summer Wildflowers Exchange 2025]

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    Out of seemingly nowhere, a horrible, massive, terrifying city of flesh descended from the Astral Plane, bringing along a gang of mercenaries who captured every arcanist on Wildemount and tossed them into the depths of it's towers. Stripped of their spellbooks, components, and focuses, almost nothing stands in the way of Cognouza's domination of the entire continent.

    Essek Thelyss, somewhat-former Shadowhand to the Bright Queen, wants nothing more than to escape. And escape starts with stealing his spellbook back from Lucien's study.

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    Okay, this was good. This was easy. Veth only had to kiss her husband and they would all be free. She just wanted to give her an encouraging nod when she suddenly saw that Veth's eyes betrayed her for a second and flickered towards Caleb.

    Oh no.
    Veth's whole body froze. Her eyes wandered back and forth between Caleb and Yeza.
    Oh fuck.

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    Beau knows she has a naturally analytical mind, a skill that has been further honed through years of work with the Cobalt soul. Her job is to find patterns, to pick through evidence and come to conclusions that are true, even if they are inconvenient or complicated or uncomfortable.

    And though she has tried to dismiss the thought, the evidence is stacking up.

    Jester is up to something.

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    A handful of herbs and what they mean to both Caduceus and Jester.

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    “Worried about me, circus man?” Caleb teased. Something about his tone made Molly stutter in their movements, face flushing.

    Molly’s smile melted into a smirk. “That’s up to you. Would you like me to be?”

    It started as a simple quest. As most things do when it comes to the Mighty Nein, it went sideways almost immediately.

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    The Corvids are a problem. That's nothing new to many people... There are many who would like to see the Flock brought down. One of their primary adversaries, a conniving individual known as the Diseased Deceiver, has determined that taking down the Corvids should be quite simple... All one has to do, is to take out the Mastermind that brought them together, gave them their wings and gave them their flight path... One stone, seven birds.

    To put an end to the Corvids, one simply has to put an end to the Crow. The Deceiver aims to do just that. Slowly. Painfully. She has created something just for him. And none of the Corvids will know what has been done to their Crow, until it is too late... until the first, dormant virus has had time to incubate, until his lungs have been primed for hemorrhaging, until the second virus has been delivered, to wake the dormant one, now fully established in his system, triggering a chain reaction of sudden, rapid, dramatic mutation...

    It will take hold, rapidly... her only regret is that she won't be able to watch the Raven, watch his Crow die... Watch him scramble, desperate to find a way to save him...

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    No brothers left
    And there'll be no more after me

    OR

    Judgment day.

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    Caleb and Essek are discovering the intricacies of their relatioship, both sexual and how a relationship works when one person is on the run.
    This leads to both wanting to try dirty talk and finding their balance.

    Meanwhile, unrelated, Caleb wants to surprise his boyfriend by learning Undercommon.

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    That’s what they had called this. A purge. It was the Dungeon of Penance after all. They were trying to save his soul, they had said. To burn the evil out of him before he eventually succumbed to his fate. To justice.

    Even now, he found their practices foolish.

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    Percival is working in his office, waiting to hear from Vax'ildan. He sent him to retrieve something that had been stolen from him. But when he finally gets news, it's not the good news he had been hoping for... Vax has been caught. And now, Percy is trapped at gunpoint, and is being forced to watch a live stream as Vax is left in an empty courtyard in the snow, to freeze to death. This time, the Crow cannot save his Raven... Percy will never reach him in time; he's on the other side of the world. And he can't call the other Corvids for help, either. If Percy makes any move to try and contact anyone for help, he'll be gunned down... All he can do is... watch. As Vax slowly freezes to death... and pray that somehow... someone out there will be able to help...

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    Imogen is a mess of nerves over her first trip to Tal'Dorei. First, she has to brave the heights of skyship travel. Then, she and the Bells will be trying out field lacrosse for the first time - against literal legends of the sport. Not to mention the ever-perceptive Orym has noticed something that Imogen herself isn't ready to come to terms with.
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    Like the others in this series, the sports and loose mystery plots are really just there for interesting character development to happen ;)

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    In the aftermath of Trent Ikithon’s capture, every member of the Mighty Nein settled swiftly into domestic life.

    Everyone, that is, except Essek. For the former Shadowhand, it wasn’t until the commission of a portrait that he finally felt that he had found a home.

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    Those quiet days, Verin pretended that Essek still sat in the same room as him. He pretended he could see the frown and slight tilt of Essek’s head, the way his hair cascaded down his back — always against putting it up, keeping it out of the way. He pretended he could hear the grumble under Essek’s breath about “disturbing the peace” and “trying to read,” and he pretended he could see the way Essek settled in a space that was no longer stiflingly quiet.

    He longed for those days.

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    Essek and Caleb host a guest.
    Post C3 105.

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    Home.

    It had never meant anything to Essek. A tower sterile beyond his laboratory with spells and chalk and components scattered in a haphazard way he’d be embarrassed to show anyone else. A family he’d grown distant from almost a century ago. A religion and government he’d silently scorned by refusing their most sacred offer.

    He had a lot of things he loved and missed about Rosohna, but the city had never been home until a house of eclectic adventurers with a giant, glittering tree moved in and asked him to dinner.

    [Essek officially moves in with Caleb.]

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    Caleb is unaccustomed to the aristocratic tendencies of any nation, let alone the one that has only recently come out of a war with his own. Despite this, he is allured to the Firmaments' High Society-though it is not the work of the sparkly chandeliers or gaudy bouquets, but rather the temptations of a handsome drow man whom he'd trekked miles with, Essek Thelyss.

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