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You Don't Have to Cast the Amber Light by InkDippedFeathers
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 May 2024
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'"It’s not a bad job for a person who likes to think. Each day presents new challenges. Each client is a new puzzle to solve," said Caleb
“Do you intend to solve me?”
The man fixed him with a look of such sharp intelligence that Essek was skewered by it.
“I’d like to.”
Essek felt his cheeks darken and his breath catch. He had come into this with no expectations of anything beyond putting up with things until he could make his excuses and then never letting Verin talk him into anything ever again. Now though, he had to know. This man was a fascinating enigma, his own little puzzle.
“Show me.”'
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Essek gets talked into a night out with Verin and his soldier friends. Little did he know they were going to a brothel.- Language:
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29 Jun 2022
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The ringing note of a concert A is played by the oboe, echoing on its own in the space. It’s picked up by the wind section, followed rapidly by the brass, and the familiar feeling of an orchestra calibrating takes over Caleb. The tonal adjustments as each person brings their instrument into alignment sinks into him and something inside Caleb shifts in recognition as Essek leads the strings into their own tuning.
It’s like something is waking up, like something unfurling and firing across long-unused paths of memory. His hands shake slightly, as he raises his bow and joins them, fingers fumbling against the pegs and fine tuners that give him control over his instrument.
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Essek Thelyss is a leading violinist, his spot as Shadowhand of the Rosohna Philharmonic Orchestra has been uncontested for over a decade. Caleb Widogast is a recent arrival to the city, convinced by his friends to audition for one of the vacant violinist positions.
After starting off on the wrong foot, Caleb and Essek get to slowly know each other, discover what brings them joy, create while defying expectations, and find out that what they can produce together may just be better than anything they can do separately.
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19 May 2022
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Essek Thelyss has taken an interest in the visiting Empire wizard and is doing his best to court him, but Caleb doesn't even seem to realize he's being courted.
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- Part 5 of Caleb's Copendium of Kisses
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21 Apr 2022
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“I would like you to know me,” Caleb says.
It feels like a secret. Like the darkest part of him cracked open; all his months and years of hiding, of wrapping his arms and scratching the bindings, of not loving, not loving anything but an unkillable cat — it’s unraveling around him. He feels naked. He feels the way he did the first time Pumat Sol spelled him clean.
“I find that — I would like you to know me,” he says, again.
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21 Apr 2022
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soft driven slow and mad like some new language by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
16 Feb 2021
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“Well… I’m interested in everything, at least in theory,” Essek says cautiously.
At that, Caleb raises his glass. “And I as well. Although…” The wine sloshes, ruby red and glinting, as he sets the glass down and rises from the floor. “Maybe it’s not just the theory I’m interested in, right now.”
As Essek starts going on adventures with the Mighty Nein, his relationship with Caleb has still a few kinks that need to be ironed out.
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25 Mar 2022
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Both of them have more in mind when Caleb visits Essek’s home for a study session, one rife with teasing and tension, that ultimately ends up in the bedroom.
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07 Mar 2022
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After fighting and getting injured in the depths of Aeor, Caleb is out of spell slots for casting the tower. Essek, however, has a trick up his sleeve...if he can work up the courage to reveal it.
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07 Mar 2022
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22 Feb 2022
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It used to be if you don't like it you could leave by thought
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
19 Oct 2021
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In which the humans do a politics, the Xhorhasians learn about potato's, and everyone decides five hundred years of living in disguise and on the run isn't actually a great life plan, Essek.
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22 Feb 2022
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22 Feb 2022
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Essek deals with grief unconventionally.
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10 Feb 2022
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There's something in Caleb's dreams. It wants him to know that he's not alone. It wants him to know that he'll never be alone again.
Elves don't dream, so all Essek can do is watch.
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10 Feb 2022
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02 Feb 2022
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There is the question, now—do they track the thieves down on their own, or wait to meet up with the others?
“We should at least wait and ask Jester tonight.”
Beau makes a face. “Or,” she says, “we could also not do that.”
“But—”
“Sitting round waiting for a message isn’t gonna get us anywhere.”
“No, but—”
“And doing a little preliminary research isn’t gonna hurt. So like. We might as well.”
“...Ja, okay.”(or: caleb and beau on a solo mission. a simple job, a couple complications, a bit of good-natured bickering, and a whole lot of awkward caring.)
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02 Feb 2022
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It was strange how close the two of them had gotten. It hadn't been intentional. Yet, here they were. Beau didn't seem to mind it and Caleb was starting to believe it wasn't such a bad idea to have a friend.
-This is going to be a series of one-shots I wanted to write because I love Beau and Caleb’s relationship. I sort of just want all of these shorter works in one place.-
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02 Feb 2022
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Caleb spends one too many spell slots and tries to deal with the very not good consequences on his own. It doesn't go well.
Tag to episodes 50-51
Because Liam accidently used an extra level 4 spell and I wanted emotional consequences not in game rule consequences.
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02 Feb 2022
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The empire kids get sick.
Neither of them ask for help so it's up to everyone to take care of them and also take care of everyone else.
Just some good ol' fashion sickfic.
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02 Feb 2022
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Beau doesn't know where they are. Not quite and not really. She can remember something going wrong but not how it led to here.
What she does know is Caleb is hiding something and both of them are running out of time.
They need to keep moving. They need to get back to the others.
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02 Feb 2022
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Deep into their exploration of Aeor a fight goes wrong for Essek and Caleb and there are consequences to deal with.
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02 Feb 2022
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old growth forests by Chrome for stardreamertwo
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
08 Dec 2019
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“Sometimes things have to burn in order to live,” Caduceus says, very quietly.
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31 Jan 2022