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RIP Jester Lavorre you would’ve loved scientology speedruns

watching an essek early scenes compilation and losing my mind over the mighty nein going "this really powerful guy that keeps giving our wizard spells and driving us around everywhere loves ominously mentioning how we're gonna have to pay him back soon... but hes niceys so im sure it'll be fine!" and then it literally was fine. he never asked for a single favour back. he almost started to but then they caught him doing treason and made him cry so it was forgiven. its like they're on a path of the most obvious foreshadowing in the world but jester keeps painting all the cobblestones bright pink. matt fighting for his life dropping increasingly unsubtle hints that this guy is not to be trusted but then they trust him anyway and it works out in their favour like this is the only character in the whole campaign they're not immediately plotting to kill, who starts off secretly plotting to kill them, but then without even consciously trying they change his mind through the power of friendship so it turns out they were right all along. who on earth is doing it like the mighty nein

god the mighty nein would fucking thrive in the feywild. they refuse to give out their real names. behind a fake name is another fake name. they use disguise self constantly. they refuse to take anything at face value and do 21 investigation checks and 15 insight checks beforehand. they have a designated poison tester (beau). if someone tells them anything they double check it with a library and even ask the gods if it's true. jester tricked a hag with a two week old cupcake. artagan never brought the nein to the feywild not just because he doesn't want to go back there, but because he knew every person in the feywild would fucking hate the nein immediately solely for the fact that they couldn't trick them.

so the nein fought an enemy who was connected inextricably to someone they were trying to save. and once they'd won the fight, they were able to heal toya's body, but it wasn't enough to bring her back to life. this situation will never come up again

[id: two colored sketches of caleb and fjord, placed against a white background and drawn from the thighs up. in the first one, fjord wears a red and brown-gold coat over a white shirt, with a barnacled sword in one hand. he is looking down intensely and seriously at caleb, who wears a black-brown and red coat with his hair up in a ponytail and has an intricate tattoo visible on the back of his hand, which is fisted in the front of fjord's shirt. he presses close against fjord's side and looks intensely at the viewer. in the second sketch, they are turned so that fjord is now looking down at caleb with an evil smile, holding him in a dip with one hand. his coat is off. caleb leans back and looks up at fjord. his hand is fisted in the front of fjord's shirt still, and seems to either be caught on red fabric or dripping with blood. end id.]

“Essek wouldn’t tell Trent all that” Essek would absolutely tell Trent all that. Essek agreed to teach an empire mage dunamacy because he made a cat paw and needed to keep an eye on him, and started hurling blasphemy around at dinner with people he barely knew because they were nice to him. And Trent is a notorious manipulative son-of-a-bitch, good at convincing people he’s trust worthy and correct even though he’s clearly a piece of slime given human form. Essek is the loneliest bitch living in the wastes of the god war, it is not nearly as difficult as it should be given his position to get him to show his hand because he’s so alone that he’s absolutely chomping at the bit to be able to talk about it with someone. And offering shit like this is how Trent gets people under his fuckass wings. So, unfortunately, regrettably, Essek “Lord Lord from Around” Theylss would tell Trent all that.