"We need to go out the window," he said. "There's no use going out the front door--I don't think we'd get two steps before someone saw us, and I won't be able to run." "But you won't be able to climb out of the window either." "I will." Percy's mouth set into a thin line. "I'll do what I have to, if it will get you out of here." Vex put her arm around him again, wincing as he leaned on her heavily. “May I remind you, darling, that this is not your fault?” “Please, remind me,” Percy said wearily. “Remind me over and over, Vex'ahlia. It may be the only way I get through this.”

Superfluous, the Watchers had whispered, as they'd snatched him up. That's what he'd been for this round. The uneven number. The odd man out.  

All Percy wanted was a moment of privacy with Vex'ahlia. Just to ask her a question. Just...maybe...to get a chance to kiss her. But it all goes wrong, and he and Vex find themselves prisoners in the hands of Anna Ripley. She wants the locations of the Vestiges, and she's determined to drag them from Percy and Vex. Percy just hopes that the rest of Vox Machina can find them in time. POV characters: Percy, Vex, and Vax TW for: Anna Ripley being Anna Ripley and tripping every one of Percy's trauma triggers; blood; emotional and psychological abuse; panic attacks

Double Trouble (COMPLETE! FINALLY!) During one of their battles, a glitch in the server respawns both Welsknight and Helsknight in Hels--not Hermitcraft. For Wels, it's a shock to see what kind of world Hels inhabits--and a greater shock to learn that there are more twisted versions of the Hermits, known as Helsmits, that are more than willing to permanently kill him in their quest to travel to Hermitcraft. For Helsknight, it's the worst possible scenario. The other Hels have tried for years to force his secrets from him--how he managed to travel to Hermitcraft, and how he keeps returning. Helsknight may hate the Hermits, but he hates the other Hels more. And now that his double is in Hels, he knows its only a matter of time before the others find out and start hunting them. he has to keep Wels safe, somehow, until they can make it to one of his safe portals and gets Wels back to his own server. AO3

Chapter 12 is up…in which fWhip and Pix learn some unsettling truths.

Chapter 5 is up!