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One Small Problem by AstoriaColumnStaircase for j_flight17
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 3 - Bells Hells (Web Series)
28 Sep 2026
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The absolute worst part about being suddenly and inexplicably four inches tall, is how very small it made Laudna feel, but if Laudna were to speak that aloud, it would sound like a joke, and that would make her even smaller.
Laudna tries very hard to use her magic academically and is rewarded with being shrunk down to four inches tall for her scholarship. She proceeds to have a very bad evening about it.
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They probably overpaid for the mule. She was a little old, a little stubborn, with a sad dun colored coat that faded into the sad dun colored farm they bought her from, but Imogen was certain that a mule was the right thing for Laudna. They weren’t as skittish as horses, and while this mule was the first mule they met in their quest for an animal for Laudna to ride, Imogen assured Laudna that this mule really was perfect. (And not just because she nuzzled into Imogen’s shoulder within minutes of their introduction.)
Laudna chafes against her ideal ending, and feuds with a mule.
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First things first: Bobby was kidnapped by a demon.
How the demon made it through the new honmoon didn’t matter. (even if it was maddening and confusing and stupid) And it also didn’t matter if Bobby knew demons were real or not anymore, because Rumi didn’t really have a choice in the matter when an eight-foot-tall blue horned monstrosity hoiked him over his back, made eye contact with her while she was on stage, winked at her (the audacity!?) and poofed away in a cloud of pink smoke.
“In the middle of rehearsal?!” shrieked Zoey. “That’s disrespectful!"
in which Rumi goes demon mode on some guys who stole bobby and then has a crash out over failing to create the golden honmoon.
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There was something wrong with the weather. She should have noticed it. She was always quite aware of the weather when she was in a single room shack with only the merest suggestion of where a roof might have been, but her hands were very busy with a very important task, and she couldn’t very well fix the weather when her hands were already up to her elbows in shadow and string and ill-behaved bone.
Imogen learns she can see into dreams and finds it quite distressing.
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- Part 4 of astoria's imodnovember stories
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Imogen breathed a long sigh and Laudna froze in place because she’d said the wrong thing again, and Laudna couldn’t stop saying the wrong things. Everything about her was wrong and no amount of practice with Pate could account for how bad she was at speaking to a real living person.
Laudna thinks about her hair.
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- Part 3 of astoria's imodnovember stories
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astoria's imodnovember stories by AstoriaColumnStaircase
Fandom Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
21 Nov 2025
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A set of disconnected stories in which Laudna discovers her love for Imogen goes a little beyond friendship.
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Just A Little Lost In My Own Shell by AwkwardlyBenevolage
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
10 Oct 2026
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Right before brushing her teeth, Zoey remembers the tonic pouch still sitting in her fanny pack. She toys with it, unsure, before finally making up her mind.
Tomorrow would be their last day of rehearsal before the Idol Awards, the most intense. She could use the boost.
She uncaps it, down the (surprisingly sweet) content in three big gulps, and dumps the empty pouch in her bathroom trashcan.
Ready for tomorrow!
As always, she spares a few minutes to doomscroll before finally wrapping herself in the blanket for the night.
A cosy warmth envelops her body and she fall asleep, surprisingly serene.
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Mira is trying hard not to panic, so she doesn't notice what has Rumi turning to the bunched covers of Zoey's bed.
Rumi pulls the blanket off and… inexplicably, the world feels both stranger and right again.
A weird relief washes upon her, but the confusion remains, cristalized in one very simple question. "Why is there a turtle in Zoey's bed?"
___ Or. ___What if Zoey turned into a turtle two days before the Idol Awards?
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10 Oct 2026
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It was a common enough trivia question: Rumi is the leader of the internationally renown girl group, Huntr/x. What is Rumi's full name?
Most times, the player would answer, "What is Ryu Rumi?" and look surprised when the answer was met with the harsh sound of the incorrect buzzer.
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Rumi speaks to Celine about their relationship and has a revelation.
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25 Sep 2026
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The Honmoon chooses up to three hunters in a given generation, but not all are so lucky to get the full trio. Rumi is this generation's only hunter, but that suits her just fine. After inheriting the duty during an attack when she was 12, she's spent the last 12 years roaming the world hunting down demons to protect the flimsy fabric that separates humanity from this ever-present threat.
She hasn't questioned her duty, not since the beginning when everything seemed so unfair, but her nomadic life has weighed on her for far too long, even if she won't admit it to herself. At least, not until someone forces her to.
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13 Sep 2026
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still falls the night by Omcree for j_flight17
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
07 Sep 2026
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”Imogen, when’s the last time you ate?” Laudna asks.
”Can’t keep anything down,” she admits, though does not say that the last time she tried was over a week ago. “Bread, tea, water, doesn’t matter.”
“I didn’t mean food,” Laudna says, and Imogen wants her to stop talking, Imogen no longer wants to listen to her lovely, rolling voice. “I meant blood.”
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Imogen, cursed with magic she does not understand, continues a spectacularly poor run of luck and gains a second curse for her troubles. But is it really a curse if it saves her life? Is it really bad luck if it leads her to Laudna?
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09 Sep 2026
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It goes like this: the world never once chooses Rumi.
So, she chooses a different world.Again and again and again.
Set after the IDOL awards, the Honmoon decides to give Rumi another shot at a perfect life—no matter how many times it takes to get it right. But as Rumi gets lost within the spinning fractals of realities, her girls (her girls) fight against fate to save her.
or: the AU AU
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29 Aug 2026