13 Works by umbraastaff (jothending)
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Trapped In Active Depart by jothending, umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
07 Jul 2025
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The ship lies half-constructed in the bay, recently vacated of construction workers for the evening. Late evening. This project has fostered a bewildering obsession in people. None of them get angry about working overtime. They even volunteer for it, without questioning their superiors about pay. It's unnerving.
(This fic is readable even if you're only familiar with one of the two canons! Or potentially neither, though that's untested territory.)
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[OLD] Trapped In Active Depart by jothending, umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Jul 2023
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Hey, bookmarkers, this fic's being rewritten! Read the new version HERE!
This version will remain available for posterity.
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At the center of Dissatisfaction, there is a man. But Dissatisfaction contains many men, and countless other things besides. At the edge of Dissatisfaction, there is also a man.
Or: A piece of the Hunger breaks off. It wears glasses and blue jeans.
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TAZ Oneshot Compilation (Why Not?) by umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
20 Dec 2022
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A collection of my TAZ oneshots over the last few years that never made it to Ao3. Some are canon-compliant snippets, others are AUs that never quite picked up speed. A few will be crossovers, too-- love a good crossover.
Chapter one is a table of contents.
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If I Wanted To Be Funny I’d Name This Fic “The Time Belt” by umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
12 Feb 2021
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What's up with all this "fantasy this," "fantasy that" nonsense? Welcome to high tech,
constant surveillance,rad lasers,no privacy,and even the fabled art of time travel--It's the FUTURE!But... Is this really how everything was supposed to turn out...? Something feels very wrong.
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Till Death, Don't Let's Start by umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
25 Jun 2020
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Barry makes a terrible mistake, and ends up with his life quite literally in the hands of the reaper. Whoopsa doopsa!
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(Inspired by this tumblr post)
Kravitz takes all seven bounties, because a group appearing all at once means they're a package deal. He expects it to be easy to find that many outlaws huddled up in one place. But instead, he only finds one, and that one happens to be the most elusive, awful, nefarious(?) lich he's ever encountered.
Alternate title: Krav E. Coyote and the Red Robe Runner
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What Can't Be Done Alone (Detective Squad) by umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
10 Aug 2019
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Angus McDonald is having a lot of trouble finding a lead on this missing-people-who-maybe-don't-exist case. He doesn't come across any moon bases or conspiracies or big memory-erasing jellyfish.
Instead, he comes across an odd lich who seems connected to this case in more ways than he can say. And Angus kind of gets adopted, accidentally? You know. It happens.
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[sequel to 3 Times Dead!]
Now that Barry Bluejeans has moved into Phandalin and discovered its supernatural side, there's way more to this than he bargained for. He just wanted to be a teacher, but now he has to figure out why everyone's so worried, and what his presence means in this town in the first place...There's just one problem: He's dead.
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- Part 2 of They Say Fire Took Phandalin
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Gallows | Steady & Stronger [Lyric Comic] by umbraastaff (jothending)
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
09 Dec 2018
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After Wonderland, the THB decide not to trust Barry Bluejeans.
Barry gives up.
[Lyric comic.]
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Fresh out of grad school, Barry Bluejeans takes a job and a house in the rural nowhere-town of Phandalin. And it’s not like he thought fitting in would be a walk in the park, but the people there all act really weird, and it’s almost like they’re expecting something of him, too.
(Small-town supernatural/sorta-haunted-house AU.)
** This fic was written for TAZ Bang, so it also contains some fantastic illustrations by my event partners! **
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- Part 1 of They Say Fire Took Phandalin
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“When I was a cleric, back home, some members of my church found the Light of Creation. Young people, you know? The sort to ask big questions. Problem is, the Light had answers.”
In which Merle and John are roleswapped. And instead of the Hunger, it's...
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Drinking voidfish ichor doesn't only bring back old memories. It also clears up places where you heard or saw static, like when an inoculated person talked about something you weren't able to know.
But "clears up" isn't really the right word for what happens to Davenport. The second Barry's Command spell releases his brain, as he finishes the drink, he almost wants to be enchanted again. It'd be better than this.