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Vexed and Confused: The Vexation of Spirit Codex by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), The Lone Gunmen (TV), Shadow Unit
23 Nov 2024
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Can't remember what that place was or why that guy was important? You've come to the right place. The Vex Codex will build slowly, as a companion to the series, with character blurbs, organisation descriptions, and maps, for those moments when you're sure something was important, but you can't remember why.
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- Part 37 of Vexation of Spirit
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He Who Performed the Deed by Redcodah, Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit
03 Nov 2024
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It's been a rough decade for Shawshank State Penitentiary, and the last thing the prison needs is an escaped convict. But, when Shelby Firmin turns up missing and the killings he was convicted of start again, it seems that's the only thing that could have happened, despite Firmin's long-time protests that, while he wasn't innocent of all charges, he was not a serial killer.
In the background, Shadow goes in for surgery, and Chaz waits for proof he's all right.
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- Part 36 of Vexation of Spirit
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Splashes Reaching the Heavens by Redcodah, Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), The Lone Gunmen (TV), Shadow Unit
26 May 2024
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Reid is on stress leave. He and Langly have been strongly encouraged to house-sit an extravagant lakeside cabin owned by one of Prentiss's friends. Nothing but trees and fishermen for miles in any direction, except for the decaying remains of a long-abandoned artists' colony on one hill. Privacy, fresh air, and all the amenities of an expensive hotel. What could possibly go wrong?
Everything.
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- Part 34 of Vexation of Spirit
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Todd and Tucker are still following a woman who turns tin into gold and lettuce into dollar bills, but all of it turns back at sunset. She's killed a man in Texas, by turning him into a gold statue, but she's long gone. But, Duke's got a feeling about why she's running, if not where, and all he has to do is catch up with her first.
Later, Chaz runs into someone he doesn't know, but has a terrible feeling he needs to.Some characters from Criminal Minds and The Lone Gunmen may be mentioned, as this is a Vexation of Spirit fic, but none of them are appearing in this fic.Series
- Part 33 of Vexation of Spirit
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Situation Normal: All Fucked Up by Redcodah, Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), The Lone Gunmen (TV), Shadow Unit
15 Feb 2023
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Garcia has a date with Byers at her favourite tea shop. Reid's expecting a quiet dinner at home, with Langly. Minor mayhem ensues.
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- Part 31 of Vexation of Spirit
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Revealed With Fire by Redcodah, Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit, The Lone Gunmen (TV)
28 Dec 2022
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Four women are missing from the same neighbourhood in Huntsville, AL. Two have been found burned, in a nearby nature preserve, in powerful flames that left no trace of the accelerant used. Will the BAU find the other women, before they, too, meet the same fate?
And later, Reid struggles with a combination of jealousy and yet another injury he walked right into.
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- Part 30 of Vexation of Spirit
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If I Can't Get Myself Together by Redcodah, Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Shadow Unit, Criminal Minds (US TV), The Lone Gunmen (TV)
31 Aug 2022
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Chaz snorted and leaned forward, elbows on his knees, palms over his eyes. "Thanks. Really. But, ah... this gets stupider. I am even more of a horse's ass, before this is over."
Reid sat still as a stone idol, while Chaz struggled with his thoughts, and then with his tongue. His eyes were faintly curious, but his face remained dispassionate. Pitiless.
"Tell me," Reid said, at last, and the words were as dry as ashes in the desert.
The conversation they've all been avoiding.
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- Part 29 of Vexation of Spirit
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Standing in the pissing rain sure is a drag, but when NOAA reports an 'anomalous weather event', Chaz starts to think he should poke it, and make sure it's not that kind of anomalous. Which, of course, it is.
[It's Vex, so even though there's only Shadow Unit characters and a couple of related OCs on screen, there are references to this being part of a crossover series.]
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- Part 28 of Vexation of Spirit
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Rebirth is a Champagne Holiday by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), The Lone Gunmen (TV), Shadow Unit
26 Jun 2022
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Diana Reid has been schizophrenic for a very long time, and when the Altzheimer's hit, it didn't help at all. Spencer knows very well how bad the situation is. How bad it was. How bad it should be. But, she's been getting better, recently. Not less paranoid, but more coherent. And he keeps waiting for the other shoe to drop.
(And in the background, Chaz makes bad decisions, like the Anomaly hasn't given enough to feel guilty about.)
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- Part 27 of Vexation of Spirit
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The one with the teleporting chef by Sanguinifex (Eros_Scribens)
Fandoms: Shadow Unit, Kitchen Nightmares RPF
19 Jun 2022
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"A paragraph at the bottom said, What else could be causing these symptoms? Among the possibilities were ‘panic attacks.’
Yeah, probably just a panic attack from thinking about delusional, angry restaurant owners yelling at him while his team had to operate under COVID restrictions, while he was half asleep because he’d been working late. His subconscious just needed to work off steam or something. That was definitely it."
Google is no help when a celebrity chef experiences unexplained events. Can a very special unit of the FBI solve the mystery?
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A ring purchased by a pawnbroker in a small town in North Carolina is not the ring he finds the next day. When suspicions of insurance fraud come up, the local sheriff washes his hands of the matter, and Duke heads down with a consultant who specialises in gemstones. The consultant, unfortunately, has never before encountered an anomalous crime.
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- Part 25 of Vexation of Spirit
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Blood and Water by Redcodah, Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit, The Lone Gunmen (TV)
13 Apr 2022
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"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb." -- Rabbi Richard Pustelniak
This holiday season, Vexation of Spirit brings you family bullshit, with a side of murder and malfeasance.
A strange system failure at Idlewood is preventing access to parts of patient and employee records, and it falls to Langly and Kim to figure out what's happening and how to fix it, before the missing information gets someone killed. Chaz's first hint something is wrong comes when Shadow's treatment fails to match the neurologist's orders.
Reid and Alvez take on a twenty-year-old case in which the killer proudly admits to eleven murders, but has always held that two more were someone else's kills. A twentieth anniversary interview with a victim's sister reveals the last two deaths were a gay couple who didn't live together, and both came from intolerant families. Were one or both of the families involved in their deaths, or are they just as much a distraction as the other killer?
And Reid gets more people knocking on his door in two days than in most of the preceding decade.
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- Part 23 of Vexation of Spirit
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The Cause of Your Stumbling by Redcodah, Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit, The Lone Gunmen (TV)
14 Nov 2021
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Someone in Las Vegas is cutting the legs off of women. Reid is already less than thrilled to be back in town, when he discovers the lead on the case is someone he used to know in school. When an anomalous man is spotted in the vicinity of several crime scenes, the question is whether he's a witness or the killer, and whether this will become an ACTF case.
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- Part 22 of Vexation of Spirit
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Murderous Days and Cosmogone Dreams by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit, The Lone Gunmen (TV), Fallen London | Echo Bazaar
18 Aug 2021
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The Masters chose the Sixth City, and against all advice, a deal was made for Washington DC. Reid's team are struggling to adjust to the Neath and its unusual inhabitants, and also to the apparent loss of the rest of the country. On top of this, a killing spree is stretching across the city, with apparently unrelated people slashing complete strangers, with similar techniques but widely varying knives. It's only with the assistance of a Fifth City team of experts in unusual crimes that they can even begin to approach the case from the right angles.
And then the unthinkable happens, and Reid is caught up in a horror of Parabolan origins with a lord from the High Wilderness, the next stage in a drama stretching back before the Fall of London. How will a former Sequencer, a half-breed space bat, and a member of the Calendar Council who subsists almost entirely on ... 'caramels' save them?
But first, a brief head injury, sustained in the fall...
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Watching the Evening Slide Away by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd) for Earlgreyer
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), The Lone Gunmen (TV), Shadow Unit
06 Jan 2021
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After almost getting killed five times in as many weeks and then going straight back into the field, Reid has a thirty-something hour dissociative episode. Langly brings bagels and refuses to let him apologise for it.
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- Part 21 of Vexation of Spirit
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Best Served Cold by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit, The Lone Gunmen (TV)
16 Dec 2020
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While Villette deals with broken ribs, and Byers tries to figure out how to make space in his plans for Bedlam's top man, Reid gets called away on a case. Four victims have been found disembowelled in cold docks at the port of Camden, with no apparent similarities aside from the method of death. The lead detective on the case is not fond of the idea of having feds on his patch, and casually obstructs their investigation. Reid is not his usual tactful self after four attempts on his life in as many weeks.
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- Part 20 of Vexation of Spirit
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Everything That Rises by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: The Lone Gunmen (TV), Criminal Minds (US TV), Shadow Unit
09 Aug 2020
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Everything that can go wrong will go wrong, and that's just the beginning. Chaz can't go home, because it's a crime scene. Langly's worried that Kim of Bedlam's going to try again, and they're not going to see it coming, next time. Montoya's got a horrifying development in the amphetamine murders. And Reid's just waiting to get the stitches out of his arm.
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- Part 19 of Vexation of Spirit
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Burn Away, Burn Away my Pride by kye_16 for Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Shadow Unit
24 Jul 2020
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Chaz has had to put up with some shitty assignments in the past. He'd like the shit to stay relegated to the cases, though, if he may.
Villette gets nostalgic in shitty ways, and keeps company with (invariably overpriced) whiskey.
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Putting Out Fire with Gasoline by Ywain Penbrydd (penbrydd)
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), The Lone Gunmen (TV), Shadow Unit
26 Apr 2020
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Villette comes home to an almost-pleasant surprise. Reid comes home to a case that does not go as well as he'd like. And in the background, a deadly opponent prepares one final game-ending strike that Langly is waiting to capture.
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- Part 17 of Vexation of Spirit
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Dawn of the Secret Admirer by DefinitelyNotScott for CenozoicSynapsid
Fandoms: Shadow Unit
02 Mar 2020
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The first time Dr. Cassie Martin finds dried flowers in front of her door it's not creepy at all.