Critical Role

[summer quarry]

||I do like what they did. His is probably one of the hardest classes to animate, especially as an "accidental power up" like Fjord's. This worked somewhat||

[red beacon]

M9e2 ||love the scenes where fjords powers first show up||

[summer quarry]

Same

But M9 episodes 2 and 3

||Molly is a very different thing because all the powers are blood-based and about his blood being shed giving him powers and about him affecting the blood within enemies, so it's probably challenging to animate (esp at first when you're establishing his power)||

[red beacon]

||I think they’re gonna make it a “injury triggers his Lucien instincts” flavour|| c2 all + m9a

[summer quarry]

Could be.

c2 all + m9a ||They definitely showed his blood magic with his blood drops turning to ice which is a blood maledict iirc, the cold damage buff by slicing himself||

[halcyon wing]

M9 + C2 || I loved the eyes Lucien activation moment. Very cool. ||

[red beacon]

M9 e3 || https://www.tumblr.com/wintershades/800752628130840576/when-you-put-your-video-game-character-in-an||

a tall ship and a star to steer by

When you put your video game character in an absurd outfit and end up in a serious cut scene

-# #critical role #the mighty nein #m9 animated #m9 animated spoilers #m9a spoilers #tm9 spoilers

Tumblr · Nov 20, 2025, 4:46 PM

Crazy image tbh 😭

|| https://www.tumblr.com/godlovesyoubutnotenoughtosaveu/800675387248099328/the-final-scene-is-soo-them-nott-fighting-beau||

mar

the final scene is soo them. nott fighting beau for a thing that to her is completely useless. people are literally dying around them. fjord stumbling onto caleb and ruining his spell. jester and her fuckass lollipop. yasha not being there. molly getting possessed. we are sooooo back

-# #also beau already being on bad terms with every team member she had a chance to speak to god she’s the worst i love her so much #tm9 spoilers #the mighty nein #m9 animated

Tumblr · Nov 19, 2025, 8:19 PM

|| “Yasha not being there” LMAO||

[cold tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/dead-my-honest-reaction-damn-skull-skeleton-gif-15885937969029652188

[summer quarry]

Oh here's a fun fact about episode 3 of m9a

||The Kenku child was voiced by Sam's son||

[narrow bramble]

||i assume all hcildren are voiced by their kids at this point tbh || M9 all

[minor lantern]

||AW 🥺 ||

[red beacon]

Better than Matt’s very unconvincing nine year old boy ||Luc|| voice

[summer quarry]

TBF I think for an actual play some of the voices being utterly unconvincing and cartoonish is expected. Like how pretty much every PC has a less meme accent

That said, if they touch ||Pumat's|| accent in any way shape or form I will riot

[mild creek]

Critical Role comics are releasing on Webtoon now

[lethal valley]

Oh nice

[halcyon wing]

M9 -e2 || rewatching and just have to say I really appreciate how they are setting up Fjord’s arc with lack of confidence and self worth ||

||It’s got me listening to Lilli Furfaro’s Fjord song again 😭😭||

[ocean halo]

I've been listening to all the M9 Lilli songs in preparation for the show. Big 😭

[weak wedge]

CR4 E6 0:46 ||NO SAM'S HAND ROBBIE WHHHYYYYY||

[weak wedge]

Goin rather slow through the episode cause I suck at multitasking but 1:00 ||Man, wick CANNOT read the bloody room||

[minor lantern]

When does the new M9 episodes come out?

[solemn raft]

The 26th

[mighty yoke]

Just watched the newest cr ep, do we know how long they’re planning to stay at one table before switching? Because I’m lowkey more interested in both of the others

[elfin sigil]

They're doing "an adventure"

I'd expect some kind of Quest Complete vibe before they shift, I don't think they have what you'd call a set schedule for how long they'll be at any one table

[turbid juniper]

cr4 up to date ||i think they're going to deal with casimir and cyd in some way before they switch over||

[mighty yoke]

That makes sense,

[cold tartan]

Cr 4 all || it really hit me this past Thursday how long it’s gonna be between tables. Like I know they’re using the cold opens to check in but like… let’s say an arc is 8 episodes (which I think would be on the shorter end regular CR arcs) that’s 10 weeks because of their gap week stuff. If the other tables have that same arc length at minimum it’s gonna be 5 months off before returning to that table. Which isn’t like absurd when compared to TV release schedules but it’s glacial in terms of past CR stuff ||

[mighty yoke]

Yeah, that’s why I was curious if they’d said anything about how long it would be before switching

[elfin sigil]

I got the vibe very early on that even if they do basically nothing in the way of "filler" arcs (and I don't think I can fairly accuse Brennan of getting anywhere close to wasting time), this is likely to be the longest CR yet and I wonder if it will even be close

Unless they feel the need to pull the ripcord early for some reason I'm mentally ballparking 150-200 sessions. I could see it going longer if they just let it naturally play its course

[woven abyss]

How many episodes is m9 getting?

Is it 12 like VM or do the longer runtimes mean funnier eps

[cold tartan]

I think it’s 8

[woven abyss]

Ah dang

Trailer at the end of episode 1 looked cool, I hope we get enough time for everything in it to work

-# I have not watched c2 so I don't actually know how much content that was. I just saw a lot of different backgrounds

[woven abyss]

m9e2 ||the animation for this opening sequence is really lovely||

M9 e2 ||I think I prefer this episode's cast to last||

[summer quarry]

It's eight episodes which I don't particularly love

Because it messes with the release schedule lmao

Should be a multiple of three

[woven abyss]

M9 e2 ||mann I love all the Krynn designs and aesthetics so much||

[woven abyss]

m9 e2 ||ESSEK IS A TRAITOR??||

||holy hell fjord's god looks crazy||

ok I think this episode hooked me. I'm enjoying this

[swift edge]

I love m9 the campaign and I think the show has a really really strong opening

[woven abyss]

I have a weird experience with m9 the campaign because I watched like 5 episodes, some clips of the end, and then read the Lucien novel

So I know some things but also am completely unaware of a lot of it

But the characters and dynamics and plotlines we've got going on here in the show so far are really working for me

[swift edge]

The only "drawback" of the show, which honestly I do not really consider that much of a drawback is that if you watch the first two episodes, you have immediately severely spoiled some major parts of the campaign, for people who wanted to watch it straight through

But for people who were maybe like, partway through watching campaign 2 and started the show thinking the early episodes would follow the same beats, hhhhhaaaaaaa no

TM9 show, comparison to the campaign ||It's much better pacing to show off the bigger picture, with things like the Empire and the Dynasty relations, the scenes with the Cerberus Assembly, and in particular being up front with who our antagonists are, but these were things we only learned in the campaign when the players did, so they happened in a very different order||

Actual campaign spoilers (not safe for show-only) ||I really respect them revealing Essek up front, and I have to guess when he meets the Nein, they're going to do a dramatic irony thing where the audience knows what Essek has been doing but the characters don't. But it's a really different vibe, and I'm curious how much they'll change about it.||

[halcyon wing]

I’m very curious to see how moving the ||Essek|| reveal earlier will change the dynamics from the audience’s perspective ||when he first meets the Nein. ||

[red beacon]

M9 + c2 ||I can’t say that I love giving Essek a sick mom, but I also didn’t love his treatment in the actual campaign so I don’t like woobifying him more||

||im not opposed to a redemption arc on principle but in the scene where they confront Essek he barely expresses any remorse at all (and afaik explicitly says he’s not sorry) and then afterwards because the M9 like him, Matt just has him acting quirky and cute with them in the north||

[swift edge]

Cr2 ALL, not safe for show watchers, also language warning in the link ||The whole Essek arc is one of my favorite parts of CR2 and there's an old post outlining what the campaign was like from Essek's perspective and I'm so delighted by the idea we're going to get to see it from his side because the audience knows the whole picture this time 👀 https://www.tumblr.com/renarinkholin/614337264012722176/theregoesmylurkerstatus-listen-listen-the-more||

Questions To Think Upon...

🔁 aplpaca

Listen. Listen. The more I think about Essek’s reality the more amused I get. It’s like the Mighty Nein EXISTED to fuck his life over in the kindest way possible.

One of their first functional (and one of their most defining) actions as a group was when they stole a Beacon – one of HIS Beacons. A Beacon he took from the Dynasty and gave to the Assembly in an INCREDIBLY risky gamble, so risky it ultimately plunged the continent into war, because that’s how badly he wanted learn _something _​about it.

And the Mighty Nein, on a fucking whim, vanished it from under their noses. NOT ONLY was Essek deprived of further research, but he couldn’t even smooth over the tensions on either side. Essek was probably the only person alive, besides the Mighty Nein, who could know for a fact that neither the Empire nor the Dynasty had what the war functionally started over. By stealing the Beacon, the Mighty Nein made sure neither side could be happy, and Essek was the one stuck in between.

But ...

-# #wehhhhhhh i love essek so much #stupid idiot traitor #essek #cr2 #critical role #nothing ridi-queue-lous

Tumblr · Apr 3, 2020, 1:34 AM

Like yeah they're going to elide a ton of this but it's still going to be real fun to see, even abridged

[red beacon]

Tbh I was never super satisfied with the morality of c2

||they were really mean to Beau’s dad, while simultaneously being pals with objectively much morally worse people||

[elfin sigil]

CR2 ||I mean in many ways M9 were only the "good guys" incidentally||

[swift edge]

I don't feel like that's a morality issue, personally. ||It's pretty common in fiction for characters who have done bad things to be likeable, to both the audience and other characters. Also, people often dislike and don't get along with people who rub them the wrong way, even if that person isn't like, morally reprehensible.||

[elfin sigil]

||They embody Chaotic Neutral for me and insofar as they happened to do a great deal of good I think that's mostly a result of who Matt positioned as their enemies||

In a very general sense, I feel like the big difference between CR2 and CR3 and why CR3 didn't work for many people is that CR2 was very good at developing conflicts that the party had high personal stakes in and CR3 had one primary conflict that very few people in the party had personal stakes in

Matt had something I think he wanted to get off his chest about Exandria and the players didn't really meet him halfway on that one

Well

Saying it that way makes it feel like I'm apportioning blame in a way I don't really mean to, but the idea is still there. Where in CR2 many of the plotlines feel crafted to be as personalized as possible, Matt didn't go all the way for the players in CR3 and the players didn't expand out in terms of their character ideas to meet him back, except for Laura who becomes Designated Main Character as a result

[narrow bramble]

I’d say Matt’s not really at fault there. Most of the characters just really wanted to be spectators as opposed to plot drivers

[elfin sigil]

It depends on what kinds of conversations they had behind the scenes and we can't possibly know what he did/didn't tell them and how fully they saw his vision

[cold tartan]

My C3 problems weed more in character selection than anything plot wise. || two retreads and sam doing ted lasso was too much for me ||

|| Travis coming out with a joke character blood hunter was the final nail ||

[elfin sigil]

I get the impression that they were broadly kept in the dark about each others' characters prior to the first episode except insofar as Matt did pre-subgroupings and I think that probably did them no favors

[cold tartan]

|| wait is 3 retreads I forgot about Robbie ||

[thorn python]

Also I think they all wanted to get the Caleb|| “let me tell you how I killed my parents” ||reveal

So none of them talked to each other in character either

[red beacon]

||I think Matt also did a lot of finessing and retconning to make the M9 accidentally good, like Essek’s whole character feels like it got rewritten when the cast got attached to him. Matt could very reasonably have had the truth get out in a way that would make them choose between justice or defending a war criminal who happened to be their friend||

[thorn python]

And nobody wanted to step up and be The Main Character tm so Matt had to do a lot of railroading

[swift edge]

Yeah I didn't get very far into CR3 in part because none of the characters really grabbed me. I kind of lost interest in the EXU that immediately preceded it and then realizing some of those characters were now the CR3 cast was kind of :///

[cold tartan]

Exactly this!!!!

[elfin sigil]

I liked Dorian a lot, didn't like Fearne, and if Orym is Liam's attempt at doing something different maybe he should stay in his sadboi box

[red beacon]

From what little of EXU I watched I actually vaguely liked Orym

It was mostly Fearne that annoyed me

[swift edge]

Also even the ones who weren't from the EXU had an air of... It was kind of like they were trying too hard to be really unique and atypical DnD characters in a way that felt more forced than like they were real people to me

[red beacon]

I hated that monkey with the fire of a thousand suns

[swift edge]

Funnily enough I think Fearne was the one I liked best out of that crew initially, but I'm a sucker for anything feywild so that's probably why

I think CR1's characters were a little too generic, and CR3's characters were a little too unique and CR2 was the sweet spot for me where they're just good characters

[red beacon]

I do think almost all the c2 characters were straight up bangers

[lethal valley]

I was very much a "ExU is fine but nothing special" when it came out. The characters i really liked were Opal and Dariax. But yeah i noped hard when we got to C3's opening and we got the repeat characters (and specifically repeats of characters i did not particularly care for. Dorian most of all)

[red beacon]

Having Fjord, Caleb and Beau together just made for a really dynamic party

[thorn python]

Orym was meant to be the moral core of the cast and he just…kept not leaving the party as they kept doing more and more questionable stuff

Where’s your backbone, bro? Did you leave it with Keyleth?

[lethal valley]

Watched ep 1 and then watched the first dozen or so a few months later to try and get into it and just fell off. And none of the spoilers i learned later on made me remotely interested in picking it back up.

[elfin sigil]

He was terrified to have an opinion, it was wild

[red beacon]

I didn’t even watch most of c3 but ||swordgate|| was wild

[elfin sigil]

I always wonder about off camera communication, especially wrt CR3. CR4 obviously has a ton, but CR3 at times felt like a table of strangers

[halcyon wing]

M9+ cR2 || I think Matt said in an interview Essek’s mom was says sick - but it was never something the PCs went after ||

[thorn python]

https://www.tumblr.com/biorust-art/801050894517010432/the-hand-that-holds-the-light-oh-to-be-held

Rusted's Art Blog

The hand that holds the light...
Oh, to be held by such a hand.

--

The toothpaste duo has me in a chokehold. Do not separate them...

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Bonus art process under the cut:...

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I love these two very much

[red beacon]

I have a lot of issues with c2, especially the ending, but for the most part it was a banger

[thorn python]

I think he does this a lot

Example: c2 ||I cannot prove it but I am confident that Sam was angling for Yeza to divorce Veth, especially after the child endangerment. But we got a doormat of a husband & father instead ||

[red beacon]

||Yeza was so insanely boring||

||I cannot think of a single character trait he has||

[thorn python]

Doormat is a character trait

[red beacon]

||also yeah, Matt very often makes the NPCs too accommodating/ nice for the players||

[red beacon]

||I think Sam wanted to romance Caleb in c2 lmao||

[thorn python]

He should’ve gone for it

[red beacon]

||halfling turned goblin who cheats on her husband with the mentally ill wizard feels like a very Sam character||

[elfin sigil]

I do wonder how the more seasoned CR cast will respond to Brennan doing not-this

[red beacon]

C4 ||I love that Brennan is having the NPCs react in realistic ways||

C4 +C2 ||the reactions in universe to Tyranny vs the reactions to Jester are so much better||

[elfin sigil]

One of Brenann's favorite comedic impulses is taking a crazy thing someone else is doing and saying "hey lets examine this in far more detail than it deserves" and he uses NPCs to do this a lot in D20

[red beacon]

||I also think Laura was fishing for either the traveler or Marion or both to be more toxic and problematic than they were||

[cold tartan]

-# this is where I admit that I kinda missed most of the last 20-30 episodes because pandemic depression

[red beacon]

I skipped a lot of c2 lmao

Highlight reels my beloved

[thorn python]

Agreed

[cold tartan]

Like there are probably a good 20 -30 episodes in the middle of the first 100 that I missed (pre pandemic) and then once they they came back I was good for a few months but fell off

[halcyon wing]

My impression from interviews and talk backs was the opposite

Laura || always talks really enthusiastically about Marion’s relationship with Jester and seemed pretty in favor of everything working out in the rumblecusp arc.

She’s always been really subtle with some character choices so I’ve always felt she might like leaving some of the toxicity as subtext. ||

And (C2) || toxicity of the traveller relationship seemed explored to me? She had the whole group and Matt as the Moonweaver calling it out 😅||

[thorn python]

The pandemic really sapped a lot of the steam out of campaign 2

Not their fault but it never had the same momentum as before

[elfin sigil]

Huh

[cold tartan]

The switch to pre record and the distanced tables was brutal

[elfin sigil]

I think most of what I like about CR2 is pandemic era

[halcyon wing]

Watching it live while living the pandemic life, I was just happy the hiatus was over

I wonder if the viewing experience is different watching those episodes post vaccine and restrictions

The distanced tables for sure impacted cast energy and OOC interaction so I could see that being a negative.

[cold tartan]

Yeah it just felt off

Plus the fact that it wasn’t live meant some of the rough edges were smoothed down in a way that made it feel a little off

[elfin sigil]

The move to prerecord and taking even the potential for Twitch chat out of the equation was an unalloyed good for me

[cold tartan]

There’s also no Laura leaving the game awards to come play

Nobody getting a text from a player not there to do something else

[halcyon wing]

It never seemed overly edited to me. Still way less produced than d20

[halcyon wing]

True that moment rocked

[cold tartan]

It’s not overly edited it just moved out of time

[halcyon wing]

Legendary Laura Bailey

[cold tartan]

Like three Halloween episode this year was filmed in what August/September???

Vs like Sam getting stuck with stuff on his face and using the wrong remover or whatever it was

Like idk if it was better or worse or the same but it was different

[halcyon wing]

I felt bad for Ashley because (C2) || we only got Yasha back for a few months before the hiatus started. ||

[cold tartan]

I know 98 or whatever was a live theater show but I can’t remember if they had other stuff planned too

Idk they had a live episode right before the pandemic

[elfin sigil]

I am happy to be saved from the live shows

Categorically dislike them

[halcyon wing]

C2 || I think Yasha came back ep 85, live show was 97, then 99 was the last ep before the shut down. ||

[cold tartan]

C2 || ending with the turtle chasing them after the crazy fight on the ship… too ||

|| also I think the jester hag stuff was right before the pandemic too. That was great live||

[halcyon wing]

|| hag was ep 93 yeah ||

[cold tartan]

going from that to months off to the post pandemic stuff felt off for me

C2 all || anyways I still have no clue what’s going on with Molly at the end of the campaign so it’s gonna be fun when the show gets there!||

[halcyon wing]

(Late to End C2). The late game ||Molly || stuff included some of my fave campaign moments.

[cold tartan]

I tried a few times to get through but then at some point it was like 80+ hours of stuff to get through

[halcyon wing]

One of the things I love about the M9 is || how they never really try to be heroes - a lot of their victories relate directly to personal quests. The “greater good” for them is each other and they will save the world if they have to save each other.

At least in the main campaign. Future stuff from c3 onward they step outside that. ||

[elfin sigil]

CR2 all [not safe for JMT] ||Chasing the ghost of their lost friend across the world and into an ancient lost city overtaken by another old god and tying it all together into the Calamity really is one of Matt's masterstrokes||

[narrow bramble]

I think the biggest thing is every player was playing to type with what they do best

[cold tartan]

I’m vaguely aware of what happens from summaries. It’s just reading the Wikipedia summaries isn’t the best way to learn about it

[halcyon wing]

Now I’m in the trap of rereading my c2 tumblr live blogs

[cold tartan]

Wikipedia is one of the quicker ways though

[elfin sigil]

I'll give Matt the credit of creating an environment where this was able to happen

[halcyon wing]

Stuff like this gem (c2)

I was definitely in an invested head space when I was watching these.

Or this (c2) (last one I promise)

I do remember context for those but there’s a lot here where I have no idea what I’m talking about

[swift edge]

This is why Aoibhin needed all of the teleportation options imaginable, because it's flirty

[halcyon wing]

Truth

I found my first M9 post where (early c2 and m9 ep 2-3) || I incorrectly identify Fjord as the lone “responsible dad” in the M9 disaster family, so I’m glad the series makes it clear he is also a disaster from the outset. ||

[swift edge]

M9 ||Fjord looks responsible when he's standing next to Jester, but... who doesn't? ||

[narrow bramble]

That does pose the question who’s Laura gonna marry in c4 so they can have more wedding specials

[halcyon wing]

Tricky with (c4) || the size difference between Thimble and everyone else. ||

[narrow bramble]

There’s potions that can resolve that

[weak wedge]

||Only if you're a coward||

[minor lantern]

||I am actually kind of sad that they didn't hold to it for longer.||

[halcyon wing]

My theory is || they are gonna be treating Essek more like a Zuko style protagonist rather than a villain turned party sidekick. ||

[woven abyss]

M9 e3 ||man they did not have to go so hard with molly's power up scene but I'm glad they did||

[halcyon wing]

New episode!

[lethal valley]

I still need to watch ep3...

[summer quarry]

It's weird to be excited about new critrole on a Wednesday

[thorn python]

I love counting how long it takes Caleb to do spells. It’s almost always six seconds

M9 show e4 || https://www.tumblr.com/justalittlebluetiefling/801264034495283200/not-trent-literally-giving-his-foreign-exchange ||

(Dead) Occtis Tachonis

Not Trent literally giving his foreign exchange grad student feedback on his presentation.

-# #m9 animated #tm9 spoilers

Tumblr · Nov 26, 2025, 8:15 AM

[summer quarry]

M9 animated e4

||SHE SAID THE THING BEAU SAID THE THING||

[halcyon wing]

M9 Ep 4 ||slapped ||

[halcyon wing]

You do!!

[summer quarry]

Also, m9 animated e4 (And also campaign comparisons) ||I was actually surprised they did away with Toya but it worked in context||

[halcyon wing]

M9 ep4 || also nice to get the connection exposition. ||

[summer quarry]

Mighty Nein Animated + turbonuclear campaign stuff DO NOT READ IF SHOW ONLY OR YOU DON'T WANT LATER CAMPAIGN STUFF REVEALED

||I do feel them making Molly the unifying force between them is a very pointed choice||

Also, I actually forgot this wasn't released like Vox Machina was

That's... Annoying in a way

[halcyon wing]

Makes sense with only 8 episodes

But yeah it’s too bad

Hard to wait

[red beacon]

Haven’t even watched the episode and I’m already so triggered

[untold crystal]

How is this being released ?

I want to be able to watch it all within a month cause Im not about to pay more than that for Prime

Is it 1 ep per week ?

[thorn python]

three at once then one per week

Which is prime’s favorite way

[untold crystal]

Ok so thats....6 weeks?

[thorn python]

We are at 4/8

[untold crystal]

Guess I gotta wait 😬

[thorn python]

So you should be good in January

[untold crystal]

yep

which I go out on vacation so maybe Feb 🤣

dang it

unless I binge it before my trip

we'll see

[solemn raft]

Says the last episode releases on december 22nd

M9 e4+early campaign || wasnt there a court trial after they brought back the toad head? I dont remember them fighting a Vollstrucker this early on||

[thorn python]

They’re doing some thematic/flow rewrites

It’s not a 1:1 adaption

||Beau didn’t meet her mentor this early in the stream either, for example ||

[summer quarry]

I'm not gonna lie I have a question/theory/something but I don't even wanna say it here because I wanna talk about some turbonuclear campaign stuff I refuse to risk ruining lol

[narrow bramble]

They did not

[summer quarry]

Huh, actually genuine question m9 + early campaign ||Wasn't it that Beau knew Dairon before the campaign but WE only meet them later?||

[summer quarry]

As for this, yeah but as Codenames said, they're changing the flow around.

m9 + early campaign ||With Owelia having a much bigger impact in the story (especially this early) I feel they'll change a lot of the earlier antagonists to be more direct Volstrucker antagonism instead||

[thorn python]

I don’t think so but I haven’t since her debut episode since the original week it aired

[summer quarry]

Ok here's a question for the campaign watchers. I am trying to make it as "iykyk" as possible but show onlies BEWARE (also, official sneak peeks from the show mentioned)

||Do we remember any iconic enemies from the start of the campaign that wielded an axe? Because I got a Vibe from a couple released title screens but I don't feel it makes sense in context||

[halcyon wing]

Last episode is Dec 22 I think

[halcyon wing]

M9 /c2 || after ep 4 it looks like the Caleb volstrucker reveal might also be moved up. ||

[halcyon wing]

I think (c2 spoilers) || Lorenzo had an axe, but I’m thinking he might be replaced by someone who ties in to other plots more, but I’m not sure if it’ll be a new character, a Lorenzo rewrite, r someone who exists.

No other big axe folks come to mind atm. ||

[summer quarry]

I was afraid you'd say that

[narrow bramble]

She did not know them before the series

[narrow bramble]

||It kinda has to with beau suddenly knowing what they are now || c2 all

[summer quarry]

vague m9 animated all ||Sometimes I wonder if I am too easygoing with media or if people are hypercritical because a lot of people's consistent complaints are things I just... Don't see as bad?||

[halcyon wing]

I often feel the same

There’s some stuff where I’m like “eh didn’t love that, or I’d have done it differently” but usually I tend to focus on what I enjoy or quit watching

[thorn python]

You can’t do that

Where will we get The Discourse from you do that

[halcyon wing]

For me the discourse requires a special blend of hyper-fixation, strong emotions, and something incredibly egregious that only comes on once and a while haha

Like (WaT spoilers) || Jasnah’s debate 🤬||

I think I’ve mostly let go of the idea media can be perfect

[thorn python]

Oh yeah that part of WaT definitely requires the chef image

[summer quarry]

In this case, mostly (mighty nein animated 1x4) ||People genuinely mad Molly and Beau put blame on Jester and Fjord as well as if the whole point isn't that Molly's hurting and lashing out and Beau just wants them on the same page|| AND

(Campaign stuff as well in this spoiler) ||Essek being a bit of a doormat and going along with things as if Trent didn't firmly have him by the dunamis anyways (And extrapolating his future personality off that with no real basis||

[halcyon wing]

Like even (M9 Ep 4 and C4) || in this episode I even felt like the Widowfjord dynamic got some crumbs, so I’m cautiously optimistic what I liked about Caleb and Fjord’s dynamic will make it into the show 👀||

[halcyon wing]

m9e4 and vague c2|| Essek to me very much seems like gifted kid who is too good at stuff for his own good and bad boi’d too close to the sun and is suddenly in very over his head with no easy way out.

Which is exactly where I’d want him to be to set up a fleshed out arc that we only got hints of in the campaign. ||

And yeah m9e4 || the jail scene felt entirely on brand for all the characters to me. ||

[thorn python]

https://www.tumblr.com/cat-cosplay/801302942938546176/open-your-heart-to-chaos-jester-lavorre

Cat Cosplay of the Feline variety.

"Open your heart... to Chaos!" ~ Jester Lavorre

-# #jester lavorre #the mighty nein #critical role #critters #cat cosplay #cosplay #cats #kitty #cats in costumes #cat #cats of tumblr #aww #cat costume #humor #cleric #d&d #dnd

▶ Play video

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[weak wedge]

CR4 e6 1:16 ||"Robbie likes to yell at women and break people's fingers!" I CANT-- wheeze||

1:20 ||"you will not be surprised as we roll initiative" DAMN outta left field lol||

1:25 ||I appreciate the side chatter with brennan; its nice to see the group as a whole have fun with it||

[elfin sigil]

If episode 4 is representative of the general pacing and vibe of the M9 show I think I will like it a lot

[halcyon wing]

Same

I felt the same magic from it as the campaign

Ep 4 || the group dynamic is already coming through in a really fun way. ||

[summer quarry]

mighty nein animated 1x4 ||It's funny because based on ep 3 and 4 Molly doesn't quite understand his powers so just imagine him going "TIME TO PUT ON A SHOW", slicing his chest to activate the cold damage, and just nothing happening||

[halcyon wing]

Ep 4 || I honestly love what they are doing with Molly’s powers. ||

I can’t wait for this party dynamic to develop (c2 spoilers)
|| https://www.tumblr.com/jokesterlavorre/187833114242/finally-figured-out-the-table-dynamic-guys ||

makin’ my way!

finally figured out the table dynamic guys

-# #critical role #jester lavorre #mighty nein #the mighty nein #m9 #look everyones in love with jester and im multishipper garbage #beaujester #widojest #fjorester #beaujes #lavorregard #cr2

Tumblr · Sep 20, 2019, 4:38 AM

[thorn python]

E4 ||loosely affiliated group of weirdos who are all individually smart but become goofballs in close proximity to one another ||

[weak wedge]

C4 E6 1:40 ||JESUS CHRIST BRENNAN IS INSANE||

[halcyon wing]

Trying to remember/guess what you are referring to

[weak wedge]

||His feral screaming as the Dark Fairy w/ the blood hat attacks||

[halcyon wing]

Yup okay that was my guess

[minor lantern]

Okay starting M9 epi 4.

Are we getting CR tomorrow?

[lethal valley]

No

[minor lantern]

No

[elfin sigil]

I'm realizing how desensitized I am to Brennan's big presence

Just Brennan Things

||You can see Brennan see Travis suppressing a recoil so he doubles down on the bit ||

[weak wedge]

||I know its so peak. That man is a gremlin and if he finds A Bit™️ he WILL take it as far as he can||

[minor lantern]

Mn epi 4/Expedition 33 all ||They making me relive Gustav's death all over again. ||

[untold crystal]

this sent me as well 🤣

[red beacon]

C2 + Mn e4 ||I did not like Mollys rousing speech but overall the episode was good||

||they’re bringing in the plot elements with Caleb a lot earlier||

||also they made Essek so incredibly pathetic lmao||

[red beacon]

Also yeah I watched this and it triggered me so hard

Overall I’m really loving the adaptation except for the ||essek|| stuff

[thorn python]

you can leave grad school but the experience of having been in grad school never leaves you

[weak wedge]

||He just like me for real. I too screech ferally at my players during combat||

[red beacon]

Gave me ‘nam flashbacks fr

[red beacon]

Wait I forgot to mention

Taliesin almost pulled off an Irish accent for a second there

Like there was a part of his speech where he did sound vaguely plausibly Irish for a few seconds

[halcyon wing]

A lot easier to sometimes hold an accent when you can do multiple takes

[plucky ibex]

MN ep 4 ||I’m really pleasantly surprised by how much I have grown attached to Nott. Really good performance by Sam this episode.||

[cold tartan]

M9 e4 || I do not accept the retcon of jester’s nickname for Caleb. Give my <poop> wizard!||

|| “catalytic enzyme”||

[cold tartan]

C2 + m9 all || oh right forgot about Molly doing woo woo||

|| ooooooooooo right I remember what the necklace is for ||

[solemn raft]

M9 4+campaign ||they're doing a really good job foreshadowing everyone's backstory too. A lot easier to do with a storyboard and a plan||

[solemn raft]

M9 4|| i assume he wanted to activate his ultra instinct with the selfcuts since thats how he beat Gustav||

[cold tartan]

Watching the new special and man the C2 intro is so much more fun than c4

-# also I forgot it existed

C2 + C3 || he pumat’d himself?||

[elfin sigil]

This is actually pretty consistent with the way VM recontextualized the table's injokes

That particular one is also one that was mostly at Liam's expense and I think he never liked it much

[cold tartan]

I just want him to be properly titled!

[red beacon]

They are still maintaining the || “oh he seems like crap”|| stuff though

[thorn python]

https://www.tumblr.com/plasticbagdepot/801302127668510720/spot-the-difference

haha ONE!

spot the difference!

-# #critical role #the mighty nein #the mighty nein show #essek thelyss #he’s just a little wet cat

Tumblr · Nov 26, 2025, 6:20 PM

[red beacon]

||essek is legit sooo pathetic in the show||

||he even got hate crimed||

[minor lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/theyre-the-same-picture-the-office-pam-the-office-us-gif-20757621

[woven abyss]

Just finished m9e4

Really enjoying this show 🙏

[red beacon]

They nailed Caleb and Fjord and that’s what really matters for getting the heart of the show imo

I actually like Nott a lot better in the tv show than the playthrough

[summer quarry]

campaign 2 all + mighty nein animated all ||I think all characters so far, but ESPECIALLY nott, are helped by their storylines having been finished. Nott was a joke character that Sam developed as time went on, Travis let a lot of Fjord's personal stuff take a backseat to let others shine (And so it wasn't clear if he was putting up a persona or if he was meant to be a cool guy unironically and just played silly), etc. In the show, Nott's more jokey parts are toned down and her attitudes that you can chalk up to early weirdness are mostly absent, they show Fjord's inner conflict more, Beau is as smart as she was meant to be (but didn't quite show in gameplay because Monks are too MAD for high int), etc||

[narrow bramble]

i think your actually rather wrong on early c2

[summer quarry]

Could be, haven't rewatched the campaign in forever

(Also by early I do mean EARLY early)

[narrow bramble]

||With hindsight Sam had way more of this planned out than i think your thinking and theres so many small moments where Sam as the character is acting with the following idea in mind: Nott see's caleb as a son and Nott isn't a goblin. These two things were there from day one the only thing that i think may have been added later is the drowning fear ||c2

I think your right on fjord tho

||Beau is interesting becuase the player's process was the same throughout its just Beau had less info and was wrong more often. The big change they have made here is making her right more often than she was origonally || C2 and M9

[summer quarry]

Oh yes to that part BUT what I meant is ||Nott has a lot of little moments where Sam plays up the hamminess that work a bit differently when adapting. It's kind of like the exxagerated cockney accent in that Sam plays it up in a way that works in the live play (because they mix the actual roleplay with a bit of table banter and whatnot) but if you take the character actions themselves are kind of loopier than "intended" for the character||

It's hard to explain exactly what I mean

[red beacon]

c2 ||my issue with nott was more with sam as a player, because he was very goofy most of the time and the fact that his drinking plotline served no purpose except to make encounters worse for the party||

[summer quarry]

C2 and M9 ||I think with Beau the biggest difference/thing is that she's able to show her book smarts a bit more (and if anything, her street smarts/opsec is potentially worse), which seemed to be the idea but constrained by the stats a monk has to have. In campaign they "fixed" it with an int-raising item, here they can just... Make her smarter without it having to mean she can defend worse when fighting (unlike dropping WIS for INT would)||

[red beacon]

m9 + c2 ||they also changed beau's personality a lot in here and made her significantly less abrasive than she was in early c2||

[narrow bramble]

||they didn't make her more abrasive they made her right. Same attitude she's just obviously correct here which changes the tone || M9 and C2

[red beacon]

M9 + C2 ||I feel like it still changes the way Beau is presented, she’s much less of a failgirl here than she was in the game||

||also I do think Beau in early c2 would not apologize like Beau did in e4||

[summer quarry]

M9 + C2 ||I think the main difference is in the session 0s of each. Campaign Beau was convinced she was a hotshot. Show Beau got played like a fiddle, had her behind handed to her EASILY, realized her faith was misplaced, and her abrasiveness nearly cost her everything and caused tons of deaths, all within a couple of days and an obvious direct 1->2. I think it makes sense she's a bit more of a team player to get out of the hole. We'll see more once they're not in constant peril||

[cold tartan]

M9 all || personally I’m irritated by the fact that they had jester leave a fight to,go heal. My battle cleric would never ||

[summer quarry]

I know this is a joke but I think this is ALSO a difference between working constrained by a system and adapting it with more flexible rules!

M9 all (campaign + animated) ||Laura never wanted to be a cleric, Jester was imagined as an archfey Warlock, but with Fjord being a warlock she pivoted. So she frontlined her kit with the fun spells she liked to use, most damaging, because she (rightfully) finds healing in 5e inefficient save for specific moments. Without a discrete, set in stone spell list and spell slots, healing is less "bad"||

[cold tartan]

|| oh I don’t have a problem with her not healing. It just was very… not her that it distracted me in the episode||

[summer quarry]

Yeah no my point was more that ||I do think we'll see Jester healing more in the show BECAUSE it doesn't hurt the action economy in a show||

Kinda like how ||Beau doesn't need the headband of intellect to be a lot more cerebral in her analysis||

[red beacon]

C2 ||healing in 5e also sucks and you should never do it unless someone is actually down, unless you’re a life cleric||

||this really only changes at very high levels||

[turbid juniper]

life cleric hours ☺️

[red beacon]

Okay I need an explanation on this

[minor lantern]

Haven't played 5e in a while, but when I played in pf2e a full healer, the problem was more having to get to people to be able to heal them instead of doing the actual healing.

Intend to like to do more supporty things than just healing.

[narrow bramble]

So basically theres this whole school of thought around healing thats very difficult to explain. And a lot of people will come to the same result for different reasons but to keep it simple if your ally is a well built character the action economy gained by preventing them from losing an action is often more beneficial. Now thats a generalization and theres a lot of thought into when to heal within that framework.

If you have BA and Action its often worth spending one while you can use two to ensure someone else threshold for going unconcious is lower especially when considering optimized characters have potent defensive options that make those resources go farther. A higher defense extends the survivability in terms of turns often times the extra healing can extend even one more turn which will prevent them from going down at all in a combat. If that happens the dpr generated by your ally or control space is attributed to the healing and not the character who does it since they would otherwise be unconscious and often times that greatly exceeds what a support character can do with their action and definitly exceeds what they will do with their bonus action.

Thinking of it like this. if someone goes unconcious you spend either an action or bonus action to bring them up. Best case scenario you just spent a bonus action but depending on the initiative you lose an action or bonus action to heal and their action and bonus action. In games where action economy is key that risk is absolutely massive

where its gets wierd is the risk value assesment based on enemy damage, your hp and defensive options, and the value of your healing which requires in the moment assesments on whether or not you think the damage will help prevent loss of turns which if you do wrong your throwing it into the ether

so the statement of its better to heal when down can be preferable as it extends valueable resources esepcially if you don't make accurate assements of when to heal

but if you can its better to just not let them go ddown

[elfin sigil]

There's also considerations of relative value

For example, Barbs are often high value heal targets

This is because

1. If they go down they lose rage, and
2. if the Barb is getting a lot of use out of resistances (taking a lot of bludgeoning slashing piercing) then every hit point you heal is relatively worth two, since each hit point is doing double duty

[narrow bramble]

correct tho at that highest levels of optimization no one is playing barb.

or they are playing teh one barb that doesn't care about dying

[halcyon wing]

M9 + later c2 || I just started thinking with the set up they are doing with Fjord how hard it’s gonna hit when he breaks up with U’kotoa ||

[cold tartan]

||Uk’otoa uk’otoa ||

[cold tartan]

Rewatching the post c2 specials and yeah I really should go finish that last arc or two

[thorn python]

M9 show + stream ||At a rate of once for every other episode she’s been in, cartoon Jester is a more reliable healer than show Jester||

[halcyon wing]

Campaign 2 post finale ||Ukotoa|| Oneshot || She does make up for lost time with her invoke duplicity network mass heal. ||

[elfin sigil]

||Some trivia show had Jester using Cure Wounds 85 times throughout campaign 2, making it a little more than once every other session||

||Not even counting other heal spells||

[turbid juniper]

||that's better than my rate as a life cleric - i tend towards mass healing word now at my level as my go-to||

[elfin sigil]

Campaign 2 ||It got memed on real early, since she didn't take a healer's kit, and she got caught out without heal spells a couple of times after, but that's as much because she was playing utility as much or more than healer much of the time even before Caduceus showed up. Not sure "Jester doesn't heal" is something that ever actually stood up to scrutiny||

||Laura was also good natured enough about it to lean into the bit||

[red beacon]

C4e7 ||first they can’t find a horse, second the wagon discourse and now they’re arguing about dogs 😭 ||

[thorn python]

Ah, back to the classics

Up next: tedious shopping episode

[red beacon]

Travis and I will both die

Robbie might die too tbh

He’s a real one for keeping the plot going

C4e7 ||also there will be no shopping if they can’t find six copper LMAO||

[elfin sigil]

||All it takes is not letting Laura carry money||

[elfin sigil]

||I'll give Brennan some credit here too, he's a little less indulgent on the free-spinning RP for RP's sake moments, I think in large part because he has fewer fun voices to play with than Matt does||

||Matt really will pull out a bespoke voice for a character that gets 20min screentime and really no other human on earth has that kind of range||

[untold crystal]

lowkey my favorite part about watching CR

can't say I watch for The Plot™

[elfin sigil]

I'm certainly watching CR4 for the plot

I also generally do tend to lose interest when the plot gets fully lost for weeks on end

[summer quarry]

I'm gonna be honest episode 1 grabbed me but not enough to keep watching live and it's just so long I'm finding it hard to muster the strength to watch

[elfin sigil]

CR4 is aimed pretty precisely at me in a way previous CRs haven't been

[turbid juniper]

cr4 is kind of giving me everything that i want :)

[stone tide]

I am loving cr4

[cold tartan]

It needs more || revolutionary mess ||

[turbid juniper]

||it's wild you think it doesn't have enough||

[thorn python]

I love whatever Wicander and Tyranny have going on. I want to study them under a microscope

[cold tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/more-niice-gif-19612161

I just want to know why they || DIDN’T REMOVE THE TRAITOR HOUSES FROM POWER AND INFLUENCE WHAT ARE YOU DOING ||

[turbid juniper]

||sounds like it was a complicated situation i'm salivating to find out more about||

[red beacon]

The plot and the lore drops

[red beacon]

Simply commute for three hours a day

EZ

I listen to critical role typically when I’m doing other stuff

[summer quarry]

I mean I do commute for two most of the year but my bus headphones died

[thorn python]

You have a 1.5 hr there and back commute?

Gross

[cold tartan]

I completely spaced out for some lore drops the last two episodes but that’s more of an adhd live broadcast thing

[summer quarry]

Sidenote, I need to remember I am not playing dnd with the critrole cast /s

[red beacon]

Yes 😭 😭 😭

[summer quarry]

(Just asked my dm some very pointed lore questions and my god am I overthinking)

[red beacon]

As a dm I love it when players do that

It saves me prep time

[summer quarry]

In this case it was if the continent (which we're not in and won't go this campaign) that he offhandedly mentioned is undergoing some wild west style expansionism/development/etc includes the general undertone of "people moving constantly trying to stay ahead of civilization to try to live out their lives as they know how before it stops existing as it is" typical of late westerns

all for a backstory for my future pc

[halcyon wing]

Watching the latest Mighty Nein ||Fjorjester wedding|| one shot and || while it’s a little predictable and has a lot of the usual stuff I dislike about live shows, there’s also been lots of shouting out loud YES moments while I was driving last night. ||

And (m9 animated) || it makes me really excited for Fjord’s arc seeing the juxtaposition of where he ends up vs where he came from. ||

[swift edge]

I really really really want more M9 show and I've fallen into the pit of watching reaction content now 😬

Especially from people who aren't familiar with the campaign, because I want to see what people coming at it fresh think

[untold crystal]

oh my, watching LoVM reactions from people unfamiliar with CR is such a joy, I'm sure M9 will be the same 🤩

that said, I had to buy something from Amazon last night and delivery cost almost as much as the thing...and Prime was half price for 3 months to entice me to come back, so I ended up doing it... I should start M9 tonight

[swift edge]

I tuned into a guy last night who had bounced off of LoVM but was willing to go back later if he ended up liking M9, and he said he was going into it with the right mindset this time that even though he usually likes more grim and gritty fantasy shows, he was prepared for the goofy, lighthearted DnD shenanigans this would actually be, since it's from the same group as LoVM

M9 ||Suffice it to say he was completely wrong about the vibes and was extremely happy about that and super hype about it||

M9 E1 ||haha, goofy DnD silliness as a man vivisects a conscious person in front of a classroom and then turns off his magic mental anaesthesia to make sure the subject feels it, ha ha ha...||

[elfin sigil]

It is just now in this moment occurring to me how specifically targeted at you this is lmao

[swift edge]

Lbr, everything about that plotline is very me coded 😩 🙏

M9 ||Have I thought about what the Lanna Sioc think about the Volstruckers?? Yes, definitely, 100%||

M9 ||Also we recently figured out that one of the guests at this fancy house we were staying at was Essek in disguise and @halcyon wing thought we'd figured it out and was making Essek jokes at us and we Very Much Had Not Figured That Out||

M9 ||Meijin literally asked one of our hosts about The Guy Who Was Secretly Essek and I didn't realize it until weeks later 😭 ||

M9/CR2 campaign ||I do feel like the show is not really leaning on the Bladesinger stuff (nor is it likely to) with the Volstruckers which makes sense because they'd rather show the unique worldbuilding with the residuum tattoos being what makes them special, but I do still remember my joy and delight when we saw Astrid and Eadwulf in combat at the table and they popped Bladesong 😍 ||

[halcyon wing]

Which ones? I have a couple I follow

[swift edge]

Funnylilgalreacts is great and she's done all four episodes. I especially like that she talks about her thoughts in depth both before and after the episode. And the guy I was specifically talking about in that message was Danny Motta

[halcyon wing]

Wee Lass Reacts and NotSoAverageFangirl are decent for non CR folks. I also do Syntell.

And then I also watch Preview’d but they’ve watched the campaign (they were new for VM)

[untold crystal]

wait, really? that's so funny that the goofy yter didn't vibe with the goofines of lovm

[halcyon wing]

Oh and Meesh and Dee

[untold crystal]

Danny has the most unhinged (highly) Epic reactions (but that's outside this scope)

[slow harness]

C4 E6 ||"Robbie likes yelling at women and breaking the fourth wall" ||

[weak wedge]

ITS SO OUT OF POCKET I LOVE IT

[red beacon]

#1404997600687689799 message

for the record I replied to this here (very belatedly) but the convo kinda got sidetracked lmao😭 😭 😭

[solemn raft]

M9e5||i dont wanna rag on Liam O'Brian because his german is really good, but hearing him right next to what sounds like an actual german VA is really funny because his accent suddenly stands really out ||

[weak wedge]

I need to catch up on C4 😭

[halcyon wing]

The new M9 ep was so great

[swift edge]

I'm banging on the glass of being at work about it

I neeeeed

[lethal valley]

https://tenor.com/view/schitts-creek-me-too-same-same-david-rose-dan-levy-gif-19295178

[solemn raft]

it was real good M9e5||i love how the episode starts with Caleb's "Let me tell you a story" and also ends with it. Nicely breaks up the episode but also tells us that he told the Nein his backstory/everything we saw in the flashback. Very good decision||

[elfin sigil]

Episode 5 you mean?

[solemn raft]

yes, thats what i wrote

[elfin sigil]

Listening to German is always so surreal because of how much like English it sounds to some base parts of my brain that aren't trying to make words out of it

And them sometimes cognates happen and even several in sequence and that throws me off even more

[solemn raft]

honestly its no issue for me i understand it fine

oh wait i wanted to check what Zamnian sounds like in the german dub

[elfin sigil]

They said its just German iirc

[solemn raft]

oh my god

this isnt german but there are german words spliced in so i feel like im tripping

[elfin sigil]

Oh no lmao

[solemn raft]

half a sentence is gibberish to me and then the other is perfectly understandable german

[swift edge]

Yeah the German dub Zemnian is just gibberish they said

It would have been really funny if it was English though

[solemn raft]

i think they're mixing danish, dutch and german probably?

[halcyon wing]

Loved this

I also love how (m9-e5) || even though the focus was Caleb’s backstory they mixed in backstory elements for most other characters as well! ||

[elfin sigil]

E5 ||I do think the temptation here for TV writers is to drag out the Caleb backstory reveal as long as possible, or at least conceal it from the rest of the M9 for as long as possible for Maximum Drama, and I'm very glad they're not doing that||

[halcyon wing]

Same tags || Fjords accent slipping when he was dreaming in front of Nott, Molly’s and Jester’s convo, Nott’s alchemy skill and parental approach towards Caleb and a little bit to Fjord. ||

[solemn raft]

M9e5||they're also doing it with the Nott parent-child talk, because i remember that happening a lot later in the campaign. I think they're moving a lot of stuff around and condensing things (like just leaving the Toad head just at the guard station when in the campaign there was a lot more time dedicated to clearing their name of that incident||

[cold tartan]

Currently playing a game rn where they just have characters speaking in German and English interchangeably and only some gets translated and it’s like….. oh wow a lot of these words are the same

[solemn raft]

M9E5|| https://vxtwitter.com/Philosaeufer/status/1996166533979189711?s=20 ||

Lex (@Philosaeufer)

no little german boy, don't go into the wizarding cave

oh mein gott zis place is full of trauma bonding

#MightyNeinSpoilers

vxTwitter / fixvx · Dec 3, 2025, 10:36 AM

https://x.com/vxlinor/status/1996256365837189188?s=20

laurel ⟡ cr posting (@vxlinor)

#MightyNeinSpoilers

X · Dec 3, 2025, 4:33 PM

i dont even need to spoiler this, this is true for every campaign

[weak wedge]

C4 opening line ||Hell the FIRST line in C4 is Brennan saying "Liam. Someone you love is going to die."||

[elfin sigil]

M9E5 ||I'm thinking my biggest concern (and it is a minor one) is that some of the Jester flavor gets lost a bit when Laura knows what she's going to say before she says it||

||The Nott jokes in particular have landed quite well, but Laura goes into this weird hyperspontaneous headspace for Jester that doesn't quite land for me the way it did live||

[cold tartan]

M9 e5 || ngl I legit thought they just redrew Astrid and she was the one hunting Caleb lol||

[cold tartan]

|| I was really worried we were just gonna get a standard flash back episode and it was gonna be real boring ||

Dang it ||beau || || it’s not trash wizard TITLE HIM PROPERLY || e5

[cold tartan]

Also m9 + c2 all || also LOL my memory of early c2 is so fuzzy.||

[halcyon wing]

M9 c2 all || Also Molly pulling the death card again… they are really setting stuff up with him. ||

C2 all || makes sense because Molly is the one who really unified the Nein. ||

With the moving around (m9-5 s c2 || I hope we still get the brief Nott lashing out at Caleb when they find out the Cerberus assembly took Yeza ||

[elfin sigil]

||This seems like the kind of thing they're going out of their way to spend time portraying to me, for sure||

[halcyon wing]

Watching inside the mighty nein now and there’s some good stuff

[elfin sigil]

Is that another show on Prime or something?

I'll have to check that out

[halcyon wing]

(Inside the M9) || Annika Noni Rose hired a dialect coach to do the Marion Jester accent. ||

On YouTube

[swift edge]

Okay I have watched and I am now crazy about it, thanks

[elfin sigil]

Oh thank god no ads

[halcyon wing]

https://youtu.be/IvcXE-RY0Ew?si=whc0w03E1b24ebrj

First 5 eps

[elfin sigil]

How does that even work?

M9 ||Laura will say "eastern European" sometimes when pressed on it but its mostly just vibes||

[swift edge]

It's actually wild how much better this is than LoVM. Like the episodes just keep getting betterrrrr

[elfin sigil]

Wild what happens when you give a story enough time to get told

[swift edge]

It's not even just the characters being more my style but like the adaptation and narrative choices are peak here

[elfin sigil]

Some of the plot beats in LoVM get introduced and then resolved so fast

[swift edge]

There be some Story Telling

[halcyon wing]

Sam mentions || how it’s not an accent you can really teach because Laura just makes it up. ||

[swift edge]

M9 5 ||The way they're doing framing devices, like Caleb telling the backstory throughout the episode but we only see him doing that at the end. And the hints of everyone's backstory coming out, not just Caleb's even though his was in focus. Sooooo good||

[halcyon wing]

I said almost the exact same thing 😅

Yes yes yes

[swift edge]

IT'S SO GOOD

[elfin sigil]

Character focus episodes get to be this, for sure

LoVM Grog episodes sure do happen and its all Grog all the time

[swift edge]

I was already so feral about Meijin stuff too but this is making me more feral because there's even more parallels than I thought and I just gotta yell at Matt about it

[halcyon wing]

Yup

[untold crystal]

Finally watched M9 E1 today

[swift edge]

It's like Astarion, where I'm sitting here going "I swear I made up Meijin any his whole deal first before seeing this other eerily similar character." I promise I did not copy Liam's homework

[untold crystal]

Immediate first off the cuff thought I have is || Investigation rolls look so much cooler on screen than at my table . I loved the Beau parts for that ||

Other than that || I'm so excited to see more wizard-y spellcasting. I was already looking forward to if they were going to lean on Liam's amazing spell cast narration, and we got a good first glimpse. I love that stuff ||

It's also kind of funny to be watching this and the M9 one shot from a couple weeks ago kind of simultaneously

[halcyon wing]

End m9 ep 5. || the sequence cutting back and forth between Caleb burning Owelia and Bren burning the farmhouse is just excellent tv. ||

The writer talking about || dialling up the cat noises during the fire 😭||

[swift edge]

That hurt so bad...

[minor lantern]

Mn E5 ||This is who I am. 💀 ||

[minor lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/absolute-cinema-raccoon-absolute-cinema-gif-17862327649353748812

[minor lantern]

||I kind of wished they did drag it out more, I feel like they they are using all the ammo they have.

Caleb's back story might be my favorite out of all of CR.||

[cold tartan]

|| they’re on what episode 4 of the stream in terms of plot so they have 135ish episodes to work with!||

|| like we’re in the back half of the season and like… nothing has happened ||

C2 + M9

[halcyon wing]

Inside the Mighty 9 (Beacon Exclusive Part) || lol they talk about how Yasha’s initial canon height according to Ashley was like 5’10” but the cast, audience and now the series animators have all overruled her because Yasha is just taller than that. ||

[minor lantern]

||Oh, we still got the Yasha back story 🔥.||

[halcyon wing]

C2 || the “champion” scene is gonna be soo good. ||

[stone tide]

Dang not 5'11 😛

[halcyon wing]

M9 ep5 - || now I’m listening to “bright” again 😭 https://open.spotify.com/track/3Ap3N1aUB5x8EKAYUWgIt1?si=aFLgICIiT7WGWjmI3BGPJw ||

[turbid juniper]

yeah of course, she's a tall 5'11"...

[elfin sigil]

Oh there's more on Beacon, good to know

[solemn raft]

M9e5|| btw Yasha hasnt shown up since Episode 1. Wonder how they'll integrate her into the story||

[woven abyss]

M9 e5 ||wait. Volstrucker polycule!?||

||goodness me past-Caleb has become violent quickly||

Well that was a wild episode-ad cut

[cold tartan]

M9 reunited 2 || god I did not miss the ridiculous amount of time spent on rolling the 20 blood hunter random effects ||

I legit hate watching stuff with that annoying ass class

[woven abyss]

M9 e5 ||I love how molly's slipped into a bit of a group support role that feels very similar to what we saw him doing in e3||

Man how does each episode keep getting better??

[solemn raft]

Update on this the german dub zemnian is half german and half gibberish. Asked a dutch friend to check out the episode and he said there's no dutch in there

[swift edge]

I had Volstrucker dreams

[swift edge]

I just wanna watch the episode again clearly...

[thorn python]

M9e5 https://www.tumblr.com/wizardnuke/692835430655246337/

[swift edge]

Good morning (M9 5/CR 1-2) ||https://www.tumblr.com/renarinkholin/619029273189171200/hit-it-or-crit-it-hit-it-or-crit-it-im ||

Questions To Think Upon...

🔁 aplpaca

utilitycaster

I’m watching the final hour of the episode and like, as someone with a pretty strong taste for gallows humor I’m now imagining Trent Ikithon’s powerpoint presentation, I Should Get To Torture Gifted Zemnian Teenagers, For Nationalism Reasons

hit-it-or-crit-it

anyway

-# #im dying #critical role #cr2 #torture cw #i guess #nothing ridi-queue-lous

Tumblr · May 24, 2020, 8:31 PM

[solemn raft]

M9e5|| https://vxtwitter.com/xkizato/status/1996259121050300814?t=s8xiIp8Dj8ZUHBKd-lf9rw&s=19 ||

AJ 🌱 (@xkizato)

i am in pain

#mightyneinspoilers

QRT: xkizato
and if i see a cat silhouette in the window through the burning flames before it cuts to black it‘s gonna be my last straw

vxTwitter / fixvx · Dec 3, 2025, 4:43 PM

||you can see the scratchmarks on the glass||

[swift edge]

They're so evil for that actually

[untold crystal]

Now to watch all the Ep 1 reactions out there. ...

[minor lantern]

I would put C1 and C2 tags on that.

[swift edge]

Ahh yeah I guess there's a smidge in there, better to be safe

[untold crystal]

one of the great things about binging reactions of my favorite shows is noticing things I didn't notice on my first watch

M9 E1 || Freaking Essek is right there in the opening scene 🤯 ||

[swift edge]

M9 E1 ||I was starting to watch the talkback on Beacon about it and some of the cast didn't even recognize him until recent watches. I spotted him instantly though because I am mildly obsessed 😅 ||

[weak wedge]

CR4 E6 3:30 ||"Even I'm like 'why'd you make it this sad?'" BRENNAN THIS IS AAAALLLLL YOU||

[minor lantern]

Do we got an episode today?

[untold crystal]

C4E8 yeah

[weak wedge]

C4 E6 all ||absolutely WILD combat ngl. So much going on, ton of fun to watch tho||

[summer quarry]

hey so

M9 animated 1x5

||Jesus.||

Like. Not a lot more to say

||That was... Uncomfortable||

||Don't get me wrong, bloody brilliantly done||

||They made explicit a lot of things I expected they wouldn't. Just refused to pull any punches||

||"I protect him. He's my boy." God I love Notty||

campaign 2 turbonuclear spoilers

||So, when THAT happens... It's not gonna be pretty, huh||

[woven abyss]

1x5 ||the cutting between Caleb and owelia and the house burning was tough to watch ||

||I like that we haven't seen Caleb's polycule in the present day yet. I wonder how they feel about him||

[summer quarry]

You know what REALLY got me for some reason?

1x5 ||The very explicit showing and hearing of Frumpkin. One gets kinda desintetized to the violence between people but the yowling just barely didn't make me retch||

[summer quarry]

mighty nein animated all ||Didn't we?||

[woven abyss]

||I think we saw them working on something with Trent, but I don't think we've seen them reacting to this all yet||

||I don't remember Caleb being mentioned to them? And that's the thing I'm interested in. Whether they hate him or still care about him or what||

M9 1x05 ||yknow, I want to make a prediction. My knowledge of c2 is very sparse, so I'm just going off the show so far. Given the episode count, I wonder if we might have... the two other volstruckers who's names I'm forgetting as the final antagonists for s1, and then Trent being more of s2's main antagonist||

||or maybe Trent is more of a show-long villain? Idk||

[summer quarry]

m9 animated all ||They're the volstruckers we've seen all along (minus Owelia), the ones that stole the beacon and are working on it. But yeah, Caleb hasn't come up yet. Astrid and Eodwulf, btw||

[woven abyss]

M9 animated ||I suppose we might see a bit more of them next episode. I assume the bren note owelia burned went to Trent/them, like Caleb's did in the start of the episode||

[plucky ibex]

This was harsh 😭

[minor lantern]

||I am not sure what that you mean. ||

[summer quarry]

||i'm trying to be as careful as possible in case someone accidentally clicks, but THAT pivotal moment in the early campaign||

[minor lantern]

||Yeah, I think that might be the ending of this season.||

[cold tartan]

5 min to go time to lock in
-# I’m gonna space out for like half of this episode

[minor lantern]

That art is pretty epic.

[cold tartan]

C4 e8 || huh wonder how much stuff they’re gonna kinda montage through with the cold opens. I don’t hate the idea of doing a lot of the table setting for future plots during the cold open ||

E8 || you know I forgot about the afterlife constipation situation ||

[cold tartan]

E8 ||”can you fly without your ass lighting up?”||

[minor lantern]

I'm behind I had to clean my washing machine.

I am behind but like 6 minutes behind.

[cold tartan]

E8 || realizing that I don’t think either of them can actually heal lol||

[mighty yoke]

E8 ||Anyone catch what Sam’s goblet said? I looked away at the wrong time😭 ||

[cold tartan]

Missed it too

E8 || Did not have Sam offering to pimp out Tyranny on my prediction list ||

[minor lantern]

CR4e8 ||Stoney hearts ||

[cold tartan]

|| oh god is this stealth roll the roll that starts the chaos avalanche?|| E8

Oh god what did I do

[minor lantern]

CR4e8 ||🔔 ↩️ ||

[cold tartan]

|| Teor’s fur must be very stressed rn ||

[minor lantern]

||I guess Teor don't always lands on his feet.||

[cold tartan]

E8 || please tell me one of them has silence ||

[minor lantern]

I've caught up with the live stream.

[cold tartan]

CR production please utilize this new concept called camera zoom

[minor lantern]

CR4e8 ||Brennan using a burning wheel thing, let it ride. ||

[narrow bramble]

none of them should be able to

[cold tartan]

|| SAM||

E8 || I’m not saying that they should frag wick but I’m not not saying that ||

[minor lantern]

CR4e8 ||😺 vs 🌲 ||

||Your gonna feel a little bit of a pinch. ||

[cold tartan]

E8 || getting the party wiped for the meme of poisoning this dudes butt hole is GOAT behavior||

[minor lantern]

CR4e8 ||Why do I feel like this is so much more darker than Matt's? ||

[cold tartan]

|| you know an episode is cooking when it’s not even break yet and I feel like the episode should be over soon||

E8 || HOW DOES HE KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS ||

[minor lantern]

CR4e8 ||Shouldn't it be a crit because he's paralyzed?||

[mighty yoke]

||isn’t that just her advantage?||

[cold tartan]

||I think so but my 5e updated knowledge is spotty ||

[mighty yoke]

e8||love the readied squid mini||

[cold tartan]

|| oh my god this is chaos ||

[mighty yoke]

||mirage squid ||

[cold tartan]

E8 ||okay good thing he misty stepped because there’s a limit to him playing intentionally stupid that I can tolerate||

E8 || Word of radiance! I know that book||

Hated making that joke but I mean points to server

E8 || oh boy this gonna be bad for our boy wick ||

|| Brennan ….. ||

|| HEY BUD YOU WANT TO TELL US WHAT THE DAMAGE IS ||

|| omg ||

[minor lantern]

CR4e8 ||Brennan:🥛 ||

[mighty yoke]

||Had to pause for a minute, who’s attacking?||

[cold tartan]

||kaz just shot Laura ||

|| so um… me no think they’re at the level to have party split so much for combat||

E8 || could really use a Kat crit here ||

[cold tartan]

||Kat 🫡 ||

[minor lantern]

CR4e8 ||I GOT HIM ||

[cold tartan]

E8 || love it when guards make business decisions ™ ||

[minor lantern]

||We got a castle? ||

So pumpkin pie time?

[cold tartan]

E8 mid break || wait what happens when the dudes chasing the horses come back ||

[minor lantern]

I am back, 3:30 behind, 1.3x speed up go!

[cold tartan]

E8 || freaking sky breakers man ||

|| WHY ARE YOU LETTING THEM GO? GROW THE CULT||

|| omg you could use some freaking beef boys considering y’all’s penchant for chaos ||

|| JUST SAY YES OMG ||

|| do you want a castle and some muscle? Just say yes!!!!!||

|| oh my god GIVE THEM THE PLATE||

[urban swift]

I have missed so much tonight but every bit I've caught has been awesome

[cold tartan]

||I really like this episode ||

[minor lantern]

I caught up.

[cold tartan]

E8 || HOW MANY MORE SIGNALS DOES BRENNAN NEED TO GIVE FOR YOU TO TAKE OVER THE CASTLE ||

[minor lantern]

||The castle just isn't into Wick. ||

[cold tartan]

E8 || thank you Travis for saving me from an aneurism||

[minor lantern]

CR4e8 ||You I will kill. 😭 ||

[cold tartan]

E8 || omg the aneurism is coming back ||

E8 || okay can we wrap up the episode||

I’m tired man!

[minor lantern]

||💢||

[cold tartan]

|| should’ve made him a prisoner bruh…. Laura the only one ruthless enough for this ||

[minor lantern]

CR4e8 ||Hawk-ins||

https://tenor.com/view/absolute-cinema-raccoon-absolute-cinema-gif-17862327649353748812

[thorn python]

We must bring back the tradition of going “hot boi!!!” In the chat whenever Essek is on screen

[weak wedge]

CR4 E6 0:33 ||And thus sam continues to torture Brennan. We love to see it||

[weak wedge]

0:45 ||"this GM sucks!" Oh boy Sam, you make it too easy||

[halcyon wing]

M9 || I’ve been wondering if the minor healing of scrapes and cuts we’ve seen Essek and Trent do might be a representation of false life? That would be enough to restore them to full until they ‘heal’ on a rest?||

[elfin sigil]

||I'm waiting for Samalamadingdong 2: Riegel Edition||

[summer quarry]

m9 ||Eh, temp HP doesn't technically remove damage. IMO it's basically a cure wounds handwaved into the wizard kit (or rather, a generic minor healing spell). For all we know, the scrapes aren't "worth" HP and it's basically predigistation||

[swift edge]

M9 ||There is a new spell in 2024 that lets wizards heal themselves. It's a little odd because it wasn't around when CR2 was playing, but it is a thing now. Lets you dip into your hit dice for a bit of spot recovery||

[raven bloom]

Wolfy's been got, hell yeah
https://x.com/wolfythewitch/status/1998143171507941697?s=46&t=ENxaVF_Bzn5slKzJnS5p2Q

Wolfy🌈 (@WolfyTheWitch)

Stinky #mightynein

X · Dec 8, 2025, 9:30 PM

[red beacon]

C4e8 ||is wick pimping out tyranny???||

[cold tartan]

|| he’s just sharing the light||

[red beacon]

||JEZEBEL FINGER||

[cold tartan]

|| that’s doctor finger to you!||

[elfin sigil]

||Jizzabel Finger||

[red beacon]

C4e8 ||this combat is great, o7 to Kattigans strategy||

||oh my god the eggs||

||THE SQUID???||

[swift edge]

C4e8 ||This combat was so chaotic. I love how Thimble is having this dramatic showdown of revenge in the pouring rain and then meanwhile, Tyranny is birthing a giant squid in the middle of a room out of nowhere and hiding in it||

[reef halo]

C4E8 ||Yeah Thimble with her “can you hear it now?” moment (which btw was super cool) and the rest of the party is like “Dr. Jizz Finger is gonna get eaten by a squid!” or whatever ||

[elfin sigil]

||Wasn't even just the whole rest of the party. Kattigan is throwing a man off a wall, which was pretty metal, Wick was fleeing in terror and nearly dying, but Teor was dueling a tree and mostly losing. Wild all around||

[red beacon]

||travis can't resist creating a goofy character even when he's meant to be cool||

[minor lantern]

Cr3e86 ||Jester ||

[elfin sigil]

C4E8 ||Brennan's happy dance after getting Sam to tap out and pull the ripcord might be the highlight of CR4 for me so far and that's saying something, the average quality moment to moment has just been so high across the board||

[red beacon]

M9 e5 ||this was a banger episode||

||that said the way everything was set up made Caleb soooo sus||

||like if I were Beau I would immediately tie him to the chair and start interrogating him||

[halcyon wing]

M9 ep 6 with c2 references || they are really taking a different turn at some of this but I am so here for how it’s coming together.

No idea how Essek’s plot line is going to be handled if Verrat knows he stole the beacon.

The Nydas inclusion was fantastic - gotta love a calamity moment.

The thing they are nailing though is the team dynamic. All the little one on one relationships among the nein feel spot on.

Fjord being the one to jeopardize the group (rather than Caleb or Beau) was a fun twist. I love what they are setting up for him with his arc where it really feels like he thinks Ukotoa is the only thing that makes him special or powerful or competent. The eventual warlock break a few seasons down the road is going to be so good.

And then Yasha… I’m thinking they free her from Obann’s control during the fight for the beacon?

I’m really appreciating how well they are sharing focus amongst the characters. Apart from the Caleb heavy episode in 5, it feels like everyone is getting a similar level of attention so far (apart from Yasha). ||

I’m having too many thoughts but can’t wait to watch this episode again.

[ocean halo]

M9 e6 ||in addition to everything else great with the show, i feel like they are nailing Jester's levity asides. whenever she butts into a conversation i find it adorable.||

[swift edge]

I am once again suffering from the affliction of: being at work and cannot watch M9

[halcyon wing]

My Wednesday routine is now watch while I get ready and eat breakfast

[weak wedge]

Thats so real

[lethal valley]

I still need to watch last week's...

[halcyon wing]

Ian you so do

[swift edge]

Omg Iannnn it's so good

I've probably watched it like three times at least

[plucky ibex]

Last week was amazing

[swift edge]

Like I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say I think it's one of the best episodes of tv ive watched... but I'm also very biased about it

[red beacon]

M9e5 ||they really did justice to Caleb’s backstory and also gave Beau and Nott time to shine||

[lethal valley]

I'll have time for it, maybe, this weekend!

[halcyon wing]

Ep 5 is indeed just fantastic television even outside the context of the show or CR.

Honestly the only criticism I have of the show so far is they rely a little too much on having characters state the obvious for exposition purposes for my taste, but that’s probably a product of really wanting to get the audience up to speed since it’s season 1.

[narrow bramble]

||cobolt soul beating up an innocent old man on a measly butterfly of evidence || m9 e6 all

[red beacon]

Yeah some of the dialogue is very “as you know”

[thorn python]

M9 show || https://www.tumblr.com/stickandthorn/802587057500389376/love-astrid-and-eadwulfs-presence-in-almost-every ||

AHHH. MINOTAURS. ALCOHOL. MOTHERHOOD.

Love Astrid and Eadwulf’s presence in almost every episode. Show up. Do something ethically heinous. Villain pose. Think longingly about Bren. And you just know Eadwulf’s gonna make a quip. And then they leave. They’re like Team Rocket if Team Rocket was actually evil and if Meowth was the long lost 3rd member of their throuple.

-# #critical role #the mighty nein spoilers #the mighty nein #astrid becke #eadwulf grieve

Tumblr · Dec 10, 2025, 10:44 PM

[swift edge]

M9 6 ||Okay the Gentleman being Nathan Fillion is killing me, but honestly the Evening Nip was all great. Also Astrid not telling Eadwulf about Caleb!!! Trent getting arrested and tortured, hell yeah. AND NYDAS!! I'm so delighted, Lou is here!!! My good friend Lou Wilson!||

[red beacon]

M9 ||they’re so useless and funny||

c2 + m9 ||I wonder if they’ll develop eadwulf at all? Or if he’ll just be… there||

Also this show is making me obsessed with Caleb again

Fjord was also my fav in the show as the team lead but Caleb is so interesting

[swift edge]

M9 6 ||When Verrat clocked him I was so ready for Essek to just panic kill him right there to keep it under wraps. Like, the Beacon is in range and he's consecuted... Maybe he'd justify it that he wouldn't be killing Verrat permanently, and it would cover things up. And it'd be SO nasty right after he just rushed in there to save him to, to have to do something terrible to cover his crime...||

M9 6 + CR2 ALL||I really don't want the Dynasty to know Essek is a traitor this early, like I want to still get some kind of plotline where the Nein are "friends" with Essek while trying to find the traitor at the same time and then it all comes out (but this time the audience gets to know what's really going on). And like, they probably won't string it out as long as they did in the campaign, because we know the answer already but I do want some dynamic like that for at least some time. It feels like it's pretty important for the way the Nein interact with him, and I feel like it'd be too big a change for it all to come out before they even meet||

[halcyon wing]

Big same

|| he’s gotta find a way to keep Verat quiet. ||

[minor lantern]

MN ep6/cr3 ||I don't remember that in Yasha's story, granted I don't remember much.||

Mn ep6 ||I love Esseks.... Ear covers.||

Mn e6/cr3 ||Jester's dad ||

||Wait that's Nathan Fillion MY CAPTAIN!||

[elfin sigil]

||He's dewy too lmao||

[red beacon]

M9 + C2 || https://www.reddit.com/r/dndmemes/comments/1pjixtb/since_the_critical_role_sub_wont_let_me_post_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button||

[summer quarry]

Not sure if this belongs here or in ttrpg

But do we know if/when they'll release Ashton's subclass as they did the echo knight and grav/chrono wizards? (And BH)

I am intrigued

[summer quarry]

M9 1x6 || I think this is the moment where we meet the more ruthless Essek from the campaign. I think he'll find a way to discredit (if not kill) Verrat, potentially ingratiate himself more with the bright queen (Do we know if he's already Shadowhand in the show?) and generally go "in for a penny, in for a pound"||

[swift edge]

M9 1x6 ||I'm pretty sure he was explicitly called Shadowhand in episode 2, but even if they didn't use the title out loud, he and Verrat were pretty clearly shown to be the Bright Queen's two close advisors in their first scene.||

[swift edge]

M9 1x6 ||I do think Essek kind of let himself get caught by Verrat there at the end a little bit. Like, Verrat doesn't actually have any evidence of Essek's involvement with the theft here aside from the fact that he intervened. "How did you know?" could easily be answered by the fact that Essek was tasked with finding who stole the Beacon and where it was. He could have just said he located the thieves and realized they'd weaponized it but wasn't able to intervene quickly enough to stop it. This was totally still pinnable fully on Trent and the empire, but Essek froze with guilt and Verrat made a lucky guess.||

M9 1x6 ||I will also say I'm a little surprised that they actually let Dwendal talk to Trent in prison. I felt so sure that "King Dwendal" was going to actually be Vess or Tasha in disguise to trick him into talking. Like there was even some weirdness where Dwendal seemed to be putting his hand over his mouth as he came in while he started speaking, like he might have been covering up a spell cast or something. But then they just go out to the front with the Beacon so I guess it was actually him? That didn't seem very smart on Vess and Tasha's part. I'm hoping there's more going on there...||

[solemn raft]

M9 e6||oh hey Yasha's finally here||

M9e6||aww we didnt get to see the Nein react to Caleb's story, i wanted to see what they had to say||

[elfin sigil]

I've spent a good deal of this week driving so I've relistened to some of the CR4 overture this week, and I highly recommend it if you have the bandwidth for that

They play really loose with giving much if any real context to the viewers and its pretty clear the players got some pretty extensive briefings going into CR4, and so the overture is kind of a different experience once you've had a lot more of that context presented to you going into it

[solemn raft]

M9e6||i expected the same, was legit surprised when Trent was allowed to do his demonstration||

C2 campaign||also did the Empire know that Trent had the beacon? I remember it got stolen by Dynasty spies and the Nein caught them and thats how they got it.||

[halcyon wing]

I took the || Trent and Essek || b plots to both be significant departures from the campaign.

They might end up at a similar place but they haven’t been shy about taking liberties in the adaptation, especially where it’s stuff happening outside of the M9’s knowledge.

[narrow bramble]

Yeah pretty much every character has info they would not have yet

[woven abyss]

M9 1x6/C2 ||did molly get this big backstory tease here in the campaign? I haven't watched all of c2, but if he didn't it's cool that they brought in some set up so early||

[elfin sigil]

||IIRC he did get confronted here, yeah, but I think this was more on the nose than the actualplay was||

[cold tartan]

C4 e9 ||Post coup purge of the guard. See this is how you do a coup. You don’t let the people you fought STAY IN POWER YOU FOOLS ||

[woven abyss]

M9 1x6 ||essek... what did you think was going to happen...||

[halcyon wing]

M9 1X6 and C2 || The Cree greeting Molly thing was even more explicit in the campaign actually. But they got it pretty close in a slim downed version ||

C2 Transcript:
||Matt: Upon which, after immediately stepping into the space, a black-furred female tabaxi approached Mollymauk over here and with a look of recognition said, "Lucien," and then embraced you. And that's where we left off. →
TRAVIS: (shouting) [censored] insight check on Taliesin! No, I'm kidding. →
MATT: So as you guys all watch this dark-furred tabaxi giving this big, strong hug around Mollymauk's shoulders. Pulls away and looks at you and goes, "It has been too long, two ye--" →
TALIESIN: Far too long! →
MATT: "Two years! (laughs) Look at you! You grew out your hair!" →
TALIESIN: Ah yes, it's been quite an interesting two years. →
MATT: "And you are covered in tattoos!" →
TALIESIN: We'll catch up, we need a table, we need drinks for me and my compatriots. →
MATT: "Of course, you-- these are your friends now?" →
TALIESIN: It's a long story and I can't tell you everything right now. You know how it is. →
MATT: "Very well."
[. . .]
MATT: At this point, a hand claps and the tabaxi is now at one of the tables and has shooed off one of the drinks and goes, "This way, I found a table for everyone." →
TALIESIN: Come, sit down. I give the tabaxi another hug as we sit down. How have you been? It's been ages! →
MATT: "Oh, too long. I apologize for using your old name. Nonagon, it is a pleasure to see you again." →
[Cutting out some cross talk]
TALIESIN: Who can keep track these days? Again, a long story. →
MATT: "Nonagon, what happened? We watched you die." →
TALIESIN: That is a story for another day and another drink. What did you see? God, I don't know what that looked like from the other end of things. →
MATT "Well, it all went belly up two years ago. →
You told us to scatter and vanish if it didn't-- if things went wrong and wait until you returned. →
We buried your ass in the woods outside of the hideout, I mean-- " →
It may not have necessarily been my ass that you buried. →
MATT: "Apparently." →||

It continues on with even more (C2) ||naming specific Tomb Takers, etc., mentioning the spell-spitter from the capital.||

[woven abyss]

Oh, huh

That is a lot more clear

[halcyon wing]

But the campaign definitely covers all the details in the episode + more

[c2]||TALIESIN: I had a few tricks up my sleeve. →
MATT: (laughs) "Well, that spell-spitter lady from the capital. She said you were gone, she took the book and left, and her contract said she was in the right and that we knew better than to go toe to toe with her and her ilk." →
TALIESIN: Obviously. Is everybody else all right? I know it has been a while. I had to stay underground. →
MATT: Unfortunately, Jurrel met with the axe of the law shortly after you left us." →
TALIESIN: Damn shame. →
MATT: "Zoran, Ottis, and Tyffial have all scattered amongst the empire..." →
TALIESIN: Damn shame. →
MATT: "But, do you want me to find the others?" →
TALIESIN: No, actually I'm-- →
MATT: "I know where Tyffial is!" →
TALIESIN: Where is Tyffial? I would rather obviously deliver everything in person. Honestly if I had known you were here I would've made arrangements. I didn't want to shock you. →
MATT: "She's up in Nogvurot. We can travel there, I can send a message and have her come down to us." →
TALIESIN: I'm working on something very delicate, I need everything to be very quiet. →
MATT: "Very well, Nonagon." →
LIAM: I apologize, I'm not very observant. I missed your name. →
TALIESIN: Where are my manners? →
MATT: "My apologies. My name is Cree." →
LIAM: Cree? →
MATT: "I am a member of the, well, the family around-- how much do they know?" →
SAM: We know a lot! →||

[c2]||MATT: "Well, we were all part of the same order at one point, and we splintered off. Luci-- Nonagon had a different path in mind for us, so we went north to Shady Creek Run and we started the Tomb Takers. It's just so good to see you." →
TALIESIN: It's good to be seen again. But again, it's got to be very quiet right now. It's been like three other names since the last time I saw you. →
MATT: "I should inform the others." →
TALIESIN: Please, keep it quiet for now. That book caused more trouble than you think, and it all laid on my shoulders. I was trying to protect the rest of you from some of the worst elements of that and I don't want any heat dropping on anybody who doesn't know what's coming yet. →
MATT:"Of course." →
TALIESIN: But let me know where they are and I'll get a hold of them. But don't let them know why yet. →
MATT: The tabaxi curls in a little bit, leans over the table towards you with this big grin and says, "Does this mean that it worked?" →
TALIESIN: (sighs) That's, again, mixed company and public company. →
SAM: No, you can tell us about the ritual! Ritual? →
MATT: There's a look of recognition. →
SAM: Yes, it was successful! Remind me what it was again? There's been so many rituals lately! →
TALIESIN: Mixed results. →||

I think between those snippets it covers everything we learned from the episode 6 conversation in the show.

Makes a difference knowing some of what they are talking about though

first time hearing most of it it's almost easier to get lost when there's more detail (like in the campaign) whereas in the show it might be easier to follow because it's more focused.

[narrow bramble]

that scene is almost word for word if you cut out the players discussing above table

[halcyon wing]

But it's actaully kind of cool how many beats they still hit: [m9/c2] || Molly playing things off and bluffing like he knows more, Caleb getting Cree's name, Nott being like "oh yeah the ritual we know about that"...||

[cold tartan]

C4E9 || CRYPT??????? Sunlight crypt???? Time to go grave robbing ||

C4E9 || Sam please stop playing with fire||

E9 || Sam time to do what you do best! Get people to attack you ||

[urban swift]

Okay, I just tuned in to tonight's session! What have I missed?

[minor lantern]

I am coming yall, gonna put it on 1.3 speed!

[minor lantern]

CR4e9 ||Liam just rping himself. ||

[cold tartan]

E9 || soooooooo infiltrating an even bigger castle where the tic are concentrating forces… yeah this is gonna be a mess ||

E9 || reincarnated dogs!!!!!!!!||

E9 || oooooo short break!||

[cold tartan]

E9 || “a lot of arms”||

[minor lantern]

CR4e9 ||Brennan's children are much more childlike than Matt's. ||

[urban swift]

||And he will hurt us with them!||

[minor lantern]

Only 27 minutes behind now.

Cr4e9p2 ||A bold Jester. ||

[minor lantern]

I just caught up and it's ending.

[red beacon]

saw some c4e9 spoilers, im only at halfway through e8 rn but calling it now that ||kattigan is a changeling||

[slow harness]

C4 E8 ||Sam what the hell are these photos||

[slow harness]

||shoot I forgot about Dr Finger||

[thorn python]

https://www.tumblr.com/lich-slap/802053109994127360/today-my-heart-goes-out-to-astrid-becke-who-did

you've become carrion, sister

Today my heart goes out to Astrid Becke, who DID have two boyfriends who were also boyfriends, but tragically lost one of them to a massive mental breakdown and, worst of all, morals. Stay strong queen

-# #greatest loss of her life and yes I am including all the grooming and torture and forced patricide #the mighty nein #m9a spoilers #the mighty nein spoilers #bluemndrei #astrid becke #eadwulf grieve #caleb widogast

Tumblr · Dec 5, 2025, 1:17 AM

[cold tartan]

C4 e9 <10 min left || Laura legit thinks they’re all gonna die||

|| so what’s that creature ||

|| lol they’re all cooked ||

[thorn python]

https://www.tumblr.com/suraelis/802844242198282240/i-like-that-they-kept-fjord-and-notts

CR and Multifandom Art Blog - Comms Open

I like that they kept Fjord and Nott's relationship the same in the animated series

-# #critical role #the mighty nein #nott the brave #fjord stone

Tumblr · Dec 13, 2025, 6:52 PM

[untold crystal]

C4E8 First half || I am generally unbothered when mechanics get overlooked or forgotten, it happens all the time at every table, but I couldn't not be peeved by the missed automatic crits from Thimble against the paralyzed Casimir. Sneak attack crits are so juicy 😭 - that was, I believe, 21 extra damage she should've dealt that round ||

I said first half, but I haven't finished that yet, I'm about 2h in

[minor lantern]

||Yeah, I caught this as well.||

[turbid juniper]

CR4E9 beginning ||mannnnnnnnnnn i really do just LOVE the theatre bits. they're so good. i love that little world. brennan is 100% going to destroy me with it.||

[red beacon]

C4e8 ||LOVE the reiteration of how they want to make people scared||

||the basis of government in wartime are terror AND virtue||

||very Robespierre core||

[raven bloom]

https://vxtwitter.com/tarrwynns/status/2000778812024582501?s=46

momi | tyranny’s pr manager (@TARRWYNNS)

losing it over jonathan frakes pronouncing the show name wrong and also losing it over the knowledge that brent spiner wants to be a guest star in future seasons

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[solemn raft]

Mighty Nein show ||https://vxtwitter.com/LVMandM9onPrime/status/2000989488638525480?s=20||

The Mighty Nein and The Legend of Vox Machina (@LVMandM9onPrime)

Got some last minute holiday shopping to do?
Well come on down to the Invulnerable Vagrant! #TheMightyNein

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||very excited to see the best shopkeeper next episode||

[halcyon wing]

The clip of that scene is already available as a preview on YouTube

[narrow bramble]

||They are using flanking?!?!||c4

[narrow bramble]

Brendan is actually wrong inspiration can be used on any roll. Not just d20 tests this includes rolling hit dice when you level up.

[thorn python]

M9 e7 ||Theyre still holding out on the Traveler? If we don’t get a big showy reveal next episode, the cartoon only fans are gonna spend the next year or so thinking jester is crazy ||

[halcyon wing]

I’m fine with this. And || she does have magic she gets from somewhere so that’s proof of something. ||

M9 e7 || not expecting the Vess De Rogna witch cackle at the end. ||

Also I realized (at least on my phone) downloading the episode on amazon makes it so there’s no ads?

Doing this from now on 😅

[elfin sigil]

I had like 20min of ads yeah that's a good shout

[cold tartan]

Yup, quality is slightly lower but better than having ads

[swift edge]

I usually watch on my desktop, so I think uBlock has saved me

I don't usually get ads

[minor lantern]

||I mean.... She is crazy.

Also you probably want to tag that's as CR2 AS well.||

[solemn raft]

M9 e7||still wild to me that they got Nathian Fillion to voice in this show||

probably shouldnt have set down to eat and watch this episode

M9e7||i actually like the group splitting up since thats smth you would never get in actual play. Though the Gentleman's job is gonna bring them back together probably||

[solemn raft]

M9e7||the Taveler and Yasha showing up are the only things i really need next episode. Otherwise this is a great adaptation so far||

[raven bloom]

Are they using the 2024 ruleset?

[red beacon]

Yes

But they keep forgetting

I think Laura and Matt are the only one who used weapons masteries so far and Laura used them wrong

[elfin sigil]

Yeah feels more like a "yesn't" than a full throated "yes" to that question

Aabria is the most focused on it I think and that's because she's madge about Druid shapeshifting getting changed

[narrow bramble]

They are

[narrow bramble]

Ashley used it correctly

||Wait Laura’s playing swashbuckler? That’s certainly an intresting choice considering it doesn’t do much in 2024 || c4 all

[red beacon]

brennan reminded her during the ||palazzo davinos fight|| right

[red beacon]

||she's made decent use of fancy footwork||

[narrow bramble]

||Also Robby used vex at some point || c4

[narrow bramble]

||That’s pretty much the only feature you end up getting as the other feature is superfluous. All the available rogue weapons give vex which mean you should be attacking with advantage. Also any rogue can do that with their bonus action ||

C4

[red beacon]

hmmm yeah

[narrow bramble]

Technically it could matter is you use a sunblade

But there’s a reason it was in the 2024 phb until the last test before it got replaced

[red beacon]

i think laura's fairy build is OP enough on its own though

panache and the bonus to initiative are also good

[halcyon wing]

Being able to sneak attack and then fly out of range without an AOO is pretty great build wise

[red beacon]

C4e8 ||Laura trying to blind people is also such a Laura move||

[narrow bramble]

She got a while before panache and if you call to fans is something every rogue can do in getting out without aops then it’s really just the initiative

[halcyon wing]

M9 ep 7 and C3 || I was just advised by Tumblr that Braius Doomseed made an appearance in the episode and I can’t believe I didn’t clock him. ||

[elfin sigil]

||When I realized what the scene was I looked for a big man with horns and lo and behold there he was. Its the guy Jester sends her duplicate crashing down onto||

||I was actually super curious if Braius was too new for his backstory to make it in on their animation timeline||

[elfin sigil]

https://youtu.be/74NkbJlV604

Mechanic: ||He's having them make their level up choices now, but each individual player will have the freedom to "deploy" the level up at a narratively satisfying moment||

[mild creek]

That’s SO COOL

[raven bloom]

||inb4 sam banks all his level up til the final fight||

[swift edge]

M9 e7 ||"But he's the one who killed Bren" i am maddened by this line, caleb is killing me now||

[cold tartan]

C4E9 || shame they’re all gonna die next episode||

Soooooo like level up mechanic || if they choose to level up while knocked do they get the hit points and therefore get back up?||

[elfin sigil]

||To be fair, what they're walking into does make more sense for 4th level PCs than it does for 3rd, though I think it'll still be real rough||

[cold tartan]

|| Yeah I’m not expecting a deus ex machina with the dogs but like… I’m not not expecting that if things get real hairy ||

C4 general || also part of me still thinks that if we get a TPK they’ll end up in afterlife limbo and play from there ||

[summer quarry]

Critical Role C2 nuclear spoilers, mighty nein up to date ||I do love Vess' whole attitude of being on the level of Ikithon if not stronger considering her... Less than stellar performance in the campaign||

[halcyon wing]

Thought of you when he said this

[swift edge]

M9 e7 ||They're hitting all of MY character beatssss. 😭 I like the breaking up the band episode though, I think it was good to see everybody go their own way and get mixed up with who they reconnected with other than their usual partner. I like how intentional the writing team is being with really bonding the group together in different ways. The Volstruker reunion was RIGHT in the heart for me too, though I do wonder what Caleb was trying to accomplish by baiting out Astrid and Eadwulf. Did he actually think he could convince them to turn on Trent and he wanted to be captured? Did he actually think he was going to be able to lure them somewhere and he didn't make it? Or was it meant to be a kind of assisted suicide thing, when Eadwulf almost blasted him, and he wanted them to be the one to do it... 😬 ||

||Also ESSEK. Ugh, yes, there's my lawful evil boy i know and loveeee. I'm so glad they preserved the knowledge of him being the traitor is still a secret, thank goodness, and he did do a nasty thing to cover his own back. I like the way they led into like, the horror of his mother giving herself up after he solved the problem he just needed the beacon back... and the way that clearly hardened him against the Luxon and made him cold and emotionally withdrawn enough to lose the sentiment that was holding him back from taking out Verrat. Like, he already killed his mother, and that was so hard... killing a friend will be easier, of course. Nasty hot boi. Bad! (I love it.)||

[narrow bramble]

critical role c4 level ups ||really not a bg fan of travis taking non general feats with his general feat i get the have decent stats but its very much a trap ||

||Im more in favor of tough on wic tho since he is fairly squishy but Im of the opinion only alert and maybe Musician is worth taking as a general feat instead of actual general feats ||

[turbid juniper]

hmmm what were my own feats so far....

ah, i have observant and skill expert

what makes them general feats

[narrow bramble]

general feats are what you are thinking of feats but now every general feat gives you a +1 to one of your stats as well. origin feats are weaker feats you take at level 1 that don't buff stats but you get a feature that provides a benefit to you as part of your background.

[turbid juniper]

||is this about taking Protection?||

[narrow bramble]

they also started classifying the fightingstyles as feats so you can also take them at level 4 if you wish.

[narrow bramble]

||yeah tho also tough as well|| Critical role C4

[turbid juniper]

ahhh

leveling up soldiers ||i feel Protection is all about saving Wick from those near death experiences||

[narrow bramble]

||also while jump is the objectively correct pick for kattigan i want him to pick detect poison and disease to have people realize the spell is crazy and doesn't merely tell you somethings there but what it is which is not normal in dnd || c4 level ups

[turbid juniper]

leveling up soldiers ||it is enjoyable to watch this kind of thing. it's really fun to do at a table, talking feats and so on, it's great||

[solemn raft]

M9 e7||little fun fact Verrat means betrayal in german and not only did he get betrayed by Essek he was also the first to learn about his betrayal||

[swift edge]

M9 e7 ||Im just so glad they're letting him do some actually evil stuff and show his ruthless side. I'm not surprised because all the character writing has been amazing but I do think a lesser adaptation would water Essek down because he's popular and they don't want people to not like him||

[thorn python]

M9e7 || https://www.tumblr.com/suraelis/803264735292342272/its-okay-no-one-in-the-mighty-nein-is-sane ||

CR and Multifandom Art Blog - Comms Open

It's okay, no one in the Mighty Nein is sane

-# #the mighty nein #critical role #jester lavorre #nott the brave #criticalrolefanart

Tumblr · Dec 18, 2025, 10:15 AM

[halcyon wing]

M9e7 and c2 spoilers || Looking back I realized this season is Essek’s down arc. So the reason why he is initially shown as more trusting and altruistic in some ways than we knew him is because he hadn’t hit the bottom yet. Now he’s more there and can wallow in villainy for a time. ||

[halcyon wing]

|| basically realizing bad Essek is still to come. This wasn’t bad Essek yet. ||

C2 spoilers and M9 e7|| I know Shadowghast is going to be fantastic in this because they are already setting up the parallels.

Someone on tumblr pointed out how Essek’s mother’s words about change will set up Caleb’s “you were not born with venom in your veins” speech and… yeah I can’t wait. ||

[halcyon wing]

Yeah they are not worried about || Essek being liked. ||

I’ve enjoyed watching reactors who don’t know the campaign be like (m9e7 + c2) || “I don’t like Essek why is he such a fan favorite?” And the fans being like “you aren’t supposed to like him now.”

I really think they are gonna try Zuko this elf. ||

[cold tartan]

M9 e6 + c2 || I have forgotten like 95% of info about yasha lol ||

[elfin sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/who-who-are-you-who-dis-gif-19355689

[cold tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/will-smith-point-interview-yeah-you-gif-12275499708424884330

[swift edge]

M9 all ||I do like that we're getting to see Essek get kind of knocked around and hardened along this journey. Like he started with treason which was already real bad, but they flavored it with a lot of desperation and immediate regrets after seeing what kind of person Trent is. But there's a lot of making him lay in the bed he's made and the perfect storm of losing people that were morally tethering him while also needing to do darker and darker things to keep from getting caught is a very smooth slide into real villainy||

[turbid juniper]

m9 ||i'm enjoying watching people legit hate him, i'm like, oh, nice, didn't think they were going to do that||

[solemn raft]

M9 all ||it really looks like we're gonna get that tumblr post you posted a while ago, with the Nein hot on the trails of the traitor and reporting that all straight to Essek ||

[swift edge]

M9/CR2 ||I mean they HAVE to do some of it, like it's so iconic that Essek is becoming friends with these people against his will who are his worst nightmare logistically. Like, that's the whole thing!!! We gotta have it!||

M9/CR2 ||It will be interesting how some of the context plays out though, like clearly Essek's mom will not be there to give them a house in Rosohna. And the Dynasty now thinks it successfully executed its traitor, so what puts the heat back on a new suspect? Guess we'll see...||

[halcyon wing]

This this this

[solemn raft]

M9||well they still dont have the beacon and next episode the Nein will most likely steal it. Maybe once they deliver it back the Dynasty they'll reveal some additional info?||

[halcyon wing]

M9 c2 || also is Essek going to personally be on the strike team that nabs the beacon that ends up with the M9?||

[solemn raft]

M9e7||"With your permission, I would like to enter the Dwendalian Empire to retake the Beacon by force"-Essek
"I have already put together a team for you. Bring our beacon and the souls of our people home"-Brightqueen
yeah sounds like he is charge directly with that, and if he fails its gonna look really bad since it was a direct order||

[cold tartan]

M9 e7 + c2 all || Chekhov’s Star razor ||

[solemn raft]

||oh maybe failing will put suspicion back on the table, like a "how did you fail? someone must've told the Empire about our plan"||

[halcyon wing]

M9e7 / c2 general || I’m also wondering if they will play up some Trent parallels. Like the “Shadowhand” position does seem to have some overlap with “Civil Influence” - is Essek going to take a kind of ‘I have to be worse than him to beat him’ approach? ||

[halcyon wing]

M9e7 || I just realized next episode we might get to see Essek in action 👀||

[swift edge]

M9 speculation ||I feel like we're going to get the M9 getting the beacon, maybe with Essek's strike team's help, and then they go with Essek and the others to deliver it to the Bright Queen? Like that's very early comparatively vs the show, but I feel like they could lead right into it||

[summer quarry]

M9 speculation WITH campaign spoilers ||I do feel Caleb HAS to be on the receiving end of some dunamancy next episode. Feeds into his whole "learning graviturgy" arc AND it works very well with him being openly confrontational with the Volstruckers at this point. He needs the edge and all. Also I hope we get to see Chronurgy more now that Matt doesn't need to balance it into mediocrity a bit||

[halcyon wing]

M9 spec || and Yasha in the mix as well I expect. ||

M9 spec (and c2 info) || I think they might take more time before the party starts working with Essek. I could see them grabbing the beacon and fleeing like in the campaign, and not necessarily proceeding to the BQ - but they do have more set up with the beacon and what it is, with more motive to return it early on potentially, whereas in the campaign they didn’t really know what it was and were just keeping it as a useful loot. They didn’t even actually intend to return it until they needed it as a get out of jail free card. ||

[narrow bramble]

M9 e7 ||im not thrilled with the set up of the episode ||

[cold tartan]

In what way?
-# yes I’ve already forgotten the set up despite watching it like 5 hours ago

[narrow bramble]

I’ll explain more when I’m done

[narrow bramble]

Yeah that was my least favorite episode I think

[minor lantern]

Mn e7 ||🫨 That's a way to start the episode.||

||Brwen ||

||Oh no the groups splitting apart 😭 ||

||She's got her jedi lightsaber now ||

||The queen has thypos? ||

Mn e7 ||Astrid and... Wulfrid(?) make no sense, they hunt Brwen down just to let him go? ||

[cold tartan]

Ooooooo is that what that meant

[minor lantern]

||It's that or she's in an anime and feels a bit randy that Essek killed his mom.||

[elfin sigil]

I dislike this kind of episode

||"Lets artificially break the group up and then have them artificially come back together in 45 minutes But For Real This Time" zzzzzzzzzzzzzz||

[narrow bramble]

||So to break down why i dislike it. #1 its a blatant attempt to split the group to save the animators from having to animate all the characters at once. #2 in particular it feels like an uncessary injection of pessimisum into jesters early character arc when she doesn't need it. Jester is one of the most important pieces to the texture of the M9. She's the only one who has a sense of certainty and open kindness. Shes direct where the others are cagey. This creates a lot of contrast and instead of establishing jester by having her bounce off of the rest as she did in teh early part of c2 they give her this am i going insane arc which is really contrary to her whole shtick. It just feels wrong to me. They have pushed so much of beau and celeb forward so the following section lacks the sense of reveal that it reallyy should have and alot of iconic moments that are represented in this episode lack the proper sense of reaction that would be present if the cast where there. Take pumat cleaning caleb. Thats much funnier when the cast is their to rib off of it. ||M9 e7

But Kon is also correct it feels very unecessary

if it wasn't 80 hours id bing the begining of c2 again

[summer quarry]

Can't say I agree with this entirely here though I entirely get you. (Campaign spoilers) ||While I do mourn a lot of the general non-plot RP like ribbing on clean caleb, it was always going to be shaved in an adaptation, that's why the show won't be a trillion hours long, sadly. As for Jester, I may misremember but I do recall a bit of a crisis of faith for feeling abandoned. The circumstances are different and a lot of it is streamlined, but I recall the TravelerCon thing starting by him mentioning his plans for it to placate Jester who was mad at him||

why did I say entirely twice

[cold tartan]

M9 all || the Caleb beau thing is weird. Like they still have beef but nobody addressed him roasting a person and leaving them? Or am I crazy||

[summer quarry]

M9 all ||I think it was kind of shrugged off in a "nobody was planning on catching her to invite her out for dinner" way||

[narrow bramble]

||but the crisis is not is the traveler real ||C2 all

||Part of what made that work is that is the first real jester related moral conflict for like 100 episodes as well this is like 80 episodes to early ||C2

[minor lantern]

Mn e7 ||It felt wierd when they split up, because Caleb got his thing then they like "Yup we splitting up because we made it here."....but they were already there... Why didn't they just ditch Caleb and tell him to suck it? There is inconsistency here.||

[summer quarry]

||In the moment I read it not as Jester thinking he's not real, but as "everyone will keep thinking I'm crazy" which Jester did have issues early on about how she's perceived because first group she's met outside the Chateau. Also, the argument I meant is less 100 eps and more... 40? 30? Right after the whole Lorenzo thing. And in the moment it was almost improvised as "after effects of an enforced time off" so with hindsight they may want to extend it, especially without Matt's narrating making the blind audience doubt if the Traveler is real, same as the characters do|| C2 all

As I said, I get why you're upset it got adaptation-shuffled but also I totally see why it did

[narrow bramble]

||they def have her ask herself if she was crazy and it was way way after the whole lorenzo thing ||c2 all

[summer quarry]

||The temple prank from the show is in episode 31, after which the Traveler appears and she explains the whole point was him paying attention again and for him to "like her again" because she felt he'd abandoned her after she was kidnapped and he didn't save her. I double checked|| c2 all

[cold tartan]

C4 e10 || gonna be so funny when they level up and I remember nothing from the video yesterday ||

[minor lantern]

It's time!

[elfin sigil]

Only 3:22:05

[minor lantern]

O.o

[cold tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-praise-be-gif-12181406

C4e10 || I know it could mean they die real fast but also I can’t do these 5 hour episodes anymore ||

C4 e10 || …the longer this cold open goes the more nervous I am about them surviving||

[elfin sigil]

0:16:08 ||I think the point is to get all of them out of the city despite all being currently very employed and tied down||

[minor lantern]

C4 c10 ||Marisha is dying. O.o||

[elfin sigil]

Ad ||Not absinthe 2.0 lmao||

||Not making that mistake again||

[minor lantern]

No more episodes?

[elfin sigil]

For the rest of December, sounds like

[minor lantern]

Do we have a mid break or not?

[elfin sigil]

Jan 15 return

[cold tartan]

Oh I missed all of that lol

Yeesh a whole 4 weeks off

C4E10 maybe more than that || oh these are their outfits from the level up video ||

[elfin sigil]

0:32:30 ||Brennan is such an asshole lmao||

[cold tartan]

I love him so much

[mighty yoke]

C4e10||Brennan you sly dog, what a cliffhanger to leave ||

[elfin sigil]

0:55:36 ||Breaking out the table shaker for the first time in several weeks lmao||

||"There's no good way to put this"||

[cold tartan]

|| okay is it giant Indiana jones style boulder ||

[minor lantern]

C4e10 ||o7||

[cold tartan]

|| uh oh||

C4e10 live || YO THEY NEED TO BRING OUT THE FANCY BOX FOR THIS ROLL||

|| also Brennan giving very good advice lol||

|| I really wish I knew the advantage math but anyways time for suspense ||

[elfin sigil]

||Often effects like this can't be attempted on the same target again the same day once they've successfully resisted||

[minor lantern]

||I understand what Brennan is doing now, he's trying to kill all the cast of CR so he has the only popular ttrpg show! ||

[minor lantern]

||Advantage is generally a +5||

[elfin sigil]

1:07:45 ||Laura looks ill lmao||

[minor lantern]

C4e10 ||aren't the guards scared? Shouldn't they be running? ||

[cold tartan]

4 e10 live || what does it say about me that my brain is like “man fireball would solve all these problems”||

[minor lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-fire-hell-flame-screaming-gif-4980329892289384674

[cold tartan]

Fireball my beloved

E 10 live kinda meta || okay so that “I know what a d10 is” makes me think that the level up was filmed before ||

[turbid juniper]

e10 meta ||i had assumed so, given they released it before 10||

[minor lantern]

||I assumed it was.||

||Has Brennan played Pf2e? ||

[mighty yoke]

||I think he even said starting in episode 10 they could level up, so I assumed it was prior to the ep ||

||since they had to have done it before they level so they can do it mid ep ||

[cold tartan]

E10 live || Laura is gonna stab him||

[minor lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/ahoklollmao-toad-panic-toad-rage-panic-rage-gif-5308125717647168980

[cold tartan]

|| well now it’s clear lol||

[minor lantern]

C4e10 ||You know Travis leveling up and casting Bless would be helpful rn. ||

||Travis has left the room. ||

[elfin sigil]

||"Don't die"||

[cold tartan]

|| you know at this point I’m not ruling out that some strange creature is like a reincarnated human ||

[minor lantern]

||How does basilik thing work if they dead? Still stoning?||

[minor lantern]

||Or maybe it's like Octis's dog that was brought back to life?||

[cold tartan]

|| I was thinking the knight dogs but that’s a good idea ||

Also ||brennan is absolutely gonna magically trap a cage in the future that thimble will fly into ||

[minor lantern]

||Women put in an asylum after rpg night.||

[elfin sigil]

||I was under the impression that Occtis' fox was somehow unique||

[cold tartan]

Live || 20 pts?????? What the heck did she get crit ||

[elfin sigil]

||The guy has multiattack, I think he's just outleveling them||

[cold tartan]

|| Laura is sub 5 hit points rn ||

[minor lantern]

||Break? ||

[cold tartan]

Live ||Hmmm tight quarters lots of enemies… if only they were level 5 ||

|| yes I am singing the fireball music in my head ||

[elfin sigil]

1:45:45 ||Gonna give Travis props here for this shield wall thing, I think its making a pretty substantial difference||

[cold tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/gorlomi-gif-4852824

[minor lantern]

C4e10 ||First level 4 ||

[cold tartan]

Live || Sam gonna turn into an edgelord ||

[minor lantern]

CR2 all/cr4 ||Sam stealing from Liam ||

[cold tartan]

|| best defense is KILLING THEM||

||oh she went the long play with her feat||

[minor lantern]

C4e10 ||All this new stuff that I don't know about.||

||HUH ||

[cold tartan]

|| lol well that’s a first for going to break for me ||

[minor lantern]

🍿

Popcorn has been popped

[cold tartan]

Live || 3 failures marked?!!? Bruh that’s some gambling ||

|| oh nooo he still has so many hit points ||

C4 soldiers || do they know oct is zombie or did they leave before that ||

[minor lantern]

||Left before that. They heard rumors that his family is dead.||

[mighty yoke]

||they’ve dodged so many crits this session, I can’t imagine what it’d be like if those got through ||

[cold tartan]

||this is so much damage ||

|| ONE?????? ||

|| trav buddy time to level up ||

Live || healing the dog is a choice ||

[minor lantern]

C4e10 ||Pupper priorities.||

||📃 ||

[mighty yoke]

||ooh, props!||

[minor lantern]

C4e10 ||So like braces of giant strength?||

||Put it on Thimble, 🦾 fairy||

||I want to ||

[cold tartan]

e10 live || kinda glad Brennan is pushing Sam a little. Them fighting low level enemies was gonna be a little slow ||

[minor lantern]

NO MY THING IS LOADING

3:09:44

Okay I am back, turn on the Hotspot.

[cold tartan]

Live || let’s talk about feats||

|| all the players are exhausted and terrified and Brennan out here jumping up and down like a maniac||

I love it so much

[mighty yoke]

||how many times is Brennan going to tell Wick he could be one-shotted?!||

||That boy needs to raise his AC||

[turbid juniper]

WAIT WHAT

live ||it's ranged now!!!||

[minor lantern]

||Spare the dying?||

[cold tartan]

Are y’all ahead (aka can I click those yet)

[turbid juniper]

yeah

[minor lantern]

I just got back and hit live again.

[turbid juniper]

i'm live

[minor lantern]

C4e10 ||Yeah, I think he used ranged a few episodes ago, on a faerie or something?||

[turbid juniper]

fascinating

i must have missed that

[cold tartan]

|| Brennan giddy about letting trav gamble || live

Live || come on Laura!||

[mighty yoke]

||Laura literally bring the only one hitting this entire battle ||

[cold tartan]

|| for real! I wonder what the highest percentage of damage somebody has done pre level 5 on the show before ||

|| what is happening ||

|| they need to hit so I can sleep lol ||

[mighty yoke]

||poor Travis ||

||his rolls have been literally the worst ||

[minor lantern]

C4e10 ||What dark god did Laura sacrifice the rest of the groups luck to be so cool?||

[elfin sigil]

No Cool Down this week looks like

CR4E10 end ||Under the impression that they ran this session and the next as a megaepisode and so they didn't film one||

[minor lantern]

C4e10 ||🙏 ||

[cold tartan]

E10 live || KILL THE KNIGHT||

Live|| thimble stab him||

[turbid juniper]

i went to beacon to finsih more quickly

AND NO COOLDOWN!???????????

aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cold tartan]

|| wait so these death saving throws stay? ||

[mighty yoke]

||This really is great advertising for that die, it hasn’t rolled below a 19||

[cold tartan]

End || soooo that audio at the end was next weeks cool down?||