HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing 1:00 Prop auction 4:20 Critical Role Foundation 5:20 Laura’s merch corner 6:10 Intro cinematic 7:45 Episode Starts 9:55 Recap Ends 16:25 U2 18:55 Sprinkle’s immortality is retroactively justified 21:15 Professor Thaddeus did actually suck though 23:40 The one time that trying to communicate telepathically actually worked 24:20 Veth has always been able to communicate with Yasha 26:05 Don’t make Lucien think about us (also a lot of discoveries have happened) 34:00 Fjord can totally make an ice wall 43:35 Wayz: not the safest, but the shortest 47:25 Delicious lead 49:50 A scientific discovery 56:30 T-dock 57:10 Essik and Caleb exchange theories 1:01:10 Water control is not as powerful as you’d hope 1:02:50 A conversation about stealth, slowly going from whispering to full yelling 1:06:20 It really is surprising that their plans sometimes succeed 1:07:15 They could’ve just walked away 1:10:30 Surprisingly, I could not actually find a Care Bear stat block 1:13:10 Leaky faucet 1:17:35 Aeor isn’t evil enough for planned obsolescence 1:20:20 Turbotaxing their hit points 1:26:50 Various Star Wars references 1:38:25 Solid Snake 1:41:00 Let them fight 1:43:25 By the time you know what it is, it’s too late 1:53:40 Keen alchemical mind (and full invisibility spell) 1:59:05 Planning to the break 2:05:35 Break Starts 2:10:45 Art Montage 2:23:25 Break Ends 2:23:50 A classic plan 2:25:35 Yasha tries to look big 2:27:50 The conversation begins 2:32:30 Lucien would be into fushigi 2:35:25 The Villain Monologue 2:43:25 Map out 2:46:45 I want to try and book it to the portal 2:49:20 Watah boobees! 2:50:40 Both upright and crouched 2:52:50 Hind Side 2:53:20 Wet pops 2:56:35 Skimming my way 2:57:50 Shimmer and quiff 2:59:05 Most livable city 3:00:05 Kicking its shins 3:02:50 Marisha remembers she is Beau 3:04:25 Tiny Veth 3:06:30 Calamb 3:08:20 A gigantic sheep 3:11:15 Thinking about Devexian 3:14:15 Square eyes 3:19:15 Anything for my princess 3:21:40 Tiny Veth is terrifying 3:23:15 Caduceus’s reaction 3:32:10 Clutch move by Veth 3:37:15 Episode Ends The in-game start date for the episode was the 3rd of Syndestar 836. Sam’s flask says “Dear Devaxian, Step on me. Kisses, Veth” using the ASCII codes for the letters. I just found Eldena Doubleca5t’s video “What Your Favorite Critical Role Ship Says About You” and it was… very accurate. I think a lot of y’all would love it. Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
Every time they feather fall I think back to that one time Jester disguised herself with a leaf costume to blend in with her surroundings while falling
And it still makes me crack up, since Jester didn't try to camouflage herself so much as she created a third-grader's leaf Halloween costume. So funny!
19:31 The Sprinkle reveal is perfect, because not only is it a "HOLY SHIT WHAT?!" moment, it also is a "Yep that makes perfect sense, no other explanation would suffice" situation.
I would really like some kind of explanation. The only thing that bother me is that Artagon, even after the appearance of Sprinkle, did not always know about what was happening with Jester. And in critical moments never appeared. Yet still a hillarious turn of event.
@@tryasken - I think the idea is that Sprinkle is a vessel he can inhabit when he wants to check in, but he doesn't live there all the time. He's not a full deity, he can only be a limited number of places at once paying attention to a limited number of things. And of course in the past, he may have acted like he didn't know what had happened with Jester, even if he actually did, to maintain his secret of being able to take over Sprinkle. IIRC, Jester hasn't actually died in any past episodes, so it's not inconsistent that Artagan didn't step in. He doesn't directly help her in combat, that's not how he wants things to be. (That's necessitated as much by game-balance reasons as by narrative; that's something you have to overlook if you can't find a fully satisfying narrative / character explanation.)
@@Peter_Cordes In general, I agree with you, especially with regards to game balance. Even if the Traveler does not want to directly participate in the battle, he clearly does not want Jester to die. Despite the fact that Jester did not die, there were very close cases (a dragon, a battle with a monster on an island, being captured). What I would be most interested in is that if Jester died and Caduses couldn't resurrect her, what would Artie do?
@@tryasken - Yeah, I'd also be really curious to hear Matt's answer to that. But we probably won't for years; future M9 one-shots are still possible (likely even; there's still a darktow plot thread dangling, not to mention the cerberus assembly. And Veth's summer camp, although they might play as campers instead of the M9 for that.) Matt wouldn't want to commit to something as a hypothetical, and wouldn't want Laura to know. I think if the situation did come up in a real game, his decision might depend on the detailed circumstances. I'd love to see a successful Divine Intervention that let the Traveller fully join her in person for some time (since he's not limited by the Divine Gate) to put his full power into something like a battle or saving a town from a disaster. But for Matt to have him fully show up and help instead of just doing one brief effect, it would have to be narratively justified and some pretty dire situation that wouldn't be trivialized by an Archfey's full attention and direct intervention.
Well she also often forgot Trinket existed until combat was initiated, like "Oh how did Trinket climb that wall/get down that cliff/whatever, until she got the pokeball
It makes me wonder if the truth of the matter is either a) Lucien cares nothing about fixing anyone, but literally has such a honking ego that he thinks he can control the city and be all powerful somehow or b) the Somnovem’s mental work on him has lulled him into a fairytale where he’s the hero but actually he just a snacc for Cognouza
Well, I would be somewhat tempted to change sides after hearing him if I was one of the M9. From an outside perspective, either he is too naive or too deceptive, but certainly damn charismatic.
After Fjord, Yasha and Jester were captured by the Iron Shepherds, they were rescued. C2 E30: "Well, why didn't you come?" C2 E31: Jester and Nott trash the Temple of the Platinum Dragon to win back the Traveler's favour C2 E32: Enter Sprinkle
@@rk9sbpro83 the fact that it's a scarlet weasel is for me what makes it clearly not a retcon, we know that throughout the different shapes he takes, Artagan likes to keep his red hair.
"Now the city lives, and things that live... need to eat" Did Matt literally turn "life needs things to live" into a plot point with Taliesin's own character?
I love the idea that Sprinkle died and Artagan did the dad move of getting her a new weasel before she noticed. But he's Artagan, so why not just BE the weasel?
That's exactly what I interpreted. Because when they asked Artagan when he became Sprinkle or always was...Matt paused. And no one did an insight check. I think he did do it for Jesters sake and made it seem like he always was so Sprinkle never died in her mind.
@@xBlacksStarxI think multiple people at the table got it too based on the way they shared looks, but no one wanted to be the one to crush Jester/Laura with the truth
If this campaign ever gets animated, I want a montage after the sprinkle reveal with at least one scene where it just zooms in on him like 👁👄👁 in the middle of the cupcake scene
@@Badusername2000 Spontaneously. Sprinkle was just a weasel until now but making him the traveler just made it easier to explain why he never died. Learn to understand that most of this is just seat of pants
Caleb is the luckiest sob... He could have ended up ANYWHERE and the spell could have done ANYTHING. But he just landed where he wanted and became a floofy sheep
That would have fucked up everything. They’d have to go look for him cuz then he’d be god knows where and is a sheep. Tho it only lasts a minute and he can follow them with his spells but that’s another dice roll. The magic of dnd. I swear.
Oh ells bells, he could have ended up at a completely different Immensus Gate in a different part of Aoer, completely stranded, and with who knows how many arcane engineered bio weapons between him and the rest of the Nein.
I just loved how Liam was sooo happy with becoming a sheep. Like, he probably knew it was somewhere on the wild magic table, and had been somewhat hoping for it since setting foot in aeor :)
Did anyone else notice after Lucien held the Cloven Crystal he kept on saying hunger and potential, two of the most prominent words in Fjords visions of Uko'toa .
If Vokodo was running from Cognouza because it devoured gods... and the Cloven Crystal is the last lock holding U'kotoa in place... is Lucien going to try and feed U'kotoa to Cognouza??
@@allypearlman5569 I have an image in my head of Uk'otoa popping into Lucien's dreams.....only to be confronted by Nine other eyes just looking back like: " _Excuse_ you. Occupied. We saw this one first." And then Molly pipes in with a "Pretty crowded already in here, yeah?"
@@belindaluna2067 "Occupied! ...occupied. ...occupied. ...OCCUPIED... occupied... CROWDED... occupied... NO ROOM... occupied... leave... occupied... OUT... full... not welcome... LEAVE!!!" With a flash of red light from a web of nine eyes, Uk'otoa is ejected from the Nonagon's mind.
I love the idea that when Jester uses scry, instead of the Traveler's humanoid hands resting on her temples and lifting her vision upward it's actually just been Sprinkles lil paws!!
In case this hasn't been said yet, Sam's code is written in decimal. Dear Davexian, 115 116 101 112 032 111 110 032 109 101, Veth Translated: Dear Davexian, step on me, Veth
@@thesaltybeard1793 it's written in Decimal. Each letter or special character is assigned a numerical number. 115 = s 116 = t 101 = e 112 = p 032 = (space) Etc. I hope that helps :)
@@thesaltybeard1793 Well if I understand you right, the pattern reads as follows: Dear Davexian, S T E P ( ) O N ( ) M E , Veth * The ( ) indicates the Space I hope I understood you correctly and helped out 😀
@@utes5532 True. But as much as I desperately wanted WidoJest, I think Fjord's a better fit. Besides - now Caleb and Essek can force each other to deal with their guilt in healthier ways.
Essek and Caleb: finding the secret to time travel, and both obviously considering its use. Jester: I concur (please don't fucking break time you guys)
@@apharys8921 I believe that was the false memory that Icky-thong planted in Caleb's head to prompt him to kill his parents. That he had heard them whispering about some sort of rebellion plans. It was quite a while back, so I don't remember which episode, but that was part of what he revealed to Beau and Nott (yes, Nott, not Veth; it was before we found out Nott was Veth) way back when he told them the truth about his past.
@@apharys8921 more like going back and realizing that he cant change his parents blind patriotism for the empire, and as somebody with a drow bf and more ties to the bright queenz he would probably realize the past built him and he cannot go back.
i wonder what would have happened if caleb went "hey, what if, instead of following these fuckers, we take a while to maybe decode this time travel spell, and nip this in the bud, by saving molly?"
So theory, with caleb and esseks new dunamancy discovery, I started thinking about how caleb could actually go back on the past to save his parents without changing the events that would ultimately lead him to meet up with the m9 and consequently be able to time travel in the first place. So, what if caleb time travels into the past at the exact moment his past self, Astrid and Wulf are burning his parents house and present Caleb teleports into the burning building then teleports his parents out without anyone knowing. He could then make some cover story to his parents not telling them who he is but telling them to go into hiding (maybe even giving them some amulets) and give them instructions to open/read on specific date 10 years later that would put it some time after caleb time travelled. That should make everything happen the same, Caleb still goes crazy, still hates and escapes trent, he meets the m9, etc. But sometime in the future he would be able to meet his parents and explain to them what he did. It would mean Caleb would still have to suffer for those 10 plus years but it should be worth it in the end. I know it sounds crazy but it would be awesome to see a time travelling one shot with caleb and maybe essek depending how the main campaign ends.
I've seen this theory before and I think it's the most viable of the bunch. If they did figure out time travel, Caleb could do what you say and hide his parents away in like Tal'Dorei or something with amulets. I'm hoping if they do explore time travel, this will be the route they try to take and the timeline is only minutely altered, if at all.
This is an excellent idea, and super clever. But tbh - Matt's description of an "echo" staying in the present made me think: first of all, this technology is really dicey right now and needs a shit ton of research to make it viable; second of all, when the time travel happens, it creates a new timeline, with Caleb Widogast existing in both timelines. Essentially, I think our Caleb will become an "echo," a duplicate, that the M9 can still interact with in the present. But there will be another timeline where adult Caleb saves mom & dad from Bren, and the 4 of them (Caleb, mom, dad, & Bren) exist at the same time. Maybe our Caleb's consciousness will be with the past-Caleb, and not the echo-Caleb. This would mean that the M9 will never get to meet Caleb's parents, but adult-Caleb *does* get to see his parents again in the alternate timeline. And echo-Caleb, if the spell glitches out as Matt described in the lab notes, may fade away or disappear. Basically, I kinda think whatever Caleb does to the past won't affect the present.
@@bronzeowl9 that's a very interesting and somewhat sad point. Alternate timelines can get really outta hand so if this happens they need to be super careful. Also you're right it would take a while to perfect the archaic technology which is why I thought it'd be a great one-shot idea as it could take place several years after campaign 2's timeline is done possibly with Essek and Caleb working together depending on what happens between them
There’s a fan made song called “Mollymauk’s Reprise” (I think) and it’s basically just Molly’s perspective while Lucien is fighting the Nein and it’s beautiful, would definitely recommend listening to it
What's sexier than finding a perfect marriage between your specialised school of magic and your crushes school of magic in an abandoned ruin while all your adventuring friends help figure out the secret of time magic being on an incredible time crunch of world ending proportions? N O T H I N G
I just want to know when Caleb started liking dudes because there's been none of that for 130 episodes and in fact his arc was obviously leading him to reform Astrid to prove to himself that the inflictions of Trent can be recovered from.
@@bernhardschneider9443 when did Liam say that? I don't doubt Caleb became bi at some point during the campaign. I am suggesting the reasoning behind it is dubious.
Being an actor doesn't necessarily mean you MUST like theater. It's just very uncommon. Like a RP player who doesn't like combat in their games. Besides, think of Artagan's exposure to theater. The only theater available to him for centuries would charm the viewer into becoming part of the troupe and eventually devour their soul. I wouldn't like organized theater if that was the only thing I was around...
Sam might feels she still sees herself as a monster, not physically anymore, so a sex monster is a good twist. I'm sure she would cheat on hubby just to prove how horrible she is.
I just want to point out one thing: Caleb bombarding Lucien with Molly-related sentences. Lucien's reactions made me jump all over my house, and I know I wasn't the only one C:
Honestly, I saw it coming a mile away. If they hadn't done that, then the fans would've been saying "I wish we could've got molly back..." Until the end of time. I don't get it. Frankly, I never liked molly. I was honestly kinda glad he died.
Does that even count as part of the episode? It was before the intro and part of the sponsor block. Then again it is in the video. So it's hard to tell if it should count.
When i saw that thumbnail, i have immediately imagined Yasha and Cuduceus standing in places of Ashley and Taliesin being like: Yasha: You know, you don't have to stand here, you can go inside. Caduceus: Nah, its nice here.
I don’t know if Jester downgraded Artagan after the whole Travelercon incident, but the guy just took the top spot in Jester’s heart again if he wasn’t there already.
I cried a little on the inside knowing he's just been there the whole time. Knowing how much he's learned and grown since travelercon is insane. And I LOVE MY MAN ARTAGAN, in every shape and form. But seeing him in campaign 1 and yhen here now is just *chefs kiss*
@@OnitaFreeze Sprinkle would have died in the boiling water against Avocado before traveller con, and sprinkle was completely forgotten about during that, so my head canon is that after his embarrassment from the Moonweaver he took sprinkles place to save Jester some heartache.
Also, thinking about it, they are so lucky Cree survived the initial ambush. It’s probably the only thing preventing Lucien from just spamming Intuit charges
Nobody talking about Lucien's Molly-moment while I'm just having a silent freak out lol. Basically what I'm gathering is the only reason the Mighty Nein aren't uber dead pronto is that small part of Lucien that's Molly. When that piece came back, so did everything, including the feels, with it. And that makes me VERy EMotIoNaL 🤡.
Yup, he said there's something that is telling him not to kill them. He could have killed them so easily since they were surrounded by possibly 7 intuit charges, which he is completely immune to.
@@ricosrealm I believe intuit charges require concentration to be on trigger mode. It's possible Lucien has like nine concentration slots, but otherwise it could have only been the two, and hoever many extra would have had to be on proximity.
@@Poldovico good point, lucien is able to control or send telepathic messages to the minds of multiple tomb takers (4) simultaneously so he could probably perform such a feat since he had at least two ready to go.
imagine if vilya never got spat out onto rumblecusp, and instead when lucien dramatically unleashes the water elemental, an elven woman sans one leg comes tumbling out
A collection of puns because I thought they were worth writing down: - sheep-shifting - he got baa-nished - in space, no one can hear you bleat - don’t be sheepish - shear terror - hoofing it - veal bad - go on a lamb - 🎶trouble, trouble, trouble🎶
I kept signing Mollys song by Lilli furfaro... "Come see the circus man you'll want to take a look, come see the circus man he's got you on his hook, he's got baubles he's got trinkets he's got cards hid up his sleeve, once u step into his circus dear you'll never want to leave"
I'm pretty sure the Molly in Lucien is the only reason the M9 weren't all horribly murdered in the first place that morning the Takers caught up with them...
Matt's pure knowledge of his world and ability to project the environment, twists and turns never ceases to amaze me... And he has fucking amazing hair.
Omg, I had been wondering ever since Luke died in the fire plane why Matt had been so generous in not letting sprinkle die since jester had been hit by so many attacks that would have killed sprinkle but he never canonically let him die. Now it all makes sense and is just hilarious how incredibly detailed and intricate Matt makes each world and campaign he puts together.
@@AmyTheArtist9 this is the same group that grew a massive tree out the top of a house and strung magic christmas lights out of it. Which leads me to wonder what their housekeeper has been up to and how much they owe her in back salary.
@@sweetpeabee4983 smart thing would live there rent free and clean as you go and get another job to feed yourself. Double dip. Or rent out the house as a bnb.
Marisha is underrated as a technical player. She knows her class perks really well, uses them most of time appropriately (ignoring the acidssination of the cowardly sleeping rent-a-guard) but mostly I noticed when she rolls, she knows what to add, what buffs are applied to her from other players and when to roll appropriate for beau (not jumping into everybody's checks every time) guess that's the benefit of being married to the Mercer with a mouth (for voice acting) Also whilst I'm dishing out the compliments, something else I've always wanted to say about these nerds is considering Travis for (I think the last one to join DnD) I have to say his reference game is off the nerd scale. he never misses them, never doesn't get one and always adds something to it. he's such a god dam nerd. it would be easier to think of the guy who loves football more than anything to be a jock but this guy is such a nerd. He's a full dork half orc.
20:35 I LOVE how Laura realizes its Travis asking Laura and not Fjord asking Jester 23:52 and then how piased Travis is about how dope this next reveal is about to be 😂🤣😂🤣
It's taken almost two years 251 episodes, not including one shots Close to 1,000 hours of content But as of today, I no longer wear the uniform of the catch-up crew
YO, I just remembered/realized something! Lucien wants to become powerful, and important, and he's called himself a savior. And Mollymauk once convinced an entire town he was a god! 🤣 I miss the less-of-a-bastard purple bastard. 🥺
The saddest piece of art is definitely at 2:14:57 because it's Kree being sad about her lost companions and it humanizes the TTs again even with their evil quest to bring back the city
I feel like when Matt said that Kree curled up into a cat ball it really humanised her for me she also just seems to not understand lucien’s goals so It will be hard seeing her ...expire
Somebody did a great compilation video a little while back. I can't remember who but look up Caleb animal therapy. He's basically only happy when in animal form with his intelligence lowered.
@@johnathanbrandt2526 I think its partly because his Int is down and he doesnt burdened by the wieght of all his knowledge and memories partly because he get to exercise his most beloved interest transmutation magic and partly because its shear fun (pun intended)
Matt: And now for the apex of cosmic horror, a maddening ancient megopolis of fused consciousness and tortured souls born of unspeakable hubris- The dice: LOL GUYS ITS TIME FOR TINY VETH AND CALAMB’S WAAAACKY ADVENTURES IN SPAAAAACE~
It’s so good to have confirmation that Molly is in there, keeping Lucien from killing his friends 💜 But also sad because Molly seems like he’s still in MT mode. Hope Beau and Caleb keep reaching out to him!
Spoiler: Discovering Sprinkle’s Artie makes everything he’s been through hilarious. Like “NO, JESTER, I WILL NOT LIVE IN THE HOUSE YOU MADE ME.” “MRS BARBARIAN LADY, I AM PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF BATHING MYSELF!” “So far I’ve nearly drown, froze to death and burnt to a crisp. Thank the me Jester has no real pets”
DM: Your wizard turns into a sheep and walks into space. What do you do? Party: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Wizard: BAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Party: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Wizard: BAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Party: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Wizard: BAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing
1:00 Prop auction
4:20 Critical Role Foundation
5:20 Laura’s merch corner
6:10 Intro cinematic
7:45 Episode Starts
9:55 Recap Ends
16:25 U2
18:55 Sprinkle’s immortality is retroactively justified
21:15 Professor Thaddeus did actually suck though
23:40 The one time that trying to communicate telepathically actually worked
24:20 Veth has always been able to communicate with Yasha
26:05 Don’t make Lucien think about us (also a lot of discoveries have happened)
34:00 Fjord can totally make an ice wall
43:35 Wayz: not the safest, but the shortest
47:25 Delicious lead
49:50 A scientific discovery
56:30 T-dock
57:10 Essik and Caleb exchange theories
1:01:10 Water control is not as powerful as you’d hope
1:02:50 A conversation about stealth, slowly going from whispering to full yelling
1:06:20 It really is surprising that their plans sometimes succeed
1:07:15 They could’ve just walked away
1:10:30 Surprisingly, I could not actually find a Care Bear stat block
1:13:10 Leaky faucet
1:17:35 Aeor isn’t evil enough for planned obsolescence
1:20:20 Turbotaxing their hit points
1:26:50 Various Star Wars references
1:38:25 Solid Snake
1:41:00 Let them fight
1:43:25 By the time you know what it is, it’s too late
1:53:40 Keen alchemical mind (and full invisibility spell)
1:59:05 Planning to the break
2:05:35 Break Starts
2:10:45 Art Montage
2:23:25 Break Ends
2:23:50 A classic plan
2:25:35 Yasha tries to look big
2:27:50 The conversation begins
2:32:30 Lucien would be into fushigi
2:35:25 The Villain Monologue
2:43:25 Map out
2:46:45 I want to try and book it to the portal
2:49:20 Watah boobees!
2:50:40 Both upright and crouched
2:52:50 Hind Side
2:53:20 Wet pops
2:56:35 Skimming my way
2:57:50 Shimmer and quiff
2:59:05 Most livable city
3:00:05 Kicking its shins
3:02:50 Marisha remembers she is Beau
3:04:25 Tiny Veth
3:06:30 Calamb
3:08:20 A gigantic sheep
3:11:15 Thinking about Devexian
3:14:15 Square eyes
3:19:15 Anything for my princess
3:21:40 Tiny Veth is terrifying
3:23:15 Caduceus’s reaction
3:32:10 Clutch move by Veth
3:37:15 Episode Ends
The in-game start date for the episode was the 3rd of Syndestar 836. Sam’s flask says “Dear Devaxian, Step on me. Kisses, Veth” using the ASCII codes for the letters.
I just found Eldena Doubleca5t’s video “What Your Favorite Critical Role Ship Says About You” and it was… very accurate. I think a lot of y’all would love it.
Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
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Yasha: DIDN'T I BATHE YOU THAT ONE TIME!?
Artagan: 𝓨𝓮𝓼
"Didn't you scratch me?!"
Evil voice: Yes~
If that font could talk it would sound like Artagan
YES!! Artagan absolutely speaks in cursive!!!
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Every time they feather fall I think back to that one time Jester disguised herself with a leaf costume to blend in with her surroundings while falling
Fuck I forgot about that lol
And it still makes me crack up, since Jester didn't try to camouflage herself so much as she created a third-grader's leaf Halloween costume. So funny!
To hide from a roc of all things. Falling out of a tree hundreds of feet tall.
19:31 The Sprinkle reveal is perfect, because not only is it a "HOLY SHIT WHAT?!" moment, it also is a "Yep that makes perfect sense, no other explanation would suffice" situation.
I would really like some kind of explanation. The only thing that bother me is that Artagon, even after the appearance of Sprinkle, did not always know about what was happening with Jester. And in critical moments never appeared. Yet still a hillarious turn of event.
@@tryasken - I think the idea is that Sprinkle is a vessel he can inhabit when he wants to check in, but he doesn't live there all the time. He's not a full deity, he can only be a limited number of places at once paying attention to a limited number of things.
And of course in the past, he may have acted like he didn't know what had happened with Jester, even if he actually did, to maintain his secret of being able to take over Sprinkle. IIRC, Jester hasn't actually died in any past episodes, so it's not inconsistent that Artagan didn't step in. He doesn't directly help her in combat, that's not how he wants things to be. (That's necessitated as much by game-balance reasons as by narrative; that's something you have to overlook if you can't find a fully satisfying narrative / character explanation.)
@@Peter_Cordes In general, I agree with you, especially with regards to game balance. Even if the Traveler does not want to directly participate in the battle, he clearly does not want Jester to die. Despite the fact that Jester did not die, there were very close cases (a dragon, a battle with a monster on an island, being captured). What I would be most interested in is that if Jester died and Caduses couldn't resurrect her, what would Artie do?
@@tryasken - Yeah, I'd also be really curious to hear Matt's answer to that.
But we probably won't for years; future M9 one-shots are still possible (likely even; there's still a darktow plot thread dangling, not to mention the cerberus assembly. And Veth's summer camp, although they might play as campers instead of the M9 for that.)
Matt wouldn't want to commit to something as a hypothetical, and wouldn't want Laura to know. I think if the situation did come up in a real game, his decision might depend on the detailed circumstances.
I'd love to see a successful Divine Intervention that let the Traveller fully join her in person for some time (since he's not limited by the Divine Gate) to put his full power into something like a battle or saving a town from a disaster. But for Matt to have him fully show up and help instead of just doing one brief effect, it would have to be narratively justified and some pretty dire situation that wouldn't be trivialized by an Archfey's full attention and direct intervention.
I'm so glad this wasn't spoiled for me!
artagan: vehemently anti-theatre
artagan: is an actor both unwillingly and willingly
The Fey are known to be living contradicts.
Artie: Acting is disgraceful...
Artie:
Artie: *Role-playing* on the other hand-
@@TaschDraws *performs an act to get out of being a god*
dislikes theater
is the most theatrical npc across 3 campaigns
I still can't get over the fact that Laura went from doting on her pet bear to aggressively forgetting that Sprinkle exists
Well she also often forgot Trinket existed until combat was initiated, like "Oh how did Trinket climb that wall/get down that cliff/whatever, until she got the pokeball
To be fair. Sprinkle is even more useless than Trinket. Atleast Trinket could attack and rarely helped in battle.
And better yet, she forgets about Sprinkle but at the same time is the 2nd most important "person" in her life 😂😂😂
That's because she didn't have to worry about keeping Sprinkle alive in combat
Well its also not really Laura. Jester is a more scatterbrained child like persona.
Wow Lucien really saw a living, starving, insane city full of thousands of broken tortured souls and said “I can fix him!”
It makes me wonder if the truth of the matter is either a) Lucien cares nothing about fixing anyone, but literally has such a honking ego that he thinks he can control the city and be all powerful somehow or b) the Somnovem’s mental work on him has lulled him into a fairytale where he’s the hero but actually he just a snacc for Cognouza
I wonder if its a bit of both.
@@LetTalesBeTold take Lucien!! Leave Molly... we will call it even!!!
Well, I would be somewhat tempted to change sides after hearing him if I was one of the M9.
From an outside perspective, either he is too naive or too deceptive, but certainly damn charismatic.
@@nicholasgoriesky7351 I mean, I think it’s a perfectly fair trade, not sure what the holdup is lol xD
After Fjord, Yasha and Jester were captured by the Iron Shepherds, they were rescued.
C2 E30: "Well, why didn't you come?"
C2 E31: Jester and Nott trash the Temple of the Platinum Dragon to win back the Traveler's favour
C2 E32: Enter Sprinkle
No! That’s genius!
🤯
Have you heard of a thing called the retcon
@@rk9sbpro83 I think it's pretty obvious it's a retcon, that doesn't make the timing any less fun. Snarky McSnark
@@rk9sbpro83 the fact that it's a scarlet weasel is for me what makes it clearly not a retcon, we know that throughout the different shapes he takes, Artagan likes to keep his red hair.
"Now the city lives, and things that live... need to eat"
Did Matt literally turn "life needs things to live" into a plot point with Taliesin's own character?
Yes, and it's hilarious 😂
Absolutely stellar DMing and trolling of your friends. A joke years in the making paying off.
I feel like this happens often. There are many times one of the cast makes an off hand comment and Matt utilizes it later.
Matt loves himself a good call back.
Yes, yes he did😂
I love the idea that Sprinkle died and Artagan did the dad move of getting her a new weasel before she noticed. But he's Artagan, so why not just BE the weasel?
Considering the amount of abuse that weasel goes through at the hands of the M9's enemies, who would want that?
@@wouldiwasshookspeared4087 huhhhhhhhhhhhhuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyhhhyhyhhhyhhhyhhyhhhhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyhyyyyyhyyyyyyyyy😢h BFF
That's exactly what I interpreted. Because when they asked Artagan when he became Sprinkle or always was...Matt paused. And no one did an insight check. I think he did do it for Jesters sake and made it seem like he always was so Sprinkle never died in her mind.
@@xBlacksStarxI think multiple people at the table got it too based on the way they shared looks, but no one wanted to be the one to crush Jester/Laura with the truth
No, he said in a talks episode that he was always the weasel
Caleb to Jester's mind: It's complicated
Jester: *winks at Essek*
Essek: *confused*
Matt's face: adorable (58:37)
Imagine “sprinkle’s” face when he was on jester’s shoulders through the scene with the hag oh my god
Hey, there's a reason that was the occasion for Artagan to trust her completely.
He witnessed the ultimate act of a mortal trickster and knew she was the one
If this campaign ever gets animated, I want a montage after the sprinkle reveal with at least one scene where it just zooms in on him like 👁👄👁 in the middle of the cupcake scene
Well, she did say that the Traveler was probably right there watching over her...
If anything this solidified his trust and faith in her
All those times Arty randomly whispered to Jester make so much sense
When he whispers and puts his hands over her eyes to do scrying I'm now imagining Sprinkles paws in the hands place.
@@jpe6312 either, *sprinkle behind her with a paw over each eye* or *Sprinkle's paw turns into a giant fey man hand*
Glad to see Matt just spontaneously decided to make Sprinkle the Traveller ^^ It's a neat little twist :)
@@janelantestaverde2018 spontaneously? nope, he confirmed in the wrap up that he was the traveler from the get go
@@Badusername2000 Spontaneously. Sprinkle was just a weasel until now but making him the traveler just made it easier to explain why he never died. Learn to understand that most of this is just seat of pants
Yasha: Didn't I bathe you one time!? 🤯
Arty: Yes 😌
Yasha: You scratched me! 😡
Arty: Yes 😎
Arty is the greatest troll of all time.
Travis getting hyped whenever Yasha rages is perfectly paralleled by Liam aweing at Veth's stealth rolls.
I'd upvote your comment, but it sits at perfect 666 votes.
@@psychodrummer1567try again
Every person has a OTC, a one-true-class, that they will forever live for and dote upon even when someone else is playing it instead of them. 😂
Caleb is the luckiest sob... He could have ended up ANYWHERE and the spell could have done ANYTHING. But he just landed where he wanted and became a floofy sheep
That would have fucked up everything. They’d have to go look for him cuz then he’d be god knows where and is a sheep. Tho it only lasts a minute and he can follow them with his spells but that’s another dice roll.
The magic of dnd. I swear.
Oh ells bells, he could have ended up at a completely different Immensus Gate in a different part of Aoer, completely stranded, and with who knows how many arcane engineered bio weapons between him and the rest of the Nein.
I just loved how Liam was sooo happy with becoming a sheep. Like, he probably knew it was somewhere on the wild magic table, and had been somewhat hoping for it since setting foot in aeor :)
I want to become floofy sheep!
can one of you explain why he didn't take others with him? I thought 7th level teleport specified you could pick a few ppl nearby to come with you.
I did not expect to hear Matt speak in cursive but the way Arty said yes...
Yasha: Didn't I bathe you that one time
Sprinkle: yes
Yasha: You scratched me though
Sprinkle: YES
That pleased pervy look Matt gave Ashley at the mention of the bath was everything I didn't know I needed, it was hilarious 😂
OH MY GOD! (Also, thanks for the spoiler-light version x))
The best
And not just a "YES" but also the happy smile
omg that scene i love it so much his look xD 21:51
“Sprinkle? Sprinkle’s been dead for centuries.”. I died when I heard this 😂.
So did sprinkle
@@Alovatololo actually sprinkle didn’t hear it.. he’s been dead
Same!! 😆
Schroeder's Sprinkle, both dead and not dead at the same time
Did anyone else notice after Lucien held the Cloven Crystal he kept on saying hunger and potential, two of the most prominent words in Fjords visions of Uko'toa .
If Vokodo was running from Cognouza because it devoured gods... and the Cloven Crystal is the last lock holding U'kotoa in place... is Lucien going to try and feed U'kotoa to Cognouza??
@@Zombiewithabowtie That sounds cool.
I love the idea that after holding onto the crystal, Lucian now has a second set of Eldritch, eye based dreams he has to deal with.
@@allypearlman5569 I have an image in my head of Uk'otoa popping into Lucien's dreams.....only to be confronted by Nine other eyes just looking back like: " _Excuse_ you. Occupied. We saw this one first."
And then Molly pipes in with a "Pretty crowded already in here, yeah?"
@@belindaluna2067 "Occupied! ...occupied. ...occupied. ...OCCUPIED... occupied... CROWDED... occupied... NO ROOM... occupied... leave... occupied... OUT... full... not welcome... LEAVE!!!"
With a flash of red light from a web of nine eyes, Uk'otoa is ejected from the Nonagon's mind.
I love the idea that when Jester uses scry, instead of the Traveler's humanoid hands resting on her temples and lifting her vision upward it's actually just been Sprinkles lil paws!!
In case this hasn't been said yet, Sam's code is written in decimal.
Dear Davexian, 115 116 101 112 032 111 110 032 109 101, Veth
Translated: Dear Davexian, step on me, Veth
i feel heat holy shit. i cant take it 🥵
How does thst work?
@@thesaltybeard1793 it's written in Decimal. Each letter or special character is assigned a numerical number.
115 = s
116 = t
101 = e
112 = p
032 = (space)
Etc.
I hope that helps :)
@@Illusionaire no I got that but I don't get the pattern
@@thesaltybeard1793 Well if I understand you right, the pattern reads as follows:
Dear Davexian,
S T
E P
( ) O
N ( )
M E
, Veth
* The ( ) indicates the Space
I hope I understood you correctly and helped out 😀
The gag that Tal is an immortal being is the kind of rapport I want with my group of friends.
Gag? It’s no gag. It’s simply fact.
It’s no gag, the stars are right and the Great Old One walks among his supplicants.
I've a friend who's much younger, only two or three centuries old, he's sustained by a similiar but weaker energy.
One doesn't want their way into being immortal, Tal just is
...Gag? No, no my dear.
Taliesin upon arriving to the living eldritch horror city that screams and cries: "I can't wait to go shopping."
I mean, it's Taliesin, shopping in an eldritch horror city floating into the deep space is probably what he does every weekend
@@JScorpioN96 I would think it would get boring after the seventh century, but I don't really have a frame of reference.
‘good to be back home :)’
caleb's relationship status just got updated to "it's complicated"
I know, right??
I think he's finally discovering that he's magesexual.
Caleb got cucked by Fjord so Liam is back to romancing a magically-inclined NPC
@@utes5532 True. But as much as I desperately wanted WidoJest, I think Fjord's a better fit. Besides - now Caleb and Essek can force each other to deal with their guilt in healthier ways.
@@Drekromancer yes, you put it into words!! this is why i love this ship!!!
Lucien "for things that live...need to eat"
In my head, the echoing voice of Percy: "life needs things to live"
Essek and Caleb: finding the secret to time travel, and both obviously considering its use.
Jester: I concur (please don't fucking break time you guys)
Watch Caleb go back in time to save his parents and they turn out to be enemies of the Empire. 😶
@@apharys8921 I believe that was the false memory that Icky-thong planted in Caleb's head to prompt him to kill his parents. That he had heard them whispering about some sort of rebellion plans. It was quite a while back, so I don't remember which episode, but that was part of what he revealed to Beau and Nott (yes, Nott, not Veth; it was before we found out Nott was Veth) way back when he told them the truth about his past.
@@apharys8921 Yeah that was a false memory
Maybe they can reverse jester's sudden aging ? 🥺
@@apharys8921 more like going back and realizing that he cant change his parents blind patriotism for the empire, and as somebody with a drow bf and more ties to the bright queenz he would probably realize the past built him and he cannot go back.
Matt: "and things that live... need to eat..."
Taliesin in his head: *please don't say it.*
2:36:55
That was my first thought as well! 😂
say what?
@@LinusTimon In the immortal words of Percival Friedrickstein von Mussel Klossowski de Rolo the Third: "Life needs things to live".
i can't believe NO ONE reacted to that! it was so close to another of taliesin's classic lines lmao
1:20:20 Travis' realization of the intuit is everything, went from "Ah, yes I know what this is" to "oh no I know what this is..."
thank you for capturing this
yup. the perfect "oh, a grenade. OH, A GRENADE!"
@@tomaszskowronski1406 "It's a pipe bomb!" "Yaaaaaay!"
I wonder for how long the room would’ve been silent, had Mercer waited after exploding it...
Jester coming out of the water after Lucian and Cree left :
"ah ! I thought he'd never leave! "
hehe I understood that reference
Perfect C1 callback 😂
Should be top comment🤣
this deserves more likes omg. one of the best C1 moments
Nice.
Veths message to Caleb killed me the phrasing of “don’t come out of the closet!” Right after that conversation with jester was just way too perfect!
SPRINKLE: I am a powerful god and also a shapeshifter
CALEB: I am a sheep shifter and _BAAAAAAAAAA_
It’s BAaAaAaAad we’re running
@@mrboomlazer1570 genius
Next week we find out if it's a free action to bleat.
All these sheep jokes are pushing my muttons.
@@voshadxgathic Oh ewe and your puns! 😄
Matt just ever so subtlety handing the keys of the Delorean to the wizard. Only good things can come from it.
Even more, uh... unsettling, is that it's *Wizards. They're "fucking trouble".
He can unkill his parents
i wonder what would have happened if caleb went "hey, what if, instead of following these fuckers, we take a while to maybe decode this time travel spell, and nip this in the bud, by saving molly?"
And where’s the wizard getting gigawatts?
@@cameronmcewen9666 magic
cognosa: welcome....... welcome.... welcome... welcome......
Caleb: BAAAAAAAAAAAA
cognosa: huh?.... huh?..... huh?...... huh?
Oh. Does that mean Sheepleb has 3 eyes on his body?
@@kuroneko1813 under a thick layer of wool possibly
@@kuroneko1813 Gonna need some solid wool to pull it over those eyes.
I'm getting major Gold Experience Requiem vibes from this comment.
Diavolo: huh?... 👁️👄👁️ huh?... 👁️👄👁️
huh?... 👁️👄👁️ huh?... 👁️👄👁️
"I haven't been a bad host" Lucien says, thinking about how they stole from them, basically let a dragon almost kill the nein, never let them sleep.
Liam's "He is behind me isn't he?" had me dying. Too good.
OMFGGGG
So theory, with caleb and esseks new dunamancy discovery, I started thinking about how caleb could actually go back on the past to save his parents without changing the events that would ultimately lead him to meet up with the m9 and consequently be able to time travel in the first place. So, what if caleb time travels into the past at the exact moment his past self, Astrid and Wulf are burning his parents house and present Caleb teleports into the burning building then teleports his parents out without anyone knowing. He could then make some cover story to his parents not telling them who he is but telling them to go into hiding (maybe even giving them some amulets) and give them instructions to open/read on specific date 10 years later that would put it some time after caleb time travelled. That should make everything happen the same, Caleb still goes crazy, still hates and escapes trent, he meets the m9, etc. But sometime in the future he would be able to meet his parents and explain to them what he did. It would mean Caleb would still have to suffer for those 10 plus years but it should be worth it in the end. I know it sounds crazy but it would be awesome to see a time travelling one shot with caleb and maybe essek depending how the main campaign ends.
I think this would be a good idea for a one shot, with the nien coming together in a different way
I've seen this theory before and I think it's the most viable of the bunch. If they did figure out time travel, Caleb could do what you say and hide his parents away in like Tal'Dorei or something with amulets. I'm hoping if they do explore time travel, this will be the route they try to take and the timeline is only minutely altered, if at all.
why wouldn't he just bring them back to the present
This is an excellent idea, and super clever. But tbh - Matt's description of an "echo" staying in the present made me think: first of all, this technology is really dicey right now and needs a shit ton of research to make it viable; second of all, when the time travel happens, it creates a new timeline, with Caleb Widogast existing in both timelines. Essentially, I think our Caleb will become an "echo," a duplicate, that the M9 can still interact with in the present. But there will be another timeline where adult Caleb saves mom & dad from Bren, and the 4 of them (Caleb, mom, dad, & Bren) exist at the same time.
Maybe our Caleb's consciousness will be with the past-Caleb, and not the echo-Caleb. This would mean that the M9 will never get to meet Caleb's parents, but adult-Caleb *does* get to see his parents again in the alternate timeline. And echo-Caleb, if the spell glitches out as Matt described in the lab notes, may fade away or disappear.
Basically, I kinda think whatever Caleb does to the past won't affect the present.
@@bronzeowl9 that's a very interesting and somewhat sad point. Alternate timelines can get really outta hand so if this happens they need to be super careful. Also you're right it would take a while to perfect the archaic technology which is why I thought it'd be a great one-shot idea as it could take place several years after campaign 2's timeline is done possibly with Essek and Caleb working together depending on what happens between them
Veth Keeping up the communication bit with Yasha is honestly the best.
agreed!
Omg, right?! It’s absolutely adorable!
Man I didn’t expect Molly to still be in there but I gotta feeling that he’s still fighting Lucien and slowly is trying to climb back.
if you can, rewatch this episodes and read The Nine Eyes of Lucien at the same pace *chef's kiss*
There’s a fan made song called “Mollymauk’s Reprise” (I think) and it’s basically just Molly’s perspective while Lucien is fighting the Nein and it’s beautiful, would definitely recommend listening to it
What's sexier than finding a perfect marriage between your specialised school of magic and your crushes school of magic in an abandoned ruin while all your adventuring friends help figure out the secret of time magic being on an incredible time crunch of world ending proportions? N O T H I N G
I just want to know when Caleb started liking dudes because there's been none of that for 130 episodes and in fact his arc was obviously leading him to reform Astrid to prove to himself that the inflictions of Trent can be recovered from.
@@bernhardschneider9443 when did Liam say that? I don't doubt Caleb became bi at some point during the campaign. I am suggesting the reasoning behind it is dubious.
I didn't realize that you needed a reason to be bi.
@@Sluaghlock Do you think Liam is your friend?
@@ArrakisHeir88 he didn't become bi during the campaign ghdfhs. astrid, eodwulf and bren were always a throuple. Its even in his origins comic book.
I almost choked on my food when Lucien twitched at "circus man"
And yet still Artagan claims he's not an actor.
does he claim that he's not an actor? or just that he hates theater?
@@bigbundle3223 both. Being an actor means he's part of the theater. And he hates that. Despite the great help he was at travelercon.
@@darkvizardking69 no, it doesn't mean that.
Being an actor doesn't necessarily mean you MUST like theater. It's just very uncommon. Like a RP player who doesn't like combat in their games.
Besides, think of Artagan's exposure to theater. The only theater available to him for centuries would charm the viewer into becoming part of the troupe and eventually devour their soul. I wouldn't like organized theater if that was the only thing I was around...
@@bigbundle3223
to Artagan it does.
For the kids that don't know what Sams Flask says: it's written in ASCII Code and says "Step on me". Someone should remind Veth she's married xD
This is actually so clever wth
Sam might feels she still sees herself as a monster, not physically anymore, so a sex monster is a good twist. I'm sure she would cheat on hubby just to prove how horrible she is.
i thought it was ASCII
I just want to point out one thing: Caleb bombarding Lucien with Molly-related sentences. Lucien's reactions made me jump all over my house, and I know I wasn't the only one C:
Ahhhhhh, yeah I was at work right now with headphones in and had to resist squealing, jumping, and just overall being a wiggly goose
Honestly, I saw it coming a mile away. If they hadn't done that, then the fans would've been saying "I wish we could've got molly back..." Until the end of time.
I don't get it. Frankly, I never liked molly. I was honestly kinda glad he died.
@@GeneralNickles agreed. I also would not have been upset if Beau died
@@DeputyDildo69 I dig the build and all but the weird surfer/airhead act is just weird.
@@GeneralNickles The fans? Matt and the cast clearly wanted the chance to bring him back.
“I will SUE your ass Riegel.” is literally one of the best lines in this episode. 😂
Does that even count as part of the episode? It was before the intro and part of the sponsor block.
Then again it is in the video.
So it's hard to tell if it should count.
When i saw that thumbnail, i have immediately imagined Yasha and Cuduceus standing in places of Ashley and Taliesin being like:
Yasha: You know, you don't have to stand here, you can go inside.
Caduceus: Nah, its nice here.
I was getting Circus Kid vibes myself.
I don’t know if Jester downgraded Artagan after the whole Travelercon incident, but the guy just took the top spot in Jester’s heart again if he wasn’t there already.
And mine, too
He’s always been first in her heart but this episode definitely just emphasized that ten fold
Arty as Sprinkles is the most delightful reveal yet!! ❤️
I cried a little on the inside knowing he's just been there the whole time. Knowing how much he's learned and grown since travelercon is insane. And I LOVE MY MAN ARTAGAN, in every shape and form. But seeing him in campaign 1 and yhen here now is just *chefs kiss*
@@OnitaFreeze Sprinkle would have died in the boiling water against Avocado before traveller con, and sprinkle was completely forgotten about during that, so my head canon is that after his embarrassment from the Moonweaver he took sprinkles place to save Jester some heartache.
So, turns out, if you watch it live heavily intoxicated and again Monday sober it's like getting 2 shows a week.
life hacks
This is relatable af
Your MIND
Don’t forget at least one high af viewing to round out the trinity.
@@colinbeard3342 bruh that’s me every time I watch I’m high af
"and you bleed from every memory." Oh that's a RAW line
Dude I know, I had pause, stop, and think about that when he said that. Like damn.
No that's a RAM line
It was so devious of Matt to introduce those intuit charges and an enemy immune to them. Damn.
Also, thinking about it, they are so lucky Cree survived the initial ambush. It’s probably the only thing preventing Lucien from just spamming Intuit charges
Nobody talking about Lucien's Molly-moment while I'm just having a silent freak out lol.
Basically what I'm gathering is the only reason the Mighty Nein aren't uber dead pronto is that small part of Lucien that's Molly. When that piece came back, so did everything, including the feels, with it. And that makes me VERy EMotIoNaL 🤡.
Simple Plan's Save you plays in the background during that conversation
Yup, he said there's something that is telling him not to kill them. He could have killed them so easily since they were surrounded by possibly 7 intuit charges, which he is completely immune to.
@@ricosrealm I believe intuit charges require concentration to be on trigger mode. It's possible Lucien has like nine concentration slots, but otherwise it could have only been the two, and hoever many extra would have had to be on proximity.
@@Poldovico good point, lucien is able to control or send telepathic messages to the minds of multiple tomb takers (4) simultaneously so he could probably perform such a feat since he had at least two ready to go.
VEREMINL? or yotoa?
I just picture Sprinkle with Artagan's eyebrows now
Eyebrows the length of his body
If they don't have a very subtle nod to Arty's eyebrows in Sprinkle's design when they do M9 Animated, I am going to be VERY CROSS.
The fact that they have the same hair color should have been a giveaway
I think Sprinkle is just Artagan’s eyebrows
@@Leobelial239 looking back it kinda stands out doesnt it
imagine if vilya never got spat out onto rumblecusp, and instead when lucien dramatically unleashes the water elemental, an elven woman sans one leg comes tumbling out
The confusion on Laura's face when she says "Wait, what?" kills me. I love how well Matt kept it secret. Travis's reaction is priceless as usual.
“In space no one can hear you bleat.” -Travis 😆 dying
A collection of puns because I thought they were worth writing down:
- sheep-shifting
- he got baa-nished
- in space, no one can hear you bleat
- don’t be sheepish
- shear terror
- hoofing it
- veal bad
- go on a lamb
- 🎶trouble, trouble, trouble🎶
Matt: *breaths in, about to start the intro, at literally **0:00*
Me: S E R O T O N I N
I KNOW RIGHT?
I had this same experience. Lol
MOOOOOD
a truer meme has never been typed
100% relate.
Lucien: Come join the show
- THAT is the most Mollymauk thing I've heard Lucien say...so many shivers
See a doctor
I kept signing Mollys song by Lilli furfaro... "Come see the circus man you'll want to take a look, come see the circus man he's got you on his hook, he's got baubles he's got trinkets he's got cards hid up his sleeve, once u step into his circus dear you'll never want to leave"
I'm pretty sure the Molly in Lucien is the only reason the M9 weren't all horribly murdered in the first place that morning the Takers caught up with them...
@@BoojumFed and that twitch he gave at being called "circus man"!!! My heart dropped to my stomach 😳❤️
“Pay the Ferryman at the L.A. River.” I love Taliesin’s dark, quiet jokes.
Oh, that's brilliant. I didn't catch it at all! Thanks for sharing.
I caught it...I chuckled because it means that Taliesin thinks LA is either hell or hell adjacent 🤣
@@iKvetch558 I mean, is he wrong?
I thought that was a Percy Jackson reference tbh lmfao
@@1jame2jamescould be. You never know with Tal.
Marisha: I'm gonna play a character with 20 charisma next game..
Campaign 3: enter scary ring girl character that chasing children
But a Sorlock, so Charisma as the main stat...
@JW11 yep to be fair I wrote the comment after episode one and then realised her charisma was super high 😅
@@charismasavingthrow she’s Fun scary!
@@tiffany02020 *was
@@ZZ-ht6uy *is
The Somnovem's expectation: curious souls seeking power, knowledge, with ambitions and dreams to fulfill
What the Somnovem are gonna get: S H E E P
They actually get S H E E P L E B, Mini-Veth and Mr. Fancy over here
A sudden contagious cloning of the sheep polymorph. With lots of mint jelly.
Well they are obsessed with dreams at least one of em had to be counting sheep right?
Matt's pure knowledge of his world and ability to project the environment, twists and turns never ceases to amaze me...
And he has fucking amazing hair.
Caleb: "It's complicated"
Me: "IT'S COMPLICATED" *repeats for eternity*
SAME.
......timestamp??
@@TheAceUpYourSleeves 58:30
Beau: He's ready to kill us all. Stand down.
Caleb: *Stands up*
Omg, I had been wondering ever since Luke died in the fire plane why Matt had been so generous in not letting sprinkle die since jester had been hit by so many attacks that would have killed sprinkle but he never canonically let him die. Now it all makes sense and is just hilarious how incredibly detailed and intricate Matt makes each world and campaign he puts together.
Matt: 300 dollars.
Marisha: We live together, we can just share.
Matt: ..... 500 dollars.
To be fair, she outbid him first 😂
I really just want to know what Essek's reaction to the talking weasel was. xD
I love the "He's just an asshole owl" from Artagan
I wish Matt RPd Essik more. There's so much of his character left to explore.
"Sold for 10 bucks to the creep who loves me" -Sam, selling a bag of hair to his husband
Do Aeormatons dream of Astral sheep?
Noice
May i ask what this is a reference to, if any? The phrasing seems vaguely familiar
@@nix207 the novel "do androids dream of electric sheep" by Philip K. Dick, which was the basis for Blade Runner.
@@nix207 A book by Philip K Dick, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
This does put a smile on my face
Matt: “Caleb and Caduceus in the cabooseus”
Awesome joke! So why did only travis laugh??!?!????!!
Maybe because it’s been said before iirc. I don’t remember which episode tho.
@@Ethan-nl2wg It was when everyone was in the happy fun ball.
@@amandajohnson3531 iirc nobody laughed that time either :(
I laughed!
So how come Essik didn't react at all to a talking weasel? Well I guess he has seen enough weird shit with M9 that it doesn't bug him.
Honestly! He was probably like "Yeah, that tracks. Of /course/ her weasel talks to her."
@@AmyTheArtist9 this is the same group that grew a massive tree out the top of a house and strung magic christmas lights out of it. Which leads me to wonder what their housekeeper has been up to and how much they owe her in back salary.
And the tree was like one of the first things they did
@@jpe6312 I feel like she's probably just charging people for tours and use of the hot tub at this point.
@@sweetpeabee4983 smart thing would live there rent free and clean as you go and get another job to feed yourself. Double dip. Or rent out the house as a bnb.
Beauyasha biggest shipper is definetily Travis, but the Shadowgast's one is very disputed between Ashley and Laura (and half the cast really)
Marisha is underrated as a technical player. She knows her class perks really well, uses them most of time appropriately (ignoring the acidssination of the cowardly sleeping rent-a-guard) but mostly I noticed when she rolls, she knows what to add, what buffs are applied to her from other players and when to roll appropriate for beau (not jumping into everybody's checks every time) guess that's the benefit of being married to the Mercer with a mouth (for voice acting)
Also whilst I'm dishing out the compliments, something else I've always wanted to say about these nerds is considering Travis for (I think the last one to join DnD) I have to say his reference game is off the nerd scale. he never misses them, never doesn't get one and always adds something to it. he's such a god dam nerd. it would be easier to think of the guy who loves football more than anything to be a jock but this guy is such a nerd. He's a full dork half orc.
Travis is the Avatar, master of all nerd bending
@@RealMiniLink are you watching for the first time or rewatching?
@@DrLazerbeam First time watcher
@@RealMiniLink oh I am so excited for you. Congratulations on making it this far. I was in the catch-up for months.
@@DrLazerbeam Thanks, it took me a while to get past the (relative) monotony of the first few episodes but I'm glad I've stuck with it
20:35 I LOVE how Laura realizes its Travis asking Laura and not Fjord asking Jester
23:52 and then how piased Travis is about how dope this next reveal is about to be 😂🤣😂🤣
It's taken almost two years
251 episodes, not including one shots
Close to 1,000 hours of content
But as of today, I no longer wear the uniform of the catch-up crew
251 episodes.
Over a thousand hours.
I live in the catch up house!
Welcome to the “Is it Monday, yet?” crew
SAME!!
Me tooooooo! It took my every free moment of 7 months. But I am here! ❤️
I was caught up and the fell behind again
"He'll think about us, it's weird." fucking lmao
YO, I just remembered/realized something!
Lucien wants to become powerful, and important, and he's called himself a savior.
And Mollymauk once convinced an entire town he was a god! 🤣
I miss the less-of-a-bastard purple bastard. 🥺
Travis's reaction to Sprinkle-tagan is gold, I could watch just that on a loop
The saddest piece of art is definitely at 2:14:57 because it's Kree being sad about her lost companions and it humanizes the TTs again even with their evil quest to bring back the city
It tieflingizes* them.
I feel like when Matt said that Kree curled up into a cat ball it really humanised her for me
she also just seems to not understand lucien’s goals so It will be hard seeing her ...expire
No one is the villain of their own story
@@jayswizzle57 **Tiefling-Eyes i would think
I feel terrible for Kree after everything she's been through because of Lucien
I love that Caleb has polymorphed into 4 different creatures in the last 5 episodes. Spider, ape, sparrow, and sheep. lol
it’s like he is his own zoo
Somebody did a great compilation video a little while back. I can't remember who but look up Caleb animal therapy. He's basically only happy when in animal form with his intelligence lowered.
@@johnathanbrandt2526 Oh yes, I have watched that, haha. Praise the UA-cam algorithm. Looking forward to more sheep shenanigans in the next episode.
@@johnathanbrandt2526 I think its partly because his Int is down and he doesnt burdened by the wieght of all his knowledge and memories partly because he get to exercise his most beloved interest transmutation magic and partly because its shear fun (pun intended)
Spider.
Ape.
Sparrow.
Sheep.
Long ago, Bren Ermendrud lived in harmony. Then, everything changed when the fire---
“It’s complicated.” Yes, I am sure it’s even more so now that you’re a sheep. It will be shear confusion 👀
Matt: And now for the apex of cosmic horror, a maddening ancient megopolis of fused consciousness and tortured souls born of unspeakable hubris-
The dice: LOL GUYS ITS TIME FOR TINY VETH AND CALAMB’S WAAAACKY ADVENTURES IN SPAAAAACE~
I think its very Ram-mantic
@@xySuperManxy Imagine tiny veth riding sheepleb into battle
Marisha: "I'm playing a 20 charisma character next game"
Marisha next game: warlock
Matt’s change in tone when explaining the view of the city is just grand example of the sincerity of all the work they put into this
Can we get an animatic of arty talking as sprinkle, standing upright and drinking a fancy drink.
Reading this makes me think of Mushu in Mulan
That thumbnail!
Ashley: "I am Death, come for you."
Talesin: "That's cute."
It's like Mr. Sandman going for a stroll with Death
Would you like some tea?
More like,
"Thanks..."
"Don't mention it..."
2:23:50 Veth "So, here is my plan; we are cows"
3:06:30 Caleb "Well.. Close enough"
My man Travis straight up acted out the Joey meme when he recognized the hovering, triangular shape at 1:20:09
It’s so good to have confirmation that Molly is in there, keeping Lucien from killing his friends 💜 But also sad because Molly seems like he’s still in MT mode. Hope Beau and Caleb keep reaching out to him!
Sorry what does MT mean?
@@webhead4414 No worries, I meant Empty like when he first came out of the grave! That’s how he got his name from Gustav, Empty = MT.
You could really call Lucien the shepherd of the Cognouza Ward
I’d love it if they all just started calling him Lucy, just see him try to pretend it doesn’t bother him
@@ellap73 it just hit me both of his name's can be shortened to a feminine form mollymauk to Molly and Lucien to Lucy. It's friggin poetry.
Me, a couple episodes ago: I bet theres time travel.
Me, this episode: ONE POINT TWENTYONE GIGWATTS
Reference to Back to the future (?)
Jigawatts, Gigawatts are real units of power (10^9 Watts).
Jigawatts are the made up value from the movie.
Travis' reaction to recognising the intuit charge and the immediate shift to panic is just *chefs kiss*
Matt: Eyes, face, boobs and all facing off with Beauregard
Ashley: Great she knows how to handle that
I LOVE HER
WHAT. WAS. THIS. EPISODE.
Perfection.
Spoiler:
Discovering Sprinkle’s Artie makes everything he’s been through hilarious.
Like “NO, JESTER, I WILL NOT LIVE IN THE HOUSE YOU MADE ME.”
“MRS BARBARIAN LADY, I AM PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF BATHING MYSELF!”
“So far I’ve nearly drown, froze to death and burnt to a crisp. Thank the me Jester has no real pets”
Im feeling like maybe those are the Cosmic Karma ramifications of the whole "I wish to strangle you until you expire" thing last campaign...
"Thank the me" 🤣🤣🤣
@@isaac8734 yes, very much so
i commend your effort to hide the spoiler in spite of the top comment giving it away immediately
"I WILL SUE YOU RIEGAL" Ashley Johnson 2021.
Actually she said "I WILL SUE YOUR ASS; RIEGEL!" Which is all the more amazing to hear that adorable ray of sunshine cursing. :-)
Not the only time those words have been uttered one would imagine.
Good thing you mentioned the year. Cause it must be confusing since it been uttered so many times over the years...
Timestamp???
@@ju_rodrigues 3:38
Veth: let's set a trap
Fjord: do you have a trap??
Veth: I have a bomb
every one of M9's plans, summarized
DM: Your wizard turns into a sheep and walks into space. What do you do?
Party: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Wizard: BAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Party: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Wizard: BAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Party: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Wizard: BAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Matt looks fierce with longer hair. And with his great DM-ing and story-telling, he has this Godfather-like presence in these intense situations.