Thanks for all the love, everyone 😁 Just wanted to clear up one thing that’s come up in a few comments - Many of you mentioned the scene where Beau reads smut in the tunnel to pass the time. I checked while making the compilation and discovered that it’s actually a different book, not Tusk Love. I think it’s about a sailor? idk. But I do appreciate how many times smut books have been brought up in canon 😂
He probably does, and has likely decide that it should NEVER HAPPEN for that very reason. Because it would become part if his legacy (and likely an oversized part).
@@mikegarza8648 Tusk Love MUST be a horrible book. Deliberately horrible. It wouldn't make sense as a good one. On the other hand, kinda like The Hedgehog Song in Discworld, no real life rendition can ever make true justice to the abstract idea any critter has of the book.
I, physically, got nervous cause I wasn't fully paying attention and was playing Critical Role in the background, and trust me I was shook and slapped back in when she said that cause that's my name...just with one letter change I was fucking terrified for a sec...and the joke is hilarious none the less
@@MoteMayhaps Yes for Jester. Caleb is a little more complicated. Bren isn't a dead name for him. He picked Caleb because he needed a different name that wasn't the one he was wanted by. And the friends he made know him as Caleb, not Bren. He doesn't ask the people who knew him as Bren to call him Caleb. I'm not saying to call him Bren, since Caleb is definitely the name he goes by now after his reinvention. But he responds to Bren without animosity or pain or discomfort.
@@saetharion I mean, he does respond with clear trauma, as someone with a dead name, but sure, you can argue the opposite, too. I don't mean to be mean, just saying, from what I've seen and experienced, both are dead names.
@@MoteMayhaps There is a heavy difference between "deadnaming" in the sense of "changing your name to hide who you are" and deadnaming in the sense of a name that does not describe you any more. Bren is not a true deadname for Caleb. Him going by Caleb is along the lines of Caleb Dume in Star Wars: Rebels going by the name Kanaan Jarrus to hide his true identity. Don't trivialize it by pretending it's anywhere close to the same level of deadnaming a trans person.
Heh. After the second time it came up, I'd just pull out a "copy" of the book that I'd whipped up. Because I'm that kind of GM. Although, I haven't had an opportunity to do this with smut yet. That'd be fun. Maybe one day.
@@bordenfleetwood5773 if you have a game near April Fools' (or even better, Valentine's Day), have an entire, full-length smut novel prepared and just give it to the players if/when they buy it
@@corvid4933 Honestly, the sheer number of people writing their own versions of Tusk Love may be my absolute favorite thing to come of this campaign xD I've dabbled a bit with it even in my spare time when I want to keep my writing sharp.
@@harry4716 hear me out. Vex writes a book about Vax's sexual exploits with various people, namely Gilmore. OR its vexs version of like a kama sutra sex book
We can only hope that Covid wraps up before the Mighty Nein TPK. I really hope someone does this...I feel like Dani would be a great guest to play this part.
@@tbugmurphy Yeah I think Molly could see they’d make a good couple! SPOILERS for 118: I’d like to think Molly’s spirit was like “Finally! It’s about time” when Fjord asked Jester to kiss.
"What's the name of the half orc?" The DMs curse: your player has now taken a keen and specific interest in something you just made up on the spot for flavor and now need to put way more thought into than it warrants.
@@benjaminoechsli1941He is, there's a video about how to be a DM with Matt and one of the things he shows is his notebook. He has pages with about 10-20 male and female names for different races just in case something like this happens.
@@mildlyangryguy6292 That is DM-ing 101. Have a list of names, since a pre-named NPC in a sea of un-named NPCs is a dead giveaway that the NPC is important. It's like breaking out a paper map when a player asks how the warehouse is laid out - if you do, it tells the players that this is an encounter location. Keep it descriptive, but in the theatre of the mind until people need to roll for initiative. If you want to be very tricksy, draw the map "on the fly" even though you know just how the encounter map is laid out. That way, the players don't necessarily know that you plotted out the encounter. Almost any "dirty trick" is fair for a DM. Your players will try to kill your spirit, so turn-about is fair play. You craft an interesting encounter that will really drive the plot, but just give hints about it - so as not to railroad the game - and the players will just skate over that 90% of the time. Your players will split the party "supposedly" for good RP reasons, but really you know it is because they hate you and want to make your life harder. But always remember: the best revenge is living well. When one of those players finally accepts DM duty for a one-off, give it back to them in spades. Eh, I kid. But the DM for most of my first few years of AD&D was fantastic. I aspire to be like him more than to be like MM or BLM. The guy could run a story so well that it was always compelling. And we could not tell when his responses to our nonsense was planned or ad libbed. Except for the one NPC called Duodenum (pronounced differently than an anatomist/biologist would pronounce it - but a great NPC nonetheless).
If I were Ronin I would find it kinda endearing tbh because of Travis’s reaction every time the book is mentioned and because it would be my parents paying my college tuition while they play D&D
I did not realize the book was mentioned this often. At this point Tusk Love is the backbone of campaign two, the glue that keeps the Mighty Nein together 👌🏻
I'm sad that nobody got Liam's "ghost dick" joke about it being a crime story. For reference dick is archaic slang for detective, or police officer in the business of solving crimes.
Just realized that the author (it might be a joke by the uploader but still it's a good joke none-the-less) of Tusk Love is Matilda Mercia... MATilda MERCia. goddamnit.
The cover art in the thumbnail was actually a journal that was sold on the CritRole shop last year (though I believe it's sold out now) so it's delightfully canon 😂
So this turned up in our D&D campaign, where I have a history of accidentally looting porn when enemies don't have actual loot. So our party of level 2's comes across a Dragon Reborn necromancer and they roll a nat 1 on their perception to spot us. GM says they're reading a book. We take them down fairly swiftly and my (old dwarf grandmother) goes "I take the book they were reading." "It is called 'Tusk love' and has a human and an orc on the cover." "...It's porn, isn't it?" "Yup." "I pocket it without showing the rest of the party." A few sessions later we're Legitimately Attending a Noble's fancy party as a celebration for the successful return of another adventuring party. To liven up the party they've been lent a magical mirror that transforms people into monstrous forms. The old lady dwarf takes one look at the stuck up nobles, the grumpy ranger and the dragonborn cleric and *grins*. I hand a note to the DM saying "I want to turn into the Orc from the porn novel, but with more clothes." And so the GM begins to describe the Orc in *glorious* detail, complete with shiny tusks, glistening 8 pack, the works, including tight leather trousers that leave little to the imagination. The rest of the players are facepalming, I'm cackling, and the GM finishes with "...And you hear a gasp and an 'Oh my!' behind you." The party happens, I lose the illusion and get one of a siren next time. I end up chatting to the other party's (noble) Bard about it and admit I got it from a book. He immediately responds with Bard: "Ah! I knew it looked familiar! Tusk Love?" Me: "Yup." Bard: "With that woodcut on the mountain...?" Me: "Yuuuuup." Cleric: "Oh gods there's *two* of them now. ... and today I found out where it came from and I am NOT SURPRISED.
Estantia my dnd campaign has cursed porn books. If you pick one up, you have to make a wisdom save to let it go. There’s a book for every race in the game. One of my party members has 3.
When “Critical Role: The Legend of the Mighty Nein: The Animated Series” inevitably comes out, the two scenes I want them to include the most: 1) “imagine a blackbird blushing...”, and 2) “that ghost stayed for the whole reading...!”
And this is the kind of thing that makes RP great. Someone, off the cuff, decides to buy a book. Mercer pulls a random polt out of his butt and throws out 'Tusk Love.' Now the players run with it for EVER! It's these little inside jokes that make gaming friends the best friends.
It's possible that it's just a coincidence... but this is Mercer, master of story-weaving. I'm assuming that this was very much intentional and planned from the very beginning. Not getting too specific about it because spoilers, but if you know.. you know what I mean.
I love how Kiri can one day bust out a shortened non descriptive version of tusk love randomly one night with her new family... all the messed up things she’s heard could probably scar those other kids.
I don't remember the episode off the top of my head but you did miss when the Mighty Nine were stuck underground for several days and to pass the time Beau read Tusk Love aloud. Edit: I think that was a different smut book.
lol i definitely had the same thought making this but yeah it is a different book... but the fact that there's been excerpts of more than one smut book this campaign is honestly iconic lmao 😂
Forgot when Jesters real name came out in the campaign, but she said it early on apparently, Genevieve. She really was inserting herself (Jester) into Tusk Love
the whole "thirsty Jester" moment with Caleb comming to the room, and the segment right efter when she refered the book to Beau, who just wants to sleep.
I once got permission to play a succubus. She was pretending to be a human while working in a tavern, the job came with a room, and she had shelves full of books. I compiled a list of all the books' titles, "Tusk Love" was among them, though my personal favorite was "Flames of Ecstasy". I only got to use one title though, before the DM asked to have the character removed without valid reason, he claimed balancing issues, and I agreed to switch characters. I soon left that group because his version of balance was giving the assassin anything he wanted and more when I wasn't allowed a plus one sword, not even exaggerating.
And here I thought this was something my DM came up with. My gnome ranger Mewtholobar was pretending to read this when he and his party were trying very hard to act like they didn't just teleport into the commander's office.
I was thinking the same thing. So many times character's true names were used as disguise names, I can't wait for like episode 109 and we find out Cad also has some weird true name he said 30 episodes ago.
She’s such a good actress I can’t tell if she made Genevieve up on the spot and retconned it in as her own name later or if she just pretended it was something random and off the cuff here.
M9: Buys Tusk Love for like, a silver Laura: gets boatloads of entertainment value out of the book "This is the best trade deal in the history of trade deals"
Although Jester reading "Tusk Love" to the ghosts was not a clutch moment in game play, it shows how she is the living embodiment of a Trickster God. The impulse was impish and had no ill intent. It was even pretty sweet. Again, I like to think that Jester eventually becomes the Trickster God.
Could someone with art skills please recreate the shot at 1:17 in this where Jester's reading it with intensity, but Mollymauk is leaning over with his cards going like wut...
If i ever appeared on critical role, i would be a traveling book merchant. And i would try and sell books that are basically CR ships. "Feathered leather" could be about a half-elf, an assasin, devoted to the godess of death, who falls in love with a druid, who is the pinnicle of life. Or the story of two hunters, one seeking revenge for his family, the other seeking approval from hers, and they meet and help eachother and falls in love, but then hides their feelings from eachother and don't confess them until the man dies. It could be titled "The Hunters Mark"
In a homegame I play in my character joking asked if the shop owner they had “Tusk love, Feather leather” or “the daring trials and tribulations of sir Tarryon Darrington”. They had tusk love but it was a highly popular book going 5 gp
"AND THEN OSKAR FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER, AND HE CARRIES HER THROUGH A FIELD, AND THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH!" "That's great Jester, can we go to sleep now?" "Yeah..."
Then reading it through the tunnel was one of my favorite moments in the series. I may or may not have done that to help me stay awake in the past. Don't judge me. I do enough of that already... Edit: Ah it wasn't tusk love that time. Alas. Still a favorite moment.
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Thanks for all the love, everyone 😁 Just wanted to clear up one thing that’s come up in a few comments - Many of you mentioned the scene where Beau reads smut in the tunnel to pass the time. I checked while making the compilation and discovered that it’s actually a different book, not Tusk Love. I think it’s about a sailor? idk. But I do appreciate how many times smut books have been brought up in canon 😂
I thought tusk love was the book she read in the tunnel
@@Kazatron10000 IIRC it was the smutty book about a xhorhasian soldier. They got it for "research" about the Kryn.
We need a full Campaign update, there are a lot more references later lol
Courting of the Crick?
I just started watching campaign 2 (no spoilers pls), and Jester's outburst in E11 3:08:09 is about tusk love
Cad: "who's the author?"
Jester: "uh, Matilda Merceria"
Mat: *internal facepalm intensifies*
😂
The internal shutter of disappointment was so good
HHAHAHAHAHHAHA
At the first moment I thought, okay that sounds familiar.
Then I thought, wow that Sounds like Sams Merciery.
And then I realised, wait a minute.
Please let's get critical role to publish tusk love
I hope matt understands that he could write tusk love and it could be the worst book ever but it would sell like hot cakes
He probably does, and has likely decide that it should NEVER HAPPEN for that very reason. Because it would become part if his legacy (and likely an oversized part).
If Matt writes it, it WON'T be bad. He may need an editor but he's a Master Storyteller.
Tusk Love would be better than 50 shades of grey and you can't change my mind on that.
@@mikegarza8648 Tusk Love MUST be a horrible book. Deliberately horrible. It wouldn't make sense as a good one.
On the other hand, kinda like The Hedgehog Song in Discworld, no real life rendition can ever make true justice to the abstract idea any critter has of the book.
I bet if he writes a book, it won't be a bad book. He's a very creative guy
Jester: "As he ripped open her bodice..."
Caduceus, perplexed: That's 5 gold to fix.
What? It is :)
@@natalieharmon3491 bodices are expensive, that dick better be worth 10 gold
Clerics can have a Mending cantrip.
@@AFLoneWolf yes but that's not the point of the scenario tho?
@@natalieharmon3491 MR CLAY
Laura's delivery of "Nothing Oskar.." Just kills me everytime. Lol
And Travis' face after she delivers it.
Manna from heaven. This entire show.
🤣🤣🤣
@@bojackhorseman4176 perfect husband and wife team!
I, physically, got nervous cause I wasn't fully paying attention and was playing Critical Role in the background, and trust me I was shook and slapped back in when she said that cause that's my name...just with one letter change I was fucking terrified for a sec...and the joke is hilarious none the less
1:38
Jester: "The girls name was Genevieve or something"
Also Jester, months later: "My real name is Genevieve"
FaePlays I preferred gwyndolin
@@MoteMayhaps Yes for Jester. Caleb is a little more complicated. Bren isn't a dead name for him. He picked Caleb because he needed a different name that wasn't the one he was wanted by. And the friends he made know him as Caleb, not Bren. He doesn't ask the people who knew him as Bren to call him Caleb. I'm not saying to call him Bren, since Caleb is definitely the name he goes by now after his reinvention. But he responds to Bren without animosity or pain or discomfort.
@@saetharion I mean, he does respond with clear trauma, as someone with a dead name, but sure, you can argue the opposite, too. I don't mean to be mean, just saying, from what I've seen and experienced, both are dead names.
Fjord, in the future hopefully: finds real parents “oh hi. We named you Oskar when you were a child”
@@MoteMayhaps There is a heavy difference between "deadnaming" in the sense of "changing your name to hide who you are" and deadnaming in the sense of a name that does not describe you any more. Bren is not a true deadname for Caleb. Him going by Caleb is along the lines of Caleb Dume in Star Wars: Rebels going by the name Kanaan Jarrus to hide his true identity. Don't trivialize it by pretending it's anywhere close to the same level of deadnaming a trans person.
I don't know what's funnier, Tusk Love or that giant flask getting progressively bigger throughout the video
It's a close call
*for each sipe Sam takes I grow stronger*
That’s not the only thing getting progressively bigger during this
@@blackhawc39 oh my
@@blackhawc39 i hear that
Fjord: Whatcha... Whatcha readin' there, Jester?
Jester: *dreamily* Nothing, Oskar...
I about died
I had heard Jester was being flirty in the beginning of the campaign but woof! Girl was starving!
@@mr.bluesky4130 or .. you know. parched.
1:37
And Travis is married to that
Matthew Mercer, you've created a monster XD
The fact that Matt had actual notes on the book is great
He has a page full of names so he can use them on the fly. He probably was just looking for a romantic orc name.
Heh. After the second time it came up, I'd just pull out a "copy" of the book that I'd whipped up. Because I'm that kind of GM. Although, I haven't had an opportunity to do this with smut yet. That'd be fun. Maybe one day.
@@bordenfleetwood5773 if you have a game near April Fools' (or even better, Valentine's Day), have an entire, full-length smut novel prepared and just give it to the players if/when they buy it
He knows Laura Bailey way too well not to hahahah
@@bellringer53 better yet, buy several different books so each player gets a different version.
I hope they realise that it's only a matter of time until someone actually writes a full book called Tusk Love because of this.
I’d fund it.
Listen im typing as fast as i can over here
Helena C FASTER!!!
@@corvid4933 Honestly, the sheer number of people writing their own versions of Tusk Love may be my absolute favorite thing to come of this campaign xD I've dabbled a bit with it even in my spare time when I want to keep my writing sharp.
At first I thought I wanted to read it, but now what I want is the audiobook with Laura reading it as Jester!
Feather Leather sounds like a smutt book about an Aasimar and a Tiefling. Lol.
zepwolfx I was thinking more on the line of Vax
both of these are viable thoughts, both have potential
@@harry4716 hear me out. Vex writes a book about Vax's sexual exploits with various people, namely Gilmore. OR its vexs version of like a kama sutra sex book
Maybe about the Feathers of an Aarakocra and the Leathers of a Hobgoblin Chief
@@nicolasrodriguesdossantos1881 that could work too. Or dragonborn. Lol.
Jester: *"Oh Oskar! Thank you for saving me!"*
Fjord: "Its Fjord..."
One of my favorite moments!
One day there will be a guest with the courage to bring "Matilda Merceria" as a PC to the table.
And it´d be bloody glorious.
We can only hope that Covid wraps up before the Mighty Nein TPK. I really hope someone does this...I feel like Dani would be a great guest to play this part.
@@MiZzzzRC Well,....
@@JonathanMandrake Future one shot?
imagine if that's laudnas real name tho ksfkdkgk
@@mel-burnes boi
I love Matt's "I didn't say it was a good book" in response to Laura "reading" the phrase "...and it was real deep"
The best read ever!
Tusk love, feather leather, lusty argonian maid .... all books kept under my bed
In D&D I would be the "Lusty Dragonborn Maid" which is one of my characters favourite books in my group's game. He's a Dragonborn fyi
😁😂
What about _Ghost Dick?_
@@aulvinduergard9952 The Crime Sequel? I personally like that one more.
Jems nonurbeeswax Why do these all sound like titles written by furries....
Not that I’m complaining, but it’s just a odd coincidence I’ve noticed
I love how Taliesen is acting out Molly reading over Jester's shoulder and also glancing at Fjord. I never noticed that before!
Amber i honestly really believed that Molly shipped them. He and Nott conspired to put them together
@@tbugmurphy Yeah I think Molly could see they’d make a good couple!
SPOILERS for 118:
I’d like to think Molly’s spirit was like “Finally! It’s about time” when Fjord asked Jester to kiss.
@@carmelcity9527 Right???
"What's the name of the half orc?"
The DMs curse: your player has now taken a keen and specific interest in something you just made up on the spot for flavor and now need to put way more thought into than it warrants.
When he says "Er, let me check," I guarantee he's looking at a list of orc names for these exact off-the-cuff responses. Smart.
@@benjaminoechsli1941He is, there's a video about how to be a DM with Matt and one of the things he shows is his notebook. He has pages with about 10-20 male and female names for different races just in case something like this happens.
@@mildlyangryguy6292 That is DM-ing 101. Have a list of names, since a pre-named NPC in a sea of un-named NPCs is a dead giveaway that the NPC is important. It's like breaking out a paper map when a player asks how the warehouse is laid out - if you do, it tells the players that this is an encounter location. Keep it descriptive, but in the theatre of the mind until people need to roll for initiative. If you want to be very tricksy, draw the map "on the fly" even though you know just how the encounter map is laid out. That way, the players don't necessarily know that you plotted out the encounter.
Almost any "dirty trick" is fair for a DM. Your players will try to kill your spirit, so turn-about is fair play. You craft an interesting encounter that will really drive the plot, but just give hints about it - so as not to railroad the game - and the players will just skate over that 90% of the time. Your players will split the party "supposedly" for good RP reasons, but really you know it is because they hate you and want to make your life harder.
But always remember: the best revenge is living well. When one of those players finally accepts DM duty for a one-off, give it back to them in spades.
Eh, I kid. But the DM for most of my first few years of AD&D was fantastic. I aspire to be like him more than to be like MM or BLM. The guy could run a story so well that it was always compelling. And we could not tell when his responses to our nonsense was planned or ad libbed. Except for the one NPC called Duodenum (pronounced differently than an anatomist/biologist would pronounce it - but a great NPC nonetheless).
Cut like 15 years later, Ronin is watching Critical Role and has to sit through all of this.
If I were Ronin I would find it kinda endearing tbh because of Travis’s reaction every time the book is mentioned and because it would be my parents paying my college tuition while they play D&D
but his little sister Kaguya will be worshipping it like her bible
@@LordAaronus what
A very awkward how I met your mother special haha
He'll either be super in to it like his mom, or a blushing mess like his dad
Returning to this video in 2024 to break the news that TUSK LOVE IS GETTING PUBLISHED FOR REAL
I did not realize the book was mentioned this often. At this point Tusk Love is the backbone of campaign two, the glue that keeps the Mighty Nein together 👌🏻
Glue,huh?That's what you call it ?
It’s sticky, it’s white, it holds two things together, even unwillingly. Perfect fit.
ohhhhh - thats why those two pages were stuck together when i tried to read it
13 minutes over several hundred hours of content isn't that often lol.
Tusk Love was a longer lived character than Mollymauk.
Fjord: What you got there, Jester
Jester, holding Tusk Love: A smoothie
"She ripped open her bodice" all Cad has to say is "That's like 5 gold" he's so pure
We love an ace himbo in this house. 💙
I'm sad that nobody got Liam's "ghost dick" joke about it being a crime story.
For reference dick is archaic slang for detective, or police officer in the business of solving crimes.
Tom, Dick, and Harry archetypes! Good stuff!
I did, and so did Mat🤣
I think Sam would know, didn't he write a sponsor ad about a private dick? The one about radio play sound effects.
So Dick Tracy was a pun on both his name and his profession. Huh, the more you know.
Ghost dick is just the smutty way of saying Spirit Detective
Just realized that the author (it might be a joke by the uploader but still it's a good joke none-the-less) of Tusk Love is Matilda Mercia... MATilda MERCia. goddamnit.
Laura said it near the end
I was howling in laughter at my screen when the girl was introduced.
The cover art in the thumbnail was actually a journal that was sold on the CritRole shop last year (though I believe it's sold out now) so it's delightfully canon 😂
+
yea Marisha mentioned that when they released the journal
That flask is cursed to keep growing each episode.
It was part of their stretch goals
Having stopped watching around E35-38, I did not realise it had grown YET AGAIN and laughed my arse off when I saw it!
Watching this makes me laugh because Jester recently revealed her real name is Genevieve lol.
Shes gonna get that tusk love whether Fjord wants to or not
It’s gonna be interesting if they discover Fjords parentage and either his first or last name is Oskar
Whenever Laura calls Travis, Oskar, his look just says "If I don't go along with this, I'm sleeping on the couch."
The look of "this woman is carrying my baby"
So this turned up in our D&D campaign, where I have a history of accidentally looting porn when enemies don't have actual loot.
So our party of level 2's comes across a Dragon Reborn necromancer and they roll a nat 1 on their perception to spot us. GM says they're reading a book. We take them down fairly swiftly and my (old dwarf grandmother) goes "I take the book they were reading."
"It is called 'Tusk love' and has a human and an orc on the cover."
"...It's porn, isn't it?"
"Yup."
"I pocket it without showing the rest of the party."
A few sessions later we're Legitimately Attending a Noble's fancy party as a celebration for the successful return of another adventuring party. To liven up the party they've been lent a magical mirror that transforms people into monstrous forms. The old lady dwarf takes one look at the stuck up nobles, the grumpy ranger and the dragonborn cleric and *grins*.
I hand a note to the DM saying "I want to turn into the Orc from the porn novel, but with more clothes."
And so the GM begins to describe the Orc in *glorious* detail, complete with shiny tusks, glistening 8 pack, the works, including tight leather trousers that leave little to the imagination. The rest of the players are facepalming, I'm cackling, and the GM finishes with "...And you hear a gasp and an 'Oh my!' behind you."
The party happens, I lose the illusion and get one of a siren next time. I end up chatting to the other party's (noble) Bard about it and admit I got it from a book. He immediately responds with
Bard: "Ah! I knew it looked familiar! Tusk Love?"
Me: "Yup."
Bard: "With that woodcut on the mountain...?"
Me: "Yuuuuup."
Cleric: "Oh gods there's *two* of them now.
... and today I found out where it came from and I am NOT SURPRISED.
Estantia my dnd campaign has cursed porn books. If you pick one up, you have to make a wisdom save to let it go. There’s a book for every race in the game. One of my party members has 3.
@@Alexis_Nemesis189 gotta collect them all?
@@Alexis_Nemesis189 That's such a good idea!
My OSR group is always on the look out for editions of "the breeding habits and rituals of goblins"
@@Alexis_Nemesis189 ... "Machinery and men" "nature vs man: man knows more" "man Is thriving in the sky" can you tell I have no idea what I'm doing
I really wished that matt would have had that he would make a short story of tusk love as a stretch goal when they did the kickstarter
I'd bet the entire campaign would be paid off in the hour XD
A fan made novel was sent to the cast. They read a excerpt on Talks
A chapter of Tusk Love in Narrative Telephone maybe?
Savage Cabbage Which episode of Talks was that and do you have a timestamp for it?
@@toschiworlds7212 I would also like to know this lol
This is the most vital CR compilation to ever exist, bless
Spoiler Alert: The main antagonist will be defeated using Tusk Love.
Jester defeated a hag with a blueberry cupcake: I'm sure she can find a way to make that happen too, somehow!
You mean by reading the book, or will they knock him out with a whack to the head using the book?
@@danielcastillo591 Either one. 😉
@@danielcastillo591 A chair doesn't have a head but I'm sure they'll figure something out.
They give the Chained Oblivion a couple hand towels, some oil of slipperiness and a copy of the book
"This campaign is so grim-dark"
xD
Whoever said that needs to look up hopepunk
Liam and Tal both have the best underrated lines.
I love that Molly is just sneaking a look while Jester’s reading even though he’s canonically illiterate 🤣
Well, you know... Sometimes there's illustrations... 👉👈
I have a sneaking suspicion Jester allowed him to color those, if he asked.
That or they did it together
There are no pictures by Matilda Merceria, but Jester added some in the margins for Molly
3:05 Caleb: it is sad when a ship sinks.
Aint that the truth
The fate of the Balleater fjoreshadowed 😂
My Shadowgast ship
Widojest :((
When “Critical Role: The Legend of the Mighty Nein: The Animated Series” inevitably comes out, the two scenes I want them to include the most: 1) “imagine a blackbird blushing...”, and 2) “that ghost stayed for the whole reading...!”
Also:
Jester: “Wait! **Read it out loud** !”
Beau: “Ohhhkaaaay >:3”
I hope it's called "Misadventures of the Mighty Nein."
And this is the kind of thing that makes RP great. Someone, off the cuff, decides to buy a book. Mercer pulls a random polt out of his butt and throws out 'Tusk Love.' Now the players run with it for EVER! It's these little inside jokes that make gaming friends the best friends.
"Reskinned gargoyles fanfiction."
Yeah, I bet Goliath goes deep.
With a voice from Keith David, you're damn right he does.
Oh... *OH*
Elisa walks bowlegged after every time they are together. And that is the real reason Demona hates her.
6:10 Molly took that to the grave
Too soon, hahaha
Long may he reign.
His last words should have been “the book was called Feather Leather.”
Matt: "As you read, the numbers begin to swell once more"
*Laura and Marisha share a look trying not to react*
"Who wrote it?"
"Matilida Merceria"
*Matt's FACE*
Matt:the cover is plain leather
Jester:...tusk love
*Later and one bribery later*
Matt: It's Feathered leather
Everyone: It's about Vax!
When this part is from
“A merchant’s daughter.”- Mercer!
Ratherfish90 A “traveling” merchant.
It's possible that it's just a coincidence... but this is Mercer, master of story-weaving. I'm assuming that this was very much intentional and planned from the very beginning.
Not getting too specific about it because spoilers, but if you know.. you know what I mean.
@@leion1594 i watched it completely and I don't getit
I love how Kiri can one day bust out a shortened non descriptive version of tusk love randomly one night with her new family... all the messed up things she’s heard could probably scar those other kids.
"that's like 3 gold to fix"
Caduceus/Taliesin
Omg
Jester Lavore: The Pied Piper of Smut
I don't remember the episode off the top of my head but you did miss when the Mighty Nine were stuck underground for several days and to pass the time Beau read Tusk Love aloud.
Edit: I think that was a different smut book.
lol i definitely had the same thought making this but yeah it is a different book... but the fact that there's been excerpts of more than one smut book this campaign is honestly iconic lmao 😂
That was the Salty Sea I think!
Dang. Thought it was tusk love. Still one of my favorite moments though.
"It is sad when ships sink..." Thanks Liam.
This along with caleb’s counting money slowly joke are some of my favorites
I'm seriously hoping that during a shopping episode that the M9 run into a book signing hosted by Mathilda for her newest crime thriller.
This might be about fjords parentage. Just saying.
fuck, that would be SO funny
Oskar is a half orc, the mother would also need to be a half orc which the main female of TL isn't. It would be funny though.
@@db4756 In the official lore half-orc is just the name and can actually be quarter orc with other tiefling/half-elf/humanish combinations.
Fjords back story explained
@@db4756 actually. A half orc and human can make a half orc.
Little did they know that this one reference would be immortalized in fanfiction, in-universe canon and fanart for all eternity.
Forgot when Jesters real name came out in the campaign, but she said it early on apparently, Genevieve. She really was inserting herself (Jester) into Tusk Love
The part where Molly looks over Jester’s shoulder while reading Tusk Love and does the double take.
the whole "thirsty Jester" moment with Caleb comming to the room, and the segment right efter when she refered the book to Beau, who just wants to sleep.
"Ghost Dick" being the sequel to "Tusk Love" made me HOWL with laughter 🤣
Jester: I know what you are.
Fjord: Say it. Outloud. Say it.
Jester: Half-orc.
Fjord: Are you afraid?
Jester: No.
Jester "are you afraid, Oskar?"
"Yes"
spider-monkey
I once got permission to play a succubus. She was pretending to be a human while working in a tavern, the job came with a room, and she had shelves full of books. I compiled a list of all the books' titles, "Tusk Love" was among them, though my personal favorite was "Flames of Ecstasy". I only got to use one title though, before the DM asked to have the character removed without valid reason, he claimed balancing issues, and I agreed to switch characters. I soon left that group because his version of balance was giving the assassin anything he wanted and more when I wasn't allowed a plus one sword, not even exaggerating.
Tusk Love is too overpowered. I would've done the same. /s
“Watchya readin there, Jester?”
“Nothing *Oskar* ” 😂😂😂
And here I thought this was something my DM came up with. My gnome ranger Mewtholobar was pretending to read this when he and his party were trying very hard to act like they didn't just teleport into the commander's office.
Author: Mattilda Merceria
I'm done xD
Spoilers for episodes near 95
to come back and hear Jester name the female character Genevieve after she revealed her real name is funny.
3:05
I was thinking the same thing. So many times character's true names were used as disguise names, I can't wait for like episode 109 and we find out Cad also has some weird true name he said 30 episodes ago.
I was looking for this comment😂 I wondered if anyone else remembered this
She’s such a good actress I can’t tell if she made Genevieve up on the spot and retconned it in as her own name later or if she just pretended it was something random and off the cuff here.
Tusk love is the 50 shades of grey of Exandria
No, It's better
More like 50 shades of green
I honestly hope the M9 get to meet Kiri again.
I feel like we all do
Spoilers
Well huperdook has been destroyed so kiri's probably dead
@@R3adybreck a true as what you say may be... Kiri was in good hands. Is.
Alex Rogers Mercer wouldn’t be that cruel
"And it was real deep."
Too deep to pull out now, some might say.
I love how bassy Laura's voice goes in "their adventures on the high seas"
I don't know about you all, but this was 10 times better knowing that Travis had told his wife that he would never do love for his DnD characters. lol
Just wanna say:
Someone did write an actual tusk love book and they sent it to CR
M9: Buys Tusk Love for like, a silver
Laura: gets boatloads of entertainment value out of the book
"This is the best trade deal in the history of trade deals"
Okay, here me out;
What if the author of _Tusk Love_ shows up to Traveler Con as a guest or vendor? :3
And: plot twist, they LOATHE their creation, but it's so successful that it overshadows all of their other creative endeavours.
@@dragoncat2734 The best trope in writing circles.
Although Jester reading "Tusk Love" to the ghosts was not a clutch moment in game play, it shows how she is the living embodiment of a Trickster God. The impulse was impish and had no ill intent. It was even pretty sweet. Again, I like to think that Jester eventually becomes the Trickster God.
God bless you this was everything I needed
I'm so dumb, just now after reading the name "Matilda Mercia" in the description I realize it's Matt's name xD
I feel like Feather Leather would be written by Airey Perry/Lord Squak Arevis as a fictionalized account of the romance of Rue and Hobb.
Came to watch this again cuz a real book is getting published days before my birthday in 2025!
I love how Sam's flask gets bigger as the campaign continues lol!
10:07 Taliesin: I got a good look at the ghosts...
Laura: yes, but ARE THEY HORNY??????? XD I love these idiots so much
“Nothing Oskar...don’t worry about it”....a thousand hearts melt and break and sing at the same time.
I forgot how great Molly was
I now know r/chasitysnook exists. My life is complete.
Thank you for sharing this information
Thank you for cursing my mind with this information.
The fact that at 3:00 Jester confuses the main character Guinevere for Genevieve is even funnier in hindsight
Please someone wrote an actual Tusk Love
Theres a porn comic called tusk love
On a similar note, the subreddit for CR porn is called r/chastitysnook
@@MastaChiefa99 I never knew this existed before now.
@@MastaChiefa99 i didn't want to know that existed, but i'm not surprised
@@MastaChiefa99 I am surprised and I definitely wanted to know that existed
Liam, a genius: "It is sad when SHIPS sink."
The funny thing is the book foreshadows the future romance between Jester and Fjord
1:09 omG I NEVER NOTICED MOLLY LMAOOO
I feel blessed. Thank you.
Who screamed when Tusk Love appeared in Legend of Vox Machina?
It did!? Excellent taste.
I JUST FINISHED SEASON 2, WHERE WAS IT?!?
@@BackgroundJoshua it was in Gilmore's shop the first time they go. Lots of easter eggs in that scene
Could someone with art skills please recreate the shot at 1:17 in this where Jester's reading it with intensity, but Mollymauk is leaning over with his cards going like wut...
and now Tusk Love can ve seen in Gilmor's shop in The Legend of Vox Machina
If i ever appeared on critical role, i would be a traveling book merchant. And i would try and sell books that are basically CR ships.
"Feathered leather" could be about a half-elf, an assasin, devoted to the godess of death, who falls in love with a druid, who is the pinnicle of life.
Or the story of two hunters, one seeking revenge for his family, the other seeking approval from hers, and they meet and help eachother and falls in love, but then hides their feelings from eachother and don't confess them until the man dies. It could be titled "The Hunters Mark"
In a homegame I play in my character joking asked if the shop owner they had “Tusk love, Feather leather” or “the daring trials and tribulations of sir Tarryon Darrington”. They had tusk love but it was a highly popular book going 5 gp
Watching Matt and Travis blush repetitively is the best bit
I never noticed Molly leaning over to read the book righter after Jester got it lol
It could have only been better if the half-orc in the book was named Chevy.
You mean Leavy Chevy?
Or Dodge ^_^
You mean Chjevy
This is giving me flashbacks of skyrim and me finding the lusty argonian maid books
this is basically the lusty Argonian maid of critical role
What's Matt say around 6:20? "It's called Feather Leather"?
karnewarrior yes, it’s probably a reference to Vax
@@chickensoupfordipshits
Huh. Guess I just don't get the joke.
Vax = Feather, Gilmore = Leather. It's a campaign 1 ship
Hedwig Art I would’ve just chalked it up to Vax having literal feathers on his leather armor.
Didnt get the part where Jester was reading it out to Baeu at night in Kadesh I think. Baeu was not having it.
I don't think she was reading it aloud, I think she was just feverishly recounting it in various Jesterisms
I don’t want to be that guy but it’s zadash
"AND THEN OSKAR FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER, AND HE CARRIES HER THROUGH A FIELD, AND THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH!"
"That's great Jester, can we go to sleep now?"
"Yeah..."
Feather leather is just Artagans notes and fantasies about that one time he strangled a dude
Then reading it through the tunnel was one of my favorite moments in the series. I may or may not have done that to help me stay awake in the past. Don't judge me. I do enough of that already...
Edit: Ah it wasn't tusk love that time. Alas. Still a favorite moment.
Travis' expression at 1:43 slays me every time.