HEY, there might be SPOILERS under the thing 0:20 Fully improvised NordVPN ad 1:40 Nordiverse season 1 wrap-up 2:50 Other news 5:05 Opening cinematic 6:50 Arc One: Come Together 8:05 Who is on the Tal’dorei Council? 9:10 How much did Taliesin know about Lucien? 13:35 The movie is called Fallen 14:35 Was Mollymauk undead in any way? 15:40 What was Fjord’s whole deal? 19:35 Who was the skeleton in the basement of the Leaky Tap? 22:10 Who did the Sending Stone connect to? 24:30 What was Yasha doing when she kept leaving M9? 27:30 Back to the Sending Stone 28:40 What happened when Liam ordered Sam to be a goblin rogue? 31:10 Sam’s name games 32:45 What would've happened if they hadn't decided to do crimes? 34:10 Secret Matt Colville non-cameo 35:05 What was up with Gustav? 37:20 Shakaste 42:50 Arc 2: The Bad Guys 43:30 What did Kiri build? 45:15 Did becoming parents change Fjord and Jester? 48:15 Spectating Molly’s death 51:15 What were the creatures in that mosaic? 55:35 Divine Interventions 57:15 Wow, that game sounds really fun 57:45 What was the Plank King's relationship with the Cobalt Soul? 1:01:10 Improvised character quirks 1:02:40 How did Nott feel about Nila? 1:04:50 Real life Luc 1:05:25 Keg 1:10:50 The Bright Queen's Favor 1:12:25 Did Matt have to rework his plans when they followed the worms? 1:14:00 The Chair 1:14:30 What was evil Essek supposed to be like? 1:18:30 How to make your players love an NPC 1:19:25 Did Caleb ever come close to confessing his love for Jester? 1:21:40 Widofjord drop Everyone loving Jester 1:26:55 Jester and Orly 1:28:20 What would have happened if they hadn't given up the Luxon? 1:32:40 The fate of the Xhorhaus (Exandria's first influencer house) 1:34:25 Who did Caleb instinctually kill on sight? 1:36:25 What is Essek’s brother like? 1:39:25 Nila 1:45:05 Break Starts 1:54:45 Art Montage 2:07:45 Break Ends Arc Four: Swords and Angels 2:08:35 What was Yasha and Obann's history together? 2:13:50 What did Trent want with Yasha? 2:15:35 Was there any connections between The Laughing Hand and Aeor? 2:19:20 Did you ever think Artagan was evil? 2:20:05 When did Sprinkle become Artagan? Which NPC's were Artagan? 2:23:10 How does Beau move forward with the Cobalt Soul? 2:26:05 Yasha the housewife 2:30:50 What was in Gelidon's cave? 2:32:55 What would happen if they'd released Halas? 2:36:40 Could Fjord have intimidated Uk'otoa 2:40:00 Caduceus knows he's in the game 2:41:00 Reani 2:46:20 Arc Five: Family Ties 2:48:30 Marisha references an event from C1E27 as if it happened recently 2:50:15 How does the hag feel about Jester? 2:51:55 What was up with all of the corrupt forests? 2:57:00 When did Beau fall in love with Yasha? 2:59:00 When did Yasha fall in love with Beau? 3:02:30 How would Veth’s relationship with the group have changed if she hadn't broken her curse? 3:06:00 The time travel plan 3:10:15 What was planning for Caleb's time travel ambitions? 3:13:15 The tower's rooms 3:15:35 Puzzling through a music reference 3:16:20 Does Beau plan on saving her brother? 3:20:45 SPURT 3:21:45 Arc Six: Weird Magic 3:23:00 What happened to Henry Crabgrass? 3:24:45 Plans to kill Caleb and Beau 3:26:00 What were the mechanics of the eye tattoos? 3:30:20 What happened to Devexian? (WARFORGED HYPE) 3:31:15 What were the blue bubbles in Aeor? 3:33:30 What was the Luxon? 3:38:10 Where will Jester and the Traveler explore? 3:41:00 What will Jester and Fjord do with their lives? 3:42:45 Jester gets penetrated 3:43:25 A? 3:44:40 What would have happened if Essek and Caleb broke time? 3:48:50 What were the statues sitting in the middle of Eiselcross? 3:49:50 What were the barbs or the Barbed Fields? 3:50:50 What was up with the ice spider? 3:51:40 Would Trent have helped them if they called? 3:55:50 Who broke Caleb out of the sanitorium? 3:57:45 Who was Dulen Treversky? 3:59:25 Was that one orc Fjord’s dad? 4:01:50 Was Vax watching M9's exploits? 4:03:15 Autotuned Trent 4:03:55 How did Jester’s parents end up? 4:05:30 The Tal'dorei Coucil 4:07:35 Nothing but respect for my Coin Mistress 4:09:00 Retirement one-shot 4:11:00 Episode Ends Sam’s flask has a picture of Veth on it with a Looney Toons background that says "That's all folks" Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
The concept that the title “Orphan Maker” bothers Yasha so much she wants to actively make LESS orphans is the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen in my life AGG
I mean ultimately a DM's dream come true. "Oh I now have 100% say in how your character came to be..." Gotta really trust your DM for this kind of move definitely!!
I absolutely love that Matt's job includes researching things ranging from freaking time travel to the lifespan of crabgrass. His browser history must look wild, lol!
😂😂 I'm sure my FBI agent is constantly confused by my search especially when I'm searching DnD related things. I searched could a Orca get high and Napalm in the span of 5 minutes
2:14:07 In hindsight this makes Caduceus's roast of Trent so much deeper because Trent probably used this in that moment, expecting Caduceus to be hateful of him like everyone else, only to find not only is Caduceus the only one in the room who neither hates nor fears him but also that Cad genuinely considers Trent the biggest fool he's met and means every word he says
For Trent as well, like.. He always has to be feared, looked up to, have everyone know how smart or dangerous or powerful he is and yet Cad truly saw him only as a damaged fool
I love the difference between Travis, Laura's IRL husband, being utterly TERRIFIED by the idea of Vex being Coinmistress, and Taliesin, who is in total proud husband Percy mode
@@shiluk84 Travis’s “of course you did” comment and I knew he was flashing back to the TM episode about how Matt did more research on ships than Travis “my character has a sailor background” did because Travis thought they would be landlocked the entire campaign or it wouldn’t be an important thing.
I absolutely adore the image of Beau and Yasha’s domesticity...but I can just imagine the Storm Lord behind the Divine Gate with his arms folded, just angrily drumming his fingers against one bicep, grumbling “Put a LOT of work into that one...and now she wants to play housewife.”
Well, to be fair, that would be after she already has used the Stormlord's gifts to essentially safe the world, so its not likethe divine manipulation he invested into her didn't have a worthy pay-off
Hearing that there's a text thread for how to kill beau and Caleb feels very much like Batman having a plan how to kill each member of the justice league.
Except instead of one (justifiably) paranoid bat flavored man, the whole league goes “yeah Superman has a lexcorp tm on the back of his neck, we should prooobably have a fail safe for that
Ive thought about this. As many people that play ttrpgs, at least one dm is going to have their notes make it into some future archeaology dig and cause some massive confusion lol
Alternatively, they play fans/apprentices to Jester's art career who just think she's eccentric and start bumping into these nemeses who show how absolutely crazy she legitimately is in all the best ways.
I'm imagining it'd be Isharnai, Golddick lady, the guy who she talked to while the Nein killed his friends, the dude she trapped out on a balcony (twice) and the janitor of the temple she defaced
the thumbnail looks like the most awkward family photo. like -Ashley’s face -Travis, Sam, Maisha AND Liam are all blinking -Laura not even looking at the camera -Taliesin looking like he’s about to go riding into the sunset
Y'know with literally half the people in the photo having their eyes closed, you'd think it was intentional, but no, it probably wasn't. They're just A Mess™ (affectionate)
I dunno, this answer seemed to boil down to "when she gets overwhelmed, she shuts down and runs away, and basically reverts to being a wild animal with some people skills. Which doesn't seem totally unrealistic for someone with severe PTSD.
Yes! I want Liam to play a tiny character next to him though... Oh my god imagine if Sam played a goliath druid and Liam played a halfing barbarian or something
I'd like it more if they'd realized how much more effective Yasha is at tanking Beau's physical damage and resisting her stuns (Con save) than resisting Caleb's Polymorph or Slow (Wis save). Also Sentinel to shut down Beau's mobility. They said they were going to have Yasha go after Caleb, which sounds crazy to me, unless they were just going to have the clerics (try to) Banish Beau until Caleb was subdued or otherwise dealt with. (Banish is a Cha save, unlike Polymorph or Hold Person). But yeah it's still pretty cool; I loved Matt's reaction to knowing that had been a thing, as well as Marisha's. 3:24:50
@@Peter_Cordes well, the issue is that Caleb is a powerhouse regardless. You send Yasha after Caleb so that she can drop him in 2 turns with divine fury and wings, while tanking beau. Fjord only needs to counterspell once to neuter Caleb, and Yasha deals 100+ damage over 2 turns.
@@shanedsouza189 Activating her wings takes her Action; only worth doing at the start of a long fight, or on a turn where she doesn't have enough movement to get to melee range. Other than that, yeah fair point about raw damage to burn down Caleb's HP quickly. If Beau and Caleb aren't next to each other, though, she'd still want to end her turn next to Beau for Sentinel op attacks. (Step of the Wind for disengage wouldn't prevent that.) But attacking Caleb then running to Beau might mean giving Caleb a chance to cast at her with War Caster, potentially with Polymorph into a tortoise (to frighten Fjord :P) or a whale, although a whale can still bite. (Something with lots of HP couldn't be broken by incidental AoE, so would cost a dispel from Jester.) Fjord with Banishing Smite + Divine Smite could put the hurt on Caleb pretty seriously, if either attack hit his AC20 with Shield. The Banish happens automatically if the target has less than 50 HP after the attack, no save. Then Fjord would be a target for Beau while holding concentration on the banish. And it would use up 2 of his warlock spell slots. At Warlock 11, he has 3 total that are usable for Counterspell, but before that only 2 5th-level slots, the rest only being 1st-level paladin slots. And if they weren't at full strength when Beau+Caleb turned... Yeah might take some Yasha damage to get Caleb's HP down into range for Banishing Smite's 5d10 + weapon damage to bring it below 50 without a divine smite, without Cad's Path to the Grave. (I don't think they ever lined up a Path to the Grave combo with a full Banishing Smite + Divine Smite + hexblade's curse, even in the final battle. If that ever crit, it could insta-kill Caleb from full to negative 99 HP.)
@@Peter_Cordes I think while it would have been hard for any of them to kill their own party members that late into the M9s journey, it would have been twice as hard for Yasha to have another person she loves die especially by her own hand in yasha vs beau.
@@themandomercgaming Its one of those things where the fact this is a game and not a story means you have to do certain things. I imagine the players would have killed them if they had to because thats just how the game is played. Story-wise though, if you took gameplay out of it, I almost feel like Yasha would not have let anyone hurt Beau regardless of the practicalities. Given how much weight Ashley put into the guilt of having nearly killed Beau once while being mindcrontrolled and all the other guilt and shame her character had burdened herself with. Hurting Beau, or even just allowing Beau to be harmed probably would have just absolutely ruined Yasha given her history. Like full on Caleb style mental break.
i also always it interesting to consider in the grand scheme of things if Mollymauk survived and we never had Caduceus in the M9. Namely, what would happen with Fjord if he never had guidance from Caduceus to accept the Wildmother in place of Uk'otoa? Would they have managed to free Yasha from Obann as quickly as they did or at all before he started breaking the fane? Interesting things to think about
I've added just about everyone to my character pool in XCom 2. By "just about everyone" I mean: VM, M9, all guest characters, a few NPCs, and the characters from most of the one-shots (all the ones that could exist in Exandria, so no bears, fairy tale characters, or Doom demons, but just about all the rest).
I desperately want to see a one shot with Yasha, Beau and Caleb on their way to visit Jester and Fjord, and Beauyasha's kids are like moody teens who think their parents are super lame, but then trouble starts on the road so they end up stopping in a bunch of places and meeting up with the rest of the M9, and the kids slowly discover that their family are legit superheroes.
@@yiklongtay6029 Muscle loss is real, but even then, "I used to be a strongwoman at a circus" is a pretty valid excuse, and much more believable than "I killed demons, aberrations and shit for a living" (it is also close to being true)
Matt is much better at taking notes than I am and has people helping him out (for example, Dani) but as a DM myself it's easy to remember things about your world when it's one of the only things you think about
@@DMAN4219 this I think a lot of committed world builders spend a lot of time exploring ideas to fill out concepts. You think about the details a lot when you are just doing your daily things. Matt is clearly incredibly good at this but I think a lot of the other skills he has are the ones people should be praising for his world building!
Ok so in the art montage there is like a point where there’s a TON of shadowghast art and the knowledge that Liam chooses the art for the montages makes that so much funnier!
I mean, the Happy Fun Ball is basically an otherworldly megadungeon like Undermountain in FR. And then anytime the party figuratively comes up for air it turns out they've Rip Van Winkle'd into the future!
@@sillyjellyfish2421 it's a Fantasy High reference lol, one of the PCs named Gorgug, who's also a half orc, always asks random people if they're his dad
I still love how most of the Mighty Nein had a plan to kill each other if any of them betrayed, then Matt freaked out because THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED WITH 9 EYES
Really appreciate Matt near the end reminding everyone in the audience, especially us DMs, that he's human. Not every ruin is fleshed out. Not every room in the happy fun ball has full lore, mechanics and architecture written down and ready to go. It's ok to have fun in the moment sometimes and it's ok to wait until players confirm an interest in something to deepen and/or really create it. We want the illusion of an entire world in our brains, we don't need to actually laboriously make something that our players will only explore 0.42% of.
It's part of the fun for the DM too. When you're just reading the script it feels a bit like you're babysitting. But when you read the room and see what tickles your players and react to it by fleshing out the bits that matter to them in a way that makes it fun for everyone, that's what makes it exciting and fulfilling. Give and receive and go with the flow kind of situation. It's almost like you're having sex using your minds.
But if you develop the world, then you can use it better in multiple campaigns, or even books, and it will feel much more real, not like rendering Matrix. A good GM is more than "just a human".
It's the truth and it's hard but important to remember. Sometimes you have to think of it like a videogame world that only gets fully rendered in the direction that the player is currently looking to save on memory space. Or like when there's a map with fog of war on - you flesh out the bits where they go, and then wherever they've been stays fleshed out, but you don't need to know every single thing under that fog.
This also is important to players who expect their DMs to have an entire world, lore, languages, customs, etc. memorized on game one so they can literally travel anywhere and get content
@@cm5061 Where does this i formation come from? From a backstory point that can't be true if his creator build him 2 years ago. Is there any official confirmation for that
@@privpi I don't THINK he is, but it would be easy enough to do. If his creator built him out of parts that she found of destroyed Aeormatons, he'd BE an Aeormaton, but also not, depending on if she only repaired what was there and due to his missing memories he THOUGHT she built him, or if she ACTUALLY built something new out of the parts.
@@flimpeenflarmpoon1353 its a classic cliche for when someone couldn't bother with writing a character backstory. they say the character lost their memory because reasons and just suddenly decided to become an adventurer.
Personally I think it’s a great story hook provided you’ve provided the DM certain seeds. Molly’s tattoos, waking up in a grave, his character abilities and the phrase “MT/empty” are all hints that have the potential to be compelling storylines in a campaign. What it definitely requires though is a lot of trust and respect between the DM and player.
Liam is truly on another level with immersing himself in the role. Makes me appreciate the cast all the more, especially Liam! I also appreciate Paige for the timestamp and Artemis P for the video recommendation.
So I felt super validated when Bren’s name came out because that was the moment I actually guessed it haha. He never really gave false names while everyone else threw them around like party favors, which already had me thinking Caleb was a false name because he was the most paranoid and cautious of the group. And his reaction in that moment blared all kinds of alarms in my head. I watched it a few times, and was pretty sure it was because that was his name. One of the very few things I actually guessed right!
"Trying to figure out what you were up to, what your connections were, how much you knew." Oh no. Hot boi. You thought they had connections. I'm in love with Essek.
For a unique of a group that the mighty nien are they still work as a classic dnd adventuring crew. They’re not heroes. Their adventures that get way over their heads with the world and come out of it doing heroic things.that’s at least why I love them so much
Mica: "Reani was such a positive force of good, energy and cuteness, and she survived an encounter with a dragon!" Deborah Ann Woll: "hold my Happy Fun Ball..."
Yasha meets the M9: they get the circus disbanded, get the leader arrested for murder, kill her coworker, get her kidnapped, and get her BFF Molly killed.. yea, it was a tough go..
"Honestly, the Jester and Artagan relationship is very much crossing into Doctor Who territory" My god, how did I never noticed this before? It's straight up the relationship between Amy and Eleven. The main difference being Artagan didn't disappear for most of her life. It has the same level of wholesome fairy tale energy and creepy toxic influence that will lead Jester to her doom.
@@primarilydaniel137 Yup, there is definitely the same childhood crush which evolved into a weird sexual tension with a being who can't really reciprocate but somehow does feel the same.
@@bdletoast09 I think it comes down to loving the person on the inside, but not in a sexual tension sort of way. More like an uncle way. Not...OMG okay, I'm going to shut up now, I'm making this worse...
@@true_plays_games Jesse, please grow up. You've clearly been hating on the show since Mid-Campaign 1. It's time to grow up now. Your toxicity is more vocal within the community than you actually enjoying the content they make, and the way you approach it is wildly childish.
Oh man the Thelyss brothers being the stereotype "Loner, prodigy, magic nerd" vs. "The himbo, warrior, athletic boi" makes me so happy. I wonder how close they were? Do we think Essek would try to keep in contact with his brother once he had to go on the run? Was there anyone else in the Dynasty he would have even missed? I'm imaging a super sad timeline where the BQ sends Verin to hunt down Essek and bring him back. Did Den Thelyss get in trouble when Essek was reviled to be a traitor? Wasn't their mother the Head of their Den!? She definitely seemed the type to throw her kid under the bus if he got in trouble, but would Verin have disowned him too?
Hey friend, good news! If you don't mind reading, there's a TON of stories on AO3 that focus on all that. "Ruins and Romance", for example, is a good one so far (focuses first on the Aoer explorations between Caleb and Essek, but Himbo Verin is definitely there a lil later). I'm sure there are tons more like it. Cheers
@@Randomness823 LOL, I'mdefinitely an AO3 fan. I think I've read almost everything with Essek in it. I'll have to make sure I've found that one. Thanks for the recommendation!
@@darkroselight3835 of course!! I might have spent the final arc devouring Shadowgast fics like I needed it to live. Definitely know a couple good ones lol
I feel like with Vex now confirmed as the Master of Commerce, as well as being Grand Mistress of the Grey Hunt/ a rich De Rolo, her favoured terrain has become gold pools.
As soon as Devexian was introduced I got super excited to potentially see Warforged in campaign 3. It also makes me wonder if someone will be playing one in the next campaign, as they have alluded to already having the characters made, and possibly even played some of the campaign since they are prerecording still.
Kingsley promptly hired a group of bandits who were constantly looking over there shoulders. Kingsley and the bad luck bandits take what they think to be an easy score, looting a resort island. Decent security, but they’ve handled worse. First half of the one shot is then wrecking house and taking what they can. The M9 coincidentally arrive back at their island, celebrating the retirement of the last of the troupe (let’s be honest though, Caleb tutors everyone he thinks has even a mote of potential till his last breathe). Rest of the one shot is the crew of The Lucky King trying to slink away
Can we appreciate that Caleb’s Time Travel plan was REALLY GOOD. Like, I can poke holes in shit, but that was VERY well thought out to have worked with as little repercussions as possible.
Which is why I was confused why he didn't follow through with it. Saving his parents was such a noble goal, it wouldn't have changed anything but the fate of 2 of only 3 people in the world he cared about outside the Mighty Nein
@@dedf15 I think for Caleb it wasn't about whether or not the plan would've worked. 20 intelligence will give you a LOT of wiggle room to make that happen, the problem was that Caleb was holding onto a past that was very long ago, and trying to revert the sins he committed would do nothing but put a band-aid on a gashing wound. It was about the principle that no one should wield that power, especially for his own minimal gains. Its the same reason why Essek refused to do it, he knows that the magic behind it will eventually hurt more people than it saves and that the original sins he committed wont just go away afterwards, he'll still have to carry the burden of that initial decision, going back in time will just ensure that they'd never be able to forgive themselves for what they did.
@@dedf15 I think that the idea is that you can't play god. You can't have this "fix everything wrong that ever happened" tool at your disposal, without growing extremely arrogant, corrupt, and detached. I could do anything I want. Doean't work out? Go back again and do it differently. Go kill a child to see how that'd feel, and undo it the next day. Your relationship with anyone becomes less significant. You can always refriend them, or change it up. I think that was Caleb accepting his humanity. Accepting that he can't fix everything, that he doesn't - and shouldn't - have control. This is the man who rejected a role in the assembly in order to teach transmutation. This is the man who realized he'll die of old age, and can't be with Essek. He could've pursued immortality - he's high level enough to cast clone, and will grow even more powerful as time went on. This campaign explored wizardry very deeply. Its most defining chacteristic is the endless pursuit of power, whether for good or for evil, and how it makes you a radically different being than the rest of the people around you. A god among men, whether good or evil. That disintegrate spell was Caleb saying no.
@@dedf15 He explained in this wrap up some practical reasoning: Trent could have had someone speak with dead with the corpses and find out it wasn't Caleb's real parents, or something else that Caleb couldn't account for, and if anything like that went wrong, it could really fuck things up, and he just wasn't willing to take that risk.
It makes a good deal of sense since Yezza and Yasha were actually pretty similar in many ways already. Could easily see Yasha looking at Yezza’s character and just thinking thats what she’d like to be after all the pain and violence was done. It’s also kind of hilarious how incredibly wholesome and sweet Beau and Yasha’s relationship turned out to be just in general.
@@Direwolf181 and even more so knowing Matt said Yeza is probably the NPC closest to his own personality. Think it was in an episode of Talks but can't remember. These people are such wholesome and admirable role models, I wish I'd found Critical Role and their influence sooner.
I always love thinking about what max level characters do after the campaign is over and it’s just so funny to me to imagine some quant pirate crew sailing up to rumble cusp to go for an easy score only to find one of the most dangerous groupings of mortals to be found on that side of the planet.
Leveling is so weird in world for DnD. NPC's can spend thier entire lives adventuring and only ever hit level 5. While PC's can get from 1 to 20 in a year of their campaign.
@@emmarod8746 I think it comes down to luck. I don't mean the dice, I mean some characters are destined for greatness. Just take ability scores. Most people have 10s. There's the gifted people who become NPCs of prominence. And then, there's the PCs, the heroes of legend. Or at the very least, heroes of their own stories. The reason why it seems skewed for the PCs is because we don't play the boring people. We play those 1 in 1000 people who are a cut above the rest, destined for greatness. Or, you know, the ones destined to die to a critical hit from a kobold at level 1 and expire on the cave floor. But then we find another hero the next session.
@@3rdDayfan777 MOST adventurers spend their entire lives doing things like, fighting goblins and defending caravans from bandits. Maybe they'll have a VERY exciting story where they ran into a TROLL and fought a fierce battle, slaying the monster. PC adventurers get thrown into WORLD ENDING SHIT. The difference in experience is just VAST. They just keep chasing that higher level enemy, you know speaking metaphorically but also entirely literally. If you look at how much XP a regular goblin is worth, they give out 50 XP a piece, and they have 7 hp. Enough of them at low levels can be a challenge, but even after just 3 or 4 levels they're practically a joke unless you face an entire horde of the things. If you don't move on to fighting bigger and stronger enemies, your experience is just going to plateau and for all practical purposes, you just STOP leveling. Over like DECADES of fighting goblins and bandits and other common enemies, maybe you'll get to level 7 or so if you're dedicated and working basically all the time. There aren't enemies around every corner though, there will be stretches of time where just, nothing happens. It even says in the DM Guide, levels 1-4 are local heroes, basically your standard for adventurers. If you don't get past that local level, traveling the lands and searching out calamities that effect more than a town, you just can't get the experience you need to push yourself past those low levels.
I like the idea that if Mollymauk hadn't been killed, Lucien's spirit would have been a recurring antagonist sort of relentlessly hunting him while possessing a variety of different people. That would have been a very ominous setup, knowing that there's this enemy out there stalking you, and they could be anybody. Kind of a Hotis+ situation. I bet that if the story had progressed that way, then either Lucien would have taken his body back and forced Molly into a different one, or Lucien would have possessed Vess Derogna.
YES! Hot Himbo Drow Boi. I really wish we could have gotten to know him a little more. Or at least learn more about his dynamic with Essek. I hope they were close, despite how different they seem to be. I hope Essek had one person he actually cared about in the Dynasty.
Oct 12, 2021 on Twitter: Me, to Matt: There’s something I’d been hoping to know more about but wasn’t addressed in the C2 Wrap-Up: Zeenoth’s corruption and Thoreau’s deal with him. Specifically, did Clara know what was really going on, or did he hide that from her? And how deep did the corruption go? Because I want to believe that he kept her in the dark, knowing she’d object to it but wanted to keep her under his thumb. And also that she was just as much a victim as her daughter, and that hopefully following the trial, he comes home to an empty house, as she and TJ left him. Matt's response: Clara was not aware of the depths it went, but she did not follow on her suspicions either. Even so, its is a complicated dynamic within the family. I imagine Thoreau’s toxic behaviors are very specific in their timing & targets, and otherwise appears a wonderful husband/father. In my mind, those revelations shook up the dynamic and allowed Clara the strength and impetus to take TJ and leave. She isn’t without her feeling of guilt for not seeing things as they were/believing him entirely, but she is trying to begin anew and make amends. ---------- So yeah, even Clara and TJ get a happy ending. And it's my belief that Clara reconnects with Beau and they start over as a family with Yasha And TJ.
@@lefterismplanas4977 No problem. As someone who had always felt that Clara was just as much a victim as her daughter, it felt cathartic to know that my belief and faith in her finding redemption was not misplaced. She certainly got to do the one thing that Thoreau will never do: ATONE. And I do hope that mother and daughter reconnect because in spite of everything, they still love each other.
@@AdamEspersona with what Marisha said, and with their interaction. I fully believe that her mother went to her as one of her first moves. Beu liked her brother, and tryed to love her mother. So I believe that Clara would definitely inform Beu of their escape from from house, and maybe even allow TJ to tutor under her if he wanted
So the Hag kept her promise. Thoreau's spawn took everything from him, and it is 100% his fault because he abused her. Out of fear of the Hag. Don't make deals with hags. On that note, if Beau had taken the Hag's deal to be disappeared, she probably would have made TJ the subject of Thoreau's demise, ruining his and Clara's lives as well...
I always thought Beau meeting her little brother was the most emotional moment. And after hearing about her cousin, I'll never not break down when she hugs little TJ. Marisha killed it this campaign.
I’ve adored Marisha for a long time now, absolutely fucking detested Beau at the start of the campaign, but that was because she was playing a petulant brat with her head so far up her own ass in her own views of authority and being instantly aggressive that it was almost unbearable to watch her make delicate conversations worse in virtually every situation by trying to lie about stuff that didn’t need to be lied about. Then she hit her stride with Darktow, embracing more of her -actual- authority and what she COULD do when she just leaned heavily into her own strengths more, and Beau, while still completely insufferable at times with the ‘but what if-dig at npc that immediately puts them on guard and cuts off the path forward’ became someone I was actually wanting to see play out as she grew into her role in the Jedi-Adjacent Cobalt Soul. So while her character really made me groan at times, I totally loved the heart Marisha put into it.
@@nerevarwolfeye4800 To be fair, her views on authority were warped and twisted without realizing it. Because of Zeenoth and Thoreau’s collaboration. She ended up assuming that the system doesn’t care, can easily be bought, and cruelty is to be expected. Also, her father was horrendous to her, making her live in a loveless house, a gilded cage. So she just embraced the idea that if everyone’s going to be cruel anyway, may as well encourage it. Easier to keep others at arm’s length so that she doesn’t end up a victim. And then she realized the truth. And from there, she truly came into her own. Taking all that into account, it really becomes so much harsher in hindsight seeing her early moments, knowing that she was screwed over and betrayed over and over and never really given guidance and acceptance. But now she can take the kindness and wisdom she’s gained and pay it forward, ensuring that no one else ends up like her or Caleb. No more children on the pyre. And she actually became more comfortable and encouraged to show her true brilliance as an intelligent and inquisitive woman. Her deductions and notes truly helped the Nein in so many ways. This whole year that she spent with the Nein was essentially a reconstruction into whom she was always meant to be.
My entire family are extroverts. I married a introvert. When we were dating, my entire family took it upon themselves to adopt him. 9 years later he is a favorite uncle to every kid. They are drawn to him. Its thanks to him i found this wonderful show.
There was a moment for Jester in the Folding Halls that I thought was so powerful and had such potential and gave some incredible insight to Jester. When they were all escaping from the dragon and Jester was the last one and she broke down a bit because she was left all alone. It just made me see the cheerful, bubbly exterior as a shell for a lonely child that had basically grown up alone. I'd gotten the serious impression that she didn't get out a lot growing up, didn't have a lot of friends, and just desperately wanted to be liked and in that moment the shell cracked and you saw a little of the inside. Obviously they ended up going a different direction and it really was never brought up, but could have been an interesting thread to tug and explore.
She did say basically that. She mostly lived in her room and would escape but was picked on. The Traveler was the only one that befriended her and sort of ended the loneliness. And her growing up and playing a joke on a lord her mom sent her away from home so she wouldn't be arrested, starts her adventure.
yeah i really picked up on that in early -mid campaign and connected a lot with her character because I was a lot like her especially when I was younger from a similar backstory. would've been interesting to hear more and go into her processing that because between that and genuine healing comes a time when you have to learn to be vulnerable and break that we didn't really see much but also not everyone want to RP that shit and sometimes it's a game and you wanna have a fun upbeat time which i totally respect.
It showed up a few times in the campaign (always making me tear up or cry) that Jester has/had a lot of internal loneliness and sadness. In a way, it seemed to be the source of her empathy. This fan song captures it very well: ruclips.net/video/o0kEnlxscsw/видео.html
1:22:58 As Liam talks about how each member of the Mighty Nein contributed to Caleb’s healing, I can’t help but think about how much Molly would have contributed. He was already zoned in on Caleb’s trauma from the Groll mines. Those would have been great late night conversations around the campfire
I think even the little bit of time and the care he showed Caleb already did his bit. There's a reason Caleb made that Transmuter's stone for him. Even the divine intervention wound up just a reroll of the raise dead that CALEB cast. And then they get Kingsley, instead of Molly. Because; "it doesn't matter who you were, it matters who you are now." And using a Transmuter's stone to ressurect someone is going to mean there are changes of some kind, right? It all sort of fits in a very poetic way, and it's because Molly helped Caleb make that first step toward forgiving himself.
2:22:07 so Matt said that innkeeper was secretly Artagan, and I realized looking back, that innkeeper had been very curious and such and even asked to smell Nila's smell bag, which is a very Artagan thing to do, and it's interesting to see that looking back
What struck me was that I noticed in the beginning that he kept describing npcs as 'wild red hair and green eyes' and I wondered if he had watched a movie or something with a bunch of redheads in it because redheads are relatively rare irl, and they just kept popping up in game. XD I had no idea they were the same person. My brain clocked the similarities, I just thought it was subconscious.
@@starwarsnerd100 He says that, but provides very little real world evidence for himself being an actual human, for instance in campaign 1 MASSIVE SPOILER Vax was talking to Gilmore and some tiny part of my brain thought his voice sounded just a little bit off but I said, no, Matt is a human and his throat might hurt or something, lo and behold 10 minutes later my heart has been ripped out and I am screaming at the screen because Matt Mercer is insane and the Gilmore was a lie. His voice being just a shade wrong was on purpose because he was an impostor, and now both Liam and I have trust issues. Lol I know he improvises things, (Like most of the City of Brass) but even the things he pulls out of his ass are ridiculously amazing and somehow accurate to world lore lol. 🤣
Pipe dream ideas for one shots: - Agents of the Cobalt Soul and the Augen Trust trying to take down a prominent member of the Cerberus Assembly (probably the Martinet Ludinus), likely all perishing in the process - The unfortunate misventures of those recurring band of bandits the M9 kept coming across - a hypothetical, all out Archmage brawl between all the major arcanists that were mentioned throughout the campaign, but never got to fully strut their stuff, like Halas, Yussa, possibly the Bright Queen herself, and maybe a couple more... (if only for the satisfaction of maybe actually killing Ickythong, if he's in the mix...) - that "Bird's of Prey"-esque team up of all the people trying to get revenge on Jester, including (but not limited to) the Hag, the dildo-hand-lady, one or more dragon turtles, and doubly undead Avantica... which would neatly roll it all into that already anticipated Darktow adventure...
Totally didn't expect the Luxon to be a real thing. I was waiting for the seemingly inevitable "Aeor did it" reveal for it, but no, it's legitimately exactly what the Dynasty thinks it is. Fragments of the original deity.
Inevitable? the Aeorian notes clearly stated "the found relic" about the item being studied, indicating beyond a doubt that it is far older than Aeor. and I do believe that Matt just told the version the Kryn believes, there might actually be another reveal later on.
What I really loved about Matt's explanation was that the Luxon is basically the deeper embodiment of one of Alan Watts' most well know quotations. Sentience is the universe's way of perceiving it self and making the act of being a meaningful one... or maybe I'm overanalysis this, but that's what this is all about, right?
@@davidbergfors6820 I'd believe it's the oldest thing around, whether the Kryn are correct that it's the original deity or whether something else entirely... Who knows, and who knows if Matt even has a defined answer to it. :D
Liam: "I'm not gonna do romance this game I think I already explored that" Caleb: *proceeds to be Aggressively, Helplessly polyamorous and overflowing with feelings and also a heartbreaker to three other wizards and a halfling in several different ways*
Honestly, with the news that there are now Warforged wandering Matt's world, I'm REALLY hoping we get to see someone play as one in Campaign 3: I'm a huge sucker for the existential "what is a soul/person" stuff that Warforged get to explore.
Fingers crossed here, too. One thing I like to point out to people who say that "robots don't belong in D&D" is that there was a quite famous story about a metal man on a quest for identity, who falls in with a bunch of oddballs and misfits and goes on a quest in a fantasy land....years before Lord of the Rings. :-D
@@aerialhead5574 Think Paul is referring to the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz, falling in with Dorothy and her troupe to meet with the wizard to ask for a heart so he'd understand what it means to be "alive".
4:02:50 So, funny thought I've seen floating around. Trent probably had the Clone spell set up for himself. Which is why he was goading Caleb into killing him. Because that would prove his manipulation worked, and also he'd survive. So the fact that he's rotting away in some hole for the rest of his days is PURE JUSTICE.
My theory is that Caleb or Astrid killing him would allow him to try and possess their body. It would a) allow him immediate revenge against an enemy and let him eliminate the threat, b) grant him extra lifespan, c) allow him to "succeed" himself into the Archmage seat on the Assembly. It makes sense that either possession or clones was his back-up plan, and why he kept trying to goad Caleb into killing him. And I 100% agree that him rotting in a dungeon and dying of natural causes, in disgrace and humiliation, is a very satisfying and fitting end instead.
@@sorchamaclabhrain1970 To clarify, if Trent dies of old age in a cell. He'll still then resurrect from the Clone spell (if he did have it set up). The justice is that, instead of it being immediate, it'd take however many years/decades for Trent to die. So he's just stuck there, waiting.
@@dude59974 good point! Though rotting in a dungeon for years also means that Beau and Caleb (and possibly Astrid) have time to hunt down and destroy the Clones.
I love how Marisha and Ashley actually spent time planning their characters futures in detail. Also, when they talked about it at the end of last game i was holding my breath for them to adopt a child and they finally said it!
I do love how the Jagantoth’s even though they didn’t become official antagonists to the M9, I do love how they were technically unofficial antagonists throughout the campaign.
@@BigKlingy or a one shot where the jaganthoths ambush the m9 and they go all evil monologue about them ruining everything and the m9 ar like"who are you?"
In addition to Shakäste and Reani's links to the group, it turns out that they're holding one of the artefacts being sought by the Cult of the Caustic Heart, there proves to be a renewed threat to the Kuatao Tribe, that one of their members is pissed off and hunting a gnome thief who stole their golden sphere at auction, and Keg just decides to smack some heads together.
... Oh my god I think Liam's put it into words. "My favorite thing about these games is that you plan all this stuff (...) and you can play and play and play, and then mid-game, just, off the cuff, something'll happen, you'll have an idea, and you'll in the moment be like *this is a real thing,* and then it just bounces back through your entire past and becomes real. Like Nott/Veth with drowning, (...) you did it in the moment."
I’m really happy Liam asked about Uk’otoa, he always had an aura of final boss about him but can we talk about how Matt ranked the Tarrasque above Uk’otoa a literal lesser god
To be fair, the Tarrasque is notorious and infamous to be ridiculously broken and unfair. Matt has some balance and fairness in mind even with hard encounters it seems.
contrary to the last campaign where while Vex will have a happy life with Percy, she miss her brother dearly, Jester has everything. She got wiser as a person, she got life long soul bound friends, her family are united, and she is adventuring with the person she loves, and possibly even go to other planes.
@@bigdream_dreambig Lol yeah, at least All (or Most) of Vex's enemies are dead, Jester and Fjord in particular are so screwed long term lol, getting attacked by Uk'otoa every month and a Hag waiting in the wings (and Jester is completely unaware the spell wore off). Not to mention Gelidon if they ever go back up north. And the random snooty Traveler follower that Jester decided to wreck for no reason lol. And that Lord she pranked way back before the beginning of the campaign who wants her dead, He's still alive. The M9 left too many enemies alive for a happy retirement. 😬
@@ienzio7795 By themselves? I think not... Now that the gang is all split up they're so screwed if we do just an impartial look at the future based on chance, encounters with Ukotoa all the time because they chose to be pirates for some reason lol. The hag sneak attack lurking in their future that may just cause severe suffering to their loved ones rather than going for the throat, plus everything else. Just the two of them alone are totally going to die eventually by one of their enemies. Particularly Ukotoa... Fjord _Barely_ survived Ukotoa when the whole group WAS together! In fact, he didn't lol.
@@mayaenglish5424 I mean, it's canon that they all still talk to each other and eventually all retire together, so idk why they would have to fight either of them alone
Oooo like some prank or new students messing with higher level magic gone awry and they have to fix a series of incidents while dodging their professors!
Reply 1 for a lighthearted romp as we get to know the characters, it ends with Caleb appearance. Reply 2 for the next part, a more dramatic and perilous adventure with lots of heart and deep character stuff. Oh yeah, that is the perfect 2 part One Shot like Search for Grog/Bob.
I don't think Caleb would want to be an archmage. Unless that's like, a teaching position, like "senior archmage of transmutation, Caleb Widowgast" and it really just means he's the best in that field and is like the top tier teacher. Caleb wants to clean up the Assembly, but he really doesn't want to JOIN it, he doesn't want to have that kind of authority. He had the chance to take Trent's seat and refused it, so I don't think he'd ever pursue that. He just wants to teach the young ones how to turn into moths and eat curtains. We could absolutely get a character who was taught BY Caleb though, that'd be interesting.
@@haku8135 To be fair, you don't need to be in the Assembly to be considered an archmage - Yussa isn't, yet he's still considered one, same with other characters from Campaign 1. The Assembly just codified it into a term of station. Given Caleb ended the campaign one level from being having access to 9th-level spells, he's practically an archmage already (funnily enough, he also basically has the ability scores of the archmage statblock, too). He might even be more powerful than some of the Assembly Archmages, too - Delilah Briarwood was Archmage of Antiquity despite only having access to, at most, 8th-level spells at that point in her life, so they might not all necessarily be at the pinnacle of wizardly power.
@@EthanKWaters All of that is true, but I'm more referring to some OFFICIAL position, or any position of power rather than just a mostly meaningless title. Not MEANINGLESS really, but like, general. Like a "title" just because he's good at magic. That isn't really a matter of accepting or not. I'm referring to a more tangible POSITION of Archmage. Something governmental or even just limited to the school, again unless they just made him the official top of the transmutation teachers. Caleb is very much one to avoid big names and renown. He just doesn't want the fame or authority. I think he would at least consider joining Allura's group though. The mages of course, not the Tal Dorei council.
@@haku8135 Again, the only place archmage is considered a title of office is within the Assembly/Empire - outside of them, it means a very powerful spellcaster typically capable of casting the most powerful spells known, a description which fits Caleb. The title usually also comes with a heavily implied warning of "do not fuck with this person". This is the commonly held understanding of what an archmage is, and what I'm pretty certain the original commenter was saying. The fact that Caleb can be called one without him getting free dental or a discount at the Invulnerable Vagrant changes nothing - by right of personal power and right of conquest, he is an archmage.
The adventure is done And the story has ended With their victories won And the folk they've befriended. They've defeated their foes and made peace with their past. They've found love and belonging and family at last. When the world's fate was on them, they didn't think twice; With a city to slay, Mighty Nein rolled the dice. It has taken a toll, But nine Nein are made whole. Now new folk we'll extole And it's their turn (their turn) (their turn).... to ROLL!!
Listening to Taliesin talk about Molly makes me realize that, using Kingdom Hearts terms, Lucien was the Somebody and Mollymauk was the Nobody and Mollymauk grew his own heart in time.
I love how Travis after all this time is still taken aback by the lengths Matt will go to to make the world they play in an actual world. It's bloody impressive, but also in no way surprising, that Matt read research papers on time travel just because there was a possibility that one character would attempt to dabble with it. It's entirely on brand for him. But at the same time... you are nuts, Matt. :)
Same with Jester and the baked goods. I can't imagine those things not being part of their characters given how much of their story ended up involving those elements. It's great.
M9 as camp counselors. what could possibly go wrong? parents when their kids return home - "how did you end up with a tattoo?!" kids - "go fuck yourself!"
@@Redwood4 balancing combat for two lvl 16 chars and 5 lvl 1s must be fun so on the oppsite sode of the room you see..... 1 young dragon and... uhm... 3 kobolds
@@pixelpause3693 but picture this, dnd inception where at the camp they have a night of fun games and they play a dnd one shot to get familiar with spells/combat tactics
So I apparently got this thing called a "bookhangover" over this a whole week after I finished this campaign. Turns out a book hangover is a whole psychological thing with science backing it. I feel like a part of myself is gone now idk what to do. I guess just speaks to how good this was.
I feel like if any dumb kid ever bullies anyone of the M9 kids, pray to whatever god they worship that the rest of them don't find out because these aunts and uncles will fuck shit up to defend their bbys and their friends' bbys.
@@blinkin304 I feel like there would definitely be cases of near murder, and it wouldn't even phase the m9 kid because it's just their family, it's nothing new to them, at most an annoyance because "mooooommmm, I like this one!" Right after they get banished
Undoubtedly they would be terrifying, one could find every piece of dirt on you, and the other could bury you, your family, and your extended family under the dirt.
I find it interesting that both Beau and Scanlan had very similar arcs in relation to romance. Both started off very attracted to Ashley's character and were very crass and then backed off for a while and came back in a much more wholesome way.
My husband and I both have a bee in our bonnet that the nein never thanked Pumat for ALMOST DYING to help them. I guess this band of lovable, chaotic assholes don’t have the same “thank you” card Etiquette.
@@dwilliams7377 I mean they were kinda busy stopping a megalomaniac dressed as their dead friend trying (and succeeding) to control a living tentacle flesh island...
@@deffdefying4803 Technically Molly was dressed as Lucien in his body. Kingsley is closer to the one dressed as Molly even though its still originally Lucien's body.
They had a theory that she was handing her tavern over to herself as a different identity but never proved it or had hard evidence other than her being shifty
I am so thankful to Matt for finally going behind the curtain a little bit. I get in the occasional argument with people who idolize him a little too much and think he has literally everything prepared, where the truth OF COURSE is that he's just absolutely amazing at playing on the fly. His preparation is STILL out of this world. It doesn't make things any less impressive that he doesn't pre-build optional dungeons and fleshes out the places the party is going when he learns they're going to go there, just like the rest of us. Matt is incredible because he just absolutely never goes behind the curtain, and never tells ANYONE (including his wife and best friends) about the unanswered questions. He just lets it stew, and takes notes, and lets the theories run. It's incredibly well done, but I'm just so thankful he broke that a little bit today to show us that he in fact did not know how the game was going to end when he started it. He's a normal human being, just like the rest of us, and we need to stop putting these unrealistic standards on him (and by proxy, on ourselves).
Exactly. The man is a master of his craft, of that there is no doubt, but it's all smoke and mirrors. He plans a great deal, but he can absolutely be caught off guard like everyone else, the chaotic nature of the party taking the story in places he genuinely didn't expect or prepare for on occasion. He just knows how to keep things close to his chest and play off the illusion that he's planned it all out regardless, being able to pull out scenarios, characters, and quests out of his ass on the fly and make it seem like it was all part of the master plan while he's secretly figuring out how to get the narrative back on track.
Did anyone else realize that Reani and Essek were kind of opposites in how the Nein affected them, but at the end both outcomes made them arguably better people? I love that so much!!!
I love how when Caleb is mentioning the room's of the tower and he says "Astrid's bedroom" everyone's face remains the same except for Laura's eyebrows lmao.
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HEY, there might be SPOILERS under the thing
0:20 Fully improvised NordVPN ad
1:40 Nordiverse season 1 wrap-up
2:50 Other news
5:05 Opening cinematic
6:50 Arc One: Come Together
8:05 Who is on the Tal’dorei Council?
9:10 How much did Taliesin know about Lucien?
13:35 The movie is called Fallen
14:35 Was Mollymauk undead in any way?
15:40 What was Fjord’s whole deal?
19:35 Who was the skeleton in the basement of the Leaky Tap?
22:10 Who did the Sending Stone connect to?
24:30 What was Yasha doing when she kept leaving M9?
27:30 Back to the Sending Stone
28:40 What happened when Liam ordered Sam to be a goblin rogue?
31:10 Sam’s name games
32:45 What would've happened if they hadn't decided to do crimes?
34:10 Secret Matt Colville non-cameo
35:05 What was up with Gustav?
37:20 Shakaste
42:50 Arc 2: The Bad Guys
43:30 What did Kiri build?
45:15 Did becoming parents change Fjord and Jester?
48:15 Spectating Molly’s death
51:15 What were the creatures in that mosaic?
55:35 Divine Interventions
57:15 Wow, that game sounds really fun
57:45 What was the Plank King's relationship with the Cobalt Soul?
1:01:10 Improvised character quirks
1:02:40 How did Nott feel about Nila?
1:04:50 Real life Luc
1:05:25 Keg
1:10:50 The Bright Queen's Favor
1:12:25 Did Matt have to rework his plans when they followed the worms?
1:14:00 The Chair
1:14:30 What was evil Essek supposed to be like?
1:18:30 How to make your players love an NPC
1:19:25 Did Caleb ever come close to confessing his love for Jester?
1:21:40 Widofjord drop
Everyone loving Jester
1:26:55 Jester and Orly
1:28:20 What would have happened if they hadn't given up the Luxon?
1:32:40 The fate of the Xhorhaus (Exandria's first influencer house)
1:34:25 Who did Caleb instinctually kill on sight?
1:36:25 What is Essek’s brother like?
1:39:25 Nila
1:45:05 Break Starts
1:54:45 Art Montage
2:07:45 Break Ends Arc Four: Swords and Angels
2:08:35 What was Yasha and Obann's history together?
2:13:50 What did Trent want with Yasha?
2:15:35 Was there any connections between The Laughing Hand and Aeor?
2:19:20 Did you ever think Artagan was evil?
2:20:05 When did Sprinkle become Artagan? Which NPC's were Artagan?
2:23:10 How does Beau move forward with the Cobalt Soul?
2:26:05 Yasha the housewife
2:30:50 What was in Gelidon's cave?
2:32:55 What would happen if they'd released Halas?
2:36:40 Could Fjord have intimidated Uk'otoa
2:40:00 Caduceus knows he's in the game
2:41:00 Reani
2:46:20 Arc Five: Family Ties
2:48:30 Marisha references an event from C1E27 as if it happened recently
2:50:15 How does the hag feel about Jester?
2:51:55 What was up with all of the corrupt forests?
2:57:00 When did Beau fall in love with Yasha?
2:59:00 When did Yasha fall in love with Beau?
3:02:30 How would Veth’s relationship with the group have changed if she hadn't broken her curse?
3:06:00 The time travel plan
3:10:15 What was planning for Caleb's time travel ambitions?
3:13:15 The tower's rooms
3:15:35 Puzzling through a music reference
3:16:20 Does Beau plan on saving her brother?
3:20:45 SPURT
3:21:45 Arc Six: Weird Magic
3:23:00 What happened to Henry Crabgrass?
3:24:45 Plans to kill Caleb and Beau
3:26:00 What were the mechanics of the eye tattoos?
3:30:20 What happened to Devexian? (WARFORGED HYPE)
3:31:15 What were the blue bubbles in Aeor?
3:33:30 What was the Luxon?
3:38:10 Where will Jester and the Traveler explore?
3:41:00 What will Jester and Fjord do with their lives?
3:42:45 Jester gets penetrated
3:43:25 A?
3:44:40 What would have happened if Essek and Caleb broke time?
3:48:50 What were the statues sitting in the middle of Eiselcross?
3:49:50 What were the barbs or the Barbed Fields?
3:50:50 What was up with the ice spider?
3:51:40 Would Trent have helped them if they called?
3:55:50 Who broke Caleb out of the sanitorium?
3:57:45 Who was Dulen Treversky?
3:59:25 Was that one orc Fjord’s dad?
4:01:50 Was Vax watching M9's exploits?
4:03:15 Autotuned Trent
4:03:55 How did Jester’s parents end up?
4:05:30 The Tal'dorei Coucil
4:07:35 Nothing but respect for my Coin Mistress
4:09:00 Retirement one-shot
4:11:00 Episode Ends
Sam’s flask has a picture of Veth on it with a Looney Toons background that says "That's all folks"
Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
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Thank you
The concept that the title “Orphan Maker” bothers Yasha so much she wants to actively make LESS orphans is the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen in my life AGG
The chat was literally screaming orphan taker
Because Sam said it
... But what if she made them orphans in the first place. 😬
"There's more than one way to make less orphans."
-Anakin Skywalker
I'm still surprised Yasha didn't take the new title Chainbreaker.
Taliesin's character pitch for Molly really was just 'no thoughts, head empty,' huh
I mean ultimately a DM's dream come true. "Oh I now have 100% say in how your character came to be..."
Gotta really trust your DM for this kind of move definitely!!
@@matthewpaugh7741 oh god I’d be so happy if one of my players did that, I would FUCK up their character so much I’d be so great
Its just the start of every rpg ^^
I get the feeling that if Molly was being created now, he'd be a Reborn, from the Ravenloft book.
"No soul, body empty" -Tal
I absolutely love that Matt's job includes researching things ranging from freaking time travel to the lifespan of crabgrass. His browser history must look wild, lol!
True for all dms in my own experience
@@Sam..123 "Can spiders smell?"
(Turns out they can, with special little hairs on their legs!)
Mines spans,”Barcelona Architecture,” and,”How do muskets work?”
@@dustymooneye5858 Also, spiders make milk, and are milked for their venom!
😂😂 I'm sure my FBI agent is constantly confused by my search especially when I'm searching DnD related things. I searched could a Orca get high and Napalm in the span of 5 minutes
It just now occurred to me how much Artagan resembles Peter Pan, and the irony that grownup Jester concludes her story by running off to be a pirate.
Holy shit!!! XD I’m telling my buddy this, thank you for the observant!
Whoooa, that is trippy! Great connection you made there
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a pirate’
Because we all remember that time when Peter Pan slowly and contentedly choked the life out of one of the lost boys just for kicks.
@@JuuB406 In fairness, knowing OG!Peter Pan, that is entirely in-character.
2:14:07 In hindsight this makes Caduceus's roast of Trent so much deeper because Trent probably used this in that moment, expecting Caduceus to be hateful of him like everyone else, only to find not only is Caduceus the only one in the room who neither hates nor fears him but also that Cad genuinely considers Trent the biggest fool he's met and means every word he says
I love Cad so much
For Trent as well, like.. He always has to be feared, looked up to, have everyone know how smart or dangerous or powerful he is and yet Cad truly saw him only as a damaged fool
Oh shiiiiiit. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
When I see a comment about Cad with 666 likes I fear that talesin has become too strong
I love the difference between Travis, Laura's IRL husband, being utterly TERRIFIED by the idea of Vex being Coinmistress, and Taliesin, who is in total proud husband Percy mode
Some DMs: "I'm going to look at how rivers really work to be world accurate"
Matt: Researches the lifespan of crabgrass.
Also Matt: Looks up time travel theories to make sure that potential plot thread is realistic
@@shiluk84 that's gonna give him such good material going forward
@@shiluk84 Travis’s “of course you did” comment and I knew he was flashing back to the TM episode about how Matt did more research on ships than Travis “my character has a sailor background” did because Travis thought they would be landlocked the entire campaign or it wouldn’t be an important thing.
I also Google questions when sitting on the toilet
Well that first question isn't something matt looked up, judging from that map of Wildmount on my wall...
I absolutely adore the image of Beau and Yasha’s domesticity...but I can just imagine the Storm Lord behind the Divine Gate with his arms folded, just angrily drumming his fingers against one bicep, grumbling “Put a LOT of work into that one...and now she wants to play housewife.”
This comment made me ugly laugh 🤣 out loud
Well, to be fair, that would be after she already has used the Stormlord's gifts to essentially safe the world, so its not likethe divine manipulation he invested into her didn't have a worthy pay-off
On the outside, Yasha comes off as a badass right off a heavy metal album cover, but inside she's just the sweetest little cinnamon roll.
@@elbruces a soft marshmallow like Jester said
"And she can't even cook a steak right right!"
They missed the most important question of all: has Marius killed anyone yet?
Fucking golden
no comments?🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
Laura being so mad at having spent money on Sprinkle when Matt was gonna make it happen anyway was hilarious lol her Vex was def showing
That's the Tal'Dorei Ambassador of Coin for you
They don't call her the Coin Mistress for nothing.
Especially how instant it was. Like suddenly nothing else mattered. She wasted money, damn it!
@@verbfrombonsai8852 the Mistress of Bling
Her laura bailey was showing
Hearing that there's a text thread for how to kill beau and Caleb feels very much like Batman having a plan how to kill each member of the justice league.
I'm so glad someone else had the same thought oh my god.
How to kill Caleb: fight like Beau.
How to kill Beau: fight like Caleb
Except instead of one (justifiably) paranoid bat flavored man, the whole league goes “yeah Superman has a lexcorp tm on the back of his neck, we should prooobably have a fail safe for that
I don't want to be annoying but batman have a plan to stop the Justice League, not kill 😜
Same with Prof. X and the x-men
"What were the terms of my pact with Satan?"
"It was a freebie because Satan was a BIG Molly stan."
"Fair."
This one's for the quote books
One shot idea: Everyone plays as a member of the Unlucky Bandits
I would watch that.
All base stats lol
There were even originally Nine of them
Well … to the top you go
Hahahahah
In a few thousand years someone is gonna find all of Matts notes and think its some ancient civilizations mythology
Ive thought about this. As many people that play ttrpgs, at least one dm is going to have their notes make it into some future archeaology dig and cause some massive confusion lol
It IS an ancient civilizations mythology though!
With every story we tell, whether games or historical events, or tv shows, or web series, we are creating our own myths and legends.
So Perceus and Achilles were just some Greek nerds overpowered OCs
similar vibes to people thinking Atlantis is part of Greek Mythology when its really just an allegorical book written by Plato
I spit out my coffee when Sam said his character was trying to be motherly in the beginning of the game BUT SHE ALSO MURDERED A BABY.
That is a definite cruel irony.
Never said a good mother. Just motherly ... Mothers can be monsters too.
Canabalism is motherly for scorpions lol
It was just an abortion.
Most women nowadays have abortions before they have their "real babies" so it's not that big a deal...many mothers have murdered a baby.
We need a one shot where everyone plays one of Jester’s enemies and are desperately trying to get their revenge.
I can imagine them forming a bizzare villain league against her lol
Alternatively, they play fans/apprentices to Jester's art career who just think she's eccentric and start bumping into these nemeses who show how absolutely crazy she legitimately is in all the best ways.
@@host. and they all fall victim to her trickery
I'm imagining it'd be Isharnai, Golddick lady, the guy who she talked to while the Nein killed his friends, the dude she trapped out on a balcony (twice) and the janitor of the temple she defaced
It’s like an episode of Super Friends and somewhere in a swamp “Meanwhile at the LEGION OF DOOM!”.
the thumbnail looks like the most awkward family photo. like
-Ashley’s face
-Travis, Sam, Maisha AND Liam are all blinking
-Laura not even looking at the camera
-Taliesin looking like he’s about to go riding into the sunset
Yas, I came to comments to see if anyone else noticed. They’re such goofballs. 😆
@@Midori_Seabreeze yeah😂
Matt giving off major "the adult in the photo who's trying to take this seriously while getting bunny-eared" energy.
Marisha as the creative lead: "Oh wow that photo is bad, probably the worst one from the shoot.......... yea, lets go with that one."
Y'know with literally half the people in the photo having their eyes closed, you'd think it was intentional, but no, it probably wasn't. They're just A Mess™ (affectionate)
Ashley always defaults to “she would visit brothels” when asked what her characters do during their absences lmao
Hey, Pike and Yasha just want to have some fun while on the road, nothing wrong with that.
And you can bet that Fearne will continue the tradition
@@leojamesclune1730 Fearne can just pick up some corrupt guards if she wants to haha
I dunno, this answer seemed to boil down to "when she gets overwhelmed, she shuts down and runs away, and basically reverts to being a wild animal with some people skills. Which doesn't seem totally unrealistic for someone with severe PTSD.
I really hope Sam plays a big character like a goliath or something in campaign 3 so he can have a really small cup.
Yes! But also, a class that doesn’t fit at all, like sorcerer or ranger.
Yes, please!!
@@OneColeGuy Man, a Goliath Wild Magic Sorcerer Played by Sam? Where do i sign?
Yes! I want Liam to play a tiny character next to him though... Oh my god imagine if Sam played a goliath druid and Liam played a halfing barbarian or something
Sam can be a bugbear ranger, and Liam can be the awakened wolf warlock that is his beast companion.
The group having a chat specifically designed to discuss how to kill Beau and Caleb should they turn evil is some batman level sh*t and I love it
I'd like it more if they'd realized how much more effective Yasha is at tanking Beau's physical damage and resisting her stuns (Con save) than resisting Caleb's Polymorph or Slow (Wis save). Also Sentinel to shut down Beau's mobility.
They said they were going to have Yasha go after Caleb, which sounds crazy to me, unless they were just going to have the clerics (try to) Banish Beau until Caleb was subdued or otherwise dealt with. (Banish is a Cha save, unlike Polymorph or Hold Person).
But yeah it's still pretty cool; I loved Matt's reaction to knowing that had been a thing, as well as Marisha's. 3:24:50
@@Peter_Cordes well, the issue is that Caleb is a powerhouse regardless. You send Yasha after Caleb so that she can drop him in 2 turns with divine fury and wings, while tanking beau.
Fjord only needs to counterspell once to neuter Caleb, and Yasha deals 100+ damage over 2 turns.
@@shanedsouza189 Activating her wings takes her Action; only worth doing at the start of a long fight, or on a turn where she doesn't have enough movement to get to melee range.
Other than that, yeah fair point about raw damage to burn down Caleb's HP quickly.
If Beau and Caleb aren't next to each other, though, she'd still want to end her turn next to Beau for Sentinel op attacks. (Step of the Wind for disengage wouldn't prevent that.)
But attacking Caleb then running to Beau might mean giving Caleb a chance to cast at her with War Caster, potentially with Polymorph into a tortoise (to frighten Fjord :P) or a whale, although a whale can still bite. (Something with lots of HP couldn't be broken by incidental AoE, so would cost a dispel from Jester.)
Fjord with Banishing Smite + Divine Smite could put the hurt on Caleb pretty seriously, if either attack hit his AC20 with Shield. The Banish happens automatically if the target has less than 50 HP after the attack, no save.
Then Fjord would be a target for Beau while holding concentration on the banish.
And it would use up 2 of his warlock spell slots. At Warlock 11, he has 3 total that are usable for Counterspell, but before that only 2 5th-level slots, the rest only being 1st-level paladin slots. And if they weren't at full strength when Beau+Caleb turned... Yeah might take some Yasha damage to get Caleb's HP down into range for Banishing Smite's 5d10 + weapon damage to bring it below 50 without a divine smite, without Cad's Path to the Grave.
(I don't think they ever lined up a Path to the Grave combo with a full Banishing Smite + Divine Smite + hexblade's curse, even in the final battle. If that ever crit, it could insta-kill Caleb from full to negative 99 HP.)
@@Peter_Cordes I think while it would have been hard for any of them to kill their own party members that late into the M9s journey, it would have been twice as hard for Yasha to have another person she loves die especially by her own hand in yasha vs beau.
@@themandomercgaming Its one of those things where the fact this is a game and not a story means you have to do certain things. I imagine the players would have killed them if they had to because thats just how the game is played. Story-wise though, if you took gameplay out of it, I almost feel like Yasha would not have let anyone hurt Beau regardless of the practicalities. Given how much weight Ashley put into the guilt of having nearly killed Beau once while being mindcrontrolled and all the other guilt and shame her character had burdened herself with. Hurting Beau, or even just allowing Beau to be harmed probably would have just absolutely ruined Yasha given her history. Like full on Caleb style mental break.
Man if Molly never died I would love to see that interaction that Lucian would demand his body back and Molly be like no fuck you this is mine.
i also always it interesting to consider in the grand scheme of things if Mollymauk survived and we never had Caduceus in the M9. Namely, what would happen with Fjord if he never had guidance from Caduceus to accept the Wildmother in place of Uk'otoa? Would they have managed to free Yasha from Obann as quickly as they did or at all before he started breaking the fane? Interesting things to think about
@@jamesbarton3017 From what I know atleast with Fjord he would have gone full warlock freeing Uk’otoa I think Travis mentioned it somewhere
my big 'what-if' idea with Lucien and Molly is if Molly never died, Cree would've taken Lorenzo's body to use to revive Lucien,
Marisha's story about TJ was heart-breaking, I hope her and her family is doing okay
I mean, Spurt could probably be considered the fan favorite.
He’s the only one who’s been fully put into a video game due to fan support.
Wait seriously? Which game??
Idle Champions!
I've added just about everyone to my character pool in XCom 2. By "just about everyone" I mean: VM, M9, all guest characters, a few NPCs, and the characters from most of the one-shots (all the ones that could exist in Exandria, so no bears, fairy tale characters, or Doom demons, but just about all the rest).
@@evilbob840 They die so easily in x2 tho, Id be scared to put them in the field lol
Ikr? He is also a licensed mini. If you buy the little kobold pack it has Spurt in it.
I desperately want to see a one shot with Yasha, Beau and Caleb on their way to visit Jester and Fjord, and Beauyasha's kids are like moody teens who think their parents are super lame, but then trouble starts on the road so they end up stopping in a bunch of places and meeting up with the rest of the M9, and the kids slowly discover that their family are legit superheroes.
Luc smugly joining them with his crossbow like “I TOLD you guys my mom kicks ass”.
Please write this.
AW YESSSS
There is no way to demuscle Yasha. They got to at least suspect a badass past
@@yiklongtay6029 Muscle loss is real, but even then, "I used to be a strongwoman at a circus" is a pretty valid excuse, and much more believable than "I killed demons, aberrations and shit for a living" (it is also close to being true)
This puts the Sad Matt "Please stop breaking my storyline" flask gag in a whole new light.
You can't break something that is made to bend.
@@ashleyhoughton8592 I mean, you can, but I understand the point you're trying to make in a less literal sense.
The amount of lore matthew keeps in his head boggles my mind
I'd bet he has a lot of notes and not just his mind.
It believable. Creative people have so many ideas just need a way to filter them. The fact he puts them down as notes helps alot.
Matt is much better at taking notes than I am and has people helping him out (for example, Dani) but as a DM myself it's easy to remember things about your world when it's one of the only things you think about
@@DMAN4219 this I think a lot of committed world builders spend a lot of time exploring ideas to fill out concepts. You think about the details a lot when you are just doing your daily things. Matt is clearly incredibly good at this but I think a lot of the other skills he has are the ones people should be praising for his world building!
Keen mind.
Ok so in the art montage there is like a point where there’s a TON of shadowghast art and the knowledge that Liam chooses the art for the montages makes that so much funnier!
Imagine a "Halls of Halas" campaign module. That would be sick.
I mean, the Happy Fun Ball is basically an otherworldly megadungeon like Undermountain in FR. And then anytime the party figuratively comes up for air it turns out they've Rip Van Winkle'd into the future!
Now this brings a smile to my face
I really want Matt to write a 'yawning portal' type book that is just a lot of dungeons with fun backstories and things to explore and find
Take my money!
They haven't asked if Yussa is a golden Dragon :/
Jesus, Laura, a two day labour? Holy shit, mad respect.
1:12:50
See, I loved their entry into Xhorhas cuz Xhorhas just screams 'Late Game Area' but they didn't care, someone took Yeza
Hell yes. This.
I love that when Travis asked if the orc was his dad, the entire twitch chat erupted with GORGUG!!!!!!
Erupted with *WHAT?!*
@@sillyjellyfish2421 it's a Fantasy High reference lol, one of the PCs named Gorgug, who's also a half orc, always asks random people if they're his dad
bullshit plot twist: yussa is just arthur aguefort which is why he's sometimes unavailable .CHRONOMANCY.
gorgug realizes that HE was the dad all along!!!
@@laige8533 Maybe the real dad was the streams we watched along the way
I remember seeing a tumblr post years ago about how Claudia was from the dynasty. That was some real detective shit.
I still love how most of the Mighty Nein had a plan to kill each other if any of them betrayed, then Matt freaked out because THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED WITH 9 EYES
Really appreciate Matt near the end reminding everyone in the audience, especially us DMs, that he's human. Not every ruin is fleshed out. Not every room in the happy fun ball has full lore, mechanics and architecture written down and ready to go. It's ok to have fun in the moment sometimes and it's ok to wait until players confirm an interest in something to deepen and/or really create it. We want the illusion of an entire world in our brains, we don't need to actually laboriously make something that our players will only explore 0.42% of.
It's part of the fun for the DM too. When you're just reading the script it feels a bit like you're babysitting. But when you read the room and see what tickles your players and react to it by fleshing out the bits that matter to them in a way that makes it fun for everyone, that's what makes it exciting and fulfilling. Give and receive and go with the flow kind of situation. It's almost like you're having sex using your minds.
But if you develop the world, then you can use it better in multiple campaigns, or even books, and it will feel much more real, not like rendering Matrix. A good GM is more than "just a human".
It's the truth and it's hard but important to remember. Sometimes you have to think of it like a videogame world that only gets fully rendered in the direction that the player is currently looking to save on memory space. Or like when there's a map with fog of war on - you flesh out the bits where they go, and then wherever they've been stays fleshed out, but you don't need to know every single thing under that fog.
This.
Very very this comment.
This also is important to players who expect their DMs to have an entire world, lore, languages, customs, etc. memorized on game one so they can literally travel anywhere and get content
17 years later Caleb bends time and ultimately finds out that his parents are…
On the Tal Dori Council!
*were* WERE on the council
@@philkovach948 and it was Caleb’s questions that got them killed. AGAIN
Were*
"there is now a slew of freshly awoken aeormatons"
sam, making his character for campaign 3: it's free real estate
I don't think he's an aeormaton though
@@privpi no he is im pretty sure
bc thats what it says on the wiki so
@@cm5061 Where does this i formation come from? From a backstory point that can't be true if his creator build him 2 years ago. Is there any official confirmation for that
@@privpi idk man thats just what it said on the wiki and i decided to do a funny
@@privpi I don't THINK he is, but it would be easy enough to do. If his creator built him out of parts that she found of destroyed Aeormatons, he'd BE an Aeormaton, but also not, depending on if she only repaired what was there and due to his missing memories he THOUGHT she built him, or if she ACTUALLY built something new out of the parts.
Taliesin really pulled off the "I lost my memory and decided to be an adventurer", what a madman
adongetit
@@flimpeenflarmpoon1353 its a classic cliche for when someone couldn't bother with writing a character backstory. they say the character lost their memory because reasons and just suddenly decided to become an adventurer.
At least he had the decency to include some specific hooks based on the tattoos and class and stuff, great execution overall.
Personally I think it’s a great story hook provided you’ve provided the DM certain seeds. Molly’s tattoos, waking up in a grave, his character abilities and the phrase “MT/empty” are all hints that have the potential to be compelling storylines in a campaign. What it definitely requires though is a lot of trust and respect between the DM and player.
@@tiredjediknight3110 yeah its the kind of backstory that is a gift for a DM like Matt, but can be infuriating for the wrong DM.
I went back and watched when Nott used the “Bren” name and Liam’s eyes popped way out of his head
What episode and time pls?
@@BMagor57 Ep. 21 @ 28:38
Liam is truly on another level with immersing himself in the role. Makes me appreciate the cast all the more, especially Liam! I also appreciate Paige for the timestamp and Artemis P for the video recommendation.
So I felt super validated when Bren’s name came out because that was the moment I actually guessed it haha. He never really gave false names while everyone else threw them around like party favors, which already had me thinking Caleb was a false name because he was the most paranoid and cautious of the group. And his reaction in that moment blared all kinds of alarms in my head. I watched it a few times, and was pretty sure it was because that was his name. One of the very few things I actually guessed right!
Just went back and watched it, dude freaks the fuck out! He full on just disassociates for like 5 minutes!
"Trying to figure out what you were up to, what your connections were, how much you knew."
Oh no. Hot boi. You thought they had connections.
I'm in love with Essek.
Essek: There must be a logical explanation for how this happened. What is their game?
M9: Lol, Lmao.
Sam perfectly described the best thing about the mighty nein when he said “they showed people it’s okay to screw up
For a unique of a group that the mighty nien are they still work as a classic dnd adventuring crew. They’re not heroes. Their adventures that get way over their heads with the world and come out of it doing heroic things.that’s at least why I love them so much
Yep, cancel courts of justice
The best thing is they intentionally chose a picture where over half the cast had their eyes closed for the thumbnail
Mica: "Reani was such a positive force of good, energy and cuteness, and she survived an encounter with a dragon!"
Deborah Ann Woll: "hold my Happy Fun Ball..."
Tiny gnome who kills a dragon after everyone else just ran. What a legend.
Reani wasn't anything special
@@idleoz21 I liked her. 🤷
@@Xiatter congratulations
@@idleoz21 extremely negative response, 0/10
Yasha meets the M9:
they get the circus disbanded, get the leader arrested for murder, kill her coworker, get her kidnapped, and get her BFF Molly killed..
yea, it was a tough go..
what if the reason she actually stayed was because of that shame spiral? In her mind she deserved it? its 4 am im sorry
"Honestly, the Jester and Artagan relationship is very much crossing into Doctor Who territory"
My god, how did I never noticed this before? It's straight up the relationship between Amy and Eleven. The main difference being Artagan didn't disappear for most of her life. It has the same level of wholesome fairy tale energy and creepy toxic influence that will lead Jester to her doom.
Not to mention the almost sexual nature of their relationship
@@primarilydaniel137 bruh
@@primarilydaniel137 Yup, there is definitely the same childhood crush which evolved into a weird sexual tension with a being who can't really reciprocate but somehow does feel the same.
@@bdletoast09 I think it comes down to loving the person on the inside, but not in a sexual tension sort of way. More like an uncle way. Not...OMG okay, I'm going to shut up now, I'm making this worse...
Amy did just fine for herself in the long run.
1:20:00 Ashley to Liam: "don't make eyes at her! (Marisha) She's mine now!"
Meanwhile, Matt, Marisha's actual real life husband: 👁️👄👁️
🤮
@@true_plays_games
Jesse, please grow up.
You've clearly been hating on the show since Mid-Campaign 1. It's time to grow up now.
Your toxicity is more vocal within the community than you actually enjoying the content they make, and the way you approach it is wildly childish.
Matt and Marisha clapped at the same time which was funny
Oh man the Thelyss brothers being the stereotype "Loner, prodigy, magic nerd" vs. "The himbo, warrior, athletic boi" makes me so happy. I wonder how close they were? Do we think Essek would try to keep in contact with his brother once he had to go on the run? Was there anyone else in the Dynasty he would have even missed? I'm imaging a super sad timeline where the BQ sends Verin to hunt down Essek and bring him back. Did Den Thelyss get in trouble when Essek was reviled to be a traitor? Wasn't their mother the Head of their Den!? She definitely seemed the type to throw her kid under the bus if he got in trouble, but would Verin have disowned him too?
Hey friend, good news! If you don't mind reading, there's a TON of stories on AO3 that focus on all that. "Ruins and Romance", for example, is a good one so far (focuses first on the Aoer explorations between Caleb and Essek, but Himbo Verin is definitely there a lil later). I'm sure there are tons more like it. Cheers
The wrap up had very little info about Essek in general, especially post M9 adventures
@@Randomness823 LOL, I'mdefinitely an AO3 fan. I think I've read almost everything with Essek in it. I'll have to make sure I've found that one. Thanks for the recommendation!
@@heathervontater5726 fans are making their own canon via fics. Really interesting to see what they come up with lol
@@darkroselight3835 of course!! I might have spent the final arc devouring Shadowgast fics like I needed it to live. Definitely know a couple good ones lol
I feel like with Vex now confirmed as the Master of Commerce, as well as being Grand Mistress of the Grey Hunt/ a rich De Rolo, her favoured terrain has become gold pools.
She knows where Scrooge McDuck is at all times.
@@Zombiewithabowtie she spoke to him about gold vault contractors
Don't forget her another tiles of being the champion of Pelor and the 7th star of Whitestone.
Didn't Scanlan change Percy's memory about her title so its now "The Gray Hut"?
@Jim Tent
What?
Dude, the M9 reintroduced an entire race back into the world, that’s so cool!
I hope they'll update the playable races for EGTW with them.
As soon as Devexian was introduced I got super excited to potentially see Warforged in campaign 3. It also makes me wonder if someone will be playing one in the next campaign, as they have alluded to already having the characters made, and possibly even played some of the campaign since they are prerecording still.
@@frostbound Would love to see a Warforged clockwork soul sorcerer. it would make so much sense
@@frostbound I predicted that Warforged would be an option after Devexian was made whole.
@@frostbound A warforge circle of the forge druid sent by Devexian to record human emotion and the animals of exandria for unknown reasons
Yes. Darktow one shot where everyone plays a crewmember of Kingsley Tealeaf's crew
Kingsley's Krew! I'm so here for that
"I am your captain, drink of my grog. Long may I command!"
Kingsley promptly hired a group of bandits who were constantly looking over there shoulders. Kingsley and the bad luck bandits take what they think to be an easy score, looting a resort island. Decent security, but they’ve handled worse. First half of the one shot is then wrecking house and taking what they can. The M9 coincidentally arrive back at their island, celebrating the retirement of the last of the troupe (let’s be honest though, Caleb tutors everyone he thinks has even a mote of potential till his last breathe). Rest of the one shot is the crew of The Lucky King trying to slink away
Yes please!
And one of them secretly know the red woman
Can we appreciate that Caleb’s Time Travel plan was REALLY GOOD. Like, I can poke holes in shit, but that was VERY well thought out to have worked with as little repercussions as possible.
Which is why I was confused why he didn't follow through with it. Saving his parents was such a noble goal, it wouldn't have changed anything but the fate of 2 of only 3 people in the world he cared about outside the Mighty Nein
@@dedf15 I think for Caleb it wasn't about whether or not the plan would've worked. 20 intelligence will give you a LOT of wiggle room to make that happen, the problem was that Caleb was holding onto a past that was very long ago, and trying to revert the sins he committed would do nothing but put a band-aid on a gashing wound. It was about the principle that no one should wield that power, especially for his own minimal gains.
Its the same reason why Essek refused to do it, he knows that the magic behind it will eventually hurt more people than it saves and that the original sins he committed wont just go away afterwards, he'll still have to carry the burden of that initial decision, going back in time will just ensure that they'd never be able to forgive themselves for what they did.
@@dedf15
I think that the idea is that you can't play god. You can't have this "fix everything wrong that ever happened" tool at your disposal, without growing extremely arrogant, corrupt, and detached.
I could do anything I want. Doean't work out? Go back again and do it differently. Go kill a child to see how that'd feel, and undo it the next day. Your relationship with anyone becomes less significant. You can always refriend them, or change it up.
I think that was Caleb accepting his humanity. Accepting that he can't fix everything, that he doesn't - and shouldn't - have control. This is the man who rejected a role in the assembly in order to teach transmutation. This is the man who realized he'll die of old age, and can't be with Essek. He could've pursued immortality - he's high level enough to cast clone, and will grow even more powerful as time went on.
This campaign explored wizardry very deeply. Its most defining chacteristic is the endless pursuit of power, whether for good or for evil, and how it makes you a radically different being than the rest of the people around you. A god among men, whether good or evil.
That disintegrate spell was Caleb saying no.
I wonder how inspired by Steins;Gate that plan was
@@dedf15 He explained in this wrap up some practical reasoning: Trent could have had someone speak with dead with the corpses and find out it wasn't Caleb's real parents, or something else that Caleb couldn't account for, and if anything like that went wrong, it could really fuck things up, and he just wasn't willing to take that risk.
Yasha being like “I want to be your Yeza” was one of the most amazing moments ever
it's both super awesome and sweet that the Nein hold up Yezza as a gold standard of partners because he really is lol
It makes a good deal of sense since Yezza and Yasha were actually pretty similar in many ways already. Could easily see Yasha looking at Yezza’s character and just thinking thats what she’d like to be after all the pain and violence was done. It’s also kind of hilarious how incredibly wholesome and sweet Beau and Yasha’s relationship turned out to be just in general.
@@Direwolf181 and even more so knowing Matt said Yeza is probably the NPC closest to his own personality. Think it was in an episode of Talks but can't remember.
These people are such wholesome and admirable role models, I wish I'd found Critical Role and their influence sooner.
I always love thinking about what max level characters do after the campaign is over and it’s just so funny to me to imagine some quant pirate crew sailing up to rumble cusp to go for an easy score only to find one of the most dangerous groupings of mortals to be found on that side of the planet.
would be even funnier if it was the unlucky bandits
@@crowberrii I wanna bet the unlucky bandits became part of Kingsleys crew
Leveling is so weird in world for DnD. NPC's can spend thier entire lives adventuring and only ever hit level 5. While PC's can get from 1 to 20 in a year of their campaign.
@@emmarod8746 I think it comes down to luck. I don't mean the dice, I mean some characters are destined for greatness. Just take ability scores. Most people have 10s. There's the gifted people who become NPCs of prominence. And then, there's the PCs, the heroes of legend. Or at the very least, heroes of their own stories. The reason why it seems skewed for the PCs is because we don't play the boring people. We play those 1 in 1000 people who are a cut above the rest, destined for greatness. Or, you know, the ones destined to die to a critical hit from a kobold at level 1 and expire on the cave floor. But then we find another hero the next session.
@@3rdDayfan777 MOST adventurers spend their entire lives doing things like, fighting goblins and defending caravans from bandits. Maybe they'll have a VERY exciting story where they ran into a TROLL and fought a fierce battle, slaying the monster.
PC adventurers get thrown into WORLD ENDING SHIT. The difference in experience is just VAST. They just keep chasing that higher level enemy, you know speaking metaphorically but also entirely literally. If you look at how much XP a regular goblin is worth, they give out 50 XP a piece, and they have 7 hp. Enough of them at low levels can be a challenge, but even after just 3 or 4 levels they're practically a joke unless you face an entire horde of the things. If you don't move on to fighting bigger and stronger enemies, your experience is just going to plateau and for all practical purposes, you just STOP leveling.
Over like DECADES of fighting goblins and bandits and other common enemies, maybe you'll get to level 7 or so if you're dedicated and working basically all the time. There aren't enemies around every corner though, there will be stretches of time where just, nothing happens. It even says in the DM Guide, levels 1-4 are local heroes, basically your standard for adventurers. If you don't get past that local level, traveling the lands and searching out calamities that effect more than a town, you just can't get the experience you need to push yourself past those low levels.
Can we get a one-shot starring the bandit gang who can't catch a break?
The bad luck bandits striken again!
With the way that group of players have so much fun with horrible failure, it would make for a glorious mess.
Yes, yes, oh golly yes!!!
Fav gaffaws of the early campaign.
Who gets/has to be Trevor?
I swear the Jaggontoths are the luckiest mf's alive based on how much they just barely dodged the m9
there was always something a little more pressing in the Neins eyes.
Reani is on their tail. Hopefully she'll get em
One day Reani may just call them up and the luck streak ends...
Reani, Keg, Shakaste and Calliana are the "B" side party of Campaign 2; change my mind.
@@michaelbryant3640 That would be an amazing team.
I like the idea that if Mollymauk hadn't been killed, Lucien's spirit would have been a recurring antagonist sort of relentlessly hunting him while possessing a variety of different people. That would have been a very ominous setup, knowing that there's this enemy out there stalking you, and they could be anybody. Kind of a Hotis+ situation.
I bet that if the story had progressed that way, then either Lucien would have taken his body back and forced Molly into a different one, or Lucien would have possessed Vess Derogna.
Lucien possessing Vess Derogna sounds really likely!
Esseks brother being a himbo is my most favorite thing ever
I love how fans specifically predicted this for like a year beforehand and they were right
It’s beautiful.
thor and loki
YES! Hot Himbo Drow Boi. I really wish we could have gotten to know him a little more. Or at least learn more about his dynamic with Essek. I hope they were close, despite how different they seem to be. I hope Essek had one person he actually cared about in the Dynasty.
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Oct 12, 2021 on Twitter:
Me, to Matt: There’s something I’d been hoping to know more about but wasn’t addressed in the C2 Wrap-Up: Zeenoth’s corruption and Thoreau’s deal with him. Specifically, did Clara know what was really going on, or did he hide that from her? And how deep did the corruption go? Because I want to believe that he kept her in the dark, knowing she’d object to it but wanted to keep her under his thumb. And also that she was just as much a victim as her daughter, and that hopefully following the trial, he comes home to an empty house, as she and TJ left him.
Matt's response: Clara was not aware of the depths it went, but she did not follow on her suspicions either. Even so, its is a complicated dynamic within the family. I imagine Thoreau’s toxic behaviors are very specific in their timing & targets, and otherwise appears a wonderful husband/father. In my mind, those revelations shook up the dynamic and allowed Clara the strength and impetus to take TJ and leave. She isn’t without her feeling of guilt for not seeing things as they were/believing him entirely, but she is trying to begin anew and make amends.
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So yeah, even Clara and TJ get a happy ending. And it's my belief that Clara reconnects with Beau and they start over as a family with Yasha And TJ.
Thanks for posting this
@@lefterismplanas4977 No problem. As someone who had always felt that Clara was just as much a victim as her daughter, it felt cathartic to know that my belief and faith in her finding redemption was not misplaced.
She certainly got to do the one thing that Thoreau will never do: ATONE. And I do hope that mother and daughter reconnect because in spite of everything, they still love each other.
@@AdamEspersona with what Marisha said, and with their interaction. I fully believe that her mother went to her as one of her first moves.
Beu liked her brother, and tryed to love her mother. So I believe that Clara would definitely inform Beu of their escape from from house, and maybe even allow TJ to tutor under her if he wanted
@@lefterismplanas4977 if you're interested, I have written quite a few stories on ao3 where they reconnect and be a happy family.
So the Hag kept her promise.
Thoreau's spawn took everything from him, and it is 100% his fault because he abused her.
Out of fear of the Hag.
Don't make deals with hags.
On that note, if Beau had taken the Hag's deal to be disappeared, she probably would have made TJ the subject of Thoreau's demise, ruining his and Clara's lives as well...
I always thought Beau meeting her little brother was the most emotional moment. And after hearing about her cousin, I'll never not break down when she hugs little TJ. Marisha killed it this campaign.
She killed it last campaign too, some people just didnt like her character.
I’ve adored Marisha for a long time now, absolutely fucking detested Beau at the start of the campaign, but that was because she was playing a petulant brat with her head so far up her own ass in her own views of authority and being instantly aggressive that it was almost unbearable to watch her make delicate conversations worse in virtually every situation by trying to lie about stuff that didn’t need to be lied about.
Then she hit her stride with Darktow, embracing more of her -actual- authority and what she COULD do when she just leaned heavily into her own strengths more, and Beau, while still completely insufferable at times with the ‘but what if-dig at npc that immediately puts them on guard and cuts off the path forward’ became someone I was actually wanting to see play out as she grew into her role in the Jedi-Adjacent Cobalt Soul.
So while her character really made me groan at times, I totally loved the heart Marisha put into it.
@@nerevarwolfeye4800 Well said!
@@nerevarwolfeye4800 To be fair, her views on authority were warped and twisted without realizing it. Because of Zeenoth and Thoreau’s collaboration. She ended up assuming that the system doesn’t care, can easily be bought, and cruelty is to be expected. Also, her father was horrendous to her, making her live in a loveless house, a gilded cage. So she just embraced the idea that if everyone’s going to be cruel anyway, may as well encourage it. Easier to keep others at arm’s length so that she doesn’t end up a victim.
And then she realized the truth. And from there, she truly came into her own.
Taking all that into account, it really becomes so much harsher in hindsight seeing her early moments, knowing that she was screwed over and betrayed over and over and never really given guidance and acceptance.
But now she can take the kindness and wisdom she’s gained and pay it forward, ensuring that no one else ends up like her or Caleb. No more children on the pyre.
And she actually became more comfortable and encouraged to show her true brilliance as an intelligent and inquisitive woman. Her deductions and notes truly helped the Nein in so many ways. This whole year that she spent with the Nein was essentially a reconstruction into whom she was always meant to be.
"Whats the deal with the chair?"
"There was a nice mahogany tree once... and a guy thought.. I could do somthing with that.."
CHETNEY IS THAT YOU???
the RTA has had hands in most of the wood working in exandria
Mighty Nein adopting Essek, is like Extroverted people adopting Introverts....same energy
My entire family are extroverts. I married a introvert. When we were dating, my entire family took it upon themselves to adopt him. 9 years later he is a favorite uncle to every kid. They are drawn to him. Its thanks to him i found this wonderful show.
@@Questfinder1 Basically it was an opposites attract thing where they were like “You’re different…COOL!!!”
Introverts, please stop adopting extroverts. We really don't like it. Stop forcing yourselves on us. We want to be left alone. You're exhausting.
@@transientanus 1. You got those mixed up.
2. Speak for yourself mate.
@@stingerjohnny9951 Bro....that was the joke lmfao! Do you need a catcher's mitt for the rest of the stuff that goes over your head?
The real Taldorei council members are the friends we made along the way.
After all those deaths I guess we didn't make many friemds
There was a moment for Jester in the Folding Halls that I thought was so powerful and had such potential and gave some incredible insight to Jester. When they were all escaping from the dragon and Jester was the last one and she broke down a bit because she was left all alone. It just made me see the cheerful, bubbly exterior as a shell for a lonely child that had basically grown up alone. I'd gotten the serious impression that she didn't get out a lot growing up, didn't have a lot of friends, and just desperately wanted to be liked and in that moment the shell cracked and you saw a little of the inside. Obviously they ended up going a different direction and it really was never brought up, but could have been an interesting thread to tug and explore.
She did say basically that. She mostly lived in her room and would escape but was picked on. The Traveler was the only one that befriended her and sort of ended the loneliness. And her growing up and playing a joke on a lord her mom sent her away from home so she wouldn't be arrested, starts her adventure.
yeah i really picked up on that in early -mid campaign and connected a lot with her character because I was a lot like her especially when I was younger from a similar backstory. would've been interesting to hear more and go into her processing that because between that and genuine healing comes a time when you have to learn to be vulnerable and break that we didn't really see much but also not everyone want to RP that shit and sometimes it's a game and you wanna have a fun upbeat time which i totally respect.
It showed up a few times in the campaign (always making me tear up or cry) that Jester has/had a lot of internal loneliness and sadness. In a way, it seemed to be the source of her empathy. This fan song captures it very well: ruclips.net/video/o0kEnlxscsw/видео.html
1:22:58 As Liam talks about how each member of the Mighty Nein contributed to Caleb’s healing, I can’t help but think about how much Molly would have contributed. He was already zoned in on Caleb’s trauma from the Groll mines. Those would have been great late night conversations around the campfire
Especially Molly"s laisse faire attitude of "it doesn't matter who you were, it matters who you are now." In a very literal sense.
The absence of Molly in his list hurt more than it should.
I think even the little bit of time and the care he showed Caleb already did his bit. There's a reason Caleb made that Transmuter's stone for him. Even the divine intervention wound up just a reroll of the raise dead that CALEB cast. And then they get Kingsley, instead of Molly. Because; "it doesn't matter who you were, it matters who you are now." And using a Transmuter's stone to ressurect someone is going to mean there are changes of some kind, right? It all sort of fits in a very poetic way, and it's because Molly helped Caleb make that first step toward forgiving himself.
2:22:07 so Matt said that innkeeper was secretly Artagan, and I realized looking back, that innkeeper had been very curious and such and even asked to smell Nila's smell bag, which is a very Artagan thing to do, and it's interesting to see that looking back
What struck me was that I noticed in the beginning that he kept describing npcs as 'wild red hair and green eyes' and I wondered if he had watched a movie or something with a bunch of redheads in it because redheads are relatively rare irl, and they just kept popping up in game. XD I had no idea they were the same person. My brain clocked the similarities, I just thought it was subconscious.
@@forkysporky7073 it's very rare for Matt to do things subconsciously or on a whim lol, he's meticulous like that
@@FigurativeCritter He is pretty meticulous, but he mentions several times in this very video there are time he just improvises something on the spot.
@@starwarsnerd100 He says that, but provides very little real world evidence for himself being an actual human, for instance in campaign 1 MASSIVE SPOILER Vax was talking to Gilmore and some tiny part of my brain thought his voice sounded just a little bit off but I said, no, Matt is a human and his throat might hurt or something, lo and behold 10 minutes later my heart has been ripped out and I am screaming at the screen because Matt Mercer is insane and the Gilmore was a lie. His voice being just a shade wrong was on purpose because he was an impostor, and now both Liam and I have trust issues.
Lol I know he improvises things, (Like most of the City of Brass) but even the things he pulls out of his ass are ridiculously amazing and somehow accurate to world lore lol. 🤣
Pipe dream ideas for one shots:
- Agents of the Cobalt Soul and the Augen Trust trying to take down a prominent member of the Cerberus Assembly (probably the Martinet Ludinus), likely all perishing in the process
- The unfortunate misventures of those recurring band of bandits the M9 kept coming across
- a hypothetical, all out Archmage brawl between all the major arcanists that were mentioned throughout the campaign, but never got to fully strut their stuff, like Halas, Yussa, possibly the Bright Queen herself, and maybe a couple more... (if only for the satisfaction of maybe actually killing Ickythong, if he's in the mix...)
- that "Bird's of Prey"-esque team up of all the people trying to get revenge on Jester, including (but not limited to) the Hag, the dildo-hand-lady, one or more dragon turtles, and doubly undead Avantica... which would neatly roll it all into that already anticipated Darktow adventure...
Big Gorgug energy from Travis: "IS HE MY DAD?!" 3:59:28
Apparently the chat was spamming this at the time. I'm proud of the collective fandoms. Also Zac Oyama crossover when? Or all of D20? BRENNAN PLZ
@@benvoliothefirst Brennan would legitimately be a really interesting guest star.
Just half-orc things
@@benvoliothefirst Hey guess what?! I mean it's a one-shot but still! Brennan was in a CR game!
I hope you all have the seen the wonder that is Exandria Unlimited Calamity
I wonder if Keg will find her way into the Darrington Brigade. Seems like a place she would find home.
That…. That’s a great idea
I was literally thinking that. Like a: She sounds like she would fit right in!
This Campaign is... a WAYS off of that isn't it?! I suppose it could have continued but it's also just as likely that it ended when Darrington died.
@@JacksonOwex only nine years between the one shot and mighty nein
@@paulbadics4485 I would love the idea that it expanded even more to be a new sort of adventurers guild.
Totally didn't expect the Luxon to be a real thing. I was waiting for the seemingly inevitable "Aeor did it" reveal for it, but no, it's legitimately exactly what the Dynasty thinks it is. Fragments of the original deity.
Inevitable? the Aeorian notes clearly stated "the found relic" about the item being studied, indicating beyond a doubt that it is far older than Aeor.
and I do believe that Matt just told the version the Kryn believes, there might actually be another reveal later on.
I mean Matt did say "This is the Krynn creation myth at least" so it could be it isn't real too
What I really loved about Matt's explanation was that the Luxon is basically the deeper embodiment of one of Alan Watts' most well know quotations. Sentience is the universe's way of perceiving it self and making the act of being a meaningful one... or maybe I'm overanalysis this, but that's what this is all about, right?
@@davidbergfors6820 I'd believe it's the oldest thing around, whether the Kryn are correct that it's the original deity or whether something else entirely... Who knows, and who knows if Matt even has a defined answer to it. :D
Liam: "I'm not gonna do romance this game I think I already explored that"
Caleb: *proceeds to be Aggressively, Helplessly polyamorous and overflowing with feelings and also a heartbreaker to three other wizards and a halfling in several different ways*
Honestly, with the news that there are now Warforged wandering Matt's world, I'm REALLY hoping we get to see someone play as one in Campaign 3: I'm a huge sucker for the existential "what is a soul/person" stuff that Warforged get to explore.
Liam would honestly kill it as a warforged.
I would love to see a chronurgy or graviturgy warforged as it would make sense that they know the magic.
Fingers crossed here, too.
One thing I like to point out to people who say that "robots don't belong in D&D" is that there was a quite famous story about a metal man on a quest for identity, who falls in with a bunch of oddballs and misfits and goes on a quest in a fantasy land....years before Lord of the Rings. :-D
@@paulgibbon5991 I feel like I'm missing something obvious, what are you referencing ?
@@aerialhead5574 Think Paul is referring to the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz, falling in with Dorothy and her troupe to meet with the wizard to ask for a heart so he'd understand what it means to be "alive".
4:02:50 So, funny thought I've seen floating around.
Trent probably had the Clone spell set up for himself. Which is why he was goading Caleb into killing him. Because that would prove his manipulation worked, and also he'd survive. So the fact that he's rotting away in some hole for the rest of his days is PURE JUSTICE.
My theory is that Caleb or Astrid killing him would allow him to try and possess their body. It would a) allow him immediate revenge against an enemy and let him eliminate the threat, b) grant him extra lifespan, c) allow him to "succeed" himself into the Archmage seat on the Assembly.
It makes sense that either possession or clones was his back-up plan, and why he kept trying to goad Caleb into killing him.
And I 100% agree that him rotting in a dungeon and dying of natural causes, in disgrace and humiliation, is a very satisfying and fitting end instead.
@@sorchamaclabhrain1970 To clarify, if Trent dies of old age in a cell. He'll still then resurrect from the Clone spell (if he did have it set up). The justice is that, instead of it being immediate, it'd take however many years/decades for Trent to die. So he's just stuck there, waiting.
@@dude59974 good point! Though rotting in a dungeon for years also means that Beau and Caleb (and possibly Astrid) have time to hunt down and destroy the Clones.
I love how Marisha and Ashley actually spent time planning their characters futures in detail. Also, when they talked about it at the end of last game i was holding my breath for them to adopt a child and they finally said it!
Lmao the reveal that Colville was supposed to guest star is the best thing ever
I thought I was the only one who was hype about it! Woo!!! The river to his people, Mr. Bugbear himself! Lol
No doubt Matt will try to get Matt on again in some other role for Campaign 3.
@@JamesSamson487 Hot Matt on Matt action
I really really hope he can be a guest! Love him, he'd kill roles with political power/mysterious deal maker.
God I hope that can happen in C3!
I do love how the Jagantoth’s even though they didn’t become official antagonists to the M9, I do love how they were technically unofficial antagonists throughout the campaign.
I'd kind of like to see a oneshot where Reani and Shakäste go up against them.
@@BigKlingy or a one shot where the jaganthoths ambush the m9 and they go all evil monologue about them ruining everything and the m9 ar like"who are you?"
Like, they weren’t on a mission to take them down, but also if they ran into a spare Jaggentoth it would be kill-on-sight
Guest character one-shot..?
In addition to Shakäste and Reani's links to the group, it turns out that they're holding one of the artefacts being sought by the Cult of the Caustic Heart, there proves to be a renewed threat to the Kuatao Tribe, that one of their members is pissed off and hunting a gnome thief who stole their golden sphere at auction, and Keg just decides to smack some heads together.
... Oh my god I think Liam's put it into words.
"My favorite thing about these games is that you plan all this stuff (...) and you can play and play and play, and then mid-game, just, off the cuff, something'll happen, you'll have an idea, and you'll in the moment be like *this is a real thing,* and then it just bounces back through your entire past and becomes real. Like Nott/Veth with drowning, (...) you did it in the moment."
I’m really happy Liam asked about Uk’otoa, he always had an aura of final boss about him but can we talk about how Matt ranked the Tarrasque above Uk’otoa a literal lesser god
To be fair, the Tarrasque is notorious and infamous to be ridiculously broken and unfair. Matt has some balance and fairness in mind even with hard encounters it seems.
I mean. Terrasque is the same cr as tiamat. Uk'toa is a lesser diety
@@mohammedtahmid6718 Tiamat's also technically a lesser diety.
The tarrasque is notable in being on of the few ways to permanently kill a god, so makes sense that it's ranked higher than lesser powers
@@MuraCasardis 5e Tarrasque is notorious and infamous for being ridiculously easy to kill with 1 flying archer. It's not strong.
contrary to the last campaign where while Vex will have a happy life with Percy, she miss her brother dearly, Jester has everything. She got wiser as a person, she got life long soul bound friends, her family are united, and she is adventuring with the person she loves, and possibly even go to other planes.
She also has at least two nemeses!
@@bigdream_dreambig Lol yeah, at least All (or Most) of Vex's enemies are dead, Jester and Fjord in particular are so screwed long term lol, getting attacked by Uk'otoa every month and a Hag waiting in the wings (and Jester is completely unaware the spell wore off). Not to mention Gelidon if they ever go back up north. And the random snooty Traveler follower that Jester decided to wreck for no reason lol. And that Lord she pranked way back before the beginning of the campaign who wants her dead, He's still alive. The M9 left too many enemies alive for a happy retirement. 😬
@@mayaenglish5424 Tbf, I think Jester and Fjord are totally happy having something to kill later on in their lives
@@ienzio7795 By themselves? I think not...
Now that the gang is all split up they're so screwed if we do just an impartial look at the future based on chance, encounters with Ukotoa all the time because they chose to be pirates for some reason lol. The hag sneak attack lurking in their future that may just cause severe suffering to their loved ones rather than going for the throat, plus everything else. Just the two of them alone are totally going to die eventually by one of their enemies.
Particularly Ukotoa...
Fjord _Barely_ survived Ukotoa when the whole group WAS together! In fact, he didn't lol.
@@mayaenglish5424 I mean, it's canon that they all still talk to each other and eventually all retire together, so idk why they would have to fight either of them alone
One shot idea: the gang plays as Caleb’s students in the new academy
Oooo like some prank or new students messing with higher level magic gone awry and they have to fix a series of incidents while dodging their professors!
Caleb taking his class on field trips into the Folding Halls of Halas to teach them about the dangers of magic gone too far.
Reply 1 for a lighthearted romp as we get to know the characters, it ends with Caleb appearance.
Reply 2 for the next part, a more dramatic and perilous adventure with lots of heart and deep character stuff.
Oh yeah, that is the perfect 2 part One Shot like Search for Grog/Bob.
I'd really love for the C3 characters to run into Archmage Caleb Widowgast~
in campaign 3 everytime the players ask for the whereabouts of the mighty nein another member gets eaten by gelidon
I don't think Caleb would want to be an archmage.
Unless that's like, a teaching position, like "senior archmage of transmutation, Caleb Widowgast" and it really just means he's the best in that field and is like the top tier teacher.
Caleb wants to clean up the Assembly, but he really doesn't want to JOIN it, he doesn't want to have that kind of authority. He had the chance to take Trent's seat and refused it, so I don't think he'd ever pursue that. He just wants to teach the young ones how to turn into moths and eat curtains.
We could absolutely get a character who was taught BY Caleb though, that'd be interesting.
@@haku8135 To be fair, you don't need to be in the Assembly to be considered an archmage - Yussa isn't, yet he's still considered one, same with other characters from Campaign 1. The Assembly just codified it into a term of station. Given Caleb ended the campaign one level from being having access to 9th-level spells, he's practically an archmage already (funnily enough, he also basically has the ability scores of the archmage statblock, too). He might even be more powerful than some of the Assembly Archmages, too - Delilah Briarwood was Archmage of Antiquity despite only having access to, at most, 8th-level spells at that point in her life, so they might not all necessarily be at the pinnacle of wizardly power.
@@EthanKWaters All of that is true, but I'm more referring to some OFFICIAL position, or any position of power rather than just a mostly meaningless title. Not MEANINGLESS really, but like, general. Like a "title" just because he's good at magic.
That isn't really a matter of accepting or not. I'm referring to a more tangible POSITION of Archmage. Something governmental or even just limited to the school, again unless they just made him the official top of the transmutation teachers.
Caleb is very much one to avoid big names and renown. He just doesn't want the fame or authority. I think he would at least consider joining Allura's group though. The mages of course, not the Tal Dorei council.
@@haku8135 Again, the only place archmage is considered a title of office is within the Assembly/Empire - outside of them, it means a very powerful spellcaster typically capable of casting the most powerful spells known, a description which fits Caleb. The title usually also comes with a heavily implied warning of "do not fuck with this person". This is the commonly held understanding of what an archmage is, and what I'm pretty certain the original commenter was saying. The fact that Caleb can be called one without him getting free dental or a discount at the Invulnerable Vagrant changes nothing - by right of personal power and right of conquest, he is an archmage.
The adventure is done
And the story has ended
With their victories won
And the folk they've befriended.
They've defeated their foes and made peace with their past.
They've found love and belonging and family at last.
When the world's fate was on them, they didn't think twice;
With a city to slay, Mighty Nein rolled the dice.
It has taken a toll,
But nine Nein are made whole.
Now new folk we'll extole
And it's their turn (their turn) (their turn).... to ROLL!!
This comment has been here less than ten minutes but I fell like it should have several hundred more likes.
Well said
i love it but especially the ending xd
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I sang the whole thing in my head.
Listening to Taliesin talk about Molly makes me realize that, using Kingdom Hearts terms, Lucien was the Somebody and Mollymauk was the Nobody and Mollymauk grew his own heart in time.
Mollymaux
@@tomellis2419 *Nelixun xDD
KH enjoyer and a Belmont? You’re a cultured individual sir. Cheers
Kalxomylum
I love how Travis after all this time is still taken aback by the lengths Matt will go to to make the world they play in an actual world.
It's bloody impressive, but also in no way surprising, that Matt read research papers on time travel just because there was a possibility that one character would attempt to dabble with it. It's entirely on brand for him. But at the same time... you are nuts, Matt. :)
The thought of tea with Caduceus and how it was made up on the spot still floors me.
right? their improv skills are on another level
Same with Jester and the baked goods. I can't imagine those things not being part of their characters given how much of their story ended up involving those elements. It's great.
Hi! Do you have a time stamp when they were talking about this? I cant remember what part it was at and i found it v interesting
@@Abi-hr1vu 1:01:10
@@CallistoTheWarriorQueen thank you!! :D
Did anyone else notice Sam smile when asking about devixalian(?) The aeormaton? He was already hinting about FCG.
Can we have a one shot of Veth’s rogue and wizards summer camp?
M9 as camp counselors. what could possibly go wrong?
parents when their kids return home - "how did you end up with a tattoo?!"
kids - "go fuck yourself!"
That could be very similar to the Darrington Brigade one shot, I love it.
This would be amazing!!!
Or Sam and Liam play Caleb and Veth and the rest of the group play campers!
@@Redwood4 balancing combat for two lvl 16 chars and 5 lvl 1s must be fun
so on the oppsite sode of the room you see..... 1 young dragon and... uhm... 3 kobolds
@@pixelpause3693 but picture this, dnd inception where at the camp they have a night of fun games and they play a dnd one shot to get familiar with spells/combat tactics
I think it'd be hilarious if Matt's character voice in EXU is just his normal voice...
What if Matt doesn't have a 'normal' voice?... What if his 'normal' voice is just another acting?... Do anybody even know his 'normal' voice?..
henry crabgrass or zorth pleaaaaaase :D
@@rrraven369 well, if we're wish listing this thing, then give me Victor.
He did say that this character was going to be different from his "regular character archetype"...
@@rrraven369 he should use that voice he used for the old lady that was really just a bunch of kobolds in a robe
So I apparently got this thing called a "bookhangover" over this a whole week after I finished this campaign. Turns out a book hangover is a whole psychological thing with science backing it. I feel like a part of myself is gone now idk what to do. I guess just speaks to how good this was.
Yeah, same
Welp hello that is me now
I just finished it. It's very surreal, innit?
I went through a hard mourning period at the end of C1. At least this time I’m ready for it.
Bo and Yasha wold be the scariest parents ever if anyone ever bullied their kids. lol
I feel like if any dumb kid ever bullies anyone of the M9 kids, pray to whatever god they worship that the rest of them don't find out because these aunts and uncles will fuck shit up to defend their bbys and their friends' bbys.
dating during teenage years - "would you like to come home with me and meet my parents?"
@@blinkin304 I feel like there would definitely be cases of near murder, and it wouldn't even phase the m9 kid because it's just their family, it's nothing new to them, at most an annoyance because "mooooommmm, I like this one!" Right after they get banished
Undoubtedly they would be terrifying, one could find every piece of dirt on you, and the other could bury you, your family, and your extended family under the dirt.
I mean, Beau could kill a commoner in a single punch, so, like, yeah
HEAD CANON: as jester and the traveller travel the planes causing chaos, they eventually stumble apon earth. And jester is actually Banksy.
I do believe Earth is a canonical world in DND do that could work
@@Usagi33353 If i remeber correctly Earth and the forgotten realms were combined a long time ago but we forgot, hence FORGOTTEN realms.
@@Usagi33353 in Ashley's one shot, they end up on earth
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I think that's how humans got there, stolen from our ancient civilizations.
Banksy is actually Jester*
I find it interesting that both Beau and Scanlan had very similar arcs in relation to romance. Both started off very attracted to Ashley's character and were very crass and then backed off for a while and came back in a much more wholesome way.
Slightly sad Pumat got no mention in the final episode nor this, even if we can probably guess how he's doing.
THEY NEVER TOLD HIM WELCOME TO THE MIGHTY NEIN i was waiting the whole climatic obann episode for someone to say it NOTHIN
My husband and I both have a bee in our bonnet that the nein never thanked Pumat for ALMOST DYING to help them. I guess this band of lovable, chaotic assholes don’t have the same “thank you” card Etiquette.
@@dwilliams7377 I mean they were kinda busy stopping a megalomaniac dressed as their dead friend trying (and succeeding) to control a living tentacle flesh island...
@@dwilliams7377 they forgot 100% lol
@@deffdefying4803 Technically Molly was dressed as Lucien in his body. Kingsley is closer to the one dressed as Molly even though its still originally Lucien's body.
Matt: I feel like you guys knew she was using illusion magic, right?
The Nein: ….yeees?
Narrator: No, no they did not.
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@@markkoehr5003 20:44 :)
Cue It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia opening
They had a theory that she was handing her tavern over to herself as a different identity but never proved it or had hard evidence other than her being shifty
I am so thankful to Matt for finally going behind the curtain a little bit. I get in the occasional argument with people who idolize him a little too much and think he has literally everything prepared, where the truth OF COURSE is that he's just absolutely amazing at playing on the fly.
His preparation is STILL out of this world. It doesn't make things any less impressive that he doesn't pre-build optional dungeons and fleshes out the places the party is going when he learns they're going to go there, just like the rest of us.
Matt is incredible because he just absolutely never goes behind the curtain, and never tells ANYONE (including his wife and best friends) about the unanswered questions. He just lets it stew, and takes notes, and lets the theories run. It's incredibly well done, but I'm just so thankful he broke that a little bit today to show us that he in fact did not know how the game was going to end when he started it. He's a normal human being, just like the rest of us, and we need to stop putting these unrealistic standards on him (and by proxy, on ourselves).
Exactly. The man is a master of his craft, of that there is no doubt, but it's all smoke and mirrors. He plans a great deal, but he can absolutely be caught off guard like everyone else, the chaotic nature of the party taking the story in places he genuinely didn't expect or prepare for on occasion. He just knows how to keep things close to his chest and play off the illusion that he's planned it all out regardless, being able to pull out scenarios, characters, and quests out of his ass on the fly and make it seem like it was all part of the master plan while he's secretly figuring out how to get the narrative back on track.
Okay, but Ashley and Liam "fighting" over Marisha is just hilarious!
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Matt's fake jealosy really adds to the hilarity as well
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I'm so sad Matt Colville never got a chance to guest!
Always another campaign.
I so hope they do an Augen Trust One-Shot with Matt Colville and a group of Augen Trust agents.
was he gonna? (if not for covid)
@@flimpeenflarmpoon1353 Yep, he elaborated more on it on the MCDM streams last friday.
@@chaoticgoodra Sadge
Did anyone else realize that Reani and Essek were kind of opposites in how the Nein affected them, but at the end both outcomes made them arguably better people? I love that so much!!!
I love how when Caleb is mentioning the room's of the tower and he says "Astrid's bedroom" everyone's face remains the same except for Laura's eyebrows lmao.
Shoutout to the editors for the little reaction window that pops up during the guest spots. I love it.
The Mighty Nein creating the first Influencer house and retiring to live at resort they own but hire out management is exactly what I wanted