#ashley/caleb

[confessions-heartland]

"Caleb should have gone back to Ashley instead of following Cassandra"

[heartlandtfln]

"(541): Why is my car covered in what appears to be salsa verde?"

[counterspelling]

Endless Bells Hells

[marvelousbelladonna]

What do you see?

The Mighty Nein meets the Bells Hells

[nerdylizard5]

Mighty Nein: Nonagon

Sometimes wild inspiration hits as you’re falling asleep and make a note on your phone and then spend 8 hours over 2 days completing the piece. My subconscious is better than my conscious at art ideas. So enjoy this Critical Role Mighty Nein art I completed last night!

(Prints)

[twinklestarss]

“Oh, we caught on. It wasn't the what of what he was doing. We knew he was doing something, just didn't have all the context. That's what several centuries of planning will do for you. If anything it should just go to show you how tricky he is. Just watch yourself.”-Beau/Caleb

Campaign 3 Episode 111: The Nein Hells

[aimless-otter]

C3E77 Caleb's Produce Flame

[demigoddessqueens]

Ohmygoawd 😍🤩🥹💕

[hello-eeveev]

I was rewatching c3e50 empire sibs appearance for knowledge reasons, and I noticed this exchange 👀

[video description: Matt narrates Caleb as wearing a deep purple scarf. At this, Ashley perks up and looks around. Text near her says, “purple? that’s not in his color scheme”. Travis seems to notice this, too. He makes eye contact with Ashley and whispers something that looks like “is that Essek’s?” Ashley replies, “I bet, I bet.”]

[thirddagger]

The gender sliding scale of Nice Dad Man With Sad and Increasingly Gayer PCs to Gentle Bad Bitch With Badass and Increasingly More Lawless PCs, neither of whom can sit in a chair

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

Imagine Matt let's them play Vox Machina too and they have to play three parties all at once

I don't think that'll happen but shit it would be chaos

[confessions-heartland]

"I think it's time for Caleb to leave the show. Maybe he reconnects with Ashley or maybe he chases a new love or maybe he just moves back to be with his family (because he has to have one somewhere, right?) but I think he's out of plots"

[heartlandtfln]

"(306): because. if I can't sit outside naked and eat my watermelon every morning then I really don't see the point in moving in with you."

[counterspelling]

Endless Bells Hells

[marvelousbelladonna]

Do you feel the characters you personally have played would make it out of an escape room together? I. E. for Ashley, it would be Fearne, Yasha, and Pike - would they work as a team?

[aspiringsophrosyne]

The latest teaser confirmed it: the Mighty Nein animated series will draw on material that not only predates episode one of the campaign but at least two characters' respective session zeros. The synopsis for the show also highlights what is most likely the Beacon, suggesting it may get significant emphasis early on.

Because of all this, I think it's possible (even likely) that the first season will NOT end with the events of episode 26, which is where I and many other fans figured it would after the initial announcement.

Instead, as a few fans posited, we could see C2E12 and its consequences serving as the season one finale.

When I first saw posters bringing this idea up, I liked how it sounded. It would give the Mighty Nein much more room to breathe than Vox Machina. I didn't want to believe that could happen, though. I didn't want to get my hopes up.

Now, I am getting my hopes up. Just a little.

Because to get to the Iron Shepherds before the end of season one, the CRew has to hustle. They cannot afford to waste time on any extraneous content. Pre-episode-one material is most welcome but it is extraneous to the Mighty Nein's overall story. It is nothing we can't infer from context.

Incorporating this material implies that the pace will be, at the very least, somewhat slower than TLOVM's pacing has been.

Showing how everyone meets means they can dedicate the rest of the season to Trostenwald, the Gnoll Mine, (Shakäste!) various Zadash hijinks, and then the attack. If paced well, that’s enough for 12 episodes, even without moving some later events (Where The River Goes, Harvest Close, the tournament in Whispers of War, etc.) up in the order, which they could do.

But I could be jumping the gun. It could be the CRew makes the mistake of trying to squeeze pre-session-zero content into an otherwise faithful adaptation of a season that ends at C2E26. Or adding that material but slicing out tons of content from the stream to make that work. We don’t know yet. We can’t.

But, again, the allusion to the Beacon makes little sense unless we have some time to sit with it. Not if it’s in the middle of a season racing towards Glory Run. Travis has said here about TLOVM that they had a limited runway and wanted to be off to the races from the jump. But with the Nein, they want to play around more. We could take that in several different ways, but it sounds promising.

We might get a slower burn with TM9 than with VM. If the first season ends around Midnight Espionage, we might not even see Caleb’s or Molly’s backstories until season 2! And that’s exciting; new watchers will have time to get to know these characters, care about them, and mull over who they could be before the bombs drop. And that’ll be fun to watch.