#c2e140

[lyrengorns]

If you were to ask my wise friend, Caduceus, I'm sure he would tell you that life continues on. It changes, it evolves, and it grows. I don't think there's an end. You just might not be able to see the next trip.

Fjord

[piratespencil]

Finally back to my c2 watch and I just finished ep 140 and I am reeling from the last like thirty minutes. Like I knew what was going to happen with Molly but I still went on that absolute rollercoaster of emotions... I can't imagine watching that bit live. The dice truly gave us such a gift with Molly's whole story like you couldn't script something this good.

[ariadne-mouse]

I've been procrastinating on rewatching the end of episode 140 because it's so emotional, but god it's so worth it, whiplash and all, to watch the Nein triumph against Lucien after such a long and harrowing fight, revivify Caleb, fail to raise Molly and feel the heartbreak all over again, then *succeed* in raising Molly against insane odds, and then Molly is brand new and empty - but not bad empty, empty like a blank page is empty, ready to hold new stories, and he remembers-but-doesn't, god, what a rollercoaster.

Bonus points for Taliesin - self-described chaos gremlin who has said in a number of instances that Molly himself wouldn't want to come back - being the one to make the Divine Intervention as Caduceus, fulfilling the return of the Nein's lost friend while also making him anew. And the cast making Taliesin talk to himself. And Matt getting to "be in the room" of the scene as Essek and participate in-character in both the grief and the celebration.

And how then, there were nine of them.

There were nine of them!!!

[ravendruid]

I get to reroll ones. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.

[unfortunatelyevent]

I have so many thoughts about jester and Caleb being the ones who died in the final fight, none that are coherent rn but I just wanted you to know that I have them

[frumpkin-biscuits]

Only one episode of campaign two left. It’s been a long road and I don’t know if I’m ready :’

[lessattitudemorealtitude]

Caleb, pinned underneath a tower, taking his action to will Jester to heal...

Jester: If I die and you don’t...

Caleb: Well that will not happen

[aspiringsophrosyne]

I'm still writing a post on as many of C2's weird coincidences as I can remember one day.

But while I was working on it, I realized I absolutely need, absolutely need the resurrection of the Nein's lavender man in the animated series to include him, specifically, having no pants and flowers in his hair.

Because, and this is easiest to find if you look it up on Critical Role's wiki's transcripts, if you go back to episode 23, after the Nein's second encounter with the Syphilis Bandits, after they've knocked a guy out, you'll get this:

Jester: What if we put some flowers in his hair, so when he wakes up, he looks really pretty?

Beau: That's good. Let's do that.

Molly: There's nothing better than waking up in the morning with no pants and flowers in your hair.

[candelasobscura]

(stumbles out in shambles, panting, drenched in sweat, tears running down my face) hi

[copperhawkthoughts]

WIP snip time, some day I will get this bloody thing done.

…

Jester drops to the floor and begins rummaging feverishly in her haversack and Fjord’s larger bag, tossing out spare garments left and right. Beauregard, Yasha, and Fjord descend on Mollymauk and Jester, their faces alight.

Essek finds his face, rather suddenly, pressed into the shearling lining of Caleb’s coat as Caleb’s arm sweeps around his shoulders, pulling him in to a tight embrace.

The wool, and the leather, and the man underneath smell, frankly, terrible - days of exertion and centuries of grime, sweat and blood and sleeping in their clothes, soaked and indifferently dried; smoke and phosphorous and bat shit and the awful, raw-meat-in-the-sun fug of Cognouza itself - but Essek is none too fresh himself, and he finds himself leaning in, clinging to Caleb’s reeking coat like a crèche blanket.

A pressure at his hip and a small arm snaking around the back of his thigh must be Veth, and as Caleb loosens his grip on them, leveraging the gentlest pressure to keep them both close, tuck them in to his sides rather than away, Essek marvels, a little, at his own presence at Caleb’s side, with Veth. Caleb-and-Veth.

[ravendruid]

Hot boss is hot.

[reiinai]

“Whoever it was-”

Weekly Critical Role Imagined Screencap series (The Mighty Nein), C2E140

Goosebumps every time.

[mruschdraws]

Critical Role - "Love"

Contains C2E140 SPOILERS. Circa 2021.

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"Empty?"

"No."

"Love?"

"Love."

[criticalpolls]

Poll suggested by @octy-in-boots

[lessattitudemorealtitude]

Matt just silently losing his shit as he watches the others interact with a revived Molly. Like god, all of this is down to random rolls and it’s WAY TOO NARRATIVELY PERFECT

[professor-rye]

Chapter 92 of Dappled Shadow and Penumbral Light is up!

Title: Dappled Shadow and Penumbral Light Relationships: Shadowgast Rating: Mature Set: Post Aeor, Canon Divergent from Episode c2e140 on Tags: LuxonChampion!Essek, Secrets Revealed, Political Shame, Antagonistic Dierta Thelyss, Good Brother Verin Thelyss, Found Family, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Trent Ikithon, Kidnapping, Torture, Hurt/Comfort, Rescue, Multiple Arcs

Chapter 92: Tales from the Eternal Heights, pt 1 Current Word Count: 451,770

Featuring books, a robot who wants friends, more books, some wild magic, yet more books, a bit of feelings, and probably some more books after that