#cr2e45

[revvethasmythh]

The Mighty Nein are so funny because Matt’s just there like, “Lorenzo was supposed to get away. You were not supposed to keep the Happy Fun Ball. You were NOT meat to go to Xhorhas. Trent was supposed to escape—” Mighty Nein just steamrolling their way through their own campaign. They do what they want. The DM’s long-term plans have no authority over this party

[justalittlebluetiefling]

Beau asking if Fjord will train her as First Mate and Fjord is clearly so surprised but so happy about it and their friendship is good

[haorev]

I KNEW I remembered there being a time on The Balleater that Nott found more ammo for the gun she stole, and that everyone had just forgotten by the time Nott shot Beau in the ass on the way to Uthodurn.

I’m rewatching the episode with Twiggy (bc I love the Folding Halls and also dragon) and I was right. Nott went looking for ammo and found 22 pieces of ammunition that fit her gun.

This lady has 23 shots total and they all forgot about it between The Stowaway and Uthodurn.

[moonkirasecret]

Sam Riegel makes the crasiest shit happen and it works even if he just survives with one hitpiont.

[king-dra]

“ as this young, blue dragon lifts its head to address you”

[silneynart]

Catching up on my fanart, Fjord and the blue dragon!

Had fun experimenting with painterly colouring and cool lighting. 

[bookwormcathrin]

nat 20

[fjord-strongjaw]

I do NOT trust the squirrel child. She’s giving off scarier vibes than any character thus far. We pointedly don’t know her age, she keeps reminding us that she’s cute and harmless... None of that adds up to anything good. She’s going to knife someone in the back, and my guess is Jester or Caleb.

[epicureanstyle]

Episode 45 was almost as simultaneously good and bad for Fjorester and Widojest as 44 was for Widofjord

[kitkatcabbit]

Well that was a fucking ride.

*sits back and waits for all the fic that will ensue from tonight’s episode*

[cellobotomy]

Hot New Critical Role Fragrance

“A Hint of Crustacean”

[revvethasmythh]

“You took the attack? With 19 hit points? To burn the reaction?? That was Nott, The Bravest” 🥹🥹🥹

[justalittlebluetiefling]

“What level?” “Nine.” and “Are you disengaging?” “No.” have the same energy.

[thequeenofmyownscreen]

Fifteen things I noted about CR2E45 “The Stowaway” and the Talks Machina about it :

these are getting long again y'all

Nott tinkers more arrowheads filled with explosives... In the part of the ship where the cannons are. There was a real possibility, for a moment, based on a single roll, that the campaign would end there.

Beau, after Fjord asked what Nott and her were talking about in Halfling : "We were saying our daily prayers." Fjord : "Y'all have daily prayers ??" Beau : "Yeah, it's called, "Get the fuck out of our business." "

Deborah Ann Woll !!!! I love her !!!!!!!! The card for Twiggy reads "She's cool and rad." Yeah she is !!!

Another ball of mystery ???? Caleb's head is gonna explode.

They change their ship's name from "the SquallEater" to "the BallEater". Becquse of course. After The Mistake, this is the best name.

Fjord was so proud when Beau asked for him to teach her to train her as a first mate. I love their friendship.

Nott's adventures in black powder continues : she now has two boxes of ammo for her gun she stole in Hupperdook. Everyone looks horrified.

Episode 45 : the gang discover some strange weirdo and some ancient technology and they spend 4 hours trying to decipher it

WELP THEY GOT SUCKED INTO A WEIRD DIMENSION

I love that the office room was litteraly a trap for Caleb. And that Nott was enabling it his addiction to books big time.

This episode should have been called "It's dragging Travis' night !" because between him touching the glass and getting sucked into another room, and the "one of our players *glares* pulled a thing and briefly derailed a lot of things..." at the beginning when explaining The Search for Grog, it's a party !

I was not exepecting a f*cking dragon this early in the campaign... For a good reason ! This is horrible, even if they weren't all separated. Both Jester and Fjord cast Blink and it saved their lives (especially Jester).

Caduceus, coming out of the wall like a reverse Homer Simpson : "We're running ! It's bad !!"

It was the worst ending of a battle. My god. When Caleb left, Liam was visibly torturing himself about what he should have done. Nott is the mvp of the night, the heroïc moment of taking the dragon's attack of opportunity to save Jester's life and escaping with 1 fucking hit point... And the amazing visual of Twiggy, the last gnome standing, who killed a dragon, and she was the only one to witness it. So beautiful.

Ashley and Brian are engaged, and Brian will now be called Mr. Ashley Johnson. Matt says it can only give him a better reputation than the one he has now. Truth though, when Brian talked about how his engagement made him feel, I almost cried.

[moonkirasecret]

A fucking dragon!

[epicureanstyle]

This is consistently the thing Sam is best at: using solid tactics to illuminate character stuff. Taliesin is good at clever, surprising rules interpretation, Marisha is great at long-term character arcs, everyone else has plenty of things they're good at- but Sam us the best at making the mechanics work towards his character development.

I’m not saying that Nott WASN’T willing to die for Jester and that Nott wasn’t THE BRAVEST in her actions, but I’d like to point out that when you get down to it, taking the hit for Jester was actually a very smart, tactical move on Sam’s part.

Had Nott left Jester to take the reaction attack it would have left Jester unconscious and Nott, a small goblin with no healing abilities, would have either had to try and drag Jester away from both the dragon and fire elemental (which likely would have wound up with both Nott and Jester dead) or just abandoning Jester to die.

However, having Nott (who wasn’t doing so well on HP but still better than Jester) take the hit seriously improved the odds on both of them getting out alive. Had Nott gone unconscious, Jester could have healed her enough to get her back on her feet. It also would have been a lot easier for a big, strong tiefling to carry a small goblin girl away from danger than vice versa if need be, especially since the dragon had already used its reaction.

Basically, I’m saying that Nott (and Sam) may be very brave and loyal, but despite how much he claims to be “bad at D&D”, Sam has proven once again he’s actually a really smart tactician.