#this could be for cr2 and cr3

[undead-knick-knack]

[forgetriestowrite]

wait imagine M9 get back from absolutely decimating the evil oligarchical hive mind on Ruidus and they're a team of middle-aged badasses including that obscure weird human duo that's been running around Wildemount solving conspiracies and government corruptions for the past 6 years

and everyone who was in that room in Vassalheim is just like "How have we NEVER heard of you before???? You're like the least subtle people ever??? And you're insanely powerful??? How the FUCK did this slip under our radar???"

[c-kiddo]

design for cad's tattoo jester gave him in cr3. referenced laura and taliesins silly acting for the placement lol. i think she'd do something not-silly if cad wanted . something lichen-y 🙂‍↕️

[onlyfangz]

What if...? Marisha Ray PC Class Swap!

Laudna: Circle of Spores Druid

Beau: Great Old One Warlock/Storm Sorcerer

Keyleth: Way of the Elements Monk

[unfortunatelyevent]

have we ever thought about how essek "religious trauma™" thelyss could have been very sucetible to ruby vanguard propaganda if he hadn't been neined* in c2 and in another life could very likely be the one flawless manipulating the beacon in their ritual there

*the act of being hit in the face with love from the mighty nein

[augentrust]

imodna 🤝 shadowgast

short one who can float and tall one who gets to look up at them in adoration

[piratespencilart]

Molly for magenta! The circus kids are together now!! 💖 Suggested by the one and only @awittylemon.

[ID: A colour wheel split into eight wedges with Critical Role characters in some of the wedges. Orange is Artagan, yellow is Veth, green is Orym, cyan is Pike, blue is Dorian, purple is Yasha, and magenta is Mollymauk. They are all smiling in various poses. End ID.]

[thursdaythoughtsfromtheabyss]

The Cathedral Fight and the Laughing Hand 

The story element being that people walking through are acolytes or worshippers of the cathedral. You get early scenes with the beautiful stained glass that marks the back wall of the cathedral. Alarm bells begin to sound. Narrow dark hallways filled with smoke (haze) open into scenes of chaotic fighting. The Laughing Hand and their people are tearing through other acolytes, who are fighting or fleeing. Scare actors jump out in the narrow hallways and grasp toward the people walking by. Pumate SWOLE makes a cameo. One scene features the stained glass shattering (via cool special effects) and the earthen paw emerging from the new gaping hole, with Caleb on it. We start moving down towards the basement to the fane room and see the final fight: The Mighty Nien versus Obann and his people, Yasha getting the final blow, the emergence of the Chained Oblivion form. The exit is past a narrow miss with the Chained Oblivion. 

Big thanks to portabella_mushroom.cos on insta with that idea!!

[nellasbookplanet]

Actually loving how the different critical role campaigns exist in relation to themselves, each other, and the world at large, and how their different narrative structures ripple outward.

Campaign 1 was story driven. Not to say the characters weren’t deeply important and dynamic, but their growths were largely driven through and by the plot. They were on a mission and grew along with that mission, and as a mission driven archetypically heroic party they also left very few loose threads by the end.

Campaign 2, meanwhile, was more insular and character driven. Where Vox Machina traveled all over the world and planes outside the main setting of Tal'Dorei, the Mighty Nein largely stayed in Wildemount, allowing for a more intimate and political look at it’s cultures. Instead of story and characters revolving around plot, plot revolves around character. We only got to see Yasha’s tribe in the epilogue, because her growth didn’t require facing them. We didn’t face Uk’otoa, because Fjord’s arc culminated in embracing the Wildmother, not in facing his former patron. Similarly, while the entire Assembly was an antagonistic force, only Trent was dealt with directly, because he was the only one directly tied into one of the pc's arcs.

The larger world building let us know about Molaesmyr and Ludinus, about the Luxon, even about Ruidus to some extent, but the Mighty Nein weren’t a typically heroic party here to save the world and solve every mystery, but a group of broken people finding it in themselves to heal, and to end their journey ready to face greater threats in the future. They were still getting the Assembly and Uk'toa, they just weren’t doing it in the main narrative, because they were irrelevant to the growth of the characters. Of course, that also left a lot of threads hanging, which brings us to campaign 3.

By now, it seems pretty clear that campaign 3 is another plot driven story rather than the more meandering, character driven narrative of c2. That leaves the cast free to pick up on the many larger mysteries in world building left in the wake of the last campaign. What is the nature of the Luxon? Of Ruidus? Of Aeor and the aeormatons? Half the party was just plopped down not far from the ruins of Molaesmyr, Ludinus' former home - will they go there? One of them is tied to the Luxon and dunamancy, another to Ruidus and Predathos - will we get to know the true nature of these entities?

Much like c1, the characters of this campaign are driven and shaped by events rather than shaping their own events. The difference is, c1 began as a blank slate, whereas c3 has history. Powerful allies and enemies alike are tied to former campaigns because such is the nature of the world. Mysteries left to solve were introduced earlier but approached only now because this is a campaign whose narrative and characters are served by approaching them. The world is dynamic. Alive. One story merges into the next, and new heroes are born on the shoulders of the last, ready to be shaped by their own narrative.

[lunarrolls]

unfortunately i don’t know enough about the kryn to write this or anything but ever since i made that post discussing the assembly and the dynasty’s attitudes towards genasi i have not been able to stop thinking about an au where ashton gets kidnapped and brought to the bright queen and the hells have to figure out where the fuck their pet rock went. they’re looking in the complete wrong places assuming some random bitch ashton knew got salty with him and stole him meanwhile ashton keeps trying to break out of the palace because They’re Ashton. they have broken seventeen important objects and jumped out of at least four windows trying to get back to everyone else. it doesn’t occur to fearne or fcg to try and scry on him until three days have passed because they have a combined intelligence of 18 <3

[kingsleytealeef]

magically bound prisoners are LOOSE magically bound prisoners are LOOSE magically bound prisoners are LOOSE magically bound prisoners are LOOSE -

and caleb is fuck-knows-where in fuck-knows-what-state

i know we've discussed ickythong being out and about before but this just reignited the anxiety and with the new one shot coming up i am so very worried for our boi and the nein as a whole. he'll be out for blood and no doubt no longer on the 'bring bren back into the fold' kick. gods know how often jester has tortured him with sending spells, beau and yasha helped pin and capture him and essek is on his shitlist as well

...oh god luc is a teen by now and we know what ickythong does with kids that age...

I AM WORRIED AAAAAAAAAA

[moisthalforcboy]

Maybe team 2 is gonna be an EXU arc? I don’t know how the timing works out for pre-filming stuff but if Matt needs the time off to GM for Dimension 20 maybe Dariax is keeping an eye on Cyrus so that Dorian, Opal, and maybe Fyra’rai and Mor could check out Marquet?

I just think that could be cool?

Edit: maybe the “Nameless Ones = The Nobodies” theory could pay off?

[famewolf]

kind of love that you can start watching the CR vod right away on twitch, even the night of the stream since they're all prerecorded now!

[zelreedsandwrites]

Marisha C2e11: “Titmalt— Timalt, not Titmalt.”

Laura: no no, she has a point

[hand-of-devotion]

Still on my CR2 rewatch and one of my favorite Taliesin-isms is the ~ casual ~ panic attack rp

[protectorsoftheearth]

These are all great, a couple of my personal favourites;

- Life need things to live.

- I should have told you. It's yours.

- Vox Machina, how do you want to do this?

- Take me instead you raven bitch.

- Though the calamity is here, because of you it will not be here forever

- I cast blight

- Do you think you are weaker at the elbow or the shoulder?

- You lied.

- Are you staring cause you're jealous?

- Remember Laerynn, the architect arcane and the most beautiful woman in the world.

- Can I kiss you?

Thinking about more iconic lines from the show over the years instead of going to bed and created a list that is far too long:

- What’s my mother’s name?

- My best. Finally.

- I have so many flowers to bring to her.

- You were not born with venom in your veins. You learned it. You learned it.

- Don’t get on my ass about it! All I heard is that its pretty easy to do here thats all I took from what you said. (Bonus: its for the god of arts and crafts)

- At dawn, we plan.

- Doo doot doo doo doot doooo donuts!

- What matters more, the dream or the dreamer?

- Sleep well with your bad decisions.

- Nothing happens for a reason. It’s absolute fucking chaos.

- Patience is fine, but it can curdle into apathy.

- I’ve met the devil, thats not him.

- You never take copper. That's just kicking someone while they're down. You take silver if they're an asshole, and you take gold regardless.

- Time is one of my specialties.

- It’s entirely off-putting how disarmingly charming you are.

- How lucky I am to have had all of you. How lucky indeed.

- I smell like a crayon.

- I could tell by the bone structure and the contempt.

- I think I can punch ghosts now.

- Big moon, little moon.

- Pop, pop!

- I need chaos. I have faith in chaos.

- Molly said not to steal from happy people.

- I am going to tell you the story of how I murdered my mother and father.

- Smiley day to ya!

- I killed my family, I’ll throw you under a bridge.

- We’re on the moon bitch.

- She throws it. I shoot it. It explodes! NO STRUCTURAL DAMAGE! (FLUFFERNUTTER)

- I am all for faith, and I'm not going to pick a god. They can pick me. It'll be the first one that actually praises me and then maybe I'll fucking answer. I'll wait. They can fucking beg. And I will listen, which is more than they ever fucking did.

- I would like to RAGE!

- The worst thing that has happened to me has already happened.

- We're running; it's bad.

- You can reply to this message.

- Dagger, dagger, dagger.

- Opinions are like opera. Sure, you can listen to them, but why would you, really?

- There is no god that strides this world that I worship more than I worship your heart.

- I would like to live long enough to be someone else.

- Help, its again.

- Whoever it was, just put it back. I think they've earned it. Put it back.

- I’m fun scary.

- Sorry, babe. Gotta handle these ninjas.

- I’m the cleric? I’ve never traveled with a bunch of people I thought would die in front of me.

- He thinks I’m gonna go into the water for some fucking buttons.

- You are, at the moment, the luckiest person in Whitestone. Do you know why? Because you’re at the bottom of my list.

- You need me more than I need you.

- I protect him. He’s my boy. And I keep him safe.

- I made the earth remember him.

- Come correct or get corrected.

- Do not go far from me.

- Are you worth saving?

- How do I want to do this?

- Heaven to some, and hell to others.

- Fix him!

- Why do we tell stories?

- Do you spice?

- Listen you fucking jungle! I'm a paladin of the Wildmother. You're going to move or we're going to bust you wide open! We'll wreck this place. Don't make me fucking tell you twice!

- I am your god, long may I rein, eat of my fruits.

- Anybody can make lights. Anybody could send a message through a wire. I want to bend reality to my will.

- Would you like to talk before or after?

- What the fuck is up with that?

- To reach a hand down to somebody, they need to be beneath you! And I'm beneath nobody.

- The one eyed monster slayed my pussy.

- Time is a weird soup.

- I’m killing someone. Hold, please.

- Gold is a resource by which mortaldom climbs.

- Why are you so mean to me?

- Yours is the face I saw when murder entered my heart.

- This one time I saw a bug carrying a piece of bread that was like five times its size and he was carrying upstairs, like up and then he would turn, and then up, and then he would turn.

- I live as long as Whitestone lives.

- Vox Machina! Fuck shit up!

- I’m not disappointed, I’m just angry.

- Someone prayed for a miracle and there you were.

- We don't leave people behind. That's just the rule. You do not leave people the fuck behind.

- Call me child one more goddamned time!

- Finish it, Champion.

- I am of the Empire. But I am no friend to the Empire.

- I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you're a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential. It's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you. You said so yourself, you surround yourself with lies and deceptions. And I wish for you, in the future, to find someone to mourn you when you are gone.