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ITS BEEN A WHILE!!!!!! I missed drawing a lot from the Schemers arc because I was kinda busy but also the Schemers required me to use my whole brain to follow. But now I'm in the opposite end of things where EVERYONE is at the table and there's so many jokes going on I can't draw everything in time LOL
This last one did not happen lol OR DID IT
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dang, younger Thimble was so bloodthirsty... Just like any 10 year old girl.
Am I the only one that gets the sense that like Orcs don't do monogamy like we do? Like they seem to typically date/partner with one person at a time but I dont think they construct families in the same sort of way we do. I could be totally wrong but thats the vibes I get.
First of, Hal and Thaisha aren't "together" anymore but they both are still co-parents, have a positive relationship with one another, and even seem down to hook-up again. Hal also has had another partner, Elodie, whom doesnt live with him anymore, but is called a mother to Shadia, whom she shares no blood with. Plus Hal and Thjazi only share one parent but are only ever refered to as "brothers" and not "half-brothers."
I just get the vibes that the way Orc society forms families is a lot more open and freeform. Thjazi's marriage to Aranessa would be the outlier, but that is also Thjazi marrying outside of his culture, so it perhaps followed more of the human tradition.
If I'm right, I just think it would be cool to see a culture approach families in that sort of way. It would make sense too for the Orcs to treat partnerships more openly considering their past under their Shaper. Constantly dealing with war would make the likelihood of being able to raise your family with your partner pretty slim, so embracing people more openly into families would be a way to deal with that. Make sure your kids have parents even if your original partner was lost.
Anyway, I'm not convinced Hal and Thaisha are "divorced" like we think of it. I think their separation is something a lot more normalized and accepted in Orc society.
CRITICAL ROLE Campaign 4 Music Playlist
Hey, Critters -- I've been doing my best to ID the various tracks used in Campaign 4 at the table, as well as in the little promo vids or Previously Ons and whatnot. It is very much a work in progress, and of course, if the track is NOT on Spotify, I can't include it on the list.
But a lot of folks seem to enjoy the music, so if you're looking for something, here's your best place to start!
FYI - if there's a particular cue you'd like me to track down, give me the episode, the timestamp, and WHICH PLATFORM IT'S ON, and I will do my level best to ID it for you. :)
You know, I really appreciate the way we've been getting up close edits during one-on-ones. The screens I usually watch CR on are pretty small and the layout that shows everyone makes it hard to really make out details of people's reactions. So the closeups that really let me see people's faces are appreciated! I think the people who worry about the people not being shown reactions aren't actually missing out on anything. Not everyone at the table gives big reactions like Ashley does, I think most of the time when they do these close ups, the others are just as locked in on the scene as we are.
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The only downside to Vaelus wearing a veil is when the brainworms make you do a redraw all of Ashley's gold tier faces get hidden :'(
loved how Thaisha continually refered to Aranessa as just Nessa through this episode. It just felt to purposefully and loving in a way to show how they are sisters. Almost like Aranessa Royce and Nessa Fang are two different ideas of the same person. Nessa Fang was the person Aranessa wanted to be with Thjazi. She in conversation in this episode wished she had gone with Thjazi and been a commoner. Thaisha calling her Nessa just felt like a lovely way for Thaisha to look at her and kinda say "You are my sister because you are a Fang and you can be the person you wanted to be." Which feels so kind to do for a person who just lost anything and is unmoored. A reminder that there is something and someone for her in the world.
Aranessa never corrects Thaisha as well! They are sisters, your honor!!!!
Alright, here is what Aranessa has so far CANONICALLY done:
Married Thjazi Fang, someone with a moral code so strong he led a rebellion against all noble houses, including hers. Despite their separation, they both deeply loved each other and valued their marriage over the years.
Spent a whole day waiting for an audience with the Photarch after riding what must have been EXTREMELY far ahead of her caravan to reach Dol-Makjar in time to do so, to beg for her husband's life.
Openly grieved and attended her husband's funeral. Expressed regret with not going with him when he asked, AFTER his rebellion had already failed due to the actions of Julien, who she is obviously very close to, meaning he did not find her at fault for what happened.
Has been nothing but kind and cordial with her husband's family, who have acted the same with her.
Asked Julien to bring Occtis to the Davinos palace for two known reasons: she felt that the fact his family was looking for him so hard was suspect and that he might have insight as to what is going on with the Sundered Houses and more importantly his family. Both reasons are absolutely good ones.
Was nearly killed in the subsequent attack and did everything in her power to fight against the Tachonis forces and help her allies to escape.
Has expressed a sense of betrayal with the other Sundered Houses, whom she was raised all her life to consider peers and allies, only to have her family and her vassels be slaughtered by a yet unknown conspiracy of them, and be hit with the realization that people she thought of as peers might have not considered herself as one.
Be fucking traumatized by the destruction of all she has loved in a short 48 hour period.
Despite the trauma, has adjusted to life on the run as best as possible and rarely complains beyond some jokes she has made about the situation which were more a general "yeah this really sucks, oh well".
Asked the Seekers for their help getting her trapped men at arms and servants from the Einfasen. Expressed that she did not want to stop Thaisha from reaching Alogar quickly, but that she felt it was her duty to these people to not leave them to rot in a dungeon if she could.
Was kind to Occtis without need or audience, playing music in order to comfort him after he discovered he could no longer eat, and reassuring him she did not hold him accountable for his family's actions and that she did not judge him for his new undead state.
Openly refers to Thaisha as her sister by marriage and seems to value that relationship, which Thaisha also seems to do.
Tries her best with Vaelus, despite some awkwardness, partially because Vaelus did gate crash her beloved husbands funeral to accuse him of stealing (he did, but HEY).
Has a close bond with Julien and is his childhood friend on top of being his liege lady. This dynamic is one of her worst sins, apparently, as it "holds Julien back from connecting to the others", despite the fact that he seems to be developing different raports with the others, biggest thing obviously holding him back being his own shitty personality and recent trauma.
Suggested that Julien and Occtis meet with Lord Einfasen in order to try and suss out what was going on. All she really thought she might get out of it is a possible way to release her people without having to resort to breaking them out (which likely would end with a lot of deaths) or leaving them. She also hopes they may have a tentative ally in another Sundered House or at least prevent Einfasen from becoming an ally of Tachonis. Expresses a healthy distrust of Einfasen regardless. Is probably not aware of the Einfasen move to take over the Revolutionary Guard as far as we know, as it never came up during any interactions with Azune, and she had only been in the city a few days.
Has the same voice as a villain from a D20 series, which just happens to be Brennan's normal voice. Apparently, despite the fact that many of his other villains have pronounced accents and/or character voices, this is a sign she is evil.
I mean, really, where is this 'Aranessa is not who she seems/secretly evil' thing coming from? Textually. Where is it coming from within the canon itself?
A lot of people say they want this because it would be a huge blow for Julien, something to push his narrative along. To this, I say: "We've already gotten that." The attack of Palazzo Davinos, murder of his father, possible murder of his mother and sister, murder of his friends/partners, and subsequent uprooting of everything he thought he knew about the world and his place in it. Why do we need more? Why does Aranessa need to be evil? Is this not enough for Matt and Brennan to weave a compelling narrative? We haven't even really gotten to sit with this vehicle of character development for him for more than an episode and MAYBE a half (if you add in the various cold-opens), and already people think it isn't happening fast enough? Aranessa also needs to be written off somehow for his story?
The only value some people seem to be placing on Aranessa Royce is how she might move Julien's story further, which sucks because she is and can be so much more than that.
Wild moment of hearing BLeeM roleplay a baby while rocking my own baby to sleep
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I'm so interested in how The Mighty Nein show feels like a second draft to me. In like the sense that the campaign is your first draft that you discovery wrote. Which considering the improve nature of ttrpg storytelling, discovery writing is perhaps an good parallel.
In discovery writing you typically figure out the story as you go, not to say there isnt a plan, but it isn't intensely outlined leaving the author to make stuff up as they go. Plot and character voice tend to emerge over the course of writing. The trick is to then in subsequent drafts refine the stuff you came up with during writing to make the story support those ideas from the very start.
The somewhat meandering plot of campaign two is refined to focus more on the most compelling parts of the story overall (the war and Beacon) while still touching and establishing those important character bits that we had to wait a long time to have emerge in game.
Beau in the animation resembles a bit of her midcampaign self in her devotion to detective work while still keeping ideas of abrasiveness we see from the start of the campaign. The idea of who she would become is thus better implemented and seeded from the start of the story while also acknowledging her flaws. This still feels like Beau most importantly!
Likewise Essek was a character in game Matt intended as a villain but in the improve process that plan was changed to align with character actions. Thus the Essek we get in the "second draft" gets written from a place to seed what we know he will eventually become. He still does villainous things but his character is spelled out more and to prepare the viewer for his change of heart.
I dunno. I really like the show and I feel like most people dont acknowledge that the process of adapting an actual play is going to be vastly different from adapting a book for example. A book has already had its story edited and refined and drafted multiple times to be the best novel version of that story. Adaptation to the screen is then about making that story work for a different medium. Meanwhile an actual play is going to be an unrefined story that emerges through play, to adapt that you have to both do a second draft to refine the story AND make it work for a new medium.
Oh Thjazi, what have you gotten us into?
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Campaign 4 doodles from episode 6 and 7 .
The Soldier's Table might be my favorite group up but I have to admit
I am ENAMORED by Wicander. I want that twink OBLITERATED but his luck rolls are insane LMAO
Something Ive been thinking about in Araman's setting is how like the Shapers war granted people freedom but NOT peace. In the 70 years since the Gods were killed, we know about at least two wars (War of Axe and Vine, and Falconers rebellion.) We don't know the full context for the former conflict, but we learned last episode that at least part of the conflict led to the independence of Timmony. So thats another sort of focus on freedom. And the Falconers rebellion had much to do with a freedom from the sundered houses.
Despite all that conflict and the ideals of freedom, the people dont live in peace. Oh sure war isnt ACTIVELY happening right now, but the people of Araman are experiencing another kind of conquest in the form of imperialism under the Sundered houses. I dunno, I don't have a point to this really, just I found it interesting how Araman of a world seeking freedom that is bound to conflict because of it.
