Critical Role Animatic - FCG's Calls With God

[@vladimirulvrish]

Change Bringer: Save the gods Also change bringer: ima fuck with them

[@foolslayer9416]

She is a trickster goddess after all.

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@foolslayer9416 yeah but…come on honey, there’s a time and a place. It reminds me of when Laura joked about Jester stealing a rock Caleb needed to get to Islecross for no reason lol.

[@Rawilow]

Yea, but the spell also have an increasing chance to give false readings when used multiple times in the same day

[@river-t4y]

Changebringer actually doesn't give a fuck and is leaving it to random chance. That is literally her whole thing.

[@n0dash18]

She is the literal personification of a gambling addiction.

[@ghastlyghifin4029]

Lady Luck is fickle and unreliable, even when she really shouldn't be.

[@davfree9732]

‘The one you seek, whose name begins with a D… with a D.’ FCG - ??? Is it Dancer!?! ‘… with a D-… never mind, you’ll figure it out.’

[@musclecat1005]

Luck be a lady alright

[@Matisyahuwu]

Well the spell he's using has an increasing chance to get a bad response with every use, so its not necessarily her fault.

[@Micaerys]

​@@MatisyahuwuThe spell can also be answered by a celestial bound to the deity, so maybe Avandra was feeling funny and was like "Steve, my messiest angel, go answer the robot and make it fun"

[@dracowolf3212]

2:14 I love the fact that there's a high chance the gods are going to die and the Change Bringer is just chilling in the heavens brushing her hair

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

Hey, if you're going to die, might as well go out looking good

[@tonylawson2222]

It's a change. I do believe she's rather indifferent as to the type of change.

[@Ziaotic]

​@@tonylawson2222 it's not just change, it's murder. predathos is a being that eats God's. why is the Fandom ignoring that

[@Strangelyfey]

@@Ziaoticbecause y’all ignoring the fact that the more you use that specific spell the less accurate the responses get, and also that Matt literally said himself that it’s not always the god answering but sometimes a representative. FCG has gotten more direct answers with commune than divination.

[@Ziaotic]

@@Strangelyfey cool statement, notice how it has no relevance to my point.

[@trise2033]

Remember kids, if you want direct answers, use Commune instead. Divination is *very unreliable*, as Sam found out here.

[@CrimsonJoker13]

He did before I think

[@andrewdowns3673]

The Traveler would definitely get along with Change Bringer.

[@Heatstruct]

Great, now all I want is for Jester to meet F.C.G. and talk about their gods

[@andrewdowns3673]

@@trise2033 He pissed off the Moonweaver. I bet Change Bringer was laughing her ass off the entire night and brings it up at every god family get together/meeting just to see Moon get rilled up.

[@jlokison]

​@@andrewdowns3673 moonweaver is also a bit chaotic, her biggest issue with Artie was him claiming to be her, even if it was to redirect worship to her, identity theft is not a joke to a god or goddess.

[@detectiveghost8856]

Traveler and Change bringer; Dab me up son! Moon weaver; Really guys?

[@johnmartin122187]

Or Change Bringer is aka The Traveler. That kind of fuckery is right up Arty's aisle.

[@arturoreyescortez2476]

This was Matt's revenge for all the things Sam has done during all the campaigns and one shots. You did a great animatic of this moment.

[@ClericOfPholtus]

Y'know? When you say it like that? Absolutely justified. Ever since the first shirt with Matt's face on it, Sam's been doing shit lol

[@BenKim16]

I was gonna say that this is revenge for the One eyed monster joke

[@arturoreyescortez2476]

@@BenKim16 Which joke?

[@jakubs.5966]

@@arturoreyescortez2476 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqDEg2WnZreleLs ^_^

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

Just remember, this is the same lady who played along and gave FCG advice on a card game. One gets the impression she's not THE most reverent of gods. That and she's the goddess of choices and free spirits. And there's a good chance both options will help our heroes and the gods, so she has wiggle room to be a little trollish

[@jamesxavier20]

She is also the god that tricked Asmodeus army to attack itself into defeat. She is one for tricks lol

[@Dillsfawn]

Also, mechanics of the spell. The text literally says if you cast it more than once, you get a cumulative % chance each additional cast for an unclear answer.

[@boss5718]

I mean, she is the goddess of one of the most fickle ideas ever.

[@oddfreaks6452]

The Goddess of Bullshitting, praise Changebringer! My kind of woman!

[@aeddiefarmer]

The 2nd time Matt says 'you could cast it again 🤔'... he knows exactly what he's doing!

[@lurking5018]

The best part (to me at least) is that it could be Doty 😂

[@ardenfoxx6844]

Also that Keyleth is just standing there in the room while all of this is happening desperate to take a nap

[@justforplaylists]

There are really a lot of characters whose names start with 'D' this campaign.

[@miafiolekova5817]

or Darrington

[@twilightgeneral777]

What if D is like the original Doty who was left behind in hell and somehow managed to survive, get repaired, and escape?

[@lurking5018]

@@twilightgeneral777 OMGGGG

[@MyCarnageExtreme]

I saw this one comment: Love how it starts with "My Love" and evolves to "Answer me women!"

[@williamfalls]

Watch as soon as they get their long rest, FCC rolls back up to their god with a "Listen here, you little shit-"

[@MyCarnageExtreme]

That broke me 😂

[@TakeWalker]

what a perfect storm of chaotic roleplaying, table talk and the DM fucking with his friends :D

[@Crayshack]

The highest praise a DM can receive is "Fuck you!"

[@Dani_77709]

The 4th wall break and then FCG ready to fight Matt is everything I needed to see.

[@h0bb1t322]

the best part is that he could have just cast comune instead and asked is it dancer and would have gotten a yes or no, instead he cast divination that gives you answers in riddles

[@lemonoclefox]

FCG's little fists when saying 'so strong', the Changebringer curling her hair, the way the ponytail of wires wilts in the end 🤌 perfection

[@fRkOdCmK]

FCG's expressions were hilarious. Also, everyone looks so pretty ☺️

[@MycoArsenic39]

I love all of your Bell’s Hells character designs, and FCG’s design is so cute and so expressive, even when going through both a mental and emotional breakdown when being trolled by their God.

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

FCG's design reminds me of Pascal the chameleon from Tangled, especially in the last frame. Cute widdle guy

[@albiegato]

When FCG said "I'm shutting down", my laptop literally bluescreened. I thought for a moment "what a funny gag", then "wtf my laptop just offed itself"

[@roryschussler]

"Maybe we should kill the gods..." What a line!

[@golbez1583]

The Changebringer is enforcing the Will of D in the most confusing way possible

[@BuddhaJames08]

She may be good, but she is chaotic good for a reason.

[@morbidnumbskull]

Frickin' useless gods

[@jakubs.5966]

Love Matt struggling to keep the laugh in. Sam had that coming 100%. DM revenge is sweet!

[@AbadonXXX]

New D’s added: doty and darrington

[@mistermustachiogmc1256]

How talented of Matt to make the most poetic and fucking vague things for gods to whisper back.

[@ardenfoxx6844]

Loved this bit and knew you'd animate it as soon as I watched it, great work

[@arisart2776]

This scene was pretty funny to begin with, but man with this animation (specially FCG barging in ) it got 10 times funnier.. goood joooob

[@StJohnGaming]

This is by far one of my favorite moments of this campaign.

[@rachelnichols7347]

This was one of my all time fave moment of critical role. I listen via podcast and I remember I was kinda drifting off to sleep and this happened and I bursted out laughing and replayed it like 5 times.

[@corbettevans7483]

Goodness they all look so good in your style!! Well done. And amazing job on the humor too 😆

[@lonoris74]

I love your new laudna design!

[@abaddonarts1129]

I think the funniest bits out of all of this is that FCG didn't need to use spell slots to cast it ("I've used FIVE high level slots"), and I believe Keyleth was in the room the whole time just watching in confused silence. For some added details: I believe Divination is a ritual spell and he could have taken ten minutes to cast without a slot. Sam may have intentionally cast it to save time, but also I think it's so much funnier the other way. Also Keyleth was talking with them moments before if I remember correctly, and so it's great to imagine her just thinking 'Oh god were we this bad??'

[@arandomcheese]

Divination also has a chance of giving a false reading the more times you use it, so after the third use, Matt was totally allowed to fuck with him.

[@Boundwithflame23]

Tbf the other two slots were for Scrying but ye

[@ColonelHazard]

This scene was already amazing; I laughed so hard I cried. Yet this animatic somehow manages to elevate it even more. Perfection.

[@xenosaga8436]

"Maybe we should just kill the Gods." - FCG That always makes me laugh. 🤣

[@SkyeBlu]

I was on the floor when I watched this 😂

[@captnconfusion280]

this is absolutely hilariozs omfg

[@bodetryer7765]

The collapse to the knees xD

[@pyrosianheir]

Two things.... One, Excellent capturing. Sure, he's "supposed" to be all robot faced and junk, but like... Expressive FCG is best FCG. Two, far less important, I love that Imogen has a Sailor Moon tiara for her anti-mind-reading item. Excellent work, top notch.

[@CharmChampion]

I had to scroll TOO FAR to find a comment about this! It’s brilliant! On ALL the levels! 😍

[@danielstephens1185]

Love FCG breaking the fourth wall and getting mad at Matt directly! 🤣

[@bunnycat5552]

I know that wasn't a crucial moment but I really expected you to animate Orym's "DO-TO-TU-DU-DOO :D" after Imogen stutters bc it just tied the chaos together for me. I love your animations, they're great

[@hannahmuczynski7455]

This this so funny, please animate episode 69 with the gliders 😂

[@qa1327]

So well done. I loved how you made the god Matt for a few seconds then back to the change bringer.

[@MonsterTeegs]

Might just be me but it seems like this was Matt trying to give FCG a choice in which person they consider to be the one who gave them life. IMO, D is the much more interesting path to go down but it looks like FCG wanted to go with Dancer. The pressure from everyone else wanting to see D's storyline made it a much harder choice for Sam.

[@clintonbehrends4659]

I mean it is the changebringer whos whole thing is choice and trickery

[@DukeJohnny]

That 1:30 f you where Change Bringer changes to Matt is spot on, laughed my butt off!

[@jabisdumb]

I love your animations so much, you have one of my favourite animated FCG designs, you make them so adorable. Also I was soooo on Sam’s side during this, especially because Laura’s point (love you Laura) about “we only know about D because we looked in your memories so you had to have met or seen him” is INCORRECT! They know D because they looked into _Imahara Joe’s_ memory!! I love all of them, but am glad that they ended up going to Dancer instead

[@nilesgoatly]

I’ve always loved your animation style, but seeing this animated really killed me😂

[@miafiolekova5817]

The end killed me. How u drew their shutting down with the X in their eyes :D

[@yigitgulmez4377]

The Mercer-Changebringer transition is so beautiful.

[@LividE101]

I love FCG's little punch motion when he says "I killed her!" and I also love that the pose carries to the following frame. It's such a non-thing but I like it.

[@timwoods2852]

Change bringer sounds like a low-tier bank job.

[@GreyAcumen]

Matt could have absolutely screwed with sam to such a deep degree, but he fumbled the opportunity to change Shithead's name to "Dookie" No one was more bound to FCG than that bird. If he changed its name to start with a D, that could have given a completely new thread that would have COMPLETELY flown under the radar.

[@mrswb]

"He Did it Again!"

[@ofanichan]

I don't understand why the rest of the group was so deadset on D, when all he did was sell FCG 😭

[@Markcrazeer]

D is someone that is dead set on reviving the aeormaton race and setting them out into the world to do whatever it is that they will do. If they can’t bring them online they will give them to someone who can. Why give away free children when you can charge for the adoption process?

[@MrMikado282]

They were confusing past events and believed that FCG had seen D before Dancer repaired them. So they assumed D and FCG had a history that FCG couldn't remember.

[@BeybladeASMRreviews]

“WoUlD yA SAY!?!?”

[@emy1511]

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life! Well done ❤

[@zonmisty1231]

I love this animation of that moment You hit the comedy beats wonderfully

[@Maessiah_____]

At this is point i wouldnt be surprised if it was Delilah

[@justingoldsmith1852]

You conveyed the emotion so well

[@AshyGirl]

Yes! Loved Sam's Letterkenny reference to Glen in this exchange, and Matt just giving him vaguer and vaguer answers.

[@madarchmage1151]

I like this. Thank you

[@digifreak90]

The thing that gets me is FCG's high pitched voice at the beginning of his questions.

[@shichirostormbringer5381]

This is revenge for all the shirts.

[@johnnyzuhn4953]

FGC looks like a muppet in the best kind of way

[@angelfreshey]

oh man now i cant wait for shithead. gave me a good laugh.

[@MortSalazar]

I feel like both answers are correct at this point, or Changebringer might just be giving into her nature and be like "Lol lets see what my weird lil robot does with this."

[@johncasey7063]

One way or another, Matt Mercer will have his revenge!

[@bdletoast09]

I absolutely love how because of how FCG was using his commune spell, Matt slowly shifted Avandra's characterization so she's basically a divine troll.

[@ellenarelkin1238]

I want season 3 trailer for season 3 for Vox Machina!😭😭😭😭

[@ghostphantom8453]

Lmao my favorite part of playing a warforge "robot" is going to sleep literally anywhere 😂

[@nomennescio1737]

The setting here makes it seems like FCG is casting at the 4th wall, which makes a lot of sense.

[@Eggs_hatching]

Ah yes! Asking the goddess of choices to make decisions for you. Kinda like asking the goddess of death to bring you back to life. ~Someone missed the point~

[@brianformica2599]

Delilah what

[@TK-_-GZ]

Algorithmic punch!

[@thomassmart4088]

No Doraleous. THIS is the Zephyr Blade!

[@kimitsudesu]

It might have been on purpose. Not in the sense as in to f with FCG, but in a sense that both would actually do.

[@lovinyoujacksparrow2]

god this is so funny dfhgkjfd good fucking job!!!! (also your FCG looks super cute and expressive!)

[@adrinalinekid2320]

This animatic made me like FCG which is a big achievement

[@pigeon842]

Imaging not liking the cutest character in Exandria's flat planet

[@king_ethernal7117]

I wish all the animations were in a playlist 😂

[@n_shadowfox1116]

Freaking amazing, btw is it me or does laundas new look looks dailea Briarwood Design from legend of vox machia

[@seanfarley9235]

I swear in the end FCG is just gonna go full kratos on the change bringer

[@GiulianoVenturo]

omg this is so funny, FCG is my fav character

[@IceLordCryo]

This was brilliant XD

[@howiecatslab4684]

This and the double scry incident were for Matt. And no one can tell me differently.

[@SmokinBrick]

God this was the funniest shit. So happy to see it here

[@OttersDen]

The door busting open is one of the funniest things I've seen in all of 2023. 😂

[@psarayne7800]

Jesus it’s like going to a John Edwards show lol…. I’m thinking of a name that starts with letter “D”.

[@1Worluck]

LOL, it could very well be Devexian from the Aeor section during Campaign 2. Now we have Dancer, D, Doty, Darrington and possibly Devexian 😂😂

[@theunchartedsky143]

It seems pretty much confirmed that D and Devexian are the same person

[@Strix182]

Hm. Interesting, uh, hairdo you got going for Laudna there... Nice outfit too, feel like I've... seen it somewhere before..........

[@shadowhell8378]

When matt gets revenge for all the shirt gags

[@tireddoggamingtales2091]

OMG Matthew Mercer is such a dick when he wants to be LOL I love it.

[@Sane_Mania]

We do a little trolling here

[@theonionqueen3519]

Why does everyone give Imogen glasses? She’s never had glasses???

[@jodah_eternal]

Laura had a multi session streak of just awful perception checks, and then said "maybe she does need glasses" after a bunch of fan art of Imogen with glasses was made I think

[@Ashainm]

This nearly murdered me in real life xD

[@parafoxl7619]

"The one you are most bound to!" The person that found and sold your unconscious body VS The person that woke you up, gave you your name, let you throuh the early stages of your new found life HMMM I WONDER WHO IT COULD B-They chose D -.-

[@E3Zen]

you don't roll for divination

[@RikThunder33]

I don't think Imogen wears glasses...xD but alright.

[@DocOverlord]

Was there a 4-Sided Dive or Q&A where Matt ever answered if it was D or Dancer?

[@RexZor76]

Yeah I cannot remember which one but he said either were a viable option. He made it vague on purpose because there was no right answer.

[@danielmoriarty9273]

It’s Davexion

[@Hey-Its-Dingo]

I am 100% convinced it was supposed to be Dancer, because FCG had talked about wanting to reconnect with Dancer earlier in the episode, they all talked about it, and then Laura misinterpreted this to mean D, and the rest of the party took her word for it. Laura Bailey is perfect in every way, but this conundrum was 100% her fault. Lmao

[@Alforbia]

Nah, this was definitely a spot where they were both viable choices and Matt (playing the Goddess of Choice) was not going to take that choice away.