How could you not notice someone's life force being siphoned away?! (Critical Role Animatic C2E3)

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[@RianeBane]

"Do they cut themselves like you?" "That's a complicated conversation, but no." The circus people are not okay

[@DeathnoteBB]

Oh dear

[@kellyriddell5014]

0:21 is basically a description of how DnD works. You bring a bit of your own narrative, and the DM figures out how it figured out into the overall "show." Kind of a cool unintended double meaning.

[@benvoliothefirst]

"Unintended?" I'm sure our goth overlord Taliesin intended it, just like he intends to JUMP OUT OF YOUR CLOSET LOOKOUT!!!

[@shealupkes]

@@benvoliothefirst thanks, he almost got me

[@EclipseAtDusk]

Had a player bring “Am Space Elf Who Shoot Gun Gud” to the table this weekend & working that into the “show” was rly fun

[@NicolasPine]

@@EclipseAtDuskDnD and GUN, best pair ever

[@EclipseAtDusk]

@@NicolasPine the BBEGs of the game knew dominate person - and said gun toting artificer did not end up having a good wisdom save (unbeknowst to me at the time) and that ended up being very fun for a bit in combat. “Oh you have a cool gun & cannon? Now *I* have a cool gun & cannon”

[@oakenshadow6763]

"Because I'm weird!" Because they accept you, is more like. A family of weirdoes where everyone is normal to eachother.

[@joseluismendezgomez6690]

God how I wish Molly lasted long in the campaign

[@Deelusi]

Yeah :(

[@Thiccremoch162]

Part of me hopes they do an EXU short campaign with Kingsley trying to take over darktow, a one shot with the same premise, or Taliesin brings Kingsley back as a backup to Ashton

[@cheezbiscuit4140]

He lives on through Ashton as his spiritual successor kinda.

[@thegreatestnewb614]

🙃

[@RinSyuveil]

This feels like a Hot Take but I am happy Molly passed sure I missed the opportunity for more Molly fun but if Molly did not pass then Spoilers/speculations of an alternative future bellow Caleb would not have opened up as soon or as well. Jester would not have matured as well as she did. Beau still would have been as prickly as she was in the beginning. Yasha would have grown more. Nott might have still been a mess even after finding her family leaning into Mollys free spirit more then Caduceus maternal nature. And Fjord… Fjord would have never leaned on Cad and became a Paladin he would have stayed a tormented Hexblade Also we would have never been given such an amazing and heart wrenching journey for the last Arc of the campaign

[@anjelica948]

Molly was like Beau’s ultimate foil. The person obsessed with knowing the fine details and wanting straight answers, and the person who you’d have to drag kicking and screaming (or put a spell on) to get them from. It’d of been interesting to see how their dynamic might have changed or grown as time went on.

[@flaminyawn]

Yeah, it was really interesting to me, seeing how losing that foil sort of pushed Beau to grow into the role she eventually took. Makes you wonder if she would have gone down a different path or if it would have held back her development if he'd survived. Though I don't know how the M9 would have made it all the way through the campaign without a healer.

[@deathbykonami5487]

Actually, Molly just bullshitted and pretended to know things when in actuality he knew absolutely nothing. It's like he tells the Kryn soldier in Zadash, "I don't know anything, it's part of my charm". So when Beau starts grilling him, Molly just threw together some random shit and used his forked "Devil's Tongue" to weave all the shit into something closely relevant.

[@anjelica948]

@@deathbykonami5487 True. But he knew more than he was telling Beau (and anybody else), in the sense be woke up in a grave with no memory. I always kind of wondered why Molly was so against telling anybody what he did know of his history. I mean I guess maybe he was afraid of his past coming back to bite him, but he really didn’t strike me as the type to worry about much of anything.

[@talitherose]

@@anjelica948 A. vulnerability, he didn’t do that. Neither he or Lucien did B. maybe he started to tell ppl and nobody believed him C. it hurt to much.. remembering being that “empty”

[@azurastar3223]

I almost feel like Kingsly actually remembered being Molly, but Molly was never one to dwell on the past. Also, it's funny how Molly, in all his glory, was the moral compas of the group, he tried doing wat Cad did, but was received differently by everyone. He had a certain bit of wisdom, but in a kids body and presented the way a kid would. Cad was slow to act and had the certainty of age.

[@arcticbanana66]

"How could you not notice someone's life force being siphoned away?!" "Could _you?!_ What exactly does that look like?!"

[@TheFansOfFiction]

anemia, I assume

[@ffreed]

Retail work looks exactly like that.

[@vettethewarlock5448]

The unstoppable force of Beau meets the immovable object of Mollymauk, I loved those 2 together lol, always felt like they were like 5 seconds away from either punching eachother in the face or hugging like besties. Also, Nott sat at the end of the bed like a raggedy ann doll is just the cherry on top of this animation lol, I love her

[@ladysilkwing]

Beau and Molly are Worsties in every timeline!

[@vahlok1426]

"Then why were you with the carnival!?" "'CAUSE I'M WEIRD!!" I love this exchange so much.

[@zenebean]

Beau's two sides of detective and exasperated teenager beautifully on display, love it Have you ever done a scene from when they were bats?

[@Deelusi]

I'm currently rewatching back the m9 and slowly doing bits that I liked so yeah, it will be a slow one to catch up to that 🤣

[@zenebean]

@@Deelusi Y'know, I should have figured based on the scenes you've done lately lol I will be patient for bat caleb

[@isaacnikolic5895]

Bread?

[@portaljumper2012]

"CAUSE I'M WIERD!!" 😂 😂 😂

[@arturoreyescortez2476]

This is a good animatic. Also, I like how Taliesin plays characters.

[@roxelmillian7242]

Long May He Reign.

[@Feasco]

Long May He Reign.

[@Deelusi]

Long May He Reign.

[@WorldWalker128]

Eat of his fruits.

[@junezhang6267]

Mollymauk... it’s been two weeks since I first watched ep26, and I still can’t get over it... I can’t believe Taliesin build such a great character that so many people love even if he died that EARLY in the campaign. I really, really hope Taliesin get one more chance to play as Molly in a one shot something; I just, I really miss him.

[@theddexaggerator7884]

There was a a PVP oneshot where three members of season 1 party and season 2 fight, and Talieson(I think is his name) would swap between season 1 character and season 2 character counting on who has the mcguffin.

[@theddexaggerator7884]

With his season 2 character being Mollymauk

[@Dracon350]

:)

[@junezhang6267]

@@theddexaggerator7884 thanks a lot for telling me that! I’ve watched it, and it’s amazing! But I hope there were more Molly scenes, since he was only out for a short period

[@JnEricsonx]

I met Tal about a month or so after I'd seen that, and already I was also loving Cad.

[@Redluna32]

That moment when your re-watching fave animated moments and a new one drops on your birthday! (It's felt a bit like Taliesin brought a some of Molly's energy to Ashton and, as someone who was broken hearted when Molly didn't come back, I'm loving it.)

[@dull_demon4717]

I'm still on C2, but that's genuinely comforting to know

[@SCBJQ]

Happy birthday!

[@apothocareon7521]

Just that answer of "Cause I'm weird!" Is always one that makes me smile.

[@presentlycrescent]

I miss him Long may he reign (This is awesome btw)

[@xineav]

I wish there was a way to have both Molly and Caduceus in the campaign xD I loved both of them dearly 😭😭😭

[@JnEricsonx]

That would be insane.

[@JonihnHart]

I come back to rewatch this cause the raw energy of “Cause I’m Weird!!!” Never leaves. It’s so powerful and so Molly in the most perfect way. I love him. 💜💜

[@NightEyeStudio1995]

I simply adore how you draw Molly, like it's how he'd look if this was an animated series.

[@MelonTartVA]

From what I know, Mighty Nein is getting an animated series when Legend of Vox Machina wraps up

[@MajinDud3]

Molly is really a good character and I wish we got to see more hope they do a one shot where he comes back or something

[@elbruces]

You haven't watched all of campaign 2, have you?

[@drkryo2935]

@@elbruces shhhhhhhh

[@junezhang6267]

I truly do wish they can do a one shot of their later story with Molly never died.

[@elbruces]

@@junezhang6267 You haven't watched all of campaign 2, have you?

[@SCBJQ]

@@junezhang6267 I was so happy when they did Vox Machina vs. Mighty Nein. At least we got a little more Molly. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqGleoSejKabq68

[@k.m.2629]

I love the little background detail of Nott watching Jester draw.

[@lunararsenal7187]

I love this interaction, and l it made me realize how far they came with their voices, Nott’s accent is softer and Caleb has a more heavy German accent, Beau also changed because her voice got deeper and more cynical sounding. Thank you for making this wonderful animatic and making me remember how far they’ve come! :]]

[@JnEricsonx]

Liam already had the German accent. I joked that in retrospect, his Caleb voice didn't suprise me because I knew of him as NIghtcrawler in Marvel heroes Online.

[@PikaChu-sp2qo]

i'm glad to see you doing animatics for the m9 even now. you're one of my favorite CR animators ❤❤❤

[@Deelusi]

Ay! I'm glad you liked it!

[@danniemiesse4643]

Nicely done; this was a great moment

[@jeffmoller9239]

Sill funny “because I’m weird” 😂😂😂

[@normalgamer5000]

Love this! And man I love Mollymauk and Caleb. Honestly, I prefer campaigns 1 and 2 over campaign 3. Not saying I don't like it, but I just feel like the characters were more interesting for me personally in the prior campaigns. But maybe Bell's Hells will grow on me. Anyway, amazing animatic!

[@henryohenry1504]

I've been dying for someone to animate this! It was one of my favorite molly moments.

[@Crow-ig4py]

I love how you draw Molly

[@Deelusi]

Thank you ❤️

[@LocalMaple]

If you need any ideas on what to animate next… Matt Mercer’s rant on the Will Wheaton Dice curse, and/or clips of when Will played with them.

[@dblundz]

Almost finished the Molly book, The alternate universe where he lives 😢

[@hmmuhhh5715]

All of this allegory is the most fun, You picked a great scene to animate perfectly, Bad ass job I love it.

[@tyreid547]

I can NOT wait for the animated series if this to come out.

[@vietbluecoeur]

I always say this but I’m soooo happy whenever you upload these smaller moments from C2. It will always have a special place in my heart for being the very first CR campaign I got into and saw through to the end, so I love getting to see these easily-missed moments brought to life.

[@shadowhell8378]

Molly the best character that we all wish we had in our campaigns

[@zeronone1708]

RIP Molly Mauk, you are our biggest what if.

[@katie2893]

the only bad thing about the animated series is gonna be seeing THAT scene animated again

[@junezhang6267]

Oh btw can we PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE have more Mollymauk related animation? Please, I NEED THOSE TO SUREVIVE Your animation is amazing and I NEED MORE MOLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYY

[@TK-_-GZ]

Algorithmic punch!

[@zane4218]

Mollymauk was far and away my favorite Tallison PC we’ve seen yet. And possibly my favorite C2 character up to that point, though it’s hard to compete with Jester and Nott. His vibe, his dress, and his role in the party were all amazing. I obviously think the C2 story wound up beautiful and I can’t say if I would change a thing in hindsight, both for the sake of the story and the game- but much love to Talison for making such a great character and much empathy and respect to Tal for rolling with everything when “life” (in game) threw such a hard punch his way.

[@jeanmaillard6001]

the end was so good ^^

[@joova9174]

There should be more circus events in DND XD

[@NicolasPine]

A pun to lighten everybodys mood! What do you call a sound of a bell? A ringtone

[@sush1plays]

"do they cut themselves like you" THAT WAS SO ... OUT OF POCKET...

[@Epic11705]

1:22 Best argument

[@AgnesTurnip]

Something I planned to embroider one day but absolutely love is the scene where Fjord goes *Uk'otoa stole my shit!"

[@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll]

Love this!

[@eggpassion]

oh wow beau with actual muscles! also god i miss the nein

[@georgerobins4110]

This scene better be in the show lmao

[@okthen623]

its really cool to see that caleb and beau have been an interrigating duo since the very beginning

[@erickchristensen746]

"CUZ I'M WEIRD!" lol

[@moraien3278]

This is awsome. I'm still have to finnish Campaign 2.

[@MietoK]

Beware when you finnish things. Stuff get very weird and fast! Greetings from a Finn ;)

[@moraien3278]

@@MietoK Oh! Lol. I see my spelling-mistake. Warm greetings to the verry fast and weird finnish Finnland from a german :D

[@Boundwithflame23]

Long live the Nein

[@jonbauml225]

Hooray!

[@Deelusi]

Huzzah!

[@TakeWalker]

Great line. :D

[@SeerOfTime577]

I miss theeem.

[@michalberanek2783]

Gods, I should watch some more c2

[@April_Animates_Stuff]

Lol this is great

[@half_chub]

god i wish molly didnt have to go the way he did. it was sad seeing that happen but im also glad we got cad so im very conflicted.

[@jaeded2391]

As much as I love Molly, by far one of my favorite CR characters, I cannot deny that the Mighty Nein were *fucked* six ways from Sunday without Caduceus. And not just narratively, though that's important too, but there were SEVERAL instances where Taliesin not having access to Cad's abilities might have meant a party death- I just recently rewatched them exploring the Happy Fun Ball to rescue Yussa and it struck me how Caduceus was definitely the MVP of the mageslayer golem fight. If Taliesin hadn't thought to Command the golem to deactivate when he did, I truly think Fjord and Caleb would have died, and not in a way that can be brought back- their bodies would've been lost to the void

[@nightbunny1599]

Chuckle

[@isahadavis5176]

Imagine if someone else died instead of molly

[@DexVorsutus]

Then we'd have been robbed of Caduceus, and that would be pretty sad.

[@BEEDRILL303]

huh I just realized this could be kinda paralleled with nonce type stuff ... a strange older man weirdly over attached to a child that's been told to trust them, siphoning there life force aka ruining their childhood, " we don't ask a ton of questions " ... I don't like the way this puzzle fits together.

[@terrencemedders1867]

So thankful Molly left. He was a colossal coward, and Cadeucas was infinitely more enjoyable to observe.

[@tylerjarboe8212]

Why is the monk so boring?

[@ddthemage3861]

Huh?