Twenty-four things I noted about the The Mighty Nein Reunited Part 1 “Unfinished Business” :
May I suggest the unofficial title of this one-shot : The Mighty Nein : Horny On Main
Can I first just say that everyone looks so hot. And by that, I mean the cast AND their character with new art (Yasha's hair oh my god)
Veth is ready to open her kids camp, which may or may not be a front for money-laundering quote-unquote "blood-money" from the Gentleman. I LAUGHED SO MUCH, IT'S SO ON PARR
Marisha is describing Beau as exhausted from work and ready to go home to Yasha and very respectful of work/private life boundaries. Liam, coming for Marisha's throat : "Have you started role-playing ?"
MARTINA STEWARD i love Ashley with all my heart
Oh my god I have missed Jester & Fjord's relationship so much, I love how Laura and Travis's banter is done.
I loved the prequel of the adventure so much, just slices of life of the Mighty Nein.
Love that Caleb finishes his lectures with good philosophy and a barely veiled critique of the Academy ways : "Make time in your studies for history or you will be doomed to repeat it. History is littered with sharp-minded individuals like yourselves who bit off more than they can chew, and it somehow always comes back to bite them in the butt !"
Travis choosing to play Fjord still having no dignity cleared my skin, cleared my crops, etc etc. Marisha, wheezing : "Even the NPCs are hazing you !!"
the popcorn SAM WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS
oh my god I thought for sure Jester was going to die again
WELP. WHAT AN INTRO !!
YEAAAAAAAAAH THE CREDIIIIIIITS I'VE MISSED THEM SO MUCH. longest prologue ever, but worth it
the envoys of Uk'otoa : "Where is the traitor ?? Where is the key ??" Fjord's face :
Fjord sacrificing the key to save Jester's life (and Travis doing it to move the story ahead), is something that can be so very juicy.
Jester and Sendings, a gift for the ages
oooh my god, tears, tears of laughter, Sam you cheeky bastard. "Veth is coming, too." SHE SURE IS !!
I love that Fjord and Jester are in a relationship, and Kinglsey is just casually observing them be awkward and in love on the side, eating popcorn.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand more tears of laughter as Marisha double-downed of that. I blushed so hard. Oh my god, that was graphic and great, I am in awe.
Zadashian in the streets, Xhorassian in the sheets ? I need that apron NOW
"Should we contact Caduceus ?" "...Naaaaaaaaah, he was sort of useless most of the time". Poor Caduceus. At least Yasha is in kind-of-contact with him
I love how Jester described her and Fjord's house, it's basically an art studio that they began to transform into a house, but they're not enough around to completely transform it.
Amazing shenanigans of Beau, Veth, Kingsley and Yasha just taking off from their respective eagles and just do amazing acrobatic shit amongst the tree jungles.
Caleb, renamed 'Ceagle' when he was an eagle, now Caleb again : "Oh... I can't tell if my back hurts from the fall, or from Beauregard kegeling me like a vice for the entire trip." Beau, very proud of herself and her vibrant sexual life : "Sorry, I got a good grip." (Bonus Travis, exasperated by the lesbians : "... okayyyyy...") (Bonus Matt : "This is a horny episode. And that's saying something !)
The Mighty Nein being obsessed with one random monkey and feeding it and then of course the monkey is following them loudly and distract Beau enough that they fall into a poisoned fungus trap : honestly, so on brand.
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The Mighty Nein Reunited, Part 1: Unfinished Business
Did Sam fumble this together five minutes before recording the plug? Sure looks like it. "Marisha's seeds and stems?" "A ghost that looks like Taliesin? A ghost that DOESN'T look like Taliesin?" Oh boy ... the implication that Marisha isn't REAL ... Marisha: "I don't get it." Me too ...
Oh boy, Sam is really faceplanting here and I love it ... although Sam giving his ALL for the Welvome To Wildemount soundtrack plug is adorable. And I love how he's getting SO flustered about Matt continually giving him new stuff to cold read ...
Ah, here we go, Matt sets the scene and I'm ALREADY starting to well up guys ... this is gonna be HARD. And I'm gonna love it.
Going STRAIGHT to Veth and Sam balls AGAIN because he hasn't had time to get back into character. Oh yay! The Veth voice! SQUEEEEEE!!!
"The Wildemount Wildlings ... WILD OUT!!!" XD
Oh my gods, Yasha doing strength training ... half if these kids are gonna DIE!!!
Ah, the Arrangement. The Gentleman using his "blood money" (oh, the air quotes! XD) to sponsor the project. Money laundering as philanthropy, classic gangster ...
Luc is such an adorable little sneaky pest and I love it. XD
Over to Zadash ... Library of the Cobslt Soul, here we go ... yay! Beau! Mah grrrl! Oh boy, in SECONDS Marisha is BACK IN CHARACTER!!! I love it! And Ashley! Oh boy, the suspect Swedish accent, I've missed that! Looking for a name ... "Martina Stewart", I love it!
"Baby!" "BAYBEEEEEEEEE!!!" (kissy noises)
Yasha makes her own blue cheese! XD
Weasel tongue intestinal stroganoff ... hmmm ...
Beau and Yasha desperately trying to GET RID of interloper Martina Stewart. And the home life! Oh boy ... Yasha being domestic to perfection and Beau TRYING to be domestic ... OH!!! The Caleb impression! Priceless! XD I love this, they're trying to put a brave face on it for each other, I can tell ... clearly they're both SO BORED!!!
The Balleater! Here we go ... Fjord! Travis doing his Mid-atlantic accent ... AND LAURA'S JESTER VOICE!!! I MISSED THAT ONE MOST OF ALL!!! :3 "Your shipping is always just a Stone's Throw away!" The cards, THE CARDS!!! XD
Orly! Yay! Love that ancient Tortle so much! And Kingsley's sass, I love it!
Fjord trying to do an Augury ... and Jester thinking he's playing jacks. The way she DECIDES they're going North. He's so totally whipped and it's adorable. XD And Fjord still being so completely terrible at being the captain, and everybody knowing it too. It's so cute they just GO WITH IT.
Oh, so Kingsley's an INSTIGATOR, I see. Yeah, he's still Molly deep down, then.
Rexxentrum! So ... ah, the Soltryce Academy, that can only mean ONE THING!!! And I'm right! Hello Caleb! :3 The return of Liam's deeply impressive German accent ... yes, OF COURSE he's determined the students learn from his mistakes. Oh, here we go, the classic lovestruck young student, of course ... aww, she's so cute, too. XD
Matt: "What is it you wish to do with the rest of your evening?" Sam :(whispering) "Masturbate." The group starts to collapse into giggles ... Liam: "Yes, I would probably like to masturbate."
Back on the Balleater ... "The Water Car!" XD Orly's long suffering shoring up of Fjord's inefficiency is adorable. XD
Is it a regular storm? Nature check ... 8! Matt: "Is ... is your survival higher?" Oh boy ...
Oh ... fireworks, yes, that will bring up their spirits ... (doubtful stare)
Yeah, this storm us getting BAD ... yup, Control Water, do it now! Oof, that did it ... oh, wait, what's this now? There's something in the waves! Oh dear! A very big person, apparently!
So the ship's the Nein Heroez now? Yeah, that's definitely better than the Balleater ...
Wow, Taliesin rolled BALLS. Natural 1 ... that can't be good at all ...
OH FUCK!!! IT'S FUCKING U'KOTOA!!! (The whispers, the whispers ...)
Sam's flask has a popcorn bucket on it ... oh my gods Sam, WHY are you like this? Yes, Laura sees it too! And now there's popcorn everywhere ...
Fjord starts Flying after summoning the Star Razor ... oh shit ... that thing is CREEPY ... it's like a fucked up undead Poseidon. Yes! Shoot it in THE FACE!!! 24 and 18 to hit! Everybody raving about the gorgeous popcorn while Travis dies maths ... 52 points of damage on the first, 43 on the second? Nice ... ah! Lightning spear!
Jester takes 61 points of Lightning Damage? OH MY GODS!!! And OF COURSE she loses control of the water!
And now they're being boarded ... ROLL INITIATIVE!!!
Oh, so they're like Dagon's unholy halfmen fish spawn ... yeah, that's about right. Meanwhile Kingsley gets stabby ...
Oh bollocks ... massive giant thing ... Thoonum? Hmmm ... fuck, and it's a mage, too? Liam: "Squid mage! Squid mage!"
Constitution saving throw ... Laura znd Taliesin both roll balls ... 31 points of Thunder Damage apiece! And now they're deafened.
Laura's asking about distances from her ... what you got in mind, girlfriend? She runs up to the giant and touches his hand ... Inflict Wounds at the 7th Level! Nine D10 for damage ... time for more math ... 54 points of Necrotic Damage! Nice!
Yes, 30 definitely hits ... 42 points of bludgeoning damage to Jester ... ouch ...
Wow, Taliesin got SO LUCKY with that attack that could have been SO MUCH worse ... these fish things are rolling BALLS for their attacks ... oh no sceatch that, Jester takes some MAJOR hits ... and now she's unconscious! Oh shit ...
Superman to the rescue! Cure Wounds, yes! 35 points back ... no, 40! Phew ...
Fjord pulls out the Cloven Crystal ... uh-oh ... and they all just stop completely ... Kingsley tries an experimental tap on one ... no, they're still attacking.
Laura: "You can't do that! It's not your turn!" And yet ... yup, this can't end well. They jump off ... and they trash the ship from underneath in spite! You bastards!
I'm with Travis, I didn't know Jester could teleport either! And she's SO ANGRY with Fjord now!
Kingsley has,a boat in a box, apparently ...
And that's that, the Nein Heroez aka the Balleater dies! Nooooooooo ... everybody's overboard. Good, they can all still breathe water ... everybody in the boat!
Phew, Orly's still with us ... the water starts to drag filk down, but Jester uses Control Water again znd saves ALMOST everybody. But not all of them ... no, no way EVERYBODY was gonna survive this ... but that's an impressively light butcher's bill ...
And now the storm is just STOPPING. Yeah, that's about right.
Mass Cure Wounds ... Laura: "Cuz I'm the healer!" XD
Yes, message Caleb! Quickly! This is SO BAD!!! U'kotoa is FREE!!!
Wait, that was just a PROLOGUE?!!!
Sweet! The old animated title sequence! Everybody! "Roll ... critical ... roll ..."
And now we're on our break ...
D'awwww ... I have missed that U'kotoa game theme sea shanty ... :3
Sweet! My other fave Twitch Subscription ad with Laura's awesome Jester cosplay! "Invoke Duplicity!" Adorable! :3
Le Gasp! AND they're playing Colm McGuinness' completely fucking awesome full orchestral version of Welcome To Wildemount over the Rt reel! Oh ... my ears are in heaven ...
And we're back ... Jester messages Caleb ... oh, I have missed this! XD Laura once again totally fumbles it again in the word count and it's so precious!
Fjord STILL doesn't know where they are ... he's got a sense of direction as bad as James May's.
Jester sends another message, and it's a bit more successful ...
Now she messages Veth and it's a shitshow! I love it!
Veth responds and she's all out of breath ... oh yeah I know what THAT'S about. The whole group dissolves into paroxisms of laughter over the heavily implied innuendo. Jester: "Okay, Veth's coming too!" Yes. She certainly is ... XD
Matt: "For as much as a turtle-man sweats ..."
Oh man, the Yasha portrait with the shorter bobbed white hair ... gods, that's perfect!
Jester trying to work out where they're going to go AFTER agreeing to wait for the others ... XD ... meanwhile Kingsley needs to be filled in on what all that shit was about. Nice way to accidentally deliver a nice info dump for the newcomers ...
Jester: "I'm sorry I went unconscious and almost died and you had to give up the key to unleash U'kotoa and endanger the world."
Caleb uses the Sending Stone to contact Beau and OF COURSE he interrupts her and Yasha. XD oh, this is so spectacularly awkward ...
He teleports go Nicodranas ... yup, he just catches Veth in the afterglow ... Veth: "It's a chemise!" Beautiful chaos ensues ...
Veth leaves Yeza in charge of the camp and OH MY GODS he is gonna be so out of his depth ... that's just ridiculously perfect ...
"Oh, not the heirloom tomatoes!"
Yasha's apron is chef's kiss ... wait, could Yasha Message people before? When did that start?
Once again Sam takes a drink from his flask znd Laura admonishes him for getting popcorn everywhere. Sam: "I was thirsty!"
They debate whether to bring Caduceus in ... Yasha messages him ... oh boy ... so wonderfully clunky ... "Love you!" No answer ... Taliesin reasons he's been laughing for 2 solid minutes.
They teleport to the Windward Isles ... roll a D100? Uh-oh ... 7? Shit ... everybody take 18 points of Force Damage as they get STRETCHED. And they land in the ocean. Oh dear ... phew, they're only a hslfmile off the shore. That could have been SO MUCH worse ...
Veth has a Floating Disc? Wait ... it's only 3 feet wide. Hmm ... never mind.
Instead Caleb Wildshapes into a great white shark to tow them all to shore.
Reunion. It's cute.
Veth: "It's okay! It's unavoidable. (to Jester) Was it unavoidable?" Beau: "We're the heroes no-one asked for! Yes!" Kingsley: "How did you people ever kill me?" Jester: "In your defense you're much cooler now."
So this all comes down to how many lighthouses there are on the Menagerie Coast? Hmmm ...
Grim Psychometry? Okay ...
Beau inquires how Fjord's relationship with the Wildmother has been going. Fjord: "Pretty fucking vacant." Beau: "That bitch."
Directions, directions ... Matt: "Yeah ... that's not on the map. That's on me. My apologies." Veth: "It can't be that important, nobody bothered to mark it."
They make arrangements, but it's a bit of a mess. That's par for thd course. The ultimately decide to teleport straight into Yussa's tower so she messages him. He's surprisingly blasé about it.
Tidepeak Tower in Nicodranas! :)
Wensforth! Love that little goblin butler. Short but sweet.
Jester sends the crew to the Lavish Chateau ... ah yes, they'll enjoy that ...
Beau knows Veth's been laundering the Gentleman's money, but Jester really DOESN'T. XD
Jester's house! Awww ... this place us GORGEOUS. :3 They live in a water tower? That's so cool.
Wait ... Orly's still with them? XD
Long rest ... good ...
Sprinkle! Yay! Travis' Sprinkle voice is so much funnier after A Familiar Problem ... XD
Kingsley's dropping hints that maybe they should bring Essek in. Yes. Do that.
Jester tries to Scry on the Squid Mage ... hey Arty's helping! Sweet! It works ...
Okay, so where are they though? They're clearly on land ... rough coastal land ... no way to tell, clearly. Jester certainly doesn't recognise it.
Jester had pastries! Of course she does! XD
Kingsley compliments Yasha on her hair.
They teleport again ... at least Czleb has,some knowledge of this place. Roll a D100 ... 94? Oh thank the gods ...
Jester turns into a giant blue eagle, carrying Yasha. Caleb Wildshapes into a giant eagle too ... Jester mKes fun of him for not being as big but he takes it like a champ. XD Fjord turns into a green one and leaves Kingsley behind. Kingsley: "I know where you live, I'm gonna take all your stuff!" Fjord doubles back and picks him up too.
They keep an eye out ... roll perception checks. Eventually Kingsley sees the giant. Here we go ...
Beau: (to Caleb) "What do your eagle eyes see?"
Landing in the treetops ... this should be interesting ... Caleb crashes. Of course he does. 20points of eagle bludgeoning damage. Beau jumps off SPECTACULARLY. Veth does the same, ALSO spectacularly. Also Kingsley. AND Yasha ... wow, what is going on with all those insanely great rolls? XD
Oh boy ... Jester rolls 13 ... hmm ...
Czleb drops to the forest floor and morphs back. Yes, it hurts ... this really was a clusterfuck ...
They debate which way to go. Kingsley: "We go whichever direction the Dungeon Master St's they went." Sam makes the pigeon cooing sound. XD
And now it's just suddenly raining for no reason. That CANNOT be a good thing.
Jester's gonna guide them through the jungle ... Laura rolls a 20 on survival! Nice.
Hmmm ... this ruined camp us not inviting. Beau investigates ... Nat 20?! No way! In full ... 36? Whoa ... that instead roll finds them a Potion of Greater Healing in the wreckage, which is pretty awesome. And a journal ...
Marisha reads something which is clearly a mess, there's incomplete information. That doesn't bode well ...
Caleb leads on now ... another decent roll. They're climbing now. Ooh ... statue! Feminine, round features ... is that the Wildmother? Sounds like the Wildmother. Yes, it is, I thought so.
Jester tries to clear off the roots ... Nat 20! Nice! I love strong women! :3
Ooooh ... shiny green gem! Jester touches it ... Matt: "Smooth." Well, THAT was anticlimactic ...
Nicodranas jungle bears ... XD
Nice fancy blessing gemstone ... is it sacrilegious to take it? Oooh, debate ...
The statue is looking where they're going ... THAT'S interesting ...
The stone is warm when Fjord touches it ... and it falls out of its placement when he does it. Oh yeah, that's DEFINITELY meant fo Fjord. They debate if he should push it into his chest like the Cloven Crystal ... because that's whT he does with gems, apparently.
Jester: "I'm walking in the direction of the trigonometry."
Natural excretions?
Monkey! Bright red and green monkey. Hmm ... Jester, don't feed it! It's a wild monkey! Don't you know how dangerous that can be?
Jester asks Sprinkle if he can talk to it ...
Beau hates monkeys, apparently. Yup ... the monkey makes shitload of noise so they decide to leave. It starts to follow them ... oh, that's not good. Jester tries to lure it off with the pastry and fails miserably.
Beau takes lead next and Marisha rolls SHIT. Beau us distracted by the monkey following and missteps, treads on a mushroom ... Poof!
Oh yeah, Beau is immune to poison! She's fine, but the rest get a bit of a dose ... Laura rolls balls so xhe gets a FULL dose and she's poisoned.
Yasha: "would you like me to carry you?" Jester: "I might throw up on the back of your head." Yasha: "That's all right, I don't really mind." Awwwwww ...
Jester attempts to memorise the monkey call, it works. Tries to communicate in order to throw the monkey off and get rid of it. Fails miserably. Now it's just LOUD in here ...
Fjord attempts to guide the group ... 25? VERY nice ...
Hey! That sounds like the giant! Oh, he sees the shape if it moving through in the distance. Perfect. That's gotta be it, follow that!
Veth: "I can make tent out of a few objects." Kingsley: "Is a tent one if those objects?" Veth: "Yes it is."
Caleb considers polymorphing the monkey into a butterfly ...
They push ahead following a trail of plinths in the hope this leads to where they're headed. They find a ruined temple ... yeah, reckon this is probably it.
Oh yeah, I forgot Jester had an axe ...
Beau attempts to use the axe to climb the tree ... Marisha rolls a Nat 1 ... argh ... the tree SPLITS cuz it's dead. But Beau has Slow Fall! So she doesn't take ANY damage on the landing ... phew! It was bloody loud, though ...
Everybody hide!
Stealth checks across the board ... everybody but Laura rolls good, she gets a 9 ... mediocre at best. That's sure to bite them somehow ...
Veth takes a big swig of her booze and climbs up into the temple ... avoid the suns, the suns are bad, remember?
Okay, here he comes ...
Matt: "And that's where we're gonna call it a night."
Okay, so due to Thanksgiving we gotta wait TWO WEEKS for Part 2? Bah, I say! BAH!!!
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