"As the world opens, fire and stone explode the continent. The Calamity will last for centuries, and at the end of it two-thirds of living beings on Exandria will be dead. Many of them died in its first moments. Rau'shan and Ka'Mort, fire and earth, believing they would join the Betrayer Gods, are instead unmade and bound to a surging leyline, diffused through as many realms as the Leywright could send them through. The eruption of ash and fire and molten stone sends a cloud of ash over Exandria that will cover the world for a hundred years. At the very top of that cloud, the last member of the Ring of Brass wings his way toward his family. " Source: *Exndria Unlimited Calamity : Fire and Ruin Wiki
yknow when they said top of that cloud I thought Cerrit had been sent straight up instead, after catching the blast from the explosion in his wings. so he'd be gliding but momentarily KOed.
The last line is actually something like "the last member of the brass ring gets to keep his promise to his family." I feel like thus hits more considering the promise he made in the conversation earlier.
I'm going to spend a long time thinking about how the only surviving player character from of the age of arcanum didn't use magic. So much happened that I think that piece of dramatic irony gets overlooked. Personally, I like to think that Cerrit and his family are chosen by the knowing mistress in their quest to protect the knowledge of Avalir and go on to found the Cobalt Soul, whose symbol is a brass ring with eyes looking in all directions.
The irony could highlight the hubris and desire to know everything found in the mages during this era. Their excessive hunger to know the unknown led to their downfall.
_....weeks later...._ A young Eisfurra boy wanders through the gardens outside his grandparents home. They were once beautiful and lively, but recent events and a lack of sunlight have turned them as dark and gray as the sky above. From inside the house, he hears his sister try to comfort his mother. She's had to become stronger since they came here, since at the same time their mother has almost drawn further inward. She barely speaks to the rest of her family, only holding the stone that Wingspan never responded to her last sending through, as though if she clutches it tight enough it'll start working again. Maybe it will. The whole of Exandria has been turned inside-out and upside-down. Old rules no longer seem to apply. The boy adjusts his glasses slightly, brushing off some of the gathered ash. The wind is low today, so there's not as much ash today. He can almost breathe normally (well...what passes for normally these days), and the light is just a tiny bit brighter than it has been. He raises his own stone to his beak and says, "Wingspan, this is Talon Two. Come in, Wingspan." There's no response, of course, but he didn't really expect one. Undeterred, he continues his morning briefing for his missing commanding officer. "Operation Joyfall continues to meet with resistance. Clear Eye's condition remains unchanged. Egghead has been taking excellent care of her, but outside of getting her to eat, there remains zero evidence that she....that...." The boy swallows hard against the flood of tears that threaten to spill out. The last time he cried was just before his commanding officer sent him away, and he's promised himself that he will not be that weak again. He needs to remain strong and vigilant until his whole squad is together again. Sighing, he picks up the stone again. "Wingspan, I am temporarily breaking protocol, but.....we really need you. It's been over a month with no word from you. Grandma and Grandpa are nice, but they don't know what to do. No one does. There's loud noises in the distance every night, and I just don't....I....I need you, dad. Please." The noise of something falling in the grass behind him makes the boy turn. Curious, he goes over to investigate it only to hear something else hit the roof. He looks up and sees something teetering on the edge, deciding whether or not to fall. One end is wooden, like a tree branch, but the other.... A third object crashes into the ground just behind him and he screams and turned around. This object is the largest of all -- six or seven feet tall at least, with partially burned clothes that are covered in the gray of the ash that has been falling throughout Exandria. It's hard to tell what color this new arrivals feathers originally were, but the eyes....and the beak... A door slides open behind him and he hears his sister. "Kir, what are you doing? I just-" She stops as she takes in the shape in the front yard - the feathers fallen away, the wings that would lift them up and fly them through the snow every Winter's Crest, the eyes hiding a mind capable of cracking the toughest cases in all Avalir. A scream of _"DADDY!!!"_ comes from one of them, and then both children are running for their father, who is both thinner and more tired than they have ever seen him. As they reach him, a low chuckle comes from their father's throat and he slightly raises his head to look at them. "Good afternoon, officers," he says, and his voice is cracking, as though he hasn't drunk for days. "What's the situation?" Neither child answers him. They just laugh and smile and hug the man known to the world as Cerrit Agruppin, senior sightwarden, but known to them as merely "dad".
@@Hyperdragon1701 the result of watching the whole episode late into the night and needing to exercise my feels about it. And yes, the part where Kir nearly lost control of his own emotions was meant to reflect me nearly losing it in reality as I write this.
I had the realization after the inspiration roll, but before the d20 that he literally could not fail at that point...Reliable Talent meant he couldn't roll less than a 10.
I don’t ever think I’ll get over how Zerxus believed so much in his own redemption that he didn’t take the way out Nydas gave him. That he’d endure being twisted to the will of The Lord of the Hells if it meant he’d have even a sliver of a chance of being with Evandrin again. I don’t know if it’s compassion, hubris, faith, or all three, but dear god will this fucking paladin live in my head rent free for a long while.
@@BenoHourglass it was both of these basically, Zerxus believed that the LoH wasn’t beyond redemption and also believed that if he thought that way, then redemption was possible for him too and that he’s find his way back to Evandrin somehow
I think Luis knows what he's interacting with is LoH, but Luis doesnt know what the LoH actually is in Brennan's narrative. and Brennan capitalized on that
wait wouldn't have taking the out nydas gave him been the way to reunite with evandrin? that's how i understood it and that's why i was so confused why he would allow himself to be twisted into a monster that would surely wreak havoc on the world even though he saved his son already and could now be with evandrin. how can you redeem a god when you aren't yourself anymore? he saw the way vespin was and how vespin couldn't be returned to his former self - that is the future he chose for himself too instead of just dying and reuniting with evandrin. i guess he was just THAT arrogant to believe he could redeem asmodeus anyway...
Cerrit: the slayer of Vespin Chloras and hero of his children Laerryn: the slayer of two primordials and heroine/villainess Loquatius: voice of the people and fairy in love Zerxus: the knight of the stars and devoted husband and father Patia: the inspiration of the future and atoner Nydas: benevolent pirate and savior of the children Vespin: made a meaningful last act of goodness
Vespin and zarxus are fascinating when pared together. They both lived completely different lives on the complete opposite spectrum of morality and deeds. Even in death. Yet they both died the same way. Assisted suicide during their final stand of redemption Vespin a man who became a monster to regained his humanity in the last few minutes of his life. Knowing his soul is damed Zarxian a man so committed to redemption he became a monster for the sake of others redemption. May his soul be damed
@@lumberluc plus theirs a good chance that him being killed this way also weakened him significantly when resurrected. He’s dead yes, but not gone as he's still a slave to asmodaus and can and will be brought back. But now hes a slave with significantly less chains and fighting back Just like with xarxian. His soul is now asmodauses, but he will never let go of possible redemption. So the most powerful pawn at his desposle besides vespin, and the first holder of the mace. Is useless
@@Direwolf181 i've seen this being talk a lot arround, this is beatiful in a way because this connects Keyleth, Patia and Beau beautifully. Patia gave Maya a fucking ton of information and her last will to do something about corruption and not be selfish. Maybe Cerrit eventually tell his kids about the Ring of Brass, making an adult Maya a survivor durning this whole mess that the calamity will be, maybe he trains his kids, and this seeds in both of them with the first sparks for a future generation of rogues, mages, monks to properly found, when the calamity is no more, the Cobalt Soul. Patia understood why the Gau Drashari distrusted the mages, but with aid of the Loquatious' Broadcast, sent a message to all the druids of the calamity to come and their names were know by those who survived, making it apparent that they saved the populace of Avalir, before the Gau Drashadri fade into being the Ashari, I'm certain they knew that those 2 titans were banished from Exandria, and thus Patia with the Help of the names provided by the Tree and Laerrin somehow shaped Keyleth future
@@Ryquard1 I'm pretty sure she did know the others. I like to think they were honorary aunts and uncles to him but it would ne a beautiful way to connect Patia, Cerrit and his kids and of course both Keylith and Beau
@@Ryquard1 that’s so interesting!! i hadn’t put it together that patia is kind of a thread between keyleth and beau……marisha’s mind continues to amaze me
@@morbidnumbskull overload a boat it capsizes and sinks, overload a ground vehicle and it either wont move or the frame breaks, overload an aircraft and it wont get off the ground, overload and elevator and it falls. Overload a teleporter magical or technological and bad things are going to happen. Was rather gratuitous gore however.
seriously, once legends of vox machina is done, i would love for them to make an animated miniseries out of Calamity. hell i want an animated version of Calamity more than i want an animated version of campaign 2! (nothing against campaign 2 or 3, Calamity was just that big and CINEMATIC)
I just want the M9 animated as fast as possible :,) But I know it takes time. I for once hope Amazon furthers their greed by making more CR shows/seasons lol
@@Matisyahuwu LoVM was already slated for a second (and I think third) season. The CR cast and crew have been working on it since shortly before the first season premiered. They just don't know how long it'll take to finish the next season.
That moment of all the Ring of Brass dead except for two lovers who then die tragically in the final moments and the father determined to keep his promise making his escape was so vivid my mind. I won't be surprised if more animators try capturing that sequence but they'll have their work cut out for them because this is a damn good one. Great work!
Matt's already confirmed with the first ExU series that, *anything* that the DM's say in their campaigns is canon towards the world of Exandria. So there's good reason to believe that this is how the beginning of the Calamity is now, canonically, and I hope we get another insight to this era, even if it's another miniseries like Calamity
Correct. Its all canon now. theoretically, they could journey to the shattered teeth in cp 3, and uncover the ruins of a city, and a chamber with the long forgotten bones of nameless beings around an unknown arcane device. Including one, elven skeleton with half an arm missing. Ofcourse, more likely in the cataclysm that shattered the continent the entire chamber collapsed on them and the only remains would be tattered cloth and leathers, left pressed between stones. Mixxed with bone dust and ancient bloodstain.
EXU Calamity for me, is possibly the most impactful piece of storytelling since Critical Role Campaign one. I was emotionally spent along with the cast. Brennan is beyond a normal DM. I dread even watching it again yet I will. The only thing that's left for me...Is to see Matt Mercer and Brennan Lee Mulligan play together in the same game.
Brendan’s got two games with Matt as a player on his show, Dimension 20. One’s free on TH-cam. It’s an evil Lord of the Rings parody where Matt plays a frustrated, gay Witch King knockoff. It’s called Escape From the Bloodkeep, and man it’s good.
less riveting than Bloodkeep is D20's Pirates of Leviathan, where Matt plays a rat man with friendly mold for a roommate. aabria and marisha also play in that one! brennan also played for matt in the elden ring oneshot; which was almost a Pirates mini reunion, with Marisha also playing, and Kristina Arielle (whose character in Pirates was the best). in the only game i know of where Matt and Brennan were both players, they never interacted (LA By Night). Brennan was an endgame antagonist, and Matt was a guest NPC for the very last five minutes of the entire series lol. Luis and Marisha were also guest NPCs in that game, with much larger roles than either Brennan or Matt. Taliesin was a guest NPC too. meanwhile, Aabria appears in its sequel, NY By Night, as a main player.
I… just finished. Cried like a baby, was literally mopping tears off my face *several* times and left with a headache. Idk the last time something made me that emotional. Just… gorgeous story telling. I love this game so fucking much.
I don't know if they'll put it into Campaign 3 or maybe make it a plot hook in campaign materials for other people to play, but I really hope there's some sort of follow-up for Zerxus, Evandrin and Elias. Because that could be a hell of a story in its own right (pardon the pun).
Seeing as we didn’t find out about the fate of Keyleth’s mom until halfway through campaign 2, I wouldn’t be surprised if these events weren’t referenced until campaign 4 or 5 (if critical role wants to continue that far)
CR needs to make Calamity a 90 minute animated movie in the style of Legend of Vox Machina. It would help people get hyped for future LoVM seasons and can stand alone as just good fantasy storytelling.
Honestly, I think this 4 parter might be one of the biggest highlights of CR. It certainly is for me. All the players were so on point, playing their roles so well that some people think it's scripted, when in reality, they just play that well. SUCH a poignant ending to an amazing game. If we were ever to get a CR Movie, I hope that this is up as one of the options, for just how tightly woven it is.
Great job! You really captured the chaos of the city and the emotional beats of all the characters. It was also great to watch this with everyone commenting about it live in the discord lol
i have a pipe dream of turning the entire campaign (or at least an adaptation of the story) into an animatic. that's never gonna happen without a deeply committed team of animators, but my god it would be an amazing stand alone piece of media
What I love about you, is you do so much with so little. For example, that still shot of Loquatius & Laerryn, very little is going on, just a gentle zoom-in ~ and then you have multiple delicate flames to signify the explosion. THAT. That is a GIFT Sir M.N.S. (or Mr. Skull? by what do fans call you?). You have the skills to do much more, I've seen them many times ~ but you capture the EMOTION of the shot, with as little "paint" as possible ... it somehow emphasizes the emotions, the poignancy, even more. As an old artist to a new one, you're quite remarkable. Please continue to make this world a lovelier place. True Pathos.
I think I get why Patia had that hole in her body at the end: because she knew that by releasing that ancient, reality-altering spell, she would not survive it. But she did it anyway, fresh out of options as the dispelling blast was about to finish her off, to give the world a chance to survive in her stead. Am I even close to how that was interpreted? ALSO, love the use of the music from FF7R post-Sector 7 plate collapse. Because it just fits.
Beautiful my friend. You have a gift. The ambiance added with the echoing voices as you planned to each member of the Brass dying is incredible. Thank you thank you thank you
Can I just say that after the success of vox machina I would be open to a calamity series because just Travis alone killed it for me and as soon as you add everyone else. I've been emotional after 100+ episodes of other campaigns but this was so good
Tears fall down my face because two other characters couldn't make it out alive as well to live a happy ending with eachother, but also for the other characters who have passed on ....I can't wait till we find out what will happen in camping 3 or 4 or even another EXU episode....whatever it is .....I'm excited.
Well now I hope that Zerxus gets his Redemption somehow. He was my favorite character in this. My favorite subclass of my favorite class. I just hope he gets his happy ending somehow. Campaign 3 maybe? Perhaps a Campaign or miniseries in the future? I hope so.
😳 im about 8 hours of the stream behind (i have it downloaded for watching) and I struggled if I should watch this or not yet , but as you may be able to tell from me commenting I did watch your content 😊 I know the fate of Calamity just not what happens yet... after watching I know to have tissues on standby.
It truly was a traffic masterpiece if I ever saw one. I can't thank you enough for animating this Morbidnumbskull. If I may ask, do you plan do try and animate Critical Role's one shot campaign that'll be coming up this following week?
Could you please animate the scene where Zerxus talks to his son one last time? I had the image of the guards grabbing at his son after he screams for his dad replaying in my head and i haven't found someone who animated it yet and your animations always amaze me. Would be awesome💖💖
![Cerrit's Promise - ExU Calamity Animatic [[SPOILERS]]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FZRlSNe0fqE/mqdefault.jpg)
"As the world opens, fire and stone explode the continent. The Calamity will last for centuries, and at the end of it two-thirds of living beings on Exandria will be dead. Many of them died in its first moments. Rau'shan and Ka'Mort, fire and earth, believing they would join the Betrayer Gods, are instead unmade and bound to a surging leyline, diffused through as many realms as the Leywright could send them through.
The eruption of ash and fire and molten stone sends a cloud of ash over Exandria that will cover the world for a hundred years. At the very top of that cloud, the last member of the Ring of Brass wings his way toward his family. "
Source: *Exndria Unlimited Calamity : Fire and Ruin Wiki
yknow when they said top of that cloud I thought Cerrit had been sent straight up instead, after catching the blast from the explosion in his wings. so he'd be gliding but momentarily KOed.
Love the animation and the clips of each memember of the brass rings in their final moments hurt me so badly in a great way!
The last line is actually something like "the last member of the brass ring gets to keep his promise to his family." I feel like thus hits more considering the promise he made in the conversation earlier.
Sam, from a far off distance, barely a whisper: "ʷᶦⁿᵍᶦⁿᵍ ʰᶦˢ ʷᵃʸ ♫"
IM NOT CRYING (lie)
I'm going to spend a long time thinking about how the only surviving player character from of the age of arcanum didn't use magic. So much happened that I think that piece of dramatic irony gets overlooked. Personally, I like to think that Cerrit and his family are chosen by the knowing mistress in their quest to protect the knowledge of Avalir and go on to found the Cobalt Soul, whose symbol is a brass ring with eyes looking in all directions.
Great theory at the end there!
Aaaaand now that’s my head canon.
Idk if that's actually true, but I NEED it to be.
I like this... This is now head canon for me
The irony could highlight the hubris and desire to know everything found in the mages during this era. Their excessive hunger to know the unknown led to their downfall.
_....weeks later...._
A young Eisfurra boy wanders through the gardens outside his grandparents home. They were once beautiful and lively, but recent events and a lack of sunlight have turned them as dark and gray as the sky above. From inside the house, he hears his sister try to comfort his mother. She's had to become stronger since they came here, since at the same time their mother has almost drawn further inward. She barely speaks to the rest of her family, only holding the stone that Wingspan never responded to her last sending through, as though if she clutches it tight enough it'll start working again. Maybe it will. The whole of Exandria has been turned inside-out and upside-down. Old rules no longer seem to apply.
The boy adjusts his glasses slightly, brushing off some of the gathered ash. The wind is low today, so there's not as much ash today. He can almost breathe normally (well...what passes for normally these days), and the light is just a tiny bit brighter than it has been. He raises his own stone to his beak and says, "Wingspan, this is Talon Two. Come in, Wingspan." There's no response, of course, but he didn't really expect one. Undeterred, he continues his morning briefing for his missing commanding officer. "Operation Joyfall continues to meet with resistance. Clear Eye's condition remains unchanged. Egghead has been taking excellent care of her, but outside of getting her to eat, there remains zero evidence that she....that...."
The boy swallows hard against the flood of tears that threaten to spill out. The last time he cried was just before his commanding officer sent him away, and he's promised himself that he will not be that weak again. He needs to remain strong and vigilant until his whole squad is together again. Sighing, he picks up the stone again. "Wingspan, I am temporarily breaking protocol, but.....we really need you. It's been over a month with no word from you. Grandma and Grandpa are nice, but they don't know what to do. No one does. There's loud noises in the distance every night, and I just don't....I....I need you, dad. Please."
The noise of something falling in the grass behind him makes the boy turn. Curious, he goes over to investigate it only to hear something else hit the roof. He looks up and sees something teetering on the edge, deciding whether or not to fall. One end is wooden, like a tree branch, but the other....
A third object crashes into the ground just behind him and he screams and turned around. This object is the largest of all -- six or seven feet tall at least, with partially burned clothes that are covered in the gray of the ash that has been falling throughout Exandria. It's hard to tell what color this new arrivals feathers originally were, but the eyes....and the beak...
A door slides open behind him and he hears his sister. "Kir, what are you doing? I just-" She stops as she takes in the shape in the front yard - the feathers fallen away, the wings that would lift them up and fly them through the snow every Winter's Crest, the eyes hiding a mind capable of cracking the toughest cases in all Avalir. A scream of _"DADDY!!!"_ comes from one of them, and then both children are running for their father, who is both thinner and more tired than they have ever seen him. As they reach him, a low chuckle comes from their father's throat and he slightly raises his head to look at them. "Good afternoon, officers," he says, and his voice is cracking, as though he hasn't drunk for days. "What's the situation?"
Neither child answers him. They just laugh and smile and hug the man known to the world as Cerrit Agruppin, senior sightwarden, but known to them as merely "dad".
Canon.
@@Hyperdragon1701 the result of watching the whole episode late into the night and needing to exercise my feels about it. And yes, the part where Kir nearly lost control of his own emotions was meant to reflect me nearly losing it in reality as I write this.
This is amazing and now the onions have me.
10d10 dad damage oh my god
@@katetanner28 yeah....sorry for the...erm...54, plus my charisma...56 dad damage, there😬
God I cried when Cerit made that roll and the image of him just soaring above it all like some feathery beacon of hope 😭
I had the realization after the inspiration roll, but before the d20 that he literally could not fail at that point...Reliable Talent meant he couldn't roll less than a 10.
@@deathsleet8873 oh Dang I didn’t know that! It’s almost like the universe was “No you funky little bird man you get to see the kids”
I think we all need that win. Everything else we could make peace with, but everyone just needed this Birdman to make it.
I wanna see his axes show up as legendary gear in C3
Never has a 31 made me burst into tears so quickly lol!
I don’t ever think I’ll get over how Zerxus believed so much in his own redemption that he didn’t take the way out Nydas gave him. That he’d endure being twisted to the will of The Lord of the Hells if it meant he’d have even a sliver of a chance of being with Evandrin again.
I don’t know if it’s compassion, hubris, faith, or all three, but dear god will this fucking paladin live in my head rent free for a long while.
I thought it was more that he still thought the Lord of Hells wasn't beyond redemption.
@@BenoHourglass Same. I thought he was just being a big dumb dummy thinking he knew better than Asomedus himself.
@@BenoHourglass it was both of these basically, Zerxus believed that the LoH wasn’t beyond redemption and also believed that if he thought that way, then redemption was possible for him too and that he’s find his way back to Evandrin somehow
I think Luis knows what he's interacting with is LoH, but Luis doesnt know what the LoH actually is in Brennan's narrative.
and Brennan capitalized on that
wait wouldn't have taking the out nydas gave him been the way to reunite with evandrin? that's how i understood it and that's why i was so confused why he would allow himself to be twisted into a monster that would surely wreak havoc on the world even though he saved his son already and could now be with evandrin. how can you redeem a god when you aren't yourself anymore? he saw the way vespin was and how vespin couldn't be returned to his former self - that is the future he chose for himself too instead of just dying and reuniting with evandrin. i guess he was just THAT arrogant to believe he could redeem asmodeus anyway...
If CR3 goes to the Hells, everyone is gonna be on the lookout for Zerxus
Hope he becomes a major villain.
Cerrit: the slayer of Vespin Chloras and hero of his children
Laerryn: the slayer of two primordials and heroine/villainess
Loquatius: voice of the people and fairy in love
Zerxus: the knight of the stars and devoted husband and father
Patia: the inspiration of the future and atoner
Nydas: benevolent pirate and savior of the children
Vespin: made a meaningful last act of goodness
Vespin and zarxus are fascinating when pared together. They both lived completely different lives on the complete opposite spectrum of morality and deeds. Even in death. Yet they both died the same way. Assisted suicide during their final stand of redemption
Vespin a man who became a monster to regained his humanity in the last few minutes of his life. Knowing his soul is damed
Zarxian a man so committed to redemption he became a monster for the sake of others redemption. May his soul be damed
I was surprised by Vespin as well. He was a man that traveled too close to the sun, and it burned him.
But he made his last moments for the best.
@@lumberluc plus theirs a good chance that him being killed this way also weakened him significantly when resurrected. He’s dead yes, but not gone as he's still a slave to asmodaus and can and will be brought back. But now hes a slave with significantly less chains and fighting back
Just like with xarxian. His soul is now asmodauses, but he will never let go of possible redemption. So the most powerful pawn at his desposle besides vespin, and the first holder of the mace. Is useless
Yeah, how much xp you think Laerryn got for them?
@@privpi A lot.
From Patia, the Keeper of the Scrolls...
to Maya, the Keeper of the Orb
I'm currently obsessed with the idea Maya is the one who founded what eventually became the Cobolt Soul
@@Direwolf181 i've seen this being talk a lot arround, this is beatiful in a way because this connects Keyleth, Patia and Beau beautifully.
Patia gave Maya a fucking ton of information and her last will to do something about corruption and not be selfish. Maybe Cerrit eventually tell his kids about the Ring of Brass, making an adult Maya a survivor durning this whole mess that the calamity will be, maybe he trains his kids, and this seeds in both of them with the first sparks for a future generation of rogues, mages, monks to properly found, when the calamity is no more, the Cobalt Soul.
Patia understood why the Gau Drashari distrusted the mages, but with aid of the Loquatious' Broadcast, sent a message to all the druids of the calamity to come and their names were know by those who survived, making it apparent that they saved the populace of Avalir, before the Gau Drashadri fade into being the Ashari, I'm certain they knew that those 2 titans were banished from Exandria, and thus Patia with the Help of the names provided by the Tree and Laerrin somehow shaped Keyleth future
@@Ryquard1 I'm pretty sure she did know the others. I like to think they were honorary aunts and uncles to him but it would ne a beautiful way to connect Patia, Cerrit and his kids and of course both Keylith and Beau
@@Ryquard1 that’s so interesting!! i hadn’t put it together that patia is kind of a thread between keyleth and beau……marisha’s mind continues to amaze me
Was absolutely one hell of a miniseries. Glad to see how much tragedy this animatic captures from the final moments
i removed one bit where a teleporter decapitated so many people because it's overcrowded
Oh man, can't believe I nearly forgot 'bout that visceral description from Brennan
he described it so casually, the sick bastard 🤣
@@morbidnumbskull oh yeah that part was beyond freaking dark! Like holy moly O_O
@@morbidnumbskull overload a boat it capsizes and sinks, overload a ground vehicle and it either wont move or the frame breaks, overload an aircraft and it wont get off the ground, overload and elevator and it falls.
Overload a teleporter magical or technological and bad things are going to happen. Was rather gratuitous gore however.
seriously, once legends of vox machina is done, i would love for them to make an animated miniseries out of Calamity.
hell i want an animated version of Calamity more than i want an animated version of campaign 2! (nothing against campaign 2 or 3, Calamity was just that big and CINEMATIC)
Maybe Calamity deserves a Movie
I just want the M9 animated as fast as possible :,) But I know it takes time. I for once hope Amazon furthers their greed by making more CR shows/seasons lol
@@Ryquard1 That's where my mind went. Kinda got some Rogue One vibes except you get attached to /all/ of the characters and not just the android
@@Matisyahuwu LoVM was already slated for a second (and I think third) season. The CR cast and crew have been working on it since shortly before the first season premiered. They just don't know how long it'll take to finish the next season.
Agreed, this would be incredible
In the end, Cerrit got to keep his promise to his kids and that makes me cry like a baby
"The brass ring endures."
You got me... someone started chopping onions on my face when Cerrit burst through the dust. All the applause. Your art style is so gorgeous.
That moment of all the Ring of Brass dead except for two lovers who then die tragically in the final moments and the father determined to keep his promise making his escape was so vivid my mind. I won't be surprised if more animators try capturing that sequence but they'll have their work cut out for them because this is a damn good one. Great work!
I love how Purvann is standing there, watching the city collapse like... "Told you so."
Cerit was my favorite character, I'm glad he survived, he deserved it. I hope this becomes the canon and we get lore on what happens with their kids.
Matt's already confirmed with the first ExU series that, *anything* that the DM's say in their campaigns is canon towards the world of Exandria. So there's good reason to believe that this is how the beginning of the Calamity is now, canonically, and I hope we get another insight to this era, even if it's another miniseries like Calamity
Correct. Its all canon now. theoretically, they could journey to the shattered teeth in cp 3, and uncover the ruins of a city, and a chamber with the long forgotten bones of nameless beings around an unknown arcane device. Including one, elven skeleton with half an arm missing.
Ofcourse, more likely in the cataclysm that shattered the continent the entire chamber collapsed on them and the only remains would be tattered cloth and leathers, left pressed between stones. Mixxed with bone dust and ancient bloodstain.
EXU Calamity for me, is possibly the most impactful piece of storytelling since Critical Role Campaign one. I was emotionally spent along with the cast. Brennan is beyond a normal DM. I dread even watching it again yet I will. The only thing that's left for me...Is to see Matt Mercer and Brennan Lee Mulligan play together in the same game.
It really was the best thing they’ve done in years.
Brendan’s got two games with Matt as a player on his show, Dimension 20. One’s free on TH-cam. It’s an evil Lord of the Rings parody where Matt plays a frustrated, gay Witch King knockoff. It’s called Escape From the Bloodkeep, and man it’s good.
less riveting than Bloodkeep is D20's Pirates of Leviathan, where Matt plays a rat man with friendly mold for a roommate. aabria and marisha also play in that one!
brennan also played for matt in the elden ring oneshot; which was almost a Pirates mini reunion, with Marisha also playing, and Kristina Arielle (whose character in Pirates was the best).
in the only game i know of where Matt and Brennan were both players, they never interacted (LA By Night). Brennan was an endgame antagonist, and Matt was a guest NPC for the very last five minutes of the entire series lol. Luis and Marisha were also guest NPCs in that game, with much larger roles than either Brennan or Matt. Taliesin was a guest NPC too. meanwhile, Aabria appears in its sequel, NY By Night, as a main player.
I… just finished. Cried like a baby, was literally mopping tears off my face *several* times and left with a headache. Idk the last time something made me that emotional. Just… gorgeous story telling. I love this game so fucking much.
I don't know if they'll put it into Campaign 3 or maybe make it a plot hook in campaign materials for other people to play, but I really hope there's some sort of follow-up for Zerxus, Evandrin and Elias. Because that could be a hell of a story in its own right (pardon the pun).
Seeing as we didn’t find out about the fate of Keyleth’s mom until halfway through campaign 2, I wouldn’t be surprised if these events weren’t referenced until campaign 4 or 5 (if critical role wants to continue that far)
If a certain Cleric of Empathy ends up saving the soul of a Paladin of Redemption, I am *going* to scream.
I wouldn't be surprised vespin play a role later in the campaign since he been mentioned several times
@@Zombiewithabowtie that would be insane.
CR needs to make Calamity a 90 minute animated movie in the style of Legend of Vox Machina. It would help people get hyped for future LoVM seasons and can stand alone as just good fantasy storytelling.
Just when I thought I'd recovered from the finale 😭
please do the Cerrit goodbye scene with his children next, this is amazing
Not sure I could survive that one... his son asking if he did someone wrong breaks my heart
You captured the finale perfectly in 1 minute, I love it!
I knew my heart couldn't handle watching this, and I did it anyways. You nailed how absolutely tragic and epic this whole scene is.
Honestly, I think this 4 parter might be one of the biggest highlights of CR. It certainly is for me. All the players were so on point, playing their roles so well that some people think it's scripted, when in reality, they just play that well. SUCH a poignant ending to an amazing game. If we were ever to get a CR Movie, I hope that this is up as one of the options, for just how tightly woven it is.
Great job! You really captured the chaos of the city and the emotional beats of all the characters. It was also great to watch this with everyone commenting about it live in the discord lol
i have a pipe dream of turning the entire campaign (or at least an adaptation of the story) into an animatic. that's never gonna happen without a deeply committed team of animators, but my god it would be an amazing stand alone piece of media
What I love about you, is you do so much with so little. For example, that still shot of Loquatius & Laerryn, very little is going on, just a gentle zoom-in ~ and then you have multiple delicate flames to signify the explosion.
THAT. That is a GIFT Sir M.N.S. (or Mr. Skull? by what do fans call you?). You have the skills to do much more, I've seen them many times ~ but you capture the EMOTION of the shot, with as little "paint" as possible ... it somehow emphasizes the emotions, the poignancy, even more. As an old artist to a new one, you're quite remarkable. Please continue to make this world a lovelier place. True Pathos.
Finally finished that last night and the thing that made me cry the most was one bird man and his family.
I think I get why Patia had that hole in her body at the end: because she knew that by releasing that ancient, reality-altering spell, she would not survive it.
But she did it anyway, fresh out of options as the dispelling blast was about to finish her off, to give the world a chance to survive in her stead.
Am I even close to how that was interpreted?
ALSO, love the use of the music from FF7R post-Sector 7 plate collapse. Because it just fits.
I just wanted to draw a chest cavity 😂
@@morbidnumbskull honestly, it works! The spell had to come out from somewhere, so I feel that your interpretation is quite apt 👌
I first thought it was from the tree branch but then I remember there was a whole fight scene after that.
As godless and cynic as they were, a lot of the final actions of the ring of brass where acts of faith and Love.
Perfect FF7 Remake song to pair.
How dare you I only just recovered 😭😭😭 this is beautiful
Making me hyped to finally watch the finale. Dam looks epic. Great job on the art
One minute and four seconds, and you had me crying for three. Brilliant work.
I thought I was over it and you made me cry AGAIN
Hope will rise again as many times as it needs to.
;_; i was sobbing at this part, I'm so glad he got out ;;;
This would make an AMAZING 3 episode animated miniseries
Absolutely brilliant! Im so impressed with the audio editing on every one of your videos
my art may not be the best, but i make extra effort on the sound editing
Oh man i was so scared to watch this for ages but im glad i finally did bc it is SO GOOD
I had completely forgotten that Patia was doing this last fight with one arm.
She did the whole thing with *two fingers total*.
Beautiful my friend. You have a gift. The ambiance added with the echoing voices as you planned to each member of the Brass dying is incredible. Thank you thank you thank you
Absolutely gorgeous!!! The detail is astounding
Welp. Time to go cry for another 24-hours, again.
Honestly, if Cerrit hadn't survived, I would have lost it.
What did it for me was when xerxes was fighting with the lord of hells and shouted YOUR WRONG!
Excuse me what!! Critters talent never stops blowing my mind
Can I just say that after the success of vox machina I would be open to a calamity series because just Travis alone killed it for me and as soon as you add everyone else. I've been emotional after 100+ episodes of other campaigns but this was so good
That does it. We need this shit animated. ASAP.
I really enjoyed that. Everything flowed beautifully.
Thank you very much!
My heart!
This is wonderful!
I've seen that shot of Cerrit. With other characters, in other places, so many times before.
You used it very well, here.
Damn, those onion cutting ninjas broke in again...
now we need one with Cerrit running out of there like he's running up that hill
Tears fall down my face because two other characters couldn't make it out alive as well to live a happy ending with eachother, but also for the other characters who have passed on ....I can't wait till we find out what will happen in camping 3 or 4 or even another EXU episode....whatever it is .....I'm excited.
Well done! You captured the scenes so vividly. The distant sound of voices really established the tone as well as the background music.
So much epicness. Fantastic work.
You are so fast and this is incredible. I was frozen in shock in front of my screen when I saw the last episode.
Good lord, this was something else 😭
for how should men, die better than facing fearful odds? for the ashes of his father and the temples of his gods
Best boy survived... that's all that matters... :-P
This is beautiful! Now, excuse me while I sob in my corner.
God... A year later and this is still hard to watch. 😭
Nawww... A minute of your animations isn't enough! More Calamity animation please!
Aaaaaand here come the tears again.
This gave me CHILLS
Without any context for me, The whole party died in that falling city except one.
Great boards.
Amazon needs to pick this up as a standalone series stat!!!
YO the turnaround on this! :D amazing
THE BRASS RING ENDURES
Well now I hope that Zerxus gets his Redemption somehow. He was my favorite character in this. My favorite subclass of my favorite class. I just hope he gets his happy ending somehow. Campaign 3 maybe? Perhaps a Campaign or miniseries in the future? I hope so.
I clicked on this so fast. Amazing.
Gave me chills
Awesome animatic!
Dude stoooooop i can't go through this again 😭😭😭😭😭
with cerit surviving at the end i thought of Mass effect 3. actully this whole fight reminds me of mass effect 3
Love it! Such a fantastic animation.
All of it because SOMEONE blighted a tree
Godspeed Cerrit
Wonderfully done.
Well done as always.
-Your Friendly Neighborhood Druid
Just thinking about how they're going to be a part of the flesh city for centuries before the MN free them, it's fucking heartbreaking
Wrong city the flesh city is the ward of cognouza in aeor this is avalir
Fly, Wingspan, Fly
everyone forgets Patia only has two fingers
Holy shit well fucking done
What an epic campaign
Wow. They went full Rogue one.
Algorithmic punch
If I had to rank each campaign I probably put Calamity 2nd behind Meighty Nein
I'M CRYING 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Danggggg this is so good
thank you
well done
Chills
Who the fuck is cutting onions rn
😳 im about 8 hours of the stream behind (i have it downloaded for watching) and I struggled if I should watch this or not yet , but as you may be able to tell from me commenting I did watch your content 😊
I know the fate of Calamity just not what happens yet... after watching I know to have tissues on standby.
I think I cried for a solid 15 minutes. I had to go back and watch the end again because I was crying too hard to hear everything lol
@@additionalsky 😳 im now down to last 3 hour stretch, will get tissues on standby and avoid listening in public 😁
Amazing!
It truly was a traffic masterpiece if I ever saw one. I can't thank you enough for animating this Morbidnumbskull. If I may ask, do you plan do try and animate Critical Role's one shot campaign that'll be coming up this following week?
if there are interesting scenes with good audio, then i probably would
@@morbidnumbskull cool, thanks.
sad algorithms
Could you please animate the scene where Zerxus talks to his son one last time? I had the image of the guards grabbing at his son after he screams for his dad replaying in my head and i haven't found someone who animated it yet and your animations always amaze me. Would be awesome💖💖
im sorry, i dont think i will
Hahaha.... oh shit