A Familiar Friend Returns | Lucien Reveal | Critical Role C2E111 Highlight 

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Regardless of player or viewer, that would be painful to witness

BehindTheSmile that would be hilarious though

@@behindthesmile1276 It would be funny if Cad gets the HDYWDT

**Spoiler for campaign one** I just had the thought that if Molly wasn’t Molly when they found him and they had to fight him that it would be like fighting Orthax in Percy’s body but there wouldn’t be anyone to bring him back to their side and they would probably have to kill him and completely destroy the body to prevent this from happening again.

Idk, maybe Travis was right. He's an Admin now. 😂

That's my thought

for real

That's what my friend said. Told her that my interpretation is that Cree threw it away before digging him up so that he wouldn't have a reminder of Mollymauk, and that's why she was so hostile when the Nein tried to contact her. She doesn't want them taking him and making him into Molly again. I believe that he isn't Molly right now, but he can be made to remember and become Molly.

The Amish Toaster, ditto.

I think I got the perfect story element to my second campaign coming next week that will make players have the exact same reaction. Fingers crossed!

@@VoiceNerd So? How did it end up?

Could be.

Nah, he was leaving it open for Matt. I think he explained on Talks that it was his way of closing the book on the character for him but leaving it open for Matt.

New to the show. Why is this important? Isnt there another highlight that she Is actually the parent, and is a mother.

@@TheDragonaf1 Oh! Well if you're watching this but are you I can see you don't mind spoilers. But if you really do, don't read on: Nott does consider herself the parent in the Caleb/Nott friendship, yes, and she is a mother herself. However, the revelation about her considering herself the parent in the Caleb/Nott friendship doesn't come out until somewhere between episodes 10 & 20, and her being an actual parent isn't revealed until much later. So when Caleb said, "Knowing how young Nott is," the group was still under the impression that Nott was a little girl in goblin years, when in fact she is already an adult woman. More than that, I will keep out of this so you're not completely spoilered. :)

@purplerains there are two episodes featured in this clip, the first one is way before C2 e111 because, a. molly just died and b. they weren't in the covid setup yet so caleb doesn't know about nott's secrets yet

Thats one of the best moments for GMs, when your players just never want to stop playing.

Dude she just knew the stream had been going for a while and saw that look in his eye XD She knew it was coming

Bet they had a talk when they got home.

She was channeling all of us begging Matt not to end it as well.

Honestly I see why Matt end it early but man I would just love to see those raw reactions right after finding out being Discussed instead of having two weeks to digest.then coming back.

Big Spoiler: HE LIVES!

Bigger Spoiler: technically Molly is gone for now cause what we have right now is not molly.

@@mewzombieful even bigger spoilers After the card reading jester done he's could still be there.

@@nicolasachille4371 Even BIGGER Spoiler LONG MAY HE REIGN

Biggest spoiler: HES BACK

She saw the fire that would erupt in the fandom with the cliffhanger. I applaud her for trying.

Two years later and that’s still a cold af line

Nice AOT abridge reference

@@tythetyrantt4979 you eh... you like some potates?

THIS MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD FOR LIKE 15 MINUTES I GOT A CRAMP THANK YOU

Not necessarily a good thing

I think you might like this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rjr6vo5fNOI.html

@@torbenh.9250 Other than the music being off from what I envisioned, that was Perfect.

Wtf how did you knew?!

@@torbenh.9250 i was about to share it but you beat me to it. Ah well.

watch this be how they handle this in the show that'd be pretty sick

Well...this did not age well. Or did it?

@@left4deadbyeric that Hand twitch though, he is in there, I know it

Stay with a DM long enough, you learn when and where they're gonna end shit. Even new DMs can't resist ending it on a cliffhanger like that XD

But say they popped him with a Greater Restoration, would he remember everything??

an actual cat I mean greater restoration might also restore Lucien. That’s if whatever causes him to lose his memory after being resurrected can even be cured that way. I’m not sure we are ever gonna get our Molly back. Probably a Lucien/Molly mix

whalwing25 now understand this is just theory at this point. But we have to also be prepared for this astral city to have possibly stolen his memories, making them not able to return by a healing spell because they aren’t forgotten or destroyed...just trapped outside his mind in that city

whalwing25 The real question is, how many layers deep does it go? Who’s to say that there wasn’t a personality before Lucian or more personalities before that. I think a greater restoration might not do anything aside from fry his brain.

Maybe it will be one of those split-personality kind of things. Like Aloth from Pillars of Eternity for example (also voiced by Matt!)

Indeed.... "the earth will remember him"... But will the body of Molly remember them? The flowers or mushrooms are all gone now

@@cassiegreen1876 it's going to be the classic two minds in one body. When the mighty nein face him again there will be some in the struggle for who controls that body, I just know it will

@@red_breeze During Molly's life, there was never shown any mental struggle from Lucian. I honestly think that Molly is gone, his soul claimed by a God of chaotic good.

@@clockwork_mind we never know, it is Matt we're talking about.

LMAO THAT WOULDA BEEN AMAZING

Me too until I looked at the thumbnail for the episode 😂😩😩

@@NicoNeilson A Fammiliar Friend. FRIEND. Thaddy is no friend of Beau's. He's an flying asshole.

@@tomaszskowronski1406 That's what makes them friends!

@@BoojumFed are you implying that Beau is an asshole? You Sir have neau regard.

Not just a cliffhanger, a cliffhanger before a week off. He's an evil man.

@@Venslor to be fair, the break wasn't planned

Especially for a PC who has been gone for YEARS at this point, this is honestly one of the most impressive things a DM can do

“A grin of intensity and purpose” That description gives me hope, I don’t think he’ll remember everything, but at his core I think he’s the same

maybe he knew that the M9 would come back to the grave and left it as a message

That's what I thought originally too, there could be many different reasons why it was left behind though

Its Molly, he likes to leave clues behind, especially if he heard what Jester and the group did in his grave. He probably knew then they would eventually come back to his grave.

I wonder if he reset like he did before the circus? (I'm not fully caught up only 1.17)

You mean because of his family barbeq?

Caleb even if given the choice to get into a nice afterlife he'll probably chose hell

He is absolutely going to be the bbeg or in service to it

Here's hoping he DOES! I for one, love the Angst

@@aleccarlyle8108 zip it! I want a heart warming and wholesome reunion!

_Molly_ ? Probably not. _Lucien_ , though? Seems not unlikely.

He's gonna become a yasha style bbeg

I mean. Matt will be playing whoever’s soul resides in the body but I’m 100% certain it won’t be molly

Matt will probably get the accent right though. Lol.

@@zepwolfx isn't getting the accent right mean getting Tailesin's accent instead of fantasy irish though? Also, who knows, maybe Lucien doesn't speak like that. He probably wouldn't as accent is an acquired thing. As Molly doesn't remember anything from past life he might have gotten it in his carny life.

lets be honest and I am gonna just throw this out there I love Caduceus but honestly they tied his story up together rather well and he is helping the group finish theirs, although mollymauk is back I do believe talesin can still play him and it will be up to him and matt to whether his story plays out as a rejoining it just is building up the whole thing cause we wont be getting anything new this week

Sprinkle it's the main big bad, just wait and see

Might be that Sprinkle is his phylactery (or philactery, I don't know the spelling)

Well, the theory is still posibble. This person is not Molly, but Lucien, and they are very different. Maybe they are two different souls?

Oh you poor fools

@@kohakunushi3028 i think Mercer just went with #4 in order to cut down on all the speculation and memes about Sprinkle on the net. Considering some of the interactions previously...

oh I really hope not

Please

No! Please, NO!

That or hes going to release the big bad.

Maybe the big bad brings him back as a puppet-esque person?

I agree! I have a feeling Lucien has taken control of the body once again 😬

@@selkiedraws Or some new son of a bitch in this body's lineup.

LDS_ Link true, but I have a feeling since Cree most likely brought him back, she summoned Lucien back into the body. While if the m9 would have resurrected him, I think molly would have popped in. But I have no idea. I am excited either way. A whole new soul in this body suit would also be very interesting!

I had to capture this moment ;-;

same tbh lmaoo

Plz explain why they are all so sas

Sad

@@destinimiller8886 it's Molly's grave

@@destinimiller8886 Taliesin's first character is going to be a bad guy now probably. He came back from the dead, likely with a different personality. This is still speculation for now though.

Zero. When asked if Taliesin had considered bringing Molly back as a Hollow One, he said, outright, no. He said that a Hollow One exists only because part of the departed's soul is desperately clinging to life and that Molly would never do that. He said that, as was his motto and creed, as long as he left this world better than it was when he entered it, Molly would fully accept death. And Matt agreed.

@@ForeverDegenerate I think Tal said he didn't want Molly to come back as a Lingering Soul, a class Matt made as a death alternative. The Hollow One is almost the opposite of that; a body without its soul. I do think Molly could very well have been a Hollow One at the start of the campaign since he woke up "empty". My theory is that Cree, being a cleric, revived him this time so he's back soul and all as Lucien.

@@ForeverDegenerate Well also, Molly was a creature of impulse and pleasure, Tal said he would be miserable as a ghost.

Same yeah I was hoping Mollymauk Tealeaf the one that TM9 remembers is no longer there and stays with them in spirit and that soul who gets the body is Lucien, Nonagon, or even a new personality. I'm glad the casts caught on to that so they're already prepared for it to be someone else... I think that would make more sense for Matt to DM too as he probably can do all the things he want as the controlling DM of the campaign.

I don't know much about Percy so I can only comment about what I saw of Molly and Cad. I felt Taliesin loved to play Molly and it was only his battle with the accent that kept him from fully embodying the character. Whereas he still has fun with Cad as we see when he drops those super surreal wisdom moments and playing the goofy forest person, he's not as in there or upfront as he was before but that might simply be due to the nature(haha) of Caduceus himself. Mollymauk Tealeaf is FUN. But, who can say whether or not he was more enjoyable for Taliesin than the man himself?

I'm so glad he's back tbh! He DID impact the campaign, but I feel like saying he should 'stay dead' is kind of an a sad opinion to have and a disservice to a fun character with a super interesting story. The characters have mourned him for 6 months, the critters and cast for more than two years! I think that's more than enough time to bring him back. The signs have always been there and Matt has been hinting and nudging for a while and I don't think it's cheap or takes away from the grief the characters felt in the slightest. It feels deserved, like a long lost friend finally coming home in the worst, most dramatic way (literally)! One of the earliest hints that Matt gave imo was the little comment he made as Cree waaaaay back around episode 31 or 32 where she mentioned she was having dreams about Lucien and 'saw him alone'. I am freaking ECSTATIC to see where this goes! Molly has always been my favorite since the very beginning and I'm soo happy I get to see him again in some way :)

Knowing Matt he won't do that. Instead, I would like to theorize that molly will be an obstacle for them. Both to overcome and to accept his passing. I like the idea of a perverted imitation of mollymauk, someone who the group will have a complex relationship with. He wears the face of their former friend but is entirely something different

I guarantee its only Molly's body, with its original owner back inside.

😧😧😧

Wait. Cree didn’t know he was dead/alive again when they went to Zedash after. Does that mean he dug himself out and went to like Shady Creeck Run THAT EARLY?! The second time he’s dug himself out of a grave...damn.

maybe cree resurrected him?

seven cats i am thinking crees blood magic has something to do with lucien/molly being able to rise from the grave twice now. Or their weird cult stuff? Who knows really! But I agree I think Cree is important and has a big role in all of it

Samantha Nicole Yeah he did, I remember them telling him.

Sorry thats not Molly mate

@@FoxHound-ut1hu THERE IS STILL HOPE!

Juli Pazos ...The note was ignored, the coat was left at the grave and Talisan was clearly really didn’t want to have to play him. Mercer has him now and he will be the BBEG...

@@FoxHound-ut1hu oooki then, thanks -.- guess there is no hope left...

Juli Pazos just preparing ya for the pain.

LETS GOOOOOO

Sorry but Molly is GONE, this is someone else...

@@FoxHound-ut1hu Well, we know nothing for sure. Let people speculate, no harm in that

@@vil3on Molly could still be in there. Nothing's certain. It could be anything from "Molly is gone, only Nonagon is left" to "Every time he dies, he shifts. Lucien is in control now."

@@kylebeardsley6200 oh that could be interesting. The group just needs to kill Molly to get 'their' Molly back.

...by himself

And this time they better use disintegrate

@@giorgiomauceri410 don't worry, that's what phylactories are for ;)

Oh my god imagine Molly turning into some Kenny type character

Riley S. You bastards!

Dude it says the number of the episode on the video.

DRINK WATER PLS!!!

Good story tellers know when to let a thread sit before tugging on it yet again.

It's clearly something he knew about. I highly doubt Matt would go forward on something without consulting the player he needs to. Sam had to ask Liam if he could have Scanlan's last wish be to bring Vax back for the vow renewal.

The character backstories were mostly figured out by everyone at the table except for Nott's, which was semi improvised along the way. It's fair to assume Matt had an idea of where things could and would go with Molly originally, then repurposed that story right after the character died. Obviously enough he probably talked about it with Tal as well to straighten out the details.

Thank you!!!

There's nothing like a good cliffhanger.

!!!!!

As they discussed during the game, she scryed on the body, not the soul. Regardless of who is in there, the body is still the purple tiefling they know.

Honestly I don't even think it's lucien in there. I think it's a totally new character. Because why would lucien be back now if he wasn't in there the first time the body was revived? I think its a new guy and he went to shady creek bc it was the closest place nearby and cree found him and explained their past to him. So now he reunited with cree but doesn't really know about the nien

Ehh, I think Lucien is back, not Molly. 😂😂

Sarah Hunter TALELSINS FIRST CHARACTER FROM CAMPAIGN 2 IS BACK BABY

WELP

I've been using clips to catch up while I stay up to date with the latest episode XD

Seabasticut Brotasticut 😂😂😂 WOOO