#c2e52

[thequeenofmyownscreen]

Nott, to the minotaur : "And is there a Mrs. Sunbreaker, or... ?" Fjord, incredulous : "Are you flirting with the fucking minotaur ?" Nott : "He is fucking hot ! And, you know, 50/50 my husband's dead, so..."

[mayapapaya33]

Another thing they have to keep in animation is the disguises Caleb casts on everyone to go into the Beast City in Xhorhas. All of these disguises are particularly wonderful, we have a return of the twins and Taliesin going full Jim Henson, but specifically this:

Beau: Can you make me a dude tiefling? A red, shifty-looking tiefling? Red skin, deep eyes. 

Matt: There you go. You are a red tiefling. It's pretty accurate as you can envision, at least what you can see of yourself. You don't really have any reflective surface to check, but based on this, not bad. 

Beau/Marisha: I check my pants.

Matt: You're a dude tiefling. Since Caleb's really only seen one dude's tiefling before-- (laughter and applause). Long may he reign indeed.

Travis: Holy shit.

Laura: He's only seen one dude's tiefling. 

Beau: Why is just my dick purple? I don't understand. There's a gradient. 

Liam: It's just a sunny-side up egg.

Beau: My happy trail has an ombre. This is incredible! 

Matt: The benefits of the tiefling. 

Sam: Long and wide may he reign! 

Matt: Anyway.

C2E52 (38:04)

[ablueper]

🤨🤨🤨

travis: i don't trust matt right now. 😒 15 hits the thing? 🤨

matt: yeah. 😇 not everything has huge armor classes, travis. 😏

travis: don't even talk to me. 😑 mm-mn. that's a deep-ass cave. 🧐 this ain't done. 🙁

[ariadne-mouse]

somewhere out there in Exandria is a bugbear named Gluzzo who has a Tusktooth googly-eyed tattoo from Jester Lavorre

[mooshlovely]

Nein Again Episode 52 - "Feral Business"

This totally counts as being caught up

(17) Jester definitely forgot to pay the Gluzzo for the tattoo. Which no one will ever see again after the fur grows back in

(19) It's interesting that Nott considers being turned back into a halfling - being made "whole" again. It's not that she was changed, it's that she's broken

(20) I mean yeah Fjord is small for an Orc, cause he's a half-orc. I'm sure he's perfectly reasonably sized for a half-orc. And definitely not super weak

(23) Cad has the heavy grunt down pat

(30) Lol Caleb's moment of "I told you this already? Why are you so surprised"

(31) Jester is remarkably close to the truth. There are definitely souls stuck in there. For some definition of "stuck"

(39) Egg dick! So much funnier than just slapping a human dick on him.

(46) Jester: "Maybe we should all just hang out and be part of Xhorhaus from now on, i mean they're pretty cool" Well good news, that's basically what you do

(57) "Why are we following the minotaur?" Because you're nosey as fuck, next question

(1:02) Moorbounders! My precious babies <3 I will never forgive them for just releasing you into the wild. They should have kept you forever

(1:10) I'm definitely picking up on way more in this conversation the second time around. "Near-umavi ascension", the mentions of multiple lives

(1:41) I love every single time that Caleb and Nott use their plan names and then don't explain. Fjord even asked and they refused to elaborate until it was already in motion

(2:26) The fact that DnD poison is a status condition and not normal tick-damage like in most video games consistently causes confusion. Although the players also consistently forget that disadvantage and advantage cancel each other out so maybe its only a problem for these specific players lol

(2:59) The rifts are actually a very fun plot line. Plays very well into their inability to let anything go

(3:05) This is what they use on Essek isn't it. Kind of crazy that they get it before ever meeting him

(3:29) The urge to keep talking because the other person is just staring blankly is so relatable

(3:32) I can't believe they go this long without telling Lady Zethriss about the rest of their party

(3:35) It's very interesting watching them avoid choosing a side. They're handed a mission to find an empire spy and they pretty instantly discard it. I think this might actually be the very first job they've ever turned down.

[mareastrorum]

Nein Again music for Episode 52: Feral Business under the cut! It was difficult to make out the quieter music under the dialogue (took me about 18 hours...), but I still got a bunch of the Blizzard songs from Matt's new playlist.

Around 9:00, A Nearly Peaceful Place from Witcher 2 plays during Travis's announcement of TLOVM kickstarter.

At 22:30 or so, the Wilderness theme from Diablo II plays as the Nein discuss what disguises they can do with Polymorph.

At about 32:10, Awash in Ale, but Nary a Mug AKA Better Hand from Hearthstone plays as Nott describes her reinarnation as a goblin. I've linked it from a huge compilation below. It seems Matt used quite a few Hearthstone songs for Xhorhas, so I'll reference back to this whenever I can. The pinned comment has timestamp links for each song.

Around 35:00, the Blood Moon theme from Hearthstone plays as the Nein catch up to Gluzzo, who has walked on toward Asarius.

At about 38:10, The Grand Bazaar from World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth plays as Beau asks Caleb to turn her into a dude tiefling.

At about 40:50, Matt switches to The Tomb of Sargeras from World of Warcraft: Legion (and mentions he got permission to use Diablo music from Blizzard) while he describes Asarius at the Nein's approach. It has a distinctive brass motif at the end of the song. Fun fact: this track was used in an audio drama to promote Legion pre-launch, specifically as an audio cue to end scenes and/or signal a time skip.

At 42:20 or so, I believe the male chorus is WoW Classic music, but the closest I could find were Cursed 6 or Cursed 7. I'll update this if I find the exact match.

At about 59:15 or so, The Tomb of Sargeras replays as Matt narrates Fjord's discovery of the moorbounder livery.

At about 1:02:45, some of the Yogg-Saron themes from World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King play as Matt describes livestock around the city. There's a distinct solo clarinet motif in Yogg-Saron Woods (timestamped below), then a brass theme from Yogg-Saron Hero Intro—which is odd, because all the songs that include both motifs have them play in reverse. Even the Hearthstone version (Whispers of the Old Gods Theme) has the motifs in reverse. I don't think it's that the songs play one after the other because each motif has quite a bit of music left afterwards, and the version Matt plays had them back to back. I'll update this if I ever track down the version Matt used.

(Warning: if you plan on searching for Yogg-Saron music, it is an old god eldritch horror with toothy maws in place of eyes, and there's a lot of them. Just a heads up if that's too much for you.)

At 1:04:15, Rogue Encampment from Diablo II plays as Caleb realizes the Nein have about 20-25 minutes left on their disguise spells.

Around 1:13:30, Tristram from Diablo II plays as Matt describes the goblin proprietor of the moorbounder livery. It's an extended/alternate version of Town from the first Diablo game, but Town has additional guitar melodies that I couldn't hear in the stream, so I believe it's the former rather than the latter.

There's a song that begins around 1:25:00 (and again around 3:25:30, then 3:43:30) with a distinctive flute that I'm still trying to track down. I'm pretty sure it's from a Tauren-related theme in WoW because Blizzard used that instrument almost exclusively for the Tauren/Taunka and related factions. The closest I've found are Highmountain 1A and Highmountain 1H from Legion, which have fancier versions of that intro motif. I'll update if I ever find it.

The Tomb of Sargeras repeats yet again around 1:35:00 or so as the Nein react to the ambient noises described by Matt.

Around 2:04:30, I believe Cave was already playing when we returned from the break.

At 2:08:20, Heart of Sethraliss plays as Nott uses her mage hand to pour out oil across the map.

From about 2:12:25 through 2:23:30, a mix of PvP themes (2-4) from World of Warcraft plays as filler. I've timestamped PvP 2 from a compilation, which includes all of the other PvP themes. This music plays on repeat in battlegrounds, areas, and other player-versus-player instances in WoW across expansions.

The music for this combat repeats the pattern of Heart of Sethraliss followed by the PvP mix several times. I caught Heart of Sethraliss at 2:23:30, 2:49:30, and 3:04:30, but there may have been a few more. The pattern continues through the end of combat and the Nein's investigation of the chamber.

At 3:17:20, Matt changes the track to Jungle from Diablo II while he describes the interplanar rift in the cavern.

Around 3:19:30, Matt switches to Crypt from Diablo II once Jester seals the rift and the Nein begin to inspect the area.

Around 3:30:00, one of the Cursed themes from World of Warcraft plays while Zorth runs in to see the carnage. To highlight the sharp string motifs, I've timestamped Cursed 3 from a compilation.

At 3:33:30, Rogue Encampment replays as the Nein head for Lady Olios's estate and the Nein decide that Nott and Jester will deliver the news.

At 3:36:30, the Yogg-Saron themes replay as Matt describes the Aurora Hold's architecture.

Around 3:42:00, the Cursed themes play again as Jester does an insight check on the servant inviting them in.

Around 3:45:45, I believe that Zangarmarsh Walking themes play as Matt describes Lady Olios. I've timestamped Zangarmarsh Walking 4 from a compilation as a good representative of the set.

At 3:52:00, Rogue Encampment replays as Nott and Jester tell Lady Olios about their specialties.

At about 3:55:30, Tomb of Sargeras replays as Lady Olios tells Nott and Jester about the bounty for the Empire's infiltrator.

At 3:57:05, Rogue Encampment replays again as Lady Olios offers to petition the Bright Queen's favor instead of gold, then Tristram follows through the end of the episode.

[electromagnetic-moss]

between this

pate and Gorbachev from the daggerheart critmas special, I'm starting to think that marisha just really wants a pet rat

[archivistmyrya]

Quotes about Taliesin's immortality - Day 5

Sam: "Taliesin, not a citizen of the United States. Also, not sure where he is a citizen of. Taliesin: "It's a country that doesn't exist anymore."

(Sam's DnD Beyond ad, C2E52)