5/16/2023 0 Comments Critical role chroma conclave![]() When it finally came around, I was just like, ‘Today's my day.’ I woke up whistling, got myself a good lunch, it was great. I had been working towards that moment for two years. “It was tremendously fun,” says the Dungeon Master, who also does voices for the group of dragons. Mercer, on the other hand, had a very different perspective. No big deal,’ and Grog tries to hit with a 19 and Matt, very blasé, looks at us and goes, “19 misses.” We all stared at him and were like, ‘We’ve got to get out of here.’ We had just come off the Whitestone Ark, everything was feeling hunky-dory and, all of a sudden, alarms are going off, towers are being smashed and we're like, ‘Okay, we’ve got to fight some dragons. Willingham adds, “It was one of the greatest rug pulls of all time. We’re basically gods.’ And then to have all of that dashed against the rocks. “Especially in D&D, when you’re heroes, you don't want to run. “In game, it felt like Matt Mercer was the big bully kid coming to kick over your freshly built Lego house,” remembers Ray. As “epic” as the animated sequence was in the first episode, the group of actors, producers, and long-time RPG-playing friends use a very different word to describe that night of the live-streamed campaign: “tragic.” This season, even more than the first, is reflective of the emotions stirred up during certain points of the campaign, most notably the rise of the Chroma Conclave. “That’s very inspiring,” interjects Riegel. ![]() “I love the fact that we have lured the audience in with slap-dickory and butt stuff, only to bring you in and break your hearts,” says O’Brian. Oh, and add in a sprinkle of romance and Fey Realm acid trips. But when four dragons crash the party and kill most of the citizens of Emon, including its leaders, Vox Machina set off to locate ancient weaponry that will equip them to face the dragons, whose reason for working together is still a mystery.Īlong the way, the heroes will absorb unpredictable powers, face the worst versions of themselves, experience familial death, and revisit childhood trauma. They’ve saved Percy’s home of Whitestone, put a rogue dragon in its place, and are now ready to become respected members of Emon society. In the new season of the 2D animated series, the Vox Machina team has gone from drunk zeroes to slightly less drunk heroes. Those sequences were really hard to put together and the animators worked many, many late nights on it because it was so big and so epic.” Lots and lots of layers, lots and lots of complicated backgrounds and atmosphere effects. Riegel adds, “I was so impressed with what Titmouse did. And then I remember watching the finished episode for the first time and just going ‘Holy shit.’” I never thought it would be that huge and harrowing. O’Brian continues, “But that was just my imagination. “When we recorded that episode at the table, our imagination was terrifying and epic of these massive beasts destroying things,” shares Liam O’Brian, who voices for Vax in the series and serves as an executive producer with the seven other Critical Role founders and voice actors: Sam Riegel (“Scanlan”), Travis Willingham (“Grog”), Taliesin Jaffe (“Percy”), Laura Bailey (“Vex”), Marisha Ray (“Keyleth”), Ashley Johnson (“Pike”), and Mercer. ![]() ![]() You can check out the 2016 livestream campaign video here. This normally unstoppable band of heroes was practically flicked off the board with no means to fight back.Īnd audiences are left with a similar semblance of complete and total helplessness as the first Season 2 episode of Amazon Studio’s The Legend of Vox Machina (the first three episodes debut today, January 20 on Prime Video) kicks off with these same dragons, named the Chroma Conclave, laying waste to Emon in all their CG-animated glory. Half-elf ranger twins Vex and Vax, along with gunslinger Percy, barbarian Grog, gnomes Scanlan and Pike, as well as half-elf druid Keyleth are stunned. Suddenly, ice, poison gas, and fire are leveling the homes and palaces of Emon citizens as Mercer narrates a chaotic, unprecedented genocide. Not to mention the countless hours of ass-kickery from the rest of the crew to keep Emon’s citizens safe. Dragons, so many dragons, descending upon the kingdom of Emon, that Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer spent so many Thursdays bringing to life with tremendous care and precision. ![]() When Critical Role fans hear the term, “Chroma Conclave,” a very specific moment in the “Vox Machina” D&D campaign comes to mind. ![]()
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