Thanks for all the love, everyone 😁 Just wanted to clear up one thing that’s come up in a few comments - Many of you mentioned the scene where Beau reads smut in the tunnel to pass the time. I checked while making the compilation and discovered that it’s actually a different book, not Tusk Love. I think it’s about a sailor? idk. But I do appreciate how many times smut books have been brought up in canon 😂

Cad: "who's the author?" Jester: "uh, Matilda Merceria" Mat: *internal facepalm intensifies*

I hope matt understands that he could write tusk love and it could be the worst book ever but it would sell like hot cakes

Jester: "As he ripped open her bodice..." Caduceus, perplexed: That's 5 gold to fix.

Laura's delivery of "Nothing Oskar.." Just kills me everytime. Lol

Fjord: Whatcha... Whatcha readin' there, Jester? Jester: *dreamily* Nothing, Oskar... I about died

Jester: "The girls name was Genevieve or something" Also Jester, months later: "My real name is Genevieve"

I don't know what's funnier, Tusk Love or that giant flask getting progressively bigger throughout the video

Jester: *"Oh Oskar! Thank you for saving me!"* Fjord: "Its Fjord..."

I love Matt's "I didn't say it was a good book" in response to Laura "reading" the phrase "...and it was real deep"

I love how Taliesen is acting out Molly reading over Jester's shoulder and also glancing at Fjord. I never noticed that before!

The fact that Matt had actual notes on the book is great

Feather Leather sounds like a smutt book about an Aasimar and a Tiefling. Lol.

I hope they realise that it's only a matter of time until someone actually writes a full book called Tusk Love because of this.

One day there will be a guest with the courage to bring "Matilda Merceria" as a PC to the table. And it´d be bloody glorious.

"What's the name of the half orc?" The DMs curse: your player has now taken a keen and specific interest in something you just made up on the spot for flavor and now need to put way more thought into than it warrants.

Tusk love, feather leather, lusty argonian maid .... all books kept under my bed

Cut like 15 years later, Ronin is watching Critical Role and has to sit through all of this.

I did not realize the book was mentioned this often. At this point Tusk Love is the backbone of campaign two, the glue that keeps the Mighty Nein together 👌🏻

Fjord: What you got there, Jester Jester, holding Tusk Love: A smoothie

"She ripped open her bodice" all Cad has to say is "That's like 5 gold" he's so pure

Whenever Laura calls Travis, Oskar, his look just says "If I don't go along with this, I'm sleeping on the couch."

I'm sad that nobody got Liam's "ghost dick" joke about it being a crime story. For reference dick is archaic slang for detective, or police officer in the business of solving crimes.

That flask is cursed to keep growing each episode.

Just realized that the author (it might be a joke by the uploader but still it's a good joke none-the-less) of Tusk Love is Matilda Mercia... MATilda MERCia. goddamnit.

Watching this makes me laugh because Jester recently revealed her real name is Genevieve lol.

I love that Molly is just sneaking a look while Jester’s reading even though he’s canonically illiterate 🤣

"This campaign is so grim-dark" xD

And this is the kind of thing that makes RP great. Someone, off the cuff, decides to buy a book. Mercer pulls a random polt out of his butt and throws out 'Tusk Love.' Now the players run with it for EVER! It's these little inside jokes that make gaming friends the best friends.

When “Critical Role: The Legend of the Mighty Nein: The Animated Series” inevitably comes out, the two scenes I want them to include the most: 1) “imagine a blackbird blushing...”, and 2) “that ghost stayed for the whole reading...!”

3:05 Caleb: it is sad when a ship sinks. Aint that the truth

Spoiler Alert: The main antagonist will be defeated using Tusk Love.

I really wished that matt would have had that he would make a short story of tusk love as a stretch goal when they did the kickstarter

This is the most vital CR compilation to ever exist, bless

"Reskinned gargoyles fanfiction." Yeah, I bet Goliath goes deep.

Matt: "As you read, the numbers begin to swell once more" *Laura and Marisha share a look trying not to react*

"Who wrote it?" "Matilida Merceria" *Matt's FACE*

6:10 Molly took that to the grave

I don't remember the episode off the top of my head but you did miss when the Mighty Nine were stuck underground for several days and to pass the time Beau read Tusk Love aloud. Edit: I think that was a different smut book.

I love how Kiri can one day bust out a shortened non descriptive version of tusk love randomly one night with her new family... all the messed up things she’s heard could probably scar those other kids.

Matt:the cover is plain leather Jester:...tusk love *Later and one bribery later* Matt: It's Feathered leather Everyone: It's about Vax!

So this turned up in our D&D campaign, where I have a history of accidentally looting porn when enemies don't have actual loot. So our party of level 2's comes across a Dragon Reborn necromancer and they roll a nat 1 on their perception to spot us. GM says they're reading a book. We take them down fairly swiftly and my (old dwarf grandmother) goes "I take the book they were reading." "It is called 'Tusk love' and has a human and an orc on the cover." "...It's porn, isn't it?" "Yup." "I pocket it without showing the rest of the party." A few sessions later we're Legitimately Attending a Noble's fancy party as a celebration for the successful return of another adventuring party. To liven up the party they've been lent a magical mirror that transforms people into monstrous forms. The old lady dwarf takes one look at the stuck up nobles, the grumpy ranger and the dragonborn cleric and *grins*. I hand a note to the DM saying "I want to turn into the Orc from the porn novel, but with more clothes." And so the GM begins to describe the Orc in *glorious* detail, complete with shiny tusks, glistening 8 pack, the works, including tight leather trousers that leave little to the imagination. The rest of the players are facepalming, I'm cackling, and the GM finishes with "...And you hear a gasp and an 'Oh my!' behind you." The party happens, I lose the illusion and get one of a siren next time. I end up chatting to the other party's (noble) Bard about it and admit I got it from a book. He immediately responds with Bard: "Ah! I knew it looked familiar! Tusk Love?" Me: "Yup." Bard: "With that woodcut on the mountain...?" Me: "Yuuuuup." Cleric: "Oh gods there's *two* of them now. ... and today I found out where it came from and I am NOT SURPRISED.

“A merchant’s daughter.”- Mercer!

"It is sad when ships sink..." Thanks Liam.

"that's like 3 gold to fix" Caduceus/Taliesin Omg

"Ghost Dick" being the sequel to "Tusk Love" made me HOWL with laughter 🤣

Jester Lavore: The Pied Piper of Smut

Jester: I know what you are. Fjord: Say it. Outloud. Say it. Jester: Half-orc. Fjord: Are you afraid? Jester: No.

I once got permission to play a succubus. She was pretending to be a human while working in a tavern, the job came with a room, and she had shelves full of books. I compiled a list of all the books' titles, "Tusk Love" was among them, though my personal favorite was "Flames of Ecstasy". I only got to use one title though, before the DM asked to have the character removed without valid reason, he claimed balancing issues, and I agreed to switch characters. I soon left that group because his version of balance was giving the assassin anything he wanted and more when I wasn't allowed a plus one sword, not even exaggerating.

“Watchya readin there, Jester?” “Nothing *Oskar* ” 😂😂😂

I'm seriously hoping that during a shopping episode that the M9 run into a book signing hosted by Mathilda for her newest crime thriller.

Author: Mattilda Merceria I'm done xD

This along with caleb’s counting money slowly joke are some of my favorites

The part where Molly looks over Jester’s shoulder while reading Tusk Love and does the double take.

Forgot when Jesters real name came out in the campaign, but she said it early on apparently, Genevieve. She really was inserting herself (Jester) into Tusk Love

This might be about fjords parentage. Just saying.

Little did they know that this one reference would be immortalized in fanfiction, in-universe canon and fanart for all eternity.

the whole "thirsty Jester" moment with Caleb comming to the room, and the segment right efter when she refered the book to Beau, who just wants to sleep.

Tusk love is the 50 shades of grey of Exandria

And here I thought this was something my DM came up with. My gnome ranger Mewtholobar was pretending to read this when he and his party were trying very hard to act like they didn't just teleport into the commander's office.

Just wanna say: Someone did write an actual tusk love book and they sent it to CR

Spoilers for episodes near 95 to come back and hear Jester name the female character Genevieve after she revealed her real name is funny. 3:05

I honestly hope the M9 get to meet Kiri again.

I don't know about you all, but this was 10 times better knowing that Travis had told his wife that he would never do love for his DnD characters. lol

I love how bassy Laura's voice goes in "their adventures on the high seas"

Okay, here me out; What if the author of _Tusk Love_ shows up to Traveler Con as a guest or vendor? :3

1:09 omG I NEVER NOTICED MOLLY LMAOOO

I forgot how great Molly was

I'm so dumb, just now after reading the name "Matilda Mercia" in the description I realize it's Matt's name xD

Liam, a genius: "It is sad when SHIPS sink."

Although Jester reading "Tusk Love" to the ghosts was not a clutch moment in game play, it shows how she is the living embodiment of a Trickster God. The impulse was impish and had no ill intent. It was even pretty sweet. Again, I like to think that Jester eventually becomes the Trickster God.

I now know r/chasitysnook exists. My life is complete.

M9: Buys Tusk Love for like, a silver Laura: gets boatloads of entertainment value out of the book "This is the best trade deal in the history of trade deals"

I love how Sam's flask gets bigger as the campaign continues lol!

I feel like Feather Leather would be written by Airey Perry/Lord Squak Arevis as a fictionalized account of the romance of Rue and Hobb.

The funny thing is the book foreshadows the future romance between Jester and Fjord

and now Tusk Love can ve seen in Gilmor's shop in The Legend of Vox Machina

I can’t wait to see this animated

Who screamed when Tusk Love appeared in Legend of Vox Machina?

“Nothing Oskar...don’t worry about it”....a thousand hearts melt and break and sing at the same time.

God bless you this was everything I needed

I feel blessed. Thank you.

this is basically the lusty Argonian maid of critical role

This is giving me flashbacks of skyrim and me finding the lusty argonian maid books

Please someone wrote an actual Tusk Love

The fact that at 3:00 Jester confuses the main character Guinevere for Genevieve is even funnier in hindsight

Then reading it through the tunnel was one of my favorite moments in the series. I may or may not have done that to help me stay awake in the past. Don't judge me. I do enough of that already... Edit: Ah it wasn't tusk love that time. Alas. Still a favorite moment.

Hope tusk love gets some more tusk love

Love the music choice in this one, perfect

Watching Matt and Travis blush repetitively is the best bit

I just love how OFTEN this book is mentioned XD Nott the goblin mommy, Beau the Lesbian, and Jester the FANFIC PAGE TURNER-

It could have only been better if the half-orc in the book was named Chevy.

I love the compilation of the scenarios, thank you. I wish the royalty free music didn't match the volume of the professional speakers or get added all tbh

Travis' expression at 1:43 slays me every time.

2:57 - So the main female character of Tusk Love is called Genevieve...a name that just so happens to also be a certain blue tiefling's original name...

I never noticed Molly leaning over to read the book righter after Jester got it lol

2:47 With what Jester said her name is, this becomes very interesting 😁

I have seen this so many times, it’s still so good....

In a homegame I play in my character joking asked if the shop owner they had “Tusk love, Feather leather” or “the daring trials and tribulations of sir Tarryon Darrington”. They had tusk love but it was a highly popular book going 5 gp

I died at the part with the ghost just listening to smut.