And this is the episode that delivers on Vex being greedy and obsessed with EVERY SINGLE COIN that she can possibly squeeze out of a dungeon... Because she's insecure and remembers the judgment of her and Vaxs' childhood and is wanting to come back with a fortune and prove all those assholes wrong that she can be successful and prosper even as a half elf with stubby ears. I know in the very beginning you found it a kind of weird character trait but it pays off really really well, emotionally. The culmination of everything leads to this episode when they are SO close to Syngorn...where she finally cracks and reveals that deep vulnerability to Percy. It's a beautiful moment and definitely one of my favorites in the campaign... Or at least one of my favorite Perc'ahlia moments, I agree with chat on that, for sure.
Percy likes to be several steps ahead of everyone else. That is where his confidence comes from. He only knows a little bit about the Feywild from books he read in his childhood. So I get the impression that he feels out of his element which is causing him to have a mix of anxiety and overconfidence as coping mechanisms.
Yeah, out of all of Vox Machina he is the most educated, kinda. He's nobility ...Keyleth is also technically royalty/nobility but a rural type... And Percy has mentioned that he has read a LOT of books... And had access to a lot of books in the Whitestone Library so it's not a stretch to think that he would have read a decent amount about the feywild... He had enough free time on his hands as a child to learn celestial which is a pretty obscure flowery language to learn within Exandria... So he does seem to know more information about the Feywild than even the twins do... So yeah, his previously mentioned easy access to books... Explains the knowledge and caution he has, IMO. 🤷♀️ I definitely don't read it as metagame-y, personally ...like Mega was. Because Percy HAS given enough context clues to explain why he might have this knowledge... other than the player having over a decade of experience playing D&D.... But reading about a place in a book can only take you so far it can be a completely different experience actually being in that location... So yeah I agree he's definitely anxious and kind of feeling underprepared and not as confident as he has been previously because they're in an entirely new realm that he's just kind of read about. And I'm sure that he knows that the feywild changes its shit up because it's very chaotic in nature... So I'm sure he's trying to expect and predict stuff that he DIDN'T read about happening.... That would put anybody on edge. 🤷♀️
yes, Candela is on a different / modified set from c3, so it would be just a bit spoilery about the tech they have now (imo the quality only improves significantly when CR is getting close to being independent, G&S wasn't on top of their game). Candela has circles as parties and each get a 3 episode runtime with different GMs (in order: Matt, Spencer Starke, Aabria Iyengar, Liam) + a one shot in a theater with Spencer as GM in which Matt got to play finally. usually there's 2 core CR members in each circle, the rest are guests. I'd recommend watching it, but keep in mind that it's a horror setting, so there's plenty of gore and other horror elements in it. if you don't want to be spoiled even in the tech they have you can just watch the theater one shot, it's on a different location entirely. it's very good with very interesting experimentation with the format and the set. bonus feature: they filmed and shared part of the session zero for each circle, but it only aired after the arc was done, so it should be the last to watch.
I really want to stay up until 5am so I can finally be caught up with live on Critical Eyes after ~8 months of working through the backlog. I'm just glad I'll catch up to you before you catch up to your Patron's Critical Role Demystified series.
Percy being afraid of the feywild never felt weird to me, it just played more into his "control freak" flaw and even if he dont know much info about the feywild i think percy assume that he heard rumor of read book when he was little about weird shit going on in the feywild plus everyone they ask about the feywild told them how weird, dangerous and unpredictable it is.
The *offended sound* I made when you ranked Vex as least altruistic XD
And this is the episode that delivers on Vex being greedy and obsessed with EVERY SINGLE COIN that she can possibly squeeze out of a dungeon... Because she's insecure and remembers the judgment of her and Vaxs' childhood and is wanting to come back with a fortune and prove all those assholes wrong that she can be successful and prosper even as a half elf with stubby ears. I know in the very beginning you found it a kind of weird character trait but it pays off really really well, emotionally. The culmination of everything leads to this episode when they are SO close to Syngorn...where she finally cracks and reveals that deep vulnerability to Percy. It's a beautiful moment and definitely one of my favorites in the campaign... Or at least one of my favorite Perc'ahlia moments, I agree with chat on that, for sure.
Percy likes to be several steps ahead of everyone else. That is where his confidence comes from. He only knows a little bit about the Feywild from books he read in his childhood. So I get the impression that he feels out of his element which is causing him to have a mix of anxiety and overconfidence as coping mechanisms.
Yeah, out of all of Vox Machina he is the most educated, kinda. He's nobility ...Keyleth is also technically royalty/nobility but a rural type... And Percy has mentioned that he has read a LOT of books... And had access to a lot of books in the Whitestone Library so it's not a stretch to think that he would have read a decent amount about the feywild... He had enough free time on his hands as a child to learn celestial which is a pretty obscure flowery language to learn within Exandria... So he does seem to know more information about the Feywild than even the twins do... So yeah, his previously mentioned easy access to books... Explains the knowledge and caution he has, IMO. 🤷♀️ I definitely don't read it as metagame-y, personally ...like Mega was. Because Percy HAS given enough context clues to explain why he might have this knowledge... other than the player having over a decade of experience playing D&D....
But reading about a place in a book can only take you so far it can be a completely different experience actually being in that location... So yeah I agree he's definitely anxious and kind of feeling underprepared and not as confident as he has been previously because they're in an entirely new realm that he's just kind of read about. And I'm sure that he knows that the feywild changes its shit up because it's very chaotic in nature... So I'm sure he's trying to expect and predict stuff that he DIDN'T read about happening.... That would put anybody on edge. 🤷♀️
yes, Candela is on a different / modified set from c3, so it would be just a bit spoilery about the tech they have now (imo the quality only improves significantly when CR is getting close to being independent, G&S wasn't on top of their game).
Candela has circles as parties and each get a 3 episode runtime with different GMs (in order: Matt, Spencer Starke, Aabria Iyengar, Liam) + a one shot in a theater with Spencer as GM in which Matt got to play finally. usually there's 2 core CR members in each circle, the rest are guests. I'd recommend watching it, but keep in mind that it's a horror setting, so there's plenty of gore and other horror elements in it.
if you don't want to be spoiled even in the tech they have you can just watch the theater one shot, it's on a different location entirely. it's very good with very interesting experimentation with the format and the set. bonus feature: they filmed and shared part of the session zero for each circle, but it only aired after the arc was done, so it should be the last to watch.
I really want to stay up until 5am so I can finally be caught up with live on Critical Eyes after ~8 months of working through the backlog. I'm just glad I'll catch up to you before you catch up to your Patron's Critical Role Demystified series.
Percy being afraid of the feywild never felt weird to me, it just played more into his "control freak" flaw and even if he dont know much info about the feywild i think percy assume that he heard rumor of read book when he was little about weird shit going on in the feywild plus everyone they ask about the feywild told them how weird, dangerous and unpredictable it is.
What are your thoughts about broomgate being a potential inciting incident for vex
Did broomgate trigger Vex's character growth in Critical Role?