HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing: 1:45 Glitterbeard Matt and Omar announce stuff 3:40 Intro cinematic 5:15 Episode Starts 6:15 Recap Ends (baby bug) 13:30 Discussion of next steps ends 17:45 A classic misdirect 19:20 Meeting some dagger salesmen 22:50 Battle begins 23:50 Opal, focus up 25:45 Handaxe up the butt 29:50 Opal and Arthur are just hanging out 32:50 Everyone getting hit 33:50 Opal and Arthur are vibin 36:50 Love hugs 39:40 Arthur is introduced to a lot of new experiences 45:45 To escape or to murder 48:20 All Byroden girls are into rope, canon 50:40 All kinds of shelters 52:20 Making a quick pagoda 55:20 Can you smell vibranium? 58:05 Microdosing suude 59:20 Is it drugs yet? 1:02:00 Chaos Crew 1:05:25 Visions from the Crown 1:09:20 Vestige confirmed 1:10:20 Name drop 1:15:30 Bananas are chaotic good 1:17:55 Fearne’s backstory 1:24:40 Big floofers 1:26:00 Opal’s twin 1:27:45 Changing the channel 1:29:00 Fearne has to turn around a few times before she can sleep 1:33:25 Break Starts 1:35:40 Art Montage 1:48:30 Break Ends 1:51:35 Talking to Lorkathar 1:55:40 Murder abruptly ends all vibes 2:02:30 Talking to Jesho 2:15:40 The Oh No 2:19:05 What's in the box? 2:20:35 Evil eyes 2:21:20 Roll credits 2:25:05 Dariax is a climber bro 2:27:35 Sounding sexy 2:28:50 The Double D's 2:30:25 Whatever it is, we have to kill it 2:31:35 D&D 2:33:05 Too many names too similar 2:36:35 Windy Boy 2:38:15 Pants off Orym 2:39:50 Hand signing exists in Exandria, canon 2:42:15 Roll premonition 2:44:50 Mesa makers 2:47:35 Inward singing 2:48:20 Map out (cheeto elemental) 2:50:40 Matt draws the line at making Kansas canon 2:55:35 Aabria and Matt pronounce 'sigil' very different 2:58:30 Melee range 3:00:25 Skipping rocks 3:03:05 Maybe don't yell 3:04:00 Ted is not having this 3:06:00 Ashhole 3:07:20 Penetrating the ashhole 3:12:25 The party can make anything into a butthole 3:16:35 Battle begins 3:17:25 Apologize 3:19:35 Dariax always knew 3:24:20 Death to traitors 3:26:25 Snip the tip 3:30:10 Robbie with a big brain play 3:32:00 Dariax goes for the kill 3:36:10 An apology 3:38:20 Matt still looks evil 3:40:30 Darian and Orym 3:41:50 Dariax and Fearne 3:48:30 The scientific method 3:50:00 Opal doesn't do book learning 3:53:00 Name drop 3:53:15 Opal goes off 3:56:45 Post-credit scene 3:57:25 Episode Ends The in-game start date for this episode is some time in the year 848. For those of you who are out of the loop... so Long Essek is this drawing of a centipede-like Essek that was drawn during a Critter game of TKO. He is both disturbing and endearing. He runs Critical Role now. You can search for him on IG and Twitter, but the good news is he's already found you. Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet.
Orym: "We aren't in Kansas anymore." Opal: "Where's Kansas?" Orym: "Uh, western Tal'Dorei." Aabria: "Noted. I will add it to the map." Liam: "Canon" Matt, weakly: *no*
I feel like matt won't keep any of the canon aabria has created, out of respect of this being her lore.. but if he does keep some of it for campaign 3 it would be cool
I absolutely love the relationship with Ted. It's such a cool version of a patron and the relationship works so well. It's hilarious thinking of Opal whisper shouting at her sister/patron and the rest just being confused.
Same! I've never seen a players sibling be their patron but I love the idea lol even though the thought of one of my siblings being my patron gives me an immediate headache 💀
i LOVE that matt has seized hold of this opportunity to just turn his brain off. "i'm legitimately not following any of this" absolutely buddy you deserve it
@@ForeverWog He's legit in playing the character with an INT of 8. And since he doesn't have to DM...he doesn't have to pay attention to what's going on. LOL.
@@RiptidePen He's been a player in a few one shots and other channels' campaigns, but this is definitely the first like, campaign long character(even if it's a short campaign).
When Fearne goes “The feywild is where the feywild is” and Matt goes “Gotcha” and then mouths “WHAT?” at everyone is a truly unappreciated moment, had me cracking up.
Ep 1. made me love Dariax with his spear shenanigans, ep 2. made me love Dorian with his hug shenanigans. I feel like the more this goes on and the more hijinks they get into, the more I'll fall in love with the whole crew.
I want Robbie to have a guest spot in the next season. I would love to have Will Friedle back again. And I feel like both of them together would be just ultimate hell that they could raise in a game.
"And it is said, to this day, there is a thief, part of the group The Nameless Ones, called Arthur who stands by the west gate, holding a silk rope, looking lovelorn, just stares out into the west. Maybe, one day, this love shall return."
“…Until approximately 54 seconds later, when Charm Person ceases its hold over his mind, and he looks about to the grins of a dozen giggling onlookers.”
Fighting for their lives seems like a stretch. The dude didn't even bother drawing his weapon. I think Arthur was in considerably more danger. She'd scare the shit out of me. Lol
The most unexpected, and funniest moment from the entire session. No one expects public BDSM. Honestly, now I'm just remembering campaign 1 and the crew talking about being polyamorous. Such a good episode. 🤣
Liam: Okay this time I don't want to play a charakter with high intelligence, Caleb was really intense The rest of the party: somehow manages to build characters with even lower intelligence
Vox Machina: The inspiring classic film to start a franchise. Mighty Nein: The mainstream successful blockbuster sequel. Exandria Unlimited: The loosely related Saturday morning TV cartoon spin-off.
I think he was subtly asking if his dwarven advantage of saving throws against poison would apply here. If it's a magical effect, then it wouldn't. If this is just because ash is toxic to the lungs, it probably should have.
@@DangerDurians Yeah, it's like. "You inhale water and begin to drown" Is the water, magical? "...Nooooo" So does my advantage against poisons help? Cause it's killing me because it's toxic? "It's killing you because not air is filling your lungs and life needs things to live."
I think they should have received some warning, so they could wrap their faces etc before just getting a whole point of exhaustion. Seems a little unfair.
The saying "Time is a weird soup" actually makes a lot of sense considering Fearne is from the Feywild and time has a different flow over there. As seen in CR1, VM was only in the Feywild for a couple days but in Exandria weeks had passed.
@@anthonydavis5288 Happy Fun Ball wasn't like the Feywild. It was a stable ratio created by a time control machine, adjustable at will for whoever knows how it works.
@@theuncalledfor I had observed how the Feywild messes with time to their advantage and sometimes not so as with Ferne. The fun ball was similar in its time manipulation.
The live show Episode 109 of Campaign one,ruclips.net/video/t7oLhv6HKl4/видео.html, where Matt tears up his notes says otherwise. They kept up their shenanigans for close to an hour straight.
There's this vibe yeah haha. Tbh to how much a DM should be lenient is pretty much up to who you ask. A lot of people think Matt is too lenient with his players too.
No one ever has to go there, but I am hoping that at one point in a campaign Orym, Fearne, or really anyone just makes a reference to Kansas, Tal'dorei just to mess with Matt. Laura would do it. You know she's watched this. Or Travis.
Underrated moment of this episode is Robbie screaming "OPAL GET HIM! GET HIM OPAL!" as he's desperately grappling one Nameless One while Opal is trying to convince Arthur to go get drinks with her.
It's 100% an abuse/misunderstanding/DM overleniency for a new player of how charm person works. It just makes them more friendly to you. It doesn't change their other allegiances, it doesn't make them act unreasonably or out of their own character. It just makes them like you. It absolutely wouldn't make a cultist walk away from another cultist getting gangbanged by the people they were looking for.
This campaign goes to show why I love brand new players, they try shit experienced players don't do. Experienced players don't try to change the channel on the vision they're having from their Warlock patron! XD
@@thesaltybeard1793 I played a Warlock who's patron was his Mother. A lot of sweat was in vested in convincing her that everything was fine, and no she did not need to come to the Prime for a visit. It was also kind of weird because that warlock was his own father. (because demons are bad at linear time).
Me too, mainly because i really feel like it's hiding something underneath. It's like a combo of Jennifer Coolidge, and Joan Cusack's character in Adam's Family Values. Like, she might be a pretty woman who's a lot more quick-witted than she lets on, or she might be an axe wielding psychopath. Either way i am HERE FOR IT.
Everyone keeps talking about how Matt made a silly dumb character, but no one is talking about how he specifically chose cleric spells to be the healer of the group while avoiding wisdom being his spell casting stat, and also avoiding having to have any sort of deity attachment or commitment. He's playing a one-shot joke character in a full campaign.
He is playing a character that is the most role fulfilling, while being almost entirely detached from knowing anything real about the world so he doesnt have to get confused about what he knows from creating the world, and what he knows in character
Robbie: "Put your hand in the ash hole" Ashley: "I was gonna see if I could put my fist in it" Matt: "Be gentle. Start with a few fingers." Aimee: "Wait, *SPIT ON IT FIRST*" I'M FREAKING DEAD
Patrons have to be one of the best reasons to pick a Warlock. Their relationships can be so unique like Fjord and Uk'otoa having this eldritch being sleeping and manipulating his desires and makes him believe he is powerless, and then we have opal and ted which are the embodiment of the "this is why mom doesn't fucking love you" vine.
My warlock's patron is an archfey who is also her very protective and anxious single dad. She just wants to read the books in all of the big libraries and bookstores in the world and he's just so comically protective of her that he just gave her magic and presents so she's safe in her travels lol
Mine is the King in Yellow, Hastur the Unspeakable. My character also loves collecting books and information across the realm, but also spreading the yellow miasma via performing the vile theater play with major image and other illusory psionics. My favorite was doing a puppet show for a bunch of kids, dooming the town’s gene pool.
@@LetTheBodyFall You realize it's supposed to be like, an evil pact, right? I'd NEVER let a player make a *warlock* with such a happy bubbly patron. That's ridiculous, lmao.
I feel like Matt made the perfect character to play in his own world. Low intelligence AND wisdom. He needs to know NOTHING. You can also see him picking up on character traits and quirks he loved from his players. Pranks/pranks between party members? Grog, Vax, and Jester. Hating the animal companion? Scanlan. Makin suboptimal choices for fun? That's Sam every PC. It's so fun to see. (let me know if there are other traits I missed)
Aimee: "I owe someone an apology. Ted are you listening?" Aabria: "Always" Aimee: "Mister, I'm very sorry for throwing a dagger at you." Aabria: "I hate you" Aimee: "BYE!" I loooove this dynamic! I'd never guess Aimee is a first time player she's already a master of role playing! Loving this so far!
@@45H3R well there's a difference between improv roleplaying and acting out a script. I've seen other first time player actors in other games and they're not as comfortable with the roleplay that robbie and aimee have shown.
@@7on this is my first real exposure to aimee and I don't know if she mentioned any past improv experience but i've read somewhere that some of her funny lines as Adora in the Netflix She-ra series were improvised. The creator largely didn't envision the character to be funny but aimee's improvised lines worked so well that they were kept in.
“Well, how would you feel if you were a baby left in prison? It’d be awful.” - Fearne “Jokes on you! I love hugs!” - Dorian “It’s really fun to just take a little bit every day.” - Fearne about Suude “I’m going to change the channel chapter.” - Opal - Opal: “We killed their vibes.” Dorian: “By killing them.” Dariax: “Vibe ends pretty abruptly by that point.” - “Orym, I don’t doubt that they’re good people, but we have a guild of murderers, assassins, and thieves after us, we’re in possession of an incredibly powerful, dangerous item that I don’t just want to give away, we found illegal drug precursors. And now, what, we’re going to fix their crater problem too?” - Dorian “That’s rough, buddy.” - Dariax channeling his inner Zuko “Congratulations, Orym, we volunteered five minutes and the sky’s on fire.” - Dorian
@@jeroen92 taken the larvae with them and give it to the angry adult one that was caged up. That was probably its baby (I'm pretty sure the party forgot they were two and thought it was just the big angry one.) My ranger would've carried the larvae back, do an animal handling check and give it to the adult one. Happy ending for the creatures 😌👌🏼
Opal: "Could you stick a fist in the ash-hole?" Dariax: "We don't know how dangerous that could be... so maybe just take it gently." Fearne: "I could see if I could just get a fist in." Dariax: "Easy! Start with a couple fingers." Opal: "Wait! Spit on your hand first." ------ Aimee: I'm really banking on the fact that my parents will NOT be watching this episode. ------- Ashley: "I fingered the ash hole and nothing happened."
Was watching a show where some characters were riding and one said to the other: "Let's ditch these horses and hoof it from here," and I thought, that is the only context where it would be confusing to say 'hoof it' - (I wanna say it was Attack On Titan I was watching)
You can tell Matt is having a blast playing someone who’s ignorant of the world lore and mechanics. I bet it’s a little boring reducing your POV to one character after constantly being a DM, but Matt has always enjoyed his players taking the reigns so I’m sure it’s fine. He’s like Liam, once he’s into a character he’s in, he embodies it totally
@@scrumpors8706 sure ím DMing the most of the time and I love to Play when I have the opportunity :) its easy to recognise on Matts style he is DMing alot... He plays more of a supporting character and roleplays a wacky one :)
I love that you can still see his DM brain ticking in the background like him taking notes when abriaa mentioned the ashari using hand signs and him making a quick note as that got added into his own image of his world
Don't get me wrong C1 with it's Good vs. Evil was brilliant. C2 with all the morality questions was beautifully relatable. But damn do I love watching chaotic morons who make decisions based on the motto "for the LOLZ"
Ah, the moral nuance of pouring acid down the throat of a sleeping minimum wage worker and then holding him down while he slowly dies an agonizing death. Very relatable.
It wasn't "likeability" that kept Sam alive, and he wasn't that good of a fighter, what kept Sam alive was his courage, bravery, good heart, unwavering loyalty to his friends, and the famous Halfling luck.
@@thefracturedbutwhole5475 Maybe film Sam was a bit less of a fighter, but after that Spider got him, in the book he was found and brought to a stronghold. Sam was very much a good Halfling fighter freeing Frodo.
In the book Sam was mistaken for an elven warrior in the tower of Cirith Ungol as he fought his way through it to free Frodo. All he had was Sting, the Phial of Galadriel, and maybe, I might be missremebering, Frodo's mithril mail shirt under his elven cloak. Those aren't especially powerful magic items but Sam had the Orcs panicked, Samwise Gamgee is a fighter, possibly even a paladin, build disguised as a gardener and servant.
Thought that too. I distinctly remember 3 instances in M9 where he amended what a player was trying to accomplish with thaumaturgy. But good for him for getting it by a different DM haha
Footprints would have done the same job, but I think he was just going for a funny moment. The Rule Of Cool is heavily ingrained into Aabria's DMing so why not?
I think it all comes to the difference between the Two DMs. Mat's style includes preparing for everything and finding himself unprepared. He loves his players exploring misteries and that's what he focuses on DM-ing. Here tho the focus is more on playing through the story and having some chaotic fun. Which leads to a different impact from the rules. Aka It's not Mat's style to DM whimsicaly, but he needed to blow some steam off and choosing a whimsical dm was what they all needed. Including him. They spesificaly wanted her style of dm-ing, given that they had auditions and she came ontop.
Well, being devil's advocate for a bit, with Thamaturgy I believe you can throw your voice a bit far and loud, making it sound like you got a speaker on ya. It's either that, aiding your own speach, or creating a non existent brief/simple sound
“Oh No Plateau…” *You get inspiration!* “The Double D’s…” *No! [Says it herself] NOOoooo!* “Ash Hole…” *You get Inspiration!* “But Matt said it first.” *You both get Inspiration!*
@@Anisozygoptera I love that she was like "here's 5k gold" I really hope they do something interesting with the presumably plethra of cash they will receive
Both the gold and the inspiration make sense for an accelerated campaign, I think. The inspiration could help progress the story with increased successful investigations, and the gold makes sure they won't run into barriers where they know what they want to do but don't have resources to do it.
@@spacecowboyeddie6803 - Thank you for this! I was about to watch that part again, thinking I must have missed Matt saying it. Nice to get the confirmation that it was Liam. :)
@@adriannaford4186 not a reference. Since the episodes are prerecorded Matt films the ad spot afterwards. Aabria mentioning a glitter beard forces him to do one when he wasn’t planning to
"Don't look at him, look at me". Loved this moment when Aabria kindly joked that she's in control in this game. That was really wholesome and well said.
2:59:16 The "I'm sorry did I fucking stutter?" caught me so off-guard but goddamn was it funny! I love the frankness and sass of the jargon they're building with each other.
We need more campaigns with Matt as a player. I'm amazed at how much of a perfectly minmaxed dumbass Dariax is just so Matt doesnt have to explain anything for once. Which also makes him a walking engine of chaos and I love it.
@@respectfulevil9022 He's a divine soul sorcerer, but being a mountain dwarf gives him armor proficiency which makes him way more powerful than your average sorcerer, along with the subclass giving a much better spell list than sorcerers usually have
@@Mikeoneal07 the episode was pre recorded and so was the bit with the corgi but the episode came first so when the dm said that he looked good in glitter and his reaction was because he knew he had to do it.
@@timd4524 Nope that is actual glitter. The GM fucked with matt and mentiones how good he looks with glitterbeard after the ad so matt went through with it and has done it for the ad recording.
The whole time I was wondering why Matt had glitter in his beard, then as soon as the clip ends Aabria creates the paradox that made it necessary lol. Also the muscle memory of looking top left as soon as Matt talks is super strong. Aabria's high rolling d20 came from Taliesin, further proof he does some sort of enchantment on his d20s. And Dorian touches the crown and starts larping as Barney Rubble with the lifeless black eyes.
I feel like Orym is a lot like a little dog that thinks he's a big dog - loyal and ready to fight. Also, Opal is D&D Elle from Legally Blond and I think its amazing! And Aabria as DM is so great! I cannot wait to see her as Gilmore. I'm just so happy with this whole adventure so far.
I LOVE how Aimee just nails the Spider Queen thing unknowingly. such a great moment! Of course that is kind of a logical thing to guess based on what the vision was, but still cool.
It's from the years of giving trinket and sprinkle such a pass, he's wanting some pet to die. He made Thaddeus dip out and never let him come back because fuck that noise.
Though most neighbors know that you didn't turn into a giant eagle. neighbors hearing the part I posted being yelled could very rationally deduce an actual S&M Orgy.
"We're a very chaotic group." What was your first hint matt!? The rooftop spear pissing contest?! Was it the mid-combat voyeuristic shibari?! The tasting of rocks?! The plant eating fire monkey!?
It's the 12-legged spider from HunterXHunter (a symbol of a band of powerful thieves), I was curious why he might be wearing it so I looked up if he might have played anyone in that group, and he voiced the leader of them, Chrollo Lucifer :) (in the dub of the newer anime) - So, basically, just a WILD coincidence, lol!
@@WireMosasaur Oh that's cool. I watched the Japanese dub, but I've been appreciating English dubs a lot more since I started watching Critical Role. It's been a while since I've watched it though so I didn't recognize the spider.
@@Kasino80 I thought that one got stolen? Or maybe not. She may be...but I still can see Taliesin just running hands over the dice to bless them...as Wheaton does to curse them. 🤣
@@Kasino80 The snitch got stolen (from Matt's car I think it was said). He got some nat 20s from it at the beginning of C2, but it was gone for most of it.
Ashlee: "When you don't know how something works, you just throw a bunch of stuff at it and see what sticks." Mercer: "The scientific method" As a researcher, yes, that is exactly how it is done...
@@AAAndrew okay, now I want to play a kobold artificer with this in mind, and when asked what he does, he just literally throws something (which may or may not explode), shout “SCIENCE!!” and then write down the results
at 1:32:14 after Robbie talks about harmonizing with the lullaby you literally see Liam realize "This guy loves solo character moments as much as I do." This isn't a bad thing btw, I loved Calebs Frumpkin chats and I hope moments like this continue for Dorian.
I am so proud of Matt. Usually he's the one behind the dungeon masters screen facepalming at the players antics, but here he is, leading the fucking ash-hole charge. He's still facepalming, but on the other side :D
Gotta give his Poker Face props. He just got informed one of his most beloved characters is going to be imitated in the next session and the man didn't so much as raise an eyebrow. The question is: is she going to be acting like Gilmore or acting like Matt acting like Gilmore?
Matt: *maintains a master pokerface as much as possible when his characters make decisions so as not to give away what the consequences will be* Aabria: It’s going to go SO badly if he falls in there, PLEASE do something! I love them both. 😂
Matt is also playing a character who has 1 brain cell. Which he found discarded on the ground. It might not working. Collectively, they have maybe 5 brain cells. If Aabria doesn't try to get them to do something, theyr're all gonna die a stupid death by a door falling too hard NEXT to them
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HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing:
1:45 Glitterbeard Matt and Omar announce stuff
3:40 Intro cinematic
5:15 Episode Starts
6:15 Recap Ends (baby bug)
13:30 Discussion of next steps ends
17:45 A classic misdirect
19:20 Meeting some dagger salesmen
22:50 Battle begins
23:50 Opal, focus up
25:45 Handaxe up the butt
29:50 Opal and Arthur are just hanging out
32:50 Everyone getting hit
33:50 Opal and Arthur are vibin
36:50 Love hugs
39:40 Arthur is introduced to a lot of new experiences
45:45 To escape or to murder
48:20 All Byroden girls are into rope, canon
50:40 All kinds of shelters
52:20 Making a quick pagoda
55:20 Can you smell vibranium?
58:05 Microdosing suude
59:20 Is it drugs yet?
1:02:00 Chaos Crew
1:05:25 Visions from the Crown
1:09:20 Vestige confirmed
1:10:20 Name drop
1:15:30 Bananas are chaotic good
1:17:55 Fearne’s backstory
1:24:40 Big floofers
1:26:00 Opal’s twin
1:27:45 Changing the channel
1:29:00 Fearne has to turn around a few times before she can sleep
1:33:25 Break Starts
1:35:40 Art Montage
1:48:30 Break Ends
1:51:35 Talking to Lorkathar
1:55:40 Murder abruptly ends all vibes
2:02:30 Talking to Jesho
2:15:40 The Oh No
2:19:05 What's in the box?
2:20:35 Evil eyes
2:21:20 Roll credits
2:25:05 Dariax is a climber bro
2:27:35 Sounding sexy
2:28:50 The Double D's
2:30:25 Whatever it is, we have to kill it
2:31:35 D&D
2:33:05 Too many names too similar
2:36:35 Windy Boy
2:38:15 Pants off Orym
2:39:50 Hand signing exists in Exandria, canon
2:42:15 Roll premonition
2:44:50 Mesa makers
2:47:35 Inward singing
2:48:20 Map out (cheeto elemental)
2:50:40 Matt draws the line at making Kansas canon
2:55:35 Aabria and Matt pronounce 'sigil' very different
2:58:30 Melee range
3:00:25 Skipping rocks
3:03:05 Maybe don't yell
3:04:00 Ted is not having this
3:06:00 Ashhole
3:07:20 Penetrating the ashhole
3:12:25 The party can make anything into a butthole
3:16:35 Battle begins
3:17:25 Apologize
3:19:35 Dariax always knew
3:24:20 Death to traitors
3:26:25 Snip the tip
3:30:10 Robbie with a big brain play
3:32:00 Dariax goes for the kill
3:36:10 An apology
3:38:20 Matt still looks evil
3:40:30 Darian and Orym
3:41:50 Dariax and Fearne
3:48:30 The scientific method
3:50:00 Opal doesn't do book learning
3:53:00 Name drop
3:53:15 Opal goes off
3:56:45 Post-credit scene
3:57:25 Episode Ends
The in-game start date for this episode is some time in the year 848.
For those of you who are out of the loop... so Long Essek is this drawing of a centipede-like Essek that was drawn during a Critter game of TKO. He is both disturbing and endearing. He runs Critical Role now. You can search for him on IG and Twitter, but the good news is he's already found you.
Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet.
Five seconds my guy. Nice.
Thank you Flando🙂
very good
Soo fast
First time seeing it in action, less than a minute.
Orym: "We aren't in Kansas anymore."
Opal: "Where's Kansas?"
Orym: "Uh, western Tal'Dorei."
Aabria: "Noted. I will add it to the map."
Liam: "Canon"
Matt, weakly: *no*
I believe he said Midwestern Tal'Dorei.
I died at the weak no.
@Yashvardhan SINGH ah yes the well known Tal’Dorei city of Kan-Saas.
can i get the timestamp pls lol
@@stfutoast 2:50:51
Vox Machina: We need to save the world.
Mighty Nein: We need to liberate the downtrodden
Exandria Unlimited: Let's poke the scary thing with a stick.
Alternatively:
VM: Save the world.
M9: Save our friend.
EXU: Save our ash (holes).
@@gyongyverjellinek3992 haha nice one!
To be fair, it took quite a while for the M9 to become anything like "heroic." And VM had been running for a while before they even started streaming.
vm: chaotic good
m9: chaotic neutral
exu: chaotic stupid
EXU: time to put a fist in the ash hole, but gently...
Aabira in EXU trailer: "I'm nervous that anything I do becomes canon"
Aabira in the game: "Kansas Tal'dorei is canon."
I feel like matt won't keep any of the canon aabria has created, out of respect of this being her lore.. but if he does keep some of it for campaign 3 it would be cool
Aabria in EXU trailer: "I'm nervous that anything I do becomes canon"
Aabria in the game: "Like 5 meters." Now metric system is!
@@nattainer im pretty sure he will, they clearly had previous talks and he gave her free rein
She's clearly joking about most the stuff. But she does have to make things canon otherwise the story won't matter
Power is addictive
Aabria: *mentions Gilmore*
Matt: looks over, says nothing, doesn't visibly react
Liam: No visible break in character
Ashley: Biggest OH of excitement
Timestamp?
@@simonwilliamnoelmurray9179 3:53:00
Opal refusing to apologize to her sister while knowing it's the only way to get her magic back is peak sibling behavior
The spite that resonated from opal when she apologized to little mister could fuel an entire city XD
I absolutely love the relationship with Ted. It's such a cool version of a patron and the relationship works so well. It's hilarious thinking of Opal whisper shouting at her sister/patron and the rest just being confused.
Same! I've never seen a players sibling be their patron but I love the idea lol even though the thought of one of my siblings being my patron gives me an immediate headache 💀
im waiting to find out that Opal killed her own sister and her soul was absorbed into her daggers
This, also the argument during her nightmare - they played that so well, it felt like 2 real sister arguing about basically being sisters.
i LOVE that matt has seized hold of this opportunity to just turn his brain off. "i'm legitimately not following any of this" absolutely buddy you deserve it
He’s the ADHD 5 Year Old of this campaign, impatient with discussion and interested in moving the plot forward. He’s the Travis of this mission.
@@ForeverWog He's legit in playing the character with an INT of 8. And since he doesn't have to DM...he doesn't have to pay attention to what's going on. LOL.
@@shannononeill482 wait, wait, wait.... what's happening?
@@RiptidePen He's been a player in a few one shots and other channels' campaigns, but this is definitely the first like, campaign long character(even if it's a short campaign).
Matt's face is one of someone who knows the answers and is willfully blocking them out
The Team: Debate, debate, debate, debate, debate.
Matt: I throw a rock at it.
Blessings of Travis upon you sir.
Matt is finally in a position to move shit along while his players discuss.
My PCs are basically cats.
Unknown visual stimuli = attack it and see how it reacts
Grog and Fjord both clapping in the distance.
Yes
It's why I love Matt as a player so much. He knows the GM tricks but he also understands how to make it work from a player POV. He's so good at it!!!
When Fearne goes “The feywild is where the feywild is” and Matt goes “Gotcha” and then mouths “WHAT?” at everyone is a truly unappreciated moment, had me cracking up.
Do you have a timestamp? I missed that and can’t find it :(
@@stella1996able 1:17:00 this dialog
"Jokes on you, I love hugs."
Robbie is now my favorite player.
NOW!? I had a pretty damn good feeling that he was going to be amazing even before seeing the first episode!
I love him so much already.
Ep 1. made me love Dariax with his spear shenanigans, ep 2. made me love Dorian with his hug shenanigans.
I feel like the more this goes on and the more hijinks they get into, the more I'll fall in love with the whole crew.
I want Robbie to have a guest spot in the next season. I would love to have Will Friedle back again. And I feel like both of them together would be just ultimate hell that they could raise in a game.
Yeah this dude is sooo good. I want him in a full campaign
"And it is said, to this day, there is a thief, part of the group The Nameless Ones, called Arthur who stands by the west gate, holding a silk rope, looking lovelorn, just stares out into the west. Maybe, one day, this love shall return."
I would be down for more tales of Opal and the lost loves she has left, all the broken hearts. 🥰
That’s a new character backstory right there.
Naaawwww, man!!! :´(
#truth
“…Until approximately 54 seconds later, when Charm Person ceases its hold over his mind, and he looks about to the grins of a dozen giggling onlookers.”
Everyone else: Fighting for their lives
Opal: Goes on a BDSM date.
Fighting for their lives seems like a stretch. The dude didn't even bother drawing his weapon. I think Arthur was in considerably more danger. She'd scare the shit out of me. Lol
The most unexpected, and funniest moment from the entire session. No one expects public BDSM. Honestly, now I'm just remembering campaign 1 and the crew talking about being polyamorous. Such a good episode. 🤣
We love that for her
Laura Bailey not being here for these moments is brutal. I can imagine her inability to control herself during this scene lmao!
"I curse you for your names" - Liam O'brien, formerly of Vex and Vax of Vox Machina
"How does that feel , Vax'ildan" - Matt
"Congratulations, Orrym, we've volunteered for five minutes and the sky is on fire" slayed me.
In a group of chaotic Neutral characters, somehow, Liam creates a good boi and still end up the edge lord.
You don't choose the edge vibes the edge vibes choose you
Edge finds a way
Liam is always an edge lord...character alignment be damned
Liam: Okay this time I don't want to play a charakter with high intelligence, Caleb was really intense
The rest of the party: somehow manages to build characters with even lower intelligence
That's just Liam's fate
Fire Ashari: All our friends died
Dariax: That’s rough buddy
Underatted moment
Zuko to sokka 😂
Opal (but really Aimee): "So you mean to tell me there's an actual Spider Queen?"
Everyone who lives and breathes D&D: "Um... Yeah."
The jaw drop and the look of shock was priceless
She plays that “small town girl” bit effortlessly.
It’s really so funny that she accidentally stumbled right into the truth there
Vox Machina: The inspiring classic film to start a franchise.
Mighty Nein: The mainstream successful blockbuster sequel.
Exandria Unlimited: The loosely related Saturday morning TV cartoon spin-off.
Maybe more like a Saturday night Adult Swim spinoff? I mean, with the rope and the fist in the ash hole...
Meta-metaphor ftw
I’m hoping it’s not a trend.
I know where you're coming from, but VM's story feels more blockbustery and the M9 feel more cult classic to me
@@artie9940 hard to imagine VM will ever be topped, no?
“Where does the spider queen live?”
“Probably somewhere dark”
“Oh that makes sense”
They’re all so STUPID I love them 😍
Aabria: "you're all breathing heavy because of the ash"
Matt: "why because it's magic??"
Aabria: "no...it's...just ash"
I think he was subtly asking if his dwarven advantage of saving throws against poison would apply here. If it's a magical effect, then it wouldn't. If this is just because ash is toxic to the lungs, it probably should have.
@@elecampane I think the bad part from breathing in ash is that
Its a solid
@@DangerDurians Yeah, it's like.
"You inhale water and begin to drown"
Is the water, magical?
"...Nooooo"
So does my advantage against poisons help? Cause it's killing me because it's toxic?
"It's killing you because not air is filling your lungs and life needs things to live."
I think they should have received some warning, so they could wrap their faces etc before just getting a whole point of exhaustion. Seems a little unfair.
@@larkwen50 1 point of exhaustion isn't that big a deal. It's the continued exhaustion that's the real danger.
The saying "Time is a weird soup" actually makes a lot of sense considering Fearne is from the Feywild and time has a different flow over there. As seen in CR1, VM was only in the Feywild for a couple days but in Exandria weeks had passed.
Spoilers Beloooow
Same in Campaign 2 but they had a magic fun ball that made time a weird soup
Spoiler below
Yeah... this comment only becomes more true in campaign 3 with Fearn's backstory
@@anthonydavis5288
Happy Fun Ball wasn't like the Feywild. It was a stable ratio created by a time control machine, adjustable at will for whoever knows how it works.
@@theuncalledfor I had observed how the Feywild messes with time to their advantage and sometimes not so as with Ferne. The fun ball was similar in its time manipulation.
What does that have to do with soup?
It's so funny cause it's like Abria is like the fun aunt and everyone is like . . . "Idk . . . Matt doesn't normally let us get away with this . . ."
She is a merciful DM
One is a Mercerful DM.
The live show Episode 109 of Campaign one,ruclips.net/video/t7oLhv6HKl4/видео.html, where Matt tears up his notes says otherwise. They kept up their shenanigans for close to an hour straight.
There's this vibe yeah haha. Tbh to how much a DM should be lenient is pretty much up to who you ask. A lot of people think Matt is too lenient with his players too.
Aabria is the aunt who let's you drink when you're with her. Your dad Matt knows but he'll still take you over every so often
Aabria: I thought you were part mountain goat.
Ashley: No i'm part fainting goat.
Gotta say, blowing a kiss for an eldritch blast is dope as hell.
Agreed, literally gonna make a character based on that. Haven't worked out the details but there's no way it can go wrong, right?
I imagine she blew the kiss, and an arcane heart just floated gracefully towards the guy, then BATTERED him across the head.
@@haku8135 takes “love hurts” to a new level
Opal is now Sonya Blade
@@ansalem12 if you take the spell sniper feat you can hit enemies with your kiss bullet from 240 feet away
Matt's visceral "No..." at Kansas being added to the Tal'dorei map was amazing.
No one ever has to go there, but I am hoping that at one point in a campaign Orym, Fearne, or really anyone just makes a reference to Kansas, Tal'dorei just to mess with Matt. Laura would do it. You know she's watched this. Or Travis.
@@ChristieLily35 Imogen has kinda got the Kansas accent it would be funny if her horse girl town she was from turned out to be Kansas, Tal'dorei
@@ThatOneIrishFurry I now want this to happen and be canon. We can pretend it's canon in the meantime.
Matthew Mercer himself asking where the Feywild is just the *WILDEST THING.*
I'm sorry but you mean the FAY WILDEST THING
@@redditersinn4737 Get out. Hahaha!
Yeah I think aabria had the same thought as you, which is why she chuckled.
He also asked what the Vestiges of Divergence were.
Yeah, but Dariax said it, so it tracks. Suspend that disbelief harder!
Underrated moment of this episode is Robbie screaming "OPAL GET HIM! GET HIM OPAL!" as he's desperately grappling one Nameless One while Opal is trying to convince Arthur to go get drinks with her.
It's 100% an abuse/misunderstanding/DM overleniency for a new player of how charm person works. It just makes them more friendly to you. It doesn't change their other allegiances, it doesn't make them act unreasonably or out of their own character. It just makes them like you. It absolutely wouldn't make a cultist walk away from another cultist getting gangbanged by the people they were looking for.
@@kyleweir689 ??? bro i don't give a fuck i just thought the moment was funny, why are you bothering to make a whole-ass rant under my comment?
@@kyleweir689 or it’s.... fun?
@@benvandoorn147 cool. I'd like to be able to cast fireball with a first level spell slot. It would be more fun.
@@kyleweir689 allowing a bit of leniency on a spell for fun ≠ what you just tried. cute though
"How's that feel Vax'ildan?!" Man, Matt's been hanging onto that one for a while.
What time stap was that?
@@lexisdemeyer4857 3:40:38
This campaign goes to show why I love brand new players, they try shit experienced players don't do. Experienced players don't try to change the channel on the vision they're having from their Warlock patron! XD
Most warlock patrons aren't literally the warlocks sibling either
XD so RANDOM!!!~!~
@@thesaltybeard1793 I played a Warlock who's patron was his Mother. A lot of sweat was in vested in convincing her that everything was fine, and no she did not need to come to the Prime for a visit. It was also kind of weird because that warlock was his own father. (because demons are bad at linear time).
@@mscout1 Okay that's awesome.
I mean, Aabria told her she could interact with it, so she did
This party has a total of six braincells. And Orym has at least three of them.
And the monkey has the rest.
@@joluoto you went beyond anything I could have commented
@@joluoto actually valid mechanically haha, they both have the highest INT at 13.
This poor crew, only six brain cells to share between them, only six and foot disease. Athlete's foot and six brain cells.
there's at most, two bouncing between Dorian and Fearne
Also, it's VERY amusing to me that the first run without Sam, Matt takes over his role of hating on the party's pet, haha.
Cut to c3 where Sam plays as the party pet lol
I love that Liam got a taste of the 'Vex & Vax" issue with Dorian and Dariax. It was fate.
I love Ashley's gentle voice as Fearne so much
Me too, mainly because i really feel like it's hiding something underneath. It's like a combo of Jennifer Coolidge, and Joan Cusack's character in Adam's Family Values. Like, she might be a pretty woman who's a lot more quick-witted than she lets on, or she might be an axe wielding psychopath. Either way i am HERE FOR IT.
Especially since her character is so chaotic and fey... just a beautiful sweet fawn that will smile at you politely while making your head explode.
Aabria - “My cool sigil is actually a butthole?”
Party - “Always has been.”
@David Von Fakename They’re streets ahead!
Everyone keeps talking about how Matt made a silly dumb character, but no one is talking about how he specifically chose cleric spells to be the healer of the group while avoiding wisdom being his spell casting stat, and also avoiding having to have any sort of deity attachment or commitment. He's playing a one-shot joke character in a full campaign.
He is playing a character that is the most role fulfilling, while being almost entirely detached from knowing anything real about the world so he doesnt have to get confused about what he knows from creating the world, and what he knows in character
avoiding gods is something all critical role players try to do.. it's the new in thing
Divine Soul Sorcerer isn’t exactly avoiding the gods.
@@mikemleczko5565 _looks at the entirety of VM, Caduceus and Yasha_
... yeah sure. Totally not just a thing in the current campaign thing.
Robbie: "Put your hand in the ash hole"
Ashley: "I was gonna see if I could put my fist in it"
Matt: "Be gentle. Start with a few fingers."
Aimee: "Wait, *SPIT ON IT FIRST*"
I'M FREAKING DEAD
I've seen this clip everywhere, so happy to find it in the actual video!
"Can you stick a fist in the ash hole?"
"start with a couple fingers."
I'm dying
🤣
Dorian literally pulled a Skeletor "Joke's on you I'm into that shit" meme, Robbie is a gift and a treasure
Patrons have to be one of the best reasons to pick a Warlock. Their relationships can be so unique like Fjord and Uk'otoa having this eldritch being sleeping and manipulating his desires and makes him believe he is powerless, and then we have opal and ted which are the embodiment of the "this is why mom doesn't fucking love you" vine.
Just think, if Laura was able to play warlock, Arty would have been her patron. Feylocks are ridiculously tricky.
My warlock's patron is an archfey who is also her very protective and anxious single dad. She just wants to read the books in all of the big libraries and bookstores in the world and he's just so comically protective of her that he just gave her magic and presents so she's safe in her travels lol
Mine is the King in Yellow, Hastur the Unspeakable. My character also loves collecting books and information across the realm, but also spreading the yellow miasma via performing the vile theater play with major image and other illusory psionics. My favorite was doing a puppet show for a bunch of kids, dooming the town’s gene pool.
@@darkvizardking69 that was her plan all along but chooses to do cleruc when travis made fjord a warlock, it was mentioned in talks machina
@@LetTheBodyFall You realize it's supposed to be like, an evil pact, right? I'd NEVER let a player make a *warlock* with such a happy bubbly patron. That's ridiculous, lmao.
“Do you think they can smell…the vibranium?”
I fuckin lost it.
Indeed that was one of many absolute belters 😂
It's Aimee going "before I get fired, can we smell the Residuum" after that, and everyone was just cracking jokes about Unobtainium
I loved her face as she immediately realized that's not right
55:20
“Should we bury it?”
Lol Ashley sounding like a disney princess while being a little chaos goblin 🤣🤣🤣
Opal just really went with the other definiton of 'take the guy out'
On that topic, if you haven’t seen it, maybe worth checking out The Comic Strip Presents: Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door 😊
@@cambionblack7939 And 51st State too
Took him completely out of the fig ht, loved it.
And an Eldritch kiss to finish him off.
There are 2 kinds of people
I feel like Matt made the perfect character to play in his own world. Low intelligence AND wisdom. He needs to know NOTHING.
You can also see him picking up on character traits and quirks he loved from his players. Pranks/pranks between party members? Grog, Vax, and Jester. Hating the animal companion? Scanlan. Makin suboptimal choices for fun? That's Sam every PC. It's so fun to see.
(let me know if there are other traits I missed)
I like that he made Travis’s general impatience when it comes to planning/discussing and turned it into a character trait.
@@ForeverWog amazing
Aimee: "I owe someone an apology. Ted are you listening?"
Aabria: "Always"
Aimee: "Mister, I'm very sorry for throwing a dagger at you."
Aabria: "I hate you"
Aimee: "BYE!"
I loooove this dynamic! I'd never guess Aimee is a first time player she's already a master of role playing! Loving this so far!
i mean, she is a actor...
@@45H3R well there's a difference between improv roleplaying and acting out a script. I've seen other first time player actors in other games and they're not as comfortable with the roleplay that robbie and aimee have shown.
The back and forth between the two of them at that moment was perfect in its timing and choices. Loved it.
@@liminalsoup Deos Aimee have a history of improv? She might
@@7on this is my first real exposure to aimee and I don't know if she mentioned any past improv experience but i've read somewhere that some of her funny lines as Adora in the Netflix She-ra series were improvised. The creator largely didn't envision the character to be funny but aimee's improvised lines worked so well that they were kept in.
Robbie yelling out *_"OPAL, GET HIM!!!"_* sends me into hysterics every time I watch this. So good.
Go get her, Ray!
Matt: turns Omar upside down, put unrefined residuum on his teeth, his eyes turn black, broke his spear..all in one episode..utter chaos..loved it
Matt become the entirety of vox machina in 1 episode. Nice
Prepping Campaign 3 is getting to him.
Never let optimal gameplay get in the way of roleplay. This is awesome
Wait, why did his eyes turn black? I must've missed that part
@@TheKingjames57 He touched the circlet while smuggling it with fruit
“Well, how would you feel if you were a baby left in prison? It’d be awful.” - Fearne
“Jokes on you! I love hugs!” - Dorian
“It’s really fun to just take a little bit every day.” - Fearne about Suude
“I’m going to change the channel chapter.” - Opal
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Opal: “We killed their vibes.”
Dorian: “By killing them.”
Dariax: “Vibe ends pretty abruptly by that point.”
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“Orym, I don’t doubt that they’re good people, but we have a guild of murderers, assassins, and thieves after us, we’re in possession of an incredibly powerful, dangerous item that I don’t just want to give away, we found illegal drug precursors. And now, what, we’re going to fix their crater problem too?” - Dorian
“That’s rough, buddy.” - Dariax channeling his inner Zuko
“Congratulations, Orym, we volunteered five minutes and the sky’s on fire.” - Dorian
Meta
I'm so dissapointed they did not go back to get it, would've been a great pet! (And I think that's what Aabri put it in there for)
@@jeroen92 Yeah, I hoped they would go back too. That would have made for more antics.
@@jeroen92 taken the larvae with them and give it to the angry adult one that was caged up. That was probably its baby (I'm pretty sure the party forgot they were two and thought it was just the big angry one.) My ranger would've carried the larvae back, do an animal handling check and give it to the adult one. Happy ending for the creatures 😌👌🏼
@@SeerOfTime577 I just hope one of them puts on the circlet
Matt: “Just call us the Double D’s 😁”
Aabria: “NO! 🙅🏾♀️”
My Double D's take a point of exhaustion.
Aabria: "my Double D's took a point of exaustion"
Opal: "Could you stick a fist in the ash-hole?"
Dariax: "We don't know how dangerous that could be... so maybe just take it gently."
Fearne: "I could see if I could just get a fist in."
Dariax: "Easy! Start with a couple fingers."
Opal: "Wait! Spit on your hand first."
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Aimee: I'm really banking on the fact that my parents will NOT be watching this episode.
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Ashley: "I fingered the ash hole and nothing happened."
Liam's character:
"Let's start hoofing it."
...me looking at the faun for a reaction...
THANK YOU. I was so primed for a joke about it or an "Hey I resemble that!" or even a serious moment I was surprised no one really jumped at it!
@@silversugar2140 ...not sure if you mean "resemble" or "resent".
You can't always "count" on somebody catching a hoof joke...
Was watching a show where some characters were riding and one said to the other: "Let's ditch these horses and hoof it from here," and I thought, that is the only context where it would be confusing to say 'hoof it' - (I wanna say it was Attack On Titan I was watching)
@@TheRawrnstuff , why would anyone else say resent that?
Liam: I hate that your names are Dorian and Dariax. It's so confusing
Mercer thinking: revenge Vax, revenge
It looked like he was going to say something along those regards to Liam but got cut off by the other cross talk.
at one point he did say "that's what you get Vax'ildan
@@thewingedporpoise yeah but much later. Lolol even Liam admitted it was his punishment.
Ironically, about 30 years ago I had an elf named Doriath Strongbow.
Aabria mouthing SHADE when Dariax tells Dorian that he has a more “subtle” magic is pure gold. A totally underrated moment
Opal: "You took my magic!?"
Ted: "I am your magic bitch!"
I love them 😂👍
Not sure if there should be a comma or not...
I love how comfy Robbie is already with just taking narrative control during combat at points
"We solve our own problems we make" - perfect description of this group
"I make my own economy" - Sous (Gravity Falls)
I kinda feel like Aabria’s challenges to Comfy Matt are gonna be filling in for Sam’s shenanigans
That god dammit was filled with so much pain
@@TheRookCrows and with a sprinkle of joy an respect
Very much here for it
It's a POWER MOVE and I love it!!!
I agree. I dig her style.
I can't believe when Liam complained about the names Dorian and Dariax that Matt didn't throw 5 years of 'Vex and Vax' back in his face. XD
I think he did say something, but it was pretty quiet and someone else was talking over him.
@@apexkonchu2234 Yeah, there was a pretty intense *"How does it feel, Vax'ildan?!"* moment from Matt. Can't remember specific timestamp though
I love how Omar cant sit still and then hes flipped n becomes incapacitated
I love that they zoomed in on Omar's face when that happened with his look like, "Really Dad?"
It’s like flipping a shark upside down.
And the look he shot at camera on his back "someone do something"
Dogatonic
Discombobulate
You can tell Matt is having a blast playing someone who’s ignorant of the world lore and mechanics. I bet it’s a little boring reducing your POV to one character after constantly being a DM, but Matt has always enjoyed his players taking the reigns so I’m sure it’s fine. He’s like Liam, once he’s into a character he’s in, he embodies it totally
As a forever dm, being able to not stress about lore, balance, or all the other dm stuff and just slip into character is so relaxing 💀
Being a DM and Being a PC is a totally different experienced, i think its not a good idea to compare them. I love Both
@@SahalafidN I love both too I'm not bashing either it is just nice to have a break sometimes
@@scrumpors8706 sure ím DMing the most of the time and I love to Play when I have the opportunity :) its easy to recognise on Matts style he is DMing alot... He plays more of a supporting character and roleplays a wacky one :)
I love that you can still see his DM brain ticking in the background like him taking notes when abriaa mentioned the ashari using hand signs and him making a quick note as that got added into his own image of his world
I love that all of Ashley’s recent characters have a habit of making dire pronouncements, followed by an “I’m just kidding”.
You think she killed her whole family under a bridge?
@@haku8135 it’s just a halfling expression.
Murdered my family.
@@WhitneyHempsey threw them under a bridge.
Don't get me wrong C1 with it's Good vs. Evil was brilliant. C2 with all the morality questions was beautifully relatable. But damn do I love watching chaotic morons who make decisions based on the motto "for the LOLZ"
I love these morons so much already
I feel like this group is how my party acts. We have 3 spellcasters and a rogue whose solution to everything is fire. Its madness.
Team Florida Man.
Ah, the moral nuance of pouring acid down the throat of a sleeping minimum wage worker and then holding him down while he slowly dies an agonizing death. Very relatable.
Orym DOES have magic powers. He's a Good Halfling Fighter. It's called Likeability. Kept Samwise Gamgee alive.
Let's be real Sam was the true hero of the story
He's my hero
It wasn't "likeability" that kept Sam alive, and he wasn't that good of a fighter, what kept Sam alive was his courage, bravery, good heart, unwavering loyalty to his friends, and the famous Halfling luck.
@@thefracturedbutwhole5475 Maybe film Sam was a bit less of a fighter, but after that Spider got him, in the book he was found and brought to a stronghold. Sam was very much a good Halfling fighter freeing Frodo.
The Magic Power of Common Sense.
In the book Sam was mistaken for an elven warrior in the tower of Cirith Ungol as he fought his way through it to free Frodo. All he had was Sting, the Phial of Galadriel, and maybe, I might be missremebering,
Frodo's mithril mail shirt under his elven cloak. Those aren't especially powerful magic items but Sam had the Orcs panicked, Samwise Gamgee is a fighter, possibly even a paladin, build disguised as a gardener and servant.
"Roll your real dice then, coward!"
This is how we anger the dice gods ...
You cant train digital dice or put them in dice jail. Respect RNGesus.
15:15 Matt: Thaumaturgy can create a brief sound, not words
Also Matt: I use Thaumaturgy to throw a full sentence.
Thought that too. I distinctly remember 3 instances in M9 where he amended what a player was trying to accomplish with thaumaturgy. But good for him for getting it by a different DM haha
@@CaseyWinehouse different vibe, *maybe*. This does feel a bit more whimsical and less impactful. But it does feel a bit hypocritical haha.
Footprints would have done the same job, but I think he was just going for a funny moment. The Rule Of Cool is heavily ingrained into Aabria's DMing so why not?
I think it all comes to the difference between the Two DMs.
Mat's style includes preparing for everything and finding himself unprepared. He loves his players exploring misteries and that's what he focuses on DM-ing.
Here tho the focus is more on playing through the story and having some chaotic fun. Which leads to a different impact from the rules.
Aka It's not Mat's style to DM whimsicaly, but he needed to blow some steam off and choosing a whimsical dm was what they all needed. Including him. They spesificaly wanted her style of dm-ing, given that they had auditions and she came ontop.
Well, being devil's advocate for a bit, with Thamaturgy I believe you can throw your voice a bit far and loud, making it sound like you got a speaker on ya. It's either that, aiding your own speach, or creating a non existent brief/simple sound
Yes, finally a party I can relate to, chaotic stupid.
i've been calling them chaotic dumbass, but stupid also works lol
I've been thinking of them as Badass Idiots.
It's a little close to home.
Chaotic Bisexual
D&D = Dumb and Dumber
"Probably someplace dark... that's all I got" says Matthew Mercer who has the entire lore of Exandria imprinted onto his brain.
“Oh No Plateau…” *You get inspiration!*
“The Double D’s…” *No! [Says it herself] NOOoooo!*
“Ash Hole…” *You get Inspiration!* “But Matt said it first.” *You both get Inspiration!*
I really like that Aabriya uses the inspiration mechanic so liberally.
@@Anisozygoptera I love that she was like "here's 5k gold" I really hope they do something interesting with the presumably plethra of cash they will receive
Both the gold and the inspiration make sense for an accelerated campaign, I think. The inspiration could help progress the story with increased successful investigations, and the gold makes sure they won't run into barriers where they know what they want to do but don't have resources to do it.
Liam: *the one who actually made the ash hole joke...smiles quietly in no Inspiration*
@@spacecowboyeddie6803 - Thank you for this! I was about to watch that part again, thinking I must have missed Matt saying it. Nice to get the confirmation that it was Liam. :)
"And that Glitterbeard looks amazing" "God Damnit!" lol! I was wondering why he had a glitterbeard!! That was such a good move!!
I don’t get the glitter beard reference, help me understand 😩
@@adriannaford4186 not a reference. Since the episodes are prerecorded Matt films the ad spot afterwards. Aabria mentioning a glitter beard forces him to do one when he wasn’t planning to
Matt's "That's rough buddy" went completely unnoticed.
I caught it
wait when? because he's said it multiple times.
"Don't look at him, look at me". Loved this moment when Aabria kindly joked that she's in control in this game. That was really wholesome and well said.
@Lilithan Chrispiford the 4th 48:20
@@ty-qj4ms
Thank you!
All of the confidence and skill she's bringing to Critical Role is just such a gift
I was dying when she said that so aggressively lol. So perfect.
36:32 "Praise Taliesin..." Well, now you've made him even more powerful.
Taliesin is a Warlock Patron. 100%
I was kind of mad that no one reacted to that, seemed like a perfect line
Every time his name us uttered, an obscure garment is added to his closet.
Taliesin getting the Traveler treatment
Put the Goth back in his closet. He needs no more power.
Seeing the contrast between Matt's pokerface and Ashley's absolute ANTI-pokerface at the new contact reveal at the end of the episode is so good. :D
"The thieves in Emon are into public-bondage-group-sex" is not a sentence i expected to think about while watching a D&D game xD
it’s d&d, come on this kinda crazy fuckery is expected hahaha
as someone who plays D&D, I can confirm it's pretty standard fare.
This is EXACTLY what I think is going to come up in a D&D game
I mean, I was in a party that convinced guards in Icewind Dale to use Shibari to subdue prisoners
@@WiseSageBum What is Shibari?
EDIT: ...Never mind... googled it... and now I REALLY hate bondage.
2:59:16 The "I'm sorry did I fucking stutter?" caught me so off-guard but goddamn was it funny! I love the frankness and sass of the jargon they're building with each other.
Timestamp?
@@nexdubius5290 I managed to find it! 2:59:16
@@Mujigsuppa thanks!
SO fucking funny, caught me off guard too
I mentally went "Oh shit" when she said that, it was amazing
We need more campaigns with Matt as a player. I'm amazed at how much of a perfectly minmaxed dumbass Dariax is just so Matt doesnt have to explain anything for once.
Which also makes him a walking engine of chaos and I love it.
I've heard that he's crazy powerful but I have t really seen him being op
What build is he using?
@@respectfulevil9022 He's a divine soul sorcerer, but being a mountain dwarf gives him armor proficiency which makes him way more powerful than your average sorcerer, along with the subclass giving a much better spell list than sorcerers usually have
@@anidiot9831 ah thank you
Check out Dimension 20's Escape from the Bloodkeep
He is creating as much chaos as he can because it will be another 6 years before he can be a player again
"I have moved on spiritually from this moment" - my new life motto
Matt: Aint that right lil buddy?
Omar: Release me from my chains father, I must lay waste to this mortal plane.
Ashley trying to contain her excitement when Keyleth and Vox Machina come up is the cutest thing ever.
When does that happen?
1:10:25 Keyleth and Vox Machina
3:53:05 Gilmore
@@johnnyb368 Thanks!
Matthew Mercer cradling a corgi pup like a baby is the best thing that ever happened to me.
BUT WTF IS ON HIS FACE?!?!
@@Mikeoneal07 Those are gray/silver hairs folks. The others have brought it up before. That's the light reflecting off the silver.
GLITTER BEARD. Abrea made it happen with her amazing DM skills.
@@Mikeoneal07 the episode was pre recorded and so was the bit with the corgi but the episode came first so when the dm said that he looked good in glitter and his reaction was because he knew he had to do it.
@@timd4524 Nope that is actual glitter. The GM fucked with matt and mentiones how good he looks with glitterbeard after the ad so matt went through with it and has done it for the ad recording.
"It's okay. It's okay. Dirty 1."
MATT THAT IS NOT OKAY
Its better than a natural 1, thats for sure.
The whole time I was wondering why Matt had glitter in his beard, then as soon as the clip ends Aabria creates the paradox that made it necessary lol. Also the muscle memory of looking top left as soon as Matt talks is super strong. Aabria's high rolling d20 came from Taliesin, further proof he does some sort of enchantment on his d20s. And Dorian touches the crown and starts larping as Barney Rubble with the lifeless black eyes.
Thank you!! My brain did not register why Matt was cursing the glitter beard comment.
If you listen you can hear matt say "I hate you" when she mentioned the glitter beard
Still waiting for the Sam Riegel Shirts on Matt
Continue the tradition! At least do it first and once on Aabria, and see if she rewards DM Inspiration.
Aabria shirts would be funnier.
it wouldn't make sense without Sam there. they could just wear Elena of Avalor tshirts
Still waiting for the day the whole cast will have a Sam shirt on
Come on Matt do it lol
I feel like Orym is a lot like a little dog that thinks he's a big dog - loyal and ready to fight. Also, Opal is D&D Elle from Legally Blond and I think its amazing! And Aabria as DM is so great! I cannot wait to see her as Gilmore. I'm just so happy with this whole adventure so far.
You know, I always thought Opal was like that blonde girl from High School Musical
I'm going to assume shell have Gilmore retired, or will be at a different branch, rather than voice one of Matts most beloved characters
Aimee’s voice for Opal is consistent Drunk Adora and I am here for it
I'm definitely adding "I've moved on spirituality from this moment" into my vocabulary.
Oh, same here
So I hit play half way through this today, heard this quote exactly as the first thing, then glanced down at the comments and saw this. 🤯
YES
I was scanning for this comment cause same
Matthew Mercer once said...
"Is Shibari an action?"
I was looking for this comment.
Not Liam inadvertently being the most intelligent member of the party once again.
"do you guys think the nameless ones have anything to do with the guards?" "yes, all of us." "OHHHHHH" "spoke too fast"
Before, it was by a choice. Now it's a result of the elimination, purely by a chance.
He has the Hermione gene, he can't not try to prevent a preventable disaster. This is like a party of nothing but Jesters
Liam is also the only one who laughed at "Hi hole!" That is a man who is aware of gay culture.
@@chaselevinson7950 Liam is also the one who came up with the ‘ash hole’ joke XD Bi King is AWARE.
I LOVE how Aimee just nails the Spider Queen thing unknowingly. such a great moment! Of course that is kind of a logical thing to guess based on what the vision was, but still cool.
Love how Dariax personifies " No thoughts just vibes."
Dariax is channeling Scanlan's spirit by trying to murder the party pet at every opportune moment
It's from the years of giving trinket and sprinkle such a pass, he's wanting some pet to die. He made Thaddeus dip out and never let him come back because fuck that noise.
Aimee Yelling "Okay guys, Arthurs all tied up. We're ready". If this were a home game, the neighbors.........
oh, the neighbors gave up at "I turn into a giant eagle. Who wants to hop on?"
Though most neighbors know that you didn't turn into a giant eagle. neighbors hearing the part I posted being yelled could very rationally deduce an actual S&M Orgy.
"We're a very chaotic group."
What was your first hint matt!? The rooftop spear pissing contest?! Was it the mid-combat voyeuristic shibari?! The tasting of rocks?! The plant eating fire monkey!?
The door. They can't get past a DOOR
*Future Cozy Matt* Omar: "Father. Why must you punish me. Also, no treats?!?"
That dog is embarassed to appear on camera in that outfit.
Father, I bring news from the womb
Ragnogar the Consumer of Souls: I must feast
Matt: *pets*
@@Vincegpz500 yeah that's what I was thinking
Omar: fine no treats?! *sneezes on Matt* There! Now you have a sparkle beard
An hour and a half in, when Robbie was saying he was thinking about the circlet and it was getting to him, I realized he had a spider on his shirt.
I keep thinking he's got a famous name written on a card on his forehead, a la "Who Am I?"
It's the 12-legged spider from HunterXHunter (a symbol of a band of powerful thieves), I was curious why he might be wearing it so I looked up if he might have played anyone in that group, and he voiced the leader of them, Chrollo Lucifer :) (in the dub of the newer anime) - So, basically, just a WILD coincidence, lol!
@@WireMosasaur Oh that's cool. I watched the Japanese dub, but I've been appreciating English dubs a lot more since I started watching Critical Role. It's been a while since I've watched it though so I didn't recognize the spider.
Omg i didn't see that!
"Praise Taliesin this is good dice." Best line of the night
I heard that and then was like wait what...did he just bless her dice or did he let her borrow some...
@@shannononeill482 I think she's using the golden snitch
@@Kasino80 I thought that one got stolen? Or maybe not.
She may be...but I still can see Taliesin just running hands over the dice to bless them...as Wheaton does to curse them. 🤣
@@shannononeill482 he threw it away at the end of C1 and Matt immediately snatched it up. It was the dice Matt got most nat 20s on in C2
@@Kasino80 The snitch got stolen (from Matt's car I think it was said). He got some nat 20s from it at the beginning of C2, but it was gone for most of it.
Ashlee: "When you don't know how something works, you just throw a bunch of stuff at it and see what sticks."
Mercer: "The scientific method"
As a researcher, yes, that is exactly how it is done...
What makes it science is that you write down what you throw and what happens when you throw it. Science!
@@AAAndrew okay, now I want to play a kobold artificer with this in mind, and when asked what he does, he just literally throws something (which may or may not explode), shout “SCIENCE!!” and then write down the results
the sheer amount of chaotic energy in this campaign is staggering
I love that Matt is leading a large portion of it. His character is brilliant!
at 1:32:14 after Robbie talks about harmonizing with the lullaby you literally see Liam realize "This guy loves solo character moments as much as I do." This isn't a bad thing btw, I loved Calebs Frumpkin chats and I hope moments like this continue for Dorian.
I love how good a roleplayer Robbie is despite it being his first time playing d&d!
They’re both theater kids!
@@fredfullthedreadful And amazing voice actors. Checks out.
I am so proud of Matt. Usually he's the one behind the dungeon masters screen facepalming at the players antics, but here he is, leading the fucking ash-hole charge. He's still facepalming, but on the other side :D
I think he's delighting in contributing in the chaos, rather than feeling obligated to keep things from completely falling off the rails.
Gotta give his Poker Face props. He just got informed one of his most beloved characters is going to be imitated in the next session and the man didn't so much as raise an eyebrow.
The question is: is she going to be acting like Gilmore or acting like Matt acting like Gilmore?
@@dalimoreomali2994 I can't wait to see that part xD
Matt: *maintains a master pokerface as much as possible when his characters make decisions so as not to give away what the consequences will be*
Aabria: It’s going to go SO badly if he falls in there, PLEASE do something!
I love them both. 😂
Matt is also playing a character who has 1 brain cell. Which he found discarded on the ground. It might not working. Collectively, they have maybe 5 brain cells. If Aabria doesn't try to get them to do something, theyr're all gonna die a stupid death by a door falling too hard NEXT to them
@@ChristieLily35 I think they were talking about DM Matt