@@sukhmanilunial3011 Well now I want to watch a show where Pike and Cad cook all sorts of pastries and mushroom-based dishes and are basically the most wholesome duo that ever graced us with their content
Ashley and Travis: “And the moral is be kind to each other!” Everybody else: “I’m not sure who messed up the story but I definitely blame the person before me”
Sam didn’t blame Liam....he actually somehow figure out that it was Matt and Marisha who messed up the story structure. (Even though Liam said Laura and Matt)
despite how much I love these I fear Narrative Telephone may be what kills Critical Role as this fun story tell game eventually cause them to turn on one anther.
Ashley: cute ending Travis: cute ending repeated Marisha: blames Travis Matt: blames Travis Laura: blames Matt Liam: blames Laura Sam: blames Matt and Marisha Taliesin: says Sam said to blame Matt or Marisha but ultimately blames Sam
Definitely LIAM Up untill the gem stone apple fruit meal.... it resembled and was in some ways (adding maliciousness to Marita Picat) making it better while loosing the purpose of the story but still coming back to how the purple gem cake was somehow actually mad with maritas apple shaped gemstone.
@@Dimloep and the best part is by the time it gets to Sam he normally just makes it up based on like the 3 details he heard, so there’s like a 50% chance it gets added in by him
Travis: She wore purple silks! Marisha: Silver silks! (I haven’t gotten passed Marisha yet so I can only reference her color choice >_< ) Also tbf Marisha didn’t say everyone loved her, Matt did
PersianLeonidus Either Marisha or their other producer Max decides the order. The point was Ashley added a troll at the end, and most certainly knew what she did. xD
Marisha said in an early episode (like 1 or 2) that she specifically set the order to space out the chaotic energy, but by this point it's gotta be semi random. It's possible Ashley knew who would be going second, but I don't think her little trick was for Travis in particular, just a solid troll that worked F L A W L E S S L Y.
Travis: Retells the story with impressive accuracy, including a section where Pike forgets something. Marisha: Well Travis apparently forgot this section so I'll just make up an answer.
Travis' reaction of accidentally forgetting was also really authenic, making it really hard to tell as well tho. It was a great act, but for sure hard to follow
Pike is my Fave CR character and Ashley is the only reason I bothered to watch in the first place, she's awesome! I love the whole cast now and knew and respected Matt before seeing CR as well but I just adore Ashley, she's so understated and gentle and kind.❤
Narrative Telephone Ep. 5: Pointing fingers Marisha: "Travis forgot the recipe" Matt: "Marisha said that Travis forgot the ingredients" Laura: "Matt messed up the gemstone reveal timing" Liam: "There was a communication issue between Matt and Laura" Sam: "Matt and Marisha had a fight" Taliesin: "Sam's kind of been an agent of chaos so I'm putting it there"
I love that Travis went after Ashley. I like to imagine that Grog is trying to retell a story that his best buddy Pike told him once and is just so proud of himself for getting it right.
I kinda wish Travis had been Grog in this like, "OK PIKE TOLD ME DIS STORY AND IT GOES LIKE..." I'd love to see one of these where they all play their character trying to relay the information given to them by the other character.
Oh. My. God. I NEED THAT IN MY LIFE!! Grog: "My best buddy Pike told me the BESTEST story. I don't really remember it but there was this really rich woman and she was mean to this poor girl and she got turned into an apple gem whatever....shoulda wished for ale."
They should do a round like this, and then the round after it they should have to pretend to be a random different one (Liam pretends to be Grog, Laura pretends to be Scanlan, etc)
@@DrLipkin No, he so clearly remembered everything he was told, he just filtered it through his bullshit meter XD His retelling actually contained every previous point I believe, he just made the story all whack and stressed very weird points along the story. He is the ultimate chaos factor
Pike: "Oh, I forgot to tell you the recipe! But you can figure that out." Everybody: "Oh shit the previous person forgot the recipe, I've gotta make something up!"
It's so weird how in Laura's story that little ending nod to another story was easily accepted (though made by Travis), but this time it everyone thought that Travis actually for got the last bit, leading to a string of blasting who went before
@@Frezzingale I think that was because there's pretty clearly only one story, but a recipe easily sounds like it was supposed to be part of the story. Also probably Jester is a lot easier to tell when somebody's in-character vs out of character, and Travis didn't really distinguish much for his Pike voice (so it wasn't easy to tell he was in-character for the recipe bit)
Pike: **tells quaint fairy tale** Everybody: "Alright...Mojito Bacardi, got it. It'll be hard to remember the rest of the story, but I suppose..." Pike: *"Ooh, I forgot to tell you the recipe...!" Everybody's eyes: **glazing over with abject panic**
6:30 My favorite part. Travis almost forgetting the "Oh! I almost forgot part," genuinely saying, "Oh!" Then breaks as he creates the spark of confusion for the rest of the game
The blog is alternating long anecdotes followed by recipes, because the first time she posted Pike completely forgot that she had to actually put the recipe in
Watching Ashley: “Oh this isn’t so bad. This is lovely.” Watching Travis: “He didn’t do too bad!” Watching everyone else: “Well that didn’t take long.” *eats popcorn*
Emerald or Jade of the Forest? Sapphire or Aquamarine of the Sky? Onyx or Black Star Sapphire of the Underdark? What gemstone is next, people? Place your bets and thoughts now.
This is the best one so far. Adding that she almost forgot the recipe was such a chaos move and I instantly knew it was gonna mess everyone up after that. Nobody would get that it was part of the story. A genius move on Ashley's part, and I couldn't agree more with how adorable she is.
@@JCoopsters et al. Pike always seemed to me fairly lawful by intent, neutral wrt her friends and chaotic only accidentally and not too often. It always looked to me she was persuaded or got caught in it by having a bit of a pushover/groupie personality, AFAICR. I don't know if that's how character alignments should work. Should they describe the character personality or the end result of actions after all the influences (which would still make it fairly neutral)? The amount of chaos/scatterbrainedness seemed out-of-character. I get this was Ashley getting her share, but it didn't seem like Pike. In any case, I find no added joy in CR if/when poring over the character stats. It's a bit like watching a movie while reading the screenplay.
I’d love a One-Shot, where the Mighty Nein are isolated and quarantined, and can only talk with each other through Jester’s 25-word Sending Spell. The chaos!!!
I love how everyone undeservedly threw Travis under the bus for "forgetting" the ingredients but Laura absolutely had his back and omitted to repeat that part.
Kind of a parallel to the story. Most supernatural tricksters that are testing people don’t state that at the beginning. And Marquita Parkata STILL screwed it up!
Star I actually agree to a degree. Sam and Travis try to cliff note and I think that’s what tends to break the story apart because the rest of the group try’s to bring it back to a story.
Tbh Ashley has done way better in these than anyone gives her credit for. She often gets a few things wrong, but she's rarely the one to derail the story.
Well apparently Liam pretending to be Laura pretending to be Ashley pretending to be Pike is the recipe for perfectly reproducing Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker! And that's the real recipe here.
i think you mean laura, who said "and the Traveller told me more stories but ill tell you another time :3" which everyone said made them panic because they thought they were about to get a whole new story
@@GoldenJayTime Actually the beauty of that is that Laura _didn't_ do that, it just emerged naturally and everyone though that was a brilliant part of the original story.
(TO THE TUNE OF HAKUNA MATATA) Markita Bacardi, What a wonderful name. Markita Bacardi, Aint no pauper dame. shes was nasty, but her money went on for daaaays. water is free, but iv no room for thee. Markita Bacardi..
I like how Liam was so charmed by Ashley’s cuteness in her presentation that he totally missed the fact that Marquita Picata was a bad person from the start. Like, he genuinely was subconsciously going through thinking that nobody could be mean with Pike’s mannerisms, and the others “made her mean”, and nobody could convince him otherwise.
Why do you think it went from fancy house to Extravagant Mansion once Taliesin started talking? and where do you think the idea for "The Happy Fun Ball" came from?
When Ashley isn't narrating, everyone thinks she was the one to modify the story. But as soon as she starts her story, it becomes a civil war between all the others about who forgot what. Love it
Matt looked like the most pissed of 3 year old with a full grown beard that absolutely does NOT want to go to bed when his recording started, I snort-laugh-cried And I have no idea what Sam took but oh my god
I felt sorry for him as he basically had Matt onwards adding each other's personalities into a snowball of a mess of themselves and side comments into the story acting instead of just the story itself.
Ashley: Please ma'am, if you would be so kind as to spare some water and a place to rest my head, I would be ever so grateful. Matt & Laura: Excuse me. I am poor. I am homeless. I am new in town. Sam: I need food and water. Two (clap) Things (clap)
Purple Jewel Cake Ingredients: Purple gem dust - 1/2 cup + 1/4 cup Bicardi - 3 oz. Apple-bottom jeans - 1 pair, finely ground Fun Buns - 2, medium sized Wish - 1/2 Confusion - 1/2 cup Water - 1/2 cup Pineapple - 1/2 medium sized, sliced into rings - Step 1: In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine apple-bottom jeans, 1/2 cup purple gem dust and 1/2 a wish. Stir gently to combine. Step 2: Add the 1/2 cup of confusion, making sure to incorporate well and break up any clumps Step 3: Add the wet ingredients, continuing to gently stir until small bubbles begin to form in batter Step 4: Pour batter into medium sized circular baking pan, making sure batter is spread evenly all the way to the sides of the pan Step 5: Place on center rack in oven preheated to 450F for approximately 30 minutes, checking at 25 minutes Step 6: Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup purple gem dust evenly across top of cake. Failure to immediately sprinkle will fail to produce a perfectly mirrored sheen Step 7: Lay sliced pineapple evenly across top of cake Step 8: Place fun buns on top as decoration - Allow to cool for at least 1 hour before serving or refrigerating
Sean Wadey just make the recipe multiple times to make multiple cakes then you can stack them. Remember to sprinkle the remaining dust before you stack or else it will taste unevenly
54:21 - Travis' reactions to his wife never cease to put a smile on my face. The little, "Marwy me." Fun buns were definitely the right way to go this episode!
Ironically, Ashley said she went easy on them? Like, she had a harder story planned but took pity on them? That's adorable, Ash, but next round don't be afraid to unleash the Yasha within you on your friends! ^_^
But consider this: the fact that she told a simple story with a straightforward moral and they _still_ managed to mess it up makes it even more punishing.
I think what makes it more apparent that they messed up the story is the fact that there was so few details so there was more pressure to get them right.
Liam's Folder has had a new joke in everything he's streamed in These Uncertain Times(tm), but his webcam quality is often too rough to catch it. I'm sure someone out there (cough*critrolestats*cough*) has them all recorded.
I just now realized that EVERY time Liam has tried not only to retell the story but also to recreate the manner of the person before😂 actually super impressive
It’s an old DM BSing technique. Cover up your stumbling by adding more detail & adjectives until the players think “you really thought this out” instead of “you’re flying by the seat of your pants”
It’s weird that he had a problem with the wish-granting kid being unable to make food for herself. It’s a really common trope in stories for a powerful being to make a mundane request from mortals to test their kindness.
@@captain_eaglefort Usually, though, the being gives no hint of their true nature until they finally reveal themselves at the end. In this one, the girl explicitly says she can grant a wish, but isn't ever shown to be anything other than a young girl.
@@sherlockhooves574 I've heard stories where the old woman remains an old woman without transforming. You just learn there's more to her by her casting some spell.
My single favourite moment is Ashley watching Marisha step into her trap. Her eyebrows go up immediately - she knows what's happening and the joy is palpable. So good.
i love taliesin just in a constant state of dying from cuteness all throughout ashleys video. he's ancient and immortal but not immune to baby pike and i love it
I love how Pike forgetting the recipe was just a part of the story but of course Marisha assumes that Travis actually forgot and there was supposed to be more there. XD
I just thought "sated" would have been the more appropriate conjugation of "sate" for that context :P (Although in hindsight "quenched" would be more idomatic for thirst, not hunger.
Travis on critical role is amazing with accents but here he can do like 3 voices and all sound vaguely eastern European, mockingly french or like how you talk to a cute dog. I love it.
4:06 the little "yep" KILLS ME. Also I LOVE during the viewing when everyone says "oh, it's the SIZE of an apple" and Ashley says "oh no" as she realizes how fucked up this is gonna get.
Just a suggestion for the critical role store that i think would be amazing, once everyone has done a story, make a short story book that looks like a childrens story book with all of the stories in it along with fanart for some of the scenes, id buy it in a heartbeat because these are fantastic
What you do is release seven different versions of the story book, each book contains the seven stories told from each member of critical role. So Matt's is all cinematic and beautiful and Sam's edition is barely comprehensible.
You could also offer a smaller, more ragged-looking version as a supplement, containing transcripts of the final, 7th telling of the stories -- all laid out just like the first book, but with the formatting somewhat askew -- and its art could be done by the same artists in the same places, but warped-looking and distorted! 😝
As much as Ashley struggles with recounting stories, when the story is hers or she has the chance to think about it she is actually quite the storyteller.
“Here’s a recipe. But first, I’m going to tell you the tale behind this tasty treat”
Pike is a cooking blog.
*caduceus voice* that's just great
@@sukhmanilunial3011 Well now I want to watch a show where Pike and Cad cook all sorts of pastries and mushroom-based dishes and are basically the most wholesome duo that ever graced us with their content
Well Pike did start the Slayer's Cake with Keyleth and Vex
Bookjunkie this should be a segmented blog on the critrole website. (To the tune of Troy and Abed in the morning) *CAD AND PIKEY TEA AND BAKING*
Oh my, you're right! :D
Ashley and Travis: “And the moral is be kind to each other!”
Everybody else: “I’m not sure who messed up the story but I definitely blame the person before me”
So true 😂😂😂
Sam didn’t blame Liam....he actually somehow figure out that it was Matt and Marisha who messed up the story structure. (Even though Liam said Laura and Matt)
despite how much I love these I fear Narrative Telephone may be what kills Critical Role as this fun story tell game eventually cause them to turn on one anther.
@@jetvulcan2020 that wont happen, these guys have been to close forever, they love each other
@@jetvulcan2020 relax 😂 they know its a game nothing else
Ashley: cute ending
Travis: cute ending repeated
Marisha: blames Travis
Matt: blames Travis
Laura: blames Matt
Liam: blames Laura
Sam: blames Matt and Marisha
Taliesin: says Sam said to blame Matt or Marisha but ultimately blames Sam
Definitely LIAM Up untill the gem stone apple fruit meal.... it resembled and was in some ways (adding maliciousness to Marita Picat) making it better while loosing the purpose of the story but still coming back to how the purple gem cake was somehow actually mad with maritas apple shaped gemstone.
Well, everything makes sence except Sam blaming Matt and Marisha. Like where did that come from?
@@Rastislav000 "Sam is an agent of chaos"
Lmao a perfect representation of the song in Into the Woods "your fault" 😂
Rastislav Dudič Liam blames a miscommunication between Matt and Laura, and Sam mixes that up as a spat between Matt and Marisha.
When Ashley is telling the story, she's a boss.
When Ashley is hearing the story, she's at a loss.
I love how subtly mean the story is. Mentioning a recipe but never giving it to make people think they forgot a detail that was never there? Genius.
Is your profile pic from 8-bit theatre?
BLASPHAMY! Also... true.
@@Dimloep and the best part is by the time it gets to Sam he normally just makes it up based on like the 3 details he heard, so there’s like a 50% chance it gets added in by him
Matt: panicking trying to remember the story
Matt’s brain: add more adjectives
Beautiful wonderful shiny glimmering
it's his DM tendencies coming out hahah
@@knowstrat why u gotta attack matt like this lmao 😂
Yes
It’s a DM trait😂
“Grandpa, tell us a story!”
*Takes a swig of whiskey*
“Lemme tell you ‘bout the time Cardi B got turned into a pair of pants.”
Oh, Fat Grandma.
you broke me
greatest interpretation ever.
I love you.
I read this early on and was like "How can this possibly come from that?" and then I saw Marisha's and understood
I am genuinely impressed with how well Travis “fjorgets” Willingham remembered almost everything
Travis is actually fairly intelligent.
It's short term vs long term memory lol
PalleRasmussen well of course despite the memes Travis is very smart
@@Ethan-nl2wg he is the ceo of the company, i believe the meme is just a meme, he is a intelligent and creative man
that's his inner Grog who's used to Pike's lessons ;)
Ashley: the moral of the story is be kind to one another
Everybody else: let me throw the person before me under the bus
Under the bridge perhaps?
@@ΓιάννηςΜεταξάς-ρ5φ under the jewel perhaps?
Andres into a hydraulic press which itself is engulfed in a storm of ragged moon dust, sharp enough to cut your lungs open if you breathe it in?
There once was a woman...
Travis: nobody liked her.
Everyone else: everybody loved her.
Exactly!
Travis: She wore purple silks!
Marisha: Silver silks!
(I haven’t gotten passed Marisha yet so I can only reference her color choice >_< )
Also tbf Marisha didn’t say everyone loved her, Matt did
The gang during Ashley's video: *gushing over how cute it is*
Ashley: *gives us the spell words*
Taliesin: o h f o r f u c k s s a k e
But the *real* recipe was the friends we threw under the bus along the way!
Under the bridge, it’s like 15 feet that way
@@NormalRapt0r Aw, snap. He killed his whole family.
...
Still learning how to "people..."
"I killed the whole story, I'll throw you under the bridge"
This. This one wins.
"I'm learning how to (storytelling) people"
That's it. That's the tweet.
Killed my whole family.
FABULOUS!!!
Ashely baited the squad and used Travis as the scape goat.
Wait, do the people who tell the story choose who goes next? I thought someone else not in the cast chooses who's next.
PersianLeonidus Either Marisha or their other producer Max decides the order. The point was Ashley added a troll at the end, and most certainly knew what she did. xD
@@Arkatox Uh, no. They roll a d20 and highest goes next.
@@Oddricm actually they role a d20 to see who makes the story next, not the order
Marisha said in an early episode (like 1 or 2) that she specifically set the order to space out the chaotic energy, but by this point it's gotta be semi random. It's possible Ashley knew who would be going second, but I don't think her little trick was for Travis in particular, just a solid troll that worked F L A W L E S S L Y.
Travis: Retells the story with impressive accuracy, including a section where Pike forgets something.
Marisha: Well Travis apparently forgot this section so I'll just make up an answer.
The frustrating part of the original story “forgetting” something! Every time the second person is gonna blame the first 😭
Travis' reaction of accidentally forgetting was also really authenic, making it really hard to tell as well tho. It was a great act, but for sure hard to follow
Favorite quote:
“...and at some point she may have turned into a pair of jeans or an apple.”
Mayhaps a pair of apple-bottom jeans?
@@gazeuponmeandweep boots with fur
@@Hebion95 the whole club was looking at her
Дарья Швыденко she hit the floor
@@Hebion95 One would think Marquet would be too hot for that...
Everybody's reaction to Ashley being Pike again literally warmed my heart
I went: EEE OMG
I had the same reaction, Pike is my favourite character on the show
Pike is my Fave CR character and Ashley is the only reason I bothered to watch in the first place, she's awesome! I love the whole cast now and knew and respected Matt before seeing CR as well but I just adore Ashley, she's so understated and gentle and kind.❤
I know! I really want a hug... 😶😳
She was pretty adorable 😊
Narrative Telephone Ep. 5: Pointing fingers
Marisha: "Travis forgot the recipe"
Matt: "Marisha said that Travis forgot the ingredients"
Laura: "Matt messed up the gemstone reveal timing"
Liam: "There was a communication issue between Matt and Laura"
Sam: "Matt and Marisha had a fight"
Taliesin: "Sam's kind of been an agent of chaos so I'm putting it there"
Thanks for laying it out that way. It's some how funnier seeing it descend. Fucking Sam really spinned it with 'Matt and Marisha had a fight'
*"So be kind to one another"*
Taliesin was right! He sees through the veil. 😁
It actually sounded like Travis was a bit hurt he got blamed so long; and was afraid Laura would blame him too.
@@emma_DIY24 *heheh*
Intentionally *NOT* giving the food-related details in the story about the food JUST to throw everyone off is so chaotic and I LOVE IT
Like the Picadilly Plum ? 😂
It's Ashley Johnson man. She's amazing
@@yngvildrthevoracious Yeah, but deliberate this time.
@@yngvildrthevoracious Don't you mean the plum named Persephone?
Classic food blog move, and trying to scare people that they are going to have to memorize a recipe, genius.
"Pike telling bedtime stories to Vex and Percy's kids." My heart.
*Vex
@@seven-cats-3 oh no my mind now
Can you show me the timestamp
@@faris-906 No you lazy ass
@@faris-906 1:15:48
I love that Travis went after Ashley. I like to imagine that Grog is trying to retell a story that his best buddy Pike told him once and is just so proud of himself for getting it right.
I mean if he accidentally slipped into his Grog voice, pretty sure people's hearts would of exploded!
That would be cool if they had to do their videos role playing their characters trying to retell it!
That would have been hilarious
I kinda wish Travis had been Grog in this like, "OK PIKE TOLD ME DIS STORY AND IT GOES LIKE..." I'd love to see one of these where they all play their character trying to relay the information given to them by the other character.
Oh. My. God. I NEED THAT IN MY LIFE!!
Grog: "My best buddy Pike told me the BESTEST story. I don't really remember it but there was this really rich woman and she was mean to this poor girl and she got turned into an apple gem whatever....shoulda wished for ale."
Round two of them all doing this HAS TO BE them all doing their recalling in Critical Role character.
Season 2 for certain.
They should do a round like this, and then the round after it they should have to pretend to be a random different one (Liam pretends to be Grog, Laura pretends to be Scanlan, etc)
Yes.
Please.
“I wanna be worth all the money in the world”
“I wanna be a pair of jeans”
I see no difference here. These are literally the same thing
@@dig8634 yeah yeah same
They're the same picture...
@@BoojumFed yep yep
Apple-Bottom Jeans?
I love how you can see Matt's storytelling abilities basically imposing him to put adjectives that weren't there before in the narrative
And Sam's bullshit abilities forcing him to make shit up when he can't remember what actually happened.
@@DrLipkin No, he so clearly remembered everything he was told, he just filtered it through his bullshit meter XD His retelling actually contained every previous point I believe, he just made the story all whack and stressed very weird points along the story. He is the ultimate chaos factor
Ah yes, my favorite critical roll character: Pike “not jester” Trickfoot.
Haha, you thought it was Pike Trickfoot telling this story, but it was I, Jester. Here have a golden dick covered in forever glue stuck to your hand.
"No one likes her but she was loaded."
--Travis 2020
Pike: "Oh, I forgot to tell you the recipe! But you can figure that out."
Everybody: "Oh shit the previous person forgot the recipe, I've gotta make something up!"
And the Traveller told me another story...
She absolutely did that on purpose lol
It's so weird how in Laura's story that little ending nod to another story was easily accepted (though made by Travis), but this time it everyone thought that Travis actually for got the last bit, leading to a string of blasting who went before
@@Frezzingale I think that was because there's pretty clearly only one story, but a recipe easily sounds like it was supposed to be part of the story. Also probably Jester is a lot easier to tell when somebody's in-character vs out of character, and Travis didn't really distinguish much for his Pike voice (so it wasn't easy to tell he was in-character for the recipe bit)
Pike: "I'm sure you can figure it out."
Grog: "I did it!"
Keyleth: "That's toast."
GoFiBePo!!!
Points for trying, Grog!
Pike: **tells quaint fairy tale**
Everybody: "Alright...Mojito Bacardi, got it. It'll be hard to remember the rest of the story, but I suppose..."
Pike: *"Ooh, I forgot to tell you the recipe...!"
Everybody's eyes: **glazing over with abject panic**
Except Travis, who got everything just about right.
@@kp6378 Travis was probably the best first-round recounting we've seen - Marisha's job wasn't half bad either!
6:30 My favorite part. Travis almost forgetting the "Oh! I almost forgot part," genuinely saying, "Oh!" Then breaks as he creates the spark of confusion for the rest of the game
Yeah that was magic
The whole crew: *destroys the story to point of no recognition*
Ashley: "you guys were SO great!" :D
Definition of Chaotic Good: messing with people but being nice about it.
Well compared with the other telephones the actual story stayed in there for quite a long time. Or maybe not but thats what it feels like
It's probably bc she's so used to butchering the other's stories so badly that she doesn't mind lol
Pike runs the blog for the Slayer's Cake and posts long anecdotes before the recipes.
CANON
The blog is alternating long anecdotes followed by recipes, because the first time she posted Pike completely forgot that she had to actually put the recipe in
Well she did marry the champion of Ioun
And each of those recipes is, "eh.. You'll figure it out."
Watching Ashley: “Oh this isn’t so bad. This is lovely.”
Watching Travis: “He didn’t do too bad!”
Watching everyone else: “Well that didn’t take long.” *eats popcorn*
LOL
Everyone else: *Blames Travis*
Simon NW Me @ Ashley: “Oh very clever.”
You ate popcorn? How did you survive? Every time I tried to eat something I started choking from laughter and gave up.
The Ruby of the Sea, and the Amethyst of the Desert.
Ashley adding the "You'll figure it out" is like throwing ball bearings in a washing machine.
And I'm so proud of her for it lol
What's next? The Emerald of the Sky?
@@onyxcrescent9364 Perhaps. Or the Opal of the Mountains.
Emerald or Jade of the Forest?
Sapphire or Aquamarine of the Sky?
Onyx or Black Star Sapphire of the Underdark?
What gemstone is next, people? Place your bets and thoughts now.
@@onyxcrescent9364 coincidentally, I have an important npc in my homebrew dnd game called the Empress of the Emerald Sky
If Sam doesn't have Pigtail Matt on his shirt when Critical Role comes back, I'm going to be very disappointed.
Mat looked a little like Ladybeard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybeard), it made me smile.
@@emerje0 wow I really did not expect to see that today
He won't have it yet. He needs to let that bomb tick away for a bit before dropping it
HE DID IT! HE DID IT! HE DID IT!
@@AshenSmokescreen And I'm very far from disappointed
This is the best one so far. Adding that she almost forgot the recipe was such a chaos move and I instantly knew it was gonna mess everyone up after that. Nobody would get that it was part of the story. A genius move on Ashley's part, and I couldn't agree more with how adorable she is.
But, then again, was Pike chaotic? Wait, was she a scatterbrain?
blechtic -Ashley is not Pike. Ashley is allowed to seek vengeance, and she got it.
blechtic she has a chaotic good alignment
@@blechtic if you dont think pike is chaotic then we need to check we watched the same show
@@JCoopsters et al. Pike always seemed to me fairly lawful by intent, neutral wrt her friends and chaotic only accidentally and not too often. It always looked to me she was persuaded or got caught in it by having a bit of a pushover/groupie personality, AFAICR. I don't know if that's how character alignments should work. Should they describe the character personality or the end result of actions after all the influences (which would still make it fairly neutral)?
The amount of chaos/scatterbrainedness seemed out-of-character. I get this was Ashley getting her share, but it didn't seem like Pike.
In any case, I find no added joy in CR if/when poring over the character stats. It's a bit like watching a movie while reading the screenplay.
I’d love a One-Shot, where the Mighty Nein are isolated and quarantined, and can only talk with each other through Jester’s 25-word Sending Spell. The chaos!!!
Fjord counting the words
No even better is that there’s nobody to count for her, so all the messages get cut off mid-sentence 🤣🤣
at the end of quarantine: "Hey wait a second, doesn't greater restoration cure like everything?...."
*Jester giggles* I dunno maaybeeeee
Phillip I love this!! I want this more and more.
That would be incredibly unwatchable.
Matt- apologizes for bird.
Laura- one-ups him by apologizing for helicopters
MATT IN FUN BUNS.
I REPEAT.
MATT IN FUN BUNS.
Sam is going to make an unforgettable t-shirt out of this.
I didnt know how much i needed to see matts man buns 🤣🤣
I want a doll of Matt with fun buns!!!! He was sooooo cute!
He looks like the guy you'd go to on a rave for some happy candy... the eyes add to that whole feeling :)
I agree
I love how everyone undeservedly threw Travis under the bus for "forgetting" the ingredients but Laura absolutely had his back and omitted to repeat that part.
Ok after everyone teasing Ashley Im loving how she softballed a basic morality tale and they Ashleyd it so fast.
Kind of a parallel to the story. Most supernatural tricksters that are testing people don’t state that at the beginning. And Marquita Parkata STILL screwed it up!
Ashley: tells a cute but sophisticated story.
Marisha: "and she was snooty!"
Oh my god, she was snooty
Marisha knowing her Pike sounds like Jester lol
Nobody gets to blame Ashley ever again. The rest of the team can clearly muff this all on their own.
cattailmatt Ash muffs it up the worst though.
@@damobeck1 unpopular opinion maybe but imma say Sam does
Star I actually agree to a degree. Sam and Travis try to cliff note and I think that’s what tends to break the story apart because the rest of the group try’s to bring it back to a story.
Tbh Ashley has done way better in these than anyone gives her credit for. She often gets a few things wrong, but she's rarely the one to derail the story.
Star Sam is smart with it tho he messes it up so bad most people would assume he’s doing it on purpose
Well apparently Liam pretending to be Laura pretending to be Ashley pretending to be Pike is the recipe for perfectly reproducing Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker! And that's the real recipe here.
I can't unsee this
Ashley: "Markita Perkata"
The gang: "Marquise de Barcadi, got it"
I love you all! :D
Travis got it right...... Kind of.
I figured it was either going to end up "Picard"or "Bacardi"
I was low-key hoping for Hakuna Matata
Matt: Jamedi Cosko
Everyone else: Yes, Jumanji Costco
Ashley: Marquita Parcata
Everyone else: Yes, Margarita Bacardi
Liam: Marquita Picard. *Number One!*
Pike's ending was a panic trap to make everyone forget the story, and I love it! She learned a trick from Sam.
What was the trick that sam did? i remember a straightforward story crammed with details.
i think you mean laura, who said "and the Traveller told me more stories but ill tell you another time :3" which everyone said made them panic because they thought they were about to get a whole new story
Pike is a Monstah.
@@GoldenJayTime Actually the beauty of that is that Laura _didn't_ do that, it just emerged naturally and everyone though that was a brilliant part of the original story.
Ashley is an evil genius and I love it.
I love how everyone just blames Travis for the lack of a recipe
His laugh was so great as he, live, realizes what Ashley did and what it means and how it is gonna go.
Insert Marisha:
when Laura's video came up he looked at her and said "you better not throw me under the bus either"
@@druid_zephyrus I thought that was him saying Ooh because he realsied what to say and then remembered that he was meant to say Ooh.
@@druid_zephyrus got to marisha at the end and was like "don't do it don't do it, it's a trap....she did it, well this will be interesting" lol
(TO THE TUNE OF HAKUNA MATATA)
Markita Bacardi, What a wonderful name.
Markita Bacardi, Aint no pauper dame.
shes was nasty, but her money went on for daaaays.
water is free, but iv no room for thee.
Markita Bacardi..
Now this is brilliant. ❤️
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I read this and received inspiration irl. Bards represent!
Roll a d4 inspiration
Laura Bailey has turned a bunch of professional voice actors into people who can only do Jester's voice XD
I like how Liam was so charmed by Ashley’s cuteness in her presentation that he totally missed the fact that Marquita Picata was a bad person from the start. Like, he genuinely was subconsciously going through thinking that nobody could be mean with Pike’s mannerisms, and the others “made her mean”, and nobody could convince him otherwise.
Every time Tal is in a different room and it is NOTHING like the previous rooms
Every time he records from a different dimension
Why do you think it went from fancy house to Extravagant Mansion once Taliesin started talking?
and
where do you think the idea for "The Happy Fun Ball" came from?
He lives in The House of Leaves, and has explored every room
@@clownsoftheearth holy shit thats such a cool way of looking at it
He records from his own Room of Requirement.
Sam's pike scares me.
Not my Pike. New campaign slogan.
Sam's Pike is actually a Tracy.
that was truly terrifying
When Ashley isn't narrating, everyone thinks she was the one to modify the story. But as soon as she starts her story, it becomes a civil war between all the others about who forgot what. Love it
Excuse me, I’m poor. I am thirsty. I grant wishes. I’m new in town.
Is this a John Mulaney reference? Please tell me it is....
No no, don’t start with the wish. Build to that. First imma push her.
LMAOOO John Mulaney would be proud
r/unexpectedmulaney
@@OhHeyMarc fucking died
1:10:06 "I forgot the funbuns"
Ashley: "who cares?? that is the LEAST of our worries right now."
ashley continues to absolutely wreck 😂😂🤣
Matt looked like the most pissed of 3 year old with a full grown beard that absolutely does NOT want to go to bed when his recording started, I snort-laugh-cried
And I have no idea what Sam took but oh my god
These guys should do a D&D show together, they all get along so well
who'd watch that?
Mauricio Gatgens Ummm... not sure. Don’t think it’d do well. No one watches RUclips vids over 20 minutes.
That sounds pretty niche, don't know if itd be that popular
Yeah... who’d even DM?
LMAO
Laura as Vex telling Travis “its okay Grog,” when he gets overwhelmed by Pike’s cuteness is EVERYTHING
It's at 1:16:30 :)
@@Karreth thank you, somehow i missed it. I was hoping someone would time stamp it
I love how Taliesin just crumbles when they hear Ashley telling the story...
'All of this is new information!'
'What did I do???!!!'
I felt sorry for him as he basically had Matt onwards adding each other's personalities into a snowball of a mess of themselves and side comments into the story acting instead of just the story itself.
Ashley: Please ma'am, if you would be so kind as to spare some water and a place to rest my head, I would be ever so grateful.
Matt & Laura: Excuse me. I am poor. I am homeless. I am new in town.
Sam: I need food and water. Two (clap) Things (clap)
Everyone “hi, it’s pike trickfoot, not jester”
Purple Jewel Cake
Ingredients:
Purple gem dust - 1/2 cup + 1/4 cup
Bicardi - 3 oz.
Apple-bottom jeans - 1 pair, finely ground
Fun Buns - 2, medium sized
Wish - 1/2
Confusion - 1/2 cup
Water - 1/2 cup
Pineapple - 1/2 medium sized, sliced into rings
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Step 1: In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine apple-bottom jeans, 1/2 cup purple gem dust and 1/2 a wish. Stir gently to combine.
Step 2: Add the 1/2 cup of confusion, making sure to incorporate well and break up any clumps
Step 3: Add the wet ingredients, continuing to gently stir until small bubbles begin to form in batter
Step 4: Pour batter into medium sized circular baking pan, making sure batter is spread evenly all the way to the sides of the pan
Step 5: Place on center rack in oven preheated to 450F for approximately 30 minutes, checking at 25 minutes
Step 6: Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup purple gem dust evenly across top of cake. Failure to immediately sprinkle will fail to produce a perfectly mirrored sheen
Step 7: Lay sliced pineapple evenly across top of cake
Step 8: Place fun buns on top as decoration
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Allow to cool for at least 1 hour before serving or refrigerating
Additional step: Blame someone else for the mess in your kitchen and make them clean up.
I have the Apple-bottom jeans, but can I add Boots with the Fur for extra flavour?
@@kiddo6393 Yes, but you'd have to double the amount of water to a full cup to prevent the mix from drying out.
But I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be a layered cake, how do change the cooking instructions for that?
Sean Wadey just make the recipe multiple times to make multiple cakes then you can stack them. Remember to sprinkle the remaining dust before you stack or else it will taste unevenly
Ashley and Pike are the living embodiment of girl who says bruh vs girl who says haiiiiiii
Plot twist: girls who say both
54:21 - Travis' reactions to his wife never cease to put a smile on my face. The little, "Marwy me."
Fun buns were definitely the right way to go this episode!
I want Matt to do his last one with the bad luck bandits, but told by their perspectives and voices
I still want to see Matt tell a story as Victor, the black powder merchant! If Liam went second, I'm not sure he'd survive lol
Yessssss!
@@sailorsaturn1060 also this!
@@sailorsaturn1060 Well do I have some news for you. He was in thereand Liam did go second
@@jefferycrouse4652 And he butchered the story
Doctor: Sam's Pike isn't real, it can't hurt you.
Sam's Pike:
Sam's Pike genuinely scared me.
Ironically, Ashley said she went easy on them? Like, she had a harder story planned but took pity on them? That's adorable, Ash, but next round don't be afraid to unleash the Yasha within you on your friends! ^_^
I assume the original actually had her doing the recipe.
Travis did a really good job, but the story makes it seem like he messed up the end which threw everyone else off
But consider this: the fact that she told a simple story with a straightforward moral and they _still_ managed to mess it up makes it even more punishing.
@@evansaschow That was 100% on purpose. Ashley is more evil than we think
I think what makes it more apparent that they messed up the story is the fact that there was so few details so there was more pressure to get them right.
I just noticed; The white book to the right of Liam says "Marisha Ray's Guide to Accents". 😂
Liam's Folder has had a new joke in everything he's streamed in These Uncertain Times(tm), but his webcam quality is often too rough to catch it. I'm sure someone out there (cough*critrolestats*cough*) has them all recorded.
I have not once been able to find the joke but I know it's there... Somewhere... Mocking me.
Once it read "Laura Bailey fanclub minutes"
Ashley, you evil genius, adding that bit to the end of the story knowing how it would turn out down the line.
🤔 I wonder if she actually did have a recipe there at one time -- you know, to mess with everyone -- but had to cut it for time.
"I need food *AND water, those are two things."*
TWO. THINGS.
"a magical place called Marquet"
Matts mind has stopped working
Wasn't Marquet the place where they meet the Meatman? And where they got the Spice?
Travis with the "City of Marquet" was bad enough, you could see Matt's reaction
Everything is legal in Marquette
Marquette is more technological as far as I could tell.
Marquet is like Africa, where it's an entire continent but too many people treat it like it's just one country... or city in this case.
I just now realized that EVERY time Liam has tried not only to retell the story but also to recreate the manner of the person before😂 actually super impressive
This one ended up creepy.
He's Method.
That's his thing, for sure
His empathy ability has to be just off the charts to do what he does as well as he does.
Ashley: Hi! You all made fun of me not remembering and getting it right?
Let me tell you a story...
Everyone else: well crap.
Can we appreciate how well Travis actually retold the story? He got practically everything right
*Ashley's video appears on the screen*
Everyone: AAAWWWWWWWWW
I love how, when Matt started panicking, he added MORE DETAIL to the story 😂
It’s an old DM BSing technique. Cover up your stumbling by adding more detail & adjectives until the players think “you really thought this out” instead of “you’re flying by the seat of your pants”
It is such a mistake to let him tell a story so early because he add so much everybody after have to be confused XD
Fake it till you make it 😂🤣
And his sidebar comments ^_^ so good!
The whole cast took radiant damage after watching Ashley's video
Can we talk about Matt’s low key shade for plot points in the story that don’t make sense. It’s adorable like the Storyteller in him can’t let it go.
It’s weird that he had a problem with the wish-granting kid being unable to make food for herself. It’s a really common trope in stories for a powerful being to make a mundane request from mortals to test their kindness.
@@captain_eaglefort Usually, though, the being gives no hint of their true nature until they finally reveal themselves at the end.
In this one, the girl explicitly says she can grant a wish, but isn't ever shown to be anything other than a young girl.
I was just noticing that lmao, he did it with the kids not running away from the crone in liam's story too
That is why his story telling is so good: because nothing isnt accounted for in every hook and line. It is also why he weeps in insanity.
@@sherlockhooves574 I've heard stories where the old woman remains an old woman without transforming. You just learn there's more to her by her casting some spell.
My single favourite moment is Ashley watching Marisha step into her trap. Her eyebrows go up immediately - she knows what's happening and the joy is palpable. So good.
i love taliesin just in a constant state of dying from cuteness all throughout ashleys video. he's ancient and immortal but not immune to baby pike and i love it
And that's why the Makita Bacardi Screwdriver has an oddly lupine taste!
Must be the piccadilly plums!
Crossover chaoooos~! ❤️
and that is the story of the Vortex!
Ah yes, the makita bacardi screwdriver is the best cocktail to order at The Vortex 😂 the best club in Rexentrum
*Insert something about Pumat being in The Vortex here.*
Travis retelling the story so well I was like "hey they might pull this one out!"
Two people later " I don't even know why I had hopes"
I love how quickly this episode descended into "the blame game".
Esp since the moral of the original story was to be kind to other people.
Ashley knew exactly what was going to happen when she said "Oh I forgot the recipe"
I love how Pike forgetting the recipe was just a part of the story but of course Marisha assumes that Travis actually forgot and there was supposed to be more there. XD
For some reason when Matt said "And it satiated her thirst" I just thought
Thirst? Satiated
Fun buns? Up tight
Hotel? Trivago
OwO
Yesss the subliminal messages are working. Keep watching the ads, and remember to love each other
I just thought "sated" would have been the more appropriate conjugation of "sate" for that context :P (Although in hindsight "quenched" would be more idomatic for thirst, not hunger.
36:20 Liam: "That was like a radiant energy colonic!"
So, in other words, a guiding bolt straight up the butt?
Oh well played.
I bet he did that on purpose. It being Liam
/r/yourjokebutworse
Me after Ashley's: "hm, the recipe thing is an odd framing device, im sure nothing will come of it"
After everyone else: "...clever girl"
RIGHT?! It was such an evil twist. XD
Taliesan trying to lure all the eldritch horrors in the back of his dark house while he is disguised as a "innocent investigator."
You mean Doctor Taliesin, Professor of Eldritch Horrors and other Deamons of the Endless Abyss.
54:59 "I'm here to tell you a story about... _oh no."_
That one clip could sum up this entire show
Ashley:
Sam: 👁👄👁💅✨👖🍎
Sam has that valley girl energy that is so far removed from Pike's adorable sweetness that it just had me laughing.
Travis on critical role is amazing with accents but here he can do like 3 voices and all sound vaguely eastern European, mockingly french or like how you talk to a cute dog. I love it.
Liam's Pike voice makes him sound like he's about to tell me about New York's hottest club
You mean The Vortex. Love that place
Marquette's hottest new club is "Radiant Colonic"
.... Kevin?
I kept thinking that too! This club has everything: bacardi, a little girl, and something to do with an apple
This place has everything: purple velvets, a castle, a weird pauper girl, half-fulfilled requests, recipes
...wait
4:06 the little "yep" KILLS ME. Also I LOVE during the viewing when everyone says "oh, it's the SIZE of an apple" and Ashley says "oh no" as she realizes how fucked up this is gonna get.
So, what was the recipe?
Sam: "IT'S COCAINE."
sPiCe?!
I love how Liam is always trying to not only regurgitate the details of the story but also trying to imitate the person that went before him too. xD
Just a suggestion for the critical role store that i think would be amazing, once everyone has done a story, make a short story book that looks like a childrens story book with all of the stories in it along with fanart for some of the scenes, id buy it in a heartbeat because these are fantastic
This is an amazing idea honestly! I hope more people/the cast see(s) this!
What you do is release seven different versions of the story book, each book contains the seven stories told from each member of critical role. So Matt's is all cinematic and beautiful and Sam's edition is barely comprehensible.
@@quinnsinclair7028 oh my gods, yes. That needs to be a thing.
You could also offer a smaller, more ragged-looking version as a supplement, containing transcripts of the final, 7th telling of the stories -- all laid out just like the first book, but with the formatting somewhat askew -- and its art could be done by the same artists in the same places, but warped-looking and distorted! 😝
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LOL Marisha always looks like she's being held at gunpoint in her story
It's the eyes and the sheer panic!
The deer eyes are real
Cute IMO
Keylith lives on.
Well we don't see where Matt is...
she is missing the newspaper to hold up to prove she is still alive
Petition for someone to draw all VM characters in fun buns
Y E S!!!
Grog's fun buns are upside down tho, because they're made from his beard! 🙂
Grog just wearing cinnamon rolls on his head.
Now I’m just imagining Vecna with fun buns. I have no idea how that’d work but I’m still thinking about it. XD
Awwww
Liam: reel it in, O'Brien.
me: stay on task, Widogast
As much as Ashley struggles with recounting stories, when the story is hers or she has the chance to think about it she is actually quite the storyteller.