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The Mighty Nein faces one of their most stringent foes yet : The Chair.
Taken from Critical Role, Campaign 2 Episode 48 - Homeward Bound • Video
Last clip taken from Talks Machina episode 97 - / watch
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You can tell that Matt was struggling internally whether or not to make this Chair a Mimic.
"it could be a witch, sam!"
If it was it probably would have killed anyone who sat on it, which someone did.
AK474000 As a note, we have never seen both Professor Thaddeus and The Chair in the same place.
Chair-ity begins at homebrew.
My DM totally would have. He had our Barbarian's newly looted greataxe reveal itself to be a mimic in the middle of a battle before 🤣
DM: "It appears to be a chair".
Party: *"APPEARS"?!?!?!?*
Absolutely 100% accurate...
Yeah...gotta be careful with the words they choose.
Here’s my take, someone polymorphed into the chair when the party came into the room to avoid detection. Rule of thumb: Whenever something seems oddly out of place in D&D, it never hurts to use a spell slot on Dispel!
@@SonOfNel I mean...you could save the slot and just let your barbarian hit it.
@@SonOfNel detect magic first if you’re not sure it’s magic lol
Caleb: My time of torture and awful could tell me something about the chair?
Matt: Yes... It's a chair.
Yuri Campos Liam got so upset at that lmfao!
@@yellowbeard1 Yeah, you probably know more about which techniques Matt's npcs were using than Matt does.
@@IcyDragonPolaris There wasn't any torture happening in that room -_- wtf are you people on about. Yeza was literally taken by top people in his government and forced to research the Beacon. As we learned later no torture happened in that room; he didn't even want Vess killed out of revenge because he thought that would be too much.
@@CampaignerSC lmao these guys like "WHY DIDN'T IT HAVE FECAL MATTER OR URINE, THERE WAS BLOOD MISSING FROM THE TORTURE CHAIR" whilst the whole video Matt just says "Y'all, it was... A chair"
@@yellowbeard1 then again you could also be an idiot because there was no interrogation or troture happening in a chair placed for someone to sit on.
"Four... like a chair..." I'm dead. lmao.
so, not three, tho?
I would have said Five, just for the hell of it.
Matt was like: " :( 4.........like a chair....."
and that morrowind theme kicking in like everything is alright
That delivery tho
Taliesin's super lowkey "The Room" joke is amazing. Matt: "it looks like the room" Taliesin: "you're tearing me apart"
Tal has a lot of low key humor moments. It's great
@@natekyoken929 so true honestly
You are tearing me apart mercer! Oh hi Sam!
and travis picks it up
2:08
Is there a spoon!?
Matt: “it’s a chair”
M9: It’s a magical mimic chair
Matt, now dead inside: “C H A I R”
M9: M A G I C
Matt: *C H A I R*
YES! MAGIC CHAIR! WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE NOW.
@@pwnyboy9714 Spelljamming helm
"...but the center chair seems perfect" is where he lost them.
Campaign 1: Doors
Campaign 2: Chairs
Campaign 3: Windows.
Matt will one day combine all these furnitures and create the final boss, the Dread Gazebo.
Campaign 4: Ottomans
Campaign 5: Couches
There's a pattern here! Campaign 3 must have some archvillain that starts with B! Bar? Bath? Bed?
You can tell the exact moment his soul died
You mean the exact moment as it was clearly edited in the video? With the rain and grey filter? That clearly shows for everyone that was the moment when Matt acted like he gave up on world and life? That moment, obviously edited on purpose?
@@FishoD oh don't be an arsehole
@@juliaalexandre5568 I mean, to be fair, it was a comment made with poor thought. Fisho is on point.
@@DeathBringerBecky yea, it's called a comment in a RUclips video lol
But it's fine, I just thought he sounded really fuckin rude, like jeez dude it's a joke, don't need to take it personally
@@juliaalexandre5568 I didn't read it that way. I read it as pointing out how op didn't think that comment through in what I and likely Fisho consider to be a humorous way. I can see how you can read it rude, since this is text after all. But so the story goes. Not worth letting feathers ruffle over something so inane, yeah?
Matt need to have an encounter were they face off against a gang of magic chairs riding magic carpets wielding magic doors.
*cough* Animate Objects *cough*
3 Glyphs of Warding
9th level Spells
Animate Objects
Tpk
Instant tpk
TPK
Yes.....it's a chair.
And
A 20 level mimic
But as a chair.
I'm calling it right now... when they get to the endgame in a year or 2. They are going to fight a level 20 mimc of that chair
@@lockonU As a DM, i would totally do it as revenge.
Psudecor the wise (A trickster cleric)
lockonU Better. They defeat one of the last bosses by tricking them into sitting in the Chair.
@@lockonU sadly no chair, but it's up for VM vs M9 as a sudden bbeg
The _pain_ of “Four. Like a chair.”
I wanna feel bad but like. He did it to himself.
Random pristine chair in the middle of the room, the only thing they can gather is that it was placed there after the struggle? I mean come on. You cant just plop a glitch in the matrix in front of your party and expect them to not care
Max Neville I agree. But I can sympathize with, as a dm, trying to steer your party away from a mundane dud that they're fixated on because too much attention was drawn to it. Happens more often than you think.
Do not look at the chair, the chair is not even really there
Yeah, but it could have been placed there for someone to sit and watch something or to wait for someone, or to stand on. The chest could have been a mimic or contained something that the person was trying to watch vigil or something. Someone could have brought the chair with them after the initial fight (they didn't have to enter the room only the once!) It could have been the lure of the chest mimic...
What I'm trying to say is, I can see what he was trying to get them to do, but instead the players got so fixated on the thing itself that they failed to even investigate its uses past something to sit on.
That's just what the Chair wants you to think
i think that was just a clue that Yeza was alive and placed it there
I am Chair son of Table, cousin of the Mighty Door. Beware my four legs peasants
I laughed way to hard at that...
Especially with the name. Imagine 78 bits of animate furniture running around
Chetney’s chair…. Recognize The Alpha… The murderous chair.
A lesson in object stressing. Matt wanted a good red herring, and he definitely got his mileage out it. And then the... chair's brakes gave out.
Wait, the chair had brakes? What were they for? THE CHAIR COULD MOVE!
@@ladaboy3507 It was an office swivel chair all along
Caduceus does such a good job playing his low intelligence with his invisible person idea.
I too enjoy playing a character (Int
@@Blizz3112 and sometimes they are right
@@calindboard5114 and hence: The Internet
I feel like Talisen was thinking what Marisha was. But had to stop his inner Percy and staybtrue to playing Clay
@@Asher1347 I remember a talks machina where Taliesin said something to the effect of that being a recurring problem for him.
That look on his face at the end is the look of all DM's when their party focuses so much on something they had no intention for the party to do *anything* with instead of all the things they had planned for them to do.
@OrangeManBad Oh, I know why it happens... It doesn't change the fact that it's irritating for a DM, even if they unintentionally caused it to happen. Lol.
@OrangeManBad Players also tend to overthink things. I mean CLEARLY it's completely reasonable to take 10 minutes to decide to go around the wall or follow the tracks over the wall when there's a ladder 10FT TO YOUR LEFT!!!!
Yeah believe me I know how this goes. One D20 Urban arcana campaign had the team hunting down a monster in the burbs. the clues to the monsters location were plain as day but they spent the better part of the session chasing after an ice cream truck just because the driver looked and I quote ""creepy as hell"
Well a DM should be able to go with the flow. Players want the chair to be smth. Have it be smth
In the campaign I'm currently in, our elvish ranger/rogue has a cat companion that our human wizard and half-elf paladin is fully convinced is magical. The dm and the elf say it isn't. Meanwhile, my stout halfling rogue/bard is just miffed that it's faster than him.
~The finale of the Mighty Nein Campaign~
Final Boss: WELCOME TO THE END, MIGHTY NEIN! You have journeyed far and grown of so much. Now...
Spotlight shines on a chair in the middle of the room
Final Boss: ...Have a seat.
"im gonna need everybody to make a wisdom saving throw ..."
@@NaomeK40 and I'm imagining that with a slightly manic glint in his eyes and excited energy making him a tad fidgety.
@@NaomeK40 Last time i had a character sit on a chair everyone else in the room took psychic damage and got stunned while i had a chat with Giths on a Spelljammer through a mirror. YOU NEVER KNOW!!!!
Not 'a' chair. THE chair.
to be fair, there was a chair
In my second D&D session in 17 years, we had a similar situation involving a closet. Someone made a comment about "Is this our version of the chair", and I had no concept or understanding of what the DM was laughing so hard about... until now.
I can just imagine it, the greatest enemy in C3...stairs
In Matt’s aloofness about the chair, he accidentally sowed the seeds of intrigue. When describing the chair in-game, he was attempting to lead them away from it, but his descriptions just sounded suspicious. Poor SOB. Never had a chance.
Alternate title: Matt's Chair despair
Kieren Sprackett "deschair".
Please
Pleaseeeeee change it
Theory: Chair placed there because someone used it to stash something in the ceiling
Matt Petropoulos it was just a chair
You mean the floor above?
You're on to something...
Dude someone ask this at TalksMachina
it's a chair. it's just a chair.
@@maxdonahue210 travis made it cannon that the chair was in fact enchanted through chetney
I'm convinced this is where he said "I'm bringing in that demon general that I was saving..."
@omgzitsmilk Demon Generals are nothing. A pristine white chair, now that is a true boss! 😇
@@Hawkwinter01 I don't think you get it. It isn't just a "pristine white chair" as you put it, but a demonic chair General.
Rune Doom Oh please. This is a lieutenant at best.
I love the idea of benevolent super high level mimics being detected every so often in a game of D&D, that have nothing to do with the quest or story, just a glimpse of the wider world beyond the D&D party
Just chairin' around.
@@Spo8 without a chair in the world
@@shealupkes that wounded me, thank you
There are common mimics that are intelligent and can be helpful.
They need to have a T shirt with just a chair on the front and Matt's face from that last few moments of the Talks Machina clip on the back and the words "...It's just a chair" below him.
Don't let Sam read this comment
@@DCdabest LET SAM READ THIS COMMENT
I would wear that shirt :D
I’m gonna make this shirt, i swear it
@@RikuVA would like to see it, if it is done :D
Imagine if they had true polymorphed her husband into a chair and they decide to go up and break it.
thats dark
Lemme just write that down for my own use...
As per the rules of polymorph, it would've turned back into Yeza, at full hp, not a scratch, and they wouldn't have needed to do the massive quest that they did.
@@nicholasmarsella4941 I think that with true polymorph they would die
@@ryanestes7331 Not according to the rules
When you accidentally make a non existent plot hook
I did that once as well. I had a guy keeping lookout during his shift on night watch. He rolled really high, and there were no enemies, so I had him see a raccoon sneaking up on a bird. I rolled and the bird got away. He then wanted to feed the raccoon and he rolled high animal handling, so the racoon ate his food and stayed with him hoping for more. Long story short, my players ended up experiencing a day in the life of a racoon when they were initially there to explore a ruined temple.
It appears someone carved the letters "RTA" on the underside of the chair...
The fact matt specifically said that the chair was placed AFTER everything happened and they still were that wary
this is such a good example of the "lost in translation" effect between players and dms. matt's reason for putting the chair in the room seemed only to be to signal to the players that the room had been returned to after whatever initial scuffle took place, thus giving them another small clue about what was going on with yeza/the shop. he even goes on to tack on variations of "you gather the chair was placed here after the fact" to his answers once he realizes they're caught up on the wrong thing.
the players, however, don't have all the pieces and are thinking from a more scattered perspective. marisha, specifically, hits the mark early on with the chair being used for interrogation/ect after the fact, but that seems too mundane of an explanation, especially for the ominous image matt presented them with, and they're wary about taking it at face value. they misplace the chair's impirtance onto WHY it was there in the first place, what purpose it was serving within the fiction, instead of what the chair's presence means, the purpose it was serving within the meta.
all in all, very interesting (and funny) to see in action! especially as a dm who's been on the other side of this particular kind of mishap.
It's funny, Beau gets a 13 on an investigation check, and Matt pretty much explicitly spells out the answer because it's not that difficult of a thing to figure out- but everyone seems to assume that since it wasn't a super high roll, there must be some additional more complicated hidden explanation they're missing out on.
5:49 this Matt regretting putting a chair in the room
I think he's regretting a lot more.
And we finally find out…. Chetney made this chair!
I really need to put a normal chair, sitting on a magic rug, with a dead and invisible person tied to it, in my next campaign.
When they animate mighty nein, this better be animated into it
The animated chair should be the most detailed object of the entire show. It should look so life like, and the other characters just stare and try to figure out why this chair is so different.
Then next season there'll be a shop just selling them, regular chairs that are nicely made.
ITS A C H A I R
Yes it is or is it? 😈😈😈😈😈
@@antonionunez3759 You know I can just picture the scene before the epic battle, the Mighty Nein stand ready, the villain gets up from where she was sitting, and the Mighty Nein launch their attacks... at the chair. Or Matt throws in a Chair Store with dozens of chairs, just to occupy the group while he works out another plot complication.
@@Grey_Shard Heh heh that cursed chair. 😈😈😈😈
Years later we know its all chetneys fault^^
I roll Nat 20 on investigation for the chair,.....Matt💁
Matt: Fine, ~FINE
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So....the chairs pre-Calamity
The chair of the betrayer gods
I bet that Matt regrets so much ever mentioning the dammed chair.
Whenever the M9 animated series gets made, I hope they include the overly long gag of the party pondering the chair for way too long.
They should have a cut away of after the attack someone is putting the chair there and someone asking why. It’s simply to mess with who ever finds it.
4:11 2:28 the moment he dryly says: "yes... it's a chair." So matter-of-factly, so over this line of questioning, just, done with their shit, _he was utterly doomed to his fate_ 😂😂😂
That is a face of a broken man
I love how the players ignore his dm tactic of trying to get things back on the rails. Numerous times through numerous checks "it's a chair. It was probably placed here after the struggle. It's a chair" and they're all like "there's something about this chair"
Matt crafts these intricate detailed master pieces of world's. And seeing the cast miss so many things but get so stuck on a random chair in a basement 🤣🤣
I can relate to this DM-feeling so well... "Why... why did I word it that way? ... this will never stop..."
Someone other than me has to be here after watching E58 of the 3rd campain. The way Travis made it cannon was brilliant 😂
yeah, i love this
The second coming of the Gazebo.
You have angered the Chair.
5:40 : *hello darkness my old friend*
"How hard is the chair? Like from spruce to oak"
This should be called "Matt slowly dies inside"
"Did it have arms?"
Matt: *hello darkness my old friend...*
That eternal. Haunted look when you mention something yout THOUGHT was innocuous but develops almost into a campaign in its own right because the PCs just cant let it go
Please also add the short bit when the meet the Bright Queen where Sam freaks out because everyone is in chairs.
I bet there are some initials carved on the back left leg... By a particular gnome werewolf.
M9: "So about this chair again..."
Matt: "Alright, so Vecna pops out of a portal and is standing before you."
Just had a chair moment last night for the game I DM. A mind flayer was chilling on this stone throne, got up, and then left. One party member, who doesn't watch the show, because obsessed with the chair, whereas all the others knew this bit very well, and joined in to laugh at and fuck with me.
The rogue even asked Brian's questions.
I just love imagining him going "theres something about that chair" and your face just going pale as you see the other guys grow an ominous smile and be like " yes RiskPig, *what's up with the chair* " in unison.
First instinct upon finding a chair in the middle of the room after a struggle: Mimic.
Matt Mercer: JUST A CHAIR.
then travis comes along in campaign 3 and cannonized that it was in fact murderous
But after all these years we finally got the chair lore.
Matt’s such a professional. God bless him. My Dm would’ve retconned that Chair into city leveling Mimic so fast upon us making that big a deal out of it.
Yeza: "Oh, you don't wanna know about the chair. . ."
"Guys, it's a chair." ; )
See, what most people don't realize is that the chair is a close cousin to Vox Machina's greatest enemy: DOORS!
Mathew probably should have mentioned the amounts of dust compared to the chair and the room. That usually signals that it was placed after things settled down.
I mean him saying 'it was probably brought here after by the person who locked the room' or some such, was a pretty good indication :p
He said it was brought it afterwards at least twice man
This is the gazebo story all over again.
THIS CHAIR. THIS CHAIR. THIS CHAIR. THIS CHAIR!
5:22 You can actually see something inside Matt just breaking.
If only someone had checked to see if it had "C.P." carved into it
The downside of describing something in perfect detail. A clean chair in a messed up room raises suspicion.
Matt's reactions are so wonderfully expressive they have to be intentional and acted.
We defeated the BBEG saved the world and everything is fine, Now.... gather the townsfolk and remaining soldiers ...we have a Chair not on the loose...
Matt enacted his revenge for this and the silly string incident in episode 69.
Hits differently if you've read much of Iain Banks, RIP.
Brilliant 'world-class DM makes players question everyone'
We now know who created the chair ;)
Matt: Right, I'll put a chair in this room to give an indication that someone came in later and set things up.
The party: _But what is up with this chair?_
You know, its nice seeing a great DM like Matt have this kinda struggle too. Theres been way too many moments where I've added a little tid bit thats held up my group for way too long as they over analyzed it and made me regret I ever mentioned it lol.
Describe one chair in too much detail derail entire campaign
His eye contact with the camera when Brian was asking about the chair... he was unravelling inside, and this was his cry for help.
On one hand, I can relate to Matt's struggle about this damn chair, but on the other, the chair sounds so important in his description and it's driving me insane.
His soul left his body during talks machina 🤣
"What I don't get is how the chair is connected to Ukotoa. I mean what does a giant serpent need with a regular-sized chair."
When the DM creates a set piece they only intend as a simple throw-away item, but the players make it into a whole conspiracy.
I just see this as a miscommunication. Matt had a story in his head about what happened: “A struggle took place in this room. After ransacking the room, the culprit brought a chair down into the room so they could sit while fiddling with the chest (filling it, trying to open it, whatever.)” In Matt’s mind the chair only exists to signify an order/sequence of events.
The group fails to understand this. They focus too much on the qualities of the chair, because Matt made a simple mistake of putting an unusual emphasis on the chair’s quality in contrast to the room when he said “but the chair is perfect”. It’s like an unintentional red herring.
This happens to me all the time. In a mystery campaign, I had a NPC explain that he was down by a stream skipping stones, and one of my characters got sidetracked examining stones in the stream thinking there was something significant about them when there wasn’t. I had to step out of character/narration to explain “Dude, seriously, there is nothing important to be found there, come back to the main narrative.”
At the end of the video, you can literally see his mind like. "Oh my freaking god, it's happening AGAIN!!!!"
In C2E112 the M9 questioned Yeza about the chair AGAIN. Poor Matt had to reiterate again that it was just a normal chair.
5:20 that's the moment Matt's soul left his body to never come back
Every DM has a moment like this. The look on Matt's face, says it all. "IT'S A FUCKING CHAIR!"
As a DM I now know the perfect way to stall for time while I fix or add details for upcoming sections on the fly; overly describe a piece of common furniture.
We need a part 2 to this for all the chair mentions after.
This is really so funny and is really telling about the importance of inflection of the DM's descriptions.
When the bbeg spawns a fucking chair before pulling out 10 bombs
The four legs, like a chair bit and his face 😂 gold
mAYBE THEY SHOULD HAVE STOOD ON TOP OF THE CHAIR AND SEEN IF THEY COULD REACH ANYTHING FROM THERE?!!?!?!?
(insert Matt Mercer doing dead-eyed "kill me" expression)
Make a will-saving throw!
5:40 The look of such a defeated man. I know this feeling, but I did it to myself and it was glorious wasting my players time for nearly 25 minutes on a room meant to look like a sacrificial altar room, but was just the bedroom of the cult leader.
Since they announced that Campaign 2 is getting animated please, oh please, I need a running gag about chairs
I love the scene right before this where Nott is trying to get the other members of the party to break down the door to this room. This is one of my favorite Sam moments because you can hear in his voice that Nott is trying really hard not to have a complete breakdown.
I don't watch talks machina or their other stuff but you putting that in there made this so much more clear. Thank you!
it stops feeling like a word after a while
In hindsight, Matt did describe the chair as "perfect" and "in the middle of the room" amongst a ransacked mess LOL
Picard: There are FOUR LIGHTS!
Matt: It was A CHAIR!
That face. "DMs, you know. I know you know. Tell me I'm not alone. I need you to tell me you know."