I swear, on Matt's tombstone it will say, "he was looking pretty rough" Edit: 7 years later and I'm still getting notifications about these comments I left. I've long since stopped watching CR but damn is it fun to come back and see time capsules like this.
Matt miming eating popcorn while Keyleth fluster-heals Vax is gotta be one of the funniest background events. It's good to be the DM, you can see your friends embarass your girlfriend while at the same time see romance happen in the story you're telling together.
"YOU! DON'T (smack) GO INTO (smack) ROOMS (smack) BY (smack) YOURSELF (smack) GOD (smack) DAMN IT!" (smack) - Percy, echoing the feelings of all of Vox Machina and the entire audience
To be fair, in this instance, Vax was explicitly told to go into that room alone, by the very sister who also made him promise to stay close. Yes, he should have waited a little longer to avoid getting his ass beat as badly as it was, but it's not 100% his fault he was there solo this time.
@@AlmostOtaku7 I mean what I'm hearing here is that Vex would be just as bad as her brother, were she a rogue /j. Gotta love that sibling dynamic of mutual bad influence XD
I took it as coming purely out of concern for his safety. Logically Percy knows Vax was doing what he was supposed to, but when trouble befell him it was enough to elicit this response
So... just watched blind spot 1x19 and there's this bit about DnD at the start. Ashley calls her colleague a wizard, who calls her an elf. Then she says "Actually, I'm a gnome cleric"... So got in a reference at last! So cool ;)
I love everything about this group. Matt laughing his ass off about Vax kissing Keyleth shows what kind of amazing people they really are. Also remember that Vex is a VORACIOUS flirt with every NPC and Travis always shrugs it away with a tease. There's no drama or weirdness that they bring in from the outside. Their characters are their own entities, and they control them as such. Just beautiful.
+Cadaverific Gaming Indeed. I think we're familiar enough with the cast at this point to know that Liam has probably consulted Matt about it off-stream by now (it's been pretty obviously brewing for many episodes) and they'd have amicably put a stop to it if there were any problem.
+gjaddajg I also thought Travis had a funny expression when Vax was giving Vex his cloak, to be honest that's the only time I noticed him with an odd expression towards Liam.
+gjaddajg Rewatching it I honestly don't think any one other than Liam and Matt knew this was going to happen. At least based off of all their reactions. I think Travis' comment was just a joke, they're always jabbing at each other. or maybe Liam is bored of rogue and they're just leading up to a traumatic death xD
randomnessocity Travis is Grog, and remember, above all else, Grog HATES SOAP OPERA CRAP! Travis doesnt wanna no about Vax-leth or shopping episodes or whatnot. He just wants to go hit something! Remember Shopping & Shipping? Although it was important to go thru the dialogue and evolve the characters, Grog does not require that much evolving. And when the DM does make it an event, it HAS to be surrounded by fighting (The Crucible and Grog potentially going to learn new skills there). I think thats what it was supposed to be but Travis ignored it for now.
@@quinnquazy876 Pretty sure she never thought she was the reason for Molly's death, a bunch of completely trash people just decided it was her fault and yelled at her on twitter and shit about how she caused his death.
“You know I’m in love with you” _raucous laughter, coughing, and going on break_ Cut to “In light of the attacks in France” That is a tone change alright.
Percy: Which one of my ancestors did you just shame to death? Scanlan: The one that possessed you! Percy: Okay fair. this is the best moment in this episode.
So funny, but at the same time, Percy is LITERALLY fighting off a smoke demon whispering in his ear and corntoring his thoughts, and is riding a high a vengence, and yet he STILL is concerned for his friends, still gets upset when his friend rushes in by himself and nearly gets himself killed AGAIN. Percy is such a sweetheart. Sadist, but a sadistic sweetheart. XD
I love Marisha’s note-taking. She has a tiny notebook that I think is where she writes notes on plot stuff, so whenever someone new shows up as Matt’s describing them, she always pulls it out to read to see if she knows them. I think that’s how she remembered it was Ripley too, it’s so cool.
I love how this trait of hers really shows well in campaign 2! I love it when people observe and write down anything that could be important (and it usually later on is), so I'm super happy when I see Marisha catch onto things and clues very quickly!
Every time I see comments of her note taking I get reminded of campaign 2 where she basically solved the whole campaign. Don’t watch it if you haven’t finished c2 but theres a video called ‘Marisha is proficient in note taking” and it shows clips of the things she’s referencing. Its insane.
Yeah he had done monster voices. But damn it was hard to listen to him! Even Laura at one point said something quietly to him about it and he was like "ehhh I'll be fine in a week" and she winced. Then he came back with a cup of tea after break. But he still didn't minimize his talking!! XD I think honestly he just loves this game that much.
That kiss had me screaming, & the moment being interrupted by Percy whacking Vax with a bunch of arrows for reckless endangerment yet again was almost better. Also, I love that Taliesin basically decided 'ok, now it's just unfair' by rolling that many Nat 20s, retired his own die from the rest of the game, and then proceeded to roll more Nat 20's with a different die. Like that's so cute & also such a nice thing as a player to say "Okay, someone else deserves a turn here" even if it's just your golden hand.
"Wait. As that happens, and my consciousness fades away, I don't say anything, but here's what I think in a split second. I think of my friends that I have spent so much time with. *I think of Keyleth, beautiful, walking under the trees.* I think of my twin sister..." OHMIGOD IT MAKES SENSE NOW. When he said that, I was like, *really *, you think of * her * before you think of Vex, but now-- I SEE THE LIGHT
I think Vex knew for a while When Vax was telling everyone about how him and Keyleth pretended to be married Vex was like "oh you did?" (Paraphrasing) in that tone lol
During the trial of the take, when Kash was getting annoyed with Keyleth, Tibs said "She's like that" and Keyleth said "Is that how people see me?" Vax looked at her and softly said "I don't". He was showing it way back then, but a lot of it is only caught in hindsight.
Oh yeah I forgot about that, not as awkward anymore cuz obviously Matt was in on it, idk of a player of mine just dropped something like that out of the blue I might be a bit weird about it
@@impastabowl2328 Not from my first watch through. I've listened again multiple times since, and have come to appreciate Liam's long games, like this one.
Why are people so weird about Vax and Keyleth? Or more accurately about Liam and Marisha playing there characters as having a romance? If this was a tv show and they were acting it wouldn't be weird. Vax is not Liam, Liam is not Vax it makes sense and makes for a good story. Plus they are all actors professionally and can separate character from self. Nobody acted like it was weird when Matt as Gilmore layed on the flirt with Vax so why is this weird? The answer is, its not.
If you mean the rest of the players then in a Q&A they will answer it, but it was the first time they ever experienced this in their game, hell I don't really see this between any players in any game I have been (because some people think it's weird, but for me could be entertaining like this). It's just those weird giddy feeling people get when they are in the middle of seeing an intimate moment and don't know how to react. Also they didn't act like that with Gilmore as it was just flirting and no one outright expressed love to each other yet. Also it could be between the two single player characters as opposed to the many DMs characters. If you mean the people in comments, then my previous long post can be ignored.
Well you see actors play romantic roles in every fucking movie, this is no diffrent. They are RPGing, they are making a store, just like any other book, movie or play.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure a lot of that was Marisha being legit flustered at this new development she wasn't prepared for. Her boyfriend and Sam teasing her didn't help.
1:57:06 That feel when you realise that if Percy had failed that first death saving throw, he would've been DEAD. Just imagine, Percy dead before facing the Briarwoods. That would've been horrible.
You never know. He tries to be as fair as possible, and the party has come VERY close to death several times already, like Vax against Anders, and in the Underdark escape Pike came one roll away from having her brain eaten by a Mindflayer. (Which I'm guessing would've made resurrection extremely difficult)
BigKlingy Yeah, I realize that. Same thing with the first fight with the Briarwoods, Vax came extremely close to dying. He had saving throw left, if I recall correctly. It does keep it exciting, the never knowing if a TPK is just around the corner.
I freaking love that Pike close call, because Matt breaks down when it happens. The second Percy kills the Mind Flayer Matt looks at the initiative order, takes a huge gasp and goes "oh my GOD! Because that guy was next, he was gonna kill Pike o.o". Perfect reaction of a DM who loves his PCs but would still kill them, no problem.
I think that its just some of the foes Matt/Critters choose(Critters when there is a vote) need serious work for balances sake. I mean just like in the episode you literally have to kill each other to stop possesion unless you have a cleric around. So you party is just screwed without one. Then how are you supposed to fight the big boss having most of your spells/abilities drained having to deal with possesion?
Odds are, unless your campaign has a very specific theme, you run into at most one vampire/one clan of them per campaign. Since the world is presumably not ruled by vampires when you start, they seem to be a rare enough occurrence.
That is something I wondered with clerics And necromancers being able to raise dead to undead. If I knew it was possible all corpses would be mandatory to burn to a god of light and fire.
@@melissawardjohns220 If the person that died didn't want to be burned, it could be considered disrespectful to still do it, but, yeah, it should be the opposite of what we have IRL(burning is standard, other stuff, including burials, are the exception).
I was super surprised to see him pull out three extremely lethal creatures without having a cleric around. I actually thought it was three banshees for a brief moment and REALLY was concerned.
Timestamps: 4:24 - The ship sets sail 04:37 - Break starts 11:09 - Fan art 14:44 - Break ends, game continues 17:28 Percy whacking Vax 27:46 - (Not really a highlight, but I was looking for it) Vax takes a look 35:35 - That's a bad idea 53:50 Cassandra kinda sorta flirts with Scanlan and Percy reacts appropriately 54:15 Scanlan has A Great Idea and Matt's face is priceless 56:50 Lets play "Which of the Percys is Vax" 1:39:13 - Scanlan sings a song to inspire Vax [based on Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5] 1:59:58 - Vicious Mockery 2:02:33 - Scanlan raps
shadowrain1000 I agree with you. If Scanlan were to ever use a gun, the first time he fired I can imagine a tiny Gnome being tossed back several feet by massive amounts of recoil
Out of all of the things that would put me on edge or bad omens I’ve seen in the past 30-something episodes, I have never shifted so uncomfortably in my seat until the moment Scanlan was handed a gun.
Just bringing this back up here. Thank you frankichiro! 00:00:56 - "I tried, but he hurt my wrist really bad" 00:02:11 - "What's up, bitches?" 00:04:05 - Vax kisses Keyleth! 00:04:55 - End of part 1 00:11:09 - Fan art 00:14:01 - Start of part 2 00:15:19 - "Roll for tounge action" 00:15:39 - Awkward Vax and Flustered Keyleth 00:16:13 - "Folks, we don't know what we're doing" 00:16:27 - Matt pretends eating popcorn 00:17:30 - Percy whacking Vax 00:18:06 - Cassandra and Percy 00:12:52 - "Percy, you have a sister" 00:24:55 - "That Ripley is very talented" 00:26:51 - Magic boots! 00:28:05 - "Vax, do you need my help to unlock it?" 00:29:09 - Letters 00:31:00 - "Yaarl?" 00:31:30 - "Oh, motherfucker! He's a spy!" 00:32:30 - Scanlan uses Shit-scrying 00:33:14 - "The delicious scent of burning human flesh fills the room" 00:33:38 - "You've squeezed all you're gonna be able to get out of that" 00:34:34 - "These are my friends, by the way" 00:35:35 - "You pull your finger on the finger part, and the big boom part comes out" 00:36:00 - Scanlan and the gun 00:38:44 - Cassandra's story 00:44:56 - "I do trust you, that's the problem" 00:48:30 - Percy's potion 00:50:14 - "That's the name of my belt as well" 00:31:32 - "What is Lady Briarwood?" 00:52:18 - "The whispered one" 00:52:56 - "That's a series of words I know individually, but it's strange that together they make no bloody sense" 00:53:49 - "It's a shame you're not as tall as your tales, small one" 00:54:11 - A small battalion of Percys and Cassandras 00:55:34 - "Abrasiveness is his most powerful weapon" 00:56:53 - "Is there anybody who's not made uncomfortable by this?" 00:58:13 - "Is this the body-switching episode?" 00:59:50 - "We'll go Percy, Cassandra, Cassandra, Percy, Percy, Percy" 01:01:23 - "Yeah, no. Don't go Skyrim on me" 01:02:34 - Taliesin rolls a natural 20 (4/7) 01:03:18 - Mysterious dark green glass 01:06:47 - Travis rolls a natural 20 (1/2) 01:09:31 - Taliesin rolls a natural 20 (5/7), Matt bans his die 01:11:20 - Taliesin rolls a natural 20 (6/7) 01:12:32 - Taliesin rolls a natural 20 (7/7) 01:15:55 - Matt forgot about the Hero's Feast 01:17:00 - "3v3, man. Battle Royale, let's do this" 01:21:07 - Taliesin rolls a natural 1 (2/3) 01:22:50 - Pike! 01:23:36 - Taliesin quoting Bedknobs and Broomsticks (ruclips.net/video/PpmshIjeSv8/видео.html) 01:24:04 - Sam makes a funny accent 01:24:47 - Scanlan's alignment is "Good-ish. Sort of like Devious Good" 01:26:16 - Vex recieves the lamest inspiration ever from Scanlan 01:26:45 - Taliesin makes a squeak 01:26:59 - Scanlan uses a Cutting Words doo-wop on Keyleth 01:28:30 - Taliesin working on his Spirit Squeaking 01:29:14 - "Oh, that's my mausoleum!" 01:29:35 - "Let's do this! I've always loved that bear" 01:30:20 - "Trinket bowling!" 01:35:17 - Taliesin rolls a natural 1 (3/3) 01:36:27 - "This is Percy beating up Percy right now" 01:37:49 - "Oh no, I hit Trinket" 01:39:09 - Scanlan inspires Vax (Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5) 01:40:32 - Matt forgot to add Cassandra to the initiative order 01:41:45 - "Yeah, the old Less-Likely-Trick" 01:45:31 - "Grog! I know you don't know what's going on right now, but kill Keyleth!" 01:47:42 - Marisha makes the cutest wheezes 01:53:55 - Cassandra is having a weird time 01:54:32 - Taliesin makes a creepy ghost voice and quotes Evil Dead II (ruclips.net/video/3mv6bwo6RCo/видео.html) 01:55:20 - "Oh shit, we've just been killing our friends for no reason?" 01:22:57 - Travis rolls a natural 20 (2/2), his first time critical hit on the show 01:57:01 - Percy fails two Death saving throws 01:58:54 - Scanlan grabs a little feel 01:59:14 - Sam tries to say Percy's full name, Taliesin start singing "It's De-lovely" from the musical Anything Goes 01:59:58 - Scanlan mocks a ghost to death 02:01:16 - "Which one of my ancestors did you just shame to death, again?" 02:02:34 - Scanlan raps a song of rest (O.P.P. by Naughty by Nature) 02:03:07 - "Holy Bejeezus guys, can we never do that again?" 02:04:19 - "Don't loot my family's crypt!" 02:04:42 - End of part 2 02:05:35 - "Ashley is getting home right now, in case we need her..."
@@ianglotfelty3639 Would have been funny but I'll take the way they restructured the entire fight over that one joke, Vax running in solo and needing to be rescued twice within a couple episodes would have felt like bad writing more than anything else.
Every time I reminded myself that everyone looked like Percy and Cassandra during that ghost fight I burst out laughing, like at 1:54:22 , Percy basically gets charged at by a larger version of himself that says "Percyyy".
The dice gods even reached down TWICE to tell them to stop messing with the rolls. The one keyleth rolled and two 20s on the new die. The dice tell the tale, and this is Percy's story
56:44 We see Laura asking Liam about his throat, and he shrugs it off saying he'll be better next week and jokes that now his voice is deep enough to do a Grog impression. Like a minute later all the guys are impersonating Vax which sets up Vax impersonating Grog and guys I flipping love these people and this story it's all too perfect.
1:36:40 Matt: You are being attacked and stabbed by yourself. It's weird Tal: I'm not reading too much into this. This is not a metaphor! Marisha: dies
I love that Matt gave them the opportunity for a short rest while Cassandra was getting her things. I love that he doesn' t play DnD as DM vs. Players, it's a story they're telling together and he wants it to be as good as it can be.
Jack Shade then he sends in three ghosts that completely deplete all their abilities right before the boss fight. Yeah, sure he doesn’t play dm-v-players...
@@clayxros576 Yeah, he realized it was way harder than he intended and started making up things to let it be easier, like Pike's intervention and allowing the spirit guardians to damage ghosts while they're possessing someone. To be fair, the fight would have been much easier if they hadn't failed every single one of their saves against possession.
Percy is literally the Anti-Wheaton. They both exist as entities only for the sake of the other's existence. They are literally yin and yang, positive and negative. I am gonna call it that when one of them dies (Either of old age, or otherwise), the other will die on the same day. Simply because one cannot exist without the other to balance them out.
Laura: "We really need a cleric." And then she played a cleric next campaign... Who became notorious for never healing her allies. Thank Melora for Caduceus!
Funny thing, she was going to play Warlock but Travis wanted to also so she took Cleric, and it all worked out beautifully in campaign anyway forJesters personality believing in her God
I did some calculations, and seven natural twenties, rolling that frequently, would amount to a 0.05% possible chance of it occurring. Congratulations, you've official earned the title of Nega-Wheaton.
I mean he makes 3 rolls an attack initiative saves with advantage skill checks. The. Add in that's 7 on 1 of them but it would be just as impressive if it was on nay of them so do that math foe each player. Then we are impressed this game but this is episode 33 so add in those odds for every roll up to date It's super impressive and tal for hundreds of episodes keeps up the anti wheaton I just don't thin .05% really is a fair assessment when your actually count the real rolls
WOW! Sam just continues to astound me with his ideas. No DM, no matter how many unholy pacts they may have made, can hope to match that sort of unexpected out of the box thinking, and you can *see* it on Matt's face, too.
Every DM has had their fair share.. I've had a wizard use polymorph to put out a town on fire by turning into a giant, and emptying their bladder. I've had a barbarian jump on top a boulder and "lumberjack run" it down a mountain so they could get enough speed to jump a ravine and get a "strike" on the orc formation on the other side (the party now calls the move Orc Bowling). I've even had a goblin druid talk an elder Red Dragon into sticking it's head into a tiny tunnel by swearing the dragon could fit and once stuck, insulting it so bad the angry dragon brought the mountain down on itself
@@azarinevil or once a halflimg druid we had on the team did an antman by turning into a fly and flew into an enemy npc's nose and proceeded to rip their face apart by then wild forming into a bear Most bat shit crazy/awesome thing I've ever seen
I love how Matt does things. 1:22:00 ish, he saw the 3 ghosts all taking over the players was a shit situation. And reading this, he took something heavily in character - Vax embracing religion somewhat following Pike, him having put time into it, and rewarded it by giving a chance to shake the ghost and help rebalance the odds in a very in-character, balanced, flavorful way. It didn't feel like an "Oh shit I gotta fix this" thing, but natural, one of those situations where the DM bending the rules is nice.
And he also rewarded Scanlan use of Spirit Guardian by homeruling posession like the ghosts were also taking damages as long as radiant damages were used. It works thematically and doesn't punish Sam for "wasting" a precious scroll because he couldn't have known better.
I always try to keep in mind that when I'm running a game I'm there to entertain the players and let them have fun. Sure my party running into a Zombie T-Rex in the jungles of Chult could be a regular combat where they get torn to shreds in like 4 rounds OR I can let them make perception checks and notice the loose rocks barely held in place by gnarled vines growing out of the cliff face. Technically it would take crazy good luck and the Zombie T-Rex not being resistant to bludgeoning damage to bury it and win but hey it makes for a cool moment and everyone has a great time. Besides I can always have it dig it's way out...
@@iank472 Yup, a good DM knows when to put a wall against their player, and when to let that wall crumble. Sometimes, it's funnier for everyone to play loose with the rules.
All of the above and this is being streamed, there has to be some level of entertainment value to keep people watching. You can't let rules (or dice roles) ruin a good plot in these cases. Plus, it's a game and why have rules if they're not mean to be broken?
4:13 The reaction by Marisha and how flustered she gets when Liam as Vex confesses his love to Keyleth is fantastic. Re-watching C1 and seeing the start of the Keyleth/Vax relationship is still just as adorable as it was the first time. What a moment.
Is Taliesin like the RNGesus or something? because 7 crit's is unheard of, not to mention when he reach out to "suck matts luck away" Matt ended up getting two natural twenties in a row.
+pixiedragon RNGesus is the RNGoddess's child, RNGesus is a spoiled brat that likes to give good rolls when it doesnt matter but gleefully takes it away when it matters most, RNGoddess however grants good rolls when needed
1:11:53, Taliesin: “I will lick your die”, Travis: “Will you lick both of them?”, Laura chuckles nervously. Travis, the king of sneak attacks in words/jokes.
Those little bits of Skyrim battle music keep making me panic and think I'm supposed to be fighting frost trolls or something obnoxious like that... 17:28 Percy whacking Vax 53:50 Cassandra kinda sorta flirts with Scanlan and Percy reacts appropriately 54:15 Scanlan has A Great Idea and Matt's face is priceless 56:50 Lets play "Which of the Percys is Vax"
1:59:57 Is the best part "You're not even corporeal! You have no substance! You're a nothin!" hahaha I love Scanlan. Favorite character for sure. How many kills has Scanlan gotten now just using cutting words? He's shamed like 4 things to death so far.
I love how Matt can take a ridiculous "how do you wanna do this" directive like a ghost crying from being viciously mocked to death (again) and turn it into something where _you're_ the one who almost feels like tearing up. A ghost recovering its senses -- its awareness of who it is and was -- and in that moment realizing that it has done something horrible that it can never forgive itself for. It's also great foreshadowing for events that are to come. I think this is one of my favorite smaller moments in the Briarwoods arc -- both when I first went through the episodes and on rewatch.
Watching in 2022 is such a different experience than the original critters. I've watched almost 10 months of videos in a little over a week and actually watched the show before any of the campaigns. It makes me so happy to know I have hundreds of hours of Critical Role left to enjoy.
It's really an embarrassment of riches! The one-shots are (very nearly all) fantastic too, and they did a slew of "Everything Is Content" experimental stuff at one point that was highly entertaining. (The most recent one with the VR headsets is NOT representative.) And then there's Sam and Liam's bromance podcast (All Work No Play), and at some point you will probably fall in love with some of their guests or the cast's appearances on other game streams which leads to going and finding more of those people's content, and soon enough you'll be digging through old Geek & Sundry content like that time they all failed hilariously at a For Honor beta, or the pajama card parties, or the Sagas of Sundry jenga-pull-based horror miniseries... Once you're hooked on this stuff & these people it kind of never ends, in the best way XD
+Lucas Walmisley i really think someone should examine the die or make him use others. It's not impossible that someone could get a weighted die or make one.
+Geek & Sundry I'm "The Wheaton" in my realm. I've taught around 13 games of Zombie Fluxx and lost all but 2 also in another 5 straight games I started with Larry. P.S. I roll maybe a half step better then Will, so 2s instead of 1s lol. ~8)
1:06:46 I love it when Grog makes a check for something he has no business checking just for the lols and ends up being way more useful than the character who is purposed for it. I wish there was a count for how many times it happened. The only one I remember is when he recognized the stone giants fortress.
4:10 Vaxleth 15:39 Awkward Vax and Flustered Keyleth 17:10 Grog and Scanlan yell for Ripley 21:18 Brothers and Sisters 35:35 Scanlan and the gun 53:49 Scanlan and Cassandra 54:04 Scanlan's seeming 56:54 The Percys and the Cassandras 1:39:09 Moves with Dagger
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I swear, on Matt's tombstone it will say, "he was looking pretty rough"
Edit: 7 years later and I'm still getting notifications about these comments I left. I've long since stopped watching CR but damn is it fun to come back and see time capsules like this.
'Across the way..." xD
And his last words if he is killed by someone -How do you wanna do this?
"Alrighty"
Or "You can certainly try"
"Best you can tell..."
Matt miming eating popcorn while Keyleth fluster-heals Vax is gotta be one of the funniest background events. It's good to be the DM, you can see your friends embarass your girlfriend while at the same time see romance happen in the story you're telling together.
he was actually eating pizza, but it was funny timing on his part
True, that whole scene was perfection and i loved it
Around 16:25 if anyone is looking for this
I just love how Marisha was flustered even OOC, gave an even bigger impression of a 10 CHA character and just improved the scene quality overall
Marisha having fun pretending to be possessed is pretty darn funny too.
"YOU! DON'T (smack) GO INTO (smack) ROOMS (smack) BY (smack) YOURSELF (smack) GOD (smack) DAMN IT!" (smack)
- Percy, echoing the feelings of all of Vox Machina and the entire audience
Not me... it's exactly his character
@@Ailieorz Yeah, but it doesn't mean it's advisable XD
To be fair, in this instance, Vax was explicitly told to go into that room alone, by the very sister who also made him promise to stay close. Yes, he should have waited a little longer to avoid getting his ass beat as badly as it was, but it's not 100% his fault he was there solo this time.
@@AlmostOtaku7 I mean what I'm hearing here is that Vex would be just as bad as her brother, were she a rogue /j. Gotta love that sibling dynamic of mutual bad influence XD
I took it as coming purely out of concern for his safety. Logically Percy knows Vax was doing what he was supposed to, but when trouble befell him it was enough to elicit this response
Marisha being so flustered she burned a higher level spell slot is so incredibly in character for Keyleth, that was perfect
tbf i think it was oin purpose. but flustered marisha def added to the character moment haha
I love that Matt was just as thrilled by the whole interaction as everyone else!
Omg its amazing.
A favorite moment I'm not seeing anybody else talk about: Taliesin turning to a flustered Marisha saying "I wanna see what color you turned!"
oh his reaction was one of my favorites
Most of Taliesin's brilliance goes unnoticed, I think half of his jokes are just for the audience.
@@alexandertiberius1098 And we are eternally grateful for that.
His blatant heavy cought reaction had me CRACKING UP. Taliesin knows how to make me laugh!
So... just watched blind spot 1x19 and there's this bit about DnD at the start. Ashley calls her colleague a wizard, who calls her an elf. Then she says "Actually, I'm a gnome cleric"... So got in a reference at last! So cool ;)
I actually screamed when it happened.
I just looked that up. I loved that they did that!
Ok, now I need to watch it...
this comment got me into blindspot
btw it hapens at 2:03 of the episode of blindspot
"What's your alignment?"
"...Good."
"Good? "
"Good-ish..."
An accurate description for chaotic good lol
@@OmniValor never before, have I heard something I took _SO personally,_ SO offensive, and _ONE-HUNDRED percent AGREE with_
I've always been partial to good adjacent when describing my chaotic good alignment.
I love everything about this group. Matt laughing his ass off about Vax kissing Keyleth shows what kind of amazing people they really are. Also remember that Vex is a VORACIOUS flirt with every NPC and Travis always shrugs it away with a tease. There's no drama or weirdness that they bring in from the outside. Their characters are their own entities, and they control them as such. Just beautiful.
+Cadaverific Gaming Indeed. I think we're familiar enough with the cast at this point to know that Liam has probably consulted Matt about it off-stream by now (it's been pretty obviously brewing for many episodes) and they'd have amicably put a stop to it if there were any problem.
+gjaddajg I also thought Travis had a funny expression when Vax was giving Vex his cloak, to be honest that's the only time I noticed him with an odd expression towards Liam.
+gjaddajg Rewatching it I honestly don't think any one other than Liam and Matt knew this was going to happen. At least based off of all their reactions.
I think Travis' comment was just a joke, they're always jabbing at each other.
or maybe Liam is bored of rogue and they're just leading up to a traumatic death xD
randomnessocity Travis is Grog, and remember, above all else, Grog HATES SOAP OPERA CRAP! Travis doesnt wanna no about Vax-leth or shopping episodes or whatnot. He just wants to go hit something! Remember Shopping & Shipping? Although it was important to go thru the dialogue and evolve the characters, Grog does not require that much evolving. And when the DM does make it an event, it HAS to be surrounded by fighting (The Crucible and Grog potentially going to learn new skills there). I think thats what it was supposed to be but Travis ignored it for now.
+jamal begg Married to Laura....not Marisha...
So when Wheaton said " Somewhere out there, there is someone who nevers rolls below a 17" was he referring to
Taliesin?
@Jacob Treuer Idk Keg rolled pretty low
Jacob Treuer Wheaton got a Nat 20 only one but still
The CR cast knew it but Wil didn't. I'm sure he is aware by now.
@Jacob Treuer if im not mistaking Kegs rolls were pretty low.. and she felt pretty shitty later thinking she was the reason for mollys death.
@@quinnquazy876 Pretty sure she never thought she was the reason for Molly's death, a bunch of completely trash people just decided it was her fault and yelled at her on twitter and shit about how she caused his death.
Liam: "You go first."
Sam: "17!"
Liam: "Shut up, 27."
That made me chuckle so hard.
And the gun just dissapeared. You didnt see him take it. You just had it one moment and the next it was gone.
59:50 "What's your marching order?"
"We'll go Percy, Cassandra, Cassandra, Percy, Percy, Percy."
4D4plus4is4D8; IKR!!!
"I know you don't know what's going on, but kill keyleth!!"
wait... which Cassandra is keyleth again?
*THE ONE WITH THE BOPPING STAFFFF...*
THIS IS THE THIRD TIME SCANLAN HAS MOCKED AN ENEMY TO DEATH. He's a living embodiment of the 'hello 911 I just witnessed a murder' meme.
ghosts have immunity to necrotic damage so that should have failed....but I'm so glad it didn't lol
@@alexkerr3868 Not necrotic, vicious mockery is psychic
@@pacingandmuttering5106 I stand corrected. For some reason I always think that VM does necrotic damage :/
@@alexkerr3868 might be Toll the Dead your thinking of
the quote from Taliesin after is just perfect
Cassandra: "It's a shame you're not as tall as your tales..."
Scanlan: "Go big, or go gnome!"
I started dying at Percy: NO... NO
Scanlan: don't worry
Percy: no
Scanlan: " That my dear lady, is not a tail." /Devilish grin
Whats the timestamp or when did this happen?
@@hollow3d This comment is ollllld but around 53:50 😇😇
I don't know why they're so surprised Percy is getting so many nat 20s, that's what happens when you sell your soul to a creepy smoke demon.
Yeah, that tracks. (Lol)
“You know I’m in love with you”
_raucous laughter, coughing, and going on break_
Cut to
“In light of the attacks in France”
That is a tone change alright.
Yeah, timing was a bit off right here...
Percy: Which one of my ancestors did you just shame to death?
Scanlan: The one that possessed you!
Percy: Okay fair.
this is the best moment in this episode.
Time stamp?
@@lure9257 2:01:16
Scanlan carried that entire fight
"Which one of my ancestors did you just shame to death, again?"
That may be my favorite sentence without context ever.
The "again" is what makes it.
Without a doubt.
Hi G&S! :D
+Zren Hi!
+Zren I thought Matt was going to be stumped acting out the mocking death... that was impressive story telling!
I have such a bad memory, when has it happened before?
"Teach me how to use a gun and i'll teach you why it's a bad idea to teach me how to use a gun."
Best quote ever
DON'T *smack* GO IN *smack* TO ROOMS *smack* BY *smack* YOURSELF *smack* GOD *smack* DAMNIT *smack*
new personal favorite line
So funny, but at the same time, Percy is LITERALLY fighting off a smoke demon whispering in his ear and corntoring his thoughts, and is riding a high a vengence, and yet he STILL is concerned for his friends, still gets upset when his friend rushes in by himself and nearly gets himself killed AGAIN. Percy is such a sweetheart. Sadist, but a sadistic sweetheart. XD
AndyCleve I read this comment AS I was listening to is at the exact same time.
@@cussundriakneal9904 was it about getting Vax killed, or Percy's sister killed?
@@AllThingsFascinate about Vax since last time he almost died to Lord Brierwood using him as the lord's supper
You mean better than the loudest librarian on god's green earth?
When Percy started picking up the arrows I was like, Oh, he's gathering them up for Vex, that's sweet... - oh.
I imagined he giving a cute bouquet of arrows to her
@@lucascerqueira202 with blood still on them XD
@@rhokesh4391 sounds about percy
I thought he was wanting to tinker with them myself
😅
For those curious Taliesin rolled a grand total of SEVEN! natural 20's.
Dang, Percy is in beast mode.
Did he sleep with the same Gypsy that cursed Wil Wheaton? It would explain his rolls...
...How???!?!
Most of us believe he sacrifices small children to some Elder God, which in trun grants him unholy luck.
Martintheauthor I'm personally more inclined to believe the theory by Nicholas Smith where he slept with the Gypsy that cursed Wil Wheaton.
unfortunately my imagination is very lacking so I keep imagine Cassandra as basically "Percy in a Dress"
That is not a bad thing
Indi Raw well that's a mental image I can't unsee 😂
Indi Raw Now I will never not see it that way
Roland Balajadia as the great demigod Maui once said: "you're welcome"
Indi Raw sooo. The sexiest girl ever?
Does the kiss get a sneak attack bonus?
You made my fucking day
Would make sense of it was a surprise round, which it probably would be.
Could you actually damage an undead that way?
I mean technically no Ookler, sneak attack requires the use of a finesse or ranged weapon so (then again maybe a kiss is a finesse weapon)
Brian Praamsma i literally laughed out loud at 3 am. Oh god thank you so much.
Taliesin: I'd like to gamble here.
Casino owner: I know who you are, and I'm never letting you in.
😂😂😂rolls a nat 20 on persuasion.
Casino Owner: as I was saying I’m never letting you in, without a vip pass. Carry on Percival Frederickstein von musso kawalsky derulo the third.
Taliesin: I’d like to gamble here.
Casino Owner: No Dice!
(Edited due to autocorrupt)
I love Marisha’s note-taking. She has a tiny notebook that I think is where she writes notes on plot stuff, so whenever someone new shows up as Matt’s describing them, she always pulls it out to read to see if she knows them. I think that’s how she remembered it was Ripley too, it’s so cool.
Good players take notes!
I love how this trait of hers really shows well in campaign 2! I love it when people observe and write down anything that could be important (and it usually later on is), so I'm super happy when I see Marisha catch onto things and clues very quickly!
She should study her spells
Every time I see comments of her note taking I get reminded of campaign 2 where she basically solved the whole campaign.
Don’t watch it if you haven’t finished c2 but theres a video called ‘Marisha is proficient in note taking” and it shows clips of the things she’s referencing. Its insane.
@@bowserbrowser6559 they had switched from pathfinder to d&d. Everyone was a little confused.
Keyleth/Marisha gets so damn flustered post-kiss it's the funniest thing ever.
KitKatAttac Preemptive “Shut up, Sam!” is a win!
And Sam just took it in stride. God bless.
Almost killed Taliesin with that.
Peep Lauras face too, it's a pretty amazing reaction
It’s made so much better by the fact that Matt is sat watching them miming eating popcorn
Poor Liam. He sounded like his voice was about to give out the whole night.
Spawnie1989 he said in the previous episode he was voicing monsters all day before it
This would have been while WoW: Legion was still in beta and Illidan had a lot of dialogue in that expac.
"I AM MY SCARS!!!!!"
Yeah he had done monster voices. But damn it was hard to listen to him! Even Laura at one point said something quietly to him about it and he was like "ehhh I'll be fine in a week" and she winced. Then he came back with a cup of tea after break. But he still didn't minimize his talking!! XD I think honestly he just loves this game that much.
It was sexy tho
"did you just squeek?"
"maybe. you don't know. shut up!"
I'm laughing so hard!
I had to replay that at least 5 times
Timestamp?
@@morganschall1521 1:26:46 I literally cried over this.
That kiss had me screaming, & the moment being interrupted by Percy whacking Vax with a bunch of arrows for reckless endangerment yet again was almost better.
Also, I love that Taliesin basically decided 'ok, now it's just unfair' by rolling that many Nat 20s, retired his own die from the rest of the game, and then proceeded to roll more Nat 20's with a different die. Like that's so cute & also such a nice thing as a player to say "Okay, someone else deserves a turn here" even if it's just your golden hand.
"Wait. As that happens, and my consciousness fades away, I don't say anything, but here's what I think in a split second. I think of my friends that I have spent so much time with. *I think of Keyleth, beautiful, walking under the trees.* I think of my twin sister..."
OHMIGOD IT MAKES SENSE NOW. When he said that, I was like, *really *, you think of * her * before you think of Vex, but now--
I SEE THE LIGHT
I think Vex knew for a while
When Vax was telling everyone about how him and Keyleth pretended to be married Vex was like "oh you did?" (Paraphrasing) in that tone lol
During the trial of the take, when Kash was getting annoyed with Keyleth, Tibs said "She's like that" and Keyleth said "Is that how people see me?" Vax looked at her and softly said "I don't". He was showing it way back then, but a lot of it is only caught in hindsight.
Oh yeah I forgot about that, not as awkward anymore cuz obviously Matt was in on it, idk of a player of mine just dropped something like that out of the blue I might be a bit weird about it
Scarlett Kara lol u didn’t realize before
@@impastabowl2328 Not from my first watch through. I've listened again multiple times since, and have come to appreciate Liam's long games, like this one.
Why are people so weird about Vax and Keyleth? Or more accurately about Liam and Marisha playing there characters as having a romance? If this was a tv show and they were acting it wouldn't be weird. Vax is not Liam, Liam is not Vax it makes sense and makes for a good story. Plus they are all actors professionally and can separate character from self.
Nobody acted like it was weird when Matt as Gilmore layed on the flirt with Vax so why is this weird? The answer is, its not.
If you mean the rest of the players then in a Q&A they will answer it, but it was the first time they ever experienced this in their game, hell I don't really see this between any players in any game I have been (because some people think it's weird, but for me could be entertaining like this). It's just those weird giddy feeling people get when they are in the middle of seeing an intimate moment and don't know how to react. Also they didn't act like that with Gilmore as it was just flirting and no one outright expressed love to each other yet. Also it could be between the two single player characters as opposed to the many DMs characters.
If you mean the people in comments, then my previous long post can be ignored.
well it's keyleth who is being weird but that's BC her character is that way
Well you see actors play romantic roles in every fucking movie, this is no diffrent. They are RPGing, they are making a store, just like any other book, movie or play.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure a lot of that was Marisha being legit flustered at this new development she wasn't prepared for. Her boyfriend and Sam teasing her didn't help.
+Jonathan Bethea I'm sure there was some background oks before it went ahead too.
Percy dropping 20s like there's no tomorrow.
He's also been rolling the most dice.
EchoMarauder one is born in every one thousand rpg gamer!
He just cannot hold all of those 20s!
Percy dropping 20's like Tiberius drops old ladies.
You made me chuckle. Thank you
1:57:06 That feel when you realise that if Percy had failed that first death saving throw, he would've been DEAD. Just imagine, Percy dead before facing the Briarwoods. That would've been horrible.
I seriously doubt Mercer would have struck Percy and take out two death saving throws had he failed it.
You never know. He tries to be as fair as possible, and the party has come VERY close to death several times already, like Vax against Anders, and in the Underdark escape Pike came one roll away from having her brain eaten by a Mindflayer. (Which I'm guessing would've made resurrection extremely difficult)
BigKlingy
Yeah, I realize that. Same thing with the first fight with the Briarwoods, Vax came extremely close to dying. He had saving throw left, if I recall correctly. It does keep it exciting, the never knowing if a TPK is just around the corner.
I freaking love that Pike close call, because Matt breaks down when it happens. The second Percy kills the Mind Flayer Matt looks at the initiative order, takes a huge gasp and goes "oh my GOD! Because that guy was next, he was gonna kill Pike o.o".
Perfect reaction of a DM who loves his PCs but would still kill them, no problem.
I think that its just some of the foes Matt/Critters choose(Critters when there is a vote) need serious work for balances sake. I mean just like in the episode you literally have to kill each other to stop possesion unless you have a cleric around. So you party is just screwed without one. Then how are you supposed to fight the big boss having most of your spells/abilities drained having to deal with possesion?
Percy just saying no to Cass and Scanlan's interaction is just amazing and never fails to make me laugh.
“It’s a series of words that I know individually but he strings them together in ways that don’t make sense.” I love Tahliesin
I am thinking that Whitestone will resort to burning their dead instead of burying them as a custom for a really long time to come.
I wonder why every D&D community doesn't do this as standard practice.
Odds are, unless your campaign has a very specific theme, you run into at most one vampire/one clan of them per campaign. Since the world is presumably not ruled by vampires when you start, they seem to be a rare enough occurrence.
That is something I wondered with clerics And necromancers being able to raise dead to undead. If I knew it was possible all corpses would be mandatory to burn to a god of light and fire.
@@melissawardjohns220 If the person that died didn't want to be burned, it could be considered disrespectful to still do it, but, yeah, it should be the opposite of what we have IRL(burning is standard, other stuff, including burials, are the exception).
I know that if undeath were a thing in real life then cremation would likely be mandated by law.
That awkward moment when all 3 players fail their charisma saving throws and the DM has to intervene to stop it from being a massacre.
*cough cough* deus ex machina *cough cough*
Deus Vox Machina
considering that he did the thing with pike at the start of the session its almost like he forsaw Vax being possessed
Sweet Autumns I have actually been stabbed before and I concur.
I was super surprised to see him pull out three extremely lethal creatures without having a cleric around.
I actually thought it was three banshees for a brief moment and REALLY was concerned.
Timestamps:
4:24 - The ship sets sail
04:37 - Break starts
11:09 - Fan art
14:44 - Break ends, game continues
17:28 Percy whacking Vax
27:46 - (Not really a highlight, but I was looking for it) Vax takes a look
35:35 - That's a bad idea
53:50 Cassandra kinda sorta flirts with Scanlan and Percy reacts appropriately
54:15 Scanlan has A Great Idea and Matt's face is priceless
56:50 Lets play "Which of the Percys is Vax"
1:39:13 - Scanlan sings a song to inspire Vax [based on Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5]
1:59:58 - Vicious Mockery
2:02:33 - Scanlan raps
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shadowrain1000 I agree with you. If Scanlan were to ever use a gun, the first time he fired I can imagine a tiny Gnome being tossed back several feet by massive amounts of recoil
I know this is old but 1:26:45- squeak
ALL THE SHIPS
Thank you kind ser...
Out of all of the things that would put me on edge or bad omens I’ve seen in the past 30-something episodes, I have never shifted so uncomfortably in my seat until the moment Scanlan was handed a gun.
Scanlon with a gun is fucked up
He’s a big little man, he can handle it (hopefully)
The very first thing he did was trigger a negligent discharge. I think he conclusively can not handle it.
I mean he only had it for three seconds
*C2 spoilers* It’s an omen for next campaign..
'It's a shame you're not as tall as your tales'
Dang, the de Rolo sass clearly runs in the family!
❤❤❤
Mercer's evil laugh as he starts the break immediately after the dramatic kiss.
...Seeming is the *best spell*, especially when used by Scanlan.
"Don't loot my family's crypt!"
+Papercut337 Words you never thought you would have to say, but have to regardless
"can I loot with stealth?" That'd be me
"Which of my ancestors did you just shame to death? AGAIN!"
Percy, looking at Cassandra and gesturing tentatively to the rest of the group; "These are...my friends..."
Just bringing this back up here. Thank you frankichiro!
00:00:56 - "I tried, but he hurt my wrist really bad"
00:02:11 - "What's up, bitches?"
00:04:05 - Vax kisses Keyleth!
00:04:55 - End of part 1
00:11:09 - Fan art
00:14:01 - Start of part 2
00:15:19 - "Roll for tounge action"
00:15:39 - Awkward Vax and Flustered Keyleth
00:16:13 - "Folks, we don't know what we're doing"
00:16:27 - Matt pretends eating popcorn
00:17:30 - Percy whacking Vax
00:18:06 - Cassandra and Percy
00:12:52 - "Percy, you have a sister"
00:24:55 - "That Ripley is very talented"
00:26:51 - Magic boots!
00:28:05 - "Vax, do you need my help to unlock it?"
00:29:09 - Letters
00:31:00 - "Yaarl?"
00:31:30 - "Oh, motherfucker! He's a spy!"
00:32:30 - Scanlan uses Shit-scrying
00:33:14 - "The delicious scent of burning human flesh fills the room"
00:33:38 - "You've squeezed all you're gonna be able to get out of that"
00:34:34 - "These are my friends, by the way"
00:35:35 - "You pull your finger on the finger part, and the big boom part comes out"
00:36:00 - Scanlan and the gun
00:38:44 - Cassandra's story
00:44:56 - "I do trust you, that's the problem"
00:48:30 - Percy's potion
00:50:14 - "That's the name of my belt as well"
00:31:32 - "What is Lady Briarwood?"
00:52:18 - "The whispered one"
00:52:56 - "That's a series of words I know individually, but it's strange that together they make no bloody sense"
00:53:49 - "It's a shame you're not as tall as your tales, small one"
00:54:11 - A small battalion of Percys and Cassandras
00:55:34 - "Abrasiveness is his most powerful weapon"
00:56:53 - "Is there anybody who's not made uncomfortable by this?"
00:58:13 - "Is this the body-switching episode?"
00:59:50 - "We'll go Percy, Cassandra, Cassandra, Percy, Percy, Percy"
01:01:23 - "Yeah, no. Don't go Skyrim on me"
01:02:34 - Taliesin rolls a natural 20 (4/7)
01:03:18 - Mysterious dark green glass
01:06:47 - Travis rolls a natural 20 (1/2)
01:09:31 - Taliesin rolls a natural 20 (5/7), Matt bans his die
01:11:20 - Taliesin rolls a natural 20 (6/7)
01:12:32 - Taliesin rolls a natural 20 (7/7)
01:15:55 - Matt forgot about the Hero's Feast
01:17:00 - "3v3, man. Battle Royale, let's do this"
01:21:07 - Taliesin rolls a natural 1 (2/3)
01:22:50 - Pike!
01:23:36 - Taliesin quoting Bedknobs and Broomsticks (ruclips.net/video/PpmshIjeSv8/видео.html)
01:24:04 - Sam makes a funny accent
01:24:47 - Scanlan's alignment is "Good-ish. Sort of like Devious Good"
01:26:16 - Vex recieves the lamest inspiration ever from Scanlan
01:26:45 - Taliesin makes a squeak
01:26:59 - Scanlan uses a Cutting Words doo-wop on Keyleth
01:28:30 - Taliesin working on his Spirit Squeaking
01:29:14 - "Oh, that's my mausoleum!"
01:29:35 - "Let's do this! I've always loved that bear"
01:30:20 - "Trinket bowling!"
01:35:17 - Taliesin rolls a natural 1 (3/3)
01:36:27 - "This is Percy beating up Percy right now"
01:37:49 - "Oh no, I hit Trinket"
01:39:09 - Scanlan inspires Vax (Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5)
01:40:32 - Matt forgot to add Cassandra to the initiative order
01:41:45 - "Yeah, the old Less-Likely-Trick"
01:45:31 - "Grog! I know you don't know what's going on right now, but kill Keyleth!"
01:47:42 - Marisha makes the cutest wheezes
01:53:55 - Cassandra is having a weird time
01:54:32 - Taliesin makes a creepy ghost voice and quotes Evil Dead II (ruclips.net/video/3mv6bwo6RCo/видео.html)
01:55:20 - "Oh shit, we've just been killing our friends for no reason?"
01:22:57 - Travis rolls a natural 20 (2/2), his first time critical hit on the show
01:57:01 - Percy fails two Death saving throws
01:58:54 - Scanlan grabs a little feel
01:59:14 - Sam tries to say Percy's full name, Taliesin start singing "It's De-lovely" from the musical Anything Goes
01:59:58 - Scanlan mocks a ghost to death
02:01:16 - "Which one of my ancestors did you just shame to death, again?"
02:02:34 - Scanlan raps a song of rest (O.P.P. by Naughty by Nature)
02:03:07 - "Holy Bejeezus guys, can we never do that again?"
02:04:19 - "Don't loot my family's crypt!"
02:04:42 - End of part 2
02:05:35 - "Ashley is getting home right now, in case we need her..."
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Keyleth: Vax? Um...be careful.
Vax: Of course, Keyleth-
Vex: *leans over* He will be :|
Correction, Percy spoke not Vax.
Oh my god Laura's face when Vax made his move was absolutely priceless. Her reactions are always so animated and lovable!
I don't know which I love better, Laura's OH MY GOD face or Marisha reverting into a 12 year old and hiding behind her binder lol
I'm certain Laura hasn't aged a day since she was 21. She still has that same level of enthusiasm for everything.
"😮😮😮😮😮"
59:21 - its like half a second but does anyone else hear Travis say "Time for a Family Reunion." after they find out that all the tombs are open.
thank you
At this point Scanlanigans has almost killed as many of Percy's family as the Briarwoods.
Scanlanigans may be the best word ever made
I just realized that we get to see Percy smacking Vax with the arrows......ANIMATED!! I can't wait! LOL!
I kinda hope each character is their own art style.
Grog is a jojo character
@@crodthesorrysap4165 Pillar Goliath
Damn that would have been great if they included it
@@ianglotfelty3639 Would have been funny but I'll take the way they restructured the entire fight over that one joke, Vax running in solo and needing to be rescued twice within a couple episodes would have felt like bad writing more than anything else.
"Oh no, so scary... And cute, like a kitten." - Scanlan to Possessed Keyleth
Love how she plays into it after he says that too.
Every time I reminded myself that everyone looked like Percy and Cassandra during that ghost fight I burst out laughing, like at 1:54:22 , Percy basically gets charged at by a larger version of himself that says "Percyyy".
Ha haaaa, Gary!
@@carrot5787 *GARRRYY*
Even Percy was getting irritated with his own great roles it was beautiful.
Meadeiocre ii
I'd get annoyed too lol. I love a fair fight, getting wreckt or wrecking really takes away the fun.
Laura's throwing away dice because they keep rolling 1's while this guy has to toss 'em because they keep coming up 20's.
The dice gods even reached down TWICE to tell them to stop messing with the rolls. The one keyleth rolled and two 20s on the new die. The dice tell the tale, and this is Percy's story
I love how Matt is just eating invisible popcorn while this all happens, a show in a show :P
56:44 We see Laura asking Liam about his throat, and he shrugs it off saying he'll be better next week and jokes that now his voice is deep enough to do a Grog impression. Like a minute later all the guys are impersonating Vax which sets up Vax impersonating Grog and guys I flipping love these people and this story it's all too perfect.
Vax said “You know I’m in love with you right?”, kissed her, and then my PHONE DIED.
THAT WAS AMAZING AND MY PHONE DIED!?!!!!!!!!
CRITICAL HIT
How do you want to do this?
Your phone couldn’t handle how cute it was
it's didn't die, it's swooned
When was it?? I can't find it
Percy beating Vax with the arrows was priceless.
Edit: The Scanlan/Trinket rivalry is also great.
Liam's "after-monster sounds" voice works so well with the fact that Vax nearly died in this episode. Perfect!
Marisha accidentally rolling a 1 with the snitch was perfect
Mateo Gg “accidentally” like you can control it normally
@@impastabowl2328 it’s all in the wrist 😂
@@itzizzzz Even then it's not perfect but you can get some control.
1:36:40
Matt: You are being attacked and stabbed by yourself. It's weird
Tal: I'm not reading too much into this. This is not a metaphor!
Marisha: dies
I love that Matt gave them the opportunity for a short rest while Cassandra was getting her things. I love that he doesn' t play DnD as DM vs. Players, it's a story they're telling together and he wants it to be as good as it can be.
Jack Shade then he sends in three ghosts that completely deplete all their abilities right before the boss fight. Yeah, sure he doesn’t play dm-v-players...
@@theendicott2838
That felt like an oopsie rather than an intended "screw you". Nobody was having fun in that fight
@@clayxros576 Yeah, he realized it was way harder than he intended and started making up things to let it be easier, like Pike's intervention and allowing the spirit guardians to damage ghosts while they're possessing someone. To be fair, the fight would have been much easier if they hadn't failed every single one of their saves against possession.
@@ultrawaffle Taliesin was draining all of their luck from their dice.
Percy is literally the Anti-Wheaton. They both exist as entities only for the sake of the other's existence. They are literally yin and yang, positive and negative. I am gonna call it that when one of them dies (Either of old age, or otherwise), the other will die on the same day. Simply because one cannot exist without the other to balance them out.
Either that or the universe will fall into chaos
luck cannot be created nor destroyed only transferred from one holder to another.
A new holder will be chosen to the chagrin of many
Or they are both immortal eldridge beings
@@TheAceUpYourSleeves The one is question is definitely Wil and not Taliesin
Edit: I can't spell or read
Laura's reaction to Vax declaring his love, is still to this day one of my favorite moments of Crit Role history XD
LAURAS FACE WHEN VAX SAYS HE LOVES KEYLETH IS EVERYTHING HOLY CRAP LMAO
That and Marisha reverting into a 12 year old and hiding behind her binder. I laugh like a madman any time I see this scene :D
Every one of her face muscles stretch to 110% it's outrageous and amazing lol
@@nuru666 I laughed like Alucard from Hellsing Ultimate Abridged
You would think Percy's smoke monster friend would have something to say about another spirit moving in
"Uhhh... excuse me? Sir? Sir! Can't a demon plot some revenge in privacy? Rude."
"Oh, no, I wasn't expecting visitors today, I don't have any coffee or snacks..."
@@synthellaart1587 Orthax, looking at the ghost: "...Crumpet?"
Laura: "We really need a cleric."
And then she played a cleric next campaign... Who became notorious for never healing her allies. Thank Melora for Caduceus!
Funny thing, she was going to play Warlock but Travis wanted to also so she took Cleric, and it all worked out beautifully in campaign anyway forJesters personality believing in her God
@@elfaro1607 there is no reason why 2 people cant play the same class. you got subclasses after all and you gotta do what you enjoy.
@@Tenma2411 i didn’t say I made the decision I said that Laura made the decision at that time.
@@elfaro1607 I know, i didnt mean it as an attack towards you but just as an observation as to why she changed classes.
I mean everyone talks about Jester never healing, and though she was always very reluctant and a tad resentful, cure wounds was her most cast spell.
But Vax, what about Gilmore and his glorious goods?
Goblinfoo Vax wants to tap that tree rather than take Gilmore's staff if you catch my drift
Bongibot Nah man, the glorious Gilmore threeway is the only option.
I kinda want that. WE MUST WRITE THE FANFIC
Vax has two hands.
When you swing both ways don’t you get one of each?
I did some calculations, and seven natural twenties, rolling that frequently, would amount to a 0.05% possible chance of it occurring. Congratulations, you've official earned the title of Nega-Wheaton.
r/theydidthemath ?
@@FurbGurger r/theydidthemonstermath
I mean he makes 3 rolls an attack initiative saves with advantage skill checks.
The. Add in that's 7 on 1 of them but it would be just as impressive if it was on nay of them so do that math foe each player.
Then we are impressed this game but this is episode 33 so add in those odds for every roll up to date
It's super impressive and tal for hundreds of episodes keeps up the anti wheaton I just don't thin .05% really is a fair assessment when your actually count the real rolls
2:00:34 - To Kill with Mocking Bard
Eh? Anyone?
Jack Ryan I HAVE to use this.
I see what you did there. I hate that i love it. Thank you.
I'd prefer To Kill A Mocking Bard 😳
disadvantage
Grudgingly, have an internet point.
Liam rolling sleight of hand to take the gun and smirking telling Sam “you go first” was just immaculate
57:17 I know he's hurting, but Liam's voice as Vax tries to get Kiki's attention absolutely MELTS ME
WOW! Sam just continues to astound me with his ideas. No DM, no matter how many unholy pacts they may have made, can hope to match that sort of unexpected out of the box thinking, and you can *see* it on Matt's face, too.
I don't think MrTingles meant to say that Sam somehow "bested" Matt - he just wanted to say that Sam can even impress Matt, who is an incredible GM.
Every DM has had their fair share.. I've had a wizard use polymorph to put out a town on fire by turning into a giant, and emptying their bladder. I've had a barbarian jump on top a boulder and "lumberjack run" it down a mountain so they could get enough speed to jump a ravine and get a "strike" on the orc formation on the other side (the party now calls the move Orc Bowling). I've even had a goblin druid talk an elder Red Dragon into sticking it's head into a tiny tunnel by swearing the dragon could fit and once stuck, insulting it so bad the angry dragon brought the mountain down on itself
@@azarinevil ORC BOWLING?! I love it!
@@azarinevil I mean my players do more of the sadistic things like summoning water in an enemy's lungs
@@azarinevil or once a halflimg druid we had on the team did an antman by turning into a fly and flew into an enemy npc's nose and proceeded to rip their face apart by then wild forming into a bear
Most bat shit crazy/awesome thing I've ever seen
"Abrasiveness is his most powerful weapon"
"You know I'm in love with you, right?"
Oh my god, that bomb drop right before break! I actually felt MYSELF blush!
I love how Matt does things. 1:22:00 ish, he saw the 3 ghosts all taking over the players was a shit situation. And reading this, he took something heavily in character - Vax embracing religion somewhat following Pike, him having put time into it, and rewarded it by giving a chance to shake the ghost and help rebalance the odds in a very in-character, balanced, flavorful way. It didn't feel like an "Oh shit I gotta fix this" thing, but natural, one of those situations where the DM bending the rules is nice.
And he also rewarded Scanlan use of Spirit Guardian by homeruling posession like the ghosts were also taking damages as long as radiant damages were used. It works thematically and doesn't punish Sam for "wasting" a precious scroll because he couldn't have known better.
I always try to keep in mind that when I'm running a game I'm there to entertain the players and let them have fun. Sure my party running into a Zombie T-Rex in the jungles of Chult could be a regular combat where they get torn to shreds in like 4 rounds OR I can let them make perception checks and notice the loose rocks barely held in place by gnarled vines growing out of the cliff face. Technically it would take crazy good luck and the Zombie T-Rex not being resistant to bludgeoning damage to bury it and win but hey it makes for a cool moment and everyone has a great time. Besides I can always have it dig it's way out...
@@iank472 Yup, a good DM knows when to put a wall against their player, and when to let that wall crumble. Sometimes, it's funnier for everyone to play loose with the rules.
@@bdletoast09 rule of cool wins 10 times outta 10 😀
All of the above and this is being streamed, there has to be some level of entertainment value to keep people watching. You can't let rules (or dice roles) ruin a good plot in these cases. Plus, it's a game and why have rules if they're not mean to be broken?
4:13 The reaction by Marisha and how flustered she gets when Liam as Vex confesses his love to Keyleth is fantastic. Re-watching C1 and seeing the start of the Keyleth/Vax relationship is still just as adorable as it was the first time. What a moment.
Is this the second time Scanlan has gotten, "How do you want to do this" by mocking them to death?
+UnNuclear Third if you count the dark dwarf he drowned
Third I think
Third.
Notice how every time he mocks someone, they die?
Definitely three.. A duergar guard, a lesser vampire, and this episode's victim. Starting to think Scanlan's making up for being bullied as a child.
Is Taliesin like the RNGesus or something? because 7 crit's is unheard of, not to mention when he reach out to "suck matts luck away" Matt ended up getting two natural twenties in a row.
+pixiedragon The Universe needs a way to balance out Wheaton rolls.
that it does, I fear the day those two are in the same room.
Have a friend we nicknamed Crit Joe. Because 80% of the time he rolls a Crit. Either a fail or success it's usually a Crit.
+pixiedragon RNGesus is the RNGoddess's child, RNGesus is a spoiled brat that likes to give good rolls when it doesnt matter but gleefully takes it away when it matters most, RNGoddess however grants good rolls when needed
+pixiedragon but... but... RNGesus has no power in real live. He holds the power over Digital Randomness.
“You know I’m in love with you, right?” had me smiling like SUCH AN IDIOT AAAAAAA
taliesin intensely eating a slice of pizza while rping percy is *A Vibe*
I know the kiss was a huge thing of this episode. But can we talk about Scanlan's epic moment of 'We are all de Rolos today'.
Damn vex went straight gangster. She jacked that dudes shoes.
Steven Ritter she took his timbs.
"you know i'm in love with you, right?"
*sound of perc'ildan shippers' hearts stopping*
Isnt it Kyleth and Vax tho that it happens between tho?
Anthony Flames yeah but they are upset because vax + keylith is now kinda cannon
Don't care if its Canon Perc'ildan is still cute.
It's been a *year* since this comment and I still ship Perc'ildan
Perc'ildan is wonderful
I love how right after the break and that bombshell, matt is sitting there literally eating as he watches Keyleth fall apart
It makes perfect sense for Percy to be droppin' 20s, It's his own turf, he's inspired to right the wrongs, he's on point.
1:11:53, Taliesin: “I will lick your die”, Travis: “Will you lick both of them?”, Laura chuckles nervously. Travis, the king of sneak attacks in words/jokes.
Travis is so fuckin under rated he hits one liners like vax hits sneak attacks
Those little bits of Skyrim battle music keep making me panic and think I'm supposed to be fighting frost trolls or something obnoxious like that...
17:28 Percy whacking Vax
53:50 Cassandra kinda sorta flirts with Scanlan and Percy reacts appropriately
54:15 Scanlan has A Great Idea and Matt's face is priceless
56:50 Lets play "Which of the Percys is Vax"
“Oh shit.. Where’s that fucking Mudcrab..?”
1:59:57 Is the best part
"You're not even corporeal! You have no substance! You're a nothin!" hahaha I love Scanlan. Favorite character for sure. How many kills has Scanlan gotten now just using cutting words? He's shamed like 4 things to death so far.
When Keyleth cast cure wounds on Vax at the beginning Scanlan should have sang "Sexual Healing" for inspiration.
I love how Matt can take a ridiculous "how do you wanna do this" directive like a ghost crying from being viciously mocked to death (again) and turn it into something where _you're_ the one who almost feels like tearing up. A ghost recovering its senses -- its awareness of who it is and was -- and in that moment realizing that it has done something horrible that it can never forgive itself for. It's also great foreshadowing for events that are to come.
I think this is one of my favorite smaller moments in the Briarwoods arc -- both when I first went through the episodes and on rewatch.
Watching in 2022 is such a different experience than the original critters. I've watched almost 10 months of videos in a little over a week and actually watched the show before any of the campaigns. It makes me so happy to know I have hundreds of hours of Critical Role left to enjoy.
It's really an embarrassment of riches!
The one-shots are (very nearly all) fantastic too, and they did a slew of "Everything Is Content" experimental stuff at one point that was highly entertaining. (The most recent one with the VR headsets is NOT representative.) And then there's Sam and Liam's bromance podcast (All Work No Play), and at some point you will probably fall in love with some of their guests or the cast's appearances on other game streams which leads to going and finding more of those people's content, and soon enough you'll be digging through old Geek & Sundry content like that time they all failed hilariously at a For Honor beta, or the pajama card parties, or the Sagas of Sundry jenga-pull-based horror miniseries...
Once you're hooked on this stuff & these people it kind of never ends, in the best way XD
1:26:46 - That squeak by Taliesin, Marishas face when he does it, and his face when Marisha points it out hahaha
I like to imagine this is how Marisha is with real life romance: like sometimes she just spins around like a freaked out Sim.
To be fair, it is pretty adorable...
Ya, that's good. But lauras reaction at 4:25 is completely priceless
Laura's face when vax kissed kelyth
I screenshotted it
Stephen Williams in the aftermath, Matt just sitting there nomming popcorn with great interest
Qq
Aaaaq
john kennedy
Percy is just making up for Wil Wheaton guys, the balance must be made
+Lucas Walmisley The Wheaton Curse!
+Lucas Walmisley they didn't star in the same episode for a reason.
+Lucas Walmisley i really think someone should examine the die or make him use others. It's not impossible that someone could get a weighted die or make one.
+starcrafter13terran 1:09:00 Ban the die, good call!
+Geek & Sundry I'm "The Wheaton" in my realm. I've taught around 13 games of Zombie Fluxx and lost all but 2 also in another 5 straight games I started with Larry. P.S. I roll maybe a half step better then Will, so 2s instead of 1s lol. ~8)
I swear Taliesin and Marisha's friendship is one of my favourite things
1:06:46 I love it when Grog makes a check for something he has no business checking just for the lols and ends up being way more useful than the character who is purposed for it. I wish there was a count for how many times it happened. The only one I remember is when he recognized the stone giants fortress.
"YOU CAN'T HAVE MY D8s!"
"Ok fine, have my D8s"
Adamaeus she wants the d8!
4:10 Vaxleth
15:39 Awkward Vax and Flustered Keyleth
17:10 Grog and Scanlan yell for Ripley
21:18 Brothers and Sisters
35:35 Scanlan and the gun
53:49 Scanlan and Cassandra
54:04 Scanlan's seeming
56:54 The Percys and the Cassandras
1:39:09 Moves with Dagger
I know it's a tiny and obscure thing, but I always laugh when Sam takes a drink of that giant-ass tankard.
+Mark Møller Hansen Every show I look out for the new stickers
+Mark Møller Hansen Scanlan is a tiny and obscure thing as well
+Rikard Ström Tiny, yes. Insignificant? Hardly.
ebonyjones1617 He didn't really write insignificant, just obscure.
Hehehe
I love the way Taliesin goes into fairly obscure pop culture references on the fly. Bedknobs & Broomsticks is one of my favorite Disney films ever.
Thank you. Couldn't remember what movie that was from.
Came here to say this.
when Marisha touched Taliesin's dice and they started rolling shitty
THIS IS WHY NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO TOUCH MY TINY DICE
Same here: no one is allowed to TOUCH MY TINY DIC… oups! I misread; you actually ended with an « E »… 😜