Omens | Critical Role: VOX MACHINA | Episode 39
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Vox Machina is in disarray as a mysterious skull is found and Vax questions the priorities of the group. Meanwhile, the city of Emon experiences a substantial political shift.
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Laura: "You're trying to kill us!"
Matt: *tries not to glance down at four ancient dragon minis of varying colors*
They can't exactly be called "minis" anymore.
L.mao right, he definitely used those Critter gifts!!! I was like OHHHHH NOOOO!!!
Okay but do you think the monsters came first or the minis? 😂
Like how many times have Critters actively fucked up VM because “Oh, Mercer would *love* this!”
Laura, horrified, using the Mom VoiceTM: MATTHEW MERCER.
Matt: What? :)
Her using mom voice even before she was one 😍 she has always been a good mom
I thought someone asked for a time stamp but don’t see the comment now. but it’s at like 31:25 ish
And Matt being the snarky rebellious petulant kid coming back with: “What?!” 31:26
In hindsight, Gilmore treating them to a Hero's Feast should have clued them in to something bad happening
They should have had immunity to poison since the Heros feast last for 24 hours right?
@@unculturedswine1961 I think so but they may have thought it had expired/forgotten about it. They should also have been immune to being frightened
@@JoULove from what i got the heroes feast was two days before. (Keyleth drunk night, the next day was the cavern fight/jailbreak/looking for Vax, then the day start of the council.
@@pairuhdox1611 My original comment was about the worm encounter, but I think you're wrong about it being 2 days later, it all happened in the same day (although it's debatable exactly what time they feasted, it sounds like it was in the middle of the night but could have been earlier): bender -> sleep -> worm encounter -> return to the keep and hear about Kaylie -> prison break -> council meeting + dragon attack at dusk or thereabouts. If more time passed they don't explicitly say that from what I noticed
@@unculturedswine1961 actually, no. It had been a total of almost 48 in game hours since the heroes feast.
"Did you tell her you're her dad yet?"
KILLED me. Travis' comedic timing and creativity is on point.
When does that Part happen?
@@willisrose9756 2:59:15
@@Reblwitoutacause thanks
"You don't have twenty gold?"
"Oh, I do, just not for your daughter."
Wow, that was cold Percy.
Well, Scalan threw Percy's child into the acid so fairs fair
@@derekhandson351 Yeah. XD It also is a nasty roast there by Percy to Scanlan.
@@BryonYoungblood Hence why Scanlan punching Percy was very well deserved. XD
@@cussundriakneal9904 Hey, the plan worked for the most part. XD And it also worked to trigger Scanlan so they could get into the stockade and save Kaylie.
i just like the idea that Grogs intelligence is so low he genuinely thinks cravenedge is a buddy and the evil can not seep into grogs mind as quickly as anyone elses.
It also helps that grog already genuinely enjoyed fighting and killing, so if anything Grog getting his hands on it could change the view of Cravenedge due to an actual kinship
He is going to drive this thing nuts, if it was lawful good it would have a chance of being patient enough to get through to Grog but chaotic evil doesn't stand a chance
A smaller target is harder to catch and dominate
Travis is epic
Honestly it's brilliant. That dynamic is too funny and like kinda adorable
Vax: "what are we doing here, I feel like we dont have any purpose anymore"
Matt: "I'm about to end this mans whole career"
Time to reroll a character, haha!
More like, "I'm about to revitalize this man's whole career."
Liam: “I would like to roleplay a midlife crisis
Matt:”…so anyways, here’s a bunch of ancient dragons.”
@@TheDarthLuffy I love seeing MC syndrome getting destroyed by the DM lol
"what if it sends a dragon to us?"
Oh dear scanlan, if only you knew.
Matt probably had a moment to himself like "heh, just wait for this"
What's the time stamp for Scanlan's line? Do you know?
@@UchihaKat 3:09:40
@@tylertrebitowski Thanks!
I can only imagine how he struggled to keep a strait face everytime he bragged about killing a dragon.
It's a WUS. A Worm of Unusual Size.
“A womb with a view”
I swear to god taliesen is the patron saint of unnoticed one liners
When one becomes two.
The one in here that makes me laugh is Travis trying to remember what a d6 looks like and Taliesin just says "method"
@@evelynminer6425 You know, I laughed anyway but I don't get it. Help
@@OSDisco "Method Acting" is an acting technique wherein the actor tries to live like their character in real life. Taliesin was saying that Travis was acting like Grog in real life.
It's from gwar song
Scanlan after being swallowed by the Wyrm: "I don't want to be in here anymore"
Matt: "Correct."
There's a big difference between a wyrm and a worm. Though both appeared in this episode.
@@3XC4L1B3R a Purple Worm and a Frost Wyrm, correct?
@@u.s.s.chucklefucker1657
No, wyrm is a name for an ancient dragon.
@@3XC4L1B3R Correct.
Specifically, lore-wise, Wyrms are ancient dragons, so old that they lack any limbs at all. They made up with this in size, though. They looked like huge worms, and hence the modern name for the slippery small things you see, worms.
Im talking about Wyrms using lore I learnt from multiple fandoms, not just DnD.
42:22 for anyone looking for it
06:15 - Sam Taunts Travis
07:17 - Game starts, part 1 begins
12:00 - Recaps Ends
22:05 - Scanlan's Eye Bite
23:19 - Scanlan's Inspiring Limerick
29:30 - First proper use of Craven Edge
31:00 - Laura Thinks THIS Is Bad (just wait)
34:00 - MIST-akes Are Made ;)
39:54 - Scanlan sings to cast cutting words [based on Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me]
44:23 - Understanding the Situation
46:30 - Taunting The DM
59:10 - Mercer The Merciful
1:11:20 - Scanlan Inspiration
1:22:33 - Laura Realizes the Danger
1:25:00 - How Do You Want To Do This?
1:33:45 - Grog Feeds Craven Edge
1:43:03 - Part 1 ends
1:58:23 - Break Ends
2:01:15 - Matt's Ashley Johnson Impression
2:04:10 - Whispers
2:07:40 - Vax Confronts Grog
2:23:00 - Scanlan's Shitty Infiltration
2:28:44 - DadLan
2:34:40 - Reverse Whisper
2:42:02 - Prision Break: Lord Percy & Scanlan
2:58:50 - Grog's Question
3:11:15 - Keyleth Suffers a 3rd Degree BURN
3:17:00 - Vax questions (and will soon recieve an unexpected answer)
3:20:45 - Gilmore
3:22:09 - Grog's Attempt at Shopping
3:23:50 - Uriel Addresses Emon
3:30:00 - Omens
3:31:39 - The Bomb Drops (3:31:46)
3:36:11 - Horror
3:43:48 - Good question
3:53:51 - Game ends
Originally posted by @derfelpendragon5080 about 2 years ago, the people that make these timelines are so appreciated
Thanks!
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Matt is a sneaky bastard. His psychological game is deep. In this episode alone, he changed Sams demeanor entirely. It’s not just Sam playing Scalan differently, it’s actually Sam not knowing how to deal with this daughter revelation. Well played. Also well played by the cast with their in character jokes. The roleplaying is getting better and better.
Grog: Uh... Nineteen.
Matt: Nineteen misses.
*And the room goes quiet*
Scanlan: Nineteen misses?!
3:36:11
I love how even the music timed up for a dramatic hold on the high note
Grog: Twwwenty two.
Matt: Juust barely hits.
It’s funny to look back at this comment because now it’s like: “23 hits? It’s so low!”
Speaking of Scanlan, looks at Sam's face when Matt drops the bombshell. Everyone else looks shocked/horrified, Sam seems amused and/or excited at everything suddenly going to hell.
"I'm using a 6th level spell as a glorified messenger?"
"You used it yesterday for nothing at all."
A real time use of cutting words.
Harvey West right? Plus a messenger is more useful then she is on a daily basis.
@@ajmrozinski2551 No, but nice try.
@@ajmrozinski2551 Honestly enough lol. Flower child ;" Let me intimidate them.Three", then Matt replies"And with that everyone roll initiative."
Keyleth is about as useless as a brick
@@noyes5052 Her monk in the new campaign is about the same sadly lol. I don't think its the class choices at this point lol
1:12:25
Marisha: ”Half of its my faulth…”
Sam: ”No no no… all of it is.”
Sam’s a comedic genius. A savage comedic genius.
If they'd only caught on that it takes a minute to cast.
@@neerGdyahS Matt was reading from the wrong info, I'm sure he would have caught it. Really a perfect storm
The funny part to me about their discussion with Uriel - They just fought through that whole battle, dragged themselves out, and immediately walked into Uriel's place just going, 'Yeah, that place is SUPER dangerous,' covered head to toe in wounds and bleeding all over like they just went through a war.
DM: "Role a strength check with disadvantage."
Percy: "Natural 20!"
DM: "WITH DISadvantage"
Percy: "three...."
46:44
Percy: "AAAAAAA!!!"
@@thomasdalrymple2277 I just imagine Taliesin is screaming that in his head after that XD
I'm gonna buy you ice cream, I'm gonna buy you good ice cream
The whole motherfucker back and forth between the two. Was freaking hilarious
Percy: "You chose so poorly, you chose sooo poorly! It it truly impressive how poorly you chose!"
(my favorite character)
Same 😂
Travis: [nervous laugh] "...You just massacred people."
Matt: "...yeah :)"
3:20:10 Liam looks in his cup and places it back down in what I would describe as "disappointed but no motivation to refill" and Laura notices and refills it for him. I may be reading too much into it, but it was such a subtle example of a good friend noticing another friend's needs, even seemingly so little, and doing what they could to help. It was moving to me.
I didn't even notice! Adorable 🥰
They act like siblings even though they are not and it is beautiful.
It's cute because after she refills it, he immediately takes a sip and she keeps looking at him, expecting a reaction and he's deliberately not giving her one until they finally both crack and begin laughing. They knew what they were doing. Sibling energy, indeed.
@@Xylarxcode “thank me dumbass”
🙂
"We had seven drummers in two years, and I killed two of them" is the single most accurate summation of life in a touring band I've yet heard.
Then you don’t know any drummers, or have any musical experience, drummers have incredible core strength and endurance.
@@ajmrozinski2551 I found the drummer. You can tell because the drool that comes out when his riser isn't level.
As a drummer who spent time with drummers....yeah I get why you’d want us dead. (Never forget the time a drummer left a gallon of milk in the drum storage lockers in Highschool for months)
DRUMMER LOCATED, PREPARE FOR DIE
Spinal tap nod
Rage looting was one-up'd by *frenzied* rage looting, then *immediately* overtaken by *BIGBY'S HAAAAAAANND* looting. God I love these beautiful people
Vax: "I don't know what to do anymore."
Matt: "I have a couple dragons here behind the screen if you want to play with those..." 😈
The "19 misses" part has been talked about enough, but what stands out the most to me is something that probably wasn't even planned, but the universe made the events line up to create art.
As soon as Matt says 19 misses and Travis looks up dumbfounded, there is an odd silence in the music except for an eerie sustained ring. It perfectly captured the moment and really enhanced the gravity of the situation.
Remember the wise words of Dr. Stephen Strange:
"The warnings come *after* the spells.
Insert GIF of Wong laughing
It warms my heart to see that, after this much time, the only comments people have about that, admittedly hilarious, moment is memes. Memes and puns.
@@TheKazragore Yeah, hmm, uh, there's a lot of other stuff. Glad you haven't come across it.
@@TheKazragore Oh, believe you me, people have said THINGS. 😕 But the best things are definitely the puns and jokes 😂👏🏻
Nice
Matt:"Welcoom to Blernjons & Dergans"
Talisen:"You talk for a living"
😆😆😆
We PlAy BlErnJoNs & DeRgOnSsssS!
@@sweebosthat’s my level of english
@@eagerEman25
Yeah, wurds are hard. 😄
@@sweebos LMAO it asks if I want to translate it to English 😂😂😂!!!
Taliesin: "Okay, these creatures have no eyes"
Matt: "Correct"
Taliesin: "I'm made of smoke"
Matt: "Mhm!"
*awkward silence*
Travis: "Well, Established."
Taliesin: "As long as we're all clear on what's going on here."
Liam: *quietly* "Nice Haiku."
I lost it!! xD
When was it said?
@@garr_inc 44:26 is when my quoted dialogue begins
@@LoafErikson
Thank you!
Travis dying at that joke 😂😂
"did we kill the entire city because we went back to general krieg's place?" ---- Bard: "But think of the 4000 gold we got". if that doesn't sum up D&D idk what does :P
AND a tea set
@@randomlineofletters Don't forget the dominos.
This always annoyed me tbh, Krieg was there to soften the city up before hand, the dragons were always going to attack the place, and the instance otherwise just irks xD
pike would be the WORST person to hear “im not mad im just disappointed” from
momma Pike
oh man that would destroy me bro
I'd just curl up and die
Nat 20 emotional damage
I need Ashley Johnson to say this so I can use it against friends.
3:33:18 I love around this part you see it strike both Laura and Travis that there are FOUR dragons. It's great storytelling on Matt's part because he describes the red and black shapes in the sky, so when he introduces the white and then green dragons, each one becomes its own "oh shit" moment.
"everything else was dragons why wouldn't it be dragons" - underrated laura line
31:25 [Matt summons two Wurms]
Laura: "MATTHEW MERCER. You're tryn'na kill us."
Matt: [scooches box of Wyrms under table, internal evil laugh intensifies]
@@LightDragon777 correct, he's referring to the dragons showing up later in the episode when he said "wyrms"
@@LightDragon777 Yes..... Which are stronger than wurms....
Liam bring excited I’m my favorite part about that scene.
@@LightDragon777 wyrm means worm, serpent or snake, sometimes also used to refer to limbless dragons. Also, the etymological root of dragon also used to refer to snakes.
It is all snakes all the way down.
Dragons are just snakes with legs and wings.
Travis: "You just massacred people"
Matt, grinning and rubbing his hand together: Yes.
"Look how I massacred my boy!"
Here, have your 666th like.
I created this city and I will decide how it gets destroyed.
The mark of a good DM is not only his ability to create, but to be willing to destroy what he has built utterly.
The party discussing whether to take the skull with them to Whitestone or not:
Scanlan: "What if it's a portal? What if it can send a dragon to us?"
Matt: *Breaks into a nervous sweat* Dragon? What dragon? I didn't say dragon! That's ridiculous!
Also Matt: Quietly slides a box of dragons behind a curtain.
I really expect Vex to have an itemized bill of charges for Dr. Dra's stay at Greyskull Keep... including the 100 gold for the bottles of water in the mini fridge.
Don’t forget the 5000GP charge for attempting to steal their 5000GP payment from the Emperor
3:36:12
Travis: "Nineteen." (already getting out his hit dice)
Matt: "Nineteen misses."
Music: (dramatically gets quiet)
Travis: ( 〇□〇)
"We're in a hentai, make it go away!"
-Percy
God I love this show
I need a timestamp for that!
@@TH-by9cc 31:28 found it for ya!!
Scanlan: "Listen Drummer..."
Zed: "It's Zed"
Scanlan: "You can be replaced easily."
Matt gives a frowny Zed face.
Scanlan: "When I played with them, we had seven drummers in two years, and I killed two of them."
I can't stop laughing. Sam is gold.
Marisha: “We should stay another 5 minutes and look where we are at”
Laura:”HES ROLLING LOOK HES ROLLING, GO GO GO”
Matt: “you feel the ground shake…”
Everyone:”GOGOGOGOGOGO”
Thats dnd everybody
One might say...there was a disturbance in the Force.
Because the DM will never allow the players to get all of a dragon horde. Just click on detect magic, and rage loot into ye old bag of holding and skedaddle.
@@Smitty-hr2mg ::lightbulb moment:: Is this partly where the Load-Bearing Boss trope originates? I know there are pre-D&D examples, and it makes a certain dramatic sense anyway, but "prevent excessive acquisition of resources too early in story" is a very good reason.
@@Smitty-hr2mg Now I'm thinking he set it up to establish "you can't win every fight, sometimes you need to run". Shame the other lesson they learned was "Wind Walk is useless, never prepare it"
@@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll Hell no it's not where it originates.
THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T SEND MATT MINI-FIGURES
"I have so many badass dragon minis now! What to do with them all? ..."
No spoilers beyond this episode:
Matt recently said (one of the post-campaign Q&A's) that the reason he developed the Chroma Conclave is because he'd realized that for all the years he ran D&D, he'd never really done dragons. Like, ancient, world-ending dragons. Which is what the game is named after and designed around. So he decided to just do _all of them at once_ to make up for it. xD
He actually foreshadowed them a ways back. This has been in the works.
Or why you do...
@@elbruces where/how? I listen while at work and miss a lot, so genuine question
Pictured right: Vax ranting about not knowing why they're doing the things they're doing.
Pictured left: Matt internally screaming and jumping up and down in utter glee.
Probably my favorite thing from this episode.... :) it was such a hilarious way to go.
You need a reason? I'll give you a reason
I love Liam saying “fog of war” it’s the perfect way in my opinion of reducing any guilt someone could have for something during combat, can’t name the amount of times that due to stress I do something stupid in a game or just don’t read how an ability could work
MATT: Thanks to Vax's vice like memory you find your way back out
CALEB: Hold my beer
Binging the critical role series best I can and just got to this episode.....
Travis: Uh...19
Matt: 19 Misses.
Dead silence as they realize they are screwed.
FallenStargazer43 their looks are absolutely delightful
Laura realizing that 20 didn't save against the breath attack was glorious
Just getting to this now
I am binging now because of....... well you know lol.
Same here
Man I love Sam Riegel, that man is a true savage thru and thru.
Marisha: Half of it's my fault.
Sam: No, all of it is.
It's around 1:12:25 for everyone who wishes to relive that moment.
Sam is fast becoming my favorite!
I like how as soon as they found out how awkward it was for Matt to do Pike’s voice they all wanted to have conversations with Pike
Perfect example of a player safety mechanism at 3:19:30 when Liam makes a joke, lightening the mood which kind of had shifted with his (very well executed) in-character speech. The speech was good and fitting in role play, but at the end of the day, when you have the feeling, it might have hit a bit too hard, just counter it so everyone is still having fun.
Yeah. I did however get the impression it was getting a little real there. The way Laura looks nervously between the two guys, even when not role playing, said a lot.
I'm curious to know what tipped him off. Grog may be a minor part, but I guess it's the lack of foresight that the group shows? They do act reckless oftentimes and sure enough the consequences come bite them real hard. Cut to full scale dragon attack.
Percy [Screams in noble] Derolo the third of whitestone.
His title has gotten even longer.
Time stamp?
Eventually his titles will be like Daenerys.
Percival Frederickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III of Whitestone definitely wins the "most unnecessarily long name in tal'dorei" prize
Marshall technically speaking Vex's current title is longer than percy's
Just needs to add on "Moreover with Vox Machina, at Greyskull Keep".
I was super disappointed when Scanlan didn't polymorph himself into a triceratops while inside the worm.
This is what I was waiting for too!
If you dont have room to transform the spell is wasted
I'm disappointed that the Thunder Wave didn't make that Worm's muscles constrict like a fist, Scanlan should be Halfling Puree.
@@Overlordough1201 it's thunder damage, not shock, like an Fus Ho Dah.
@@GoombaPlayer hmm, okay. Thanks. Also
*FUS **_HO_** DA*
Sam's consistent integrity in the face of the absolute worst situations is the epitome of awesome.
"Hey you used it yesterday for no reason"
Officer, I'd like to report a murder...
"Everything else was Dragons, Why wouldn't it be Dragons?!" Best line of the episode.
Love seeing Percy's personality reassert itself now that he's dealt with his personal burden. He's such a troll, I love it! And I feel like he and Scanlan don't interact much, so that was a fun scene. "You chose so poorly!"
Oh God it's even WORSE when they agree because you know it's gonna be a terrible fucking idea!!!!
sneeAIzeRSHcoIPough
Keyleth: "That's the most privileged thing you've ever said."
Percy: "That's the most privileged things I've ever said that you've heard."
Fucking.
Slayed me.
I hate him so much lmao
@@xg1559 I love him lol, best one liners
I love this description. "The city of Emon experiences a substantial political shift."
Like.... You're not WRONG, but somehow it still feels like it's not entirely accurate either.
Understatement of the century.
Travis's face at "19 misses" is priceless.
Best "Oh shit!" moment ever.
Percy only rolls 20's and 1's. He might as well flip coins.
The Jon Snow of DND
@@DarthAnimal Hahahahahahahahaha! True!
He got too cocky about his rolls so the Dice Gods are punishing him lol
@@lazynoodle6739 I've had the Dice Gods punish me... it's no fun at all.
@@Poisonedblade I had the dice gods punish me in that some dice I ordered don't feel like dice
Scanlan's limericks are really worth the price of admission.
I think the point Matt was getting at when Uriel asked the question of did the new owner build the portal is why the hell didn't the party report the portal the first time, but it went completely over their heads. Those 4 orbs in the wall when recapping their backstory set off such alarm bells for me, the fact they never told anyone about it is crazy.
To be fair that was at the beginning of the campaign while they were still using pathfinder. With the switch to 5e and everything going on IRL, it kind of makes sense they forgot to have their characters mention it.
😨 That escalated quickly. Matt’s just like, great job on liberating Whitestone guys, guess you won’t be needing Emon anymore right?
Taliesin: "It's a subtle way of saying I'm not going to make it to level 15."
Matt, sitting on probably the single most brutal fight in the campaign so far: "Ouch."
Timestamp?
@@rockstar6132 That was before the game started; Matt was saying he had updated his Gunslinger class online. Tal asked if there was anything new he should know about and Matt replied something like « no, it’s only 15th. Level stuff ».
Ooo
@@rockstar6132 2:45
Sam's annoyed expression at 2:33:12 when Laura calls over Trinket had me in tears.
I LOVE how into character Liam gets. Its like watching theater at times. Wonderful cast of wonderful people!
Almost like they're professional actors
Gotta say: I LOVE Scanlan's limericks in the last few episodes!
They've been pretty top notch.
I'm Guessing He's had help.
@@davidbergfors6820 Nah, he's just a theater kid
@@davidbergfors6820 he’s mentioned down the road from this episode that for things like the hideous laughter spell, songs, and so on, he would often write stuff out and never use a ton of it. The man is also a musician with an encyclopedic knowledge of songs, so he can pull seemingly random things together pretty quickly with all those parts floating around.
Mercer: Hey, I heard you guys like dragons. So have some dragons. *backs truck into studio and dumps dragon minis*
Love the stream cutting off right as Marisha is saying "I'm gonna have an aneurysm between now and next week." Excellent way to end this episode 😂
Travis:
- What do [d]6s look like? Oh, they're squares!
Taliesin:
- Method.
30:22
Was looking for this, thank you!
3:09:45 "what if it summons a dragon to us?" Yeah sam... what if.
Matt heard that. He decided to add a few more xD
Travis is easily the best actor, dude's brilliant. It takes a genius to play an idiot well
I read a particularly good argument in an earlier Critical Role video's comments section for Sam Riegel being demonstrably the most skilled of these D&D players, and Matt Mercer is very possibly the best DM I'll ever know of (I say this as a dedicated Dungeons & Dragons fan who knows other such dedicated players). I even found myself nodding along with a couple reasons why Taliesin might be the best, though I haven't ever truly shared that particular opinion myself. In the end, I think the only thing that is definitely true is that whoever thought to combine all of these voice actors for a Dungeons & Dragons campaign (whether it was some sub-group of these very people or some other individual or group entirely) is/are (an) entertainment genius(es).
@@erichanson3369 It was the hand of fate. The group was founded on Liam's birthday, where they played a one shot of D&D with Matt being the DM. They all knew each other directly or indirectly beforehand, through work. And they enjoyed that one session so much that they decided to make it a regular thing. And then that went on for I think 3 years until someone from Geek and Sundry, I believe it was Felicia Day, approached them with the idea to stream a session.
The rest is history.
He plays knuckles, so he is a veteran XD
He is the best at not meta gaming. He plays the character like the character needs to be. Travis has even made me pull back on how I would play my characters. Sam is a close second to Travis. I also think Marisha is under appreciated, especially after watching her in the second campaign.
Travis is a lot better in the second campaign. With Grog he will break character and talk real strategy beyond what meager intelligence his character holds. It's usually prior to any engagements, so the metagaming isn't as obtrusive, but it's still present.
It's only slightly off putting, it's more entertaining when he breaks character to be a voice of reason, but it certainly doesn't go with his character at all.
Taliesin, Liam, Ashley and Sam stay in character the longest in campaign 1. Everyone stays in character about as long as everyone else in campaign 2. It's absolutely fantastic either way, everyone really loves the role play and they seem to take it very seriously.
Honestly, knowing that Sam is a great father, I watched the face journey he had when Kaylie was talking about being angry at Scanlan, and when she looked at Scanlan and told him not to come after her. Scanlan was hurt, but I think it hurt Sam even more.
03:51:14 one of many things I love about watching people play D&D is the fact that even though I know they gonna make it out alive (because there's like 80 episodes ahead of me), I still get to feel all the emotions because of players
Well, they could also just all roll new characters, there is never any guarantee unlike in TV shows
When vax comes home after being away and him questioning his purpose was an incredible plot point. He almost loses hope for his purpose than Matt throws him a purpose, saving the world
Spoiler:
And avenge his mother
I love how when everyone is seeing how devastating the dragon is towards the town and are in total shock and horror Scanlan's there just like "Man this is awesome we should do this again some time"
Volture "Are you that Friezer guy?"
"I am Lord Frieza, yes..."
"Imma deck you in the schnoz!"
SharkShocker Team Four Star!!
Travis' face when Matt says "Nineteen misses" is so freaking good hahahaha
I love how when Marisha seemed kinda upset about her misunderstanding a spell and feeling like she ruined everything, that Talisan and Sam were right there telling her it was funny and making jokes... clearly trying to cheer her up.
D&D is about having fun. At the end of the day, it's not real, and our friends should come first. :)
Edit: Wow. The sheer amount of comments that care more about the game and its rules than the people playing the game are shocking.
Yea but, you know, if you get the whole party killed because you don't read spells.....lol
@@coldfate1 Then you can start a new game. It's not real. The game should never come before your friends.
@@GuiItyUniverse nah I'm not saying don't be friends over it haha. But you could tell everyone was starting to get a little annoyed. They all took jabs at her for not knowing her spells on the next few episodes after this haha. But that's what friends do, let you know when you're messing up so you can be better.
@@coldfate1 Light teasing among friends doesn't mean they're annoyed. If anything Marisha was annoyed... in the moment. Understandably. But that's just how it goes. I'm just saying she has good friends there trying to lift her spirits. This whole group has a fantastic dynamic.
Acting like you can't be annoyed with someone close to you is the most soy statement I've heard in a while. Everyone has emotions. Obviously, it's a game. But it's also obvious that they care a great deal about their characters and stories. Enough to get emotional themselves in moments of triumph, failure etc. Having another player cast a spell (that they didn't fully read and understand) to basically make you a non combatant for an entire fight, is pretty annoying. Being annoyed doesn't mean there's ill will. It's just being a human
Pike manages to be the absolute most adorable even when she isn't technically there. I love her so much.
2:40:45
Keyleth; That's the most privileged thing you've ever said.
Percy: That's the most privileged thing I've ever said that you've heard.
lmao @Percy.
As much as I love Taliesin's contributions to Campaign 2 (and they have been _totally_ awesome), I will forever be coming back to his performance as Percy. Absolute perfection.
TheKazragore what about it? It’s absolute bland compared to everyone else. Till his ark I had no idea what he even was about
@@TheKazragore Taliesan is the persona. Percy is his natural person. Lol
"Life needs things."
"Your soul is forfeit."
"Let's go there and politely demand help."
Percy really does have the best lines throughout the entire campaign.
@@Dragon_Lair “Your secret is safe with my indifference”
Let’s hope Keyleth remembers that windwalk spell next time they need to do any traveling. That is a glorious spell for fast traveling!
Haha speaking from Campaign 3, yeah, she remembers
Matt's ability to keep a straight face at 3:09:50 as Scanlan is asking about dragons (specifically if the skull can summon them, but still) is phenomenal
There's something oddly funny about normal names in fantasy world. You have Vax'ildan, Vex'ahlia, Grog, Keyleth, Scanlan, Percival Fredrichstein Von Musel Kowolski de Rolo III, Pike, Kreig, Sylas, Cassandra, etc, and then there's just characters named Jeffery.
Percy is on par with Jeffery.
@@doublaich5990 right? So are Sylas and Cassandra, if not a bit old-fashioned.
Well the difference is almost all of the party ain't human so it makes sense for an old english name to belong to a human but a elf named Bruce would be weird ya know?
@@ricardoh.1575 hard disagree on sylas being on par with jeffery
@@Catnadi101 If I ever DM I will make an elven NPC called Bruce
3:54:03
Vex: "Did this all happen because we went back to general Krieg's place?"
Matthew: *looks over and scratches nose*
Hellooo to everyone who just finished the LOVM Season 1 Finale to watch that amazing cliffhanger again!
I have to rewatch all of campaign 1 now before season 2 comes out
Me 2
Its mad there's so many of us😂😂
"hello"
Hellooooo?? I think you mean "bidet"!
3:24:24 is near the start of the scene!
I love that at the end of the last episode when they were opening up the gifts and letters and such that everyone had sent them, someone sent Matt a bunch of dragon minis and tons of other minis, and then the next episode he was like "well, time to put these bad boys to use"
I kind of think that Scanlan might have had a one night stand with Tiamat and didn't call her back.
+CJBerdomas That would explain so much.
+Viktormon I'm his defense, she doesn't seem like the "commitment" type either.
+XDependent truth
+Ozpin Commitment type or not, she's still a vengeful goddess. You ALWAYS call back a vengeful goddess.
It's canon.
Matt: hm. party's getting kind of OP.
... FIVE DRAGONS GO
"From now on we should solve all our problems with letters"
"Diplomatic Immunity"
I still think the party needs more doors that would be more appropriate
Four dragons, buddy...
@@django3422 Used to be five before they killed Brimscythe pre-stream
@@randomlygeneratedname I don't think they've created the Door Dragon for 5e yet.
I don't understand why Liam never gave the Cloak of Mountebank (Dimension Door) to Pike. Wouldn't it be super useful to have a Cleric that could teleport to a downed ally once a day?
Because Ashley is absent more often than not. Consider as of this episode Orion who isn't even with the show anymore still has more tallied appearances than her.
The look of horror and just anxiety on everyones faces when matt described the dragons was just absolutely epic!
God I still think about how perfectly timed Vax's "I don't know why we're doing this!" conversation with Vex is. The whole time Matt's trying to keep his poker face like "Oh child you'll have a reason :)"
When is this
Efriam Marizan End of previous episode.
@@Werelord22 does the oh child you'll have a reason is that because of somthing that happens later
not only that it's
SPOILER ALERT: this arc and a few others
it's their freaking personal quest that they are taking on
I rewatched Vax's speech to Vex just so I could see Matt's reaction, dude has a perfect poker face. Couldn't even tell that he was about to unleash hell in about 20 minutes.
Also Scanlan's comment at 3:09:48. Wondered if that would raise an eyebrow; nothing.
As a DM, you practice your poker face. Because it's so much better when the players don't know shit's gonna go down and they're being very heart-felt.
Unless you're a total dick DM, "Shit going down" is never a forgone conclusion. Players can always make an unexpected choice and completely change any plans the DM made.
"As you look around Emon, getting to know the place, you think you've been in this ally way before. Its hard to tell, because all of Emon is ash."
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Appreciate your work but it would be better if you put your plea after the timestamps. When just scrolling, you can't even see the fact that you've timestamped so it's easy to skip you.
Percy: I want to try and poke one in mist form to see if I can get them to fight each other since one attack the other earlier.
Keyleth & Vex 10 minutes later: Hey do you think we could get them to fight each other? Yeah can we get them to fight each other?
There's been a number of times when Percy comes up with a strategic idea only for it to be ignored and then "thought of" by the party later. The man deserves some credit.
*second worm shows up*
Laura: MATTHEW MERCER... you're trying to kill us.
Made me laugh so hard for some reason
Now you know he try even harder later on
I thought it was Keyleth who tried that?
Craven Edge is quickly becoming my favorite npc, even if I'm pretty sure it's probably very evil
Or maybe it's just a sword that wants to be used as a sword
More than Clarota? Gilmore? Viktor the gunpowder marchant!?!?
Have you read Warbreaker? There's a sentient sword that is always trying to talk people into killing because it was brought to life with the command "Slay Evil", but it's a sword, so it has no idea what evil really is. It's somehow kind of adorable.
@@matsh5633 tch... you got me with the black powder merchant... altho hes a 1 off character.. least as far as I know
@@seanob8001 oh heck yeah nightblood was awesome
@@seanob8001 absolutely the same thought, though craven edge is a bit more with it than that sword.
rewatching this, 5 years on, although their game now is so much slicker and the production values are so high, there is something rather appealing about how shambolic CR was at this point. It feels much more like a normal game "what does this spell ACTUALLY do? what are the rules in this situation?" their roleplaying and fun together was the reason CR became so loveable, not how well-played it all was!
I'm a first-time watcher and I debated quite a bit whether to start with the first campaign or the second. I had initially settled on the second when I saw the difference in production quality. But then EXU just happened to come out so I figured I'd watch that first and then go into the proper campaigns.
In the end, I somehow ended up choosing C1 and I am so glad I did. The great story and characters aside, seeing how this entire madness started is something special in itself. Their low expectations coming into the show, the critters blowing their minds at every turn, them striving to make everything better for the viewers...
It just gave me the general sense that a handful of good, humble, hard-working people accidentally stumbled into something wonderful and made the absolute most out of it!
I’m watching 6 years after and amazed at the story and the acting. And I still can’t get over that they named their home greyskull keep 😂
Yes, this is the real deal! That's what's great about it.
Every time I rewatch this, I think to myself, what would it be like if Orion was still around
@@bgold54g Boy, I can only imagine how different it would have been if Orion had been the one to cast Wind Walk on most of the party without reading it, get pissed and argue with Matt for several turns on its function and the repercussions of using it, and then tell the whole party to "just make it work"... Definitely don't think Matt would have given Orion an out by letting him cancel it 9 rounds early without any penalty or repercussion.
It's hilarious reading all about all the shitty stuff Orion did, seeing the fan base's comments shitting on him, and then watching every other player make the same kind of mistakes, do the same level of metagaming, and argue/question Matt just as much, even after Orion was long gone. I love CR, but the double standards levied by the fan base and even the other players and the DM with regard to Orion is so blatant it leaves a bad taste in my mouth a lot of the time.
Posting for myself/new viewers
06:15 - Sam Taunts Travis
07:17 - Game starts, part 1 begins
12:00 - Recaps Ends
22:05 - Scanlan's Eye Bite
23:19 - Scanlan's Inspiring Limerick
29:30 - First proper use of Craven Edge
31:00 - Laura Thinks THIS Is Bad (just wait)
34:00 - MIST-akes Are Made ;)
39:54 - Scanlan sings to cast cutting words [based on Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me]
44:23 - Understanding the Situation
46:30 - Taunting The DM
59:10 - Mercer The Merciful
1:11:20 - Scanlan Inspiration
1:22:33 - Laura Realizes the Danger
1:25:00 - How Do You Want To Do This?
1:33:45 - Grog Feeds Craven Edge
1:43:03 - Part 1 ends
1:58:23 - Break Ends
2:01:15 - Matt's Ashley Johnson Impression
2:04:10 - Whispers
2:07:40 - Vax Confronts Grog
2:23:00 - Scanlan's Shitty Infiltration
2:28:44 - DadLan
2:34:40 - Reverse Whisper
2:42:02 - Prision Break: Lord Percy & Scanlan
2:58:50 - Grog's Question
3:11:15 - Keyleth Suffers a 3rd Degree BURN
3:17:00 - Vax questions (and will soon recieve an unexpected answer)
3:20:45 - Gilmore
3:22:09 - Grog's Attempt at Shopping
3:23:50 - Uriel Addresses Emon
3:30:00 - Omens
3:31:39 - The Bomb Drops (3:31:46)
3:36:11 - Horror
3:43:48 - Good question
3:53:51 - Game ends
31:14 "Matthew Mercer! You're tryna kill us!"
3:32:49 *No, **_now_** he's trying to kill you*
Laura’s attitude towards battles in campaign one is probably the worst attitude to have in dungeons and dragons. To summarize it, one tough enemy and she says we’re all going to die. Meanwhile, they are not going to die. PS, please I’m begging you, do not turn this into a bashing of anyone of the people involved in CriticalRole thread. There are way too many of those already, and I don’t want to have this one turn into one.
@@austinmeyer_238 Cool to see someone else still watching this so recently. I thought she kinda said it as a joke. I mean my friends do when we come across a boss or someone gets downed but i think i know what you are coming from. as if the DM can never ever hurt the party or kill would take away all the danger. Im not saying the DM should try to kill on purpose but in some cases its their own fault for almost dying. Like keyleth transforming everyone into a mist. or when for some reason Keyleth thinks its a good idea to cast sunbeam on an already almost dead tree.
Admittedly Laura isn't that bad with her exasperation, honestly I do the same thing when my DM pulls this shit (difference being he keeps the fights in the upper hard difficult to down right deadly encounters just his style and we all have a good laugh about it), that being said honestly I feel Marisha unintentionally does a lot of fowl play. This episode is a good example of that. First with not understanding her spell, then although owning up to it still complained about the outcome due to her own misunderstanding and the misunderstandings of others. I also don't like how she tries to be the moral compass of the group but then does extremely chaotic things that unintentionally make things much worse. I feel that isn't her fault but its a mixture of her not being able to differentiate between in game and out of game planning and strategizing thus making unintentional discourse. I like Marisha, but I just feel shes not someone who knows how to properly play casters in 5e. I know shes playing a I believe Warlock/Sorcerer multiclass in the newest campaign and I know that this is years ago so I hope shes gotten more used to the idea of casters in 5e as opposed to when this was first broadcasted.
@@austinmeyer_238 Laura has a great attitude ( except MAYBE when it comes to Trinket ) but oooookay
@@Reblwitoutacause Her immeasurable greed is getting on my nerves at times. I feel like she oftentimes tries to have a cake and eat it, too. Like her comment about wanting all the flying potions. It may be little things, but they do add up, imo. When Orion did this, everybody was mad at him about it...
grog: how do you feel about dragon
his sword: i think it sounds delicious, let's try a taste
me: DAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYUM
His sword: hmm never had dragon before….GIMME!!
I swear, Travis may not be my favorite cast member for campaign 1(Laura and Taliesin are!), but he is damn sure my favorite person to watch, because when the rp is flowing and the jokes are rolling, he dude is having the most genuine fun I've ever seen a grown man have lmao. The way he laughed at Scanlan's burn had me dying lmfao
The more I watch, the more I understand why Matt is being really nice as a DM. There are so many lies and crimes the group constantly get mixed up in, that the game could spiral into nothing but their consequences at any moment.
I know, I grimace whenever they lie in a situation where they could just as easily tell the truth with fewer foreseeable consequences. (Or when they try to squeeze way too much information out of someone they’re clearly pissing off)
I only just noticed this, but during Sam's Burn of Keyleth's "6th level spell burn" you can see Matt writing down at 3:11:26 I'm pretty sure Matt is giving Scanlan bonus experience. Haha.
Cast vicious mockery
and that little "finger lick burn" motion he does lol
Also, I wonder how many people are missing the friendly interaction between Sam and Marisha immediately thereafter or noticing it and deliberately ignoring it…