Waste and Webs | Critical Role: THE MIGHTY NEIN | Episode 10
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- čas přidán 18. 03. 2018
- The Mighty Nein delve into the sewers of Zadash in search of the mysterious beast that has been terrorizing the Crownsguard...
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It's always Thursday when you're over two years behind..
Agreed
@@SlickDestro i’ve gone so fast that it’s not going to be thursday everyday after tomorrow..
@@itsthetreesknees I feel your pain
Same
Me too😂
1:18:00 yasha: do you want to talk about your emotions Caleb
Caleb: no
Nott: I do
Yasha: I know nott
Nott: I’m sad
Yasha: I know nott
That’s what I was thinking too 😂
LOST MY SHIT I'M SORRY
I love it when vine meets dnd 👌
1:17:42 more like
@@krisymac3514 Thank you!
I hate when people do that... Why tf do you put up a timestamp if it doesn't take to the actual spot?!
Whenever Fjord summons his sword and Frost armor I cant help but think "its the falchion and the winter soldier."
Also I feel like the Falcon and the Winter Soldier's ending theme music Louisiana Hero would fit him well also.
Clever
That’s amazing
YES
THIS IS DUMB!
I LOVE IT BUT IT’S DUMB 😂
Liam's shirt: *LEAVE THEM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GRAVE THEY DUG FOR YOU*
Travis' shirt: bike wild
Not to spoil anything but damn
Sam’s shirt: 🙂
😊 2:39:42
Taliesin's shirt: *dead bird sounds*
The fact that the Tiefling blood Hunter is the moral compass of the entire campaign is amazing
Or that it is the Goblin saying "We cant just burn the webbing, what if the people are alive." Yet, the rest of the group is like "Eh." lol
I think they kind of take turns
i think that talesin do a lot meta gaming in these but they arent stoping him. like where did he know that caleb isn't going to share his findings or that nott is loking for a paper in fjord stuff. it look like small things but sometimes its effects the stories progressing speed, and i find it irritating sometimes.
@@JustPlayTheGame76 I feel like the most "morally upstanding" members of the group at this point would probably be Molly and then Fjord (though I'd consider Jester to be Chaotic Neutral with a bit of a Good "lean", as I don't think I've really seen Jester show genuine malice at any point thus far). Fjord may have a certain "problem" involving certain dreams of his, but he usually comes across as rather level-headed and someone who keeps the group from trying something *too* crazy. I'd love to see the actual character sheets if only to see what each of their respective alignments are listed as though. But if I had to guess, I would assume that Molly was Chaotic Good, Jester was Chaotic Neutral, Beau would probably be either True Neutral or Chaotic Neutral, Yasha would probably be True Neutral, Fjord would probably be either either True Neutral or Neutral Good, Caleb would probably be Chaotic Neutral, and Nott would probably be Chaotic Neutral as well. For the "guest" PCs up to this point I would guess that Shakaste would probably be either Neutral Good or Lawful Good.
@@ufukozcelik9809 Just because you don't pay attention to what characters hear and see doesn't mean that you can call it meta-gaming when someone who does acts upon what they see. Caleb has been shifty all campaign so far, so much so that his kleptomaniac Goblin companion is the more personable one. Of course Molly would be skeptical of Caleb's findings. Taliesin himself is an observant guy, and Mollymauk a very curious one. To blame either of the two for positive traits is laughable at best, and ignorance at worst.
caleb getting protective over frumpkin makes me happy. "Who kicks a fucking cat?"
"Do you remember his face."
"Oh I remember his face. He had a face alright..." *Scowls with seething hatred*
Caleb generally behaves around Frumpkin like every cat-owner behaves around their cat. And it's Beautiful.
When was this?
That guard needs to go down.
@@unbreakablelag 3:48:22
That guard did not know what he had just started.
I introduced my big bad by making him kick a cat as my party walked in. He was SUPPOSED to be a recurring villain.... but my party used every single rare item they had to kill him for kicking a cat.
I mean, depending on their level of influence killing them once is a mere setback. Clone, resurrection, etcetera can bring them back if you truly want them to be recurring.
There are unspoken rules, kicking cats is against these rules.
My neighbor kicked my cat. He then stomped it flat and slide it under my front door.
Well that’s fucking stupid
That is why my big bads are always overpowered with an exit plan when introduced. I had this evolution path and huge twist for a background bard character that turned out to be manipulating their story. A random detect magic made her a target and a silence hurt her bad. She got jumped. I had to pawn her off as a lackey of the organization but they got a hat of disguise out of it.
I'm somewhat convinced that Sam is actually a creature from the Feywild that Matt and Marisha accidentally summoned into the real world.
You might be onto something
Hmmm, I agree, but I think the Summoners were Liam and Laura. All the signs point to them.
It was a group seance. They were all involved
Taliesen. Considering he spent many years in the fey realms between serving as the bard of Bran the Blessed, the great raven, high king of albion, brother of Manawyden and brother of Branwen, and Arthur Pendragon, the Great Bear, High King of Britain, weilder of Excalibur and sleeping king in the hidden realm of Avalon.
THE bard who served both, he is the being responsible for conjuring the chaotic fey being, that is Sam.
He is a figment of his own imagination.
He is the Sharmat!!!
"There is only 7 of you"
I can imagine they could respond like this
"Yes but this guy has a cat, and Jester is sometimes 2 people. Thats Nein "
YEEES!!!
YEEES!!!
Even though you said "this guy" I still pictured it as Caleb saying that in his Zemnian voice! Haha!
MakDemonik I always think their answer should be
“.... what’s your point?”
@Eli Wolf You can't see Schmidt, so that'd be confusing.
Liam is in character so often that when he speaks normally it sounds strange to me
It was the same for me in the last campaign too. When he used is normal voice I'd turn my head like a dog because it didn't make any sense to me. It didn't feel right.
Same with most of them, although Travis is just talking like a cowboy and Yasha is just a depressed sounding Ashley.
I said the same thing with Laura, theyre both always so in charactee and i love it
Laura uses Jester's voice most of the time as well, but it doesn't throw me off when she drifts back to her regular voice the way it does when Liam shifts away from Caleb's voice and back into his own. It absolutely throws me... to the degree that I have to remind myself that Liam isn't the character voice, Caleb is (Caleb just feels so very like a fully fleshed out person within that voice and the way it shapes his phrasing).
@Bethanne Callahan for me it sounds like a norweigan accent if you take the Swiss-ish part of it out
Fjord: "I have a new quest guys!"
Everyone else: *Plots to murder cat-kicking guardsman*
rewatching in nov'23 and when jester says she is going to lick the dead spider i hear gale's voice from bg3... "STOP LICKING THE DAMN THING!"
I have to wonder how many references to CR they put in BG3, ive noticed some things over the first campaign that might be vague easter eggs
Such as?@@FFMolasses
@@FFMolasses there are a fair few. Pike and grog being in a bar in the bridge area is the only one I have at the top of my head tho.
It's funny how Vox Machina only had essentially one greedy person in the group and the Mighty Nein consists of 7 morally ambiguous greedy people.
They're not morally ambiguous, they're mostly good. And a bit greedy.
I mean, Nott is genuinely greedy, but Caleb kept the gold there, because he's just that much antisocial. And seriously Ford, Beau, Jester, Molly and Yasha aren't greedy.
Not greedy. Definitely morally ambiguous. These are the people who choked out a small child and then displayed her friend's severed head, traumatising her for sure, in their first quest.
Except the carnival tiefling sword juggler who somehow is the most selfless out of all of them
And kinda forgot to mention that even though Nott steals things (stick and stones 😄) she's chaotic good. She's not evil at all.
Caleb sums up my whole life in one sentence: "I used to think I was going to be something someday...and now I don't."
Mine too... Unfortunately.
I hope one day you two and others will regain the feeling that they will be something oneday.
3:30:20 timestamp for my own reference and maybe it'll help someone else out too
Too real
Me too. But I'm super okay with it. I'll just spend my days playing DnD and climbing walls. It makes me happy.
Caleb: *Is a fire mage*
Caleb: *Is deeply traumatized around fire*
well i mean makes sense considering his view on himself
Reminder to everyone watching this back in nostalgia: Sam is a father of 2. He has a wife and two kids. He has voiced Teddie from Persona 4, and STARSCREAM in the High Moon Studios Transformers games.
The man who has this much range begins this episode dancing to a cover of the Nutcracker he made to the words of “DnDBeyond...” with two ballet ribbons.
God I love actors, so much.
He also voiced the 2003 TMNT Donatello, and he voices a deep-voiced Norn in GW2 name Braham. This man has extreme range! And is honestly living the life I want.
@@hexxidelux6224 I’ve been playing GW2 since it launched 9 years ago, and I only found out that he was Braham like a month ago. It blew my mind apart.
he's voiced WHOMST???
No wonder I hated that fucking bear.
Wait he’s voiced STARSCREAM before?!
With all of the Ford car puns Sam has been making, when Travis missed 2 of the 3 scorching rays, I'm really sad he didn't say, "Ford, Focus."
If he doesn't have to sell his body at some point for money and become a ford escort, i'll be extremely disappointed
You could say this whole campaign is a Ford Expedition.
I want them to be sponsored by Ford.
@@KymeraBJD Fjord the Explorer
Fjord's birthday needs to be in late April or early May, because that would make him a Ford Taurus.
"I would like to use a Caleb bonus action to dry heave."
ayy, it's our buddy Pike!
I believe dry heaving is a free action.
@@broken12smiles No, it's actually an entire action
@@broken12smiles Even if it was, I'd be a full action for Caleb.
It's pretty funny how every quest the M9 have gone on so far has pretty much ended with them dumping a monster's corpse at the law enforcement's doorstep like a cat
Why did you feel the need to cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter on me...
And your so right...
The Mighty Nyan.
Well, the authorities can't hunt so the comparison is accurate.
That’s what happens when Frumpkin usually has custody of the brain cell
I mean they were told both times to bring back proof and what's better proof then the monster it'self
I love how excited Travis gets when Ashley does Barbarian stuff. It's the same energy as Liam getting excited when Sam does Rogue stuff. Adorable.
Its a player pride thing its great to see your friends finally understand things you did before and enjoy it :))
@@jonathansims967in Sam's case, he's also playing characters that Liam suggested to him, so there's probably some self satisfaction to see him really run with it and play a rogue in quite a dramatically different way
Not even Rats escape Matts love of broken jaws.
It’s officially a fetish at this point.
*t o o t h y m a w*
The disturbing descriptions are a little unhinged
@@whoseverpanic3160 As are their jaws
Broken jaw is the new toothy maw.
I hope Sam plays small characters forever, because the comically oversized drink containers is just the best.
Pluveus HOW THE HELL DIDNT I MAKE THAT CONNECTION 😂😂😂 That's amazing
@@g0ddess0fdeath Next campaign he'll play a a Dwarf, and it will be hilarious as hell
But if he plays a HUGE character then he has to drink out of an itty bitty cup which would be fun too.
Pixie next?
@@g0ddess0fdeath ME EITHER. Sam is so weird already I didn't think much of it, but he's also a genius, apparently.
I love how incredibly grossed out Matt is by everything when they get into the sewer, but it is ENTIRELY his fault for sending them after a sewer monster. You did this to yourself, Matt.
"You played yourself."
The amount of DM’ing that is “oh, well… seemed cool in my head,” is quite a large amount.
Caleb: **breathes**
everyone: "Caleb you're *super squishy !!!!* "
or
Caleb: *Breathes*
Everyone: "CALEB WHAT IS YOUR TRAUMA?"
Bane of a wizard
My favorite thing about Ashley playing a Barbarian is how pumped Travis is about it
Once a Barbarian, always a Barbarian.
She is monsthaaaa
Your first important character always affects you afterwards. Everytime in some oneshot a friend says "So I guess I can sneak attack" I get very pumped up
@@amato6829 I was a dragonborn druid my last game, started a new one and one of my party members is a dragonborn druid
Amato every time a party member says “I wildshape-“ I’m already cheering
“I don’t usually talk to the dead on the first date”
God I love Molly with all my heart
As a character Molly is my fav but Sam Riegel ALWAYS steals the show
When did he said this?
@@user-ze3tq9hf9i 18:06
It's the way he says it that makes it so good. The casualness.
“I gently, socially, pin Caleb to the wall”
How it should have happened:
Nott "I'm gonna taste the sewer water"
DM: "Make an intelligence test"
Nott: "22"
DM: "You are too smart to taste sewer water"
She's a goblin tho. If you haven't yet, you should probably watch the hilarious "To the Poop" one-shot 😂
@Daniel Ashar bin Mohd Fraziali * lol
Make an intelligence saving throw
Wisdom would have been better. Being smart doesn’t mean you understand that you shouldn’t make bad or unwise choices. Intelligence is better suited for experimentalists.
@@TheDragonsRose it’s tasting sewer water, what more do you want
It’s always Thursday when you’re over 5 years behind
YESSIR
I’m just rewatching
Mood
Saaame
"Let's try and not set fire to human-shaped things."
I fucking love Molly.
Molly is everything I aspire to be when I’m out with friends.
@@joholloway8818 relatable
Head Guard: “I’ll fetch the reward for the mighty seven.”
Fjord: “Nein... we lost two in the sewers...”
Beau: *Snort*
Edit: 3:18:31 thanks Konstantyn Kurbatskyi in the comments.
We’ve got an underrated comment over here everybody!!!!!!!
I think it was the Harold he’s just underneath the head guard aka law maker
I lost it so hard, right there. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
3:18:31
I liked the feel of the NPCs response. I'm glad the roll supported it because Fjord just spoke with the man at most a day ago and the name was explained iirc
Nott scaring the shit out of people the Nein save by trying to console them is my new favourite thing about this campaign.
A few possible responses to "but there's only 7 of you":
"Well we started with 9, but we lost two to a roving band of mimics."
"The other two are invisible. Look behind you."
"Yeah, there used to be 9, but Simon and Garfunkel got annoying, so we ate them."
"Oh, you see, Caleb is actually three gnomes wearing a trenchcoat."
"Not if you count the voices in Jester's head."
"It's not about how many of /us/ there are, it's about how many beholders it would take to take us down."
Yep, those were better than I expected when I clicked Read More. You earn yourself a like.
@@a-walpatches6460 aw thanks😂
“I’m going to stare at the wall because I don’t know how to deal with attention very well” you and me both caleb
Caleb is Introvert Prime
@@stevenbrown5246 Caleb has been headcannoned as autistic so, yea. Introverted, horrible social skills and, erhm, past things haunting him, to keep this relatively spoiler free.
Luna Fowler - Nah, I think it’s just social anxiety.
@@FrostyTheSnowPickle I mean, the happy hand flapping upon seeing Nott's spell is a dead giveaway of "just anxiety"... As is his insistance on wearing the same coat, on keeping Frumpkin in this specific form, counting out coins*, seeking out certain sensory experiences, losing his ability to speak or at least to do so easily and/or in a manner easily understood by others.
I mean, everyone can have their own headcannons, but it's also likely you're not very well informed about what autism actually is and how it can look like which, well, you can't be blamed for, it's basically universal.
There are many where it's not extremely obvious they're autistic and most adults that can do so have also learnt and been forced to hide it at least to some extent (called masking, terrible for your mental health, though).
*Look up changeling myths, often the "explanation" that was given for Autistic or otherwise developmentally disabled children.
@@teaartist6455 I just got this notification, I forgot I even left this comment a year ago. I absolutely love the autistic Caleb head canon, and it's a bit funny to me that I mentioned relating to him so long ago as I recently got diagnosed with autism. :^)
But also, people can have different head canons and all of them are ok! Caleb definitely seems to have the symptoms of anxiety, and if that's how someone wants to hc him that's cool too.
So that spider was Molly-mocked to death?
This should be so much higher
EVERYONE IN THE COMMENTS TAKE 12 NECROTIC DAMAGE
that pun was amazing!! I love this thank u
How many Molly's could a Mollymauk mock, if a Mollymauk could mock Molly's?
@@sandeman1776 Now imagine if Mollymauk could chuck mollys! Caleb would be flashing back so hard he'd see the light at the beginning of the tunnel.
It is for moments like this that I read the comments.
Liam's Vax accent sounds EXTRA British after listening to Caleb for the last 9 (Nein!) Episodes
Late comment but you could say it's his Vaxccent 👀
N E I N
Liam and Laura are having a hard time not being siblings lol
Marisha's reaction to Fjord saying "we lost two in the sewers." Is one one of those moments travis waits all episode for.
Marisha being caught off guard by all the jokes is so funny everytime it happens
I just realized Beau is basically this one player in Red Dead Redemption 2 that just keep pressing *Antagonize* whenever she talks to peope.
No, shes the one player who TRIES to hit antagonize but keeps hitting Quick draw.
Her game is broken and she doesn’t have the option to greet it’s just antagonize and antagonize
I think it’s more like she presses some positive option or whatever idk I don’t play, but the coding is fucked up so the game responds like she chose Antagonise. “Antagonise” also gets the Antagonise replies.
@@aromaladyellie That almost sounds like the unpatched version of LA Noire. Unclear response labels causing surprisingly caustic dialogue. Though with Beau it's a matter of presentation.
Or a Telltale game where you chose an appealing dialogue, and ended up stabbing someone with a broken bottle.
This is my first time through, but Matt has given them a water walking ring and now an armor set of water breathing. I have a feeling that things are going to go nautical
First time through as well! I'm always curious how the items they get will be useful. They don't have a druid this time, though.
I'm playing a campaign where in the first part we fought a ton of undead, and at the END of it I picked up a mace with radiant damage. One actual year later and zero undead later, I finally got to use it on some shadow creatures.
As a rewatcher, I'm just gonna say, you're both onto something 😁
@@slywolfe Finished it a few weeks ago. You're not wrong!
@@Amethystar just started watching, is it worth watching through?
@@krazykoala7329 Absolutely! I watched Vox Machina first and I'm glad I did (though they have their share of technical and other issues). The Mighty Nein took what made Campaign 1 great and improved upon it, so the quality is more consistent throughout.
Has anyone appreciated that Travis got the fire glove. Which you might be like why didn’t they give it to the guy who casts fire. Then you realize Travis is Roy Mustang.
*OH YEAH*
I memorized most of the voice actors for my favorite characters, so when I got into DnD and found this... I was hooked because I love Travis. XD
Wait Travis voices Mustang wow!!
@@versatilebeatsdj Laura Bailey is Lust And Liam is Gara
Oh god, that's amazing!!!
When the Goblin Thief and the Tiefling are the moral compass, that says something about the party.
Tiefling Blood Hunter
@@filipferencak2717 _Conman_ Tiefling Blood Hunter
Yes Jester is the moral compass and the glue that holds them together
@@Questfinder1 --this post made by Jester.
@@CappuccinoSquid The only morally firm person is Fjord. The rest are heathens. But Molly puts in the work.
Matt: *mentions the ocean*
Travis: O.O
Fenan Lavellan
Anyone: *mentions going into water*
Nott: *0 o 0*
I was watching Travis's face the whole time!
I love how Travis is always in character. His sailing days haven't been talked about in more than half the eps ago and he still reacts, even ever so subtly, to any mention of ocean or sea. His attention to detail is matched only by Matt. And the few times he does talk irl, he's making more nerd pop culture remarks and jokes than anyone else.
There was really a missed opportunity to claim the sewer rats were "Riddled with Syphilis"
"Extreme Syphilis!"
Reposting bc I had to scroll So. Far.
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1:28 - Sam's new art form
11:15 - Game starts
17:29 - Jester has a crush
26:32 - The beat's all off
34:35 - Beau the diplomat
46:19 - Detective Nott investigates
55:20 - Poop rat initiative
1:14:26 - HDYWTDT
1:30:55 - Welcome Schmidt
1:46:53 - Break starts
1:56:08 - Fan art montage
2:01:36 - Break ends
2:08:20 - Initiative
2:40:50 - Mollymauk Molly-mocks
2:41:40 - Molly-mocked to death (HDYWTDT)
2:55:29 - "We're one of you"
3:05:00 - Touching Caleb and Jester moment
3:06:45 - Nott's button collection
3:09:40 - "gently" "socially"
3:21:24 - It matters
3:34:00 - Nott tries to steal (one of the best scenes so far lol)
3:44:53 - Storytime with Jester
3:59:00 - Game ends
4:00:52 - Art Montage
Q
THANK YOU
Appreciate it thank you
Still had to scroll so far but many thanks nonetheless
More people need this
I really want Jester to learn the Pumat Sol cleaning spell so she can skip around randomly cleaning people
Tully Boys I don’t think clerics get Prestidigitation
I think nott has it
I wanted Caleb to have it because while it can clean clothes it can also soil them. Just walk into someone's shop dirty their clothes "there now you are presentable and we can do business"
@@lukasbhame9384 They do not. She could take an Arcane Adept feat to get it though.
@@elbruces or multiclass, pretty sure cleric get all their traits by lvl 17 or 18 anyways.
I've gotta say, I'm super impressed by Marisha for seeing a near-random NPC, immediately doing an insight check and inquiring about The Gentleman as a result, giving her a lead on a personal quest she'd gotten only the episode before. That was super cool and I wouldn't even have thought to do the same.
Really? She basically already knows that The Gentleman is one of, if not THE major player in the city's underworld. And she just came upon what are almost certainly passages for underworld smuggling operations. I would really hope you would think to do the same in her shoes, as it was a pretty easy bet.
And I'm sure her being married to the DM has nothing to do with it.
No flak to the woman personally, but she is the absolute worst meta gamer at the table.
Yeah, let's remember not to give Marisha even a modicum of credit for paying attention at the table and instead really beat her inferiority into her at the barest of compliments. @@mr.mayhem4054
@@TheDapperDragon I noticed that. Her character is really pushy on Caleb and idk if it’s her or character. Maybe as the campaign goes on it will change or make sense
@mommymonsterandprincessabb340 her character is like this. In the first campaign her character was socially awkward to but in a more shy way less abrasive. She and Liam's character were very close to last campaign too
The funny thing is it her character is very different this season than it was last campaign. So you can see that this is acting all the little things they do it's all acting. Even the way they hold themselves as different this campaign.
2:08:27 This self-interrupt by Taliesin is about Matt bringing out the battle map but I wasn't looking at the screen and honestly it works so great in-character. "To be fair, invisible spiders are the best spiders because you can't-- hey, look at that!"
Sam's huge flask just cracks me up so bad. ''Goblin juice''
Goblin Slayer wants to know your location: you failed the 49th goblin test only goblins like goblin juice
He should cosplay Knott with that huge flask it would be awesome
Lmao i am hoping you've seen current (ep 70s) Notts flask then I'm watching old eps enjoying the changes XD
and to think it only gets bigger....
It had a 9 taped to it last episode.
Anyone think that the traveler is 4 halflings in a trench coat?
Aside from the fact that would make him look like a giant (haflings aren't that small only half the size of an adult human hence why they are called halflings) it would be stupid so, nope.
How about 4 squirrels in a trench coat?
I was attempting to make a Norgorber joke... I cry.
Drakey Lvingston Vincent?!
Samael considering they are half in all dimensions there could be up to 8 halflings playing a humanoid and considering Goliath and so on some humanoids are quite big.
Hahaha I love the idea that they're in the sewers, 5 rats come out and everyone's like CALEB GET DOWN! and leap into action to defend him because he's such a squishy Wizard boy
I always love these kids of party structures. When good players choose clases that can have some good benefits and some steep disadvantages (especially early game) and then the others do their best to play into it instead of against it, that always gives me a smile.
That spider died such an undignified death lmao. Beaten by a broomstick handle and mocked to death
That little moment with Caleb and Jester was so sweet, my heart.
Molly-mocked to death no less (joke is stolen)
Watching Jester fight is so cringe. Clerics have the best lvl 1 offencive spell in the game, yet I've seen her use Guiding Bolt like once. That spider shouldn't have gotten to turn 3 between guiding bolt and scorching ray.
@@trndrd sure but how is guiding bolt fun or cute?
@@jamieadams2589 flavor is free. Just like the lollipop spiritual weapon.
@@trndrd that doesn't answer the question.
Im always excited to see Ashley in person in the show. It doesn't feel like something is missing when she's gone, but it definitely feels complete when she's there.
@@horizonsky9508 I do as well, though she is not quite as unifying a character as Pike was. Pike made everyone be better I feel. Yasha is super cool though
Eh, she’s the worst at role playing out of the lot. She doesn’t think well on her feet. Always seems awkward like she just went over the rules 5 min before she sat down.
@@kevinamburgey1627 Tbh I think that she's just not super thrilled about Critical Role being an online thing. Imagine if you and your friends were playing D&D for years as a social gathering, then all of a sudden boom, millions of people are watching you play every game live.
She's just seems shy about it. Don't know if I'm the only one who feels this way, but it's certainly what it's always looked like to me.
Add to that the way everybody treats her when she does show up at the table (everybody immediately screams "YASHAAA" as if to reassure her that it's a safe space or something).
She's constantly travelling back and forth between New York for filming Blindspot, and for filming this, her "awkwardness" is simply flying across the country and being ready to go and spend some time with her friends as much as possible before she goes back.
"Is that a dog next to Caleb?"
"I ran out of rats."
For some reason that was just so funny to me. My group's used various other figures, not even D&D brand, as stand-ins for stuff we didn't have.
Bruh, that IS my group. Our character tokens usually consist of: a smol blue rock, a Sorry peice, red plastic rock, cool Harry Potter ghost peice, smol plastic penguin, a green wizard hat, and one of those green alien plastic peices, that we hot glued a stand for. XD
And i haven't even added what we use for encounters!
@@cussundriakneal9904 I just bought a bunch of Halloween cupcake toppers lmao has goblins spiders and orcs, oh and mummies and frankensteins lol. They are gonna be stand ins for everything in the upcoming campaign
I use lego pieces as a stand and in the crack of the two pieces place a paper cut out of the image of the character
Marbles, stickers, buttons, coins, bottle caps, rubber bands you name it lol... us normal folk gotta use our imagination
We used cut up squares of paper with the name of the creature written on them laid out on a dry-erase grid board. We had to imagine a lot, so I think I remember those games a bit better than the ones with good miniatures
I love how Matt goes "Nice" or "Sorry" to good/bad rolls. It's like he stops being the DM for a second, and becomes an ally of the party who cheers on for his friends.
Real dms commemorate when the Paladin lands a crit
That's because it's not DM vs Players. A good DM celebrates and mourns as the players do! You're telling a story, not TRYING to kill your party!
@@Nohawkkid008 as a DM, this is so true. Ultimately tell the story and make the pressure and danger feel real, but I’m so on the side of my players because I want them to win.
I like how he goes "good to know" after a random feeling check.
That's not him stopping being the DM. That's just being the DM. It's *never* Players v.s. DM. It's all a collaborative effort, yall are playing together, not against each other. The dm should be happy when the players do cool stuff, and the players should be happy and excited when the dm does cool stuff. It goes both way.
Only Caleb can turn a successfully connected handshake into an awkward moment.
Interesting fact: The ability of people of lower station to just purchase expensive clothing and be indistinguishable from the upper class was actually a concern in certain places and times. So much so that in Shakespeare's time there were literally fashion police. It wasn't unusual for them to ban you from wearing certain fashion unless your caste was high enough.
That is actually hilarious. So using that in my homebrew world.
Source?
@@andrewtv9873 I have never heard of fashion police specifically, but this is the commonly known problem of new money (google "nouveau riche"). I've seen this discussed in literature on Ancient Greece/Rome, feudal Japan, and early modern England/America.
Traders and merchants were especially despised by the upper class because of their "impropriety". Nobles threw around all sorts of complaints of "dishonourable" and "not the natural order" to try to make themselves feel better about it.
Nobles would certainly find creative ways to try to sabotage new money, perhaps by excluding merchants from their organizations, perhaps by sending thugs to bust up their shops. Police in older society were employed by the nobility, so they had a lot of leeway for maliciousness.
I need some citation
@@r.r815 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law
Caleb- "You carry the money"
What he really means: Take the goddamn money, Jester
*Laura
Will Grey *Jester
@@DeathnoteBB Jester is actually really generous and polite, that is Laura and she admits it as much on Talks Machina, and at the table during sessions.
Moving the battle map to the big screen is ABSOLUTELY the right call
1000% improvement
1:29:30 I love how the eventual motivation given for not accidentally burning people alive is "so the party member who gets ptsd from fire won't have nightmares about it" and not that... you know... it would suck for the people being burnt alive
Liam’s shirt this episode is awesome.”leave them at the bottom of the grave they dug for you.”
Why does every classic rpg come back to fighting rats in a sewer
William Sutton The alligators are unionized.
@@unbreakablelag underrated comment
@@unbreakablelag and meth gators weren't a thing
Because RPG players are dirty disgusting vermin, and it's familiar territory.
@@magonus195 who pissed in your brekfast cereals?
Sam very carefully waiting until Laura starts eating to announce that he's tasting bloody stool is just evil.
Marisha: "They were undead rats."
Matt: "They were living, albeit diseased rats."
Marisha: "ZOMBIE RATS!"
"I don't really know what's goin' on-"
"YOU'RE SAFE NOW!"
"OHH GOD!"
> Healing Word is dogshit!
> literally saves a dying PC as bonus action
Mattia Salvetti he had 1 ho sooooooo
Healing word feels like bullshit until like level 4-5 when you have more spell slots to play with. Lower levels feel like you need the biggest bang for your buck. I get it.
yah, Scanlans healing words saved VM so often.
You were at 99 upvotes. Hit that button to get you to the triple digits. PS: I laughed at that part too.
@@orik101 I don't get it. Healing Word you can get a KO'd character back in the fight *in addition* to an attack in the same round; just because it's ranged and can be used as a bonus action I think it would still be a useful spell if it only cured 1HP.
Cure Wounds on the other hand can cure more but that only makes a difference over if four specific circumstances are met: 1) when the D12 rolls higher than the D4; 2) when the healed character receives more damage in the next rounds (otherwise 1HP is enough), 3) when said damage is higher than the amount you would have healed with Healing Word and 4) but the damage is low enough so they don't get knocked out anyway.
2:55:37 my favorite thing about Sam pulling the “we are one of you” thieves cant trick is how excited Liam got
Matt: - "We dont have to RP through your bathing indivually"
1 minute later...
Fun RP scene of Nott trying to steal something from Fjord while hes bathing
3:34:44
I'd like to say that the idea of spider eggs opening up and hundreds of really big spiders that can turn invisible coming out and vanishing is the SCARIEST NIGHTMARE FUEL I'VE EVER HEARD OF.
When Matt said "It appears you got them all. Some seem to have burned, *some seem to have vanished."* I went "NOPE! NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!"
I think I’d blocked that bit out and now my skin is just crawling off my body.
For those who don't know, the spider were Phase Spider, they can go in the etheral plane and litteraly vanish. That's why Jester spell had no target, not because she didn't saw it, but because it wasn't there
@@captaintiefling9618 I doubt the idea of a spider that can just nope the idea of being targeted like obito of naruto would make anyone feel better. That just makes me go nope.
@@captaintiefling9618 I knew the spell Blink from The Adventure Zone and I figured it was similar!
@@DeathnoteBB Yup. Blink also involves the ethereal plan so you're absolutely spot on with that deduction.
Whenever I hear Ashley say “I would like to rage” I just think that our Little Monstah grew up
I felt like crying by reading this omg ;_;
There's fan art featured in the last two videos of a Yasha raging, and the shadow behind her is Grog's shadow and I just 😭😭 Best Buddies!!!
i'm re-watching old episodes and it's so weird not hearing "wE pLAy duNGeONS and DraGONS" in their chaotic way after Matthew introduces the episode
Im on my re watch right now, and I was just thinking this. However I AM really excited to relive the first time it happens. I can’t wait lol
also all the 🎶making my ways🎶 😂😂😂
this exact comment has been made on every video up ontill in happens.
"I very quickly, gently, socially pin Caleb to the wall."
Shippers: 👀
Yeah I'm kinda surprised there aren't more comments about that moment xD
The bromance is through the roof between those two 🙌🏼
Honestly, I liked that Mollymauk kept this shifty hobo type wizard dude from hording valuables from the party out of fear and greed. Caleb as a character is not trusting and is mostly out for himself and Nott at this point.
@@grumpycloud30 I mean yeah but it's not like he's been hiding that fact.
@@DannyMakesVideosIGuess That's a good point.
Just once I'd like to see Critical Role start a second or two early to see how every one shouts out at Matt just before the game starts.
@Joe Tonner Yea but imagine what they're saying to break Matthew the Magnificent Mother Fucker Mercer!
In the One Shot with Liam Dming, at the end you get to see them “start the stream over” and Marisha yells out “Pussy Pockets!”.
Every time it starts theyre all laughing i wonder what goes on right before the begging of the stream
There were a couple times during campaign 1 when they mistimed it after the break and the mic catches someone saying "cock goblin" or something.
Illithid Syphilis
"You don't see anything dangerous Georgie."
I agree with Travis's reaction to that. Oh Jesus! Please no!
Kill it with fire
I see a lot of people giving Caleb (or even Liam) shit for not telling the others about the money he looted. But you gotta realize, it wasn't that long ago Jester said that 50 gold, more than he's had in his life, was a pittance and she's got so much more coming in from her mother. She absolutely didn't need it, yet he still offered it to her in the end.
It's just kinda funny how it's only certain players who get shat on for this, but for others it's considered an endearing character trait
@@Ailieorz Like how Laura is always shat on for it by shitty people on the internet but in Liam and Sam's characters it's an endearing trait! So frustrating. I feel so bad for Laura.
@@CallistoTheWarriorQueen No I meant the exact opposite in fact. Everyone dumps on Liam for being greedy about keeping the boots of haste, but nobody picks on Laura for wanting to loot everything on the planet. She's special
@@Ailieorz People constantly shat on Laura for how greedy Vex was.
Idk man… “that’s what my character would do” only goes so far. If you keep trying to bogard all the gold and magical items that your dm gives you, without even letting you party know what you’ve got, it’s a shitty move. Honestly if I were playing with someone who did that I would talk to them out of game about stopping it tbh.
the first dialogue in this episode can be summed up as Jester saying: "You don't know my god, he lives in another city!" and her actually being right.
Timestamps!
1:28 - Sam's new art form
11:15 - Game starts
17:29 - Jester has a crush
26:32 - The beat's all off
34:35 - Beau the diplomat
46:19 - Detective Nott investigates
55:20 - Poop rat initiative
1:14:26 - HDYWTDT
1:30:55 - Welcome Schmidt
1:46:53 - Break starts
1:56:08 - Fan art montage
2:01:36 - Break ends
2:08:20 - Initiative
2:40:50 - Mollymauk Molly-mocks
2:41:40 - Molly-mocked to death (HDYWTDT)
2:55:29 - "We're one of you"
3:05:00 - Touching Caleb and Jester moment
3:06:45 - Nott's button collection
3:09:40 - "gently" "socially"
3:21:24 - It matters
3:34:00 - Nott tries to steal (one of the best scenes so far lol)
3:44:53 - Storytime with Jester
3:59:00 - Game ends
4:00:52 - Art Montage
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You are a saint
I love the fact that the subtitler refused to subtitle “what looks to be”
Considering the amount of times Matt says that phrase, I understand why.
That and "you watch" are his favourite phrases.
they're kinda hard to read
I'm convinced the guy who does the subtitles is a professional transcriptionalist or at least knows a lot about the standards. They make all the right cuts.
That moment when Matt says" oh my god ? she's no longer roleplaying!" to a pregnant woman could not have gone over any better for a time and place. 00:47:32
There were a few times where Matt gave off the teacher trying to control his class vibes and it’s hilarious
46:49
“You know how much diarrhea blasting they did in the Middle Ages?”
Me: *about to take a bite of sandwich *........*sloooooowly lowers sandwich*
It never seems safe to eat while watching these episodes.....
I watched this while suffering from severe nausea. Super gross, but I love CritRole too much to stop.
It's an exercise in IRL constitution saving throws. I have become decadence. I have seen Reigal and he rend my soul.
I made it through the episode with all the gore and carnage in the Howling Mines while filling up with a dinner plate of chilli... your constitution stat will grow
I legitimately seized out a bit laughing from this comment.
My favorite part of this whole episode is real life Talisen needing to confirm that firefly's can be turned into glow jewelry.
Anyone else just realise Jester was wearing her ring of water walking when she cannon balled into the Bath? If Matt had caught that one I'd have been impressed, and it would have made a great scene.
That's true!
I thought about Nott having it in that scene but didn't even think about Jester already wearing it!
What lunatic wears jewelry when taking a bath?
@@jgamer2228 uhhhh 🙋♀️
@@alittleantidote5852 🤣
To be fair they stripped down
"Leave them at the bottom of the grave they dug for you"
- Liam shirt
And perhaps a hint of Caleb's backstory ;)
(I'm not caught up to live yet)
It's adorable how the first thing Molly wants to do when he gets a slight surplus of money is to give it away to others who need it more.
Molly's the best 💜
@@rewindcinema7355 *was
@@kabir3510 spoliers much?
@@kabir3510 sociopath detected
@@kabir3510noooooo😢
they mocked the spider to death, absolutely iconic
I picked the wrong episode to eat my dinner during dear god-
same
same 😭
I'm so sorry, chocolate brownie, you were tasting so good... o__o
It takes 4 hours to eat dinner?
Kidding... kind of. Which part made it hard to eat?
@@slywolfe I assume the "tasting shit" part and spiders.
I still find it funny that Nott at lvl 1 still had a higher AC than Scanlan at lvl 20
I think most of them do. Scanlan had an ac of like 14. A lot of them right now have like 15 if I remember correctly
Fjord and Molly are the squishy ones so far
@@OutlawWalker if fjord and molly are squishy what does that make Caleb
@@tacolord2561 wet paper
@@OutlawWalker wet toilet paper 😂
“...it has a very classic, old English pub look, but the place smells of old, dried ales and rotting wood...”
So, yeah. English pub. And the landlord is called Clive? Yep. Checks out.
Needs more cigarette butts to only just cover the piss smell from the toilets.
@@spitandfire “you find 1gp in the urinal...”
M- "so the reward goes to the mighty seven"
T- "mighty nein... we lost two in the sewers"
everyone starts laughing*
M- "make a deception test"
love it!
2:39:00 I really like how Matt shows some discretion as DM with these battles. Gave Beau the hit under the condition that if she misses she would be prone. And then held his ground after she tried to get an extra swat in.
Yeah, I love that too!
Matt is the DM comfortable enough with the rules to bend them/ introduce some homebrew when someone is doing something creative or at least apropriate in terms of roleplay.
"Vex never lied about loot."
Well, you know.
Except for the broom.
She stole it, but she never lied about where it came from or lied about not having a broom when she did.
69 likes. Nice.
@@itzplant3196 Not anymore 😈
@@MasumiSeike :(
Oh dang, that’s right, she claimed to the owner she dropped it in the lava.
CALEB: Who kicks a cat?! I mean you might as well be at home picking the wings off flies! You kick a cat - what is wrong with you?
JESTER: Wait a minute is it bad to pick the wings off flies?
FJORD: That's actually really hard to do, they're very small and hard to catch.
JESTER: Well, not if they're already dead. Then you can pick the wings off super duper easily.
MOLLYMAUK: Oh, sure, if they're already dead I mean you just go for it.
FJORD: Well... that's just a little--
BEAUREGARD: You know what we used to do as kids? We used to take fireflies and crush 'em, they make glow jewelry.
NOTT: **grossed out face**
BEAUREGARD: When they would- when then they'd light up, you crush 'em right as they light up, and you can make glowy war paint.
JESTER: What's a firefly?
MOLLYMAUK: **genuinely disturbed Taliesin face**
3:48:23 😆😄
In Marisha's defense, I've heard my father talk about doing that when he was a kid.
@@jessicakavin4178 we need to talk about your father...
@@thetransientone6254 we need to talk about Kavin?
I am from the south. This is, in fact, a thing.
@@SiminaDar I am too and it's definitely a childhood thing
Matt described the spider and I had flashbacks to the Mandolorian season 2. Instant nope nope nope
Mine was a flashback to Fallen Order on Kashyyyk. I stopped playing for like 3 days bc of those spiders lol
Molly acts really romantic and threatening at the same time and it’s confusing.
I freakin love it. The pinning Caleb scene was just *chefs kiss*
Y'all, the screen format in this one is AWESOME. The three player screens to the left and the large map screen to the right.
I just kind of wish there was more than one angle? For different action shots
I noticed it as well! So much better!
Yeah, I can actually see shit now
them talking about frumpkin being kicked into another dimension is sending me lmaoo
"We lost two people"
"Thats really that bad, anyway.."
"Oh no!... Anyway."
3:00.
"He needs an outlet, it's good, it's healthy for him."
I think this is my favorite out of game moment.😆
Gotta say, I like this layout 100% more with the battle map in the large frame.
Adam Martinez wow I somehow managed to read your comment as it switched to that view, so I looked up & it matched.
I love that you can see there minis with this new set up too. They look so cool
Agree
Yeah this has been the first fight you can actually see what's happening.
If Caleb would be able to make his unseen servant have radiant energy, it would be a holy Schmidt.
well done lmfao
Thanks!
W OW
Someone drops a sword, "Bring me that Messer, Schmidt."
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