Narrative Telephone Ep. 8: Grog's Vlog
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Travis Willingham wreaks havoc on his friends and leads off an all-new round of Narrative Telephone. How far will the story stray as the cast swat the details away?
This Narrative Telephone originally aired Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at: / criticalrole
Meet the cast!
Matthew Mercer: / matthewmercer
Ashley Johnson: / thevulcansalute
Taliesin Jaffe: / executivegoth
Marisha Ray: / marisha_ray
Sam Riegel: / samriegel
Laura Bailey: / laurabaileyvo
Travis Willingham: / willingblam
Liam O'Brien: / voiceofobrien
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No narrative, just telephone
It's a Grog Narrative, He lost track of the story, like Grog would
This is the best comment on all of YT right now. Congrats XD
No gain, just pain.
Hilarious, hilarious pain
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@@JB-xl2jc Help, it's again
The fact that Taliesin worked so hard to break the cast with his story, but all it took was Travis Willingham's improvised vlog to completely throw everyone into chaos XD
It's hilarious that this one of all stories was the one to completely break them
The problem with Taliesins story was that it was just so perfectly complicated that it was impossible for anyone to remember it, even himself since he had to read it, and because of that all of the original detail was gone after the second iteration. He was literally a victim of his own success
That's kind of the genius of it. He knows that everything is just going to devolve into chaos because everyone is going to build off of beats, so he just started everything off by building off of beats.
Well Taliesin made it only hard for the 2. spot with his lingual mess, which was funny but did not right hit the mark, sadly.
I mean, what's more chaotic than just making it up as you go?
Who wins?
An eldrich being who perfected the art of alliteration to induce maximum chaos
OR
One strong boi
One chose precise and controlled chaos, while the other is Tharizdun in this bitch.
It's the strong boi who turned into an Eldritch being, or the Eldritch being masquerading as the Strong Boi
stone boi*
It’s so adorable how Matt is an absolute powerhouse as a DM who can hold a completely immersive dramatic conversation between multiple NPCs during regular critical role, but when he’s just Matt he’s just a dork like the rest of us and every time he makes a joke he looks at Marisha hoping she laughs.
He's a wholesome cinnamon bun and creative genius
It's the cutest
Has anyone noticed how he sometimes kisses her shoulder after she says something funny? That's goals.
I also love that literally anytime one of them starts laughing it sets the other one off as well
There is a big difference in "behind the DM screen Matthew Mercer" and "player/friend/geek/in front of the DM screen Matt/Matty"
All the others: Hmmm, let's craft an intricate, detailed story full of twists and turns, that'll throw them off.
Travis Effing Willingham: Well, I rolled a Nat 20 on Performance, so I'm gonna wing this ish.
pro warlock move right there
Pro any class move
Matt: runs around the camera, audibly out of breath
Sam: doesn't even leave the frame
Matt making off camera old man noises as he crawled under the shot was painfully relatable.
This man, this chaotic, rambling man, is the CEO. Let that sink in. I am so happy about this.
Rightfully so -- MAD smarts and skills!! He improvised this shit! Whewwwww
travis himself is actually very intelligent. grog though...not so much
@@kyle21843 it takes smarts to play dumb well.
Taliesin: "Liam was just so out of it, like some sort of messed up rockstar"
Ashley & Sam: "Liam O'Brien is a rockstar"
Laura: refused to remember to say her twin is a rockstar
She didn’t even try going to her mind palace, poor form 😆😆😆
Sibling rules trump Narrative Telephone rules
What are the odds everyone remembers Macaroni Samsonite, the one shot character's name, but Grog Strongjaw becomes something different?
I would say about 1 in an Ashley
It's his brother, Greg Stonejaw.
Man, Sam knew, and really could have righted the ship, but stuck with it for comedy. haha
I was so happy when Laura started to course correct, then remembered what she heard. =(
@@Myllorelion Sam seemed so passive aggressive from it and i loved it
Ashley has always called him Grog Stonejaw to the point I think that she actually thinks that's his name.. in the early C1 intros when Pike's talking about Grog's tribe she calls him Stonejaw then too
Marisha: Here's how the game works!
Travis: Here's how the game ISN'T going to work!
Taliesin: "I deserve this."
Damn right you did.
I like how Taliesin’s Grog slowly devolves into angry Percy with a sore throat.
The day when percy found the bugbear that took his arm again while forgetting his sore throat lozenge
I think one of the beeeeest and interesting parts about this is... at no point does Travis as Grog eeeeever swing his Axe in the original story.
But like the true nature of Narrative Telephone... everyone else did. Hahahahaha.
Easily my favorite one. SO EXCITED FOR SEASON 2!
And on that note, the closest Grog even got to being angry was swearing at Macaroni Samsonite. Grog was in good humour almost throughout, but most folks' retelling was just "GROG IS MADE OF RAGE"
I think Liam made the best story by far, but this episode was definely the most entertaining
I love how everyone is in a random room at their house, except for Ashley, who is apparently in my trapper keeper from 1994.
Can I just say I was totally down for the "story" just being Grog just listing all the muscles in the human body.
I would love for Matt to tell a Zorth story. Maybe how he lost his arms, or Moorbounder training, anything by that character really.
Matt’s Zorth kills me, so I imagine everyone else’s Zorth would be incredible
Mall bounders?
Out of everything, I'm so sad we lost "prescribe" and "bidet." Also have to love that Ashley somehow has "Stonejaw" really stuck in her head. Way back in campaign one, when they did the character intros at the start, she called him Grog Stonejaw then, too lolololololol
Marisha's Macaroni Samsonite just turned into Nott with a head cold.
Liam: Tries to break the game with German.
Taliesin: Tried to break the game with Alliteration.
Travis: Successfully broke the game by just improvising nonsense in his campaign 1 character voice.
All honesty though, if Travis actually made a Grog Strongjaw youtube channel, I'd subscribe instantly. Also Macaroni & Buddy are now officialy CR's version of Pinky & The Brain.
Honestly I think we can say that everyone except for maybe Marisha definitely “Ashleyed” this story
The rest of the cast: "I'm gonna get them, let me just write an intricate script."
Everyone else: "ohhh, this needs careful planning."
No one: "...."
Grog: "Hold my ale."
Haha he threw in Macaroni XD all these have dissolved into chaos, but Travis' "narrative" was chaos to begin with.
Macaroni Samsonite at beginning: "I'm Macaroni Samsonite and I'm here to take over all of Tal'dorei!"
*Party casts Modify Memory*
Macaroni Samsonite at the end: "I'm Macaroni Samsonite. Why am I here?"
"That's not my last name! What the f! How many years?"
The betrayal in Travis' voice. I love me some paniced Ashley Johnson.
Matt yelling "Laura BAIL-ey" is my new ringtone
"I'm so echant. This is how narrative telephone."
Yep. I get you, Marisha. My brain's just like that too, and I'm not even participating.
Matt started out with a pretty average story and now his revenge for everyone escalating with the alliteration and foreign languages and songs and specific details is going to be absolutely nuclear
A trend I've noticed that they all do (must be just a general quirk of human behavior) that generally messes up the next couple of people is comment on their own performance in the middle of trying to recall story details which then throws themselves off more and causes the story to be even less detailed in the long run as the people after them try to copy their self-commentary and mannerisms. :P
I think it might be a quirk of them being voice actors. Recognizing the flaws in their "drafts" of the voice
I think Sam just does it just to troll...😅
Yup, I noticed that editorializing ended up getting repeated, although to be fair without that Macaroni's only dialogue would have been "I'm Macaroni Samsonite" so Marisha did kind of need to fill space there. But some other parts just got totally replaced with editorializing, and eventually mutated into something they thought Grog might have actually said. Like Liam being a rock star according to Matt.
Fortunately it doesn't make it much less fun to watch when someone stops really trying and just talks about the performance. Possibly because they forgot what the actual lines were and feel they need to fill time with *something*.
Yeah, you're right :D It's still funny to watch, although i kinda wish that sometimes when they couldn't remember the details, instead of commenting their own "poor" performance, they would just make something up to fill the blanks. Easier said than done, yes, and it might not even work the way i imagine it to, but from time to time I'd rather see the details of the story get more and more morphed rather than just getting the length of the story cropped (+ some editorializing lines) each time someone forgets something.
@@Fenfalon Oh, they're talented at that too. Actors reference it as part of the "The show must go on" ethic and call it "ad libbing," and these guys have done a fair bit of that throughout -- but I think this is a high-pressure enough game that they feel their failures acutely, while also being a casual enough venue that they feel free to make excuses to explain away those failures.
I find it marvelous how Ashley streamlined the thing by removing the occurrences of people saying "I don't know what's going on" and "This is what this person said", then Sam reinjecting character quirks... That truly made for a back-on-rails story, for the time it went
"C is for Comrade, that's good enough for me!" I AM CRYING
Russian Cookie Monster ftw
For US, comrade
16:01 It's okay, Laura, no one remembered anything from the Macaroni Samsonite part... ever.
Side note: I love how Matt, who is open about being very self-conscious about his own body and self, has no issue goofing himself up if his friends ask. Love your magical duck face, Mr Marisha Ray :')
Someone PLEASE do some fan art of Grog all decked out in Capezio gear! Leotard, practice tutu, mesh tights, some leg warmers, little shrug sweater, and classic contempora pointe shoes slung over his shoulder. We ballerina critters need it for our lives!!!
Don't give Travis or Sam ideas
All this proves to me is that Travis is too powerful. You can really see him make up the story as he goes, it’s amazing.
Me: how is there still like 2 minutes left, the credits aren’t usually this long.
Post credits occur: oh wow Taliesin 😂😂
The best part about the Stonejaw incident is that Ashley made the same mistake in their intros in the campaign.
only watched travis’s starting “story” so far... yeah this is going to be wild
Marisha failed the macaroni voice and admits it,
Matt does it pretty well
Then Liam comes in and just does freaking Golem! Bloody brilliant.
he does play gollum in shadow of mordor so it comes naturally. next time maybe he will do his etch and sketch voice
Sam's turn was less an attempt at retelling Grog's "story", and more a passive-aggressive jab at how bad Ashley screwed up x'D
Marisha's Grog is VERY much Pate!
Damn Liam does such a good Grog voice and seeing all the guy's high voice is fantastic, I love seeing the ranges everyone can do, such talent!
Don't forget... Liam is notorious for doing his amazing "cuttlefish" voice!😁
Well, I was hoping that one of these would have either Darington Brigade or One-Shot characters, I just never expected it would be Travis who would fulfill that desire.
Max: "Did you curse me?!"
Me, a Call of Cthulhu veteran: Yup.
So amazing, Travis is the best finale.
Oh. My. Gawd.
Travis what have you done?!
I'm with Ashley and Liam on that being the BEST Marisha performance of this season! Omg. She nailed it!
God's work.
he has achieved greatness
He won x)
hear me out, for one of the guests, they need to get Logic on
just imagine how destructive the speed of his speech would be
image the CHAOS
This was by far my favorite episode of the group. Having deep tales and complicated content is nice, but you could tell here the focus was just about having fun, and it truly showed. I have never seen the cast laugh so hard and long before in my life, and to be honest this is probably the best comedy gold they produced. So cheers Travis, you deserve this
Word, I was literally sitting around for about 15 minutes waiting for this to be uploaded
Liam's reaction to Marisha's rendition of Macaroni has made me so goddamn happy.
I enjoy the fact that the post credit one is just called TaliesinWTF.mov 😂
I love that Laura always disappears from camera when she's failing so adorable
I love the fact that Travis fully improvised this whole thing when he was on camera
STONEJAW. Me, Grog S T O N E J A W.
Sam is the biggest troll.
Ashley started it
Sam 100% knew and could’ve saved the day. He chose to watch Rome burn instead, and I fuckin’ love it
Jeff B Sam didn’t watch Rome burn, he saw a candle and pulled out the flamethrower
Yes, please, to the guests. Get Brian to reprise Al Swearengen from Undeadwood. Also Ivan as his barkeep persona would be an interesting one. Really, I would just love to see any of the various guest players from the Campaigns and one-shots come back as their characters once more. I can only imagine what kinds of ridiculous stories and hijinks we could get from them, especially the more out-there and over-the-top ones. xD
I laughed so hard on slow-mo version oh my god
I'm just imagining Last of Us fans stumbling across this with no context. Sigh...
Laura & Ashley are treasures, really just a waste of their talent the writers ruined the LOU2 story.
@@atoughworld1547 Good thing that they didn't ruin it and both Laura and Ashley have talked about how much they loved it
@@troybaker602 Genuinely jealous you liked the story. It wasn't that joel died or ellie ends up alone without 2 fingers. Its the lack of narrative logic of how we get to each point thats offputting.
23:50 Liam is literally being blown away by the force of fantastic awkwardness that Marisha is projecting as Macaroni Samsonite. 😆
I'm legit CRYING right now, I don't remember the last time I've laughed this hard. Sam's part just ended me
That's where I died too!
Travis is the ultimate troll cause he gave a group of professional storytellers no story
0:53 that smile tho
Slasher smile!
Ashley Johnson: Stonejaw
Sam Riegel: And I took that personally
Grog has such an adorable kinetic energy.
I love how Travis just improvised a story and it crashed harder than the ones that were planned. Fantastic stuff
Internet: I WOULD LIKE TO RAGE ABOUT THIS PAGE
If Travis made a grog fitness channel I would 100% follow it
Liams grog impression is so good
I'm still trying to find the perscibe button
the best part is that even though they mess up the names of the muscles, you would never know whether it's them messing up or Grog being Grog
"Also ALE!"
i would watch Travis make a weekly Grog vlog forever
Can we please get the full slow-mo Taliesin version with the rest of the cast not saying anything? I need that in my life.
I really _really_ want Matt's NT to somehow include either every member of M9 or every member of VM.
I want the Briarwoods!
I'm holding out for Victor!
I just love Ashley’s panic face and butchering the story! 🤣🤣 (Grog StoneJaw) I am all here for it!!
It’s been 7 weeks with no new episodes! I hope
they continue Narrative Telephone cause it’s too good not to continue! Love these guys!
Gotta say, Liam's Grog is really good! I was really surprised!
I love Travis trying to be supportive of Ashley getting into the Grog voice, and then just being absolutely scandalized at _STONEjaw_
He looked so BETRAYED
It's a hilarious callback for sure
HOW MANY YEARS
*gasp* *PIKE!*
If you look back to campaign one she actually calls him Stonejaw in the backstory intros
Imagine Matt doing a 3 minute story with Kiri trying to recount different stories she's heard bits and pieces of from the M9
F I N I S H H I M
OMG!!! Kiri would be *PERFECT!* She could tell a story, but can only use sound bites from previous conversations *in their voices!* (Mind blown emoji!)
I'm hoping for time skips or even perhaps a time loop, parallel universes and stuff
Why would you say something so cruel, yet amazing? 🤣🤣
If Matt reads this and goes with it would be so evil. I would love that. Or if he really wants to F with them he will do a somthing like a documentary of Vox Machina from the NPCs.
Beginning Macaroni Samsonite: "I'mma take over Tal'dorei!"
Ending Macaroni Samsonite: "I just wanted to say hi!"
actual ending macaroni is "i dont know why im here"
@@francisxavier8374 True... He's like "Hi! (Why the heck am I here?) Okay, bye!"
@@KasaiRayquaza - Like me when I come into a room and forget what I was looking for.
I realize I am kinda randomly asking but do anybody know of a good website to watch newly released movies online ?
@Isaiah Ephraim Flixportal :P
Travis- hilarious and short two character bit
Everyone- mentally bluescreened at Macaroni and didn't hear last half the story
Some people did remember the headbutts but yeah that’s pretty much it
ashley: oh im so embarassed about "stonejaw" lets just move onto the next person
sam in his video, immediately: hi im grog STONEjaw yes... STONEJAW
sam is such a troll
But also "Jrog".
Love him so much!! Don't slip when Sam's next
And then Laura, "I'm Grog Strongjaw...no wait, Sam said...I'm Grog STONEjaw, that's m'name, STONEjaw."
Sam trolls, then Laura twists the knife. I don't know how Ashley will ever recover.
She said Stonejaw in her original intro, too.
Travis: Grog and Macaroni
Taliesin, an intellectual: Cookie Monster and Elmo
I'm here for that.
Taliesin reps Jim Henson at every turn and it sustains my life. 🫀
"I wonder who messed it all up"
Marisha, Matt, Liam, Taliesin, Ashley, Sam and Laura:
**nervous sweating**
Hey, couldn't be Laura, she was the last one ;D
Alternate title: Grog tries to do multiple consecutive takes of the same fitness vlog while getting progressively drunker.
I love how blaming liam and matt lasted longer than the actual narrative did
There WAS no narrative to last!
What narrative? Lol
Matt immediatly blamed himself, but i think Taliesin is the one who forgot the most details!
Here's the Summary:
Travis: Fitness youtuber Grog Strongjaw keeps getting interrupted by his craigslist roommate Macaroni Samsonite
Marisha: Wacky waving inflatable tube men just vibin'
Matt: Amped up Sid Vicious doing parkour
Liam: Sid Vicious flexing his Muscular System knowledge with Gollum as his roommate
Taliesin: Russian Sid Vicious with Falsetto Macaroni Samsonite accidentally filmed in slow mo
Ashley: Ah yes, Grog Stonejaw, my character Pink Truckfort's bestfriend in Cultural Roll: Legend of Bob Macaroni
Sam: Jog Stonejaw... That's definitely my name...
Laura: Puts the bail in Bailey
Ugh I want to like this comment again it’s so good
Sam: Jog Stonejaw and his booger!
PUTS THE BAIL IN BAILEY XD
See, now this here, your comment needs more likes
Sam's macaroni is like, spoiled British child
"Oh, man, Taliesen was so evil, Liam had German...."
They never even suspsected Travis was the BBEG all along.
Travis: But neither of you thought about a fast change to a diametrically different character!
He ended up being a really great final boss.
The old bait and switch when Grog starts, Macaroni sneaks in but gets chased off with Grog finishing.
The last story from Matt is gonna be so much murder for the crew.... I cam imagine it jumping from Gilmore to Viktor, and even raishan with so many languages, and tons of alliteration
Brian’s been saying that since day one
Travis as Macaroni: "I'm going to take over the world"
Literally everyone else as Macaroni: "I have absolutely nothing of substance to say, I honestly don't even know why I'm here"
Matt: runs around his entire room for a character change
Sam: Just ducks out of screen for half a second
krayos13 that’s true, it was just funny
He didn’t even get entirely out of frame hfhjfhjfhjdg
For once it didn’t fall apart at 3rd, real proud of Matt. Also I find it both impressive and very funny that Travis pretty much made up his whole story on the spot.
that is some top notch improv tbh
The falling apart was more like a slope from the start to the end instead of it immediately falling and staying the same level of insanity for the rest.
It fell apart at 2nd, so thats probably not an improvement. Marisha dropped the entire point of Macaroni, which never recovered. Apparently screaming at the television, impacted her ability to hear, and remember.
@@lokithecat7225 jesus, you still exist
This was truly history-making: The third didn't fall apart, and Laura Bailey bailed at the end. Astonishing.
Marisha: "I really adored the concept he went with."
The rest of the cast: "TheRE WAS a concePT?!"
That's because Marisha lost so much in hers.
@@Dyre05 Marisha kept the concept of a fitness youtuber intact, Liam was the one who dropped it.
Marisha nailed her retelling! She hardly lost anything!
@@RPG_Angie she literally lost the story after grog coming back swapping to talking about a fight.... that's half of the story...
@@Dyre05 She lost some bits in the middle, but she didn't lose the concept of a fitness youtuber. Liam did.
All I remember about Macaroni Samsonite is the voice, that he sat in a chariot on Liam's back and that he rolled ridiculously high stats LOL
he's also low-key evil. He's this cute, power house, who is secretly planning something. The hints are in his Spirit Guardians being necrotic because he's evil, and in Travis hinting at him trying to take over in this NT. Love him.
If you want to understand Mac its simple: he's Stitch as an evil halfling cleric.
He literally made Ashley Johnson disappear
After trying to roast her with a Flame Strike.
"BANISHMENT!" lol
Travis: Traps
Marisha: Glutes
Matt: Trapezes
Liam: Capezios
Taliesan: Capaldis
Ashley & Sam: Caboleys
Laura: Carbine noise
That's a telephone game, alright.
To Matt's credit he said trapezius, the actual name.
Liam mentioned Calpadis too
Laura's definitely sounded like Kobold Noses to me 😂
I've heard Liam mentioning Campari's. 😅
maybe it's because I also have ADHD, but this felt like the easiest story to follow. like it's muscles, macaroni, then the arena fight. a beautiful three act structure.
i know right i was like how are we getting this one of all things wrong that alliteration shit was completly impossible but this is great
it's probably the ADHD. because me too
Muscles macaroni and murder
omg felt. adhd folks unite
ADHD Ace Deity supports this comment.
Travis's expression to begin with is priceless. That is the look of a man about to wing some shit and hope for the best.
That is Grog in a nutshell, and it was GLORIOUS.
Don't forget Matt's ending look 😂
me at any class presentation i ever did give :P
If Travis doesn’t know what he’s going to say next, how could anyone else?
Matt and Taliesin can read minds, this is the only way to defeat them- by *not thinking* at all!!
lmaooo reminds me of the "How can you hit me when even I don't know where I am" line from the fan rap battle vid
Travis could, Grog can't
I think that's why the rest had trouble remembering it. With some sort of planned structure, it's not as difficult to extrapolate a likely follow up. When it's completely improvised, your brain can't lock on to a pattern.
The moment Taliesin realized he was turning into cookie monster and could not stop himself after realizing that made me laugh so hard I had to pause the video
And then he went Russian
Its funnier because his hair color is cookie monster colored
Keep watching after the credits for rare footage of Taliesin in his true eldritch form.
Just don't listen to it near the ocean...
Thank you, I almost missed that!
"You cursed me dude? Wtf is this?!" Kills me everytime
Oh my Tal this is so perfect. My soul was _sha-king_ under his unbridled eldritch tongue!
I fucking love how the file is just titled "Taliesin_WTF" xD
We’ve had foreign language from Liam, alliteration from Tal, complicated details from Laura, a musical number from Sam, and Ashley pretending that information was forgotten...
But Travis, in a show of complete improv, managed to destroy EVERYONE with his secret ingredient: Chaos! When he left to turn into Macaroni I was so shocked and confused I forgot half of the story, it worked so well.
Also Laura bailing was the FUNNIEST THING, I was dying of laughter. I need season 2, ASAP. We need Matt to do a Kiri story because that has such a potential to cause absolute annihilation with her story told through secondhand quotes 😂
Yes and yes
Laura BAILey
Oh, that is fucking clever.
++
@@michaelbraico631 IKR, I need it. Wasn't my idea, I saw it from another Critter. But please, I need it in my life because it would crush the entire cast into oblivion lol.
Hearing everyone try to do Mac’s voice is hilarious, and they all missed Mac’s plot to dominate the world.
Perfect. Now he definitely can take over the world. Nothings holding him back.
“I’m Grog STONEjaw, I don’t know why I left!”
No, only Marisha missed it.
No one else had the opportunity after that, and Mac's entire appearance was pointless attempts at voices.
Matt's attempt at Mac's voice reminded me of Waspinator.
@@lokithecat7225 Isn't that the point of the game though?
The Capaldis are the muscles in your eyebrows.
I truly appreciate this comment
Look at them they're attack eyebrows
Doctor WHO?!