There was some kinda (un)holy power involved in that. His nat 20s at the most perfect story moments, throughout Percy's arc just added so much to the story. It was so great.
I'm borrowing this, possibly even somewhere from the comments in this episode but now we all know it as: "Dagger, Dagger, Dagger ... ... And I walk away."
Liam's reaction to Pike's insight check on Vax was gold. His whole face went "oh no now I have to have a mum talk I'm gonna look like an ass" it's beautiful.
Scanlan: "You remember what Pike looks like?" Elowen Brist: "Yeah, about your size, light-ish hair..." Scanlan: "Hair the color of the sunset; eyes like waves that crash in the night; breasts supple, firm-" Grog, interrupting: "Okay, uh, Scanlan, uh, Scanlan-" Ashley Johnson: "True, true, true."
Fucking Sam had me in tears when he started screaming after getting shot by Vex. I love the group as a whole but my heart sinks whenever he misses an episode, as he brings so much to the interactions of the group.
I love how Liam is almost always in character. Giving Keyleth longing looks while she is casting spells or just talking to others, even him admiring her sky drawings. There is so much non-verbal cues and it is beautiful.
Arusiek90 yup first timer too here.. looking at the comments I was unsure if people like us existed still.. but obviously we do ^^ I've been watching WAY too much last couple of weeks, gotta amp it back a little and get some more work done, heh.
Old thread I know, but first timers still exist. I'm one. Going through the series now. Can't wait to finish up this campaign and see there next one as well.
The trick is to plant a knee firmly under the table, or if the table your at has a beam spanning between the to legs, looping your feet under that. Cannot comment if that's what he's doing but it's a easy enough thing to do.
He is the best voice Vox Machina has. Keyleth is too self-conscious to do anything wise and usually ends up stumbling on her morals, Vax is a loner who is only really around for Vex and Keyleth and probably couldn't care less if the world burned, Vex makes the group look bad with her greed when she haggles people in need of assistance, Percy has a head on his shoulders but generally prefers to use it for tinkering, Grog is honestly the second head of Vox Machina, and where the hell is Pike most of the time? _(^Rhetorical^. I know Ashley has her own stuff she needs to do, but hopefully you get my point)_
originally Travis was going to have low charisma and be a dick brab kinda like kevdak but matt convinced him to to play low int as they are fun to play.
@@SPACEHARICE I don't want to picture Grog being a 'dick', the Grog we got was so loveable that you wanted to help him and cheered him on when he succeeded.
Shows how smart he actually is, in a split second making the connection of rhyming nineteen with poutine, a French-Canadian dish. Getting to this comment a little late and just speculating of course
1:26:50 Scanlan "and there's a little statue of Sarenrae, and if you pull it, a little secret door opens to my room. But it's a small door that only a gnome could fit through." Pike "Oh, great! Is there a lock on that, maybe?" OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo, Pike is so savage!
I love how Vex did so much research to turn Vax's perspective around for the raven queen ; v ; it was like, the only thing she could do for him and it was so sweet.
I kind of found it meta gamey tbh. How would she know that Vax is upset of the raven queen taking him up on the offer and not because he almost lost the only family he had left? He could have been wary of pike bc she wasn't there when his sister needed her, and ofc it's not pike's fault, but a character in a traumatic situation could easily assign blame randomly. Nobody remarked that Vax stayed away from Pike when she appeared.
@@paulineisme I think if you have a twin who you're extreamly close with... You just know. The thing is, I don't even think Liam really expressed as a player these thoughts. Laura as a player sensed his apprehension about it, it says so much about their friendship. I think if a player can figure something out on their own, it isn't meta gaming, because they weren't provided the info straight out.
@@xBlacksStarx She wasn't supposed to know that Vax has been having visions and dreams about the Raven Queen. I agree that she would have noticed that Vax was different around Pike, but just how would she figure the raven queen claimed him as a champion?
1:38:46 I find it's the little things that Matt does that make me laugh harder, like the arrow sound effect slowing down when Laura corrects her attack roll.
Because I don't like scrolling 7:04 - Part 1 begins 8:35 - Recap ends 9:26 - Pay Attention Please 14:00 - Pike Figurine 15:08 - Scanlan is going to become a trafficker 15:57 - First Roll 17:03 - Scanlan's Requirement 18:02 - There are no woods in the grassland 22:02 - Matt has to intervene before it's three hours of trying to remember what happened three years ago 24:08 - Hey, Scanlan, sing so we don't look so scary 25:21 - Scanlan sings a song 29:12 - Vax, Simon, and Simon Jr 45:24 - Theater nerds 48:00 - Scanlan really paints a picture when he's describing Pike 50:22 - Matt has discovered Vox Machina's second greatest weakness: the lack of trees. 51:18 - Vex shows off on the broom 55:40 - Keyleth left hanging 55:48 - Scanlan draws his whip 58:53 - Percy the collector 1:03:00 - Return of Pike 1:10:36 - This plan is almost as good as Scanlan becoming a spy for the dragon 1:11:03 - You mean you have a magical item but didn't name it? 1:13:50 - Grog or Mustang? ;) 1:19:10 - Vax walks away 1:20:11 - Vox Machina hasn't walked anywhere in ages 1:21:21 - Keyleth is very good at stealthing 1:21:37 - Pike The Insightful 1:24:18 - Pike's First Time at the Mansion 1:26:32 - Pike's Room 1:26:50 - The Door 1:27:25 - Scanlan Breaks the Bro Code (which was probably the right call) 1:28:40 - Vex and Vax have a talk 1:34:00 - Vex walks away 1:34:14 - Scanlan's Special Room 1:35:58 - Soundproofing 1:40:12 - Vex needs some practice on this broom 1:54:00 Crazy pure 2:01:01 - Part 1 ends 2:13:47 - Part 2 begins 2:22:19 - [I like what the camera does here] 2:27:12 - Scanlan sings to Pike [based on Hotline Bling by Drake; thanks to +bw13187 for the info!] 2:37:00 - Blindsight 2:58:00 - Blindsight Part 2 3:03:03 - Matt is a horrible person 3:03:58 - Vax is an even more horrible person 3:04:40 - Vax regains his sanity 3:07:03 - The return of the mapmaker 3:22:44 - Part 2 ends
Matt acting as a little kid is probably the cutest thing I've ever seen? His voice when he said "this many" had me audibly "awww"ing at five in the morning.
Nine year old know they are nine, they wouldn't say "this many". That's a much younger child thing because usually parents are still teaching them to count and so their grasp of numbers is more related to what the number looks like on their fingers. Usually by the time they need more than one hand, they are over it. Being that I don't think Matt has children, I let it go, but that is something you'd get from a much younger child, or a developmentally delayed one. The way I wrote it off for a 9 year old is based on what Matt explained about the son being kidnapped and stashed in a pocket dimension for a long time without his mother before being rescued, his emotional development might be stunted due to both the trauma and the fact that his mother may have babied him since his return.
Speaking bluntly...this is a medieval time period...so a person of lower class with less schooling might not gain knowledge of math until their later years...11 or older. Up until that point their parents would let them just be wild kids...
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the creativity behind Sam's inspiration songs? I did improv for years and even then, improvising songs is fuggin HARD. And he just does it, every time, out of nowhere. It's amazing
+Dado De Guzman I forget the exact time to go back and check, but even if you're right Laura says it all the time to Trinket and says it almost reflexively when bad things happen to people especially NPCs.
Dado De Guzman I've witnessed commo endearments of an individual rub off on their freinds many times. Wouldn't be surprised if that's happened along the way
@@Kino_Cartoon : The first one is at 52:43. I'll post the second one, or any others, if I see them. Edit: The second instance is right around 1:41:00, or a bit before. The third instance, which was 2 natural 1s in a row (lol), was around 2:49:00, maybe a bit after, as Vex failed a Perception check from her position in a tree.
@@shaunaqpaul3078 Yes and no. Most odds 1 in 200 (for example, 10 then 4 vs 4 then 10). In addition, the double nat 1s is the only case where it's still a nat 1 on an advantage roll, so there was a 399/400 chance of a better roll.
7:04 - Part 1 begins 8:35 - Recap ends 9:26 - Pay Attention Please 14:00 - Pike Figurine 15:08 - Scanlan is going to become a trafficker 15:57 - First Roll 17:03 - Scanlan's Requirement 18:02 - There are no woods in the grassland 22:02 - Matt has to intervene before it's three hours of trying to remember what happened three years ago 24:08 - Hey, Scanlan, sing so we don't look so scary 25:21 - Scanlan sings a song 29:12 - Vax, Simon, and Simon Jr 45:24 - Theater nerds 48:00 - Scanlan really paints a picture when he's describing Pike 50:22 - Matt has discovered Vox Machina's second greatest weakness: the lack of trees. 51:18 - Vex shows off on the broom 55:40 - Keyleth left hanging 55:48 - Scanlan draws his whip 58:53 - Percy the collector 1:03:00 - Return of Pike 1:10:36 - This plan is almost as good as Scanlan becoming a spy for the dragon 1:11:03 - You mean you have a magical item but didn't name it? 1:13:50 - Grog or Mustang? ;) 1:19:10 - Vax walks away 1:20:11 - Vox Machina hasn't walked anywhere in ages 1:21:21 - Keyleth is very good at stealthing 1:21:37 - Pike The Insightful 1:24:18 - Pike's First Time at the Mansion 1:26:32 - Pike's Room 1:26:50 - The Door 1:27:25 - Scanlan Breaks the Bro Code (which was probably the right call) 1:28:40 - Vex and Vax have a talk 1:34:00 - Vex walks away 1:34:14 - Scanlan's Special Room 1:35:58 - Soundproofing 1:40:12 - Vex needs some practice on this broom 1:54:00 Crazy pure 2:01:01 - Part 1 ends 2:13:47 - Part 2 begins 2:22:19 - [I like what the camera does here] 2:27:12 - Scanlan sings to Pike [based on Hotline Bling by Drake; thanks to +bw13187 for the info!] 2:37:00 - Blindsight 2:58:00 - Blindsight Part 2 3:03:03 - Matt is a horrible person 3:03:58 - Vax is an even more horrible person 3:04:40 - Vax regains his sanity 3:07:03 - The return of the mapmaker 3:22:44 - Part 2 ends
I love Vax's/Liam's new attitude towards the Raven Queen. Of course, we've seen how naïve Vax can be when it comes to magic and religion, and seeing him be so "disrespecrful" to a powerful god that is responsible for the death and resurrection of his sister is amazingly halarious to watch and brilliant (in my opinion) on Liam's part.
Okay, this might be small, but when Laura hits her tooth on her cup and says "Ow!" Travis' attention is immediately on her and he doesn't continue until she says she is okay. Honestly, relationship goals.
Every time Pike shows up everyone is so happy to see her. But Travis and Laura are just so happy it's heartwarming. When Grog gives her the gauntlets of oger strength, that was an awesome moment and really cool of him to do. I wish she was here more often as I am sure everyone does. But luckily as an actor she is blessed to be on a TV show as well.
Oh god. If a little puddle of blood is left where the door was when the mansion disappears, that implies that other bodily fluids left in there would also appear outside. 😶
Liam is a real Rogue. Pretending to be Brother/Sister with one Mates Girl while hitting ingame on the other Dudes one. And everyone thinks the Bard is the horny one.....
Grog (Travis) "Do you need a 'hand' getting back to camp.." to the map maker (Who lost an arm). Everyone "Aw man, not cool!" Vex (Laura) "HAHahahaHAHAHah!" And that's why their married!
@@ItsFerreiras We're both really late for this, but they were in a very flat area with no trees, and Sam said that. The others who were paying attention try to correct Sam, but Sam just says the tall grass is like a tree for him.
@@ItsFerreiras Matt said that the area where they were had no trees. Still, they asked to hide in a tree, or if that there was any trees around a few times. I feel like Scanlam asked to hide in a tree on purpose, to makes fun of the other times they did that, or to get that exact reaction.
He has said that he was ALWAYS aiming his character towards being a rogue/paladin split class... he just pictured it as being Pike's god Though, to be honest, the Raven Queen suits his disposition better, heh.
+OneEyedJack Atheism isn't reasonable, but agnosticism is... Best definition for being agnostic I ever heard is simply this "They don't understand the nature of God(s) and are pretty sure no one else does either." Agnostics don't deny the existence of divinity... just don't see the point of worshiping them, especially in some of the convoluted and contradictory ways humans (and in fantasy, elves, dwarves etc) seem to do. If they are so far above and beyond mortal comprehension... why waste time trying to comprehend? To know the unknowable? Most agnostics simply see it as a moot point... one you'll find out about when it's time, and not before... so they simply don't waste a lot of time on it is all. They may believe God(s) exist... but they don't actively worship, or think about them much. Now, in a world of intervening, miracle powering, and occasionally "in-your-face-obnoxious" deities, atheism is patently ridiculous. +Bear Grills Yes, before the campaign end he does seriously game the game with bonuses etc to get max crits etc.. believe it or not he even figures out how to get the assassinate ability to trigger... once. Then promptly forgets in time for the next session. :P Gotta love these guys :D
They did. And then the forgot. Which was sad. If I ever play DnD, I would like to find a Bag of Colding... Not sure how useful it would actually be though, the character ideas I have are for either a Rogue/Cleric or a Barbarian/Warlock.
There needs to be a series of magic items/spells called "Items made by mages who can't spell" such as Meatier Swarm, which just causes a rain of flaming beef, "Speak with Dad", "Bell of Ogre Power" etc.
love it when Ashley comes in, but watching s03, its so much nicer seeing her feeling free to act out knowing she is going to be around to deal with any fall out.
Synopsis at 7:04; game begins at 8:32. Break arrives at 2:01:01 and runs until 2:13:48. Game wraps at 3:22:43. [I've been doing this for every episode. If you find them useful, or think others might, please comment so they stay near the top where people can find them. Thank you.]
Grog is basically the hound from game of thrones: history of violence and pain from a family member. Loves drinking (ale) eating (chicken) and fighting. Has an unlikely friendship with a small badass girl.
A trap on his door shaped headstone with 3 daggers so it can Dagger, dagger, dagger.....when someone walks away and the daggers blink back into the trap and reset it.
@@qrrbrbirbel2 But wasn't the whole lesson that came from the Raven Queen arc was that Vax couldn't outrun death?... At least that's how I saw it... Maybe others see it differently, but yeah... (OK, I feel really awkward now, sorry if this seemed aggressive in any way.)
@@luckyfluf0 That was totally on point. It's a character who runs away from their issues now having forcibly bound themselves to an unescapable commitment with death (at least what it sounds like).
... Well done. Yh he keeps doning what Sam and Dean do in supernatural. Basically these two brothers die through the show and the itye8 one that's left alive from the attack break the rules of like Everything to get them back and the stakes keep getting higher. At the end one of them accepts death and the other let's him go. And the show ends. Although the show has a different theme to this campaign arc... I think Fate in mercer's world is like you can live your own life and your sister is independent. Like she doesn't really car about the whole thing (her greed is dragon level BTW like srsly she got herself killed and left vac in that hole and while she did make an investigation check she didn't tell percy... She's one of the interesting). And like I suppose a revivufy is OK like that is divine power is suppose or whatever but like the didn't know the risk has the wife of a devil god telling him if this goes wrong it could be worse than dragons and does it anyway. He's too "serious" about her like i get trading your life for someone elses even that though in a very very slight way he is being selfish bc he doesn't ask her or actually care what her opinion is just wants her to be safe again understandable. But you need to be responsible like know the consequences of your actions. Actually that applies to him just sneaking of without telling anybody amongst the group he is one of the most reckless characters. While grog says let's just GO because being idle won't solve any problems he's like im going forward and I don't care. Tldr he needs to chill and learn some responsibility to himself, others and the world
When Vax decided to leave the cartographer as stone, I thought he was knowingly trying to fulfill the will of the Raven Queen - allowing and not intervening the process of death. But apparently, Liam just forgot that they could be unpetrified 😂 could have been a nice opportunity, but it's all good
@@sstuart9301 just watching these for the first time.... I'm fairly positive Jameson whiskey sponsors the coffee pot. If not, the critter community does a hell of a job keeping them stocked.
Actually, in a campaign that I'm playing in, we have Orcus practically as a pet! He's stuck as a skull in a torch bracket carried around by our paladin :P
@@ninjabastard666 They aren't reading too much into it just because you choose not to. It's a valid theory that one of them knew what they were saying with them, reguardless of who actually thought of it.
1:35:00 Wait... Percy can bring in materials and craft something... then anything left inside is ejected at the time the spell runs out. So... they could sneak into a place and set up the door... then he builds some sort of large acid / fire / gunpowder based thing... then they just exit and sneak out of the place... then eventually the mansion spell vanishes and surprise deployment. I guess that is a little complicated... so they might do it.
@@TheUCuber And Ford Escape, Ford Explorer/Expedition, etc. I don't even know if half of those are real, I just know Sam has made about every Ford joke in the book, and is still somehow coming up with more.
This episode perfectly sums up why Critical Role is absolutely fantastic: we got super deep, poignant and emotional roleplay with Vax&Vex discussion about the Raven Queen, and goofy, hilarious, pure gold comedy with the chicken archery scene. Gosh, I love this show so much.
Percy has a thing for veganism, at the banquet to welcome the briarwoods it was asked if they had a vegan menu, Percy said something like, she’s a vegan of course she rang ahead to let them know.
@@PhobosDDeimos Laura is far from annoying, as you will discover as you progress. She's a treasure & is an amazing character actor. _Vex_ is acquisitive as all hell for understandable reasons when you know her history. Laura is playing her true to who she is, just as she later plays Jester true to who she is.
That breakfast archery brings back sore memories for me. I was once part of a game of a homebrew gamesystem with a group of friends. We were all pretty low level characters and encountered a bear to fight. As I was a tank I was up close and personal dodging all the attacks like a pro and hitting all my marks. Sadly the archer way back didn't and through a series of weird but memorable critical fails and critical hits on his and on my part my character got taken out with a headshot to the back of the head and died. Now every time an archer rolls a one and manages to hit one of his companions I think back to that day. Possibly the lamest character death I ever had, but at the same time absolutely unforgettable.
One time, I was in a game where our party consisted of a warlock, paladin barbarian, rogue, and a vampire. (4e class, not race.) I was the vampire, but only the warlock and rogue knew, as the barbarian was dumber than a sack of shit, and the paladin trusted me and never asked. In one boss fight, I made a mistake and forget to get away after making my attack. Next turn, I got grappled and ended up dropping to 0 HP. When the Paladin saw I was down, he came to heal me with a divine spell, (we didn't even tell him out of game that I was a vampire, he assumed I was a rogue or assassin) the rule book states that when a vampire is hit by divine magic of any type while at 0 HP, he instantly dies. So...he healed me, and I immediately burst into nothingness, Voldemort style. Best character death ever.
45:12 ♥️ When Liam asked to step-out to make-out with Talesin and Matt suggests they just change seats. I love these awesome nerds! These are my people!
Lol yea I love how Sam knows just how to get on Matt's nerves. Even if he only does it for comedy, it just goes to show what power a high charisma can get you.
I know this is old, but I just realized that a big reason why the party is going up against the Chroma Conclave is because someone gave Matt all those huge dragon miniatures for Critmas. If true, it's kind of amazing how much the community can influence the show.
He didn't open the two minis until after the dragons attacked, so either the timing was coincidental or people heard about thordak and sent huge dragon minis for him to use
Late reply, but Matt has spoken in Q&A's about always wanting to run a dragon-centric storyline ever since he started DM-ing. He never got to it because the campaigns he ran before this were low to mid-levels, and he didn't want to use young weak dragons, just for the sake of having them. He wanted to use the ancient dragons. He started sowing seeds of the Chroma Conclave arc back during their home game (when the group faced Brimscythe the blue dragon). And when Vox Machina started to dive into the high-levels (12 and above), he launched the arc with a bang. That said, the community did help by providing Matt with a properly-sized colossal red dragon mini for Thordak. But it's definitely a reactionary thing, as people noticed Matt didn't have a red dragon mini for Thordak's first couple of appearances.
At first I thought Vax was being a bit of a dick about not wanting to help the map maker. Then I remembered that he's a servant of the Raven Queen now... I wonder if depetrification is considered bringing someone back to life.
I thought it had to do with the fact that a) they were bringing him back missing an arm. b) They were in a really dangerous area c) He himself didn't know how to undo the petrification and didn't want to tell the party if there was no way to bring him back and thus they were forced to know that he was dead.
liam can be a bit of a dick with not telling his party about things. i know he gets excited about the roleplay but this is a communal event and it feels gross to be left out of things. it's taking agency away from other players and making decisions for them. :/
I can’t be the only one who thought of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe when they got caught in a perpetually winter forest with a garden of stone statues that were once living beings.
@@supercool1312 While I agree that there should be some space in between the Spoiler tag and the spoiler itself, one should also know to immediately stop reading anything once they see the word Spoiler. No need to revert to name calling. A simple "For future reference please try to leave more space after the Spoiler tag to avoid spoiling anyone, cheers!" would do.
Mikaela DeLeon - Hahaha, well it's a sort of Renaissance-era now, with Percy very clearly provoking an early Industrial revolution...if we add prosthetics, we're basically in Fullmetal Alchemist. Travis and Laura should fit right in!
Vax's most-used phrase 20 episodes ago: "I click boots of haste, dagger-dagger-dagger." His top-phrase now: "And I walk away." :( P.S. I respect Liam a lot for role-playing the moment with Mapmaker according to Tenets of the Raven-Goddess and than showing the moral struggle of his personality against the rule of not pitying the dead.
Grog @ 3:13:14 telling Tyriok, "Also eaten alive, burned, shot, stabbed, pulled apart, maimed, lacerated... but that's just in the mornings." did not get the appreciation it deserves
Is it just me that remembers that Vox Machina were told NOT to reveal that there's a Sphinx at the Slayer's Take and that her mate was also a secret? ... Just me? ... Oh well....
they always have been and always will be woefully stunted at any attempt of keeping secrets. Even in campaign 2, they blab what amounts to state secrets to just about anyone and their mother.
I think that’s a product of weeks and weeks between learning something, then acting on it. Matt has a busy world he’s created. It’d be near impossible to remember everything
@@treybrown5839 eh, yes and no, like come on, I get forgetting some things, Matt has a lot of details, but if somebody was like, SWEAR A SECRET OATH, We are persecuted and we have been hunted, do NOT tell anyone! I think I'd remember that. I love them but they're a bit brain dead sometimes.
I've been thinking this for awhile, but I kinda find it funny that once Percy got rid of demon, Taliesin hasn't rolled as many nat 20s.
He is roughly 3000 years old. who know what forbidden knowledge he has tucked away.
Holy shit ur on to somsthing
he might have stopped rolling 20s all of the time but his phone's alerts keep going off during the shows all of the time
There was some kinda (un)holy power involved in that. His nat 20s at the most perfect story moments, throughout Percy's arc just added so much to the story. It was so great.
@@Dost850 That demon wants back in. It's like an ex who keeps calling back.
"I'm a collector of specifics, I see you've given none" oh percy
I hate it when he sighs tho
"Your secret is safe in my indifference"
"And I'm a collector of fucks, so I don't give any...." Savage
Time stamp?!
@@dogfood2461 58:53
We used to think Vax's catchphrase was "Dagger, Dagger, Dagger" but now we all know it's "And I walk away."
I'm borrowing this, possibly even somewhere from the comments in this episode but now we all know it as:
"Dagger, Dagger, Dagger ...
... And I walk away."
Not making a shirt with "Dagger Dagger Dagger" on the front and "...and I walk away" on the back is such a missed opportunity.
He said it as I was reading this 😂
@@jordivermeulen2519 🫢🤔❤
Dagger dagger dagger is actually thieves cant fit, "I walk away."
Liam's reaction to Pike's insight check on Vax was gold. His whole face went "oh no now I have to have a mum talk I'm gonna look like an ass" it's beautiful.
That manic laugh that Ashley gives when she gets the Gauntlets is both adorable and slightly terrifying
Agreed!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Spoilers damn
@@chychywoohoo Maybe watch the episode first before reading comments then
@@chychywoohoo the statute of limitations has passed on Vox Machina spoilers
@@FunnyVideosShowPL I don't actually care but thank you for bestowing upon me your omniscient wisdom
Scanlan: "You remember what Pike looks like?"
Elowen Brist: "Yeah, about your size, light-ish hair..."
Scanlan: "Hair the color of the sunset; eyes like waves that crash in the night; breasts supple, firm-"
Grog, interrupting: "Okay, uh, Scanlan, uh, Scanlan-"
Ashley Johnson: "True, true, true."
There needs to be a new Dagger Dagger Dagger shirt with "And I walk away..." on the back of it.
genius
I second that
I am so down with that as well.
go=so
+Antonio Nunez But I will also go down on that t-shirt, for the record.
Fucking Sam had me in tears when he started screaming after getting shot by Vex. I love the group as a whole but my heart sinks whenever he misses an episode, as he brings so much to the interactions of the group.
Jason Aguilar when he called out marisha had me in tears too
How dare you both share these moments without timestamps D: now I gotta wait to find it lol
@@xEvilRaptorx 1:41:45
Sam is my favorite as well. These show wouldnt be as entertaining with him, especially him. Imo.
Any episode he doesn’t appear in is instantaneously better
I love how Liam is almost always in character. Giving Keyleth longing looks while she is casting spells or just talking to others, even him admiring her sky drawings. There is so much non-verbal cues and it is beautiful.
tal is the same way. just watching his face when matt is painting the scene... you know taliesin is there.
@vanyelwolfshadow8276 He usually is the one who asks for more details about their surroundings.
Every interaction with Travis/Grog and Ashley/Pike is the light of my life.
He loves his little buudddddyyyy!
Reading this now, I'm really dying for some Yasha/Fjord interaction...
Buuuuuuddddddyyyyy
its the pollen
Also the Roy Mustang's quote "it's raining"... Golden moment 😍
"Transmutation is the veganism of necromancy" Best line of the episode.
Arusiek90 exactly at the 1:00:00 mark, when they are talking with master Quall, percy calls him out.
Arusiek90 watching the episode now ^^ saw your comment and happy I didn't miss it :)
Arusiek90 yup first timer too here.. looking at the comments I was unsure if people like us existed still.. but obviously we do ^^
I've been watching WAY too much last couple of weeks, gotta amp it back a little and get some more work done, heh.
Ben Cornillie
No. He said constructs were the veganism of necromancy.
Old thread I know, but first timers still exist. I'm one. Going through the series now. Can't wait to finish up this campaign and see there next one as well.
You know it's a funny joke when Liam leans alllllllll the way back until you can't see him anymore. Dude must have abs of steel geez
I always thought it was funny how Liam irl is pretty strong, yet he plays characters that are hella weak
Im waiting for the day he overestimates or is sore from screaming into a microphone and just...topples over
The trick is to plant a knee firmly under the table, or if the table your at has a beam spanning between the to legs, looping your feet under that. Cannot comment if that's what he's doing but it's a easy enough thing to do.
@@channelnotavailable32 That still requires a LOT of core strength to manage. Doesn't change what aeternamente said.
@@Eli-uu4vt just requires you to be fit enough to climb a tree. Or ghost ride a bicycle.
Scanlan: *Jokes about being leader*
VM: *Looks to Scanlan when they meet Cornelius as if he's a leader*
Scanlan: *is the leader*
Life imitates art
To be fair, the wisest suggestions on what to do tend to come from Scanlan.
Well, he's old...
scanlan is clever and with such high charisma it only makes sense to make him the spokes person :P
He is the best voice Vox Machina has. Keyleth is too self-conscious to do anything wise and usually ends up stumbling on her morals, Vax is a loner who is only really around for Vex and Keyleth and probably couldn't care less if the world burned, Vex makes the group look bad with her greed when she haggles people in need of assistance, Percy has a head on his shoulders but generally prefers to use it for tinkering, Grog is honestly the second head of Vox Machina, and where the hell is Pike most of the time?
_(^Rhetorical^. I know Ashley has her own stuff she needs to do, but hopefully you get my point)_
" I wonder which child in the crowd is about to become robin?" Best quote ever Percy.
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Laughed too had. I love Percy too damn much
Buckled me
“This is how we make a vigilante” was the perfect follow up
Liam: "Can we go on break so Talesin and I can just go make out in the other room?"
Matt: "We don't go on break for that..."
And you can hear all the pens go to paper for the fan fiction.
Time stamp PLS
@@madison3408 45:24
Ya missed the best part of that “… you just change your seating arrangements”
"Do you know what nineteen means?" - Vax
"Aint it like a French dish?" - Grogg
I just love how Travis can improv Grogg's 6 Intelligence :)
Low INT characters are really tough to play and Travis has my unyielding respect
@@jamiedodger2361 For some people at least, I'm dumb enough to find it a very natural experience
originally Travis was going to have low charisma and be a dick brab kinda like
kevdak
but matt convinced him to to play low int as they are fun to play.
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I don't want to picture Grog being a 'dick', the Grog we got was so loveable that you wanted to help him and cheered him on when he succeeded.
Shows how smart he actually is, in a split second making the connection of rhyming nineteen with poutine, a French-Canadian dish.
Getting to this comment a little late and just speculating of course
Scanlan: Do we need to piss on the obelisk?
Vax and Percy, in unison, without even thinking about it: You should piss on the obelisk
*you* should piss on the obelisk
I pissed on the obelisk.
Liam and Taliesin were so in sync this episode haha. 3:01:45 for those interested.
1:26:50 Scanlan "and there's a little statue of Sarenrae, and if you pull it, a little secret door opens to my room. But it's a small door that only a gnome could fit through."
Pike "Oh, great! Is there a lock on that, maybe?"
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo, Pike is so savage!
No, just expressing her boundaries, which Scanlan is trampling all over
Funny and adorable nonetheless 😄
I love how Vex did so much research to turn Vax's perspective around for the raven queen ; v ; it was like, the only thing she could do for him and it was so sweet.
Rox c
She is actually my favourite Godess in all of DND.
Vex or the Raven Queen? xD
I kind of found it meta gamey tbh. How would she know that Vax is upset of the raven queen taking him up on the offer and not because he almost lost the only family he had left? He could have been wary of pike bc she wasn't there when his sister needed her, and ofc it's not pike's fault, but a character in a traumatic situation could easily assign blame randomly. Nobody remarked that Vax stayed away from Pike when she appeared.
@@paulineisme I think if you have a twin who you're extreamly close with... You just know. The thing is, I don't even think Liam really expressed as a player these thoughts. Laura as a player sensed his apprehension about it, it says so much about their friendship. I think if a player can figure something out on their own, it isn't meta gaming, because they weren't provided the info straight out.
@@xBlacksStarx She wasn't supposed to know that Vax has been having visions and dreams about the Raven Queen. I agree that she would have noticed that Vax was different around Pike, but just how would she figure the raven queen claimed him as a champion?
58:53 "I'm a collector as well!" "Really? Oh how quaint-" "Of specifics." LOL what a mic drop
IKR, Percy is the best :) And then "It may be a bit beyond your understanding" "I highly doubt that." Don't underestimate the Percy!
Taliesin _and_ Percy are too damn good to be true.
1:38:46 I find it's the little things that Matt does that make me laugh harder, like the arrow sound effect slowing down when Laura corrects her attack roll.
Matt Mercer for "Dungeon Grand Master"!
Because I don't like scrolling
7:04 - Part 1 begins
8:35 - Recap ends
9:26 - Pay Attention Please
14:00 - Pike Figurine
15:08 - Scanlan is going to become a trafficker
15:57 - First Roll
17:03 - Scanlan's Requirement
18:02 - There are no woods in the grassland
22:02 - Matt has to intervene before it's three hours of trying to remember what happened three years ago
24:08 - Hey, Scanlan, sing so we don't look so scary
25:21 - Scanlan sings a song
29:12 - Vax, Simon, and Simon Jr
45:24 - Theater nerds
48:00 - Scanlan really paints a picture when he's describing Pike
50:22 - Matt has discovered Vox Machina's second greatest weakness: the lack of trees.
51:18 - Vex shows off on the broom
55:40 - Keyleth left hanging
55:48 - Scanlan draws his whip
58:53 - Percy the collector
1:03:00 - Return of Pike
1:10:36 - This plan is almost as good as Scanlan becoming a spy for the dragon
1:11:03 - You mean you have a magical item but didn't name it?
1:13:50 - Grog or Mustang? ;)
1:19:10 - Vax walks away
1:20:11 - Vox Machina hasn't walked anywhere in ages
1:21:21 - Keyleth is very good at stealthing
1:21:37 - Pike The Insightful
1:24:18 - Pike's First Time at the Mansion
1:26:32 - Pike's Room
1:26:50 - The Door
1:27:25 - Scanlan Breaks the Bro Code (which was probably the right call)
1:28:40 - Vex and Vax have a talk
1:34:00 - Vex walks away
1:34:14 - Scanlan's Special Room
1:35:58 - Soundproofing
1:40:12 - Vex needs some practice on this broom
1:54:00 Crazy pure
2:01:01 - Part 1 ends
2:13:47 - Part 2 begins
2:22:19 - [I like what the camera does here]
2:27:12 - Scanlan sings to Pike [based on Hotline Bling by Drake; thanks to +bw13187 for the info!]
2:37:00 - Blindsight
2:58:00 - Blindsight Part 2
3:03:03 - Matt is a horrible person
3:03:58 - Vax is an even more horrible person
3:04:40 - Vax regains his sanity
3:07:03 - The return of the mapmaker
3:22:44 - Part 2 ends
Ah, thank you.
I scrolled for a good couple minutes to find this.
MY SEARCH HAS BEEN REWARDED.
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Matt acting as a little kid is probably the cutest thing I've ever seen?
His voice when he said "this many" had me audibly "awww"ing at five in the morning.
Appropriate for a 3 yr old.. not a 9 yr old.
@@fhuber7507 It might be appropriate for a child without a formal education in a fantasy world, though.
trauma can also cause some behavioral regression
Nine year old know they are nine, they wouldn't say "this many". That's a much younger child thing because usually parents are still teaching them to count and so their grasp of numbers is more related to what the number looks like on their fingers. Usually by the time they need more than one hand, they are over it. Being that I don't think Matt has children, I let it go, but that is something you'd get from a much younger child, or a developmentally delayed one. The way I wrote it off for a 9 year old is based on what Matt explained about the son being kidnapped and stashed in a pocket dimension for a long time without his mother before being rescued, his emotional development might be stunted due to both the trauma and the fact that his mother may have babied him since his return.
Speaking bluntly...this is a medieval time period...so a person of lower class with less schooling might not gain knowledge of math until their later years...11 or older. Up until that point their parents would let them just be wild kids...
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the creativity behind Sam's inspiration songs? I did improv for years and even then, improvising songs is fuggin HARD. And he just does it, every time, out of nowhere. It's amazing
Sam is the best. He was born the play a bard.
He was in an acapella group in college too, so that might help a bit
I understand why they couldn't put them in the cartoon, but that's been a highlight of the series.
"Pay attention..."
Just like that t-shirt: "When the DM smiles, it's already too late."
"We can have a room so soundproof we don't have to hear anyone else's drama" xD
Vex: "I know that she's not a force for evil. Neither are funeral homes. I dont want to bed down in one." 1:31:37
Caduces is typing...
"See? You start arguing and you just make a gnome. This is what happens!"
I love that Mat had the old man flipping through his notes "I'm almost certain that gnome was not just created"
I love how Laura says "buddy" when she feels bad for someone.
That was Ashley actually. Listen again, the sound came from skype. :)
+Dado De Guzman I forget the exact time to go back and check, but even if you're right Laura says it all the time to Trinket and says it almost reflexively when bad things happen to people especially NPCs.
I guess they both do since in this episode I heard Ashley say it like 2 times already. Guess they endear people like that IRL. :)
I normally hate it when people use baby voices, but when Vex/Laura does it to Trinket, I somehow find it endearing.
Dado De Guzman I've witnessed commo endearments of an individual rub off on their freinds many times. Wouldn't be surprised if that's happened along the way
"See, you start arguing and you make a gnome. This is what happens"- Percy
Fully explains Pikes and Grogs whole relationship
Wyrmwood really missed out on the opportunity to call it the Box Machina.
Ethan Henbest you fucking genius.
That's actually the best fucking pun I've heard in a long time!
You mad man.
they didnt miss out on charging $100 for a piece of wood though
Clever girl...
Those natural 1's for Vex's broom flying are such perfect Karma
I've been waiting for once since she figured out how to fly. Rewatching it all again for fun.
@@damienvoidstar do you guys have a time stamp?
@@Kino_Cartoon 52:39 should show it.
@@Kino_Cartoon : The first one is at 52:43.
I'll post the second one, or any others, if I see them.
Edit: The second instance is right around 1:41:00, or a bit before.
The third instance, which was 2 natural 1s in a row (lol), was around 2:49:00, maybe a bit after, as Vex failed a Perception check from her position in a tree.
Finally. She really had it coming.
6:04 “Oh I thought this was scripted”
Matt’s defeated laughter “I wish you f*(ks would follow a script”
When you have advantage and roll two natural 1's...that's called sadvantage.
this is why I read the comments in 2020. You magnificent bastard.
Fun fact: the odds of that happening are 1 in 400, or 0.25%
@@joshhaworth2155 The odds of all combinations of 2 d20 rolls are 1 in 400 though.
@@shaunaqpaul3078 Yes and no. Most odds 1 in 200 (for example, 10 then 4 vs 4 then 10). In addition, the double nat 1s is the only case where it's still a nat 1 on an advantage roll, so there was a 399/400 chance of a better roll.
No that's called fate . . .
Liam: "D E A R, C A S S, how are you?"
Taliesin & Liam: "I'm fine."
Laura: "WTF?"
Taliesin: "And everybody else is, too. You are a Nerd."
So what is that from?
Theater nerds ftw!!!
ua-cam.com/video/KmpqifCrlvI/v-deo.html for those who want some reference
Taneth I couldn’t stop laughing even while they were healing the sick and injured 😂
I love this moment so so so much.
7:04 - Part 1 begins
8:35 - Recap ends
9:26 - Pay Attention Please
14:00 - Pike Figurine
15:08 - Scanlan is going to become a trafficker
15:57 - First Roll
17:03 - Scanlan's Requirement
18:02 - There are no woods in the grassland
22:02 - Matt has to intervene before it's three hours of trying to remember what happened three years ago
24:08 - Hey, Scanlan, sing so we don't look so scary
25:21 - Scanlan sings a song
29:12 - Vax, Simon, and Simon Jr
45:24 - Theater nerds
48:00 - Scanlan really paints a picture when he's describing Pike
50:22 - Matt has discovered Vox Machina's second greatest weakness: the lack of trees.
51:18 - Vex shows off on the broom
55:40 - Keyleth left hanging
55:48 - Scanlan draws his whip
58:53 - Percy the collector
1:03:00 - Return of Pike
1:10:36 - This plan is almost as good as Scanlan becoming a spy for the dragon
1:11:03 - You mean you have a magical item but didn't name it?
1:13:50 - Grog or Mustang? ;)
1:19:10 - Vax walks away
1:20:11 - Vox Machina hasn't walked anywhere in ages
1:21:21 - Keyleth is very good at stealthing
1:21:37 - Pike The Insightful
1:24:18 - Pike's First Time at the Mansion
1:26:32 - Pike's Room
1:26:50 - The Door
1:27:25 - Scanlan Breaks the Bro Code (which was probably the right call)
1:28:40 - Vex and Vax have a talk
1:34:00 - Vex walks away
1:34:14 - Scanlan's Special Room
1:35:58 - Soundproofing
1:40:12 - Vex needs some practice on this broom
1:54:00 Crazy pure
2:01:01 - Part 1 ends
2:13:47 - Part 2 begins
2:22:19 - [I like what the camera does here]
2:27:12 - Scanlan sings to Pike [based on Hotline Bling by Drake; thanks to +bw13187 for the info!]
2:37:00 - Blindsight
2:58:00 - Blindsight Part 2
3:03:03 - Matt is a horrible person
3:03:58 - Vax is an even more horrible person
3:04:40 - Vax regains his sanity
3:07:03 - The return of the mapmaker
3:22:44 - Part 2 ends
That camera shot is nice!
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Ashley's "true, true, true" is my favorite part of this episode.
I love Vax's/Liam's new attitude towards the Raven Queen. Of course, we've seen how naïve Vax can be when it comes to magic and religion, and seeing him be so "disrespecrful" to a powerful god that is responsible for the death and resurrection of his sister is amazingly halarious to watch and brilliant (in my opinion) on Liam's part.
Okay, this might be small, but when Laura hits her tooth on her cup and says "Ow!" Travis' attention is immediately on her and he doesn't continue until she says she is okay. Honestly, relationship goals.
Time Stamp if possible?
@@Superwholock-zt3fu 2:55:38 :)
You can actually hear the tooth hit it. Yikes.
that's a pretty low bar
@@SocialistSadako You know nothing, Ana snow
Every time Pike shows up everyone is so happy to see her. But Travis and Laura are just so happy it's heartwarming. When Grog gives her the gauntlets of oger strength, that was an awesome moment and really cool of him to do. I wish she was here more often as I am sure everyone does. But luckily as an actor she is blessed to be on a TV show as well.
I had tears of joy and heartwarming in my eyes during Pike's and Grogs reunion. So good.
Oh god. If a little puddle of blood is left where the door was when the mansion disappears, that implies that other bodily fluids left in there would also appear outside. 😶
oh shit
literally...
Oh. Ohh. oooooooooooh....
@@Warmaka
It's Magic! You knoooow!
Gross. Also, probably yes... 🤢🤮
It's difficult sometimes for me to remember that Laura and Liam are not ACTUALLY Brother and Sister.
AREN'T they though? I mean sure, they have no blood relationship, but their birthdays are the same day, and they're each other's chosen family
@@Steve00245 Well they are what you get when destiny and fate meet
As said in elf quest "brothers in every thing but blood"^^
Liam is a real Rogue. Pretending to be Brother/Sister with one Mates Girl while hitting ingame on the other Dudes one.
And everyone thinks the Bard is the horny one.....
@@Rabijeel holy shit lmfao
Grog (Travis) "Do you need a 'hand' getting back to camp.." to the map maker (Who lost an arm).
Everyone "Aw man, not cool!"
Vex (Laura) "HAHahahaHAHAHah!"
And that's why their married!
Also loved it when grog tried to catch all the spewing blood for the sword lol
And then Scanlan "Who has two thumbs? You and me together both doin' this!" Poor little map maker, butt of all the lost hand puns :)
Marc-Alexandre Plouffe what about *their married?*
Their marriage?
*they're married*, actually
"tha'ts why their marriage" would miss a complement
RDR911 yes this is what he meant glad you could point this out helpfully and not sarcastically at all
1:34:05 Laura: "And I walk away." perfect ending to that moment. 😂
Sam: "I'm hiding in a tree"
Taliesin: "There's no-"
Matt: "There's no-"
Laura: "There's no-"
Can you explain please? I don't get it
@@ItsFerreiras We're both really late for this, but they were in a very flat area with no trees, and Sam said that. The others who were paying attention try to correct Sam, but Sam just says the tall grass is like a tree for him.
@@ItsFerreiras Matt said that the area where they were had no trees. Still, they asked to hide in a tree, or if that there was any trees around a few times. I feel like Scanlam asked to hide in a tree on purpose, to makes fun of the other times they did that, or to get that exact reaction.
"I climb on the roof of the witches hut"
"THERE IS NO ROOF"
Something about D&D groups, they never listen to a thing you say unless it's about loot.
I love how Vax started this agnostic, and now he is the champion of the god of death
He has said that he was ALWAYS aiming his character towards being a rogue/paladin split class... he just pictured it as being Pike's god
Though, to be honest, the Raven Queen suits his disposition better, heh.
In a world of magic and interventional deities, agnosticism isn't really possible. Denial maybe, but not agnostic.
OneEyedJack01 Nonreligious is the only option, really
@@CorwinC73 divine smite on the assassinate critical sneak attack to murder everything.
+OneEyedJack Atheism isn't reasonable, but agnosticism is...
Best definition for being agnostic I ever heard is simply this "They don't understand the nature of God(s) and are pretty sure no one else does either."
Agnostics don't deny the existence of divinity... just don't see the point of worshiping them, especially in some of the convoluted and contradictory ways humans (and in fantasy, elves, dwarves etc) seem to do. If they are so far above and beyond mortal comprehension... why waste time trying to comprehend? To know the unknowable? Most agnostics simply see it as a moot point... one you'll find out about when it's time, and not before... so they simply don't waste a lot of time on it is all. They may believe God(s) exist... but they don't actively worship, or think about them much.
Now, in a world of intervening, miracle powering, and occasionally "in-your-face-obnoxious" deities, atheism is patently ridiculous.
+Bear Grills Yes, before the campaign end he does seriously game the game with bonuses etc to get max crits etc.. believe it or not he even figures out how to get the assassinate ability to trigger... once. Then promptly forgets in time for the next session. :P Gotta love these guys :D
I don't know if they read old comments, but they really need to call the preserving bag the Bag of Colding.
Oh my word, yes
They did. And then the forgot. Which was sad.
If I ever play DnD, I would like to find a Bag of Colding...
Not sure how useful it would actually be though, the character ideas I have are for either a Rogue/Cleric or a Barbarian/Warlock.
My party has one in one of our games. I'm so calling it thay now.
There needs to be a series of magic items/spells called "Items made by mages who can't spell" such as Meatier Swarm, which just causes a rain of flaming beef, "Speak with Dad", "Bell of Ogre Power" etc.
@@PhantomFox77 umm. No.
Another gem @ 1:35:55 "Scanlan is helping me find a room apparently so soundproof that we don't actually have to hear anyone else's drama"
I think Percy's secret Whitestone repopulation project is going well!
love it when Ashley comes in, but watching s03, its so much nicer seeing her feeling free to act out knowing she is going to be around to deal with any fall out.
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“I didn’t do it, he wanted to travel the world!”
*A WORLD THAT YOU CONTROL. YOU DID THIS, MERCER. **_YOU DID THIS._*
In Scottish David O'Hara accent : "Murderer". 😆
I feel like they kind of left all of the other people to suffer in eternal nothingness lol
I was the 666th like mwuahaha 😈
Literally read this 30 seconds before it happened. Lmao
@@channelnotavailable32 THAT JUST HAPPENED TO ME x_____x
Grog is basically the hound from game of thrones: history of violence and pain from a family member. Loves drinking (ale) eating (chicken) and fighting. Has an unlikely friendship with a small badass girl.
And would do anything to save that girl
Truth!! Lol
Vax and keyleth entertaining a refugee kid is my favourite moment.
So wholesome.
Matt playing a shy refugee kid is the cutest thing ever!
“This is my belt, his name is Simon. I named him after you!”
I almost cried I adore Vax so fucking much 😭😭❤️
"Also you might get eaten alive, burned, shot, stabbed, pulled apart, maimed, lacerated... but that's just in the morning." -Grog
For anyone who didn't watch live what Liam said just before it started was "Cunty-butts". I feel like people should know this.
It was actually Sam that said it this time.
I did need to know this, thank you for that :D
This is vital info. I wish there was video of all the things Liam says to Matt just before the intro.
thank you lol
@@taraboyle5189 they sound alot alike, it's crazy
Liam’s tombstone will read: “...and I walk away.”
A trap on his door shaped headstone with 3 daggers so it can Dagger, dagger, dagger.....when someone walks away and the daggers blink back into the trap and reset it.
Let's face it, liam will never die, because when death comes for him he'll click his boots of haste, dagger dagger dagger... And then he'll walk away.
@@qrrbrbirbel2 But wasn't the whole lesson that came from the Raven Queen arc was that Vax couldn't outrun death?... At least that's how I saw it... Maybe others see it differently, but yeah... (OK, I feel really awkward now, sorry if this seemed aggressive in any way.)
@@luckyfluf0 That was totally on point. It's a character who runs away from their issues now having forcibly bound themselves to an unescapable commitment with death (at least what it sounds like).
... Well done. Yh he keeps doning what Sam and Dean do in supernatural. Basically these two brothers die through the show and the itye8 one that's left alive from the attack break the rules of like Everything to get them back and the stakes keep getting higher. At the end one of them accepts death and the other let's him go. And the show ends. Although the show has a different theme to this campaign arc... I think Fate in mercer's world is like you can live your own life and your sister is independent. Like she doesn't really car about the whole thing (her greed is dragon level BTW like srsly she got herself killed and left vac in that hole and while she did make an investigation check she didn't tell percy... She's one of the interesting). And like I suppose a revivufy is OK like that is divine power is suppose or whatever but like the didn't know the risk has the wife of a devil god telling him if this goes wrong it could be worse than dragons and does it anyway. He's too "serious" about her like i get trading your life for someone elses even that though in a very very slight way he is being selfish bc he doesn't ask her or actually care what her opinion is just wants her to be safe again understandable. But you need to be responsible like know the consequences of your actions. Actually that applies to him just sneaking of without telling anybody amongst the group he is one of the most reckless characters. While grog says let's just GO because being idle won't solve any problems he's like im going forward and I don't care. Tldr he needs to chill and learn some responsibility to himself, others and the world
When Vax decided to leave the cartographer as stone, I thought he was knowingly trying to fulfill the will of the Raven Queen - allowing and not intervening the process of death. But apparently, Liam just forgot that they could be unpetrified 😂 could have been a nice opportunity, but it's all good
*(SPOILERS)* 1:30:00 Vex reading Vax the terms and conditions of paladinship to the Raven Queen
As someone who’s just now getting into D&D, and chose Paladin as his first class, this amuses me.
The episode where the crew mislabeled the decaf coffee, absolutely sabotaging Marisha and Taliesin
Is that really a thing? Because they both definitely seemed like they we're, or weren't, on something this session. Lol
@@piranhaplantX Agreed. Seems like they took an edible that hit them pretty hard by the time it finished. Particularly Marisha.
I just love Pike. Ashley Johnson always, ALWAYS makes me laugh and her relationship with Grog is just played phenomenally by both.
And I think someone spiked the coffee.
@@sstuart9301 just watching these for the first time.... I'm fairly positive Jameson whiskey sponsors the coffee pot.
If not, the critter community does a hell of a job keeping them stocked.
Honestly the relationship with scallion is pretty funny. She’s just so sweet when she brushes him off.
Grog and the Gnomes are just the best, always!
Vex telling Vax about the Raven Queen actually comforted me back when I first watched this.
its comforted me now..... i lost my mom in march so fairly recently. :/
This story arc, and things like that from other players is such a neat way to help someone with grief
“She hates Orcus!” Vex, *everyone* hates Orcus. Hating Orcus is like the second requirement for existing in DnD.
Actually, in a campaign that I'm playing in, we have Orcus practically as a pet! He's stuck as a skull in a torch bracket carried around by our paladin :P
pigeonpartytime HOW? And where’s his wand?!
@@pigeonpartytime877 for real tho how. A demon lord is nothing to scoff at.
She was just trying to make him feel better.
First requirement for dnd is every man woman and child has 50ft of rope at all times
"I know when that Poop Phone glows, that could only be one gnome." Easily one of the best versions of that song ever heard
It's funny that Scanlon said that Pike's room was covered in yellow rose petals, because yellow roses symbolize friendship rather than love. XD
Amazing little fact. So fitting, i thought Sam might even have known.
Forever in the Friend Zone
maybe that's why Pike told him they were her favourite
You're reading too much into that. Not everybody cares about flower symbology. It's more likely to do with what a person prefers.
@@ninjabastard666 They aren't reading too much into it just because you choose not to. It's a valid theory that one of them knew what they were saying with them, reguardless of who actually thought of it.
Years later I realize Sam waited until marisha started taking a drink of her coffee when he made the blind sight joke.
1:35:00 Wait... Percy can bring in materials and craft something... then anything left inside is ejected at the time the spell runs out. So... they could sneak into a place and set up the door... then he builds some sort of large acid / fire / gunpowder based thing... then they just exit and sneak out of the place... then eventually the mansion spell vanishes and surprise deployment.
I guess that is a little complicated... so they might do it.
this is brilliant and I hope they do it one day.
fill the mansion up with acid
oh the damage would be beautiful
Esperologist the door would be pretty obvious though lol. but if they dispell it, it still would technically eject it.
cody beaird According to the spell, the entrance can be made invisible!
Esperologist offensive utility spells, my favourite
Hey Simon, do you want to see something cool? Look at this.
And I walk away.
I WAS COMPLETELY EXPECTING THAT.
+Zach R OH GOD HAHAHAHAHAHA
That gave me a hearty laugh. Thanks!
I literally died when liam said fear is the mind killer. Frank Herbert made me love reading and it makes me so happy that Liam shares that love.
One could even say you "literarily" died 😅
01:14:16 "IT'S RAINING!"I am literally in tears. Cuz that episode of FMA didn't partially ruin my life
I was looking through the comments for something like this! Thank you, kind human being!
I want to see Travis play a Mustang based character
@@soldier1stclass640 He does in the 2nd campaign! Fjord Mustang!
@@TheUCuber And Ford Escape, Ford Explorer/Expedition, etc. I don't even know if half of those are real, I just know Sam has made about every Ford joke in the book, and is still somehow coming up with more.
I thought about that too
This episode perfectly sums up why Critical Role is absolutely fantastic: we got super deep, poignant and emotional roleplay with Vax&Vex discussion about the Raven Queen, and goofy, hilarious, pure gold comedy with the chicken archery scene.
Gosh, I love this show so much.
Mustang: Its a terrible day for rain
Grog, an intellectual: ITS RAINING!
You know who the English voice actor for Mustang is, right?
@@Titoichi1986 I did not before this, but holy shit it makes so much sense lol
TitoRag oh my gosh I didn’t even think about this! That is so (insert various emotion here because I literally can’t rn)
@@Titoichi1986 Laura is lust
I was afraid I did not find this comment at the top, but delighted it's not too far down.
*Wife on death bed*
"Please stay by my side, my love"
I walk away
"It's the veganism of necromancy" -Savage Percy
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No Mercy Percy*
Percy has a thing for veganism, at the banquet to welcome the briarwoods it was asked if they had a vegan menu, Percy said something like, she’s a vegan of course she rang ahead to let them know.
@@Ginric99 It's probably just Tal tbh lol
*angry Caduceus noises*
*Pike puts on the Gauntlets* "GRAAAR, SUPERCLERIC!!!"
"Like a tennisball in an empty bucket" 😂
*”PIKE SMASH!!!!”*
Damn, that scene between twins had me in tears. Liam and Laura play so well together
All their interactions are so frickin good!!!
As annoying as Laura can be at times (broom), she really does excel in these kinds of interaction. Kudos.
@@PhobosDDeimos Laura is far from annoying, as you will discover as you progress. She's a treasure & is an amazing character actor. _Vex_ is acquisitive as all hell for understandable reasons when you know her history. Laura is playing her true to who she is, just as she later plays Jester true to who she is.
That breakfast archery brings back sore memories for me.
I was once part of a game of a homebrew gamesystem with a group of friends. We were all pretty low level characters and encountered a bear to fight. As I was a tank I was up close and personal dodging all the attacks like a pro and hitting all my marks. Sadly the archer way back didn't and through a series of weird but memorable critical fails and critical hits on his and on my part my character got taken out with a headshot to the back of the head and died.
Now every time an archer rolls a one and manages to hit one of his companions I think back to that day. Possibly the lamest character death I ever had, but at the same time absolutely unforgettable.
Lol
Thanks for sharing that, that's a hilarious story! Seriously, lamest death but definitely unforgettable.
One time, I was in a game where our party consisted of a warlock, paladin barbarian, rogue, and a vampire. (4e class, not race.) I was the vampire, but only the warlock and rogue knew, as the barbarian was dumber than a sack of shit, and the paladin trusted me and never asked. In one boss fight, I made a mistake and forget to get away after making my attack. Next turn, I got grappled and ended up dropping to 0 HP. When the Paladin saw I was down, he came to heal me with a divine spell, (we didn't even tell him out of game that I was a vampire, he assumed I was a rogue or assassin) the rule book states that when a vampire is hit by divine magic of any type while at 0 HP, he instantly dies. So...he healed me, and I immediately burst into nothingness, Voldemort style. Best character death ever.
+Brandon Walker Wow! That is one of the funniest things I've ever heard! Seriously, you've made my day! Thanks for that!
Haven't read your comment just saw your picture and I fuckin love incubus ❤️ ❤️
Edit:just read ur comment hilarious 😂 😂
45:12 ♥️
When Liam asked to step-out to make-out with Talesin and Matt suggests they just change seats. I love these awesome nerds! These are my people!
Just wait until Talks Machina starts. :)
This has to be one of the most quotable episodes and i am only an hour in.
"you start arguing and you make a gnome"
“I’m a collector of specifics, and so far you haven’t given me any.”
Let’s be fair, this thread is going to be at least 90% Taliesin 😂😂😂
@@michellepehrsondupont3756 I mean why would it not be? "life needs things to live" after all XD
"We've seen shit, we've done shit and we can do shit" Excellent quote.
Sam: “I hide in a tree...”
Matt: “There is no...”
Sam: “hehehe”
Matt: “MMMMMmmmm...”
I love these little interactions
Lol yea I love how Sam knows just how to get on Matt's nerves. Even if he only does it for comedy, it just goes to show what power a high charisma can get you.
superlolgal555 the hat of charisma...
Felix Stone would like 3.1415926535 slices of π
I would like to believe that I just found an SAOA reference. I really wanna believe.
I feel like we did
@@felixstone3.14
I see you...
I know this is old, but I just realized that a big reason why the party is going up against the Chroma Conclave is because someone gave Matt all those huge dragon miniatures for Critmas.
If true, it's kind of amazing how much the community can influence the show.
A real magnificent bastard move...
drewfro66 He'd been planning the arc for years. Unclear whether the ultimate timing of the attack was influenced by receiving minis.
He didn't open the two minis until after the dragons attacked, so either the timing was coincidental or people heard about thordak and sent huge dragon minis for him to use
Late reply, but Matt has spoken in Q&A's about always wanting to run a dragon-centric storyline ever since he started DM-ing. He never got to it because the campaigns he ran before this were low to mid-levels, and he didn't want to use young weak dragons, just for the sake of having them. He wanted to use the ancient dragons.
He started sowing seeds of the Chroma Conclave arc back during their home game (when the group faced Brimscythe the blue dragon). And when Vox Machina started to dive into the high-levels (12 and above), he launched the arc with a bang.
That said, the community did help by providing Matt with a properly-sized colossal red dragon mini for Thordak. But it's definitely a reactionary thing, as people noticed Matt didn't have a red dragon mini for Thordak's first couple of appearances.
A huge mini....🤣
At first I thought Vax was being a bit of a dick about not wanting to help the map maker. Then I remembered that he's a servant of the Raven Queen now... I wonder if depetrification is considered bringing someone back to life.
I read it more as he doesn't want his group to see him to avoid them being sad.
I thought it had to do with the fact that
a) they were bringing him back missing an arm.
b) They were in a really dangerous area
c) He himself didn't know how to undo the petrification and didn't want to tell the party if there was no way to bring him back and thus they were forced to know that he was dead.
I think he was in a rush. He was trying to move the game along just a few moments earlier.
liam can be a bit of a dick with not telling his party about things. i know he gets excited about the roleplay but this is a communal event and it feels gross to be left out of things. it's taking agency away from other players and making decisions for them. :/
@@SocialistSadako They are not really left out, the characters are, it's part of the game
I'm so glad Matt did a live retcon on the blindsight.
Matt playing out Simon was actually the cutest damn thing I've seen in my life oh my gosh.
I can’t be the only one who thought of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe when they got caught in a perpetually winter forest with a garden of stone statues that were once living beings.
"Don't look in there with a black light."
Sam is hilarious.
I was reading this right as he said it.
I'm just wondering when he had time to do the dirty. Only the 2nd time hes casted it
Spoiler: When Scanlan took an arrow to the neck, I almost died laughing. The screaming. Oh, the screaming.
Gunnerblaster i literally could not breathe
Spoiler of the future: that’s what Nott sounds like!!
Hard same
Gunnerblaster if youre gonna do a spoiler make sure its hidden you absoloute nitwit
@@supercool1312 While I agree that there should be some space in between the Spoiler tag and the spoiler itself, one should also know to immediately stop reading anything once they see the word Spoiler. No need to revert to name calling. A simple "For future reference please try to leave more space after the Spoiler tag to avoid spoiling anyone, cheers!" would do.
I like how Liam, Laura, and Taliesin all said Scanlan should piss on the obelisk at the same time lol
"Take a walk, save a Horse."
15:08 - Scanlan, Creepy? Nooo
18:00 - There are no Trees!
21:57 - That's Not Him at All
24:10 - Scanlan's Enterance Song
48:00 - Scanlan Discribes Pike
52:15 - Vex Shows Off Her Broom Skills
55:30 - KeeKee Left Hangin'
1:13:45 - IT'S RAINING!
1:20:08 - Save a Horse
1:24:30 - Scanlan's Mansion
1:26:32 - Pike's Room
1:28:50 - A Sibling Chat
1:34:20 - The "All Purpose" Room
1:39:50 - Vex's Breakfast Archery
1:50:32 - Grog Pun
1:53:55 - Grog Tracking
2:13:45 - Break Ends
2:27:10 - Scanlan Inspires Pike
2:37:00 - Blingsight on NBC
3:07:10 - An Old Friend
3:16:20 - Scanlan's Optimism
3:18:45 - Vax Talks to His Queen
+Phalinx 1:38:40 - The Start of the best chicken target practice I've ever seen.
Best moment in this whole ep XD
I never realized how much I miss these comments until I started to watch the episodes before you commentes
+lionblaze24 Sleep schedule is screwed up so took me a little longer to rewatch last night. Tring to fix :D
"It's a terrible day for rain."
+No One some one remember when Pike critted on her insight check for Vax ?
Omg Ashley is the cutest! Her reaction when Grog gave her the gauntlets 😂.
1:19:30 I like how when asked about the weather Matt even looks up as if he’s checking the weather irl
Percy "It's the veganism of necromancy, it's kind of dull." PERFECT T-SHIRT!
Michael Kentros no, that would get them bad publicity. Think for the first time in your life.
@@RDR911 mhm
Grog: It's raining.
Reminds me of Roy Mustang.
Seeing as Travis is his voice actor I think it was a direct reference.
+Caelen McHale I don't know... Raining and crying is as cliche as you can get.
Simon: proof that Liam's characters have always used their magical pets to cheer kids up
Percy should get into the business of artificial limbs. it could be awesome.
Mikaela DeLeon - Hahaha, well it's a sort of Renaissance-era now, with Percy very clearly provoking an early Industrial revolution...if we add prosthetics, we're basically in Fullmetal Alchemist. Travis and Laura should fit right in!
Mal Radagast , “It’s raining”, after all ;)
AUTOMAIL
Was kind of expecting him to tinker Vax a new foot in the Underdark, tbh.
Calling it right now, the eventual Campaign 3 will include a singular Warforged NPC who was built by Percy
Vax's most-used phrase 20 episodes ago: "I click boots of haste, dagger-dagger-dagger."
His top-phrase now: "And I walk away." :(
P.S. I respect Liam a lot for role-playing the moment with Mapmaker according to Tenets of the Raven-Goddess and than showing the moral struggle of his personality against the rule of not pitying the dead.
The problem is that he was petrified, not dead. His soul was still trapped in there. Raven would want him to be released so he could die.
@@stevenclark5173 and he figured that out and had pike restore him, right?
those people were still alive and savable. i'm horrified that they just left all of those other people there except for the mapmaker.
@@SocialistSadako Not all of them. Some were crumbling away, likely too late for them.
@@chrism6315 it might not involve the Raven Queen so much as it is Vax is just a good person and wanted to help him out
Grog @ 3:13:14 telling Tyriok, "Also eaten alive, burned, shot, stabbed, pulled apart, maimed, lacerated... but that's just in the mornings." did not get the appreciation it deserves
Is it just me that remembers that Vox Machina were told NOT to reveal that there's a Sphinx at the Slayer's Take and that her mate was also a secret? ... Just me? ... Oh well....
they always have been and always will be woefully stunted at any attempt of keeping secrets. Even in campaign 2, they blab what amounts to state secrets to just about anyone and their mother.
I think that’s a product of weeks and weeks between learning something, then acting on it. Matt has a busy world he’s created. It’d be near impossible to remember everything
@@treybrown5839 eh, yes and no, like come on, I get forgetting some things, Matt has a lot of details, but if somebody was like, SWEAR A SECRET OATH, We are persecuted and we have been hunted, do NOT tell anyone! I think I'd remember that. I love them but they're a bit brain dead sometimes.
I honestly didn't remember