@@Addy0302 I think it's way before the Fire Plane, Veth gave Luc the toy crossbow before she got transmogrified. In which case, Luc had a time bomb all the time.
Gonna be fully honest: my final project for my acting class this year was to perform one dramatic monologue, one comedic monologue, and one song. I... chose this one for my comedic. Acting was the last A I needed, so... Thanks Mr. Willingham for my acception into the honor roll this year!
Sam: Nott in a bad mood Taliesin: Crypt Keeper Liam: Mark Hamill's Joker Aabria: Shakespeare in the park Matt: Skeletor in a good mood Ashley: Snap into a Slim Jim Marisha: Lady MacBeth as portrayed by a trucker Laura: Discordant harp music
Yea I forgot everything the moment he said it. They are really luck they put Sam first and Taliesin first. If Ashley was after him there would be nothing.
Travis- "increased susceptibility to fire damage." Me- Well that's useful. Travis- "A small creature was darting out the front door. A thief!" Me- It was Veth wasn't it. Travis- "A small female halfling women kneeling in front of her son." Me- Yep, definitely Veth. *realization strucks* wait Me- oh. _OH_ Travis- "enchanted wooden crossbow" Me- Oh nooooo!
So it's all canon, right? Chutney tried to kill Santa, accidentally killed Luc with an arcane-enchanted crossbow, adopted a false name and fled Wildemount to join a gang of misfits in Jrusar?
Chutney was born from a christmas one shot and was quite the antagonist there -- not to spoil -- only Matt reigned him in (as a player), that's where the story comes from. Worth the watch.
He told me to make Voltron out of wood; no one wanted it. He told me to make a Gameboy; I can't do Circuits. He told me to make the little trolls, but their hair didn't move. AND I TAKE MY WOOD CHISEL!!! (Pause) are there any restraints on Santa?" "Yeah, he's tied down." I STAB HIM IN THE CHEST!!! -Travis Willingham
There's a concept from the Hyperion scifi series of houses that are made of rooms built on far-flung planets all connected by stargate-like portals. You end up with a breakfast nook floating on an ocean planet, a porch on Tattooine, your library in deep space with a view of a beautiful dust cloud, etc, all with different gravities. Just feel like Talesin probably won a house like that in a bet with an Atlantean or someone
I think, and hear me out here, I know this is crazy, but I think those are just called big houses. I know they're generally accepted as mythical among the LA rental market, but I have it on good authority that Taliesin got a great rent control deal from the original owners of the property. He taught them how to hunt woolly mammoths and which bits to burn to satiate That Which Writhes Beneath The Flesh, so they were like, yeah fair trade, you can have it for 4500 a month. True story.
As the original owner who has to sell the house to himself every few decades to avoid suspicion. Add the commune folk and its a perfect cover for a true ancient being
I need a supercut of Ashley's story openings from Narrative Telephone because I'm pretty sure 90% of them start with "Hello! I'm gonna tell you a TALE!" and then it's all downhill from there
Matt when he watches others retelling the story: genuine interest, laughter, reactions. Matt when he watches himself retelling the story: M A D N E S S I N Q U I S I T I O N
@@AshlynOne Hmm, I am aware of that, but I don't think that's the reason - if it is, well, I was not trying to be mocking him, I actually enjoy the faces :) .
@Sad Life I've also noticed that he hates making mistakes and will often repeatedly scorn himself after being corrected on tiny things.. It's like he needs to save face even though noone is judging him for it. I really feel for him in those moments as I do the same thing all the time.
@@InanDante I didn't mean to make you feel bad about laughing, I was just explaining what is likely the reason he does that. And I have to respectfully disagree because he has mentioned he hates watching footage of himself in a number of interviews (the one with Brian Foster and the one with Jackscepticeye come to mind).
@Isi The Fox From what I've seen in the interviews with Brian Foster and Jackscepticeye he has outright said he hates watching and listening to himself. I will have to respectfully disagree because there's a lot of self admitted evidence to support this. I could be wrong, but it's quite likely I'm not.
I had an idea for Laura's next story: Jester is using Sending to update her mother. And every message she counts out 25 words before having a small aside about how hard Sending is to use etc. then stopping before she gets to her point because she's out of spell slots. I can imagine everyone 'vamping' for a bit, then running out of words in the message etc.
Oh Jeeze, that would be amazing. But not just her mother; Kiri, The Plank King, The Gentleman, there are so many she could message and do the voice replies back to her. Even better if she didn't rehearse and just went with it like she does in the show. The Sending scenes with Jester are just pure gold.
Somehow... Aabria made Chutney more unhinged and terrifying. Her retelling was incredible, even if it was like... ten times longer and full of Mai Tai details lmao
@@KingNefiiria Luc died by a fire elemental though XD Travis was saying Chutney enchanted the crossbow that would be Luc's with weakness to fire. Indirect, accidental, and delayed, but effective.
SPOILERS: If you think about it, Luk had his crossbow during the Fire Elemental fight in the fire plane. I'm not saying that's definitely what did him in, but...
o.O This'll teach me to go anywhere in the comments section of these while I'm still a month and a half behind, haha. Please tell me someone had a rez on hand, so that I don't have to just sit with this cursed knowledge until I'm caught up.
"Jump into" is a strong term. More like rash decisions by my attending adults led me to be magically transported to a realm of stove elements turned on high but theyre everywhere
@@snarglblargn4986 Yeah, I just stuck with "jump into" because that's what Travis originally said. I know that Luc didn't just jump into the fire plane and into the arms of that elemental.
Because I am on the clock as a delivery driver, I keep on having to pause it. During the show and tell, it has hit me that Liam’s Chutney sounds like Mark Hamill’s Joker.
I absolutely love how Sam went first and dropped the most important detail of the story. Especially given how it's the trolliest detail and the one involving his own child, and thus the very last detail he should have forgotten.
Me: "Is that a Dolly Parton candle in the back there?" Taliesin, literally 5 seconds later: "I was just hoping to distract people with the Dolly Parton candle in the back there."
The amazing thing about Chutney as a character is that every cast member comes up with a totally new insult for Santa, and they’re all totally accurate to how he talks.
You can see matts face light up and gears start spinning when he hears Travis talking of runes of fire vulnerability like yes .... yes putting a pin in that one
Matt probably thought that he’d been the one to concoct the connection between the toy enchantment and Luc’s death, and was surprised to find that’s how Travis’ original story had gone. (Sam immediately dropped the fact that the toy Luc received had already been enchanted with fire vulnerability; Matt added it back in like the omniscient being that he is.)
Yo they should bring Troy Baker as a guest for next season and have him tell a story about Exandria. Hope he voices a character in The Legend of Vox Machina too
Ashley: "leave it to me--I'll run the Shakespeare right out the door". Also Ashley: Plays Margaret in Joss Wheaton's adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing".
But then she had a script. I really think her memory just isn't that good. Which also explains why she needs to be told how to do damage with even her most common attacks. But that's not a bad thing imo.
just seeing the title made me say "OH DEAR GOD TRAVIS" 2:47 Another one. You absolute madlad. The fact that it was Sam that dropped this is even more hillarious
With every new episode of Narrative Telephone my desire for a book of Critical Role short stories based off of the tales and fables told in this series just gets higher and higher.
After a certain point, everyone's opening facial expressions are various iterations of existential despair, and their desperate attempt to cover it up as quickly as they're able.
For the record this was the first ever sign that Chutney had broken the barrier to Exandria. He showed up in C3 under the alias of Chetney not much later
@@Deadxman616 I mean I could see Travis playing Chutney and in character thinking "Someone may recognize the great name of Chutney as the mastermind who took the fat man . . . i'll need a disguise . . . I know! Chetney! They'll never recognize me now!
I. . . I love Aabria. She's so wonderful and you can so tell that she's caught up and knows what she's doing. Also adore everyone's evil elf chuckles lol its kept me laughing the whole time.
It still is not clear who among the cast understands the implications of the toy crossbow having fire susceptibility. They did not really talk about it, and sam seems oblivious.
Psssh...Veth is arcane trickster; she should have looked for the fire runes...and also not give a crossbow to a 3-12 year old. ;) whatever Luke's age is
Ah, how shall I do it? Oh, I know. I’ll turn him into a flea, a harmless, little flea, and then I’ll put that flea in a box, and then I’ll put that box inside of another box, and then I’ll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives…I’ll smash it with a hammer! It’s brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, I tell you! Genius, I say! …Or, to save on postage, I’ll just poison him with this.
Wait! Wait! You cannot listen to this just yet: First you need to hear this (Major spoilers for Critmas Ep): Sung to the tune of "Frosty the Snowman"...I present my personally written encouragement for Critmas ep 2 Chutney Choco-cane Was an ornery ol'e elf With a hentai whip and a chisel pick And his heart left on a shelf Chutney Choco-cane Made his toys of wood and clay But was he surprised when before his eyes Circuitry had claimed the day There must have been some poison In that cocoa cup he'd foun' For after he'd had his first sip He began to plot at dawn Chutney Choco-cane Was as sure as he could be With his chisel pike And a hammer strike He could kill the Claus, Sandy Down from the North Pole With his Chisel in his hand Hiding here or there or among stuffed bears Saying, "Time to be a man" He led them up, to bug filled butt To pass the cube he hopped And he only paused a moment when He'd heard the bleeding'd stopped Chutney Choco-cane Had to hurry on his way He'd failed his try To kill that fat guy And for now his crime he'll pay Stabbity, Stab, Stab Stabbity, Stab, Stab Look how Chutney dies Stabbity, Stab, Stab Stabbity, Stab, Stab What is that that rise? Stabbity, Stab, Stab Stabbity, Stab, Stab Hollow One that cries Stabbity, Stab, Stab Stabbity, Stab, Stab Chutney claims his prize Chutney Choco-cane Had a rib or two or three With gleam in eye Sequel worth a try Yells, "I'll get you yet Sandy!" I will get you yet Saaaaaaaaaaa-ndy! Stabbity, Stab, Stab Stabbity, Stab, Stab ...
In terms of this game, Aabria is like a genetically modified hybrid of Matt and Sam: she goes full DM mode with extra imagery and scene-setting, but also just adds random details that were never there like Sam does 😂 When the storyteller is chaotic aligned.
This story more than most stayed pretty close for the first few. Sam, Taliesin, and Liam all lost just a little bit, Matt dropped a bit more, but then we got to Ashley/Marisha and the story fell off a CLIFF
39:41 Matt: “I want this to be your campaign 3 character.”
Travis: “And I took that seriously.”
HAHAHAHA 😂 omfggggg too fucking funny
He was at the theatre to see if the Ruby of the Sea was playing there when he first meets the gang 😂
Matt said that to Taliesin though
I was gonna say that!
@@SuperEdvinsson But Travis took it seriously 😜😂🤷♂️
Start: Story about how Chutney accidentally killed a child
End: Santa did a drag show in a forest
Yes, not sure if this was recorded before or after the Fire Plane incident but it is a great reference.
@@williamjamieson2334 It's got to be after, right? There's no way he could have called that
@@Addy0302 I think it's way before the Fire Plane, Veth gave Luc the toy crossbow before she got transmogrified. In which case, Luc had a time bomb all the time.
@@kei2kei In Travis' original telling, he says a halfling steals the toy.
@@MightBeCale becausr at that time Veth use disguise self to look like Veth in public and not like Nott
Gonna be fully honest: my final project for my acting class this year was to perform one dramatic monologue, one comedic monologue, and one song. I... chose this one for my comedic. Acting was the last A I needed, so... Thanks Mr. Willingham for my acception into the honor roll this year!
That's incredible! I want to see this performance
That's awesome! :D
Holy crap, bravo Annika!!! 👏 That’s truly amazing to know, I’m glad you got an A!!!
Amazing, congrats Annika!!!
Sam: Nott in a bad mood
Taliesin: Crypt Keeper
Liam: Mark Hamill's Joker
Aabria: Shakespeare in the park
Matt: Skeletor in a good mood
Ashley: Snap into a Slim Jim
Marisha: Lady MacBeth as portrayed by a trucker
Laura: Discordant harp music
I was wondering if anyone else got the joker vibe
@@beardedwondergaming Big Joker Energy.
TBF, most of Ashley's narrative telephone bits have ended up as Snap into a slim jim
I see your Shakespear in the Park and raise you, Shakespear in the Park Through the Lense of Jim Henson's Mogra from Dark Crystal.
ha, "Nott in a bad mood"
"As long as he doesn't go jumping in his fireplace, the kid should be fine."
Sounds like a perfect time for a family vacation to the plane of fire!
oh god
Travis is fucking dark, I love it!
O_O
I swear none of them got it either.
@@do6631 They did the second time around.
This went from "Chutney is a badass and partially responsible for Luc's death" to "Chutney drank too many Mai Tais and Santa does drag" and I love it.
Pretty much
I laughed far too hard at this XD Thank you
MAI TAI IN HAAAAND 😂😂😂😂
Why partially responsible for his death ? Am i missing something ?
i felt so sorry for what laura was left to work with.
Travis is really trying his hardest to avoid Fjord telling a story.
He still has a few one-shot characters to do before fjord lmao
He'd probably fjorget a few details....
I understand, but why should he?
Whats weird about him avoiding fjord is that fjord being a character with multiple voices is instant hard mode... maybe thats why he's saving him
Go watch DBZ... Fjord is Goku.
Travis has mastered the meta storytelling.
Build in mistakes n' let it percolate
Yea I forgot everything the moment he said it. They are really luck they put Sam first and Taliesin first. If Ashley was after him there would be nothing.
Poor Luke lol
This comment aged well!
Truly, considering Chetney just popped up in C3.
Taliesin has 2 modes: eyes glued shut, and never-blinking maniac.
Molly/Percy and Cadeucus are the Hyde and Jekyll of the perfect contradiction we call Talesin
Well, he's gotta check in on his other realms and timestreams from time to time.
Travis- "increased susceptibility to fire damage."
Me- Well that's useful.
Travis- "A small creature was darting out the front door. A thief!"
Me- It was Veth wasn't it.
Travis- "A small female halfling women kneeling in front of her son."
Me- Yep, definitely Veth. *realization strucks* wait
Me- oh. _OH_
Travis- "enchanted wooden crossbow"
Me- Oh nooooo!
So it's all canon, right?
Chutney tried to kill Santa, accidentally killed Luc with an arcane-enchanted crossbow, adopted a false name and fled Wildemount to join a gang of misfits in Jrusar?
That's my headcanon at least
Who is Luc?
Petition for Travis to DM a Christmas One-shot in which Chutney is the boss.
I Signed this petitions
Chutney takes over the Island of Misfit Toys, and hires a group of assassins to get revenge on Santa
Chutney was born from a christmas one shot and was quite the antagonist there -- not to spoil -- only Matt reigned him in (as a player), that's where the story comes from. Worth the watch.
Actually I want Liam to continue the one shot sequel, but with Chutney and his minions against the cast.
I Sign as well
I love how the fact that Travis retroactively claimed partial credit for Luke's death got lost almost immediately.
I know right?! Brilliant detail!
Travis: *does an elderly elf*
The rest of the cast, almost immediately: "I'm the joker baby"
Liam: “Travis, there’s something wrong with you.”
Somehow Ashley’s accent always turns into a southern trucker and I love it
“Michigan wants out”
I get Dr. Teeth vibes from the Muppets when she gets into that voice.
And Marisha slid right into it since it's the voice of her homeland
I hope her campaign 3 character is also a southern trucker
how is Ashley so damn adorable. shes always so radiant in these videos
Words that will go down in History "And I walk over to SAINT NICK!........... ANDISTABHIMINTHECHEST!!!"
I can hear this comment!
He told me to make Voltron out of wood; no one wanted it. He told me to make a Gameboy; I can't do Circuits. He told me to make the little trolls, but their hair didn't move. AND I TAKE MY WOOD CHISEL!!! (Pause) are there any restraints on Santa?" "Yeah, he's tied down." I STAB HIM IN THE CHEST!!! -Travis Willingham
Oh my god, I used to watch your reactions all the time! Definitely pleasantly surprised to see you here!
"You're a fool Klaus! We can't compete with Amazon!"
Loved how _No One_ at Critmas saw that coup coming!
The implication of the crossbow increasing fire susceptibility. On Luc 😳
And those eyes meant for Sam; just for Sam to immediately ignore it and drop it from the story. lol
I feel like the gang took this implication much better than I did. Chutney had a part in Luc's death and no one seemed to care.
@@andrewgolubiewski3463 I think they missed it the first time around, but then caught the detail in Travis's closing retelling.
Liam: what day is it boy!
Taliesin: April 14th sir
Taliesin: FUCK IT, IT MAY AS WELL BE CHRISTMAS.
53:43 if anybody wonders
Who is the Ruby of the Sea?
Travis: The fat man in his red suit.
Sam: The fat man himself.
Taliesin: (hissing and spitting) That BASTARD Santa Claus!
Maybe Taliesin just doesn't like normalizing fatphobia?
Taliesin’s house is really just 10 different houses smooshed together on a demi-plane
Where d'you think Matt got the idea for the Living City?
There's a concept from the Hyperion scifi series of houses that are made of rooms built on far-flung planets all connected by stargate-like portals. You end up with a breakfast nook floating on an ocean planet, a porch on Tattooine, your library in deep space with a view of a beautiful dust cloud, etc, all with different gravities. Just feel like Talesin probably won a house like that in a bet with an Atlantean or someone
I think, and hear me out here, I know this is crazy, but I think those are just called big houses. I know they're generally accepted as mythical among the LA rental market, but I have it on good authority that Taliesin got a great rent control deal from the original owners of the property. He taught them how to hunt woolly mammoths and which bits to burn to satiate That Which Writhes Beneath The Flesh, so they were like, yeah fair trade, you can have it for 4500 a month. True story.
As the original owner who has to sell the house to himself every few decades to avoid suspicion. Add the commune folk and its a perfect cover for a true ancient being
thats a pocket dimension, no way Taliesin lives on this earth
I love that no one really took in the fact that Travis just killed Luke till the end XD
We did, dude. We are just aghast!!!
It clicked immediately for me during Travis' story, and I laughed my ass off XD
Is there a point in the vid where the cast realize?
@@evanpotter860 i dont think they ever realised that chutney saw veth there.
@@dndbasement-chainedejeux6004 to be fair, Liam's scatter brain lost Veth.
Today we learned Travis can add some background to poor Luc and Liam can play the Joker.
Liam's Joker is a happy Red Skull. Not to be mistaken with Prof. Maelstrom.
I need a supercut of Ashley's story openings from Narrative Telephone because I'm pretty sure 90% of them start with "Hello! I'm gonna tell you a TALE!" and then it's all downhill from there
To be fair, it was people before her who started using that kind of beginning. I think it's starting to become a running pattern with these.
Hello! Is also Yasha's go to opener.
Also, *starts out with a voice/accent* “That’s not it AT ALL.” 😂
Matt when he watches others retelling the story: genuine interest, laughter, reactions.
Matt when he watches himself retelling the story: M A D N E S S I N Q U I S I T I O N
He has serious self image issues, which is why he does that.
@@AshlynOne Hmm, I am aware of that, but I don't think that's the reason - if it is, well, I was not trying to be mocking him, I actually enjoy the faces :) .
@Sad Life I've also noticed that he hates making mistakes and will often repeatedly scorn himself after being corrected on tiny things.. It's like he needs to save face even though noone is judging him for it. I really feel for him in those moments as I do the same thing all the time.
@@InanDante I didn't mean to make you feel bad about laughing, I was just explaining what is likely the reason he does that. And I have to respectfully disagree because he has mentioned he hates watching footage of himself in a number of interviews (the one with Brian Foster and the one with Jackscepticeye come to mind).
@Isi The Fox From what I've seen in the interviews with Brian Foster and Jackscepticeye he has outright said he hates watching and listening to himself. I will have to respectfully disagree because there's a lot of self admitted evidence to support this. I could be wrong, but it's quite likely I'm not.
I had an idea for Laura's next story: Jester is using Sending to update her mother. And every message she counts out 25 words before having a small aside about how hard Sending is to use etc. then stopping before she gets to her point because she's out of spell slots. I can imagine everyone 'vamping' for a bit, then running out of words in the message etc.
Holy Hell, that's diabolical and I would love to see the carnage. Lol!😂
Holy shit. Get that to Laura somehow. That is masterfully evil in exactly the right way. Let chaos reign.
Someone send this idea to laura please omg 😂😂😂
Oh Jeeze, that would be amazing. But not just her mother; Kiri, The Plank King, The Gentleman, there are so many she could message and do the voice replies back to her. Even better if she didn't rehearse and just went with it like she does in the show. The Sending scenes with Jester are just pure gold.
@Sad Life you think that she won't come up with something equally good on her own?
Somehow... Aabria made Chutney more unhinged and terrifying. Her retelling was incredible, even if it was like... ten times longer and full of Mai Tai details lmao
“For a second there I was kind of like…’hey girl heyyy’ 😳🥵 ” KILLEDME
I guess, but I thought the point of telephone was to mostly try and be accurate with what you heard, and the fun is when people mess up.
Liam: vacation in tropical location
Aabria: vacation in tropical location
Matt: vacation in tropical... space?
Marisha: hunting trip in the woods
There's always one word or phrase the cast latches on to in an attempt to remember more of the story. This time that word was 'bastard'.
Don't forget the Mai Tais!
Omg 😆 Travis went dark! Chutney tried to kill Santa and successfully killed Luke 🤣
He didn't kill Luc...yet
Did...did you even listen to the story? He didn't kill Luc at all
Kevin, Terra, are you... caught up on Critical Role Season 2?
@@KingNefiiria Luc died by a fire elemental though XD Travis was saying Chutney enchanted the crossbow that would be Luc's with weakness to fire. Indirect, accidental, and delayed, but effective.
@@KingNefiiria are you caught up on campaign 2
I just love Matt's expression while they all watch travis telling the story, slowly realizing the corelation between chutney and luc
Aabria’s look of horror when she hears the original is sending me
For me it was both her and tal’s face both doing the “I fucked up” face 😂😂😂
"The Ruby of the Sea is a snack and I will honor that."
Perfect with a mai tai
When you run out of bar peanuts, I guess you have to nibble on something...
Spoilers
Travis low key killed Luc even harder than Matt did in this story. The man is a genious.
SPOILERS:
If you think about it, Luk had his crossbow during the Fire Elemental fight in the fire plane. I'm not saying that's definitely what did him in, but...
Kind of funny how he linked in weakness to fire for Santa and the fact that the thing happened in the fire plane lol
o.O This'll teach me to go anywhere in the comments section of these while I'm still a month and a half behind, haha. Please tell me someone had a rez on hand, so that I don't have to just sit with this cursed knowledge until I'm caught up.
I’m sorry you got spoiled :( if you really want to know then: spoiler warning
Yes.
@@pyrosianheir oh shit sorry I'm in gonna edit my comment now....it's actually better if I don't tell you how that happens or the result. Sorry again
Well, Luc didn't jump into a fire place per se, but sure as hell into a firey place.
"Jump into" is a strong term.
More like rash decisions by my attending adults led me to be magically transported to a realm of stove elements turned on high but theyre everywhere
@@snarglblargn4986 Yeah, I just stuck with "jump into" because that's what Travis originally said. I know that Luc didn't just jump into the fire plane and into the arms of that elemental.
@@toschiworlds7212 took a portal to the fire plane. *snap* killed my whole family
I love how by the third person, the introduction always devolves into "Hey! It's me! !"
It's a mnemonic: they're vamping for time as they restructure what they saw/heard by just going into autopilot for a moment
Followed by "and I'm going to tell you a story" 😂
Travis: *references the X-mas one shot*
Me: heh.
Travis: *links it back to recent Mighty Nein events*
Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Because I am on the clock as a delivery driver, I keep on having to pause it. During the show and tell, it has hit me that Liam’s Chutney sounds like Mark Hamill’s Joker.
I GOT THAT CONNECTION TOO
@@animefan3794 Good call, I was excited and didn't think about that when I posted, my bad
And now.... Chutney shows up in Campaign 3
Just wait till you're caught up it gets even better
Liam’s straight up doing a Mark Hammil Joker impression
Facts 🤣
It's almost uncanny!
It's FANTASTIC
Right?! The voice went Chutney to Crypt Keeper to Joker to Yosemite Sam
okay good im not the only one who noticed lmao
we went from plotting murder to sipp’in mai tais. man, I love this show.
I love watching Marisha, Ashley and Laura gradually figure out that the story didn't slowly descend into nonsense. There was a cliff drop.
The way Travis managed to weave the Christmas one-shot and the story together is really clever!
He was practicing for c3
I'm surprised that Matt actually managed to pick up on the toy being sabotaged from Travis' original story after it getting lost, and put it back in.
I absolutely love how Sam went first and dropped the most important detail of the story. Especially given how it's the trolliest detail and the one involving his own child, and thus the very last detail he should have forgotten.
To be fair Sam is terrible at remembering his own backstory
@Yashvardhan SINGH well he did remember Cree used swords and Lucien was a mage
owait
i like how this comment implies that luc is sam’s child
@@mb-zx4hl Now now, don't you virtual-shame Luc. Fake people are people too.
@@BigSlimyBlob my sincere apologies, friend
Liam went full Hamill Joker. Like, turned that slider all the way up.
Mark Hamill: *smiles and points to previously unnoticed second slider*
Yup
19:07 *crossing "Ashley: Heyyyyy~ Nope!" from my Bingo*
I love how Laura almost added a "moral of the story" at the end.
Me: "Is that a Dolly Parton candle in the back there?"
Taliesin, literally 5 seconds later: "I was just hoping to distract people with the Dolly Parton candle in the back there."
The amazing thing about Chutney as a character is that every cast member comes up with a totally new insult for Santa, and they’re all totally accurate to how he talks.
I love it when Matt questions the character's actions WHILST STILL BEING IN CHARACTER.
"No problem with this plan, WHATSOEVER." XD
It's the DM jumping out XD
I like how when Laura questions how they lost Veth and Luc, Sam gets reeeealy quiet while Ashley takes the blame for some reason.
You can see matts face light up and gears start spinning when he hears Travis talking of runes of fire vulnerability like yes .... yes putting a pin in that one
Matt probably thought that he’d been the one to concoct the connection between the toy enchantment and Luc’s death, and was surprised to find that’s how Travis’ original story had gone. (Sam immediately dropped the fact that the toy Luc received had already been enchanted with fire vulnerability; Matt added it back in like the omniscient being that he is.)
@@kaniamia Matt has such a good understanding of story that he often ends up doing a little repair work in this game. 😝
"honestly... at first... I was like 'hey gurl hey'" Aabria gets it
Jester’s mom has got it goin’ on!
“The ruby of the sea is a snack, and I will honor that.”
Travis's inability to handle creepy things, but his love of BEING the creepy character. Media Gold!
"The most beautiful voice I've ever seen, or heard for that matter." I felt like I was watching one of my conversations form the outside.
"There's 3 minutes left, what was I doing?"
Art. You were making art.
i love how ashley kept asking where the story went, but she’s the one who pushed it down the drain
It's that high-five in the water meme
Strong "Who killed Hannibal?" meme energy
Wow she really did throw it off the rails.
@@zorod5475 when i was watching it live yesterday, i was like 😃
She really did forget that so hard 😂
It’s official the Christmas One-Shot is now canon in the campaign universe.
Oh are you in for a treat....
Intro sounds like people auditioning for the role of the Joker.
Yo they should bring Troy Baker as a guest for next season and have him tell a story about Exandria. Hope he voices a character in The Legend of Vox Machina too
I think Liam gets the part.
Liam and Taleisan both gave me major Hamill Joker vibes
I love how Chutney is the reason for why what happened to Luk was so “potent.”
“The crimson crap himself” is a fantastic line.
My god talisin’s laugh in the beginning! That scared me
Well of course, that was the laughter of a eldritch horror
Maniacle lunatic comes a little too smoothly and naturally from him. There's some darkness lurking in there after this many centuries.
Lol same 😂
@@tylergriffin3667 I mean, he got to slide into a bit of his natural darkness when getting to play a bruja vampire in VTM (LA By Night).
He sounds like Pennywise there.
[creepy old evil elf voice] *And for a second there, I was kinda like... y'know... "hey girl, hey"*
Aabria is a god damn jewel
@@g3mkn1ght60 a Ruby!
I choked on my drink there, that was so great
Ashley: "leave it to me--I'll run the Shakespeare right out the door". Also Ashley: Plays Margaret in Joss Wheaton's adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing".
But then she had a script. I really think her memory just isn't that good. Which also explains why she needs to be told how to do damage with even her most common attacks. But that's not a bad thing imo.
@@Kasino80 - exactly. As faults go, it’s pretty harmless (and fun for us Telephone fans!)
just seeing the title made me say "OH DEAR GOD TRAVIS"
2:47 Another one. You absolute madlad. The fact that it was Sam that dropped this is even more hillarious
With every new episode of Narrative Telephone my desire for a book of Critical Role short stories based off of the tales and fables told in this series just gets higher and higher.
After a certain point, everyone's opening facial expressions are various iterations of existential despair, and their desperate attempt to cover it up as quickly as they're able.
It. Is. Glorious.
For the record this was the first ever sign that Chutney had broken the barrier to Exandria. He showed up in C3 under the alias of Chetney not much later
Daaaamn, I love how Aabria doubled the run time! Seriously, she was so into it, and it's awesome to watch :)
“Can I act my way out of this?”
“Yes, yes I can.”
I for one can’t wait to see Ginny Di’s Chutney cosplay.
Can someone tag her so she sees this 😆
Oh God
Looks like Chutney couldn’t get out of the realm of Exandria. He’s stuck in Marquet
no no, that's Chetney, not Chutney. Although he's looking for his friend and that's probably Chutney lol
@@JDStone-jg8cg chetney is chutney They going Darth Reven on us ;P
@@Deadxman616 I mean I could see Travis playing Chutney and in character thinking "Someone may recognize the great name of Chutney as the mastermind who took the fat man . . . i'll need a disguise . . . I know! Chetney! They'll never recognize me now!
@@JDStone-jg8cg Bertrand would be livid. Same two first letters AND the same last four!
@@tyrannicpuppy I know! The Horror lol
The fact Sam himself killed the crossbow being enchanted and participating in Luc's demise is especially dark and perfect x)
Recall that he's also the one that dropped the song from Laura's story in season 1...
Travis coming in like a wooden chisel to a jolly old chest
His story was perfectly done. Crisp, even. Like a halfling child in the Plane of Fire.
@@NWolfsson 😳🙈
Dont know why, but Marisha changing tropical town to a hunting trip in the forest just killed me. I burst into laughter and tears :D
Especially when she was then confused by the inexplicable mai tai!
@@Ajehy What's wrong with her? I _always_ bring mai tais when I go hunting!
I practically cheered when Matt brought back the fact that Chutney had already enchanted the crossbow when Veth gave it to Luke!
I was really hoping that Travis would do a story narrated by Sprinkle the crimson weasel.
The fact that Travis made it so that LUC would be VULNERABLE to FIRE damage....
He was invulnerable before hand
I. . . I love Aabria. She's so wonderful and you can so tell that she's caught up and knows what she's doing. Also adore everyone's evil elf chuckles lol its kept me laughing the whole time.
I love that he's using characters from the One-Shots
Three different characters and still no story from fjord
@@EdsonR13 One day he will but fjord will keep changing accents the whole time
Ashley raises her eyebrows every time she forgets part of it.... which is all the time.
Well now I want Liam to voice a version of The Joker
When Hamil eventually retires, they definetely have a strong contender.
I haven’t seen anything with Aabria before, but I might already be in love
Oh dont worry, if you arent already, you will be upon a first viewing.
i really loved her character on rime of the frostmaiden on the roll20 channel!
she is so entertaining!
(Watch Dimension 20: Pirates of Leviathan ( is amazing, has Aabria, Matt, and Marisha))
Same
Aabria lowkey has an enchanting storytelling style, I bet having her as a Dm would be incredible
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@@pirateking-wg9rs extremely so
Aabria was great! Every guest they've had this season has been a delightful and unique addition to the chaos.
It still is not clear who among the cast understands the implications of the toy crossbow having fire susceptibility. They did not really talk about it, and sam seems oblivious.
Some of them started to get it after Travis's closing retelling.
Oh boy.. Chutney, my guy... if Veth ever finds out what you did...
Psssh...Veth is arcane trickster; she should have looked for the fire runes...and also not give a crossbow to a 3-12 year old.
;) whatever Luke's age is
That's why luc died to the fire elemental
@@druid_zephyrus Luc is around 3 going on 13.
Her first mistake was stealing a weapon from some shadyass elf
@@paukkuvolter5615 You are correct
can we talk about the fact that Halloween Town has a D&D World Tree portal!?
ALSO--
spoiler talk
no wonder Luke died in the fire plane!
Also one of those elves came from Brooklyn. And Chutney was told to make Voltron & Game Boys. It bloweth the mind!
I love how Travis can create chaos so effortlessly
Taliesin's reaction after seeing Travis' story was priceless, "What the living F*CK Travis!?"
Ah, how shall I do it? Oh, I know. I’ll turn him into a flea, a harmless, little flea, and then I’ll put that flea in a box, and then I’ll put that box inside of another box, and then I’ll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives…I’ll smash it with a hammer! It’s brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, I tell you! Genius, I say! …Or, to save on postage, I’ll just poison him with this.
I love how Laura used Jester's voice at the end to tell Travis "Don't worry baby, everything is fine"
I love that Chutney was almost at full Gollum when Ashley brought him all the way to Slingblade.
Wait! Wait! You cannot listen to this just yet: First you need to hear this (Major spoilers for Critmas Ep):
Sung to the tune of "Frosty the Snowman"...I present my personally written encouragement for Critmas ep 2
Chutney Choco-cane
Was an ornery ol'e elf
With a hentai whip and a chisel pick
And his heart left on a shelf
Chutney Choco-cane
Made his toys of wood and clay
But was he surprised when
before his eyes
Circuitry had claimed the day
There must have been some poison
In that cocoa cup he'd foun'
For after he'd had his first sip
He began to plot at dawn
Chutney Choco-cane
Was as sure as he could be
With his chisel pike
And a hammer strike
He could kill the Claus, Sandy
Down from the North Pole
With his Chisel in his hand
Hiding here or there or among stuffed bears
Saying, "Time to be a man"
He led them up, to bug filled butt
To pass the cube he hopped
And he only paused a moment when
He'd heard the bleeding'd stopped
Chutney Choco-cane
Had to hurry on his way
He'd failed his try
To kill that fat guy
And for now his crime he'll pay
Stabbity, Stab, Stab
Stabbity, Stab, Stab
Look how Chutney dies
Stabbity, Stab, Stab
Stabbity, Stab, Stab
What is that that rise?
Stabbity, Stab, Stab
Stabbity, Stab, Stab
Hollow One that cries
Stabbity, Stab, Stab
Stabbity, Stab, Stab
Chutney claims his prize
Chutney Choco-cane
Had a rib or two or three
With gleam in eye
Sequel worth a try
Yells, "I'll get you yet Sandy!"
I will get you yet Saaaaaaaaaaa-ndy!
Stabbity, Stab, Stab
Stabbity, Stab, Stab
...
Beautiful
Bravo! You deserve an inspiration dice IRL for that. 😃
@@vomitfountain I would like to persuade Marisha to green light Episode 2
/roll 2d20 -1
I sang that as I read it, but I kept calling him “Chutney Co-cocaine”! That would explain some of the more manic portrayals, I suppose XD
In my opinion, the best line was in the very first stanza: "And his heart left on a shelf." 👍🫀👍
In terms of this game, Aabria is like a genetically modified hybrid of Matt and Sam: she goes full DM mode with extra imagery and scene-setting, but also just adds random details that were never there like Sam does 😂 When the storyteller is chaotic aligned.
How how foolish we were to think he couldn't find his way to a main campaign
I love Fjord to death, but it’s a whole different experience seeing Travis go on his crazy and unhinged monologue. How refreshing
Did you watch _Night Before Critmas?_ If not, you NEED to!
I love how in Liam's version Chutney is absolutely senile he can't even remember his own scheme.
This story more than most stayed pretty close for the first few. Sam, Taliesin, and Liam all lost just a little bit, Matt dropped a bit more, but then we got to Ashley/Marisha and the story fell off a CLIFF
Liam messed it up the most this time not Matt
Ashley didn’t do bad with what she got, but then Marisha turned it into a forest adventure 💀
Laura reassuring Travis at the end was so sweet.
OMG! Talison kept going back and forth between Skeletor, Gargamel, & the Crypt Keeper.
I just love how the whole story was just Travis making a joke around how Luc died in a fire.
“I want this to be you campaign 3 character”
Travis- say less