The Might Nien in a Nutshell: A Pyromancer with a fear with fire. A Kleptomaniac. A non-athletic monk. A Warlock who is actually fairly normal. A very strange purple tiefling who seems to both be the moral compass and the comic relief. A Cleric who always forgets to heal the party.
The girls casing a Lord's guarded mansion: calm, rational, uncomplicated The boys visiting a small local doctor: chaos incarnate with a side of petty theft and destruction of property
Matt: you see a trapdoor on the roof, centrally located for easy access to the rest of the place. It might as well have "use me" written on it in glowing letters. Talesin: *we're gonna go throw up on people*
Crownsguard academy, 1st day, start of classes, a cage of cats is brought in "None of you will go to the dormitory until you can punt a cat clear out of the classroom, go!"
*one man that never skips leg day stands up*. READY SIR.... I’VE TRAINED FOR THIS. *kicks the cat... makes it disintegrate*. Teach: MY GOD... YOU’RE IMMEDIATELY A CROWNSGUARD CAPTAIN
the entire Vox Machina campaign: sneak, sneak, sneak, fight big monster Mighty Nein at level 3: conspire to overthrow government, look for evidence, forge evidence, sneak past guards, persuade/deceive guards, sneak, plant evidence, at two different houses, all in one night
VM just in the Briarwood arc: plots to overthrow government, sends a gnome in by himself to burn down a house without even knowing he has a way to start a fire, runs away from a zombie hoard until Keyleth runs back and Pike shows up, loses a dangerous hostage, gets caught in an acid trap, loses an ally to charm, eventually succeeds. Vm was equally ridiculous.
@Lauffles That’s a bit of a stretch, I mean it’s not even a dangerous situation. It’s literally a city street, normal people tend to ignore a stray random cat and don’t immediately have the urge to punt them. You can’t really blame Caleb for being surprised when a Crownguard decides to just try to annihilate his cat instead of shooing it away like a rational human being.
@Lauffles forgot to come back and edit (not worth it now that I have a reply instead (yay!)) to say I’m glad that I overreacted to Frumpkin’s situation as at least he’s still standing! Unlike that spire...
Mighty Nein on Day One: "We must prove our innocence and bring JUSTICE!" Mighty Nein on Day Twelve: "Alrighty, How will we do this hyper illegal heist and bring JUSTICE!"
This episode reminds me of the episode where they get the pigeon wings vestage with Kashaw and Vex dies. I put the show down for a few months cause I was so pissed at how poorly they covered up their obvious scripted actions. This entire story arc makes no sense. If they want to be criminals the first thing you do is do the frikkin math. This job is garbage for profit. Always go for the sure thing. They just made bank off killing 1 spider and now they are violating multiple laws. This just screams filler storyline and bad writing. I haven't seen whats coming next but I bet you 20 bucks this is part of someones backstory being done 5 levels too early cause Ashley's character development sped up the weeks of gameplay.
@@KitKatHD You really think this is scripted? Lmaoo. Also you owe that guy 20 bucks m8. You obviously haven't played D&D before cause I can tell you doing stupid shit on the fly is *peak* D&D
@@raphaelm810 I would say that 75% of the show is scripted. Color commentary and dialogue from the players and the randomized encounters when doing long rests are about the only random bits there are. This campaign is showing it far more than the first one cause hes blatantly scripting out the backstories for each character. For example, they are given 3 choices when leaving the city, I bet you each choice lead to a specific character's backstory which is why the swamp had a fjord advancement and a leadin to a dragon storyline. I'm much further but I bet you the trip to minagerie coast that was given out by the law person would have likely lead to Jester's storyline, and the far north crime thing leads them by 3 backstories. I really don't understand you keyboard warriors trying to argue its random, its really not. I mean...do you really think all of these DM introductions to areas are spur of the moment or is he reading from extravegant notes? Its the latter.
@@KitKatHD You really think there's writers in some back office writing all this shit out? What you described is basic DM-ing. The players write out their backstories, the DM expands on that by building and fleshing out the world. Of course their backstories are tied to specific locations they lived in, Jester's from the Menagerie Coast so of course she could have a storyline there. The DM builds a rough skeleton of what the main plot is gonna be, but its inevitably going to be derailed since *it's fucking D&D* If you've had experience in this game you'll know that most of the shit you're doing story wise is making it up as you're going along. You've never played D&D before have you? That's how the game works. You don't know anything you're talking about so please just quit spouting bullshit and making a fool of yourself. If you'd had at least basic knowledge of the game you'd know that the DM writes plot hooks, but what the players do are all improv. Whether or not they bite said hook is up to them.
KitKatHD of course the DM scripts everything and very few encounters are random. That’s how it works, and I don’t think anyone will claim differently. What, you want a whole campaign of random encounters? “You go to this dungeon, and there’s“ (rolls dice) “6 gnolls around this corner, 3 ghouls in that corridor and one lich guarding the treasure.” That would be extremely boring. Or are you implying the players’ actions are scripted? I don’t get that impression, and there have been enough examples where you can tell Matt had planned (scripted) something different but the players went another direction or failed to pick up some hints Matt gave.
Sam in the hallway: “I check for traps!” Sam at the door to the room: “I check for traps” Sam in the room: “I check for traps” Sam at the trap door under the rug: “I check for traps” Sam holding the chest: “I open the chest” Matt: “Make a constitution saving throw”
I just started this series and know little to nothing about D&D and just seeing this episode alone of how insane things can get and how your party can hit a crossroads so fast (as long as everyone is staying in character). This moment went really well with the absolute chaos that ensues right afterwards!
@@TheForts101 the game is amazing and I really recommend trying it. Crazy moments like this happen all the time, but you'll be amazed at the team work and comradery that comes up as well. I'm our healer, I know who's doing what, when they will do it, and what I need to do to help them, all before their turn. It starts silly, but you really do feel like a real hero by the end.
This is the only game I've ever played where I've literally fallen of my chair laughing, and the next week I was crying. Im usually not an emotional person, but this game... D&D is something special.
9. Doty 9.0 It's 20 years, Tary died of an accident and Doty is just sitting at a spot, waiting for his Master to come back, like the large metal robot from Leputa Castle in the Sky. Then Caleb comes along, rolled a natural twenty and they got a new robot called "Tary" since that's all it's saying.
Yan Tse I never expected a Castle in the Sky reference here! My god that would be incredibly sad. Have to say that was my all time favorite animation growing up.
@@eryvac0074 Rather important since a knoll is a small rounded hill. Though the visual of someone fighting three hillocks is hilarious. Might be the victim of auto-correct.
watching people plan in dnd is just like 6 people have a conversation where each of them are talking about different things and finally reaching a conclusion that is so far removed from the original intent it no longer holds any importance
I’m half convinced that the main reason that Sam chooses small races to play is so he has an excuse to have a comically large booze containers during the game.
You will even note that immediately after, Marisha says "five". Which is her perception roll, but also the *actual* number of storylines he's keeping track of at that moment.
I looked away for a minute and when i looked back i genuinely thought my screen froze until i realized the others were still moving. That takes skill man
I love that Sam and Liam took time together outside the game to come up with the various cons they use together with code names. Its little touches like this that really help cement their respective characters relationship.
3:54:53 when Matt says "what're you doing?" Sam immediately looks at Caleb before even worrying about himself and then when Nott does steal the scrolls, over everyone else's voices Liam just goes "that's my girl" this duo will be the death of me
Similar energy to Percival "puts raw sodium in a teakettle for extra sploosh in a cannonball contest, which is possibly lethal" Frederickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III. Why is it Taliesin's characters that have questionable experiences which seem to have some basis in his own life?
@@scouttyra Or that time when Taliesin asked if Percy had the materials to make a bomb when they were killing ankhegs becuase, and I quote, "One of the ingredients for TNT is diatomacious earth, and if it's micronized diatomacious earth, then it's also an insecticide!" (I know I spelled that wrong) and Matt just went ..........
Favrioute line of the episode, 57:13 to 57:18 Fjord: Are we ready to do this? Are you ready to make a damn fool of yourself? Molly: I'm always ready to make a damn fool of myself.
That for me is the hardest part about roleplaying or getting my players to rp (I DM). It’s hard to tell sometimes if what they’re saying is in character or not and it’s difficult to have players clash in character without fear that they’re taking it personally
the first half is exactly how d&d is supposed to feel in my opinion, planing an amazing operation -> WTF IS HAPPENING WHAAAAAA -> proceeding with caution
57:03 Marisha - This is gonna be the weirdest fan art... Taliesen - Ah shit, I didn't think about that... Travis - *How could you not??* This campaign is going great.
This one scene of Fjord, Caleb, Nott and Molly completly ruining the day of some poor, innocent doctors lets me hope so bad for a "The Legend of The Mighty Nein" animated series.
I would love to see this animated, but I have a feeling it’s going to get cut from the show’s version of the story since time will be much more limited and the whole escapade had nothing to do with the overall narrative.
@@SynchronizorVideos Of course, but I love the way they handle this problem in LOVM. It is the big stuff we know and love (like Vax and Scanlan inside Umbrassyl) in a fun and interesting way, but they also manage to tweak in the fun little stories into random dialog, like Scanlan talking something like "... and then I turned us all into cows!" when he enters the room. Everyone who watched Campaign 1 will get the joke and remember the story behind it. :)
@@TheCurlyCoder If noting else, I would love to see an aside that mentions a painted johnson and/or an unconventional use of eggs in the MN animated series. Molly is an absolutely delightful character and I hope he gets some quality screentime before certain plot things happen.
Can we seriously all applause for how perfectly this episode was handled ?? Players stood in their roleplay until the end, and reacted perfectly to Matt who managed the build up until the finale. Plus as Sam said, he took care of 4, if not more parallel storylines with an absolute maestria. That was a mindblowing episode !!
Caleb: a lot is riding on Sutan and the High-Richter going to this festival... *awkward silence* Molly: oh that's it? I thought there was more. Caleb: nope, just pessimism.
@@missingaria2503 he was absolutely right in his reasoning. They had already made a HUGE splash at Sutan's and definetely alerted their mark that something was up.
Character room inter actions (mostly) Nott and Caleb's room Nott: Caleb i think your cool Caleb: I think your cool to Nott Fjord and Molly's room Either of them: So about the group Either of them: Ah yes Jester and Baeu's room Jester: Wanna **Insert childish activity** Baeu:.... Jester:.... Baeu: HELL YES!!!! Yasha: **Fades away**
Had the same rug in a hags lair early in our current campaign. I drop kicked our wrapped up ranger out of the 2nd story window of the house hoping the rugs power was tied to the house. It was not and we just ended up with a heavily bruised and highly annoyed ranger.
I think a lot of pressure is placed on Mat Mercer. It seems that being a DM is a lot of work, and Mat seems to do his Home-Work. All that planning almost can't compare how good he is at handling things on the fly. That being said, the players are awesome at respecting(?) his decisions. He is really good at creating interesting and engaging scenarios. /endgush
Even being a DM for a published adventure is a lot of work. Being the DM of a hand-crafted world, using original story hooks, unique settings, and mostly believable NPCs is among the most intensive creative exercises I've heard of, and Matt handles masterfully. It is worth noting that the "respecting his decisions" part comes from over a year's worth of admonitions during the first campaign - it took him a fair bit to train his friends to not push. Watching closely, I've noticed he's done a couple of things lately to try to curtail some of the bad habits his players still have, like calling for their own insight checks rather than asking a question. (That's a common enough thing to do, but sometimes it causes problems where there should never have been any - if a player asks if they can get a read on the person and a DM just outright says "they seem very honest and open" without calling for an insight check is a circumstance that's almost certainly reliable, whereas a player who calls for an insight check, rolls a 2, and gets the same response has false meta-knowledge that a poor insight check indicated an honest NPC, which therefore indicates dishonesty. You'll note that Matt responds to a failed insight check with "hard to read" rather than providing false information, and that's largely why.)
@@wierdalien1 Oh I'm well aware they've been doing it for a long time, and they're getting set in their ways, for sure. I've noticed that Matt has since seemingly given up on fighting the "insight check!" call. And yeah, no player is perfect by everyone's standards. CR's group is right for each other, and that's what really matters for playing the game.
Okay I am really into this whole "Jester is secretly but not so secretly into Fjord and Fjord has absolutely no idea that she is" thing that they've got going on lol
or is it a "laura is incorporating joking behavior from their IRL marriage into the game but travis remains true to his character at all times for internal consistency" thing they have going on?
There are people whom claim critical role is “scripted”. As a player and gm, if this is scripted, then these are the best actors on the planet. Obviously, a lot of Matt’s stuff is somewhat scripted as any gm will tell you. But to say all of this is, is just dumb.
Laura: gets angry at Liam for wanting that scroll because it might reveal M9's involvement Also Laura, a few minutes earlier: leaves a pamphlet to a cult she's the only member of
not gonna lie id have been so pissed if nott didnt steal that for him. whole group gets pissed (and yes he was a douche about id'ing items, but then despite all of the obvious shit that gives away they robbed the place fjord threatens caleb for trying to get something that would help him. after caleb literally gave him armor perfect for fjord. that combined with molly casting a charm on a pc to force answers out of them when he never answers anything straight was real bs.
@@morsorcus8152You gotta watch some if not all of Campaign One, dude. They love screwing with each other, and they know the difference between in character and out of character drama. Look at it this way: From episode 1 to 115, Vox Machina are all dear friends. 10 episodes into the Mighty Nein, and half of them still don't trust the other half to not screw them over. You think that's unintentional? The cast wanted a shake up to their dynamic, otherwise they'd be all found family right from episode 1
@@henrymartinvoI agree. I think ppl forget that they’re just playing into their characters, which I think is why I’m really enjoying this so far. These people have been friends for so long. I also love watching Matt’s reactions. He looks so happy when they fall into their roles and such. Like a proud DM 😊
"You're all lvl 1 bards with nothing but ball bearings GO!" That would only be hard until you get lvl 5 spells... use animate objects to have 60 flying ball bearings spining around like a bunch of Magnetos in X2.
@@runedoom "Catapult"; allows you to chuck any freestanding object up to 5 lbs, situated 90 ft away, 60 ft in any direction. Upon striking the target, it causes 3d8 damage (potentially 24 in one go!). A bag of ball bearings weighs 2lbs, and would reasonably scatter on impact, causing a difficult terrain hazard centred on the point of impact. Catapult can be really bloody lethal.
54:18 Nott: What if Caleb just burns all of your clothing and you go in as a burn victim? Molly: You're not going to touch my clothing. Caleb: That's not... We're not doing that... I love how Caleb drops this subtle reference to his past in this one line and nobody notices it.
Mighty Nein: Kills giant frogs, giant lion creepy things and armies of gnolls while fightinh multiple things at once Also Mighty Nein: Struggles against a carpet
that remind me that time 2 lv 1 players tried to rob and murder an old beefy lady... the old woman lasted like 5 rounds and one of them lose like half health xD, it become a meme in the group, that and one my worst yet funniest mistakes. -Player makes social character almost useless in combat---> Campaing takes place in flying castle devoid of intelligent life
Liam's German accent is so good that I'm weirded out whenever he speaks in his actual voice. Plus he looks like a younger brunette version of my dad (who IS German) so that makes it even more convincing.
@@sleepytimetaquito I do remember on one of the earlier Talks episodes in Campaign 2, him saying something like "It's weird my name is O'brien. I have more German in me than Irish!" I'm paraphrasing. I forget the context, but he was joking with Brian about how Brian had more Irish ancestry than him. I could be wrong about it being campaign 2, but I believe it was only them on Talks. Talks in campaign 1 always had way more people.
When Nott starts asking Caleb how strong he is, and then asks how he can get stronger, at some point in that conversation the music turns really ominous and I love it because it lends so much eerie-ness to the whole mystery surrounding the goblin, and the whole conversation with Fjord and Molly earlier! And yes, I am binge watching the shit out of this for the first time, so no spoilers under this comment pls!
@@shootsnoot7027 I had a similar thought. How much does Nott care about Caleb and how much does she just want his power? We'll see (on my first watch).
@ElizaGrace Yep, they've been married for 9 years and have a child together. On episode 8 of this campaign (The Gates of Zadash, about 6 and a half minutes into the episode they announced the pregnancy.
@LizBerry Someone skips the announcements. Matt and Marisha are married. And Sam and Liam are married. *snicker* Ashley and Brian are currently engaged. And Taliesin is an eldritch god... and a pyramid.
@@hummmusqueeen Sam and Liam are the ones who started the thing about them being married. It's a long running joke. Well, less of a joke and more of an acknowledgement that they are extremely close friends. You see it more in the announcements/ads, and even more in Talks Machina and All Work No Play episodes. You really shouldn't skip Sam's ads.
I love that after all of the planning and chaos and everything at the infirmary Laura was just like “I’m sure you did this super simple plan that would have totally worked, right?”
Travis is so good at moments where there's conflict within the group. First campaign when Grog was fighting Percy and Vex was amazing. And now when he "interrogates" Nott and later threatens Caleb. He's got a great talent for tension.
Nott only that, but he is also basically telling them he wants them to be part of the team and there are certain things that should be either left behind or ignored to get shit done.
0:00 - video starts 1:27 - Sam kills us all once more. Roadie Slater Lives 8:00 - Game intro starts! 21:46 - the cooing: origins 25:04 - Metagaming pidgeon 41:35 - More metagaming pidgeon 54:30 - Bodypainting ( 56:40 - ple a se ) 58:05 - The Hospital Heist Commences 1:02:38 - Tal is a rebel 1:27:33 - jester turns the forgery into middle school love notes Break starts - 1:32:10 FANART - 1:41:45 Break ends - 1:45:00 2:05:40 - Matthew! What did the cat ever do to you?! 2:25:42 - Tempting fate once more 2:49:50 - Visual aid 3:06:15 - Traps! Part who-knows-at-this-point (and the best tableau) 3:40:22 - Foreshadowing 3:47:40 - Interparty conflict 3:51:00 - It all goes to shitfuck in every unforeseeable way possible. 3:53:20 - Damnit, Matt. Stress is bad for pregnant people!
I'm so happy that Nott grabbed the scroll that Caleb wanted from the HR property. He wanted that so bad, good job Sam you're the best goblin friend a wizard could ever ask for :)
Y'know theres a reason I've been watching for months and haven't caught up yet. Because every time something funny or awesome happens I have to rewind like seven or eight times to watch everyone's reactions separately. Gods help me when I finally start on Campaign 1
I want to finish Campaign 1. But its tough watching the beginning knowing what happens with Orion. It keeps me from watching. Also Campaign 2 is wayyyyyyyy more fun. Yeah there’s no Scanlan. But there’s still the Sam Riegel charm
@@alexbeltran6668, pro tip: Critical Role and Geek and Sundry are not just Orion and his problems. What happened to him, happened YEARS ago, G&S moved on, CR moved on and even Orion Acaba himself moved on. Stop talking about a drama that already died for years! Also, If Orion bothers you so much just start Campaign 1 from episode 28. But it's you who will be losing an amazing part of the story...
Probie Knox no its not that what happened bothers me. I want to watch campaign 1 in full. I really do. But i heard that orion starts being like a douche and stuff in the game and it just sucks. Im willing to power through. Ive already seen like 10 episodes of both campaigns and so far im just having more fun with #2.
@@alexbeltran6668, from someone that already finished binging Campaign 1 and it's now watching C2: Besides Orion being a douche once or twice, Tiberious was amazing. And I just remember Orion being an asshole at the end of the Underdark and once or twice at the and of the next arc after that, and it didn't happened during the whole episodes, it was just sudden outbursts I guess but with everything going on most of the time it was pretty easy to ignore his shit. You said that watched more or less 10 episodes already, so if you finish the Underdark arc, you can reach episode 28...
Sam's Mug Stickers (I will try to add this to every 4th or 5th new episode with the new sticker): Ep 1: #First Ep 2: Front Butt Ep 3: Dice Jail (Arrow pointing at Laura) Ep 4: I (Heart) Bacon Ep 5: *green screen Ep 6: Your Prize *$1 Attached Ep 7: Trust the King Ep 8: Baby On Board Ep 9: "9" Ep 10: Goblin Juice Ep 11: Sorry Laura, I Ate Indian For lunch Ep 12: At Dawn, We Fail
He's been doing messages and stickers from well into season 1. Why? Because it's entertaining!😁 Sometimes he does inside jokes, or running gags from previous episodes... It is mostly for our benefit!
@@jjjjjorma well at first, in the last campaign, he had a giant tankard, and when they got some stickers he put them on the bottum of the tankard, then people started sending them all kinds of stickers.... the bottum of that thing was covered in them, dozens and dozens of them, it even got taller a bit. but then he started sticking joke messages to the bottum of it, and then it just kinda became a thing, becoming increasingly helarious over time
Damn Matt! They used a flying carpet for one campaign to derail the majority of your plans; and you respond with them being attacked by a flying carpet 🤣
2:55:23 Laura's "You're gonna kill Nott" manages to be incredibly sweet with how much she cares about characters, yet the way the line was delivered, without context, is terrifying.
3:40:23 Sam: Everyone thinks that Matt is managing three storylines right now, but there's actually a fourth that we don't even know about. Ten minutes later...
Okay, I had to pause near the end and just voice my appreciation for Taliesen reacting to Matt's descriptions as if he were actually seeing them. I love seeing Marisha react as a player (getting up in her seat, leaning forward, etc.) but Tal actually ACTING OUT the reaction was just... *finger kiss* You guys. D&D.
Whitney Baker I know right everyone else was ether trying to listen to Matt or just figure out what was happening be he looked like he was actually seeing it. He would make a good actor considering how he did there.
The Might Nien in a Nutshell:
A Pyromancer with a fear with fire.
A Kleptomaniac.
A non-athletic monk.
A Warlock who is actually fairly normal.
A very strange purple tiefling who seems to both be the moral compass and the comic relief.
A Cleric who always forgets to heal the party.
And a barbarian with a part time job
This post is so real
Glad you think that.
Don't forget the cat that actually does stuff
and a metagaming pigeon
The girls casing a Lord's guarded mansion: calm, rational, uncomplicated
The boys visiting a small local doctor: chaos incarnate with a side of petty theft and destruction of property
Stealth is optional on this mission
@@sgt.ribeye3742 when you got Molly, stealth isn't even really an option :D
I mean that worked
Me an the boys being chaos incarnate
Don't like it anymore you guys it's 420 already
Mollymauk: It's magic! I'm possessed!
Also Mollymauk, in Infernal: THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!
As vicious mockery, nonetheless.
he's filled with Holy Spirit
So basically Vine
*barking in mollymuck*
MrSHADOWANGEL999 I thought Nott is the one full of spirits.
"You can respond to this message." is the magical equivalent to "Sent from my iPhone."
Im watching it all for the first time and when he says that, i hear; weve been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty
Matt: you see a trapdoor on the roof, centrally located for easy access to the rest of the place. It might as well have "use me" written on it in glowing letters.
Talesin: *we're gonna go throw up on people*
Who is talesin?
@@ariannaborkowski2597 The man who plays Mollymauk. He has dyed hair.
@MasterOfBaguettes he prolly meant that as in "His name is Taliesin, not Talesin."
Mollymauk in a nutshell
Talespin Hefe
"Ok guys, let's lay low."
*It's Always Sunny Theme*
"The gang become domestic terrorists."
Lucas M my favourite fucking comment 😂😂
"THE GANG GOES JIHAD"
"The gang makes some fucking noise"
Lucas M "the gang blows their cover"
"Jester does that thing she did in episode 1".
That exact wording
Crownsguard academy, 1st day, start of classes, a cage of cats is brought in
"None of you will go to the dormitory until you can punt a cat clear out of the classroom, go!"
*one man that never skips leg day stands up*. READY SIR.... I’VE TRAINED FOR THIS. *kicks the cat... makes it disintegrate*. Teach: MY GOD... YOU’RE IMMEDIATELY A CROWNSGUARD CAPTAIN
@@jackmanplayz * Rolls on the floor laughing *
They go to a golf course and drop kick Cats for practice.
Your all evil 😢😣 lol
Turns out one of them is a monk and kicks the cat in half.
the entire Vox Machina campaign: sneak, sneak, sneak, fight big monster
Mighty Nein at level 3: conspire to overthrow government, look for evidence, forge evidence, sneak past guards, persuade/deceive guards, sneak, plant evidence, at two different houses, all in one night
VM just in the Briarwood arc: plots to overthrow government, sends a gnome in by himself to burn down a house without even knowing he has a way to start a fire, runs away from a zombie hoard until Keyleth runs back and Pike shows up, loses a dangerous hostage, gets caught in an acid trap, loses an ally to charm, eventually succeeds.
Vm was equally ridiculous.
Don’t forget vomiting on people
Caleb: Summons frumpkin
Crowns guard: I’m gonna end this cats whole career
It's like every time he summons him every crowns guard in a 4 mile radius suddenly gets a lust for blood
@@elijaaaah Very true lol. Poor Frumpkin. If I were Frumpkin, I'd scratch their eyes out after Caleb summoned me again 😂
I like to scroll the comments as I listen sometimes and this just made me lol in the best way now I know poor Frumpkin is doomed again
@Lauffles That’s a bit of a stretch, I mean it’s not even a dangerous situation. It’s literally a city street, normal people tend to ignore a stray random cat and don’t immediately have the urge to punt them. You can’t really blame Caleb for being surprised when a Crownguard decides to just try to annihilate his cat instead of shooing it away like a rational human being.
@Lauffles forgot to come back and edit (not worth it now that I have a reply instead (yay!)) to say I’m glad that I overreacted to Frumpkin’s situation as at least he’s still standing! Unlike that spire...
"Great minds think alike"
"Fools seldom differ"
Nice, he knows the full saying
Who said that? My intuition tells me Taliesin, but could be Liam as well
The Black Dragon it was Taliesin very off hand and perfectly in character it was perfect *chefs kiss*
@@AngeloNeroSparda *subtitles*
Well, to be fair, he invented that saying way back in his 89th century of life
@@codedcuber8711 It’s a 4 hour long video and that’s if the saying is in this video
Sam: I feel singled out for being a woman-
Travis: WHEEEEEEEEEEEZE
Time stamp?
@@anime1lover6girl ^
51:17 for context
51:49 for the specific phrase
On
"In and out adventure, it'll be over in 5 minutes"
*cut to all of Zedash on fire*
Only on fire? Must be a lite mission.
Mighty Nein on Day One: "We must prove our innocence and bring JUSTICE!"
Mighty Nein on Day Twelve: "Alrighty, How will we do this hyper illegal heist and bring JUSTICE!"
This episode reminds me of the episode where they get the pigeon wings vestage with Kashaw and Vex dies. I put the show down for a few months cause I was so pissed at how poorly they covered up their obvious scripted actions. This entire story arc makes no sense. If they want to be criminals the first thing you do is do the frikkin math. This job is garbage for profit. Always go for the sure thing. They just made bank off killing 1 spider and now they are violating multiple laws. This just screams filler storyline and bad writing. I haven't seen whats coming next but I bet you 20 bucks this is part of someones backstory being done 5 levels too early cause Ashley's character development sped up the weeks of gameplay.
@@KitKatHD You really think this is scripted? Lmaoo. Also you owe that guy 20 bucks m8. You obviously haven't played D&D before cause I can tell you doing stupid shit on the fly is *peak* D&D
@@raphaelm810 I would say that 75% of the show is scripted. Color commentary and dialogue from the players and the randomized encounters when doing long rests are about the only random bits there are. This campaign is showing it far more than the first one cause hes blatantly scripting out the backstories for each character. For example, they are given 3 choices when leaving the city, I bet you each choice lead to a specific character's backstory which is why the swamp had a fjord advancement and a leadin to a dragon storyline. I'm much further but I bet you the trip to minagerie coast that was given out by the law person would have likely lead to Jester's storyline, and the far north crime thing leads them by 3 backstories. I really don't understand you keyboard warriors trying to argue its random, its really not. I mean...do you really think all of these DM introductions to areas are spur of the moment or is he reading from extravegant notes? Its the latter.
@@KitKatHD You really think there's writers in some back office writing all this shit out? What you described is basic DM-ing. The players write out their backstories, the DM expands on that by building and fleshing out the world. Of course their backstories are tied to specific locations they lived in, Jester's from the Menagerie Coast so of course she could have a storyline there. The DM builds a rough skeleton of what the main plot is gonna be, but its inevitably going to be derailed since *it's fucking D&D* If you've had experience in this game you'll know that most of the shit you're doing story wise is making it up as you're going along. You've never played D&D before have you? That's how the game works. You don't know anything you're talking about so please just quit spouting bullshit and making a fool of yourself. If you'd had at least basic knowledge of the game you'd know that the DM writes plot hooks, but what the players do are all improv. Whether or not they bite said hook is up to them.
KitKatHD of course the DM scripts everything and very few encounters are random. That’s how it works, and I don’t think anyone will claim differently.
What, you want a whole campaign of random encounters? “You go to this dungeon, and there’s“ (rolls dice) “6 gnolls around this corner, 3 ghouls in that corridor and one lich guarding the treasure.” That would be extremely boring.
Or are you implying the players’ actions are scripted? I don’t get that impression, and there have been enough examples where you can tell Matt had planned (scripted) something different but the players went another direction or failed to pick up some hints Matt gave.
"You're all level 1 bards with nothing but ball bearing GO!"
I CAN'T XD
yes
what an inspiring story
ill see myself to the gallows now
Welcome to Kaizo D&D!
I wanna DM that. Imagine the chaos. I love it.
@@threestars42 Imagine a full party of level 20 bards, an ocelot, and cocaine. Welcome to my game.
I love how glorious of a waste of time that hospital visit was
Ehh, mentally & (I think) physically scarring medical professionals is hardly a waste of time lol.
I'm only partially joking, lol.
They made me cry of laughter. That’s something.
so, so glorious. pure glory
@@davidparkes7741 id like ur comment but its at 69
@@k.whatever9046 I just liked my own comment ruining the 69 so go ahead, lol.
Sam in the hallway: “I check for traps!” Sam at the door to the room: “I check for traps” Sam in the room: “I check for traps” Sam at the trap door under the rug: “I check for traps” Sam holding the chest: “I open the chest” Matt: “Make a constitution saving throw”
I love how committed he was to being paralyzed 🤣
@@IRMAXLOL and the rest ignoring him :D
I really like Nott.
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I do too
So do I. ⭐️
Yes
okay
As well.
Talk about a defining moment between characters. "We are either a team, or you are working for yourselfs. Decide."
I just started this series and know little to nothing about D&D and just seeing this episode alone of how insane things can get and how your party can hit a crossroads so fast (as long as everyone is staying in character). This moment went really well with the absolute chaos that ensues right afterwards!
@@TheForts101 the game is amazing and I really recommend trying it. Crazy moments like this happen all the time, but you'll be amazed at the team work and comradery that comes up as well. I'm our healer, I know who's doing what, when they will do it, and what I need to do to help them, all before their turn.
It starts silly, but you really do feel like a real hero by the end.
@@TheForts101 same here.
This is the only game I've ever played where I've literally fallen of my chair laughing, and the next week I was crying. Im usually not an emotional person, but this game... D&D is something special.
Honestly if I were a player and heard that I would throw up from the tension 😂
The Mighty Nein
1. Caleb
2. Beau
3. Yasha
4. Fjord
5. Nott
6. Molly
7. Jester
8. Frumpkin
9. The Meta-Gaming Pigeon
Tokat Storm 9. The Meta-Gaming Pigeon (AKA The Traveler)
9. Doty 9.0
It's 20 years, Tary died of an accident and Doty is just sitting at a spot, waiting for his Master to come back, like the large metal robot from Leputa Castle in the Sky. Then Caleb comes along, rolled a natural twenty and they got a new robot called "Tary" since that's all it's saying.
I thought bizzarro jester was #9
No
Get it nein?...
Ok then I know where thd door is
Yan Tse I never expected a Castle in the Sky reference here! My god that would be incredibly sad. Have to say that was my all time favorite animation growing up.
The entire cast forgetting that Claudia implied she "handled her business" when taking ownership of the inn with that dead body in the cellar.
She said what o_o
Yep. That's what I was thinking too haha
Lmao yes! She legit took that person out lol
lol yeah, that information just went right over their heads. They weren't very observant with that bit of subtlety
@@elusivegamergirl yep you're exactly right and it's funny it went over my head too
Beau: Jackie Chans 3 knolls at once in a doorway.
Also Beau: struggles to climb a tree
To be fair, "accomplished martial artist struggling to climb a tree" is a very Jackie Chan gag.
*gnolls. I'm sorry, it bothered me 😩
@jack meoff no one understands the words coming out of Nott’s mouth.
@@eryvac0074 Rather important since a knoll is a small rounded hill. Though the visual of someone fighting three hillocks is hilarious. Might be the victim of auto-correct.
Tbf, that’s an athletics thing. Beau relies on her dexterity much more than her strength
watching people plan in dnd is just like 6 people have a conversation where each of them are talking about different things and finally reaching a conclusion that is so far removed from the original intent it no longer holds any importance
My 6 braincells trying to follow a cohesive train of thought at 3am
A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members. ~David Cobitz
This has to be an immutable law in the DnD universe.
Late, but in the words of Molly- “Groups of people are idiots. In fact, I used to group people together specifically to make them into idiots.”
Having*
Sam held that pose from 3:06:50 to 3:19:00 for a total of 12 minutes and 10 seconds. What an absolute legend!
I know, I closely watched and he held it super well too!
Respect to Sam. Even with Travis throwing stuff at him.
I think the Grog statue was better executed, but still, good job
Sam plays the long game. His patience knows no bounds
Travis did pretty well too in campaign 1
I’m half convinced that the main reason that Sam chooses small races to play is so he has an excuse to have a comically large booze containers during the game.
Plot twist: It's all forced perspective, Sam is actually like 2ft irl and that flask is just a normal sized flask.
In all seriousness I wanna see someone else hold one cause same is huuuge irl and I wanna see a different size comparison
@@HexGirl420 hes about 6foot, so yeah reasonably tall but idk whether id call that alone 'huuuge'
if you wanna talk 'huuuge' travis is right there
one day he might play a big ol minotaur and get a tiny tiny flagon as a gift
Liam chooses what race Sam plays
I love how Sam went from semi-believable baby wail to choking crow after that roll.
4 years late but it slays me every time Sam does any sort of hideous goblin noise
@@lovethatnyancat Nott is a blessing
I feel like there was so much wasted potential for chaos within that -1 and honestly I love it
"Everyone thinks that Matt is managing 3 story-lines, but there's actually a fourth one that we don't even know about" - Oh how right you were Sam...
When they kept shouting out numbers, I expected one of them to say "nein!"
Look at Matt when he says that.
He NODDED.
Time stamp?
@@thefakeslimshady8881 3:40:22
You will even note that immediately after, Marisha says "five".
Which is her perception roll, but also the *actual* number of storylines he's keeping track of at that moment.
I like how Liam takes every opportunity possible to say "you are not prepared" and Matt avoids "high noon" like the plague.
In previous episode at one point when everyone made fun of noon Travis whispers-“don’t make to say that” x))
What is Liam's line from
@@gunnMetal it's Illidan's line from World of Warcraft
@@gunnMetal And for anyone who doesn't know, Liam voices Illidan.
@@VentStrike Are you kidding?! Holy shit, thats awesome!
The look of utter confusion and fear on Matt's face when Molly vomits on the clerk is priceless.
The heist what expected:
mission impossible theme
What I got:
same theme but played with a kazoo and the player is running out of breath
That's absolutely hilarious
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@@gordonbradley671 thank you for this
Haha 666th like
@@gordonbradley671 Excuse me while I rewatch that whole scene with this playing in the background
"What happened to the kitty!" and "I tried to pet it and it went away." Melted my heart.
Props to Sam Regal for staying still like that for so long.
That's dedication.
He’d have to work on his Matt impersonation
I prefer Travis in C1. Great on Sam though
I looked away for a minute and when i looked back i genuinely thought my screen froze until i realized the others were still moving. That takes skill man
Twelve minutes and twelve seconds. What a hero.
@@addaleblue4595 what's the time stamp
I love that Sam and Liam took time together outside the game to come up with the various cons they use together with code names. Its little touches like this that really help cement their respective characters relationship.
3:54:53 when Matt says "what're you doing?" Sam immediately looks at Caleb before even worrying about himself and then when Nott does steal the scrolls, over everyone else's voices Liam just goes "that's my girl" this duo will be the death of me
Abi same
Or the death of the party
@@Andrew-wh4fx Either way, I'll take it!
1000th like. yay!
@@Andrew-wh4fx at least it'd be interesting when we find out what their deal is instead of just knowing it's purely for greed
Taliesin: *talks about Molly's disguise ingredients*
Me: That sounds like it's coming from experience -WHY IS IT COMING FROM EXPERIENCE??!
Because Taliesin is just as weird as Molly, and we all love him for it
Similar energy to Percival "puts raw sodium in a teakettle for extra sploosh in a cannonball contest, which is possibly lethal" Frederickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III.
Why is it Taliesin's characters that have questionable experiences which seem to have some basis in his own life?
@@scouttyra remember when he said matt's description of a "blender of glass" reminded him of something earlier that week
@@scouttyra Or that time when Taliesin asked if Percy had the materials to make a bomb when they were killing ankhegs becuase, and I quote, "One of the ingredients for TNT is diatomacious earth, and if it's micronized diatomacious earth, then it's also an insecticide!" (I know I spelled that wrong) and Matt just went ..........
Or the beach of demons in Liam's one shot were he led his action with "I'm going to do exactly what I did the last time this happened to me..."
Favrioute line of the episode, 57:13 to 57:18
Fjord: Are we ready to do this? Are you ready to make a damn fool of yourself?
Molly: I'm always ready to make a damn fool of myself.
I am so glad I got to witness the birth of the metagaming pidgeon this episode
Which is now the name of their very own production company. Who'd've have thunk it
Thought the same, rewatching this.
*Cooo Cooo*
This episode is the definition of "that escalated quickly"
When chaos develops into more chaos.
It’s a ladder...
Very much so
This is a prelude.
It should have been called “Very Extreme syphilis”
... Taliesin Jaffe has escaped from a medical facility before.
My desk is now covered in soda and snot and I blame you, Sir or Madam!
Ah, indigenous Californians. so weird....
What else are you supposed to do when people try to study your eldritch nature against your will?
@@chadamonkey5641
Ikr!? So rude...
Those clerks are just like: "You won't *believe* what happened at work today!"
My aunt is a nurse. She's told me some really crazy stories.
Ok Molly (or maybe Taliesin, I can't tell) was appearantly born to be the most dramatic sick bastard on the planet. I love it.
Uh both obviously
I love them both so much
Matt: *You get paralyzed while opening the chest*
Sam: *Actually freezes for the next 9 minutes*
I'd be watching the stuff that's going on, then every couple of minutes, I'd look back at Sam and see that he's still frozen. 😂
well, Travis did it first, though. and for longer. And he actually DIDN'T MOVE at all. Looked freeze-framed.
lol **commitment**
@@Yutah1981 Okay but we can give credit for where credit is due, and this time it's Sam.
@@Yutah1981 when was this?
The way they argue in character and then smile at each other knowingly out of character is what I live for.
That for me is the hardest part about roleplaying or getting my players to rp (I DM). It’s hard to tell sometimes if what they’re saying is in character or not and it’s difficult to have players clash in character without fear that they’re taking it personally
@@raquelgarza8990it’s even harder over the internet to do it. Lots of people play with their own emotions and not their characters.
This episode may forever remain my favourite "meighty nein is a bunch of goddamn maniacs" sequence in critical role history
the first half is exactly how d&d is supposed to feel in my opinion, planing an amazing operation -> WTF IS HAPPENING WHAAAAAA -> proceeding with caution
It's almost like the hospital scene last episode foreshadowed the further chaos
Grog’s catchphrase - “I would like to rage!”
Fjord’s catchphrase - “I think I sh*t myself!”
"Nipples on a horse!!!"
Molly: I jumped through a window.
Beau: WITHOUT ME?
Big hero six:
Molly: wE jUmPeD oUt A wInDoW!
Caleb: SHHHH!
Molly: "whispers" _wE_ _jUmPeD_ _oUt_ _A_ _wInDoW!_
57:03
Marisha - This is gonna be the weirdest fan art...
Taliesen - Ah shit, I didn't think about that...
Travis - *How could you not??*
This campaign is going great.
“Some of these are sequins not glass shards” is basically Molly in a sentence.
Edit: “Be the chaos you want to see in the world.”
Haha I can see it now “season 3 Sam Riegel plays a Kenku Druid named Meta Pigeon!”
Metagé Ming Pigeon
Now I need to see this happen
He'd be a sorcerer so he could use meta magic
Yes
This sounds golden.
The biggest fantasy in this campaign is that anybody could read a doctor's handwriting.
As the grandson of a nurse I can absolutely confirm this is true
when my players ha to read a doctors handwriting i made them roll investigation
As a pharmacist I can guarantee even doctors have trouble with their own sometimes.
Forgets how to spell own name, what numbers look like
*squiggles wildly*
1’000th like. I WIN!
I love that Nott has a message spell and rather than use that to tell Fjord to ask a question, they tried metagaming pigeons
Nott would have no clue that fjord forgot to ask, so it would have been a little bit metagamey
This one scene of Fjord, Caleb, Nott and Molly completly ruining the day of some poor, innocent doctors lets me hope so bad for a "The Legend of The Mighty Nein" animated series.
I agree wholeheartedly, I'm so glad that they have started planning it already
I would love to see this animated, but I have a feeling it’s going to get cut from the show’s version of the story since time will be much more limited and the whole escapade had nothing to do with the overall narrative.
@@SynchronizorVideos Of course, but I love the way they handle this problem in LOVM. It is the big stuff we know and love (like Vax and Scanlan inside Umbrassyl) in a fun and interesting way, but they also manage to tweak in the fun little stories into random dialog, like Scanlan talking something like "... and then I turned us all into cows!" when he enters the room.
Everyone who watched Campaign 1 will get the joke and remember the story behind it. :)
@@TheCurlyCoder If noting else, I would love to see an aside that mentions a painted johnson and/or an unconventional use of eggs in the MN animated series. Molly is an absolutely delightful character and I hope he gets some quality screentime before certain plot things happen.
Wish granted
Sam's flask:
At Dawn
We Fail.
“We’re all only human, after all. Except for Taliesin.”
“Thank you.”
Nicholas Ware Pretty much what I expected him to say
"Apology accepted."
Love the profile pic
Nicholas Ware
Nicholas Ware I still need a continuation of Talesin's Oneshot where we find out what happened to him: my bet is he became Were-Talesin
Can we seriously all applause for how perfectly this episode was handled ?? Players stood in their roleplay until the end, and reacted perfectly to Matt who managed the build up until the finale. Plus as Sam said, he took care of 4, if not more parallel storylines with an absolute maestria. That was a mindblowing episode !!
Liam geeking out whenever Sam does Rogue related shit is the best thing ever
I swear Sam either rolls amazingly or horribly, nothing in the middle lmao
This.
My die rolls are the same... in role playing, in table top wargames and in casual board games.
Caleb: a lot is riding on Sutan and the High-Richter going to this festival...
*awkward silence*
Molly: oh that's it? I thought there was more.
Caleb: nope, just pessimism.
And then proceeds to get the whole party caught because he had to be selfish again.
AND HE WAS RIGHT BECAUSE HR FORGOT HER GIFT AND DIDN'T GO AAAAAAAAA INADVERTENT PLAYER FORESHADOWING
@@missingaria2503 Caleb didn't get the party caught, Fjord and Molly did by failing their perception checks.
@@missingaria2503 he was absolutely right in his reasoning. They had already made a HUGE splash at Sutan's and definetely alerted their mark that something was up.
Character room inter actions (mostly)
Nott and Caleb's room
Nott: Caleb i think your cool
Caleb: I think your cool to Nott
Fjord and Molly's room
Either of them: So about the group
Either of them: Ah yes
Jester and Baeu's room
Jester: Wanna **Insert childish activity**
Baeu:....
Jester:....
Baeu: HELL YES!!!!
Yasha: **Fades away**
Molly and Fjord are literally the mom and dad of the group
‘Yasha: Fades away’. That made this whole comment.
Yasha: change da world my final message, goodbye
Fjord ad molly park is spot on
@@pennyfarthing7332 no, that's molly.
Sam's in-character paralyzed pose is incredible, I wasnt sure if they had just photoshopped him into the seat in that pose or not haha
You can see him move, but just slightly. That's real dedication
right?? That was crazy. stayed unmoving for over 5 minutes :o
Liam: lays on the table the whole time Caleb is unconscious
Sam: hold my flask
ikr, it genuinely looks like someone aimed a remote control at him and hit pause
I honestly didn't realize it until they had to escape😂😂
The Mighty Nein: Killing a giant toad creature, a manticore, and a giant spider.
Also The Mighty Nein: Get there asses kicked by a rug.
The simplest things are the most dangerous in this game lol
To be fair, I’ve been in that almost exact rug fight at level 3. It’s so much harder than you think lol
To be fair, they kicked their own asses in the rug fight.
"you can use an action to try to free yourself" proceeds to do attacks at disadvantage instead
Had the same rug in a hags lair early in our current campaign. I drop kicked our wrapped up ranger out of the 2nd story window of the house hoping the rugs power was tied to the house. It was not and we just ended up with a heavily bruised and highly annoyed ranger.
I think a lot of pressure is placed on Mat Mercer. It seems that being a DM is a lot of work, and Mat seems to do his Home-Work. All that planning almost can't compare how good he is at handling things on the fly. That being said, the players are awesome at respecting(?) his decisions. He is really good at creating interesting and engaging scenarios. /endgush
Even being a DM for a published adventure is a lot of work. Being the DM of a hand-crafted world, using original story hooks, unique settings, and mostly believable NPCs is among the most intensive creative exercises I've heard of, and Matt handles masterfully.
It is worth noting that the "respecting his decisions" part comes from over a year's worth of admonitions during the first campaign - it took him a fair bit to train his friends to not push. Watching closely, I've noticed he's done a couple of things lately to try to curtail some of the bad habits his players still have, like calling for their own insight checks rather than asking a question.
(That's a common enough thing to do, but sometimes it causes problems where there should never have been any - if a player asks if they can get a read on the person and a DM just outright says "they seem very honest and open" without calling for an insight check is a circumstance that's almost certainly reliable, whereas a player who calls for an insight check, rolls a 2, and gets the same response has false meta-knowledge that a poor insight check indicated an honest NPC, which therefore indicates dishonesty. You'll note that Matt responds to a failed insight check with "hard to read" rather than providing false information, and that's largely why.)
@@rashkavar they have been doing this for more than 3 years now. They are as smooth as they are ever going to be.
@@wierdalien1 Oh I'm well aware they've been doing it for a long time, and they're getting set in their ways, for sure. I've noticed that Matt has since seemingly given up on fighting the "insight check!" call.
And yeah, no player is perfect by everyone's standards. CR's group is right for each other, and that's what really matters for playing the game.
Creating a consistent and rich world is an insane amount of work. Matt is an awesome DM, for sure!
3:53:54 This episode. In everyone's facial expressions.
Travis: *stunned*
Marisha: *freaking out*
Liam: *immersed*
Sam: *intrigued*
Laura: *amazed*
Taliesin: *blown away*
Okay I am really into this whole "Jester is secretly but not so secretly into Fjord and Fjord has absolutely no idea that she is" thing that they've got going on lol
His low wisdom score to thank for that
Eh Nott literally told him she does
@ElizaGrace I heard it as well, either this episode or the previous
or is it a "laura is incorporating joking behavior from their IRL marriage into the game but travis remains true to his character at all times for internal consistency" thing they have going on?
@@rhythm_ux it's"Laura is determined to break her husband's rule of no dnd romance" thing
Sam's ability to either roll a 20 or a 1 so often is amazing.
Ha you should watch dimension 20 nearly every roll is a nat 1 or 20 no joke
Spoilers:
His ability to roll a nat 1 at all got him a lot of trouble later on
2d dice
Sometimes I wonder if Sam just says he rolled a 1 because he's such a chaos troll
"roll" he just drops it lol
There are people whom claim critical role is “scripted”. As a player and gm, if this is scripted, then these are the best actors on the planet. Obviously, a lot of Matt’s stuff is somewhat scripted as any gm will tell you. But to say all of this is, is just dumb.
Memorizing lines takes time. 4 hours of lines a week is nuts.
Yeah no way this is scripted past what Matt prepares
Cereth Painting I don’t think anyone seriously thinks that. I saw a gag article about it but it was obviously satire
Aren't they all professional voice actors. Now days there is a bit more reliance on Improv
@@Graycata If it is improv then it isn't scripted. The players might be made aware of certain things in advance, but that isn't the same as scripted.
Laura: gets angry at Liam for wanting that scroll because it might reveal M9's involvement
Also Laura, a few minutes earlier: leaves a pamphlet to a cult she's the only member of
not gonna lie id have been so pissed if nott didnt steal that for him. whole group gets pissed (and yes he was a douche about id'ing items, but then despite all of the obvious shit that gives away they robbed the place fjord threatens caleb for trying to get something that would help him. after caleb literally gave him armor perfect for fjord. that combined with molly casting a charm on a pc to force answers out of them when he never answers anything straight was real bs.
I think the idea was to make it look like their target was worshiping an unsanctioned God, on top of everything else.
It wasn't laura lol it was jester
@@morsorcus8152You gotta watch some if not all of Campaign One, dude. They love screwing with each other, and they know the difference between in character and out of character drama. Look at it this way: From episode 1 to 115, Vox Machina are all dear friends. 10 episodes into the Mighty Nein, and half of them still don't trust the other half to not screw them over. You think that's unintentional? The cast wanted a shake up to their dynamic, otherwise they'd be all found family right from episode 1
@@henrymartinvoI agree. I think ppl forget that they’re just playing into their characters, which I think is why I’m really enjoying this so far. These people have been friends for so long.
I also love watching Matt’s reactions. He looks so happy when they fall into their roles and such. Like a proud DM 😊
"You're all lvl 1 bards with nothing but ball bearings GO!"
That would only be hard until you get lvl 5 spells... use animate objects to have 60 flying ball bearings spining around like a bunch of Magnetos in X2.
60 attacks, at +8, doing 1d4+4 each.
That party's name is "Blendtec".
I really want to run that campaign, just to see what happens.
Don't they get the catapult spell?
@@runedoom "Catapult"; allows you to chuck any freestanding object up to 5 lbs, situated 90 ft away, 60 ft in any direction. Upon striking the target, it causes 3d8 damage (potentially 24 in one go!). A bag of ball bearings weighs 2lbs, and would reasonably scatter on impact, causing a difficult terrain hazard centred on the point of impact.
Catapult can be really bloody lethal.
@@Zombiewithabowtie you got the 90 and 60 switched. You actually target something 60 ft away, and launch it up to 90 ft
M9 chaos in this episode nearly killed Travis. Not even Fjord - just straight up almost stressed Travis to death.
54:18 Nott: What if Caleb just burns all of your clothing and you go in as a burn victim?
Molly: You're not going to touch my clothing.
Caleb: That's not... We're not doing that...
I love how Caleb drops this subtle reference to his past in this one line and nobody notices it.
Mighty Nein: Kills giant frogs, giant lion creepy things and armies of gnolls while fightinh multiple things at once
Also Mighty Nein: Struggles against a carpet
They didn't struggle. They killed it in like 2 turns.
LEVEL 3! LEVEL 3!
that remind me that time 2 lv 1 players tried to rob and murder an old beefy lady... the old woman lasted like 5 rounds and one of them lose like half health xD, it become a meme in the group, that and one my worst yet funniest mistakes.
-Player makes social character almost useless in combat---> Campaing takes place in flying castle devoid of intelligent life
*Robin WIlliams doing Rodney Dangerfield impersonation* I can't believe it, I'm losing to a rug.
D&D in a nutshell
Liam's German accent is so good that I'm weirded out whenever he speaks in his actual voice. Plus he looks like a younger brunette version of my dad (who IS German) so that makes it even more convincing.
I thought he was german
@@hermitpurple3224 lol
he do be lookin hella german
He’s probably a % German somewhere.
@@sleepytimetaquito I do remember on one of the earlier Talks episodes in Campaign 2, him saying something like "It's weird my name is O'brien. I have more German in me than Irish!" I'm paraphrasing. I forget the context, but he was joking with Brian about how Brian had more Irish ancestry than him. I could be wrong about it being campaign 2, but I believe it was only them on Talks. Talks in campaign 1 always had way more people.
Beau: "In my experience, as a rebellious teenage woman..."
Travis: ????????????
Travis trying to figure out if this was Beau talking or if it was Marisha
When Nott starts asking Caleb how strong he is, and then asks how he can get stronger, at some point in that conversation the music turns really ominous and I love it because it lends so much eerie-ness to the whole mystery surrounding the goblin, and the whole conversation with Fjord and Molly earlier!
And yes, I am binge watching the shit out of this for the first time, so no spoilers under this comment pls!
I’m also binging it right now too. So good!
Just looking through comments on my first rewatch and hoping you two caught up and enjoyed.
That's when they all say "it's mightying time!" And proceed to nein all over the room
Right, it feels a little manipulative on nott’s part… I guess I’ll see where this goes
@@shootsnoot7027 I had a similar thought. How much does Nott care about Caleb and how much does she just want his power? We'll see (on my first watch).
51:55
Sam: I feel like I'm being singled out because I'm a woman!
Travis: Turns into a fucking kettle
I imagine every time Sam takes a sip from his comically sized flask, Nott does the same ingame
I seriously wanna know what is in that flask.
I usually only listen to this so when I finally saw that flask, I damn near died. I want that for work.....
@@Kfaircloth13457 The flask gets bigger.
Sam’s drinking prop work is spectacular. It took me a few episodes to realize he switched to a normal sized mug when playing Tary
@@j.g1255 more than likely wine
37:54 as Laura says “I love dogs” in that EXACT tone, you can see Travis realizing that his wife slipped a Mustang quote under everyone’s radar 😂
Nice catch dude.
@ElizaGrace Yep, they've been married for 9 years and have a child together. On episode 8 of this campaign (The Gates of Zadash, about 6 and a half minutes into the episode they announced the pregnancy.
@LizBerry Someone skips the announcements. Matt and Marisha are married. And Sam and Liam are married. *snicker* Ashley and Brian are currently engaged. And Taliesin is an eldritch god... and a pyramid.
@@sybariticcupboardrat3763 you made it sound like sam and liam are married to each other and ngl i'm into it
@@hummmusqueeen Sam and Liam are the ones who started the thing about them being married. It's a long running joke. Well, less of a joke and more of an acknowledgement that they are extremely close friends. You see it more in the announcements/ads, and even more in Talks Machina and All Work No Play episodes. You really shouldn't skip Sam's ads.
“Mage hand, very helpful when setting grappling hooks on roofs” “aw shit, shut up Ulog!” 😂😂😂
"I'M HURTING! YOU CAN REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE!!!"
No.
@@TheAsvarduilProject yes... you can reply to this message
lol 41:30 sam: "its not him, its a pigeon... there is a meta gaming pigeon". now there is a homebrew feat. i want xD
The whole planning phase, confirms that these characters are either the worst spy's ever or the greatest
alex gahan I vote "Yes."
They are totally the Jack Sparrows of spys
Like Johnny English
"Do you think they plan it all out, or just make it up as they go along?"
Erikson Smyth *YES*
I love that after all of the planning and chaos and everything at the infirmary Laura was just like “I’m sure you did this super simple plan that would have totally worked, right?”
"no point in worrying about things you cant change, you will only end up sad twice" -Fjord.
Travis is so good at moments where there's conflict within the group. First campaign when Grog was fighting Percy and Vex was amazing. And now when he "interrogates" Nott and later threatens Caleb. He's got a great talent for tension.
in the Narrative Telephone stories, Travis keeps inserting tension and conflict into everyone else's stories when they don't have any.
Nott only that, but he is also basically telling them he wants them to be part of the team and there are certain things that should be either left behind or ignored to get shit done.
@@chorlesteajones6794 haha you said Nott only that
0:00 - video starts
1:27 - Sam kills us all once more. Roadie Slater Lives
8:00 - Game intro starts!
21:46 - the cooing: origins
25:04 - Metagaming pidgeon
41:35 - More metagaming pidgeon
54:30 - Bodypainting ( 56:40 - ple a se )
58:05 - The Hospital Heist Commences
1:02:38 - Tal is a rebel
1:27:33 - jester turns the forgery into middle school love notes
Break starts - 1:32:10
FANART - 1:41:45
Break ends - 1:45:00
2:05:40 - Matthew! What did the cat ever do to you?!
2:25:42 - Tempting fate once more
2:49:50 - Visual aid
3:06:15 - Traps! Part who-knows-at-this-point (and the best tableau)
3:40:22 - Foreshadowing
3:47:40 - Interparty conflict
3:51:00 - It all goes to shitfuck in every unforeseeable way possible.
3:53:20 - Damnit, Matt. Stress is bad for pregnant people!
Sam thank you for this!
Thank you, it took me far too long to find this so I upvoted. Hopefully your comment gets higher
Thank you
You the real MVP
wait...how did you know it was the "cooing" ORIGINS?
I'm so happy that Nott grabbed the scroll that Caleb wanted from the HR property. He wanted that so bad, good job Sam you're the best goblin friend a wizard could ever ask for :)
I love how Molly just came up with the sickness distraction so easily.....almost like he’s done this before
This isn’t his first rodeo with extreme syphilis
I don't think Molly has, I think Taliesin himself has. I'm kinda worried tbh
"I'm always ready to make a damn fool of myself"
Molly is a mood
literally me everyday
You will NEVER convince me that that line was in character. That was totally Talisen talking, not Molly. XD
Same
@@DredgenStorm why can’t it be both?
@@delmerputnam1679 a fair point!
"We're only human... well... except for Taliesen"
"Ahem... Apology accepted"
lol
I missed that. When was that
@@AlexanderSFraser 4:44 Sorry, I'm just a little late to answer this
@@eliasjunior3557 ty. Def worth going back for. Made me smile
Makes sense why do you think taliesin is always playing a fantasy human... everyone else has a bit of diversity 😮
I used to be the director of an small urban community health center. This episode is surprisingly realistic.
Even Molly busting through the window?
@@ALJ9000 Yup. Even that.
Y'know theres a reason I've been watching for months and haven't caught up yet. Because every time something funny or awesome happens I have to rewind like seven or eight times to watch everyone's reactions separately. Gods help me when I finally start on Campaign 1
I want to finish Campaign 1. But its tough watching the beginning knowing what happens with Orion. It keeps me from watching. Also Campaign 2 is wayyyyyyyy more fun. Yeah there’s no Scanlan. But there’s still the Sam Riegel charm
@@alexbeltran6668, pro tip: Critical Role and Geek and Sundry are not just Orion and his problems. What happened to him, happened YEARS ago, G&S moved on, CR moved on and even Orion Acaba himself moved on. Stop talking about a drama that already died for years! Also, If Orion bothers you so much just start Campaign 1 from episode 28. But it's you who will be losing an amazing part of the story...
Probie Knox no its not that what happened bothers me. I want to watch campaign 1 in full. I really do. But i heard that orion starts being like a douche and stuff in the game and it just sucks. Im willing to power through. Ive already seen like 10 episodes of both campaigns and so far im just having more fun with #2.
@@alexbeltran6668, from someone that already finished binging Campaign 1 and it's now watching C2: Besides Orion being a douche once or twice, Tiberious was amazing. And I just remember Orion being an asshole at the end of the Underdark and once or twice at the and of the next arc after that, and it didn't happened during the whole episodes, it was just sudden outbursts I guess but with everything going on most of the time it was pretty easy to ignore his shit. You said that watched more or less 10 episodes already, so if you finish the Underdark arc, you can reach episode 28...
Orion isn’t noticeable a douche unless you focus on him.. 4 hour episodes, 5 minute tantrums, it’s worth it trust me
Sam's Mug Stickers (I will try to add this to every 4th or 5th new episode with the new sticker):
Ep 1: #First
Ep 2: Front Butt
Ep 3: Dice Jail (Arrow pointing at Laura)
Ep 4: I (Heart) Bacon
Ep 5: *green screen
Ep 6: Your Prize *$1 Attached
Ep 7: Trust the King
Ep 8: Baby On Board
Ep 9: "9"
Ep 10: Goblin Juice
Ep 11: Sorry Laura, I Ate Indian For lunch
Ep 12: At Dawn, We Fail
Thanks, I'm watching it on my phone and couldn't read it.
What I couldn't figure out was... Was it juice *of* goblins, or juice *from* goblins? 😨
(or I guess juice *for* goblins...)😒
What is the story of this practice? Why does he do it?
He's been doing messages and stickers from well into season 1.
Why? Because it's entertaining!😁 Sometimes he does inside jokes, or running gags from previous episodes... It is mostly for our benefit!
@@jjjjjorma well at first, in the last campaign, he had a giant tankard, and when they got some stickers he put them on the bottum of the tankard, then people started sending them all kinds of stickers.... the bottum of that thing was covered in them, dozens and dozens of them, it even got taller a bit.
but then he started sticking joke messages to the bottum of it, and then it just kinda became a thing, becoming increasingly helarious over time
Damn Matt! They used a flying carpet for one campaign to derail the majority of your plans; and you respond with them being attacked by a flying carpet 🤣
PaulMeadows66 he never forgets xD
"THAT'LL TEACH YOU TO TRUST A RUG!!!"
Next... possessed flying brooms...
2:55:23
Laura's "You're gonna kill Nott" manages to be incredibly sweet with how much she cares about characters, yet the way the line was delivered, without context, is terrifying.
3:40:23
Sam: Everyone thinks that Matt is managing three storylines right now, but there's actually a fourth that we don't even know about.
Ten minutes later...
Yeah, same thoughts
And when he goes: *ok* 🤷🏻♂️
Turns out there's like at least 5
@@DannyMakesVideosIGuess Thousand 😉
that sentence of Sam aged like the FINEST wine in the world
I need there to be a smut book called "50 Shades of Fey"
It would fit with the guy in the last campaign who wanted to strangle a certain person xD Kinky!
@@Neko141212 Oh, you mean the Traveller? Hahahaha :)
Matheus Bravo no, not the traveler but a special NPC from the previous campaign
@@Billy1Famous there's a fan theory that the Traveller is Artegan
@@seansilence2697 Ahh thanks, that one went over my head.
Unfortunately I was eating at the sick Mollymauk part. Doubly unfortunately it was scrambled eggs
I can't stop laughing omfg
RIP your breakfast
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Brilliant
it's okay, seeing your comment saved me from the same fate, your sacrifice was not in vain
THE HOSPITAL SCENE WAS SO OFF THE WALL BONKERS AND I LOVED IT
This needs to appear in the show 🤣
As a wise genie once said. “I can’t believe it. I’m losing to a rug”
Okay, I had to pause near the end and just voice my appreciation for Taliesen reacting to Matt's descriptions as if he were actually seeing them. I love seeing Marisha react as a player (getting up in her seat, leaning forward, etc.) but Tal actually ACTING OUT the reaction was just... *finger kiss* You guys. D&D.
Whitney Baker I know right everyone else was ether trying to listen to Matt or just figure out what was happening be he looked like he was actually seeing it. He would make a good actor considering how he did there.
That's because he's a genuine actor. Look up "Explorers". He's wonderful in that movie.
I love doing that myself, even if I DO play online and nobody can see me doing it.
When they see the physician's building, it would be really funny if Matt just said the people who are coughing just had extreme syphilis
I was thinking that the entire time!