THE NEXT NAME 😳🔫 The Legend of Vox Machina 1x10 "DEPTHS OF DECEIT" | Reaction & Review
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- We review and react to the episode "Depths of Deceit" of the series: The Legend of Vox Machina.
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What Cassandra has going on is a very nasty cocktail made up of a metric fuckton of trauma, flavoured with magical mind control, genuine resentment for being abandoned, and 5 years of bog standard emotional abuse/manipulation at the hands of Exandria's most evil power couple.
If she makes it out of this that girl (who's like 18 at this point) is going to need _all_ the therapy.
Keeper Yennen, Head Priestess of The Dawnfather, stands ready and able.
Stockholm Syndrome on EVERY steroid ever to exist
I remember back during the Livestream years ago Someone in the chat asking how TF a 18 year old girl makes it through this and I was like HOLY SHIT SHES ONLY 18!?!?!? 😂
Easy to forget Percy is in his 20s w his hair and way he acts tho lol
@@xxshaggygrxx1792 Answer: With LOTS of Vampire Magic. 😝
I agree with your editor. The videos that were made comparing the moments from the livestream to the show are pretty good.
hard agree, I love watching people react to the original moments comparisons
Totally!
Yep. Obviously you have to do what they do and use your imagination during the scenes on the table but watching people play D&D is pretty fun.
Absolutely!
Yeah, I think y'all would enjoy the side by side comparison clips!
Just fyi Pike and Keyleth are not wizards. Pike is a Cleric, sort of a holy warrior, who uses divine magic i.e. magic granted from her goddess. Keyleth is a druid who taps into the forces of nature itself. Delilah is a wizard with a focus on necromancy.
D&D also has Sorcerer class, which has yet a different form of magical prowess.
And Scanlan is a Bard who can cast some smaller cantrips, usually though performance, or in this case, song.
@@3Kings_Industries Although wizards & sorcs are very similar. They're more gameplay differences which are more technical but they share a lot of the same spells and have almost the same type of vibe (vs something like a druid, or a cleric - since standard D&D does not have priest classes).
@@3Kings_Industries Canaries is a wild autocorrect.
@@3Kings_IndustriesBards (particularly Lore bards like Scanlan) are full fledged casters with spells ranging from levels zero to nine. They can’t reasonably be considered ‘mages’ because they don’t draw on the wizard/sorcerer spell list, but they’re hardly limited to cantrips.
@@3Kings_Industries I think Kiki is the one with the canaries ;)
Martial Classes-
Barbarian(Grog): rage instincts, best at taking and dealing damage
Fighter(Percy): combat prowess, high style versatility and stamina
Rogue(Vax): stealth, high speed/dodge/sneak attack
Monk: mystical focus, high speed/dodge/stun attack
Caster Classes-
Wizard(Delilah): magic through study, focus on spell variety and stamina
Artificer: magic through study, focus on enchanting objects/inventions
Bard(Scanlan): magic through study and performance, focus on enhancement spells
Sorcerer: magic through inheritance, focus on improving/altering existing spells
Druid(Keyleth): magic through spiritual attunement with nature, focus on life and elemental spells
Cleric(Pike): magic through spiritual attunement with a god, focus on healing spells and destroying undead
Hybrid Classes-
Ranger(Vex): like mixing fighter/druid, style versatility/nature magic plus hunter/tracker skills
Paladin: like mixing fighter/bard/cleric, style versatility/enhancement spells/healing
Dependent-
Warlock: magic through pact with a powerful entity, focus on extra efficiency/versatility with low level spells
~Hybrid version: like mixing fighter/sorcerer, focus on a magic weapon
Just so you know, when Scanlan summons his hand he sings “Scanlan’s Hand,” not “Scanlan time.” 😁 In D&D, it’s a spell called “Bigby’s Hand,” but since that’s copyright under Wizards of the Coast, they can’t use it for the show.
For context, Wizards of the Coast is owned by Hasbro, who are stupidly strict with their licensing to the point where it is kinda damaging to the brand itself.
Getting into the home stretch for Season 1! I like their casting choice for the voice of Ripley. Her VA, Kelly Hu, voiced Cheshire on 'Young Justice' and played Lady Deathstrike in the second live action 'X-men' movie.
Oh Chesire! I knew Ripley's VA sounded so familiar! I couldn't figure it out for the longest time lol
Technically Vax doesn't use magic as his class (Rogue). He has some magic items. Pike as a Cleric has holy magic (classified as divine magic in D&D). Keyleth has nature magic as a Druid. Scanlan casts some spells as a Bard. Vex, as a Ranger casts some spells, but not to the extent of the others. Rangers are sometimes classified as 'half casters' as opposed to full casters like Wizards. It may be the use of magic items that makes you think Vax uses magic. Like his belt that turned into a snake. That's a magic item rather than something he can do as a Rogue.
Grog jumping in the acid is such a chad move
4 Intelligence moment 🗿
@@brilobox2he's got an intelligencd of 6, he knows what he's doing 😂
You are right about what a big deal this was for those of us who watched the live game (I was lucky enough to have been there from the beginning) to see it animated. Even from the beginnings on twitch there were comments in the chat about how great certain things would look in live action or animated, or how we wished we could see it as such. Though honestly most everyone who's played D&D has said that about a few of their own sessions.
11:31 you called it for sure then doubted yourself.
20:13 yall have done a great job of NOT mixing their names. Good job catching yourself. Usually people new to the characters/show mix them up a lot. Even other players and the DM messed their names up during the campaign from time to time. They started to wear shirts that said “I’m Vax, ➡️that’s Vex” and “I’m Vex ⬅️that’s Vax”. They sat next to each other at the table.
21:58 yes! Please do.
Great reaction as usual.
The idea of watching the comparison between the show and the actual table moments is incredible, that would be pretty cool!
And to summarize the classes of everyone:
Vex'ahlia, Ranger - Sort of a hunter/tracker/scout/survivalist? Focusing on her Marksman skills and some magic, also her bear Trinket that DESERVER MORE LOVE IN THE SHOW!
Vax'ildan, Rogue - Assassin/thief sneaky type, a fun fact is that he is also VERY FAST
Keyleth, Druid - a kind of spellcaster that gets their magic from nature and the elements. And that can turn into animals and other things
Pike, Cleric - Holy warrior, they get their magic from their gods, in case of Pike she worships the Everlight, one of (if not the most) benevolent god of the Pantheon
Scanlan, Bard - Bards conjure their magic and abilities through many artistic expressions, in Scanlan's case it is his music
Grog, Barbarian - A primal warrior that is very brutal and resistant to damage. They can also go into a rage to become even more tanky and deadly
Hope this helps! Great reaction as always guys, can't wait to see more!
Percival, Fighter - A general jack-of-all-trades master of battle maneuvers. More specifically a gunslinger that can spend points to do specific shot types.
Man this reaction was fire, I loved your faces throughout the episode! Teamwork at is finest! Is captain Winky still there..? Hahahahahah
Watching Critical Role is like watching an old-school radio show -- they describe everything to your ears for your imagination.
The revolver shows who has betrayed Percy the most it's ever evolving🚨
Not quite but that's fair enough. In truth theres more to it but let's just say the gun is adding names based on the moment and it's needs. If say vex was trying to stop him from something he was determined to do like say shooting someone then the gun might interpret that as a betrayal or maybe her as an obstacle to be removed.
Not really how it works. Since I assume they've finished the season by now we can talk about it. The first 5 names were completely intentional by Percy. But since it's possessed by a demon thirsty for souls, it would just add names that it wanted and could trick Percy into wanting to kill.
During the campaign, both Matt and Taliesin independently came up with the idea that _The List_ would just keep manifesting new names, because that kind of obsessive, bloody revenge spree doesn't end neatly; you're never _done._
They used that for the show, but they also implied that the _final_ victim of the gun would always be Percy himself - because vengeance is not a road that leads to a "Happily ever after".
@@tycol322 I agree, i was saving on chat space 😅😂pardon my lazy self,but I do love the community here💯🤙🏽
What Percy found in Ripley's bag was an exploded handgun. That's probably what blew off her hand. But it shows that she's been trying to reproduce Percy's invention.
the Cassandra name on the barrel reveal goes so hard!
Once you are done with the season, I believe there’s a video of the comparison of some of the best scenes to the live RPG version, maybe you would dig that, and you would get to put a face to the voices you are hearing!
Oops you guys mention it at the end!
In DND magic is split up into arcane magic and divine magic... (these can be further split as shown below)
arcane magic is either enate within your being (sorcerers), granted by a patron (warlocks), or studied for many years (wizards and bards (book learning vs life experience respecrively))
Divine magic is split between magic granted by a god (clerics), and magic granted by tapping into the natural energies of the world (druids)
There are what we call half casters as well, elritch knights, paladins, rangers, and trickster rogues for example, these are all martial subclasses that incorparate the use of some magic... they can also be refered to as gish characters :) they dont get super powerful spells like full casters do, but they gain the benefit of being able to use armor and weapons that most full casters never get to use, so its a bit of a magical trade off for more martial utility.
Y'all did Keyleth dirty😂😂 clearly the best mage
Honestly, I kinda hate druids (and clerics for that matter), but Keyleth is so consistently awesome that it completely overshadows my distaste for her class.
Some of the best episodes in the Critical Role campaign were just standalone one-off shows not linked to the story. They had a few battle royale episodes of all v all. Worth a look if you can follow the d&d rules.
Way too meta for them. They know f*ck all about d&d rules.
18:33 Spoiled for choice means they now have the luxury of choosing a sacrifice, instead of having to go for Cassandra, as originally planned.
18:39 Episode 11: "Hold my grog."
Clerics are sort of priest-ish characters but they do wear some pretty hefty gear instead of robes, unlike priests from other franchises & games - and D&D itself has no separate priest class. I believe the only other divine magic user is the paladin, which is more of a warrior type (not warrior class) character. One thing to note when comparing Critical Role to D&D is that they are a different campaign scenario. Standard D&D uses the Forgotten Realms as their standard campaign scenario, which is this huge fantasy world filled with lore and history. Critical Role lends most of it from the Forgotten Realms, but in some ways it goes its own way.
Clerics are at least partially modeled on the priesthood of the medieval era, where the catholic church was effectively a superpower that kings answered to, and more than a few popes spent years on military campaign in armor and swinging maces.
Priesthood wasn’t always nonviolent, is what I’m saying, and D&D clerics harken back to that archetype.
@@caffeinedelusions I'm aware, but most roleplaying games do have separate cleric and priest classes, where the cleric is usually comparatively to what the paladin is.
Omg , I was right guessing Meesh will chose the rogue class. But couldn’t put my finger on Dee’s choice , I guess she just wants to be a baddie💅🌹💃🏼
Great reaction! Awesome to hear what D&D classes you would like to play. That's insightful and fun. Would love to you guys actually play some time.
I've been playing a long time and usually run the game (as a dungeon master). That means I create all the plot lines and run the non player characters (like the Briarwoods and their cronies). When I do play as a character, I usually play a cleric. That's my favorite class.
Percy developed the hand gun, but Ripley was also experimenting. Percy took her handgun parts. He can repurpose them and prevent Ripley from having them.
Grog diving in the acid was totally insane and totally badass. Cassandra's betrayal was expected, but still hurt. She has a lot of trauma to deal with.
Really like how invested you've got just from the cartoon. Imagine how invested we all were when this story took hundreds of hours to tell.
I've been trying to find the compilation videos I remember comparing all the season 1 scenes but I can't find them. Don't know if the algorithm have killed them completely or if they might have been copyright struck. Anyway there are still videos comparing single moments, I've found both the Suntree and Scanbo. A lot of the scene comparison videos I'm finding now are from season 2, so If you guys have an editor maybe they could make a playlist for you to watch so you don't get spoiled. Or just wait until you've watched both seasons.
So if you're wanting to do the Light Mage build, I actually recommend a Circle of Star Druid, its a farseeing (seer) style druid that uses the stars to predict the future and also uses the constellations to either help them heal, or tank a bit, or even deal damage which does Radiant damage and leans heavily into light powers, and honestly feels like a Magical Girl with the transformation it has into Starry Form, check it out its a lot of fun. Though Cleric has a more Holy feel to it by far.
Great reaction as always. My guesses was waaay off of what classes y'all would be.😂 Barbarians are walking tanks of destruction...especially when the go into rage their constitution(health) increases and they gain damage reduction. Some Barbarians can gain a feat that as long as their enraged their health can be 0 and they will not fall until battle ends.
the pepperbox (the gun) keeps changing depending on who has betrayed Percy most recently. Rogue and Cleric I can totally see that I might even add Light domain to Dee and Inquisitive Rogue to Meesh
Ooo I like the way you specified our classes 🤩✨🙏🏼
@@MeeshDeeReacts thats the thing in DnD you pick a class Cleric, rogue etc. then when you level 3 (for most classes) you get to pick a subclass that enchanes certain skills in the e.g. Grog is a barbarian his subclass path of the berserker which enchanes the rage of the barbarian class it is the very simplified version hope you get the point :D
Scanlan's spell is "Scanlan's Hand", not Scanlan Time. Which makes sense, considering it's a giant purple hand.
Great reaction! The episodes keep on getting more intense from here!
The plot twist from Percy’s sister was crazyyy! The emotion behind her feeling betrayed by him leaving feels real but I hope the reason she did it was bc of them controlling her.
Don't know what class Dee would be, but she would have a decent % of Scanlan in her trying to charm everything that moves with cheesy pick up lines
I think around 95% of Filipinos would gravitate toward being a Bard in D&D, like Scanlan. Just look at how hard we go on karaoke. 😅
Speaking of wizards, D&D seperates their magic into various 'schools' of magic.
Evocation (fireballs etc),
Transmutation (turn things into other things),
Illusion (pretend one thing is another thing),
Enchantment (convince people one thing is another thing),
Divination (see things you aren’t supposed to),
Abjuration (counteract things),
Conjuration (make things exist that didn’t),
Necromancy (make things dead or undo the deadness).
Don't read this until after 11 and 12!
But when Scanlan asked about the 6th, there's a shadow over Percy, implying it's for himself. Cass' name appearing was messing with things, and you'll see why later ;)
The Grog Pike relationship is my favorite of the show and it only gets better as season 2 progresses. I love the fact it is a pure friendship with no romance. It's rare in TV and movies especially when its a male and female. I thought Kimiko and Frenchie in The Boys had that kind of relationship until they ruined it. Don't get me wrong I do like romantic relationships and the one brewing between Vax & Kiki is wonderful but Grog & Pike are truly special.
As Percy kills the names come off. So Cassandra's name appeared on the 4th barrel. In the episode where he explains the dream, and they ask about the 6th barrel, the shadow points the gun at Percy.
What is Stockholm syndrome? Stockholm syndrome describes the psychological condition of a victim who identifies with and empathizes with their captor or abuser and their goals.
Matt Mercer had talked about how Casandra was suffering from both stockholm syndrome and the influence of Sylas's charm magic.
We're 1 month from the next season! You got a lot to get through before oct 3rd! Hurry hurry
Keyleth being blamed for something other characters did reflects the times when her voice actor, Marisha, was accused by the viewers of making terrible gaming choices (to be fair, she did)
#Goldfish 😂
oooh just in time!
Tremendo
Im surprised you guys went to vox first before cyberpunk edgerunners. It was a golden time for animated shows
The "story" told by an RPG campaign tends to be meandering, sometimes unfocused, and occasionally having to backtrack from narrative dead-ends. For this show, Critical Role streamlined the narrative, re-ordered some events for better clarity, and often pulled bits and pieces from completely different parts of the campaign to new places in the narrative, where they would make sense and enhance the storytelling.
I, too, recommend watching one or more of the "from table to screen" comparison videos. It can be very fascinating, especially if one is interested in all the "behind the scenes" stuff that goes into creating shows or movies.