HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing 0:40 FLOW 5:10 Logo 6:25 Laura’s merch corner 8:10 Intro cinematic 9:55 EPISODE STARTS 13:10 Recap Ends 14:40 Chetney and Fearne have different takes 25:35 Low draw distance 28:35 Opening doors in Whitestone 30:50 Sam’s flask 33:25 Thriller 39:20 Travis, Sam, and Ashley sing about ribs 41:50 Real bones 50:10 Whitestone Andy 1:02:05 Fleeing the tower 1:10:15 Young Matilda 1:12:10 Horrible drawings 1:19:15 Breaking the fall 1:20:45 Double saws 1:23:30 Dynamite 1:27:00 Flipping the coin 1:29:25 Matilda goes to dinner 1:31:45 Ashton shows the doll to the audience (the necklace) 1:36:45 Nobody knows what Matilda’s parents look like 1:40:10 What is Matilda’s mother’s name? 1:43:15 Jump scare 1:47:20 Quick combat 1:51:10 Imagine this 1:53:40 Popping the ghost out 1:59:45 Chugging potions 2:02:20 Pumping everyone 2:07:05 Delilah 2:08:15 BREAK STARTS 2:19:10 Art Montage 2:21:10 BREAK ENDS 2:23:40 FCG comes at Delilah with therapy 2:25:25 Negotiating with Delilah 2:34:55 Why Laudna is special 2:36:15 Delilah has no only fans (the cosplayers beg to differ) 2:39:40 Secret treasures (children) 2:41:15 Chetney is a stone-cold liar 2:43:45 Marisha is pooping 2:44:50 Marisha reenters 2:46:50 Matt takes Marisha away from us 2:47:50 Marisha hijacks the chair (map out) 2:50:50 Battle begins 2:55:45 A beginner’s Delilah Briarwood 2:59:00 Nega-Sun Tree 3:04:05 Donald Ducking Chetney 3:08:15 Destroy undead 3:12:55 Spiritual Pate 3:21:00 Calling Ruidus 3:28:45 Matt’s wardrobe malfunction 3:33:35 Orym holds on 3:34:30 FCG cuts the rope 3:35:25 Hanging with Marisha 3:41:40 The tree goes up 3:47:15 Orym comes for his friend 3:49:35 Revealing Delilah 3:50:40 Orym leaves 4:07:15 HDYWTDT 4:10:00 Episode Ends The in-game start date for the episode was the 24th of Sydenstar in the year 843. Sam’s gas can says “VERY IMPORTANT CORD! DO NOT CUT!!” with a rope that attaches offscreen. This is in reference to the silver chords of their current astral forms. So, I had always assumed that Laudna’s Shadow Sorcerer powers were another manifestation of the magic Delilah used to reanimate her. But I think Delilah implied that those powers had nothing to do with her, that she only provided warlock stuff, which means perhaps Laudna was a sorcerer all along. Which raises an interesting question: what is the true source of Laudna’s deathly powers? Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
cannot believe that not only did Matt make Whitestone Andy cannon, but also an integral part of teaching the party about what it was like for Laudna growing up in Whitestone
The doors in Whitestone part KILLED ME. “You should really stick a sword in it and jiggle it around” “I’m going to go find a window” “time is a flat circle, man!” God that was my favorite part of C1 and the LoVM. It was funny to see it play out again.
@@samuraiko after their little recon mission a the gates of seat of disdain, it would be a bonus point if orym would play along as laudna's child "are you sure you-" "shuddup orym, just let me have this for a moment" ".... okay mom."
3:33:41 (rolling STRENGTH saving throw) Liam: This is not going to succeed. Travis (C1 barbarian): Be positive. Ashley (C2 barbarian): Be positive. Taliesin (current barbarian): Natural 20. Liam: **rolls** Natural 20. THE BLESSINGS OF BARBARIANS!!!!
2:45:40 When Laudna weakly says "Imogen?" Ashley is immediately like "no, I can't, this is too much emotion". If there's one thing that I'm grateful for in C3 is Ashley being here every episode, not only cause Fearne is just amazing, but because she's SO INVESTED in the story, and specifically in Laudna and Imogen.
That shout she gave at the final HDYWTDT was _so visceral_ she was almost bassier than Travis. She's so deceptive as Fearne because she plays her so upright and detached and remote, but she is one of the most immersed of them all. I'd love to see her play a Grog-ish character where she got to channel her gut as much as her head with Fearne and her heart with Yasha
I love how it's steadily increased over time. I didn't care for him much in C1 because he often seemed like a buzzkill and like the one who enjoyed the game the least but that changed notably in C2 and now in C3 he's everybody's hype man and seems to enjoy playing the most.
Delilah Briarwood is still a terrifying villain, Matt is a fkn genius. "I find the depths of your ignorance extremely boring." "Do you know what I do with children?" shudder*
The MOMENT Matt had Delilah glance back at the tree after that "children" comment, you could SEE Travis, Sam, and Liam (the three dads at the table) all FLINCH, and Liam in particular was like, "b-----, it is ON now."
@@samuraiko I've been rewatching C1 and am coincidentally in the Briarwood arc (which makes this so much better). When the one soldier mentions helping the Briarwoods by hanging the kid on the Sun Tree, Vax straight up murders him! No quarter for those kinds of people.
@@Amethystar There's a similar moment in C2 while Sumalee and Ashly are guesting on the show, and Matt absolutely rips your heartstrings with the M9 finding a captured, injured child, and Liam literally has to cover his eyes and look away, and mutters, "I don't like it." (While Sam is giving him a very understanding and meaningful look.)
@@Amethystar I'm doing the same! While waiting for the next episode of C3 to air i'm watching C1. Though it's for the first time for me. I started with C2. In C1 they just entered the dungeon through the secret passage.
Right up there with the heist episode where they realize that the Verdict has locked them in with the Immovable Rod, and Travis starts screaming, "YOU ARE UNHINGED TODAY, MATTHEW!"
I also just realized that the battle began with Travis yelling "Matthew Mercer!!" right as he laid down the map for it. Travis is like an bottomless well of hype lmao, I love it
@@bronandsimone idc her enjoying her husband's natural reactions is the best ever & no1 can tell it was anything else... expect Laura herself comes out & speaks on it.. this is why to me
Can we all just appreciate how Ashley/Fearne made that fantastic call to start attacking the tree with fire. That turned the tide of the battle right there!
And in the most Fearne way possible, as she did it she said “I just wanna see what happens”. Just like how she cast daylight during the shade mother fight and unwittingly nerfed the shade mother right out of the gate. I love Fearne just accidentally being the MVP 😂
Fearne was absolUtely mvp of that fight,, earthbind getting the melee to be able to hit her and then the TONNE of fire damage to the tree???? Amazing I’m so proud
I had a suspicion the Sun Tree would be tied to Delilah's form the minute Matt explained the tree and there was no castle. The both times Fearne used Scorching Rays they all hit. Insanely huge damage to the tree.
I love how Travis goes "I live with her though" when Laura is doing her secret moon shit. Man sounded so heartbroken he didnt know about it before hand lmao
@@CunningLingu1st nah i was trying really hard to catch up on the main campaigns so i never watched any side stuff like 4sd so didnt know travis straight up said she did
Considering it was the fourth time Delilah has been killed I would say it's more hard to keep her dead and prevent any way for her to interact with the living world. And like another person said the Delilah that the Bell's Hells fought was severely weakened so if they had fought her in her prime it would be very hard.
Chetney was on FIRE this episode! Him and Fearne kept this going SOOO smoothly! His speech to Delilah at 2:40:29 was one of the best deception speeches we've seen, and I'm so happy for Travis! You can tell how much fun he's having!
Revisiting campaign 1 and seeing how Travis was not exactly awkward about the roleplay but choosing to play a character with such low intelligence that he could always be the comedic relief to playing characters like Fjord and Chetney just really go to show his progress with the RP! Love it
The man is pure gold, he's invested in the plot and good at seeing threads, but prefers to leave the spotlight to his friends, cheers them whenever they have a great moment and I love Chetney, the guy can turn into a werewolf, manages to be a weirdo even in such a group, has those random "let's go on a rampage" moments that I loved with Sam's character in C2 and is an endlesss well of comedy relief. Also, I'm not a native English speaker and I lack a lot of American culture references, and Travis often has funny expressions he uses which are easy to understand with the context and my only regret is that I don't remember them all :D
@@SpiderwolfHowling I mean it's funny but he's also technically a 2 year old so she's kind of right lol. It's like ATLA, is Aang 12 or 112? He seems like a 12 year old to me. Same type of thing. We don't know how old FCG was when he was broken and shut down but we do know it was some point in the age of Arcanum (or can strongly assume) so he's been an inert hunk of metal for most of his "life" until Dancer fixed him, if you want to use the other definition of age. I would go by mental age over the age of your physical corpus and by that definition FCG as we know and love them is 2. Spoilers for C2: It's like how Molly was technically only 2 years old even though obviously his body was older. Somebody else was in the driver's seat before then.
Laura: "who are the dolls honey?" Matt as baby Laudna: "I made a nice woman. I made a bird to take me away form here." Ashley: *dies* me: *balling my eyes out* 😭
Ashley and Travis have the best reactions to all the story beats. I literally spend like half the time just watching those two. They're so excited to listen to Matt, and react so sincerely. I love it!
Matt was ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY KILLING IT as Delilah. The SCREAMS he took out as her were as terrifying as amazing. One of the best episodes of Bells Hells FOR SUUUURE! ALL OF THEM DID AMAZING!
Delilah is Matt's best villain, in my opinion, and the one he absolutely goes HARD on while potraying. There's a reason why she keeps showing up. She's just such a shit, but so much fun.
The Lady of Bailey Laura, her name Tis' destined to be The Briarwood's Bane Whether by DawnFather's blessing and arrows of light Or cunning and trickery, Or magical might If you face her Delilah, Tis you'll find true She'll be your undoing and poor Silas's too So cross not her path And touch not her friends Lest ye provoke her and cause the Briarwood's end Yes the Lady of Bailey, Laura, her name Shall forever be known As the Briarwood's Bane
2:45:43 Marisha’s, “Imogen,“ sounded so weakly and broken, really captures Laudna’s sadness and exhaustion of the situation. She sounded so tired and defeated from dealing with Delilah. Combined with the cast’s reaction, especially Ashley. Also, Matt’s screams when playing as Delilah is so chilling (3:50:06). He definitely embodies the cold-blooded necromancer we all know and love to hate. Also, the little, subtle details of Laudna’s/Matilda’s backstory, from Andy throwing dirt at her, to her making dolls alone in the barn, and then the build-up to her getting dressed for, “dinner,” (1:29:40) will always be so chilling to hear. 3:48:06 I feel like you could get a sense of Orym’s survivor guilt as he tries to save Laudna, literally focusing mainly on the tree to free her. But also, despite being scared of her on multiple occasions, Orym does have a big heart for his friends and looks after them, and he connected with Laudna one time as they both were victims of collateral damage. This episode was such a Jenga tower of tension and emotions.
It felt like a hostage being led out, guided into the chair by Matt, she looks at the table, then back to him for direction. When it was over, he just holds her by the shoulders again to direct her away from the table. It was amazing performance
As long as this is a hobby for them, something they enjoy doing for passion and being together, the all entertainment and contents will be absolutely legendary!
I do wonder where the lie was though. The only thing he did was call her out as a bullshitter and his prior insight produced whispers which tells me that she was hiding something.
In the scaling of DnD logic, honestly lightning bolt is basically the damage equivalent, if not less than, a few shots of 30-06. So, I'll just pretend he was making a WW2/M1 Garand reference about the stakes being high. Also, Travis Willingham is always a win.
SPOILERS You could tell Laura was relieved as hell that Taliesin gave her the potion. It came in clutch, and she wouldn't have been able to be the one to save her if she didn't have that. It's so poetic that she got to kill Delilah again. Being there for Laudna was probably very cathartic too.
I fucking love Liam and Orym. He uses all the fighter’s abilities to their fullest, for both effectiveness and flavor. For example, though not that useful, because they already know nothing is what it seems, using Know Your Enemy on the little boy to determine it’s hit points are higher than his and thus potentially dangerous is super smart and inspiring.
I love how Marisha's nose immediately starts turning red when she starts interacting with Imogen. Her emotions are always so visibly physical, it's fascinating to watch her roleplay.
Yup! Laura too! You can tell she was crying. Their chemistry on screen is absolutely insane, I feel it's exactly because they are both such amazing at emoting as their characters.
I am in awe of how quickly Marisha went from being confused to being in-character. And that scene was just *chefs kiss*. I know we say it all the time, but damn, they're good actors!
@@TheBinger033 It could be that because Matt sprung this on her, Marisha wasn't prepared and so the accent was slightly different. But folks have speculated that Laudna's accent felt different because she wasn't doing the high-pitched fun-scary voice anymore. The Laudna we saw was without any pretense, just her actual self.
Also, she kept insulting the oldest people in the group, calling them immature and children. She only didn't do so with Chetney because he actually looks old.
@@Pailzor Yeah, that really contributed to the idea that she has no clue what she's talking about and she's just putting up a front. I feel like being utterly clueless and pretending she's not by acting confident and mysterious is her entire thing ever since C1.
I mean, one can only talk by experience. Delilah literally went to hell brought it with her... and even if she is putting a front... the only way to confront her when talking is to bluff too, like they did. She is still scary.
For some reason that Ashton/Orym moment at 2:53:45 reminds me a whole lot of the Fluffernutter incident. Two people working together to make something cool happen only for a low roll to cause it to utterly fail.
3:12:08 On another continent, Veth Brenato and Jester Lavorre are having a pleasant dinner with Jester's parents. She suddenly springs up, grabs Veth by the throat, and shouts "You see how hard this job is!?" They settle down a moment later. Neither of them understand what just happens, but Veth admits she has a strange feeling that she probably deserved that.
It will, of course, be hilarious. Still remember C2's disaster-duo flirting together with one dressed as a clump of grass and the other as a beat-up-bully with a censored dick glued to their hand in C2.. Though it'd be equally neat if they went against the expected silliness by cosplaying their actual characters this year for such a potentially heavy episode.
Ok Travis doing the slow motion dynamite toss and Liam mimicking what is actually looked like in real time is probably the most hilarious bit of this whole campaign
The Fact that this fight, the Fight from the Log House and the Battle Against Delilah in the Corrupted Sun Tree, is when the Bells Hells begins to feel like an actual team working together is so fucking iconic and it makes me cry that they're doing this all for Laudna
Almost everyone had their own great moment to shine during the fight, too. Imogen: Starting and ending the fight amazingly. She called the shot with "sunder you" FCG: banishing the undead with the Change Bringer coin Fearne: the earthbind was perfect, both from a gameplay perspective and from her description. And she did the most damage, with the tree's weakness to fire. Chetney: Nailed the insight check and did a great job of dominating the conversation before the fight. Orym: heroically holding on to the tree, climbing up, proving the connection to Delilah by severing the rest of the branches before getting taken out. Ashton: didn't have quite as much of a chance to shine as the others, but dropping the dynamite on the roots was pretty cool. Talking to the projection of childhood Matilda was also a nice moment.
@@roryschussler man I love fcg, but man do I feel like hes kinda weak imo, sure clerics are VERY strong in 5e, but idk, just overall feels like fcg is weak in combat, I loved this combat so much though
@@KriusAerion hes this campaign's beau i feel like. Travis has said after playing calamity and all the cool shit Lam and Marisha figured out last campaign he's been paying more attention and actively trying to solve stuff Matt throws at them.
Spoilers for the episode below The simple act of them just getting up and leaving the table when they fell added an unexpected and great level of tension to the end of that.
@@KriusAerion It actually felt more tense than any other DND fight! Any other time, unless you get hit with something like a Finger of Death or Disintegrate, you can always come back from 0 HP either through death saves or being healed. Even though the characters just "woke up" in Whitestone, they still being gone for the moment made it so much tougher.
You really gotta give it to the Bells Hells, man. They got their asses whooped so badly they nearly lost half their party in a fight they weren’t prepared for a few days ago. But then they sat down, regrouped, and just a few days later have managed to bring everyone back, saved one of their members from their undead patron, AND gained like 15k in gold. And they did it all at level 7. They might be capital-d Dumb sometimes, but you can’t deny they get shit DONE.
Somehow theyre stupider than both other parties but are way more efficient. These 7 have really learned how to be effective especially in combat (except Ashley, poor girl’s only really played a campaign and a half at this point).
Spoilers. I love how Marisha slightly changed Laudna’s accent back closer to her old Whitestone accent ( like Matt did for Matilda). I wonder if she’ll keep that for a bit or if it was just for while she was back among the Whitestone memories? Marisha’s short part was so good, completely wasn’t expecting Matt to do that!
Percy, level 20 adventurer, friends with the gods, member of legendary group Vox Machina: Sorry. I won’t help you. Bell’s Hells, a group of level 7 nobodies: *Fine. We’ll do it ourselves.*
@@SP-eg9lo oh, absolutely. To clarify, I think Matt made the right decision, as it would be too much of a deux ex machina (lol) to have this super powerful ally jump and and do all the legwork. Not to mention they only just met, and I doubt Percy would want to help some strangers, let alone ones who risk bringing back one of his greatest enemies. I’m glad BH earned it for themselves. I just think it makes for a pretty good meme
@@lyssatiny102 Thematically, I almost thought Vex was going to say "send me there, too, Pike" since she seemed very invested in helping BH and Laudna specifically. If Matt did that, I'm sure he would have either upped Delilah's strength or found a way to have Vex get tied up with something / holding back something super strong while BH did their thing. While I think that could add even more tension by giving and then taking away what seems like an ace, it also feels like it could detract from the already powerful drama going on within the party
I love how you can see the campaign really hitting its stride these past few episodes. This is already one of my favorite CR episodes to date, across all campaigns.
Agreed. You can REALLY feel the Hells coming together now, and that whole 'found family' thing cementing itself during this arc. Which they're *REALLY* gonna need when they head off to Yios.
Agree! This was the first time I rewatched an entire episode the next day because it was sooo good and I wasn't able to replay all the good stuff during the stream.
Agreed. This is the first campaign I've been able to watch the YT uploads in real time from the start, and fuck me sideways, I got invested in this lovable gaggle of chaotic dipshits faster than I did for the Mighty Nein (for context, my jumping on point for CR was midway through Campaign 2, in the middle of the Nein's adventure on Rumblecusp).
omg matt litteraly breaking my heart here with his little innocent matilda voice. I mean I just wish I could get that good at voicing acting. but the way he is intwining a goth horror and a very deep emotional connection. this I fell one the better episodes people will call on in future for showing actors how to be for building atmosphere
Liam has such appreciation for German art! First referencing Brecht, and later German expressionism. You can take the boy out of C2, but you can't take the C2 out of the boy
This arc was MADE for spooky season! The nightmare realm, the shadow monsters, the Sun Tree's evil counterpart, and all the battles. I am so hyped to see if next week's episode will live up to all things Halloween-related! Laudna would be so proud of her friends.
I know there are more examples I can’t remember of her turning the tides of a battle with one move, but it immediately reminded me of Daylight in the Shade Mother’s lair.
@@justlittleoldme4589 - You mean didn't correctly choose targets for the rays? Or didn't upcast to 3rd level to get an extra ray? She didn't add the 1d8 Enhanced Bond damage to one of the rays any time she cast it while Mister was out. Or to healing on Cure Wounds. (Plus the 1d4 extra healing from her Moon Sickle.) But other than that, I think she was doing it correctly, rolling an attack to hit and then 2d6 damage for each ray. Earthbind shows some thought about tactics in choosing her spells. Good concentration spell to have in the bag in a party with multiple melee guys. Although in this case, everyone could have attacked the tree trunk, instead of going for Delilah and putting damage into the temp HP from the tree surrounding her. Unless damage on Delilah directly was more damaging than on the tree trunk? Still, it let Delilah get "tanked" some by Chet, and let others take cover behind a rock, so she couldn't as easily finish off people who were low to stop them from getting more rounds to hit the tree.
@@Peter_Cordes no , what i mean is you have to declare your targets before you roll for any attacks , you cant choose one target at a time to see if it hits or not and then decide if you want to switch targets with the next ray
@@justlittleoldme4589 - That's not what the 5e rules say. Rules as written, you can 100% do it this way with spells like Scorching Ray and Eldritch Blast that say you get to make some number of attacks. (And thus you should, if there's a target you might finish off before switching to another.) Exactly the same as a martial class with Extra Attack, you can see what the first attack does before declaring the 2nd. This has even been clarified in an official Sage Advice pdf: >> When casting a spell that affects multiple targets, such as scorching ray or eldritch blast, do I fire one ray or beam, determine the result, and fire again? Or do I have to choose all the targets before making any attack rolls? > Even though the duration of each of these spells is instantaneous, you choose the targets and resolve the attacks consecutively, not all at once. If you want, you can declare all your targets before making any attacks, but you would still roll separately for each attack (and damage, if appropriate). Only Magic Missile is simultaneous, because it says so in the spell description (and there aren't attack rolls).
I love that Liam is building up Oryms perception as a counterpart of Vax stealth. He is making Orym a master of perception and it is only going to pump up from here. Edit: he could be training to fund Vax in Hide and Seek.
@@marksinger2360 Oh my gods, I'd forgotten about that one... (now I need to go back and rewatch that episode of Assemble Your Party where Taliesin and Erika read a scene from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.)
Jokes aside about how easy this Briarwood fight was, the Healer was the first to go down. If this fight had been on the Material Plane, it would have been another scary one
Wonder if it would have gone as well if Matt didn't let Laura get extra actions. Her psychic Lance didn't do much but he clearly caved to Laura and what was with the moon thing, she had already cast a spell and used a bonus action to recover the slot. Is the cast getting legendary actions now?
The "call for Ruidus" was just ontop of her spell (similar to a Paladin's Divine Smite ability) from what it seems like. She seems to be able to do it a limited amount of times and she takes damage doing it, so I don't think she'll be doing it very often.
@@Kainmaster I feel its even stronger then a smite, it looks like a recast? a lot like twin spell hm, I wonder if he would allow to twin spell, and call for ruidus
I truly think this may be one of my favorite episodes of CR yet. Matt did such an incredible job creating this creepy space and taking the players and us through this maze of Laudna's past. And the battle was brilliant. Love how Matt used the tree, too.
@@nikkikindinger2718 Sorry I know this is an old comment but three year olds do speak in sentences. Literally all the three-year-olds Ive met can speak in sentences and answer questions about their drawings unless they were speech delayed.
What an emotional episode, I swear if Laudna's backstory gets any more tragic I'm not gonna be able to handle it! (Also SPOILERS: Shout-out to Marisha for being able to come in on a moments notice and deliver that powerful moment!)
Matt really decided to go and flex on his DM skills by teasing everyone with the brief return of Marisha (outside the merch of course) and ending the episode just as Astral Projection ends.
Just when I think the episodes can't get any better than they have been lately, Matt and Co. prove me wrong. From the DARK CITY vibes to some heartwrenching callbacks to character history, so many emotional moments to this one... I don't know about anyone else, but now I'm practically screaming for the next episode!
Man, Matt as Delilah is OG. HOWEVER, I can't help but hear Grey Griffen's voice take over the dialogue in my mind. She did so well in TLOVM and that's all can imagine now
Oh, how I can't wait to see this whole episode animated if we are so blessed as to get the LoVM treatment for Bells Hells. Hearing Grey scream "GET DOWN!" at Orym up in the tree would be delicious.
HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing
0:40 FLOW
5:10 Logo
6:25 Laura’s merch corner
8:10 Intro cinematic
9:55 EPISODE STARTS
13:10 Recap Ends
14:40 Chetney and Fearne have different takes
25:35 Low draw distance
28:35 Opening doors in Whitestone
30:50 Sam’s flask
33:25 Thriller
39:20 Travis, Sam, and Ashley sing about ribs
41:50 Real bones
50:10 Whitestone Andy
1:02:05 Fleeing the tower
1:10:15 Young Matilda
1:12:10 Horrible drawings
1:19:15 Breaking the fall
1:20:45 Double saws
1:23:30 Dynamite
1:27:00 Flipping the coin
1:29:25 Matilda goes to dinner
1:31:45 Ashton shows the doll to the audience (the necklace)
1:36:45 Nobody knows what Matilda’s parents look like
1:40:10 What is Matilda’s mother’s name?
1:43:15 Jump scare
1:47:20 Quick combat
1:51:10 Imagine this
1:53:40 Popping the ghost out
1:59:45 Chugging potions
2:02:20 Pumping everyone
2:07:05 Delilah
2:08:15 BREAK STARTS
2:19:10 Art Montage
2:21:10 BREAK ENDS
2:23:40 FCG comes at Delilah with therapy
2:25:25 Negotiating with Delilah
2:34:55 Why Laudna is special
2:36:15 Delilah has no only fans (the cosplayers beg to differ)
2:39:40 Secret treasures (children)
2:41:15 Chetney is a stone-cold liar
2:43:45 Marisha is pooping
2:44:50 Marisha reenters
2:46:50 Matt takes Marisha away from us
2:47:50 Marisha hijacks the chair (map out)
2:50:50 Battle begins
2:55:45 A beginner’s Delilah Briarwood
2:59:00 Nega-Sun Tree
3:04:05 Donald Ducking Chetney
3:08:15 Destroy undead
3:12:55 Spiritual Pate
3:21:00 Calling Ruidus
3:28:45 Matt’s wardrobe malfunction
3:33:35 Orym holds on
3:34:30 FCG cuts the rope
3:35:25 Hanging with Marisha
3:41:40 The tree goes up
3:47:15 Orym comes for his friend
3:49:35 Revealing Delilah
3:50:40 Orym leaves
4:07:15 HDYWTDT
4:10:00 Episode Ends
The in-game start date for the episode was the 24th of Sydenstar in the year 843. Sam’s gas can says “VERY IMPORTANT CORD! DO NOT CUT!!” with a rope that attaches offscreen. This is in reference to the silver chords of their current astral forms.
So, I had always assumed that Laudna’s Shadow Sorcerer powers were another manifestation of the magic Delilah used to reanimate her. But I think Delilah implied that those powers had nothing to do with her, that she only provided warlock stuff, which means perhaps Laudna was a sorcerer all along. Which raises an interesting question: what is the true source of Laudna’s deathly powers?
Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
So fast
11 seconds
Flando!
He's so fast! Thanks dude!
how so fast
cannot believe that not only did Matt make Whitestone Andy cannon, but also an integral part of teaching the party about what it was like for Laudna growing up in Whitestone
One of my fav. scenes!
Remind me who Andy was?
@@xBlacksStarx Andy was the boy Laudna liked growing up but who threw dirt in her face
The doors in Whitestone part KILLED ME. “You should really stick a sword in it and jiggle it around” “I’m going to go find a window” “time is a flat circle, man!” God that was my favorite part of C1 and the LoVM. It was funny to see it play out again.
Doors will forever be their greatest inconvenient enemy and I love it.
I laughed too hard at that
Liam: What kind of voice?
Matt: It sounds like a young boy.
Ashley: Andy?
Ah, it kills me!
I was overjoyed because I finally got the inside joke
@@Amethystar top 5 for me 🤣🤣🤣 “Andy?”
a DM managing to leave their whole party screaming for 30 seconds straight at the end of a session is one hell of an achievement
You *weren't* screaming too in some fashion or other?
I can almost hear Laura Bailey giggling in the distance
"you gotta come walk in the sun with us" is such a beautiful, heartbreaking line. I really love Orym.
If/when Laudna makes her return, I am PRAYING the Critter fanartists give us that moment... Orym and Laudna walking hand-in-hand in the sunlight.
@@samuraiko after their little recon mission a the gates of seat of disdain, it would be a bonus point if orym would play along as laudna's child
"are you sure you-"
"shuddup orym, just let me have this for a moment"
".... okay mom."
Was not expecting tears when pressing play on Crit Role today, but Liam did it with this line 🥺
3:33:41 (rolling STRENGTH saving throw)
Liam: This is not going to succeed.
Travis (C1 barbarian): Be positive.
Ashley (C2 barbarian): Be positive.
Taliesin (current barbarian): Natural 20.
Liam: **rolls** Natural 20.
THE BLESSINGS OF BARBARIANS!!!!
Followed by the epic F*** you Delila !!! Very barbarian indeed ❤
In order of appearance too, these moments write themselves
The Elder God avatar known as Taliesin requested that the natural 20 be rolled, and so the dice obliged.
@@RumTheRaccoon Liam plays the barb of campaign 4 confirmed?!?
It's hilarious that the only reason he allowed that roll was because he couldn't get the Orym mini out of the branches.
"Really in there."
Brennan Lee Mulligan: (Turns a tree into a final boss)
Matt Mercer: Oh, yeah? (Turns a final boss into a tree)
This is an underatted comment!
Finally, the great difference in their DMing styles laid out just like that
When mercer whips out the uno reverse in ways you never thought possible.
Ferngully, anyone?
the tree casts blight.
2:45:40 When Laudna weakly says "Imogen?" Ashley is immediately like "no, I can't, this is too much emotion".
If there's one thing that I'm grateful for in C3 is Ashley being here every episode, not only cause Fearne is just amazing, but because she's SO INVESTED in the story, and specifically in Laudna and Imogen.
We're going to need an "Ashley Reacts to Imogen/Laudna" video of all the times she played audience to them. lol
@@LAnimeMaster pretty sure she's included in the Southern Gothic compilations.
There's an episode that Ashley just says to Marisha and Laura "i love watching you guys".
That shout she gave at the final HDYWTDT was _so visceral_ she was almost bassier than Travis. She's so deceptive as Fearne because she plays her so upright and detached and remote, but she is one of the most immersed of them all. I'd love to see her play a Grog-ish character where she got to channel her gut as much as her head with Fearne and her heart with Yasha
I just wish she would figure out how guidance works.
May we all play D&D with the sheer unrestrained exuberance of Travis Willingham.
The fact the guy can get so into a game he gets jumpscared by his own imagination is impressive honestly
its the adhd within
i can't, i'd be so exhausted lol
I strive to match Travis’ style it’s a long hard road of trial and error
I love how it's steadily increased over time. I didn't care for him much in C1 because he often seemed like a buzzkill and like the one who enjoyed the game the least but that changed notably in C2 and now in C3 he's everybody's hype man and seems to enjoy playing the most.
"It does not get a dex save, it's a tree" may be my favorite line.
"It does not answer, it's a gazebo."
"it's a chair" energy
@@Lishtenbird Oldies are always goodies
@@abramtabor7726 Oh god the chair!! Haha I forgot about that.
Okay now I have to see the one shot where they play as the tree , the chair, the door and the gazebo
Delilah Briarwood is still a terrifying villain, Matt is a fkn genius. "I find the depths of your ignorance extremely boring." "Do you know what I do with children?" shudder*
The MOMENT Matt had Delilah glance back at the tree after that "children" comment, you could SEE Travis, Sam, and Liam (the three dads at the table) all FLINCH, and Liam in particular was like, "b-----, it is ON now."
@@samuraiko I've been rewatching C1 and am coincidentally in the Briarwood arc (which makes this so much better). When the one soldier mentions helping the Briarwoods by hanging the kid on the Sun Tree, Vax straight up murders him! No quarter for those kinds of people.
@@Amethystar There's a similar moment in C2 while Sumalee and Ashly are guesting on the show, and Matt absolutely rips your heartstrings with the M9 finding a captured, injured child, and Liam literally has to cover his eyes and look away, and mutters, "I don't like it." (While Sam is giving him a very understanding and meaningful look.)
i read that in her voice. and i go "step on me!"
@@Amethystar I'm doing the same! While waiting for the next episode of C3 to air i'm watching C1. Though it's for the first time for me. I started with C2. In C1 they just entered the dungeon through the secret passage.
You know it's a good episode when the last thing you hear is Travis screaming "MATTHEW MERCER!!!"
Right up there with the heist episode where they realize that the Verdict has locked them in with the Immovable Rod, and Travis starts screaming, "YOU ARE UNHINGED TODAY, MATTHEW!"
and throwing the mister plush at Matt
I also just realized that the battle began with Travis yelling "Matthew Mercer!!" right as he laid down the map for it. Travis is like an bottomless well of hype lmao, I love it
Even reading this I knew exactly the cadence he’d hit too
@@chrismjkelly Travis is definitely the audience barometer. He acts exactly like we do at home 😂
I love how they got scared when Matt as Delilah screamed "GET DOWN". Liam and Laura were like oh oh.
THAT moment was epic.
That’s an oh no. I watched live and audibly said “Uh eh uh oh.”.
What a scream though! I know it's not surprising coming from such a talented voice actore, but that was still impressive!
In words of Sir Patrick Stewart: You though I was Delilah didn't you?
Acting!
timestamp?
Travis's utter betrayal that Laura didn't share Imogen's cool moon shit with him at home
Best part it in the middle of his feeling betrayed he still helps her when she's panicking on the math and then goes back to shock
i believe he just forgot imogen got a moon feat after the fight with otohan. wasn't the biggest secret
"Laudna, Matilda, buddy c'mon, you gotta come walk in the sun with us!"
God fucking damnit Liam, that hurt me.
Moments like that are why Orym is my favorite character of the Hells.
Ashton saying "smoke'm if you got 'em" and casually walking away from the explosion is a straight up badass movie moment and Ashton as hell
i'd love for when this eventually gets animated, Ashton's little rainbow sparks create a pair of sunglasses as he walks away
**fire in the hole**
At this point we should have a "Marisha cam" to show her reactions at the breaks.
Why only at the breaks?
Travis being offended that Laura kept her Secret Moon Shit from him is just killing me
"I live with her though"
XD
The ultimate betrayal
That’s literally like when you watch some TV series as a couple and it’s revealed your SO watched several episodes ahead… unforgivable, lol.
Hahah shows their dedication to the improv performance…or is it just that she enjoys Travis’s reactions as much as we do?! 😂
@@bronandsimone idc her enjoying her husband's natural reactions is the best ever & no1 can tell it was anything else... expect Laura herself comes out & speaks on it.. this is why to me
He literally embodied the “:(“
Can we all just appreciate how Ashley/Fearne made that fantastic call to start attacking the tree with fire. That turned the tide of the battle right there!
It totally did! Thank you for pointing that out
And in the most Fearne way possible, as she did it she said “I just wanna see what happens”. Just like how she cast daylight during the shade mother fight and unwittingly nerfed the shade mother right out of the gate. I love Fearne just accidentally being the MVP 😂
Fearne was absolUtely mvp of that fight,, earthbind getting the melee to be able to hit her and then the TONNE of fire damage to the tree???? Amazing I’m so proud
I had a suspicion the Sun Tree would be tied to Delilah's form the minute Matt explained the tree and there was no castle. The both times Fearne used Scorching Rays they all hit. Insanely huge damage to the tree.
I love how Travis goes "I live with her though" when Laura is doing her secret moon shit. Man sounded so heartbroken he didnt know about it before hand lmao
“I- I- I didn’t know :(“
I wonder if that means he shared chetneys werewolf shit before hand
@@donb7519I feel like this is rhetorical.
@@donb7519in a 4-sided five he talked about how she was one of the ones to know.
@@CunningLingu1st nah i was trying really hard to catch up on the main campaigns so i never watched any side stuff like 4sd so didnt know travis straight up said she did
Percy de Rolo: You defeated Delilah?
Bells Hells: What? Like it's hard?
Doh... Never look at comments... Got spoiled sht
@@GamerBruw this is certainly not the end of ms briarwood
Considering it was the fourth time Delilah has been killed I would say it's more hard to keep her dead and prevent any way for her to interact with the living world. And like another person said the Delilah that the Bell's Hells fought was severely weakened so if they had fought her in her prime it would be very hard.
@@CloudianMH She pretty much promised that it was not. Death is just a waiting game.
Delilah is pretty much a lich now so that'll be hard to kill her completely
Chetney was on FIRE this episode! Him and Fearne kept this going SOOO smoothly! His speech to Delilah at 2:40:29 was one of the best deception speeches we've seen, and I'm so happy for Travis! You can tell how much fun he's having!
Revisiting campaign 1 and seeing how Travis was not exactly awkward about the roleplay but choosing to play a character with such low intelligence that he could always be the comedic relief to playing characters like Fjord and Chetney just really go to show his progress with the RP! Love it
@@mopslap And Cerrit in EXU calamity! An amazing player with some amazing characters for sure!
@@elliottbolton78 travis and sam are easily the funniest 2 of the group. Lowkey carrying the group when it comes to content.
The man is pure gold, he's invested in the plot and good at seeing threads, but prefers to leave the spotlight to his friends, cheers them whenever they have a great moment and I love Chetney, the guy can turn into a werewolf, manages to be a weirdo even in such a group, has those random "let's go on a rampage" moments that I loved with Sam's character in C2 and is an endlesss well of comedy relief. Also, I'm not a native English speaker and I lack a lot of American culture references, and Travis often has funny expressions he uses which are easy to understand with the context and my only regret is that I don't remember them all :D
I’m sorry but FCG offering Delilah therapy will forever be so funny to me
Well Delilah only cares for herself, her husband, and Vecna. Pretty sure Silas Briarwood is might be a champion of Vecna at this point.
if only fcg was there when sylas died the first time, so much could've been avoided if she had processed her grief properly lol
I was so glad they pointed out Letters was thousands of years older than her when she tried to flex by calling him a child.
@@SpiderwolfHowling I mean it's funny but he's also technically a 2 year old so she's kind of right lol. It's like ATLA, is Aang 12 or 112? He seems like a 12 year old to me. Same type of thing. We don't know how old FCG was when he was broken and shut down but we do know it was some point in the age of Arcanum (or can strongly assume) so he's been an inert hunk of metal for most of his "life" until Dancer fixed him, if you want to use the other definition of age.
I would go by mental age over the age of your physical corpus and by that definition FCG as we know and love them is 2.
Spoilers for C2:
It's like how Molly was technically only 2 years old even though obviously his body was older. Somebody else was in the driver's seat before then.
@@elizabethdragonclaw2916 When Sylas died, FCG was probably still murdering their targets for the glory of Aeor.
Laura: "who are the dolls honey?"
Matt as baby Laudna: "I made a nice woman. I made a bird to take me away form here."
Ashley: *dies*
me: *balling my eyes out* 😭
Ashley and Travis have the best reactions to all the story beats. I literally spend like half the time just watching those two. They're so excited to listen to Matt, and react so sincerely. I love it!
Matt was ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY KILLING IT as Delilah. The SCREAMS he took out as her were as terrifying as amazing. One of the best episodes of Bells Hells FOR SUUUURE! ALL OF THEM DID AMAZING!
This was the comment I was looking for, Matt did a fantastic job portraying her this episode. The yells and screams were KILLER ❤
"Get...DOWN!"
And a serious echo effect on that word. It's almost subtle, but once heard, adds to the fear effect, at least to me.
Delilah is Matt's best villain, in my opinion, and the one he absolutely goes HARD on while potraying. There's a reason why she keeps showing up. She's just such a shit, but so much fun.
The Lady of Bailey
Laura, her name
Tis' destined to be
The Briarwood's Bane
Whether by DawnFather's blessing
and arrows of light
Or cunning and trickery,
Or magical might
If you face her Delilah,
Tis you'll find true
She'll be your undoing
and poor Silas's too
So cross not her path
And touch not her friends
Lest ye provoke her
and cause the Briarwood's end
Yes the Lady of Bailey,
Laura, her name
Shall forever be known
As the Briarwood's Bane
Nice
Amazing
Hear hear!!!
Yo!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏
2:45:43 Marisha’s, “Imogen,“ sounded so weakly and broken, really captures Laudna’s sadness and exhaustion of the situation. She sounded so tired and defeated from dealing with Delilah. Combined with the cast’s reaction, especially Ashley. Also, Matt’s screams when playing as Delilah is so chilling (3:50:06). He definitely embodies the cold-blooded necromancer we all know and love to hate.
Also, the little, subtle details of Laudna’s/Matilda’s backstory, from Andy throwing dirt at her, to her making dolls alone in the barn, and then the build-up to her getting dressed for, “dinner,” (1:29:40) will always be so chilling to hear.
3:48:06 I feel like you could get a sense of Orym’s survivor guilt as he tries to save Laudna, literally focusing mainly on the tree to free her. But also, despite being scared of her on multiple occasions, Orym does have a big heart for his friends and looks after them, and he connected with Laudna one time as they both were victims of collateral damage.
This episode was such a Jenga tower of tension and emotions.
how'd you finish the episode so fast ;-;
@@ratburgler twitch?
@@Kris-wo4pj You mean they watched it live and waited for 4 days to post spoilers in the youtube comments section? lol.. okay then.
Marisha also looked really good this episode. Maybe surprise suits her? Or she was wearing less makeup or something
*Chenga Tower
FCG: "Bone is the wood of man."
Me: Dammit FCG don't give Chetney any ideas!
Whether murderous or dirty-minded.
I want him to craft something from either Sun Tree!
But Scrimshaw is so beautiful.
Chet almost seems like the type to already think that.
Chetney the Scrimshaw artist would be pretty metal though
Did you all see Marisha's professionalism? She showed up clueless and immediately fell into character and responded like a boss.
A great performance too
It felt like a hostage being led out, guided into the chair by Matt, she looks at the table, then back to him for direction. When it was over, he just holds her by the shoulders again to direct her away from the table. It was amazing performance
Ashley immediately started tearing up. Just like the rest of us i am sure.
@@kimkeller6622 "She looked like a hostage, good for her" I love it
As long as this is a hobby for them, something they enjoy doing for passion and being together, the all entertainment and contents will be absolutely legendary!
Chetney’s lie to Delilah that got them to see Laudna was clutch.
It created such a good scene too
Was it a lie though? He was kinda spitting facts
I do wonder where the lie was though. The only thing he did was call her out as a bullshitter and his prior insight produced whispers which tells me that she was hiding something.
@@Blasted2Oblivionhe said they were going to go with her deal.
@@zap4th368 I missed that. It makes sense now. Thanks.
Matt: “Natural 1”
T: “Why is it the same face? Get a different face.”
I love that Travis convinced her to “empty the clip”
Must be a Texas thing
More accurately would've been "mag dump it"
@@jessetheunending9357 its fine, I dont care that it was related to guns, more that she had the hdywtdt cause she didnt save the spell
Cringe clip vs chad magazine ( unless it is a m1 garand )
In the scaling of DnD logic, honestly lightning bolt is basically the damage equivalent, if not less than, a few shots of 30-06. So, I'll just pretend he was making a WW2/M1 Garand reference about the stakes being high. Also, Travis Willingham is always a win.
I really hope Fearne has a ‘Speak with Plants’ spell. I really feel like we need to catch up with the Sun Tree.
Please I need this 😭
It's a 3rd level spell for druids, so she could totally use it if she wanted to after preparing it whenever she takes a long rest.
Yes please give us more Suntree Bro!
Hopefully they are still A-OK.
Henry Crabgrass must return
Critical role: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, Delilah?!
Delilah: I love the young people
@@WTFgirl621 Delilah: Wanna see what I do to them?
@@RedMeance *points to the Sun Tree*
How many times HAVE they killed her, is it 3?
Delailah: yes
how marisha and laura pulled off a scene like that with 0.2 seconds of prep. DAMN these people are good.
SPOILERS
You could tell Laura was relieved as hell that Taliesin gave her the potion. It came in clutch, and she wouldn't have been able to be the one to save her if she didn't have that. It's so poetic that she got to kill Delilah again. Being there for Laudna was probably very cathartic too.
Delilah broke the world for love, and for love Delilah was broken
DAMN!
That's f****** DEEP! bravo!
@@rhyder7715 thanks
N i c e
This line right here rocks!
Laudna calling Imogen "darling" got to me, not gonna lie.
Laudna, your Vex is showing!
@@yannlimarodrigues just like the first time she and Vex met...
Also tentatively known as "Briarwood Brawl Part 5, The Most Electrive Boogaloo"
Nice 🧟
All chat was saying the entire fight was "kill that bitch tree" and it was fabulous
Just wait untill they get one of esseks spells and go back in time and kill them on there wedding day
'If I had a nickle for every time they defeated delilah briarwood, I'd have 5 nickles. Which isnt a lot, but it's weird that it's happened 5 times'
I believe it is actually more than than lmao.
I fucking love Liam and Orym. He uses all the fighter’s abilities to their fullest, for both effectiveness and flavor. For example, though not that useful, because they already know nothing is what it seems, using Know Your Enemy on the little boy to determine it’s hit points are higher than his and thus potentially dangerous is super smart and inspiring.
“It feels really good hitting somebody’s parents.” Tal’s the best for one-liners.
If Percy doesn't get to meet Pâté de Rolo I swear to God....
This absolutely 100% has to happen!
Dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Aged so well! Sorta
😂 right?! I would like this comment, but you have 420 likes and I didn’t want to ruin it (noice)
I love how Marisha's nose immediately starts turning red when she starts interacting with Imogen. Her emotions are always so visibly physical, it's fascinating to watch her roleplay.
Yup! Laura too! You can tell she was crying. Their chemistry on screen is absolutely insane, I feel it's exactly because they are both such amazing at emoting as their characters.
I am in awe of how quickly Marisha went from being confused to being in-character. And that scene was just *chefs kiss*. I know we say it all the time, but damn, they're good actors!
@@sinbycosvi9 Did she have a different accent? Or has it been so long, I don’t remember Laudna’s accent??
@@TheBinger033 It could be that because Matt sprung this on her, Marisha wasn't prepared and so the accent was slightly different.
But folks have speculated that Laudna's accent felt different because she wasn't doing the high-pitched fun-scary voice anymore. The Laudna we saw was without any pretense, just her actual self.
Emotions are rough when you're a redhead: it's very hard to hide them.
Chet with Dynamite: “I didn’t ask how big the room is, I CAST FIREBALL”
Ah, joecat...
As another dnd guy in you tube. FOR Fireball!
@@darkyoda1980and for the GOD DAMN BEACH EPISODE!!
OMG...Travis's quiet "Matthew..." at 1:40:59 just...the lore runs so heartbreakingly deep. That was a rollercoaster.
Fearne saying "do you want to play a game called Secret Treasures?" and it was t h r e a t e n i n g to me
Yeah, Ferne has that scary chaos agent you don't know what I can do energy, it's great. And later the fire 'oh, is this hurting you 😊' nice payoff
time stamp?
Delilah's response to FCG regarding therapy are basically: YOU DONT KNOW ME IM DIFFERENT NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS
Also, she kept insulting the oldest people in the group, calling them immature and children. She only didn't do so with Chetney because he actually looks old.
@@Pailzor Yeah, that really contributed to the idea that she has no clue what she's talking about and she's just putting up a front. I feel like being utterly clueless and pretending she's not by acting confident and mysterious is her entire thing ever since C1.
I mean, one can only talk by experience. Delilah literally went to hell brought it with her...
and even if she is putting a front... the only way to confront her when talking is to bluff too, like they did. She is still scary.
Sam's flask is becoming a gameplay mechanic
The Flask is the BBEG this campaign
Hasn't it always been one?
*You take a sip from your trusty Vault 111 flask.*
@@rabidseabee7229 roll a constitution save DC 15
It's been one since Season 1 😅
“I made a bird… a bird that can take me away from here” 😢
Vax?
That's the part that hit me hardest.
"And he will follow and shit on shiny robits."
@@FuwaNekoNya Oh my gods, I didn't even think of that. (facepalm)
FCG's BBEG
That is one of the most impressive screams I have heard from Matt. He reached deep in the voice acting bag for that one.
No for real, that shit scared me and I'm watching through a screen. Would've shit my pants if I was sitting at the table with them lmao.
For some reason that Ashton/Orym moment at 2:53:45 reminds me a whole lot of the Fluffernutter incident. Two people working together to make something cool happen only for a low roll to cause it to utterly fail.
Laura Bailey continues the tradition of ruining Delilah briarwoods day isn't she
If something works, there's no reason to stop is there?
@@rodew2875 it helps that both Vex and Imogen had VERY good reasons to want that bitch dead
Delilah is Laura's natural prey
@@MrSHADOWANGEL999 Delilah is Laura's favored enemy
Now I want a oneshot revealing that at some point the Nein fought Delilah in ghost form so Jester can get a shot at her too.
3:12:08
On another continent, Veth Brenato and Jester Lavorre are having a pleasant dinner with Jester's parents. She suddenly springs up, grabs Veth by the throat, and shouts "You see how hard this job is!?"
They settle down a moment later. Neither of them understand what just happens, but Veth admits she has a strange feeling that she probably deserved that.
I mean the people that are really to blame are Wizards of the Coast. Healing in 5e *sucks*.
Looking forward to next week continuing the tradition of the cast being in Halloween costumes for major emotional moments.
It will, of course, be hilarious. Still remember C2's disaster-duo flirting together with one dressed as a clump of grass and the other as a beat-up-bully with a censored dick glued to their hand in C2..
Though it'd be equally neat if they went against the expected silliness by cosplaying their actual characters this year for such a potentially heavy episode.
@@troikas3353 I won't spoil it, but CR's website has a picture of what seems like will be everyone's costumes this year.
Emotional moments and funny costumes work well together! I mean… most of the time.
Matt is obligated to go as an adorable trash robot again
@@TheAlienGinger holly shit, you might be right - I reeeeally hope that's it - their picks are A*Mazing!
I love how loudly excited Travis gets anytime Matt does something cool with the miniatures. What a great hype man!
Ok Travis doing the slow motion dynamite toss and Liam mimicking what is actually looked like in real time is probably the most hilarious bit of this whole campaign
True that XD
3:47:29 “That’s Will.” No, that’s me SOBBING. LIAM. STOP MAKING ME CRY. 😭
Just one of Liam's many, many beautiful little moments referencing Orym and Will's love.
Production should be very proud of their Ashley speed edit!
What speed edjt?
@@xleplayVA in the first ad when she’s explaining that she’s a super fast finger lady lol.
@@gfreakand4eyes that's not an edit. She's just zooming xD
(jk in case that didn't come across)
This is why they never let Ashley drink any energy drinks.
@@Dunsie 🤣😂. And the way they died when she said “ow” poor Ashley.
The Fact that this fight, the Fight from the Log House and the Battle Against Delilah in the Corrupted Sun Tree, is when the Bells Hells begins to feel like an actual team working together is so fucking iconic and it makes me cry that they're doing this all for Laudna
I mean M9 banded together properly for Molly, why can't BH do it for Laudna?
It's what happened with the Mighty Nine after Molly. They all came together to rescue Yasha, Jester, and Fjord.
Almost everyone had their own great moment to shine during the fight, too.
Imogen: Starting and ending the fight amazingly. She called the shot with "sunder you"
FCG: banishing the undead with the Change Bringer coin
Fearne: the earthbind was perfect, both from a gameplay perspective and from her description. And she did the most damage, with the tree's weakness to fire.
Chetney: Nailed the insight check and did a great job of dominating the conversation before the fight.
Orym: heroically holding on to the tree, climbing up, proving the connection to Delilah by severing the rest of the branches before getting taken out.
Ashton: didn't have quite as much of a chance to shine as the others, but dropping the dynamite on the roots was pretty cool. Talking to the projection of childhood Matilda was also a nice moment.
@@roryschussler man I love fcg, but man do I feel like hes kinda weak imo, sure clerics are VERY strong in 5e, but idk, just overall feels like fcg is weak in combat, I loved this combat so much though
@@d4s0n282 Sam doesn't know much about clerics, so I'd say we should wait until he gets used to playing it. But FCG is very clutch.
Chetney licking the floor I can't help but imagine him saying "It's wood" with a series of splinters in his tongue lol
Hmm this wood is made of wood
The real brilliance of Travis singing Thriller isn't that it's a Halloween song, it's that the music video begins and possibly ends with a werewolf.
Can someone just give a medal to Travis for the way he played Delilah like the world's deadest fiddle?
Chet is the definitive party "face" (in my mind) with 2* sorcerers in the party and I respect the fuck outta that.
Chet has a nose for bullshiters
Mans got over 400 hundred years of bullshiting experience
@@KriusAerion One of which is also a warlock... yeah, that's pretty impressive
@@KriusAerion hes this campaign's beau i feel like. Travis has said after playing calamity and all the cool shit Lam and Marisha figured out last campaign he's been paying more attention and actively trying to solve stuff Matt throws at them.
Spoilers for the episode below
The simple act of them just getting up and leaving the table when they fell added an unexpected and great level of tension to the end of that.
Honestly, it make the stakes feel real and I appreciated the hell out of that.
@@KriusAerion It actually felt more tense than any other DND fight! Any other time, unless you get hit with something like a Finger of Death or Disintegrate, you can always come back from 0 HP either through death saves or being healed. Even though the characters just "woke up" in Whitestone, they still being gone for the moment made it so much tougher.
I think it gave them a reminder of how it felt when so many of them went down/left the table during episode 34(?) and what the stakes are
I love that Travis heard the intensity from his wife and stopped immediately to back her up. 2:47:20
The best part is, she said "I'm gonna sunder you" and then at the end of the fight, she completely tore apart the Sun Tree that was Delilah's body.
The look of regret on Matt’s face at 2:36:15 when Laura said “She’s naked” 💀
This was legit masterful play by Matt. The whole confrontation at the tree and setting the scene bringing in Marisha was so awesome.
You really gotta give it to the Bells Hells, man.
They got their asses whooped so badly they nearly lost half their party in a fight they weren’t prepared for a few days ago. But then they sat down, regrouped, and just a few days later have managed to bring everyone back, saved one of their members from their undead patron, AND gained like 15k in gold. And they did it all at level 7.
They might be capital-d Dumb sometimes, but you can’t deny they get shit DONE.
Somehow theyre stupider than both other parties but are way more efficient. These 7 have really learned how to be effective especially in combat (except Ashley, poor girl’s only really played a campaign and a half at this point).
Ashley was the absolute MVP during this fight with Delilah. That EARTHBIND! Queen Fearne coming in hot! 🔥
And realising/showing everybody they have to target the tree instead! + that fire dammage 🔥🔥🔥
Clutch. Absolutely clutch. Fight would have gone completely differently if she'd not been such a creative, outside the box thinker.
Probably would've gone even faster if Travis also attacked the tree with his fire claws, but I suspect tanking Delilah was more in character
@@romxxii agreed. Imagine Chet attacking a tree? The horror! 🙃
Travis gave her the advice that won the fight. Empty the clip!
I just realized while watching that the "Finger Championship Game" is just Sam finding another acronym for FCG.
Another fucking B plot i see
Why have you done this to me. I can't unthink it now
@@ninja5708 um, because I noticed it and thought it was worth mentioning. 🤔
@@danielknapp159 its definitely a good catch. Pretty funny as well
Oddly enough, finger games sound like another thing Dancer would enjoy.
Imogen’s “come home” at 53:37 just about broke me. Love this show.
I love Matt having Marisha pop in for a moment, keeping her involved with the game.
Spoilers. I love how Marisha slightly changed Laudna’s accent back closer to her old Whitestone accent ( like Matt did for Matilda). I wonder if she’ll keep that for a bit or if it was just for while she was back among the Whitestone memories? Marisha’s short part was so good, completely wasn’t expecting Matt to do that!
she sounds the same tbh
@@Ziaotic she does not sound the same.
i did a double take when she spoke and rewound the that part again,. she definitely didn't sound the same
Travis singing Thriller in Chetney's voice may be the hardest I've laughed this campaign.
Please let some talented Critter fanartist animate Chetney singing and dancing to Thriller...
@@samuraiko Rejoice! Jester's sketchbook just did that. 😀
Percy, level 20 adventurer, friends with the gods, member of legendary group Vox Machina: Sorry. I won’t help you.
Bell’s Hells, a group of level 7 nobodies: *Fine. We’ll do it ourselves.*
Well from a game perspective Matt is not going to want Vox Machina to get involved as they are basically too powerful and semi retired.
As awesome as the return of Percy could be, it's clear that's not what Matt wanted. From a DMs perspective, I get it.
@@SP-eg9lo oh, absolutely. To clarify, I think Matt made the right decision, as it would be too much of a deux ex machina (lol) to have this super powerful ally jump and and do all the legwork. Not to mention they only just met, and I doubt Percy would want to help some strangers, let alone ones who risk bringing back one of his greatest enemies. I’m glad BH earned it for themselves. I just think it makes for a pretty good meme
@@SP-eg9lo Also semi-idiotic ....
@@lyssatiny102 Thematically, I almost thought Vex was going to say "send me there, too, Pike" since she seemed very invested in helping BH and Laudna specifically. If Matt did that, I'm sure he would have either upped Delilah's strength or found a way to have Vex get tied up with something / holding back something super strong while BH did their thing. While I think that could add even more tension by giving and then taking away what seems like an ace, it also feels like it could detract from the already powerful drama going on within the party
Marisha had me sobbing she came out and got into character faster than my heart could process. What an absolute legend performer
i love that every time sam tried to drink water ashley just slowly pulled the scissors out the drawer😭
I love how you can see the campaign really hitting its stride these past few episodes. This is already one of my favorite CR episodes to date, across all campaigns.
I've been saying it usually takes 20-30 episodes for things yo hit their stride but yesh this was amazing
Agreed. You can REALLY feel the Hells coming together now, and that whole 'found family' thing cementing itself during this arc. Which they're *REALLY* gonna need when they head off to Yios.
Agree! This was the first time I rewatched an entire episode the next day because it was sooo good and I wasn't able to replay all the good stuff during the stream.
Agreed. This is the first campaign I've been able to watch the YT uploads in real time from the start, and fuck me sideways, I got invested in this lovable gaggle of chaotic dipshits faster than I did for the Mighty Nein (for context, my jumping on point for CR was midway through Campaign 2, in the middle of the Nein's adventure on Rumblecusp).
It's nice to see this campaign being so awesome after all the people who crapped on it early on.
"It feels really good to hit somebody's parents" Ashton I fucking love you xD
omg matt litteraly breaking my heart here with his little innocent matilda voice. I mean I just wish I could get that good at voicing acting. but the way he is intwining a goth horror and a very deep emotional connection. this I fell one the better episodes people will call on in future for showing actors how to be for building atmosphere
Liam has such appreciation for German art! First referencing Brecht, and later German expressionism. You can take the boy out of C2, but you can't take the C2 out of the boy
This arc was MADE for spooky season! The nightmare realm, the shadow monsters, the Sun Tree's evil counterpart, and all the battles. I am so hyped to see if next week's episode will live up to all things Halloween-related!
Laudna would be so proud of her friends.
Oh God, I hope so.
Matt's cold, cruel, evil laugh will never stop being terrifying.
Ashley killed it this episode with the earthbind and those scorching rays!
I know there are more examples I can’t remember of her turning the tides of a battle with one move, but it immediately reminded me of Daylight in the Shade Mother’s lair.
She didnt cast the rays correctly but eeh , i think its fine to let it slide , it was cool
@@justlittleoldme4589 - You mean didn't correctly choose targets for the rays? Or didn't upcast to 3rd level to get an extra ray?
She didn't add the 1d8 Enhanced Bond damage to one of the rays any time she cast it while Mister was out. Or to healing on Cure Wounds. (Plus the 1d4 extra healing from her Moon Sickle.)
But other than that, I think she was doing it correctly, rolling an attack to hit and then 2d6 damage for each ray.
Earthbind shows some thought about tactics in choosing her spells. Good concentration spell to have in the bag in a party with multiple melee guys. Although in this case, everyone could have attacked the tree trunk, instead of going for Delilah and putting damage into the temp HP from the tree surrounding her. Unless damage on Delilah directly was more damaging than on the tree trunk?
Still, it let Delilah get "tanked" some by Chet, and let others take cover behind a rock, so she couldn't as easily finish off people who were low to stop them from getting more rounds to hit the tree.
@@Peter_Cordes no , what i mean is you have to declare your targets before you roll for any attacks , you cant choose one target at a time to see if it hits or not and then decide if you want to switch targets with the next ray
@@justlittleoldme4589 - That's not what the 5e rules say. Rules as written, you can 100% do it this way with spells like Scorching Ray and Eldritch Blast that say you get to make some number of attacks. (And thus you should, if there's a target you might finish off before switching to another.)
Exactly the same as a martial class with Extra Attack, you can see what the first attack does before declaring the 2nd.
This has even been clarified in an official Sage Advice pdf:
>> When casting a spell that affects multiple targets, such as scorching ray or eldritch blast, do I fire one ray or beam, determine the result, and fire again? Or do I have to choose all the targets before making any attack rolls?
> Even though the duration of each of these spells is instantaneous, you choose the targets and resolve the attacks consecutively, not all at once. If you want, you can declare all your targets before making any attacks, but you would still roll separately for each attack (and damage, if appropriate).
Only Magic Missile is simultaneous, because it says so in the spell description (and there aren't attack rolls).
I love that Liam is building up Oryms perception as a counterpart of Vax stealth. He is making Orym a master of perception and it is only going to pump up from here.
Edit: he could be training to fund Vax in Hide and Seek.
The way Ashley IMMEDIATELY looks to her left to cheer with Sam during the HDYWTDT even though he had left the table is going to kill me oUAHGH
"the scent of necromancy"
"dude, what if he could smell crime?"
Cerits ghost lingers in Travis to this day.
Being a canine, would he take a bite out of crime?
After what he did to that shopkeeper, I'd hate to be a criminal if Chet could smell crime
You wouldn't steal a crime
He also runs on all fours sometimes
"Very Chekhov." Whenever I think I cannot love Taliesin more, he finds a way.
That's right up there with C2's "When did we get Tom Stoppard to write this?" after a particularly fast Fjord/Beau exchange.
@@marksinger2360 Oh my gods, I'd forgotten about that one... (now I need to go back and rewatch that episode of Assemble Your Party where Taliesin and Erika read a scene from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.)
@@marksinger2360 do you have the episode for that by chance?
@@jonahgreallyryan4249 C2 E6, 36 minutes in (isH)
Jokes aside about how easy this Briarwood fight was, the Healer was the first to go down. If this fight had been on the Material Plane, it would have been another scary one
Wonder if it would have gone as well if Matt didn't let Laura get extra actions. Her psychic Lance didn't do much but he clearly caved to Laura and what was with the moon thing, she had already cast a spell and used a bonus action to recover the slot. Is the cast getting legendary actions now?
The "call for Ruidus" was just ontop of her spell (similar to a Paladin's Divine Smite ability) from what it seems like. She seems to be able to do it a limited amount of times and she takes damage doing it, so I don't think she'll be doing it very often.
I also think FCG's turn to dead helped early alot
@@Kainmaster I feel its even stronger then a smite, it looks like a recast? a lot like twin spell hm, I wonder if he would allow to twin spell, and call for ruidus
@@brenthaden7608 it may also be related to sorcery points, she used some to extend the range of the spell, so maybe they are tied to sorc points.
I truly think this may be one of my favorite episodes of CR yet. Matt did such an incredible job creating this creepy space and taking the players and us through this maze of Laudna's past. And the battle was brilliant. Love how Matt used the tree, too.
Liam's face when Matt said that Matilda only looked about three in the barn. He was definitely thinking about his kids. Poor guy
Three-year-olds can't really make sentences like that-- the character was probably more like 5, but its all good.
@@nikkikindinger2718 Sorry I know this is an old comment but three year olds do speak in sentences. Literally all the three-year-olds Ive met can speak in sentences and answer questions about their drawings unless they were speech delayed.
Can we just appreciate how amazing matt looks in that jacket in the thumbnail?
I saw recently on Twitter that the jacket costs $450. Anyone would look good in a $450 jacket. But he does indeed look pretty amazing.
Looks pretty good 👍
Nothing but gender envy
It's almost as if it was made only for him.
What an emotional episode, I swear if Laudna's backstory gets any more tragic I'm not gonna be able to handle it! (Also SPOILERS: Shout-out to Marisha for being able to come in on a moments notice and deliver that powerful moment!)
It was sooo heart-wrenching…and also hilarious because everyone is so terrified of being in Matt’s seat 😂❤
Matt really decided to go and flex on his DM skills by teasing everyone with the brief return of Marisha (outside the merch of course) and ending the episode just as Astral Projection ends.
I really like this playful, teasing side of him that's shining through more lately
Ashley’s “Ow” during the ad was so adorable.
cute when Matt says "good to know" to Travis telling HIM something about the Bloodhunter class ^_^
It’s Monday afternoon!!!
9 pm here in Italy!
All ye youtubers come join us it's time to extend our runtimeeeee
🎶 all ye critters come join us, it's time to continue lampoooooooon(ing) 🎶
@@jeepersmcgee3466 There is magic and mystery, who knows what will happen? ThosewhowatchedonTwitch miiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
Yesssss
Just when I think the episodes can't get any better than they have been lately, Matt and Co. prove me wrong. From the DARK CITY vibes to some heartwrenching callbacks to character history, so many emotional moments to this one... I don't know about anyone else, but now I'm practically screaming for the next episode!
I legitimately felt like I was back watching C1 as they discussed their entry into the city 🥺
Man, Matt as Delilah is OG. HOWEVER, I can't help but hear Grey Griffen's voice take over the dialogue in my mind. She did so well in TLOVM and that's all can imagine now
Yeah she was absolutely perfect casting
I feel like Matt incorporated part of her performance.
Oh, how I can't wait to see this whole episode animated if we are so blessed as to get the LoVM treatment for Bells Hells. Hearing Grey scream "GET DOWN!" at Orym up in the tree would be delicious.
It helps that Grey's voice is so incredibly distinctive, it just sticks in your mind.
@@parodycalfilms he definitely did take inspiration from Grey’s performance, which is great TLOVM should go full circle with the live-play
the intensity of this campaign is unmatched.. Matt has reached his full potential and hes not holding back.
im jealous of how well Matt pulls off his different nail polishes. they always look nice