@@sociallyresponsiblexenomor7608 I think sam should go later in the line because of this. Its tough enough to retell Jester's stroy as is. Use Sam as a wild card near the end to change it up.
Laura forcing the entire cast to do Jester impressions while trying to retell the most rambling story ever is THE most Jester thing she's ever done and I am so here for it.
She really went for it with her story, the 4 days thing and "heart size...no heart shaped" stone, and all that zig zagging, and the singing. She was ruthless!
*most everybody's Jester impression:* [varying degrees of eastern European accents] *Ashley's first attempt at a Jester impression:* [heavy Brooklyn accent]
Yeah, Italy is definiteyl not east Europe, though (also, let me tell you, it's always a shock to hear remember what you think an italian accent sounds like).
@@tobistein6639 yes! this is exactly what I thought, because matt said that there wasn't a desert north of nicodranas, but rewatching laura's story it clicked the place, y'know, because of a dragon, whatever that means :V
@@vividlycrazy1422 It'll be two sentences with a total of 17 words. From there it will still get mangled into a half hour long diatribe about mushrooms.
@@CathrineMacNiel that 25 word limit was made to contain jester. imagine the damage done to ones mind by a full minute of jester blasting trough your skull at full speed.
As soon as Laura started in, it explained all of the reaction clips at the beginning. You just know it's all going to go off the rails immediately with all the extraneous details and story going every which way but the point.
* Liam starts with an impeccable Jester impression * Me: okay. Starting strong. * Followed by Sam * Me: oh no. Sam: * Italian accent? * It is me Jeeester. Me: O O H. N O O.
IndigoRaysofLight Yeah, but really felt like Travis ruined it wayyyy more than Sam, but Sam got dumped on as the worst because even though he did remember way more than Travis, Sam (who played a bard for a long time in the last campaign) forgot the song!
Jester is literally that kid going “have you ever had a dream where-you um- you cou- um you, you, you could do anything” while everyone else goes cross eyed.
And then I was running and then you could eat the thing and then you found a dragon and then could fly and then you go across the desert and then and then and then...
From Laura to Liam there was an instant jump from Jester telling a rambling fairy tale to Dr. Doofenshmirtz doing a rambling monologue and I am HERE for it
Nah, if it was the receiving end of a Sending Spell it would have cut out just before important information and paused for like 10 seconds while she decides if it's worth casting again only to cut out before more important information. I love Laura and Jester so much, her use of Sending is a plague upon the nobility of Wildemount.
It's kind of funny how the Elysian fruit came full circle back to Greek mythology, since Laura clearly based it off of the pomegranate that Persephone ate.
@@stefanandrews5098 I mean, she is a crazy popular voice actor with a TON of credits ranging all the way back to early 2000. She's a pro at doing voice/characters.
And here are the awards for the cast of Critical Role: Most deviated: Sam Riegel Most animated: Marisha Ray Best Memory: Liam O'Brien Calmest start: Travis Willingham Most adorable attempts: Ashley Johnson Best comeback from a blank mind: Matthew Mercer Most rustic background: Taliesin Jaffe
Matt usually: Master of Improv, perfect eloquence when acting and storytelling, makes 4 page monologues without a stutter in the wildest accent. Matt here: story telling skills of a 4th grader in the school play with stage fright
I love that at the end of Ashley's story there's no treasure. You find this hippogriff named Shmoopie, give him the desert plum, and then just hang out and have a good time.
@@Knarsenslol I'm not great at working out distance in days, but I'm pretty sure most of them managed to end up in various parts of the Ashkeeper Peaks on the East legs of their journeys.
The genius of this is: every story derailed still sound exactly like jester, so it's almost impossible to know what was added by the others. Jesters so chaotic it all would be realistically from her
And he was also out of his element. This wasn't a storytelling or improv. They all were trying to repeat exatly what they were told. It can make oneself nervous
JESTER'S TALL TALE - CHANGE LOG + addition - reduction * detail change v2.0 (Liam) + childhood set in Nicodranas (not mentioned before) * starting location of travel changed from "beautiful city ruled by a secret dragon" to Nicodranas - beautiful city is removed * dragon is now in the desert * fruit now grows in the grove generally instead of just 1 special tree * "4 days east" instead of "4 days north west" to the boulder * "heart-shaped" became "hut-shaped" * hippogriff's name is now Schmazerwoof - the cave is now a "special place" v3.0 (Sam) + Jester's mother is now the "ruby of the sea, the best lay ever" + mother is busy schtupping instead of busy working. + there was farmland in the grove - dragon was removed * the tree/s that grow the elysium fruit became the Picadilly plum tree; the "plum" is no longer a title of an unknown treasure * punishment for eating the fruit in the grove is now vague * the hut-shaped boulder is now the rock the hippogriff lives in * hippogriff's name in now Schmortzy from Okarna - the hippogriff falling in love from the fruit - the song - climbing on her back and flying to a cave * the Picador's Plum treasure is now a vague "prize" that showers you with gold and riches + the hippogriff and the its lair disappears when you turn around after receiving the treasure; you are unsure if they really existed + the smell of the plum fruit is notable/"plum-y" + that transition to the next storyteller v4.0 (Travis) * 4 days north of Nicodranas became 5 days north + the desert is not able to grow fruit - farmland in grove was removed * hippogriff's name is now Shmopley/Shmoopsy * the "hut-shaped rock it lives in" is now the "lair that looked like a stone" v5.0 (Marisha) * Jester's mother is now "shmoopsing" one of her clients - desert's ability/inability to grow fruit was not mentioned + the hippogriff's location is now in a forest * hippogriff's name is now "Shmoopsy Ploopsy" * the "lair that looks like a stone" returned to a "hut that looks like stone but was not stone" * the hippogriff's reward for giving her a Piccadilly plum are "wishes and lots of treasure" v6.0 (Matt) * mother is now "shmoopsing" a customer - the Piccadilly plum is also now a desert plum * the "hut that looks like stone but was not stone" is now just a "stone hut" + the hippogriff is now thankful for the plum you give them, hence the reward you receive - wishes were remove as something the hippogriff granted * the stone hut was now "never there to begin with" after you turn around v7.0 (Taliesin) - the customer aspect is now removed - the desert/Piccadilly plum is now "a desert plum named Persephone" - the grove in the middle of the desert is removed * "4 days east from the desert" became "3 days" * "stone hut" is now a "hut stone house" * hippogriff's name is now "Schmutzy" + the hippogriff's appreciates the taste of the plum in addition to being grateful * the hippogriff's "treasures" became "presents" v8.0 (Ashley) * mother is back to just being busy because of a job + "desert plum named Persephone" is now "delicious desert plum named Persephone" * "5 days north to a desert" became "5 days into a forest" * "3 days east from the desert" became "3 days east of Nicodranas" * hippogriff's name is now "Shmoopy" - hippogriff's location is no longer in a forest * the hippogriff no longer gives out presents after receiving the plum, you just hang out together after
@@frontallappen4981 Sounded more like a Scandinavian accent to me, but in my experience German accents can sound quite varied and I actually know a few people here who sound quite similar.
Sam: *forgets some important details* Me: Saaaam Sam: *starts adding his own details* Me: SAAAAAM Sam: I did not add anything in there!! Me: SAAAAAAAAMMM!!!
@@sonofpears4691 By the end of the telephone chain, unfortunately they disappeared. But it needs to be cannon, damnit. Someone at DnD better make it happen.
Liam - your professor on zoom Sam - one-time Emmy award-winning musician skyping his agent Taliesen - college student calling home from halls Matt + Marisha - parents use the computer in their pastel-goth teen's bedroom Ashley - twitch streamer plays Life is Strange Laura + Travis - family vloggers recording a podcast
Liam: forgets details and makes up ones of his own with no tells. Sam: I’m literally forgetting all the things right now in front of your face so watch me make shit up!
Ashley has a tendency to cull details she can't get 100% precise, while Sam goes "fuck it" and completely disregards the line between his faulty memory and details he comes up with on the spot.
The first 10 seconds is the cast just muttering in existential dread as they prepare to humiliate themselves for our entertainment... I love these guys so much...
At first I thought it was supposed to be channeling Jester with random drawings on the wall but the more I watched I was like...no, I think that’s just a regular part of Taliesin’s room.
@@teehlfx5238 Know what, if Taliesin were to talk about it later and say he was losing his mind so he decided to start a mural on his wall, I'd believe it.
Laura when trying to defend her story: "I don't think that was THAT hard?" Travis besides her giving that famous "Nope, Nope, Nope but I wont say it in-front of my wife in fear of my life" look.
Just like with the last one, Sam is the gatekeeper of details. He removes several that other people had carried over and adds in a bunch of new ones. xD
Matt and Laura could write a bed time children book called "The traveler's bed time tales" with illustration of a child jester playing with the traveler on her room.
Kind of weird when the story diverges... and then SOMEHOW gets lost facts right again. Like a Persephone Plumb isn't a bad name for an Elysian Fruit that prevents you from leaving.
What cracks me up is that Sam tells his kids about the campaign adventures as a bedtime story each week. Now I'm wondering exactly how much narrative telephone has been going on at the Riegel household all these years!
Laura: *tells an insidiously complicated story* Me: Wow okay, that's way more detail than anyone will be able to include in their retelling Sam: Hold my wine aerator
No one has done one for Jester's yet but there's this channel named Stellar Circle Studios that did an animatic of all the variations of Beau's narrative telephone! It's really good!
I love how everyone tries doing Jester's voice! Best bits: Liam gets fairly close but misses some things; Sam forgets some things and adds shit that was never there; Travis can't get through it without laughing (honestly, same); Marisha tries *so hard* to get things right and loses it a little; Matt tries so hard to follow what Marisha gave him; Taliesin talks with his hands a lot and it's hilarious how much he lost; Ashley just loses her mind, and it's just the best.
Even CR comes back tomorrow, they HAVE to keep doing this until everyone has had their chance to tell a story. They have done to the telephone game what they did to dungeons and dragons. Amazing.
Do you mean they're coming off hiatus or when they come off they should keep going if they didn't finish? Just want to clarify because your message gives the implication that they're coming back tomorrow(1/5/2020) and if that's true, I'd like a source!
Sadly I think that's region specific, because I got a slightly less epic ad for instant coffee in Cantonese. It did make the coffee I was drinking seem more magical, though.
I love how close Liam got to Laura's original. It's like they play characters that interact with each other so much they learned to speak each other's languages
After Liam's story:
Hey this might actually go pretty well.
After Sam's story:
Nope never mind.
This. 100% this
To be fair Sam intentionally messes it up beyond all recognition to be a little shit disturber I think xD
He did it last time too.
Lol Sam is so bad at these but it’s arguably more entertaining because of it!
@@sociallyresponsiblexenomor7608 I think sam should go later in the line because of this. Its tough enough to retell Jester's stroy as is. Use Sam as a wild card near the end to change it up.
Yeah Mr Riegel do this challenge with the same attitude he took part to the DnD beyond election!
Laura forcing the entire cast to do Jester impressions while trying to retell the most rambling story ever is THE most Jester thing she's ever done and I am so here for it.
Second most Jester thing. Blueberry cupcakes will always be #1.
@@MEG4nerd Yes, thank you for the correction.
the cast truly wants to be jester I have no doubt about it
the traveler would be so proud
She really went for it with her story, the 4 days thing and "heart size...no heart shaped" stone, and all that zig zagging, and the singing. She was ruthless!
Laura: So my mom was preoccupied working
Everyone: Ruby of the sea is the best lay ever
Sam's way of saying the same thing as the last person while also throwing a wrench in it also.
to be fair part of that is her fault 😂
@@Astrein0017 Oh I don't think anyone purposefully tried to change anything, just observing one of the many funny goofs that happened
@@RandomImaginings Nah, Sam most definitely changed things on purpose. I mean come one, it's SAM we're talking about here!
I know I’d change things just to fuck with people XD
Laura: "Heart-shaped rock."
Liam: "Hut-shaped rock."
Sam: "Rock-shaped hut."
Taliesin: "Hot stone."
I heard Hut-shaped rock in Laura’s version….
@@Lightning1998JBDYou heard wrong.
The Traveller just sat on Jester's bed getting progressively drunker and trying to recite the same story clearly.
Kaneis Cares I love this interpretation
This made me laugh like Jimmy Carr wtf
LMAO! A Drunk History type performance of this would be fantastic.
@@7OwlsWithALaptop Jimmy Carr laughs like count chocula
I'm eating frozen blueberries and this made me choke 😂😂
*most everybody's Jester impression:* [varying degrees of eastern European accents]
*Ashley's first attempt at a Jester impression:* [heavy Brooklyn accent]
Sam was Italian though, which was great!
To be fair, that's Ashley's accent for literally everything.
Ashley's first attempt at Any accent (heavy Brooklyn accent)
Yeah, Italy is definiteyl not east Europe, though (also, let me tell you, it's always a shock to hear remember what you think an italian accent sounds like).
Ashley's first attempt at jesters voice: HALLO!!
Jester: Ocarna
Everyone else: Shmootzie
And then there is Marisha who took it one step further: It means boning in Zemnian
Liam: Welp, I can't remember the smallest name in the story, frick it!
so, does a schmoopsie practice schmoopsing?
Subtitles: O' Connor
"Four days north of Nicodranas lays a dessert..."
matt.exe stopped responding
I assume there is no desert there?
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 4 days north of Nicodranis at a fast walking pace leaves you in the middle of the Cyrios End Forest
and it details is across the ocean XD
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 Nicodranas is a port city but the sea is to the South. North is just land
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 I think four days north of Nicodronis puts you in Trostenwald, where the campaign started.
Everyone: “The desert four days north of Nicodranas.” Matt: *confused geography noises.*
best one
Matt: I don't remember making a desert???
Dropkick Piper Blood just starts trickling from one nostril
I think she was talking about a city in Marquette that VM went to. She mentioned a dragon which I will not elaborate on for spoiler purposes 👀
@@tobistein6639 yes! this is exactly what I thought, because matt said that there wasn't a desert north of nicodranas, but rewatching laura's story it clicked the place, y'know, because of a dragon, whatever that means :V
“Why is this video an hour long?” *watches jester telling the story* “Oh god”
If Cad's isn't at least double i'll riot.
You're right, it needs to be 5 hours long, like the videos their fans are used to watching from them.
@@davidparkes7741 haha, his will be next lvl in a very dif. way lol. i can not wait!
@@vividlycrazy1422 It'll be two sentences with a total of 17 words. From there it will still get mangled into a half hour long diatribe about mushrooms.
I completely forgot that Jester has the ability to say 10,000 words in the span of 10 seconds
yet she is only allowed 25 words with send message, kinda unfair.
@@CathrineMacNiel that 25 word limit was made to contain jester. imagine the damage done to ones mind by a full minute of jester blasting trough your skull at full speed.
As soon as Laura started in, it explained all of the reaction clips at the beginning. You just know it's all going to go off the rails immediately with all the extraneous details and story going every which way but the point.
@@yargolocus4853this made me snort laugh
shes russian! shes italian! shes yiddish! shes french! shes from brooklyn! shes jester!
You have no idea how hard this made me choke on my soda ok
Seriously, how is one supposed to describe her accent to someone who hasn't seen CR?
YUSSSSSS!!!!
She’s NoHo Hank.
@@joshhaworth2155 Slavic
* Liam starts with an impeccable Jester impression *
Me: okay. Starting strong.
* Followed by Sam *
Me: oh no.
Sam: * Italian accent? * It is me Jeeester.
Me: O O H. N O O.
IndigoRaysofLight Yeah, but really felt like Travis ruined it wayyyy more than Sam, but Sam got dumped on as the worst because even though he did remember way more than Travis, Sam (who played a bard for a long time in the last campaign) forgot the song!
@@randalladkins7452 because that is a strange thing. Never thought it could happen myself
OOOHHHH MMMMYYYY GGGGOOOODDDDD!!!!
Marisha: "It'a a me, Ma... I mean, Jester!"
That was awesome hahaha!
Jester is literally that kid going “have you ever had a dream where-you um- you cou- um you, you, you could do anything” while everyone else goes cross eyed.
biker9476 so my kindergartner 😅
this is way too accurate 😂😂
Ooohh man, that's the best reference ever, had me rolling hahahahah
And then I was running and then you could eat the thing and then you found a dragon and then could fly and then you go across the desert and then and then and then...
First episode: Nice little tale about Pumat Sol
Second episode: Directions for building IKEA furniture without the manual
More like building the whole IKEA
@@freedomnow5 Hahahaha!
I'm floored!
@@freedomnow5 *loud snort*
I'm ded
From Laura to Liam there was an instant jump from Jester telling a rambling fairy tale to Dr. Doofenshmirtz doing a rambling monologue and I am HERE for it
I crave a phineas and ferb one shot now
Lol @ the "fuck you laura bailey"
OMG! I hear the Doofenschmirtz now. It makes it much better!
Mountain out of a molehill one is a classic
“And under that rock you will find a platypus. *platypus dons fedora* PERRY THE PLATYPUS!?!?
Now they all sort of know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of Jester’s sending spell 😂
Watch out, we have an underrated comment right here
The Gentleman: *sighs*
@@xWinterstarex7 Everyone Jester has mesaged more than once: Grins in sympathy.
Jester hasn't weaponized annoyance.
*YET*
Nah, if it was the receiving end of a Sending Spell it would have cut out just before important information and paused for like 10 seconds while she decides if it's worth casting again only to cut out before more important information.
I love Laura and Jester so much, her use of Sending is a plague upon the nobility of Wildemount.
Matt: wizard kills wolf. Makes soup.
Laura: the entire plot of Game of Thrones
God tells kid story about magic plum
Ashley, in a booming russian man voice: Hello it's me, Jester
lmfao
*immediately tries it myself. Hits like*
Now I'm imagining a big middle-aged Russian woman in bad cosplay and smoking a tarry cigarette saying gruffly "Hello. Is me, Jester."
And I live in a house.
a very fine house, with 2 cats in the yard.
Ashley Johnson going "HELLO my name is Jesturr" five times in wildly different accents really does give me life
She says the same "Hello" as Yasha too
Liam: "Ashley's gonna be like, 'Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be a gangster.' "
Actual Ashley: "HELLOOOOOI'MJES-TUR!!!"
Eventually she settled on a Jewish house wife from New Jersey.
@@JustinSIsTank "And I live in a House"
Laura putting mistakes and corrections in the original story was genius. It's like gift wrapped hand grenades for the rest of the cast :D
The best part? It's TOTALLY in-character! LOL
@@sodasaintcommentaries4054 She just wants them to open their hearts to chaos.
It really didn't matter in the end though. lol
I just imagined her MUAJAJAJAing in her mind during her whole narration
I feel like it's just Jester telling the story each time, just later and later in life from where she heard it.
Laura: Picador's plum
Sam: [notable culture hub] plum
Marisha: [deli food] plum
Taliesin: [mythological underworld goddess] plum
Taliesin 'Always-On-Brand' Jaffe, ladies and gents.
It's kind of funny how the Elysian fruit came full circle back to Greek mythology, since Laura clearly based it off of the pomegranate that Persephone ate.
Actually Persephone isn’t a goddess of the underworld, only the queen of. A goddess of the underworld would Hecate, goddess of magic and doorways.
Laura: "you find a forest grove in a desert"
Ashley: "you find a desert plum in a forest"
Ashley saying “three” but holding up TWO fingers is primo CritRole energy
"Pick number three my lord!" lol ✌️
Laura: *speaks in jester’s voice*
Liam: are you challenging me Laura Bailey?
I like how Laura intentionally had jester confuse a detail.
She is trying to mess with everyone
I think she needn't have bothered judging from how quickly they went off the rails.
The Traveler would have wanted it that way
I think that was just some Laura improv (aka Laura forgot), but it definitely worked
“hello my name is jester. i live in a house. my mom has a job doing things.”
"You know, stuff!"
Agh I live in a house, I killed my whole family
@@SoloStudiosOfficial Promise I won't throw you under the bridge
Laura Bailey's Traveler: Fairly good impersonation of Matt Mercer
Sam Reigel's Traveler: Obbey the Rat.
It was so him!
The way Laura Bailey can go from Jester to Matthew Mercer being the traveller in a second flat is mind blowing
Faster than me trying to comprehend all the layers she was going through in those voices. Laura is epic.
Laura Bailey is not even all that low-key an Academy level actress playing D&D
@@stefanandrews5098 I mean, she is a crazy popular voice actor with a TON of credits ranging all the way back to early 2000. She's a pro at doing voice/characters.
I am pretty sure, Laura herself know the Traveler better than anyone, even Matt... well, she created him,... kinda...
So. Much. Range...
Tbf, this is hardest for Tallesin since they're playing in his second language English not his native language of Eldritch
Isn't Caleb Zemnian?
Imma gonna correct both you fools. It's not the "language of Eldritch", it's R'lyehian. And to the other dude, where'd you get Caleb from Taliesin?
@@zaonth1414 Taliesin doesnt play Caleb...
@@zaonth1414 Woooosh
@@shawnm7246 i know i was saying that liam would also be having trouble
And here are the awards for the cast of Critical Role:
Most deviated: Sam Riegel
Most animated: Marisha Ray
Best Memory: Liam O'Brien
Calmest start: Travis Willingham
Most adorable attempts: Ashley Johnson
Best comeback from a blank mind: Matthew Mercer
Most rustic background: Taliesin Jaffe
Best added mythological detail: Taliesin Jaffe
Can we get like physical certificates or tiny trophies or something for this?
Liam also wins best Jester accent. But I kind of like how Matt just brought out his Ruby of the Sea voice for doing Jester.
This applies to the last one aswell
Is Ashley not always the most adorable though, just generally speaking?
I feel like that one is a bit of a given
Matt usually: Master of Improv, perfect eloquence when acting and storytelling, makes 4 page monologues without a stutter in the wildest accent.
Matt here: story telling skills of a 4th grader in the school play with stage fright
To be fair it is actually perfect eloquence because Laura had her story with corrections. It's a Jester thing to do.
Proper planning prevents piss poor performance.
@@FunkBastid The sextet of pee.
@@blechtic why is you view red are?
Improve versus memorization
I love how pretty much all of them committed to Jester’s accent.
And claiming The Ruby of the Sea was the "best lady ever"
@@ashenwuss1651 best LAY ever
Until Sam turned her into Mario.
@@Keovar I meant most of the others upheld the notion. I thought Liam did, too, but oops
@@Keovar it was a reference to the 'song' jester sung about her mom in one of the first episodes in C2
I love that at the end of Ashley's story there's no treasure. You find this hippogriff named Shmoopie, give him the desert plum, and then just hang out and have a good time.
maybe the real treasure was the hipogriff friend we made along the way
It's the quarantine mood. We're all subconsciously craving human interaction.
NeinRegrets MMO rpgs make it easier.
Yeah, Ashley made this story kid-freindly - no stooping, the real treasure is the friends we made along the way, …
ah yes, foreshadowing for the hag... :)
Laura: You travel to a desert in Marquet.
Liam and co.: You travel to a desert near Trostenwald.
Matt: is broken.
Someone needs to make a map of where that journey went in each of the stories.
@@Knarsenslol I'm not great at working out distance in days, but I'm pretty sure most of them managed to end up in various parts of the Ashkeeper Peaks on the East legs of their journeys.
Matt breaking down there had me rolling
The genius of this is: every story derailed still sound exactly like jester, so it's almost impossible to know what was added by the others. Jesters so chaotic it all would be realistically from her
I've described Jester to multiple friends as chaos incarnate.
Which proves all the more that Jester is the Goddess of Chaos and Joy. Change my mind.
The others? This house is ours...
I love how Matt Mercer, world renowned master of storytelling and improv, was reduced to nervously reciting the facts. XD
Not helped when so much of the story has disappeared over several people, and you know it involves Jester's rambling.
And he was also out of his element. This wasn't a storytelling or improv. They all were trying to repeat exatly what they were told. It can make oneself nervous
Still stands. It was pretty funny, lol.
Liam started with a pretty solid Jester impression at the beginning and ended with “AHHHHH YES, PERRY THE PLATYPUS”
Literally what I thought
* Doofenshmitrz evil incorporateddddddd *
@@teacooper6485 Doofinsmirtz evil abandoned vacuum factory
Bwahahaha!!!!
@@generalawesome7279 *doofensmirtz lavish chateau*
Laura: A Boulder that's shaped like a heart
Sam: A hut in the shape of a boulder
To be fair, Liam was the one who brought the "hut" into the story
Liam, you mean?
He said heart, but his accent made it sound like hut
Oh, I heard it as "hut" when Laura talked, too.
@@curiousgeorge1092 He said hut, he admitted when they watched the original together that he understood hut
JESTER'S TALL TALE - CHANGE LOG
+ addition
- reduction
* detail change
v2.0 (Liam)
+ childhood set in Nicodranas (not mentioned before)
* starting location of travel changed from "beautiful city ruled by a secret dragon" to Nicodranas
- beautiful city is removed
* dragon is now in the desert
* fruit now grows in the grove generally instead of just 1 special tree
* "4 days east" instead of "4 days north west" to the boulder
* "heart-shaped" became "hut-shaped"
* hippogriff's name is now Schmazerwoof
- the cave is now a "special place"
v3.0 (Sam)
+ Jester's mother is now the "ruby of the sea, the best lay ever"
+ mother is busy schtupping instead of busy working.
+ there was farmland in the grove
- dragon was removed
* the tree/s that grow the elysium fruit became the Picadilly plum tree; the "plum" is no longer a title of an unknown treasure
* punishment for eating the fruit in the grove is now vague
* the hut-shaped boulder is now the rock the hippogriff lives in
* hippogriff's name in now Schmortzy from Okarna
- the hippogriff falling in love from the fruit
- the song
- climbing on her back and flying to a cave
* the Picador's Plum treasure is now a vague "prize" that showers you with gold and riches
+ the hippogriff and the its lair disappears when you turn around after receiving the treasure; you are unsure if they really existed
+ the smell of the plum fruit is notable/"plum-y"
+ that transition to the next storyteller
v4.0 (Travis)
* 4 days north of Nicodranas became 5 days north
+ the desert is not able to grow fruit
- farmland in grove was removed
* hippogriff's name is now Shmopley/Shmoopsy
* the "hut-shaped rock it lives in" is now the "lair that looked like a stone"
v5.0 (Marisha)
* Jester's mother is now "shmoopsing" one of her clients
- desert's ability/inability to grow fruit was not mentioned
+ the hippogriff's location is now in a forest
* hippogriff's name is now "Shmoopsy Ploopsy"
* the "lair that looks like a stone" returned to a "hut that looks like stone but was not stone"
* the hippogriff's reward for giving her a Piccadilly plum are "wishes and lots of treasure"
v6.0 (Matt)
* mother is now "shmoopsing" a customer
- the Piccadilly plum is also now a desert plum
* the "hut that looks like stone but was not stone" is now just a "stone hut"
+ the hippogriff is now thankful for the plum you give them, hence the reward you receive
- wishes were remove as something the hippogriff granted
* the stone hut was now "never there to begin with" after you turn around
v7.0 (Taliesin)
- the customer aspect is now removed
- the desert/Piccadilly plum is now "a desert plum named Persephone"
- the grove in the middle of the desert is removed
* "4 days east from the desert" became "3 days"
* "stone hut" is now a "hut stone house"
* hippogriff's name is now "Schmutzy"
+ the hippogriff's appreciates the taste of the plum in addition to being grateful
* the hippogriff's "treasures" became "presents"
v8.0 (Ashley)
* mother is back to just being busy because of a job
+ "desert plum named Persephone" is now "delicious desert plum named Persephone"
* "5 days north to a desert" became "5 days into a forest"
* "3 days east from the desert" became "3 days east of Nicodranas"
* hippogriff's name is now "Shmoopy"
- hippogriff's location is no longer in a forest
* the hippogriff no longer gives out presents after receiving the plum, you just hang out together after
that must have taken a lot of time
Dude this is Crit Stats level of detail. Kudos
Good work.
@@RaibDarkin Thanks! hahaha
As an I.T guy i identify with this way more than i should
Ruby of the sea is the best lay ever IS THE ONLY THING THAT STUCK....and Laura didn't even say it.
odd lupine flavour...
@@ameteuraspirant The Ruby of the Sea is the best lay ever, for she has an odd lupine flavor...
That and the name
In summation:
Laura: Jester
Liam: “Zemnian” Jester
Sam: “Italian” Jester
Travis: “Borat” Jester
Marisha: “Oh hello” Jester
Matt: “The best lay ever” Jester
Taliesin: “German” Jester
Ashley: “Brooklyn/Damian” Jester
Marisha: "Tracy" Jester.
Oh dang Tal’s Jester really does sound German
Honestly I just get strong Bob vibes from Matt's Jester story telling. Even the eye and head motions match!
@@Pippin2luv hmm.. as a german i can´t really confirm that. Maybe the way he says "so".. other than that not really :)
@@frontallappen4981 Sounded more like a Scandinavian accent to me, but in my experience German accents can sound quite varied and I actually know a few people here who sound quite similar.
Jester: My mom was working. Everyone else: MY MOM IS THE BEST LAY!
Yea but that's understandable. There's a whole skit about that somewhere in the beginning of C2.
Ruby of the sea is the best lay ever
Jochen Panjaer it’s more of a jingle. It sounds better in the original Infernal.
@@Soma2710 you mean Marquisian, right? Common mistake, they're both devilishly hot ;)
"Do the jingle! Do the jingle!"
Sam: *forgets some important details*
Me: Saaaam
Sam: *starts adding his own details*
Me: SAAAAAM
Sam: I did not add anything in there!!
Me: SAAAAAAAAMMM!!!
Sam's consistently been a troll pretty much since day 1. What else did you expect? 😛
@@masonwheeler6536 i think he was just genuinely trying to wrap up the story, not troll
This fulfilled my dream of hearing every cast member *attempt* Jester's accent
Haley Hynes I love how Sam just turned inexplicably Italian
@@LeyCarnifex ikr? Lol
@@LeyCarnifex And Ashley's occasional New York leaking in, like Coffee Talk with Linda Richman.
I mean they did...decent...kinda
I love how Liam went full Doofenschmirtz a couple of times lmao
Laura: "Ruled by a dragon"
Everyone except Liam: *Flabbergasted*
Twins confirmed.
@@sycolution The Twin-Telepathy is strong with these two, man
Poor J'mon Sa Ord. Not getting the respect they deserve. 😭
I like how Taliesins panic reaction was to immediately shave his head
It was the same thing he did when C1 was ending... i can totally see it being a thing due to panic
I also tend to take out my emotions on my hair, usually by dyeing it a bright color. It's a harmless control thing.
@@MusesWhim Fucking pathetic snowflake
I think we’ve all been there. Not full Brittany, but close.
Talisien saying „she was busy being the best lay ever“ was just underrated
Last time I was this early, Hunter wolfs had beaks..
Todd Kong wait they don’t anymore??
@@sonofpears4691 Depends on which cast member you ask.
Very clever
@@sonofpears4691 By the end of the telephone chain, unfortunately they disappeared. But it needs to be cannon, damnit. Someone at DnD better make it happen.
@@Gamerjoyjoy Lupogriffs
Liam - your professor on zoom
Sam - one-time Emmy award-winning musician skyping his agent
Taliesen - college student calling home from halls
Matt + Marisha - parents use the computer in their pastel-goth teen's bedroom
Ashley - twitch streamer plays Life is Strange
Laura + Travis - family vloggers recording a podcast
I mean youre not wrong
sums it up perfectly haha
My God, I want to watch Ashley play Life is Strange on twitch now. And then have Ashley Burch video call in on Episode 3.
This is accurate
I can see those
LIAM IN FRONT OF THR BURNING HOUSE IN THE INTRO
DOELSNDIEKWMDDJKS
I CAN'T BREATHE
neither could his parents
and then sam is afraid of a water bottle lol
Yeah, that left me feeling like "Throw me under a bridge"
oh just murder my entire family, why don't you?
I love that Laura started with "if you eat the plum, you will be stuck in the grove forever" and later Taliesin calls it the Persephone Plum.
Elysian Fruit, the Plum is the treasure.
He was just having flashbacks to his time vacationing in the Asphodel Fields.
Liam: forgets details and makes up ones of his own with no tells.
Sam: I’m literally forgetting all the things right now in front of your face so watch me make shit up!
"Vax" killed it. They are so good together.
Ashley: Do a little Nott so it's in my head
Sam: *Gargles screaming cats*
Well, that image is now stuck in my head forever
this made me laugh hahahaha thank you
I can't wait for Ashley's rendition of the voice to just be Marge Simpson.
matthew: “you’ve all been 5 days north of Nicodranas! you know there’s no desert!”
According to CritRoleStats, Ashley's entry was somehow still shorter than Sam's despite the fact that she had three false starts :D
Ashley has a tendency to cull details she can't get 100% precise, while Sam goes "fuck it" and completely disregards the line between his faulty memory and details he comes up with on the spot.
The first 10 seconds is the cast just muttering in existential dread as they prepare to humiliate themselves for our entertainment... I love these guys so much...
When Ashley starts with "you've gotta be f***ing kidding me" what can go wrong!
I love how Travis is labeled as "Mr. Laura Bailey" in the beginning xD
They know who's the alpha
@@Br-kc2jy RTA lol
@@Br-kc2jy you got to recognize it
There is no alpha. They are equals.
Jester tell a story
Caleb keen mind: Yes
taliesin: struggling wildly to summarise the story
me: staring in confusion at the four eyed hippo in marker on his wall, completely distracted
Oh thank god, I'm not alone
I know! The whole time I was like, "Even your wall is horrified, Tal!"
At first I thought it was supposed to be channeling Jester with random drawings on the wall but the more I watched I was like...no, I think that’s just a regular part of Taliesin’s room.
@@teehlfx5238 Know what, if Taliesin were to talk about it later and say he was losing his mind so he decided to start a mural on his wall, I'd believe it.
Omg yes!
Laura: tells a complex crazy story
Liam: Caleb would remember that, because of keen mind
Liam's "oh man, you guys!" is actually quite spot on for Jester. xD
Liam’s Jester and Caleb’s Jester are two wildly different voices, and I absolutely love it.
A frighteningly accurate depiction of asking my players to recap the last session
Joe Schmoe A+
Yeah... Thats just what it is
INORITE
It's so strange hearing Matt speak with anything other than absolute confidence!
He notoriously has a very hard time with the Jester accent.
Laura when trying to defend her story: "I don't think that was THAT hard?" Travis besides her giving that famous "Nope, Nope, Nope but I wont say it in-front of my wife in fear of my life" look.
I actually love that she added a lot of specific details just to see how far those details would degrade.
@@Terahnee Also in her story, jester changed her mind on the detail of the heart shaped stone - which is just genius
I think my favorite part of watching each Narrative Telephone back to back is the slow evolution of Ashley Johnson's swelling hatred for the game.
2nd one in and she's already like "I AM NOT GOOD AT THIS GUYS!"
Yasha: "Ey it's ya pal Jester. I got an amazin' story to tell yous guys."
Jester: Do I really sound like that?
"Badaboom badabing, eyyy. Fuggedabahdit!"
Im wakin eer
IS LIAM PRETENDING TO BE CALEB PRETENDING TO JESTER?! an accent within an accent!
Oh hi!
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I suspect that the only way Liam can do Jester's accent is with a layer of Caleb's accent in between.
He's just a dude playin' a dude disguised as another dude
@@InanDante You have to find the song thats mixed from that sample.
He definitely tries for Jester accent while doing Traveller voice. blew my mind. 03:05
Wait, we lost “eating the fruit traps you”, and THEN we gained Persephone?!
Fitting
Irony is pomegranate shaped fruit
🤣🤣Oh that's frickin hilarious 😂😹
More proof that Taliesin knows all and is just toying with us mortals.
Very “collective concise”!
The shock and dismay when they're _all_ hearing Laura's original recording... I'm tearing up, I'm laughing so hard! 😂🤣
Just hearing Jesters story my brain went 500 different ways LOOL
LOOL
yukieex3 it’s hard to keep up,
positively brain-melting lol
"Lay back and let me tell you how to find Picador's Plum"
i love how everyone but laura remembered to say "my mum is the best lady ever"
"Who killed the song?"
"I killed the song."
"Sam killed the song!"
"Sam killed the song?!"
aksdjhfaksdh
Aksdihfskhd
Just like with the last one, Sam is the gatekeeper of details. He removes several that other people had carried over and adds in a bunch of new ones. xD
I love the fact that because of the “that’s just one story” tag, Jester is implied to be telling all of these stories straight in a row.
Matt and Laura could write a bed time children book called "The traveler's bed time tales" with illustration of a child jester playing with the traveler on her room.
Ackley Heard It also implies that The Traveler told her stories beginning with a monologue where he pretended to be her pretending to be him.
Laura's Traveller voice: Slightly Vex-ish, sultry, pleasant to the ear
Sam: hULLow jEhsteR
Obby the Rat
Actually, Ashley's rendition is the most true to the way Jester would relay a story she heard once.
Probably, yeah
Her accent wasn't great but her impression was SPOT ON otherwise
Liam - "7 cast members later my Jester is looking pretty good!"
Liam: "She's doing War and Peace in two minutes!"
one piece, I think
@@yashmody417 It's War and Peace.
Yash Mody its war and peace dum dum. Never read it in high school?
@@sebastianzuzi311 War and One Piece is even longer.
can we just talk about Laura’s Travaler voice? like UGH I’M MELTING
I’ve come back to hear it again multiple days.
Vex cameo
Matt still using his own vocab as jester "if you will"
yesssssss
It's kinda like the traveler/ male vex combo
Kind of weird when the story diverges... and then SOMEHOW gets lost facts right again. Like a Persephone Plumb isn't a bad name for an Elysian Fruit that prevents you from leaving.
Nionivek its like they’re all working from a similar hivemind that grants details every so often. Its incredible
Nutmeg Critical Role Mind-Flayer theory
Like how Travis did not say hut at all and marisha added it back
Can we appreciate how *everytime* Alshey has to make the accent of a character she isn't playing, they turn out to be from 1950's New York?
Also, that Taliesin committed hair seppuku after his narration turn x)
I was hoping somebody commented this because that's EXACTLY what i was going to say lol
Then in the Darington brigade she gave in and played a 50's NY Gangster
this should straight up be a standard show once lockdowns over, such a simple concept but it produces some of the most hilarious moments XD
YES! So much yes!!!
Idris Ghazan ++
Yes! It is such a fun show to watch! This is easily one of my favorite concepts. Make these a regular series please.
Be nice when they go on break or something.
Please
What cracks me up is that Sam tells his kids about the campaign adventures as a bedtime story each week. Now I'm wondering exactly how much narrative telephone has been going on at the Riegel household all these years!
holy is that real? thats both cute and terryfing
@@spyt6353 He does! He's talked about it in various sources over the years. He edits the stories as needed sometimes 😂
"Hello my name is Jester and you know, i live in this house." Ashley Johnson
Marisha losing her shit so hard, she had to walk off screen when Taliesin said "perseophone plum" had me in stitches too.
But she was still on cam, and it was awesome!
That was low-key my favorite part of the video, and that's saying a lot.
I absolutely died on Ashley's third "HELLO!" She is such an absolute treasure.
I THOUGHT I WAS READY
Ashley: oh no...
Me: oh yes
I laughed prior to her, but she had me rolling on the floor. And I was waiting for the crew to be doing the same as well. So worth it!
She is so bad at this game but she tries so hard, and I love her for it.
Sam on the other hand...
Laura you mad genius. Having the very first telling already being second hand and rambling was some peak jester chaos energy
"Its weird that you would find a desert plum in a forrest, but OK" OH Ashley.
Laura: *tells an insidiously complicated story*
Me: Wow okay, that's way more detail than anyone will be able to include in their retelling
Sam: Hold my wine aerator
i choked on my burrito while laughing at this, the medical bill will be in your mailbox tomorrow
Wait, Jester wasn’t the one that started the story, the Traveller started it. Now we will never know what the original was.
I kinda wanna see someone animate these stories with all the variations the story goes through.
Ooh, like a drunk history type deal.
That'd be great.
YESS! i was thinking the same thing! It would make it easier to see what is actually being changed/removed/added.
Still waiting for someone to do this
No hero has stepped up to take on this extraordinary quest
No one has done one for Jester's yet but there's this channel named Stellar Circle Studios that did an animatic of all the variations of Beau's narrative telephone! It's really good!
Rest of the cast: tries to relay the story proper
Sam : anyway I started casting modify memory
"So the hyppogriff's name was 'boning', but in zemnian."
It's even better that Marisha didn't know it was Liam who fucked that up, but she nailed it being zemnian 😂
Best part
I love how everyone tries doing Jester's voice! Best bits: Liam gets fairly close but misses some things; Sam forgets some things and adds shit that was never there; Travis can't get through it without laughing (honestly, same); Marisha tries *so hard* to get things right and loses it a little; Matt tries so hard to follow what Marisha gave him; Taliesin talks with his hands a lot and it's hilarious how much he lost; Ashley just loses her mind, and it's just the best.
"She was too busy being the best lay ever."
OMG Taliesin that absolutely SLEW me I dont even know why.
Sad that the singing was lost so early. Would have liked to see everyone attempt that.
Taliesan: "Plesefnay Plum!" XD
Persephone, which is actually pretty fitting because her story also involved fruit.
By the end of the Telephone it would have become a rap song
Agreed. As a music oriented person, the tune may have been the only thing I remembered.
Even CR comes back tomorrow, they HAVE to keep doing this until everyone has had their chance to tell a story. They have done to the telephone game what they did to dungeons and dragons. Amazing.
Do you mean they're coming off hiatus or when they come off they should keep going if they didn't finish?
Just want to clarify because your message gives the implication that they're coming back tomorrow(1/5/2020) and if that's true, I'd like a source!
@@MythicTF2 I think they left off if. As in even if they were to come back tomorrow, I'd still want more of these.
I'm guessing it was meant to be "Even *IF* CR comes back tomorrow"
Got my hopes up for a second there
Seconded!
Gotta love perfect ad timing.
Matt: "But there was another story, let me tell you about it..."
"LET'S PLAY RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS!!!"
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Sadly I think that's region specific, because I got a slightly less epic ad for instant coffee in Cantonese. It did make the coffee I was drinking seem more magical, though.
I love how close Liam got to Laura's original. It's like they play characters that interact with each other so much they learned to speak each other's languages
Or maybe he was just the only one to listen to the original...
Twin magic
Matt's immediately makes me think of Kiri, because Kiri usually imitates Jester, but Matt's jester is slightly different from Laura.
Bow-Tied Engineer it made me think of Bob the githyanki
his jester also is close to jesters mom, but that was obviously going to happen.