@@mrmcawesome9746 Or (using my knowledge of biology here) something like an ant or beetle... Too light to pick up enough speed to actual be killed by falling
@@mrmcawesome9746 I’m pretty sure at this point she had the ability to turn into a dragon as well. She could have used her “golden god” power and turned into an aquatic bronze dragon, but instead went for a gold fish. - Plot Hole #40
Also, @everyone spazzing about how dumb this was: it was hilarious. Comedy comes from stupidity. It'd be boring if this show was perfect decisions 100% of the time.
@@mathybrain8 Okay people keep bringing that up as if she axe murdered someone. There was an incident pre stream in which a demon was kidnapping children from Emon. When Vox Machina went to save them they found the demon and it had adorned itself with the kidnapped children to use as armour. Keyleth attempted to use thorn whip to dislodge one of the children and bring them to safety but due to a very unlucky dice role ended up accidentally snapping his neck in the process. Following this she was so devastated that she took a six month hiatus from adventuring to figure herself out. It's not like she disintegrated a kid for the laughs.
Well they are gods, and what could kill a god but a god? haha Though arguably it was a bigger god that killed her, since her jump didnt kill her but physics changing to allow the fall to do enough damage killed her. She knew the jump couldnt do enough to kill her, but physics changed
Fall dmg is limited to 20d6 In addition the fall damage should have been reduced for the druid going several sizes smaller. Granted I'm not sure if she still would have survived anyway.
"That's fine!" "Its fine...!" "We're Gods!" "We're gods?" "Did you just say we're gods? Why would you even test that shit?" Well...apparently kiki has become a greek hero and has succumbed to hubris
“I really do think Keyleth’s biggest weakness is her cockiness. I think that’s what prevents her from becoming a relatively average Moon Druid. Every time she does alright, she acts like she’s invincible. She’s like the real-life Alpharad. Mid-tier with a Pit complex.” I hope I did the reference right.
TBF Grog egged her on. Later it was Travis telling Marisha her life choices were dumb, they weren't in character. The artist still represented them with their characters though.
I feel like it should be common knowledge that even if you hit the water it'll hurt. When you do a belly flop that smack tends to hurt. So hitting the water from one thousand feet is also gonna hurt but more so. Xd even if it was grog I can see him putting that together
bluey1695 yeah the cap on fall damage is *supposed* TO represent terminal velocity, however because of the way the dice progression works you'd hit the cap of 20d6 while you're well below terminal velocity. Every DM I know houserules away the fall damage cap, and once actually mathed out what the proper cap should be (can't remember he exact numbers but it's hundreds of D6's, enough to massive damage instagib any dnd character.
@@raspberrypie1706 Yeah, but people DO survive falling out of planes and shit in real life, and they're, like, level 1 commoners in D&D terms. If you've a level 20 *anything* in D&D, you should barely give a shit about something as mundane as falling damage.
I kept hearing about the infamous “We’re gods” scene before getting caught up to the series. I assumed it was just a badass one liner and the actual scene was so much more than i expected.
I had it explained to me as "Keyleth decides to jump off a cliff for the lulz because 'We're gods!'" and then I saw it written down as "Keyleth jumps down to help someone in the water" so it sounds like she was going to save someone from drowning, but then it turns out it was basically yeah, Keyleth jumped off *just because*
I thought the whole thing with her rolling a Nat 1 on an athletics/acrobatics check - causing her to catch her foot on a bit of rock while trying to jump across 6-7 feet of lava - made her want to make a character to avoid FALLING INTO LAVA ever again. XD
My favorite part of this in the original is that Matt keeps his composure, and then when they question him he gets so flustered like "I DID NOT PLAN THIS OKAY"
ua-cam.com/video/JweRpzsCiGo/v-deo.htmlm24s Taryon, My Wayward Son | Critical Role: VOX MACHINA | Episode 97 it's right at the beginning, she...DIVES RIGHT IN. EH? EH?
The thing is she had every opportunity to completely negate the issue. Instead of transforming into a goldfish of all things, why not a **flying fish**? It would have put her in a form where she could safely land and continue on into the water.
zedx50 I think you meant "vision" is seeing the cliff. Because even a three year old will see it and recognize what it is. From wiki: Wisdom reflects how attuned you are to the world around you and represents perceptiveness and intuition. Intelligence measures mental acuity, accuracy of recall, and the ability to reason. I'm pretty sure a medium score in either should be enough to make a person careful in front of that cliff or make him/her bale when potentially rocketing towards rocks.
This is the perfect example of why d&d is like no other game. It may sound awesome in your head but it all goes to shit with a single roll. Hilarity always ensues.
I remember playing as this Wizard who owned a simple lumber jack ax but was VERY attached to it. At one point a stranger tried taking it and in rage and a really good roll I killed him on accident then one thing led to another and a small riot happened, I was putting up a REALLY good fight, and long story short I landed in jail. So yeah, it morphed into this mission to find a killer in the city to a Mission Impossible, break out of jail and find the original killer and hope that I either don't get locked up again or me and my friends don't get killed because I'm sort of a fugitive now.
kyubii972 She's like yo the DM's mah boyfriend it'll be okay hubby won't let me die Then Travis explains how terrible an idea it was and it's hilarious.
Well, funny thing is, this wasn't even really down to a roll. Kiki just decided she was going to tempt it whether she hit rock or not. It was just bad decisions.
The way you've laid this one out is just perfection. The eye, the diagram, drop down screen, the dice app, everything was crystal clear and delightful.
Yeah, the eye is a great conceit for the DM. So was putting the other players table talk in a thought bubble. Grog dropping down the projector screen to illustrate what happened was great, and was almost what Travis did.
This was the best possible way to start off an episode. Also, my favorite detail that always goes unnoticed is the little exchange between Sam and Taliesin. Sam: "You realize that goldfish aren't magnetically attracted to water, right?" Taliesin: "No, that's ironfish." XD
True, a goldfish would die from hitting water from that height just as easily as a person... Water is like hitting solid concrete from that height. Doesn't matter if you're a fish.
It's funny. When telling new players about death being a real possibility in D&D I *always* use the "I can't save you if you do something really stupid like jumping off a cliff" example. 😂
I haven't gotten to this part of the show yet, but this comment reminds me of a certain incident in RollPlay involving an airborne dragon, a free-falling ranger, and a ring of wishes.
Keyleth: “And I run and CLIFF DIVE!!!” DM: “Uh-oh.” Key: “Don’t tell me. I’m about to fall smack dab into the cliff face.” DM: “Yup.” Key: “Sharp rocks at the bottom?” DM: “Most likely. Key: “....Bring it on.” ONE RED VELVET CUPCAKE LATER....
It would be a rough superhero landing but very much doable. Can you imagine if a barbarian lands on a creature? He/she would instantly deal +300 damage, if they get a surprise round you're looking at another 80-120 damage and if they also win the initiative roll... yeah it's over.
I told my friend before he watched the episode that there's a moment that tops her belly flop into Lava and he didn't believe me. He apologized an hour later.
the result of a Nat 1 for jumping across 6-7 feet of lava...and Matt had this look on his like 'I'm really gonna have to come up with the worst possible scenario for this Nat 1 to my wife...'
To give a bit of perspective on how high this is This cliff was over 1000ft tall. *The Empire State Building is 1200 ft.* *this chick dove off a mountain lmao*
i love the initials on the gravestones at the end and naturally, for percy fredrickstein von musel klossowski derollo III, it needs a slightly wider tombstone...
For the longest time, I avoided this animatic thinking it was some super badass (and super spoilery) moment from C1. I've never been so happy to be wrong.
My favorite part of this is the fact that GLADLY by chance Laura had an enchanted with „revivify“ coin given her by Sam. I mean, one thing is when characters revive a friend fallen in the battle with their contributions to the ritual. But how would you have a straight face if she died like this „Yeah sorry God, she had issues, but we love her anyway“. That could easily be a permanent-permanent death.
My favourite part of the original bit is when Marisha tried to justify turning into a goldfish and Sam says... "goldfish are not magnetically attracted to water...
This is how technically how I learned that Vex had died. I was unaware of any member of Vox Machina dying before watching this and now I find out they all had died at some point. Granted this also indicates their deaths didn't stick. This fact slipped my mind when watching S2E3 of The Legend of Vox Machina. At the end I realized that I had indirectly heard of Vex's death.
Spoilers for Campaign 2: Keyleth: Oh my God, mom! I can't believe you're alive! I have so many stories to tell you! Scanlan: Tell her the story about the cliff and the goldfish!
Ok I had heard of this moment for so long, and I always imagined this happening during an epic battle in which Keyleth jumped off the cliff to escape or something, and hit the water as a fish (taking damage since being an aquatic creature doesn't negate falling from 1000 feet) Turns out this was way funnier XDD
I’m not up to date with Critical Role and I don’t know the exact context of why this character jumped off a cliff or what she’s capable of but I do have to ask, why didn’t she just turn into a seagull or something?
I got no idea, my guess is she thought being a goldfish would break her fall into the water? even if she was above water turning into a goldfish with that momentum, hitting water is like hitting concrete, she would've taken the exact same amount of damage.
You see Marisha has this mentality that is you only live once except the exact opposite. So she tries whatever she wants and pays less attention than anyone else with the gravity of situations.
K4Z4Y You're totally missing the whole point of the game.. It's a game, first of all, they can do whatever the fuck they want. That's the beauty of d&d. Secondly, it's totally true to Keyleth's character, so she did the most correct thing she could have done in that situation. (other than going Keyteor)
I don't remember hearing it in this video - but my favorite part of this moment was when Marisha tried explaining why she chose a goldfish to turn into, rather than something that could fly - and one of them (I think it was either Sam or Travis) said something to the extent of "fish are not magnetically attracted to the water!" :P
Something that is hilarious in the original is that Liam is laughing his ass off and joking in the beginning, but quickly goes into a breakdown like "I'M STARTING TO SWEAT! I DON'T SEE IT!! WHO SEES IT!!"
It would have been even funnier if she turned into an ant, since their body mass is too small for them to actually die to a fall. Getting smashed into rocks though…
You know something? No matter how many times I watch this, it never gets old. The sheer amount of thought process that Keyleth puts in before deciding on turning into a goldfish? Priceless.
I have watched this a few times in a row after seeing this episode. Awesome work on a hilarious scene! I love the laughing face of the Keyleth goldfish, then how Grog shows up to explain the fall. Thank you for posting this! (ooh, 1000th comment!)
This is my favorite one you've done. Everything about it is brilliant: the DM eye, the diagrams, the party in Keyleth's thought bubble... It's all perfect. Well done!
The funniest part is, even if she had hit the water in goldfish form (which has 1 HP btw) falling form that height, she would still die instantly. Oh Kiki, you are the best! :D
I know it's been years - but thank you so much for animating this! The pure chaos of this scene, and this particular video, showing up on my recommended videos was the final push that got me started watching Critical Role over two years ago now.
Oh god I remember this, was laughing at her logic to do things. I always like how she thinks Gust is stronger than it is since it is just a cantrip. Gust of Wind might have launched her to safety. Her turning into a bird would have definitely would have saved her and then she could have just turned into a fish later to get the item. And her turning into an Elemental first would have probably gave her just enough hit points to not die die since I don't remember what her hit points were at then. Thank you very much for animating this. Will share this with a friend even if they don't D&D and watch Critical Role, they do love the animations though of their silly bits
She would have survived it without wild shaping into anything at all since the maximum fall damage you can take is 10d6, or 60. Because terminal velocity or something.
Yeah it is 20d6 but Matt seemed not to like that for the max fall damage or he forgot about it. Not sure considering it is a homebrew world with many homebrew rules. Falling damage not capping could have been one. Or it was for the God comment, to show who the true God was. I recall not if he ever replied to people yelling what max fall damage is. Since the rules are just a guideline and any DM can change them as they wish, just gotta stick with said change when it comes up again really to keep it consistent unless they honestly did not know what the actual ruling was and then go with the actual ruling. Lava damage being one of them once Matt found out what lava damage actual was.
Though a high level character should still be able to survive an impact at terminal velocity, unless in exandria you just keep speeding up until you hit the ground.
Normal falling rules yes. The damage that was dished out. Looking at their HP as of now if the Character Sheets on CriticalRoleStats is up to date(levels appear to be). Following massive damage rules where the remaining damage has to meet or exceed your maximum HP It would kill everyone in the party outright outside of Grog. He'd just fall unconscious. With normal falling rules and at max damage, the Twins survive it would a few HP to spare, Pike would just be left at 1.
When I first started watching critical role this video kept on being reccomended to me, and i didn’t watch it because of spoilers but because of the title I thought it was gonna be a super serious video about how powerful vox machina had become and their legacy as heroes. Boy was I wrong.
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This is so much funnier when you remember Keyleth can turn into ANY animal, including a BIRD.
She could’ve turned into a DRAGON at this point! It’s so infuriating, yet comedy gold.
@@dashthewizard comedy gold…fish!
I’ll see myself out
She panicked lol. Anyone would if you realize the situation you're in.
@@august7535 Panic is one thing.
Having as much time as she had after knowingly jumping off a cliff at such a high level is another thing entirely.
She could've turn into an elemental! Ton of HP! Ton of HP, I repeat! And then she could've found the diamond.
"Are you sure you wanna jump off the clif?"
"Yes"
"You died"
[Insert shocked pikachu]
Sometimes I really wish that we could put pictures in our comments, and this is one of those times!
Have fun with 1000 likes my dude
@@lilyminer9164 Almost 2k now.
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Goofy Goober Try 3k
"Fish are not...magnetically attracted to water"
-sam reigel, pointing out plot hole #38 in this cliff adventure
A good 33 of those were just "Why not just turn into a bird at this point?"
@@mrmcawesome9746 Or (using my knowledge of biology here) something like an ant or beetle... Too light to pick up enough speed to actual be killed by falling
@@fluffking2311 but she had already picked up speed
@@mrmcawesome9746
I’m pretty sure at this point she had the ability to turn into a dragon as well. She could have used her “golden god” power and turned into an aquatic bronze dragon, but instead went for a gold fish.
- Plot Hole #40
Plot hole #26 why didn't she use a gust of wind instead of thinking a single cantrip was good enough. Hell at least use two cantrips for it.
To this day... the only thing that has managed to kill Keyleth, is Keyleth.... amazing
Also, @everyone spazzing about how dumb this was: it was hilarious. Comedy comes from stupidity. It'd be boring if this show was perfect decisions 100% of the time.
Well, Keyleth and gravity.
What about when she killed a kid one time?
@@mathybrain8 Okay people keep bringing that up as if she axe murdered someone. There was an incident pre stream in which a demon was kidnapping children from Emon. When Vox Machina went to save them they found the demon and it had adorned itself with the kidnapped children to use as armour. Keyleth attempted to use thorn whip to dislodge one of the children and bring them to safety but due to a very unlucky dice role ended up accidentally snapping his neck in the process. Following this she was so devastated that she took a six month hiatus from adventuring to figure herself out. It's not like she disintegrated a kid for the laughs.
Well they are gods, and what could kill a god but a god? haha
Though arguably it was a bigger god that killed her, since her jump didnt kill her but physics changing to allow the fall to do enough damage killed her. She knew the jump couldnt do enough to kill her, but physics changed
It gets funnier when you know that this happened LITERALLY 3 minutes into the actual episode.
Ashley: It's only 7:15, Matt!
Matt: "I KNOW! I- I just- THIS WAS NOT IN MY PLAN!"
AgeOfPwn What episode?
@@lindengb4362 it's in the description
@@MrXingor or maybe you know you just fucking answer him like A normal person
@@jackbrian7083 he did?!
You know things are bad when the DM says "that is too many dice to roll"
Fall dmg is limited to 20d6 In addition the fall damage should have been reduced for the druid going several sizes smaller. Granted I'm not sure if she still would have survived anyway.
I've always hated the max damage capping at 20d6. I think matt also ignores that little rule
To be fair terminal velocity is a thing, though you probably wouldn't reach it after falling 210ft.
To be fair, reaching terminal velocity would splatter a man in armor like a bug on the windshield no matter how buff they are
AGrumpyPanda you reach terminal velocity after 1500ft. That would be 150d6. Definitely more than the 20d6 cap.
"That's fine!"
"Its fine...!"
"We're Gods!"
"We're gods?"
"Did you just say we're gods? Why would you even test that shit?"
Well...apparently kiki has become a greek hero and has succumbed to hubris
It becomes funnier after you know they go on to meet the actual God Pelor (the sun God) face to face and they're awe struck.
I mean, she has succumbed to hubris before...many times.
“I really do think Keyleth’s biggest weakness is her cockiness. I think that’s what prevents her from becoming a relatively average Moon Druid. Every time she does alright, she acts like she’s invincible. She’s like the real-life Alpharad. Mid-tier with a Pit complex.”
I hope I did the reference right.
And rocks, and water...
@@n0dash18 Wow, that reference was so wholesome :) Much like our good friend Altrive :)
you know you screwed up when grog strongjaw is lecturing you on how stupid that just was ;P
If grog is lecturing you on how stupid something was, then it was pretty fucking stupid.
ODST Haskell TBF, Grog told her to do it in the first place.
He has an intelligence of six, he knows what he's doing.
TBF Grog egged her on. Later it was Travis telling Marisha her life choices were dumb, they weren't in character. The artist still represented them with their characters though.
@@Undomaranel we know, we got it, but it is funny to see Grog pointing out how stupid jumping was.
Matt the DM Eyeball is just a fantastic idea and I support it wholeheartedly.
I thought it was a beholder at first so yeah I was confused for a sec
I thought it was a pokiball.
Reminded me of the cores in portal.
like, this presence of an omnipotent entity embodied by a single eyeball that isn't doing anything, apart from just judging you.
we need a mercer beholder. a skin color beholder with Matthew Mercer's flowing locks
The best part is Grog trying to break it down with logic
Jakeating88 This sentence shouldn't exist. But it's great nonetheless
He has an Intelligence of 6, he knows what he's doing.
The other best part is where, I mean, 'moments' before, Grog was the one going "Do it, do it."
Oh, he wasn't Grog in any of that! It was just pure, unfiltered, slightly hoppy Travis!!😁
I feel like it should be common knowledge that even if you hit the water it'll hurt. When you do a belly flop that smack tends to hurt. So hitting the water from one thousand feet is also gonna hurt but more so. Xd even if it was grog I can see him putting that together
1:30
Matt (disapointed): You took 363 points of damage.
K'ylith: You're lying.
Matt (showing calculator): ... no...
Isn't this wrong to begin with? Fall Damage maxes out at 20d6 so that's 120dmg at most.
Houseruled, kinda silly that you can only take 100 or so damage from falling off a mountain.
bluey1695 yeah the cap on fall damage is *supposed* TO represent terminal velocity, however because of the way the dice progression works you'd hit the cap of 20d6 while you're well below terminal velocity. Every DM I know houserules away the fall damage cap, and once actually mathed out what the proper cap should be (can't remember he exact numbers but it's hundreds of D6's, enough to massive damage instagib any dnd character.
Matt ignores the max and continues so it would be 100d6
@@raspberrypie1706 Yeah, but people DO survive falling out of planes and shit in real life, and they're, like, level 1 commoners in D&D terms. If you've a level 20 *anything* in D&D, you should barely give a shit about something as mundane as falling damage.
I kept hearing about the infamous “We’re gods” scene before getting caught up to the series. I assumed it was just a badass one liner and the actual scene was so much more than i expected.
I had it explained to me as "Keyleth decides to jump off a cliff for the lulz because 'We're gods!'" and then I saw it written down as "Keyleth jumps down to help someone in the water" so it sounds like she was going to save someone from drowning, but then it turns out it was basically yeah, Keyleth jumped off *just because*
Only in dnd can "hey, can you swim?" turn into "You take 363 points of damage and die immediately"
Keyleth: [dies from Fall Damage]
Marisha: Never again.
[Beau has entered the chat.]
I thought the whole thing with her rolling a Nat 1 on an athletics/acrobatics check - causing her to catch her foot on a bit of rock while trying to jump across 6-7 feet of lava - made her want to make a character to avoid FALLING INTO LAVA ever again. XD
My favorite part of this in the original is that Matt keeps his composure, and then when they question him he gets so flustered like "I DID NOT PLAN THIS OKAY"
So many times he gives here the, you sure you want to do this? This is a bad idea tone. Completely missed by Keytard.
I really just wish she heard the warning you know but I'm glad she didn't cuz it when a last at hard as I did when I saw it lol
what episode is this from? and if you could the time stamp :D ?
ua-cam.com/video/JweRpzsCiGo/v-deo.htmlm24s Taryon, My Wayward Son | Critical Role: VOX MACHINA | Episode 97
it's right at the beginning, she...DIVES RIGHT IN. EH? EH?
The thing is she had every opportunity to completely negate the issue. Instead of transforming into a goldfish of all things, why not a **flying fish**? It would have put her in a form where she could safely land and continue on into the water.
"Goldfish aren't magnetically attracted to water!"
"Those are ironfish."
@@thenerd-bot9847 And it only works for the Great Magnetic Oceans of Mechanus.
@@KubinWielki are those a real thing? like, I want to steal that for a thing I'm doing, but I don't want to get sued.
@@themoagoddess1820 Lol, I just made it up, so steal away (and remember me when you get famous) :D
Out of curiosity: what's the "thing" you're doing?
@@KubinWielki making video garms. also, thanks!
I was laughing so hard when this happened, always makes me smile! "Thats fine.. we're gods!" *dies* lmao gets me every time
Volatile Supernova the part gets me is Grog's response to it. "Did you say we're gods? Why would you even tempt that shit?"
She was dead for about two seconds...That's pretty god-like.
Even gods are not immune to physics.
Or stupidity.
How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
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Where do you think the souls of adventurers go if they die right after proclaiming to be gods?
You know you made a mistake when Grog goes full logic bomb on you.
frostmourne1986 "did you say 'We're gods'? Why would you even tempt that?!"
WISDOM 22
More like 4 lol
Such wisdom, so Keyleth, wow.
"Wise as fck." - Marisha
Wisdom is seeing the cliff. Intelligence is knowing not to jump.
zedx50 I think you meant "vision" is seeing the cliff. Because even a three year old will see it and recognize what it is.
From wiki: Wisdom reflects how attuned you are to the world around you and represents perceptiveness and intuition. Intelligence measures mental acuity, accuracy of recall, and the ability to reason.
I'm pretty sure a medium score in either should be enough to make a person careful in front of that cliff or make him/her bale when potentially rocketing towards rocks.
This is the perfect example of why d&d is like no other game. It may sound awesome in your head but it all goes to shit with a single roll. Hilarity always ensues.
Thing is it shouldn't have sounded good in her head because her DM kept telling her, you are about to die.
I remember playing as this Wizard who owned a simple lumber jack ax but was VERY attached to it. At one point a stranger tried taking it and in rage and a really good roll I killed him on accident then one thing led to another and a small riot happened, I was putting up a REALLY good fight, and long story short I landed in jail. So yeah, it morphed into this mission to find a killer in the city to a Mission Impossible, break out of jail and find the original killer and hope that I either don't get locked up again or me and my friends don't get killed because I'm sort of a fugitive now.
kyubii972
She's like yo the DM's mah boyfriend it'll be okay hubby won't let me die
Then Travis explains how terrible an idea it was and it's hilarious.
keyleth has an obsession with doing random shit for no reason even though it'll probably kill her
despite being the "wisest" character in the group
Well, funny thing is, this wasn't even really down to a roll. Kiki just decided she was going to tempt it whether she hit rock or not. It was just bad decisions.
The way you've laid this one out is just perfection. The eye, the diagram, drop down screen, the dice app, everything was crystal clear and delightful.
Yeah, the eye is a great conceit for the DM. So was putting the other players table talk in a thought bubble. Grog dropping down the projector screen to illustrate what happened was great, and was almost what Travis did.
Though they didn't draw Keyleth smacking face down or alluded to how she straight-up lost her face.
*Then* it would have been perfection.
i love the mercer eye so much
yeah, it shows a surprising amount emotion while fitting the idea that he's a third-person-perspective
That little chart the "eye" gets out to explain... lmao
It's another great touch to have the character's thought balloon contain the voices of the others in the group.
This was the best possible way to start off an episode. Also, my favorite detail that always goes unnoticed is the little exchange between Sam and Taliesin.
Sam: "You realize that goldfish aren't magnetically attracted to water, right?"
Taliesin: "No, that's ironfish."
XD
The all seeing eye is a judgmental God. But a funny one!
Cade Escobedo and a fair one.
Okay. [deep breath] From one druid player to another: Keyleth WHYYYY??? WhY WouLd YoU TuRN iNto a GoLdfiSh anD nOt A BIRD in tHis SITuaTioN????
she was debating it...
True, a goldfish would die from hitting water from that height just as easily as a person... Water is like hitting solid concrete from that height. Doesn't matter if you're a fish.
What about a whale, how much hp does that shit have xD
She could have gone rock elemental and survived the fall, but she went goldfish and went splat
sadly they didnt include the use of the revivify coin, to mend all her broken skeleton
"We're Gods!" Pride always comes before the fall, my dear. The 1000 foot fall, in this case.
"This is too many dice for me to roll"
And it was then that we knew it was all over
It's funny. When telling new players about death being a real possibility in D&D I *always* use the "I can't save you if you do something really stupid like jumping off a cliff" example. 😂
My favorite fuck up in any d&d campaign. Great animation.
I haven't gotten to this part of the show yet, but this comment reminds me of a certain incident in RollPlay involving an airborne dragon, a free-falling ranger, and a ring of wishes.
Beau, going to the same cliff Keyleth jumped off of with Unarmored Movement and Slow Fall: “I’M BACK FOR REVENGE BITCH!”
Campaign 2:
Marisha/Beau: “Could I try to swim back towards the tree?”
Travis/Fjord: “SWIM? DO YOU STILL NOT UNDERSTAND HOW PHYSICS WORK YET?!”
Keyleth: “And I run and CLIFF DIVE!!!”
DM: “Uh-oh.”
Key: “Don’t tell me. I’m about to fall smack dab into the cliff face.”
DM: “Yup.”
Key: “Sharp rocks at the bottom?”
DM: “Most likely.
Key: “....Bring it on.”
ONE RED VELVET CUPCAKE LATER....
Matt is the sassiest, most exasperated eyeball I’ve ever seen.
Also, love the explanation part with Grog/Travis entering the background presentation
This was an amazing episode you did, congrats
This is amazing. The only thing that's missing is Travis' laughter when Matt says "Scatter of red mess" xD
Ashley: "It's only 7:15, Matt!"
Matt: "I KNOW! I- I just- THIS WAS NOT IN MY PLAN!"
The “dropped a velvet cake” comment is great too
1:23 the fish matches her laugh SO PERFECTLY!
My favorite part of this animation is the animator going to great lengths to write out Percy's entire name in initials on his tombstone XD
The other party members peeking out of the thought bubble was SO GOOD. I love these, they're amazing. Never stop.
Keyleth herself sitting up for the Wait, wHAT gets me every time xD
Matt: 363 points of damage.
Barbarian: I would like to rage just before I hit the rock.
I think they talk about how Grog could have lived the fall right after it happened
Yeah most barbarians wouldn’t even drop
It would be a rough superhero landing but very much doable. Can you imagine if a barbarian lands on a creature? He/she would instantly deal +300 damage, if they get a surprise round you're looking at another 80-120 damage and if they also win the initiative roll... yeah it's over.
@@kana22693 I believe thats the slightly messier version of the famous "Top Rope Special" that usually uses a druid in owlbear form.
I told my friend before he watched the episode that there's a moment that tops her belly flop into Lava and he didn't believe me. He apologized an hour later.
the result of a Nat 1 for jumping across 6-7 feet of lava...and Matt had this look on his like 'I'm really gonna have to come up with the worst possible scenario for this Nat 1 to my wife...'
I love how you were able to comically represent all the effort that went into explaining this to Keyleth :)
To give a bit of perspective on how high this is
This cliff was over 1000ft tall. *The Empire State Building is 1200 ft.*
*this chick dove off a mountain lmao*
I just love everyone's gravestones being simple, then we get PFVMKDR3.
i love the initials on the gravestones at the end and naturally, for percy fredrickstein von musel klossowski derollo III, it needs a slightly wider tombstone...
Somewhere, Larkin is laughing too.
Hey! Where IS Larkin anyway?
skinnypete1982 #prayforlarkin
zacksporen wtf happened to Larkin?
#SaveLarkin
Larkin where are you buddy!?
Watching live that night, I'm yelling at the screen "Eagle, turn into an eagle!"
Kind of glad she didn't, now...
Yeah, what would've otherwise been a minor scene is instead one of the funniest and most iconic scenes in the campaign.
Great as always, I love how Matt is just a floating giant eye.
For the longest time, I avoided this animatic thinking it was some super badass (and super spoilery) moment from C1. I've never been so happy to be wrong.
I simply adore your interpretation of making Matt just a giant floating eye that the characters actively speak with
I think my favorite part is just Matt calming saying “This is to many dice for me to roll.”
One of the funniest, most WTF moments of the entire show! Definitely one for the highlight reel!
Matt's steely voice as he says "Key'leth is dead and floating in the water."
My favorite part of this is the fact that GLADLY by chance Laura had an enchanted with „revivify“ coin given her by Sam.
I mean, one thing is when characters revive a friend fallen in the battle with their contributions to the ritual. But how would you have a straight face if she died like this „Yeah sorry God, she had issues, but we love her anyway“. That could easily be a permanent-permanent death.
Omg, been waiting for this. So perfect in this animation style
"did you just say we're gods? why would you even tempt that shit"
and that's when i lost it and almost fell off my bed laughing
Percy's headstone is hilarious. Tarry never actually died though, didn't he? He only went unconscious in the fight with the kraken.
Random Kelsey spoilers. He hella died against Ripley
Kingkevin108 I know Percy died against Ripley. I'm saying that Tarry Darrington never died, but a headstone for him was still included.
The instant Tarry left the party, he secretly died off screen.
At least in our hearts....
Tiberious Stormwind
Was Tarry ever TRULY a part of Vox Machina, though?
Great scene. Love the Grog commentary throughout!
My favourite part of the original bit is when Marisha tried to justify turning into a goldfish and Sam says... "goldfish are not magnetically attracted to water...
This is how technically how I learned that Vex had died. I was unaware of any member of Vox Machina dying before watching this and now I find out they all had died at some point. Granted this also indicates their deaths didn't stick. This fact slipped my mind when watching S2E3 of The Legend of Vox Machina. At the end I realized that I had indirectly heard of Vex's death.
Spoilers for Campaign 2:
Keyleth: Oh my God, mom! I can't believe you're alive! I have so many stories to tell you!
Scanlan: Tell her the story about the cliff and the goldfish!
Lmao, I love how Percy's gravestone has ALL his initials.
Ok I had heard of this moment for so long, and I always imagined this happening during an epic battle in which Keyleth jumped off the cliff to escape or something, and hit the water as a fish (taking damage since being an aquatic creature doesn't negate falling from 1000 feet)
Turns out this was way funnier XDD
I’m not up to date with Critical Role and I don’t know the exact context of why this character jumped off a cliff or what she’s capable of but I do have to ask, why didn’t she just turn into a seagull or something?
I got no idea, my guess is she thought being a goldfish would break her fall into the water? even if she was above water turning into a goldfish with that momentum, hitting water is like hitting concrete, she would've taken the exact same amount of damage.
You see Marisha has this mentality that is you only live once except the exact opposite. So she tries whatever she wants and pays less attention than anyone else with the gravity of situations.
Exisist well the *GRAVITY* of the situation turned her into a stain on the side of a rock.
Inquisitor Thomas because she is an idiot.
K4Z4Y You're totally missing the whole point of the game.. It's a game, first of all, they can do whatever the fuck they want. That's the beauty of d&d. Secondly, it's totally true to Keyleth's character, so she did the most correct thing she could have done in that situation. (other than going Keyteor)
I don't remember hearing it in this video - but my favorite part of this moment was when Marisha tried explaining why she chose a goldfish to turn into, rather than something that could fly - and one of them (I think it was either Sam or Travis) said something to the extent of "fish are not magnetically attracted to the water!" :P
Something that is hilarious in the original is that Liam is laughing his ass off and joking in the beginning, but quickly goes into a breakdown like "I'M STARTING TO SWEAT! I DON'T SEE IT!! WHO SEES IT!!"
I feel like situation could have been avoided.
By 5 seconds of thinking?
Yeah, she can become an air elemental. That can fly.
@@theoverlander4579 Or a bird. Or even a flying fish or squirrel.
Or, bear with me
Not jumping off a cliff
It's funny Keyleth thought hitting water after 1000ft drop would be somehow better than hitting rock.
Now I want this officially animated. Still so good!
I love that with the tombstones, Percy’s has his full initials.
I absolutely adore how his voice was just so... done with everything. Like, "Is she really doing this? Okay, I will not save her..."
It would have been even funnier if she turned into an ant, since their body mass is too small for them to actually die to a fall. Getting smashed into rocks though…
1:24
This laughing Keylish made my day. The cuttest thing ever.
And last week on July 23rd, 2020. Beau jumped off a much smaller cliff. but still, jumped off a cliff
"before you hit the water?"
"or the rock."
died.
Yes she did
I love the fact that Travis is laughing his head off and then you see Laura and Ashley super concerned and telling him to stop.
That TS tombstone will always tug at my heart.
wait, who's TS? I'm all caught up, but I don't remember anyone with those initials dying.
Jake Rice I encourage your memory.
ah, how could I forget Tiberius.
Oh shit I didn't connect that. Now I'm sad. :(
Yeah, the permanent one.
You know something?
No matter how many times I watch this, it never gets old. The sheer amount of thought process that Keyleth puts in before deciding on turning into a goldfish? Priceless.
Grog pulling the chart down and breaking it down makes this video.
I have watched this a few times in a row after seeing this episode. Awesome work on a hilarious scene! I love the laughing face of the Keyleth goldfish, then how Grog shows up to explain the fall.
Thank you for posting this! (ooh, 1000th comment!)
This was beautifully animated. Ty
This is my favorite one you've done. Everything about it is brilliant: the DM eye, the diagrams, the party in Keyleth's thought bubble... It's all perfect. Well done!
The funniest part is, even if she had hit the water in goldfish form (which has 1 HP btw) falling form that height, she would still die instantly. Oh Kiki, you are the best! :D
This was wonderful, the smiling goldfish, thought bubbles for everyone talking. Thank you!
I was waiting for one of the animators to do this one
I know it's been years - but thank you so much for animating this! The pure chaos of this scene, and this particular video, showing up on my recommended videos was the final push that got me started watching Critical Role over two years ago now.
The DM eye is great! Love this.
Literally just watched this episode last night. So amazing, exactly why D&D is so great.
Before she hit the ground, for a couple of seconds she was a pretty cute goldfish
love love love it. You made it possible for me to enjoy this moment even more! it's magical!
Oh god I remember this, was laughing at her logic to do things. I always like how she thinks Gust is stronger than it is since it is just a cantrip. Gust of Wind might have launched her to safety. Her turning into a bird would have definitely would have saved her and then she could have just turned into a fish later to get the item. And her turning into an Elemental first would have probably gave her just enough hit points to not die die since I don't remember what her hit points were at then. Thank you very much for animating this. Will share this with a friend even if they don't D&D and watch Critical Role, they do love the animations though of their silly bits
She would have survived it without wild shaping into anything at all since the maximum fall damage you can take is 10d6, or 60. Because terminal velocity or something.
Or maybe it's 20d6? Keyleth could still take 120 damage.
Yeah it is 20d6 but Matt seemed not to like that for the max fall damage or he forgot about it. Not sure considering it is a homebrew world with many homebrew rules. Falling damage not capping could have been one. Or it was for the God comment, to show who the true God was. I recall not if he ever replied to people yelling what max fall damage is. Since the rules are just a guideline and any DM can change them as they wish, just gotta stick with said change when it comes up again really to keep it consistent unless they honestly did not know what the actual ruling was and then go with the actual ruling. Lava damage being one of them once Matt found out what lava damage actual was.
Though a high level character should still be able to survive an impact at terminal velocity, unless in exandria you just keep speeding up until you hit the ground.
Normal falling rules yes. The damage that was dished out. Looking at their HP as of now if the Character Sheets on CriticalRoleStats is up to date(levels appear to be). Following massive damage rules where the remaining damage has to meet or exceed your maximum HP It would kill everyone in the party outright outside of Grog. He'd just fall unconscious. With normal falling rules and at max damage, the Twins survive it would a few HP to spare, Pike would just be left at 1.
Matt being depicted as a giant, slightly unamused eyeball in the sky is a nice choice.
when matt explained the cliff, i thought (and i'd guess marisha did too) that it was more like a 7 not T\
like, it slopes inward, not outward
also matt said "You may hit the rocks or the water" and then travis started yelling "test it"
I love the idea of the dm just being a floating eyeball that sees all lol.
Top 10 anime fuck ups.
-turns into a fish-
“WERE GODS”
10/10 confidence and comedy
THIS WAS PERFECT
I absolutely love this animation, and you are the bee's knees for creating it.
I giggled at the all seeing eye, I LOL'd at the dice rolling, I lost it at the explanation screen.
When I first started watching critical role this video kept on being reccomended to me, and i didn’t watch it because of spoilers but because of the title I thought it was gonna be a super serious video about how powerful vox machina had become and their legacy as heroes.
Boy was I wrong.