Where the River Goes | Critical Role | Campaign 2, Episode 15
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 เม.ย. 2018
- Heading down an underground river, the Mighty Nein explore a long abandoned research facility, uncovering dangerous foes and even more dangerous secrets...
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when you're 2 years late, everyday is thursday
Every 4 hours is thursday
@@fishiefish6179 same same same 😂
no bolder statement can be said, no truer statement can be unheard.
But there will come a time where you catch up; and then, you start watching re-runs.
Sometimes more than one Thursday in a single day.
I'm starting to realize that the cat is the Kenny of this Campaign
Yasha: * Does anything *
The Mighty Nein: *Happiness Noise*
Me: *Happiness Noise*
Ashley: exists
rest of the crew: *Happiness Noise*
Ashley is just sweet
@@KumaoftheForest beacuse jester wasnt there for one session. Yasha wasnt there for many
@@KumaoftheForest beacuse its exhausting for a dm to play a player character
“I feel guilty for having needs!” What a mood, Nott.
Nott drinks because you cry.
Fucking saaaaaaaaaaaaame
I've never resonated so much with something
Just mum stuff
Not only is it a mood, it's also lit AF fam and poggers AF. My dick is out for Harambe.
Enemies show up:
Travis: I would like to mage
Underated comment.
Matt has been DMing for so long he has a perpetually raised eyebrow
People say that we should get Wil Wheaton to help 826LA.
I say we get Jerry, from Acquisitions Incorporated. Because he rolls ones more than Wheaton. Wheaton just rolls poorly, not always ones.
And one hell of a poker face.
It's very charming
Raised eye brows effects 50% of DM Americans 🇺🇸😆
ALLBLAZING 1 everything about Matt is charming. E v e r y t h i n g
Beau: I'm always a fan of going down.
Yasha: *nods in approval*
[seconds later]
Beau: I'll take up the rears.
Yasha: I'm always a fan of rears.
Biggest lesbian energy
I think that was less Yasha responding and more Ashley mocking Marisha
Have you watched further yet? Lmao. Sadly, this comment of yours, has not aged like wine.
BEAU IS A TOP!
@@Silverwind87 Yaaaas, this is the Spoiler Content i needed
Sam: How does Ashley have more dice than Laura?
Laura: *pulls out a duffel bag's worth of dice* You dare question my power, mortal?
FEAR THE POWER OF DICE!!!!!
2:28:10 Its not just a dice bag, its a way of life 🤩
Travis is such a proud papa whenever Ashley says she's going to rage
SO NICE having Ash back so we get to see those interactions. xD
I love how laura flirts shamelessly with Travis in the form of her D&D character lmao. Husband and Wife-ery at it's finest, folks.
They're so damn cute
@@handfulmousefly The banana on your channel is great.
Its also really interesting how there was about zero flirting between Grog and Vex. I appreciate how they can choose to do it or not do it.
in a talks machine episode Laura said she decided that her character was gonna pursue ford bc Travis mentioned he never wanted a dnd relationship
@@insanenessity except when Vex showed her boobs to inspire Grog.
"last time we left off"
I'VE BEEN WATCHING THIS NON STOP FOR THE PAST SIX DAYS MATT!!!!
Lmao I feel this. Physically. Because I haven't truly slept in the last 3 months because of this damn show lmao.
I have been going hard the last two weeks
Accurate
@James Tune what
Vox is campaign 1 which I also watched first. Soooo many hours of greatness and so happy I watched it 1st. When I started that one I never thought I would catch up to current. Then I finished it and started this one and have renewed hope to get to current with the Nein lol
I think my favorite thing is when Caleb looks through Frumpkin and grabs onto the nearest party member as an act of ultimate trust, and every party member making it their priority to keep Caleb safe whilst doing this
Yes!!! It’s absolutely the best
Must protect the cinnamon roll
It’s quite adorable 😂 at first he used to ask but now he just holds on to whoever is nearest and they just accept their duty as his protector
And he said he doesn’t trust them, but after Mollys backstory reveal last episode he trusts him enough to hold onto him blinded
when Caleb offer Jester a healing potion she refused, when Nott offered a healing potion she was ignored, but Jester drank two of Fjords healing potions
Sadly it's because the romantic feelings for fjord hit early, and hit hard. Tusk love did not help in any regard.
The innuendo in this would make Laura laugh out loud.
Does anyone else think Travis’s concern for his sick pregnant wife leaked over into Fjord and Jester’s interactions? Lol.
My milkshake brings all the fjords to the yard
this little detail 🥺🥺
she can't resist Fjord.
Seeing people marathoning this in the comment section during quarantine is like when you accidentally bump into an equally exhausted mate in the kitchen at 4am and you both just give each other that nod of acknowledgement and solidarity and then go about your day feeling slightly less alone
Yeah it's brilliant for language learners, there is such a strong translation community
Heeeeeey *nods in solidarity* xD #2020watchparty #criticalrole2020
I’ve never felt more understood
I agree completely
My people...
1:02:50 - You know what they say: "If you don't find the trap with your Skill Points, you'll eventually find it with your Hit Points."
A hallway full of traps? Better use my face to disarm every one of them!
@@datdumazn3775 I read that in Sam's voice, and that was so much better.
The dwarvern method of trap disarming.
@@davidwhiley5289 Also the Dragon Age method of trap disarming.
@@johnkirsch5479 Lmao yes
2:53:52
Liam: Who is it getting?
Mat: *Laughs evily*
Liam: MY CAT?! YOU SON OF A FUCKER!!!
Liam: *Fake leaps across the table to get Frumpkin*
No one messes with the cat.
I can relate. I've a Frumpkin, but not a Frumpkin. She's a Noodle. Orange though....I'ma go watch more Chaos.
That fake leap fucking killed me. I was thinking "this totally feels like a moment where you'd leap across the table to strangle someone" like 1/10th of a second before Liam did it
Laura aggressively slamming her dice bag on the table when Sam questioned her Dice Dominance was great
There is only one Dice Queen at that table. lol
@@cactusjackNV Ok, well Laura is also a professional role player and damn good at it, so in your analogy she would be a major league pitcher with a shed full of balls.
Timestamp is 2:27:57
She has major control issues and needs to get tf over herself
@@BEEFSERPENT What does the dice bag have to do with control issues? It was just a fucking joke
COVID-19 Isolation watch party. Made it through 14 episodes in about 10 days. Anybody else here during quarantine?
Andrew Woods Day 65 inside for me (Watching from China)! Critical Role has saved my sanity, made it through Campaign one a bit ago, and desperately missing my D&D group.
@Sabrina Waterfield I would have to agree. It’s easier to show stuff like maps and dungeons but my players are kinda new so that has been posing some problems.
@The Mine Thanks! (sarcasm was appreciated) Hope you are staying safe and healthy during this time!
Andrew Woods yes but I am an essential employee so I’m moving a lil slower
Azo same. Hope you stay safe
Beau: “I’m always a fan of going down”
Yasha: *nods in approval*
ChuckNormis218 and 57:27,
Beau: “i’ll take up the rears”
Yasha: “i’m always a fan of rears”
*they know what they are doing to us*
i ship it
I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment
Are we ignoring Matt's approval? :kappa:
I like to call it a lesbromance.
I love Laura and Liam passive aggressively judging Sam's amateur rogue mistakes.
"But, I don't want to"
When the DM needs to give the party a hint:
"Roll an intelligence check (because maybe your character is smarter than you)"
No shade though, that puzzle was HARD
Yasha - has the light cantrip
Also Yasha - pulls out torch
Is a Barbarian
Has Cantrips
Its hard to reconcile the two
Torch is more aesthetic
Also I wonder if her cantrip needs some light to begin with? Collecting it rather than producing it?
@@handfulmousefly when you have magic but dungeon crawling aesthetics exists
Me- plays as khajiit, has night vision power.
Also me- uses torches
"I don't want to impose... But I'm bleeding profusely" Best line :D
Laura - "How do you kill a gelatinous qube?!"
Liam - "You die."
Question, regarding gqs, can you score a crit on them? I remember not being able to in previous editions for a very good reason (no discernible anatomy) but I can't seem to find confirmation of that in regards to 5e.
@@wouldiwasshookspeared4087 I'm pretty sure you can in 5e. But I'm not 100% sure
@@akoskaluz8991 unless the monster description for it says it. I’m assuming you can. Unless some DM’s go by old rules (if not in 5e)
Travis telling his wife “don’t read into it” is so funny
*telling Laura.
She has a name
@@localcryptid42Obviously, but the point of the comment was that it's amusing to imply to your spouse that "you don't need to look into romantic context".
@@localcryptid42 You are such a moron, good lord.
shut up@@localcryptid42
Sam: “I feel conflicted trying to hurt a cube.”
But not a baby manticore?????????
You must have missed the 1st campaign as scanlan consistently referred to his dick as the cube.
I was going to say the same thing. You beat me to it! Huzzah!
A cube is a lot cuter.
Well Scanlans dick wasn't in the shape of a baby manticore...
@@Squall576582 That we know of
3:39:01 "I don't want to wait a week I want to do it now!" - Ashley. I agree... clicks next video.
I feel like “It is sad when ships sink” was one of Liam’s Common Duolingo sentence practices
Es ist traurig wenn schiffe sinken.
As a someone who bingewatches a lot, you guys can not even imagine how great it is to discover Critical Role in 2019
EDIT: DAMN TIME FLIES, Those who started in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, lucky you
With ya there!
Just discovered it this week! So much to catch up on!
It's also an absolute hell and I haven't had a life in months, but I'm right there with ya, bud.
It's been my primary form of entertainment and salve for my sanity these past 3 month. I both look forward to and dread catching up to the current episode.
It's good and bad because yes I get to binge watch, but I watch to watch it live so bad. Also spoilers are inevitable unfortunately
I love watching Laura overtly flirt with Travis through Jester while he eggs her on, simultaneously playing Fjord as completely unaware/disinterested. This is golden entertainment.
They're so cute in game and irl, love it xD
My wife flirts with me when we play too, it's super cute.
@@scottvarley3823 pain
That novel really entranced her.
There is a hidden side to this, Travis has insisted on multiple occasions on talks machina and at cons that he has zero interest in getting into any romantic entanglement in game, he didn’t as grog and he said at the end of campaign 1 in the wrap up he enjoyed watching it but he was as turning up to hit things and have fun and did not want to be drawn into anything like Vax and keyleth or Percy and vex in the future.
Laura I believe took that as a challenge :).
You can tell Liam DMs because as soon as the cube comes down he's like "Oh we are so fucked."
This filled me with great joy, his reactions to cool things always get me hyped
To that regard, I have just started watching (from the beginning of Mighty Nein) and I find joy how they meet the most iconic monsters of DnD. As of now, they fought Gnolls, Manticore (but I'd consider that iconic elsewhere, not that much in DnD), Imps, Phase Spider and Gelatinous Cube.
Or he just reads the player's handbook too much.
@@troubadour0663, the cube isn't in the PHB
He does DM. Not sure if you watched campaign 1 but he runs a one shot at times when people are busy with other things and they don’t have most of the group.
1:00:46 TRUTH, cats somehow not having darkvision in the PHB is rly bullshit. We always houseruled them having at least 30 ft of darkvision, partly so there's an actual incentive for druids to wild shape into a cat at night to scout something in a city, it just makes a lot of sense.
It's one of those made for balance mechanical issues where no common sense has been applied
Especially cause Tabaxi get night vision cause of their cat eyes
Yet another case of the unfortunate oversimplication of 5e. As a 3.5e lover, this is a perfect situation for low light vision. Cats can't truly see in pitch blackness, but they can see in super low light *SO* much better than people.
I feel like I would homebrew cats DO have night vision but DON'T have perception advantage under light. (More accurate since cats actually don't see that sharply at certain distances under light.)
Yep, my rules are cat's have dark vision, and Dragonborn as well.
"-Oh Oskar...
-Fjord.
-Thank you for saving me..~
-It's Fjord."
I died!
When was this?
@@owlabouteverything2066 Right after Fjord gave the unconscious (and dying) Jester a healing potion after the Gelatinous Cube died.
Owlabout Everything 3:02:43
"what will the washington football team do when they face the cowboys?"
" *LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE* "
*LIAR*
I had to replay that bc i could not stop laughing🤣🤣🤩
I legit forgot Sam was originally from Washington D.C. till that moment
As someone who lives 30 minutes away from DC but has half my family in Texas, that moment was great and just reminded me of thanksgiving dinner
2023 gang
2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE)
10:45 Episode Starts
14:45 Row your boat
15:25 Laura is back
16:45 Oskar and Guinevere
19:15 Fancy oarwork
20:40 Water walking
24:20 Battle 1
56:40 Beau Going down
58:50 Sam works the shaft
1:11:05 Nott apologizes
1:14:15 Puzzle 1
1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration
1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb
1:42:05 Battle 2
1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions
1:59:15 Break Starts
2:11:50 Art Montage
2:17:15 Break Ends
2:25:10 Rude detect magic
2:28:05 Dice measuring contest
2:38:55 Battle 3
2:44:20 Slappin the jello
2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks
2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin
2:57:30 Succumb to the cube
3:01:20 HDYWTDT
3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat
3:19:35 Yasha knows all
3:31:40 Caleb’s book face
3:33:05 Journal Reading
Thank you kindly!
Thanks!
Thanks
Many thanks traveller
Thank you so much for this!
Beau: "I'm always a fan of going down."
Matt's face = me dying with laughter
56:44 XD
I did not realize how much I truly liked and appreciated Jester as a character until Laura was absent last week. It was not the same without her, so I'm so happy she's back. Also Talisen's hair is gorgeous.
Oh, I agree about Ashley as well. It's always great to have her precious face back. But I think because, lately anyway, she's been gone more often than not that I'm used to the crew without Yasha around. Jester is a different matter. It felt entirely weird and incomplete without her and I missed her childish humor lol. I'm glad Ashley has the time to stick around much longer now so she can finally make Yasha become a real part of the Mighty Nein family.
Laura has been a revelation so far this campaign. Vex was by no means a bad character, but Jester has a shot at challenging Scanlan and Grog for character awesomeness if she keeps it up.
Talisien's hair is always gorgeous. It's where his power comes from.
ajs1031 Are there clones of you or something? "We/we're".
We are Critters... Resistance is mostly futile...😶
Jester... Um... To deflect I'll just say Scanlan and Grog were -geniuses- played geniusly!! Either character is a very high bar that... she prolly shouldn't compare herself to.😅
matt mercer: says something that sounds like foreshadowing.
players: "write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!!"
Me as a DM "write that down WRITE THAT DOWN"
@@Cronustimelord Each to their own but I highly recommend DMs check out the return of the lazy dungeon masters guide. When you have players like these folks, then it's worth putting that amount of effort and planning in. But I find most players have fun regardless of how hard you work. I've saved myself a lot of time and energy (and resentment for player apathy) by planning less. But when you do find the committed group ready to do some storybuilding, then the reward is worth it. Love and respect!
@@toastedt140 Return of the Lazy DM is one of the best 5th edition resource books I have ever come across. It helped me go from overpreparing and spending too long on unnecessary and complicated prep work to loosening up, being more flexible and better at improvising, and reducing my prep time by hours in some cases. Having DM'ed for a couple of groups of siblings and friends, I can attest that the average player will be happy with an extremely simple and straightforward campaign plot where they get to unwind with their friends, kick some ass, and have a good time.
Players are endless wells of story hooks. XD
Matt's struggle to maintain a poker face after Marisha says she likes to go down is hilarious. I love it!
I like the little smirk he has after she says it 😂
@@madisoncarroll9011 “yeah she does 😏” 😂
@@AMediumSizedKodiak that is "what she said"
Sam: Drinks from his flask.
Nott: Drinks from her flask.
Me: Drinks from my flask.
*cheers*
I should get a flask so I can join in!
@@xxliew Cheers, pardner. I'll drink to that.
@@xxliew you inspired me! Cheers! *sips from new D20 flask*
@@princessblazena that’s a thing? Gotta get one so i can join y’all
My flask says
CHEAPER
THAN
THERAPY
Critical Role is absolutely better than therapy.
(This is a joke, obviously, therapy is just as good as CR)
Gelatinous Cube: *Drops from the ceiling but gets a 0 on initiative*
The Entire Mighty Nein Group: *Nukes it with as many spells as humanly possible*
If an eight-foot-tall cube of acid gello fell from the ceiling you'd be pretty intent on nuking it too
@@alexv3357
☝️
What he said
Liam O'Brien: FUCKING FOCUS!!!
*Suspicious cube splats onto the ground*
*Mighty Nein play out the machine gun scene from Predator*
@@Spaceman2921 wouldn’t you?
Matt: the shaft is about 5 feet-
Marisha: *wheeze*
Frogg doggs I love Marisha’s laugh so much?
It's like a gerbal with a banana 🤣
Surprised it wasnt Laura
@@Clownbunnycosplay its squeaky and i love it
HAHA!!!! One thousandth like 😁
Me: I wonder if Nott will remember he has an invisible mage hand that can disarm traps and pick locks from a safe distance this episode.
Nott an hour in: Oh god theres lots of traps, IM DYING DOWN HERE!!
she*
She also apparently doesn't remember she gave that ring of water walking to Caleb ages ago (and Caleb proceeded to dismantle it for the gemstone)
That was a random ring from jester originally, I think
@@JohnVanderbeck Paul's right. I don't know if Nott still has the RoWW, but the ring Caleb dismantled was a pearl ring from jester in order to get a pearl for his identify spell.
@@JohnVanderbeck People generally don't remember things that didn't happen.
I love how while they’re discussing what Evocation magic does, everyone’s like “oh yeah it does fire and lightning and elemental stuff” and all very cool with it while Liam is on the side, mumbling as Caleb “it’s killing” and things along that line.
hindsight: oooof
Rewatch oof
Oof for Caleb but Evocation spells actually include all the healing spells as well. Cure Wounds, Healing Word, Heal, and their mass version are all Evocation.
@@GewalfofWiviahealing should be necromancy imo
@@XS_OverlordDepends on how your world interprets healing magic. In base 5e, your evoking the positive energy of the upper planes, which restores and heals. It doesn't have anything to do with death. However, if you want a world where healing magic is actually reversing the injury, turning back the clock on entropy so to speak, that could be considered necromancy in a way
Matt: “I need you all to roll initiative.”
Party: *SCREAMS*
Love it xD
because of this i cant imagine a campaign WITHOUT it
Those words are the most feared words in a D&D Campaign.
That’s it, that’s the entire campaign
So dumb
"Life needs things to live" -Percival De Rolo
"It is sad when ships sink" -Caleb Widogast
“I’m always a fan of going down” -Beauregard Lionett
@@MrSluttyMcSluttyton "I never got to use engulf on you :(" - Matt Mercer
@@MrSluttyMcSluttyton i mean ;)
@@MrSluttyMcSluttyton Well Matt surely is having a LOVELY time
Critical Role is getting dangerously close to fate lmao
I don’t know why, but every episode it seems like Sam’s flask gets bigger and bigger
I think you're onto something lol
This comment aged beautifully
About that... >XD
Laughs in campaign three
Flask of drinking evergrowth.
The more you drink from it the bigger it gets.
Every episode be like:
Matt: "And we'll leave it there until next week."
Everyone: "AAAAAAA"
Did no one else recognise the genius of Liam at 17:04?
'It is sad when ships sink'
Just after Laura tries to ship Jester and Fjord.
It's especially great to see Laura's face when she realizes it only a few seconds after she replies to Caleb
Dont get what liam said. Completely went over my head! Can you explain.
NG DeXt to ship someone means you anticipate that they and the person you ship them with are going to become a couple. So Laura tried to say fjord and jester should be a couple. Caleb says the ship sank, as in fjord shut down the possibility of a relationship
Shipping is when a fandom cant just be happy with the narrative and they have to impose a romantic subplot into everything. Much like Hollywood in general.
I also like how matt was the only one who got it at first
I have a feeling Liam really wants the Metagaming Pigeon to be an in-game thing, and i wholeheartedly approve
He wants to surprise people with every spell and item they get so I doubt it
James Cross Matt did literally ask for it to be a thing.
Isn’t Sam’s company now named Metapigeon or something?
2:28:10
Sam: "We've discovered that Ashley has more dice than Laura."
Laura: (puts a literally football-sized bag of dice on the table)
That moment when you are 3 years late, every 4 hours is next week;)
me listening to two episodes a day while working from home.
@@mackattack492 amazing!
DnD team flipping through an animal encyclopedia
"Hey how about... an evil blanket squid?"
"Meh"
"...How about an evil blanket squid THAT CAN FLY"
"Genius."
I love how in campaign one they fought Duergar, lava hazards, hellstitched abominations, mind flayers and a posessed beholder, but they fled in panic from this CR1 flappy boi in the underdark.
@@WorldbuildyMcNPCface they were closer to level 10 or so in their time in the underdark. Level 5 and lower can make even goblins scary as all shit. Hell even level 8 team can get rinsed by a well sprung trap.
How about...Jell-O.
But big. Big Jell-O.
Big square Jell-O.
@@FrostyTheSnowPickle Big Square Jello that eats people
The party: *drawn out conversation about taking the bowls out of the room to cast*
Matthew Mercer: *the face of a DM watching the party waste their time*
To be fair, since they hadn't yet realized they needed to heat them up to see the highlighted sections, casting any spell in the main chamber would likely have spawned another cube, so going away and doing more testing was a pretty wise precaution.
Binging critical role right now has helped my mental health so much. I'm actually truly smiling and laughing for the first time in a long dark while and man does it feel good. Thank you. I don't feel so alone.
A few months back, I was in the same place. It still brings me joy, and yes, you are not alone.
Yeah
I’m late, but I seriously hope you’re feeling better 💙 I just started watching critical role probably a month or so ago, and though I’m not having a tough time generally, it’s helped me smile on the bad & exhausting days. Here’s to more smiles and laughs my friend!
Hope you are doing much better now dude, I was in the exact same boat with the entirety of C1 :)
I'm in the same space, right now. Multiple Thursdays per day is barely maintaining my sanity.
It always impresses me just how much of the rules Matt has memorized.
Not to down on that, but he has been dming 5e for 5 years now. You get to know you're way around after while.
I like that he knows them but still needs to pull out the books on occasion due to the groups actions in game.
I like how Nat1's are now celebrated half-assedly
Nott1's
I forget who, but someone pledged to donate $100 to a charity for each nat 1 rolled. They have a reason to celebrate them now.
@@jbirkins
(Edit, correcting previous statement now that I’ve seen the start again) DNDBeyond pledged to donate $100 to 826LA for every Nat1 up to 100 grand, while one of the viewers pledged to match that up to 40k
I love Liam and Sam's dedication to actually performing somatic portions of their spells
To be fair, it's one of the best parts of being a wizard. My equivalent is overacting the verbal component, because nothing quite compares to putting on your Gandalf voice and loudly saying "CAST: FIREBALL"
*Material
@@AGrumpyPanda So that's it you just say cast fireball? What are you a Pokemon trainer?!
Material too but they do a lotta somatic stuff too.
@@ChitenBugMan they do it all
Travis shooting Laura a pouty face when she starts coughing Bc she feels bad is the most precious thing
"Taliesin HATES pot."
"Yes, I do."
Me, four bowls in and only one was soup: "Sorry, Taliesin."
Best comment I've found so far
As someone who binges this show while baked like banana bread, I find it rather amusing.
I can second this lmao
But, all that means....more for us that LOVE weed!! Being high af and watching these awesome folk is definitely on my list of "happy places", Thanks, CR!
@@DarkDecimus Lol that’s how I spent this summer when not at work XD
Travis's vicarious excitement of Ashley playing a barbarian is gold
Travis as a player is a god of hyping up everyone
Ashley was so much impressed with Travis' portrayal as Grog the Barbarian, that she said "I want to be a Barbarian" on air during the first campaign, and she is now a Barbarian.
I love how she portrays it more seething anger than extroverted pure frenzy as grog was. It's a calm "i would like to rage" and i head canon it as "there's a change in her expression...you notice as Yashas jaw clenches, youve seen this before, a flare of hot air steaming from her nostrils as her brow furrows, her eyes narrow and focused solely on her target as Yashas blood begins to boil"
Level 4 Warlock, Level 16 Hypeman
I read that like a fuckin spell "Travis vicarious excitement"
*Molly:* "I've got an idea! I think I know how it works now."
*Drunk-Nott:* "I don't know how it works and I'm not paying any attention. I'm very drunk."
I think Sam might be a deity in human form.
Trickster god Sam Riegel
Very late response
But it would explain his god tier sponsor messages.
According to Nott in episode 74 he is 😁
Don't disrespect our Lord and savior talesin jaffe please.
He Who Is Drunk And Admits It Avoiding Gruesome Domestic Incidents. Truly a God among men.
I love that they TOTALLY forgot about freeing that dwarf's wife from prison, and he went and unlived himself xD
That’s Dolan’s job
Sam: "I feel so conflicted having to hurt a cube. But I will. I will bash that cube until it explodes all over the place!" 🤣🤣🤣 [If you didn't get it, watch campaign 1]
Oh god I missed that reference... God damnit Sam.
Wait, what is he referencing? I remember VM fought oozes but I don't get it...
@@ianyazbec5829IIRC, « The Cube » was the nickname for Scanlan’s p3nis.
@@ianyazbec5829in c1 sams character scanlan referred to his penis as being cube shaped. He called it the cube.
@@ianyazbec5829Scanlan referred to his penis as a cube 😂
Caleb had TWO baths!! One where Nott stole the doorknob and one where they all saw yasha.
Oh yeah! Totally forgot that XD
He just dipped his feet in didnt he
He didnt bath at the first spa
@@DarLynn909 i don't usually bath either
binge watcher here, he did bathe with the doorknob (the first one) but didn't put his head under. Nott did not bathe however. I'm not sure with Yasha however
What critical role has taught me: all voice actors have the sense of humor of a 12 year old boy
Try all actors in general. Also dancers and instrumentalists. (All three of which I am, lol.)
and that's the reason it's so good.
Srsly...whole crew needed to go to horny jail this episode (not complaining, it was hilarious)
I first saw this at 58:48
Or maybe it's because said 12 year old boy's childhoood were filled by those voice actors
1:54:18 did… did travis just remember his wife’s medication schedule and send it down on a quiet chain down the group so she could have it?? My damn heart❤
Thanks for pointing this out. Makes me happy to see it!
Travis is 100% husband goals. I hope to be half the husband he is for someone someday.
Caleb: [During reading of the charred book, to DM] "I'm not telling anyone this."
Marisha: Continues writing furiously.
As a DM you have to understand that just cause a character doesn’t know smt doesn’t meant a player can’t . It’s very valuable to have a note taker bc they can share what they have written down. Otherwise you get times where people completely forget things and that really sucks for players and leaves a story to be unsatisfactory. Its good to have note takers is all I’m saying. As long as they don’t meta game.
It’d be nice if I had players invested enough to bother taking some/any notes. I would previously have said “as long as they can compartmentalize player from character.” But as we get older and our brains get worse, if anyone writes down anything and it’s even remotely correct,… that’s fine. Just stop making me recap. I’m tired. Write it down, man…
I love it when Sam questions the amount of dice Laura has and she just slams this massive dice bag. I died XD
When was this?
Don't question the Queen of Dice Jail. ♥️
The goblin questions the dice goblin
A little after 2:28:00 minute
D&DBeyond: $100 for every Nat1 rolled.
CritRoll Crew: Look everyone Will Wheaton is joining us as a special guest.
D&DBeyond: Oh Crap!
That is hilarious and I do not understand how no one has replied to this comment yet
Wil wheaton is an unfunny asshole
That would be so funny
@@RushGamma regardless he still rolls more nat 1s than my whole party combined
Thus should've happened
Matt moves the cube to consume Frumpkin.
The whole table erupts in protest.
Ashley laughs.
Matt admits to just wanting to mess with them and moves the cube past. :)
Love these guys :D
56:42
Beau: I'm always a fan of going down
Yasha: *nods approvingly*
2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE)
10:45 Episode Starts
14:45 Row your boat
15:25 Laura is back
16:45 Oskar and Guinevere
19:15 Fancy oarwork
20:40 Water walking
24:20 Battle 1
56:40 Beau Going down
58:50 Sam works the shaft
1:11:05 Nott apologizes
1:14:15 Puzzle 1
1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration
1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb
1:42:05 Battle 2
1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions
1:59:15 Break Starts
2:11:50 Art Montage
2:17:15 Break Ends
2:25:10 Rude detect magic
2:28:05 Dice measuring contest
2:38:55 Battle 3
2:44:20 Slappin the jello
2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks
2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin
2:57:30 Succumb to the cube
3:01:20 HDYWTDT
3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat
3:19:35 Yasha knows all
3:31:40 Caleb’s book face
3:33:05 Journal Reading
Between Twitch and TH-cam, live viewership of this episode peaked around 59,000 people. The in-game start day for the episode was the 20th of month Fessurian 835 PD. Sam’a flask says “FART”
If you’re the kind of person who wants to see the Critical Role team in person at a convention, but hasn’t been able to yet, you might be interested in Critical Scope. This TH-cam channel films and posts panels and interviews from the cast so you’ll always know when someone accidentally lets a character detail slip. They recently posted a talk with Matt about his role in the D&D resurgence. Check it out.
Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
Man you watched the video fast!
You're doing gods work man
44:11 - Jester power rowing
Alex Sarafilovic came to say this same thing
can we get G&S to just pin these?
For a non native english speaker, the subtitles really helps and adds on the depth of understanding what is going on. Keep it up the good work, really apreciated those who help translate the audio..
vinicios brandao The captions are currently automatic and sometimes give wrong information.
CR Transcripts, a group of fans, make better captions in a couple of weeks.
Check out their website.
Kris Barski afding to that. If you speak english ,(writen) and you are decnt at translating, they ae making versions on another languagues. They never say no to help.
For a native English speaker, it helps understand what they are saying as well.
Ikr? I cant follow without them because everythings just too quick
Es verdad, es util para enfocarse.
Gotta love just watching Matt while the party is figuring things out. Hes got a poker face and a slight cocked eyebrow permanently plastered on his face, haha
The entire battle with the cube is just a giant cube-tease for Matt saying shiver and queef
"Laura: How do you fight a gelatinous cube?" "Liam: You die." I can only imagine when any of them watched Honor Among thieves.
What a sentence
fjord: is there anything around here that looks like a staff
bo (with a staff on her back): i dunno, lemmie look around
Lol, honestly, that would've been me. "Got a perfectly good rod-like-stick on my back, but imma look for somethin' else because i don't want to lose my stick'.
I mean he probably meant something that would act as a key and I don't think Beau's staff would be able to do that as it's not the correct key
Nott doesn’t have any of her sticks on her too?
I was thinking maybe they use one of the arrows from the trapped hallway
Same energy as me looking for the glasses that I'm currently wearing
"LOOOOOSEEE" And in that one moment Travis was no more, there was only Grog.
In the grim darkness of the recent past, there is only grog
The bartender said there was no beer: there was only Grog. (I’m sorry)
@@hehehaha-jk8ej Don't humor yourself, no your not.
Kida funny tho ngl
There is no Daina, only Grog.
credits: Flando Maltrizian
2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE)
10:45 Episode Starts
14:45 Row your boat
15:25 Laura is back
16:45 Oskar and Guinevere
19:15 Fancy oarwork
20:40 Water walking
24:20 Battle 1
56:40 Beau Going down
58:50 Sam works the shaft
1:11:05 Nott apologizes
1:14:15 Puzzle 1
1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration
1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb
1:42:05 Battle 2
1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions
1:59:15 Break Starts
2:11:50 Art Montage
2:17:15 Break Ends
2:25:10 Rude detect magic
2:28:05 Dice measuring contest
2:38:55 Battle 3
2:44:20 Slappin the jello
2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks
2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin
2:57:30 Succumb to the cube
3:01:20 HDYWTDT
3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat
3:19:35 Yasha knows all
3:31:40 Caleb’s book face
3:33:05 Journal Reading
Bump
Boosting! Thank you!!!
Boost!
😊😊😊😊
The look on Matt's face when Marisha responds: "I'm always a fan of going down."
I hear "You're getting to the tip of it" and I IMMEDIATELY look at Laura to see if she can control herself. Hint: she cannot.
I beg you, please provide a timestamp
@@WhatIsThisPhuckery 1:29:24
1:01:24: Caleb grabs onto Mollymauk without context, Molly just accepts it and pats Caleb's hands lmao
LMFAOO i love that
TOO CUTE
The will-o-wisp ash uses all three of the targeted magics. Necromancy to summon the spirit. Evocation to burn the ash. Divination to communicate with the dead.
Thank you I was wondering!
Absolutely love Sam, very adamant about not metagaming and even inflicts himself status because it's what his character would do. Just a joy to see him at the table.
a consistent and proper rper that does what his character would do as nearly as often as possible. because not anyone, outside of people with ocd or something similar, does everything EXACTLY the same every time.
He's incredible to watch at the table. The story telling, the improv, the reading other PC tones, the memory of mechanics. It's really impressive.
Give the ring of water walking to Yasha, she can drag the boats while walking.
this should've been canon
@@thelastcube. this should be written down in the PHB 🤣
It's funny how Liam went for weeks barely able to hit anything before suddenly landing 3 consecutive attacks while blinded.
It's like the dice know Caleb needs to get serious when Nott is in danger (as with the Manticore fight when he took out the priest).
I like that Beau does the same thing on her first turn. All four of her hits landed. Beau and Caleb can factually fight better blinded than able to see lmao.
Oh wait they could see lmao nvm
And there is that time he disintegrated that Leader of the Thieves on their travel to Zardash while all of them were in danger
@@faulerpanda7376 And then was immediately shot to death.
@@megashark1013 the true wizard way
no spoilers but another example of the dice knowing when stuff is getting real is episode 129
Liam constantly saying "neunzehn" (nineteen) for nine, when counting in German gives me so many chuckles. His dedication to a character's personality is so damn good 💜
Everyday is Thursday when campaign 3 already started and I’m also trying to catch up campaign 2 while campaign 1 stares at me
Sameeeee
I like how Liam makes really good use of the ritual magic ability to cast spell without using slots.
as a cleric it makes my heart warm to in-universe make everyone else sit around doing jack diddly for 10 minutes waiting on me because we need to read something and no one else can cast comprehend languages and I'm spell slot stingy
While Beau jumps around him angrily because it takes so long :D
To be fair, this is also a cool thing for Matt because my DM wont let me ritual cast anything unless our party is waking up or going to bed.
@@travisanderson6431 that sounds harsh. Surely you should be able to do it during a short rest, even if your DM might not want to slow the pace down at other times. For me there's a reason spells have the ritual tag- so you can cast them between battles without burning slots.
@@archie4president330 so I recently had a discussion with him, he said that he said it was for only when my spell slots were spent. I asked if i could try to just take the ritual 10 mins for detect magic during the game and he said I could. We were on our way into a dungeon and I started ritual casting detect magic twice before we went in to check for magical traps, both times he had us encounter some small scouting party of enemies who aimed for me first because I was meditating. I have been getting quite frustrated tbh.
when sam said "you double ALL your dice??" when he crit that was blessed footage
Some of this fanart is unreal, talented people out there
Travis screaming LOOOOOSE made me fuKCIN choke thANKS SAM FOR FACILITATING THAT
Gemmy Doadance when
VastSpartan during the folk song at the beginning
That. Was awesome. lol
Yeah, the song was cute and it made me smile, but Travis's screaming almost made me spit my drink. I've re-watched it several times. It was gold. Such rage! ❤
"Ashley has more dice then Laura,"
that's gotta be one of my favorite moments on the show!
gabthegreat01 2:28:31 for anyone interested
@@owlabouteverything2066 2:28:16 actually
@@gabthegreat01 2:28:09 actually
I saw the fan art of all the different Calebs and I went DUDE. is the dodecahedron literally a d20? and those are all the different branching versions of himself if the dice had landed differently? DUDE. THAT'S DEEP.
Dodecahedron is a 12 sided.
D20 is an icosahedron
Laura’s face when Matt is describing fjord “pulling out a rod” is perfect
When either Laura or Sam miss from the show, you can REALLY feel it.
Agreed
Marisha too (because it gets so much better)
kripposoft this comment section would be so much better without you as well!!
+kripposoft too cold
🙄🙄🙄
Gelatinous cube has entered the battlefield: "OOOOOHHH"
Liam 'don't step on my cat' O'Brien: "F*CKING FOCUS!!"
All I can imagine: Barley from Onward, “GELATINOUS CUBE!!” 🤣
I've got a torch
-Yasha, forgetting she can turn, literally anything into a torch.
So cats don’t have dark vision yet to Tabaxi do? OK 5E, whatever you say.
I think you're forgetting that it's still a game, and mechanics are a thing for a reason. There are many contradictory things in every edition of DnD (and pathfinder) that don't make sense, but are the way they are for the sake of how it plays out mechanically.
@@5oundOfVictory some other examples include: padded armor giving disadvantage on stealth even though it would be better than leather, spears not being finesse even though you need more dexterity than strength to use one properly, half plate giving disadvantage despite its description suggesting that the plates wouldn't collide or scrape against each other, some spells that should probably be concentration not being so, and the existence of ring mail, it is objectively worse than any other armor type in the game, the name would more accurately describe chainmail, and what the rules describe it as makes no sense in addition to being the only armor neither based on history nor a typical fantasy trope
(Edit: and that's just the player's handbook)
@@phenjaws569 Why would leather armor be chosen as an option if padded armor didn't give disadvantage on stealth? Giving a reach weapon finesse would make the stat even more OP than it already is, and completely rule out the use of rapiers, shortswords, scimitars, etc. Also, you now have a 10ft reach d10 damage die with sneak attack. I do agree that 5e is a bit heavy on disadvantage and advantage instead of just flat bonuses (like -2 or whatever) which would be a bit more forgiving, and make more sense. Spellcasters also got huge buffs in 5e compared to previous editions, and some spells requiring concentration that don't could really waste a lot of potential in caster classes.
But the ringmail thing, I 100% agree with you, same with half plate (though I'd impose a -3 to stealth, rather than disadvantage, because the idea is that a metal plate banging against something exterior (like a rock or table) is gonna make more noise than leather bumping into the same thing.
@@5oundOfVictory I wasn't saying that these things didn't make sense aside from ring mail, I was listing examples of rules that are there to balance the game but aren't as realistic as some others, I completely understand why everything but ring mail is the way that it is, although making it so that leather armor has a 12 AC and studded leather has 13 would make padded armor more of an option, but I understand why they didn't do that, because if they had it like that, someone who rolled a high dexterity score would have equal or greater protection compared to chainmail (assuming they rolled 16 or 18 on dex and/or played an elf, raising the score to an 18 or 20) which would make the game at least a little less balanced, so I understand the mechanical reasons that these things are the way they are in Dungeons and Dragons, I was listing examples of other rules that aren't very realistic but make the game more fun (although given that padded armor is objectively worse than leather armor [which, again most classes start with] makes its presence a little superfluous as literally every other set of armor is better including what you start with)
I guess maybe the argument is that a familiar is technically a minor spirit and not the actual animal it takes the form of. Still bullshit though imho.
"I feel guilty for having Needs!"
Same, honestly