Commerce & Chaos | Critical Role | Campaign 2, Episode 31
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ธ.ค. 2019
- The Mighty Nein take two weeks of down time in Zadash, shopping and researching, before embarking on their next adventure...
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Rudimentary Timestamps before Flando gets here:
1:20 Sam's country song
4:51 Laura's protective of her dice
7:58 Recap starts
8:24 Recap interrupted by Sam Shenanigans
9:59 Recap resumes
10:50 Recap ends
*11:21** Nott's downtime*
12:05 Nott sends another package
12:17 Nott tinkers
14:30 Percy makes an appearance
15:16 Nott makes an explosive arrow
18:56 Nott and Jester forge a letter
*26:45** Caleb's downtime (?)*
29:46 Visiting Pumat Sol
46:13 Jester's dream axe
56:53 Caleb arranges for library
*57:34** Caduceus' downtime*
58:09 Clay heads to herbal shop
1:02:18 Clay shops for supplies
1:03:56 Diamond shopping with Jester at Suvo's Secrets
1:09:40 gaRLiC
1:14:07 Jester, Clay's majestic exit
*1:14:47** Fjord's downtime*
1:16:02 Fjord travels south
*1:19:02** Caleb and Beau's downtime*
1:19:07 Transmuter's Stone
1:20:29 To the Cobalt Soul
1:21:23 Beau and Zeenoth
1:23:48 Beau trains with Tubo
1:26:34 Beau is forced to read
1:30:42 Tubo vs Beau w/ bows
1:34:26 Caleb reads...
1:34:59 ...about Xhorras
1:39:07 ...about time magic
1:40:25 ...about 'Dunamis'
*1:41:05** More Fjord downtime*
1:41:24 Fjord examines his falchion
1:43:04 Fjord visits the Gentleman
1:46:42 Running into Cree
1:49:42 Cree talks of the ritual
*1:52:12** More Clay downtime*
1:52:39 Clay tries to get an epiphany
*1:53:25** Jester downtime*
1:54:29 A gift for Nott
1:56:59 Planning to fuck up a temple to the Platinum Dragon
2:01:58 Jester and Nott approach
2:03:02 Nott adresses worshippers
2:07:08 Nott casts Mage Hand
2:07:52 Jester enters the fray
2:09:00 "His Holiness is going on a spiritual journey and there's only room on that train for one dude!"
2:09:53 Vandalising
2:11:34 Time to run
2:13:13 Nott screams
2:14:10 Nott trapped in bead
2:16:45 Matthew dominates Sam
2:17:10 Jester casts Blink
2:18:32 3rd-level Charm Person
2:20:45 "Everybody, think of the stink-eye Laura gave on the hospital run"
2:23:59 Nott is freed
2:24:45 Run!
2:29:05 Laura remembers Channel Divinity: Cloak of Shadows
2:30:35 Everyone at the table is relieved
2:31:15 Town criers cry vandalism
2:31:56 The Traveller visits Jester
2:36:25 Planning TravellerCon
2:39:09 Welcome back. PT2
2:40:02 M9 together again
2:49:23 Fjord tells M9 about Sabien
2:57:02 Jester: "Maybe you have to poop it out."
2:59:00 Jester Sending to Yasha
3:01:31 Caleb, Nott discuss options
3:07:15 A tender moment
3:09:41 Campaign 1 memories
3:12:05 Sam's country song reprised
3:12:23 Fanart compilation
EDIT: Flando's back. Find their timestamps and go shower them with likes
Ellie K I’m not gonna lie, I like your lists better.
Your list made me laugh so I will like it.
Dust of Deliciousness at 43:47
Thank you 😁
Forgive me, for I can only give you a like and this comment.
“Critical Role is scripted there is no way its improv.”
Matt: “you see a female woman...”
Haha yes, that kinda struck out
Reminded me of Brooklyn 99 where captain Holt described his fake wife as a "strong, female woman" lol.
@@Aerensianic "With impressive, heavy breasts"
As a DM, can confirm that this is how it goes when the players ask for stuff.
This reminded me of when he said "visual sight" in the previous episode. Little things like that are nice because they remind me that Matt Mercer is still a human being rather than the god of dungeon masters.
I love how, despite the fact that Matt was in the middle of an anouncement, when Laura asked who touched her dice everyone went dead fucking silent. 😂
Mom is PISSED! Nobody move!
Save vs fear... natural 1
It's a superstition with some D&D players. Touching someone else's dice is extremely bad luck for the dice.
@@shyfrog3731 ooooh. That makes sense now cuz my group roles shit and we all share dice.
Don't touch Laura's dice
And to think, Jester almost didn't buy the Dust of Deliciousness.
Sam convinced her to buy it and stopped everyone else from ruining everything when she was getting ready to use it. A true friend.
Omg yes (I’ve by accidentally read a spoiler so I started gasping when Matt was describing it)
Taliesin acting out Caduceus's silent reactions while no one is paying attention has become one of my favorite things.
Taliesin is a master of RP
That's one thing that confused me when he was Molly. He'd often look annoyed at the rest of the cast, and it took me a bit to realise he's just in character hahah
I always love watching him do that, sometimes I forget to pay attention to dialogue cuz I'm so focused on his reactions and facial expressions
@@TheSummerwine1Liam sometimes falls into quiet phases where he pouts and looks ready to murder someone
Makes me wonder why hes playing if his mood is ao terrible until he laughs at something out of character, then goes back to pouting
@@2sthimo449 yup haha, that's just Caleb!
“She’s a female woman” -Matt Mercer
hahahaha. Well he probably meant a female human, being DM is hard
Time stamp?
"Subterranean basement"
@@declanmccarty9964 58:10
You could feel the silent facepalm immediately after that.
Glove maker: "What colour would you like your gloves to be, Miss?"
Nott: "Uh... human... coloured..."
Nott: FLESH
Well, ma'am, humans come in a rather broad spectrum of colors. Could you be more specific? Will you be needing leggings?
Your missing the point she's trying to hide the green skin of a goblin so any human color would work
@@michaelkorpi90
The point of the comment
Your head
Crayola*breaking open THAT box: sooo... that's oddly vague....
the M9 when they visit pumat: *I'LL TAKE UR ENTIRE STOCK*
Pumat Sol: Anything from the trolley seats?
M9: We'll take the lott.
Isn't the broken sword from around 42:00-43:00 ish one they sold off to him initially? So they're resupplying him as well as emptying out the shop :D
@@RuailleBuaille either that or it is a sword that they found in that tree hideout of the gentleman... I remember something about an artifact from pre calamity... idk if it's true, but that's what I remember...
i LOVE pumat so much
Also you're an incense dealer now!
Nott: "Does anyone want to help me (disassemble a gun)?"
Percy, sassily emerging from Taliesin's consciousness: "I wanna watch"
In 2024 this is still hilarious
I imagined Percy popping into existence like a windows assistant. "So, you want to know how a firearm works?, well, let me enlighten you"
Taliesin's gun knowledge was actually dope and impressive
In their world his character in last campaign made the first pistol so i would imagine he or matt did research on old flintlocks to add to character backstory
@@cigar_goblin4849 to be fair Taliesin is well of random facts and knowledge so he may have known about that long before Percy
Well, Taliesin probably invented the first flintlock too speed up blood sacrifices.
Last campaign he asked Matt if Percy could make tnt out of peciticide or fertilizer or something similar, and explained the process
to be honest, a dwarfen gun would probably not use a flashpan with flint or a matchlock (not flint, but fire for the creation of the explosion on the pan, flint locks are allready the second step of gun technology). dwarfes are masters of crafting with metals. they would probably take two thin cooper pieces, put some small amount of gunpower between these pieces and hammer the copper pieces around the gunpowder together, so that a hammering on the middle will crush the gunpowder to a small explosion. it is resistent against water or wind, the mainreason for malfunctions of these muscets.
in reality these copper things were invented around 18** , but they were expensive and many malfunctions happend by the creation of these copper plates, so armies didnt used them and just some aristocratic duel pistoles had these features. they got replaced with actual metal-bullets by some french inventors (while americans or birtish claim, that they created the first "real bullets" ) when the inventors figured out a way to reload and fiire in the back of the shaft and the military got interested in these inventions, because the soldiers would have been able to hide, while reloading their guns and need less speed for reloading and the gun powder were more secured. one of the biggest logistical problems for guns were weather influences or actual water from rivers or the sea on the battlefield-area. in once read about a general, who actual waited for the crossing of a river by the enemy and hoped for their gunpowder to get wet.
before that around 17** most armies were developing small paper bags with gunpowder and a bullet inside it, so you just had to rip it open with your mouth, put it inside the barrel and stuff it together and than fire with the flint. these paper bags were logistical easier than former . they used snaplocks too in this technic the flashpan has a lit, that is automatical snaped open by the flint comming down on it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snaplock#/media/File:Snaphaunce_sparking.gif
there are other things like match kraut, wadding, wheellocks and "Drehlings", who were used for muscets too, but its really complicated to understand everything. the actual wheellock for example was a invention around 1500 and before that even de Vinci made a small scrible of such a mechanism ~1490. these things are more advanced than a flintlock or matchlock too, but the invention was complicated to build for a whole army. technical a modern revolver was as a theoretical invention perfectly possible in 1500 and some cavarly guns look like revolvers too, but they had these 6 or even 12 shots, because they made many malfunctions by bad quality of the craftmans before the industrial revolution. in a fantasy setting dwarfs would figure gun technology out in a year and they would build in high quality. in some senses D&D should change a lot by the invention of gun powder, like every other society.
*Jester finally dies*
*Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon, with a whiteboard titled “Reasons you Probably Shouldn’t be Going to Heaven”:*
Comandante Gorrion bold of you to assume jester is mortal
HORRIBLE to even joke about the possibility that Jester might someday die!
i suspect, that my 100 year old grandgrandmother is Jester. similar perverted jokes.
im kidding, by grandgrandmother is dead. is my mother and her jokes.
And then somehow she gets in anyways
@@jadedoptimistt Bahamut is crossing off the points he mentioned on the whiteboard, and Jester uses the distraction to wander off into Elysium.
"Why is this episode called Commerce & Chaos, what is the chaos?" *reaches the part with Jester and Nott in the temple* "Oh."
Was there ever any doubt?
Matt: Your group has a a two week break. What do you want to do?
Fjord: I travel a bit.
Caleb: I sit in the library and read
Cade: I sit in the park.
Nott: I construct homemade explosives.
Jester: I commit a religious hate crime.
Beau: I learn how to punch ghosts.
Beau: *Learns how to punch ghosts*
Nott: " Was that a Lorenzo reference? "
Matt: " Good freakin grief- "
It was a crime of joy, not hate.
@TheChiliconkarma It was a hate crime. I love Jester, but I really hope people don't confuse her for a chaotic good person. She's chaotic neutral, and desecrating someone's place of worship is quite an evil action.
@@gaigeschaal9070 , to call this a hate crime is to remove all meaning from the term. There is no implied threat, let alone an overt one. Jester pretty much summarized a major background point in the Dragonlance saga: If you let your purity blind you, you cease to be all that different from the evil you oppose.
As for desecration, no. This temple's sanctity has not been tarnished in any meaningful way by graffiti that can be removed with basic spells or perhaps even a little humble toil.
@@perigraph6644 Imagine if you'd apply this on the real world... "nah, it ain't that bad that I graffitied a bunch of religious symbols in this unrelated place of worship, they can just clean it off". It's definitely not okay. But then again, I'm not religious whatsoever so maybe I just don't get how open for other religions devout people are (sarcasm btw lol). Now, I know Jester has no bad intentions, but that doesn't absolve her from doing wrong. I love Jester, she's probably my favourite character so far, but her misplaced love for the Traveler is kind of... awkward.
Sam, as Nott: “I just think Astrid is someone from his past who could help him think of happier times!”
Liam, in the background: *the embodiment of the “this is fine” meme*
"Remember that time we all murdered our parents together?"
hahaha i was looking for this :D poor liam hahahahaha gotta love dramatic irony
Rewatching C2. Watching his rollercoaster of emotions is amazing. The first tongue bite when they mentioned the academy at all.
Wasn’t Nott present when Caleb talked about the amulet he wears to keep himself hidden from Trent? She should be smart enough to realize sending a letter to the Academy telling them where to find him is a _terrible_ idea.
That said, I’ve been waiting for Astrid to make a surprise appearance as an adversary ever since I learned Caleb’s backstory, so that letter is an exciting development.
@@anondecepticon They didn’t tell them where to find him. The only location they gave was The Pillow Trove which Caleb had no connection with.
watching taliesins face during the molly lore makes me wonder what kinda shit he had planned for molly
Yeah... one of the two chars with extremely interesting backstories and quests doesn't get to finish. It sucks.
I think his backstory was gonna be closely linked to the luxon. Obviously it's all speculation tho
It wouldn't shock me if his story isn't finished (I'm only on this episode so far though, so I could be wrong).
taliesin said once before that he thought up molly *while campaign one was still running.* he no doubt put a lot into it.
@@icymoons And it was heavily inspired by a friend of Taliesin that passed away too. (Joseph Gordon-Levitts's brother who left acting to do all kinds of extremely free spirited stuff. him passing away and molly too makes it bittersweet)
“Nice to meet ya, You brighten up the room.”
“What a room to brighten” I love Clay. So Wholesome
Do you have the timestamp for this?
@@jpillustrator 56:32
I thought that I wouldn't like clay, but so far he is my favorite Talison character. I like his voice his character. He's kind of morbid but in a Charming way. He believes in life and death by in a it's part of existence and to be respected sort of way. And I like that he's a cleric which suits his name.
Jester's still best girl in my opinion. She's adorable and badass. Like Laura
The reveal of Sam's flask picture is the most derailed I've seen Matt get. Straight up blue screened him.
Time stamp?
@@kittyNOnana 8:18
During that scene of Jester and Nott in the temple, I just kept picturing Molly watching from the afterlife and laughing his ass off. He would be very proud.
he's probably gathered like a crowd of 500 and they're chucking ghost spoons at the hijinks
If he was alive he definently would've joined... miss him...
nah man, molly's not in the afterlife. hes too stubborn, hes watching over them from limbo while he trades stories and fashion tips with Vax.
@@rocksolid1954 I thought Vax was with the Raven Queen... or am I wrong?
@@mydknightcloud He is. And she is the goddess of passage which means Vax is in some sort of not too bad Version of Limbo.
Im Nigerian, and my mom and I always have a good laugh whenever anyone mentions Nigerian scam emails. I just about spat out my water when Nott said "from the town of Nigeria".
I'm glad you take those jokes in stride :P
people should be more like you!
lmao, yeah I agree with the other comments ~ I didn't even realize it was a 419 / scam reference, and straight away took offense lol AND I'M NOT EVEN NIGERIAN! wish we could all be like you
Ur gonna go far with that attitude
Oh! Junimos!
This episode is the DnD incarnation of _Tales of Ba Sing Se_ and I love it
I was literally thinking the same thing
You mean it's Tales of Ba Sing 5e? :D
...I'll show myself out.
@@umbravulpes4950 I appreciate you
@@umbravulpes4950 please dear traveler, stay.
I mean i see the train of thought, but this didn't make me cry. Every time i see tales off ba sing se at least 1 tear falls down my face.
If Jester's escape isn't a perfect display of a goddamn TRICKSTER Cleric, I don't know what is, ladies and gentlemen. Charms, disguises, teleports, invisibility... the whole package in one great escape.
Watching her run through the gamut of random spells trying to figure out a way to escape was amazing. Disguise self, charm persons, hold persons, illusory duplicates (both singular and in multitudes), dispels, teleportation and outright invisibility. Utter madness.
And she's still only level 6. Dear god I can't wait to see what she gets later.
@@Hawk_of_Battle she’s going to become chaos incarnate, I can just feel it
And after the funniest most scuffed display, we then get an intense "I'm not crying YOU'RE crying" moment. Why do I see their relationship as one between a father and daughter?
Matt: "If it's sprinkled over any edible substance..."
Laura: :o
Matt: "it greatly improves the flavor..."
Laura: :0
Matt: "to the point it's downright distracting."
Laura: :O
Matt: "It's the Dust of Deliciousness."
Laura: "OH MY GOODNESS!"
Matt: pokerface
62 episodes later it comes back to bite Matt in the ass.
Matt: :O
came here to say that haha
timestamp, timestamp please ;-;
43:35
Well i cant wait to find out 62 episodes from now
why, did she sprinkle it on his ass?
Caduceus and Pumat Sol, I didn't know I needed this till now. All we need is Nila and I think I will die from wholesomeness.
but then nott would never stop with the "all firbolgs know each other" thing
Every Firbolg within 30 ft of the party adds a +10 to moral. +1for every Firbolg when they are conversing with one another.
All firbolg one shot, run by Nott, ala the Grog one shot
@@rocksolid1954 but they do, don’t they 😂
Bro you found the triforce of wholesomeality
"I'm impressed what your mother went through at this point." - Mr. Clay seeing all four Pumats
I have a friend who had twins... and she described it as a never ending Hell.
That's about what having a singular kid, let one 4, is like 😂
Matt: "You say a little prayer to the Traveller for a chance to escape."
Jester: "Please don't fuck me please don't fuck me."
As her patron God who is supposed to be helping and guiding, obviously don't. As a surrogate father figure, obviously don't!
As Nila said, that word is so versatile!
As an adult with much childhood neglect, Jester's scene with the Traveler and her "do you still like me" absolutely broke me. I love her so much.
It is fascinating to me to note who's watching what in that scene:
* Sam and Taliesin don't look at at Laura too much, maybe because it's obvious that you're staring right at the tablemate next to you and it can throw off the vibe of a sad, intimate 1:1 scene that your character is not personally in
* Marisha is interested in Laura's performance but also spends a big chunk watching hubby Matt
* Travis looks to Matt occasionally but is enraptured and clearly moved by his wife's performance (lots of pained sympathy in his face, eyebrows especially)
* Liam is watching Laura most of the time, deciding that she is the focal point of this scene, and seems to be very much enjoying her performance art as she expertly tugs on heartstrings
Jester is like 50% of the reason I watch this show.
"Have you ever met a ghost that does not need punching?"
Taliesin: Mind blown.
I watched him for the next minute or so just staring off into space confusedly, it was a thing of beauty
It was absolutely hilarious to me, I was laughing the entire time just staring at him. I also, like, once I realized what was happening played this: th-cam.com/video/0Wi8Fv0AJA4/w-d-xo.html which is probably a part of why I laughed so much.
I love that he's met ONE ghost that doesn't need punching, implying that Beau isn't *wrong*, but that there are occasionally exceptions.
okay but have you seen the highlight video where someone edited in Bolero while slow-zooming on Taliesin's face 😂😂 Taliesin said that that's the song that plays constantly in Cad's head and the video is absolute perfection.
Tal spent that whole time reliving 4000 years of family reunions he's attended and questioning all his interactions.
I love how Jester's journal is becoming one big long confession to a bunch of crimes. lol
I love Fjord being a man of the people. He always asks NPCs names and remembers them. His interactions with minor characters always feel important to him. Travis is a master of RP
Fjord’s entire character is taken a little from every person he meets. And it makes Mask of Many Faces all the more interesting if we assume they’ll people he’s met, even in passing
I love how he's the charisma, the face of the group, the smooth talker, but then he gets really uncomfortable, when the conversation turns on him.
He is a wonderful story telling participant. Like Liam…and Nott. And Caduceus. And jester. All of the characters that aren’t awful 😂😂🤣
How Marisha went from a character this tremendously awful to the perfection that is Laudna is confusing and impressive
@@true_plays_games sounds like you just hate Marisha. You sound like every person who doesn’t like Keyleth. You don’t belong here
Yes! He was sorely missed while they were gone. It was so incredibly boring between Molly and the Iron Chef's arc without him and Laura! Yasha was sorely missed, as well, but given her minor speaking parts as it is already, these two are definitely the dynamic the group misses (in my very own solitary opinion).
HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing
00:30 Pick up
1:20 Sam’s country song
2:35 Second Verse
7:55 Episode Starts
8:25 Mercer will remember this
11:20 Nott’s down time
14:30 Taliesin explains guns
19:50 Forging a letter
29:50 A trip to the Invulnerable Vagrant
34:50 Beau gets down to business
40:40 Jester has Catapult
46:15 Jester’s custom weapon
48:20 Travis’s worst nightmare
58:30 Jezna Bree
1:02:25 Caduceus gets his hat
1:07:40 Rubies of ti-tties
1:09:00 The sack of secrets
1:12:50 The Mask of Some curse I guess
1:14:45 Fjord’s Chjores
1:20:35 MONK RETREAT
1:26:20 Beau’s training montage
1:31:00 Tubo and the 3 Beau strings
1:34:30 Caleb’s lore search
1:36:15 Laura is on top of it
1:41:05 Mjore Fjord Chjores
2:02:05 Jester vs. The Platinum Dragon begins
2:03:15 They keep forgetting that Nott is a bad liar
2:07:55 Going on a spiritual journey
2:12:05 The chase
2:16:50 Sam flashes back to college
2:19:30 Jester is very convincing
2:23:45 The escape
2:30:35 The most miraculous reversal in CR history
2:32:00 The Traveler is back
2:39:10 Break Starts (and ends)
2:40:30 Who you gonna call? Ghostpunchers
2:42:25 We know months
2:46:50 Finding Molly
2:51:20 Fjord Ljore
2:57:00 Poop it out
3:09:40 Keyleth was game breaking
3:12:20 Episode Ends
Between Twitch and TH-cam, live viewership of this episode peaked around 58,000 people. The in-game start date for the episode was the 4th of Quen’pillar 835. Sam’s flask says “The Doctor is in” over a picture of Matt in doctor costume.
Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
Dust of Deliciousness at 43:47
53:55 dust is acquired
Thank you 😁
Forgive me, for I can only give you a like and this comment.
🙏
Laura is the only one who can make me go from dying of laughter to getting really emotional in literally 10 seconds
Laura and Sam for me.
The hospital all over again. Lol
Press: Who are you drinking?
Clay: *Sips* Steve from accounting.
This was really great! Thank you, I really enjoyed that comment! xD
@@kellerkinder6321 You're welcome. I am glad you enjoyed it.
Ô inO
Liam is a DM’s best friend. Using his downtime to research lore about the world that Matt has created, letting Matt have another genuine spotlight to share his wonderful world with us.
AHHAHA LIAM FACE PALMED SO QUICK WHEN NOTT SAID HE WAS WRITING TO ASTRID HOLY CRAP
he was also blushing a bit 😳
I really hope Caleb's backstory gets explored in more detail, he's my favourite!
@@hannahjcattanach3324 Trust me he definitely does
@@lilypad.7485 >.< so excited!
Laura Bailey is a national treasure. We do not deserve her.
*global treasure
Dude. Every time she cries it's like a fist squeezing our collective heart.
you've got no idea my friend
Rainbow colours on the Platinum Dragon statue. Chromatic colours, on the lord of metallic dragons, whose sworn enemy is the queen of Chromatic Dragons... Jester is perfect, she should never change.
Eh.
Travis: has a peaceful SOLO 12 DAY journey
Laura: goes to a temple and almost gets arrested for heresy
For those of you who aren't familiar with the DnD Pantheon lore, the Platinum Dragon is the Lawful Good god of metallic dragon, by its very nature, opposed to Tiamat, Chaotic Evil goddess of chromatic dragons. His all shtick is brillant white purity. Going into his temple with a bunch of chromatic paints and defying his statue is possibly one of the worst offense possible to his name. It's the equivalent of drawing a bloody pentacle in the middle of a church.
Thanks for that. Some of this lore is confusing lol
I was really hoping Matt would mention that as she was doing it haha
pentagram*
@@megaman7010 pretty much rainbow represents evil in dnd (ok conspiracy theorists have at it)
@@cFull_Rtrd it’s both, btw
Nott making explosive arrows and Taliesin gets this great "oh dear lord what have I DONE" look on his face. Enabled chaos, Tal, that's what you've done.
It is pretty funny, because it's that very explosive arrow, later on in the show, that causes Cad to be knocked out.
@@copycrow4486 And killed, luckly able to save him.
Wrong. He has Encouraged Violence😏
@@DredgenStorm
;-;
@@DredgenStorm damn right he has. Ripples were made when percy made guns,
Omg everyone’s faces (especially Liam’s) while Nott was writing the letter to Astrid was priceless!
It was also nice how Liam, upon realising what an incredibly bad job Nott and Jester were doing in assembling a letter that was anywhere near official looking, just became less and less worried and could only laugh anymore
I literally showed it to my brother because at first I was just watching Sam but then I glanced at Liam, and I died of laughter and my brother is ahead of me so he’d already seen the episode and we both just died of laughter watching Liam.
"SAM. Oh, no...Sam. Oh my...Sam. Uhhhhhhhh. Laura? Sam..."
Nott: Name-drops Astrid
Liam: Palm, have you met my face?
Sam missed the opportunity to say: "One Beau, Tubo, three bows!!!"
:O
I just cackled SO LOUD XDDD
Holy crap XD
Yooooooo 😂😂😂😂 amazing comment
“Tubo and his two bros with bows versus Beau”
"You brighten up the room"
"What a room to brighten"
I need to remember this response, it's a delight.
The jester hiesting the temple was something I never thought I wanted but always needed
The “Jester trying to start a holy war by vandalizing temples” scenes are absolute gold.
I laughed so hard all the way through. Especially with the spell she ‘cast’.
Brought back memories of campaign one with Scanlan and the triceratops hijinks. both situations were amazing and had me thinking "how the hell are they going to get out of this?"
@@toof987 absolutely scanbo vibes
So I'm not the only who thinks it's pretty crazy how fast Matt can find what he's looking for in the handbook am I?
Pretty sure he has bookmarks and also damn near knows it by heart at this point.
After playing the game for a few years you get pretty used to the handbook, even more if you're the DM. Give it some more time and you'll start feeling it.
You kinda get used to where certain information can be found the more you use it. I've had my copy for about six months at this point and while i dont remember a lot of things about the game, i know where to find those details decently quickly. I can just imagine how much quicker matt is with all the years he has under his belt.
To make it easier to navigate I have sticky notes for each “chapter” as well as specific table I might need often
@@drpickledude That's pretty much what I'm doing with mine. I got those little notebook tabs to stick to all the pages for each class and race and any other important things. Tables aren't a bad idea for my digital books, though. Ill have to look into doing that.
Matt and Laura's simultaneous realization and utter glee when realizing Laura still had capacity to turn invisible was... Amazing. When the Player AND the GM both get hype, you know the game good.
The Dust of Deliciousness. Arguably the most important item in the campaign besides the dodecahedron
Honestly, it's more important to the group's whole story.
😂
Sure the dodeca earned their group some easy favors with a distrustful empire but the Dust of Deliciousness changed Nott's fate without forcing the group to endure a "cost" that none of them would be happy with.
The fight option would've been sketchy and not guaranteed to lift the curse even if they had killed the crone. Darker, primal magiks are nasty like that. 😂👍
So IMO that dust was the most powerful item in the whole campaign. An item's power is limited by the creativity of its user. Matt knows that, and he gleefully endured "Laura's lesson" when she demonstrated her appreciation of that fact.
I love the Caleb - Beau friendship. It's like when the quiet kid and the jock are obliged to partner up for a project and at first it's really awkward and frustrating but eventually it turns into a bromance
PS Please don't spoil, if something different happens later
Like what? 🤔 They're not romantically compatible...did you mean if they stop being friends? 😱🤫🤣🤣
Nana Berry two things I’m pretty sure it’s established that beau is a lesbian and that’s too many emojis man
@@devonhalford5522 still hope, that she is more about "having fun" and less about gender. but yea, it seems she is sailing the "only woman" ship
CALEB TURNS INTO A WOMAND AND THEY HAVE INTIMACY !!! (not true but I think it could be fun)
@@princessblazena Something like that
"We are all collectively Pumat..."
WE ARE ALL PUMAT SOL... JOIN US...
I am Lo-Pumat of Sol. You are Sol. You will respond to my questions.
One of us.. one of us..
We are Pumat, because we are... MANY!
@@Will_Grey WE ARE SOL. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
One with the Pumat!
DM: you can now punch ghosts
Molly who has been following the group as a ghost looks at the 4th wall like he’s on The Office
God, Jester almost breaking down into tears over thinking the Traveller was disappointed in her is surprisingly heartbreaking. Like watching a child being afraid her parents hate her
It really hits doesnt it?
Do you like me again? 🥺 just right to the heart
i love how everyone has taken Ashley's "okay, okay, okay" Especially Laura
It's so wholesome!
You know they’re good friends when they absorb each other’s habits
When Laura said that I looked up and said, pike has returned!
Nott has formed a habit of saying "sure, sure" or "cool, cool"
hm Forgery kits include sealing wax. The Traveler was messing with her.
If you use your sealing wax, you might run out
It's much the same as an explorer's pack or a dungeoneering pack. Sometimes players just put that on their character sheet without knowing what's in it. I'm in the habit of itemizing those kinds of starter equipment everytime I roll up a character.
@@MorinehtarTheBlue i actually had the OPPOSITE problem, i put all the items down individually, and didnt note which pack i took, lol
Tal turning briefly back to Percy brain to explain the way the gun works felt so nostalgic 😭
I love to imagine Jester eventually becoming a god, and her clerics just getting these really random and out of nowhere messages.
This. ^^^
And they're ALWAYS cut off before any useful information is transferred.
Perfect. lol
campaign 4 she plays a cleric of Jester
I could see it.
"I see you pooping!"
Jester's temple heist is one of my favorite clusterfucks to ever witness.
I literally could not stop laughing 😆
@@CAS896 I know, right!? I was laughing so hard my dog thought I was dying lol
It's pretty much how I would expect a Jester and Nott mission to go.
this and the hospital
if anyone ever isn't sure about crit role show them these two things to get the essence and get them hooked xD
I've not laughed this much during a CR episode. The way she was impersonating an old holy draconian man. Laura is by far my favorite, not even any question about it.
This episode should have been watch Travis die inside for 3 hours and 26 minutes.
That's every episode
And every day
He livened up a bit at the mention of a longsword then died a little again when they said it was broken off though
Hey not everyone is a warlock or a barbarian, most people need to buy shit, he can do not but endure it.
@@Anegor Matt also plugged him by giving him a +1 breastplate at the start of the campaign. He also started with a dope sword. Doesn’t require much else
@@tychogoedhart286 I have not watched farther along but, I am guessing that the broken sword is something really good but, the party is not skilled at repairing it but, I wonder if Fjord could consume it for a bit of power.
Man... That entire Dragonborn's shop moment I was just thinking on how much Molly would love and have a blast in there. That shop was screaming Molly's vibe
Oh man, I'm watching that scene right now and this comment adds a bit of bittersweetness to the scene--you're so right!
I love that Travis is absolutely against shopping but is riveted when Matt is describing the stuff for sale.
2:40:39
Bo: "Have u ever met a ghost that doesn't need punching?"
Caduceus: Goes thorough an existential crisis.
Bless you for including the time stamp
There's a big need for clerics to be together
How Jester and Caduceus became insta besties its the best and the sweetest, my dramatic soft children
Jester is just a really likeable character. (unless you run a shop or temple) Also people with similar interests seem to more easily grow closer (like both being a cleric in this case)
unless one serves an evil god
@@kumakaon9225 I'd say more chaotic than evil if you're referring to the Traveler
When they were at Pumat’s and they both just had this silent whispered moment about buying diamonds I died from how cute it was. Also just the entire firbolg meeting firbolg(s?) was so cute!
As someone said when Cad was first introduced, “Clerics are like cats. They’re completely useless and lazy until you get another one and then they get energy”
Beau: Have you ever met a ghost that doesn't need punching?
Caduceus: *PONDERING INTENSIFIES*
Travis: I want to ride south, alone, for a week. Then come back.
Matt: Alright. [Describes a peaceful road trip]
Laura: I'm going to go to the temple of The Platinum Dragon.
Matt: [sighs] Roll initiative.
fjord constantly being confused and worried by everything cad says is so funny
2:41:26
Fjord: Caduceus
Caduceus: Yes
Fjord: How was your time?
Caduceus: YES!
His time was pretty yes...
Watching Taliesin get so excited when Fjord starts asking about Molly's past was adorable.
55:40 I don’t think Taliesin realizes Firbolg have the feat “powerful build” where their pushing, pulling and lifting strength is actually equal to Large creatures (double what Medium creatures have), so he is, canonically, the strongest member of the group…. Without even trying.
Osea que frojd no es ni de los 3 mas fuertes?
@@Joshu4M4nuel the excuse me who what now?
@@BootyCrusader quite possibly, "Doesnt Fjord have 3 more strength?". But I did not pay much attention in high school spanish... if thats even spanish
@@BootyCrusader "So you are telling me that Fjord isn't even amongst the three strongest members?" This is a rough translation of Hades agni's comment, sorry but my english isn't very good.
@@ferranmarco705 that was perfect, mate. Your english is much better than my Spanish would have been. Good job.
And yeah Fjord is pretty weak as Orcs go.
I love how cryptic Caleb and nott are when they are "alone".
Hints of history are often better than actual written out history, and much faster.
Liam/Caleb has been a lot less stoic recently & especially in this episode where’s he’s smiling more. I really appreciate it, it’s nice to see lol
I think because Liam got to be a critter, pure and simple, for a big chunk of the episode.
@@karllee2593 and the character as well is actually enjoying himself he's learning a lot and he got his friends back
My boy....
The perpetual sadboy persona does indeed tire
I'm just imagining the traveler watching Jester and furiously taking notes
The only worse thing Jester could've done to the Platinum dragon is to craft 4 additional colored paper dragon heads and put them on the statue... making it fully look like Tiamat.
Mat: "What kind of axe is it?"
Laura: "It's an axe."
Who is here to pay respects to the Dust of Deliciousness?
53:55
I'm rewatching this, and I was STILL on the edge of my seat in the store, when Cad turned it down at first, but then Jester's like "I guess I'll take it..." and I'm over here crying because she just saved them all from terrible fates!!😭🥰🤣
Because of Quarantine i finally start at the start of Campaign 2. Damn that name drop :D
I forgot where the Dust came from, was rewatching when I came across this episode.
Its my first time watching and I keep hearing about that dust. Thanks for not spoiling. I will be waiting for "the moment".
The thing I'm loving about watching the M9 is that any 2 can hang out and it's not going to be boring. Nott and Fjord have a field trip? It's going to get awkward in the funniest way. Jester and Beau hang out? All of the sex jokes. Caduceus and Caleb go shopping? Easy companionable search for affordable Zemnien veggies for dinner.
There are no jarring personality clashes to disrupt gameplay in the way some parties see happen.
I absolutely adore Caduceus' look of awe when he met Pumat Sol, it's so fun seeing his reactions to everything
All the pressure on Jester to "be the wonderful seed of joy and chaos" makes me really sad. She seemed so devastated when Fjord talked about how everything goes slides off her like water on a duck. And then when the Traveler said he would be with her as long as she was the joyful one. Not being allowed to be sad or even just not happy, that's awful. I am calling it here and now that there are ramifications. SPOILER FOR CAMPAIGN 1 but we saw this happen with Scanlan.
It's not a good thing to demand of someone. And with what we learn from how Jester grew up, it's even sadder.
SPOILERS
Luckily, some of the others are starting to realize this and are trying/tried to get her to talk about it or let her know it's ok to be sad/more than always happy.
Exactly my thoughts. When he said that "as long as you are..." I thought it was super manipulative. Something a true god or a true friend wouldn't threaten you with. Because to her he is her best friend, but to him she's just a crazed follower to exploit. Or so it would seem.
It depends on how you interpret being the Joyfull one. For it does not necessarily mean you have to act happy all the time. It makes sense that Jester interprets it this way though. Since she has a rather protected upbringing.
@@xXxIMNOTANGELxXx Except "true" gods do this all the time. The Judeo-Christian/Islamic gods have all sorts of stipulations.
@@BassByTheBay true gods? My dude in reality there are no gods. But in DnD gods actually exist in real life they were written stories by people. But in DnD the characters have actual proof of their existence, have magic everything. In their world gods would actually act like gods, in reality there are none and are said to act like people. What a stupid argument.
I didn't realise how much I was relying on the captions until this episode where they're slightly out of sync and it hurts my brain.
Them: "Yeah we're gonna try and find Astrid for Caleb!"
Me: Oh boy... This can only go wrong
Jester burning every spell in the Great Escape. LB getting mad at Sam for a rule check. Matt: "Keep her honest." What an awesome crew.
A crew of parents managing their one annoying child
Caleb "I have a lot of money"
I just see the look on liem's face thinking of all the fine paper and ink he can buy with it to transcribe spells with. 😁
I much preferred his look when his order was delivered to him and he couldn't figure out how he was going to carry it all.
43:40 this is where Matt played himself. The Dust of Deliciousness makes its appearance, “and it’s downright distracting!” Thanks a lot Pumat
came here just for this. am in awe this came back as possibly the most important item of campaign 2 so far.
@@Frontrunnerfication I'm not trying to discredit Laura's incredible moment but didn't Caduceus buy the dust? He probably gave it to her and I forgot but im unsure when that happened
@@estri5402 Jester buys it low key around the 54 minute mark.
John Ross thank you I missed that part
At 42 minutes the quest of the sword begins.
Matt as Pumat “So that’ll be an eight month window and cost about… 10-12k gold” Liam: almost vomits hearing the price😂
Beauregard: The Gentleman sends his Beau-Regards!
Jester: Give us a Jester of your good will!
Fjord: Can you a-Fjord not to pay?
Nott: That would Nott be a good idea!
Caleb: My name is Caleb Widogast.....
Caduceus: This is nice, I like this :)
14:34 I imagine Percy in his late 40's hovering over Nott like that pottery scene in Ghost XD.
I wouldn't be surprised if Percy has a cult. Yet I wonder how Percy would feel about that though.
@@zacharygadzinski3147 Pery Fredrikstein yada yada as the god of firearmsand inventions would be interesting. I am not convinced we would be a "Good" god though
@@weslooos He would try to urge his cultists to stop worshipping him which probably wouldn't work considering it's Percy. As for alignment either he would remain nuetral good or become lawful nuetral.
Except it's a tinkering bench!
@@weslooos Oh, man. Percy attaining godhood would be hilarious because on the one hand, he would be pissed off at anyone who'd try to follow him, but on the other he'd need followers to enact his commandments about destroying every gun they find.
"That is the deepest fuckage we've ever dipped a toe in". Best line ever lmao.
Downtime episodes are so great
It may not seem that interesting to some, but I genuinely get such a kick out of watching them shop and prepare and do things like the bath house
Plus, all of the lore and exposition! The research episodes flesh out the world and story so much. It's masterful.
The immersion is strong with this one
Caleb reaffirming that Nott was his best friend was just Liam reaching out to Sam like "I love you man"
matt mercer: [gives the most flowery, amazing descriptions of NPCs, combat, settings, the entire world etc]
also matt mercer: you see, uh, a female woman
(i relate)
He rolled a 3 on the description check xD
Jester mus have had such a lonely childhood. When she interacted with the traveler in this episode, I really felt like she must have been so desperate for a friend and a father figure for so long :(
Maybe the traveler is the father, and is basically made up by Jester in desperation for someone to talk to. She makes up a god to worship based of the one memory of someone coming to her mother.
@@fireballedbard4620 oh my god, the pure thought is heartbreaking
The fact that Laura’s rolls are so dang GOOD during that temple scene, I can’t-
I feel like it's a rite of passage to think sealing wax and candle wax are interchangeable until an official person or your parents tell your that's not right XD.
I used candle wax at 7 years old, it didn't work, and I was crushed 😭🤣🤣
I used candle wax to make a seal for a D&D prop years ago and it worked great, so I was puzzled by this.
It depends on the candle
I remember seeing it done that way in period films and wondered if it wasn't just another Hollywood misrepresentation. It may just be that their is different methods and/or chemistry and it may have changed over the years. Sealing wax would be a more guaranteed effect then.
You know, that is a mistake a Spanish person wouldn't do.
I was scratching my head at that scene because in Spanish we have a word for the candle wax (cera) and another one for the "sealing wax" (lacre) and any use of it has his own verb (lacrar) so is inhately impossible to think the two materials are interchangeable from a language perspective.
About the movies thing, most of those candles are red, which means they are sealing wax candles out of the box, as vermilion is a component of sealing wax.
Wait, has Jester just painted Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon into the colors of CHROMATIC spectrum?! Talk about religious hate there!
that part was amazing. I wish someone had noticed it.
What’s the significance there? Sorry I’m new to DnD and still learning all the lore!
@@AshbeeGaming it's that bahamut is the platinum dragon, god of the good dragons, which are metallic: thay can be copper, bronze, brass, silver or gold. bahamut is the absolute mortal enemy of tiamat, the queen of the evil dragons, or... the chromatic dragons! they can be black, blue, white, green or red. not only that, but tiamat has one head of each color!
yuri gouvêa wagner Oh damn! Jester truly is causing mischief then 😱 Thanks so much for explaining
I listened to the "What they don't tell you about Tiamat" vid; apparently she can have up to 5 heads, but any combination of the chromatic spectrum. So her 'abilities' can vary widely.
Everyone: "Let's go shopping!!!"
Travis, without fail: *Dies internally*
It's a buzzkill watching him when he clearly doesn't want to be there.
Hate the lack of enthusiasm when others are simply doing their thing - wizards researching and studying, monk training, clerics getting supplies to heal and raise dead.
"I didn't see you."
"You don't need to see me to know that I'm with you."
The Traveler is Santa Claus.
Goodness.
This was Caleb's "what did you do during your downtime," and it turned into a full hour of everyone going on a shopping adventure. Dude got completely jacked...
At least everyone still seemed to have fun, unlike C1E26....
Flashbacks to Tiberius ticking off a literal list of shit to do during downtime
@@WorldbuildyMcNPCface I too, still have nightmares of Orion trying to buy 1000 mirrors.
To be fair they all just got paid a shit ton of money so they were gonna go shopping one way or another. If you wanna talk about getting “jacked”, talk about Travis. Dude absolutely hates shopping
the scene of cad meeting the pumats is so fun and joyful
i love how cad literally has a deep thought about whether or not he has met a ghost that needed punching
The part where Jester talks with the Traveler is so touching. Laura absolutely nails playing her character
I love the way Jester vandalized the statue to get The Traveler's approval and he repaid her with a natural 20 on the last stealth check!
I love that we are still learning about Molly's strange past. Taliesin looked pumped that whole conversation.
Just realized they completely forgot that Ophelia promised to replace their horses
1:50:00 During this whole conversation between Cree and Fjord, look at sneaky Taliesin's face! That grin... You sneaky bugger! :D Thinking about what happened in the campaign 2 wrap-up... man, this was such an important moment and nobody noticed it except Tal. :D