Thordak | Critical Role: VOX MACHINA | Episode 79
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Vox Machina vs. Thordak the Cinder King
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Ah yes, heres to all the people who, like me, are binge watching campaign 1 in 2023
Im right there with you
That's me. Made it into to 50s a few years ago and then started campaign 2 and fell off. Now I'm back at it again started at the beginning and am looking forward to starting campaign 2 again after I finally finish this one
I’m here too! I’ve started campaign 1 about 6 months ago after watching the first season of Vox Machina and haven’t stopped since
Come gather around the campfire for a short rest my fellow travelers. I have ale to share
Hey mate! Watching CR for the first time too
Judge: Reason for divorce?
Marisha: he said "but hey, 8th level spell"
Matt: *smiles with eyebrows*
Judge: I'll allow it.
lol xD Well its not like Matt never told Keyleth to remember to read her spells.
To be fair, I don’t think Marisha gets the difference between Huge and Gargantuan. They’re just synonyms to her. Not sure, but I think this may be the first Gargantuan creature they fought. (Not sure if the White dragon was or not)
@@cartagia6441 All ancient dragons are considered gargantuan, so both Umbrasyl and Vorugal were. Though it is still kind of understandable, because the size category for creatures bigger than large is rarely important except in moments like these, when an ability has a very specific limit.
@@muteunmute5902 the worst part is that she gets mad at Matt about it when its 100% her fault for not reading the spell. Also tsunami takes a minute to cast.... you know, just like wind walk
@@alexanderfeoktistov6826 She didn't get mad because of the spell,she got mad because he basically made fun of her with that remark.She's still at fault,sure,but the reason she got mad wasn't because of the spell.
I love how Jarret is just a dude. Everybody has magic, or super weapons, but Jarret has a crossbow.
He's still a hero tho.
Such is the fate of Fighters. Until they get their first magic sword (seriously, why is it almost always a sword). They make up for it though by being just that awesome.
Attempted jokes aside there's always something touching and inspiring about that kind of person in this type of mess.
@@RedBlitzen It takes courage to walk up to a dragon armed with only a crossbow and no magic armor, spells, or magic weapons.
@@ignisshadowflame1027 Courage, ignorance, idiocy, or insanity. Maybe a combination of some sort.
while i love Gilmore, and Senokir, Jerret is my favorite. because of his brazen "common man personality"
@@nicholasboren4309 He's a Level 5 fighter with a level 20 heart
"But wouldn't he (Jaret) have dropped fear when he died?" Matt: "No; I think that would have instilled MORE fear."
Love that.
Not sure if it’s mechanically accurate, but it certainly makes sense. Still, I don’t think he ever had the chance to reroll his save to see if he’s still frightened? Seems very op to be able to make the whole board frightened with no way to remove the condition if you fail the first save.
@@tovekauppi1616 While i won't deny the possibility that Matt forgot about that. I will note that Matt doesn't explicitly announce all of the rolls he makes for NPC's on their turns, and your standard ancient red dragon has a wisdom save DC of 21. So it's entirely reasonable to assume this regular guy is just stuck shitting himself perpetually because of it.
@@piranhaplantX also he's just a normal dude; it makes complete sense for him to just be completely petrified of a giant fuckoff death lizard.
@@anidiot192 he points it out a few times in character
@@anidiot192 a FLAMING giant fuckoff death lizard
"Jarret is not the hero you guys are in this situation" when the fight is over, he goes up 6 levels from the crazy amount of experience compared to his npc guard status
Darn, I thought jarred was level 20 since the start
Let's have some fun: we'll assume he's using an up-leveled Veteran stat block, so he's about level 6 or 7 from all the stuff he's seen in their employ(dragons, ghostly assassins, etc)
Level 7 puts him at 23000xp. From all this he would have gained a total of 82600 XP, or enough to jump him from level 7 straight to level 12, and well on his way to level 13. From Boromir to Gandalf power levels. In one battle. Even if he was only level 6, he'd still have plenty of XP to hit 12. ZOINKS SCOOB! That man is going to be asking for a raise!!
@@snaffu1 he's already on his 4th bonus in like only a few months time lol
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Watching the two dark haired raven wreathed in shadow rogue twins try and figure out how to work a ray of sunshine gnome clerics sheet is amazing
They did a pretty good job though. Used some very useful abilities that are often overlooked.
Honestly, I think I enjoyed their joint mid-combat roleplaying of Pike even more than Matt's. xD
Super funny seeing them having like intense hushed conversations throughout the battle
That Beacon of Hope spell was pretty handy. They need to use that more often.
@@toof987 Its great, I have it on my devotion paladin.
A whole game of Matt desperately trying to keep his favorite npcs alive
I'd probably have let Jarret get severely crippled during this fight to take him out of it. Vox Machina can't keep bringing non-heroes to these massive battles 💀
That way he lives, but the party would maybe think twice about bringing regular every-day people to battles with gargantuan evil beasts with the power of an elemental plane :I
@@XxShadow101xX They...basically have never done this before, though...? VM very, very rarely even has NPC allies around in fights, and if they do, they are either 'allies' ala Raishan, or are geniunely very competent ala Kima or Gilmore. This isn't some long running trend. I frankly imagine the only reason Jarret came is because everybody (I strongly suspect, including Matt himself) forgot he was following them along in Emon for awhile.
@@XxShadow101xXI'm pretty sure the party literally just FORGOT that Jarrett was with them until Matt mentioned him. I think they thought he was with the rest of the army and not actually with THEM specifically. (It seemed like they only planned for Kima and Gilmore to actually be WITH them, since they excluded Jarrett from the Heroes Feast.) But, Matt being Matt, since they didn't SPECIFICALLY say for Jarrett to fight with the army, he sent Jarrett along with them.
Jarrett better get a hell of a bonus for this.
Just had a session where the dm's favorite cleric was murdered by goblins, so he had them revived by their deity.
Alongside the mightiest heroes of the era wielding mythical relics, reality warping magic and all the defensive preparations possible, poor Jared/Jarett was sent into to fight an ancient red dragon hauling around half the power of the fire plane, with nothing but a standard issue crossbow to defend himself 😂 Every single turn he was forced to face near-certain incineration to plink away for a tenth of the damage of anyone else, and constantly revived and told to stay and fight for that near meaningless damage. He is one hell of an employee
I would hire him man
Vox Machina taking asking to come in Sunday to a whole new level. XD
Vox machina working him harder than bezos does amazon workers
@@TheMattdunkum you mean harder than Eli does Twitter employees?
@@lawlessleopardsofliberty4275 i only said amazon cus i work at one 💀💀💀💀💀 but truuuuuuuu
Percy to a party of mercenaries: "YOUR SOUL IS FORFEIT"
Percy to an evil tyrant dragon: "I'm gonna stay in striking distance of... that jerk"
To be fair, he was sorta possessed by an evil shadow demon
He was talking to himself that some profits arent worth the paid price pitteing the merceneries becuse they have putt themselves in a similar situation
“… that jerk” has big Caduceus Clay energy
to be fair, he wasn't possessed anymore
There’s always a bigger fish xD
'What level was that Gilmore?' '6th.' 'Yeah, 8th, feeling you there.'
Omg the sass. The salt.
They forgot the disadvantage for hex.
@@discardedhero5060 Percy had lost concentration on hex by then
@@hartbits_ Wasen't it like just after he hexed?
@@discardedhero5060 Hex is for checks, not saving throws.
not really bro shes just making light of it
Characters: immune to fear.
Players: *terrified*
If you don’t remember your resistances you don’t have them.
The real MVP was the plastic stand Thordak sat on. Lmao
"I shouldn’t avoid my family, it leads to dragons." Such wisdom from Percy.
Wisdom? Or a touching nod to what his friends have suffered?
Jordan Peterson would be proud
@@michaelnewman6936 Now that you mention it, I realize that this is almost a direct quote from Peterson. He talks about family problems being the "dragon under the living room rug," and the more you ignore it the more it grows. What a weirdly specific coincidence lol
@@BeinIan I honestly wouldn't assume anything coming from Taliesin to be related to anything coming from Jordan Peterson since their convictions are like completely different and opposite
@@jeohranalfhir8366 I highly doubt you can name Peterson'a values and convictions accurately. But go off.
They can fight 100 dragons. Will stand in a cone formation EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Tbh it's kind of difficult to remain in range and avoid cone attacks.
Still liked your comment btw
I play in a five person party... We've only fought young dragons but we tend to scatter at the beginning, then sort of forget as the battle goes on because healing word and cutting words and most other support spells are 30 to 60 feet. And dragon breath cones increase with age. Either you isolate yourself from the support or you risk being AOE'd.
@@8bitkron1k38 its called a circle, form a circle around it
@@m1ckyg21 My DM always just makes the dragon do a circular tail whip lol
@@m1ckyg21 the dragon uses its legendary action (wing attack I think it's called?) to knock anyone close enough prone and move half its speed and hits half or more of the party anyway, it's just one of them
"and where theres a gaping hole left in his chest where the crystal was..."
scanlan should be rolling at advantage for fighting in his favourite terrain.
Gaping holes?
:o!
Dragon's buttholes?😂
In that final moment, it wasn't Vax hearing his mother's voice. It was Liam hearing his mother's voice. Laura clearly immediately noticed that. I got a little emotional.
I had to look this up. My goodness I'm terrified for my beloved Jenni. She found out last week she has thyroid cancer. If not treated in 8 months to 1 year or so, can be fatal.
Also, I feel this deeply because I lost my mom to cardiac arrest in her sleep on July 14th, 2013. I was 23, and she was like only 46. Still young, really.
As for Liam, whom the post was originally about, I feel it. On many levels. Everyone should get checked out. Perhaps better, more affordable healthcare is coming in the future so everyone has options...sigh...
Bleed over of something that was fresh in his mind. Hopefully it had a therapeutic effect considering his expression in that moment.
@@KiX-K4T13 From the bottom of my heart I hope that everything will be ok with Jenni. And really I'm sorry for your mother. 46? She was indeed so young.
@@KHTBLD Oh man...! Thank you so very much for your compassion. Most people would stroll/scroll by without even so much as a kindly greeting. I want more people like you in the world. Be well, fellow Critter!
@@KiX-K4T13 Ty for your words. Be well, too, friend. ^_^
2:01:42 **to the tune of the Phineas & Ferb intro**
_That's a hundred and two points of fire breath damage, and no one rolled high 'nough to halve it_
its been 8 months since this comment was made and no one continued it? well here I go
*and the regular problem, with AOE damage, is finding a way to negate it*
Austin Wells Like maybe... using evasion, or fire resistance or making a Dex saving throw
Discovering a rule your Game Master missed, or yelling “I have super powers!”
Casting a shape change
Just getting out of range
Or praying to Taliesin's shrine (It's over here!)
Finding out how your spells work, saving your continent,
Or driving your DM insane!
"the dragon breath does 96 fire damage." that sure set the tone for this fight lol
and "'21 misses.' '21 misses?!'"
Yeah, when vax evaded all that dmg, still has haste and fire resist, can fly and has dragon slaying sword... realized he was gonna be the key to this fight
@@thomasjoychild4962 typical ancient dragon AC.
@@brilobox2 Yep, suddenly sobering!
“Yeah Ashley remember that. Wherever you are” - Sam
Both Sam and Talisen look up to the ceiling
“Are we ever gonna get her down from there?” - Talisen 1:27:13
I just imagine her attached to a ceiling fan slowly spinning, and waving at anyone that looks up
I laughed so hard 😂
Travis: "Jarrett looks like...outback steakhouse, right now."
Filming crew in the back: giggles
The crew laughs are the best
So Laura said she felt like she was going to throw up and Travis just cups his hands and holds them out to her. That's love right there.
Time stamp?
2:10:56
Thanks for asking. I relistened to this awesome episode.
Thats disgusting right there lol
No that's "Oh no, not over the sheets and boxes!" :P
@@bonnymiller8252 I aspire to find a love like that committed
Vex's hierarchy of hot guys:
Percy
Captain Damon
Jerret
Don't do my man jerret
#3 basically due to being superheated by a dragon they had no business dragging him in to fight against.
She also had a thing for Brimscythe's human form apparently
Just watching this for the first time. An hour in and I'm just here like "Summon The Bronze Dragon for heaven's sake!"
Currently at 1 hour and 3 mins yelling “CALL THE BRONZE DRAGON”
1 h 45 min in - did you fucking forget about the bronze dragon???
I'm so mad at that fact, that they didn't call the dragon
I'm so mad at that fact, that they didn't call the dragon
Talesin at 1:35:30 mock playing the flute during scanlans turn killed me
SPOILERS . Thordak monster analysis
For anyone wondering Thordak took an estimated total of nearly 1500 damage in this fight, around 1100 with the crystal and 353 without it. Top 3 damage dealers were Vax (348), Grog (270), and Vex (218), and to no surprise Grog took the most damage at 177 after healing and he resisted a total of 93 damage for a total of 270, the same amount he dealt. Cite CritRole Stats
👏👏👏 thanks for the info
I counted 1 435, which could be wrong, but to those who are curious about a more exact number of damage that thordak took
🍻
Doesnt a terrasque have like 700 hp and is supposed to be the most difficult DnD monster? Really puts it into perspective.
@@matthewlarson9162 Monsters are generally statted for a party of 4, not 7. Everything gets its stats boosted for the campaign so that it still presents a challenge.
"He has crazy glue on his person?"
"As any good Dungeon Master should." Haha I love that
I really liked the mental image of Percy at 22:35 ducking into cover and promptly *losing it* over how big and scary Thordak is, while hysterically assuring Vex that he loves her dearly. It's nice he gets to finally act his age, albeit it takes an ancient dragon to bring it out of him XD
I love that too xD
He also had a panic attack after his one on one chat with raishan
@QuinnOfAebradore And when Vex tried to take him on a romantic broom ride and he threw up!
My boy Percy is up to at LEAST four panic attacks during the course of the story!
anxious Percy is the best, and makes complete logical sense. Like who wouldn't be anxious being an adventurer
@@als2480 especially being the only human in the group. Percy has zero natural defenses to *anything* compared to the rest if VM
Poor Jarrett, man, he's just a dude with a crossbow that's been recruited by the Super Friends to come fight a dragon. Dude's just doing his best
He's not even at their level. He's an under-leveled fighter against the strongest dragon other than Bahamut and Tiamat.
I'm not even supposed to be here today!
@@roboticd "It's my day off!"
@@SirSadness This is a typical high level party problem - hoard piles of magical items but expect a lower level vanilla retainer to keep up without checking if they had anything to help hime (such as Bracers of Archery or a +2 Ring of Protection that were sitting unused)
They couldn't even bothered to give him the Hero's feast for the fear immunity lol
Matt's face when he voices Thordak gives me chills. He seriously pours everything into his performances. I was seeing a dragon in his face, not a human.
The creeper shop keeper on the fire plane was my personal favourite so far.
I didn't see MM I saw the creepy ship keeper
Surprised he didn't start crawling around Benadryl Cucumbersnatch Smaug Mocap style.
FR tho!! The insane growling laughter gave me chills. And possibly nightmares
vox machina: drinks a potion
Thordak: "Anyone there? No? Must've been the wind."
"Mind playing tricks on me"
Hehehehe
*resumes patrol animation*
I really hope they slide that bit somehow in the animated series 😂
NEVER SHOULD HAVE COME HERE!!
I like to think when Grog says 'i would like to RAGE' he's actually asking permission from Pike.
Edit: this is possibly my most liked comment.
I like to think grog actually hears Matt talking to him
i agree pike decides when grog rages or not
Awww. I love it
This a very wholesome comment, and I love this idea.
Feels a bit like the connection as it is in hellsing between Alucard and Allegra. I like the idea :)
might have to implement such a thing in a future game myself
"What sexual position makes the ugliest children? I don't know, ask YOUR MOMMA!"
God Sam is a treasure.
Meanwhile:
Bronze dragon: be prepared they could call on our support at any moment.
😂😂
Seriously tho!! 🤯
Matt's poor mini cries on the bench
I genuinely don't understand why he didn't use the flute. That and his reluctance to use the sword seem kinda trolly tbh
Yeah. Them not using the bronze dragon really frustrated me.
@@OffBrandMommyHis whole character is trolly and it is infuriating. It's all fun and games until you are an active detriment to the game. I keep hoping Scanlon will pull out a bag of tricks and do something, because when he does it it is insane and awesome. But he keeps shrinking back to being the butt of the joke and as a person who loves the Bard class, it hurts my very soul to see them so under utilized. Scanlon is the CC master and Party face but very rarely does Sam let the character shine. With a Save DC of 21, Scanlon can bend the world to his will...
**giving the hero's feast to the useless bear instead of Jarret**
Bless.
Trinket is a trinket....enough said lol
Scanlan has the right idea, kill the bear, the rug from its skin would be more helpful
@@BigDaddyGAO Then enchant the hide to be a flying rug
EXACTLY MY THOUGHT. I mean I love Trinket, and I wouldn't want Trinket to be killed (just like Scanlan wants), and i know he does damage and even helps sometimes, but I honestly think Jarrett is far more useful than Trinket in a DRAGON fight. Again, no hate against Trinket, I'm a beast master as well so I do understand Laura's love for Trinket, but in this case, if I were her, I would keep Trinket in the necklace and give the heroes feast to Jarrett.
Then they turn the skin of trinket into a flying rug and he finally becomes useful and to be fair his mom might even love him more
I love how happy Matt gets when Gilmore survives or succeeds on a save.
Ïf matt had to chose one character he'd play as it'd probably be Gilmore though.
Ur totally right crime driven and I agree. But it’s “suave” not “swave” :P
If there's such a think as a DMPC in Matt's game... it's Gilmore. I havn't seen anything but the first episode of Campaign 2, so I wonder if there's an NPC that fills that role in C2.
Pluveus not yet
He knows if he kills Shaun the fans will riot. They already nixed a gay relationship, they can't kill off Gil too.
*“I hear the voice of my mother in the morning.”*
There’s a lot of memorable lines from this show, but that might be my favourite across both campaigns.
I love how Laura is surprised that a bear is absolutely obliterated by a red dragon.
But not Jarrett, who is thrown in without even their reserve magical items (of which they have a pile) to help
@@spaceman9599 they got very impatient and too m,uch into roleplay. If they were META gaming then they would have planned everything and brought all the forces, but they plated hastedly as their character would have, especially after fucking up with the fire plane(i still think it was worth it, especially cause of the Aasimar children which are cute). They didnt have time to think about equipping their NPCs with the good items they had or even going and buying more fire resistance things(or anti-dragon damage things)
Fr though there should be a way to level up animal companions, like feeding them elementally charged dragon flesh and them then ascending to Elemental guardians, rather than just getting armour
@@dawidpotega882 Planning isn't meta gaming.
@@goosepapoose8666 I mean as players they know the flow of the game and that they can just go through all their notes and allies and gain help. But roleplaying as character who are in a hurry and faced with impending doom you kind of don't think clearly or that you have enough time to exhaust all your options. I know it's not meta to plan. I just meant if you're roleplaying very well, then for example when you're wounded you do keep acting wounded and not like it's just a number on the paper
I love how Travis made the “Nein” joke before the Mighty Nein were even a dream
Groups like this tend to have other campaigns in the works just incase a tpk. So it's not too far fetched to assume the mighty nein were abstracted by now
(Unless they have said otherwise)
@@bricesmith102 By this time Laura has already played a "basic version" of Jester in one of the one-off games.
Brice Smith maybe but the nein joke was developed after about 10 episodes into campaign tow
@@NisansaDdS Nice that's what happens when one doesn't watch One Offs, you still miss out on things that may come up in a main campaign xD.
@@bricesmith102 She mentions it once in the announcement section of a regular game. But that too is easy to miss. :-)
Matt is totally sleeping on the couch after that "But hey, 8th level spell" comment. XD
If it teaches her to read her spells before she casts them, it'll be worth it.
other than windwalk, what other times did she really forget reading her spell. Really curious.
om3ga109 Well if you had read it, what should have happened was Thordak taking the first damage, getting pushed along for subsequent rounds (with no additional damage, because he is not Huge or smaller) until he makes a Strength saving throw. So she wasn't wrong. Then again the casting time is one minute.
It was Matt who didn't read the spell tho? He corrected himself after.
ObitoI3 i wouldn't say she always forgets, but maybe misinterprets/doesnt understand them on occasion, probably more embarrassing for her than anything else, sometimes annoying but shes stiil cool.
It's pretty fitting that the twins were the MVPs against the dragon that killed their mother
wait i thought it was just _a_ dragon that killed their mother, was it actually specifically Thordak that killed her? i thought it was a white dragon that did it?
@MiniKitty27 it was specifically thordak I do believe, it was after he had been defeated and fell into the sea and thought dead but was found, captured and experimented on by a Necromancer wich enhanced his power well beyond what it was, he attacked and destroyed Vax n Vex's hometown killing their mother and forcing them to live with their "most loving" father if I'm recalling correctly.
@@MiniKitty27 It was definitely some kind of a fire dragon (so 99% a red one) that did it and iirc they confirmed that the time and place checks out with the last Thordak rampage that Allura, Kima and Drake took part in containing.
@@MiniKitty27I think at the beginning of this fight Matt confirms it
@@friskybitzboi yeah i remember them mentioning it before earlier in the series as well (they also talk about it later in the series too) but since these episodes are so long it's hard to remember exactly what episode it was said in and when in the episode lol
2:16:14 come on matt, you had one job. You just had to say "gilmore's not doing too glorious"
Gilmore is ALWAYS glorious, even when he's extra crispy.
Gilmore's still glorious, just not good rn.
"I am regretting so many things right now! Not you!" XDDDD
One of my favorite lines!
the fear of god in matt's eyes after he says "but hey, 8th level spell"
He noticed the error of his ways as he was saying it
Time stamp pls
@@nearlyrighteouslad3213 25:58
@@lile3584 thank you, my brotha
Especially since it has a casting time of 1 minute so it shouldn’t have been cast at all
the way matt got excited when he realized whisper critted and tried to hide his smile… amazing outstanding
I pulled out a earbud near the end of this episode in anticipation for;
Matt: "How do you want to do this?"
VM: *screaming*
Probably a good call. My hands were full at the time.
The constant crosstalk shouting drowning out Matt in places was so constant during these 4 hours that I could not have done this with earbuds - had to crank the volume down on my phones and take breaks... At this point the audio has been on a downward curve for the last few episodes after getting right after a shaky start, hope it gets sorted out again...
"I hear the voice of my mother in the morning." Glad this game and your amazing found family helped you cope, Liam. That face... the feels. Damn it.
Oh damn I didn't think about that.
Yeah I immediately thought of how incredible an outlet it must have been. I'm so happy he had that moment. And you can sense that Matt gave him the opportunity to do it seriously or not, which was great.
Why? What happened with Liams Mom?
@@maxxythenoob1868 she died around the start of the stream
@@Grey-Enby oh, thank you for the information
I will never not love Scanlan's cutting words. I love all of Sam's creativity but the cutting words hold a special place in my heart.
They make fun of grog for using the titan stone knuckles, but would you not shit yourself if the spider in your room suddenly doubled in size.
I mean I might but I live in Australia where our spiders are huge
@@discopartyslime55 Well, Grog os ALREADY a huge dude.
So... think of the biggest spider you remember encountering, right? Now what would you do if THAT spider suddenly doubled in size in front of you? XD
AAAA 😬
Yes, yes I would...
Icky spooders 😔
That's a spider that can take off ITS shoe and beat YOU with it. Yikes.
i mean no id just smosh it
I love how Sam keeps looking all 3 of his "other faces" on his shirt when he's nervous. Like he's expecting them to change expressions or something. Adorable.
Poor Jarett being in perpetual "I don't get paid enough for this shit" mood.
To be fair he doesn't get paid enough for this shit.
@@ignisshadowflame1027 I really feel for their employees, I 100% don't trust any of VM with the administration required to run a household
Im just wondering if he ever gets any of the bonuses hes been promised so far.... Just a few months into finding and binging myself.
To be fair everytime he feels that way VM is just like "you're right, here's your raise"
@@hamishmacdonald4779 Or the ability to make consistent decisions considering the lives of anyone else at all
“Vox machina, a band of brave super powerful adventurers that have slain countless super powerful monsters, lady keema, a super powerful paladin of bahamut wielding a holy avenger, gilmore, an incredibly powerful super high level wizard who has mastered the arcane and how to weave it in battle, and then there’s jaret, a dude the group hired with a crossbow to protect their small keep”
I feel like they all completely forgot that they brought Jarrett with them until Matt mentioned him. Like, I imagine that they didn't give him any orders than, "Come fight with us!" and they just assumed he'd join the rest of the army, but he just silently followed them until he was in over his head.
I think that Gilmore is a sorcerer, specially a rune child.
reposting timestamps (from lock 53)
0:51 - Dr. Seuss Backblaze poem
2:47 - Shirt-ception part 5
9:06 - Roll intro
10:38 - Recap begins
16:52 - ROLL INITIATIVE! (also, Round 1 starts)
22:37 - Percy has so many regrets, but Vex ain't one (+Vohalika)
23:15 - Keyleth burns a big spell (also, 25:58 - "but hey, 8th level spell")
23:27 - Keyleth demands more girl talk (+Vohalika)
31:55 - Gilmore feels your pain, Keyleth (6th level spell)
34:50 - Scanlan's Cutting Words
54:11 - Scanlan inspires Percy
55:59 - "Is this all you've got?"
56:26 - ROUND 2 STARTS
1:01:42 - Whose side is Raishan on? (also, 1:02:07 - "Surprise motherfucker!", 1:02:58 - "Theordi La Forge")
1:19:13 - Scanlan's Cutting Words
1:23:11 - Skyship appears
1:38:33 - ROUND 3 STARTS
1:39:38 - Piercing shot = friendly fire (also, 1:39:53 - Travis looking out for himself)
1:43:04 - Skyship getting involved
1:56:52 - Gilmore using disintegrate (also, 1:57:30 - Crystal is exposed, Thordak down 556hp)
2:03:06 - Gilmore unconscious (also, 2:11:14 - Kima does Lay on Hands to revive Gilmore)
2:14:15 - Vax cracks the crystal (Thordak down ~700hp)
2:19:12 - War God's Blessing (also, 2:20:14 - "Ashley is the MVP")
2:20:54 - ROUND 4 STARTS
2:21:05 - Sam being Sam
2:27:40 - "We have exactly one ally dragon in this fight"
2:28:10 - Thordak is mad, yo
2:36:29 - Scanlan's Cutting Words
2:37:26 - Jarrett unconscious (Also, 2:56:36 - Pike uses Healing Word on Jarrett)
2:46:20 - Vex shatters the crystal (Thordak down ~1000hp, also 2:47:15 - Small(er) Thordak)
2:53:48 - Pro hand signals
2:57:22 - Scanlan gives Pike an aerated healing potion (also, 3:00:20 - Everything Sam says is dirty)
2:59:43 - War God's Blessing again
3:00:31 - ROUND 5 STARTS
3:06:36 - Raishan hits Vax with Chain Lightning (on purpose?)
3:14:43 - Thordak starts to retreat into the tunnel
3:19:51 - HDYWTDT? (Thordak down ~1400hp, Vax crit with Whisper, also 3:20:53 - Whisper awakens?)
3:23:46 - Part one ends, break begins
3:37:20 - Break ends, part two begins (+ThePigKnight)
3:37:42 - "Get this out of my fucking face!"
3:38:40 - ROUND 5 resumes (finishing off the Fire Giants)
3:45:30 - Marisha and Taliesin getting revenge on Sam (and, 3:48:26 - Sam getting revenge on Taliesin)
3:46:03 - Grog overhears one of the giants
3:47:38 - ROUND 6 STARTS
3:48:59 - Travis shining a laser pointer at the camera, and getting chewed out by Laura
3:50:00 - The armies are battling their way towards the Cloudtop District
3:50:38 - The Skyship (where has it been for the past 3 rounds?) attacks Raishan
3:51:47 - Raishan enters the tunnel
3:53:51 - Sam and Marisha sing
3:56:04 - No mercy Grog
3:56:48 - Vex questions Raishan and the twins hold their attacks
3:59:21 - ROUND 7 STARTS (everyone's running into the tunnel)
3:59:31 - Raishan starts using a spell scroll (speak with dead-ish?)
4:00:05 - Vax attacks to interrupt the spell
4:12:00 - What's in the chamber? (It's 5 extra large, elementally-altered dragon eggs)
4:13:25 - Raishan casts Meteor Swarm (a 9th level spell)
4:16:03 - Vex isn't actually unconscious: twitter.com/matthewmercer/status/809817269840687104
4:16:13 - Closing sentence
Gilmore uses disintegrate Vax kind of drools... More proof that they were more than friends... I'm sorry Scanlan let the cat out of the bag when Vax said Shaun the 1st time Vex kept saying how do YOU KNOW HIS NAME, he says nothing, they are all being loud asking him & Scanlan says not under his breath you have to pay attention Scan rolls his eyes & says "He's sleeping with him'. Vax/Liam just sits there, keepa his mouth shut. (he & Kiki weren't a thing yet..she shot him down TWICE So I think even after their friend zone talk.. he lol "SHAUN" almost died.
I've always thought there was more to them then meets the eye. He gives hints.. Like the night of the raksasha attack... He jumps behind the screen and grabs a towel and wipes the oil off his body. Why should it matter... He goes off to a secluded spot... I'm just saying...
In the animated series they make it. MORE THAN OBVIOUS that there's some sexy time going on.. Cuz you don't kiss your buddy like that.. That was pretty sexy.
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This is way too far down.
0:51 - Dr. Seuss Backblaze poem
2:47 - Shirt-ception part 5
9:06 - Roll intro
10:38 - Recap begins
16:52 - ROLL INITIATIVE! (also, Round 1 starts)
16:55 - Laura Bailey grabbing her boobs in terror (+mnil0231)
22:37 - Percy has so many regrets, but Vex ain't one (+Vohalika)
23:15 - Keyleth burns a big spell (also, 25:58 - "but hey, 8th level spell")
23:27 - Keyleth demands more girl talk (+Vohalika)
31:55 - Gilmore feels your pain, Keyleth (6th level spell)
34:50 - Scanlan's Cutting Words
54:11 - Scanlan inspires Percy
55:59 - "Is this all you've got?"
56:26 - ROUND 2 STARTS
1:01:42 - Whose side is Raishan on? (also, 1:02:07 - "Surprise motherfucker!", 1:02:58 - "Theordi La Forge")
1:19:13 - Scanlan's Cutting Words
1:23:11 - Skyship appears
1:38:33 - ROUND 3 STARTS
1:39:38 - Piercing shot = friendly fire (also, 1:39:53 - Travis looking out for himself)
1:43:04 - Skyship getting involved
1:56:52 - Gilmore using disintegrate (also, 1:57:30 - Crystal is exposed, Thordak down 556hp)
2:03:06 - Gilmore unconscious (also, 2:11:14 - Kima does Lay on Hands to revive Gilmore)
2:14:15 - Vax cracks the crystal (Thordak down ~700hp)
2:19:12 - War God's Blessing (also, 2:20:14 - "Ashley is the MVP")
2:20:54 - ROUND 4 STARTS
2:21:05 - Sam being Sam
2:27:40 - "We have exactly one ally dragon in this fight"
2:28:10 - Thordak is mad, yo
2:36:29 - Scanlan's Cutting Words
2:37:26 - Jarrett unconscious (Also, 2:56:36 - Pike uses Healing Word on Jarrett)
2:46:20 - Vex shatters the crystal (Thordak down ~1000hp, also 2:47:15 - Small(er) Thordak)
2:53:48 - Pro hand signals
2:57:22 - Scanlan gives Pike an aerated healing potion (also, 3:00:20 - Everything Sam says is dirty)
2:59:43 - War God's Blessing again
3:00:31 - ROUND 5 STARTS
3:06:36 - Raishan hits Vax with Chain Lightning (on purpose?)
3:14:43 - Thordak starts to retreat into the tunnel
3:19:51 - HDYWTDT? (Thordak down ~1400hp, Vax crit with Whisper, also 3:20:53 - Whisper awakens?)
3:23:46 - Part one ends, break begins
3:37:20 - Break ends, part two begins (+ThePigKnight)
3:37:42 - "Get this out of my fucking face!"
3:38:40 - ROUND 5 resumes (finishing off the Fire Giants)
3:45:30 - Marisha and Taliesin getting revenge on Sam (and, 3:48:26 - Sam getting revenge on Taliesin)
3:46:03 - Grog overhears one of the giants
3:47:38 - ROUND 6 STARTS
3:48:59 - Travis shining a laser pointer at the camera, and getting chewed out by Laura
3:50:00 - The armies are battling their way towards the Cloudtop District
3:50:38 - The Skyship (where has it been for the past 3 rounds?) attacks Raishan
3:51:47 - Raishan enters the tunnel
3:53:51 - Sam and Marisha sing
3:56:04 - No mercy Grog
3:56:48 - Vex questions Raishan and the twins hold their attacks
3:59:21 - ROUND 7 STARTS (everyone's running into the tunnel)
3:59:31 - Raishan starts using a spell scroll (speak with dead-ish?)
4:00:05 - Vax attacks to interrupt the spell
4:12:00 - What's in the chamber? (It's 5 extra large, elementally-altered dragon eggs)
4:13:25 - Raishan casts Meteor Swarm (a 9th level spell)
4:16:03 - Vex isn't actually unconscious: twitter.com/matthewmercer/status/809817269840687104
4:16:13 - Closing sentence
This definitely needs boosting.
Why on earth would you put spoilers in the time stamps you degenerate
@@apophis456 why would you be insulting?
Boosty mcBoost face
59:03 Lol Laura! 😂
2:01:40 No biggie
2:07:35 I feel soo bad for Laura! 😭
2:42:41 Like a good DM should
3:02:00 Taliesin is trying to count
4:06:52 Saddest attack ever
"Bahamut says hi!" I just love Kima and her cheesy one-liners
Although if she had said it to Thordak, it would've been a lot meaningful.
Bahamut sends his regards.
35:32 “Guys, you can reduce that damage by five. So, instead of 150... it’s 145.”
“No, instead of 99 points of fire damage, it is 94.”
(Pleasantly surprised) “94!” (Realizing) “Wait, huh?”
I just can’t stop laughing from that reaction
They heard 9d4
I love how much J'mon Saórd featured in this fight, definitely the MVP. :^)
"You prayed at him? Good job..."
-Scanlan "The Meat Man" Shorthalt.
The face Laura makes after Matt says 'Because Pike keeps healing everybody.' She's so great.
Matt after two natural 20’s in one multi attack on grog
* feral manic laughter and excited bouncing*
“That’s 102 points of fire damage.”
*Travis dies laughing*
A reasonable reaction, considering lmao
The look on Sam's face after the whole "last Luck of the day" thing is such a picture. Bless Sam and his sweet sweet rule abiding soul
Nomzilla scanlan is secretly lawful good
idk, I don't understand why other players' mistakes bother him so much?
@@epicglitter7218 idk if I'd say it's that mistakes bother him as much as I'd say he tries to stay as true to what his character could and would do, even if it's not the most optimal move. He for the most part corrects people when it interacts with him.
@@epicglitter7218 "mistakes" sure, the good old 4 luck O'brien, Sam just like people playing along the rules, but he also don't want call out others in the middle o the game
@@epicglitter7218 if you don't remind people of the rules then you'll get people turning into Orion and straight up start cheating. "I'll use my last three sorcerer points to do..."
And the show got a lot better without him.
Rip Tiberius
I hate the fact Ashley wasn't here to use her war gods blessing to make the slaying arrow hit
I had the same thought. I had to dig too far down in the comments to find this.
You can actually hear Travis mention this to Laura, but she notes that Pike was too far away (War God's Blessing only works within 30 feet of the subject).
Honestly I just feel sad for Ashley not being at the table this fight. Weeks of building up to that moment where she jumped in to help multiple episodes and then at the climax she couldn't be there.
Seriously, I just scanned the comments to see if someone remembered this. If not, I was going to say the same damn thing!
@@wesleybrekelmans8140 same. it was one of The Big Episodes of the campaign. I imagine she must have felt awful about missing out, too :(
Matt:"and you are on fire"
Taliesen: "Yea I am...oh."
The last thing I expected to happen while dying my hair and watching Vox Machina defeat Thordak is my sibling barging into the room and telling me the Queen is dead. What a day.
...What color hair dye?
Perfect opportunity to shout back “The cinder king shall join her soon!” In a very dramatic voice
Holy shit. What a day lmao.
I dunno why that would be the last thing you expect when the build up to her death took a good few days with everyone going 'this is probably it coz they're gathering the family and she's old af' :')
unless you live there, why would you actually give a shit enough to be following- like mate I cant pay rent or pay for food I dont care about some other countries archaic royalty @@Wolfer1OOO
Laura gets genuinely sad and scared when playing this game and I love it
Adaptable {Mr. NerdyGamer} you do? Huh, I usually just listen while working or driving, but when I watch I find her so irritating.
Why was that a comment you felt was necessary^
Bc we can all express different opinions ...?
Grayson Liles why was your necessary..?
Compliment any of the guys (or Ashley) in the comments:
...
Compliment Laura or Marisha:
Random dudes "I can't stand her."
Was anyone else thinking "Use the flute!!! Remember the brass dragon!!!" at the top of your lungs... brain lungs
Tbh at first i thought that but then i said no save it incase raishaun trys anything
Yeah I was screaming about it they literally had the perfect weapon for thordak
I came in to see whether this comment was made. Why didn't they use the flute?
@@jasonandrews1770 much better vs thordak than raishaun.
@@tom2678 not really. His bresth weapon wouldnt affect thordak
That first tsunami wall from keyleth and the looks she shot at matt when he told her it didn’t do shit initially were hilarious, then he started viciously combing through the book like “I’m probably gonna hear about this later, lemme make sure I’m not missing anything”
Seems pretty toxic from Marisha. i've tried to like her but seeing her playing gives me a disgust a bit close to the one i had towards Orion.
@@agustinmolina6660 fr. it’s her fault she didn’t read the spell limitations then throws a hissy fit when it doesn’t work as if it’ll suddenly work.
@@agustinmolina6660 Toxic? tell me u r single without telling me.
@@Imasquidx It's her fault for not knowing he was Gargantuan vs Huge? PCs aren't handed enemy stats as far as I know.
@@Imasquidx Well, he was wrong to begin with, so it's not her fault.
I'm only a wee bit into the episode but I gotta say as a Scottish person I love that when they all get excited they randomly start doing terrible Scottish accents hahaha It always makes me giggle XD
A brief reminder that this is the best possible time line. Zahra and Kash spared them a giant fight matt had bene expecting to happen
I have a feeling that Matt told them before the session to find a reason for not being there next episode (since they were basically filling in for Travis and Ashley for one session), or straight up asked them to sacrifice themselves or something. Then brought in 2 fire giants to give them the option to complete their goal.
I might be totally wrong ofc, but it makes more sense to me that Matt helped set it up.
And then they chose to double the challenge level anyway because feelings
I so wanted to hear, “How does Gilmore want to do this?”
Gloriously!
Just wait
"How do I want to do this?"
I was hoping Jarret got a shot off, miraculously crits, and after damage reduction (if they have that; I'm a PF player, not 5e) only does 1 point of damage... and drops Thordak.
i kinda feel so bad for ashley that she misses this huge important plot point fight
I was thinking… why wouldn’t they postpone this and wait for her? It’s so huge.
Because they have a live viewership, and they would have had to probably post pone this for months maybe.
She misses a lot in campaign 2 as well. I just love her and i hate that shes not there all the time.
Best part of Campaign 3, Ashley is there the whole time
Poor Jarrett. He’s just a guy with a crossbow, trying to make his way through the world. Now he’s buying drugs for gnomes, getting dragged into epic battles with insane dragon gods, and DID NO ONE TELL HIM ABOUT RAISHAN?!?!?
Thordak gives me anxiety when he's on that plastic stand.
Yeah Travis was freaking out about that and worried it would come crashing down, breaking everything.
I love the look of disbelief that Marisha gives Matt when he says "But hey, 8th-level spell!", like he has got to be insane to have said that 😂
That's sleeping on the couch material
Read your damn spells.
I can't believe that they took Gilmore, a non battle mage, instead of Allura, who has an experience in battles and specifically - in battles against Thordak. Lmaooo
And also Allura is able the communicate with the other attacking forces whereas Gilmore can't.
@katfern9074 And they absolutely love Gilmore to bits, defnitely more than Allura. I was really dumbfounded.
1:21:25 "There's a mini fridge built into Trinket"
*Laura turns around and checks for feasibility*
This moment when the rogue does as much damages in one attack than the ancient red dragon on his breath attack (2:12:30). Damn Liam !
To be fair, the breath attack hits multiple targets, that have way less hp than Thordy. :-)
The twins , esp Vax was the MVP in terms of damage this battle
Rogue/Paladin. RP circumstances pairing the two 'Alpha strike' classes.
@@MorinehtarTheBlue imagine a fighter 2/ paladin 14
Just action surge then just do 200.damage with a dragon sleyer sword
This is where D&D gets stupid. How can you even harm a creature that size with a dagger? It's hide is thicker than the blade's length. And how can they take the dragon's attacks and live? Someone whose tooth is bigger than you bites and you get a scratch.
Every time I rewatch this I hear Marisha say “should I burn a big spell?” and I think to myself “top 10 photos taken moments before disaster”
I never realized how important of a fight this was for Liam. He lost his mother in real life and this helped him get a sense of closure killing thordak who killed his mom. That's why they were all so emotional.
Minor spoiler
That arrow of dragon slaying is only fully lost if it hits a creature. Some day someone is going to find that and make some serious bank.
I know this is old, but for context the dragon slaying arrow is a very rare item so it costs around 50k gold going by 5e rules. Even matt said that it was around 30k when laura asked matt how much she owed zara (I think he was trying to cover for zara's player thinking it was rare and telling laura it was only 5k, that's why he said 30k instead of 50k)
Yeah it’s a shame too as Pike could’ve used her channel divinity to make it hit....
@@ethangadbois6599 laura and travis mention it but it has to be within 30ft
@@walfman100 50k gold to do 6d10 and on average around 30 hitpoints of damage is the biggest ripoff in the game. If you find some in a chest great but to actually pay 50k gold is ridiculous.
@@walfman100 Hmm, so Vex's reaction may have been due to the (perceived) loss of the worth of the arrow, and not the fact that it missed =)
Me almost every episode: “Evasion is a passive skill, not a reaction. Evasion is a passive skill, not a reaction. Evasion is a passive skill, not a reaction.”
Uncanny Dodge is a reaction and can only be used once per round, but Evasion is a passive effect that just happens on EVERY Dexterity saving throw that a rogue makes.
To be fair, Matt probably made those abilities reactions, because he most likely thinks they're OP, and they are. Matt's the DM. He doesn't have to follow ANY of the rules if he so wishes.
@@cussundriakneal9904 I've noticed that Matt often ignores most traditional rules that don't favour the DM. Just an observation.
@@Brainwave101 Well in this campaign he homebrewed that drinking a potion yourself is a bonus action and that you can cast one spell of any level and one up to 2nd level on a single turn. What rulings are you referring to that he negates in his favor?
I think it's just him having played so many systems over like 20ish years of playing. 5e rules are like 5% maybe of his experience, it's not hard to believe he flubs this sort of thing. Also, the players could be asked to know their single character to at least question Matt or remind him on that sort of thing. Instead it's usually him reminding the party of stuff, often to their benefit.
@M Smith those abilities actually come from items that they possess that do allow the breaking of the 20 limit. Scanlan and Percy read magic tombs that increase ability score max and Grog has the titanstone knuckles which artificially increase strength to that of a Titan. Grogs strength without the knuckles is 18 I believe
@@saraoneill8080 Oh is that where Grog's huge strength score comes from? I thought that it was like leftover Craven Edge strength, like after he "completed" Craven Edge he got to keep all the bonus strength permanently. The knuckles make more sense, and make them more appropriately powerful, as simply casting Enlarge and being good at punching walls a little bit meh.
Bless Sam for trying so hard to cheer Marisha up after those first couple of rounds - you can see the disappointment on Marisha's face when the spells she'd been hyping for a couple of weeks turned out to be more or less ineffective, and it seems like Sam was really trying to hype up every good hit from Keyleth for the rest of the fight
Maybe she should you know do her job and actually learn what they do? It’s not hard dude.
@@TheKnight212 neither is not commenting on a TH-cam video with negatively but here you are
@@TheKnight212i agree, she doesnt get A LOT better at least IMO. Im meh about most of her characters. 🤷🏻♀️
@@OneWolfPup what upsets me most is they never shit on anyone else when they don't read spells/make a bad choice unless it's Marisha or Laura. Just thinly veiled misogyny. But somehow, Marisha always gets the worst of it
It's really a bunch of shit. Makes me feel a certain kind of awful to see the vitriol people spew SIX YEARS LATER, like it fucking matters. Blegh.@@Tots_
Vex missing the dragon arrow attack...
Me, screaming : WAR GOD"S BLESSING PLEASE REMEMBER WAR GOD"S BLESSING
I have to wonder if Matt just spent hours staring into a mirror practicing his Thordack laugh.
Definitely
On the "How to be a Great Player" channel, Guy says to do such a thing to help you with the more obscure voices
He practices when reading the comments i'll bet.
I can't remember where this was but I know Marisha said somewhere that she'll hear Matt practicing weird monster noises in their house and think to herself "oh god what are we going to be fighting now". So yeah he totally spends ages practicing various monster sounds.
lol. Travis shined a laser pointer at the camera multiple times this episode, becoming sneakier about it after Laura caught him doing it. xD
Lol now some kids are blind somewhere
@@spaceman9599 Travis is the biggest kid (literally, he is huge)
Lol I only saw it once! He did it multiple times!?
Is it really a boss fight if keyleth doesn't blow her biggest spell first round. So tragic but hilarious each time.
"jesus sam number 3 why didnt you tell me that" may be the funniest thing ive heard in years
That moment when Thordak almost 1 shots half the team at the start of the fight 👀 thank god for fire resistance 😂
Yeah that first breath attack was pretty insane. Then later when Raishan does her meteor swarm I was like holy crap that's a lot of damage. I fear Raishan far more than Thordak.
@@toof987 then wait for Vecna... BIG DAMAGE 😂. I wondered what would happen if the dragons had met Vecna... Would they have fought? Would've been one hell of a battle 👀
@@toof987 That second was poor choice karma for the party though.
@@FLUXXEUS I think Vecna would have come out victorious. All he needed would be slaying one of them, bring that one back as undead (my money are on Raishan, she's by far the most dangerous) and then the dragons must contend with an Archlich bordering on Divinity and one of them that simply cannot be stopped.
Vecna woukd have offered Raishan the cure to her curse and she would have served him.
Jerrit misses both attacks
Grog&Scanlan: Your annual review is coming up, needs improvement
Jerrit: Oh?
To be fair, they dragged a crossbow wielding guard to a dragon fight and didn't beef him up in any way. No vestige, magical items, heroes feast nothing.
Kasino80 but someone calculated how much xp he has if he started at level 7 which seems reasonable and he should be level 12 by now so he far from a regular guard
2:32:07
Gotta love Matt saying that he's not that much of a hero. The dude followed them to Thordak's lair. Forget bonuses, he deserves a raise. Possibly two or three.
Say the guys ladened down with spare magic items they forgot to give their vanilla employee who has half their level...
"You see what looks to be the bow of the skyship Deera..."
**Cue the Pirate's of the Caribbean theme song**
1:10:30
I absolutely love the best friend energy that Taliesin and marisha have 🤩
I forgot to mention, I took Trinket out of the necklace.
LET'S GO FIGHT THORDAK!
*** 5 secs later ***
Trinket's unconscious!
k, back in the necklace Trinkypoo
Soooo glad we had that bear with us. XD
I loved the idea of a massive fur poof when Trinket got destroyed, but I still feel bad for Trinket.
"I've been in many battles, and I haven't fallen in a single one of 'em," - Trinket, HoneyHeist 2 - Electric Beargaloo, 2018
@@d0natr0n47 I guess technically if he didn't get to attack it's not really a battle, just a terrible event happening to him.
Without Trinket's unnecessary need to be there for Vex we wouldn't have gotten to see Jarrett frightened like a lil fusaca eating bit.
@@raymonholt69 Jarrett enduring Elon Musk levels of employer abuse. They are sitting on tonnes of unused magical protection and damage bossts, but he has to fight an ancient dragon with a vanilla crossbow and armour... If anything, Trinket he survived certain death for months due to DM kindness. Jarrett should have been in the necklace.
The emotional whiplash I got between the joy of watching Vax finish Thordak off and the sadness of him talking about his mom actually made me cry
Heh, looks like Scanlan was paying attention to Kashaw's lecture about reserves in battle.
To be fair, despite how they were panicking. None of them was particularly exhausted on resources, and the only thing really scary about Thordak was the breath weapon most of them had resist against. So it makes sense to hold it for an oh shit moment like the inevitable battle with yet another dragon.
@@piranhaplantX Except it doesn't make sense at all because J'mon is a sentient being not a magical object who specifically said they'd help with THIS fight, not anything else and so holding onto it for something else is the height of stupidity, there was no reason to think J'mon would help with anything unrelated to getting rid of the dragons, Thordak specifically, maaaaaaaybe Raishan if she was there. But calling them up under false pretenses for a different fight than the one they signed up for seems like a good way to make an enemy out of the leader of Ank'Harel to me lol.
Sam's good at strategy most of the time but that was really dumb. It made the fight more intense though lol.
@@piranhaplantX Except that this other battle was only inevitable due to other people putting vengeance before alignment and ignoring all warnings to break their agreement. Then again, perhaps Sam realised that it would be needed due to the metagaming based poor choices
@@spaceman9599 I don't think it was metagaming at all really. They had talked pretty extensively leading up to this fight about how they would try to drop Raishan immediately after Thordak. Its clear Liam forgot that he used his first luck the previous session. I'm also pretty sure that character choice and personality are way more justifiable for actions than a somewhat vague/ limiting alignment chart. Its not like there are 9 personalities in dnd and you just have to pick one and that's all the role play for your character.
I cannot wait to see this animated for Season 2 of TLoVM... but at the same time, my heart just cries at the thought of Liam having to return to that emotional state when it comes time to record the HDYWTDT.
I think you mean season 4. There's absolutely no way they'll fit all of the Chroma Conclave in just one season.
@@LucasDeziderio Well, they DID confirm that Season 3 was greenlit because they couldn't fit all of the CC arc in ONE season, so maybe season 3? Regardless, I am praying we get this scene.
I noticed he specified that the vestige hit the crystal. I knew that could be a way to break it
An artifact made from titans and primal elementals beaten by a weapon made from gods or close to it, poetic when you think of it
@@darkvizardking69 What titans and primal elementals? Allura and the Arcana Pansophica made the crystal...
@@AGhastlyGengar the spell is tied to the crystal, but it's made from the elemental plane. A giant anchor meant to keep him there.
@@AGhastlyGengar They didn't make the crystal, if I recall correctly it was formerly the heart of a titan of the fire plane. Allura and the Arcana Pansophica just utilised it in tricking Thordak to bind him with the Fire plane
@@DannyMakesVideosIGuess Yes, they couldn't destroy the crystal. That's why they tied it to Thordak (and he couldn't destroy it either).
So it seems the vestiges might be one of the few things able to destroy the crystal.
It also seems that whisper might have activated it's 2e form.
me in 2020 realizing i still have three years worth of episodes to catch up on
Same. See you in Campaign three I guess.
Well, we have hella amount of time, don't we?
Carlos Henrique both a blessing and curse
Thank the gods, idk what I'll do when I run out lol
T D I’ve watched it all twice and now going on a third time. It’s gross I know. Adding up just episode run time I’ve watched over 60 days worth of critical role
3:22:40 - The look when the DM doesn't get to take a single player character down with his finely crafted mega-boss.
Laura doing more healing this one time as Pike than she ever does as Jester
lol Matt's face when Vax decided to attack was like "WTF man are you serious right now?"
@Kel'Thuzad I hope you mean just vax and not the awesome person Liam can be please be nice. He genuinely does not try to cheat he can make mistakes like anyone else!!
@@Stormcrow113
Yep, everyone makes mistakes; like Matt denying Vax's avoidance of damage because Matt was wrong about how evasion works, but apparently persuasive enough to convince Liam it was a once per round thing.
When???
@Kel'Thuzad you're a idiot
The person that cheated in this is Marisha. She gave orders for him, and she wasn't even there to see it.
Grog going all Percy with those nat 20's
Kima rolled 3 or 4 nat 20's in multiple saves, two or then consecutive (tho matt could have lied to keep her going)
Travis steals Taliesins loaded d20