Dubious Pursuits | Critical Role| Campaign 2, Episode 40
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ย. 2024
- The Mighty Nein undergo a dangerous watery escape from the temple, and go to great lengths to maintain their alliance with Captain Avantika...
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Rudimentary Timestamps before Flando gets here:
0:30 Halloween costumes
2:16 Liam's Kylo Ren impression ad
4:40 Sam's stop motion
10:20 Taliesen on how to break time
13:43 Recap starts
15:56 Recap ends
*[AFTERMATH OF BATTLE]*
16:03 Nott and Caleb still high
16:54 Travis' distracting costume
18:00 Aggressive Caleb
22:03 Mural #1 (Phoneix)
25:26 Mural #2 (Serpant)
28:38 Mural #3 (Worm)
30:37 Avantika draws smiley faces and talks of the third Chosen
32:45 Deciphering runes
35:14 Nott loots
35:58 Beau and Avantika play
36:28 Fjord berates Jamedi
37:05 Avantika jumps in the well
*[INSIDE THE WELL]*
37:53 Fjord dives in after
42:11 Fjord is confused
43:39 Important initiative roll
44:13 Avantika triggers the light
44:58 Runes, cracks are triggered
47:12 Fjord tries to grab Avantika
*[ESCAPING THE TEMPLE]*
49:10 Leaving the base room
49:59 Leaving the orchard
50:55 Out comes the hourglass
54:33 Caduceus Enlarged
57:59 Roll initiative
1:00:35 Combat starts
1:09:12 Nott casts Shocking Grasp
1:11:23 Sam's Jester voice
1:15:43 Travis noises
1:17:01 Trapdoor's locked
1:22:33 HDYWTDT
1:24:16 Clerics are drowning
1:26:09 Fjord kisses, transfers oxygen -would not work in practice but heyy it was cute- to Jester
1:29:32 Caduceus unconscious
1:30:21 M9 geysered up
1:31:15 Feather fall fuck-up
1:31:24 Arcane Trickster prevents Taliesen from rolling a third character
*[TO THE SHIP!]*
1:32:36 Tal stabilizes Caduceus
1:34:01 Nott gives Clay a toboggan
1:35:04 The M9 Skydiving Team
1:36:02 Surely this island...
1:37:43 Spotted by the yuan-ti
1:39:28 Caduceus back up
1:40:23 Water slide ends, M9 on foot
1:41:16 *Skill challenge chase begins*
1:41:54 Caleb's contribution
1:42:55 Yasha's contribution
1:44:12 Caduceus' contribution
1:46:46 Fluffernutter contribution
1:52:07 Travis fascinated by Matt's talent with gutteral sounds
1:54:17 Nott's contribution
1:59:33 Another Yasha contribution
2:00:00 Skill challenge completed
2:02:11 Rowboat time
2:04:38 Matt calls the break, players all lament their mistakes
2:06:40 Welcome back. PT2
*[RECOVERING]*
2:07:09 Avantika ocean powers
2:08:22 Back on the ship
2:09:02 Everyone but Sam changed out of their costumes
2:10:22 Avantika claps
2:17:06 M9 speculate on what happened in the temple
2:22:18 Avatar entity lore
2:26:29 What to do next?
2:28:45 Beau gives Fjord advice
2:31:50 Caleb warns Fjord
2:35:35 Caleb-Fjord's staring contest
2:35:59 "Take this vial of acid"
2:36:55 "This... worst day of my life"
*[EVENING RENDEZ-VOUS]*
2:38:04 Segment begins
2:38:25 Avantika takes a shower
2:39:33 Toasting to success
2:40:43 "Soon, I promise"
2:41:04 Avatika talks of 3rd Chosen
2:41:37 Important name drop
2:43:32 How Avantika got her orb
2:44:58 Fjord lies about Vandren
2:46:29 "Captain Twitchwood"
2:48:22 "Do you remember where..?"
2:49:41 Travis becomes Fjord
2:50:15 Avantika initiates
2:51:00 _"fade to tentacles"_
2:51:04 Distressed Travis noises
2:51:40 Sam: "I'm getting some Twitchwood right now"
2:51:54 Avantika and Fjord
2:52:36 Makes a CON check
2:53:49 Fjord, after the matter...
2:54:21 Fjord's walk of shame
2:55:30 Session ends
2:55:35 Level Seven!
2:56:11 Rolling hp
2:57:11 Sam is weird
2:58:04 "Seamen, seamen"
2:58:15 Matt breaks
2:58:47 Fanart Compilation
EDIT: Flando's back. Find their timestamps and go shower them with likes
Ellie K thank you so much!
But yours is more descriptive
Your time stamps are so detailed :o
All hail the new flando
@Ellie K why wouldn't the oxygen transfer have worked irl?
Best quote from this episode: Caduceus.
"Anyone I don't like within 15 feet of me is getting ransacked by tiny fairies."
That's a good one, but I also really enjoy, "Sleep well with your bad decisions."
@@VioletAasimarOfficial Percy rolls in his grave (cleric)
Da dum tss
56:33
I friggin love Cad man. ✊
Sam's shenanigans finally turned matts hair grey
All at once
@@captainbirch9835 and not the first time! He was Geralt before.
got to admit.. he rocks it
@@facetankhank I'm just glad his hair grew back after Victor lol
For all of you who are wondering, Liam was the voice director for Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, where he directed Adam Driver playing Kylo Ren.
The game?
Funny enough, I *was* wondering this so thank you.
Aidan Hunt Did not know that
@@privpi no the playset
Privatizität no the historical fiction, yes the game you dolt can you think of a single other thing named “LEGO Star Wars” that you know of? I mean I suppose there may be a film, but there is no voice acting in LEGO films so that’s out as well, and since there’s no other medium besides those two in which I can imagine that Adam Driver would voice his own character, I believe that we may have a bingo. This was completely unnecessary, and I’m sorry if you’re just a kid who’s ears are still wet, but still - get dunked on.
"Sleep well with your bad decisions." Is something I can hear both Molly and Caduceus saying just in very different ways lol
Honestly, depending on the situation I can hear Percy saying it too 😂
Yeah, that's just Taliesin being Taliesin. He's quite the guy!
The fact that people unironically watch this garbage just blows my mind
@skinnie2838 thanks for your comment interaction it helps support the show for people who enjoy
Dear god, Tal with the epic lines. I am so happy I met him.
Yasha when Matt is playing her: Mysterious, deep
Yasha when Ashley is playing her: _literally the most awkward big scary woman youve ever seen, even in front of the group of people shes been fighting alongside for a good while now_
Yasha when travis plays her: the most flirty badass you’ve ever done seen
I hate to say it but Matt plays her way better.
@@therootb ehh idk, i like how ashley plays yasha over how matt does
matt's version is very gloomy, yasha's is funner imo
I like Ashley, I really do. Love what she did with Pike. But she's barely been here and we're already 40 episodes in. Remind me, why is she playing at all? I'm glad that her career is doing as good as it is, because everybody has bills to pay and I'd be sad if she wasn't able to do that. But her character is basically an NPC that a player occasionally turns up to play.
@@therootb Ashley created the character to be more goofy and less broody, just because she's a heavy doesn't mean she has to be a dark character, I personally really like the way Ashley plays her, Ashley created the character and its through her image that Yasha is portrayed and I think that image is very good, it breaks the stereotypical heavy, not to say a that that type of character is bad, I just personally think this way is more interesting.
Fjord: *tries to stealth through his walk of shame*
Caduceus: I have a passive perception of 18...
I kinda wanted Travis to roll really poorly on this one
Sleep well with your bad decisions
Great episode, was disappointed no one said "role for performance" though :D
Does nobody find it weird that Travis has not called for an insight check on Avantica yet? Like not even once.. although he knows she might be lying..
Oh when Jester finds out lol. if she finds out. is anyone else tired of the monks bull crap??
The way Travis can't make eye contact with Matt when he's flirting is hilarious
I would be uncomfortable too flirting with a guy, especialy when I have a wife, and that wife is probably watching me
@@privpi (Spoiler for campaign 1)
Bruh his wife's fictional character was flirting with, sleeping with an eventually married a fellow player's character in the previous campaign and you think Travis wouldn't want to flirt because of his wife?
@@amberlovegrove3874 I'm really bad at judging people. I have no Idea. Probably not.
@@privpi no harm no foul don't worry lol
I think Travis is a big teddy bear, who’s sheepish, Laura on the other hand will flirt without a care (also years of friendship, could make it more weird?)
Laura as Jester: "I'm gonna sweetly and adorably craft a romance with my husband's character"
Matt: "I'm about to end this tiefling's whole career"
Katie K i cant wait to see her deal with this lmaoo!
@@tommyrojas1571 same here! I love not being caught up I just get to binge it!
we all know Travis did it out of spite
BWWAAAHAHAHAHA!!!
@@tommyrojas1571 are you talking about the kiss or fish-slapping Avantika?
Travis as grog episode 1: We got it on with the ladies, ayeeeeee!
Travis as fjord episode 40: *nervous laughter intensifies*
Romance and just sleeping around are two separate and very different things for Travis I guess. Poor guy lmao
HAHAHA
*Grog and Scanlan:* We're reliable with the LADIES
Grog was hunting hookers, Fjord is hit on romanticaly by every single strong willed wife material character.
it's like the difference between grabing a burger and eating it in your car and a romantic home-cooked dinner with your crush weaing only an appron.
@@lucienschlut Fucking incredible comparison
Fjord is that guy who grew up to be really hot but isn't used to being desired or pursued so when he's suddenly desired and pursued by multiple people he short-circuits and just goes with all of it
That's my boyfriend to a T 😂 he also learned the awkward kid coping mechanism of being really funny so men and women everywhere swoon for him and the whole time he just looks so scared and confused 😂 I couldn't help but transpose my boyfriend and Fjord here for a bit
It's so cute
The one regret i have is that we didnt get to see Laura's reaction to the Avantika scene
And the kiss
Yes to both. I was thinking the whole time that a catfight would ensue if Laura was there.
jester would hate it, laura would die laughing
First kiss followed by the dude going off to bone someone else. Yeah, would've been fun to watch Laura
Well you could hear Laura laughing in the backgound near the end I think.
Sam: The island is sinking.
Travis: Potentially... IF this is an island.
Marisha: IT'S A TURTLE! It's totally a turtle!
Sam: A cajun turtle!
Matt: *ORLY'S VENGEANCE!*
I want Giant Orly to be a thing in the end of the campaign
Revenge shall be had for orly yes
Travis: “YOU FOOLS!!!”
and now it makes so much more sense...
It's the Vanishing Isle!
"Seamen, Seamen everywhere"
Sam and Taliesin simultaneously: *"And not a drop to drink"*
My sides hurt
when the fuck did this happen ???
@@DraemoraH right at the end of the episode, at about 2:58:05
I saw this just before they said it omg
I though it was Liam and Taliesin who said that?
@@dromankass8655 Liam started it, but Sam and Tal said the drop to drink part
"No one likes the underwater level"
And never a truer word was spoken
I got so stressed out that I had to find something to read while I listened to what was happening. I couldn't watch.
^Screams in drowning Hylian^
Unless you play a sea elf:)
Screams in Echo the dolphin...
_sonic drowning music _*_i̝͘n͓̟͔̩͍͓t̮̮̘̟̙̭e̫̙͉̻̫n̯̰̞͖̹s̫̯i̶̖̻̘̠̫f̠͓̘͢i̵͕̞̗e̩̞͕̩s̯̙̠̘̫_*
"Sleep well with your bad decisions" is such a fucking power move of a quote.
thats tal for you lol
Matt: "I wouldn't call it a romantic evening but--"
Sam: "--the sound of fish slapping against each other."
Matt: "Oh god!"
Everyone: **loses it**
*liam in the distance* Right in the blowhole.
“I’m getting some Twitchwood.”
She rolls with disadvantage because she has a point of exhaustion
"They are both of the sea"
Lmaooo
The first kiss between Jester and Fjord, and laura isn't there...
Also technically he's blowing CO2 into her lungs. Drowning both of them??
@@ohhi7168 My dude... No...
We exhale about 75% of the oyxgen that we inhale, most of it is not used of absorbed by the body between breaths. Breathing air from your lungs into the lungs of another person is not harmful at all. This is exactly what you do when performing CPR, you exhale the contents of your lungs into the lungs of someone else. There is more than enough oxygen still in each breath to sustain them for that breath.
Also, blowing pure CO2 into someone's lungs wouldn't drown them anyway, it would suffocate them. When you have a lot of a non-oxygen gas in your lungs, it takes up capacity that should be used for oxygen. It's why you die from things like gas leaks or if you inhale too much helium without properly expelling it all from your lungs. It isn't that these other gases are actually hurting you, the problem is they are occupying space that should be filled with oxygen instead thus preventing your lungs from absorbing sufficient oxygen.
This is what happens when you're enclosed in a small airtight space as well. You never really "run out of oxygen" within the enclosure, it's just that more and more of the gas in the enclosed area becomes CO2 so its preventing you from absorbing enough oxygen. This is why on submarines and the like, they have CO2 scrubbers in their ventilation systems. It takes CO2 from the air and traps it, thus removing it from the air so the submariners don't suffocate. Oxygen is usually stored compressed into pressurized canisters and released as needed to refill the atmosphere inside. Also sometimes Oxygen is made through electrolysis of water which disrupts the H2O into separate hydrogen and oxygen. The Oxygen is then used to breathe.
Anyway, point is, expelling your lungs into someone else's lungs saves lives on a daily basis.
TheDrexxus thank you for this very scientific answer
Bruh- this isn’t a good comment to be near the top. I need to stop scrolling LMAO
@@TheDrexxus Damn,thanks for the science lesson that is actually pretty good to know
imagine caleb and nott being so high that they see their party members in the costumes they have on now, like when fjord talks he has big orange hands and a cowboy hat
Boom, head canon
This also implies every NPC would be Dante: from the Devil May Cry series.....I am very on board with this
Someone animate this
@@devinward461 better than that throw another 10 mil dollar to cr and make another animated series of campain 2
@@eryvac0074 Caleb's fire spells probably looked like the shotgun effects from the final drugs level in Hotline Miami 2.
So nice of Taliesen to dress as the character made by his old, personal friend Arthur Conan Doyle. It’s been awhile since they saw each other, so it’s sweet he still cares.
underrated comment.
Didn't understand the context
@@UtsavBansal there’s a running joke (I mean, maybe it’s a not a joke?) that Taliesen is immortal.
@@UtsavBansal There’s a joke that Taliesen is immortal and ancient, namely that he’s been at all manner of historical events and met all manner of historical figures
This is extra funny because ACD would've HATED if someone 'honored' him in this way. Even after all this time, Taliesin is still trolling his buddy
I was dying from laughter when Travis looked to Marisha for help when Matt leaned over to start the flirting and she went like "Don't look at me, you are flirting with him." with her reaction... xD
yeah cause Marisha is married to Matt Mercer lol
i know that liam was trying to be kylo ren, but that scarf and his dark eyes REALLY make him look like a young Gru
This comment killed me
Sam, after the break: "Wait, are you guys all out of your costumes?"
Liam: "Oh, sorry, that costume was accidentally destroyed maliciously."
All his outfits so far has just been different shades of Caleb.
I was really thinking Uncle Fester
also.. scar is on the wrong side.
old man mercer (complete with eyebrows) roleplaying a sexy semi-nude pirate captain was not what I was anticipating today but I am not complaining
And beard(?)
Well thats a new way of seeing Dante from devil may cry
"What you want, a fuckin cookie? Get your ass down the well" is probably the funniest thing Fjord has said up to now, dont at me.
i dunno man. that entire bit at the live show where he acted as if his throat was slit was fucking hilarious.
Fjord saying “we are being boarded by fucking pirates” in response to Caleb saying everything’s under control was also a gem.
I think Ford with bo is pretty funny. But yes I understand what you mean it was funny.
Although I think my favorite Ford line so far is the one where he says I must commend you on your perceptiveness. My balls are quite huge
Fjord and Cad BOTH being pissed off is kind of a grand WTF.
followed by sam later with "2 fish slapping together" great episode
Laura: regular day in D&D. Fjord is awkward, Fjord doesn't confront his feeling...
Laura: misses one day! Fjord kisses Jester in the most romantic way possible. Then he taps some Pirate booty.
Laura: wtf Travis?!
Oh you know there was a night in where she sat in the dark waiting for her husband to come home, only to flick the lights on and go "So I caught up on watching the sessions babe."
@@Kebutor "Not interested in character romances, are we?"
PIRATE BOOTY BAHAHAHA
You know I'd like to point out that it's more CPR than kissing but then the entire table's reaction means that the difference doesn't matter at all here
@@MorinehtarTheBlue It was lip to lip. As far as Jester cares, that's a kiss.
Everyone: we need to get Jester up to the exit
Caduceus: *drowning* I’m fine you guys go on without me.
Can't save cad if they're all dead. A classic example of "always put your oxygen mask on first, before helping others with theirs."
Well, apparently it’s because Jester had the key to save them all
@@junezhang6267
I have to imagine that while Jester was being pulled up the tunnel by everyone, she had a look of just absolute bliss on her face and was practically catatonic. 😂
Then Caleb feather falling everyone but Cad. Like tf man.. Lol
@@ProthPhenom to be fair feather fall, I believe has a target limit of 6 and there is seven of them
I LOVE How in 2:50:50 Travis just can’t look directly at Matt, even with characters shaking hands....especially after his comment in some of the previous Talks Machina saying that Matt don’t break eye contact when he is in character. I think it was when Fjord fist meet Ruby of the Sea and she was friendly flirting with him...Travis said about how hard it is to keep normal with the DM seducing and staring at you “with that bright blue eyes looking right through your soul AND NOT LOOKING AWAY”
I burst out laugh when Avantica look at Forj making that ofer and Travis just look away right in the next second!!
“Omfg Matt is doing it agaiiiinnn”
I love them so fucking much guys
Y'all need to watch with subtitles. *noises of distress* 🤣🤣🤣
As a first-time watcher, I appreciate the insight into a Talks episode now that they're unavailable. So thanks!
If there was ever an episode for Laura to be there to play Jester..... this was the episode.
The transfer of air, the night cap with Avantika.... dang.
What about the one where she wasn't there for the first meeting with her own dad? What about the one where they had to say goodbye to Kiri? She misses out on a lot of her more important moments
@@eryvac0074 that's what happens when you're a professional voice actor and you recently had a kid
@@SorchaSublime I know. It's just kind of sad she didn't get to see some of what should have been her best moments. I know that work and obviously her baby take priority, but still
@@eryvac0074 sad for us, but I'm sure if she had to choose between starting a fictional romance with her husband and spending time with her kid she wouldn't choose the former lol
@@SorchaSublime obviously
2:36:00 "here, take this vial of acid" agh nott is such a mom, sounds like she's sending one of her kids on a playdate, I love it
A very dangerous playdate
idk i just found the moment where nott gives fjord a vile of acid and he seems impressed and asks “did you make this?” and she happily responds “i did” so pure
It's nice to know that even adult professional actors laugh and giggle during sex scene just as us mere mortals would.
Hooo boy, have you seen campain one? They can't sit still through a kiss, or a (even remotely) romantic conversation, it's hilarious.
Humans gonna human
“ Sleep well with your bad decisions”
I like that Liam’s costume looks more like Evil Liam rather than Kylo Ren.
Mirror Universe Liam is well known for his goofy and colorful one-shots, his underpowered and low-damage characters, his total inability to do convincing accent work, and his notorious hatred of Mirror Sam Riegel
And his loathing for thick framed personality glasses
@@IsaacMayerCreativeWorksoh god 😂 this is a description of me (except i have an unexpressed admiration for sam riegel and no opinion of mirror sam riegel)
@@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks Mirror Sam Riegel plays dark and serious characters with extremely goofy backstories, instead of goofy characters with dark and traumatic backstories.
*sees Sam's stop-mo film*
how surprisingly creative and sfw of him
*sees the next part*
that's more like it
xD yeah. "There's the stupid..." ~Negasonic Warhead
I got to that part just as i read this comment and it did not prepare me
Watching this episode again I’m noticing how NERVOUS Matt is during the water escape challenge! I’m like 90% sure that he is shitting his pants thinking he may have gone a bit overboard with the challenge and is about to TPK live lmao.
Can we just appreciate Caleb & the group's use of enlarge/reduce for a minute? Super-slick execution.
He's getting good at chaining spells.
agreed
Anyone else get the Jack Sparrow running away from the tribe of cannibals vibe in this episode 😂
Exactly
Yes😂😂
@@g3mkn1ght60 CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow*
My thoughts exactly
Can someone animate this, please 😂😂
Flando has a job interview today, he’s asked me to post these for him
HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing
00:35 Costume intros
2:15 Liam’s Kylo Walkren
4:20 Sam’s next Emmy winning project
5:30 Credit where it’s due
8:45 Support OSD
13:45 Episode Starts
16:55 Travis talks with his hands
22:40 Expositional murals
36:25 Diving down
50:55 Hourglass is out
56:35 Spirit guardians is legit
59:15 Matt’s Dante impression
1:02:05 Battle Begins
1:22:35 HDYWTDT
1:23:30 Best condition
1:26:10 Shape of Water
1:30:30 How it should have ended
1:31:25 Nott with the save
1:36:05 Turtles all the way down
1:41:40 Skill challenge start
1:47:00 Fluffernutter
1:47:50 That didn’t come up in Between the Sheets
1:50:30 Magic throwing stars
1:52:50 Wow Matt, judgmental much
2:02:20 Start the motor
2:04:35 That could’ve been done better
2:05:10 Nothing tastes as good as not being sued
2:06:15 Break Starts
2:09:00 Sam feels betrayed
2:17:10 Strategy meeting starts
2:35:55 Fjord needs protection
2:37:05 The worst day of Nott’s life
2:39:55 You need to aerate it
2:50:50 Fjord goes for it
2:51:40 Twitch wood
2:52:35 Half-orcs get relentless endurance, just saying
2:53:10 Fish slapping
2:55:35 A good finish
2:58:05 Not a drop to drink
2:58:40 Episode Ends
Between Twitch and TH-cam, live viewership of this episode peaked around 50,000 people. The in-game start date for the episode was the 18th of Cuersaar 835. Sam’s flask is a sexy picture of McCree.
Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
good luck with the interview Flando!
Good luck flandoooooo!!!
good luck love the profile pic
Thank you
who is flando? and is he related to fernando?
I was so surprised when Sam rolled the clip/ad for dnd beyond and it wasn’t anywhere near offensive .... and then he started thanking „people“ ... 😂😂
The ad had rat literally shitting dnd beyond lol.
Laura: *Decideds to put in a character romance with Fjord to mess with Matt*
Laura: *Misses session*
Matt: *Makes a new character start hitting on, and possibly sleeping with, Fjord*
No "possibly" about it, it's been confirmed
@@Nemisionn yeah I've gotten to that point now but I hadn't at the time of that comment, it had just been heavily implyed
@@Mayday468 I think it was more to mess with Travis than Matt tho...
Travis said that Laura said that she wanted to romance him in the game. Was not to mess with anybody, it's just that she is a romantic flirty woman looking for romance her hubby in another place than real life.
@@dsoul1305 in one of the talks eps, travis said that she said shes basically challenging him lol. travis doesnt like romance in dnd, but her goal is to get him to do it. then remember theyre very happily married irl. and if her trying to get him to get together in dnd isnt cute, idk what is
This Campaign is SO MEAN to poor Taliesin he goes from looking like he's having a great time to sadly sitting in patient fuming silence at least 20 mins per game
Taliesin has to be losing years off his life with all the close calls he continues to have this campaign :O Matt really has it out for him lol
his life is infinite and the years mean nothing to him
it is partly self inflicted, also Matt's feelings don't matter
@Erin Criswell he _is_ joking with his reply. You took him literally. It's been a long running joke thay Taliesin is an immortal champion of some god and has lived for 19 centuries.
@@Law-of-EnTropy Erin was responding to RQK1996, not Artemis
@@Law-of-EnTropy What do you mean "it's a running joke"? Taliesin IS and immortal eldritch god.
Caduceus is judging Fjord for being a himbo.
he ain't one to talk, 9 int cow, smh 🤣
@@carrotandpeas this is straight wisdom my dude, some things cad just knows 😂
When Laura's away, Travis will lay.
well hopefully not irl tho lmao (i know he wouldnt)
😆
@@pvic6959Marisha would probably fucking try, the way she’s practically always rubbing herself on him like a dog in heat
Lol at 2:51:28 when Fjord decides to go for it and Marisha changed seating positions made me laugh so hard. The equivalent of grabbing popcorn.
we have been robbed of molly’s reaction to fjord coming back after the evening w avantika lol
I think that was more Molly than Cadeuces speaking there.
@@eb4305 same
Taliesin was channeled a bit of molly through Caduceus
Hes laughing in the afterlife
Yeah, damned Lorenzo
Fjord: potentionally getting laid tonight
The Mighty Nein: giving him all the right kinds of protection
Alternate episode title: Dubious Consent
"Let's go investigate this temple, in and out, 20 minute adventure"
It has to be so hard for Taliesin to have to lost his character in the way that he did and dealing with that to have so many close calls with his brand new character that he is learning and still figuring out. I can’t imagine all the emotions that he must feel when things are going so wrong and fighting that. Like when he retreated for safety before but than was almost left behind as they stole the boat. But also being one thing his character hates in that moment as not really doing anything to help. It must be such a roller coaster of emotions and struggles especially with staying in character with all of that.
Sam is such a good player.
The honesty with the keg/ reloading makes my heart happy.
And the way he looks out for Caduceus when others leave him for dead.
He is such a soulful player, which is why, IMHO, many of the most moving and engaging moments -- both funny and serious -- include Sam.
@@bananafish58 there is literally nothing funnier in all of critical role than Grog and Taryon’s shopping fiasco, imo. While a big part of that is because of how naturally comedic those characters are, I think it’s even more so because those are the two most soulful, honest, attentive, and “down” players, so willing to listen to what everyone else does, go with the flow of Matt’s whims, and just really live within the world of the show
Well Liam almost killed him and honestly it's kinda petty that he will argue with Matt over his slow spell for 5 minutes straight but when he almost kills a friend's character it's "I already did it, it's done". Ugh what a douche
@@xXxIMNOTANGELxXx The Hydra had the potential to kill ALL of them, Cad included, for all he knew that Slow spell was the only thing that would let them survive the encounter at all. Also, Beau had like 10 health and Caduceus was full health, there was a decent chance he would survive the fall whereas Beau definitely wouldn't, he probably didn't think of monks having immunity to fall damage, Beau didn't always I think that was from her recent level or training or something, and Caleb would totally put Beau over Caduceus anyway. Also, since Liam DID already argue with Matt earlier in the episode he probably didn't want to be disruptive again. Making one mistake, especially in a game where so many things are going on, doesn't make you a douche or a bad person.
@@M00nSlippers cad was unconcious and on death saves. HP don't matter at that point, he would have taken at least one failed save there
I just love that by the end of the episode everyone looks normal and Matt just looks like he’s aged dramatically haha 😂
He said it himself, he is a broken man 😂 They have all collectively broken him
After this arc I wouldn't be surprised if Caduces developed a fear of water like Nott. How many times has he started to drown in the last one/two weeks of game time? Three, four? What ever it is he is quickly discovering that water particularly salt water doesn't like him very much.
Shhhhhhhh it’ll be fine
That and his friend's lack of apathy for his survival. It took two NPC's to save him, one of which was the waste of space Cosko.
@Elijah Suever while some of those points may line up i still stand for my original statement. Sympathy implies that the crew would, and did, eventually feel bad about abandoning deuce. Apathy would be their lack of concern in the moment. Neither of those are mutually exclusive for the fact that both can happen at the same time for the same situation.
It seemed pretty clear to everyone that getting to that door was more important than saving Tal's character. It took Tal's longest friend Matt to salvage the situation. Liam tried to make amends in the next episode with Molly's old necklace which was good because Liam's character is/was very myopic on his allegiances early on and showed that in his style of game play. Very Zemnian in his thought processes which was both aggravating and inspiring at the same time.
@@eb4305 that's the point, saying lack of apathy means they care a lot, cause they lack apathy, meaning they don't don't care
@@math_plant lol someone doesnt understand double negatives :P
The way Talisen gets all quiet when he almost dies AGAIN IN THIS BATTLE ASDFGH FELT THAT
Every time he almost dies I get so stressed out. PLEASE NOT AGAIN!
his face HURT ME
and NOBODY HELPED HIM, and like half the party had an opportunity to
i feel like he has an irl near death experience when that happens
@@NamelessFacelessWhoa Yeah, that was a real pity :-( i would be pissed if i would be him. But i guess, they thought Caduceus wouldn't be drowning anymore, as soon as the door is open (which pretty sure is a wrong assumption), so yeah, was quite tense and sad there.......
So let me get this straight, while Laura was gone Travis cheated on her with Matt while everyone, including Marisha, watched.
That's my headcanon and I'm sticking to it.
This is quite....tame.... for a fanfiction
To be fair, she married someone else last campaign.
Splatninja and percy wasn't even a hot elf pirate.
@@MindAndMyth But he was a hotter human gunslinger
@@bojackhorseman4176 Well that's, like, your opinion man.
The shade of crimson that Travis turned when Matt said Ivantika was nude. 🤣
“We’re not gonna sit here and subject you guys to leveling up at the table. Although I’m sure there are a few of you that would love to see it” there are DOZENS of us Matt!
I am sure the number is hundreds, if not over a thousand. That would make such an interesting mini-episode in itself, seeing how they rolled up their characters, picking skills as they level up, etc, etc.
Caleb: "Do what you have to"
What he really means: "pimp yourself out"
I was speechless for a second when he said that! 😂 He was so serious.
On the other hand, I wonder what Caleb has "had to do" in his years on the run...
Caleb's training was very much 'the ends justify the means'. To him, the discomfort of sexual manipulation is justified if it leads to significant advantages.
@@sybariticcupboardrat3763 Liam confirmed that compromising yourself sexually is part of Volstrucker training and it makes me very sad.
@@belindaluna2067 right??! also considering Caleb left there when he was only 17, thinking about how young he must have been when that training took place is harrowing
@@mrsiwtv I know going back to this now really hurt my heart. Poor Caleb never eve had a chance for innocence.
"...sound mixer Randy Cockburn, didn't think you could pull it off like that."
So good... Sam is so good.
Pure gold
"Best boy Mike Litoris, I can't believe I found you"
URUKAXL
Come to the temple they said. There’s fun people to meet they said. There’s not a betrayer God’s seal they said.
I died laughing at that one. Whoever added those little text blurbs really adds to the overall enjoyment of the video versions of these episodes.
timestamp?
It's at 1:43:47
I miss them. 😄
I'll tell you guys what, the Grave Cleric is wearing his title on his sleeve, living so close on the edge between life and death for most of the adventure!
Nott: This was the worst day of my life atleast as long as i can remember.
Matt: The worst day of your life SO FAR *pads shoulder*
Also, yeah it was a barrel but like it's a barrel of black powder on a PIRATE SHIP. It's absolutely gonna be waterproof.
But probably not as much as for like ale or stuff, if it's soaked in water for a few minutes it will let some water through. It would be more time consuming to actually waterproof them, and if the ship is going down the gun powder isn't much use anyways. It's likely that they were more fire resistant than water resistant.
@@taylamuller1811 It'd be as waterproof. Either it stops working after 2 days from the humidity or it's pretty solidly waterproof. Black powder does not like moisture.
Fun fact about gunpowder:
Unless corning has been invented, humidity and water don't do as much to gunpowder as you might think.
If you have gunpowder and you mix water with it, and then grind it in a mortar and pistle (what you grind dry herbs with), you actually make it more stable, and more explosive. But once it dries out again, you can't get water anywhere near it, AND gunpowder has to be kept dry.
Corning, by the way, was invented in the late 1300s, according to Michael Crichton, after 1357; see his book _Timeline._
When Sam realized everyone else took their costumes off and then slowly took his off, my heart broke a little. 🥺
"Sleep well with your bad decitions" that wasn't cadeusus, that was molly.
Mollymauk would've interrogated him for every last bit of gossip he could wring out of him: and then made him feel guilty about it because of Jester.
That was 100% Caduceus :-)
@@Zombiewithabowtie i agree with the first point, but not the second. Molly wasn't exactly one for all that jealousy and monogamy and such and such.
Molly would have join them.
@@melusineshade8538 Yeah he would 😏😂
I'm utterly in love with the image of caduceus sledding on a sheild and out like a light being led by nott while caleb screams directions and everyone flails.
Absolutely glorious.
Mini-caduceus***
@@ajohndoe17 Wasn't tiny at the time.
@@ondras5241 I thought he was partially down the way then changed back
@@ajohndoe17 He got big at the beginning of the under water fight
@@ondras5241 gotcha
3 chosen of the bird
3 chosen for Uk'ktoah
3 chosen for the worm
They're The real mighty nine!!! ;D
Ashley.. gone
Laura.. gone
Travis.. no willpower, no problem right?
1:45:02 “I’ll take ‘just barely’ today!” There have definitely been days like that in my life ^_^
I love how Captain Twitchwood got the laugh it deserved even though Laura wasn't there 😂
Oh man, poor Caduceus. Starts drowning to death and his new supposed allies (who had already almost left him behind once coming out of Nicodranas) proceeded to drag the drowning Jester with them, one of them risks his own life trying to give her more air, but not one of them pauses to go try and grab Caduceus before bolting for the exit. Instead he was rescued by a shady pirate zealot who's been threatening their lives, and the cowardly navigator who he'd just finished telling off for not fighting the hydra by their side. I'm surprised this wasn't the straw that broke the Firbolg's back. It would be pretty reasonable to ditch the party after all that. Although to be fair, I guess he might not have seen any of that considering the fact that he was busy drowning to death and fell unconscious shortly afterward.
Yeah why are they ignoring caduceus? I understand they haven’t known him long but he literally heals them and has been very useful. As if they would leave him to die? It makes me think the players just forget about Taliesin or don’t care about him. As if you don’t cast feather fall on him. If I was caduceus I would be asking what happened and who saved me, and when I find out Caleb left me to die I would refuse to heal him ever again. I feel like Liam plays too harshly sometimes.
@@jimjam751 Agreed, Liam is playing Caleb pretty callously early on. He's gotten better later in the campaign but it takes a while. Tal's always kind of been the outsider of the group which is hard to witness. This is one of the worse times it was evident. Laura would have been there for him if she was there. Her mom side wouldn't have let this shit fly.
Yeah not the first time watching Crit Role when it hasn't made a ton of sense for the party to stick together. I mean a LOT of D&D parties are like this, so not trying to say that the Crit Role group is some terrible example of teamwork compared to most, but as with many D&D groups, everyone is mostly just out for themselves. Like when the swimming fight started, Beau just immediately left. With all the movement she has, she could have tried to make sure other people got out first considering she could easily leave at any time, but that didn't seem to be a consideration. Another thing is I'm not even really sure why they are helping Fjord with this - he's trying to just gain random power I guess? But if so, why would any of the rest of them care about this. They aren't getting paid, etc, the reasons for following the current plotline just seems very questionable for everyone else. And even for Fjord it's not exactly something great, he's trying to gain the ability to control the ocean by releasing some powerful unknown being? Wouldn't exactly call that a "good" reason to do something. If Crit Role S2 is going to be about not being the good guys anymore, I guess that's their choice though.
@@jimjam751 1) What a meta gaming way to go about things. Hey guys when we were rushing out of the temple who specifically saved me and who specifically did actions that would be considered detrimental to the cause of saving me.
2) Caleb had one reaction to save 5 people falling from death. Of course his character would instinctively save those emotionally closest to him.
3) How petty are you. This character instinctively acts to save those he knows, so I am never going to heal him ever again. That would singularly ruin a game for alot of people.
@@scottshaw8864 she was on 10hp, had she stayed, there'd be 3 people drowning
I felt so bad for Cad/Tal this episode. I hope the M9 watch better out for him in the future
Same here, it actually made me angry
“I cast feather fall on the monk who can basically fall forever and not take damage and not on the unconscious guy who will instantly die when he hits the ground”
Sometimes it feels to me like talisen is (unfairly) the 5th wheel in the group and gets left behind
@@andy6015 I think here it was more about Cad being the new guy
They're kinda shitty to their primary healer.
Thank you to whoever did the subs.
Especially this one.
MATT: "(In despair) No. . .no"
Can we stop and appreciate feather fall for a moment...
Nott taking the magic initiate feat to get it was a big brain play
Can we alleviate heat metal
Feather fall has saved their asses so many times actually.
@@respectfulevil9022 My I just say, the best alternate name for "Heat Metal" comes from "Things Mr. Welch can no longer do in an RPG," "Detect Piercings" just speaks to me as a spell name.
Seems like ever since they saw the ocean they've been making one bad decision after another.
ocean scary
Tropics man, every mf in the tropics be just a little crazy at least. Ever heard of Florida Man?
Bad decisions make good stories. Most of d and d is bad decisions and their consequences.
Watching Travis lose out on those powers was SO PAINFUL. Matt was trying to stress the urgency when he was losing time to follow Avantika thanks to Caleb's distraction... such a bummer!
Fjord shouldn't have needed to make athletic checks to beat her. He has a swim speed with the Mariner Armor and thus should have been able to just take the dash action since her speed was halved and his wasn't.
i was thinking that as soon as he said something to fjord, like wtf are you doing dude.
1 roll removed, but tbh it's scripted so it was meant to be :)
Caleb was the absolute worst this episode. Hoping that this is just Liam playing high Caleb as a real d*ck (because he doesnt know what else to do???) and this is not proof of future decisions on Liams part.
@Axel Henx He stalled him purposefully because he didn't want Fjord to release the seal on the demigod leviathan. Regardless, in the end, the only reward ended up being the ability to cast Control Water, which is a pretty shitty exchange for potentially unleashing a primordial evil. Haha
@@TheThreeHeadedDragon agreed completely I got so mad at this moment because it feels unwarranted, he found the sphere slot before her, was next to the sphere slot and the falchion out already and Avantika was not next to him so it felt SUPER forced to me to do this just to build on a potential villain, at the very LEAST Matt should have given him advantage due to literally all the conditions being in his favor.
I love the visual of Nott pushing Cad like a shopping cart through this flood.
That chase sequence had _me_ tired, damn. Thrilling.
Sam: "oh man I'm getting some twitchwood ready."
Followed by the sound of fish slapping together
Had me rolling
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Nott's decision to try and distract the Yuan-Ti during the skill check chase while trying to let the others escape is a lovely foreshadowing to Nott's revelation of her backstory in about 10 more episodes.
Nott, The Brave,... she's earned that comma many times over
Technically, she was distracting lizardfolk and not yuan-ti, technically.
that, and throwing acid in the face of an enemy as well, which very well could be Sam just having go-to improvised storytelling anecdotes but even in the case of accidental foreshadowing it’s *chef’s kiss* so so good
I wonder if it was the other way around. That after this Sam thought this might have been how it originally went down. These are the kinda details one often comes up with during play. Would be interesting to know
Travis went from a cowboy with M&M hands to Luke from the Gilmore Girls.
When Sam goes “can I pause you for one second Matt” after rewatching him he gave the stink eye to all of them as he realized what happened and it was hilarious😂
tyvm for notifing. didnt notice :D :D
Someone def messaged him. Cuz he looked down at his phone as he went to drink. Read the message and then looked around at everyone. Ahahaha I rewatched that section like 10 times so fucking hilarious
timestamp? :)
Fjord is absolutely getting it this episode. Between 'sharing air' with jester and his steamy night with avantica. Wow!
I'm watching dante play make-believe with Kylo Ren... And ketchup
Omg Matt’s reaction when Travis said he was gonna go for it 🤣 I DIED
It's cool how Marisha gets up on the chair to squat when she's excited about what's going on
7:49 At this point, I have watched all of Vox Machina, most of the one-shots, and Mighty Nein up to this point, and this is the first time I can recall Sam admitting to watching CR content. Normally he’s the “What? No I didn’t watch the episode from the week I missed” guy. Having just watched that Between the Sheets episode myself, I find that little show of support to be incredibly sweet.
Wow Sam as truly lucky to have so many wonderful friends and crew to help him with that stop motion commercial. Especially Hugh Janus. Not everyone is lucky enough to have a Hugh Janus in their life, but those who get to spend time with him no how lucky they are.
Mike Hunt had to turn a role down die to a busy schedule
Fjord likes girls with pretty accents... I can’t even begin to blame him.
A man of culture.
I'm not sure if I'd say that Fjord likes Avantika
I like to think that while fjord was having his "meeting" with the Captain, Jester was just pacing back and forth through the cabin the entire time
Sam's face at 2:08:42 when he realizes everybody else took off their costumes his hilarious
"make a constitution check"
no, i would never do that in a game---
My DM makes us roll for Constitution AND Performance!
You think that's bad? MY DM makes us roll Performance, Constitution, Impregnation, AND dick size!
@@DredgenStorm so people go get laud and discover their dick magically shrunk or got enlarged? 😂
@@math_plant yes
The same episode Fjord kisses Jester, he sleeps with Avantika...
my man
Travis: "I don't like to rp relationships"
Also Travis:
Makes his character kiss Jester and sleep with someone, making it the second lay of the campaign (if you count Beau and Keg)
Travis didnt want romance in the campaign for Fjord, but Laura insisted she wanted to romance him. So I guess he was playing flirty with her char just for the sake of it in a scene that was really an action scene and a necessity move and decided to be with Avantika to make Jester maybe hate him.
@Connor sure! I said if you count Beau and Keg, but I believe Molly didn't really sleep with the two people at the pillow trove. Even if he was the third, its still pretty funny
@@math_plant why wouldn't you count beau and keg?
I like to think while Caleb and Nott are high they're seeing Fjord dressed exactly how Travis is.
XD It's nice to know that these D&D battle hardened, well travelled, cool-with-anything voice actors turn just as red as I would during scenes like Fjord's and Avanitka's!
The Cast: Says some funny shit before the fade in.
Me: "BUT WHAT DID THEY SAY THOOOOUGH!?!?!?"
Well, they certainly ended this episode with... a bang.
That shouldn't be as funny as it is
That was so bad it was good
Got fluffernuttered
just IMAGINE if laura was sitting there
She would have *murdered* Matt for this.
it wouldn't have happened if she was there LOL. she would have throw the most stinky-eye. Travis would have slept in the couch for the rest of the year. LOL
My favourite part of the episode was just watching Marisha be so INVESTED in the sexual Fjord and Avantika encounter lmao
Right??? Especially at 2:51:28 when the tension is SO GOOD that she has to step into the chair!!! Marisha is the ultimate hype man.
@@Drekromancer or the ultimate kink master/bro master. I love me a good bromance lol
I’ve met Drew P. Weiner, great man. Been a little down lately though, hope this cheers him up
Matt: You guys are now drowning.
Group: Continue to cast verbal spells.