How un-kosher! A common concord could never be considered! Only a composition of callous callings of 'kuh' commensurate with Liam's crass Kraut caterwauling can create copacetic conditions now! Edit: now try saying that five times quickly. I couldn't
Everyone: **complimenting Marisha** Marisha: **is uncomfortable** Travis being a good friend: “You’re ugly” Marisha: “That’s better, now I’m comfortable.”
@@Clownbunnycosplay LOL Episode 6: Travis to Tal: I love you... Episode 7: Travis to Tal: Shut up Taliesin you don't get to talk right now... LOLOL Total brother love
Taliesin: Tells a complicated worded but relatively simple story. Laura: Throws out most of the complicated wording but gets most of the story right. Liam: Throws out most of the story.
Taliesin: cleverly concocted and carefully crafted chronicles that channel the characteristics of the Clay siblinds creatively by reflecting on their choices Matt: hark hark arkhart cart off the chart
cleverly concocted, carefully crafted chronicles channeling characterisitics of the clay's by countering their choices. I just wanted to throw out most of the non-c words and see if it still makes sense :D
My theory is that Taliesin made the story difficult so he can feed off of the cast's agony and suffering thereby extending his life by another 1000 years.
Taliesin is saying actual real words, I know he is, but as soon as he closes his mouth they're gone from my mind, and all that's left is a vague feeling that I know a story that I didn't before.
I think it would have been fun to see Sam go directly after Taliesin originally tells the story. Something tells me he's got a great capacity for memory and could probably even reproduce some of the alliteration. Then again, maybe I'm just secretly in the Sam fan-club.
In defence of Marisha, it's totally in brand for Cad with his 19 wisdom, 9 intelligence, to know the entire story in alliterations but forgot is he was there as well
@@Clownbunnycosplay I need someone to do a cut of Cad just going "I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't understand what that is. I don't know what that is"...
I love how this show is usually everybody slinging blame at each other but this time around everyone just united against Taliesin while he sat there laughing like a supervillain
I don't think any of them made the connection, even after hearing the story twice more that the Kenku can only repeat which is why the first two siblings hear the answer they wanted to hear and the clever sibling, the sister, asks questions that it can use the words from in order to answer, that's so smart. Love Taliesin
@@Ghostneedle1 And mostly because at the same time Tal says it, Travis says, "Shut up Taliesin, you don't get to fucking talk right now!" And everyone, including me, focuses in on that instead of what Tal is saying. LOL
I like how every time they get something wrong about the lore it makes Matt's brain short circuit. If they really wanted to torture him, just give him a story where all the details are wrong. Just like, Trostenwald being the capital of the Menagerie Coast, mix up the Raven Queen and the Bright Queen, make The Gentleman a fire genasi. He'd go mad.
Caduceus: "So, my three dumbass siblings once..." Pumat Sol: "Yo Caddie, I’m really happy for you and Imma let you finish, but my doubles have one of the best accents _of all _*_TIME_* ."
I'm actually staggered by the sheer force of Talesin Jaffe. HE USED A KENKU, A CREATURE THAT LITTERALLY PLAYS NARRATIVE TELEPHONE TO TALK. WTH TAL JESUS WE GET IT WE'RE ONLY MORTALS!
It’s also something designed to be immediately lost. The moment Laura says “Come” instead of “Help”, all future possibility of the story’s true meaning are lost. Similar things happened in other stories (Sam’s rhyming lesson song, the “two things” requested in Ashley’s story, the fight with the wolf in Matt’s tale and the Waldhexe’s whole speech) rendering the story moral- and meaning-less, but this one was buried so deep that, even if you would’ve been able to figure it out, the moment someone loses that thread, it’s literally impossible to pick back up. Bravo!
@@Ajehy but that's folk tales in a nutshell. Sure, when we have the time, we'll work backwards from the moral to try and retrofit details that'll make the moral still make sense, but if we don't we'll either lose the moral entirely, or end up with a new one that fits whatever we want it to
I just finished ONLY Taliesin's part and my brain shut down 5 seconds into his story as I realized what he was going to do.... I seriously have no idea what the story was even basically.
Terahnee ayyyyupp. Granted I was kinda buzzed and sitting on my porch smoking a cig wondering how long my penned-in 2 year old would be okay inside by herself, so I was abit distracted. But that’s all it took. Abit distracted, and I was totally lost.
Terahnee Caduceus’s siblings head into the woods while escorting a cadaver and have a spooky encounter with what seems to be an evil spirit, but is actually the ghost of an innocent Kenku.
Taliesin's voice: Caduceus Clay Everybody else's voice: How about concussed Pumat Sol? Ashley's voice: Yeah, I know Caduceus, it's the half-orc one, right? Matt's voice: Let's put this back on track... kinda
Someone needs to start animating these. Just because I would love to see the animations becoming more and more fucked up with every take and adding features like a cowboy hat when the accent goes southern etc. This would be comedic gold if someone had the talent.
Someone made a really good one of Liam's version of his story, but I love the idea of the animation having a groundhog day but progressively more confusing vibe th-cam.com/video/jfsp6A7-0QM/w-d-xo.html
Or it could be like that meme with the pictures that get progressively lower quality as the dialogue degrades(or refines, it’s been a while since I’ve seen the meme) So the animation starts out as very fluid and beautiful and gets worse and worse until the 7th one is just story boards drawn by a toddler.
and just like that Taliesin gained another 1,000 years of life off the suffering of the cast and all the critters who are having PTSD whenever they hear a "C" word again. I swear he looked younger by the end of the video
The best part of every story for me is Matt’s bemused confusion when he’s straddling the line between his essentially godlike DM’s knowledge, and the ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT things his players are telling him, and which he has to repeat.
I just love it when we get to Matt's turn, it always ends up with him trying to tell a story while being ACCURATE to his lore. Like you can see him trying to process the craziness he has to retell while constantly fact checking himself.
😂 it's even better because they said in one of them the reason they do that is to go wherever they can avoid screaming toddler barreling into the video
*Taliesin:* Clarabelle, Colin, and Calliope Clay cart a cleric's cadaver through the crooked conifers. *Everyone else:* Hi, I'm Caduceus and this is my spooky tale. Hello? Helloooo! HELLO? HelloOoOOooOoO! * jazz hands *
Liam: writes a story that turns out to be a deep metaphor about his character’s backstory Taliesin: writes a story with a metaphor about how hard narrative telephone is
There seems to be a pattern to Ashley's accents. We need more data to figure it out, but here's what we have so far: - when she's trying to do Jester, she ends up a new yorker - When she's trying to do german, she ends up doing russian/slavic (or alternatively Christopher Walken) - When she's trying to do Caduceus, she ends up southern.
When she tried to do Caleb’s/German, it sounded like Ashley trying to do an impression of Jester, who was trying to do an impression of Caleb. Ashley is too precious for this world, we must protect her at all costs.
Taliesin - an awesome, alliterative story Laura - panics Liam - panics more Sam - commits to making up details Travis - commits to self-confusion Marisha - time to theorize! SPOOoooOOOKY Ashley - panics, but in Texan Matt - ...the fjuck is this mess? Possibly my favorite cast arrangement yet for NT. Never stop. "KANKOO!"
I really liked Taliesin’s story. It basically a story of a character who can only repeat the words of others. It’s a meta-version of telephone in the game of narrative telephone.
Narrative telephone in a nutshell: BEGINNING: *whimsical, flowery tale told in-character* THE VERY NEXT ROUND: "Hi, [character] here with a spooky tale for you"
*Sam:* "The voice came from a corpse, but not Arkhart, the cleric in a cart, another corpse." *Travis:* "IT WAS COMING FROM THE CLERIIIIIIC!!!!!!!! Back in the cart."
CR Cast: Um... Whatcha got there? Taliesin: [carefully carrying and cautiously covering a colossal coffer completely crammed with capital C's] A smoothie.
I listened to the sentence about "carting the corpse of a cleric of Corellon" three times without taking in any of it before giving up and letting it play on.
First Round: An amazing amount of alliteration Last Round: "It's about higher consciousness. It's all about the metaphysical higher understanding of consciousness."
Ashley had me rolling, it's like a Texan took too many drugs and tried to tell a story that they heard at a bar last week from a guy who also had too many drugs
It's taken me about five viewings of Talesin's version of the story to actually follow the plot and meaning. The Clay siblings heard a ghostly voice speaking indirect sentences, Calliope and Colton assumed it was either a trap or a riddle, Clarabelle realised it was just a Kenku spirit, repeating what it hears as they tend to do. That's the story in its entirety, and like Talesin said, the way he told the story is that he obscured simple details by wording them in a misleading way (I.E, using a lot of alliteration), much in the same way that the spirit in the story was selectively repeating words that lead to false assumptions.
With the added bonus of a moral towards those playing Narrative Telephone -- listen carefully and don't let yourself get caught off guard by petty details! Which of course they all did, losing the basic story entirely hahaha.
I literally didn't realise until the last repeat of Taliesin's story at the end that the kenku was just mimicking what was last said and the Clay's kept jumping to conclusions. That seems super obvious in hindsight when my brain's not shutting down trying to parse all the c-words (but also fiendish to the next person who might not remember all the details setting up this twist)
I also only realized on the last repeat. It was ideal for the story - a part of what Calliope and Colton/Colin shout out into the woods is repeated to them, confirming their bias about what's in the woods. But there was no way to catch that on the first listen, really.
Taliesin: The Clay siblings are waylaid doing their sacred duty performing the last rights for a cleric. Matt: They're taking Eilistraee's Dad on a cart ride and prying open their third eyes with a crowbar.
Taliesin’s story: Caduceus Clay here, I’m going to tell you a story about my siblings and a particularly spooky encounter they experienced. Clarabelle, Colin and Caliope Clay where carting the cadaver of a cleric of Corellon, named Kristoff Kasmar, through the Savalirwood, towards its resting place within the Blooming Grove Cemetery. As the Clays made there way beneath the canopy of crooked conifers they couldn’t shake the feeling that they were being watched. Caliope halted the cart and confidently called out “Whoever follows us in these woods show yourself, for Melora help you, I will defend this cleric charged to my care” From the trees a whispered voice called out “Help” Caliope who’s caution was certainly lacking, sprung into action carelessly leaving her kin to guard their cargo. Minutes passed with no sign of Caliope making Colin and Clarabelle nervous. Colin, who had seen his fair share of creepiness in his chosen occupation, immediately thought of the cleric in the cart. For Colin knew Corellon the arch heart was known to these woods and could be calling to their own cleric’s cold cadaver. Colin bellowed “Arch Heart give me a sign so that I may be of service to you” A ghostly voice then called back “Be of service”. Colin dashed towards the woods leaving Clarabelle alone with the corpse in her care. Clarabelle carefully considered the curious call. Being the cleverest of all the Clays she contrived a game to confirm her theory. “Strange voice” she said “are you near or far.” “Near” called the whisper. “Are you before me or behind me” “Before” Clarabelle walked cautiously into the woods, “Am I cold or warm.” After a brief stroll into the tree line she heard “Warm.” Beneath her feet where the ancient bones of a kenku. Clarabelle called out to Colin and Calliope with the ghostly echo adding to her caterwaul. Calliope asked “How did you find them” Clarabelle explained “Calliope, you only listen for danger. Colin, you listen for a sign. I simply heard someone who was lost.” The three Clays considered the Kenku corpse causing it to bloom, which in turn released its spirit. And that spirit still wanders the Forrest, playfully copying the cries of nervous travellers who stray to deep into the Savalirwood. Hopefully this makes it easier for people to follow :)
This should be pinned. It's so cool to see his story. I hope at the end they do a compilation of just the original stories so we can have them for bedtime listening.
@ajs1031 And In four weeks we get MATT doing one final one to tie up the cycle, and he vowed to be allowed to give as good he'd gotten with everyone else going hard-core.
I like that since the first ep this has become less 'telling an exandrian themed story' and more 'how can I cause pain & blame to rest of the cast' (but like *real* quick 🤣)
Laura, going 2nd: _struggling to barely hold it together_ Liam, going 3rd: _absolutely breaking down and falling apart_ Taliesin: _laughing demonically_
Taliesin: So my siblings went to bring the corpse of a Cleric of Corellon to its final resting place- Marisha: SO MY SIBLINGS CARRIED A DEAD GOD AROUND ON THEIR CART-
I want the next cycle to be narrative telephone as their charecters. Ex: Nott retelling a story by Yasha and then passing it on to Fjord and so on. I think it’d be really fun.
This was sinister. The strategy to style the storytelling in such a way as to distract from the simple substance of the story was sublimely sinful. I salute this! Also, every time someone said “I’m Caduceus Clay”, all I could think was “Aren’t we all?”.
I know, right?!? My whole brain just shut down and said, "Nope!" I didn't know it would respond like that -- and give _SO_ much respect to Laura for how well she did.
Alliteration, rhyming, melodies and all that stuff actually makes stuff easier to remember. That's why I can't always remember the letters before or after some other letter in the alphabetic order, but if I start in specific places I can keep going until I get what I need. Works with song lyrics, nursery rhymes etc. Didn't work here because there was just too much fucking bullshit for anyone's brain to handle :D
@@fardareismai4495 Yeah, there's repititon, and there's also social pressure where everyone knows the story, and can correct things when they're wrong. Some things might get muddled, but over all oral tradition, in cultures that are raised on it, is really consistent.
I love how EVERY story ends up turning into "Hi, I'm [NAME] and I'm gonna tell you a SPOOKY TALE" at some point or another, usually that intro word for word
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Liam: *Uses German words*
Taliesin: Peace was never an option
^ This wins the internet.
How un-kosher! A common concord could never be considered! Only a composition of callous callings of 'kuh' commensurate with Liam's crass Kraut caterwauling can create copacetic conditions now!
Edit: now try saying that five times quickly. I couldn't
@@alexv3357 How could one say that 5 times quickly when it's so long? XD
It is a beautiful recording session and you are a horrible eldrich being.
What song was playing when it was Marisha’s turn?
liam: haha german words
taliesin: *so you have chosen death*
It’s treason then
This is definitely vengeance
We're all outta cake!
@@ZenSorcere the cake is a lie
@@loyal0299 UNLIMITED PPPOOOOOOWWWEEEEEERRR!!!
Everyone: **complimenting Marisha**
Marisha: **is uncomfortable**
Travis being a good friend: “You’re ugly”
Marisha: “That’s better, now I’m comfortable.”
Mood
I love how they are as a group, I was watching the Beau episodes and Travis just told Tal, he was in love with them and it made me so happy
@@Clownbunnycosplay LOL Episode 6: Travis to Tal: I love you...
Episode 7: Travis to Tal: Shut up Taliesin you don't get to talk right now... LOLOL Total brother love
AWNP: Unplugged - Cure Wounds
Narrative Telephone - Inflict Wounds
AWNP unplugged: mass healing word
Narrative telephone: mind blank/feeblemind
Nah, Narrative Telephone - Tasha's Hideous Laughter.
Sari Hoffman-Dachelet - on us, or on them?
Ajehy Yes
@@Ajehy yes.
Taliesin: Tells a complicated worded but relatively simple story.
Laura: Throws out most of the complicated wording but gets most of the story right.
Liam: Throws out most of the story.
The rest; crash and burn.
@@fardareismai4495 Something about existence.
Liam is doing caleb without the accent
He fucked up the last one too
@@Ghostneedle1 right? Very fitting
I've always had difficulty picturing what psychic damage looked like in D&D, but now I know.
this comment left me : floored 🤣
Watching this episode hit me like Tasha's Hideous Laughter.
@@rehecke7124 this comment right here 💯👌🏾
This needs more likes ^_^
This is the fastest I’ve seen a story be destroyed, the alliteration didn’t even make it past Taliesin.
Press C to pay respects
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Taliesin: cleverly concocted and carefully crafted chronicles that channel the characteristics of the Clay siblinds creatively by reflecting on their choices
Matt: hark hark arkhart cart off the chart
Underrated comment. Gold.
hark ark hark, rofl what's that character from sesame street? swedish chef: bork bork bork
cleverly concocted, carefully crafted chronicles channeling characterisitics of the clay's by countering their choices.
I just wanted to throw out most of the non-c words and see if it still makes sense :D
My theory is that Taliesin made the story difficult so he can feed off of the cast's agony and suffering thereby extending his life by another 1000 years.
Talesin is Colin Robinson?
Only 1,000?
Canon accepted. All Heil Taliesin
@@elizabethlopes6597 1,000 years each.
This 100% accurate
Can Caduceus Clay create content Critters can comprehend?
No can do, cad is a complicated character
@@sethlost424 No, Caleb is clearly much craftier, he's curiously complex, and of a high class caliber
Cfuck
Content creators cannot contain creativity
@@Consumer0001 does cinematic count
Ah, yes, time for Narrative Taliesin featuring Telephone.
And he went to best Liam in doing "Dark Souls edition of Narrative Telephone."
Reference understood
Narrative Taliesin is my favorite show on the Critical Role channel.
@@foximoron499 comment liked
Wish I could like this comment twice!
"Clarabell, Collin, and Calliope Clay were carting the cadaver of a cleric of corellon named Christophe Cazmar..."
Jfc Talesin you murdered them
Stop, they're already dead
@@thewingedporpoise hence why they’re corpses.
Liam fired a strafing shot across the bow
Taliesin targeted critical infrastructure from lower orbit
Taliesin is saying actual real words, I know he is, but as soon as he closes his mouth they're gone from my mind, and all that's left is a vague feeling that I know a story that I didn't before.
Only prophets can get a somewhat functioning understanding of the Story. Mere mortals like us can feel it, but not truly hear it. ;)
As a regular eldritch god, his words can not be comprehended by the human mind. But he tries, sometime.
I think it would have been fun to see Sam go directly after Taliesin originally tells the story. Something tells me he's got a great capacity for memory and could probably even reproduce some of the alliteration. Then again, maybe I'm just secretly in the Sam fan-club.
You don't understand, you don't learn. Yet somehow you change after hearing it.
Like all tales from an ancient. You know that you have learned something. The retelling and lessons are easy, but the context and the wording is hard.
I like how Liam kept only 40% of the story but 100% of Laura's ad-libs
In defence of Marisha, it's totally in brand for Cad with his 19 wisdom, 9 intelligence, to know the entire story in alliterations but forgot is he was there as well
Wow. I have literally never seen anyone with such a disparity between those two specific stats... Its amazing
His Wisdom is 20
Lmao yeah i was kinda waiting for Marisha to say "who knows? I have a 9 intelligence, who knows?"
That’s why I love Cad so much, he’s full of so much Wisdom but then he’ll be like ‘what’s a goldfish’
@@Clownbunnycosplay I need someone to do a cut of Cad just going "I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't understand what that is. I don't know what that is"...
I love how this show is usually everybody slinging blame at each other but this time around everyone just united against Taliesin while he sat there laughing like a supervillain
Emily White except for Liam. Everyone blamed Liam.
"like"?
"Look upon my work you mighty and despair." Taliesin while watching them suffer
I don't think any of them made the connection, even after hearing the story twice more that the Kenku can only repeat which is why the first two siblings hear the answer they wanted to hear and the clever sibling, the sister, asks questions that it can use the words from in order to answer, that's so smart. Love Taliesin
And Laura seemed to love Kiri.
I don't want to admit how many times it took for me to figure that out. lol
I didn't understand it either until Taliesin explained it during the reactions but he didn't say it very loudly so it easily went under the radar
Don't you mean a "ken-kuuuuuuuuu"?
@@Ghostneedle1 And mostly because at the same time Tal says it, Travis says, "Shut up Taliesin, you don't get to fucking talk right now!" And everyone, including me, focuses in on that instead of what Tal is saying. LOL
I like how every time they get something wrong about the lore it makes Matt's brain short circuit. If they really wanted to torture him, just give him a story where all the details are wrong. Just like, Trostenwald being the capital of the Menagerie Coast, mix up the Raven Queen and the Bright Queen, make The Gentleman a fire genasi. He'd go mad.
OMG, this is absolutely brilliant. OH MY GOD.
This is fully evil, I love it.
Next time Matt pisses Talesin off...
Then make sure Matt is number 2 so everyone can blame him 😂
I don't think they would tempt the fates like that haha
The real question is... how much heart could the Archeart cart if the Archeart could cart heart?
🤣🤣🤣
The Archeart would cart all the heart he could cart if the Archeart could cart heart.
I love this train of comments.
You are a god, mate xD
Thumbs up x 10000. Awesome comment.
I love how this game turns Ashley, an accomplished and talented actress, into a kid who improvs a book report on a book they read like 4 years ago
This woman won two BAFTAS :D
that is....such an accurate comparison lmao
A KEUNKEWW.
Acting is rehersed and reshot allowing room for error and practice. This allows none of that.
You meant to say a kid who improvs a book report on a book they watched a second grade tv movie about 4 years ago
Taliesin said in Talks Machina that Caduceus was homeschooled and almost illiterate. Now we know why. They only taught him words that start with C...
They only had two volumes of the encyclopedia in the house, C and K.
C is for Caduceus, That's good enough for me, Caddie Caddie Caddie starts with C!
travis's story: "hello I am Grog and this is a list of my 50 favourite ales"
What number is mayonnaise? I'm guessing at least top five.
Lmao i wanna see grogs so bad
Omg please let it be Grog.
I really hope Travis gives us a fantastic drunken Grog story.
With a Grog story, he could say the most utterly nonsensical stuff that #3-8 will go "is that Grog or did someone just lose the story?" :D
I think Matt was trying his hardest to sound like Caduceus, but Pumat kept wanting to speak at the same time.
Caduceus: "So, my three dumbass siblings once..."
Pumat Sol: "Yo Caddie, I’m really happy for you and Imma let you finish, but my doubles have one of the best accents _of all _*_TIME_* ."
Respectfully
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who heard it!
That firbolg accent...
Pumat still hadnt finished his story on that lupine tasting mushroom
I'm actually staggered by the sheer force of Talesin Jaffe. HE USED A KENKU, A CREATURE THAT LITTERALLY PLAYS NARRATIVE TELEPHONE TO TALK. WTH TAL JESUS WE GET IT WE'RE ONLY MORTALS!
And the moral of the story being about paying attention, also applying to the story itself. Such a big brain move.
It’s also something designed to be immediately lost. The moment Laura says “Come” instead of “Help”, all future possibility of the story’s true meaning are lost.
Similar things happened in other stories (Sam’s rhyming lesson song, the “two things” requested in Ashley’s story, the fight with the wolf in Matt’s tale and the Waldhexe’s whole speech) rendering the story moral- and meaning-less, but this one was buried so deep that, even if you would’ve been able to figure it out, the moment someone loses that thread, it’s literally impossible to pick back up. Bravo!
@@Ajehy but that's folk tales in a nutshell. Sure, when we have the time, we'll work backwards from the moral to try and retrofit details that'll make the moral still make sense, but if we don't we'll either lose the moral entirely, or end up with a new one that fits whatever we want it to
I am 2 minutes in...
Reaction at all the "I hate Talison.." intros: Wow that seems a bit harsh...
Reaction at 2 minutes in: I understand now.
HOLY SHIT!! I literally just posted that!!
I just finished ONLY Taliesin's part and my brain shut down 5 seconds into his story as I realized what he was going to do.... I seriously have no idea what the story was even basically.
Terahnee ayyyyupp. Granted I was kinda buzzed and sitting on my porch smoking a cig wondering how long my penned-in 2 year old would be okay inside by herself, so I was abit distracted.
But that’s all it took. Abit distracted, and I was totally lost.
Terahnee Caduceus’s siblings head into the woods while escorting a cadaver and have a spooky encounter with what seems to be an evil spirit, but is actually the ghost of an innocent Kenku.
Taliesin's voice: Caduceus Clay
Everybody else's voice: How about concussed Pumat Sol?
Ashley's voice: Yeah, I know Caduceus, it's the half-orc one, right?
Matt's voice: Let's put this back on track... kinda
YOU HAVE EARNED MY LIKE, MY GOOD FELLOW.
Matt's sounded like the love child of McCreedy and Pumat Sol.
Patrick Lyons - Well, that’s one crossover ship I never expected to see.
@@patricklyons794 I was thinking this exact thing so thank you!
I felt like Laura, Liam, Sam, and Travis were all just doing half-assed Eeyore voices
Someone needs to start animating these. Just because I would love to see the animations becoming more and more fucked up with every take and adding features like a cowboy hat when the accent goes southern etc. This would be comedic gold if someone had the talent.
I know Ginny Di is doing a cosplay version
Someone did an animatic for Liam's Widogast's Web of Words!
@@Ontinara Well, she did Jester's. As far as I know, she doesn't have cosplays of the others.
Someone made a really good one of Liam's version of his story, but I love the idea of the animation having a groundhog day but progressively more confusing vibe
th-cam.com/video/jfsp6A7-0QM/w-d-xo.html
Or it could be like that meme with the pictures that get progressively lower quality as the dialogue degrades(or refines, it’s been a while since I’ve seen the meme)
So the animation starts out as very fluid and beautiful and gets worse and worse until the 7th one is just story boards drawn by a toddler.
Critical Role plays Scattegories
"Alright the letter is...C"
Taliesin: "Hold my beer"
Hold My Tea 😏
Hold my cuppa.
Hold my dead people tea.
Caduceus chanting for the clasping of his cup of corpses
No shit?!? I've laughed coffee into my nose thanks to just the opener!
and just like that Taliesin gained another 1,000 years of life off the suffering of the cast and all the critters who are having PTSD whenever they hear a "C" word again. I swear he looked younger by the end of the video
Mass torture is so much EASIER now that we have the internet!
The best part of every story for me is Matt’s bemused confusion when he’s straddling the line between his essentially godlike DM’s knowledge, and the ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT things his players are telling him, and which he has to repeat.
His salty meta commentary is *chef's kiss*
I just love it when we get to Matt's turn, it always ends up with him trying to tell a story while being ACCURATE to his lore. Like you can see him trying to process the craziness he has to retell while constantly fact checking himself.
The struggles of a DM 😂
He had that reaction during Laura's to
And his look, when his players fuck up his lore. Just endless disapointmend.
He even flipped Calliope and Colin back to the right order. Goes to show how invested he is in every single character.
Gaslighting matt about his own world
Taliesin: Clarabelle, Colin and Calliope Clay were Carting the Cadaver of a Cleric of Corellon.
Me: Hey, Imma have to cancel our plans for tonight.
Or me in one stream: I’m sorry I gave to leave this stream for another but here’s my vote for a choice you wanted made
I love how Narrative Telephone also serves as a Bailey-Willingham House Tour.
They can just stitch them together if they ever need to sell their current place
😂 it's even better because they said in one of them the reason they do that is to go wherever they can avoid screaming toddler barreling into the video
Taliesin: a lesson about listening to the content of a story.
Matt: let’s give a god a lift in our cart before going to a higher plane of reality.
The message, appropriately, was obscured by the style of the storyteller. This episode is almost meta.
A tale as old as time
@@cyanmanta That's kind of what Tal does right? Molly was a critique of backstories and Cad is built over the grief of Molly's dead
@@unblorbosyourshows9635 ........................................ whoa
*Taliesin:* Clarabelle, Colin, and Calliope Clay cart a cleric's cadaver through the crooked conifers.
*Everyone else:* Hi, I'm Caduceus and this is my spooky tale. Hello? Helloooo! HELLO? HelloOoOOooOoO! * jazz hands *
Liam: writes a story that turns out to be a deep metaphor about his character’s backstory
Taliesin: writes a story with a metaphor about how hard narrative telephone is
As soon as Taliesin started speaking all I could think was, "Wow, he really did it to them."
I love how an offhanded comment Liam made about 'a semblance of reality' turned into the entire moral of the story.
the entire cr cast: whatcha got there taliesin
taliesin with the most complicated story ever: *a smoothie*
some vitamin c
Taliesin: manga
Laura: anime
Everyone else: Netflix adaptation
Skies you're so right🤣🤣🤣
Matt's is like a summary of the Netflix adaption after reading about it on TV Tropes and reddit but never actually seeing it.
Netflix sumaries are so bad that sometimes I read them for séries I already know and like and think "im not watch this garbage".
not all are bad just depends on the creators of the Netflix show to see..
There seems to be a pattern to Ashley's accents. We need more data to figure it out, but here's what we have so far:
- when she's trying to do Jester, she ends up a new yorker
- When she's trying to do german, she ends up doing russian/slavic (or alternatively Christopher Walken)
- When she's trying to do Caduceus, she ends up southern.
she is too precious for this world lol
Now I really want to hear Caduceus say "Bless you soul!"
When she tried to do Caleb’s/German, it sounded like Ashley trying to do an impression of Jester, who was trying to do an impression of Caleb. Ashley is too precious for this world, we must protect her at all costs.
@@mazie1874 Yes! We must protect our high priestest barbarian from the hoes mad butt hurt Last of Us fans!
She rotates each accent 1 radian anticlockwise around the earth
Travis: *looks like he's holding it together*
Also Travis: ThE sPiRiT oF tHe ArChEArT wAs AcTuAlLy ThE oNe TaLkInG
Doing good, doing good, you got this! Nope. So close!
that bit threw me off so hard lmao
Exactly! Like, damn, Travis, keeping this shit pretty tight then just LEFT TURN.
As usual. 😂👌
I mean that's what Sam said, to be fair. Sam was the first one to say it was from the cleric, not the Kenku. He was just less direct
Didn’t know eldritch beings liked alliteration so much
This man is a god lol i burst out laughing after the first wave of alliteration. . . .and he just KEPT IT GOING
I lost it already 🤣🤣
Oh Taliesin Jaffe....you magnificent bastard!! Well played! Well played!
It's actually consonance, not alliteration.
Taliesin Telephone was supposedly set to be this exaggerating episode's name, but Merry Marisha did a goofing goof
My favorite parts about this episode:
1: Laura's mind palace is a little jig
2: Talisin's wicked glee
Taliesin - an awesome, alliterative story
Laura - panics
Liam - panics more
Sam - commits to making up details
Travis - commits to self-confusion
Marisha - time to theorize! SPOOoooOOOKY
Ashley - panics, but in Texan
Matt - ...the fjuck is this mess?
Possibly my favorite cast arrangement yet for NT. Never stop. "KANKOO!"
You just transcribed the entire episode. Respect.
“Are you there, voice? It’s me, a victim of Talisien Jaffe.”
"Jaffe"
Liam's whole recounting of the story sounded like a man slowly going insane
"Slowly"? ;^)
Well Taliesin did say the long pass was for Liam, but Laura did a full intercept for a pass incomplete.
What's amazing is that Sam or Ashley usually do what Liam did to the story, so then Sam ended up kinda fixing it. XD
I felt their anxiety
Sounds like caleb's first day in the asylum trying to explain that it wasn't him that burned his entire family.
I really liked Taliesin’s story. It basically a story of a character who can only repeat the words of others. It’s a meta-version of telephone in the game of narrative telephone.
Yeah the more I think about this, the more it's blowing my mind!
So you're saying Liam IS right when he said the Kenku spirit is playing Narrative Telephone??????
He even said the moral of the story is to listen, in general and to the story. :)
Holy shit ive already seen all of these over and over again but you just blew my mind. How did I not realise!!
Taliesin's Caduceus: elegant and complicated retelling of a story of his siblings
Matt's Caduceus: absolutely wasted bar retelling
Otherwise known as "Before Dead People Tea vs. After Dead People Tea"
But, it's the same story, int it? Lol.
And this is why Cad doesn't drink
Wasted Caduceus is surprisingly sassy.
Good for him
My therapist: "the southern Caduceus isn't real, he can't hurt you."
The southern Caduceus: "Hello! hello, hello, hello, hello..."
hello, hello, hello
I didn't fully understand at first, then I did
Johnny Souza she even said “well hell”
Kenkuuuuuu
He doesn't want to hurt you though, he just wants to have some sweet tea with you
Narrative telephone in a nutshell:
BEGINNING: *whimsical, flowery tale told in-character*
THE VERY NEXT ROUND: "Hi, [character] here with a spooky tale for you"
No matter the original genre, by the third retelling its guaranteed to be *sPoOkY*
@@calebdouglas2512 ...or a complete plane crash from several thousand feet...
*Sam:* "The voice came from a corpse, but not Arkhart, the cleric in a cart, another corpse."
*Travis:* "IT WAS COMING FROM THE CLERIIIIIIC!!!!!!!! Back in the cart."
And you can see the moment when he decided to punt the kenku being the voice out of the wood
Travis: There was a kenku
Also Travis: The kenku definitely wasn’t important, back to the cart, we’re moving on
"This Kenku is just dead. That's why it's a corpse" That checks out.
this is an ex kenku. it has ceased to be.
@@LordAaronus Maybe he's pining for the Fjords
I feel like Liam just filmed himself having a mental breakdown.
Everyone at CR: "Hey Taliesin, why is there a huge box full of c's over here?"
Taliesin:: "Don't worry about it."
Cuz
CR Cast: Um... Whatcha got there?
Taliesin: [carefully carrying and cautiously covering a colossal coffer completely crammed with capital C's] A smoothie.
@@johncheshirsky8822 Was it a Coffer or a Coffin?
And a coc.... *giggle giggle*
*CR cast* "what'cha got there?"
*taliesin holding C words* "...a smoothie..."
Everyone : does a Clay voice
Ashley Johnson : does a Fjord voice
on brand
+
It was never Percy who had no mercy, it was Taliesin all along.
5 seconds into Tallesin's story.... "I'm lost".
5 seconds in and i was just like fuuuuuck you guys are doomed XDDD
this was my reaction as well. as soon as I realized what he was doing, my brain stopped. lol.
I listened to the sentence about "carting the corpse of a cleric of Corellon" three times without taking in any of it before giving up and letting it play on.
Me too!!
I lost track almost immediately, alliteration is so hard to remember
So Taliesin just chanted some eldritch spell and everyone is supposed to repeat it?
"Caduceus's Cautionary Chronicle" sounds like a 5th level Divination spell.
That would be "Widogast's Cautionary Chronicle"
annafantasia - Not if it’s a cleric spell
@@annafantasia Widogast's Widogast Widogast
It needs the V.. Which is the whole story and why no one ever cast it
Absotutilutilty! 😂
First Round: An amazing amount of alliteration
Last Round: "It's about higher consciousness. It's all about the metaphysical higher understanding of consciousness."
Taliesin's terrific tale terrorizes cast causing confusion cackles and curses.
:)
No one:
Taliesin: *sometimes I wake up having dreamt of a terrible thing*
I kinda feel bad for Laura, Taliesin straight up sentenced the second person to certain death. :D
She bore her sentence with the dignity of a true queen
Heh. “Sentenced.” Heh. I get it.
He sentenced everyone to death XD lol
I mean, Caduceus as a character is even more of a rambling mess than Jester XD
He sentenced the second storyteller to certain cessation of cognitive creation.
The start of Marisha's story: "Hey, no crazy eyes this time"
5 seconds into Marisha's story: "There they are"
I love the irony of Liam mocking Laura’s panic until he spiralled into his own panic. Beautiful 😘🤌
Ashley had me rolling, it's like a Texan took too many drugs and tried to tell a story that they heard at a bar last week from a guy who also had too many drugs
Love Ashley 💙
She makes these amazing.
"Caduceus Clay here, and I'm going to tell you a story about my siblings."
Why do I hear boss music?
The rest of the crew: "Wait, WAIT! The game's not auto-saving! We're not ready!"
"This kenku is just DEAD, that's why it's a CORPSE!"
This checks out.
I need Ashley to play a character with that exact personality
Me 1 minute into Travis : damn, he is getting so good at this narative thing
Also Travis : "THE VOICE COMING FROM THE CLERIC"
*Surprised Pikachu face
You can totally see where he gets it from on the second viewing, though, Sam is making a mess at that point of the story.
@@Karreth yeah ikr but Sam like make a point by its a different corpse..
But really, i mean like nobody can expect there's no way this ends right 😂
I had the same response! Like "Whoa, see, he's really got this! Wait what..."
He really Ashleyed things up.
The voice was the source of the corpse's voice -Sam 2020
I love when a story becomes factually impossible by the time it gets to Matt because he's just screaming internally about inaccuracies.
It's taken me about five viewings of Talesin's version of the story to actually follow the plot and meaning. The Clay siblings heard a ghostly voice speaking indirect sentences, Calliope and Colton assumed it was either a trap or a riddle, Clarabelle realised it was just a Kenku spirit, repeating what it hears as they tend to do. That's the story in its entirety, and like Talesin said, the way he told the story is that he obscured simple details by wording them in a misleading way (I.E, using a lot of alliteration), much in the same way that the spirit in the story was selectively repeating words that lead to false assumptions.
With the added bonus of a moral towards those playing Narrative Telephone -- listen carefully and don't let yourself get caught off guard by petty details! Which of course they all did, losing the basic story entirely hahaha.
That’s why his story is so damn goooood
I choose to believe that Caddie's entire backstory and family was made in preparation for this dumpster fire
Taliesin: "Help Me"
Laura Bailey: "C O M E"
just 'Help' actually! from 'melora help you'
NOW
On brand.
All I’ve learned from this is that
A) Sam’s family is flipping adorable
And B) Never get on Taliesin Jaffe’s bad side
I literally didn't realise until the last repeat of Taliesin's story at the end that the kenku was just mimicking what was last said and the Clay's kept jumping to conclusions. That seems super obvious in hindsight when my brain's not shutting down trying to parse all the c-words (but also fiendish to the next person who might not remember all the details setting up this twist)
Consider commentators clueless of Kenku copycat communication curse
I also only realized on the last repeat. It was ideal for the story - a part of what Calliope and Colton/Colin shout out into the woods is repeated to them, confirming their bias about what's in the woods. But there was no way to catch that on the first listen, really.
@@RPG_Angie I mean when it was revealed it was a kenku, I understood the point of the story
I didn't realize it until I read this comment and relistened to the story
So THAT was what the story was about.
Taliesin: The Clay siblings are waylaid doing their sacred duty performing the last rights for a cleric.
Matt: They're taking Eilistraee's Dad on a cart ride and prying open their third eyes with a crowbar.
Taliesin’s story:
Caduceus Clay here, I’m going to tell you a story about my siblings and a particularly spooky encounter they experienced.
Clarabelle, Colin and Caliope Clay where carting the cadaver of a cleric of Corellon, named Kristoff Kasmar, through the Savalirwood, towards its resting place within the Blooming Grove Cemetery.
As the Clays made there way beneath the canopy of crooked conifers they couldn’t shake the feeling that they were being watched.
Caliope halted the cart and confidently called out “Whoever follows us in these woods show yourself, for Melora help you, I will defend this cleric charged to my care”
From the trees a whispered voice called out “Help” Caliope who’s caution was certainly lacking, sprung into action carelessly leaving her kin to guard their cargo. Minutes passed with no sign of Caliope making Colin and Clarabelle nervous.
Colin, who had seen his fair share of creepiness in his chosen occupation, immediately thought of the cleric in the cart. For Colin knew Corellon the arch heart was known to these woods and could be calling to their own cleric’s cold cadaver. Colin bellowed “Arch Heart give me a sign so that I may be of service to you”
A ghostly voice then called back “Be of service”. Colin dashed towards the woods leaving Clarabelle alone with the corpse in her care. Clarabelle carefully considered the curious call. Being the cleverest of all the Clays she contrived a game to confirm her theory. “Strange voice” she said “are you near or far.”
“Near” called the whisper.
“Are you before me or behind me”
“Before”
Clarabelle walked cautiously into the woods, “Am I cold or warm.”
After a brief stroll into the tree line she heard “Warm.”
Beneath her feet where the ancient bones of a kenku. Clarabelle called out to Colin and Calliope with the ghostly echo adding to her caterwaul. Calliope asked “How did you find them”
Clarabelle explained “Calliope, you only listen for danger. Colin, you listen for a sign. I simply heard someone who was lost.”
The three Clays considered the Kenku corpse causing it to bloom, which in turn released its spirit. And that spirit still wanders the Forrest, playfully copying the cries of nervous travellers who stray to deep into the Savalirwood.
Hopefully this makes it easier for people to follow :)
You, my friend, are a hero!
This should be pinned. It's so cool to see his story. I hope at the end they do a compilation of just the original stories so we can have them for bedtime listening.
You missed the part where the Archheartcart symbolized a higher plane of existance
Terahnee tbh I needed to type it out myself just so I could understand what the story was h
Angel awh thank you I'm thinking of going back and typing out all of them when I have the time and maybe keep doing it for each one they release
This was as hardcore as it gets in Narrative Telephone
Just wait till one of them makes it rhyme
It only gets worse from here
I found this one the easiest, by far, of any story they've started with yet. Maybe just different neurology, affected by consonance in different ways?
Yuuuuup
@ajs1031 And In four weeks we get MATT doing one final one to tie up the cycle, and he vowed to be allowed to give as good he'd gotten with everyone else going hard-core.
I like that since the first ep this has become less 'telling an exandrian themed story' and more 'how can I cause pain & blame to rest of the cast' (but like *real* quick 🤣)
Laura, going 2nd: _struggling to barely hold it together_
Liam, going 3rd: _absolutely breaking down and falling apart_
Taliesin: _laughing demonically_
Ashley actually fixed the part we’re they go into the woods one by one. That’s what I call character growth.
Laura:
“Are you there, voice?”
“Yep”
“Ok”
🤣🤣🤣
Skitsophrenia in a nutshell.
Voice :
"Laura do you have any snacks?"
"Yep"
"Thank you"
"..."
"..."
Taliesin: So my siblings went to bring the corpse of a Cleric of Corellon to its final resting place-
Marisha: SO MY SIBLINGS CARRIED A DEAD GOD AROUND ON THEIR CART-
I want the next cycle to be narrative telephone as their charecters. Ex: Nott retelling a story by Yasha and then passing it on to Fjord and so on. I think it’d be really fun.
commenting to boost this. I want this more than anything.
you sadist! also yes please do this
yessssyesyesyes
Yes I want this!
Yes
This was sinister. The strategy to style the storytelling in such a way as to distract from the simple substance of the story was sublimely sinful. I salute this!
Also, every time someone said “I’m Caduceus Clay”, all I could think was “Aren’t we all?”.
He did say in the previous episode that his story's gonna hurt.. didn't expect to be this hurtful. Such mighty eldritch powers on display here.
I wanted him to do a story with a bunch of names from the De Rolo family.
taliesin you broke a perfect group of nerdy voice actors look at them, they got anxiety
This was "V for Vendetta"-monologue level of alliteration
The most accurate comparison I've seen
Just taking a page from Laura Bailey, is it weird that all I want is Uncle Grog telling Percy and Vex's kids a bedtime story?
😭
Yes! This needs more likes, I really hope this is what happens!!!!
But i also wanna see what kind of stories Fjord would tell
@@jojolowe2019 Sure, but Ima season 1 boi, XD
MACARONI SAMSONITE OR BUST
I only know 2 things after Taliesin's story: it involved 3 Clay siblings and Tal's evil knows no bounds...
I know, right?!? My whole brain just shut down and said, "Nope!" I didn't know it would respond like that -- and give _SO_ much respect to Laura for how well she did.
"well, the Arkheart's a deity so it must've been a big cart." Matt OMG 😂
"You really were a C-word" is the perfect sum of this video by Sam, congrats.
After Matt says he wants to start one more time after everyone else has gone, every episode has him basically going "The DM will remember this."
He did not disappoint lmao Round 2 is here and he did the first and murdered everybody.
Funny part is, alliteration is one of the tricks that historians used to remember tales when history was passed down by oral tradition
guess we know how well that worked out
@@lostdmg7511 if you can repeat it, and learn it by heart it might actually help.
It helped them remember the Archeart in the cart! Not that that was even part of the story, though...
Alliteration, rhyming, melodies and all that stuff actually makes stuff easier to remember. That's why I can't always remember the letters before or after some other letter in the alphabetic order, but if I start in specific places I can keep going until I get what I need. Works with song lyrics, nursery rhymes etc. Didn't work here because there was just too much fucking bullshit for anyone's brain to handle :D
@@fardareismai4495 Yeah, there's repititon, and there's also social pressure where everyone knows the story, and can correct things when they're wrong. Some things might get muddled, but over all oral tradition, in cultures that are raised on it, is really consistent.
Ashley Johnson (a voice actor): "I know that's not what you sound like, not my specialty"
"KAIN KOO!"
Liam: “hear have some German words, haha lol”
Talisin: “I “C” what you did there”
here
I love how EVERY story ends up turning into "Hi, I'm [NAME] and I'm gonna tell you a SPOOKY TALE" at some point or another, usually that intro word for word
near the end of Liam's turn, he sounded like he was near tears.
Taliesin's revenge was sweet. Liam should know better than to thwart an elder God
We finally know Liam's weakness
yeah, I was like "Damn, you ok, Liam?"
He's made fun of the other cast members for their flop sweat but I gotta say this was the most spectacular nosedive of them all so far
Ashley: So Caduceus is now southern
Matt: It's high noon.
YES hahha
I'm so impressed by Laura - I was so distracted by the alliteration, I have no idea what the actual story was.
Same
Me too! My brain can’t comprehend what the story actually is because of all the “c” and “k” sounds.