Dearest Pike, My entire life I have been half a man, not in statute nor confidence, nor certainly not in reputation, but you see, even though my heart has pumped blood for these 69 years, it has done so only as half a heart. The moment I first saw you, it was not a choir of angels singing, nor silly butterflies in my chest, no. The moment I met Pike Trickfoot was the tragic moment where I realized that my heart, my soul would be forever incomplete without you, for years I have strived to mend my incomplete heart, to join it with yours and find true bliss at your side. Though it may not have seemed so, everything I have done these past years have been to impress you, please you, protect you. I knew early on it was a futile effort, I am not stupid, the entire world may be mad, but that doesn't nullify the laws of reality, one law being that you are and will always be too good for a poor pennysinger like Scanlan Shorthalt. But even though I would not win your love, I could never stop trying. Does the sun stop rising when clouds blot it out? No! Like me it knows its purpose, to illuminate the world so that mortals can witness such beauty as you. But now as the sun sets on my life, I have discovered something new, I have a daughter, who's heart beats my blood and who's life is my own, and she unlike her father can be good and right, and one day worthy of your love. Which is why, on my deathbed I leave her to you. Don't you see? All this time I thought I was chasing a lover, but I was chasing a mother for my child. You, Pike Trickfoot, are the saviour to Kaley that I could never be. Your wisdom and honour and goodness can give her the chance at redemption that I never had. Pike take my daughter as your own, show her the light of Sarenrae, guide her to be a kindhearted Gnome, teach her to be everything her father was not, that way in death, my heart will be complete, and it will be inside Kaylie by your side, like I always dreamed it would. With love and respect, Burt Reynolds Esquire. EDIT: As all good coincidences will have it, this was comment nr. 69 on this video.
"...I'm gunna cry..." Damn Sam. Bless you. To think, he only made Scanlan Shorthalt because he wanted to be the worst dorkiest character... but now he is the favourite of many and convinced everyone that gnomes and bards are decent characters.
@I see it like this I feel like First of all, I love your name, this is a phrase that to me embodies what is missing in internet dialogue. I have to disagree though, I have seen and felt for myself that sometimes the character and roleplaying you want to do is hidden somewhere in the crunch of the game. You could play D&D all night without ever rolling dice and have fun that way but for me the most juicy stories are told when mechanics and Roleplaying align to deliver a 1 2 punch of awesomeness. You want to roleplay as a character with an Identity crisis? Why not multiclass? You wanna optimize your build? Why not roleplay as a Monk obsessed with the traditional notion of self improvement and rigorous training that is so dominant in classic kung fu movie narratives I think there are ways to live in the best of both worlds.
@@scarlightemperor3410 Now that I ACTUALLY play D&D 5e, I'd like to amend that: that was a NAT 20 with a +6 Charisma, and his Performance includes both the normal proficiency bonus AND Expertise, tripling his proficiency bonus. At lvl 17+ that's a total of 44 Performance.
I'm just astounded by the fact that Scanlan's dying wish was one of the most selfless things any person can do. To ensure a good future for a daughter he never raised.
@@0saintclark0 oh, she opened it and read it immediately after he gave it to her, to many laughs around the table. But Ashley never read it out loud or shared it, so it was an ongoing mystery to the fans. There are some fun clips out there of the characters talking about the letter in-game.
If Scanlan had died, I feel like Sam would play as Kaylie trying to get revenge on who killed him. Makes me kind of wish Scanlan died. Not really though, knowing how C1 had ended
when he died fighting raishan he rolled up taryon and then when he was brought back he ended up playing as taryon anyway, so if the ritual had failed and scanlan had permanently died, he would've just played taryon
I really hope that one day they get an amazing editing team to cut out Foster and reupload these gems. Real shame to lose Between the Sheets and Talks because of him, but I understand why they took them down. Just sucks
I doubt they can unfortunately. TH-cam editing can only do so much, unless they have the actual masters of the recording, which I'm sure they do. Us Critters do want to see this up again in it's entirety but time will tell.
I highly recommend him to write something of similar quality to his wife, because that letter is good enough to make grownup Women jealous of a DnD-Character
@@angelgamer3846 Look not every charming gentleman with a good singing voice and poetic word is gay okay xD. He has a wife named Quyen (Q for short). She's got a between the sheets episode like the rest of the cast! Go check it out here on youtube.
His entire character was based on how he met his wife. He was in an acapella group iin college that was a player and he changed all his ways to get a chance to date his now current wife.
Sam/Scanlan, I just cried my eyes out hearing you read your letter. I love you guys so much. In the beginning when I first started watching Critical Role/Vox Machina, it was purely to get my brother off my back and to pick up a few pointers for DnD'ing as we had just started playing a family. Needless to say it didn't take long for me to get hooked on your show/game (in fact it took 1hr of Episode 1 Campaign 1) I am now currently (on this day 18 August 2021) on ep 53. I have already almost wet pants laughing so much and so loud at all your banter (spewing my tea/coffee all over my laptop as well and choking on said coffee/tea), I too have been so grossed out by Matt's explicit gory details of brutal attacks and monster descriptions (this is a very good thing Matt, this is a complement and a very good one). At first I had a favourite character - Grog, then I it was Vax (Yes, I have a crush on Vax, it's like the teenager inside me has fallen for the inconspicuous/dangerously caring Vax). Then Vex, I was so, so, soooooo upset when you died that I cried my heart out especially seeing how Vax got so upset that he gave himself to the Raven Queen to save you. Pike, you are such a good Cleric and you love your team/group/family so much. Keyleth, it had taken me while to like you, I think it was once you and the group went to the Fire Ashari together that you became a favourite. Percy I know that it was dangerous to have that smokey demon attached to you, but you were so cool with all that smoke wrapping itself around you. I wasn't a fan of Scanlan because although he's madly in love with Pike, he keeps screwing around, but he grew on me and hearing this letter to Pike... Scan the man, you're not so bad. Again, I love you all so much, you have all made life so much more fun. Matt, one last thing, I watched your interview "Between the Sheets" I want you to know that you are a very, very, very, very good GM/DM you are the best voice actor and I love your millions of different characters. Matthew Mercer you are appreciated for your talent of story telling, I love yours more than the new Exandria campaign DM, you give the listeners so much more detail, descriptions, voices, expressions, but it's nice to see you taking a back seat and playing. Okay so I've got to work now, I just wanted to tell you all how much I love you and your show, I can't wait to continue with campaign 2 (I already watched ep1 and some of your guys' funny moments which include campaign 2). Keep up the good work, I can't wait to buy the VM and MN jigsaw puzzles. Okay, okay, gotta go. love you buy.
I hope you watched all of it, Scanlan starts off as hard to love but by the end he was by far my favorite. Underneath that clown makeup is someone who dearly loves his friends and family and would sacrifice everything and spit in the face of literal gods for the tiniest chance to save them.
@chaddwicshay2733 he is what i call "the mark sloan charcter". Theres a lot that goes into that and i have a list of some other characters who fit that bill too
Damn Sam!! I got to know critical role, because of the uploaded videos in yt of season 2 about the Mighty Nein, and since the first episode, Sam was clearly a favourite of mine, with his awesome add for d&d beyond and explaining the funny character he chose, Nott the brave. That being said, is amazing to find out how awesome his character was in season one. Sam is amazing!! And also the great cast of critical role!! ❤👍
Try looking for a collection of Scanlan's songs. If you liked Nott's terrible puns when using Tasha's Hideous Laughter, you'll love the limericks and songs and parodies of songs Sam brings up when he uses Vicious Mockery.
I mean I knew that Sam would've surely written something cool in his letter, but this is completely beyond anything I'd ever expected. Wow. Just...wow.
As much as Sam puts on a goofy persona and mischief's around, he can be the utmost serious with the best of them when he needs to. Sam is a freaking Legend. He is the Barney Stinson giving the speech to his newborn daughter.
They did what was best for their kids. Theyd rather them have two present parents, albeit divorced, who were happy with eachother rather than two parents together that fight. Theyre still reletively close even after their divorce and their kids are already grown i believe by the time they separate
The animated show adaptation "The Legend of Vox Machina" premiered in 2022. The table-top roleplaying game that show is based on, Critical Role's Campaign 1: Vox Machina, was first streamed in 2015, although they'd been playing at home for several years prior to that. Critical Role is currently on its third campaign, with new episodes most Thursdays.
how spoilery is this clip? cause im currently a couple episodes after scanlan gave the letter to pike in campaign 1, and i really wanna know the content, but i dont wanna spoiler myself about things...... im onlt at episode 53 :DD
You just cant roll charisma high enough to match Sam's level.
Well Scanlan was unstoppable in charisma based rolls. If anyone can match Sam it's Scanlan.
Nice, so true dude ❤👍
Scanlan/Sam is surely the best bard to ever be rolled.
And to think, it started because Sam wanted to play the goofiest character possible.
Dearest Pike,
My entire life I have been half a man, not in statute nor confidence, nor certainly not in reputation, but you see, even though my heart has pumped blood for these 69 years, it has done so only as half a heart. The moment I first saw you, it was not a choir of angels singing, nor silly butterflies in my chest, no. The moment I met Pike Trickfoot was the tragic moment where I realized that my heart, my soul would be forever incomplete without you, for years I have strived to mend my incomplete heart, to join it with yours and find true bliss at your side.
Though it may not have seemed so, everything I have done these past years have been to impress you, please you, protect you. I knew early on it was a futile effort, I am not stupid, the entire world may be mad, but that doesn't nullify the laws of reality, one law being that you are and will always be too good for a poor pennysinger like Scanlan Shorthalt. But even though I would not win your love, I could never stop trying. Does the sun stop rising when clouds blot it out? No! Like me it knows its purpose, to illuminate the world so that mortals can witness such beauty as you.
But now as the sun sets on my life, I have discovered something new, I have a daughter, who's heart beats my blood and who's life is my own, and she unlike her father can be good and right, and one day worthy of your love. Which is why, on my deathbed I leave her to you. Don't you see? All this time I thought I was chasing a lover, but I was chasing a mother for my child.
You, Pike Trickfoot, are the saviour to Kaley that I could never be. Your wisdom and honour and goodness can give her the chance at redemption that I never had. Pike take my daughter as your own, show her the light of Sarenrae, guide her to be a kindhearted Gnome, teach her to be everything her father was not, that way in death, my heart will be complete, and it will be inside Kaylie by your side, like I always dreamed it would.
With love and respect,
Burt Reynolds Esquire.
EDIT: As all good coincidences will have it, this was comment nr. 69 on this video.
"...I'm gunna cry..."
Damn Sam. Bless you. To think, he only made Scanlan Shorthalt because he wanted to be the worst dorkiest character... but now he is the favourite of many and convinced everyone that gnomes and bards are decent characters.
What a damned legend. I wish i could be half the d&d player Sam is
and this, ladies and gentlemen is how you D&D. what the hell man.
indubitably
@I see it like this I feel like
First of all, I love your name, this is a phrase that to me embodies what is missing in internet dialogue.
I have to disagree though, I have seen and felt for myself that sometimes the character and roleplaying you want to do is hidden somewhere in the crunch of the game. You could play D&D all night without ever rolling dice and have fun that way but for me the most juicy stories are told when mechanics and Roleplaying align to deliver a 1 2 punch of awesomeness.
You want to roleplay as a character with an Identity crisis? Why not multiclass? You wanna optimize your build? Why not roleplay as a Monk obsessed with the traditional notion of self improvement and rigorous training that is so dominant in classic kung fu movie narratives I think there are ways to live in the best of both worlds.
Love letters? Nah, murderhobo is the way
Sam rolled a natural 20, adding his performance AND charisma modifiers.
I also had a serious laugh at the "Jesus this is good!"
And Proficiency
@@scarlightemperor3410 Now that I ACTUALLY play D&D 5e, I'd like to amend that: that was a NAT 20 with a +6 Charisma, and his Performance includes both the normal proficiency bonus AND Expertise, tripling his proficiency bonus. At lvl 17+ that's a total of 44 Performance.
since the original video was taken down I'm glad this moment still exists.
I'm just astounded by the fact that Scanlan's dying wish was one of the most selfless things any person can do. To ensure a good future for a daughter he never raised.
So many revelations and confessions in one letter
I can’t believe he joined the D&D scene so late in life.
I just realized the video this clip is from was taken down, so now I'm especially grateful for this video!
Sam being impressed by Sam is so on brand.
How the fuck did Pike not jump into his arms after reading that? Holy hell that was the cutest thing ever!
I don't think she ever did read it? It was only to be opened in the event that he died.
@@0saintclark0 oh, she opened it and read it immediately after he gave it to her, to many laughs around the table. But Ashley never read it out loud or shared it, so it was an ongoing mystery to the fans. There are some fun clips out there of the characters talking about the letter in-game.
he was a manwhore and she a pure cleric?
@@0saintclark0 Yeah, no, she read it. It's distinct in my memory that she *immediately* opened it up after he left the room. It was a funny moment.
Because timeline wise, Pike was crushing on Percy at the time Scanlan gave her the letter. Her heart was someone else’s at the time.
Wow, just wow.
Fucking hell, he rolled a natural 30 on that one
If Scanlan had died, I feel like Sam would play as Kaylie trying to get revenge on who killed him. Makes me kind of wish Scanlan died. Not really though, knowing how C1 had ended
when he died fighting raishan he rolled up taryon and then when he was brought back he ended up playing as taryon anyway, so if the ritual had failed and scanlan had permanently died, he would've just played taryon
I don’t even want to imagine how the Vecna fight would have gone without Scanlan.
@@DruidBarbariansCampfire Badly. It would have gone badly. ;)
Who the heck disliked this
Kaylie's mother
Larkin
Vecna
The pit fiend
grog read it as "dis i like"
I really hope that one day they get an amazing editing team to cut out Foster and reupload these gems. Real shame to lose Between the Sheets and Talks because of him, but I understand why they took them down. Just sucks
I doubt they can unfortunately. TH-cam editing can only do so much, unless they have the actual masters of the recording, which I'm sure they do. Us Critters do want to see this up again in it's entirety but time will tell.
Best case scenario we get something like the Try Guys where they just replace him with an elephant lol
Rewatching campaign 1. Had to stop mid-episode to come find this. Amazing.
The bardiest bard to ever bard. Sam Riegel embodies the class more fully than anyone could ever have imagined.
**Insert Feels GIF**
One advantage to just starting CR is getting to find the letter right after it was given to Pike rather than wondering
Finally we get to see the letter. I can die in peace now. PS: The letter was awesome. Sam is truly a great player and wonderful person.
I highly recommend him to write something of similar quality to his wife, because that letter is good enough to make grownup Women jealous of a DnD-Character
I believe be is gay
@@angelgamer3846 He often states, that he has wife and kids.
@@angelgamer3846 Look not every charming gentleman with a good singing voice and poetic word is gay okay xD. He has a wife named Quyen (Q for short). She's got a between the sheets episode like the rest of the cast! Go check it out here on youtube.
His entire character was based on how he met his wife. He was in an acapella group iin college that was a player and he changed all his ways to get a chance to date his now current wife.
@@francis1230 Okay, THAT is awesome!
This made me just cry. I love how much they put into these characters.
Sam/Scanlan, I just cried my eyes out hearing you read your letter. I love you guys so much. In the beginning when I first started watching Critical Role/Vox Machina, it was purely to get my brother off my back and to pick up a few pointers for DnD'ing as we had just started playing a family. Needless to say it didn't take long for me to get hooked on your show/game (in fact it took 1hr of Episode 1 Campaign 1) I am now currently (on this day 18 August 2021) on ep 53. I have already almost wet pants laughing so much and so loud at all your banter (spewing my tea/coffee all over my laptop as well and choking on said coffee/tea), I too have been so grossed out by Matt's explicit gory details of brutal attacks and monster descriptions (this is a very good thing Matt, this is a complement and a very good one). At first I had a favourite character - Grog, then I it was Vax (Yes, I have a crush on Vax, it's like the teenager inside me has fallen for the inconspicuous/dangerously caring Vax). Then Vex, I was so, so, soooooo upset when you died that I cried my heart out especially seeing how Vax got so upset that he gave himself to the Raven Queen to save you. Pike, you are such a good Cleric and you love your team/group/family so much. Keyleth, it had taken me while to like you, I think it was once you and the group went to the Fire Ashari together that you became a favourite. Percy I know that it was dangerous to have that smokey demon attached to you, but you were so cool with all that smoke wrapping itself around you. I wasn't a fan of Scanlan because although he's madly in love with Pike, he keeps screwing around, but he grew on me and hearing this letter to Pike... Scan the man, you're not so bad. Again, I love you all so much, you have all made life so much more fun. Matt, one last thing, I watched your interview "Between the Sheets" I want you to know that you are a very, very, very, very good GM/DM you are the best voice actor and I love your millions of different characters. Matthew Mercer you are appreciated for your talent of story telling, I love yours more than the new Exandria campaign DM, you give the listeners so much more detail, descriptions, voices, expressions, but it's nice to see you taking a back seat and playing. Okay so I've got to work now, I just wanted to tell you all how much I love you and your show, I can't wait to continue with campaign 2 (I already watched ep1 and some of your guys' funny moments which include campaign 2). Keep up the good work, I can't wait to buy the VM and MN jigsaw puzzles. Okay, okay, gotta go. love you buy.
This is so fucking nice. I can't stand it.
I hope you watched all of it, Scanlan starts off as hard to love but by the end he was by far my favorite. Underneath that clown makeup is someone who dearly loves his friends and family and would sacrifice everything and spit in the face of literal gods for the tiniest chance to save them.
@chaddwicshay2733 he is what i call "the mark sloan charcter". Theres a lot that goes into that and i have a list of some other characters who fit that bill too
Sam is amazing and I want his creative mind
ALL OF THE FEELS!!!!!
ALL ABOARD THE FEELS TRAIN!!!!!
Damn Sam!! I got to know critical role, because of the uploaded videos in yt of season 2 about the Mighty Nein, and since the first episode, Sam was clearly a favourite of mine, with his awesome add for d&d beyond and explaining the funny character he chose, Nott the brave.
That being said, is amazing to find out how awesome his character was in season one.
Sam is amazing!! And also the great cast of critical role!! ❤👍
Try looking for a collection of Scanlan's songs. If you liked Nott's terrible puns when using Tasha's Hideous Laughter, you'll love the limericks and songs and parodies of songs Sam brings up when he uses Vicious Mockery.
I'm not crying, you are. T-T
I already read this forever ago, so why am I still crying?!?!
So many stuff that no one commented he finally revealed his age hahaha
He revealed in his epilogue at the end of the last episode of campaign one
The real revelation here is that Pike had known his age ever since reading that letter.
bleachbleachBLEACHER - Which means that if Ashley had been there when he left, she could have answered when he asked “How old am I?”
This man is the perfect bard
Catching up on season one and I literally just finished that episode. I had to find out what that letter said. Well done
He's just got so much goddamned charisma
I mean I knew that Sam would've surely written something cool in his letter, but this is completely beyond anything I'd ever expected. Wow. Just...wow.
I'm bawling, it's fine.
I rarely see like/dislike ratios like this. 1,4k likes and 4 dislikes!
Holy shit... That was amazing! :D
WAAAAAA IM GONNA CRY TOOOOO
God, she’s so... wow. Like, if the voice actress for Pike... ugh, just 2cute4me fam
Ashley johnson she was ellie in the last of us aswell u probaly know.
As much as Sam puts on a goofy persona and mischief's around, he can be the utmost serious with the best of them when he needs to. Sam is a freaking Legend. He is the Barney Stinson giving the speech to his newborn daughter.
Oh SNAP! critical hit!
So even his age is a pun for 14 year old kids
God dam i love Sam and Scanlan so much
This feels like forbidden knowledge
He was meant to play a board both combat and rp wise.
Fucking... legend.
i’m literally so sad
This straight fire tho
20th sub here and glad to see a youtuber and critter
I mean, she was no way saying no to that.
Holy
Hey could someone give me a link to whatever episode or session this is from?
th-cam.com/video/Iit1exv_FYA/w-d-xo.html
Here ya go
@@alfadenonnistus7655 thanks!
@@dgiff07 Most welcome
I don't like that they separated later in their lives
They did what was best for their kids. Theyd rather them have two present parents, albeit divorced, who were happy with eachother rather than two parents together that fight. Theyre still reletively close even after their divorce and their kids are already grown i believe by the time they separate
Hey man any chance I could get a link to the video this is from
Wait 5 years ago? On Google it is listed as being released in 2022 in confused 😐
The animated show adaptation "The Legend of Vox Machina" premiered in 2022. The table-top roleplaying game that show is based on, Critical Role's Campaign 1: Vox Machina, was first streamed in 2015, although they'd been playing at home for several years prior to that. Critical Role is currently on its third campaign, with new episodes most Thursdays.
@@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll thank you for making it clear :D
There are 7 pieces of shit in this world. The seven who disliked this
how spoilery is this clip? cause im currently a couple episodes after scanlan gave the letter to pike in campaign 1, and i really wanna know the content, but i dont wanna spoiler myself about things...... im onlt at episode 53 :DD
This is the end of C1. So yeah there's plenty of spoilers in the full video, but this little clip doesn't have any of those. You're okay.
You can tell how uncomfortable Brian is
NovaRunner he's never even on screen
Lol you can positively tell Brian is perfectly fine with this. It's fictional world among friends...
...How? He's never shown.
Holy sht you are a small small man...