everyone "oh jeeze this is so fucked up, thats crazy Matt." Marisha, sounding like she regrets some of her life choices, "....I have to go home with you..."
@@WardNightstone Yeah. But they already lived together. And they where together for years at that point (you dont have to be married to life together as a couple)
@@Hellscrap3r I think some people, excluding likely those watching these episodes and clips, don't understand how deeply invested players can become in their own characters and others in the group. Those of us who watch, we understand. Those of us who game as well, it's worse. This is Matt's brilliance as a DM. You forget it's game. And when a favorite character dies, or something like this happens, it tears you apart. They stop being characters and become just as real as we are.
@@Hellscrap3r Beyond distraught - try *devastated* I seriously think he was on the verge of breaking down completely. Also when Liam hugs Laura at 17:37 we can all see the horrified expression on her face, but we can't see Liam's expression through Laura's hair. I'm not sure if he's hugging her to offer her comfort or because he's seeking comfort himself
It was soooo smart of Matt to put Vox Machina's friends in guard armor as a trap. VM had a propensity to assassinate first, and ask questions later. Such a smart move to play on that characteristic.
Easily the most brutal twist I've ever seen in actualplay, and I've seen, like, all of it lmao. The utter horror on the player's faces when they realised... it really got me. This moment was what made me decide, for sure, that I wanna play DnD.
It was truely brilliant but also incredibly brutal. The guilt Liam and Laura felt was real. I watch that twist and while part of my brain thinks Matt is the most clever DM ever the other part thinks that was almost too evil cause… man. I feel bad for the party there
@@rebeccadittman6350 I always like that moment because of how stark a contrast it is with my players. Like I love em, but if I had pulled the same kind of trap, they wouldn't cared. I can hear it now "Wait so we killed Toth's daughter and Prickle's sister? Huh....that sucks. They got anything good on them?" I learned early on that they just don't give a fuck. In 7 campaigns, they haven't met a consequence yet that they wouldn't accept with a shrug and move on.
@@MaxxCoyote Then that's when you make the consequences mean more to not only them, but those around them that are revulsed by their lack of empathy. Not many adventurers are gonna stand beside someone that murders their own with no remorse at all. But if they don't seem to care, the people around them will. From city guards to the wealthy that hire mercenaries to get revenge
The last one always messes me up and I hear “is that my baby girl” over and over in my head. I’ll never be over that moment (Same goes for the sun tree cause every time they find bodies in eislecross it feels like there’s going to be another Suntree incident.)
Sam’s reactions are some of the best, one of the most haunting sounds I remember is the sound he had Scanlan make when Grog dropped dead from failing his save against the powered up Craven’s Edge
@@Khobotov To be fair though I think the reason this was so impactful is because they aren't murder hobos. They truly thought these people were a threat they were getting the jump on and they truly belived they were dealing early damage to a threat on the path to the final fight
what i love about the allura reveal is that the nein haven't had the most luck with npcs, so matt pulls out someone who he knows they would have no reason to distrust
Furthermore, they were on the fence about Yussa as well - not wanting to get burnt yet again - so Allura's status as "walking balm to the soul" works on that level too. No one whom Allura Vysoren is willing to aid at a moment's notice is going to be untrustworthy.
God damn, Mercer..... That reveal of Gilmore and the girls is just..... savage, and an amazing lesson of look before you shoot. I was screaming out loud on the bus the first time I heard that part.
@@silvacron2491 In the eyes of the enemy though they win no matter what. If they notices and saved them you at minimum have done massive psychological warfare (which the reactions show was effective). And in the actual situation you force you enemy to waste valuable resources they won't be able to use on you (or their friends in the coming battle)
Love how you arranged them in order of light and happy to ever-increasingly dark and twisted... the look of shock on Laura's face sold the Sun Tree moment for me as she clued in to what the bodies symbolised but the sheer horror that rippled through in the party as they all cottoned on to just what Vecna made them do... Talk about scarring your party at the table.
Funny thing about the hanging bodies. If you've watched the campaign wrap up episode of Talks Machina, Matt has confirmed that when the Briarwoods took over, the entire De Rolo family had been displayed in the public in the same fashion, which Percy would have known.
Yep! Laura revealed in Talks Machina that she wanted to be a warlock with Artagan as her patron, but then Travis stole warlock from her, so she got stuck with cleric. She asked Matt if she could still work with Artagan somehow, and he said something like “we’ll see.” The whole time, Laura was pretty sure that the traveler was in fact Artagan, but with Matt as DM, you never know haha. So really it’s half thanks to VM, and half thanks to Travis stealing warlock that the traveler is a god
@@BoltyLive Laura & Matt both talked about that before. That Laura specifically wanted to play Jester this campaign but make her a Warlock of Artagan, but Travis took Warlock. So her and Matt decided to just keep Jester as a Cleric of the Traveler, and make Artagan the Traveler, so she could keep the general concept of the character.
I was so deep in campaign two that for a moment I forgot how much Matt likes to rip peoples hearts out... not excited for when he starts succeeding in doing that now
16:24 The moment they realized they were just charmed, and not the dead walking, they collectively covered their face with their hands. It was they who had killed them, and they're ashamed and deeply saddened at that. The fact they could be revived doesn't negate the intensity of emotions felt that day, deaths of loved ones that could've been avoided. That's also 600gp and two level 3 slots burned, but the emotional damage is more of a burden.
The entire cast when they realize what/who the killed in the last clip: "OH MY GOD. MY SOUL. MATT YOU BASTARD. *incoherent screaming and crying*" Joe/Arkhan: :D
The Artagan clip was one of the---if not THE--very first Critical Role clips I ever saw. Fast forward to now, and I cosplay the Traveler and met my partner because he cosplays Artagan and the robe he uses was the same robe I had planned to use for The Traveler. I DM'ed him a question about the pattern, we became friends, and the rest is history. (Mind you, this was over a year before we even knew that these two characters are the same , haha.) So this Artagan clip holds a special place in my heart. Who'd have thought that Artagan choking out Vax would lead to two people finding love?
Still so proud of Ashley for not listening to Talisen and Travis and doing what Pike would have done. You could tell she was 100% set on revivifying the girls. Ashley was true to her character ❤
well, more like true to herself. there was no chance ashley bleepin johnson wasn't going to revivify some kids; esp. the party's kids. but also a little too metagamey from trav and tal to say not to revive them. as DnD players it's the right move. as characters in the story, absolutely not.
@@saucemaster1527 honestly id call c2 more unpolished they keep second guessing themselves and each other and the ooc goofing is alot. at least the goofs in c1 stay in character
As someone who is rewatching C1, I can justify skipping the odd episode due to poor audio quality (the Feywild arc is RIFE with this), but skipping the whole campaign?? Come on now, son.
I *specifically* started watching from C1E1 for the very reason those episodes were "unpolished". They had more spontaneous fun which is appealing in a somewhat more different way than pre-written, scripted lines. The characters in C1 were no less fun than in the subsequent campaigns, either (as were most of the players, aside from the one which should not be named).
Laura really sounds in pain at the end of death knight game. Her scream and follow up “how could you do that Matthew” is the pain, sadness, and emotion every game should aspire towards
(16:00-18:00) I really hope when they animate this the scanlan/pike moment where scanlan says “heal her, now,” and pike instantly snaps into action to bring back Kaylie makes it in. It really breaks me and I feel like it tends to go unnoticed with everything else going on.
*Travis:* What did you do?! You "Kevin Spacey from _Seven"_ motherfucker, what did you do?! *Liam:* This is a great game… Those are the kinds of reactions a DM lives for. 😁
Looking back on The dark knight scene, it was a first glimpse we got of that calculating, darker Travis. He was, at least for a moment, fully opposed to using revivify on Kaylie and Cassandra because he knew they would probably need those spells for the fight. It reminds me of when Fjord sent the rangers against the Tomb Takers knowing fully they wouldn't survive near the end of campaign 2, a sacrifice most of the party was against.
The amount of internal pain I get when at 13:52 it's Travis who tries to calm down Laura when she's thinking the worst, but I'm sure he only does it to make her feel better, he knows
I'm afraid Marisha's gotten too used to having so much room to move around because of social distancing... Liam and Travis (but mainly Liam) are so dead when it finally ends. :(
Their first game back with them around the same table, Liam walks away with a black eye. The next week he leaves without the eye. The third week Marisha is seated at a separate table again.
@@jordanpeterson5140 It doesn't help now that Laudna's form of dread means she spreads her arms wide and does the jerky movements. I just watch Sam duck and poor Robbie fight for his safety lol.
Oooh I rmb the last reveal, before that I didn’t care if Vecna live or die, but after that oh my gods, i was thinking if he didn’t die I will personally make sure he does.
Love this! I remember that Allura moment being so incredible because it was coming off the back of some really tough losses for the party. Lost Yasha and then lost the battle with Obann and The Laughing Hand in Lotusden. You could tell they were so down on themselves and burnt out. It amplified the joy so much.
Oof, I never realized it, but if ever they make it to this in the animated series, and Matt can't voice Artagan, Tom Hiddelston(guy from Loki) should voice him.
Here is a comment I made about the Allura reveal: This moment in C2 is so powerful to me. Not only did the players get to meet an old friend (just watch Laura Freaking Bailey's face light up!), but this interaction was _needed._ The players, who had found out the hard way that the "Happy Fun Ball" was not at all what it seemed, were downtrodden, after everything that had transpired. And at this point in time, they needed to know that everything was okay, that they had not failed. It was truly a master stroke of genius for Matt to bring in Allura Vysoren and give M9 the strength of resolve they needed to keep going. And I attribute that to Matt knowing his players so, so well. He knew they weren't feeling the greatest, that their endeavors, their trials, their tribulations was mentally taxing. Mentally exhausting. And here, you get to see how much an NPC means, to a table, that they, the players, care about. How much they care about an old friend and ally. This clip is almost as good as when Gilmore gets introduced in C1.
Lmao, why do I find them so adorable, particularly in C2 when they come across an NPC that they (the voice actors) "know" but also "don't know" in the context of C2, especially since they're literally all just voices & personalities living in Matt's head?
I've seen the 3 Death Knights clip before, and every time I re-watch it, my stomach is in a knot the entire way through, especially before the players realize
You know that saying "Beware the fury of a patient man"? Yeah, try the fury of a kind man. That shit hits different. If Matt wasn't such an absolute gem of a person, he would be capable of such evils as we cannot even comprehend. But since he is, instead he uses that in this silly little game of make believe to torture his players!
Matt's smile at Vex's damage in the Three Death Knights is... diabolical. That should have been their first clue. :-) When Matt is happy about you, the player. doing damage to his creations in a game... you should know by now you're in trouble. 😂
them finding their friends and killing them before they knew is one of the most fucked up things, i remember watching that and being like ?????? excuse me what
I'll never get over how clever Matt was with Vecna's trick. Not because of the trick itself, but because he planted an opportunity before then to both telegraph to the players the possibility and most importantly provide them the opportunity to reasonably stop the most likely person from doing it. That was the point of the Nothic (I think that was what it was called) that Vax shanked earlier in the dungeon. Matt knew of Liam's view of Vax being kill first question later. This laid out and obvious missed opportunity which could have caused the players and most importantly the characters to have Vax hold back. This made Vecna's trick no only clever... but fair play.
I just realised Arty was the one Vax asked about time travel (specifically with the objective of going backwards) and Arty said no, but now in C2 he’s there with Caleb and Essek discovering that it’s potentially possible
0:31 I am just so in love with the fact that it only took half the phrase "Human Woman" for Laura to think it was Allura. They miss Their Wizard Mom so much!
If you missed it,
Part 1 - th-cam.com/video/g6VqF4sicRk/w-d-xo.html
Part 2 - th-cam.com/video/NBEAMbuSMJs/w-d-xo.html
Will there be more? If we ask nicely?
Part four is gone.
everyone "oh jeeze this is so fucked up, thats crazy Matt." Marisha, sounding like she regrets some of her life choices, "....I have to go home with you..."
and this was BEFORE they were married (they didn't marry till after C1 ended)
@@WardNightstone Yeah. But they already lived together. And they where together for years at that point (you dont have to be married to life together as a couple)
Marisha after that stream(probably): "Matt, I've never asked you to choke me, but now I feel like I can't."
@@TheSchnieder6 lol 69 likes
In the car later: "Y'know baby you coulda just told me you were into that. You didn't need to drop that mid-stream..."
16:25-18:16 To this day, when we're well into Campaign 2, I don't think I've ever seen Liam *as a player* look that tortured.
He's so genuinely upset, poor guy!
The loud sharp breaths was what got me. He was _distraught._ :(
@@Hellscrap3r I think some people, excluding likely those watching these episodes and clips, don't understand how deeply invested players can become in their own characters and others in the group. Those of us who watch, we understand. Those of us who game as well, it's worse.
This is Matt's brilliance as a DM. You forget it's game. And when a favorite character dies, or something like this happens, it tears you apart. They stop being characters and become just as real as we are.
@@Hellscrap3r Beyond distraught - try *devastated* I seriously think he was on the verge of breaking down completely.
Also when Liam hugs Laura at 17:37 we can all see the horrified expression on her face, but we can't see Liam's expression through Laura's hair. I'm not sure if he's hugging her to offer her comfort or because he's seeking comfort himself
@@danielstephens1185 More than that...it was Gilmore. He's so much more than just an NPC.
sam’s reaction to Allura makes me so happy 🥺
0:51 - Best reaction from Travis I've ever seen!!!
Did they even bother to check of they had the components for revivify back then?
If they assumed they were heading into a major showdown, they might have made sure to stock up so they didn't have to worry about mat checks.
It was soooo smart of Matt to put Vox Machina's friends in guard armor as a trap. VM had a propensity to assassinate first, and ask questions later. Such a smart move to play on that characteristic.
It was brilliant
Having the twins assaniate scanlans child and perry's sister !
What a absolute pro move
Easily the most brutal twist I've ever seen in actualplay, and I've seen, like, all of it lmao. The utter horror on the player's faces when they realised... it really got me. This moment was what made me decide, for sure, that I wanna play DnD.
It was truely brilliant but also incredibly brutal. The guilt Liam and Laura felt was real. I watch that twist and while part of my brain thinks Matt is the most clever DM ever the other part thinks that was almost too evil cause… man. I feel bad for the party there
@@rebeccadittman6350 I always like that moment because of how stark a contrast it is with my players.
Like I love em, but if I had pulled the same kind of trap, they wouldn't cared. I can hear it now "Wait so we killed Toth's daughter and Prickle's sister? Huh....that sucks. They got anything good on them?"
I learned early on that they just don't give a fuck. In 7 campaigns, they haven't met a consequence yet that they wouldn't accept with a shrug and move on.
@@MaxxCoyote Then that's when you make the consequences mean more to not only them, but those around them that are revulsed by their lack of empathy. Not many adventurers are gonna stand beside someone that murders their own with no remorse at all. But if they don't seem to care, the people around them will. From city guards to the wealthy that hire mercenaries to get revenge
The last one always messes me up and I hear “is that my baby girl” over and over in my head. I’ll never be over that moment
(Same goes for the sun tree cause every time they find bodies in eislecross it feels like there’s going to be another Suntree incident.)
it's so fucked up watching them celebrate how well they're rolling and how much damage they're doing to the "death knights" knowing what's coming.
@@scottmcintyre2809 Brilliant from a DMs perspective because it eats up some of their high level spells
Same. The top table at 16:30 is exactly how I feel every time.
(The Three 'DeathKnights") Once realization comes in, the party would like to rage.
You can see the very moment Talisan realizes its Cassandra
Sam’s reactions are some of the best, one of the most haunting sounds I remember is the sound he had Scanlan make when Grog dropped dead from failing his save against the powered up Craven’s Edge
"Omg I rolled four 6's!!"
Matt's like
"Haha you did" . . . *EVIL SMIRK* . . .
He's like
"I'm going to break you"
@@haku8135 Like a kitkat bar
At the end of the video:
Everyone: crying
Joe: This is the most fun I've ever had!! :D
Haha, really, between that, and threatening to cut Gilmore's head off... They could've picked up on his nature.
Laura: "Oh my god, I rolled four sixes"
Everyone: *Cheers*
Matt: *Knowing grin*
His scariest moments is when he doesnt talk. Because he knows something they don't know.
Oh wait... you're gonna regret that.
You play murder hobo games, you get murder hobo prizes.
@@FerreusVir This sums it up perfectly.
@@Khobotov To be fair though I think the reason this was so impactful is because they aren't murder hobos. They truly thought these people were a threat they were getting the jump on and they truly belived they were dealing early damage to a threat on the path to the final fight
what i love about the allura reveal is that the nein haven't had the most luck with npcs, so matt pulls out someone who he knows they would have no reason to distrust
Furthermore, they were on the fence about Yussa as well - not wanting to get burnt yet again - so Allura's status as "walking balm to the soul" works on that level too. No one whom Allura Vysoren is willing to aid at a moment's notice is going to be untrustworthy.
And they'd just had such a shit show of a time for a while, and Matt's like BAM have some Mama to ease your weary souls
i think matt revealed that she was there on purpose. they were struggling and he felt they needed some help.
@@Cabbage-dk6nuthey really did eh?? Like, so many betrayals and bad luck!
God damn, Mercer..... That reveal of Gilmore and the girls is just..... savage, and an amazing lesson of look before you shoot. I was screaming out loud on the bus the first time I heard that part.
Can we also take a moment to appreciates breaking of logic and demanding his daughter be brought back?
Too bad its all negated by a revive spell.
@@silvacron2491 well could of failed the check and they stay dead. but they did have to burn some preety high spell slots
@@silvacron2491 idk man, they looked pretty devastated. I'de say it was still a successful reaction
@@silvacron2491 In the eyes of the enemy though they win no matter what. If they notices and saved them you at minimum have done massive psychological warfare (which the reactions show was effective). And in the actual situation you force you enemy to waste valuable resources they won't be able to use on you (or their friends in the coming battle)
Love how you arranged them in order of light and happy to ever-increasingly dark and twisted... the look of shock on Laura's face sold the Sun Tree moment for me as she clued in to what the bodies symbolised but the sheer horror that rippled through in the party as they all cottoned on to just what Vecna made them do... Talk about scarring your party at the table.
Death Knights were epic. A DM who paid attention and had his big bad guy learn how best to fight the heroes.
The way that Laura immediately breaks down when Gilmore comes back kills me! It breaks my heart!
I don't think I'll ever get over how shocked and angry Liam looked when Matt revealed that he had killed Kaley and Laura had killed Cassandra.
Funny thing about the hanging bodies. If you've watched the campaign wrap up episode of Talks Machina, Matt has confirmed that when the Briarwoods took over, the entire De Rolo family had been displayed in the public in the same fashion, which Percy would have known.
Wait does this mean vox machina is responsible for jester having a God
Yep! Laura revealed in Talks Machina that she wanted to be a warlock with Artagan as her patron, but then Travis stole warlock from her, so she got stuck with cleric. She asked Matt if she could still work with Artagan somehow, and he said something like “we’ll see.” The whole time, Laura was pretty sure that the traveler was in fact Artagan, but with Matt as DM, you never know haha. So really it’s half thanks to VM, and half thanks to Travis stealing warlock that the traveler is a god
@@LukeLosiPfleger i justed started to watch season 1 so i saw this and my jaw just dropped
Yes
@@LukeLosiPfleger thing is there’s also the one shot they did on GameSpot that had Jester as a Cleric soooo
@@BoltyLive Laura & Matt both talked about that before. That Laura specifically wanted to play Jester this campaign but make her a Warlock of Artagan, but Travis took Warlock. So her and Matt decided to just keep Jester as a Cleric of the Traveler, and make Artagan the Traveler, so she could keep the general concept of the character.
I was so deep in campaign two that for a moment I forgot how much Matt likes to rip peoples hearts out... not excited for when he starts succeeding in doing that now
Oh it's going to happen....my heart has been aching just thinking of the possibilities moving forward. =/
I'm looking forward to it, Matt can harm my feelings all he wants.
@@RubyDianArts I agree, because it makes for a great story
Now I'm scared for jester's mom and veth's family D:
@@antoniomaggioravergano9163 oh god what if that entity they released in Nicodranas attacks the city
16:24 The moment they realized they were just charmed, and not the dead walking, they collectively covered their face with their hands. It was they who had killed them, and they're ashamed and deeply saddened at that.
The fact they could be revived doesn't negate the intensity of emotions felt that day, deaths of loved ones that could've been avoided. That's also 600gp and two level 3 slots burned, but the emotional damage is more of a burden.
The entire cast when they realize what/who the killed in the last clip:
"OH MY GOD. MY SOUL. MATT YOU BASTARD. *incoherent screaming and crying*"
Joe/Arkhan:
:D
Given that Arkhan features in Descent into Avernus with the Hand of Vecna, that reaction is expected
The Artagan clip was one of the---if not THE--very first Critical Role clips I ever saw. Fast forward to now, and I cosplay the Traveler and met my partner because he cosplays Artagan and the robe he uses was the same robe I had planned to use for The Traveler. I DM'ed him a question about the pattern, we became friends, and the rest is history. (Mind you, this was over a year before we even knew that these two characters are the same , haha.) So this Artagan clip holds a special place in my heart. Who'd have thought that Artagan choking out Vax would lead to two people finding love?
Reading this made me very happy. Thank you
Crazy story, loved it.
This is fucking beautiful. I wish you both lots of love.
Y'all reenact that scene now right?
Only thing that would have made this story better is if you both cosplayed Gilmore.
That would have been simply glorious, no?
"I think it's an illusion" - my last brain-cell clinging desperately to hope
A.k.a. denial!
"It mite not be her"
"How old is she?"
"About her mid fifties"
"It checks out!"
Quickest back round check ever lol
im sorry but the zoom in on matt's face- XD
amazing !
Oh my god I was crying! Props to that cameraperson!
I died that moment
3:36 Someone needs to add the dramatic chipmunk music to this
I read "Matthew are you okay?..." and a few seconds later it dawned on me what clip it was and now i cant stop laughing at the caption lmao
@10:48 "oh my god I rolled four sixes!"
*Matt's face*
Still so proud of Ashley for not listening to Talisen and Travis and doing what Pike would have done. You could tell she was 100% set on revivifying the girls. Ashley was true to her character ❤
well, more like true to herself. there was no chance ashley bleepin johnson wasn't going to revivify some kids; esp. the party's kids. but also a little too metagamey from trav and tal to say not to revive them. as DnD players it's the right move. as characters in the story, absolutely not.
Liam's little hand dance during the Allura reveal has added 15 years to my lifespan
Then the last scene took them back 🤣
18:11 Travis screaming and cursing Matt with this line had me laughing so hard i peed: "You Kevin Spacey from Seven Motherfucker what did you do!?"
I always feel sick to my stomach listening them count the damage, knowing who it is behind the helmets. Matt is so evil, it was perfectly executed!
the sun tree reveal is always so fucking *bone chilling*
Heh
Can't wait to see it animated!
@@High-LordHarza it's animated as of today
@@raphaa16 And it was FUCKING TRAUMATIZING in the best way.
“WHAT DID YOU DO?!?”
One of the greatest lines in Campaign one! Loved this reveal so much. You could feel the tension...
The last reveal is just tremendous. All would-be DMs would do well to take notes.
I am watching CR to learn from Matt, as well as the players. I am fairly new to dming, but I am having a blast and want to learn so much more!
Let's shed a tear for all the critters who skipped over C1 because it was too unpolished
Unpolished? C1 is a masterpiece (aside from some technical issues)
@@saucemaster1527 honestly id call c2 more unpolished they keep second guessing themselves and each other and the ooc goofing is alot. at least the goofs in c1 stay in character
As someone who is rewatching C1, I can justify skipping the odd episode due to poor audio quality (the Feywild arc is RIFE with this), but skipping the whole campaign?? Come on now, son.
I *specifically* started watching from C1E1 for the very reason those episodes were "unpolished". They had more spontaneous fun which is appealing in a somewhat more different way than pre-written, scripted lines. The characters in C1 were no less fun than in the subsequent campaigns, either (as were most of the players, aside from the one which should not be named).
@@steelangel9039 when have they ever done pre-written, scripted lines?
i’d forgotten abt the sudden zoom at 3:37 into matt’s face during artagan’s proposal to vax lfkdkdjdhdgg
Laura really sounds in pain at the end of death knight game. Her scream and follow up “how could you do that Matthew” is the pain, sadness, and emotion every game should aspire towards
(16:00-18:00) I really hope when they animate this the scanlan/pike moment where scanlan says “heal her, now,” and pike instantly snaps into action to bring back Kaylie makes it in. It really breaks me and I feel like it tends to go unnoticed with everything else going on.
*Travis:* What did you do?! You "Kevin Spacey from _Seven"_ motherfucker, what did you do?!
*Liam:* This is a great game…
Those are the kinds of reactions a DM lives for. 😁
I forgot about the mind-controlled friends, Arkon almost chopped gilmores head off
This is one of those rare times where a Nat 1 is a good thing.
@@kaitlynwickham6237 Even the Dice Gods love Gilmore!
Looking back on The dark knight scene, it was a first glimpse we got of that calculating, darker Travis. He was, at least for a moment, fully opposed to using revivify on Kaylie and Cassandra because he knew they would probably need those spells for the fight. It reminds me of when Fjord sent the rangers against the Tomb Takers knowing fully they wouldn't survive near the end of campaign 2, a sacrifice most of the party was against.
Travis makes those hard choices, man. Good to have in the party honestly, as long as they don't get to make that decision all the time.
When they attack the “three figures in dark armor” broke me when I first saw it
I saw it on the live broadcast, what, three years ago? And it still breaks me.
"IT CHECKS OUT!" Incredibly excited and loud Marisha is my favorite Marisha. Always makes me smile ear to ear.
The amount of internal pain I get when at 13:52 it's Travis who tries to calm down Laura when she's thinking the worst, but I'm sure he only does it to make her feel better, he knows
I'm afraid Marisha's gotten too used to having so much room to move around because of social distancing...
Liam and Travis (but mainly Liam) are so dead when it finally ends. :(
Their first game back with them around the same table, Liam walks away with a black eye. The next week he leaves without the eye. The third week Marisha is seated at a separate table again.
Liam after the first game rocking there and back: I wanna go back to the box. Box was comfy. I wanna go back to the box.
Or whoever she's sitting next to in Campaign 3.
@@jordanpeterson5140 It doesn't help now that Laudna's form of dread means she spreads her arms wide and does the jerky movements. I just watch Sam duck and poor Robbie fight for his safety lol.
@@blueashke I know, it's been high-larious
@18:43 "This is a great game" - Liam
Still gets me in the feels to this day, time and time again.
7:01 - "Percy's family tree" from chat killed me 💀💀💀
The greatest zoom in CR history!
Oooh I rmb the last reveal, before that I didn’t care if Vecna live or die, but after that oh my gods, i was thinking if he didn’t die I will personally make sure he does.
matt's face when they're all critting on the three "death knights"
16:50 god Liam and Laura's reaction to that reveal broke my heart honestly
Love this! I remember that Allura moment being so incredible because it was coming off the back of some really tough losses for the party. Lost Yasha and then lost the battle with Obann and The Laughing Hand in Lotusden. You could tell they were so down on themselves and burnt out. It amplified the joy so much.
Oof, I never realized it, but if ever they make it to this in the animated series, and Matt can't voice Artagan, Tom Hiddelston(guy from Loki) should voice him.
Here is a comment I made about the Allura reveal:
This moment in C2 is so powerful to me.
Not only did the players get to meet an old friend (just watch Laura Freaking Bailey's face light up!), but this interaction was _needed._ The players, who had found out the hard way that the "Happy Fun Ball" was not at all what it seemed, were downtrodden, after everything that had transpired. And at this point in time, they needed to know that everything was okay, that they had not failed.
It was truly a master stroke of genius for Matt to bring in Allura Vysoren and give M9 the strength of resolve they needed to keep going. And I attribute that to Matt knowing his players so, so well. He knew they weren't feeling the greatest, that their endeavors, their trials, their tribulations was mentally taxing. Mentally exhausting. And here, you get to see how much an NPC means, to a table, that they, the players, care about. How much they care about an old friend and ally.
This clip is almost as good as when Gilmore gets introduced in C1.
I was half expecting the Tiberius death reveal in episode 64, but I understand that Matthew has done so many crazy things😂
There might be a part 4. We'll see.
I just have this image of Matt Mercer tied to a chair in a dark room, being smacked while someone shouts over and over "WHO IS ON THE COUNCIL!?"
Not "a" chair... THE CHAIR! (with a carpet underneath, ofc). That's why he was so traumatized from all the questions about the chair!
If Taliesin hadn't said 5:28, then we would not have had such an impactful moment in CR history...we also would not have had Laudna
nothing quite beats Liam's Mr Mime hands when the realization hits
edit: the snap zoom on Mercer's expression is a close second
However many times I see it, I still shake when they realize who they've just killed and are panicking before being able to revive them.
Artagan is The Traveller, right? Has that been confirmed?
Spoiler
Yes, it was confirmed, in episode 96, I think.
Lmao, why do I find them so adorable, particularly in C2 when they come across an NPC that they (the voice actors) "know" but also "don't know" in the context of C2, especially since they're literally all just voices & personalities living in Matt's head?
Travis’s laughter @ 3:04 & 18:30 gives me life!
That last segment is in a manual somewhere under 'how to emotionally devastate three quarters of your players'
Thanks for compiling this!
For the final highlight Matt takes it from crazy plot twists strait to emotional terrorism
Omg Matt's smile when Laura says she rolled all 6s 🤣🤣
I've seen the 3 Death Knights clip before, and every time I re-watch it, my stomach is in a knot the entire way through, especially before the players realize
4:11 This is just Marisha desperately trying to cover up a newly awakened side of her after seeing Matt's face as he talked about asphyxiation.
You know that saying "Beware the fury of a patient man"? Yeah, try the fury of a kind man. That shit hits different. If Matt wasn't such an absolute gem of a person, he would be capable of such evils as we cannot even comprehend. But since he is, instead he uses that in this silly little game of make believe to torture his players!
Matt's smile at Vex's damage in the Three Death Knights is... diabolical. That should have been their first clue. :-)
When Matt is happy about you, the player. doing damage to his creations in a game... you should know by now you're in trouble. 😂
"That is a new experience entirely." never blinks, just smiles....
1:09 Liam's happy dance! 😄
The way I'm hyped and scared at the same time to see the Sun Tree scene animated.
I still lose my shit over the Alura reveal
Thanks @SpekoGirl for helping us get through the break....i really miss them all.
them finding their friends and killing them before they knew is one of the most fucked up things, i remember watching that and being like ?????? excuse me what
Thanks a lot for those 3 videos. I really enjoyed watching them and reliving some of the key moments of Campaign one. Thank you a lot :)
We got the Sun Tree moment in the show.
Damn.
I love Critical Role.
for the last one you can see mad hold his breath and tighten up to avoid spilling the beans
Sun Tree: earliest reveal of new PC Crit Role ever had.
7:15
The Sun Tree is pure goooold. The best
Oh my god does the last one get me every damn time
After campaign 3…. I wept like a little girl around the 8 minute mark.
I remember the three death knights part, that was so messed up
the liam head tilt at the artigan stuff will never not be hilarious to me. "the fuck you say!? 'scuse me!?"
I’ve never seen the death knights clip. That’s so FUCKED
I'll never get over how clever Matt was with Vecna's trick.
Not because of the trick itself, but because he planted an opportunity before then to both telegraph to the players the possibility and most importantly provide them the opportunity to reasonably stop the most likely person from doing it.
That was the point of the Nothic (I think that was what it was called) that Vax shanked earlier in the dungeon. Matt knew of Liam's view of Vax being kill first question later.
This laid out and obvious missed opportunity which could have caused the players and most importantly the characters to have Vax hold back.
This made Vecna's trick no only clever... but fair play.
7:18 laudna's first appearance
Is it Thursday yet?
"I have to go home with you". Lol.
the zoom in on matt's face after he says he wants to unalive vax is SENDING ME
I just realised Arty was the one Vax asked about time travel (specifically with the objective of going backwards) and Arty said no, but now in C2 he’s there with Caleb and Essek discovering that it’s potentially possible
Part 4 definitely needs to include the reveal of Pumat reading "The Daring Trials and Tribulations of Sir Taryon Darrington"
god "i rolled 4 sixes!" and mat still smiling is ...AWFUL...
Sun Tree: earliest reveal of new PC Crit Role ever had.
7:15 Hi Matilda.
The theater of the mind is a wonderful thing, all Matt did was barely explain its appearance and shift his voice a little and we all knew who it was
0:31 I am just so in love with the fact that it only took half the phrase "Human Woman" for Laura to think it was Allura. They miss Their Wizard Mom so much!
5:00 Liam with a beard
Last one was so fcked up.. I love it.